MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timini | 2025-11-06 19:34:14+00:00
This paper evaluates three control strategies for untrusted agents: deferral to trusted models, resampling, and critical action deferral. Initial testing showed resampling and critical action deferral achieving 96% safety. However, adversarial testing revealed resampling crashes to 17% safety when attackers can detect resampling or simulate monitors, while critical action deferral remained robust against all attack strategies.
by vel0city | 2025-11-06 19:34:29+00:00
I spent half my life on the coast. I've seen a lot of boats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dpvFzlmW0Y

Guess these are all purpose built drug smuggling boats. Shit, some have 5 engines.

Shit, I live near some crappy lakes in Texas and I still see a few four-engine boats by people with more money than sense. Guess they're trafficking that fentanyl from Lewisville to Little Elm.
by rml | 2025-11-06 19:34:57+00:00
This is a very good feature/workflow based intro

As the years go by one realizes that even these “features” like Org, Dired, etc are just illusions in some sense. They’re just Elisp code someone else wrote and put a name on. You can take or leave them or write your own code that changes/advises/customizes them.

It’s all up to you. You don’t need a blessed “plugin” architecture, some PM at IntelliJ’s permission etc

At some point one realizes the “visual shell” nature of Emacs. Every single piece of text on screen can be programmed to “mean something” (see also: “recognizers” from human interface research) and have actions taken on it either by the editor itself, or external processes / scripts you call with a command. If it’s common enough, make a key binding. It’s your house, do what you want

Depending on how you set up your environment, you may never have to look at text again that you do not have this level of power over. You are no longer at the mercy of “application developers”

I’ve been using it since 2005. Guess how many of 2005’s popular editors even still exist

My recommendation to anyone trying to actually learn is start with the full vanilla config, weird default keybindings, etc, go through the built in tutorials, and only add things to your config that you write and understand yourself. Understand it in its own terms. The plethora of packages, etc have “cool features” but impede learning by adding mountains of complex dependencies that are opaque to the beginner and cause confusion IMO
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-06 19:35:05+00:00
> Pretty much every ergonomist will tell you that mouse use causes more ergonomic pains than keyboard use. They literally tell you to memorize as many keyboard shortcuts as possible.

Right but that's because their advice is tailored around the "average" computer usage, which is lots of mousing to click around in buried menus and hunting and pecking on the keyboard. RSI is just what it says: Repetitive Stress Injury. The best palliative for RSI is to stop repetitively stressing the same tendons and ligaments. So that means breaking up your keyboarding with some mousing. Alternating which finger and which hand you use. Getting up and stretching and taking breaks. Maybe using some dictation in lieu of using an input device.

If you're writing text, your mousing is mostly going to be scrolling, unlike doing something like CAD or design or illustration. In that context, the context of using emacs, mousing is fine.

And realistically, for my own RSI, exercise was the real solution. Rock climbing increased the blood flow to my wrists significantly. That's probably the only real solution to RSI.
by ragnese | 2025-11-06 19:35:42+00:00
Unfortunately, the context starts getting lost as we get deeper into discussion threads like this, but originally, I brought up GTK stewardship because I felt that the top few comments in this thread started to conflate the various projects developed by the GNOME organization. The original HN post was about Mutter, and the first few comments in this reply chain were about software being customizable, etc. Those could've been about whether it's okay or not for Mutter to lose flexibility. But, the one I replied to started complaining about software "imposing limitations on the rest of the ecosystem".

That's when and why I decided to point out that there are different kinds of software projects, and they have different goals and priorities. It's like the old "library vs. application" code: libraries are generic and reusable, and should be written as such, whereas applications are specific and focused.

I brought up GTK simply as an example of a "library project", for which critique of its reusability is warranted, as a counter-example to Mutter, which is an application. Complaining about Mutter's effect on "the ecosystem" is silly. It wouldn't make any less sense to complain about XTerm's effect on the ecosystem by it not supporting Wayland. Anybody in their right mind would just say "So, use one of the other 10,000 terminal emulators in Wayland instead of XTerm"--and rightly so. But, because Mutter is a GNOME project, and GTK is also a GNOME project, I think that people lose focus on what they're talking about.

I did engage with you about GTK because it's interesting, but my point in bringing up GTK was specifically to say "Yeah, those complaints might make sense if we were talking about GTK, but since we're talking about Mutter, they do not." to the comment I replied to.
by dlivingston | 2025-11-06 19:36:01+00:00
You should look into meditation.

Let me explain.

Meditation teaches that your thoughts are uncontrolled expressions of your subconcious; as are your worries, your fears, your anxieties.

To meditate is not to stop thinking thoughts, but to observe them as they spontaneously appear, and - just as quickly - disappear. To recognize that you are not the thinker of your thoughts. To view them from a place of detachment and curious observation, instead of a place of investment and worry.
by trhway | 2025-11-06 19:36:11+00:00
>If any other "framing" was correct, they would be flying a flag of some country.

sounds like your knowledge of maritime law tells that flying some country's flag would have prevented those boats from being blown up. Silly narcos not knowing that yours maritime law.

>Sending them home is about making sure there isn't anyone willing to take the next run.

Why it isn't done with other criminals?
by jameslk | 2025-11-06 19:36:36+00:00
Fair point. The non-apology is not helping I agree and would have been better left off altogether. I’m guessing this staff person is not very high level and just trying to help and connect the right people. That is, if you’re not very high up in an org, you may not feel you have the authority to speak on behalf of the org as a whole. I don’t have much context to know.

Mozilla could of certainly handled it better as an org, that I would agree with.
by jhallenworld | 2025-11-06 19:36:37+00:00
The lack of (easy) recursion in CPP is so frustrating because it was always available in assembly languages with even very old and very simple macro assemblers- with the caveat that the recursion depth was often very limited, and no tail call elimination. For example, if you need to fill memory:

; Fill memory with backward sequence macro fill n word n if n != 0 fill n - 1 endif endm So "fill 3" expands to: word 3 word 2 word 1 word 0

There is no way this was not known about when C was created. They must have been burned by recursive macro abuse and banned it (perhaps from m4 experience as others have said).

The other assembly language feature that I missed is the ability to switch sections. This is useful for building tables in a distributed fashion. Luckily you can do it with gcc.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-06 19:36:48+00:00
It's accurate that the US already does it, but that doesn't tell you if we should be doing it.

It does, however, provide evidence that doing that is dumb.

KYC/AML have an effectiveness that rounds to zero while causing trouble for innocent people as the government pressures the banks to do something about problems the banks aren't in a position to actually solve, so instead the banks suspend the accounts of more innocent people because the government is pressuring them to suspend more accounts.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-06 19:36:55+00:00
And their own. Remember as well as deliberately executing its own citizens abroad the US also still just tortures some of its own citizens to death for ordinary crimes which they may or may not have actually committed. Basically it's a third world country with more extremely wealthy people than you'd otherwise expect, it's eerily like several Arab countries, but with slightly more democracy, at least for now.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-06 19:37:32+00:00
They didn't pay the bribe or tickle the diapered royal pink starfish properly. The Just Us system operates on the principle of favoritism with selective privilege/retribution rather than consistent fairness. They're perfectly fine having the DNI being a Russian mole and 47 rolling out the red carpet for a sanctioned war criminal.

In this day and age, MAANG, lacking integrity and values, bet on flattery and bribery as business expenses to ensure favorable treats instead of being punished.
by CrackerNews | 2025-11-06 19:37:38+00:00
The case against LLM is thinking could be that "backpropagation is a leaky abstraction." Whether LLM is thinking depends on how well the mathematical model is defined. Ultimately, there appears to be a limit to the mathematical model that caps the LLM capacity to think. It is "thinking" at some level, but is it at enough of a significant level that can be integrated into human society according to the hype?

Andrej Karpathy in his interview with Dwarkesh Patel was blunt about the current limitations of LLMs, and that there would need to be further architectural developments. LLMs lack the capacity to dream and distill experience and knowledge learned back into the neurons. Thinking in LLMs at best exist as a "ghost" only in the moment as long as the temporary context remains coherent.
by iFire | 2025-11-06 19:37:45+00:00
I'd assume they'll use something like https://blog.roboflow.com/rf-detr-segmentation-preview/ and then use the "classes" as embeddings for your profile to do a similiarity match.

Or the standard given a bunch of tags (from the instance segmentation) and find your ranked list of preferences. https://librecommender.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ has a list of 5-10 standard recommender algorithms.

Or use autogluon https://auto.gluon.ai/stable/tutorials/tabular/tabular-multi... where they take Meta's large repository of annotated-images (DINOv2) and use them to classify then do the recommendation system on tabular (database tables).

This stuff has been standard for years now.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-11-06 19:37:46+00:00
Reading the comments and replies here makes me wonder if I might have unintentionally stepped on some toes at work, especially across different cultures and people with different "takes" on English.

I've also been on the receiving end (written communication) but given that we get along pretty well in-person, I chalked that up to our different writing "style".
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-06 19:37:51+00:00
It's strangely unpopular because it's wrong in the one place techies care about: the details.

In broad strokes, it's true to say that the Internet was created as a surveillance and control tool. But this was not a big design up front with those goals as built-in capabilities. There's nothing in TCP/IP you can point to and say, "yes, this is the surveillance bit", or "yes, this is the government control bit". "Down to the chip level" is just plain wrong. Yes, you could argue that the Internet was enabling those things, but that's true of all communications technology, if not just the basic concept of human socialization[0].

And, in practice, if the US had actually intended for the Internet to be a surveillance and control tool, it was sure as shit really fucking bad at making use of it. The only country that actually realized it needed to censor the Internet to maintain cultural/social hegemony was China, which is why they got into network censorship early. By the time America realized it wanted that level of control it had to outsource the wetwork to creative industry and advertising companies.

[0] Most neurotypical people fail to recognize this.
by criemen | 2025-11-06 19:37:52+00:00
> we should instead isolate every library we import and run it under a sandbox

I don't see how that'd be possible. Often we want the library to do useful things for the application, in the context of the application. What would incentivize developers to specify more fine-grained permissions per library than the union of everything their application requires?

I see more use in sandboxing entire applications, and giving them more selective access than "the entire user account" like we do these days. This is maybe more how smartphones operating systems work than desktop computers?
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-06 19:38:31+00:00
Two economists were walking when they spotted a $100 bill. One asked the other "should one of us pick it up?", the other replied "no, if there was a $100 bill there, somebody would have picked it up already", so they kept walking.

Not even the joke is funny. People repeating it seriously is even less so.

Anyway, you would be right if you are trying to claim that the repairmen isn't the party maintaining the irrational situation, so they are powerless to fix it.
by oooyay | 2025-11-06 19:38:45+00:00
I'm not an expert but I was in the military a decade or so ago. The Coast Guard and DHS definitely do partner operations in international and state-run waters for interdiction; the Navy definitely did similar interdiction operations with their smaller boats usually with partner nations. The Navy shooting missiles at alleged narco boats is new. At most the Navy and Coast Guard would engage to defend or disable.

There's documentaries on streaming services where they put this on full display.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-06 19:39:00+00:00
> today's locally runnable models are a long way behind SOTA capability

SOTA models are larger than what can be run locally, though.

Obviously we'd all like to see smaller models perform better, but there's no reason to believe that there's a hidden secret to making small, locally-runnable models perform at the same level as Claude and OpenAI SOTA models. If there was, Anthropic and OpenAI would be doing it.

There's research happening and progress being made at every model size.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-06 19:39:00+00:00
Unfortunately, why would the current admin want to stifle info about these strikes?

They brag about them, because murdering random people in the ocean on flimsy pretenses is popular to their base.

We have murdered at least 66 people so far.

It sure is funny how republicans insist that Fentanyl is a huge problem, but decline to punish those actually responsible, the sacklers, and have abandoned their blame of China for fentanyl production.

Meanwhile we continue a military build up off the coast.

Can't wait for all those people who voted for Trump because he "Doesn't start wars" to be completely silent or even supportive of a war against Venezuela.

Some things don't entirely make sense with the cynical view though. I would think his base would be very supportive of openly advocating for regime change in Venezuela even by force, so I don't quite understand subterfuge unless this is just early opinion driving.

Republican presidents sure like how wars do for their re-election though, and the Trump admin would love a war to "excuse" something like... say.... suspended elections.
Show HN: Stingray Security – In-browser AI checking for phishing and scams
by imack | 2025-11-06 19:39:09+00:00
This Chrome extension was born from one simple realization: phishing drives over 90% of breaches, yet our main defences are outdated. Security awareness training and periodic phishing tests have nebulous effect and blocklists are always behind (especially against sites using bot protection to hide from scanners.)

With a torrent of vibe-coded phishing sites emerging, we need smarter tools. I figured the best place to detect a phishing site is right when you're on one. Therefore, this extension runs a lightweight AI agent in your browser that scans any new, unpopular sites you visit in real time.
by barbazoo | 2025-11-06 19:39:29+00:00
> narco-trafficking boats

First of all, I haven't seen any evidence that those were actually boats used for trafficking, happy to update my knowledge here. Murdering them without a shred of evidence, that's be wrong regardless of what laws apply.

If maritime law doesn't allow you to arrest these people, then maybe that's not the right place to deal with them.
by pksebben | 2025-11-06 19:39:59+00:00
Probably a bit of a 'baby with the bathwater' situation here. At almost no point has that institution been a net positive - at times snooping on 'political dissidents' (like MLK Jr.), and at others bungling cases so bad they become moments of national shame (Ruby Ridge).

You're never going to get a system with a clandestine domestic service running ethically for long, esp. not with qualified immunity. It's simply too attractive to dumb psychopaths with delusions of grandeur and concurrently not of interest to people with a strong sense of community or morals.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-06 19:40:25+00:00
> the whole business model of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, at least at the moment, seems to be that the models are so big that you need to run them in the cloud with metered access.

That's not a business model choice, though. That's a reality of running SOTA models.

If OpenAI or Anthropic could squeeze the same output out of smaller GPUs and servers they'd be doing it for themselves. It would cut their datacenter spend dramatically.
Show HN: Deepcon – Get the most accurate context for coding agents
by ethanpark | 2025-11-06 19:40:32+00:00
I got frustrated watching Claude Code fail at using modern APIs (ask it about GPT-5 and it says it doesn't exist). Existing solutions like Context7 dump thousands of tokens of irrelevant docs into context. So I built DeepCon.

How it works:

- Crawled 10,000+ official docs using agentic browser automation and structured them hierarchically

- Query decomposer breaks down requests, searches in parallel, then merges only relevant context

- Returns just what's needed: 2.4x fewer tokens than Context7

Results on our benchmark:

DeepCon achieved 90% accuracy vs Context7's 65% on real-world tasks with modern AI frameworks. Without any MCP context, Sonnet 4.5 scored 0%.

It's an MCP tool. You can just plug it into Claude Code/Cursor and suddenly they understand the latest libraries and APIs.

GitHub benchmark: https://github.com/opactorai/context-bench

Service: https://deepcon.ai

Built this because I needed it. Would love feedback!
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-06 19:40:32+00:00
What, do you expect the energy companies to use their own money to invest in infrastructure for net zero and the AI boom? Oops too late it's been paid as dividends. No, just create a levy and make the public be unwilling investors except without getting the shares nor dividends

Don't forget it's also a tax for bailing out the failed energy companies
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-06 19:41:06+00:00
> your resistance probably falls into either "helpless" or "stupid," since it doesn't really do anything to check Trump's power

Some combination of "helpless", "lazy", and "stupid", like the narrator in Niemöller's poem "First They Came." [1]

It is to do nothing except to fret (and to post on social media), despite knowing that eventually no one will be spared by energetically unethical monsters.

[1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-06 19:41:19+00:00
Nuclear release authority is pre-delegated to varying degrees, but not down to the launch control centers. They do not possess the required information to launch their missiles. Precise delegation details are classified.

For combatants down in Venezuela's waters, the only time they're going to have permission to blow a boat out of the water without checking with higher authority is if that boat is actively firing on American servicemen or presenting a similar imminent threat to human life. Otherwise the strikes flow through an approval matrix. All of this is subject to change as situations develop, and command centers have military attorneys present in the room with them to counsel local leadership.
by PostOnce | 2025-11-06 19:41:30+00:00
I notice the iamadamdev paywall bypasser extension was also taken down with a DMCA request.

Mirror https://github.com/nikolqyy/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Let's build and share more and better tools to help ensure poor kids are allowed to learn.

Information, knowledge, and education do not belong only to those with money.
by lenkite | 2025-11-06 19:41:33+00:00
If you are referring specifically to AUMF-2001 under which both President Bush and then President Obama used as justification to bomb anything they disliked in the middle-east - including drug crop fields of the Taliban, I would point out that is an extremely flimsy supporting argument. The authorization was stretched until it was less than paper-thin. Many of the folks that the US bombed also became funded by the US just a few years later.

Head-chopping terrorists magically became "moderate rebels" - famous term by President Obama.

(I don't support these strikes - my only point was that former US Presidents unfortunately setup this tradition and culture of military strikes that has now been normalized. Congress needs to firmly reclaim the use of lethal international force under their authority.)
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-06 19:41:34+00:00
>> Then after letting the president have a free hand... now SCOTUS worries about "Wait what happens if we decide this is illegal and they have to give the tax back!?!?!"

+1 for catching the inconsistency in SCOTUS's argumentation, making themselves sound incompetent and sacrificing their credibility for the benefit of those they serve.

I've always thought of Trump's erratic tariffs as a trade-negotiation bluff and market manipulation in the wider sense. The market manipulation part did enrich him further along with the golden club that kisses up to him.

However, quite predictably, the bluff was called and the wider US economy got weaker. Now the club is deciding if it's time to unwind and they're having a hard time because they just love the "tough man" brand of political and economic BS which was engaged in justifying the lunacy. They love inflation too and they love Trump because he loves inflation (his words), but he isn't the only one who can deliver. When they make up their minds, the SCOTUS is going to tell us what they've decided.
by worik | 2025-11-06 19:41:35+00:00
> they do a fantastic job supporting legacy APIs, frameworks, and devices

They do not.

They talk a good game, but the development tools, bright and shiny, but mostly work.

Mostly, is not good enough.

While they have so much mind share in the USA they are unavoidable. But from a developer perspective they are dire

As of two years ago. I find it hard to believe they have changed