MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasonvorhe | 2025-12-13 12:37:40+00:00
Rogue agents wouldn't leave much of a paper trail. They don't tend to slap together slide decks advertising their operations.

The Snowden docs contain nothing about US black budget funded regime change, drug smuggling, politically motivated assassinations or whatever else countless ex-intelligence whistleblowers have claimed to happen in the shadows. I sure don't think all of them can be believed 100% but I wouldn't have expected anything of this nature to show up in typical S/TS/NOFORN documents that someone like Snowden leaked.

Snowden docs don't contain* anything about what happens in DUMBS, secret military facilities like biolabs, propulsion and energy research or anything else* that conspiracy researchers are interested in.

to my knowledge/memory

* Snowden docs were never published in full so we don't know what Guardian et al decided to not publish because they're all too intertwined with intelligence
by rightbyte | 2025-12-13 12:38:46+00:00
Ye and Zuckerberg plugs the laptop mic with a dud cable.

I guess most parents try to limit screen time. But some have a hard time doing it since it is a great babysitter.

I try to do a total blockade of YT at home for kids. Watching other kids be hypnothized by the feed years ago was enough. The algorithm seems to converge to unboxing videos and surreal spam.
by trinix912 | 2025-12-13 12:39:22+00:00
Every single cloud storage provider has a generic cop-out clause in their TOS that allows them to lock you out of your account for no reason at all, with no legal obligation to provide any proper justification.

This leaves you with just about zero cloud storage solutions that you can use.

Yes, yes, you can rsync your files to your NAS. Now explain that to your non tech-savvy neighbors.
by xmcqdpt2 | 2025-12-13 12:41:05+00:00
Wouldn’t work for money laundering. As far as AML regs (and banks) are concerned a small business is indistinguishable from a personal retail account. This makes sense from a business point of view because a lot of small businesses are just one guy, and small business owners tend to mix their personal finance with their business finance. From an AML point of view, a lot, perhaps most money laundering is done with registered business entities. It’s easier to create a numbered corporation than a whole person.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-13 12:41:33+00:00
Yes, the analogy is the burglar getting into the house by asking you to open your door for them. Adults are permitted to decide such a thing, because they know the risks and are expected to be able to reason about that. When an adult has decided, then there is no problem, as far as age verification is concerned. We have regulations when adults are in fact not able to decide such a thing "correctly".

We already have penalties for adults mistreating children by exposing them to dangerous things, but this is orthogonal to age verification.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-13 12:41:48+00:00
Fair enough, because it wouldn't apply (as part of the power of the system in this very model), to the powerful themselves, means the criteria would only need to shape the rest, not reinforce the elite traits, such as they may be. In other words it could serve its purpose of protecting their power and hierarchy even if it was only ever applied to everyone but them. Makes sense. Thanks.

Re your point about the SPE, I'm not saying I disbelieve you -- but I don't know -- (seems plausible that a big ticket "objective experiment" was infact non-scientifically reproducible or even used as a psyop to gaslight people into accepting their "original sin" - or whatever) but can you show some evidence of this?
by manuel_w | 2025-12-13 12:44:52+00:00
Me, Austrian and two Austrian friends were doing a road trip through western Canada. We had a rental car with a remote key fob, and forgot the key fob on the cars roof when driving off for a multi-hundred kms trip. It obviously got lost and when stopping the engine at some random town along the way, we couldn't start the car anymore. (Luckily we had the trunk open when realizing that.)

An elderly lady we met at the parking lot offered us, three random strangers in their 30s stay at her place for the night. Her nephew even drove to the camping area where we headed off and probably lost the key. It was heart-warming.

After returning home we sent her a huge Christmas packet with typical specialties from Austria. (Pumpkin seed oil and others. :-) )

I'll write her a letter this Christmas.
by linguist2 | 2025-12-13 12:45:22+00:00
Others:

French: grue may also crane both as the bird and the construction machine.

Italian: gru also means crane (bird).

Norwegian: grue may either mean the verb "to dread” or a noun meaning fireplace/hearth.

Gheg Albanian (dialect): grue means wife/woman.

Primarily Scottish but also Northern English (regionalism): (1) ground-gru / grue means a half-liquid snow or ice that forms and floats on the surface of a river, sometimes thought to have risen from the riverbed. (2) a tiny bit or particle, e.g. He hasn’t a grue of sense.

Similar words:

Latin: grus may mean a crane (bird) or a type of siege engine / war machine bearing similarity to the neck of a crane (bird).

Catalan: grua - same as French.

Esperanto: gruo also means crane (bird) or machine.

Swiss German (dialect): grüezi means "God greets you".

Romanian: grâu means wheat.

English: GRU is term for Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie).
by arianvanp | 2025-12-13 12:46:03+00:00
FWIW I maintain an official implementation of the journal wire format in go now.

https://github.com/systemd/slog-journal so you can at least log to the journal now without CGO

But that's just the journal Wire format which is a lot simpler than the disk format.

I think a journal disk format parser in go would be a neat addition
by bg24 | 2025-12-13 12:47:02+00:00
With a little bit of experience, I realized that it makes sense even for agent to run commands/scripts for deterministic tasks. For example, to find a particular app out of a list of N (can be 100) with a complex filtering crietria, best option is to run a shell command to get specific output.

Like this, you can divide a job to be done into blocks of reasoning and deterministic tasks. The later are scripts/commands. The whole package is called skills.
by Sardtok | 2025-12-13 12:47:40+00:00
In the year 2032, the rodrone wars broke out. What started as innocent video game experiments, had taken a dark turn. After the rats had perfected playing the classic Doom games in 2026, they were easily trained on more complex simulations. In 2028 the first rodent controlled surveillance drones were tested. The year after weaponised. And the first real deployments in warfare in 2030. They easily outperformed OpenAIs latest battle systems. Home robots were soon after remote controlled by rats, known as Rodots. Rodent intelligence escalated quickly as lab selections bred only the smartest specimens. It was only a matter of time before the takeover. Now rodots were building steadily more capable drones and bots. Long before humans could foresee the need for a defense against the rats, the rodrone attack on all humankind, was a fact...
by IanCal | 2025-12-13 12:48:16+00:00
Disposable income is essentially just income after tax. It’s the amount you have where you get to direct where it goes / how you dispose of it. It’s not money after essentials.

There are many ways to slice it but the US median income is high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
by Zigurd | 2025-12-13 12:48:42+00:00
Irony is that, at least moving forward, you can see a child in front of a cyber truck before you crush them. But if you hit any anyone with those sharp edges...

US truck customers are getting smarter. The fleet trucks, for HVAC, plumbers, and appliance installation and repair, I see in my area are almost all vans now. Butch pickup trucks still have the gender affirming care market.
by throw0101a | 2025-12-13 12:49:31+00:00
> I think the Administration is likely to get its toys taken away soon.

Perhaps worth reading "The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America":

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/...

Also "John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70":

* https://newrepublic.com/article/204334/john-roberts-federali...

And "This Is All John Roberts’ Fault":

* https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/john-roberts-do...

And perhaps "Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System":

* https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-allies-sue-john-rob...
by supermatt | 2025-12-13 12:49:54+00:00
> A natural question is how this differs from something like Tor. In a nutshell, Tor offers identity protection before you enter a P2P network, and Dandelion offers identity protection inside the P2P network.

My understanding is that TOR also provides the latter - as that is specifically the purpose of the "onion" routing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
Show HN: Browser-Use as a REST API with VNC, persistent sessions, and tools
by Reqeique | 2025-12-13 12:50:51+00:00
I wrapped browser-use in a REST API with features I needed for production use.

browser-use is great but it's a Python library. I wanted an API I could call from anywhere with proper session management, visibility into what's happening, and extensibility.

Features: - VNC streaming: watch the browser live at /vnc.html - Session management: launch browsers, reuse across tasks, save profiles - Custom tools: register HTTP endpoints the agent can call (APIs, webhooks, etc.) - Task control: start/stop/pause, step-by-step execution updates - 15+ LLMs: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Groq – swap with one parameter

Dev branch also has R2 backup for browser profiles (useful for serverless).

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 reqeique/browser-use-api:dev

Couldn't find an existing API layer for browser-use with these features, so I built one. MIT licensed.

Happy to hear what's missing or what you'd want from something like this. MCP support is coming soon.
by wiseowise | 2025-12-13 12:51:17+00:00
>> I would love to feel sorry, but seems you're technically capable of preventing this (unlike most people), just chose "convenience."

> Looks like you've got it coming, sweetie, you knew what you were dressing when going to the neighborhood :wink-emoji:

God, I'm all for OSS and try to use it/promote it wherever I can, but it attracts the worst kind of smug, obnoxious motherf**ers imaginable.

How old are you?
by mnky9800n | 2025-12-13 12:52:03+00:00
I kind of doubt American scientists will leave en masse to go elsewhere. Their options are only Europe, the UK, or China. Most will not be willing to give up the salaries or the resources available to scientists in the USA, even with the current administration, to go live in strongly hierarchical academic systems that they don’t know how to navigate. Especially not for a 30% salary reduction (or more if they go someplace like France or Italy).
by tstack | 2025-12-13 12:52:15+00:00
I tend to agree with ProZD's tier list[1] where "Kiki's Delivery Service", "Porco Rosso", and "Totoro" are at S rank. Those might also be a good introduction since they're pretty "normal".

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_8uHtL6V0Y
by throw0101a | 2025-12-13 12:52:27+00:00
> This alone enables him to disregard the law without any fear of repercussions.

That does not apply to his lackeys though (unless there's a preemptive pardon).

If (!) there's a change in the President eventually, there needs to be a reckoning for everyone that didn't push back on instructions/orders (including all the folks down the line who are blowing up (alleged) drug boats).
by biorach | 2025-12-13 12:52:58+00:00
> Their valuation is in the same order of magnitude as OpenAI, but they have orders of magnitude fewer users.

it's an open question how many of OpenAI's users are monetizable.

There's an argument to be made that your brand being what the general public identifies with AI is a medium term liability in light of the vast capital and operating costs involved.

It may well be that Anthropic focusing on an order of magnitudes smaller, but immediately monetiazable market will play out better.
by aw124 | 2025-12-13 12:53:45+00:00
I'm opposed to this project because it involves using animals in medical experiments, which I believe is never ethically justifiable. It goes against basic moral and ethical principles regarding animal treatment. If the project were designed to allow animals to choose whether or not to participate, it would be more acceptable. Some scientists have already explored such approaches. By not giving animals a choice, you're limiting their freedom and potentially exposing them to physical or psychological harm through your simulation. As someone who advocates for animal rights, I'd prefer to see alternative methods that don't involve animals or allow them to participate voluntarily
by atonse | 2025-12-13 12:54:29+00:00
I have to imagine porn sites don’t want an underage audience either.

So I think they would voluntarily state that their content is adult only.

This isn’t rocket science. We’ve rated content for decades. We simply can’t be obtuse about this and throw our hands up and do nothing because we can’t tell if obvious things like porn are adult only content the way we’ve done on every other medium.
by concinds | 2025-12-13 12:56:08+00:00
> But some have a hard time doing it since it is a great babysitter.

We should be clearer on what it means. An iPad will satisfy their need for stimulation but not their developmental emotional and social needs, nor their fine motor skills and executive functioning skills (and it likely harms the latter two, unlike old-school toys). Boredom and non-excessive stimulation levels are essential to letting the child’s inner world develop. Giving young kids iPads so they’ll be quiet is a normalized form of neglect.
by sod | 2025-12-13 12:57:24+00:00
Yes, projectors with 3LCD tech is what you are looking for. They produce all 3 colors at once via 3 distinct lcds inside the chassis and mix them ahead of time. There are a few to choose from, but they all cost above 3000.

The reason why projectors don't use a single rgb lcd (like monitors) to produce the color is the same why all sub 5000$ projectors use pixel shift to fake 4k resolution: Too much light is blocked by the lcd itself if the individual pixels become too small.
by wiseowise | 2025-12-13 12:57:53+00:00
If you're full in Apple ecosystem, like my GF, you get:

- Shared clipboard across devices - Shared documents - Shared browser - Shared passwords - Free, quality office suite - Interoperable devices (use iPhone as camera on Mac, for example) - Payments across different devices (use clock to pay, for example, shared with your iPhone)

All of this with just one account without any third-party service.

And billion of things more, probably, I'm not a full Apple head.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-12-13 12:58:03+00:00
Unless you live in a jurisdiction that is known to have very generous court judgements that fully compensate all expenses occured… wouldn’t this be true for literally every dispute you have above a certain threshold?

That’s simply the actual cost of living in your jurisdiction.

I don’t think any large retailer or bank on Earth guarantees there will be a viable escalation pathway for all possible combination of scenarios either.

Maybe a very high end private bank but even that’s iffy.
by Sharlin | 2025-12-13 12:58:23+00:00
A very similar PetaPixel article with a couple more technical details: [1] In particular, it describes the reason for the first corrupted image – they had wired the four-bit output in the wrong order so that the high bit was the lowest and vice versa. Thus, all-ones still looked white and all-zeros black, but the rest of the shades were scrambled.

[1] https://petapixel.com/how-steve-sasson-invented-the-digital-...
by jasonsb | 2025-12-13 12:58:24+00:00
Does it really matter? Even if a billionaire’s kid gets hooked on Coca-Cola or social media, they still have vastly more resources (therapy, education, support) to overcome it. Meanwhile, kids in underprivileged communities don’t get that safety net. For CEOs like Zuckerberg or Coca-Cola’s leadership, that disparity is just a small price to pay for the profits their products generate.
by Tade0 | 2025-12-13 12:58:29+00:00
Makes sense. My grandpa is one year his junior and you would never see him react too strongly to anything, even though grandma (also still alive) always had an, ahem, fiery personality.

Also he refuses to sit and moves around all the time, venturing outside every day from their apartment four floors above ground without a lift.

Interestingly his own father didn't make it to his 60s, so there's certainly a lifestyle component to this.
by djoldman | 2025-12-13 12:58:30+00:00
For the tech-savvy, I'm not too worried about smart TVs. I just do this:

> If you want premium image quality or sound, you’re better off using a smart TV offline.

In the future, if they add e-sims, we'll just remove them or de-solder or whatever.

The real risk is cars: if they start not working without cell network connections.
ASK HN: Designing a DSP architecture for 1M QPS CPM ads without overspending
by charzlie | 2025-12-13 12:59:11+00:00
I’m working on the system architecture for a high-throughput AdTech DSP and would love feedback from people who’ve built large-scale bidding / serving systems.

Constraints / Goals

DSP only (no exchange)

Target: 1M ad requests/sec

End-to-end DSP latency budget: ~100ms

Pricing model: CPM

Hard requirement: no advertiser or campaign overspend

Targeting / Campaign Fetch

I modeled targeting (geo, interests, etc.) using Redis + Roaring Bitmaps.

Fetching candidate campaigns alone:

Redis: ~1000 RPS at ~8ms (local machine, not cloud)

Aerospike: ~200–400 RPS at ~10ms

This is only campaign fetching, not bidding or scoring.

Budget / Wallet Model

Advertiser has a wallet

Campaign has:

Total budget

Daily budget

Daily spend tracking

Overspend is not acceptable (even a small % matters at scale).

Budget Control Approaches Considered

Splitting daily budgets into hourly buckets

Rate limiting via:

Token bucket

PID controllers

These reduce overspend but don’t guarantee correctness under bursty traffic.

Recently considering micros (integer currency units) to reduce rounding errors.

Open Questions

At 1M QPS, how do people actually enforce budget guarantees in production?

Soft overspend with reconciliation?

Hard atomic checks in the hot path?

Is Redis bitmap–based targeting viable at this scale, or does everyone eventually:

Pre-materialize campaign sets?

Push logic into memory / C++?

How do you balance:

Strict budget enforcement

Low latency

High throughput without introducing global locks or cross-region contention?

Is “no overspend ever” a realistic requirement, or is bounded error the industry norm?

I’m less interested in textbook answers and more in what has actually worked (or failed) in production.
by petercooper | 2025-12-13 12:59:27+00:00
Somehow we've not had the problem (yet). They get bored quickly and self-limit themselves, though we reserve the right to look at what they're up to whenever we see fit. Having lots of extracurricular activities might be helping, but my introverted, nerdy self spent way more time glued to a CRT as a teen. Hmm, maybe that's the secret.. having a nerd for a dad makes tech look uncool! :-D
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-12-13 13:00:51+00:00
"he fact that someone can pull up an example where a union caused a business to go under doesn't make me think "we should eliminate unions""

It seems here it does.

For years every time a company fails that also happened to have a union, the union gets blamed. Never mind the management decision.

It's just a common flame bait for some groups to hate unions. That group doesn't actually reasonably think out these things.

It's like 'woke', the word 'union' is a key word that some groups use to label others for hate. They aren't sitting back and making an economic argument.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-12-13 13:00:55+00:00
Amazon[0] link below. Equivalent systems also available at Newegg for the same price since someone nitpicked that you need a $15 prime membership to get that Amazon deal.

Shipping might screw you but here’s in stock 32gb kits of name brand RAM from a well known retailer in the US for $280[1].

Edit: same crucial RAM kit is 220GBP in stock at amazon[2]

(0)https://www.amazon.com/BOSGAME-P3-Gigabit-Ethernet-Computer/...

(1)https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1809983-REG/crucial_c...

(2) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTHXMYL8?tag=pcp0f-21&linkCode...
by hopelite | 2025-12-13 13:01:15+00:00
The definition of “arbitrary” includes “upon personal whim”, i.e., the State Dept leadership, not coordinated across or with other depts, and “not in a systematic manner”.

I get that people’s biases make accepting reality difficult, but this will all end poorly if you can’t even just be objective on basic things like it being detrimental for one single department of the federal government to arbitrarily change rather significant things like the official font, even worn text, communication is the primary work product and format.

Why did you ignore all the other aspects and simply latch onto something you thought was a loophole because you cannot objectively adapt a relevant definition?

This is not reddit. You should have higher standards for yourself.
by pajuhaan | 2025-12-13 13:02:53+00:00
In 1928, Dirac took the relativistic energy relation and forced it into a Schrodinger-like structure. The result was revolutionary; antimatter, spin, and a new understanding of matter itself. That move reshaped physics.

What I’m doing here is challenging a different assumption in the opposite direction—and yes, I know it immediately sounds like crackpot physics or numerology. That reaction is understandable after a century of abstract frameworks like many-worlds or extra dimensions.

But if you have a physics background, are a physics student, or seriously care about foundations, I think you owe it to yourself to at least read it. Assume it’s wrong—that’s fine. If you’re certain it’s wrong after reading, great. But if it’s right, even partially, it changes how you think about quantum mechanics, relativity, and what “fundamental” really means. Openly challenging foundations is a choice, and I’m making it deliberately.
by aw124 | 2025-12-13 13:03:12+00:00
Question number one. Is dominance really a necessary part of a country's existence? Can't you just have peaceful relations and supportive relationships with other countries to live in harmony, when artificial intelligence brings benefits to all countries, not just the USA? Can't you build on the technological foundations that have been laid to create sustainable development for your society?

The desire for more. To have more than others, is a key problem that generates unhealthy politics. Unhealthy foreign policy towards other countries. In your pursuit of being first in everything. Being first in everything, preventing the development of other countries, holding onto technologies for yourself. You create an imbalance. You create an imbalance in the global economy, in politics, in the social sphere, and in the social environment.

Isn't there an alternative to having sustainable development? Built on the principles of mutual support and focused not on dominance, but on collaboration between peaceful states. Between peaceful states.
by duskdozer | 2025-12-13 13:03:17+00:00
You don't? Google already requires ID for developers in Belgium [0], and it's complying with regional laws for age verification [1]. The EU is also starting to look at age verification [2]. I don't see how it's such a stretch that Google may want to expand this further even in the absence of government demands, considering the huge ad/data incentive for them to directly link accounts to IRL identities.

[0]https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

[1]https://www.digitaltrends.com/phones/google-play-store-wants...

[2]https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/blueprint...