MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thrance | 2025-10-04 11:49:42+00:00
Housing can either be an investment vehicle or affordable, but not both at the same time. The abundance crowd remains willfully blind to this obvious reality, and is why they will fail. They promise to make housing affordable while receiving millions from people who became rich off of housing not being affordable. It fundamentally can't deliver on its promise, because it is completely compromised from the start.

I perceive abundance as a big grift to keep the populist left out of the democratic party, which is something they spend a lot of energy doing. How else could you explain this obsession of the abundance crowd for shooting down any populist policy or messaging?
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-04 11:50:12+00:00
With enough developers, revoking that cert would affect too many users, so Google would be forced to be careful. It will sort of be like devs unionizing. As far as review goes, not having the money or time to review code sounds exactly like the problem Google is trying to eradicate, because right now when your app causes problems you can just create a different account and start over without risking your reputation.
by askonomm | 2025-10-04 11:50:40+00:00
Depends where you are, I guess. In a prison-first rehabilitation-last country like USA, yes. In EU, many countries will close your criminal record after some years (7 in Estonia) at which point nobody other than law enforcement itself can see that you have a record. Not to mention that even if the crime you did was fairly recent, no company has the ability to check your background without your permission, and even then it is not something that is being done in the vast majority of places.

In other words, once you've carried out your sentence, in 99% of the cases it's done and behind you, and you can go on living a normal life without anyone else needing to know.
by gatlin | 2025-10-04 11:54:20+00:00
Discussing this topic with you is impossible because you have committed to spreading Israeli state propaganda regardless of what the actual facts of the situation are. If you are unmoved by the children being savagely blown apart by Israeli rockets because you equate that with some Arab states bad-mouthing Israel then I fear nothing will ever convince you that Palestinians are human. Have a good day and if you have kids, give them a hug and be glad they don't live in Gaza.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-04 11:56:24+00:00
> EU rules have nothing to do with it (offline EMV is fully SCA compliant as well, as the chip can keep count, although it's a bit annoying to keep counters in sync if there's more than one);

EU rules have everything to do with it. Meeting EMV with offline counters is tricky to get right. The reason I can confidently claim the SCA drove the migration of online transactions is because I was responsible for the technical implementation of SCA for a bank, and was part of the industry wide conversations that happened as banks figured out who they would comply with the rules, and tried to figure out what wiggle room existed. So I know SCA was a driver, because I talked to the people making this decisions.

> which requires asymmetric cryptography. (Otherwise, you could trivially forge valid-looking cards and offline terminals would be none the wise since they obviously don't hold the symmetric keys for every card issued; that would be way too risky).

This is where you are simply wrong. Again speaking as someone with actual experience working on this stuff, and having dealt with actual forged offline transactions as well. I can tell you the card uses symmetric encryption, the terminals themselves have zero ability to validate the signature a card produces. The terminals include some data that allows them to validate if a card number is routable, and also a hot list of card numbers to always reject, and thus reject transactions that can never be fulfilled, but they have no way of validating that a specific card or transaction hasn’t been forged.

The entire system depends on the physical security of the chips in cards to make key extraction extremely hard, and to also make the correct mimicking of cards extremely hard. But it’s hardly impossible, and there’s plenty of demonstrated EMV attacks out there in the wild. It’s just that they all hard to replicate, require special equipment, and generally make you look very dodge in the moment because you have to have a weird card with wires running your shelves so you can intercept the card comms. The manufacturer and distribution of the chips in cards is extremely tightly controlled, so you can’t just buy them. In theory anyone with a million dollars and ASIC contract could manufacture their own ICs, but there simply easier ways to steal money.

Ultimately EMV only needs provide enough security to make other methods of stealing more palatable. Cards are used for pretty low value transactions, so breaking EMV isn’t a very scalable way to steal money. You would be better off stealing products from merchants using decent pair of running shoes, rather than creating crazy ways to trick their payment terminals. Running shoes are cheaper and much more accessible than ASIC production.
Show HN: Jilebi – A MCP Runtime
by datron | 2025-10-04 11:57:02+00:00
Hi everybody - a few months ago I made this post on r/mcp https://www.reddit.com/r/mcp/comments/1klkagh/a_single_mcp_s... looking for a way to abstract out tools, resources and prompts from MCP servers allowing them to be sandboxed and easy to install - you didn't need to setup different servers each time.

It even helped with developing MCPs, I could focus on writing the code rather than setup the MCP server logic and if the plugin was sandboxed - I could use community written ones. I didn't find anything that met my needs (I saw hyper-mcp but wanted something more where I could have AI generate the code from a spec and plug it into the server). So I am building jilebi. It is a MCP runtime that sandboxes plugins, manages permissions, env variables and state of the plugin so it can access only what I allow it to access. You can take a look at jilebi.ai to learn more and download it for free.

I'm looking for folks who build AI agents to try it out, let me know where it falls short of your expectations. I've written a few plugins for jilebi - you can raise a PR to this repo if you'd like to contribute. As of now, the limitations of jilebi CLI are:

* It doesn't list available plugins or show you plugins you have installed

* It doesn't support resource templates yet

* It is stuck on the 2025-03-26 MCP specification for now
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-04 11:58:05+00:00
As someone who is concerned about how artists are supposed to earn a living in a ecosystem where anyone can trivially copy any style effortlessly, it does sound better than the status quo?

The fact that LLMs are trained on humans data yet the same humans receive no benefits from it (cannot even use the weights for free, even if they unwillingly contributed to it existing), kind of sucks.

What alternative is there? Let companies freely slurp up people's work and give absolutely nothing back?
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-04 11:58:14+00:00
> Is Google that organization?

I agree, it isn't and shouldn't be, an industry self-regulating org is needed, like the CA/B forum for browsers. Maybe one day we can transition to that.

> Yes, and if Google had shown that it's capable of identifying and rejecting malicious code distributed via its own app store,

You're making the opposite point there, they can't do a good job at scanning their appstore, so requiring devs to id themselves is a better option, so that anyone publishing malicious code might risk real-world criminal penalties. That's a better deterrent than google scanning code.

> If you want any regular user to be able to install your code, no matter how small the audience, you'll need to first give your identity to Google, and obtain a (paid[1]?) license. So the restrictions do apply to "a private group of people" too.

This applies to google certified phones, and such phones at the time of certification are sold to the public, not to a private audience. Private audiences need to buy non-google-certified phones (which exist). The question of google certification is one you need to have with phone vendors not Google. Samsung can opt to avoid google certification just fine. They have every right to demand that a phone with their stamp on it can only run apps by devs they authenticated, this is the price of their seal of approval.

> Many technical users of Android consider it to be a general purpose computing platform, and they want to retain the freedom to install and run whatever software they trust.

Yeah, for example I have an x86 android VM, it won't be affected because it isn't google certified. If you came up with a custom tablet or laptop that runs android, you can load random apps on it just fine.

> Google should focus their supposed concerns about regular user's safety on the user-hostile apps..

They can do multiple things, but this helps with that as well. the dev making user hostile apps now has to use his real name and their reputation will now follow them forever.
by totetsu | 2025-10-04 11:58:15+00:00
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by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-10-04 11:58:50+00:00
> the most logical option

Well for whom? Another aspect of this problem is an economic solution can have winners and losers. An economic policy that invokes slavery as solution to labor issues may actually be 'logical' but clearly puts the interests of one group over another. Economics is just the science resource allocation after all. People have some serious biases when it comes to deciding policy on who gets what and how.
by HotHotLava | 2025-10-04 11:58:50+00:00
Please don't pretend to be dumb, "predictable" in this context means that you know the final price of the trip before you start the journey, instead of having an odometer.

And randomly hoping for a taxi to drive by maybe works as long as you exclusively travel between airports, train stations, and downtowns of major cities, but if you're even slightly more remote than that you'll have to call or use some random app to get the Taxi to pick you up.
by gizajob | 2025-10-04 11:59:15+00:00
All the 1500s and earlier data that such an LLM would have to have been trained on would lead to an LLM that wouldn’t ever suggest a heliocentric solar system. That LLM might even say he was heretical or refuse to give an answer to anything that led to it saying that the earth wasn’t the centre of the universe. So no help at all.
by stared | 2025-10-04 11:59:22+00:00
It is sad (and predictable, PR- and legal-wise) that there was no mention of the Ghibli Studio.

I would be actually moved if there was some genuine in the line of "We are sorry - we wanted to make a PR stunt, but we went to hard." and offered real $ for that. (Not that I believe it is going to happen, as GenAI does not like this kind of precedence.)
by FabHK | 2025-10-04 11:59:25+00:00
> paying by card offline. How is this going to be implemented I wonder.

Paying offline used to be the norm for credit cards, from their introduction in the 1960s until some two decades ago.

Wikipedia: [...] until always-connected payment terminals became ubiquitous at the beginning of the 21st century, many merchants accepted all charges, especially those below a threshold value or from known and trusted customers, without verifying them by phone. Books with lists of stolen card numbers were distributed to merchants who were expected in any case to check cards against the list before accepting them, as well as verifying the signature on the charge slip against that on the card.
by danabramov | 2025-10-04 11:59:27+00:00
No, that’s really not the case. The Leaflet app “knows” about Bluesky posts by reading Leaflet's own database on the Leaflet servers. It doesn’t need Bluesky’s cooperation to use “Bluesky’s” public data. It doesn’t need to hit Bluesky’s API for that. And if Bluesky shut down its API completely, it would still work.

This is because a stream of all public data from all apps is being subscribed to by all apps. Whatever you care about, you save into your app’s database. Each app’s database serves as an app-specific index of the data on the network. If you want to query Bluesky posts later, you just save them as they stream in.

So every app can piggyback on data created by other apps. And anyone can run a "retransmitter" (aka a relay) like this. It's an application-agnostic aggregator over websockets. The one operated by Bluesky-the-company is most popular one, but https://atproto.africa/ is another one, and you can get one running yourself for about $30/mo; the implementations are open source.)

I explain this in more detail in https://overreacted.io/open-social/, Ctrl+F to "to a stream that retransmits events from all known repositories on the network".
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-04 12:01:59+00:00
"Do you think these people are on your side?"

Who is on your side? People who made it all but impossible to renew and improve basic civilizational infrastructure (housing, roads, railways, electric grid, power plants etc.) by introducing so many demands that the system slowly ground to a halt?

Nope. They may say that they are on your side, they may even think that they are on your side, but this is a classical case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions. If someone makes it all but impossible to build new things by elevating chronic naysayers and various special interests into a vetocracy, they are not on your side.

You don't have to trust the abundance movement, but they still have a valid point. In the last 10-15 years, there is a growing awareness all across the West that we have painted ourselves into a corner by heaping too many regulations on further development of cities and land and introducing too many chokepoints where any project can be stalled in courts. This not only makes our living standards worse, but also increasingly leaves us vulnerable to various authoritarian regimes - not just in the sense of raw industrial power, but also propaganda.

If you are a progressive, try to swing your preferred politicians towards more permissiveness, too. This situation badly needs correction and if the progressive part of the spectrum gets stuck on its de facto preference of NIMBYism - for any reasons, be it "everything bagel" demands or the sort of visceral distrust towards other political players that you yourself exhibit quite nicely - they are done for.

Regular people don't want to spend several years fighting a paper war with fifty implacable stakeholders in order to build a block of flats. This is just madness. If someone imposed that system on another country by force, we would consider it an act of war comparable to a naval blockade. Why precisely are we doing this to ourselves?

Unfortunately we need less inclusivity in city planing, that much is clear. Too many people have interest in vetoing everything. It is time to learn this bitter lesson and move on. Maybe you could be the person who makes the change in the progressive circles - try talking to the people you trust about this.
by thrance | 2025-10-04 12:02:38+00:00
"How do you get austerity from neoliberalism, a movement that argues that more wealth should trickle down?".

The abundance folks constantly fight the populist left on government spending. Their proposed plan for "having more things built" is to deregulate the housing market and pray that somehow, the massive land owners, who de facto control the political life of this country and have had their way for a century won't fight it.
by hopelite | 2025-10-04 12:04:56+00:00
Is the hating Tesla tantrum over?

That being said, you can’t really compare the sales of all of Teslas to the sales of one specific form factor/model with any kind of seriousness. Nor do I think it’s a fair comparison to compare Tesla that has parted on various hype patterns over the years to tap the zealots into even becoming their free advertisement and marketing departments not unlike how Apple fanboy cult people at least used to be. Toyota is a mature, reasonable enterprise whose sales are orders of magnitude larger than Tesla’s and there are many people’s lives dependent on being reasonable when shifting things, not “disrupt” in a typical tech bro narcissistic way.

For context Tesla has roughly 2 million sales with 125,000 employees, Toyota has 11 million sales with 385,000 employees. I assume I don’t need to do the math for you.

And that’s without going into the various battery issues and the now conflicting electricity interests between EV and AI.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-04 12:05:51+00:00
It's probably slightly worse because opioids actually kill people whereas gambling just financially ruins them (which can lead to suicide, but still I know which I would pick).

But it's only a slight difference. I don't think people who work at predatory apps/gambling systems should be able to sleep at night either. Not all gambling though; I don't have any objection to occasional sports betting for example.

But if you work for one of those pay-to-win apps and find some customers are spending thousands of dollars on it (whales), you know you're being immoral.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-04 12:07:05+00:00
It's not magic, but it's just magic enough to conclusively disprove "brain regions are fixed function" - if information-theoretic reasons somehow weren't enough for you.

Way too much weird re-routing and re-purposing can happen in the brain for that to be the case.

Human brain implements a learning algorithm of some kind - neuroscientists disagree on the specifics, but not on the core notion. It doesn't ship with all the knowledge it needs, or anywhere close. To work well, it has to learn, and it has to learn by getting information from the environment.
by kakacik | 2025-10-04 12:08:51+00:00
People do this to themselves and willingly, no spooky evil capitalists behind the curtains are necessary.

People love money and what they can bring on the table, people often hate each other ie within families stiffed by peer pressure and expectations of mentalities formed in another very different era, people love discovering new countries and cultures. And so on and on.

Ie me - I love my parents, my childhood was normal, only later to find and compare with others to see how such childhood was... abnormally uncommon. But I very much prefer seeing them few times a year only, even though we love when they help with kids. Some of their opinions are very outdated, their ramblings are often out of touch with reality, they tend sometimes to spoil kids (even after setting boundaries), and overall generational gap is absolutely massive. It is a form of freedom. Make that 10x more in much more strict societies where pressure and expectations from parents on kids are massive and then they wonder why kids stay the heck away from them once adults.

And fuck local communities, for every good-hearted neighbor who just wants to socialize and help out and otherwise stays away from one's life, there is easily 5 or 10 who are the epitome of nimbyism, voyeurism or similar hobbies of people with empty lives, clueless on how world and people actually work but always with very strong opinions on everything and will to push those on everybody else.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-04 12:08:57+00:00
What you are proposing is far out of reach for most Americans.

“Put together a million dollars” and “work remotely”? The biggest employer in Houston by a huge margin is the oil and gas industry - most of those jobs are not going to be remote and a lot of those jobs are not a pathway to $1 million. What about people who work in hospitality, roughly 10% of the workforce?

You’re describing this as relatively simple/achievable but for a lot of people it simply isn’t. Houston has one of the highest poverty rates in the country with 1 in 5 living below the poverty line - https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/202...
by comprev | 2025-10-04 12:09:38+00:00
As long as you continue to call your immediate neighbours "enemies" you will always feel insecure and threatened by them.

Perhaps Israel could take a radically different path and aim to call their neighbours "friends" instead, or at minimum a healthy but neutral relationship?

Only a small number of bordering countries worldwide are sworn enemies and the world would be a better place for everyone if this fell to zero.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-04 12:10:06+00:00
As a European consumer, it sounds on point to me?

There are no benefits for any of the credit cards I could get since roughly Corona - I was using them before but all cards which had positive benefits were removed/discontinued since.

Hence I'm back using a debit, because it works the same (no benefits either way) and doesn't come with a monthly bill.
by alfiedotwtf | 2025-10-04 12:10:15+00:00
> To address the technical topic first: a doubly linked list is what you reach for when you’re looking for an intrusive data structure with fast append and fast delete. You need to iterate over it, but don’t need random access. Queues where you may need to remove elements. Think a list of completions that can be cancelled. > > Why an intrusive data structure? Because you don’t want to, or can’t allocate. Because you want only a non-owning reference to the object, and you don’t want to have to manage any other lifetimes or dynamic (potentially unbounded, or arbitrarily bounded) allocations. Intrusive data structures are a great tool to minimize allocations, and to keep allocations (and ownership) logically separated across modules.

If you really wanted this in Rust, you could probably get away with just initialising a Vec::with_capacity(), then have each element’s next and prev be indexes into the vec.
by KLK2019 | 2025-10-04 12:10:51+00:00
In light of the meta context that this article reinforces the view that ai can replace researchers job I found this part of the artcile very true to how I use AI tools at work.

"Stokes stresses that while the prediction was intriguing, it was just that — a prediction. He would still have to conduct traditional MOA studies in the lab.

“Currently, we can’t just assume that these AI models are totally right, but the notion that it could be right took the guesswork out of our next steps,”...so his team, led in large part by McMaster graduate student Denise Catacutan, began investigating enterololin’s MOA, using MIT’s prediction as a starting point.

Within just a few months, it became clear that the AI was in fact right.

“We did all of our standard MOA workup to validate the prediction — to see if the experiments would back-up the AI, and they did,” says Catacutan, a PhD candidate in the Stokes Lab. “Doing it this way shaved a year-and-a-half off of our normal timeline.”
by probablyrobert | 2025-10-04 12:11:10+00:00
Thank you! I just implemented the ones I use the most, e.g. diw, but the motions system is still in very early stages and there are lots of motions I haven't implemented yet.

I do plan on implementing as many motions as is feasible, but there are some intentional differences, e.g. `f` is used for hints instead of jump-to-char.