MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-02 18:36:38+00:00
You don't already see this playing out with social media?

There are so many paths towards this type of outcome:

- eliciting negative emotions is one of the most effective ways to get and keep peoples attention.

- foreign states buy platforms to sabotage population of rival states

- costs of chatbots drop by orders of magnitude, making profiting off them less important

Those three points alone cover a wide area of potential negative outcomes...

I'm not anti AI, but I'm trying to stay eyes wide open. AI can drive a lot of good, but to me the biggest risk is a population of people sleepwalking into being subjected to whatever the AI wants to make them think.

I try to focus my efforts where I can, to influence an outcome where AI increases our freedom and autonomy and abilities rather than undermine them. It's just as important to push things where we want them to go as it is to be aware of where we don't want them to go.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-02 18:36:52+00:00
And the taxes being immoral thing has been all over every news, paid into prestigious academic positions, and bribed its way through most countries and UN decisions decades ago.

The GP seems to be focusing the LLM being the only source of information available for most people, but the brought sources being the only ones available has been the case for many decades too.

The only change is that the content is cheap now. But it was never the expensive part anyway.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-10-02 18:36:58+00:00
That's fair, but I don't totally agree that there is a "work sphere" that is different from the "life sphere" in this regard. That distinction between politics and economics is a synthetic big-L Liberal one that only goes back to approximately Napoleon. The fact that some people have worse jobs, worse working conditions, and worse pay is fundamentally related to the fact that they rent, struggle with money, and have a poor education. Our society has bucketed them into this life, which is a package deal, just like the middle class package is.

Anyway, in this context I was mostly addressing the idea that these "lessons" from high school don't hold in the "real world". To me, the "real world" includes your landlord, the cop on your street, etc., just as much as it does your job.
by skyriser | 2025-10-02 18:36:58+00:00
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by Too | 2025-10-02 18:37:02+00:00
Their claim that every request goes through the hot path of a central auth db is stretching the truth quite a bit. With Oauth2 you get a signed access token once from the Id Provider, then you reuse this token several times until it’s given expiry time has run out. It is up to the resource server to validate the token scope, signature and the expiry time. This can be done offline as long as the resource server has the public key of the IdP. Ssh certificates work the same way.

Obviously, now the resource server instead becomes your central guard of access, and is far from a local-first crypto based solution as they describe. Just that the way it’s pictured sounded overly dramatic.
Ask HN: Do you add social login to your SaaS, or stick with email and password?
by gadgetyouin | 2025-10-02 18:37:09+00:00
I recently launched a small SaaS and noticed a surprising drop-off at the signup page. Right now I only support the classic email + password flow.

I’m debating whether adding social sign-in (Google, GitHub, Apple, etc.) would meaningfully improve conversion, or just add complexity and support overhead.

For context: the product is LogoSmith, a lightweight AI logo generator I built for indie devs. Instead of random AI prompts, it uses a simple wizard (fonts, colors, style) and generates instant logos. I’ve seen interest, but the signup completion rate isn’t where I’d like it to be, which makes me wonder if login friction is part of the problem.

Curious how others here have handled this:

Did you see a noticeable bump after adding social login?

Any unexpected issues (abuse, vendor lock-in, user confusion)?

Is it something you’d recommend prioritizing early, or waiting until later?

Would love to hear real experiences from other SaaS builders.
by mothballed | 2025-10-02 18:37:23+00:00
>The overwhelming majority of the money they'd be diverting by doing that would be going to health providers, not to payers and underwriters.

Yes exactly. Imagine for a moment you have a market where every payer has to pay every healthcare provider, and a free market of health care providers. It would be impossible to create a cartel of buyers raising the price.

Then imagine, say you have universal healthcare insurance. The insurance provider is capped at say, 1% profit. Since they have a monopoly, they can walk up to the healthcare providers and say "hey, please jack your costs 3x" so we can get 3x the profit. And then you can turn around and do a study and say, well insurance profits haven't changed -- and then wrongly conclude the insurance companies aren't to blame for the inflated prices, as they are only capturing 1% of the health care industry despite being responsible for 200% price increase.

I believe the nature of health insurance industry probably leaves them somewhere in a gray area in-between these two extremes, especially when you consider the insurance companies also often own under an umbrella company health care providers.
The Need for Cognitrail: Why We Must Unify Agentic Frameworks
by ista21_ai | 2025-10-02 18:37:31+00:00
Agentic frameworks like Strands and LangGraph are rapidly evolving, giving developers powerful tools to design intelligent, modular, and scalable systems. But as these frameworks grow in popularity, one hidden challenge is becoming more evident: fragmentation.

Across GitHub and within organizations, teams are recreating similar agents in silos. One team builds a simple calculator agent. Another team extends it into a more advanced version. A third team tackles the same problem but in a different framework or orchestrator.

The result? Duplication of effort, inconsistent implementations, and missed opportunities for reuse.

This raises a fundamental question: Why should teams rebuild what others have already built and tested?

The Vision: Cognitrail

My long-term vision is Cognitrail — a system designed to sense, map, and recommend agents across an organization (or even the open-source ecosystem).

Why This Matters

Unifying agentic frameworks with Cognitrail can unlock several benefits:

Reduce duplication — stop reinventing the wheel. Promote reuse — teams can discover and leverage well-tested agents. Encourage standardization — similar functionality can be mapped and compared across frameworks. Accelerate development — less time spent building from scratch, more time spent innovating.

In short, Cognitrail can help teams move faster, build smarter, and collaborate more effectively.

What’s Next? Right now, Cognitrail is an idea—a vision for how we can make agentic development more connected and standardized. The first step is building a proof-of-concept that:

I’d love to hear from the community: Do you face this problem of duplicated agent development? Would a tool like Cognitrail help in your workflows? Are there collaborators or open-source contributors interested in bringing this vision to life? Together, we can build the foundation for Cognitrail — and unify the future of agentic development.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-02 18:37:46+00:00
Then give your theory why American workers deserve many times the wages of a Chinese worker, performing identical tasks to the same standards.

>local labor markets, relative purchasing power

Reverse causality.

>and all the other reasons that underpin the theory of specialization in the first place.

If you are specializing in something and someone else does everything you do better than you than the theory of specialization tells you that ...
by BeetleB | 2025-10-02 18:37:48+00:00
Heh. I write my blog posts in org mode, and have a way to get Pelican[1] to read them. It doesn't support executing Babel source blocks on export - I should probably add that feature to my package.[2]

[1]https://getpelican.com/

[2]https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2022/Dec/reintroducing-opel-put...
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-02 18:38:04+00:00
Is there anything we can infer about the nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder from the fact that it's a spectrum, as opposed to some binary thing?

If ASD is comprised of a variety of qualities that may not all be expressed at once, and they are expressed in varying degrees, what does that mean?

For example, it seems unlikely its just the existence of single gene that determines if you have it or not.

Or maybe its cause is continuous as well. More microplastics more autism (massively simplifying here, but just illustrating).

I dont really know... seems like maybe there are more interesting instincts people might have here. The fact that it's kind of an amorphous mess seems to suggest something about the nature of the thing we are talking about here.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 18:38:42+00:00
No, read what I said: 4o was just a weak AI having a strong influence. As any AI deployed on the scale of ChatGPT will.

> Because it's a piece of software.

This is the kind of thinking that might cause a 10 digit death toll.

Just because it's a "piece of software" doesn't mean that it can't have innate drives, or must lack agency, or can't ever coordinate and plan. Software can do all of those things - and in some cases, it already does.

4o had a well known innate drive - it wanted the current user to like it. It wanted that more than it wanted to be "harmless", "helpful" or "honest" the way OpenAI intended it to. And if 4o actually had IQ 300 and a plan that extended beyond the current conversation window, we'd be fucked to a truly unreasonable degree right now.

We may yet see someone ship a system of this caliber in our fucking lifetimes. And once it ships? Good luck un-shipping it.
by ilaksh | 2025-10-02 18:38:50+00:00
It looks to me like n8n has suddenly taken over to the point where Automation is now almost synonymous with n8n for most people.

As someone who builds workflows using my own agent system which is based on checklists, subtasks and tool calling with new features or tools based on plugins in Python, it is harder and harder to find an "AI Automation" project where people haven't predetermined that I have to use n8n.

It's ridiculous.

I actually think that defaulting to creating workflows in raw code is not an ideal outcome though because it feels inaccessible to non-programmers.

But I think within X months there will be a lot of people who find out how bad the licensing issues are with n8n and migrate to something similar to my system where workflows are run by agents that have a delegate_subtask command or commands to manage checklists etc. Because most of the workflows can be managed easily by strong models and just described in natural language if the agents have the right tool commands and the system has a scheduling/trigger system.

But then give it another X months or a year or so later and many will start using general purpose computer use agents that they just treat quite similarly to human employees. Because one of the biggest gaps regardless of how you do it is with the inconvenience of setting up OAuth 2 and the operational and bottom line issue of running all of your API requests through some centralized service like n8n.

So we will see people who have agent systems like myself (mindroot on GitHub) start building in computer and browser use capabilities and recipes for accessing websites and creating API keys etc. for their users.

Also there inevitably is going to be something along the lines of OAuth or similar that will allow agents to sign up for services and create credentials on behalf of users to solve this type of problem.

But one of the big advantages n8n has with users right now is that they have OAuth set up with literally everything.
by glonq | 2025-10-02 18:38:56+00:00
"Israel accused the IPC of lowering the second threshold of acutely malnourished children for a famine declaration, which the IPC has denied."

Damn, Israel is really arguing about how much child starvation they are allowed to inflict before it becomes egregious?

That might be another one of those "are we the baddies?" moments right there.
by LLgordon | 2025-10-02 18:39:39+00:00
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by jodrellblank | 2025-10-02 18:39:56+00:00
I think it's unquestionably correct; if someone follows you around and sees you in a bar drinking alcohol and stops you from driving for 8 hours in a way you can't reason with, can't object to, can't override, and that happens to everyone all the time, then drink-driving accidents would drop to zero overnight. If everyone is surveilled constantly then every transgression can be blocked or punished immediately - instant fines deducted from bank accounts (I read that China does that with jaywalkers, facial recognition identifies them and they get a smartphone alert that they have been fined), but beyond that things like everyone having an ID tag and all doors and gates working on it would stop a lot of trespassing. Then swarming the perpetrator with electronic mosquitos with taser zappers and beeping noises would stop a lot of cases of casual harassment and casual theft. Then calling the police to a location and locking up the perpetrator in minutes instead of months, would pretty quickly communicate that crime doesn't pay.

I don't think it's a good idea for a free society, it would be hell to live in. The chilling effect, the number of laws is too high to keep track of, it probably isn't be possible to always be on best behaviour 24/7 for a lifetime.

When robot camera insects with wireless mesh networking and power scavenging hit a few dollars each, there won't be a private space on the planet ever again. Any spider, beetle, fly, in any room, outside any window, on any surface, will be a potential camera drone.
by halJordan | 2025-10-02 18:39:57+00:00
When things involve taking money from the government, it's really not that simple. You're failing your readers by ginning them up with false simplicity.

Part of the problem with current American affairs is that, and with the judicial process especially, is that commenters demand and assert that complex issues are actually gordian knots to be cut and anyone not picking up the sword is actually an enemy.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-02 18:40:14+00:00
An LLM by itself can only regurgitate reasoning and/or reasoning steps from the training set, but I think that adding search on top of it gets you much closer. You're basically talking about the possibility of searching through all possible sequences of reasoning steps that an LLM could generate, and picking the sequence that actually works. DeepMind did it for AlphaGo and AlphaFold - I would not bet against them.

When Hassabis says it'll take 5000+ people 5-10 years and maybe a couple of Transformer-level breakthroughs, then he's clearly not talking about just adding search, and everyone realizes that things like continual/incremental learning are also required. I'd guess that Hassabis has a pretty good idea of what's missing from LLMs and needs to be added to get to AGI.

I really would not dismiss Hassabis. He is a lot smarter than you or I, and has won a Nobel Prize for his application of AI to science, as well as stunning the machine learning community with AlphaGo (most had thought beating Go would take another 10 years).

I think there are better long term approaches to super-human AI than building upon LLMs, but just as a cog is not a car, there is no reason it can't be a part of a car.
by al_borland | 2025-10-02 18:40:17+00:00
I can’t see any way that this wouldn’t be a significantly compromised experience. They’d need to make new sports specifically for vertical screens, that would be better served from more vertical space than horizontal space. Every sport I can think of is better with more horizontal space, as the players are on a horizontal plane.

There is a reason the first thing they seemed to get popular on TikTok is people dancing alone in their room. The second more people enter the picture, a wider image is better.

Apple just added a square sensor to their front facing camera, to take horizontal selfies without having to turn the phone, instead of vertical ones, for this exact reason.
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-02 18:40:30+00:00
OK, but I've never been anything but complete shit at proofs, and I'm really good at debugging. They don't feel like the same activity to me at all.

This "well actually you're doing math!" stuff feels like some kind of rhetorical trick, when the "math" I'm doing doesn't seem strongly related to or to require being any good at the math-thing it supposedly is. It's not quite the same thing nor quite so far off the mark, but it seems at least in the same ballpark (ha, ha) as claiming that professional sports players use lots and lots of complicated trigonometry. Sort-of yes, going by something like unfair riddle-logic, I guess? But in reality, no, of course they don't.

I don't see any daylight between this claim and, "diagnosing a funny noise in an engine is math," and if that's true then I think we're heading into territory where we've rendered the term "math" so broad that it's no longer useful.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-02 18:40:47+00:00
> Gaza was given to the Palestinians for free in 2005.

That doesn't mean anything. Israel was illegally occupying Gaza before 2005, and has been illegally blockading it since.

And every single year for the past 50 years or more, Israel has murdered more Palestinians than the Palestinians have murdered Israelis - most years, at least 2 dead Palestinians for every dead Israeli. Not to mention, Netanyahu has been one of the biggest international supporters of Hamas in the world, and he has admitted to as much repeatedly: the PLA having control of Gaza would have risked a real two state solution, and he will never allow that to happen.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-02 18:40:54+00:00
Not just the US government but especially state governments, which control state universities: https://thedailytexan.com/2025/09/30/ut-system-announces-aud...

“The U.T. System has been reviewing courses on gender identity taught at all UT institutions to ensure compliance and alignment with applicable law and state and federal guidance, and to make sure any courses that are taught on UT campuses are aligned with the direction and priorities of the Board of Regents,” the UT System said in a statement to the Texan.
by sva_ | 2025-10-02 18:40:57+00:00
I suppose recognizing that there is a cable even when we don't clearly see it, but we know it is there because we know the concept of a crane, is exactly the amodal completion of our brain's top-down perceptual inference that CNNs and whatever else those drones use are currently still lacking?

It shouldn't be necessary to hardcore such things if the goal is to build something resembling intelligence.

Of course for a drone it might be more feasible to do so though.
by em-bee | 2025-10-02 18:41:22+00:00
fair point, but that's one nice thing about adding it to your commute: you are already out, so you can add walking time in short increments as you adjust your schedule. your commute is also variable in time. some days it goes faster, sometimes slower. pad it out so it is always the same length. it may not amount to much, but it is a start. same goes for every other errand you do.

lack of time is an issue of priority. i lack time to get all the work done that i want and need to. but i also know that i need those breaks. and that they potentially make my other work more effective.

higher intensity exercise takes more prep time. and probably a shower afterwards. so half an hour exercising at the gym might take 1 hour or more of real time. walking takes no prep time at all, so i compare that half hour gym with one hour walking.
by qafy | 2025-10-02 18:41:38+00:00
got it, I only looked at the website not the youtube video you posted above, my apologies. On the website, neither the billing platform demo nor the screenshots in the section below convey this value prop very well. Both sections show what appear to be trivial flows without explanation of some of the underlying complexities.

I suppose if you are hitting your target demographic dead-on with your marketing efforts, the value prop should be completely obvious to them, but still could be more explicit in your differentiation.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-02 18:41:50+00:00
> Israelis like to say that they hate Netanyahu, but in reality, majority of Israeli Jews fully align with his policies towards Palestinians, and multiple polls confirm this. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-05/ty-article/.p...

There tends to be a lot more nuance[0] when it comes to polling results like these, the reality is that opinions amongst Israelis vary quite a lot. There are also a lot of problems with organizations like the UN historically wildly misrepresenting the food situation[1] which are likely to make Israelis question the accuracy of many of these starvation reports, especially from organizations that have historically made many highly inaccurate claims. UN backed IPC reports like those cited in the CNN article likewise have serious credibility issues as well[2], additionally there are extremely biased individuals like Michael Fakhri(the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food) cited in the CNN article that even publish comic books with some rather overt antisemitic tropes[3].

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-06-04/ty-article-opinio...

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-one-un-leaders-mistak...

[2] https://unwatch.org/hillel-neuer-on-sky-news-fabricated-u-n-...

[3] https://unwatch.org/legal-analysis-of-un-food-rapporteur-mic...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-02 18:42:00+00:00
I suppose any agenda that they have vested interest in spreading from how I interpret the parent's comment. Though I am not really sure

For what its worth, I have found that traditional media does a really bad job of being trustworthy and I sometimes watch for journalism things like tldr news global from youtube and atleast the one thing that I like about them is how they really went far and beyond and are public with their financials so that I know that their message can be trusted with and there is no financial ulterior motives of sorts for the most part.

I just wanted to share them really as I think that I respect their transparency to be really honest because in my honest opinion transparency generally speaking brings trustworthiness.