MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonym29 | 2025-10-08 02:16:17+00:00
Just because the site operator opted into having all of their users' traffic slurped up by what functionally amounts to a private sector branch of the NSA doesn't mean that netizens opted into such an arrangement. Being behind Cloudflare doesn't stop bots, it doesn't magically block all exploits, and as history has proven, doesn't even stop all DDoS attacks. What it does do is block off large portions of the web for people needing assistive technologies, block off large portions of the web for people who live in countries with bad rulers they didn't elect, give tyrants the ability to more or less achieve complete personalized information censorship at a moment's notice on a whim, contribute to a culture that normalizes totalitarian surveillance, protect C2 channels and other malicious infrastructure indiscriminately, discriminate against non-gecko, non-webkit, non-blink browser engines (anti-competitive, pro-monopolist, reduces competition, harming all consumers), and extort small businesses who think they're getting cheap or free DDoS protection right at the moment those small businesses are suffering attacks.

And just to be clear, your formal position is that we should all have faith in the idea the NSA, the organization tasked with collecting intelligence from more or less anything interacting with any part of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, the one that can and has silently compelled US corporations including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Apple to share user data with them, without a warrant, with a program that's very existence was classified, is NOT doing the exact same thing to perhaps the single highest-volume chokepoint for 20%+ of global internet traffic, all completely decrypted, a US company subject to the same laws that the PRISM companies were?

It would genuinely border on criminal negligence for the NSA to not be collecting from Cloudflare, given their capabilities and mission.

Additionally, I'd like to point out that your framing presents a false binary: the options are not "Love Cloudflare Unconditionally" or "Abandon all CDN / WAF / security tooling". There are a multitude of other options for every single function, feature, and service Cloudflare offers, including many that can be self-hosted, many that are not US corporations, many that do not infringe upon end-user privacy, many that do not discriminate against tor and vpn users (people living in repressive countries), many that do not discriminate against non-mainstream browsers (aka less untrustworthy browsers).

Finally, just because you don't care about many of these issues doesn't mean they aren't real issues causing real problems for real people, and it's very unkind to call someone delusional for raising these kinds of concerns. If dang is reading this, I hope they can remind you of HN's community guidelines around such conduct.
by caseyohara | 2025-10-08 02:18:24+00:00
Nope. That's the "vibe" part of Vibe Coding™.

> The developer does not review or edit the code, but solely uses tools and execution results to evaluate it and asks the LLM for improvements. Unlike traditional AI-assisted coding or pair programming, the human developer avoids examination of the code, accepts AI-suggested completions without human review, and focuses more on iterative experimentation than code correctness or structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
by therein | 2025-10-08 02:19:08+00:00
> A better term would be “Augmented Engineering” (AE).

I don't think it necessarily deserves a special name. It is just engineering. You don't say book assisted engineering when you use a book as a reference. It is just engineering.

> But vibing? Not so much.

Just call it yolo engineering. Or machine outsourced irresponsible lmao engineering.

> I guess AE could also stand for Advanced Engineering, after all the AI gives you the power to access and understand the latest in engineering knowledge, on demand, which you can then apply to your work.

Oh god.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-08 02:19:08+00:00
> If Valve or someone paired with them for the next Steamdeck style project, they'd dominate.

They have to fix their approach to Linux driver development. (and driver development in general).

Qualcomm likes to lob hardware to consumers while spending the minimal amount of time making sure the drivers to support that hardware actually works.

I couldn't imagine someone like Valve leaping at the opportunity to use them.
by dgacmu | 2025-10-08 02:19:16+00:00
We have one here as part of a CMU research deployment: https://www.transportation.gov/utc/surtrac-people-upgrading-...

> The system applies artificial intelligence to traffic signals equipped with cameras or radars adapting in realtime to dynamic traffic patterns of complex urban grids, experienced in neighborhoods like East Liberty in the City of Pittsburgh

Now, that said, I have serious issues with that system: It seemed heavily biased to vehicle throughput over pedestrians, and it's not at all clear that it was making the right long-term choice as far as the incentives it created. But it _was_ cameras watching traffic to influence signaling.

https://www.transportation.gov/utc/surtrac-people-upgrading-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Urban_Traffic_Control
by Rebelgecko | 2025-10-08 02:19:20+00:00
1) basically it'll take 60% of senators to reopen the government OR a majority of senators being willing to go nuclear and rewrite the Senate's rules

2) Healthcare has been incredibly controversial in America for the last 15 years or so. Current Republicans are not a fan of Obamacare (honestly I'd suspect the name is at least half the reason) and want to shut down or expire as much of it as possible.
by zeroq | 2025-10-08 02:21:23+00:00
Fun fact - Getty Images used to send physical albums of their stock photo collections.

It was some 25 years ago, I was doing freelance for an ad agency, and while visiting the office and waiting for my appointment to finalize some paperwork I was browsing through these. When my guy finally showed up to pick me up he asked if I liked them and said - you can get these for free, just write them. So I did and they mailed me 10kg worth of albums. Just like that.

Just a cool memory from the past. Back then internet wasn't that rich, mobile phones were novelty, and when you visited a musuem or gallery and liked you bought a massive album to hold on to your memories.

These days, when visiting such places (think sistine chapel) I don't even bother to do pictures at all. If I want to recall something I can find endless stream of top quality pictures made by professionals with equipment worth as much as my car and in clinical settings, with no crowds and perfect lighting.
by jwpapi | 2025-10-08 02:21:48+00:00
I would argue Skyscanner or whatever other company is better in offering additional services (hotels, taxis, buses) than ChatGPT, because it’s specialized.

I think if you really exactly know what you want the input in AI might be faster "book me on the flight tomorrow at 1pm from x to y on airline xyz -y" This I could imagine being faster, but it would still require verification by me to actually pay. I wonder if AI is faster in doing that given the added latency compared to me visiting airline xyz and doing the search manually (even perceive loading time taking in consideration) as it will be perceived less time if you are active.
by stopbulying | 2025-10-08 02:22:25+00:00
-$4T/4mo = -$1T/mo -4,000,000,000,000 + +0,190,000,000,000 -------------------- -3,710,000,000,000

CNN recommended:

"White House says it will use tariff revenue to fund federal food aid for mothers and young children" https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/tariff-revenue-feder...

"Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his trade war" https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/05/business/farmer-bailout-trump...

"Trump’s tariff revenue could help keep the government open. Why isn’t that happening?" https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/economy/tariff-revenue-govern...
by optimalquiet | 2025-10-08 02:22:31+00:00
You’re entitled to your experience and spirituality, but nothing about Twitter or Bluesky has ever struck me as ‘divine.’ Rather than being a nihilistic flight from value, I think there’s far more value to be found in cultivating friendships and companions in the real world. There’s more divinity in a single hug from my wife than in everything I’ve ever read on the internet. Words have to bend to flesh at some point; we are embodied creatures. I’ve found my mental health improving massively when I take a step back from the firehose of social media and focus instead projects where I can use my hands and spending time with people I can eat with and hug.
by layla5alive | 2025-10-08 02:24:21+00:00
It's so much worse than that.

The first 0.1% of shareholders to sell would get the full +30%, then the next 0.1% would get ~28%, then the next... and by the time you got down to the last of the initial shareholders trying to liquidate, the price would likely be pennies on the dollar.

This is not value, but hot air.

The value these things represent is based almost entirely on the myth/hype + 401k index fund growth + inflation expectations at this point.

If you don't get dividends or voting power from your shares, all you have left is liquidation rights in the event of a bankruptcy. So, the shares are really worth their share of ~whatever AMD's assets are worth in a bankruptcy.

But, because we trade them in public markets, they're immediately worth whatever someone else will pay. And that's basically much more tethered to myth (and consistent 401k index fund growth + inflation expectations) than to fundamentals at this point.

Right now, 401k funds are buying AMD at this higher share price, with zero due diligence!

So, if growth stops / if job losses explode, then 401k contributions slow down (or reverse!), then markets fall, then margin calls happen, then markets fall more, more job losses...

There's a lot of cash sloshing around in the system from all the 2020s money printing, and there's a perma-buy-the-dip mentality that has come out of this extreme bull market (bubble market), so there is quite some extra resilience; but, the coyote is really going to have a reckoning once it finally looks down...
by mrheosuper | 2025-10-08 02:24:28+00:00
>If you're doing cheap IoT trinkets, you're never going to pay extra for a brand. You're going to buy the cheapest wifi / BT chipset out there and make do with that.

It's the opposite of that. Hobbyist/low volume maker gonna spend extra money to buy a familar tool, instead of going extra miles finding the cheapest available.

Even ESP32 is bad in term of perfomance/features and how much it cost.
by itake | 2025-10-08 02:25:28+00:00
My understanding is Mastodon requires the server to be complicit with the transfer (online and redirecting requests to the new destination). If your host server is offline or not willing to migrate your data, you can't move.

In the AT protocol, your identity isn't tied to a server. You don't need the older server's consent or support to have a new identity somewhere else.
by lmm | 2025-10-08 02:26:04+00:00
> The article claims that the warming effect from bouncing heat back down is overall larger than the cooling effect from bouncing heat back up. If you disagree with this assertion, you'll need to say why

I'm not sure they do. It's an extremely counterintuitive claim that would need to be justified, and while the author does cite (their own) paper, it sounds like the model they came up with is highly parameterised and not particularly physically validated. If it's really the case that contrails reflect more heat down than up (unlike what the scientific consensus says is true for regular clouds), then there should be an explanation for what contrail-specific factor causes this, not just "here's a pile of math equations that say it doesn't, don't ask where we got the parameters to fill them out from".
by godelski | 2025-10-08 02:26:09+00:00
Is it not natural for that? I think less so between social and romantic but larger businesses and governments have definitely share many of the same problems. Though I think businesses tend to be much more autocratic. Maybe feudal is a better term?

There's definitely a lot of differences but I think the larger a business becomes the more government like it becomes. Or at least it appears that way to me. I mean they're both very bureaucratic
by jwpapi | 2025-10-08 02:26:47+00:00
Ahh great point thank you very much this makes a lot of sense.

I see my mistake now. I evaluate based on how it could be useful for me. As a heavy computer user, familiar with shortcuts and user interfaces, interacting with UX works very good.

But for a lot of users text will be more natural and easier. I might be able to get the flight I want easiest with Skyscanner, but other users might not be and will come to a better result with texts.

It’s the same as I prefer documentations over Youtube tutorials, but it’s different on different stages.
by strenholme | 2025-10-08 02:26:55+00:00
There are patches for this so the above can be expressed with something like this:

[ (x) | x ]

http://lua-users.org/files/wiki_insecure/power_patches/5.4/l...

And for Lua 5.1:

http://lua-users.org/files/wiki_insecure/power_patches/5.1/l...

(I personally don’t use patches like this because “Lua 5.1” is something pretty standardized with a bunch of different implementations; e.g. I wrote my Lua book with a C# developer who was using the moonsharp Lua implementation)
by cogman10 | 2025-10-08 02:27:17+00:00
Exactly the reason I own a pixel.

Pixels get first class support by google in terms of software which means I can rock my phone for several generations before upgrading.

I've owned a 2, 6, and now 9. Even though the 9 is much faster than the 2 or 6, I've reached a point where that performance difference simply doesn't matter. I'm not being held back by the CPU in any real way. That leaves security, software, and battery life as the main reasons why I might decide to update my phone.
by gpm | 2025-10-08 02:27:19+00:00
> How laws are read can change.

They are more likely to ignore the law than to change the fundamental principles of how the words are read. It's easier. See the US.

Worrying about this sort of lawless action when writing laws is pointless because no matter how well laws are written they don't stop someone from simply ignoring them.

> Good. This is the way it should be.

I have no interest in rolling over and handing the keys to our communications infrasturcture to foreign powers because the government was not fast enough to realize they needed to ban a company, or because foreign politics shifted and what was a safe enough bet not longer is.

It's not a matter of guilt or innocence. It's not a matter of punishment. It's a matter of maintaining our independence.
by mgh2 | 2025-10-08 02:27:39+00:00
> Its paid subscription tier, ChatGPT Plus, now counts over 10 million subscribers, while enterprise usage has reached near ubiquity, with 92% of Fortune 100 companies incorporating the platform into their operations.

1. Down from 20M subscribers in April 2025? https://www.theverge.com/openai/640894/chatgpt-has-hit-20-mi...

This is why they don't disclose it, to keep the hype going: https://youtu.be/MoeSL0BxZUE?si=a4HoSpxAzX33UG8t&t=209

2. 92% penetration of Fortune 100 companies: executive push, low adoption

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45355806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165019
by jeromegv | 2025-10-08 02:27:46+00:00
> National post is a respectable publication more akin to the Wall Street Journal.

Absolutely not, their American owner has cut so much into that newspaper that whatever reputation they had a decade ago is entirely gone. They used to be somewhat of a right leaning equivalent to the Globe and Mail, but this is no longer an equivalent, what comes out of that publication is now extremely poor quality, often entirely false.

This is not anywhere close to the WSJ.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-10-08 02:27:55+00:00
So the only quasi disagreement I have is that "research" is one of the strengths of the models, and you should lean on them where possible.

In Claude Code for example I define a research sub-agent and let it do the majority of "research" type tasks. Especially when the research is tangential to what ever my objective is. Even if it is critical, I'll usually ask to have it do a first pass.
by cynicalkane | 2025-10-08 02:28:31+00:00
It's interesting that all these positions are called "common", but the actual board position might happen zero to one times in a lifetime, and I suspect it's usually zero times.

I noticed something similar when I played contract bridge at a competitive level. A top bridge player might play very roughly on the order of 10,000 hands a year, and vividly recall something that happens on the order of once a year as "oh yeah that's common". Of course I wasn't remotely close to them. But there is something about competitive games that seem to amplify the memory for certain kinds of unusual situations.

(Some people are commenting about under promoting to avoid stalemate traps down the line. I've always been a weak chess player, but... trying to set a stalemate trap after being down a queen, in a non-contrived position, is, like, adult chess players shouldn't do that. In my limited experience.)
by slyzmud | 2025-10-08 02:30:18+00:00
Sadly the times where people joined software engineering for passion are way behind. People nowadays join just for the money or because it has lot of jobs available.

It is very easy to notice at work who actually likes building software and wants to make the best product and who is there for the money, wants to move on, hard code something and get away with the minimal amount of work, usually because they don't care much. That kind of people love vibe coding.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-08 02:30:25+00:00
> Current Republicans are not a fan of Obamacare (honestly I'd suspect the name is at least half the reason) [emphasis added]

Republicans only have themselves to blame for the name, they started calling it that, and then the Democrats and Obama embraced it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act#%22Obamaca... (follow the references for more about how the name came to be)
by misterspaceman | 2025-10-08 02:30:31+00:00
I'm not a security expert, but I have an opinion on passkeys: I think we should stick to using them only for 2FA. At least for any site where the security really matters.

In my mind, a passkey authenticates the device, while the password authenticates you, the user. Passkeys let us limit which devices are allowed to connect with our credentials. A hacker in Eastern Europe could steal my login, but if their laptop isn't authorized, it makes an account takeover much harder.

(Side note: This is also why I'm uncomfortable putting TOTP codes and passkeys in the same password manager as the regular login credentials. It effectively defeats the whole purpose, turning multi-factor authentication back into single-factor again.)
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-10-08 02:31:32+00:00
I have the opposite thoughts on email domains.

Personal email domains makes you very identifiable just by lookung at your domain.

Using aliasing services (e.g. Mozilla Relay, Addy.io, etc.) with their default address generation ensures your email address itself does not disclose your domains when the eventual data breach occurs.

Plus catch-all addresses makes you an easy target for spam by sending to any email address on that domain vs need to know specific email address on typical email services.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-10-08 02:32:00+00:00
I welcome any novel, high-quality scientific research on better treatments for gender dysphoric children.

But, in the States at least, there is no longer any funding for that. They cut all of it by grepping the NIH and NSF databases for “gender”, more or less.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/nih-terminating-active-researc...

What there soon will be in the States, assuming SCOTUS overturns the Colorado ban this term, is a renaissance of conversion therapy. If you abuse the child hard enough and long enough, they’ll have bigger problems than gender dysphoria or—coming up in the next wave of manufactured outrage—same-sex attraction.

Hard to say that the “just asking questions” club has the child’s best interests at heart.
by WCSTombs | 2025-10-08 02:32:05+00:00
Sorry, I don't think this is true. There is basically no useful proven lower bound on the complexity of breaking popular cryptosystems. The math is absolutely not understood. In fact, it is one of the most poorly understood areas of mathematics. Consider that breaking any classical cryptosystem is in the complexity class NP, since if an oracle gives you the decryption key, you can break it quickly. Well we can't even prove that NP != P, i.e., that there even exists a problem where having such an oracle gives you a real advantage. Actually, we can't even prove that PSPACE != P, which should be way easier than proving NP != P if it's true.
by bryceneal | 2025-10-08 02:32:20+00:00
OpenSea is very nearly "entirely on-chain" if I'm understanding your point correctly. It's powered by smart contracts. It's not custodial like Coinbase or Robinhood. Users custody their assets in their own wallets. They trade by submitting transactions directly from their wallet to a smart contract address on-chain which facilitates fulfillment of the trade. The code for these smart contracts is open source and verifiable.

It may not be obvious to more casual observers, but there is a lot of trading volume happening on on-chain exchanges these days (as in easily 10B+ in trading volume per day with most of this coming from futures).
by trollbridge | 2025-10-08 02:32:25+00:00
The current “workaround” to the 4th amendment is to simply have private companies who do surveillance and then buy bulk data from them.

ICE does this with location data from mobile apps. They simply buy from a private vendor the information about where specific people are. Then they go detain them.

Some real life friends of mine are on a work crew with some migrants. ICE pulled their truck over, asked the migrants to identify themselves (with different names than they’d been using), they complied, and ICE drove off with them after detaining them.

I asked “Did they have their mobile phones with them?” “Yes.” People literally are carrying around a tracking device, voluntarily, with apps installed on them, voluntarily, that report their location to government authorities who want to detain them.
by pavelstoev | 2025-10-08 02:33:32+00:00
It was my first engineering job, calibrating those inductive loops and circuit boards on I-93, just north of Boston's downtown area. Here is the photo from 2006. https://postimg.cc/zbz5JQC0

PEEK controller, 56K modem, Verizon telco lines, rodents - all included in one cabinet
by enjoylife | 2025-10-08 02:33:37+00:00
One thought is once it can touch the underlying system, it can provision resources, spawn processes, and persist itself, crossing the line from tool to autonomous entity. I admit you could do that in a browser shell nowadays, just maybe with more restrictions and guardrails. I don’t have any strong opinions here, but I do think a lower cost to escape the walled gardens agi starts in will be a factor
by mystraline | 2025-10-08 02:34:30+00:00
Precisely.

A few decent folks try to start up a great idea. More join. Some dont share the ideals.

More join, less ideals shared.

More join. Cool, free shit! (Not really, but this is when the commons is shit on and good will starts being lost.)

Group starts cracking at the scenes. Factions form. Badness sets in. Thefts spike. Abuse and vandalization of equipment is the norm.

I left my local makerspace for these above reasons. And I made my own. Cost more, but my equipment works and is right there.