MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tavavex | 2025-11-14 21:07:37+00:00
It's even more annoying when you consider that most proposals that gain any type of traction can't even ever approach the "I have everything now so I'm not going to work because I'm so lazy"-type abundance that the fear-mongers try to sell you. If we just were able to use some of all this wealth to create an absolute baseline of "enough money to not starve, have any kind of roof over your head and not be trapped in your current situation", I wonder what society could've looked like.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-14 21:07:42+00:00
Skipping over the cringe writing style, I really don't get the hate on Anthropic here. What would people want from them? Not disclose? Not name names? I'm confused how that would move the field forward.

At the very least, this whole incident is ironic in that a chinese threat actor used claude instead of the myriad of claude killers released in china every other week.

At another level this whole thing opens up a discussion about security, automated audits and so on. The entire industry lacks security experts. In eu we have a deficit, from bodies in SOCs to pen-testers. We definitely could use all the help we can get. If we go past the first wave of "people submit bullshit AI generated reports" (which, for anyone that has ever handled a project on h1 or equivalent, is absolutely nothing new - it's just that in the past the reports were both bullshit and badly written), then we get to the point where automated security audits become feasible. Don't value "reports", value "ctf-like" exercises, where agents "hunt" for stuff in your network. The results are easily verified.

I'll end on this idea that I haven't seen mentioned on the other thread that got popular yesterday: for all the doomerism that's out there regarding vibe coding and how insecure it is, and how humans will earn a pay check for years fixing vibe coded projects, here we have a bunch of companies with presumably human devs, that just got pwned by an AI script kiddie. Womp womp.
by dont__panic | 2025-11-14 21:07:47+00:00
Have you considered that there is a difference between:

- food, a thing that literally every human needs every 24 hours (really 6-12) to continue to live

- GenAI, a new product with dubious value that contributes significantly to the systemic enshittification of the US and global economy?

FYI whataboutism is a well known (and honestly quite lazy) fallacy and propaganda strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
by vunderba | 2025-11-14 21:08:17+00:00
I grew up using pretty much every major Windows OS release (3.11, 9x, 2000, XP, etc.) and that comment about bringing back Windows 7 was on point. That was the turning point for me when I felt like it was the relatively perfect OS.

It got out of my way and acted as a nearly frictionless layer between the user and the programs.
by samuelknight | 2025-11-14 21:08:19+00:00
That's what I thought when starting and it functions so poorly that I think they should remove it from their docs. You can enforce a schema by creating a tool definition with json in the exact shape you want the output, then set "tool_choice" to "any". They have a picture that helps.

https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/tool-use/im...

Unfortunately it doesn't support the full JSON schema. You can't union or do other things you would expect. It's manageable since you can just create another tool for it to chose from that fits another case.
by antonymoose | 2025-11-14 21:08:19+00:00
The problem is the world isn’t clean, statistics aren’t clean, it’s all mosaic. You can have noble, moral poors and rich. You can have absolute dirt bags both rich and poor.

I grew up in a take of two households, with parents divorced at a young age. Father grows up in a picture perfect well-to-do family and ends up a classic party-hard drug addled dirt bag. He died last year living alone, homeless in a tent off an interstate motel town. Mother grows up in a stereotypical “dad went out for milk” family that descended into (and rose above) poverty.

While my father just kind of floated around and lived life, my mother remembered the poverty she experienced growing up, worked her ass off in university, and worked two jobs (one professional, one as a weekend cahsier) until she retired.

Nothing any of us can write here on a forum from on high will counter lived reality.

All this is to say, I agree about empathy being needed on society, poverty can still be moral failure. Pretending it can’t is just as in constructive as any other moral argument in this topic.
by firtoz | 2025-11-14 21:08:21+00:00
Cursor has this with their "browser" function for web dev, quite useful

You can also give it a mcp setup that it can send a screenshot to the conversation, though unsure if anyone made an easy enough "take screenshot of a specific window id" kind of mcp, so may need to be built first

I guess you could also ask it to build that mcp for you...
by Animats | 2025-11-14 21:08:29+00:00
The view from the other side: NeverSeconds.[1]

Each day in 2012-2014, a middle school girl in Scotland took a picture of her school lunch and wrote a review on her blog, including number of hairs and insects. The headmaster of the school told her to stop taking pictures of her lunches. So she published a note, "Goodbye". That got some small publicity. Then the local town council backed up the headmaster. More publicity. Politicians became involved. National press coverage. Coverage in Wired. "Time to fire the dinner ladies" article in a Scottish tabloid. Worldwide press coverage. BBC interviews. Girl wins "Public Campaigner of the Year award". Headmaster in trouble.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeverSeconds
by Coffeewine | 2025-11-14 21:09:34+00:00
Pertaining to that observation, I really liked this section:

> In 2022, California became the first of a half dozen or so states to offer free school meals to all students, regardless of family income. Dillard supports free meals for all students with an emphatic, “Yes, yes, yes!” Food should not be based on income, she says: “It should be part of the school day. Your transportation is of no charge to students. School books are no charge to students. School lunch should be of no charge to students. … It’s just the right thing to do.”

On one hand, that seems like an excellent argument to use for free school lunches. On the other hand, it feels like school busses are like libraries, accidents of history out of step with the modern world. If this became a rallying cry there'd probably be a strong pushback to start charging kids to be taken to school.
by dfxm12 | 2025-11-14 21:09:53+00:00
Some things are fake issues created by the media to give people a reasonable sounding cover to vote for politicians that have reactionary politics that they wouldn't cop to in public.

This is why you hear people say they vote for Trump because of "the economy", even though when he and his party were in power the first time, the economy was on the downturn after he implemented policy (even before COVID) and every economist said Trump's proposed policies in 2024 would be bad for the economy. They were proven correct.

People would rather seem like single issue voters who don't understand that issue than be thought of as racist, supportive of pedophilia, misogynistic, etc. See also: "but her emails"
by pcrh | 2025-11-14 21:10:03+00:00
It's the same in French (obviously), though equally this does not permit mass surveillance:

>Article 8 de la Convention européenne de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales:

>Droit au respect de la vie privée et familiale

>1. Toute personne a droit au respect de sa vie privée et familiale, de son domicile et de sa correspondance.

>2. Il ne peut y avoir ingérence d'une autorité publique dans l'exercice de ce droit que pour autant que cette ingérence est prévue par la loi et qu'elle constitue une mesure qui, dans une société démocratique, est nécessaire à la sécurité nationale, à la sûreté publique, au bien-être économique du pays, à la défense de l'ordre et à la prévention des infractions pénales, à la protection de la santé ou de la morale, ou à la protection des droits et libertés d'autrui.

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by mparis | 2025-11-14 21:10:50+00:00
We've been running structured outputs via Claude on Bedrock in production for a year now and it works great. Give it a JSON schema, inject a '{', and sometimes do a bit of custom parsing on the response. GG

Nice to see them support it officially; however, OpenAI has officially supported this for a while but, at least historically, I have been unable to use it because it adds deterministic validation that errors on certain standard JSON Schema elements that we used. The lack of "official" support is the feature that pushed us to use Claude in the first place.

It's unclear to me that we will need "modes" for these features.

Another example: I used to think that I couldn't live without Claude Code "plan mode". Then I used Codex and asked it to write a markdown file with a todo list. A bit more typing but it works well and it's nice to be able to edit the plan directly in editor.

Agree or Disagree?
by Windchaser | 2025-11-14 21:10:58+00:00
> I appreciate that you feel this way, it’ll never happen. The US will never give up on eating meat. Full stop.

I don't see any signs that the US is going to give up on AI and data centers, either. (The coming AI winter notwithstanding)

For what it's worth, I've cut back quite a bit on my beef and pork consumption, and now mostly eat chicken. The environmental and ethical arguments finally got to me.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-14 21:11:56+00:00
Emmanuel Todd has been going on about "zombie" and "zero" religion in a way that is really resonating with me.

If I understand his idea correctly, these societies that were developed with a religious justification, and a huge religious component, are of course losing it in the scientific age. The first stage they go through is "zombie religion" where people don't pretend to believe in the religion any more, but still insist that they share all of its values, and often become even more fanatical in the functions that the old religion served. The second stage is "zero religion" where both the belief and the functions are gone, and all that's left is a religion shaped hole that is filled with nihilism: the strong preying on the weak, self-indulgence, and an elite retreat into often paranoid fantasy.

These stages are shaped by the particular religion that disappeared, so the Zero Catholicisms aren't the same as Zero Protestantisms aren't the same as the Zero Islams. Science, being about what works rather than why you should be doing anything, simply didn't fill up these holes that once held morality and justification. For him, it seems, the Western world is primarily in a moral crisis, and we're seeing it in the mental decay of an elite that doesn't have to justify itself to anyone, ever (after religion has died.)

Personally, I can also see this in the deep desire of some people to obey AI, but I can't see it being fruitful at all. "Because the AI said so" is not particularly inspiring or ecstatic. It's just an extension of middle-class materialistic money as grace and job as devotion, which is notoriously unfulfilling. Will AI help you succeed if it can't tell you what it means to succeed?
by Muromec | 2025-11-14 21:12:03+00:00
The urgency comes from having the actual war on the East side of the EU and whatever the hell is happening down South with refugees and what not. Then in the EU proper -- sabotage acts, ammunition dumps being blown up, cabels cut and drones flying above the military bases hosting nuclear fucking warheads, Chinese and r===an spyies in the parliament, armed nazis in the military, etc, etc.

The shit has hit the fan about a decade ago already and not calming down at all, but intelligence gathering capability of secret services of all EU countries are being continiously degraded, because everything is E2E by default and money flows are obscured too.

Nobody likes to see shit being on fire and having all the dashboards down.

Another happening happens, the services are asked why they didn't prevent it or report it being likely -- what do they answer? "We can't read the damn messages, so we can't know if there is a cell that plans to do it again".
by phil21 | 2025-11-14 21:12:24+00:00
You have to be pretty well off to begin with in order to be in a position to take out $250k of student debt.

It’s the kids who can’t even imagine going to college due to living in poverty growing up that are actually “less than dirt poor”. Someone who went to a fancy college enough to get that far into debt is going to be extremely privileged on average.
by in-silico | 2025-11-14 21:12:31+00:00
It is naive to think that their end-goal is to make models that play computer games. The reason they build models like this is because playing 3D computer games is the closest digital proxy for operating a robot or similar in the real world.

I also don't see how this "kills the joy" of playing computer games. You can still play games while this exists, nobody is going to stop you.
by a-dub | 2025-11-14 21:12:38+00:00
from the "cybersecurity implications" conclusion section at the end of the anthropic report:

> This campaign demonstrates that the barriers to performing sophisticated cyberattacks have dropped substantially—and we can predict that they’ll continue to do so.

this is the point. maybe it's not some novel new thing, but if it makes it easier for greater numbers of people to actually carry out sophisticated attacks without the discipline that comes from having worked for that knowledge, then maybe it's a real problem. i think this is true of ai (when it works!) in general though.
by buu700 | 2025-11-14 21:12:49+00:00
They're 100% separate. "Planes aren't useful" and "planes don't work" are completely different sentiments than "it's pretty wasteful to fly across the country for a 30 minute meeting" and "we shouldn't push people hard to use air travel".

I know for a fact that planes work, because I've been on a plane and observed it lifting me high off the ground and rapidly transporting me to a distant location. The fact that planes typically emit CO2 doesn't make their existence and utility some kind of mass hallucination.

This distinction may sound a bit silly, because I assume we all agree that planes literally work. But the point I'm making is as it applies to AI. Like many people, I know from experience that AI isn't vaporware and is extremely useful for many purposes. I'm sure many others haven't had the same experience for various reasons, and factually report their observations in good faith — but that's different from pushing a narrative which one wishes to be true, regardless of how valid the reasons for that wish may be.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-14 21:12:51+00:00
God-like AI feels like we're really overestimating how tough the problem "Destroy humans" would be and so we've imagined this very impressive reason it could happen when actually we're fragile and might more or less blow away by mistake.

It seems we're much more likely to accidentally build something dumb that kills us via an unanticipated side effect. Like actual Weaboo but for society not just one business. AI helps Coca-Cola develop a new beverage that initially seems very popular and cheap so it's quickly the world's top selling drink - and then we realise, too late, that it's actually extremely addictive and withdrawal induces violent rage. Oh dear. That sort of thing.
by anon_cow1111 | 2025-11-14 21:13:04+00:00
This is the one area where the CDC actually does have accurate advice, Lyme is excellent at hiding itself from your immune system and tends to burrow into joint tissue where antibiotics have difficulty reaching. DON'T assume the disease is temporary, as the bacteria is well-known to cause lasting nerve damage even after it dies off completely. I have more than one friend who wasn't as lucky as me and still suffers with symptoms to this day.
by 9rx | 2025-11-14 21:13:08+00:00
> We can pretty confidently say that ancient civilizations had fat folks, too.

Not without a lot of extra help. That is why I said by yourself. If you include the input of many other people building things like a tractor you could also grow enough of your own food from the ground to exceed your normal caloric requirements without much trouble, but you're a long way from doing it from scratch at that point.

Unless, like before, you consider throwing some prepared ingredients into a bowl to be "from scratch", at which point anything goes. Perhaps opening a bag of chips is also "from scratch"? You did have to exert the effort to open it, after all.
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-11-14 21:13:51+00:00
I mean this (mostly) as a joke, however, I kinda wish US businesses would just firewall off the EU at this point (yes, I know this would mean losing some customers/marketshare and thus would never happen).

But the near daily proposals getting tossed out in their desperate attempt to turn their countries into daycare centers is just annoying to people trying to build things for other adults.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-14 21:14:16+00:00
In the subset of possible physical objects, it reminds me of Halfbakery and Chindōgu.

https://www.halfbakery.com/category/Product

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/10/chindogu-japanese-art-...

This of course leaves out impossible products and services like:

- Tardis

- Unlawful goods and services sales platform, now with physical vending machines for assassination contracts
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-14 21:14:23+00:00
> Why do jews make people so irrational?

Are you sure you aren't looking for stormfront or elmu's twitter, rather than HN? It's not nice for you to comment on my jewish faith (or anybody else's) in such a negative manner.

But I didn't interpret your posts as irrational anyways. You are pretty coherent, just disagreeable in your religious discrimination against jews.

[READER NOTE: parent "UltraSane" edited their post after I replied, above is UltraSane's original antisemetic post to which I replied]
by anthk | 2025-11-14 21:14:25+00:00
There's Dillo and Florb (Open Street Maps client). Now we just need a simple MPV UI and some kind of FLMail client. On office suites, someone should modernize Siag Office with XFT and Unicode support.

If anyone says "that's outdated crap", Siag supports RTF, and the spreadsheet module could just use plugins written in Scheme with incredible features related to number crunching. Printing? PostScript and PDF, problem solved.
by titzer | 2025-11-14 21:14:46+00:00
While I generally agree with this, I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, AI could be smart enough to reach the "enlightened master engineer" and can reach super-human levels of...simplification. In some ways, complexity can result from improper layering and abstraction inversion. It takes a holistic view to realize that the lines (i.e. interfaces) between layers were drawn improperly and redesign everything together, achieving an overall simplification.

A good example is the web platform. It's just enormous...to the point that no human can really understand how it all even works. And I say that as someone who worked for a long time on a narrow part of that stack (V8). It being only a little over a million lines of code, it is incredibly intricate and subtle, because it implements a pretty weird language, has lots of optimizations, advanced GC, multiple compilers, etc. And that's just the JS engine. Add in the layout engine, rendering engine, multi-process architecture...it's beyond the comprehension a single mind.

We're not yet at the level that an AI can understand code really deeply yet, but may we will reach the point where an AI understands enough of it and can code competently enough to start over from scratch and build something we can both understand and does the things we actually want it to do.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-14 21:14:48+00:00
Why would you expect there to be cell service there? Large parts of that area of the Mountain West are virtually uninhabited and have no telecom infrastructure to connect the cellular service to. There is literally nothing out in much of it except the occasional building every 10-20 miles which isn't enough to sustain a cellular network.

These days satellite would be cheaper in any case.
by gwd | 2025-11-14 21:14:48+00:00
Georgism [1] but applied to copyright: If you want to extend your copyright past, say, 15 or 20 years, then you need to estimate the value of that copyright and pay tax on it. You can name any value you want, but someone can then buy it at that value.

Maybe there can be different rules for copyrights owned by humans vs corporations; 5 years free for corporations, 20 years free for humans. Or maybe longer for humans, I dunno. But having corporations sit on IP just because they can is ridiculous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
by dreamcompiler | 2025-11-14 21:16:11+00:00
> Does anyone want AI in anything?

Absolutely. I want a browser with AI -- just not the browser Mozilla wants to build. I want my browser to use AI-based adblocking and content filtering. I want my AI browser to notice when the site sends some stupid sticky high Z-index thing down the pipe and just quietly not show it to me at all. I want my AI browser to automatically detect cookie dialogs and click "Reject All" and if that option isn't available, I want it to parse the "Cookie Preferences" page and click all the buttons that equate to "Reject All".

I want an AI layer in my phone that spoofs my location and my contacts so that apps that insist on seeing those things see fake data that nevertheless looks plausible.

Best of all, I want the AI agents in my browser and my phone to do their work without leaving any trace of their activities so that the server on the other end cannot tell that I even have an AI agent at all.

Most of the above is possible now but it requires a plethora of different tools that are not cleanly integrated. And no VC is going to pay you to build such an integrated tool because it would not create a continuing revenue stream or a continuing stream of harvestable data compromising the user's privacy.

We are a very fucked-up industry.
by g947o | 2025-11-14 21:16:41+00:00
I think minisforum products are generally decent, but there are things that give me pauses.

I had a mini PC that would sometimes briefly show black screens followed by "AMD driver timeout" issues. I emailed their support, who instructed me to play with a few BIOS settings (slightly weird), and eventually asked me to start a warranty replacement. The emails were not tracked by any ticket system, just as regular emails, and the shipping address was a residential address in California. All of this feels slightly unprofessional, and the residential address thing is almost alarming. But in the end, the issue got addressed, so whatever.

The overall service definitely cannot possibly match Intel with their NUCs or Apple products, not a surprise. But the actual machines are ok.

If your mini PC died within warranty period, I don't see why you cannot do warranty returns. Otherwise, you just had bad luck, just like what could happen with many other devices from other manufacturers.
by DANmode | 2025-11-14 21:17:25+00:00
> Any interventions would have to be targeted directly at the B. burgdorferi

Alcohol suspension tincture of the following antibacterial herbs together, which target Lyme's various coinfections:

a. Cryptolepsis sanguinolenta

b. Polygonum cuspidatum (aka: Japanese knotweed)

c. Artemisia annua (aka: Sweet wormwood)

d. Uncaria tomentosa (aka: Cat’s claw)

Begin with one drop two times per day, increasing to tolerance/under advisement of your ND/MD, or wellness consultant.