MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ekaryotic | 2025-10-03 21:04:13+00:00
actually there was a chinese serial killer that used a technique like this. He had a septic tank and threw his victims in along with the dead bodies of his previous victims and would only let them out if they brought more victims from a train station. article is partially paywalled but is the case in question. https://archive.is/QxBDr https://medium.com/crimes-by-mr-o/this-teacher-was-thrown-in...
by somat | 2025-10-03 21:04:17+00:00
> "practically every CVE is on code you can read."

This is probably true due to a sort of survivorship bias. code you can read is much easier to analyze and test and report. Closed source internal code has a lot of security by obscurity built into it. Not to dismiss security by obscurity, I am sure it keeps an absolute frightening amount of code safe.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-03 21:04:40+00:00
> “Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions,” the USF Office of Public said in an announcement. “Safety Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name ‘pickuplines.pov’ on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms."
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-03 21:05:18+00:00
I fully expect to see them take on more and more roles that e.g. the FBI traditionally performed. The strategy appears to be to expand, empower, and control them as the "MAGA law enforcement agency" and bypass all the rest, either seconding them to ICE or diminishing them to a tiny role.

Look to see them expand to general "counter-terrorism" enforcement in the near future, with only the barest veneer (if that) of its having anything to do with immigration enforcement. After all, if you can stop practically anyone on baseless suspicion of being in the country illegally (see: recent precedent that apparently "they looked foreign" is enough) then charge them with whatever after-the-fact even if they turned out to be legal residents or citizens, that sure looks like a neat little work-around for due process. Or you can just "accidentally" disappear them to El Salvador....

I think about the minor plot point of the President having dissolved the FBI, in the film Civil War, a lot more this year than I ever thought I would when I watched that movie the first time.
by benatkin | 2025-10-03 21:05:30+00:00
It made sense to me, because I imagine a thread or coroutine as something that runs code as though it were interpreting something like psuedocode, whether it's doing that or not. So from my point of view an instance of async Rust is being cancelled - not the feature of the Rust project, but instances of code.

This abstraction has served me well and facilitates stepping through code in a debugger, though I jump out of thinking it at that level when I need to think of it at a lower level.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-10-03 21:05:35+00:00
Async was a soft keyword for many, many years in order to maintain compat. And before that, asyncio used yield to be even more compatible.

They took a decade to solidify that. At some point, you have to balance evolution and stability. For a language as popular as Python, you can not break the world every week, but you can't stay put for 5 years.
by driggs | 2025-10-03 21:05:44+00:00
> It's been explained many times before why this is not possible: the library doesn't actually have a version number.

Not possible? Come on.

Almost everyone already uses one of a small handfull of conventional ways to specify it, eg `__version__` attribute. It's long overdue that this be standardized so library versions can reliably be introspected at runtime.

Allowing multiple versions to be installed side-by-side and imported explicitly would be a massive improvement.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 21:05:48+00:00
America is a perfect ally to Israel. I’m not arguing they’ll replace us 1:1. Just more than adequately, certainly enough to maintain a regional hegemony if not fight for it anew.

> India don’t have an ideological relationship with Israel

Right-wing Indians and Israelis actually have quite a bit in common. I don’t think it’s enough to sustain a long-term alliance. And New Delhi is no Washington. (It’s also a buyer of Iranian oil.)

But there are outright exterminationist wings in both countries, and their enemies share the same faith.
by Etheryte | 2025-10-03 21:06:06+00:00
Some context might be useful here. I spent some time living Sweden not too long ago and Swedes practically don't use cash. It's usually not said out loud, but cash is often considered to be dirty and criminal, to the point that most don't have any at all. Digital payments are very convenient and deeply integrated, so long as you have a local ID which allows you use the local payment system Swish etc.

This worked nicely until the tensions in Europe lead to more cyberattacks rolling in and suddenly you have people not being able to buy food, medicine, and so forth. Not too long after, there was a government advisory urging people to keep some cash reserves in case a larger cyberattack happens, but cultural habits at large are hard to change. This is of course a coarse simplification of the context, but might help understand this incentive a bit better.
by zzyzek | 2025-10-03 21:06:36+00:00
Boris the brave coined the term "Constraint Based Tile Generators" (CBTG) [0], which is a specialization of the more general CSPs to this particular domain.

Personally, I find CSPs overly general and mired in esoteric, byzantine terminology. It's a large cognitive load to put on people to run through the glossary of terms just to talk about the problem set up. I don't think the quantum mechanic analogy is great but I can see it being much more intuitive than the obscure language of CSPs.

[0] https://www.boristhebrave.com/2021/10/31/constraint-based-ti...
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-03 21:06:44+00:00
> I am curious what are you referring to.

A lot of cyber attacks in the last decades, stuff like WannaCry, Kaspersky..., Navalny, threats to politicians, espionage for example the recent case about Maximillian Krah, Navalny, bombs in packets that were supposed to be in the air while detonating, drone attacks, purposed limitations in gas supply...

I mean now NATO is discussing responses, but these things aren't exactly new and have been going on for years.

> Russia doesn't have an army to fully occupy Ukraine.

As far as I understand it they are still not really using the official army, since they fear that might have consequences about the stability of the regime.

Also there is an asymmetry as we care about a nation as it's people, but the Russian leadership (it's not only Putin) doesn't feel like that. Troop loss isn't more to them than a number and they have a wast population that they are willing to burn for there own goals.

Ukraine was really underestimated, but I think we underestimate our military ability. We relied to much on the USA and dissolved our armies thinking there will never be another war.

> And idea that you somehow put Russia on their knees and keep them there, for decades

I don't think anybody plans for that.

>> Yes, but why should Americans care?

I don't understand what you want to say, this wasn't about Americans?

> I think there is this mass delusion among Americans that they don't have any colonies, but I think Israel and Gaza shows that's not true.

The USA are/were the major world power, yes they do have influence among the world. But the Israel/Gaza issue is mostly caused by having nationalists on BOTH sides. The other nations on the world also have agency.

> And U.S. have destroyed Middle East with these shenanigans, so I am not happy them applying similar divisive policies to Eastern European countries.

Russia wasn't exactly uninvolved either, but I don't see how Ukraine is that much comparable and EU countries investing in the military is very much the agency of ourselves.

> but I don't see us trying to deescalate, which is the only realistic way to end the war.

This always assumes that Putin has issues that are orthogonal to the war that we can just negotiate. What I perceive to be the case is that they just want territory expansion and control over the run away states of the USSR. The war isn't just a necessary nuisance and a means to the goal, but the goal itself.
by xyzelement | 2025-10-03 21:07:19+00:00
This is such a lame comment, sorry.

The fact 2nd amendment crowd had a chance to prove their principles a few weeks ago and they did it with flying colors when the NRA came out against any restrictions for trans people.

But as a 2A supporter I don't feel any obligation to rage against ICE assembling a social media team. These seem to be completely disconnected concepts.
by prmph | 2025-10-03 21:07:23+00:00
There is the alternative observation that sometimes the effect of harmful things is based on the frequency and length of exposure, not so much its magnitude.

Compare with the CTE, where a few bone-crushing traumas do not seem to cause it, but chronic long-term low grade impacts is more likely to cause it.

Another example, I probably could eat a massive amount of processed meat a few times without much ill effect, but years of eating moderate amounts might do you in.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-10-03 21:07:37+00:00
Agree, they really did their homework, listed edge cases, made practical compromises, chose not to overdo it, reworked it again and again quite a bit and compared it to real life experience.

It's really beautiful work, especially since touching the back bone (the import system) of a language as popular as Python with such a diverse community is super dangerous surgery.

I'm impressed.
by bunderbunder | 2025-10-03 21:08:08+00:00
If you cause a car wreck, you failed at driving. It doesn't necessarily make you a bad driver in and of itself - everybody makes mistakes - but if you also refuse to acknowledge and own your error then that certainly suggests a lack of competence.

If you ship code that blows up in production, you failed at programming. It doesn't necessarily make you a bad programmer in and of itself - everybody makes mistakes - but if you also refuse to acknowledge and own your error then that certainly suggests a lack of competence.

If you tell a joke that lands disastrously, you failed at comedy. It doesn't necessarily make you a bad comedian in and of itself - everybody makes mistakes - but if you also refuse to acknowledge and own your error then that certainly suggests a lack of competence.

I still don't understand why, for many people, that last point is so much harder to understand than the first two.
by mionhe | 2025-10-03 21:08:30+00:00
Well, the author of the article found several people sharing experiences that they heard from other people that seem to give credence to that view.

Hard to know at this point if the problem is with specific judges, with the way the law is written, or if the presentation of these experiences are made to seem more numerous by the way the article presents the story. It also didn't cover instances of abuse coming from mothers, so there's at least a little bias in the story.
by satvikpendem | 2025-10-03 21:08:31+00:00
Another day, another example of the AI Effect in action:

> "The AI effect" refers to a phenomenon where either the definition of AI or the concept of intelligence is adjusted to exclude capabilities that AI systems have mastered. This often manifests as tasks that AI can now perform successfully no longer being considered part of AI, or as the notion of intelligence itself being redefined to exclude AI achievements.[4][2][1] Edward Geist credits John McCarthy for coining the term "AI effect" to describe this phenomenon.[4] The earliest known expression of this notion (as identified by Quote Investigator) is a statement from 1971, "AI is a collective name for problems which we do not yet know how to solve properly by computer", attributed to computer scientist Bertram Raphael.[5]

> McCorduck calls it an "odd paradox" that "practical AI successes, computational programs that actually achieved intelligent behavior were soon assimilated into whatever application domain they were found to be useful in, and became silent partners alongside other problem-solving approaches, which left AI researchers to deal only with the 'failures', the tough nuts that couldn't yet be cracked."[6] It is an example of moving the goalposts.[7]

I wonder how many more times I'll have to link this page until people stop repeating it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
by linguae | 2025-10-03 21:08:37+00:00
Milton Friedman was not part of the Austrian School. Rather, he was part of the Chicago School. While both schools promote free market economics, there are differences. In fact, one of the biggest differences has to do with their views on central banking, with the Austrian School generally being against fractional-reserve currencies while the Chicago School being more sympathetic. Milton Friedman was a monetarist.
by Rohansi | 2025-10-03 21:08:50+00:00
> some of the Windows server versions actually include the feature

If you looked into it though you'd see that you do still need to restart at least every quarter for baseline updates. If you don't restart then future hotpatch updates will not apply because they only target the current baseline update. There are also unplanned baseline updates that require a restart to patch zero-day exploits that cannot be fixed in a hotpatch.

I'm still not understanding how this is a solved problem on Linux. If there is a vulnerability in libc then you need to restart (probably) all processes to have the fix take effect.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-03 21:09:05+00:00
No Javascript, text-only:

curl -K/dev/stdin<<eof|zcat|grep -o "<p>.*</p>"|sed '1s/^/<meta charset=utf-8>/;s/\\n//g;s/\\//g' >0.htm url https://www.techinasia.com/gateway-api-express/techinasia/1.0/posts/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025 output /dev/stdout user-agent: "Mozilla/()()............../......................./.... ....." header accept: eof firefox ./0.htm
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-03 21:09:07+00:00
> I'll make it my religion.

Hey mate, these are just tools but I love the energy I suppose.

Pretty sure that you can hack something like this though

Just checked and saw this https://github.com/moriturus/ktra

Now its been a long time since I last checked at radicle but if they are using checksum as the thing then you can definitely hack through something with ktra which pulls the content from radicle nodes and gives it back I suppose

not sure what you mean by namespaced p2p thing mate, at best maybe we could have something like nostr in an ideal world where we sort things through on time and sort of but that is really finnicky, I have worked on something similar but that would involve crypto which I or you also don't want to involve it seems.

The best idea could be a sort of lookup table that can be operated by rust foundation etc. which just links names to their hashes etc., iirc nix can definitely do something similar with nix flakes in the sense that they also follow the hash based approach but don't take my word for it as I am not sure and nix is also not the point of this discussion.

If this is something that you are really passionate about, maybe you should give it a go! Have a nice day!
by 9x39 | 2025-10-03 21:09:17+00:00
How does this intelligence work? Can you explain how 'meaning' is expressed in neurons, or whatever it is that makes up consciousness?

I don't think we know. Or if we have theories, the error bars are massive.

>LLMs find the most likely next word based on its billions of previously scanned word combinations and contexts. It's an entirely different process.

How is that different than using one's learned vocabulary?
Show HN: Lootbox – CLI that unifies MCP and custom functions for Claude Code
by jmcodes | 2025-10-03 21:09:23+00:00
Hey HN! I built a CLI that unifies MCP tools and your custom functions under one code execution interface. Think serverless functions for your coding assistant but on your local machine

Installation is a one-liner curl script (see README)

Instead of configuring your AI with dozens of individual tools, drop a ts file in a directory, and give the LLM one capability: execute TypeScript with lootbox.

// my-functions/example.ts export async function analyzeText(args: { text: string }) { return { length: args.text.length, words: args.text.split(' ').length, uppercase: args.text.toUpperCase() }; } # Run server with your functions + MCP servers lootbox-runtime --rpc-dir ./my-functions --mcp-config mcp.json # AI writes code that uses both: lootbox -e ' const file = await tools.mcp_github.read_file({repo: "x/y", path: "README.md"}); const analysis = await tools.myapp.analyzeText({text: file}); console.log(analysis); '

Your custom TypeScript functions auto-discover alongside your MCP servers and get turned into a fully typed 'tools' object that the AI can use.

AI gets full type definitions for everything. Writes code that chains operations together instead of doing sequential tool calls.

LLM scripts are executed in a Deno Sandbox with only net access. RPC files get full access.

Based on Cloudflare's Code Mode research but completely local.

Check the README for some sample rpc files, a workflow, and a much deeper dive on how it all works.

Typically Claude Code will use

lootbox --help lootbox --namespaces lootbox --types kv,sqlite // returns the types from the typed client

And will then start writing a script to orchestrate the tools to accomplish the goal.

Lootbox can also run files so you can tell Claude to save the script as a file and later just run it with

lootbox path/to/script.ts

Built it after continuing to experiment and play with my original take on Code Mode.

https://github.com/jx-codes/lootbox

Original Take: https://github.com/jx-codes/codemode-mcp
by danaris | 2025-10-03 21:09:32+00:00
Sure, "ChatGPT" has entered the common consciousness as the name of LLM chatbots as a product.

But does that mean that all of the people who talk about "asking ChatGPT" are actually asking ChatGPT, from OpenAI?

How many of them are actually asking Claude? Or Gemini? Or some other LLM?

That's the trouble when your brand name gets genericized.
by mrtksn | 2025-10-03 21:09:38+00:00
It's not about paying by cash but paying by card offline. How is this going to be implemented I wonder.

On planes they often accept credit cards even when there's no internet. I assume this is a trust in-credit-based system because they don't accept debit cards, i.e. if you are worth being trusted with a card you can have your sandwich now and we will take care of the bank processing once we are on the ground. So maybe this will be like we trust you enough with basic goods that once we get a connection things will be sorted out situation?
by martin-t | 2025-10-03 21:09:52+00:00
The state is the single moat prolific user of violence by far. If it wants to claim violence is wrong, its first step needs to be to dismantle itself.

Of course, violence is not always wrong. Violence is a tool, whether it's good or bad depends against whom you use it.

One man's terrorist of another man's freedom fighter.

The people in positions of power (both politicians and owners of large tech companies) have been waging a global war on violence and Chat Control is just one part of it.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-03 21:10:28+00:00
I don't understand these claims from an interest rate perspective either. 2022 was a huge unwind of the interest rate bubble, and a mass extinction of ZIRP-driven business models (including the state of banking itself to an extent, which necessitated a Fed intervention). And remember, the 2022 duration bubble unwind came immediately after the DotCom Bubble 2.0, with ten billion dollar treadmill/space tourism/vaporware EV/dog walking companies.

Yet it doesn't show on the chart of misallocated capital. There was a huge amount of misallocated capital destroyed then:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3bf522f05eaf...

Maybe it would make more sense with the full context of the original report.
by tannhaeuser | 2025-10-03 21:10:47+00:00
> I presume they meant "anything, but" as in it's not perceived as a casual tool.

Yeah sorry that's exactly what I meant. Could've probably made myself more clear.

Blender is a tool for working day-in day-out with its workflow (aka the "vi of 3D modelling") but is absolutely unsuited for casual one-off use. Its predominance shouldn't discourage devs to create or port alternatives IMO, though it's of course a massive task.
by infecto | 2025-10-03 21:10:51+00:00
So I know you are trolling but let’s be real. Why would I share my business measurements with you on here? Of course my experience is an an anecdote and of course the measurements I use to determine accuracy are more in depth than “quite accurate”. What I can say is for structure we beat humans on accuracy and do it extremely quick. That LLM system runs at a lower cost than some of our more traditional system.

If all you have done is built wrappers I see you have bare scratches the engineering surface so that explains it.
by objclxt | 2025-10-03 21:11:03+00:00
> I wonder what the technical details will look like

It’s already a thing, the EMVCo standard predates ubiquitous internet connectivity. Mass transit systems typically use it, airlines used to for in-flight purchases before the advent of reliable WiFi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#Offline_data_authenticat...

It is somewhat common to maintain a denylist of known fraudulent cards, but as you note the main mitigation is on the bank to track the card down. One of the key things you need to figure out with an offline payment system - and what I imagine is needed here - is a consensus on who has the liability for offline transactions and what the dollar limits are.
by throw219080123 | 2025-10-03 21:11:22+00:00
True. But if the system is implemented by a country this could be implemented using the law system and insurances.

For example, when each transaction is done, both parties might keep a cryptographic proof which they are required to submit once they are online again.

Failing to submit could result in a small fine (to encourage submission) and double spending which can then be detected could result in a large fine (or even a prison sentence), for example.

There is, perhaps, a privacy issue, just like with blockchain. But it's not more of an issue than online transactions.
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-03 21:11:34+00:00
Liberals and conservatives don't split support in the country 50/50.

It's more like 20/20 and then that apathetic majority who can't be bothered to care enough to even vote is the rest. Given the nature of liberal and conservative policies, we can all probably see why many of them would be apathetic if we're being honest. But I'm sure those people aren't cheering. They're moreso saying, "See. I told ya so." To any friends and family who thought Trump would be any different. Probably gleefully pointing out to friends who are liberal or conservative that now things are worse.

For that "apathetic majority", they probably now feel vindicated in their decision not to vote and their sense of hopelessness.

And that's sad.