MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lll-o-lll | 2025-11-14 08:33:13+00:00
Sounded all wholesome and win until this bit:

> It was the perfect place to escape to, which taught me about addiction and many aspects of myself.

It surprises me that the world of MUD’s would have been addictive, but I suppose it didn’t limit the amount you could play per day?

On reflection, this was an unintentional healthy aspect of the BBS; 30 minutes a day and then booted for the next guy.
by friendzis | 2025-11-14 08:33:47+00:00
Quite often the tradeoff is not between complexity (to cover a bunch of different cases) and simplicity (do one thing simply), but rather where that complexity lies. Do you have dependency fanout? It probably makes sense to shove all that complexity into the central component and manage it centrally. Otherwise it probably makes sense to make all the components a bit more complex than they could be, but still manageable.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-14 08:34:08+00:00
>So the risk here for at least a few more years until all identity documents have expired is identity theft possibilities

Essentially nobody checks the validity of document numbers, there’s rarely any automated mechanism to do this. You could just photoshop the expiry dates on the documents and use them for years and years, even if document designs changed you could just transplant the info from the old document into a new template.

So no, documents expiring does mostly nothing to alleviate identity theft risks in most of the world.

And anyway, targeted phishing attacks are of much much higher severity than identity theft. From this data you can probably gather everything you’d need to perform rather high quality phishing attacks against the bank accounts of checkout.com clients, easily causing tens or hundreds of millions of losses that would never be recovered.
by zkmon | 2025-11-14 08:34:08+00:00
Well, you built it. You built internet and now dismantling it, or filling it with garbage. You can't complain as if it is being done by aliens. The transformation was very gradual and long the expected lines. There is nothing drastic. You knew it all along.

When you build a sand castle on a beach, you can't say you did not expect waves.

Are you a bot?
by bayindirh | 2025-11-14 08:34:40+00:00
> Anyone else feel the same way?

Actually yes, but as a result, I left the internet I know behind. I don't use Twitter (aka X) or Facebook. I'm following friends on Instagram, but not adding any photos to the training pool anymore. I read Reddit as a last resort.

I use a small Mastodon instance, follow people who are interesting. Read blogs of a select few, and discover new ones via their links or rings. Instead of IRC, I have found a Discord server frequented by the same people. Oh, also, I frequent here.

I also left GitHub because of their AI shenanigans and don't miss that place. I still use it for work reasons, but my code lives in quieter places. Left Google search for Kagi. Started to self-host things, cutting ties with online services more.

As a result, I'm building my own sub-internet with the resources I choose to use. I refuse to be bombarded with ads and AI-slop. I miss the old internet, but not the new one. The one I'm curating for myself serves all purposes for me.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-14 08:36:19+00:00
It is obvious that the generative AI era is different qualitatively. There are still some developments in non-generative AI that are having positive impacts but I think if you ask most people about what they understand about AI they are alarmed and concerned by it, or bored and depressed with it, on some level. This is caused by Generative AI and it will affect perceptions of all AI tools, causing growing cynicism, and this will rapidly spread to very broad distrust and loathing of the tech industry as a whole. This is not an industry people trust to bring liberating progress anymore; rather they see it as a machine that empowers arrogant, uncultured, fragile middle-aged male overlords.

It may be because I am British and we are cynical about the disruptive confidence of US tech people (especially two or three who loom over our politics, threatening to empower the very worst of them) or it may be that upwards of 90% of my friends are involved in the creative industry in some way, but there is no good feeling at the moment. Nobody is excited about what it will bring, and the interesting thing is that many of my friends who are unaware of the concerns about circular money movements or the AI bubble collapsing have a strong sense that an edifice is going collapse and take a lot of positive things with it.

We are not just heading towards an AI bubble collapse. We are heading towards a collapse in belief in progress at all, because every time we see progress, it is enshittified and "disrupted" by callous forces chained to grotesque private equity firms and the new kings.
by m-i-l | 2025-11-14 08:36:23+00:00
I think this is missing the point - it is a bit like saying "you only ever notice bad fraud, if the fraud is well done you never notice it" - the point is what it is, not whether you notice it or not. With AI in films at the moment there are still people behind, and reviewing, the AI output, so it is just another creative tool, which is fine. However, if someone were to generate an entire 90 minute film and put it online without even having the decency to spend 90 minutes of their own time watching it themselves first, that would not be fine. But that is happening with AI slop on the internet now. Whether it is any good or not is not the point - the point is that it is disrespectful of people's time and attention.
by RoyTyrell | 2025-11-14 08:36:34+00:00
I've never tried cursor so maybe I'm being a crusty curmudgeon, but I don't get it... Why do I need to pay a subscription for an IDE when I could just use VS Code for free, which also has AI integration now. I'm not against using LLMs to assist me, but I've had no problems coding myself and then just asking an LLM when I'm either learning a new library, need to hack up a quick snippet for a language I don't use often, or just really stuck.
by hollowturtle | 2025-11-14 08:36:37+00:00
I believe you're conflating too much "the internet" with "your feed", you cna step away from any feed that exploits your attention and now does so easily with ai generated content. That's not the internet that's mostly social media. If you love builsing for the web why don't you and many others step up and start something new? You're even in the right place here. Whatever you want to do to make the web a place where you'd still hang out do it. But first, close the feed. The internet is not the feed, the feed is you behaving like a zombie
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-14 08:36:41+00:00
Anyone determined enough can break into any house. If not through ingenuitiy, then by a brick to your window. Doesn't mean we shouldn't lock our doors, turn off our lights, and close our curtains anyway.

The fortunate thing is that 99% of people won't bother trying to break your app if it's not dead simple. Advanved security mechanisms to check for backdoors is probably something only billionaire tech companies need to worry about.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-14 08:36:55+00:00
I know exactly how you feel. There is too much noise. It isn’t just the internet though. It’s phone calls, snail mail, and everywhere else conmen can try to steal parts of your attention.

This is the wrong way to look at this though because it would occur everywhere it could anyways.

Instead there are two things you should consider: what do you want to build and do you want it to work. Don’t worry about anything else.

I can’t fucking stand React so my career as a JavaScript developer is dead. I also can’t stand jquery or working with whiners and quitters too complicated by first world problems to learn things or apply any concept of engineering, so my career as a web developer has been dead for a very long time.

Nonetheless, I still build projects for the web because I enjoy JavaScript (now TypeScript). It’s fast and doesn’t force OOP decoration nonsense on you. It’s a great place to produce MVPs if you are comfortable with it at a low level. I don’t enjoy it for other people’s admiration. I enjoy it for the things I build primarily for personal use.

Do what you enjoy and make it work for you the way you want it to work.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-11-14 08:37:18+00:00
I really didn't like that book. Its basic premise was that we should separate the idea of mathematics from the formalities of mathematics, we should aim to imagine mathematical problems visually. The later chapters then consist of an elephant drawing that isn't true to scale and tell me why David Bessis thought it would be best to create an AI startup, that just put the final nail in the coffin for me. There's some historical note here and there, but that's it - it really could've been a blog post.

Every single YouTube video from tom7[0] or 3blue1brown[1] do way more on transmitting the fascinations of mathematics.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@tom7

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown
by bostik | 2025-11-14 08:38:22+00:00
To quote an ex coworker: all configuration management systems are broken, in equal measure - just in different fashion. They are all trying to shoehorn fundamentally brittle, complex and often mutually exclusive goals behind a single facade.

If you are in the position to pick a config management system, the best you can do is to chart out your current and known upcoming use cases. Then choose the tool that sucks the least for your particular needs.

And three years down the line, pray that you made the right choice.

Yes, kube is hideously complex. Yes, it comes with enormous selection of footguns. But what it does do well, is to allow decoupling host behaviour from service/container behaviour more than 98% of the time. Combined with immutable infrastructure, it is possible to isolate host configuration management to the image pre-bake stage. Leave just the absolute minimum of post-launch config to the boot/provisioning logic, and you have at least a hope of running something solid.

Distributed systems are inherently complex. And the fundamental truth is that inherent complexity can never be eliminated, only moved around.
by manuelmoreale | 2025-11-14 08:38:43+00:00
You are not alone in feeling that way but personally, I don't think it's like pouring into a rapidly emptying cup. I think that, relatively speaking, the signal vs noise ratio is changing and noise is increasing, percentage wise.

But in absolute terms, I think there's still A LOT of good, human content out there and the web is still full of interesting people worth following and engage with.

Personally I'm a big fan of blogs as a way to get to know people and see what they're up to. And those are still going strong. If you want to go down that path for example, there are plenty of starting point:

- The ooh.directory (https://ooh.directory) has thousands of blogs listed from all over the world - My own blogroll.org (https://blogroll.org) has just passed 1k blogs listed - Kagi has their own small web tool thingy https://kagi.com/smallweb

And then you even have even more old school style projects like the Internet Phone Book (https://internetphonebook.net)

Are.na (https://www.are.na) is also an excellent place to stumble on more quirky and obscure corners of the web.

The list goes on and on and on. Interesting content is still out there. And there are plenty of people who still maintain personal sites and forums. But in 2025 you're not going to just casually stumbled on them. You have to actively go hunt for them because everything is now getting drowned by the sea of AI garbage.

That's partly the reason why I started my people and Blogs (https://peopleandblogs.com) series a couple of years ago, to help people discover other humans more easily.

I think just accepting that the web is shit and we have to let it die is the wrong mindset. The web is, for you, what you make of it. If you want to find more interesting content, go search for it. And when you find it, share it on a space you control.
by steve1977 | 2025-11-14 08:40:22+00:00
The problem is that some Kubernetes features would have a positive impact on development velocity in theory, however in my experience (25 years of ops and devops), the cost of keeping up often eats up those benefits and often results in a net-negative.

This is not always a problem of Kubernetes itself though, but of teams always chasing after the latest shiny thing.
Show HN: PluginScore – Code quality reports for WordPress plugins
by blurayfin | 2025-11-14 08:40:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on a tool to make it easier to see the code quality of WordPress plugins at a glance, and to drill into the issues behind that score.

PluginScore lets you enter any plugin slug from WordPress.org and get a detailed code-quality report: security, performance, plugin repo policy, and general coding standards.

There is no signup or login; it's just a web app that runs scans and publishes the results.

Try it out:

- Go to https://www.pluginscore.com

- Use the “Analyze a plugin” box on the homepage.

- Type a slug like akismet, woocommerce, or your own plugin's slug.

- You'll either land on an existing report or enqueue a new scan.

Each plugin page shows:

- An overall 0–100 score, plus error/warning counts.

- A breakdown by category (security, performance, repo policy, general, accessibility).

- A list of individual findings with codes, severities, and links to rule docs.

- Scan history and score deltas over time.

- Leaderboards and “top movers” so you can see which plugins are improving or regressing.

Under the hood, it uses the official Plugin Check (via wp plugin check) and PHP_CodeSniffer with the WordPress standards, plus some extra checks for plugin repo requirements and performance.

The score is a heuristic signal, not a security guarantee.

I'd love hear your feedback.

Thank you
by thaumaturgy | 2025-11-14 08:40:43+00:00
You're not alone. I've been on the web since around 1997, something like that. I remember it as a fun distraction, but also as a place that had recognizable handles, behind which sat a real person somewhere else in the world.

Unrestrained SEO and the failure of search engines (or, in Google's case, complicity veering towards enthusiastic support) to do anything about that was the first thing that, for me, took a lot of the fun out of the web.

Cheap botting, engagement farming, walled gardens, social media, and now AI has left me in a state of active avoidance. I don't feel good when I use the web. Like, any of it, at all.

Casual cruelty has always been a problem of online interaction, but at one time it was also balanced out by familiarity, friendliness sometimes, creativity ... but those things have gotten a lot harder to find.

The most engaging online interaction I've had recently has been some local community groups on Signal, and even that is best in small and infrequent doses.
by seszett | 2025-11-14 08:40:55+00:00
That might work in big countries like the US, but in western Europe it's basically impossible to tell whether a connexion originates from London, Paris, Brussels or Amsterdam just by hop count or latency.

Even just jitter in router response time is already higher than the difference in latency due to speed of light between those locations. And just France is large enough that a connexion to some IP in France might legitimately travel further or not compared to a connexion to some other country, from basically any vantage point you might be looking from, and might or might not round-trip through Paris, adding potentially up to 1500 km of uncertainty in the path.

Identifying the interchanges the packets go through can help though, but not as much for residential ISPs.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-14 08:41:20+00:00
Criminals are plenty capable of accepting bank transfers, many of the same people running ransomware now were operating banking bots for years and years and stealing hundreds of millions from US businesses with wire transfers before crypto even existed.

You go on some Russian crime forum and find a plenty of people offering to process bank transfers like these for some percentage of the money. As these particular payments would be somewhat consensual, you wouldn’t even have to worry about the funds getting frozen on the way.
by msapaydin | 2025-11-14 08:41:22+00:00
There is a famous Turkish Sumerologue who was influential in early Turkish republic, so many schools in Turkey were named after Sumers. Muazzez İlmiye Çığ is her name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muazzez_%C4%B0lmiye_%C3%87%C4%...
by viktorcode | 2025-11-14 08:42:07+00:00
The US anti trust legislation punishes the abuse of monopoly power, not being monopoly in itself. Google was found guilty in leveraging their dominating position on the platform to do just that.

On the other hand in the US Apple's App Store was not found to be a monopoly in the first place. Different cases about abusing dominating position also didn't go far.
by Fuzzwah | 2025-11-14 08:42:10+00:00
You might be interested in https://github.com/mindcraft-bots/mindcraft

It's an open-source framework for building intelligent, task-driven bots in Minecraft Java Edition powered by large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4, Gemini, and many others. Designed for research and creative automation, these bots can connect to Minecraft worlds, perceive and act on their environment, undertake custom tasks like resource gathering or building, and even collaborate in multi-agent scenarios.
by onion2k | 2025-11-14 08:42:42+00:00
A lot of people don't want to be bombed with fake content.

People don't want to be bombed with obviously fake content. If the content is sufficiently good enough for them to accept it they'll happily click Like on it. And that bar is a heck of a lot lower for most people than you'd think. People crave novelty over almost every other attribute of content. They want to see things they've not seen before, and to share those things with their friends so they get the kudos of being the person who discovered something first.
by Psype | 2025-11-14 08:42:52+00:00
That article says that most image generators had been over-shadowed by gpt.

Yet when I ask some simple tasks to it, like doing a 16:9 picture sized image instead of a square one, it ends up doing a 16:9 on a white background that matches a square.

When I ask it to make it with text, then on the second request to redo while changing just a certain visual element, it ends up breaking the previously asked text.

It's getting more good at flattering people and telling them how clever and right they are than actually doing the task.
by asdefghyk | 2025-11-14 08:42:54+00:00
RE ".... a home computer would be used for storing recipes...."

No doubt, some home computers where used for this purpose, However, (QUICKLY) much more interesting applications where discovered, for example games and educational applications, business applications, engineering applications including spreadsheets ... Look at old software catalogs of software around 1980 (say) .. to verify this range of available applications or CD application archive CDs .....

Example Apple II catalog from cira 1980 from archive.org https://ia903201.us.archive.org/12/items/Programma_Catalog_S...
by HacklesRaised | 2025-11-14 08:43:07+00:00
Enshittification doesn't just happen to products!!

Who TF thought this was a good idea?

Deliver a first class, lean operating system and then layer user space enhancements as requested.

Are they trying to make Linux desktop happen?

I'd encourage people to consider Chromebooks but I'm not sure Google deserves any more praise.
by sim7c00 | 2025-11-14 08:46:01+00:00
there was a guy who did relatively simple ML with RL on a druid in world of warcraft and put it into 2v2 arenas. soon enough it was completely unbeatable regardless of what human it got paired with. a 1 man army lol XD. they guy did pick the right class for it, but still. AI players done right with RL become insanely difficult to beat.

games like CS its less useful because it will be blatantly aimbotting. as it gets better it will be more and more obvious. you might be able to train it to mimick human mistakes, but i think ultimately it will be easily spotted by other players. for games without the hand-eye-coordination like turn-based games or games with 'global cooldowns' , mmorpgs etc., it will be much harder to identify.

i think normal subtle cheats like ESP when 'done right' are much more killing esports than this would.
by roeja | 2025-11-14 08:46:21+00:00
Snowflake has their own sql engine and is more of a serverless option. Databricks started off with spark but now also has a sql engine(optional serverless) as well, they are using spark in the article.

The delta format is Databricks lakehouse file format, snowflake uses iceberg I believe.

Both Snowflake and Databricks also provide a ton of other features like ML, Orchestration and governance. Motherduck would be the direct competitor here.

Saying that there are now extensions to query snowflake or databricks data from duckdb for simple ad hoc querying.

Duckdb is fantastic and has saved me so many times strongly recommended.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-14 08:47:10+00:00
It is generally not illegal. I’ve been following this for a while and can not think of any place where it would be.

Why not? Legislators haven’t caught up yet, and banning ransom payments would likely cause some very uncomfortable situations.

This of course raises some pretty uncomfortable questions, should ransom payments in kidnapping cases be banned too? That would presumably cost actual human lives.

A more pressing issue is that banning ransom payments might dissuade ransomware, but wouldn’t affect the main problem of financially motivated hacking. The costs of these attacks are so low that a ransomware payments ban would probably not have stopped checkout.com from being hacked and having their customer data stolen, the criminals will still do crime even if they have to do slightly different crime that pays less.

The group responsible in this case was just selling data stolen from their victims for a long time before they pivoted to much more profitable ransom operations.
by q0uaur | 2025-11-14 08:47:39+00:00
the linked page has an earlier blog entry talking about that:

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/asn-1-asn-registration/

quickly skimming the article i couldn't see a specific price for the ipv4 block, but ipv6 is cheap - the article mentions having to pay at least $50 a year + service fees to a "LIR", and you also need a BGP-enabled hosting provider which i imagine will come with similar cost at least (don't quote me on that).
by neogodless | 2025-11-14 08:47:59+00:00
Last year I read a lot of reviews making a fuss about the RTX 4070 (mobile) having "only" 8GB VRAM but it's what I ended up buying and it just hasn't been an issue where I'm like, shoot my games aren't fast enough or pretty enough to have fun. Sometimes I think number-based reviews miss the point, and I miss HardOCP!
by liquid_bluing | 2025-11-14 08:48:48+00:00
The hacker’s mentality is like that of the painter who spends months on a portrait in order to produce a beautiful but imperfect likeness, marked with his own personal style, which few can replicate and people pay a lot for. The mathematical approach is to take a photo because someone figured out how to perfectly reproduce images on paper over a hundred years ago and I just want a picture, dammit, but the camera’s manual is in Lojban.

IMO, the mathematical approach is essentially always better for software; nearly every problem that the industry didn’t inflict upon itself was solved by some egghead last century. But there is a kind of joy in creating pointless difficulties at enormous cost in order to experience the satisfaction of overcoming them without recourse to others, I suppose.