MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by armadyl | 2025-11-22 20:09:12+00:00
The Tor Browser won’t effectively stop fingerprinting, if anything it makes you more unique due to the low amount of people worldwide using it, and then you add points of data by using different DNS providers, extensions etc.

The Tor Browser as a privacy measure is likely no better than a normal browser with uBlock if you’re also using it like a “normal” browser, signing into the same accounts you always use etc. My opinion obviously but I dislike people recommending the Tor Browser as a lot of it’s primary benefits are lost if you’re just using it as a daily driver browser.

I always point people to https://fingerprint.com/ to see if their browser can defeat it. Most of the time you can’t without clearing cookies, changing device resolution, change VPN location etc. something the average person can’t/won’t do. Even JS aside there are a ton of different ways to track people based off even just getting server side data when a site’s stylesheet is fetched.
by dmacedo | 2025-11-22 20:09:21+00:00
Not American here, but I'm aware of both privacy in mixed forms (privacy act 1974, HIPAA, COPPA, and CCPA in California); as well as anonimity in First Amendment et al since there's case law (IANAL) demonstrating the requirement of anonimity to avoid persecution of free speech.

All of these have limitations and exceptions in a complex legal system. But to issue a blanket statement like the comment above is no really correct - just trying to make a point, I guess
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-11-22 20:12:12+00:00
In Canada, you cannot file taxes jointly, so income tax brackets are on an individual basis instead of on a couple basis. It really makes it expensive for a single parent to stay home as one person making 100k pays about 30% more income tax than two people making 50k.

Don’t give me free daycare, just make it so much less punishing to stay at home and take care of my kids.

All of it is kindof dumb, I pay a higher tax because joint filing is not a thing, and my increased tax pays for subsidized daycare…
by mothballed | 2025-11-22 20:12:41+00:00
The main reason I wouldn't enjoy watching my neighbor's kids is that we now have an absolutely paranoid, delusional society that has a mentally ill view of the dangers of children. By signing up to watch kids you incur absolutely massive liability, all it takes is one accusation and your whole life is destroyed and you lose everything, no matter that it was false. You would basically need cameras at every angle at all times before any rational person would want to watch someone else's kids.

Thus you end up with daycares nowadays where you pay a gazillion dollars tuition for your child to be taken care of by a minimum wage worker, with most of the money going to overhead and insurance.

The real advantage of government childcare is the state can just say "go fuck yourself" if you sue them or accuse them of misconduct and thus do it for cheap like in the old days. In fact the only other economical model is to just dump your kid at an illegal's house, they don't give a shit if they get sued, they can just dump everything and move to the next city.
by beeflet | 2025-11-22 20:12:50+00:00
No one uses the PPV model because there isn't sufficient payment infrastructure (402 payment required). The friction for entering your credit card information into a website is ridiculous, you might as well target the high end of the market with a monthly subscription.

The PPV model, like Ads, works well for websites that you're not well associated with. Random blogs and websites that you otherwise wouldn't be willing to share your credit card info with.
by TZubiri | 2025-11-22 20:13:16+00:00
The tinfoil interpretatio that LLMs can spy on you is shortsighted and a bit paranoid, it would require LLM providers to actually run a prompt asking what you are doing.

However, any system with a mic, like your cellphone listening for a "Hey Siri" prompt, or your fridge, could theoretically be coupled with an llm on an adhoc basis to get a fuller picture of what's going on.

Pretty cool, if an attacker or govt force with a warrant can get an audio stream they can get some clues although of course not probatory evidence.
by armadyl | 2025-11-22 20:13:48+00:00
FYI I wouldn’t say that the Mullvad browser is any better at anti-fingerprinting than Librewolf. I always point people to http://fingerprint.com/ so they can see how difficult it is to beat even JS based tracking and this doesn’t even get into the server-side methods (i.e. just fetching a stylesheet) of tracking users.

That’s not to say you shouldn’t use a browser that blocks ads etc but I don’t think people should immediately think that they’re not fingerprintable because they’re running these. There definitely needs to be more discussion on the reality of how much these browsers can “protect” you.
by rini17 | 2025-11-22 20:14:00+00:00
I'm afraid home cooking is the first victim of "big tech" strip mining our attention. When you are hooked it's too difficult to plainly keep concentrated on the cooking/cleaning process and on procuring of individual ingredients. No matter how easy it is, still needs capability to deal with messy physical stuff. And it's too easy to get demotivated by mediocre result.

An harbinger of things to come, widespread crippling executive dysfunction.
by ffsm8 | 2025-11-22 20:14:12+00:00
Eh, I think you're underestimating some people perseverance.

You generally only need multiple people for timely action, and it usually even slows you down (from the perspective of total hours spent)

Like 2k bug bounty? I guarantee you some people would be willing to spend a lot of time for that. But yeah, people which are gainfully employed and have a decent salary - likely not.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-11-22 20:14:41+00:00
It breeds thorium to fissionable uranium from a starting fissionable uranium starter fuel. It doesn't directly use thorium for fuel.

What people need to understand about the cycle efficiency is that when you mine uranium, the fissionable part of uranium (U-235) is only 1% of that uranium, the rest is nonfissionable U-238.

Thorium is about twice as abundant as Uranium (all isotopes). The MSR uses Thorium to create U-233, a fissionable but not naturally occurring Uranium isotope.

So the "unlimited energy aspect" is that about 200-300x more breedable Thorium exists than fissionable U-235.

A MSR nation could also try to breed U-238 into plutonium, which would provide another 100x more breeding stock, although LFTR never talked about U-238 breeding. IIRC the plutonium may be difficult to handle because of gamma rays, but I don't recall exactly.

While I don't have confidence that even LFTR/MSR reactors can get economical enough to challenge gas peakers, it may be possible to make truly price-competitive MSR electricity with the right modular design. I wish the Chinese the best of luck, because if they do it will spur the rest of the world to adopt this about-as-clean-and-safe-as-it-gets nuclear design.
by rowanG077 | 2025-11-22 20:14:44+00:00
$200k is on the extreme high-end of software engineers. For example in eastern europe $30k is normal. And that's not even the floor. You can go to india or africa to get even cheaper. The problem with this bug bounty though is that it requires pretty rare expertise. It's not a "throw any developer at it" type of thing.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-11-22 20:15:23+00:00
The Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) is just the name of the political party. A more truthful name would be the Sweden Xenophobes.

At this point, the thread could get complicated because Democracy is yet another term that is 'orthogonal' to Liberalism. I must have mangled my comment horribly if it sounded like I was advocating for dictatorship!

To the contrary, my preferred form of government is Liberal Democracy, preferably with a strong social safety net (so if it's also a Social Democracy, that suits me well)
by pm215 | 2025-11-22 20:16:07+00:00
I assumed the commonly cited 2x markup, so that would be a $100k salary, which is less than various websites say is the average US software dev salary. You could probably find cheaper elsewhere in the world, but even if you cut the salary in half that's still "bug must be doable in a week", which isn't going to cover many of the bugs people will care about.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-22 20:16:39+00:00
"extreme competence of the CCP in governance"

I don't think it makes sense to extrapolate from one particular technical field to governance in general.

The US managed to defeat both Nazi Germany and Japan plus develop nuclear weapons, all in 1941-5. Was it a proof of extreme competence of the US government in general? The some government tolerated abuse of blacks and forced segregation in the South, I would call it a serious governance failure.
by cheschire | 2025-11-22 20:16:40+00:00
Is JS dev really still so mercurial as it was 5 to 10 years ago? I'm not so sure. Back then, there would be a new topic daily about some new JS framework etc etc.

I still occasionally see a blip of activity but I can't say it's anything like what we witnessed in the past.

Though I will agree that gen AI trends feel reminiscent of that period of JS dev history.
by notatoad | 2025-11-22 20:16:41+00:00
>Every site could set their own price, or specific tiers, which users can agree to, just like they do with subscription-based content today.

you're describing the model of a product called blendle, a service which i loved but which totally failed. they failed to attract users, and they failed to attract publishers. this isn't some new idea that nobody had tried. it's been done. and it failed, not just for blendle. people have tried micropayments, they've tried subscriptions, if you can imagine a PPV model, it's probably been tried. readers and publishers both hate it.
by bilbo0s | 2025-11-22 20:16:45+00:00
To be fair, these advances are not being made in China due to "free industry". They have something of a command economy for their critical sectors. So it's unfair not to point out that it's easy to make advances if a nation as a whole points to a hill and says, "take that hill". Of course you can do it under those circumstances.

If it's just your company or some trifling consortium trying to develop nuclear energy advances in a "free industry" environment, the guy who is just slapping up windmills, [T Boone Pickens RIP], is just gonna mop the floor with you. There's just no way to compete on moonshots like that.
by verdverm | 2025-11-22 20:17:08+00:00
HN brought on a second mod (Tim, this year, iirc)

My email exchanges with Dang, as part of the moderation that happens around here, have all been positive

1. I've been moderated, got a slowdown timeout for a while

2. I've emailed about specific accounts, (some egregious stuff you've probably never seen)

3. Dang once emailed me to ask why I flagged a story that was near the top, but getting heavily flagged by many users. He sought understanding before making moderation choices

I will defend HN moderation people & policies 'til the cows come home. There is nothing close to what we have here on HN, which is largely about us being involved in the process and HN having a unique UX and size
Show HN: Twinonyms: The Word Game
by SpyCoder77 | 2025-11-22 20:17:12+00:00
Hey Hackers,

I came up with an idea for a word game, and created it using v0. Here is the gist:

Twinonyms is a fun, addictive word game that challenges your vocabulary and lateral thinking. Each round presents you with two synonyms, and your task is to guess the word that connects them both (e.g., "final" + "endure" = "last", or "falsehood" + "recline" = "lie").

Features:

Three difficulty levels (Easy, Medium, Hard)

Hint system for when you're stuck

Skip option to move on

Score tracking

Built with Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui components.

The dictionary was AI-generated (ChatGPT) and human quality-checked. Deployed on Vercel.
by geerlingguy | 2025-11-22 20:18:04+00:00
The RP2354 has the flash stacked inside the chip; https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-a4-rp2354-and-a-new-...

Still can be reflashed if you have access to the right pins, but I believe there are more security features built into the later generations of these chips (plus some security fixed from the original 2350 design).
by btilly | 2025-11-22 20:18:25+00:00
My preferences are based on my understanding of myself.

I do not have those problem addictions. Of course I am going to comparison shop for any large purchases. I am good enough about controlling spending that excess junk isn't one of my problems.

But what I do have a problem with is coming up with creative ideas for people in my life. So, for example, I would have never thought to look for https://www.zazzle.com/cup_equation_love-168099175298227864. But I'm very glad that someone out there knew enough about me to guess that this might be an item that I'd like. And my wife liked the cup a whole lot.

Does this happen often? No. But I'm perfectly happy to pay a premium for a product when an advertiser gets it right.
by abawany | 2025-11-22 20:18:37+00:00
I never said you endorsed the donations, just that it seems to me to pointless to mention, as a response to my original post, given the ad/search revenue. My question remains why Mozilla (not you) seems against taking direct donations when they engage in other donation collection activities. I don't think we are taking opposing points here - I would like Mozilla to take donations to provide a clean browser to its fans (including me). Further, it just seems strange that the ad/search revenue number seems to be some line in stone - can't they operate a browser without the hundreds of millions of ad/search deals?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-22 20:18:42+00:00
> Where is the next cheap lentils/legumes/nuts/yogurt/vegetables fast food restaurant?

Nowhere, because people prefer to pay for excess sat fats, sugar, carbs, and salt.

> I think it's a weird concept of a society where all the parts of it with money are directing people to do one thing - but at the same time, the people are expected to do the exact opposite and it's their own fault if they follow the coercion...

Every single health resource in society says not to eat excess sat fats, sugar, carbs, and salt. And avoid alcohol and tobacco. And gambling.

But people like short term benefits, even if they know there are long term consequences. And society is composed of people. Maybe GLP-1 pills can fix this error in the psyche.
by StillBored | 2025-11-22 20:18:53+00:00
Sure, but i suspect for basically all of us (maybe Elon is surfing HN today), that literally means nothing. Few of us have the 100's of millions required to design and fab a competitive SoC, and for those that do, the arm licenses are easier to acquire than the knowledge of how to build a competitive system (see RISC-V). You might as well complain about TSMC not publishing the information on how to fab 2nm parts or the code used to generate the mask sets.

For the rest of us, what matters is whether we can open digikey/newegg/whatever and buy a few machines and whether they are open enough for us to achieve our goals and their relative costs. So that list of vendors is more appropriate because they _CAN_ sell the resulting products to us. The problem is how much of their mostly off the shelf IP they refuse to document, resulting in extra difficulties getting basic things working.
Agentic outcome/token based pricing
by mckinnonr | 2025-11-22 20:20:18+00:00
How are each of you tracking outcomes/token usage for pricing models.

I'm finding that it gets incredibly ambiguous at scale when one workflow could cost 10 cents while another be a dollar (kinda extreme but you get the gist).

Outcome based pricing makes sense, are any of you actually running that at scale? Are you wanting to run it but can't?
by jameslk | 2025-11-22 20:20:37+00:00
To me that seems like a necessary trade off for the benefits gained. The stricter laws wouldn’t have necessarily been achieved nor maintained had they not been enacted at the state level.

What does seem like something the federal government should be doing is mediating issues like this between states, without picking a side (of course, that is easier said than done given polarization in politics currently). Rather than giving us watered down one-size-fits-all policies that nobody likes, or worse yet, deadlocked at no policies or the churn of policies being implemented and then repealed over and over
by Zababa | 2025-11-22 20:21:09+00:00
>For kids that was a way to decide who is going to fetch the water for the table (smaller number or higher number of the table).

I only knew the version where your age is the number on the glass. For fetching water, it was the slowest person to say "pot d'eau" (water jug) and sometimes put a hand to your head (it depended on the group).
by verdverm | 2025-11-22 20:21:44+00:00
w.r.t. Go, it's probably not that big a lift. I was looking at that yesterday, made a small change to lift the Gorm stuff a bit so the DB conn can be shared between the services

I thought the same thing about the artifact service, which could have a nice local FS option.

I'm pretty new to ADK, so we'll see how long the honeymoon phase lasts. Generally very optimistic that I found a solid foundation and framework

edit: opened an issue to track it

https://github.com/google/adk-go/issues/339
by Scotrix | 2025-11-22 20:21:45+00:00
While working on a new startup I had exactly the same challenges and issues. As soon as it gets complex, data gets bigger, amount of tools increases it becomes tremendously difficult to control agents, network of agents or anything LLM related. Add then specific domains like legal or finance where most of the time there is just 0 or 1 and nothing in between (metaphorical speaking) it becomes a nightmare in code and side effects.

So I started to actually build something to solve most of my own problems reliably and pushing deterministic outputs with help of LLMs (e.g. imagine finding the right columns/sheets in massive spreadsheets to create tool execution flows and fine tuning finding a range of data sources). My idea and solution which helped not only me but also quite a few business folks so far to fix and test agents is visualizing flows, connect and extract data visually, test and deploy changes in real time while keeping it very close to static types and predictable output (other than e.g. llama flow).

Would love to hear your thoughts about my approach: https://llm-flow-designer.com
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-22 20:21:58+00:00
It was you who compared music to maths.

People in general perceive music as "what is being played" vs. mathematics "what is being written on a page". This is the common concept, but it is incomplete. Music has its boring parts (notation), so does maths, but the general public is prone to confuse maths as a whole with its "sheet music".

"when they're navel gazing"

Maybe they're just thinking?
by gniv | 2025-11-22 20:22:01+00:00
> I get it—they’re expensive and so on—but they really are a superior product.

Where are you? Here in France they are not expensive. I bought them at Carrefour when I moved here because I liked the Picardie shape and I thought they were just one of many companies that makes them. They were surprisingly cheap (a bit more than 1 euro per glass iirc).
by AndrewStephens | 2025-11-22 20:22:03+00:00
Sadly, I think you are wrong. Micropayments seem attractive but the idea falls apart quickly - there are just too many intractable non-technical problems. It has been tried more than once and each effort has failed.

I wrote a longer post on this[0] but to save you the click I will state the biggest problem from a privacy point of view - if you think privacy is bad now with ads imagine how much worse it would be with a payment processor knowing your every click.

Yes, I know about certain cryptocurrencies that maintain privacy, they are a non-starter for micropayments for different reasons.

Even if a magically technical solution to privacy were to emerge there is nothing more valuable than information about paying customers and sites would use browser fingerprinting anyway.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2024/11/on_micropayments.html
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-22 20:22:21+00:00
https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-update-healthcare-professionals...

> One of the contentions in support of this theory was that the furin cleavage site on the virus has never been found in nature. Therefore, to some, that meant it must have been created in a laboratory... Recently, Wu and coworkers identified a bat virus (Bat CoV CD35) that harbored a furin cleavage site identical to that found on SARS-CoV-2 (Zhu W, Huang Y, Gong J, et al. A novel bat coronavirus with a polybasic furin-like cleavage site.

> There is now abundant evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was an animal-to-human spillover event that occurred in the western section of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market that housed several live animals that were susceptible to the virus. Indeed, the early cases of COVID-19 centered on that section of the market.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03026-9

> The hunt for the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has new leads. Researchers have identified half a dozen animal species that could have passed SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, to people, by reanalysing genomes collected from an animal market in Wuhan, China1. The study establishes the presence of animals and the virus at the market, although it does not confirm whether the animals themselves were infected with the virus.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-11-22 20:22:29+00:00
Thank you for that correction, I did oversimplify it.

> Capitalism inverts this -- the goal is to maximize money. I start with money, I convert it to a commodity that I can sell for a greater value, to get larger money. Money -> commodity -> money. You see Amazon operate this way: "if we can put one dollar in and get $1.01 out, do it".

Yes, that is correct and there is nothing wrong with this as long as there is no coercion happening (eg. Government involvement, lobbying and over regulation).

Every person on earth should have the right to put in $1 into something and try to get $1.01 from it. You and I and every other individual get to then decide if we want to give that business owner that $1.01 or go to a competitor. In a truly free market, that business owner only earns that $1.01 profit by providing a good or service that voluntary customers value at more than the price they pay. The profit is the reward for creating value for others

We currently live in a crony-capitalist world which has a lot of issues, but it's still much better than the 200m+ that have died under Marxism and Communism in the last 100 years.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-11-22 20:22:36+00:00
Multiple countries have detonated nuclear bombs using U-233 derived from thorium reactors! [0] Practically I agree with you that thorium is proliferation resistant and if someone is bomb hungry they won't prioritize it, but if you want to set up the bomb and all you have is thorium... The infrastructure wouldn't necessarily be significantly larger or worse than conventional enrichment.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-233
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-22 20:23:11+00:00
I think just ranking options is more powerful because you don't jeopardize your position as gatekeeper by annoying the user too much. For eg google has convinced every major brand that they must be the highest bidder on the search results for their own trademark. Nike will never let Adidas have the top slot on their search page or vice versa, so they both pay google through the nose. With AI you can embed the ads into the response in a way that is not possible for people with blockers to untangle.
by Saris | 2025-11-22 20:23:16+00:00
A lot of the spam I got was from being sent room invites, and the room names were really nasty stuff. And their client doesnt let you mass delete invites, I tried to do it one at a time but gave up and deleted the account instead.

Their server clearly doesnt care that a single federated server was sending out thousands of invites, and there's no way to avoid the spam.

In general using matrix was always a pain in the rear for one reason or another.