MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2025-11-10 05:34:43+00:00
> Okay. How many Americans being murdered, beaten and deported without warrant, due process or oversight, all in explicit and direct violation of the Constitution are you willing to tolerate. Ten? A hundred? A hundred thousand? […] As for me, I won't tolerate any violations of the rights of those protected by the law.

This is demonstrably false; if you aren’t violently resisting it, you’re tolerating it the same way that I am tolerating it. Consider this; Israel’s security is effectively guaranteed by the United States. Israel has killed innocent civilians. The United States is at least partially complicit in these crimes insofar as it continues to finance Israeli national security. This is ongoing. It’s happening now. You can say you won’t tolerate it, but you are tolerating it; you’re here with me now having this conversation, and not engaged in a campaign of guerrilla warfare against those facilitating these crimes.

When I say “the ideal number is 0,” it means just that; there’s not a situation in which it would become legally acceptable for a citizen to be deported, but it could feasibly happen, and if it did, this would not invalidate immigration enforcement as a practice.

> So you want to have a society like the USSR, East Germany and the like, where masked, anonymous police can demand identity documents without warrants, probable cause or exigent circumstance and even if you produce such they can ignore them and abduct you off the street without recourse?

None of that appears anywhere in my post.

> [1] Let's deport you and your family to CECOT "by accident." Oh gee. Sorry, lurk2. But our app says you're a dangerous alien. No, you don't get a lawyer or in front of a judge -- you're illegal, you don't have rights -- even though the Constitution says that all people in the US are entitled to due process.

You’re trying to use this as a rhetorical flourish (“How would you feel if the thing I’m pretending like you’re endorsing happened to you, huh?”) but the way you’ve written it betrays that it isn’t meant as a parable for me to learn from, but a fantasy for you to indulge in. You’re doing this because your arguments are weak and you have to rely on a resentful dream that I’ll be proven wrong in an /r/LeopardsAteMyFace style comeuppance.
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-10 05:34:46+00:00
So, if you're wondering what he means by "English Common Law", let me answer your confusion with another question: why doesn't Japan have Fair Use? Well, the answer's simple: they can't, because judges aren't allowed to legislate from the bench over there. In civil law countries, the law is the law, full stop; judges can't add onto it in any meaningful way. And Fair Use is not a meaningful concept sans that ability.

In Japan, if we want an exception to copyright for, say, training AI; we write a law that says "training AI is not an infringement of copyright". Simple, and straight to the point. In America we have tens of very expensive lawsuits just to bring the question to a judge that will probably rule the same way as the TDM exceptions in EU and Japanese law. The only difference is that a bunch of lawyers get richer and the courts get to feel important.

The ultimate effect on plaintiffs is that novel uses of copyrighted material become "sue-it-or-lose-it". If those authors want to retain the right to demand licensing fees for AI training, they have to sue OpenAI now, just to get it on the books that training is derivative, not transformative. If they wait until 10 years out it's already become an established norm and no judge will disrupt it.

So in Japan, Nintendo can afford to leave certain things in the grey area, unless they actually want it gone. In America, not so much. That being said, it probably has less bearing on Nintendo's actions as one might think from how I described it. Because novel uses of copyrighted material are, well, novel. They don't happen all that often.
by ryan_lane | 2025-11-10 05:35:05+00:00
This is why folks can't take yall seriously when discussing code of conduct. This person has a history of being shitty, and they used the CoC to enforce a (temporary!) ban, citing the rules he violated. If the CoC didn't exist, you'd be screaming "he didn't do anything wrong", but obviously, according to the well posted rules, he did, and they enforced those rules for the good of the community.

The reality of the situation is that yall don't want to be excluded from communities for being racist, misogynistic, or creepy.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-10 05:36:00+00:00
You're specific statement was that companies were listing job postings saying white men weren't welcome. I don't see any evidence of that.

I'm going to try very very hard to ignore the fact it was James O'Keefe that "broke" that story. He's only one step above Info Wars when it comes to being a reliable source, and it's well established he doctors videos to fit his narrative.

But for the sake of argument, let's assume that IBM did do something illegal here: they deserve to be sued and the person who was discriminated against is entitled to some kind of compensation (regardless of race/gender). But that's hardly evidence of some grand conspiracy against white men.

But maybe we can approach this conversation from a different angle. You clearly have a different view from me, so let's try to build up from some common starting place

Would you say it's a reasonable assertion that someone born into immense wealth and privilege (regardless of race/gender/sexual orientation) has substantially more opportunities in their life then someone born in abject poverty?
by tdb7893 | 2025-11-10 05:36:24+00:00
My guess is I'll end up in government or an NGO but I'm probably going to do a PhD before that so getting a real job is at least 5 years away. The previous grad students for my advisor are all employed with decent jobs so I'm not worried, especially since I have a pretty unique skill set for the field and strong stats fundamentals.

Edit: engineers are always skeptical of my career change but my friends actually in the life sciences are more confident I'll be able to figure it out.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-10 05:36:49+00:00
I haven’t seen anything obvious, even including the other repos where I look through issues a lot.

Maybe it’s only the really popular and buzzword-y repos that are targets?

In my experience, the people trying to leverage LLMs for career advancement are drawn to the most high profile projects and buzzwords, where they think making PRs and getting commits will give them maximum career boost value. I don’t think they spend time playing in the boring repos that aren’t hot projects.
by alexchantavy | 2025-11-10 05:37:41+00:00
As an open source maintainer, I don't have an issue with AI; I have an issue with low quality slop whether it comes from a machine or from a human.

The responsibility then is for an open source project to not be shy on calling out low quality/low effort work, have good integ tests and linters, and have guidance like AGENTS.md files that tell coding robots how to be successful in the repo.
by taariqlewis | 2025-11-10 05:37:51+00:00
I have always wanted to learn Rust, but was too distracted to get started.

So, I started working with Claude on building a postgres database replication application. I'm learning Postgres internals as well as how brittle database replication and subscription can really be. Although this is for Seren, you can replicate between any PG databases. https://github.com/serenorg/postgres-seren-replicator

Big learning: Claude Sonnet with Rust is massively productive. I'm impressed, but code bloat is a thing.
by ryan_lane | 2025-11-10 05:42:12+00:00
This isn't a good example, because this isn't "walking on eggshells", this is an example of a misguided policy that has unintended consequences, and in your own example, when they understood the unintended consequences, they removed this.

Sure, this person was probably bad at their job, and that's problematic, but this isn't an example of someone being fired because they said something non-problematic.
by lurk2 | 2025-11-10 05:44:06+00:00
> It is claimed that ICE does not need a warrant to enter a place.

That was never claimed. What I said was that a warrant is not required when officers are pursuing the suspected perpetrator of a crime. You can feel however you want about it, but that is how the law works.

> They laughed as they shot multiple people in the head with pepper balls.

Are you relating this to the arrest that is being discussed in this thread? There was nothing in the linked articles that suggested this was anywhere near a protest, nor that tear gas was fired.
by __rito__ | 2025-11-10 05:44:24+00:00
I will recommend working while walking. Also learning while working.

One needs a standing desk and a treadmill.

Also, if you are watching an episode of a tv show, randomly watching YouTube videos, listening to podcasts, etc., walk an hour or two during that time. That time won't feel 'wasted'.

I can't point you towards any study. But intake of new knowledge and information is somehow better while I am walking.
by plufz | 2025-11-10 05:45:15+00:00
I personally am more afraid of not the exact opposite, but more that AI will cause us to have too little content more than we will have too much. I just notice with myself how much less I’m using Wikipedia or forums, and get my answers from OpenAI or Antrophic. From what I remember it’s a over 20% drop in Wikipedia traffic from monthly 2022 vs 2025.
by jspinak | 2025-11-10 05:45:22+00:00
Thanks for your questions! The mobile game demo (https://jspinak.github.io/brobot/docs/tutorials/tutorial-bas...) shows game automation and automated image collection and labeling to build a dataset for model training.

Here's the Qontinui Runner's action log during live automation: https://i.imgur.com/8R4d2Uf.png. Note the GO_TO_STATE action – that’s unique to model-based GUI automation. Instead of writing explicit navigation steps, you tell the framework "go to this state" and it handles pathfinding automatically.

You can see some actions failed (red X) - like "select to process corn". Traditional scripts would crash here. The model-based approach handles this differently: the next GO_TO_STATE call finds paths from wherever the GUI actually is (the current active states) to the desired state. So even when individual actions fail, the automation self-corrects on the next navigation.

Important clarification: This isn't test automation (using bots to test applications). The breakthrough is making the AUTOMATION ITSELF testable, enabling standard software engineering practices in a domain where they were previously infeasible. You can write integration tests that verify your bot works correctly before running it live. Section 11 of the paper covers this (Appendix 3 has an example from Brobot; qontinui.io provides visual test output).

The approach works for any GUI automation: gaming, visual APIs for RL agents, data collection, business automation, and yes, also software testing. I started with games (Brobot, 2018) because brittleness was most painful there.

Does that help clarify?
by rpdillon | 2025-11-10 05:45:31+00:00
Yes! I'm a huge fan of those. Increasingly rare, though. Was trying to play No Man's Sky, Sniper Elite v2, Quake/Quake2 Enhanced recently with the kids and all required centralized multiplayer. Super disappointing. I do run servers for MineTest (Luanti, really, but ya know), Xonotic, Starcraft 1, etc. but connect-by-IP on an actual LAN seems like the exception these days, rather than the rule.

Out of curiosity, what games published after 2020 (just making up a year here) can you play on LAN with one player creating a server and another connecting via IP? It's my ideal setup, but it seems to only really be available in open source games.
by noduerme | 2025-11-10 05:45:43+00:00
Let's think about this algorithmically.

If something "floods the zone with shit," it needs S amount of shit to cause a flood. But too much will eventually make the scam ineffectual. Widespread public distrust for the scam is (S+X)/time where X is the extra amount of shit beyond the minimum needed. Time is a global variable constrained by the rate at which people get burned or otherwise catch on to all other scams of the same variety. If we imagine that time-to-distrust shrinks with each new iteration of shit, then X the amount of excessive shit needed to trigger distrust should decrease over time.

The longer term problem is the externality where nothing is trusted, and the whole zone is destroyed. When that zone was "what someone wrote down that Socrates might have said," or "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," or "emails from unknown senders," that was one thing. A new baseline could be set for 'S'. When it's all writing, all art, all music and all commentary on those things, it seems catastrophic. The whole cave is flooded with shit.
by PantaloonFlames | 2025-11-10 05:46:02+00:00
The meaning of the words “Max effort” doesn’t change or vary.

It’s just that some people have a max that is lower than others, or at some points in your life your effort is lower than at others, as dictated by physical, mental, or psychological capacity for that person at that moment.

For example a normally sedentary person might find it mentally and psychologically uncomfortable to exercise strenuously. That doesn’t mean they’re not putting forth max effort.

Max effort means max effort.
by komali2 | 2025-11-10 05:46:16+00:00
The other side of this is that ai tools are being treat like magic to the point that people are denying well documented events happened at all, such as the shooting of Charlie Kirk - conspiracies abound!

Also bizarrely a subsection of the population seems to be really into blatantly ai generated images, just hop onto Facebook and see for yourself. I wonder if it has something to do with whatever monkey brain things makes people download apps with a thumbnail of a guy shouting or watch videos that have a thumbnail of a face with its mouth open, since ai generated photos seem very centralized around a single face making a strange expression.
by dotneter | 2025-11-10 05:46:30+00:00
https://fooqux.com/ - an experimental tech article aggregator. For several years now, I've had a routine of collecting articles on topics that interest me throughout the week and then reading them over the weekend. To help organize and streamline this process, I created this website.

The main idea is to gather tech articles in one place and process them with a LLM — categorize them, generate summaries, and try experimental features like annotations, questions, etc.

I hope this service might be useful to others as well. You can sign up with github account to submit your articles as well. I would appreciate any feedback.
by ryan_lane | 2025-11-10 05:46:36+00:00
"Just asking questions" sounds innocent until you see that the questions being asked have insinuations behind them. He was asking questions that implied that women and non-white people are less intelligent.

Phrasing outright racism/sexism in the form of a question seems to make it OK with other folks who tend to share the same mindset, but it isn't (and shouldn't be) effective in the workplace.

The devil doesn't need an advocate; especially not in a workplace.
by dropbox_miner | 2025-11-10 05:46:39+00:00
I personally know people who look down upon people who use LLMs to write code. There is a lot of hate in some of senior developers that I talk to. I don't know if this growing tendency to be suspicious of AI usage is good or bad. For example, towards the final semester of my bachelors degree, my algorithms class started reporting students for academic misconduct because they the TAs started assuming that all the optimal solutions to assignment problems were written by LLMs. In fact, several classmates started purposely writing sub-optmial solutions so that the TAs at least grade them without any prejudice.

I worry that because LLM slop also tends to be so well presented, it might compel software developers to start writing shabby code and documentation on purpose to make it appear human.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-11-10 05:46:50+00:00
>static for decades I was chastised for not giving specific examples.

Any examples, really.

>The level of cluelessness on display here is just baffling to me.

I encourage you to give this thread an honest, deep think about why you feel this way. It's certainly not lack of insight from the other side. The word accountability is relevant here.
by sunaookami | 2025-11-10 05:47:24+00:00
Don't know why this comment was flagged, this is exactly what is going on here. AI is famous for these purple gradients and the website reeks "vibe-coded", this is 100% how Claude makes websites, including the already mentioned gradients, emojis, style, etc.

And of course every commit is Co-Authored by Claude Code with excessive commit descriptions also created by Claude. Is this really something we want to see on Hacker News? I wouldn't trust such an application.

Nothing against AI coding but letting AI take the wheel 100% of the time and not even mention it (like he coded it himself) is very dishonest.
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-10 05:47:30+00:00
> But do we think our government is gearing up to take our laptops away?

This law is not about them coming for your laptop. It's about some massive corporation is not allowed to cover all the land in data centers. Which one of you has more legal lobby power?

The gov doesn't need to come for your laptop if you are out of the job and can't even afford that laptop because everybody pays an LLM company instead

Think about this like you're openai not an average Joe:

> Government actions that restrict the ability to privately own or make use of computational resources for lawful purposes
by jchw | 2025-11-10 05:52:31+00:00
To be fair, the article is not claiming that binfmt_misc is a security vulnerability, or at least I didn't come away with that impression (and the word "vulnerability" doesn't appear in the page either.) It's just being pointed out that you can use it as a pretty sneaky way to leave yourself a backdoor, which I think it is, among many.
by chocalot | 2025-11-10 05:52:48+00:00
I looked into the issues listed ( https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-co... ) and the surrounding context, and they all looked tenuous. I'd expect to see at see at least some clear cases.

I think moderation and CoCs are needed, but this example looks to be an example of their misuse.
by ryan_lane | 2025-11-10 05:53:00+00:00
Exactly in the same boat here. At an old job I once had one of the most useless people in the office, in a 1-1 meeting, tell me that the black people in the office were only being hired for DEI/nepotism (he didn't say "black people"). He felt comfortable saying this to me because I look like him, which means that other folks in the office obviously share his mentality.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-10 05:53:01+00:00
A comment asserted that natural evolution of AI algos would result in women getting fewer ads for mechanic jobs, because society has that bias. You responded with:

> Nope. What you eventually get is women not getting a variety of jobs they could apply to and a death of men in professions that actually need more men (e.g. nurses, teachers etc.)

"What you eventually get" suggests that using algorithms leads to gender discrepancies. I'm saying gender discrepancies existed long prior to the algorithms. I'm not saying gender discrepancies are good (although I do think they are inevitable), I'm just saying they are the cause, rather than the effect, of the algorithm.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-10 05:54:14+00:00
Nikkei Electronics did an article about the design process of the Famicom in the mid 90s. It mentions that Nintendo began work on designing the Famicom after Coleco representatives demonstrated a prototype Colecovision to them as part of an aborted Japanese distribution deal. Here's a translated version if you're interested: https://web.archive.org/web/20120731044313/http://www.glitte... The 2A03 definitely copies basic functionality ideas from the TMS9918, but it's implemented completely differently, it's not an expanded clone like the Master System VDP.

BTW after the deal with Nintendo fell through, Coleco next tried to get Sega to distribute the Colecovision. This deal also didn't happen, and the next year Sega released the nearly identical SG-1000. Kinda sad that they got screwed over twice.
by komali2 | 2025-11-10 05:54:39+00:00
One of these days I need to make a bot that scans FOSS repos for this kind of little pink nonsense behavior.

The insecurity of wanting to call a place "country name, province of different country name" should alone be mocked. Imagine, "Ukraine, province of Russia," or "India, colony of The United Kingdom." Absurd on its face.
by hitekker | 2025-11-10 05:55:09+00:00
If Tim Peters has a "history of being shitty", I'd expect Wikipedia to mention it. But his article is clean, if not golden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Peters_(software_engineer). The only thing I've heard is that he's a bit neurodivergent/socially awkward, which I thought we were suppose to be welcoming and inclusive of.

The reality is that you may be confusing a victim with your political enemies.
by troupo | 2025-11-10 05:56:02+00:00
> Since they removed the "20+ minutes" button it has become basically useless to search on YT.

A few days ago I definitely got into an A/B test where the search results were:

- 5 shorts one under another

- new section with one or two videos and one or two shorts

- new section with five or more shorts in a horizontal layout

- new section with videos of which 20-30% were shorts

It's insane
by Aloisius | 2025-11-10 05:56:02+00:00
I assume any LLM contributions are uncopyrightable at best or copyright infringement at worst. Either way, I don't own the copyright.

In order to avoid a potential future where I lose the copyright due to being unable to show a substantial portion is human authored, I try to keep track of what is AI authored and what is human authored.

From a copyright perspective, right now accepting LLM contributions feels like playing with fire, at least for closed source projects.
by rkagerer | 2025-11-10 05:56:11+00:00
You're not alone wondering about that. I would much rather have seen something along the lines of:

- right to internet connectivity (along with restrictions against some particularly offensive practices impinging access, including ads and popups when they are intrusive enough to substantially interfere*)

- right to utilize methods that protect personal privacy, like off-cloud computing (which I guess is partly covered here) and encrypted communications

- limit the extent to which online Terms of Service can bind you (i.e. deem unenforceable some of the worst clauses making their way around Silicon Valley, e.g. vague catchall indemnities that don't arise directly out of a user's breach of contract or illegal activity, incorporating third party terms of service by reference without explicitly stating what those terms are)

- identify activities that must be explicitly opt-in instead of opt-out (e.g. newly-introduced settings or features when they reduce a user's privacy, consents to sell user information / behavioral advertising / advertising remarketing / etc.)

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* Think about it like driving down a road. Imagine if you couldn't even get get down the street or across an intersection without bumper-car-ing into some giant "acknowledge", "agree", "go away" buttons, and having to swerve around billboards that randomly jump into your lane.