MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2025-10-21 17:42:39+00:00
> but each time Russia ends up with an advantage.

They are fighting against a country with something like 1/5th of their population so this reasoning is completely fallacious. You will use any advantage gained by Russia as evidence of collusion without demonstrating that the advantage was based on collusion. The intelligence agencies have tried and failed to prove this theory of Russian infiltrationism for more than 10 years now; you haven’t seen something that they’ve missed.
by generuso | 2025-10-21 17:42:43+00:00
Quite right. There are many different kinds of depth sensors in addition to the canonical old school rotating mirror LIDAR.

I think some of the short range depth cameras (Kinect v2 was one) use time-of-flight technique, and could in principle be reconfigured to perform a similar demonstration, though it would not be as "homemade" and cool as the system built for the Youtube video.
by fmbb | 2025-10-21 17:42:54+00:00
An election needs to be trusted by everyone, and explainable to all voters. It does not help that you believe it is safe. You have to trust the compiler, and the chips, and everything, and convince all voters it works.

Paper ballots are fine. It is not complicated at all and an election is the one thing you just cannot get wrong in a representative democracy. It can cost a bit and you only do it once every few years.
by president_zippy | 2025-10-21 17:43:05+00:00
I'll give you the principled answer and the cop-out answer. Here's the principled answer:

That was just the catchy title, similar to peer-reviewed literature reviews published on nih.gov: not necessarily the creme-de-la-creme, just good enough to pass peer review. I real question is whether concern for cartilage erosion is well-founded, and whether or not it outweighs the scientific consensus that running improves bone density of the tibia and fibula. Again, literature had strong evidence for the latter while the former was still a major controversy in kinesiology.

I didn't even touch cardiovascular health, because to be fair we live in a world with bicycles and affordable YMCA lap pools.

Here's the cop-out answer: It's a literature review- the very requirements are merely one step removed from those blog articles Harvard Medicine publishes for mass-consumption. I followed instructions, one of which was to adhere to a maximum of 2 1/2 pages, and I got a Northwestern 95 on the assignment.
by mark_round | 2025-10-21 17:43:10+00:00
There is also Spectranet[1] and clones for the Sinclair Spectrum, which allows for a much richer Internet-connected experience. It can load and boot remote programs from a server which allows you to get quite creative and produce sites like my TNFS server[2]. You can also try it out from an emulated Spectrum in a web browser at https://jsspeccy.markround.com if you don't have the original hardware lying around to see the sort of stuff you can build!

There's also Telnet clients so you can access old-school BBSes, and a variety of interesting "bridges" that grant access to Gopher or even parse websites. Quite amazing to access the modern Internet on an 8-bit machine from the early 80s that originally loaded games from cassette tape :)

[1]=https://www.bytedelight.com/?page_id=3515

[2]=https://tnfs.markround.com
by AustinDev | 2025-10-21 17:44:16+00:00
Generated response to your comment:

Potential follow-up:

Yeah, totally — I focused on the structural shift, not the surveillance risk, but that’s the real crux. If “agentic browsers” win, they don’t just see your web use; they mediate it. The open question is whether anyone will manage to make an open-source or on-device version before the ecosystem locks in.

Why this works: acknowledges the critique, broadens it, adds a fresh angle.
by ZeljkoS | 2025-10-21 17:44:39+00:00
Many features are mentioned in the video; here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens (https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu):

1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private.

2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing.

3. Make your cursor a collaborator ChatGPT can help you draft emails, write reviews, or fill out forms. Highlight text inside a form field or doc and click the ChatGPT logo to get started.

4. Set as default browser BOOST CHATGPT LIMITS Unlock 7 days of extended limits on messaging, file uploads, data analysis, and image generation on ChatGPT Atlas.

5. You're all set — welcome to Atlas! Have fun exploring the web with ChatGPT by your side, all while staying in control of your data and privacy. (This screen also displays shareable PNG badge with days since you registered for ChatGPT and Atlas).

My guess is that many ChatGPT Free users will make it their default browser just because of (4) — to extend their limits. Creative :)
by dorianniemiec | 2025-10-21 17:44:47+00:00
> If you just need some www server quickly pointing your domain to some other dude domain is not the way to go.

Yeah. But as I said before, people installing Ferron on their servers don't need to use this demo. Oh, and people using this demo don't need to install Ferron on their servers.

I just added two notices to this demo:

> Note: After completing the demo, it's recommended to delete the subdomain you have just created to prevent security issues.

> This demo setup is optional and exists only to demonstrate automatic TLS functionality. You do not need to point any subdomain to demo servers for normal use of Ferron.
by dwhale | 2025-10-21 17:45:29+00:00
I dislike being away from my phone.

I dislike that I dislike being away from my phone.

I don't like losing money.

I don't like pointless subscriptions.

So I built DIAL - a FREE (no subscription, no ads, no signup) screen time app that uses my hatred of losing money to beat my phone addiction.

How it works: Block distracting apps for as long as you want.

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That’s it.

The pain of spending money > the pain of staying off TikTok.

For me, it works because I hate wasting money more than I hate being away from my phone.

Download ‘DIAL - Screen Time Control’ on iOS today.
Show HN: Give your screenshots a sick background
by MZUHB | 2025-10-21 17:45:30+00:00
I got tired of spending time in design tools just to make screenshots look presentable for social media. So I built this simple and minimalistic web app where you can drag and drop a screenshot, pick a gradient background, adjust padding and shadows, and download the result.

It's completely free, works in the browser, and doesn't require any sign-up. The images are processed client-side, so nothing gets uploaded to a server.

Would love to hear feedback on features you'd find useful!
by devilbunny | 2025-10-21 17:45:52+00:00
> what the author chooses to leave unimplemented or generic is actually an important signal to the player.

For computer games, yes, because you can get stuck with no apparent way out. As an aid for TTRPGs where a human GM is present and can steer the PCs out of blind alleys, it could make a very nice aid to world building. “Give me fifty random characters with backstory for a Pathfinder 2e game” is exactly the sort of thing we should use AI for. It doesn’t really matter. It’s flavor. So if the AI messes up… who cares?
by ordu | 2025-10-21 17:45:55+00:00
I think, that there is only one way to make voting machines to be trustworthy. If anyone can run ballots through their own machine to verify results, AND there will be multiple parties doing exactly this, then you can trust the outcome.

But still it is not a way to fight a political party that will use dummy machine that counts each ballot as a vote for them, and then accusing all others that they are trying to steal the elections. It is an unbelievable stupid tactic, but I think it may work in USA, judging by people eager to believe any BS if it supports their party.
by avazhi | 2025-10-21 17:46:01+00:00
If you can’t understand the irony inherent in getting an LLM to write about LLM brainrot, itself an analog for human brainrot that arises by the habitual non use of the human brain, then I’m not sure what to tell you.

Whether it’s a tsunami and whether most people will do it has no relevance to my expectation that researchers of LLMs and brainrot shouldn’t outsource their own thinking and creativity to an LLM in a paper that itself implies that using LLMs causes brainrot.
by gaogao | 2025-10-21 17:46:24+00:00
Brain rot texts seems reasonably harmful, but brain rot videos are often surreal and semantically dense in a way that probably improves performance (such as discussed on this German brain rot analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mJENuEN_rs&t=37s). For example, Švankmajer is basically proto-brainrot, but is also the sort of thing you'd watch in a museum and think about.

Basically, I think the brain rot aspect might be a bit of terminology distraction here, when it seems what they're measuring is whether it's a puff piece or dense.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-21 17:46:26+00:00
This is a power problem, not a technical problem.

The US has the worst voting system intentionally, not accidentally. And mail-in voting shows we aren't even a little serious about election integrity. We're militantly against it: you can get people to rabidly support universal IDs for trivial, nonsensical reasons that have never resulted in significant problems; and to demand digital IDs, device attestation, and real names on social media; but to the same people showing IDs to vote is supposed to be the end of democracy.

People have made this proposal every year since the 90s, and depending on the year it was the Republicans rabidly opposing it or the Democrats rabidly opposing it. Good luck getting things accomplished with a good argument. That's not how things get done. The people who get the final say about this would love to get rid of voting altogether, but they'll settle for vendor kickbacks.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-10-21 17:46:40+00:00
The executives and shareholders will only be excited about the first order effects of widespread automation like this.

They will be less excited about the second order - a steady loss of revenue as whole professions are automated and people can't find a well paying job.

The third order will be even worse when no one has a job or money to buy anything.

People always point to the industrial revolution. But that created millions of jobs before it obsoleted millions of jobs - you needed workers to create tractors. This wave seems to be shaping up much more like what happened to the rust belt in the late 20th century, regions which still haven't recovered. However this time it'll hit pretty much everyone, everywhere.

Good luck with that capitalism.
by mlangley2010 | 2025-10-21 17:46:42+00:00
I have really enjoyed the experience of searching for roles on Teeming. Additionally I like the concept of cutting through the process of sending mass applications and being able to go directly to founders to make contact.

My only feedback is that it would be nice to have a view where you can see more of the job description at a glance. Right now you have to click in to each role to get information about the job.
by hwchase17 | 2025-10-21 17:46:44+00:00
Hi HN! It’s been three years since we launched LangChain as an open source package. Since then, we’ve evolved into a broader platform for agent engineering (LangGraph, LangSmith). Our tools now power AI teams like Replit, Clay, Harvey, Vanta, Cloudflare, Rippling, Cisco, Workday, and many more. Our goal has always been to figure out what the agents of the future look like, and then build tools to help make them real.

Today we’re excited to announce new funding (at a $1.25B valuation) to allow us to continue building the platform for agent engineering, as well as new features and products.

And what I’m most excited about today is that we’re launching a number of new features and products: an insights agent in LangSmith, 1.0 releases of LangChain and LangGraph, and a no-code agent builder. We’ll talk a lot more about these throughout the week.

I’m excited to see how you like these new releases and get feedback. I'll hang out in the comments here for a while to answer any questions folks might have.
by lucideer | 2025-10-21 17:47:12+00:00
I think the sentiment of the OP actually gets to the heart of this (the idea of open-source is transparency, visibility, auditability) but the problem here is it need to be applied to the actual process, not to the process of building tools for the actual process.

It's not that developing voting software should be open-source, its that actual voting should be "open-source" in the physical sense.

Trusting the system is possible if you can (you, yourself) readily observe every part of the system. I don't think giving members of the public access to the server your voting software is hosted on is a very viable idea, but giving members of the public access to paper count centres is (it's done very successfully in many countries).
by n8cpdx | 2025-10-21 17:47:26+00:00
Under appreciated benefit of hand-counting paper ballots: it is an opportunity for participation in your democracy.

I had the privilege of helping count votes in my small town 2012. Volunteers stayed up after voting ended and all of the ballots were double checked - counted by two separate people, working together at a long table. Cheating or manipulation was inconceivable, and there were many layers of double checking.

The beauty of this system is it is infinitely scalable. The more voters there are, the more vote counting volunteers there are. For larger cities you can split up by blocks or per polling place. There should be many polling places to make voting easy and accessible.

It isn’t fast or fancy or glamorous. But communities ignore the power of communal activities at their peril.
by mentalgear | 2025-10-21 17:47:28+00:00
I share many of your ideas, and I think the best solution would be:

1. a pure data API web (like the original semantic-web idea)

2. open-source browsers which can query for information using on-device LLMs and display it to the user in any UI way they want.

I think 1. will happen, since all search engines will use AI results, with no click through to the original data-owner (website). So there is no more financial incentive to keep a UI website. The question is if the "data API web" will be decentralised or under the control of a few big players that already mined the web.

2. will hopefully happen if on-device models become more capable, the question is by then whether most people are already defaulted to AI browsers from big tech (since they have the money to burn-cash using cloud LLM services to capture market share before on-device LLMs are good enough). The only way to prevent this is user-education and mistrust verus Big Tech, which is what already befell Microsoft's Recall (besides a terrible security architecure).
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-21 17:47:39+00:00
Doesn't China print a huge amount of money and have their currency tied to fiat currency, making theirs a fiat economy as well?

Someone here wrote they are pro free markets, but anti-capitalism/a capitalist class.

The thought being markets are efficient and liberating mechanisms for coordinating production and exchange but concentrated ownership of capital turns those same mechanisms into systems of control and extraction.
by atoav | 2025-10-21 17:48:00+00:00
To understand criticism with electronic voting system let's assume the best case: say you make the perfect, mathematically verified voting software. That is perfectly up to date each election. That runs on open yet tampersafe hardware that is as the stickers say never obsolete. That notices any human error and hacking attempt (not that such a thing exists).

Even with that utopian scenario the remaining problem is that the goal of elections is agreeable consent. Mewning the goal isn't just to get a decision. The goal is to get a decision, people can agree with because they trust the process must have been okay. If your vote is low stakes, like where you go for lunch with your collegues, then that trust doesn't matter, who cares if it was wrong? But if it is high stakes even a perfect digital system is problematic, because even intelligent, technological expert voters have no chance of understanding which of the moving parts might influence what in which way in practise.

Meaning a paper ballot with the right process can more or less be understood by everybody who can count and has mastered the cognitive skill of object permanence.

A Rust project with a 30k Cargo.lock file filled with dependencies on an even more complex operating system, running complex (in a different way) hardware, that might differ for each voting location isn't that. And that isn't about the programming language or the tech stack. It is about the intransparent nature of electronic systems themselves.

I spent a three quarters of my life learning programming and electronics including hardware design and I teach that stuff on a university level. Even I would have a hard time ensuring there is really no backdoor in the whole stack. And this fact means even if there is no backdoor in it, there might be and there is no realistic way for a normal person to check. I understand the nerd appeal. It is cool to toy around and figure that problem out. But the core of the problem is not technological it is sociological.

That is such a big flaw that IMO it is not worth it for high stakes elections.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-21 17:48:05+00:00
Pretty poorly actually, people avoid Oracle products like the plague. Nobody is buying a JVM from Oracle or buying their DB - they're using open source solutions that are both free and provide more features.

They have a lot of inerita, but that's it. If you're in Greenfield development, there is a close to 0% chance you will choose Oracle as your RDBMS.

Um, oops.
by imooc | 2025-10-21 17:48:12+00:00
Today OpenAI launched their own chatGPT powered browser. And AI Republic's in browser agent release was a weekend ahead of them! The new openAI's browser is nothing more than an open source chromimum + the webpage DOM tool. You don't really have to install a new browser, a chrome extension can achieve exactly the same goal for turn your current chrome into super AI agent. We are working on open source it so that you have the full control on what can be accessed by the agent, try it out today! https://lnkd.in/gTccJJSg
by drdaeman | 2025-10-21 17:48:16+00:00
As someone who remembers the Browser Wars… Fuck this idea, in strongest possible terms.

Discrimination on personal decisions such as user agent software choice is antithetical to user freedoms, open standards and net/protocol neutrality.

If something has undesirable behaviors - detect those and filter on what’s actually happening, not how something is branded. It always should be “we don’t tolerate this behavior”, never “we don’t serve your kind here”.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 17:48:21+00:00
> He's "allowed to be worth half a trillion dollars" because we don't tax him enough

On a technical level, sure. On a practical level, he'd still be fabulously rich and powerful, and the comment you're responding to would be asking why he's allowed to be worth hundreds of billions of whatever.

The problem isn't that Musk was "allowed" to become wealthy. It's that a trivial fraction of that wealth let him corrupt not only himself, but also his government.
by ThreatSystems | 2025-10-21 17:48:38+00:00
I'm officially off of AWS so don't have any consoles to check against, but back on a laptop.

Based on docs and some of the concerns about this happening to someone else, I would probably start with the following:

1. Check who/what created those EC2s[0] using the console to query: eventSource:ec2.amazonaws.com eventName:RunInstances

2. Based on the userIdentity field, query the following actions.

3. Check if someone manually logged into Console (identity dependent) [1]: eventSource:signin.amazonaws.com userIdentity.type:[Root/IAMUser/AssumedRole/FederatedUser/AWSLambda] eventName:ConsoleLogin

4. Check if someone authenticated against Security Token Service (STS) [2]: eventSource:sts.amazonaws.com eventName:GetSessionToken

5. Check if someone used a valid STS Session to AssumeRole: eventSource:sts.amazonaws.com eventName:AssumeRole userIdentity.arn (or other identifier)

6. Check for any new IAM Roles/Accounts made for persistence: eventSource:iam.amazonaws.com (eventName:CreateUser OR eventName:DeleteUser)

7. Check if any already vulnerable IAM Roles/Accounts modified to be more permissive [3]: eventSource:iam.amazonaws.com (eventName:CreateRole OR eventName:DeleteRole OR eventName:AttachRolePolicy OR eventName:DetachRolePolicy)

8. Check for any access keys made [4][5]: eventSource:iam.amazonaws.com (eventName:CreateAccessKey OR eventName:DeleteAccessKey)

9. Check if any production / persistent EC2s have had their IAMInstanceProfile changed, to allow for a backdoor using EC2 permissions from a webshell/backdoor they could have placed on your public facing infra. [6]

etc. etc.

But if you have had a compromise based on initial investigations, probably worth while getting professional support to do a thorough audit of your environment.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/c...

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/c...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/cloudtrail-...

[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/s...

[4] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credenti...

[5] https://research.splunk.com/sources/0460f7da-3254-4d90-b8c0-...

[6] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_R...
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-21 17:48:42+00:00
>you will not see the same number of companies spooling up assembly lines without massive costs.

It's true, but I think this subject will scale throughout the entire survival category.

Cheap throwaway materials is one thing .. in situ 3D replication, another thing entirely.

The cottage industries can do a lot of the innovation. I think the sailboat/winnebago/portable-living engineering is going to come to a head, eventually .. and we will see new technologies, perhaps, springing up around the subject of human/biosphere construction.

If you're suggesting that we won't have winnebago's on Mars, I don't wanna go there.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-21 17:48:43+00:00
its evaluation med by musk yes. But they were a great car company, that would have done fine for itself regardless. Heck im not sure an overevaluation really helps their core buisness.

They were innovative and years ahead in technology. Their heatpump supermanafold is still ahead of the rest of the EV industry. While the rest of the western manufacturers struggle to even make basic software for their cars.

There is plenty to dislike about tesla, (asside from musk) like their spotty quality control and questionable infotainment cost cuts. But if they spent the last few years just perfecting and maturing as a manufacturer, they would be respectful leader in EVs now.

Instead we get Cybertruck (brilliant engineering whasted on a childish design) and an insistence being a software company which it isn't.

Chineese EVs had time to catch up, and now instead of a mature innovative and trustable western EV brand alternative, we got.... Tesla led by musk.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-21 17:49:09+00:00
Typically when people are concerned about their house freezing in cold climates, they are primarily worried about water freezing, expanding, and cracking pipes and fittings.

It is extraordinarily hard to design something that can withstand that pressure and still be fit for purpose. The item needs to be able to withstand pressures in excess of ~10k psi for -10c, with the pressure rising as temp decreases.

The standard solution for people that need to winterize a building that will not be heated is to drain as much water as possible from the lines, and then fill them with a liquid with a lower freezing point.