MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spencerflem | 2025-12-17 21:39:14+00:00
It does if you want to share accounts between my iOS phone and Linux desktop. And it still puts you entirely at the whims of Apple, etc. if you’re allowed to log in to unrelated accounts.

& I think it is mostly being used for enterprises for now ,but much like TPM and remote attestation running on “my” computer, I don’t like that it’s an option
by V__ | 2025-12-17 21:39:21+00:00
> The Reddit post I’d seen earlier? That guy got completely owned because his container was running as root. The malware could: [...]

Is that the case, though? My understanding was, that even if I run a docker container as root and the container is 100% compromised, there still would need to be a vulnerability in docker for it to “attack” the host, or am I missing something?
by ryandrake | 2025-12-17 21:39:55+00:00
> Lowering the rent to fill their building reduces the value of that building

> Additionally, lowering the rent for that building will also reduces the value of other nearby buildings that have that building as a comparable property

> it's in the bank's interest to let things be vacant and keep the valuations based on the previous rent, rather than lowering the rent and facing the music.

This just seems like everyone involved is playing make-believe about the actual value of their property. A tax on vacant land that increases exponentially year after year might help to correct this behavior, because at some point, it costs less to realize the loss than it does to pay the ever-increasing vacant land tax.
by sillyfluke | 2025-12-17 21:40:29+00:00
It depends on how well you vetted your sanples.

fyi: You headline with "cross-industry", lead with fancy engineering productivity graphics, then caption it with small print saying its from your internal team data. Unless I'm completely missing something, it comes of as a little misleading and disingenuous. Maybe intro with what your company does and your data collection approach.
by jrjeksjd8d | 2025-12-17 21:40:36+00:00
TFA seems to claim that the benefits of "nice buildings" outweigh the externalities of desolate, character-less street levels in cities. It doesn't seem very on brand for Strong Towns.

This phenomenon is going on in the downtown of my city - decreased foot traffic leads to tenants leaving, and the cycle continues. It's a miserable place to live or work that basically becomes a ghost town at 5pm. They're trying to do some office-to-residential conversions, but they're not very desirable because the entire neighborhood feels hollow and abandoned.

Instead of delaying these defaults and accumulating systemic risk until there's a massive correction, someone should be enforcing accounting that marks to market the actual rental value. That would force banks to be honest about the real level of risk on their balance sheets.
by b112 | 2025-12-17 21:40:37+00:00
It's amusing how much ads hurt, once you're weaned off of them.

Even with traditional TV, growing up, I didn't really mind ads. Then I setup MythTV years ago, and had commercial skip... and of course just downloaded things without commercials too.

When I'd visit my parents back then, any commercial felt like intense agony. So this isn't just about the web, it's really about useless annoying juke being fed to you, when you're used to not having it.

The closest I can compare it to, is once I rented an airb&b which was under a freeway, beside a bridge, and adjacent to another freeway. Yet after a while I just sort of got used to most of the noise.

I wonder if the CEO of Mozilla doesn't use adblock, and just doesn't, literally, understand.
by toast0 | 2025-12-17 21:40:38+00:00
It's all about contract/loan assumptions.

If the space is vacant, and the last known rent was $X, the assumption is that borrower is bad at advertising space, but a successor would be able to get it rented again at that rate.

OTOH, if the space is rented at 0.7 times $X, the tenants may have a long term lease that fixes that price for a significant time and even a savvy successor would have a hard time raising rents, so the valuation needs to be calculated based on current rent.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-17 21:41:00+00:00
To play a bit of devil's advocate, I don't think the problem is necessarily with the compiler output. It's more that it's not always easy to definitively state the precise consequences of a particular issue, especially when it comes to memory safety-/UB-related issues. For example, consider this Project Zero writeup about using a single NUL byte buffer overflow as part of a root privilege exploit [0] despite some skepticism about whether that overflow was actually exploitable.

To be fair, I'm not saying that Greg KH is definitely wrong; I'm only willing to claim that in the general case observing crashes due to corrupted pointers does not necessarily mean that there's no ability to actually exploit said corruption. Actual exploitability will depend on other factors as well, and I'm far from knowledgeable enough to say anything on the matter.

[0]: https://projectzero.google/2014/08/the-poisoned-nul-byte-201...
by darubedarob | 2025-12-17 21:41:14+00:00
Remember how they fired everyone at twitter, how that would tank the company, and its still here ?

Remember how the whole aid industry in ghaza got subverted by hamas, to the point unwra members took part in the 7th october attack? How they already yelled " genocide" on the 8th october while israel was still reeling?

Sometimes, if trust is the currency and all you got is lies, your narrative goes bankrupt and your ideology has to close shop.
by Ugyen_Tech | 2025-12-17 21:41:33+00:00
haha now thats something interesting name.. by the way we have some background story behind this name Hopeless, we are going under EF fall25 cohort and we tired 17 ideas and nothing work out, everyone in our batch doing good and we are like behind so we were like hopeless at that point this idea pop up and we are facing this problem when we are working with some client before so there we started work this idea. so as memories we decided to give name Hopeless, but guess this is also not working, its been 3 days after launch and 0 signup haha :)
by immibis | 2025-12-17 21:41:41+00:00
It's completely possible to write a parser that outputs every possible parse of "time flies like an arrow", and then try interpreting each one and discard ones that don't make sense according to some downstream rules (unknown noun phrase: "time fly").

I did this for a text adventure parser, but it didn't work well because there are exponentially ways to group the words in a sentence like "put the ball on the bucket on the chair on the table on the floor"
by xg15 | 2025-12-17 21:42:26+00:00
> LLMs process information very differently. They look at everything in parallel, all at once, and can use the whole context in one shot. Their “memory” is stored across billions of tiny weights, and they retrieve information by matching patterns, not by searching through memories like we do. Researchers have shown that LLMs automatically learn specific little algorithms (like copying patterns or doing simple lookups), all powered by huge matrix multiplications running in parallel rather than slow, step-by-step reasoning.

I think this is incorrect on two accounts: Yes, transformers and individual layers are parallel, but the entire network is not. On a first level, it's obviously sequential over generated tokens - but even generation of a single token is sequential in the number of layers that the information travels through.

Both those constraints are comparable to the way humans think I believe. (The human brain doesn't have neatly organized layers, but it does have "pathways" where certain brain regions project into other brain regions)
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-17 21:42:29+00:00
> The entire thing is about making sure land is used on the most socially benefiting way possible.

The idea of land value tax is to make the government effectively the universal landowner and everyone else renters, and renters paying a high enough rent that it is economically infeasible to use land for any but the most financially remunerative purpose.

Having it optimizing for social utility rather than maximizing negative externalities requires a finely optimized system of Pigovian taxes and subsidies, otherwise you are nailing the accelerator to the floor on the divergence between market incentives and social utility.
Tell HN: GitHub has postponed self-hosted runner price hike
by junon | 2025-12-17 21:42:40+00:00
https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/

I sent support a long-winded complaint ticket regarding the price hike of self-hosted runners. They responded that they've postponed that hike until they can decide what to do. Sure enough, there is now a notice at the top of the original announcement.
by inetknght | 2025-12-17 21:43:17+00:00
> I have had people working who don’t in the slightest understand how a filesystem works, so taking it a step further is impossible.

It's as if computer science, in terms of data structures and algorithms, isn't taught. Or, perhaps, isn't taught as being relevant.

As for lack of knowledge about filesystems: it might be contributed by mobile devices hiding real filesystems from users.

> the basics don’t make you feel productive, so they’re always skipped when possible.

Basics do make me feel productive. However, it seems bosses and businesses don't agree.

I fear the day basics can be automated away.
by minitech | 2025-12-17 21:43:25+00:00
> Here’s the test. If /tmp/.XIN-unix/javae exists on my host, I’m fucked. If it doesn’t exist, then what I’m seeing is just Docker’s default behavior of showing container processes in the host’s ps output, but they’re actually isolated.

/tmp/.XIN-unix/javae & rm /tmp/.XIN-unix/javae

This article’s LLM writing style is painful, and it’s full of misinformation (is Puppeteer even involved in the vulnerability?).
by netsharc | 2025-12-17 21:43:36+00:00
It does feel like the customers are just the people whose pockets will be picked out of. Do marketing, people pay, they get nothing that was promised, plenty of complaints, company sends standard "We apologize if your expectations were not met, but get fucked.", profit!

And then people will still pay them because they have a monopoly. E.g. with Office^W Copilot 365, Windows, Facebook, etc.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-17 21:43:51+00:00
> this is something that all candidates do at every level

"It doesn't matter if my guy is crooked, because they're all crooked." is a big leap from him being the least bought. It's also gross.

> How is this any different than Biden

This is just "whataboutery." Biden's not the President. Trump is the President, and the stuff that Trump does is Trumps fault.
by numpad0 | 2025-12-17 21:44:07+00:00
People that make 3D models and sell them on Etsy style websites for ~$50 each. Others then gather and buy them. It require basic skills in Unity to use them.

tbhimo, this is beyond bad omen to VRC and VR at large from profitability angle. To me it looks the exact path that Twitter went down.
by jotaen | 2025-12-17 21:44:25+00:00
> I have yet to see any solid, significant evidence that passkeys are materially more secure than a random 32-character password + TOTP 2FA.

I think the main selling point of passkeys is their ability to prevent phishing.

A 32-character password + TOTP can still be entered on a phishing website, e.g. if you happen to follow a fabricated link. With passkeys, this is not possible by design.
by isr | 2025-12-17 21:44:38+00:00
Hmm, you've got the gift-giving (it is the season, after all) backwards. We all saw Gianni Infantino stand by the desk, while HE gave a gift (a tasteful gold trophy, not a grubby little envelope) to the aforementioned representative of the oppressive regime.

To, in your words, whitewash that country's human rights abuses ...
by danvayn | 2025-12-17 21:45:04+00:00
I have no affiliation or horse in the AI Slop race but wouldn’t mind taking a shot at this. From my ignorant perspective, there are obvious common arguments against optimizing for generally inconsistent UI and UX, particularly how problematic and fruitless it can be.

However, I’d argue that there are some good arguments for this sort of optimization with what we know about potential consumer insights and how insignificant (but unique) aspects of an appeal can make or break someone’s interest. Or just given other evidence of how unique appeals can be effective (see things like Project Narwhal from Obamas first campaign.)

It’s also more tangential than argument above, but what we know about regular users of larger platforms indicates that a one size fits all approach doesn’t really fit all. Also consider that we really do have the tools/data now more than ever to offer a unique experience to users, and how that very concept of a unique user experience is what led to the proliferation of the platforms we use in the first place. There is a reason we preferred Google to Yellow pages and Google ad revenue took off — or atleast it wasn’t just about the profit motive of easy to access, updatable information. It was about using your insights and insights from others to craft unique results that appealed to you in a way that mass produced impersonal solutions did not do.
by degamad | 2025-12-17 21:45:07+00:00
With all the talk of how there must be something to new tech because of the VC money that is being funnelled into it, it's worth revisiting the insane misalignment between VC's incentives and what the rest of us are looking at.

Especially when analysts throw out incredibly optimistic estimates for the future of a technology, the expected value of a 0.1% chance of success in a potential trillion dollar market is a billion dollars, so of course it makes sense to have a stake in that, backed by a properly diversified portfolio.
by dpark | 2025-12-17 21:45:09+00:00
I think you are trying to argue for a very abstract notion of intelligence that is divorced from any practical measurement. I don’t know how else to interpret your claim that inputs are divorced from intelligence (and that we don’t know if the brain in a jar is intelligent).

This seems like a very philosophical standpoint, rather than practical. And I guess that’s fine, but I feel like the implication is that if an LLM is in some way intelligent, then it was exactly as intelligent before training. So we are talking about “potential intelligence“? Does a stack of GPU’s have “intelligence”?
by ciconia | 2025-12-17 21:45:14+00:00
I'm not a pilot, but my brother is, and I watched him a bunch of times go through these before takeoff and landing. I think it's about more than automation, these days the aircraft computer "walks" the pilots through the checklists but it's still their responsibility to verify each item. I think it's an interesting approach to automation, keeping humans in the loop and actually promoting responsibility and accountability, as in "who checked off on these?"
by skerit | 2025-12-17 21:45:17+00:00
Pulling ahead? Depends on the usecase I guess. 3 turns into a very basic Gemini-CLI session and Gemini 3 Pro has already messed up a simple `Edit` tool-call. And it's awfully slow. In 27 minutes it did 17 tool calls, and only managed to modify 2 files. Meanwhile Claude-Code flies through the same task in 5 minutes.
by stockresearcher | 2025-12-17 21:45:31+00:00
The train station parking lot near me switched to using Metropolis for app-based parking. It's garbage.

Are you running late for the train and need to pay after boarding the train? Nope, not possible. The old app let you do this.

Is it raining and you'd rather pay while inside your car before running to the (covered) train platform, instead of standing at the (uncovered) sign with the QR code and waiting for it to succeed? Nope, not possible. The old app let you do this.

What happens if you parked at the train station yesterday and scan the QR code? Well, the app pops up and shows you your receipt from yesterday. You cannot pay for parking unless you close the app and rescan the QR code. The old app did not have this problem.
by nickjj | 2025-12-17 21:45:39+00:00
Thanks, funny enough the last 2 are on Udemy (my first courses) where as the others are on my main site.

I've kept the Flask one up to date for almost 10 years, all free updates.

I have so many course ideas but starting a new one is tough because I've lost all search traction to my site and courses in general. I don't want it to end but I also have to be real.

I've put a decade into writing blog posts, hundreds of free YouTube videos (without ads or sponsors), 100+ episode podcast related to programming and none of it has grown an audience in 5-10 years. I mean sure I have 21k subs on YouTube but most videos get like 200 views. I do it because I enjoy it but that doesn't mean it's wrong to also want to be able to sustain myself again doing it like I did between 2015 and 2021.
by curt15 | 2025-12-17 21:46:35+00:00
>Can Congress create a law that provides for judicial law clerks to exercise power “independent” of Article III judges? No. It’s an extremely easy question. Myers v. United States got the right answer almost 100 years ago.

Article I courts arguably exercise judicial power independently of the Article III judges.

But if you want to go down the separation of powers route, you'll need to break up many federal agencies to separate their legislative and judicial functions from their executive duties. That was the basis of Humphreys Excecutor, which btw was decided by largely the same court as in Myers. Humphreys (and later in Morrison v Olson) recognized that federal agencies can in practice perform "quasi-legislative" and "quasi-judicial" functions, not just law enforcement duties. There is for example a body of law governing rulemaking by agencies. Even CJ Roberts observed during the oral arguments of Trump v Slaughter that an agency's functions might span all three categories of government power -- executive, legislative, judicial -- to various degrees.

If separation of powers is to prevent Congress from wielding executive power, it should likewise preclude a president from laying claim to the other categories of power.
by stouset | 2025-12-17 21:46:43+00:00
The pendulum has swung so far in the direction opposite of going overboard it’s almost laughable. Everyone retells the same twenty year old horror stories of architecture astronauts, but over a nearly thirty-year career I have seen precisely zero projects that failed due to engineers over-engineering, over-architecting, and over-refactoring.

I have however seen dozens of projects where productivity grinds to a halt due to the ever-increasing effort of even minor changes due to a culture of repeatedly shipping the first thing that vaguely seems to work.

The entire zeitgeist of software development these days is “move fast and break things”.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-12-17 21:47:16+00:00
You can’t write rust code without relying on unsafe code. Much of the standard library contains unsafe, which they have in parts taken the time to formally verify.

I would presume the ratio of safe to unsafe code leads to less unsafe code being written over time as the full ”kernel standard library” gets built out allowing all other parts to replace their hand rolled implementations with the standard one.
by arjie | 2025-12-17 21:47:48+00:00
Okay, the problem is ultimately that banks are constrained in the Loan-To-Value ratio they can have, but the value is something they can arbitrarily determine. They're incentivised to make the loan, and the person buying the property is also incentivised to do this, so they use the lever they have: they make up the value such that the loan can be made.

Perhaps if we split off commercial lending arms, allowed them unbounded LTVs, and then allowed them to fail we would get better performance?

It does seem like a pretty complicated problem. We want banks to be reliable, we don't have a pricing mechanism because the market is illiquid, and we have incentives to keep the Potemkin story alive.
by danjl | 2025-12-17 21:48:34+00:00
What about incentivizing switching the building from commercial to residential? Given that commercial brick and mortar are generally on a downward trend, and the need for housing continues to increase, it would seem better to switch the property zoning in the long run. Since I'm clueless about the financial details of commercial real estate, I'm sure this proposal is full of holes, but, as a rule, I prefer incentives rather than penalties to motivate change.
by mekdoonggi | 2025-12-17 21:49:10+00:00
Startup Idea: My company will lease your space for whatever price you want. Then we sub-lease your building at the market rate. We charge the different between the market rate for your building and what you want to charge + a small fee. That way your property retains it's "original" value, but actually gets rented out.

Everyone (especially us) wins!
by jfindper | 2025-12-17 21:49:42+00:00
>ShinyHunters

I had an inkling! They've been on a roll this past year or so.

>This data includes a PornHub Premium member's email address, activity type, location, video URL, video name, keywords associated with the video, and the time the event occurred.

Well, that's pretty fucking wild! Email address & time and location sent to a 3rd party, nice! Absolutely no reason for that, of course. Especially considering these are paying customers!

I guess somewhat notably is Mixpanel denying that it's coming from their November breach. They have less incentive to lie in this case, given that they've already admitted to being breached, and (presumably) their systems & logs have been gone over with a fine-toothed comb to identify all affected parties:

>"The data was last accessed by a legitimate employee account at Pornhub’s parent company in 2023. If this data is in the hands of an unauthorized party, we do not believe that is the result of a security incident at Mixpanel."
by xena | 2025-12-17 21:49:43+00:00
> I noticed that, but that page makes it sound like it can only be unbranded if you pay for the commercial version. It looks like Anubis is open source though, so I suppose you might be able to download the source and switch out images for your own, is that correct?

You can do that, but I can prioritize support of the open source project based on if people play nice. I don't mean to be rude, but I can't pay rent with GitHub stars.

> Also, since you are who you are, can I ask how you came across this post? Did you notice it because of the content of the original post or because I mentioned Anubis?

I have a cronjob monitoring new Hacker News posts for mentions of Anubis.
by arcwhite | 2025-12-17 21:49:44+00:00
I've seen code persist a long time because it is unmaintainable gloop that takes forever to understand and nobody is brave enough to rebuild it.

So no, I don't think persistence-through-time is a good metric. Probably better to look at cyclomatic complexity, and maybe for a given code path or module or class hierarchy, how many calls it makes within itself vs to things outside the hierarchy - some measure of how many files you need to jump between to understand it
by torginus | 2025-12-17 21:49:59+00:00
Honestly years out of college, I really want to refresh my engineering education, and perhaps get academically rigorous education on topics I missed out on back then.

While these Udemy is fine for building up CV bullet point skills, I have never felt that these tutorial based job training courses, designed to teach you framework N+1 were as useful as more fundamentaly and in depth courses that lead you to understand how things really work.
by ricksunny | 2025-12-17 21:50:04+00:00
I'm a former (i.e. not irrelevant to the question) Californian who also thinks Prop 13 should be repealed, and am probably supportive of LVT;

Can you walk through the scenario that younger neighbors pay a tech of the property tax you do? Are they legacies and benefiting from some sort of inherited trust or something?