MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by charcircuit | 2025-11-20 21:09:42+00:00
>you give it root permissions

This is not possible on a device following the Android security model. Permissioned features should always be implemented using proper security mechanisms like permissions.

>don't apply to Blender

You say that until the SuperRetopologyTools5000.py addon you try out infects your system.

>Flatpak give me, the user, the power over application's permission

Most people are not going to bother with this. It's important for the defaults to be secure. People shouldn't have to opt in to a secure experience, and doing so shouldn't break the program.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-20 21:09:45+00:00
They are dumping some of the risk on Saudi Arabia now. During the MBS, Musk, Huang, Trump meeting MBS had to upgrade his previous $600 billion shakedown to $1 trillion, all of which goes to oligarchs in "AI", defense etc.

As a result, for example xAI now builds a fossil fuel powered data center with a Saudi state-backed firm named Humain.

It will probably end up like the Twitter investment of the Saudis.
by jryio | 2025-11-20 21:09:48+00:00
I think there's a very important nugget here unrelated to agents: Kagi as a search engine is a higher signal source of information than Google page rank and ad sense funded model. Primarily because google as it is today includes a massive amount of noise and suffered from blowback/cross-contamination as more LLM generated content pollute information truth.

> We found many, many examples of benchmark tasks where the same model using Kagi Search as a backend outperformed other search engines, simply because Kagi Search either returned the relevant Wikipedia page higher, or because the other results were not polluting the model’s context window with more irrelevant data.

> This benchmark unwittingly showed us that Kagi Search is a better backend for LLM-based search than Google/Bing because we filter out the noise that confuses other models.
by TZubiri | 2025-11-20 21:10:01+00:00
I had a job interview where the guy asked me something along the lines of do I have experience with OOP or Microservices，or both. So I answered how I like both and feel that MS are Objects at the network layer, the dude cut me off and told me to stick to the question. Absolutely gut wrenching, I was being evaluated by who knows who, in a slot of 30 minutes, maybe his entire job was repeating the same set of questions 16 times per day and he was unironically writing down yes/no next to "Microservices?" "OOP"?
by immibis | 2025-11-20 21:11:21+00:00
Can you provide convincing evidence that this is the case? What is the winter that is coming? And that your proposal will prevent it? And what exactly is your proposal anyway?

North Koreans think the outside world is going to collapse because they aren't doing what North Koreans are doing, but it's all just propaganda. You need to distinguish what you say from this.

The surge in anti-EU rhetoric seems to be mostly coming from US propaganda bleeding over, and is still a minority.

People have been predicting the immediate collapse of Europe and the immediate collapse of the USA for decades.

Nobody on the ground, who actually buys groceries, trusts official inflation numbers. How much apparent GDP growth is actually just unreported inflation? I saw some food getting 50-100% more expensive over the last 5 years, which is 10% per year. What was GDP growth? Less than 10%...

Many topics condensed into a single comment to conserve rate limit.
by pstuart | 2025-11-20 21:12:09+00:00
It's germane to point out the War on Drugs™ is a war on the people and has never been about "keeping people safe". I know that a lot of people say that cannabis is ok but hard drugs should not be legal to keep people safe. Look at how well that's worked out, as well as how the people involved with those drugs are treated (users are treated like dangerous criminals rather than with substance abuse issues).

This war along with the War on Terror™ give pretense to all of these abuses of power and need to be undone. The problems they profess to address can be addressed in much simpler, cheaper, and humane ways.
by lesuorac | 2025-11-20 21:12:33+00:00
> “Nah no need to investigate any more, enough people have said they’re satisfied.” Such a person would rightly be scoffed at.

The thing is, you need a new angle for an investigation to be justified.

There have been thousands on studies on vaccines and their long term side-effects. You can't be saying "what if they cause autism" at this point and expect people to drop everything and take you serious. You need to be showing some evidence first because all the low hanging and even high hanging fruit has been picked.

It's like if you were going "wheels don't roll". Sure, maybe they don't and reality spins around them. But there's a gazillion studies about tire composition and their effectiveness so if you want somebody to take you seriously you need to show some work first.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-20 21:12:39+00:00
Microservices are a bad pattern. Function as a service is better, because that architecture tends to assume vertical integration within the function and you can leverage a shared business logic library across an organization. Having service-to-service communication is the thing that makes microservices suck, if you can give people autonomy while having a shared systems language and keeping computation on one system it works ok.
by conartist6 | 2025-11-20 21:12:56+00:00
Because they aren't doing science. Science involves keeping an open mind to try to figure out what the evidence is telling you. The telltale signs that they aren't doing science are especially evident when you listen to the kinds of things they present as evidence.

A propagandist says: autism surged so we must fix our society. A scientist says "did autism increase, or just how often autism is diagnosed?" I don't have to study a lot of data to see that they're purposefully not asking themselves that question. Instead they seem to hope their listener is not aware that medical criteria in diagnosing autism loosened vastly over the period of time. By ignoring the big change in the word, they can instead sell you the idea of a big change in the world.

Again it happens with Tylenol. There's a question of cause and effect. They see this number that says that there's correlation between Tylenol use and autism. But Tylenol use also correlates very highly to being in awful pain, so it turns out that being in awful pain "causes" Autism to the exact same degree that Tylenol does. But RFK isn't interested in this distinction, immediately pointed out by anyone whose goal is actually to determine what the evidence we see might be telling us about reality.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-11-20 21:13:08+00:00
To be fair, the current Republican Party bears almost no resemblance to the "classic" Republican Party of....10 years ago.

The Newt and the Tea Party started the slide, normalizing hatred and bombast and FU-politics, and MAGA perfected it.

Whether you love it, hate it, or are indifferent, what you are dealing with now are not really Republicans. They are MAGA-folks. They should really rename themselves the Solipism Party. Nothing matters but the current state of your own head.

And yes, I know parties change and evolve with the times, but I would argue this time is very different.
by brulard | 2025-11-20 21:13:31+00:00
Regarding hyperrogue, I've seen it mentioned multiple times as a fun game. I tried to play it but I had found no fun in it at all. The non-euclidean take is interesting, but it felt just like a demo of the weird-geometry engine, I've found no enjoyment in that. Graphics is rough, I've found no interesting items, enemies, mechanics or puzzles. Not sure if I just played it wrong or why my experience was different.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-20 21:13:46+00:00
I can't help but see this as a solution in search of a problem. Are we so optimized in our speech designations that solves and actual problem here that's not "We're too hard on racists?" I can get around the whole "how do you define hate speech" thing, but like, who's getting unfairly caught in the trap of using a noose in a neutral way. Does defining a swastika as "potentially divisive" help Buddhists?
by frenchmajesty | 2025-11-20 21:13:48+00:00
Damn. Now I understand VC's a little better.

Some deals I saw "damn the traction is off the chart" and I didn't even care to ask any question I just threw money at them. I saw one startup named Salesforce, a CRM. I guess hindsight is 20/20 on that one lol. Didn't even read the pitch.

This game is awesome
by cogman10 | 2025-11-20 21:14:06+00:00
You'll notice that, except for paid sick leave, all these things are simply "keep the lights on" policies. That is conservatism.

You might be confusing conservatism with libertarianism. Up until about Reagan, all these policies were considered conservative.

Progressive policies aren't just about tweaking existing policy, it's about building new social structures. We've not seen anything really close to that in the US since roughly LBJ.
by notorious_pgb | 2025-11-20 21:14:18+00:00
Primarily poor wording on my part.

I think in terms of language features and patterns which actually mean something. OOP doesn't really mean anything to me, given that it doesn't seem to mean anything consistent in the industry.

Of course I work with classes, inheritance, interfaces, overloading, whatever quite frequently. Sometimes, I eschew their usage because the situation doesn't call for it or because I am working in something which also eschews such things.

What I don't do is care about "OOP" is a concept in and of itself.
by programjames | 2025-11-20 21:14:38+00:00
What you need for conflict resolution is usually a willingness to try to resolve the conflict. In rare situations, where communication and time is limited, you can actually run into the issue where you have to be smart enough to figure out what the other person wants (and see if you can come up with a mutually beneficial offer), but often in real life you can just spend more time thinking and ask them what they want.
by root_axis | 2025-11-20 21:14:51+00:00
That's the nature of statistical output, even minus all the context manipulation going on in the background.

You say the outputs "seem" to drop off at a certain time of day, but how would you even know? It might just be a statistical coincidence, or someone else might look at your "bad" responses and judge them to be pretty good actually, or there might be zero statistical significance to anything and you're just seeing shapes in the clouds.

Or you could be absolutely right. Who knows?
by jjcm | 2025-11-20 21:15:42+00:00
One of the things I've always been curious about is how effective diffusion models can be for web and app design. They're generally trained on more organic photos, but post-training on SDXL and Flux have given me good results here in the past (with the exception of text).

It's been interesting seeing the results of Nano Banana Pro in this domain. Here are a few examples:

Prompt: "A travel planner for an elegant Swiss website for luxury hiking tours. An interactive map with trail difficulty and booking management. Should have a theme that is alpine green, granite grey, glacier white"

Flux output: https://fal.media/files/rabbit/uPiqDsARrFhUJV01XADLw_11cb4d2...

NBP output: https://v3b.fal.media/files/b/panda/h9auGbrvUkW4Zpav1CnBy.pn...

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Prompt: "a landing page for a saas crypto website, purple gradient dark theme. Include multiple sections, including one for coin prices, and some graphs of value over time for coins, plus a footer"

Flux output: https://fal.media/files/elephant/zSirai8mvJxTM7uNfU8CJ_109b0...

NBP output: https://v3b.fal.media/files/b/rabbit/1f3jHbxo4BwU6nL1-w6RI.p...

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Prompt: "product launch website for a development tool, dark background with aqua blue and neon gold highlights, gradients"

Flux output: https://fal.media/files/zebra/aXg29QaVRbXe391pPBmLQ_4bfa61cc...

NBP output: https://v3b.fal.media/files/b/lion/Rj48BxO2Hg2IoxRrnSs0r.png

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Note that this is with a lora I built for flux specifically for website generation. Overall, nbp seems to have less creative / inspired outputs, but the text is FAR better than the fever dream Flux is producing. I'm really excited to see how this changes design. At the very least it proved it can get close to a production quality for output, now it's just about tuning it.
by mickduprez | 2025-11-20 21:16:05+00:00
>> _Anecdotally, I've replaced OOP with plain data structures and functions._

I think this is why FP is becoming more popular these days but I'm not sure some people get why. The problem with OOP is you take a data set and spread it all over a 'system' of stateful (mutable) objects and wonder why it doesn't/can't all fit back into place when you need it to. OOP looks great on paper and I love the premise but...

With FP you take a data set and pass it through a pipeline of functions that give back the same dataset or you take a part of that data out, work on it and put it straight back. All your state lives in one place, mutable changes are performed at the edges, not internally somewhere in a mass of 'instances'.

I think micro services et al try to alleviate this by spreading the OO system's instances into silos but that just moves the problems elsewhere.
by 0x1ch | 2025-11-20 21:16:24+00:00
This is building on top of the existing core product, so the output is directly tied to the quality of their core search results being fed into the assistants. I overall really enjoy all of their A.I products, using their prompt assistant frequently for quick research tasks.

It does miss occasionally, or I feel like "that was a waste of tokens" due to a bad response or something, but overall I like supporting Kagi's current mission in the market of AI tools.
by beala | 2025-11-20 21:16:32+00:00
From the article:

> This allows for some interesting new deployment models for DuckDB, for example, we could now put an encrypted DuckDB database file on a Content Delivery Network (CDN). A fleet of DuckDB instances could attach to this file read-only using the decryption key. This elegantly allows efficient distribution of private background data in a similar way like encrypted Parquet files, but of course with many more features like multi-table storage. When using DuckDB with encrypted storage, we can also simplify threat modeling when – for example – using DuckDB on cloud providers. While in the past access to DuckDB storage would have been enough to leak data, we can now relax paranoia regarding storage a little, especially since temporary files and WAL are also encrypted.
by VHRanger | 2025-11-20 21:16:47+00:00
It's not -- this was posted literally yesterday as a position statement on the matter (see early paragraphs in OP):

https://blog.kagi.com/llms

Kagi is treating LLMs as potentially useful tools to be used with their deficiencies in mind, and with respect of user choices.

Also, we're explicitly fighting against slop:

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
by minimaxir | 2025-11-20 21:16:56+00:00
> At a pixel level, the average of every image is a grayish rectangle; that's obviously not what we mean and AI does not produce that.

That isn't correct since images in the real world aren't uniformly distributed from [0, 255] color-wise. Take, for example, the famous ImageNet normalization magic numbers:

normalize = transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406], std=[0.229, 0.224, 0.225])

If it were actually uniformly distributed, the mean for each channel would be 0.5 and the standard deviation would be 0.289. Also due to z-normalization, the "image" most image models see is not how humans typically see images.
by tayo42 | 2025-11-20 21:17:03+00:00
Your trying to get a job as a linux admin or coder? Not a skydiver?

> and parses fine.

I tried to go to your github and copy and paste kept picking up weird characters until i gave up. You have images all over where there should be text. Three of your companies are images. You have links embedded.

> I could remove all personality, but would that really help?

IMO yes, because i think its hurting you. Your not even getting call backs. Resumes need to be efficient to look at and judge for a 25 year old recruiter that doesn't know CS.

Your competing with people who can put "Meta 2021-2025" in big bold letters up front. You have a giant image, then another 1/3 page of icons.

This isn't 5 years ago where hiring pipelines didn't have people in them and hiring managers were actively recruiting and trying to find people. I had one recruiter tell me they had to pull the job listing down after a day or 2 because there were to many applicants. No one has time for your personality and quirks.

Go to google docs, pick a resume template, write your accomplishments in detail, have some llm shorten it for you using business language. Put your personality on your blog
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-11-20 21:17:24+00:00
The more this flyover-state mentality policing continues (obvious civil asset forfeiture fishing - dealers might be carrying cash from a previous sale, etc), the less people are going to drive through them, further depriving these states of a revenue source. Of course, this mentality could be voted out by the residents of these states, but I'm not optimistic.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-20 21:17:24+00:00
Just adding some perspective from someone who has been inside the trunk of a lot of cop cars over the years[1]:

A good many cops (maybe not >50%, but a very significant percentage) carry a pretty decent ad-hoc toolkit in their vehicles. There's often a toolbox with screwdrivers, socketry, pliers, some wrenches, maybe a hammer and/or other basic handtools.

It's pretty common for folks who know how to use tools to keep some on-hand, and cops are not an exception.

[1]: Yeah, so... I should probably explain that part. Some of my work involves 2-way radios, and some of that 2-way radio business has lead to me putting radios and stuff into things like cop cars. I've emptied out hundreds of cop cars to get access to what I need, and have certainly climbed into the trunk of dozens of them to be where I need to be. (Someone has to do it, and sometimes that person is me.)
by tshaddox | 2025-11-20 21:17:38+00:00
> To be fair, the current Republican Party bears almost no resemblance to the "classic" Republican Party of....10 years ago.

In other aspects, perhaps. But the "small government" or "pro-economy" branding of the Republican Party has been an absurdity for more like 75 years. Democratic administrations have performed better on virtually any conceivable economic metric with very few minor exceptions.
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-20 21:17:40+00:00
>I would rather prefer the boiler to explode

Just to be clear, you really would prefer to live in crumbling infrastructure, with plenty of violence, martial law, and constant worry of whether you are going to get shot or not trying to get basic supplies?

Because boiler exploding isn't romantic or cool like you think it is. Imagine the worst possible riot, except country wide.
by logankilpatrick | 2025-11-20 21:17:52+00:00
First off, apologies for the bad first impression, the team is pushing super hard to make sure it is easy to access these models.

- On permission issue, not sure I follow the flow that got you there, pls email me more details if you are able too and happy to debug: Lkilpatrick@google.com

- On overall friction for billing: we are working on a new billing experience built right into AI Studio that will make it super easy to add a CC and go build. This will also come along with things like hard billing caps and such. The expected ETA for global rollout is January!
by drewda | 2025-11-20 21:18:06+00:00
What they saying in this post is that they are designing these LLM-based features to support search.

The post describes how their use-case is finding high quality sources relevant to a query and providing summaries with references/links to the user (not generating long-form "research reports")

FWIW, this aligns with what I've found ChatGPT useful for: a better Google, rather than a robotic writer.
by kldg | 2025-11-20 21:18:32+00:00
in defense of this comment, you do need to do a heck of a lot of preparation (including psychologically) to do anything publicly anymore. wild west days are long gone, at least for US-based servers. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to stop users from interacting too freely, to censor and moderate them so I don't wind up on some news site in 20 years being accused of hosting a site *Widely Used* by pedophilic narcoterror jihadists; I would like to not, but user content (and especially their information) is a huge liability to host... unless you're Equifax or Facebook or Google or some other large corporation -- then you can accidentally dump out everyone's sensitive financial information and only pay them $9 in compensation (or whatever the amount was; I keep throwing the cards they send me in the trash).

(yes I'm salty about that still)
by bitpush | 2025-11-20 21:18:35+00:00
> Primarily because google as it is today includes a massive amount of noise and suffered from blowback/cross-contamination as more LLM generated content pollute information truth.

I'm not convinced about this. If the strategy is "lets return wikipedia.org as the most relevant result", that's not sophisticated at all. Infact, it only worked for a very narrow subset of queries. If I search for 'top luggages for solo travel', I dont want to see wikipedia and I dont know how kagi will be any better.
by epolanski | 2025-11-20 21:19:18+00:00
Many great design patterns have come from OOP and have found their home in functional languages or libraries.

Dependency injection has to be the most successful one, but there's at least another dozen good ideas that came from OO world and has been found to be solid.

What has rarely proven to be a good idea instead is inheritance at behavior level. It's fine for interfaces, but that's it. Same for stateful classes, beyond simple data containers like refs.

You can even have classes in functional programming word, it's irrelevant, it's an implementation detail, what matters is that your computations are pure, and side effects are implemented in an encoded form that can be combined in a pure way (an IO or Effect data type works, but so can a simple lazy function encoding).
by jfengel | 2025-11-20 21:19:31+00:00
Infrastructure funding is a pro-business position. At this point, most of the infrastructure that the Democrats are seeking funding for is maintenance, the definition of "status quo".

So is minimum wage, despite all of the screaming. Minimum wages ensure the existence of a working class. When the minimum wage drops below subsistence, there are civil disruptions that are bas for business.

When the Democrats expanded health care, they did so using a plan devised by the Heritage Foundation. It works on free-market principles, of consumers purchasing insurance from private enterprise. It is also very pro-business, creating a larger class of potential employees who can be hired without employer-sponsored benefits.

Many democrats would indeed like a government-run universal health care plan. But it's not a majority of the party, which is indeed (as the OP said) dominated by the center-right.
by pavon | 2025-11-20 21:20:25+00:00
> Make the browser development the charitable work

They probably cannot do this. The IRS generally does not consider writing open source software to meet the requirements of a 501c3, for example [1]. They aren't super consistent about it so some groups have gotten 501c3 exemption in the past, but for the most part there is a reason that 501c3 open source foundations focus on support activities, conferences, and not software development.

> accept funding to non-charitable company

They could do this, just like they did for Thunderbird, and I wish they would.

[1] https://www.mill.law/blog/more-501c3-rejections-open-source-...