MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninkendo | 2025-12-14 14:57:57+00:00
I wish there was a way to use the tailscale app to connect to my own vanilla WireGuard endpoint at home. I don’t want to use and pay for tailscale when I can run WireGuard myself. But there seems to be no good WireGuard app for tvOS (there is for iOS and macOS though) and if the TS app works as well as it says, I’m jealous I can’t use it with my setup.

(There’s another really shitty VPN app for tvOS that I tried, but it also costs money so screw that. It’s also buggy as hell and crashes all the time.)

I should add that my use case is the occasional trip where we take the Apple TV with us places and want to access my media library. Or being able to share my media library with extended family (setting their Apple TV up with a vpn to my house.) More complex things like travel routers can work, but are more hassle than I want, although I’m increasingly leaning towards taking the plunge there…
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-14 14:58:02+00:00
I can't help you then. You can find a close analogue in the OSS/CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual. [1]

For that reason, I don't trust Agents (human or ai, secret or overt :-P) who don't push back.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/... esp. Section 5(11)(b)(14): "Apply all regulations to the last letter." - [as a form of sabotage]
by lkjdsklf | 2025-12-14 14:59:17+00:00
You're stretching really hard here to try and rationalize your position

First of all, I pick the hardware I support and the operating systems. I can make those things requirements when they are required.

But when you boil down your argument, it's that because one thing may introduce non-determinism, then any degree of non-determinism is acceptable.

At that point we don't even need LLMs. We can just have the computer do random things.

It's just a rehash of the infinite monkeys with infinite type writers which is ridiculous
by kasey_junk | 2025-12-14 14:59:18+00:00
This framing is a cheap rhetorical trick. Restated this leads to the statement “all companies by default are in the business of capturing customer data, all other claims about their product and smoke screens to hide that.”

Which is something you can believe but it falls into the extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence category. But by claiming it about Oracle or Israeli cyber firms or whatever you swap the evidence burden to the person who has the not extraordinary claim, that most businesses are doing what it claims on the tin.
by jeromegv | 2025-12-14 14:59:56+00:00
There’s been tons of studies in tons of cities. It’s quite clear, for a landlord you make more per month on Airbnb than on a long term rental. So economically it makes sense. Toronto had to do those studies before city council passed a law to restrict airbnb.

You also saw it through covid when all those units flooded the rental market when international borders closed.
by rjh29 | 2025-12-14 15:00:16+00:00
It's best used as a glorified autocomplete or for refactoring. Autocomplete is useful but coding time is like 10% of development, upfront design / debugging / discussions / testing is a bigger issue. Refactoring needs to be checked as AI can't be trusted, and can end up costing as much time as it saves if it makes mistakes.
by Loughla | 2025-12-14 15:00:22+00:00
I'm not trying to be a dick, but there is nothing stopping you from self regulating.

We watch one episode of mst3k as a family Sunday night. Popcorn, lights off, huddled under blankets on the floor.

If anything, it's more special for my kids (than it was for me) because they can see what we'll watch next week, and enjoy looking up random trivia about the terrible movie throughout the week.
by jijijijij | 2025-12-14 15:00:38+00:00
> So at this point, I only lurk occasionally, because I'm not going to go through that social hell again

I feel ya. Sad thing is, there really isn't anywhere else to go for niche interests, or really much any particular information. AI fallout has finally killed the struggling web and online community. I think, there isn't much left besides cutting losses, resetting your dopamine receptors and finding community in the real world and all...

Well, now that's gonna be a bit of a challenge living outside big cities, where you can't afford rent, of course. I guess, if meeting other people is out, you can still always watch brain rot TV, or strap in the amyl nitrite inhaler and goon away for the time between work shifts. Until things are worth remembering again. When those investment trillions finally paid off and humanity accelerates into the new age of blissful meaning.
by tucnak | 2025-12-14 15:00:43+00:00
> there is never any security since the code in the browser can simply be swapped with compromised code that diverts the plaintext somewhere.

This is not the case in the land of DICE-like key derivation; see TKey protocol for example. You can download and run an actual rv32 program on actual FPGA over WebUSB without having to worry about its provenance. If the program is modified, firmware will derive a completely different key.
by everdrive | 2025-12-14 15:00:51+00:00
> "Most companies are efficiency-obsessed. Hence, they also expect AI solutions to increase “productivity”

So this is true on paper, but I can tell you that companies don't broadly do a very good job of being efficient. What they do a good job of is doing the bare minimum in a number of situations, generating fragile, messy, annoying, or tech-debt-ridden systems / processes / etc.

Companies regularly claim to make objective and efficient decisions, but often those decisions amount to little more than doing a half-assed job because it will save money and will probably be good enough. The "probably" does a lot of work here, and then "probably" is not good enough there's a lot of blame shifting / politics / bullshitting.

The idea that companies are efficient is generally not very realistic except when it comes to things with real, measurable costs, such as manufacturing.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-14 15:00:55+00:00
You could learn it. It would take some effort but it's not insurmountable and it's inarguably superior to cursive in terms of effort to write.

I can't write legible cursive. To do that would take time, effort, and practice. Much like it'd take that to learn shorthand.

That's my point. You and I write the way we do because writing in other ways would take more effort than we want to spend.
by muzani | 2025-12-14 15:01:12+00:00
Whatever you pick, don't blame your kids for missing out on your career. A lot of parents did that and honestly, the kids would rather that they tried than become the cynical, grumpy old men they turned into later.

Commit to whatever path you picked. Kids will be fine. I grew up with two overworking parents and I'm fine. My kids have both parents at home, homecooked meals, family dinners almost every night, and they're fine too.

Nobody resents their parents for chasing their dreams unless it's just pure abandonment. A generation ago, a father might end up working in a whole other country doing hard labor just because it paid the bills.

Part of what shaped this opinion was my father always asking me to build and sell a billion dollar company. He put aside that dream so he could give me the education to. The actual expectations on you are between you and your extended family.
by II2II | 2025-12-14 15:01:31+00:00
I think the answers are fairly simple.

If you're talking about internally developed software: AI generated apps suffer from the same pitfalls.

If you're talking about third-party alternatives: AI generated apps suffer from the same pitfalls.

Bonus reasons: advertising your product as AI generated will likely be seen as a liability. It tends to be promoted as a means of developing software more rapidly or for eliminating costly developers. There is relatively little talk about the quality of software quality, and most of the talk we do see is from developers who have a lot to lose from the shift to AI generated software. (I'm not saying they're wrong, just that they are the loudest because they have the most to lose.)
by hermanzegerman | 2025-12-14 15:02:42+00:00
Theoretically they could already send this via S/MIME encrypted Mail (KIM) to the family doctor, but most Hospitals haven't rolled out this service yet.

They just started installing Card Readers for the Doctor Identity Cards, so they can issue electronic prescriptions

For communication with Patients some Hospitals have Web Portals/Apps for getting/sending information.
by stockresearcher | 2025-12-14 15:03:01+00:00
I had a Volvo XC90 that “jumped” off the interstate and onto a parallel mountain road east of Knoxville. It did its best to track along those roads and somehow made its way into North Carolina. But even when I was back in Chicago, it was still stuck in NC trying to find a way off those mountain roads. Dozens of on/off cycles did nothing. I disconnected the battery overnight and that didn’t work. At the next service appointment, the dealer had to do a full firmware reset to wipe the memory and get it working again.

It amazed me that Volvo programmed an SUV to disbelieve that it could ever actually leave a road.
by DamonHD | 2025-12-14 15:03:11+00:00
There has been a lot of very aggressive SPAMming here over the last few weeks, and it would not astonish me if things had been tightened up to mitigate it.

But the forum I was an admin for, for many years imposed a "no links in a hurry" rule to deter the morons in a hurry who SPAM...
by scotty79 | 2025-12-14 15:04:53+00:00
> If the goal is to increase the rate of software production, there isn't much evidence that AI has moved the needle.

There is only one thing that triggers growth and it is demand. When there's a will, there's a way. But if there's no additional will, new ways won't bring any growth.

Basically AI will show up on the first future spike of demand for software but not before.

My software output increased by manyfold. But none of the software AI wrote for me shows up on the internet. Those are all internal tools, often one off, written for specific task, then discarded.
by rayiner | 2025-12-14 15:05:11+00:00
It’s horrifying to peak into industries you’re unfamiliar with and see what’s going on. It’s like lifting up the rotting log on your property. You just want to quickly put it back down.

WUSTL has more administrators than students:

> Academic staff 4,551 (2024)

> Administrative staff 17,979 (2024)

> Students 16,399 (fall 2024)

University of Munich, a prestigious university in German, has only 8,200 administrators for 54,000 students. So less than half the administrators for more than triple the number of students.

The University of Munich has a budget of 800 million Euro. Excluding the medical school, WUSTL has a budget over $4 billion.
by ericmay | 2025-12-14 15:05:17+00:00
> These used to be really beautiful and chill places in the 70/80s, now they are horrid

Isn’t this a bit of gatekeeping? What do you propose the solution is? Ban tourists? Take it another incremental step and now you’re banning immigrants too. “Don’t visit! Stay in your country!” “Go home tourists/immigrants”, it’s the same song and dance. It’s the same sentiment.

There is a solution to the tourist “problem” though, which is to just charge a shitload of money to visit. But then you’ll be accused of being inequitable or hating poor people or something.
by iahds9uasd | 2025-12-14 15:05:57+00:00
In many ways, it is a zero-sum game. Art is a form of communication, and people have a finite amount of time and attention. Some people enjoy seeing the craftsmanship of artists, and some artists enjoy displaying their mastery of the craft. Beyond that, people use craftsmanship as a proxy for care/thought put into a work. If you can successfully mimic the appearance of craftsmanship without the effort, a major incentive for artists to create, polish, and publish their work is now gone. If you're someone who enjoys viewing craftsmanship, or who tries to find for high quality work based on the craftsmanship put into it, how long will you be willing to look through a sea of increasingly convincing noise to find some kind of signal?
by sk4is3r | 2025-12-14 15:06:44+00:00
Once a codebase reaches a certain size and level of complexity—and is clearly no longer a toy project—it becomes difficult, and eventually impossible, to keep every implementation detail in your head. At that point, this also starts to drift away from what you should actually care about: invariants, and ensuring they are not broken or gradually eroded over time. From my point of view, this is much harder to achieve than one might expect, especially without a highly skilled team to help reason about and discuss these concerns.

Focusing on concepts and invariants, and being able to reconstruct the core ideas of the system from them, is therefore the right priority.

Keep grinding, and good luck with your project.
by bragr | 2025-12-14 15:07:28+00:00
My guess would be:

1. Car entered ferry, loses GPS

2. Car entered dead reconning mode used for tunnels and such

3. Car left ferry, acquired GPS

Then either:

4a. Location via dead reconning vasty disagreed with GPS because the car doesn't know about the ferry's movements, triggering some kind of failsafe.

Or:

4b. There's just a plain old bug in the condition to switch back to GPS and maybe people haven't noticed because you don't get as badly desynced in a tunnel.

>the car must have a pretty good dead reckoning system

Yeah all the pieces are there: accelerometers and gyros for stability control, compass for navigation, and the wheel speed sensors give you exact distance traveled.
by sva_ | 2025-12-14 15:07:37+00:00
> The CEO of the American tech company is a former cyber specialist from an elite unit of the Israeli army, as are several other members of its top management.

This is about Unit 8200? The 'cybersecurity' unit that Israelis can join instead of doing their mandatory military service on the gun? I think this acquisition could indeed be problematic, but this seems like a weird framing. The article could give more context than that.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-14 15:07:50+00:00
It sounds like they are also preparing an attack on VPNs and DNS:

> Arcom recognizes a need to “facilitate the actions of intermediaries” by maintaining an up-to-date list of pirate sites and services subject to blocking and improving the system so that new services can be added to boost effectiveness. It’s hoped that sharing the list with third parties will encourage a broader range of intermediaries to engage in the process voluntarily.

> “Alternative DNS providers and VPNs, whose misuse for illicit purposes affects 66% of illicit consumers, are key partners. Beyond these players, the entire digital ecosystem must be involved in the fight against piracy: hosting providers, content delivery networks (CDNs), and online stores,” Arcom notes.

> If intermediaries fail to comply with their legal obligations, granting Arcom “coercive power” would “strengthen the authority’s credibility in the digital space,” the regulator notes.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-14 15:08:03+00:00
Exactly. I'm arguing that what we should be focused on at this relatively early stage is not the amount of output but the rate of innovation.

It's important to note that we're now arguing about the level of quality of something that was a "ha, ha, interesting" in a sidenote by Andrej Karpathy 10 years ago [0], and then became a "ha, ha, useful for weekend projects" in his tweet from a year ago. I'm looking forward to reading what he'll be saying in the next few years.

[0] https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383?s=20
by lurk2 | 2025-12-14 15:08:06+00:00
The expat-immigrant distinction is a simple one; an expat lives abroad, an immigrant intends to gain citizenship and stay. This isn’t actually necessarily reflective of how illegals view the country anymore; a lot of them intend to leave after working a few years so that they can retire in their country of origin. The reason Latinos get so upset by this distinction is quite simple: Very many of them move to developed countries and want to stay there. By contrast, hardly anyone moves to to Latin countries, and virtually none of those that do will ever attempt to become citizens. An Australian who moves to Peru and becomes a citizen is still an immigrant, not an expat; this just basically never happens, so a subset of Latinos wrongly assume it’s a race thing.

> This one i can also understand - I know American “expats” who lived in my country 15+ years but never bothered to learn the language, not even a little tiny bit.

It is obnoxious. My point was that the objection these people have to tourists is not rooted in their actual economic impact, but cultural anxiety that they are being left behind or disrespected. These anxieties are warranted, the issue I take with it is that cosmopolitans will chastise Cletus for not wanting to be replaced by Mexicans who refuse to learn English but celebrate Jose for saying the same thing but in Spanish.
by Dr_Birdbrain | 2025-12-14 15:08:10+00:00
Don’t automation technologies improve the productivity of labor?

If I can make one widget per hour, and some new tool lets me make 10 widgets per hour?

Conventional economic theory suggests the gain will be split between the widget-maker and the widget-consumer, in proportions determined by the relative slopes of the supply-demand curves, but definitely the product will become somewhat cheaper.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-14 15:08:23+00:00
That's just basically, "Don't binge watch."

There are shows like "Twin Peaks" that, if you first introduction to them is binge watching, you'll wonder what all the fuss was ever about. (Some shows seem to need some water-cooler time in order to keep you on the edge of your sear, wondering, trying to make the connections yourself.)
by stevenjgarner | 2025-12-14 15:08:57+00:00
"Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon fixation in the sunless depths, experiments show that other microbes—especially heterotrophs—are doing far more of the work than expected. This discovery reshapes our understanding of how carbon moves through the deep ocean and stabilizes Earth’s climate."

Paper reprinted/syndicated:

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251210092024.h...

[2] https://news.ucsb.edu/2025/022270/mystery-missing-deep-ocean...

[3] https://paper.sciencenet.cn/htmlpaper/2025/9/202592617385476...
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-14 15:09:24+00:00
You guys always find a way to say "you can be an LLM maximalist too, you just skipped a step."

The bigger story here is not that they forgot to tell the LLM to run tests, it's that agentic use has been so normalized and overhyped that an entire PR was attempted without any QA. Even if you're personally against this, this is how most people talk about agents online.

You don't always have the privilege of working on a project with tests, and rarely are they so thorough that they catch everything. Blindly trusting LLM output without QA or Review shouldn't be normalized.
by stockresearcher | 2025-12-14 15:10:40+00:00
I don’t agree. The ruling used logical reasoning based on the 2023 Netchoice decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that the actions of the moderating algorithms enjoyed first amendment protection. The first amendment protects you from liability from your own speech, while section 230 protects you from liability from somebody else’s speech. Ergo, if the platform was protected by the first amendment then the algorithm output was the speech of the platform.

Netchoice had a bunch of concurring opinions, including from ACB that essentially says they really aren’t sure how they’d rule in a case directly challenging algorithmic recommendations. That’s why I say it’s not clear how the liability situation is, and it really is baffling why TikTok chose not to appeal.
by debarshri | 2025-12-14 15:11:47+00:00
I know a thing or two about zivver as i used to hangout with an early eng who was a scala dev.

Idea was end to end encryption. So technically, the new org should not have access to customer data. Company hit gold in the netherlands during covid whe reports had to sent out to users digitally and was always encrypted in EU due to regulations.

It could be different behind the scene. It does not look good for the netherlands where digital sovereignty is the key topic these days.
by conartist6 | 2025-12-14 15:12:08+00:00
AI usually costs you the ability to pursue the right work. It blinds you and it numbs you. It will feed your ego while guiding you to spend your time doing ordinary stuff, the same ordinary stuff it is guiding everyone to do. People just can't see it because they all spend their time talking to AI now instead of talking to each other -- that's the blindness.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-14 15:13:29+00:00
> glorified autocomplete

I feel like people who feel that about AI never really tried it in agentic mode.

I disable AI autocomplete. While bringing some value it messes with the flow of coding and normal autocomplete in ways I find annoying. (Although half of the problems would probably disappear if I just rebound it to CapsLock instead of Tab, which is the indent key).

But when switched to agentic mode I start with blank canvas and just describe applications I want. In natural language. I tell which libraries to use. Then I gradually evolve it using domain language or software development language whatever fits best to my desires about code or behavior. There are projects where I don't type any code at all and I inspect the code very rarely. I'm basically a project manager and part time QA while the AI does all the development including unit testing.

And it unncannily gets things right. At least Gemini 3 Pro (High) does. Sonnet 4.5 occasionally gets things wrong and difference in behavior tells me that it's not a fundamental problem. It's something that gets solved with stronger LLMs.
by djeastm | 2025-12-14 15:13:46+00:00
Could it be that while there may not be an increases in the raw number of apps released, there's more functionality within existing apps?

I say this because I've had my own app for years and I am now using AI more and more to add features I wouldn't have attempted before (and a lot of UI enhancements)... but I haven't made a new domain name or anything.
Show HN: PhotoToVideoAI – AI photo to video generator
by qzcanoe | 2025-12-14 15:14:00+00:00
PhotoToVideoAI is an AI-powered tool that turns your photos into dynamic videos. Upload a photo and a prompt, and in about 30 seconds you'll get a high-quality video in resolutions up to 1080p and durations of 5 or 10 seconds. It’s designed for content creators, marketers, and photographers, Feedback is welcome!
by calvinmorrison | 2025-12-14 15:14:27+00:00
I strictly use git add -p.

for one, it lets me create small patches of related stuff. There's nothing wrong with major patchsets in general but it makes it harder to cherry-pick little fixes to old stable branches for example

two, I notice other developers making me do the work for them because crap sneaks into their commits, like debugging statements or accidentally removed hunks. Instead I have to do "git add -p" when reviewing their commit.

Essentially, it's a first pass staging area you can review what you did. beautiful.
by nunobrito | 2025-12-14 15:15:04+00:00
It is an obvious and recurring phenomenon to anyone minimally following cybersecurity topics. This isn't the first time, nor the second, nor the third, nor the last.

This is the same as claiming that water isn't wet until someone here on HN brings you 10 articles and news proving otherwise. This particular topic was never really denied, nor even by the authors themselves as you can read on the article.