MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-11-09 16:55:12+00:00
We still have to pretend SSNs are private until both law and common practice change. I expect that to be “functionally never”. Maybe within our lifetimes. Maybe.

My SSN is out there several times over at this point, thanks to breaches at phone companies, insurance companies, CRAs, ISPs, and the rest. I stopped tracking breaches that included the kind of info you’d need to impersonate me, about six years ago. The list was long and it seemed to be a pointless exercise by then.

I also have a mixed credit file with all major CRAs because of more than one person with the same name I have, one of whom lived in the same area.

Even if I didn’t have freezes everywhere, over the phone KBAs stopped working years ago even with my SSN.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-09 16:55:53+00:00
That might force them into providing better warranty support: if my fridge isn't working any more, I'm going to stop paying them money. Obviously subscription-free becomes another tier of status, but if by paying a monthly fee I get 24 hour maintenance support for fear of losing my sub revenue, well...

There's already parallels around this to an extent. I pay Apple money every month for storage, ad-free TV, music and games, confident my data is my data. As a result, they might have a customer for life, because the alternatives are awful in comparison even if I pay less per month or overall for them.
by hereme888 | 2025-11-09 16:56:21+00:00
Good job, Montana. There was a trend in proposed and passed policies that were eating at rights to own machines. Examples: DMCA anti-circumvention (right to repair and jailbreak), export controls for high-end chips and cybersecurity tools, proposals to weaken/negate e2e encryption or delay security updates, AI rules that you can't train past X amount (shortsighted for future of personal compute capacity), restricting individuals from crypto mining, etc. So basically a trend of restricting software use or modification on general-purpose hardware. Once the tiniest relevant policy lands, it tends to expand from there. Hence what Montana did.
by qwertyuiop_ | 2025-11-09 16:57:00+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/Layoffs/comments/1j3c5in/it_seems_t...

https://bloomberry.com/blog/amazons-layoffs-tell-half-the-st...

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/ibm_cuts_jobs_in_us/
by jdiff | 2025-11-09 16:57:17+00:00
Those Kindles, which I am also (mostly) okay with, are also $100 devices whose price is subsidized by those ads.

These fridges are $3500 typically, and theoretically an MSRP of $4700. They're at the high end of consumer appliances.

I don't believe it's a lawsuit in the making, this is (at least partially) America, land of freedom from consumer protections, but it is horrid.
by idolevi | 2025-11-09 16:57:40+00:00
That's fair, the PRD example is pretty cool but not the best - I have a few workflows that I use myself for doing bug bounties and deep research, but they are a bit much.

The current examples were mostly to show how you could set up different phases and how agents can work in parallel in different phases while still keeping some structure - basically any problem that you could define the logical phases in the way for solving it is going to work great with Hephaestus.

Soon I'll release a few more examples and a few tools that would make Hephaestus a development tool that learns about your repo as time goes and able to fix and add features for your code base
by bloomingeek | 2025-11-09 16:57:57+00:00
They don't care because they don't understand the possibilities of the tech. I've tried to give my extended family members some quick info on what not to do online and how to safely use their gizmos. Most of the time I get a blank stare.

Caution, incoming naive comment(s): Companies should put their customer's well being before profits, because we all know most people don't understand what's going on with their digital devises. (Yes, customers should care more, but companies shouldn't be allowed to take advantage of those who can't grasp the techiness of the products.) Techiness, I just made that up. :)
by hadiai | 2025-11-09 16:58:32+00:00
Built a quick experiment to see how AI models differ in their judgment of writing quality. Fed the same Medium article titles to both GPT-4o-mini and GPT-4o to see how their rankings would compare. The interesting bit isn't just the rankings themselves, but how the models diverge in their evaluation criteria - the "mini" model seems to have subtly different preferences despite being from the same family. Code is included (Python scraper + API calls), along with full logs showing the ranking rationale from each model. Started this as a voice-dictated script on a cold walk home. Sometimes the best experiments come from random "what if" thoughts.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-09 16:58:47+00:00
Dark patterns like that will die out soon enough and they'll harm the share price: Samsung are going to tell customers what they're getting.

And while investors would prefer full price fridges with full price ads, the ad economy only makes sense once you have decent reach, so it makes sense to lower the cost of acquisition of the device, take the hit as a customer acquisition cost and then sell the larger reach to advertisers.

This is the model for every ad-supported device and service to date, I'm not sure they're going to reinvent those economics for a fridge.
by delusional | 2025-11-09 16:59:04+00:00
> all they care about is picture quality

I get that, but at some point you're installing it in your house with non-color corrected lighting and viewing it during the daytime with your terrible human eyes. I get why 200-300 lumens of peak brightness can make a difference, but does 2-3% of color correctness really matter to people as they watch their low bitrate netflix stream?

Maybe we'd all be better off if we calmed down a bit on chasing the specs, and focused on something else for a while.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-09 16:59:34+00:00
It seems strange (or maybe you are just young) that you think this. But both Democratic and Republican controlled Congresses have fought against excesses of their own President. The same is true for the Supreme Court in the past ruling against an administration of its own party.

There was an entire coalition of “Blue Dog Democrats” that came from red states as recently as 30 years ago.

Or did you really forget that even in Trumps first term that Republicans like McCain voted against Trump snd 10 voted to impeach him?
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-09 16:59:46+00:00
Cool, so if I want to use myname+yourdomainname.here@myemail.com to register on your application I now first have to go to some third party(?*) to verify that myname+yourdomainname.here@myemail.com is valid**. And then, once I've gone through the hassle of that, I have to go back to your website to use the third party service to verify my email. Thanks I guess...

* It's not clear if this service would be provided by a third party (in which case, the problem has merely just been moved) or the email provider. It sounds like the former, but in case it's the latter, then this doesn't have as big an impact I guess.

** While _I_ as the owner of an email address can decisively know that all emails of the form `myname+<whatever>@myemail.com` will go to me, you as the owner of a website attempting to verify my email cannot know that. The standards specify that + is valid in an email user part, but they do not require plus addressing to work.
by erikpukinskis | 2025-11-09 17:00:08+00:00
I agree, if there is a death of React it will be killed by Next/Vercel.

I probably shouldn’t care. I’m just not looking forward to the chaos of another full “turn” in JavaScript, akin to query->backbone or backbone->react.

Maybe I shouldn’t fear it. I’ve just yet to see an idea that feels valuable enough to move an entire ecosystem. Svelte, HTMX, etc… where is the “disruptive” idea that could compel everyone to leave React?
by ksec | 2025-11-09 17:00:29+00:00
Considering All UK Internet user have to use UK ISP one way or another, why not have a list of banned site and force ISP to block it? It really should be the UK side responsibility and not an US company to have to block it. And considering how UK is cosy up to China they might as well ask the Chinese to help them setting up Great Firewall.

I really do think there should be a simple Cloudflare like services that ban all UK user as a form of protest. I say Cloudflare like and not Cloudflare because I am not sure if they are willing to risk supporting this feature.
by NicuCalcea | 2025-11-09 17:00:39+00:00
It's not transparent and, in some instances, leads to worse outputs. ChatGPT keeps telling me "since you are in Ireland, you can ..." when I'm not in Ireland, that's just what my VPN is set to.

At least on a normal site, it will usually ask "You're currently visiting the UK site, do you want to switch to our Irish/EU site"? Here, it just makes the assumption with no indication of it happening.
by jbreckmckye | 2025-11-09 17:00:42+00:00
Slightly tangential to the article: a lot of the "AI layoffs" are really just old fashioned layoffs, but with exciting press releases meant to reassure investors.

AMZN for example overhired in various functions because it expected demand that never materialised. Admitting that is bad for the share price, but writing some woo about "AI and agility" will convince at least some investors to keep the faith.
by gosub100 | 2025-11-09 17:01:00+00:00
I dont like them either, but if the fridge were cheaper (this one isn't) or had other features I wanted, I'd consider buying it and just covering up the ad screen.

Another concern is energy consumption. In this age of energy star and touting how efficient appliances are, it doesn't make sense to have a screen that is always-on.

The real killer feature Samsung needs is an automatic warranty. I would never buy Samsung again, unless they started a new trend where all repairs are covered for 10 years (not sold as an add-on during checkout).
by gravypod | 2025-11-09 17:01:07+00:00
I don't necessarily believe this is the best explanation but: We know the economy is doing pretty poorly and tech companies are consolidating. Amazon is losing it's two main drivers of revenue: Irresponsible startups with huge AWS spend and no pressure to optimize their stack and consumers buying treats online. Regardless if people are spending on AI, the only thing businesses are investing on is AI and analysts at AWS are likely signaling that many AI companies are not seeing a large ROI and model developers will likely build their own versions of successful products (Claude Code). AWS doesn't want to scale up it's GPU fleet and be left holding the hardware bag. Amazon can't juice numbers for consumer purchases since the rest of the economy is contracting, most people are losing jobs, etc. So the easiest way to for Amazon to juice their metrics is to offshore office work that can be done anywhere. They can claim they are using AI - but from conversations with friends who are working at Amazon this does not sound very realistic - and ride the AI bubble with no liabilities.
by alecco | 2025-11-09 17:01:13+00:00
This week OpenAI, Google, And Perplexity announced free 1 year subscription to Indian devs. It must cost quite a fortune in inference https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14pr0enjr6o

Not a single mention of jobs being moved to India including tens of billions of investments in new offices.

Backing links from a quick search earlier this week when an obviously Indian HNer tried to deny this was really happening:

Microsoft announces US $3bn investment over two years in India https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-announces-us-3bn-... (Jan 2025)

Google announces $15B investment in AI hub in India https://apnews.com/article/google-artificial-intelligence-vi... (3 weeks ago)

[Indian] ex-Accenture CTO named Google Cloud’s Chief Product https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/who-is-karthik-na... (last week) (a lot of people speculate they named an Indian Accenture guy to move as much as possible to India)

Big Tech giants defy US-India trade tensions, record strongest 12-month headcount growth in India in 3 years https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/big-tech-giants-defy... (September)

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/openai-launch-first-indi...

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-global-operations-t...

and so on. Something very crazy is going on.

NOTE: I am not American and this doesn't affect me directly.
by MarkMarine | 2025-11-09 17:01:26+00:00
Look, I understand duck typing. Go doesn’t have it, the fact you keep calling go’s dynamic dispatch duck typing is a bit of a red flag, but I can see why you would think that. It’s not my point though, you’re missing what I’m saying.

You’re saying, essentially, that you just use the objects method and you don’t need to read its implementation to understand what it does, if something has a “Update” method and it takes a new copy of the object and it’s a pointer method, as a caller we can assume that we give the new data to that update method and it’ll just take that data and patch it into the object at that pointer address. You don’t have to read the method and go on with your day, the interface proves it works and you don’t need “implements”

The problem with this is there are bad programmers who do crazy things with “Update”. Some people will kick off go routines that do things later and mutate things you don’t expect. So when you fetch 500 things then update them in a loop and suddenly nuke your database with 50,000 writes simultaneously that are all contending for the same key, you will go back to Update and see… oh fuck this update method uses some clever Postgres queue and keeps a lot of metrics that are also in Postgres, that’s why my system locked when it shouldn’t have. I should have read this Update method.

So that is crux of my point. Having the method name and function parameters only is not enough to understand your program, and using single interface definitions all over the place hurts readability and understanding.
by random9749832 | 2025-11-09 17:01:52+00:00
I would say it is more sinister than just a cost-benefit analysis and plain racism in hiring. Cheap talent exists in far more places than India but somehow it almost always is India. Not only that but I have seen the strangest LinkedIn profiles where people graduate from no-name Indian universities and get a big-corp job here in the West like it is nothing.

Even Japan has become pro-Indian on immigration for tech: https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/11/06/takaichis-japan-looks-t... Wtf...
by simonw | 2025-11-09 17:02:12+00:00
This is one of the aspects of AI ethics that I don't think gets nearly enough attention: the general psychological effect that information about AI has on people, regardless of their interactions with the tools themselves.

Students getting lazy, or dropping out of subjects entirely because they don't think they have a future in them.

Depression and a general feeling of despair. I see this in programming communities quite a bit - people who see LLMs as an existential threat to their careers and that they have wasted their lives getting good at something which is now being devalued.

"ChatGPT psychosis" - where people talk to LLMs and have unhealthy thought patterns reinforced by them to disastrous ends - gets a ton of coverage. But what about these milder but still meaningful effects where the very existence of AI disrupts people's future plans and self-worth even if they're not using it at all?
by shakes_mcjunkie | 2025-11-09 17:02:42+00:00
The article is missing a bit about Bovino the other day. He threw a sieg heil and has been videoed doing "paper beats rock" with agents which is a white supremacist dog whistle. These people are openly racist and have unaccountable power to stomp around Chicago and destroy the community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1os2lid/greg_bovi...

*Edit: I forgot to mention, please consider (1) organizing with your neighbors now because this is probably coming to you sometime soon and (2) donating to ICIRR which is doing amazing on the ground work right now https://www.icirr.org/
by naasking | 2025-11-09 17:02:50+00:00
Generally for templating, you want a visual distinction between the control language and the target/rendered language, because they are two different things.

Where they aren't two different things, you have some kind of component configuration language, like WPF on .NET. There is no control language, the instantiated components have behaviours and are responsible for any control logic, like rendering a list of items. This isn't a template language though.

HTML now has web components and so you can think of it in the latter way. I'm not sure if anyone has take this approach though.
by Already__Taken | 2025-11-09 17:02:55+00:00
These aren't good because for 0-lists you have an empty parent containers so often you have a wrapping if outside all of that. More generally, template logic indent doubles up inside the indent levels of the template markup and I just find it ugly.

I like vue a lot more;

<ul v-if={users}> <li v-for={some in users}>{some.name} </ul>
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-09 17:03:00+00:00
A couple years ago I thought my fridge was appropriately blocked from the intarwebs. But a router update flipped the bit on activating the default guest network (which I normally keep turned off.) So for about 6 months my fridge was getting out to the net via the guest network. I found out about it when I got a call from my ISP asking what the heck was going on. Apparently a bot net had found my fridge and was doing all manner of bad things.

Moral of the story is... always double check your router settings to make sure enshittified iot devices aren't making you look like a newb.
by xvector | 2025-11-09 17:03:25+00:00
They shouldn't be banned, but regulators would regulate their own shadow if they could.

People are allowed to mutilate their babies, raise them in whatever destructive fashion they please, avoid vaccinating them in an environment where they will be exposed to deadly viruses.

But god forbid someone try to make their baby immune to AIDS, some other genetic disease, or reduce the likelihood of psychosis given family history.

There is no world in which regulators will let this happen. There is no way to test this in a manner that will satisfy them, because babies can't consent to a trial. If it was up to regulators, human evolution ends here. No group should have that power over our species.

It is the same problem as modern medicine being so prohibitively expensive to test, that most ideas go to the bin. We need a deregulated zone to allow for progress to actually happen.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-09 17:04:07+00:00
GCCs are expanding in Canada, Ireland, Poland, Czechia, and Costa Rica as well.

Indians are more visible, but salary expections have gotten extremely out of whack in the US, and extended WFH during COVID proved to most boards that companies can continue to operate when entire teams are communicating async.

If a large portion of interns and NCGs in the US are essentially expecting $45-70/hr salaries, it just isn't sustainable especially when factoring the growing skills deficit because universities failed CS students to a certain degree over the past 10 years by watering down programs in a short term bid to compete against bootcamps.

If we are paying Bay Area salaries, we expect performance comensurate to that salary. Basically, all companies are now starting to adopt the Netflix model of hiring in the US.
by plastic-enjoyer | 2025-11-09 17:05:13+00:00
> Problem: the Internet is dangerous now. What you put in "your space" might get you fired, deported, etc.

> Posting anything is a risk. What benefit do you get from it - does it outweigh the risk? In the past, both the actual risk and the perceived risk were lower.

Yes, because people post openly their hot takes to the whole world. Their internet personality is completely tied to their real-world personality. One of the best things of the internet was the anonymity you had. But at one point people started to think it was a good idea to throw this away.
by machomaster | 2025-11-09 17:06:27+00:00
I am not even from UK.

It is you who conflated the arguments.

My response was to the claim that US does not procecute people, who did outside of the US. I demonstrated that it is not the case. The actual alleged crime doea not matter.

You are trying to move the goal post and you will not succeed.

There are plenty of other cases, also including the freedom of speech. What do you think the procecution of the journalist Assange was all about?

Claiming that the US is not running after people in other countries is the same level of ignorance as claiming that the US is not meddling in election and is not using the hybrid warfare.
by fleshmonad | 2025-11-09 17:06:43+00:00
LLM slop. Why do people (presumably) take the time to debug something like this, do tests and go to great lengths, but are too lazy to do a little manual writeup? Maybe the hour saved makes up for being associated with publishing AI slop under your own name? Like there is no way the author would have written a text that reads more convoluted than what we have here.
by hamdingers | 2025-11-09 17:08:20+00:00
> Her school/friends use PowerPoint

I'm amazed parents are still paying for MS office licenses... Google Docs had completely taken over my college in the late 2000s and has been the standard at all the companies I've worked at since then. Plus I thought Chromebooks were pretty standard in schools now.

What's pushing parents towards a paid product over a free one that works better for a student use case?
by shagie | 2025-11-09 17:09:27+00:00
I'm amused at EWD498 - How do we tell truths that might hurt? https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498...

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. ... The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity. ... Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail.

I'd also recommend EWD1305 https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD130...

Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering [The approximate reconstruction of the questions is left as an exercise to the reader.] ... No, I'm afraid that computer science has suffered from the popularity of the Internet. It has attracted an increasing —not to say: overwhelming!— number of students with very little scientific inclination and in research it has only strengthened the prevailing (and somewhat vulgar) obsession with speed and capacity. Yes, I share your concern: how to program well —though a teachable topic— is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmountable political problems.
by gruez | 2025-11-09 17:09:28+00:00
>I think the concern is that hacking an IOT platform would give you names, physical addresses, and household occupancy for all of their customers.

The problem is that even if you can amass such an IOT botnet, you still need people on the ground to conduct such burglaries, and that scales poorly. Even if you tried to operate on a SaaS model, you're going to find that your clients (ie. drug users who want their next fix) are fickle and are very eager to snitch on you to the police, making it very likely that your botnet gets dismantled. On the other hand running a DDoS or "residential proxy" botnet comes with none of these hassles.