MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-10-08 05:56:19+00:00
This happened to me! Can I go to these services and turn it off, like remove my name from these spam lists? Please point me to this.

About once a month I go and drop myself from the latest lists. There are many magazines and whatnot where you can sign someone up for 100+ mails a day. Only a very few of them send you a message you have to ack to start the flood. Most just start the firehose without checking.

I'd like to hear what other people do to address this.
by pembrook | 2025-10-08 05:56:48+00:00
In the case of Germany I guess I can understand due to…uh…history. I’m sure the eastern bloc countries are more trigger happy to label people “far” left when they see it due to their history of the opposite.

But it seems to be a Europe-wide phenomenon in traditional media outlets. Nobody calls out the far left properly, and the bias is just oozing out from the pages of all European news media.

The backlash is just waiting to happen. It’s so obvious to anyone capable of critical thinking. And it will probably just lead to more irrational policies but from the opposite side.
by aryehof | 2025-10-08 05:56:54+00:00
I wonder if I have just seen the future. A movement away from mobile apps (and some aspects of websites), to apps in an AI model?

Can’t say I'm unhappy to see the authoritarian duopoly of the existing app stores challenged.

One question that comes to mind is how will multiple providers of similar products and services be recommended/discovered? Perhaps they wont be recommended, but just listed instead as currently done by search engines. Is AISO our future - AI Search Optimization?
by mg | 2025-10-08 05:57:22+00:00
But do we see that happen?

That would mean that the p/e-ratio of a company would rise sharply long before the profits set in. And that rise would be called "mysterious" by the general public. And then only when the profits set in, the p/e would come down.

I can't see that in Nvidia for example:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/pe-rat...

The price roughly rose along the earnings. Even though the foundations for generative AI became clear in 2015.
by slau | 2025-10-08 05:58:18+00:00
I use passkeys exclusively on my YubiKeys, and I ensure I always have a backup (two Yubikeys with one passkey each).

TOTPs are handled the same way (stored on two Yubikeys).

We used password managers when 2FA allowed us to guarantee that even a leak of the passwords wouldn’t be that catastrophic. If you sync your passkeys to your password manager, anyone compromising it has full access to your accounts.
by m4y0u | 2025-10-08 06:00:11+00:00
www.github.com/m10ust/nethtop.git What you do from the tool 1. Enumerate all ghost sockets and see where they are connected and status 2. Can start a pcap capture or any single connection 3. Can trace and resolve any single connection 4. Can dump entire session and export. 5. Auto pf rule creation from the ghost sockets overlay 6. Kill process associated with any connection 7. Bypass system hooks by APTs, monitoring at the kernel level
by self_awareness | 2025-10-08 06:00:11+00:00
Vibe coding. Producing code without considering how we should approach the problem. Without thinking where exactly is the problem. This is like Electron, all over again.

Of course I don't have any problems with the author writing the tool, because everyone should write what the heck they want and how they want it. But seeing it gets popular tells me that people have no idea what's going on.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-08 06:00:29+00:00
It is not my idea per se, of course… I only gathered (well, it seems sort of obvious) that, given the overwhelmingly social nature of human intelligence, communication with high information throughput is likely the key differentiator between HS and other apes; the rest was ~1 minute of googling.

As to “side effect”, given better communication and consequently cooperation and potential for more complex collectives lead to persistent survival of the species in the environment, they seem like a pretty straightforward evolutionary advantage that would be expected to be naturally selected for in the first place. If anything, chances are in long term the great larynx update is the real side effect, it just happened to be a trait enabling all the above evolutionary advantages.
by scrps | 2025-10-08 06:01:59+00:00
I once had a NAS entirely comprised of salvaged TiVo drives that ran for a surprisingly long time. For some reason around '04 I kept finding them in curb trash walking down the street, a lot were direct tv branded iirc. Never really found out why but also didn't look very hard.

Ironically never once actually used a TiVo but still RIP was a cool idea and I got free drives out of it.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-10-08 06:01:59+00:00
Someone did this with my main real world Gmail address. I am still fighting it by periodically dropping from the spam lists I was recently added to.

We need a law that just like you are required to let people drop from a mailing list, there's a law requiring one ack or click on a link to join a list. I always get on legit lists that will stop once I request. But in a month I get 100+ new lists often sending me 10-50 messages a day.
by totetsu | 2025-10-08 06:02:00+00:00
The combinations I use are probably not as good for you as ones you would come up with for yourself. I would suggest just drawing out the numbers 0-9 and looking at the shapes and sketch a few things under each one, that look like that. If need be, rotate or flip the shape, or embellish slightly so long as they are all distinct. They should be easy to imagine objects that can be used flexibly. Salience for memory can come through things that give emotional response, so don't be shy about it.

and then use these to make simple stories like .. 13250 .. pen poked into the butt of a swan who yells grumpily and throws an egg..
by LeroyRaz | 2025-10-08 06:02:38+00:00
This particular type of authoritarianism is primarily from the left in the west. The EU, the UK, Canada, it is the political left implementing these policies, often using them to censor right wing views (e.g., Objecting to immigration gets labelled racist -> justified censorship. Objecting to trans women in women only spaces gets labelled as hateful -> justified censorship, etc...).
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-08 06:02:40+00:00
You're going to have to explain this one. The only thing I can figure is that you're making a distinction about "traditional" RAO vs modern hybridization models, but my comment already mentions those (albeit indirectly, given that I'm writing to an audience).

But if you're genuinely trying to say that the broad strokes out of africa model isn't consensus, I have no idea what you're talking about. Just to make sure I haven't missed some momentous event since the last time I was doing fieldwork, I even checked some unpublished books, review papers, and actual research. They all talk about OOA as completely settled or instead simply assume it.

Is this like a CAS thing? Truly baffled.
by alsetmusic | 2025-10-08 06:02:40+00:00
> I don't think governments and large corporations are getting OS support from Microsoft. Certainly none of those I have worked for did so

I’ve received excellent powershell-based support for their cloud services. I can’t imagine what I’d ask of them for OS support. If we can’t solve the issue in a timely fashion, we just reimage the device.
by gtsop | 2025-10-08 06:02:53+00:00
I can totally relate, very similar situation here.

I am currently kind of an anti-AI black sheep in engineering department because I refuse to fully embrace the exponentials and give in to the vibes.

I avoid burnout by simply switching off my brain from all this noise about vibe coding - i have thought hard and long, i know the way this is being implemented is wrong, i know they will create problems for themselves down the road (they already have, the signs are already there), i will be here to dig them out when the time comes.

So far I don't see anyone shipping faster or better with AI than I can manually, so I'm good.
by superice | 2025-10-08 06:02:57+00:00
Shipping has always been a strong point for Ikea. Just look at how efficient most of their stuff is packaged, usually into very neat rectangular packages. They can fit a ton of stuff into a small volume, which improves shipping cost a lot. Last mile will always be relatively expensive, but shipping a truck load or a 40ft shipping container is relatively cheap. In the end it all comes down to cost per unit of volume, compared to the raw product cost per volume. A dense product will not nearly be affected by high shipping prices as much, and due to Ikea being insanely good at packaging, I expect they are outcompeting the rest of the market at this game by a decent margin.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-10-08 06:03:36+00:00
I do the opposite of the author. I tend to add names to the Phone contacts of people I interact with, even if briefly. Sometimes, I text/call a fixer-upper and realized that we had interacted 10+ years ago. Similar to emails, at time, I go back and reply to the same email thread from 15+ years ago.

On the phone number thingy, I use the rhyme-ish way of remembering it by saying it aloud, and then using it on the phones and I remember quite a few phone numbers. Besides the numbers of my immediate family, I can dial my sister, a few friends from school and some of our neighbors (most of the number do not seem to exist anymore) back home on the keypad from muscle memory.

I try to teach my kids to remember some numbers and I try and test them once a while. They do think, I’m an irritant.

During School days, amongst friends, our tactics of remember historical dates were to prepend phone number patterns and associating them to the events/person etc. My wife is usually surprised when I recite phone number of recent visits to clinics, places, etc. This one are usually ephemeral and I usually forget them after a while. I like to pretend play Sherlock and look around things, remember them when visiting new places. :-)
by senko | 2025-10-08 06:04:01+00:00
GitHub's SpecKit is an example: https://github.com/github/spec-kit

Spec-Driven Development treats the spec as the source of truth and the code as an artifact. As you develop, you modify/add to the spec and the codebase gets updated to reflect it.

Personally I'm doubtful it can compete with traditional artisanal software engineering, as it's (IMHO) boils down to "if only you can spec it precisely enough, it'll work" and we've tried this with 5GL and (to some extent) BDD, and it doesn't get you to 100%.

I do think it's interesting enough to explore, and most of us could use a bit more details in our Jira tickets.
by mastazi | 2025-10-08 06:04:49+00:00
I've gone back to physical media. Vinyl, CDs, Blu Rays and DVDs. I just buy what I like. I don't need a huge library, that actually gives me "choice paralysis" and I end up not watching/listening to anything.

I still use Internet based services, for example I might find a new band because someone on Instagram posted about them. Or maybe I listen to an album on streaming before deciding if I'm buying it. Oh and some live music venues have Youtube live streaming (e.g. Smalls jazz club). With movies, of course I might watch a movie trailer or a review on YouTube.

Speaking of movies, the situation is different because unlike music, I can't actually find most of my favourites on streaming services. However more often than not, you can rent them online, so I might rent (but never buy!) a movie through Apple, YouTube etc., then if I like it and think I want to watch it again, I will buy a Blu-ray. But I kinda gave up on pure streaming services such as Netflix etc. since their catalogue is so shallow.

This obviously doesn't work for everyone, if your way of listening to music is just "Hey Alexa play a smooth jazz playlist while I cook" then of course streaming is the right thing for you. Same if you just like to watch movies casually and you're not a film buff, in that case Netflix & co. are OK.
by epistasis | 2025-10-08 06:04:56+00:00
See also this Bloomberg article on how circular the deals are:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-07/openai-s-...

This is another way that bubbles form, a cabal of cross-dealing giants that don't have solid revenue to ground the valuations is a very scary position.

I believe that a lot of AI is real, but the realness of AI's impact on the economy does not prevent a bubble. The dot com bubble didn't make the internet any less real or impactful on everyone's lives. So it feels like very scary times ahead.

Also, the devaluation of the dollar is an extremely tricky situation for the US. Morgan Stanley puts it at 10% less value in 2025, and another 10% drop by the end of 2026:

https://www.morganstanley.com/insights/articles/us-dollar-de...

I was never scared with the inflation during Biden because it seemed like we would be on track to put the economy in the right position, because it was global and the US was doing so much better than the rest of the world. But now, it feels like the US is intentionally entering recession and choosing a future of poverty.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-08 06:05:13+00:00
>Given the UK's recent use of anti-terrorist legislation to arbitrarily classify a protest organisation as terrorists

If your current laws allow for such oppressive abuse on the population without due process, then these new laws won't make things any worse for the people and you're fighting the wrong things here, if you think that taking citizenship away form registered ISIS members is the biggest problem.
by spullara | 2025-10-08 06:05:52+00:00
ReplayTV was the TiVo before TiVo and its commercial skip was the best bar-none. I was sad when it basically died and had to get a TiVo which was a good product made by folks I knew but at the end of the day, nothing could beat ReplayTV's skip not even the secret way to turn on 30-sec skip on the TiVo. Kind of crazy how antiquated all this stuff is now.
by consp | 2025-10-08 06:08:05+00:00
My guess would be they used a one-sided pcb to connect the cable to and used half the wires. Some sockets internally link the power and ground pins, so it works both ways, but you get no resistor network and thus only standard 5v which gives you 500ma max (at best). With the resistors connected by the cable it's about 900ma to 3a which is probably what happens plugged in "correctly". Or some other magic happens on one side of the PCB to fool the charger into pushing the full 3A.
by joduplessis | 2025-10-08 06:08:44+00:00
To people reading the article: replace the word "agent" with "intern".

> Without tests? Your intern might claim something works without having actually tested it at all, plus any new change could break an unrelated feature without you realizing it. Test-first development is particularly effective with interns that can iterate in a loop.

Vibe engineer? No, try technical manager.
by teekert | 2025-10-08 06:08:46+00:00
As a non-American I only know TiVo from the term Tivoization [0]. So the company had its use for me as well I guess.

("Tivoization is the practice of designing hardware that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license like the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware." [0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
by input_sh | 2025-10-08 06:10:07+00:00
I don't buy your last sentence at all.

AGENTS.md is just a place to put stuff you don't want to tell LLMs over and over again. They're not magical instructions LLMs follow 100% of the time, they don't carry any additional importance over what you put into the prompt manually. Your carefully curated AGENTS.md is only really useful at the very beginning of the conversation, but the longer the conversation gets, the less important those tokens on the top are. Somewhere around 100k tokens AGENTS.md might as well not exit, I constantly have to "remind it" of the very first paragraph there.

Go start a conversation and contradict what's written in AGENTS.md half way through the problem. Which of the two contradicting statements will take preference? The latter one! Therefore, all the time you've spent curating your AGENTS.md is the time you've wasted thinking you're "teaching" LLMs anything.
by umanwizard | 2025-10-08 06:10:15+00:00
> Since the reliance is on convention, and an inverted rook is conventionally treated as a promoted queen

I think that convention is much less strong than the conventional meaning of the piece shapes. I have only seen it in casual games, and I’m not sure if it exists in every country.

I don’t know why this rule was adopted, but I gave a few plausible reasons off the top of my head in another post on this thread.
by senko | 2025-10-08 06:10:27+00:00
> They're also not going to be able to direct three different agents at once in different areas of a large project that they've designed the architecture for.

I wonder what the practical limits are.

As a senior dev on a greenfield solo project it's too exhausting for me to have two parallel agents (front/back), most of the time they're waiting for me to spec, review or do acceptance test. Feels like sprinting, not something I could do day in and day out.

Might be due to tasks being too fine grained, but assuming larger ones are proportionally longer to spec and review, I don't see more than two (or, okay, three, maybe I'm just slow) being a realistic scenario.

More than that, I think we're firmly in the vibe coding (or maybe spec-driven vibe coding) territory.
by SirSavary | 2025-10-08 06:10:51+00:00
1. When discussing "the most repressive Western governments", we exclude Communist and Islamist regimes by definition. The West refers to North America and Western Europe, where no Communist or Islamist government has held power. You can't reasonably claim the Western right is less authoritarian by pointing to non-Western examples.

2. The claim that "it's always the left that is motivated by ideology" ignores that right-wing movements are frequently driven by ideological commitments: religious conservatism, ethnonationalism, free-market fundamentalism, and so on. Authoritarian right-wing regimes often justify their actions through explicit ideological frameworks.

3. What mechanism in right-wing ideology "specifically designed to be against" authoritarianism are you referring to? Current consolidation of executive power in the US, rollbacks of institutional checks, and expanding surveillance capabilities suggest otherwise. If right-wing ideology inherently resists authoritarianism, how do you explain broad right-wing support for these trends?

4. Body counts correlate with state capacity and willingness to use violence, not economic system. Authoritarian regimes across the political spectrum have committed mass atrocities. Capitalist regimes have overseen famines (Bengal, Ireland) and genocides just as Communist ones have. The common factor is authoritarianism, not left vs. right.
by hiimkeks | 2025-10-08 06:10:53+00:00
> This isn't a hypothetical, it is how the law is actually used.

You make it sound like it happens all the time and everyone is used to it. I know of once case (Pimmel-Andy), and that led to a shitstorm, including part of the police operation being declared unlawful after the fact.

https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/landgericht-hamburg-a...
by solarwindy | 2025-10-08 06:11:30+00:00
I’m finding that whether this process works well is a measure (and a function) of how well-factored and disciplined a codebase is in the first place. Funnily enough, LLMs do seem to have a better time extending systems that are well-engineered for extensibility.

That’s the part which gives me optimism, and even more enjoyment of the craft — that quality pays back so immediately, makes it that much easier to justify the extra effort, and having these tools at our disposal reduces the ‘activation energy’ for necessary re-work that may before have just seemed too monumental.

If a codebase is in a good shape for people to produce high-quality work, then so too can the machines. Clear, up-to-date, close-to-the-code, low redundancy documentation; self-documenting code and tests, that prioritizes expression of intent over cleverness; consistent patterns of abstraction that don’t necessitate jarring context switches from one area to the next; etc.

All this stuff is so much easier to lay down with an agent loaded up on the relevant context too.

Edit: oh, I see you said as much in the article :)
by teiferer | 2025-10-08 06:13:00+00:00
Not disagreeing with you, but isn't that already obvious from the fact that economic activity happens in the first place?

If you buy 5 apples from me for $5 then two things must be true: 1. The value that those 5 apples have to you exceeds the value that $5 have to you, at least at this very moment. Otherwise you would hang on to your $5 instead. 2. The value that those 5 apples have to me is less than $5 have to me, otherwise I would hang on to the apples.

The price of those 5 apples at this moment may be $5 but that doesn't reflect the value they have to neither me nor you. It's not the avereage either, necesarily. The only thing we know is that the value of them to you is higher and to me is lower.
by EagnaIonat | 2025-10-08 06:14:02+00:00
> now semantically shifted to mean all AI-assisted coding.

News to me. AI-assisted coding is more auto-complete or having it trying to make sense of awful documentation.

Vibe coding to means a number of things.

- The person has no skill in understanding what the LLM wrote. - The code created hasn't been reviewed in any way to look for possible future issues. - Technical debt from the get go. - Legally your application is screwed.

For me the single killer of vibe coding is that anything the LLM creates cannot be protected/copyrighted. UK has some laws that might offer a little protection, but EU/US you are pretty much screwed.
by vimjlkei | 2025-10-08 06:14:08+00:00
I think games might be a bit poor example because the vastness of categories. I don't think anyone is just good in all games. You might be very competitive in counter-strike and games like it, but fall apart in something like starcraft and vice-versa. Spending 10K hours in EVE-Online does nothing for playing Spyro or Dark Souls
by tvier | 2025-10-08 06:15:54+00:00
You're throwing a bunch of straw man arguments out, which makes it a lot of work to actually respond to this whole post.

Rights are always on a spectrum with a large amount of grey area.

> burkas are a security risk in public since people could hide and smuggle weapons under that

This is silly. Everyone wears coats in the winter.

> there could be men hiding underneath using it to enter female only spaces like bathrooms and changing rooms

Is this actually a concern? AFAICT this isn't happening, it's just something that could theoretically happen, which doesn't make it a reason to decrease people rights. That would be another standard tactic for pushing authoritarian laws.

> Then on top of that, you also have the cultural and optics aspect, that burkas are a symbol of a backwards oppressive culture that's incompatible with western progressive liberal and feminist values that the west cherishes or at least pretends to.

This seems valid, but I'm pretty hesitant to force my cultural values on people. It hasn't gone well historically.
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-08 06:15:57+00:00
Globalist views didn't lead to positive results? Until very recent no one was complaining: everything was going up and everyone got better. Now it goed a little less and the underbelly starts whining. And of course people do believe misinformation. People who got a yearly raise over the inflation correction for a decade and now 'only' got inflafion correction whining its the globalist issue because some guy on tiktok explained it so well. Italy (or me personally for that matter) would be have been absolutely screwed without the EU and globalism, but keep listening to propaganda while I count my blessings and money globalist stylez.