MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by agreeahmed | 2025-11-25 21:54:40+00:00
This is great feedback. We aren't trying to keep it hidden at all. But we could be clearer in how we communicate it.

The processing happens through our Stripe Connect platform, through which you currently have to set up a Stripe account. Over time, these details will be more abstracted away, much like Vercel is reselling AWS under the hood but doesn't require you to hand over AWS keys.

Right now, the reason this feels more like a "wrapper" than Vercel is that we haven't yet built out our own onboarding and KYC flow. We wanted to first deliver an amazing developer experience - something we're still working towards.
by stavros | 2025-11-25 21:54:58+00:00
Making stuff, big time. I love making things with hardware, software, or 3D printing.

A few friends and I made a maker community, and over the weekend I made a semi-automated newsletter for links we post in our Discord (https://themakery.cc). I really had fun doing that, it was great.

Last few weekends, https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/, https://theboard.stavros.io/, https://pine.town/, and a few other bits and pieces.
by addisonj | 2025-11-25 21:55:17+00:00
I genuinely think systems like Unison are "the future of computing"...

But the question is when that future will be.

Part of the beauty of these sorts of systems is just that the context of what your system actually does is in one system, you aren't dealing with infra, data, and multi-service layers

Maybe that means it is a much better foundation for AI coding agents to work in? Or maybe AI slows it down? we continue to try and throw more code at the problem instead of re-examining the intermediate layers of abstraction?

I really don't know, but I do really want to learn more about is how the unison team is getting this out in the market. I do think that projects like this are best done outside of a VC backed model... but you do eventually need something sustainable, so curious how the team things about it. Transparently, I would love to work on a big bet like this... but it is hard to know if I could have it make financial sense.

With all that, a huge congrats to the team. This is a truly long-term effort and I love that.
by quuxplusone | 2025-11-25 21:55:59+00:00
Can you elaborate? How does an attacker turn "any of your users can even access the output of a chat or other generated text" into a means of exfiltrating data to the attacker?

Are you just worried about social engineering — that is, if the attacker can make the LLM say "to complete registration, please paste the following hex code into evil.example.com:", then a large number of human users will just do that? I mean, you'd probably be right, but if that's "all" you mean, it'd be helpful to say so explicitly.
by darrenf | 2025-11-25 21:56:03+00:00
> I spent a lot of time working is South East Asia. Jakarta is the worst city, yes it is big but very filthy like New Delhi or India in general. Second filthiest is Malaysia.

Malaysia's a pretty decent size country, not a city. Can't say as I'd have referred to KL as filthy on any of my visits (admittedly only 3 times over the past 12 years). Kuching wasn't filthy either.
by byko3y | 2025-11-25 21:56:14+00:00
>I would love to hear what he thinks a good programming language is, because I can easily pick more holes in any other language than he has.

I have a working theory that the classic programming is basically dying out: https://bykozy.me/blog/llm-s-are-not-smart-rather-programmin... You just cannot write fast and reliable program neither with C++ nor with Rust, because the fundamental model is broken and nobody's really bothered fixing it.
by delichon | 2025-11-25 21:56:19+00:00
> It means that in the United States nutrition has mostly been solved

Nature is not off of the table. We've just traded problems with calorie quantity to quality.

condition US prevalence hypertension 49% obesity 40% metabolic syndrome 40% prediabetes 38% fatty liver disease 25% diabetes 16% coronary disease 5%

That's not mostly solved, that's tens of millions of truncated, immiserated lives. Of course calorie quality differences are important to child development.
by okanat | 2025-11-25 21:56:46+00:00
Vista wasn't that bad from purely OS side. On a VM it runs pretty stable.

However, Microsoft made a huge change to how the OS and drivers worked. If you still use Windows, you are still benefitting from some of the changes.

However HW vendors usually ship rather broken drivers, it was doubly bad since Vista overhauled the driver interface. By the time all vendors fixed their shitty and badly tested drivers we already had 7. It is also partly Microsoft's fault since they had absolute chaos in Vista development due to shitty hacks on top of hacks that was the consumer OS (XP).

Similarly Vista was very heavy for its contemporary average hardware. By the time HW caught up, 7 was released.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-11-25 21:56:58+00:00
That's clearly sad in the widest sense, but in the narrow sense. I'm extremely optimistic for my own prospects.

Why? It means I've been under-estimating the aggregate demand for friendship for years. Armed with that knowledge, I personally feel like it's easier than ever to make friends. It certainly makes approaching people a lot easier. Throw in a little authenticity, some active and reflective listening, and real vulnerability and I'm almost guaranteed success.

That doesn't mean it doesn't take effort, but the opportunities are real and deep genuine, caring friendships are way more possible than I'd been led to believe. If given the choice between 10 AI friends and 1 human friend, which one would you choose?
by inesranzo | 2025-11-25 21:57:01+00:00
I'm assuming the people who are asking for Orion to be open source are not paying for it.

I think a blog post on Orion's transparency is enough. The fact that there is Orion+ is enough to warrant no need to have tracking or 'enshittification'.

If you like Kagi and Orion, supporting development by paying for it makes sense.

Open sourcing everything of Orion means that Orion+ will be open source which defeats the point of supporting development of Orion directly.

I've seen projects start open source, change to closed source and then add in the enshittification later. It doesn't matter if the code is 'open' the source code would eventually be unmaintained and have security holes which there is no time in the world for anyone else to maintain.
by jsheard | 2025-11-25 21:57:29+00:00
The translation is that SSI says that SSIs strategy is the way forward so could investors please stop giving OpenAI money and give SSI the money instead. SSI has not shown anything yet, nor does SSI intend to show anything until they have created an actual Machine God, but SSI says they can pull it off so it's all good to go ahead and wire the GDP of Norway directly to Ilya.
by jfindper | 2025-11-25 21:57:49+00:00
>how compilers and compiler engineers are sabotaging the efforts of cryptographers

I'm not exposed to this space very often, so maybe you or someone else could give me some context. "Sabotage" is a deliberate effort to ruin/hinder something. Are compiler engineers deliberately hindering the efforts of cryptographers? If yes... is there a reason why? Some long-running feud or something?

Or, through the course of their efforts to make compilers faster/etc, are cryptographers just getting the "short end of the stick" so to speak? Perhaps forgotten about because the number of cryptographers is dwarfed by the number of non-cryptographers? (Or any other explanation that I'm unaware of?)
by crazydoggers | 2025-11-25 21:57:57+00:00
Maybe watch the video. He wasn’t just chatting with them he was sexually abusing them online. He was using Roblox because they made it easy for him. Watch the video.

Your hand waving away is the type of behavior that is complicit in allowing this type of abuse to continue.

And this isn’t just about parents. In one breath you’ll complain about helicopter parents and the next you’ll say it’s the parent’s responsibility to prevent it. The callousness to the suffering of children is disgusting. That’s not just “how the internet works”

This is about not allowing companies to cultivate online spaces specifically enabling this behavior because it makes them money. Your comments indicate you either condone the behavior or work for Roblox or a company like it.

> appease more people like you who can't think critically about the risk

So sexual abuse is not a risk you take seriously?
by gizmodo59 | 2025-11-25 21:58:05+00:00
Even as criticism targets major model providers, his inability to answer clearly about revenue & dismissing it as a future concern reveals a great deal about today's market. It's remarkable how effortlessly he, Mira, and others secure billions, confident they can thrive in such an intensely competitive field.

Without a moat defined by massive user bases, computing resources, or data, any breakthrough your researchers achieve quickly becomes fair game for replication. May be there will be new class of products, may be there is a big lock-in these companies can come up with. No one really knows!
by vb-8448 | 2025-11-25 21:58:07+00:00
The main problem are incentives and risks: in most of the cases you are not incentivized to build secure and reliability SW because, most of the time, it's easy to fix it. With particular categories of SW(eg. one distributed on remote system, medical sw, military sw) or HW it's the opposite: a failure it's not so easy to fix so you are incentivized to do a better job.

The second problem are big con.
by Mariehane | 2025-11-25 21:58:10+00:00
Will there be a large-dose trial? I imagine that’s going to be more difficult, as the weight-loss effect of GLP-1 means you cant include frail patients in your target group. And GLP-1 at high doses also has some unfavourable side-effects: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation.
by stewoconnor | 2025-11-25 21:58:48+00:00
I think Alvaro's at the Unison conference was a pretty cool demonstration of what you can do with the style of algebraic effects (called "abilities" in unison)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5nWbXyrC8Y

He implements an erlang style actor system, and then by using different handlers for the algebraic effects, he can "run" the actor system, but also optionally make a live diagram of the actor communications.
by cipehr | 2025-11-25 21:59:17+00:00
What? Since when was asking questions to clarify someones position considered "pushing back?"

Can you help me understand what about the questions make you uncomfortable?

I am completely unaffiliated with Kagi. I find it concerning that we've come to a world were we can't ask questions without it being taken as something hostile to the person/people/idea being questioned. Is that not what science is?
by cubefox | 2025-11-25 21:59:24+00:00
Well, as I said, if I type "cat", the most reasonable interpretation of that text string is a perfectly realistic cat.

If I want an "illustration" I can type in "illustration of a cat". Though of course that's still quite unspecific. There are countless possible unrealistic styles for pictures (e.g. line art, manga, oil painting, vector art etc), and the reasonable thing is that the users should specify which of these countless unrealistic styles they want, if they want one. If I just type in "cat" and the model gives me, say, a water color picture of a cat, it is highly improbable that this style happens to be actually what I wanted.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-25 21:59:34+00:00
My son plays Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 on the Playstation sometimes, if all his homework is done and his room is tidyish.

No inducements to buy in-game currencies, no weird people chatting to my child online, no deeply profoundly unsettling user-generated content. About the only downside is that I occasionally have to remind him that his teacher probably doesn't really want to hear about Screaming Females or Rough Francis or Bad Religion, although it's perfectly okay for him to have opinions about them.

Plus I doubt I'm ever seeing my initials on the highscore table ever again. The Future Is Now, Old Man.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-25 21:59:36+00:00
> Things get even fuzzier when you throw in heritable epigenetics too.

Heritable epigenetics is a nascent field. We have yet to get any real promising research showing it even occurs to a significant degree in human.

I would assume it's not a significant factor until we can find even some minimal evidence to suggest that it's an influence in humans. Even then, my guess is that the impact would be minimal. I know this is contrary to a lot of the "trauma passed down through epigenetics" narratives that are going around, but the actual science is in a very different place than the popular understanding of the topic.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-25 22:01:31+00:00
These are all fair points, I don't disagree with any of them but they're just symptoms of much broader problems - like political and cultural trends which men are supposed to be in charge of but are in fact oblivious about.

To put it a bit differently, it's not about men vs women it's about social forces and dynamics which are largely misunderstood. Call it a failure of humanities and social sciences, and that includes economics and political science - a topic which is best discussed elsewhere.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-25 22:01:48+00:00
> I really wish a car manufacturer would bring back the EV1 form factor with modern EV batteries.

Or the first-gen Honda Insight.

Take a look at those, and the Citroën CX from 25 years earlier. The CX is what a four-door Insight would have looked like.

For me, it's the faired-in rear wheels and narrower track that does it. Instantly futuristic.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-25 22:02:45+00:00
If you give the same test to different people under completely different reward conditions, nobody is going to be surprised when the results are different.

IQ tests are far from perfect, but when the same test is administered to different groups under the same conditions it can be reasonable to draw some signal out of the differences between groups.

Generally in a study like this the people administering the test wouldn't even know which group each person belonged to.

It's common knowledge that IQ tests aren't perfect, but your linked paper doesn't debunk their usefulness in a study like this. Not unless the researchers unblinded themselves and offered one group a large reward, which would be a much bigger problem than the use of IQ tests.
by ngriffiths | 2025-11-25 22:02:49+00:00
Well said, my reaction was basically, what he is saying is not really for a listener like me.

> AND also was not interested in the smooth polish of PR-style transitions that would give an appearance of basic cooperation..

I agree this is a big part of it and would add that the "unhinged" look is probably just a lack of PR skill. Both sides are hostile but the interviewers "win" here by staying within the rules of the game, and they also do a beautiful job of sort of winking at the audience like "wow this dude is crazy right?"

It's impressive but sorta annoying, I'd rather listen to actual content.
by skywhopper | 2025-11-25 22:02:59+00:00
Because you don’t just rewrite all your payroll systems with hundreds of variations in one go. That will never work. But they keep trying it.

You update the system for one small piece, while reconciling with the larger system. Then replace other pieces over time, broadening your scope until you have improved the entire system. There is no other way to succeed without massive pain.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-25 22:04:02+00:00
Mira was a PM who somehow was at the right place at the right time. She isn’t actually an AI expert. Ilya however, is. I find him to be more credible and deserving in terms of research investment. That said, I agree that revenue is important and he will need a good partner (another company maybe) to turn ideas into revenue at some point. But maybe the big players like Google will just acquire them on no revenue to get access to the best research, which they can then turn into revenue.
by inopinatus | 2025-11-25 22:04:15+00:00
If you don’t think “you can just audit the binary with tools” is pushing back, then I don’t know what is, and especially so when you’ve framed the invitation with “I'd rather listen”.

I’m reminded of the number of times I’ve had vendors sit across the table from me and argue that our fixed requirements for <whatever> are just a preference or a nice-to-have. This generally doesn’t bode well for their prospects.
by asmosoinio | 2025-11-25 22:04:37+00:00
I was wondering the same. I guess it comes from this "UN figure":

> The UN figures include a mixture of city proper, metropolitan area, and urban area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities

I haven't looked into the details of that definition.

But there is a somewhat standard definition to "metropolitan area" derived from something like "area where there is at least X per square km"

So it's not related a somewhat random definition of a "city" and its borders.
by TexanFeller | 2025-11-25 22:04:52+00:00
> The smartest kids are smarter than ever before

Only if they’re wealthy or get extremely lucky and live near a randomly good school. By many metrics I was the smartest in my class, but my family had little money and lived in a rural area with a single underfunded school. I spent my days in class with kids that were still struggling to sound out “cat” in third grade. A few times a week I got to spend an hour in “gifted” class but that was mostly art projects, nothing that would help make up for the rest of the day being wasted.
Show HN: Looking Ref Contact for a Foresight Grant ICT Info-Consciousness-Time
by DmitriiBaturo | 2025-11-25 22:05:18+00:00
I'm submitting an application to the Foresight Institute – AI for Science program and need to list a reference contact (not a recommendation letter).

The reference’s role is minimal: Foresight usually contacts the reference only if their input is important for the final decision. If they reach out (typically in January), it is only to confirm two things:

1. that they have seen or read my work,

2. that I appear to be a serious and competent researcher.

No endorsement of the scientific content is required, and no obligations are involved.

My work concerns the ICT Model (Information–Consciousness–Temporality) — a formal framework connecting informational dynamics, temporal structure, consciousness and multi-level physical systems.

A full preprint (with equations and testable criteria) is here: https://www.academia.edu/s/8924eff666

Main publication (open access): DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17584783

I'm looking for someone with a background in physics, math, CS, neuroscience, or related fields who is willing to serve as a neutral reference contact.

If you're open to it, please reply here or contact me.

Dmitrii Baturo
by sedatk | 2025-11-25 22:05:24+00:00
That's a welcome development albeit late, but more importantly, they should address the "can't link to a highlight" problem on mobile. When all sections are collapsed by default, browser won't scroll to the relevant section.

A random "link to highlight" example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_Cyprus#:~:text=On%2...

Such a link doesn't work on mobile if it points inside a collapsed section.

That makes directing people to relevant content on mobile really hard, and I end up sending screenshots instead.

EDIT: "Link to fragment"s had the same problem, but apparently, they fixed it. Thanks for that too!
by Terr_ | 2025-11-25 22:05:33+00:00
Others answered the main reason, but sometimes I find myself using "PRC" to indicate a particular government (~1950-Present) which unlike "China" excludes past dynasties, and is less-likely to be interpreted as referring to the people or culture.

For example, the potential differences between:

"France has always been X." "The French republic has always been X." "The French monarchy has always been X."
by pornel | 2025-11-25 22:05:41+00:00
Cargo isn't satisfied with its own solver either. Solvers are a hard and messy problem.

The problem is theoretically NP complete (a SAT solver), but even harder than that: users also care about picking solutions that optimize for multiple criteria like minimal changes, more recent versions, minimal duplication (if multiple versions can coexist), all while having easy-to-understand errors when dependencies can't be satisfied, and with better-than-NP performance. It ends up being complex and full of compromises.
by hintymad | 2025-11-25 22:05:44+00:00
> https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512

This is what https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512 advocates too: start small, modularize, and then scale. The example of Tesla's mega factory was particular enticing.
by zcw100 | 2025-11-25 22:06:39+00:00
Ha! When was the last time anyone took the blame for crappy code? This is an industry with zero accountability for quality. Fail fast right? At least when I tell an LLM it's wrong it says, "You're absolutely right" and gets to fixing it rather than an hour lecture about why they're totally correct and justified because of their version of "best practices".
by bill3389 | 2025-11-25 22:06:41+00:00
'what you know, what you have, what you are' are used in classic authentication. 'what you know', typically are the knowledge only you should know, like password. 'what you have' are the things only you should have, like key card, MFA,. 'what you are' are some biological identities, like your finger print.

Banks servers ordinary people and most useful way to identify those people are 'what you know'. DOB are the most commonly used.

some banks and other organizations start to give up 'what you know' as most people give up too much personal information over social media and bad guys can easily acquire them. now they transfer 'what you have'. like sending you a message and you have to click the link to prove you are the person who you claimed.
by skybrian | 2025-11-25 22:06:53+00:00
This sounds a little off since Roman citizenship expanded until 212 when it was granted to all free men in the empire. But perhaps she was talking about the failure to absorb "barbarian" tribes that came over the border later, that wanted to become Roman and sometimes thought of themselves as Roman.

The sack of Rome in 410 was a shock, but the end of the western Roman empire later that century probably wasn't understood as such at the time since they didn't know that decentralization would be permanent; after terrible civil wars, another emperor would usually reunite the empire. And even much later there were often claims to be a continuation.

Contrast with China where new dynasties would rise after the old one falls.
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-11-25 22:06:55+00:00
To take a slightly cynical view, but a view I honestly believe in, on the want to switch to JSON: XML looks old, most programmers have shallow opinions and chase new things.

It's not parsing performance, computers are plenty fast for text IM. It's not bandwidth, the difference between JSON and XML is negligible after compression. It's not developer ergonomics, any sane programmer is using a library that abstracts either format. It's not compatibility with the domain, as XML wins for XMPP due to namespaces.

The answer is that XML looks old. New programmers (half of all programmers have less than 5 years of experience) grew up in a world of JavaScript where XML was "legacy" since the day they arrived. In reality it's kept working fine, while the volume of software has increased around it naturally using the trendy tools. They've not looked back to understand why it was made or why it has merits, it's already got negative connotations and they're caught up in the new stuff. The new stuff has merit too, that is why a programmer is wise to respect both.

Also, what use is a stable and mature XML ecosystem when you can earn big nerd points by reinventing XPath for JSON the 5th time?