MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by userbinator | 2025-11-20 06:50:39+00:00
I wonder what the reason was for having the kernel handle this, instead of the shell? To allow programs besides the shell to execute interpreted scripts as if they were actual binaries?

This is of course in stark contrast to dynamic linking, which is performed by a userspace program instead of the kernel, and much like the #!, this "interpreter"'s path is also hardcoded in dynamically linked binaries.
by protocolture | 2025-11-20 06:50:40+00:00
> I'd like more people to talk about AI and surveillance. I think that is going to be one of it's biggest impacts on society(ies).

We lost that fight when literally no one fought back against LPR. LPR cameras were later enabled for facial rec. That data is actually super easy to trace. No LLMs necessary.

Funny story, in my city, when we moved to ticketless public transport, a few people were worried about surveilance. "Police wont have access to the data" they said. The first request for data from the police came < 7 days into the systems operation, and an arrest was made on that basis. Its basically impossible to travel near, by any means, any major metro, and not be tracked and deanonymised later.

Now if you have no understanding of history or politics, this might not shock you. But I find it hard to imagine a popular uprising, even a peaceable one, being effective in this environment.

Actually LLMs introducing a compounding 3% error in reviewing and collating this data might be the best thing to ever happen.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-20 06:51:00+00:00
It's kind of wild to me that they haven't prioritized this more. This issue has been open for almost exactly 6 years: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/565 . This one even longer: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/836 . The Matrix permission system still doesn't even have a way to say "sending images is not allowed" (either per room or per user).
by renewiltord | 2025-11-20 06:51:20+00:00
These idiosyncrasies are amusing but they do have a habit of dominating the conversation. E.g. the New Yorker (I think) uses diaeresis to represent distinct syllables resulting in words like “Cooperate” being decorated.

Or that chap here who insists on using 5 digit years.

But some go missed. My personal favourite is that I prefer to fully close clauses within quotations.

> The President said, “I will never bomb the moon!”.
by troupo | 2025-11-20 06:51:31+00:00
> The full text of GDPR is 261 pages long with 99 articles and 173 recitals. Here's a condensed version and guide to reading the actual passages that matter, still 88 pages long

My feeling is that in 9 years you could read it.

However, I read most of the relevant bits in an afternoon. Most people on HN making preposterous claims about GDPR have never in their life read anything but industry's take on it.

> it's actually super easy to comply, you can read it yourself, it's one sentence!

It's trivial to comply with for the absolute vast majority of companies, you can very easily read it yourself, the bits that are relevant to most businesses shouldn't even take an hour to read.
by uudecoded | 2025-11-20 06:51:38+00:00
Agreed. The community orientation is great now. I had mixed feelings about them after finding and reporting a live vuln (medium-severity) back in 2005 or so.[1] I'm not really into social media but it does seem like they've changed their culture for the better.

[1] I didn't take them up on the offer to interview in the wake of that and so it will be forever known as "I've made a huge mistake."
by lookaroundwait | 2025-11-20 06:51:56+00:00
Cool. So we established that it's not code alone that's needed, it's something else. This means that the people who already had that something else can now bootstrap the coding part much faster than ever before, spend less time looking for capable people, and truly focus on that other part.

So where are they?

We're not asking to evaluate LLM's for code. We're asking to evaluate them as product generators or improvers.
by mghackerlady | 2025-11-20 06:52:01+00:00
I was aware of these, it's kinda what I meant by "None of these were really Java Machines". They were just shitty sparc machines that had Java OS in flash. It didn't have some kind of Java co-processor and still relied on a JVM. Java OS was pretty neat but I wouldn't really consider it a "Java OS" since it was basically just a microkernel that bootstrapped a JVM from what I've read. An actual Java machine IMO would have to at least have some kind of Java co-processor and not rely on a software based JVM
by takeshi_sakamo | 2025-11-20 06:52:24+00:00
Short answer: Some of the wording was drafted with AI assistance, but the architecture, constraints, and reasoning model were designed manually.

Longer answer: The point of ArcOS isn’t to showcase AI-written copy — it’s to see how far a cognitive architecture can be shaped, constrained, and stabilized purely through natural-language specification. The interesting part is the design process and the constraint engineering, not the surface-level prose.

If you want, I can walk through the exact parts that were human-designed vs. constraint-driven.
by zomux2000 | 2025-11-20 06:52:31+00:00
openagents aims to build agent networks with "open" ecosystems, many agent systems these days are centered around workflows, but workflow is possible when you already know what kinds of agents will be there in your team. But when you allow any agent to join/leave a network, the workflow concept breaks, so this project helps developers to build a ecosystem for open collaboration.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-20 06:52:54+00:00
I was thinking about this while reading the article. 15 years ago I prided myself on actively searching out opposing views and engaging with them. I still do that in the small scale, talking with coworkers or friends who have opposing views, but where the fuck can you find any reasonable conservative commentators these days. What are the most prominent voices? People like Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder? They don't have an intellectually honest bone in their body.

How the hell can you even get a balanced view in terms of news/media you consume when one side is dominated by lunatics and bad actors.
by menaerus | 2025-11-20 06:52:56+00:00
In demand? In the age where people are being completely replaced by their AI fellow colleagues, it logically doesn't follow that the Linux admin skills won't be or aren't already. The heck, I hate to say this but most of my colleagues right now are less competent than the AI models. What AI model can spit out in the matter of working with it in minutes, given the correct prompt, they can't solve in 3 months.
by benrutter | 2025-11-20 06:53:17+00:00
> The Prescott memo is just the latest observation of how the BBC has been used as a tool to propagate elite opinions and accomplish intelligence objectives. Of course you like it, it's for you.

I think this kind of criticism is in bad faith. Because there's an implication that you're comparing the BBC to some kind of ideal unbiased news outlet.

In reality, the alternatives to the BBC are much more obviously nefarious and make far less steps to remove bias.

If the BBC is a tool to "propagate elite opinions", then how would you describe Fox News, the Daily Mail, The Times (UK), or even CNN?
by Animats | 2025-11-20 06:53:46+00:00
As someone who used Franz LISP on Sun workstations while someone else nearby used a Symbolics 3600 refrigerator-sized machine, I was never all that impressed with the LISP machine. The performance wasn't all that great. Initially garbage collection took 45 minutes, as it tried to garbage-collect paged-out code. Eventually that was fixed.

The hardware was not very good. Too much wire wrap and slow, arrogant maintenance.

I once had a discussion with the developers of Franz LISP. The way it worked was that it compiled LISP source files and produced .obj files. But instead of linking them into an executable, you had to load them into a run-time environment. So I asked, "could you put the run time environment in another .obj file, so you just link the entire program and get a standalone executable"? "Why would you want to do that?" "So we could ship a product." This was an alien concept to them.

So was managing LISP files with source control, like everything else. LISP gurus were supposed to hack.

And, in the end, 1980s "AI" technology didn't do enough to justify that hardware.
by coppsilgold | 2025-11-20 06:55:11+00:00
There is no security issue here. The file with the '#!' needs to be executable, and at that point it doesn't matter what it invokes because you made it executable. It could have shellcode in it or it could call python3 which can also execute shellcode. Or more likely, it would just be a malware binary which you deliberately gave permissions to and executed.
by troupo | 2025-11-20 06:55:17+00:00
> You can do this trivially in modern browsers: private browsing.

The one that Google keeps tracking? https://www.tomsguide.com/news/going-incognito-in-chrome-doe...

Edit: not just Google. Incognito mode does not prevent websites from tracking you, period.

--- start quote ---

Once these new disclaimers make their way to stable builds of Chrome, you’ll see a message that looks like this when going incognito:

“Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won’t change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google."

--- end quote ---
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-20 06:55:47+00:00
> I can see slow and steady improvement.

That is true, but what weakens my confidence is that the Element/Matrix team often doesn't present it that way. So much communication from them is about how it's amazing and great and the best messaging app in the world. If they presented it more like a typical slow-growth open source app I think they'd garner more goodwill. By setting high expectations they increase the likelihood of disappointment.
by tayo42 | 2025-11-20 06:55:58+00:00
I did a couple months ago. i did like 4 of them. you want me to screenshot my interview schedules or something? I'm not one of these "use your network people", im to introverted for that. I cold apply through companies sites.

I never had anyone reach out on these who's hiring things though. Also HN whos hiring has been a dead end for me on my job searches.

Is that resume the one your uploading onto websites and job portals? Unsolicited feedback OK or am i going to get hammered with downvotes? lol

Get rid of the cute formatting. Pictures, icons, "fun" section. Recruiters get 1000s of applications per job. It needs to be easily parseable by software and easy at a glance to see who you are. The top third is a sky diver. keep it to only 1 page. Your also not using a professional tone on your resume.
by code51 | 2025-11-20 06:56:03+00:00
I'm surprised these pockets of job security still exist.

Know this: someone is coming after this already.

One day someone from management will hear about a cost-saving story at a dinner table, the words GPT, Cursor, Antigravity, reasoning, AGI will cause a buzzing in her ear. Waking up with tinnitus the next morning, they'll instantly schedule a 1:1 to discuss "the degree of AI use and automation"
by alain_gilbert | 2025-11-20 06:56:12+00:00
reminds me of an project I made many years ago to manage dependencies in between repositories. So if project A was waiting for a fix in project B to be in production, you could draw a line between the two commits (from project A to project B) and get notified when the commit in project B gets into the "production" branch. And then merge and deploy your feature branch from project A.
by silves89 | 2025-11-20 06:56:19+00:00
In the late 90s and early 2000s there was a bunch of academic research into collaborative multi-agent systems. This included things like communication protocols, capability discovery, platforms, and some AI. The classic and over-used example was travel booking -- a hotel booking agent, a flight booking agent, a train booking agent, etc all collaborating to align time, cost, location. The cooperative agents could add themselves and their capabilities to the agent community and the potential of the system as a whole would increase, and there would perhaps be cool emergent behaviours that no one had thought of.

This appears, to me, like an LLM-agent descendent of these earlier multi-agent systems.

I lost track of the research after I left academia -- perhaps someone here can fill in the (considerable) blanks from my overview?
by gorgoiler | 2025-11-20 06:56:19+00:00
The Minix 0db machines are great. The N150 model is $250 but it’s fanless which is a handy feature if you’re prone to dust, unable (or unwilling!) to clean filters, hate fans, or love chunky blocks of metal:

https://www.minix.com.hk/products/minix-z150-0db-fanless-min...

I bought my first one because it’s silent. I bought my second one because I like chunky blocks of metal.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-11-20 06:56:25+00:00
Yeah I'm famliar with initramfs-es (well at least enough to be dangerous)! I've run Alpine from ram before but it just wasn't stable and I ended up going back to a more traditional and perfectly fine setup.

> If you want to run the OS from RAM, the absolute simplest way to do it is to simply never transfer. Building a custom initramfs has never been easier. There are tools explicitly geared towards making an initramfs, like Dracut, but also a huge ecosystem of tools for building container images which could almost certainly be scripted to spit out a cpio without a lot of trouble. You can even use something like Buildroot.

This certainly seems like a lot of responsibility to take on, I'm just surprised there isn't already a distro that is very good at doing everything it does (with modern ease of use) with the caveat of the OS disk being in RAM. Technically there are (there's a whole list on Wikipedia), but last I tried it just didn't work well for me.

These days there are more build-your-own distro options like CoreOS, Flatcar, linuxkit that absolutely make things even easier but they don't have that final bit of being runnable from RAM.

I question whether it's worth it to maintain my own UEFI/initramfs/boot setup rather than just building (or pulling off the shelf) an immutable OS image and using the reset + wipe automation to flash the disks once in a blue-moon when reconfiguring/scaling machines up/down.

> As far as loading it from the network easily, I would also look into Unified Kernel Images (UKIs). They combine the EFI stub, the kernel, and the initramfs into one single file. You should be able to load that directly from the PXE firmware.

This is certainly interesting -- haven't looked into these much, but this would certainly be useful in the PXE firmware (or custom UEFI). But my problem here is that iPXE is dependent on support at the provider level (and Hetzner does not make this available to end users, though they use it internally obviously when you reset), so the other commenter's suggestion:

> replace the PXE stack with an OS installer written in UEFI.

Would not work with this approach. The suggestion is interesting though, custom installer that pulls down a UKI sounds viable from my particular armchair.
by anonnon | 2025-11-20 06:56:35+00:00
I was both Alpha being quasi-open itself, like OpenPOWER today, and like earlier PDP minis had been, whereas VAX had been pretty locked down, and OpenVMS getting POSIX compatibility (admittedly probably more the latter than the former, but DEC was big on branding things "open" at the time, partly because they were losing ground):

https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vmslt05a/vu/alpha_hist...

> Although Alpha was declared an "open architecture" right from the start, there was no consortium to develop it. All R&D actions were handled by DEC itself, and sometimes in cooperation with Mitsubishi. In fact, though the architecture was free de jure, most important hardware designs of it were pretty much closed de facto, and had to be paid-licensed (if possible at all). So, it wasn't that thing helping to promote the architecture. To mention, soon after introduction of EV4, DEC's high management offered to license manufacturing rights to Intel, Motorola, NEC, and Texas Instruments. But all these companies were involved in different projects and were of very little to no interest in EV4, so they refused. Perhaps, the conditions could be also unacceptable, or something else. Mistake #5.
by eviks | 2025-11-20 06:58:35+00:00
> I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

Sorry not everyone has such a primitive mind to paper over the chasm. Like, ok, feel free to entertain yourself with a ImageVideoGenBot all your like and see if that blows your mind better than snake, but how would that entertainment help when your experience is made worse by AI integration?

But also, that's just nonsense, we're nowhere close to "fluent conversation with a super smart AI" watch your own ads where it can't even understand that 150% scaling is already set and "super smartly" recommends setting it
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 06:58:56+00:00
> You're covered in the "cartoon-villain-tears-down-orphanage-to-build-mall view of how people work" part of my comment. If this memo were published verbatim under an Onion header maybe it would read clearer to more people.

Yes, it would in that context make sense as something akin to A Modest Proposal, but directed at the World Bank's liberalization policies.

The problem, of course, is that Summers was not an opponent of the World Bank's liberalization policies, he was the chief economist of the World Bank, and a supporter of those policies, and actively seeking stronger support for them, so it doesn't work that way coming from him.
by jimt1234 | 2025-11-20 06:59:29+00:00
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but embrace and enjoy your elderly mother buying random, useless crap. My mother has Alzheimer's; she's not the same person she was just 2 or 3 years ago. She frequently doesn't even remember who I am. And honestly, I would give anything to have another Black Friday with her, waking me up at 5AM to go to Walmart so she can buy a $15 DVD player.
by _the_inflator | 2025-11-20 06:59:44+00:00
I have more confidence in Meta than the government.

I mean this as expression of technical feasibility and capability to achieve risk reduction with technical measures in an adequate amount of time.

Remember, that for the rest of the non-technical units out there the “digitization” and “IT implementation projects” fail on a massive scale.

Shit in shit out.

Whatever we trash FAANG for, any government has way more blowout.
by rudimentary_phy | 2025-11-20 07:00:27+00:00
Times are getting so much tougher. I remember my early morning organic chemistry classes using top hat. I never showed up to class, but I had my top hat app open.

The answers were usually kept simple, so I'd guess things like 0 or 1 (the questions were never written in the app). I think I ended up with 60% or so on them, which was nice, since it was a bonus component meant to be a little boost to the grade anyways.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-20 07:01:23+00:00
Android (or iOS) has nothing to do with voicemail, it's all on the carrier. All "voicemail" is just your carrier redirecting the caller's call to a special number on their end, where an IVR-like system picks it up and processes it. And maybe some added on features depending on the carrier, like SMS or push/app notifications. That's it, there's nothing fancy about voicemail, and all the magic happens on the carrier side.

I've owned several dozens of Android phones over the years and been with multiple carriers, never had an issue with voicemail. And no one should either, because it's got nothing to do with the OS.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-20 07:01:31+00:00
I’m not an expert in the field but intuitively from my own experience I’d say what’s missing is a world model. By trying to be more conscious about my own vision I’ve started to notice how common it is that I fail to recognize a shape and then use additional knowledge, context and extrapolations to deduce what it can be.

A few examples I encountered recently: If I take a picture of my living room many random object would be impossible to identify by a stranger but easy by the household members. Or when driving, say at night I see a big dark shape coming from the side of the road? If I’m a local I’ll know there are horses in that field and it is fenced, or I might have read a warning sign before that’ll make me able to deduce what I’m seeing a few minutes later.

People are usually not conscious about this but you can try to block the additional informations to only see and process only what’s really coming from your eyes, and realize how soon it gets insufficient.
by eimrine | 2025-11-20 07:02:43+00:00
I don't like the conception of buzzwords to be honest. I understood all what you have said from the beginning but I do not see how using the buzzword word enriches the conversation. It is seems for me that the "buzzword" word has some characteristics of the buzzword conception. Why using buzzwords, why not using some real words?

The worst in the buzzword conception is that it leads to using good things as the buzzwords because the bad things get forgotten quickly. Before blockchain the popular buzzword was "webvan" but there are too few people who rememberes what the webvan was for really using this word as a meme.

Using the blockchain word as a synonym for buzzword word is like using a good word meaning some good thing for describing some bad concept and it makes me crazy. Name it the "new webvan" for adding some flavor of failure, or the "new iphone" for adding some flavor of popularity. What flavor do you add by using my favorite technology as an example?
by defrost | 2025-11-20 07:02:54+00:00
Contrary to your thoughts on the matter the Pintupi Nine and their relatives the Richter family spring to mind as the most extreme examples.

Both groups from my neck of the woods, both groups I've spoken to, both groups with significant time spent sans modern society. Both groups with members that turned back to isolation and non western lifestyle after a few years exposure.

Many more similar people have been exposed to society with electricty, phones, etc and happy to live as far apart from that as they can still manage - it's hard to escape such things - Starlink has polluted the skys once untouched in the Murchison.
Show HN: LeanOS–10 AI agents that build and run startup operations autonomously
by bellcolor_belka | 2025-11-20 07:03:13+00:00
I built LeanOS because I was tired of drowning in startup operations while trying to build product. LeanOS is an open-source AI-native operating system build on Claude skills that builds and runs startup ops autonomously - customer research, sales pipeline management, marketing campaigns, business decisions, engineering - all coordinated through specialized AI agents with minimal human intervention.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-20 07:04:00+00:00
Sure, and thieves probably recommend that the cops move on & refrain from following where they're headed.

Be honest and you won't have to fend-off accusations of bad-faith. I'm inclined to agree with your overall point of AI being overhyped, but you've gutted your own logic so hard in the process that your stance is unrecognizable. You've developed a meaningfully ambiguous stance to an elaborate and deeply incorrect series of arguments.
by jes5199 | 2025-11-20 07:04:09+00:00
I think this might be the way forward, Claude is great at project managing.

I’m already telling Claude to ask Codex for a code review on PRs. or another fun pattern I found is you can use give the web version of Codex an open ended task like “make this method faster”, hit the “4x” button and end and up with four different pull requests attacking the problem in different ways. Then ask Claude to read the open PRs and make a 5th one that combines the approaches. This way Codex does the hard thinking but Claude does the glue