MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amaldavid | 2025-11-02 03:55:47+00:00
Well, when i meant "personally" not in the app I manage. I have a quirk of checking sites to understand what they are using and how they are using and have stumbled upon sites with exposed Gemini, Google Maps, OpenAI keys etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741569 - It was also partly inspired by this as I have seen legacy sites making these mistakes quite often.

With all the vibe coded apps that are getting launched or were launched early, there are enough holes to plug. This is just an attempt to help individuals or orgs to ensure they are not exposed. Just pushed it out what I had in mind based on my experience.

And I agree with you that an adversary approach won't work if we can't fix the underlying problem but the world has changed with enough vibe coded apps that are getting shipped everyday and very little of them care or know about security.
by Retric | 2025-11-02 03:56:52+00:00
Plenty of examples on both sides of that, even in the US there’s vast swaths of land that can’t be privately owned for example try and buy a navigable river or land below the ordinary high water mark etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigable_servitude Similarly eminent domain severely limits the meaning of private land ownership in the US.

The most extreme capitalist societies free from government control of resources like say Kowloon Walled City are generally horrible places to live.
by dataflow | 2025-11-02 03:57:31+00:00
> Nobody rational would kill another person for no reason, but a soldier will bomb a village for the sake of their nation’s geostrategic position.

I think you're forgetting to control for the fact that the former would be severely punished for doing so, and the latter would be severely punished for not doing so?

> Nobody would throw someone out of their home or deny another person lifesaving medicine, but as a bank officer or an insurance agent, they make a living doing these things and sleep untroubled at night.

Again, you're forgetting to control for other variables. What if you paid them equally to do the same things?
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-02 03:58:28+00:00
It has.

A secret war has culled the scrupulous from Power, and left the opportunistic immoralists you would think the industrialization of Power by Americans would perfect.

Ordinary people are enjoying their happy life. The comforts, the convenience, the prosperity.

The world slow burns and it takes ten years to see the consequences of what has come to pass.

We will not come to collectively see the world for what it is today, for ten years.
by Klathmon | 2025-11-02 03:58:51+00:00
Should you never use a calculator because you want to keep your math skills high?

There are a growing set of problems which feel like using a calculator for basic math to me.

But also school is a whole other thing which I'm much more worried about with LLMs. Because there's no doubt in my mind I would have abused AI every chance I got if it were around when I was a kid, and I wouldn't have learned a damn thing.
by lutusp | 2025-11-02 04:00:25+00:00
The biggest problem with possible future AGI/ASI are not the possibilities, but that all the feedback loops are closed, meaning what we think about it, and what computers think about it, changes the outcome. This sets up a classic chaotic system, one extraordinarily sensitive to initial conditions.

But it's worse. A classic chaotic system exhibits extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, but this system remains sensitive to, and responds to, tiny incremental changes, none predictable in advance.

We're in a unique historical situation. AGI boosters and critics are equally likely to be right, but because of the chaotic topic, we have no chance to make useful long-term predictions.

And humans aren't rational. During the Manhattan Project, theorists realized the "Gadget" might ignite the atmosphere and destroy the planet. At the time, with the prevailing state of knowledge, this catastrophe had been assigned a non-zero probability. But after weighing the possibilities, those in change said, "Hey -- let's set it off and see what happens."
by echelon | 2025-11-02 04:00:30+00:00
> lack of control afforded by AI

You should look at ComfyUI.

Control is here, it's just not widely distributed or easy to use.

If you're patient, you can fully control the set, blocking, angles. You can position your characters, relight them, precisely control props, etc. You have unlimited control over everything. It's just a mess right now.
by smashah | 2025-11-02 04:01:46+00:00
I love working within monorepos nowadays and am a big fan of pnpm but as far as I could find, there's no way for me to see which deps are out of date within the pnpm-workspace.yaml file so (a)I built this quick little tool to check which deps have newer versions (separated and colour coded by patch, minor and major) and update the workspace file automatically.

tl;dr use `pnpx workspace-updater -h` to update your pnpm-workspace.yaml file
by perplex3d | 2025-11-02 04:02:38+00:00
The rule of law is slipping away from Americans. These masked “anonymous” federal agents are identifying people without consent. In most states of the United States, one is not always required to identify oneself and has the right to remain anonymous unless an officer has a reasonable suspicion to believe that the individual is involved in a crime. One may argue, “well, what if the officer already knew the person’s identity? Isn’t this the same?” No, this is not the same, because there is a huge difference in scale, and furthermore, this is database building. These are reasons why the dichotomy in the US between public and private should be scrapped and modernized. We the people should have some right to privacy even in public, as the abilities to identify and track individuals in public are more expansive and invasive than ever. Never in history have the tools of surveillance been this oppressive and all encompassing.
by amaldavid | 2025-11-02 04:02:40+00:00
Yep, Github does a wonderful job flagging secrets most times but irrespective of that this is happening in some sites. This was built out of personal curiosity and I had put it out for public because I myself was not aware if this will be actually useful and if so in what form. People do YOLO to prod, we have more kids building AI wrappers than I can count, and somewhere in that chaos secrets slip through the cracks.

Ideally I would have loved this to be a chrome plugin or part of the CI/CD pipeline or put it out as an adversary agent for all of these new vibe coded apps but don't think I'm that vested into the idea yet. Thanks for being gentle :)
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-11-02 04:03:55+00:00
> This contradiction has persisted through the decades. Eliezer has oscillated between “AGI is the most important thing on the planet and only I can build safe AGI” and “anyone who builds AGI will kill everyone.”

This doesn't seem like a contradiction at all given that Eliezer has made clear his views on the importance of aligning AGI before building it, and everybody else seems satisfied with building it first and then aligning it later. And the author certainly knows this, so it's hard to read this as having been written in good faith.
by designerarvid | 2025-11-02 04:03:59+00:00
At least in Sweden, almost all established parties support this legislation making it difficult for voters to vote against it without voting for fringe parties outside parliament (piratpartiet for example). Further, mainstream media hasn’t given it much attention so politicians has been able to be pro this legislation while in general being pro peoples integrity. Quite incoherent, but not challenged by anyone.
by edm0nd | 2025-11-02 04:04:34+00:00
CF = no thanks.

They have the nickname Crimeflare for a reason. They allow hundreds of thousands of criminals to use their services maliciously and its a huge hassle to report them only to be met with their stance of "we are only routing traffic not hosting it" and they wont remove the most blatant phishing and malicious pages.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-02 04:05:07+00:00
Optimal learning is an interesting problem in computer science because it is fundamentally bound by geometric space complexity rather than computational complexity. You can bend the curve but the approximations degrade rapidly and still have a prohibitively expensive exponential space complexity. We have literature for this; a lot of the algorithmic information theory work in AI was about characterizing these limits.

The annoying property of prohibitively exponential (ignoring geometric) space complexity is that it places a severe bound on computational complexity per unit time. The exponentially increasing space implies an increase in latency for each sequentially dependent operation, bounded at the limit by the speed of light. Even if you can afford the insane space requirements, your computation can’t afford the aggregate latency for anything useful even for the most trivial problems. With highly parallel architectures this can be turned into a latency-hiding problem to some extent but this also has limits.

This was thoroughly studied by the US defense community decades ago.

The tl;dr is that efficient learning scales extremely poorly, more poorly than I think people intuit. All of the super-intelligence hard-takeoff scenarios? Not going to happen, you can’t make the physics work without positing magic that circumvents the reality of latencies when your state space is unfathomably large even with unimaginably efficient computers.

I harbor a suspicion that the cost of this scaling problem, and the limitations of wetware, has bounded intelligence in biological systems. We can probably do better in silicon than wetware in some important ways but there is not enough intrinsic parallelism in the computation to adequately hide the latency.

Personally, I find these “fundamental limits of computation” things to be extremely fascinating.
by nwhitehead | 2025-11-02 04:05:07+00:00
This is fun, I'm curious to try it.

An alternative that I experimented with and found to be very usable is one solar panel, a small camping battery ("portable power station"), and an Instant Pot. The total cost is not super high. The Instant Pot is power efficient and can cook a lot of food at once. Since it's battery powered you can start any time the battery is charged.
by dataflow | 2025-11-02 04:05:33+00:00
> So say you're a C++ developer, contributed to APT over the years, see all of it linked to the C++ community which you are part of too, and someone wants to start migrating parts of it to Rust/$NewLang. I think it might sometimes affect more for these people than just the code, might even be "attacking" (strong word perhaps) their sense of identity, for better or worse.

How is language relevant here? If someone just rewrote it in the same language instead of a different one, do you feel the reaction would be significantly better?
by mkagenius | 2025-11-02 04:06:11+00:00
> The Takeaway: Skills are the right abstraction. They formalize the “scripting”-based agent model, which is more robust and flexible than the rigid, API-like model that MCP represents.

Just to not confuse, MCP is like an api but the underlying api can execute an Skill. So, its not MCP vs Skill as a contest. It's just the broad concept of a "flexible" skill vs "parameter" based Api. And again parameter based APIs can also be flexible depending on how we write it except that it lacks SKILL.md in case of Skills which guides llm to be more generic than a pure API.

By the way, if you are a Mac user, you can execute Skills locally via OpenSkills[1] that I have created using apple contianers.

1. OpenSkills -https://github.com/BandarLabs/open-skills
by runarberg | 2025-11-02 04:13:54+00:00
What you are talking about is climate tipping points, that is amount of warming which causes one or more of earth systems which previously prevented further warming to fail.

Now we have evidence which seems to suggest we have reached our first such tipping point[1], low latitude coral reef die-off. So even if we stop emitting CO2 into the atmosphere tomorrow, these corals are still going to die (most likely) and they are not coming back for at least a few centuries, meaning the CO2 which they store will be released into the atmosphere causing even further warming.

This is only the first of a more then a dozen tipping points, and since we have passed this one we are also likely to pass a couple more (Greenland Icesheet and North Atlantic conveyor), however that is not certain. And it is possible that if we take drastic action (which we 10000% should) we can (possibly) prevent other tipping points and even possibly use existing technology (like planting trees, reclaiming swamps, etc) to offset the carbon released by the dying corals.

So in short, while technically true, reducing emission to zero isn’t enough any more. We are not at a point (yet; possibly) where we can’t stop the warming with existing technology. But we must absolutely absolutely absolutely, and dear I say, absolute-effing-lutely reduce our emissions to zero, not net zero, but absolute zero, and we mast do it as fast as we can, no matter how much it costs.

1: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251029002920.h...
by arjie | 2025-11-02 04:14:05+00:00
Speaking of these, does anyone recall the AtheneOS distribution/OS. There’s an archive.org copy of the desktop environment version of it, but I recall there was a really fast version with only 2D graphics and it was a full distribution.

Can anyone validate whether this is real? I tried contacting the guy who wrote it but the Companies House address for his company (Rocklyte) bounced the letter.
by wraptile | 2025-11-02 04:14:14+00:00
Many of us here are old enough to remember the promise of web 2.0 where "APIs will talk with APIs making everything super fast and automated". Then, businesses realized that they do no in fact just "sell a product" but have this entire flywheel and side hustle they depend on to extract maximum value from the user.

Oh and also turns out if the data you share is easily collected it can be analyzed and tracked to prove your crimes like price gauging, IP infringement and other unlawful acts - that's not good for business either!
by kalleboo | 2025-11-02 04:16:01+00:00
I have a few cheap Realtek 2.5Gbps dongles spread around my house and get 2.3 Gbps TX and 1.9 Gbps RX (running iperf3 --bidir to a LAN machine with 10 Gbps).

Still beats Wi-Fi by a mile so I'm not complaining.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-02 04:19:03+00:00
Sure, but those are the exceptions that prove the rule. Centralized (Marxism and its descendants) societies tend to have those things happens the majority of the time. In decentralized capitalist societies, they happened once a long time ago and we took steps for them to not happen again. Seems like a flaw in those societies is that when these problems happen so infrequently people forget and then you get takes like this.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-02 04:20:31+00:00
Here is one example: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1ojydgq...

Here's a bunch more, notice they all have the same "I've got 7 kids with 7 daddies" script- https://www.reddit.com/r/themayormccheese/comments/1ojtbwz/a...
by cabrian | 2025-11-02 04:22:46+00:00
Thanks Moezd, for your reply, I really appreciate your perspective. The key value here is gaining visibility into how LLMs with integrated web search make decisions. By analyzing which citations and sources they reference, and spotting when sentiment turns negative, you can trace those outcomes back to specific pieces of content shaping them. When a competitor appears and you don’t, that’s not just a data point, it’s a clear, actionable signal of a coverage gap you can address to improve your AI visibility.
by 827a | 2025-11-02 04:23:15+00:00
> so far we do not have buggy software that is more intelligent (and therefore more effective at accomplishing its goals) than humans are.

Of course we do! In fact, most, if not all, software is more intelligent than humans, by some reasonable definition of intelligence [1] (you could also contrive a definition of intelligence for which this is not true, but I think that's getting too far into semantics). The Windows calculator app is more intelligent and faster at multiplying large numbers together [2] than any human. JP Morgan Chase's existing internal accounting software is more intelligent and faster than any human at moving money around; so much so that it did, in any way that matters, replace human laborers in the past. Most software we build is more intelligent and faster than humans at accomplishing the goal the software sets itself at accomplishing. Otherwise why would we build it?

[1] Rob Miles uses ~this definition of intelligence: if an agent is defined as an entity making decisions toward some goal, Intelligence is the capability of that agent to make correct decisions such that the goal is most effectively optimized. The Windows Calculator App makes decisions (branches, MUL ops, etc) in pursuit of its goal (to multiply two numbers together); oftentimes quite effectively and thus with very high domain-limited intelligence [2] (possibly even more effectively and thus more intelligently than LLMs). A buggy, less intelligent calculator might make the wrong decisions on this path (oops, we did an ADD instead of a MUL).

[2] What both Altman and Yudkowsky might argue as a critical differentiation here is that traditional software systems naturally limit their intelligence to a particular domain; whereas LLMs are Generally Intelligent. The discussion approaches the metaphysical when you start asking questions like: The Windows Calculator can absolutely, undeniably, multiply two numbers together better than ChatGPT; and by a reasonable definition of intelligence, this makes the Windows Calculator more intelligent than ChatGPT at multiplying two numbers together. Its definitely inaccurate to say that the Windows Calculator is more intelligent, generally, than ChatGPT. Is it not also inaccurate to state that ChatGPT is generally more intelligent than the Windows Calculator? After all, we have a clear, well-defined domain of intelligence along-which the Windows Calculator outperforms ChatGPT. I don't know. It gets weird.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-02 04:23:33+00:00
Not the person you are responding to, but much of the conclusions drawn by Bostrom (and most of EY’s ideas are credited to Bostrom) depend on infinities. The orthogonality thesis being series from AIXI, for example.

EY’s assertions regarding a fast “FOOM” have been empirically discredited by the very fact that ChatGPT was created in 2022, it is now 2025, and we still exist. But goal posts are moved. Even ignoring that error, the logic is based on, essentially, “AI is a magic box that can solve any problem by thought alone.” If you can define a problem, the AI can solve it. This is part of the analysis done by AI x-risk people of the MIRI tradition. Which ignores entirely that there are very many problems (including AI recursive improvement itself) which are computationally infeasible to solve in this way, no matter how “smart” you are.
by stouset | 2025-11-02 04:23:37+00:00
I don’t know about you, but I am tired of having to remember the dozens of simple, one-off workarounds to every single thing I want to actually accomplish.

A few months back I had to sanitize the commit history of a repo that needed certain files removed from the entire history. I could have read the manpage for `git filter-branch`, but in jj editing commits is just a normal, sane part of your workflow. It was a blindingly obvious one-liner that just used all the commands I use every day already.

Even better, it was fast. Because “edit the contents of a bunch of commits” is a first-class operation in jj, there’s no need to repeatedly check out and re-commit. Everything can be done directly against the backing repository.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-02 04:25:19+00:00
but people in need should hit up the local food bank.

And those of us with the means should consider donating (food|money|time|whatever) TO said food banks.

I plan to put my money where my mouth is tomorrow, and go out and buy a bunch fo stuff from the "current needs" list of my local food bank and take over to them. It's not much, but given the current situation I figure every little bit is better than nothing.
by refurb | 2025-11-02 04:26:27+00:00
That’s not true at all.

If the computer says you’re in the US illegally, but you have documents that say you are a US citizen, then you are put in custody until the discrepancy can be resolved.

It really depends on whether or not there is a standing deportation order for that person. If not, then it’s a lengthy process where you appear in front of a judge who may release you (yes, low risk aliens are still being released) or held in custody until the trial is held.

If you have a standing deportation order, and your identity is confirmed, then yes, you may be deported quite quickly.

No due process is being denied. If you have a standing deportation order, you can be deported.
by adrianN | 2025-11-02 04:27:13+00:00
With the panels I have on my balcony I get about 200 watts even on overcast days. I would love to have appliances that were optimized for lower peak consumption. But many appliances like the fridge have low average consumption but high peak consumption so that while the panels on average produce about as much as I consume per day in reality I still have to buy power from the grid.
by shigawire | 2025-11-02 04:27:35+00:00
It's because the US clearly is the main supporter of Israel who is the Goliath in that conflict.

In Sudan the US is not clearly propping up one side.

People are reasonably more mad in the US about Gaza since their taxes directly fund it and the US seemingly could exert influence on Israel if there was political will.

It is not clear how the US would improve Sudan without wading into some massive peacekeeping / reconstruction mission - which no one has the appetite for.
by tavavex | 2025-11-02 04:27:48+00:00
Manually mentioning my conflict of interest when astroturf-advertising my product? That sounds way too tedious, inconvenient and inefficient. You have to remember to check if you're advertising right now, and there's not even an easy API to call for that. Now, I was just looking around the web the other day, and randomly stumbled into this brand new service, TavAutoAdMention, it's so good! I love its creator, too!
by randycupertino | 2025-11-02 04:28:14+00:00
> I don't understand how a news agency is allowed to blatantly lie and mislead the public to that degree. That's an abuse of free speech, not a proper use of it. It goes way beyond providing a conservative (if you even call it that) perspective. It's straight up propaganda.

Did you see Robert J. O’Neill the guy who claims he shot Osama bin laden play various roles as a masked guest interviewee on Fox news? He wears a face mask and pretends to be ex-Antifa, in another interview pretends to be Mafia Mundo an a mexican cartel member, another he plays a Gaza warlard, and a bunch of other anonymous extremist people? Now they won't even have to use this guy acting as random fake people, they can just whip of an AI interviewee to say whatever narrative they want to lie about.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fox-news-masked-antifa-w...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/robert-j-oneill-masked...

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1nzyyod/is_fox_...