MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bambax | 2025-12-01 18:21:53+00:00
The problem with ads in AI products is, can they be blocked effectively?

If there are ads on a side bar, related or not to what the user is searching for, any adblock will be able to deal with them (uBlock is still the best, by far).

But if "ads" are woven into the responses in a manner that could be more or less subtle, sometimes not even quoting a brand directly, but just setting the context, etc., this could become very difficult.
by af78 | 2025-12-01 18:22:05+00:00
I had a similar experience of writing machine code for Z80-based computers (Amstrad CPC) in the 90's, as a teenager. I didn't have an assembler so I manually converted mnemonics to hex. I still remember a few opcodes: CD for CALL, C9 for RET, 01 for LD BC, 21 for LD HL... Needless to say, the process was tedious and error-prone. Calculating relative jumps was a pain. So was keeping track of offsets and addresses of variables and jump targets. I tended to insert nops to avoid having to recalculate everything in case I needed to modify some code... I can't say I miss these times.

I'm quite sure none of my friends knew any CPU opcode; however, people usually remembered a few phone numbers.
by blibble | 2025-12-01 18:22:10+00:00
> I am not an expert

I have had regulatory training on this exact matter, and it covers unintended leaks explicitly

and there is no way I would trade

> The point is that insider trading is not allowed. It is no insider trading if the information is available to everyone.

no, it isn't the point

the regulator cares that participants are seen to be clean, practicing "fit and proper" behaviour

if a reasonable person would think it was dodgy, they'll have your head (and your certification to practice)

regardless of whether or not it was illegal
by swatcoder | 2025-12-01 18:22:13+00:00
Those sound like typical bootstrap-sized workflow optimization opportunities, which are always available but have a modest ceiling on both sales volume and margin.

That's great that you happened to find a way to use "AI solutions" for this, but it fits precisely inside the parents "tech wise, I'm bullish" statement. It's genuinely new tech, which can unearth some new opportunities like this, by addressing many niche problems that were either out of reach before or couldn't be done efficiently enough before. People like yourself should absolutely be looking for smart new small businesses to build with it, and maybe you'll even be able to grow that business into something incredible for yourself over the next 20 years. Congratulations and good luck.

The AI investment bubble that people are concerned about is about a whole different scale of bet being made; a bet which would only have possibly paid off if this technology completely reconfigured the economy within the next couple years. That really just doesn't seem to be in the cards.
by 0xEF | 2025-12-01 18:22:19+00:00
The amount of injected implication you are imposing on everything I said...this is some seriously unhinged gaslighting in effort to obfuscate the fact that you came out of the gate calling someone delusional over a comment you barely understood. We're wasting each other's time, so I'm out.

Try to have a better day.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-01 18:22:29+00:00
The engineering on anything made by Tek is nothing short of amazing. I've a really old 'regular' scope (ok, what's really, old, by Tek standards it is still young) and a much smaller and lighter (and a bit less deep) digital one, an anemic TDS 210 that is more than good enough for any of my needs these days. But if you ever have the opportunity to have a close look at one of those scope racks on trolleys be prepared to be amazed, especially when you learn when it was made.
by tombert | 2025-12-01 18:22:48+00:00
I don’t see how they can be considered “one program to so many things” when it’s 69 different binaries. Yes they’re under the same project, but the same can be said about FreeBSD itself.

They’re designed to work together but as far as I am aware there’s no reason you couldn’t replace individual binaries with different ones, though admittedly I have never done that.
by tmulc18 | 2025-12-01 18:22:53+00:00
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by coffeecoders | 2025-12-01 18:23:07+00:00
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by a773n710n | 2025-12-01 18:23:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I've just published an article covering some of the most fascinating and counter-intuitive aspects of modern cybersecurity, from attacks that survive system wipes to data exfiltration hidden in your own backups.

One of the key defense concepts explored is *Chameleon*, my new defensive steganography framework that flips the attacker's own stealth methods against them. It's designed to embed active defenses and "canary" tokens invisibly within your tech, turning potential compromises into detection opportunities.

My article details how Chameleon uses techniques like zero-width characters, whitespace patterns, and other covert channels not just to hide data, but to hide an entire defense system in plain text.

Read the full article for more revelations and a deeper dive into my Chameleon framework:

*https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/firmware-hacks-invisible-defe...

The Proof-of-Concept code and architectural specification for Chameleon can be found on GitHub:

*[https://github.com/perryjr1444-ux/chameleon](https://github.com/perryjr1444-ux/chameleon)*

I'm keen to hear your thoughts and feedback on these concepts!

ps. heres a notebooklm video I created based on my research and project synopsis. This was a real world attack i dealt with personally and the video covers it all. https://youtu.be/MAgfRguuDaE
by bee_rider | 2025-12-01 18:23:29+00:00
I think it’s streaming in particular. With actual competitive games, like, tournaments and whatnot, the players are well known and they are competing in actual tournaments, right? The play is broadcast and all the players have their professional game-player reputation at stake, so there’s a strong incentive to not cheat (it is a very cushy and high-skill job with almost no transferable skills, so like, better not get booted). It is just that streamers might bump into cheating and that’s annoying for their viewers I guess.

When people play in these “competitive” matchmaking queues, it is more like a pickup game. If somebody shows up to a pickup baseball game with a corked bat, they are just kind of a loser and it isn’t a big deal, right? There’s no actual reward for hitting “platinum rank” or whatever in most games, other than skins or something. Nothing real is on the line.

IMO: we really should just have let these people cheat their way out of the normal matchmaking population. Smurfing is a much bigger problem. I don’t actually care if the guy dominating the match with some 60:0 kill-death-ratio is cheating or a semi-pro beating up on casuals, haha.
by ryanmcbride | 2025-12-01 18:23:40+00:00
Sometimes companies become irrelevant while following the market, while other companies revolutionize the market by NOT following it.

It's not "swim with the tide or die", it's "float like a corpse down the river, or swim". Which direction you swim in will certainly be a different level of effort, and you can end up as a corpse no matter what, but that doesn't mean the only option you have is to give up.
by DiscourseFan | 2025-12-01 18:23:46+00:00
>I am lifelong friends with my apartment roommates. We shared a house together but did not share a room.

It depends entirely on the person. I had a similar thing happen to me, except that I managed to get a single my first couple years of school. But I know from others, that it often creates a very intimate, fraternal bond which gives kids some semblance of a family bond before they are able to get a real social life, join clubs, make friends, find a partner etc.
by a-dub | 2025-12-01 18:23:50+00:00
idk. i don't think there's a good story if you're primarily interested in full-cycle e-waste minimization and avoidance. the mac hardware is good and is designed to live on timescales like that (probably because they are primarily aimed at building a good consumer brand) but it's also impossible to upgrade so there is some built-in planned obsolescence in that regard. (although it can be sold and replaced with other higher spec used gear).

the thinkpad and dell stuff is more upgradable, but is largely aimed at business markets where they plan on refreshing every 3-4 years.

i think maybe you get the most longevity (and possible warranty) out of thinkpad, but sadly none of this stuff is really designed to last that long.

e-waste sucks. unfortunately, our current dominant system of production doesn't really reward design for longevity. refreshing technology on the regular makes for a pleasant consumer experience, i wish it were less environmentally damaging.

framework has an angle on this, but i think in practice they're somewhat equivalent to thinkpads in terms of extendability. i also wonder how much you actually save when you start replacing everything over the long run.
by octember | 2025-12-01 18:23:53+00:00
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by JyrkiAlakuijala | 2025-12-01 18:23:59+00:00
This is some strange misinformation.

The C++ JPEG XL decoder is ~30'000 lines, i.e., 3000x smaller than you claim. A non-multithreaded, non-simdified code would be much simpler, around 8000 to 10000 lines of code.

It is not difficult to measure from the repository. The compiled compressed binary for an APK is 5x smaller than that of full AVIF. The complete specification at under 100 pages is ~13x more compact than that of full AVIF.
by Grosvenor | 2025-12-01 18:24:00+00:00
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by fragmede | 2025-12-01 18:24:35+00:00
Who else competes in that specific market though? Sam's Club and Smart-and-Final are the two I can think of, and it's been a while since I've seen either one of those. Oh, and actual restaurant supply stores, but those are different, imo. Costco's not directly competing with Safeway, for example, as they are different parts of the market.
by jrhizor | 2025-12-01 18:24:40+00:00
It's really hard to estimate the amount of time. Even spending 40hr on it wouldn't be worth it from a purely financial perspective even if you ignore ads and other costs, and I spent many times that in terms of time.

But at the same time, doing this helped me reach over $6k MRR this year. Could I have gotten out of the tar pit faster? Definitely.
by Terretta | 2025-12-01 18:24:41+00:00
> I wish there was a service like steam for videos: not subscription but high confidence purchase of video content available "forever" (even if they remove it from the purchasing options, license would remain).

In general, iTunes content purchase licenses are owned in perpetuity.

You do need to download the bits and have the files on hand, as (a) Apple may lose the right to re-deliver the bits to you, or (b) you may change regions (e.g., move from Australia to Canada) and find the re-download isn't available in the new region.

A good deal of stories were published in 2018 about Apple revoking or removing content, but when threads are pulled, the examples generally fell into these two camps. If you had kept the content yourself, you got to keep enjoying it.

> Personally I watch so little tv/movies that any subscription was always overpaying

Agree there's a good chance many households could purchase their preferred shows for less than the "watch throwaway stuff" subscriptions -- and then own them. This suggests a more ideal pairing is purchasing, plus something like Pluto.
by camreon | 2025-12-01 18:24:47+00:00
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by ndriscoll | 2025-12-01 18:25:02+00:00
Are the stakes not still zero? Aren't like 99.9% of players not at all competitive in any meaningful sense basically by definition? Like if Counter-Strike has 1M active players, and you are in the 99.9%-ile, you are still only in the top 1,000. Do people watch the rank 1000 players? Are they making a career out of it? What fraction of the player-base thinks they are actually competitive vs. is just playing a game?
by pandaman | 2025-12-01 18:25:04+00:00
>So, give them a court order to board a flight? Like if they are willing to prove their illegal status why is detention needed?

You either don't read what I wrote or it does not get through. These people were already given the order to leave the country by a date and they disobeyed it. Now they are in the removal proceedings, which consists of detaining them and transporting them out of the country. Detention is needed because to remove somebody from the country you need to detain them so you could transport them over the border. As I said, we don't have a teleport ray which we could point and make them to disappear and reappear in their home.

>Yeah its a civil matter, so there shouldn't be detention. Great point.

Why there should not be detention? I don't see how it follows. Are you unaware of civil detention/arrest? Can't you just read the Wikipedia or anything other than reddit/twitter before making absurd statements?

>Also, have you considered that the arbitrary detention is the reason someone might refuse to attend?

Attend what? I am sure they have many reasons to stay in my country so what?

>Whoever is sending ICE to detain people raises the case on behalf of the government?

Case of what? Of applying the existing law? "Your Honor, the law tells us to deport these aliens and we are able to do that but, just for shit and giggles, we want you to give them an order to leave and see what happens. Yes, we do respect the law and the court. No, we are not drunk or high. Just do this, please!"

> Just off the top of my head, criminal contempt, due to violation of the court order, would prevent almost any attempt at legal reentry?

And? There literally tens of millions of illegal immigrants who don't care about any of this.

>Invoking reddit is the most reddit thing you can do.

I trust you, I don't use reddit and can only indirectly observe redditors on HN.

>Yeah, but the system is clearly deranged and we are discussing that obvious derangement.

Okay. Here is my argument: the system is not deranged. I win.
by engineer_22 | 2025-12-01 18:25:19+00:00
I noticed a phenomenon on this post - many people are tying this person's business decisions to some sort of moral framework, or debating the morality of their plight.

"Moral" is mentioned 91 times at last count.

Where is that coming from? I understand AI is a large part of the discussion. But then where is /that/ coming from? And what do people mean by "moral"?

EDIT: Well, he mentions "moral" in the first paragraph. The rest is pity posting, so to answer my question - morals is one of the few generally interesting things in the post. But in the last year I've noticed a lot more talking about "morals" on HN. "Our morals", "he's not moral", etc. Anyone else?
by manuelmoreale | 2025-12-01 18:25:25+00:00
> a lot of people consuming things from their own agency has to mean something.

Agree. And that something could be a positive or a negative thing. And I'm not suggesting I know better than them. I'm suggesting that humans are not perfect machines and our brains are very easy to manipulate.

Because there are plenty of examples of things enjoyed by a lot of people who are, as a whole, bad. And they might not be bad for the individuals who are doing them, they might enjoy them, and find pleasure in them. But that doesn't make them desirable and also doesn't mean we should see them as market opportunities.

Drugs and alcohol are the easy example:

> A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that 2.6 million deaths per year were attributable to alcohol consumption, accounting for 4.7% of all deaths, and 0.6 million deaths to psychoactive drug use. [...] The report shows an estimated 400 million people lived with alcohol use disorders globally. Of this, 209 million people lived with alcohol dependence. (https://www.who.int/news/item/25-06-2024-over-3-million-annu...)

Can we agree that 3 million people dying as a result of something is not a good outcome? If the reports were saying that 3 million people a year are dying as a result of LLM chats we'd all be freaking out.

–––

> my first instinct is not to decry football as a problem in society.

My first instinct is not to decry nothing as a problem, not as a positive. My first instinct is to give ourselves time to figure out which one of the two it is before jumping in head first. Which is definitely not what's happening with LLMs.
by shagie | 2025-12-01 18:25:28+00:00
> ... And it's not just the ATS doing this -- oooodles of goobers who are nowhere near qualified are using AI and slamming the hiring pipelines. I'm already leaning on the personal networks because of that, ...

Patrick Boyle : AI and the Death of the Career Ladder (Nov 29, 2025) - https://youtu.be/FsfgbTBIP6M?si=KYd8fkX8lrigGVmT&t=610

> In the graduate job market, the "goods" are job applications. When employers are flooded with thousands of AI-generated, indistinguishable cover letters, they lose the ability to identify the high-quality candidates who invested time and effort. The signal is drowned out by noise. Just as buyers in Akerlof's market stopped buying used cars, employers are stopping the open hiring process. They retreat to offline networks and nepotism to find people they feel they can trust. The issue is that if everyone sounds perfect on paper, the only signal left is a personal introduction.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-01 18:25:31+00:00
Double hyphen is replaced in some software with an en-dash (and in those, a triple hyphen is often replaced with an em-dash), and in some with an em-dash; its usually used (other than as input to one of those pieces of software) in places where an em-dash would be appropriate, but in contexts where both an em-dash set closed and an en-dash set open might be used, it is often set open.

So, it’s not unambiguously s substitute for either is essentially its own punctuation mark used in ASCII-only environments with some influence from both the use of em-dashed and that of en-dashes in more formal environments.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-01 18:25:32+00:00
I think it's a broader macro issue of software companies up against crazy AI valuations and investing momentum. Software company multiples and valuations should recover (imho, n=1) when AI fever cools.

> GitLab drew the headlines, but ARK trimmed multiple holdings as it doubled down on themes she feels have more punch in the near term.

> That’s a familiar ARK playbook: Wood cuts exposure where momentum cools off, while adding to disruptors, keeping the portfolio pointed toward the more fast-moving corners of innovation.

Capital folks are trimming what they believe to be slower or slowing growth enterprises to free up capital to follow the AI momentum trade.

(not investing advice, thoughts and opinions always my own)