MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gquere | 2025-10-24 07:08:35+00:00
I doubt it's going to change anything, this manipulated market will adapt and continue to extract money from kids. The cynic in me could even say that this change was pushed by Valve to take a bigger cut of the skin market (most trades are supervised by 3d parties). Coffeezilla investigated one of the many casino sites, there's a lot more to it.
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-10-24 07:09:10+00:00
Can't you just not care and power through? Someones always going to be miffed regardless. I keep a Rollei A110 on me at all times and a tiny Minox EC that takes me hours to refill. When I bring it out people love it. It's a throwback that people very much appreciate. I can see people getting miffed at a big digital camera though.
by tbrit | 2025-10-24 07:09:44+00:00
ha funny, I built a similar thing to hide suggestions, so it hides all the algorithm feed on homepage, that is my weakspot. still lets you see subscriptions and search etc. then added hiding shorts too

https://github.com/Britnell/youtube-doom-blocker-extension

waiting for extension to get approved but its so slow. seeing yours is already more popular you should include this! i also added a menu so you can config what to show/ hide.
by mcv | 2025-10-24 07:09:57+00:00
It's a bit harsh to demand that people are thankful for decades of oppression. Central and eastern Europe were caught between two monsters, but one of them lasted a lot longer.

The main reason that the USSR's role in the start of WW2 has been ignored for so long, is because they were part of the victorious side, and their contribution was absolutely vital to the defeat of the Nazis. But they did launch offensive wars, against Poland, Finland and the Baltic states. They're traditionally not seen as part of WW2 only because the Nazis weren't involved and they were initiated by one of the victors of the war, but they happened at the exact same time, while Germany was invading Poland and Scandinavia.

Russia's conquest of eastern Europe was no liberation.
by uecker | 2025-10-24 07:10:50+00:00
Indeed. This is exactly the problem. It is no fun helping with maintenance of an existing project, fix some boring bug, deal with all the historical constraints, necessary support for old systems, etc.

It is so much more fun to cargo-download some stuff and build some new shiny Rust-xyz implementation of Z on your Apple Macbook and even get some HN attention just for this. The problem with all the Rust hype is that people convince themselves that they are actually helping the world by being part of a worthwhile cause to rid the world from old languages, while the main effect is that i draws resources away from much more important efforts and places an even higher burden on the ecosystem - making our main problem - sustainable maintenance of free software - even harder.
by toenail | 2025-10-24 07:11:14+00:00
Technically, "abandoned wallets" is not something that exists, all you have are "unspent outputs" of transactions. For QC attacks to work the public key to a private key has to be revealed, for modern addresses that only happens when you spend coins, not when you send them somewhere.

I guess some people call early P2PK (pay to public key) addresses "abandoned", but we simply don't know if somebody still controls them.
by rgovostes | 2025-10-24 07:12:11+00:00
Suppose you always want to be running the latest iOS release, but you want to replace your phone as infrequently as possible. You would "only" have to have purchased 4 iPhones since 2007:

| Model | Launch date | Obsoleted by | Price |-----------|--------------------|--------------|------ | iPhone | June 29, 2007 | iOS 4 | $399 (*price cut) | iPhone 4 | June 24, 2010 | iOS 8 | $599 | iPhone 6 | September 19, 2014 | iOS 13 | $649 | iPhone 11 | September 13, 2019 | - | $699

Adjusted for inflation, the total for these phones is $3,287 excluding carrier contracts. Assuming the iPhone 11 will be obsoleted by iOS 27 in September 2026, this costs you about $14.29/mo.
by russellbeattie | 2025-10-24 07:12:38+00:00
This shouldn't be a product, but a licensed patented technology like Dolby or CDMA, sold to OEMs and directly integrated into cameras and phones.

It should be an industry standard system for guaranteeing authenticity by coordinating hardware and software to be as tamper proof as possible and saved in a cryptographically verifiable way.

No system like this would be perfect, but that's the enemy of the good.
by quietfox | 2025-10-24 07:13:16+00:00
I really need to get back to that mindset. I keep catching myself unconsciously checking my hobbies and abilities for marketability. I've been playing guitar for almost three decades, one of them spent in a touring metal band. When I started, I used to enjoy making music so much that I played and composed so often an album would just come together naturally. And then another one and another one, I just couldn't stop. These days, I no longer sit down to play just for myself and the moment — instead, I catch myself thinking, “Can I sell sample packs from this? Record a course? Should I code a VST plugin for it and sell that?” And after weeks of moments like this, all I have are three random riffs and frustration.
by Bengalilol | 2025-10-24 07:13:37+00:00
The main argument of this product is to "capture verifiably real moments". Though I find it interesting (and am quite liking the object), I do not tend to think this is a strong argument for this product: capturing a picture of a unreal picture would make it real (as discussed in this thread), moreover what would prevent any phone manufacturer from integrating the same type of "validation" into their hardware?
by grey-area | 2025-10-24 07:13:48+00:00
This looks interesting. I love the retro styling and transparent case. The proofs and selling it as some sort of fight-back against AI seems tenuous and as the user controls the hardware - going to be hard to keep that system hermetically sealed due to giving the user the keys on device. Also though almost nobody actually cares very much about attesting that their photos are somehow real and untouched by AI.

There are larger problems when you consider this question. What is real and not in photography is a long and storied debate - any photograph is ultimately a curation of a small part of the real world - what is just out of frame could completely change the interpretation of the viewer if they saw it, regardless of whether the picture is unaltered after taking. The choice of framing, colours, subject etc etc can radically alter meaning. There is no getting away from this.

So ultimately I don't think the biggest problem facing photography is attested reality. I actually think the democratisation of photography offers a better way out - we have so many views on each event now that it's actually harder to fake because there are usually hundreds of pictures of the same thing.

PS for the site author, there is a typo in the sentence beginning - remove the an 'By combining sensors, an on-device zero-knowledge proofs'.
by rashunain | 2025-10-24 07:15:25+00:00
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by pjmlp | 2025-10-24 07:15:43+00:00
For 99% of the industry use cases, some kind of GC is good enough, and even when that isn't the case, there is no need to throw away the baby with the babywater, a two language approach also works.

Unfortunely those that cry about GCs are still quite vocal, at least we can now throw Rust into their way.
by insin | 2025-10-24 07:16:19+00:00
If you want something which removes Shorts more thoroughly, or alternatively gives you other options for using them intentionally, like redirecting to the normal video player so you can't get sucked into the scroll (e.g. if you only want to watch specific Shorts from a channel's Shorts tab), try Control Panel for YouTube [1]

It also recently got new options which let you disable or improve the new video player UI, and has options for removing other sources of algorithmic suggestions.

[1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube
by bilekas | 2025-10-24 07:16:24+00:00
> Doesn’t gaben have enough money for his super yachts and sword collections?

Steam is still a business, but of all the gaming industry, Gaben is one of the highlights, steam try hard to be extremely pro consumer. Refunds with no questions asked if you've played less than 2 hours of the game, requiring publisher and developers to explicitly state the AI generated content thats in the game to name just 2.
by gquere | 2025-10-24 07:17:49+00:00
Look at the "meta-"game mechanics: you play a few games, you get a guaranteed case drop. This circa $3 case could contain anything, a $0.2 skin or a rare $2500 knife. When you open it a casino-like wheel goes over all the items and selects one randomly. There are hundreds of YT/twitch channels that open cases all day long and their target audience is children. It's gambling, and it's gambling for children.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-24 07:18:37+00:00
NVidia has decided that the market demand to do everything in Python justifies the development cost of making Python fast in CUDA.

Thus now you can use PTX directly from Python, and with the new cu Tiles approach, you can write CUDA kernels in a Python subset.

Many of these tools get combined because that is what is already there, and the large majority of us don't want, or has the resources, to spend bootstrapting a whole new world.

Until there is some monetary advantage in doing so.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-24 07:19:28+00:00
Understood. I read the article as “here is how to do YOLO coding safely”, and part of the “safely” idea was to sandbox the coding agent. I’m just pointing out that this, by itself, seems insufficient to prevent ugly exfiltration, it just makes exfiltration take an extra step. I’m also not sure that human code review scales to this much code, nor that it can contain that kind of exfiltration if the instructions specify some kind of obfuscation.

Obviously your recommendation to sandbox network access is one of several you make (the most effective one being “don’t let the agent ever touch sensitive data”), so I’m not saying the combined set of protections won’t work well. I’m also not saying that your projects specifically have any risk, just that they illustrate how much code you can end up with very quickly — making human review a fool’s errand.

ETA: if you do think human review can prevent secret exfiltration, I’d love to turn that into some kind of competition. Think of it as the obfuscated C contest with a scarier twist.
by Tade0 | 2025-10-24 07:19:43+00:00
Conservatives around the world seem to be comparing notes because over here the now former president pardoned quite a few high-profile cases and at least one before the sentence was given, which was bizarre, as you can't do that and the president, holding a PhD in law, should have known this.

In any case it appears that not only funds are safu, but Zhao is safu as well.
by leoedin | 2025-10-24 07:20:20+00:00
You can have a debit card in the UK as a fairly young child. I think I got one at 12? I don’t know if there’s specific restrictions on buying in-game currency with them? I don’t know how they’d know though.

The first thing I did when I got a debit card was buy the 18 rated GTA Vice City!
by beeflet | 2025-10-24 07:20:41+00:00
I can't wait until every car on the road is required by law to be self driving. You could have cars with no adults in them just driving puppers around, and it can tell the other cars hey watch out I've got a couple of good pupperinos inside so watch out!

The future is gonna be awesome. I fricking love science! Once we unlock self driving car technology, we will finally be able to move people and things from one place to another. All we have to do is force everyone on the road to install a transponder in their car that allows the government to track their location at all times, and develop a massively complex computer-camera system inside of the car that phones home and controls what the car is allowed to do.
by Bengalilol | 2025-10-24 07:21:22+00:00
I bet this is an on-purpose move by Valve, and I view this as a sane action. [1]

Having a game where some players only play in order to win money is, for sure, a no go. If the game is fun, then players will keep on playing it. It may also keep some money thirsty (sometimes very toxic) people at the gates.

It is also smoothing players' frustration and shopping-spree habits in order to obtain a rare item. If you have the ability to trade N rare items for another rare item then you quite surely may obtain any cosmetic item you want for a much lower investment (less boxes to open). The 'grey market' will adapt to this new value.

That's also a lesson on how a closed economy (and open ones too, to some extent) can collapse based on a single actor controlling the rules. That's fair to learn.

[1] EDIT: and probably a preemptive protection for any future legal threat (as some countries tend to prohibit money gambling in games)
by rramon | 2025-10-24 07:23:32+00:00
It almost seems like OpenAI being a stealth operation by Apple with Altman becoming the new Jobs in an Nextstep like aquisition move.

Ive/Altman.jpg, the focus on Macs, Apples unexplainable AI strategy and getting devs snatched by Meta. Why put up a fight if you already own the biggest player..
by KingMob | 2025-10-24 07:23:57+00:00
The parent comment is wrong.

Generally, when a new change ID is needed, jj generates a random number. The individual commits under each change still use hashed SHAs.

> when I can modify the whole commit

You can't actually modify any commits. A mutable change can be thought of as a subset of immutable git commits with a pointer to the most recent commit.

When you alter a file and jj snapshots, it adds immutable commits to the DAG end, and updates the pointer.

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There's some exceptions, like when importing from git, it will generate new change IDs based on a transform of the git SHAs.

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Side note: as much as I like jj, I admit the change/commit terminology is confusing as hell.
by dlukdsza | 2025-10-24 07:25:11+00:00
Fair point. I probably framed it wrong.

I'm not trying to help everyone become a LI influencer, I'm solving for devs (like me) who know sharing work and ideas helps careers, but hate the performative "content creation" game.

The check-ins aren't about building a "brand" in the influencer sense. It's more like "I solved X today", or "I used Y library". Meaning quick note -> formatted as a post as if you want to share.

Does that change your take, or is the whole premise flawed?
by jwr | 2025-10-24 07:25:12+00:00
> the expected battery turnover is not occurring

I find this somewhat amusing, because the black PR of the fossil-fuel industry would have us believe that EV batteries basically have a 2-year lifespan, cost lots of CO2 to produce, instantly become toxic waste after those 2 years, are non-recyclable, and overall as a result EVs emit more CO2 than gasoline-burning cars. We are being told that EVs have a larger CO2 footprint than gasoline-burners.

Then Redwood shows up with a perfect way to utilize all those discarded batteries without even opening them up, and… that toxic industrial junk isn't even there?
by mcv | 2025-10-24 07:25:21+00:00
These were randomised. It sounds like they eliminated this selection bias.

Also, this is just about preschool. For regular school, I've grown more skeptical, because it didn't work well for either of my kids. They struggled with the independence and planning, and didn't get much done. One switched to special education during primary school and is doing excellent there (but that has much more guidance and costs more, though I wish it was available for everybody), the other switched to a regular school during secondary school after almost failing to pass year after year despite his extraordinary intelligence. He's doing somewhat better now.

It's a good option to have, but it's quite likely the advantage is bigger for preschool than school.
by depierre | 2025-10-24 07:25:44+00:00
One of my personal favorites. I've used it for parsing SAP's RPC network protocol, reverse-engineering Garmin apps [0], and more recently in a CTF challenge that involved an unknown file format, among others. It's surprisingly quick to pick up once you get the hang of the syntax.

The serialization branch for Python [1] (I haven't tried the Java one) has generally done the job for me, though I've had to patch a few edge cases.

One feature I've often wished for is access to physical offsets within the file being parsed (e.g. being able to tell that a field foo that you just parsed starts at offset 0x100 from the beginning of the file). As far as I know, you only get relative offsets to the parent structure.

0: https://github.com/anvilsecure/garmin-ciq-app-research/blob/...

1: https://doc.kaitai.io/serialization.html
by stale2002 | 2025-10-24 07:25:44+00:00
> In which situation does the end user not pay for everything?

If you want to get technical about it the field of economics addresses this question. Its called Tax Incidence. The short story is that the side of the market that has the least elasticity of demand (IE, they respond to price changes the least, and don't buy more or less because of price changes) is the entity that suffers the costs of taxes and gets the benefits of subsidies.

Intuitively this makes sense. Imagine if there is a luxury good that you don't need. If taxes increase significant on it, you may just choose not to buy it. That has a high elasticity of demand. Meaning that the tax incidence isn't going to be on the consumer and will instead be on the produce.

Whereas, think about food. People don't eat much more or less based on how much it cost. You can't physically eat more than like twice as much, and if you don't have any you die. Meaning that its a low elasticity of demand, meaning that the consumer pays the taxes.
by oxalorg | 2025-10-24 07:27:15+00:00
I have clicked about ~20,000 photographs on a Sony camera in the last year and a half. And I have published exactly 0 of those photos on social media.

Whenever I meet my friends and family, I show them the pictures myself and the story behind them.

I love the thrill of street photography and it gives me immense pleasure to capture candid moments of humans. It's a great creative outlet for me and helps me think about life and philosophy through my pictures.

Maybe one day I will care enough about publishing these pictures, maybe one day I will care about AI. But right now, I don't. This is the closest I've been to my "kid"-like self, just enjoying something for the heck for it.
by alphaglosined | 2025-10-24 07:28:28+00:00
Getting a web framework into the standard library is something I want to get working, along with a windowing library.

Currently we need to get a stackless coroutine into the language, actors for windowing event handling, reference counting and a better escape analysis story to make the experience really nice.

This work is not scheduled for PhobosV3 but a subset such as a web client with an event loop may be.

Lately I've been working on some exception handling improvements and start on the escape analysis DFA (but not on the escape analysis itself). So the work is progressing. Stackless coroutine proposal needs editing, but it is intended to be done at the start of next year for approval process.
by harperlee | 2025-10-24 07:28:51+00:00
Not sure about a movie but that reminded me of the "Driver" short story in the "Valuable Humans In Transit and Other Stories" tome by QNTM (https://qntm.org/vhitaos).

I'd recommend to buy the book, but here's an early draft of that particular story:

https://qntm.org/frame
by BlackFly | 2025-10-24 07:28:59+00:00
I too often idealize that.

The problem as I see it, when people start offering novel services it is hard to have a ready made contract for that. Hence the idea of reasonability and voidability that so many people have forgotten. If the term is clearly unbalanced in favor of the controlling party (ability to terminate the contract at any time without penalty while the contractee faces a penalty for early termination) without some specific consideration for this imbalance. These general reasonability notions need to be enforced more agressively. Instead, too many people think that anything goes once you signed the contract, but at the extreme end of this, slavery is clearly illegal. So there is clearly a line where you cannot agree to unreasonable things, but people forget that.

So I think these reasonability clauses were our attempt to capture novel contracts, but they have lost their teeth in the minds of people and in our legal systems. Then I start to entertain the enumerated contracts approach again...
by ajdlinux | 2025-10-24 07:29:01+00:00
My initial reactions:

- I hope they succeed and eventually deliver a solid version of this product - verifiable photography is going to become important, and it's good to see startups working on this - While I'm sure some artists will like the idea of verifiable photography, the applications that matter to me are any kind of photography that has the potential to end up in a news article or in court - Selling what is essentially a prototype is fine, it's extremely obvious that's what it is, they explicitly say it! Who cares if it's not very good as a camera? - The almost complete lack of information on their site about their security model or how their ZKPs work is not particularly encouraging - It follows that my faith that either the cryptography or the hardware anti-tamper measures in this beta device would stand up to even some decent amateurs, given a couple of weeks to have a crack at it, is not high. I'm almost tempted to buy one just to see how far I, a random kernel engineer who gets modestly decent scores at my local hacker con CTF, could get. But I may well be completely underestimating them! Hard to tell with the fairly scarce information - Why did they pick a name that's similar to a) AMD's GPU stack, and b) the law enforcement/natsec computer vision business, ROC (https://roc.ai)?
by dlukdsza | 2025-10-24 07:29:05+00:00
This is exactly the concern I need to solve.

Current plan: AI drafts use YOUR actual words/patterns from chech-ins, and previous posts, not generic templates. You review/edit before posting. Think of it as "auto-formatting" not "AI writing".

Would that address the authenticity concern, or does any AI involvement kill it for you?
by Citizen_Lame | 2025-10-24 07:29:31+00:00
Not the guy you are asking, but when I close eyes there is only black. If try to imagine let's say apple, maybe it's there at opacity of 0.5% or less. But requires mental effort. No inner monologue as well.

Dreams on the other hand are very vivid, sometimes I feel like I am physically there so I can smell, feel cold etc.
by stale2002 | 2025-10-24 07:29:38+00:00
> Equivalent in what way?

Equivalent as in a literal exact copy of an iPhone. Lots of factories can produce those, seeing as Apple contracts out production. If we get rid of those patents and give free choice to those factories and consumers, well they would be glad to produce a modified "Open" iPhone.

Lets make a free market by stopping this government intervention of the patent system that supports monopolies.