MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hexbin010 | 2025-12-04 12:10:43+00:00
> That is one option, but then you get into the world of Corporate VPNs which are heavily in use and it would seriously cause problems if you banned.

This should not give you /any/ comfort that they won't attempt to ban VPNs. It's as easy as making it illegal to purchase/use a VPN/proxy service as a non-business entity with some loosely drafted legislation that would scare people.

It's child's play to draft legislation that would not affect businesses, plus some appropriate PR/propaganda campaigns
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by intended | 2025-12-04 12:10:53+00:00
No. This is a form of lazy thinking, because it assumes everyone is equally affected. This is not what we see in reality, and several sections of the population are more prone to being converted by manipulation efforts.

Worse, these sections have been under coordinated manipulation since the 60s-70s.

That said, the scope and scale of the effort required to achieve this is not small, and requires dedicated effort to keep pushing narratives and owning media power.
by noirscape | 2025-12-04 12:10:58+00:00
It's not impossible to run a publicly owned company in the US that isn't insanely hostile towards it's customers or employees... it's just really damn difficult because of bad legal precedent.

Dodge v. Ford is basically the source of all these headaches; the Dodge Brothers owned shares in Ford. Ford refused to pay the dividends he had to pay to the Dodge Brothers, suspecting that they'd use the dividends to start their own car company (he wasn't wrong about that part). The Dodge Brothers sued Ford, upon which Fords defense for not paying out dividends was "I'm investing it in my employees" (an obvious lie, it was very blatantly about not wanting to pay out). The judge sided with the Dodge Brothers and the legal opinion included a remark that the primary purpose of a director is to produce profit to the shareholders.

That's basically become US business doctrine ever since, being twisted into the job of the director being to maximize profits to the shareholders. It's slightly bunk doctrine as far as I know; the actual precedent would mostly translate to "the shareholders can fire the directors if they think they don't do a good job" (since it can be argued that as long as any solid justification exists, producing profit for the shareholders can be assumed[0]; Dodge v. Ford was largely Ford refusing to follow his contracts with money that Dodge knew Ford had in the bank), but nobody in the upper areas of management wants to risk facing lawsuits from shareholders arguing that they made decisions that go against shareholder supremacy[1]. And so, the threats of legal consequences morph into the worst form of corporate ghoulishness that's so pervasive across every publicly traded company in the US. It's why short-term decision making dominates long-term planning for pretty much every public company.

[0]: This is called the "business judgement rule", where courts will broadly defer the judgement on if a business is ran competently or not to the executives of that business.

[1]: Tragically, just because it's bunk legal theory, doesn't change that the potential and disastrous consequences of lawsuits in the US are a very real thing.
by mlrtime | 2025-12-04 12:11:24+00:00
I don't agree with your comments, especially using PirateBay as an example. Stating either as "bad" is purely subjective. I find both PirateBay and ChatGPT both good things. They both bring value to me personally.

I'd wager that most people would find both as "good" depending on how you framed the question.
by pbiggar | 2025-12-04 12:11:32+00:00
Important to remember Oracle is one of the most evil tech companies, and Larry Ellison is your prototypical evil villain. Oracle CEO Catz recently said "We are not flexible regarding our mission, and our commitment to Israel is second to none" and "if they don't agree with our mission to support the State of Israel, then maybe we aren't the right company for them".
by phantasmish | 2025-12-04 12:11:34+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Before_Civilization

Last I checked there hadn’t been major shifts away from the perspective this represents, in anthropology.

It was used as a core text in one of my classes in college, though that was a couple decades ago. I recall being confused about why it was such a big deal, because I’d not encountered the “peaceful savage” idea in any serious context, but I gather it was widespread in the ‘80s and earlier.
by lazide | 2025-12-04 12:11:34+00:00
Then you should know - your argument is burying the useful word distinction and meaning in a not-completely-incorrect, but not-useful-in-reality wrapper.

Yes, there is always a degree of myth in common usage. Yes, there is always an element of distortion in history. And the further we go in time, the more history turns into myth as actual evidence gets lost, buried, destroyed, manipulated, etc. And history gets manipulated for political purposes.

But there is a giant valley between the common case of myth, and any formal study of history. For real reasons, because there are fundamental differences in approach and goals. Think 90/10 one way, 10/90 the other way (hopefully).

Because any study of history which isn’t solidly based on actual independently verifiable facts or evidence isn’t history, it’s just myth making. And those are different words for real reasons. Including trying to fight manipulation and BS. Something that is really important for us to remember, especially now.

Because at some point, something either did actually happen or not, and for folks who care, that matters. If people don’t, that’s fine - but let’s not confuse anyone by confusing the resulting cool stories with actual history eh?
by hopelite | 2025-12-04 12:11:59+00:00
That’s what’s so pernicious about this manipulative tactic; you’re protecting the children, after all, right?

The real motivation behind this effort is not protecting children (the signal for that is all over the place), it’s about interrupting and conditioning society for a total surveillance state that controls or suppresses speech and thought. As always, the “think of the children” is just a typically cynical, narcissistic manipulation of people’s natural instincts to protect children.

Of course the underlying motivation is totalitarian. What, do you think they’re just going to come out and say “ok, peasants, we are not going to implement totalitarianism now”? No, they always sneak it in little by little, just as they always have, to the point that people still don’t understand what is going on in spite of things being as bad as they already are.

This is basically grooming, and no, the van does not have candy in it, kid.

If they actually cared about kids, they would have not banned and controlled adults from engaging in legal things freely, or they would have banned pornography as a clear societal ill. They could have also barred children from the open internet in general by allowing children only on a white/allow list; which is exponentially easier to implement, there is government justification, they are not full legal persons, and it can be enforced and penalized with existing child endangerment laws… you give access to a child, you are punished, just like if you, e.g., give children access to alcohol or any number of things.

What they choose to implement instead was that adults have to reveal their identity, essentially digital “show me your papers!”

The ruling class even constantly, openly talk about how they want everyone to have to provide their real identity on the internet to speak. They’re narcissists; all you have to do is listen to what they do and say to the audience they seek admiration from to see through the manipulation and lies directed towards you.

The dots are right next to each other and are labeled A and B. I am always a bit confused why so many people cannot, maybe don’t want to connect obvious dots; maybe because of what it means, not wanting to face reality because it causes discomfort in what they believe about things and themselves?

“I supported them and voted for them/this system. How could they be totalitarian? I would never vote for totalitarian control over myself, because I am smart and good. Therefore their intentions and motivations must be pure”. It’s a common abuse trap. It is also the underlying psychological manipulation mechanics of other cults and con artists, not just contemporary politicians.
by Y_Y | 2025-12-04 12:13:12+00:00
TLS is cool for stopping your ISP from MiTMing your traffic (usually to insert shitty banner ads or something).

Otherwise I find it a scourge, particularly when I want to run https over a private network, but browsers have a shitfit because I didn't publicly announce my internal hosts.

There's plenty of traffic that has no need to be encrypted, and where not much privacy is added since the DNS queries are already leaked (as well as what the site operator and their many "partners" can gather).

I'm glad you can get free certs from Let's Encrypt, but I hate that https has become mandatory.
by undefeated | 2025-12-04 12:14:13+00:00
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the EU will actually be able to put any meaningful guardrails on AI, as evidenced by the AI act. I honestly don't know whether it's an off-the-scales level of incompentence or just blatant corruption (I vote both), but in any event, I think AI regulation has already failed, somewhat irreversably.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-12-04 12:15:03+00:00
> it hasn't worked for you, everyone else must be lying?

Well, some non-zero amount of you are probably very financially invested in AI, so lying is not out of the question

Or you simply have blinders on because of your financial investments. After all, emotional investment often follows financial investment

Or, you're just not as good as you think you are. Maybe you're talking to people who are much better at building software than you are, and they find the stuff the AI builds does not impress them, while you are not as skilled so you are impressed by it.

There are lots of reasons someone might disagree without thinking everyone else is lying
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-04 12:15:56+00:00
Most 'media' is produced content designed to manipulate -- nothing new. The article isn't really AI specific as others have said.

Personally my fear based manipulation detection is very well tuned and that is 95% of all the manipulations you will ever get from so-called 'elites' who are better called 'entitled' and act like children when they do not get their way.

I trust ChatGPT for cooking lessons. I code with Claude code and Gemini but they know where they stand and who is the boss ;)

There is never a scenario for me where I defer final judgment on anything personally.

I realize others may want to blindly trust the 'authorities' as its the easy path, but I cured myself of that long before AI was ever a thing.

Take responsibility for your choices and AI is relegated to the role of tool as it should be.
by psviderski | 2025-12-04 12:16:02+00:00
Come join our cozy Discord server https://uncloud.run/discord. There is one guy joined recently who is migrating his homelab setup from Swarm right now.

Also another community member shared his homelab with a couple dozen services migrated from Docker Compose to Uncloud: https://github.com/dasunsrule32/docker-compose-configs/tree/...
by sam-cop-vimes | 2025-12-04 12:16:15+00:00
> I think the implementors of this law either knew about these issues or are hopelessly naive.

Or they decided that, on balance, there is still a net benefit to this starting point.

Doing nothing is not an option - the unregulated Internet is a cesspool. We've allowed children unregulated access to this for a couple of decades now. The argument that we cannot regulate this to protect kids, so we should just accept the damage it is doing is not acceptable any more.

Yes, effective regulation takes time to formulate. But you have to start somewhere and improve the situation.
by themafia | 2025-12-04 12:16:25+00:00
It's not about persuading you from "russian bot farms." Which I think is a ridiculous and unnecessarily reductive viewpoint.

It's about hijacking all of your federal and commercial data that these companies can get their hands on and building a highly specific and detailed profile of you. DOGE wasn't an audit. It was an excuse to exfiltrate mountains of your sensitive data into their secret models and into places like Palantir. Then using AI to either imitate you or to possibly predict your reactions to certain stimulus.

Then presumably the game is finding the best way to turn you into a human slave of the state. I assure you, they're not going to use twitter to manipulate your vote for the president, they have much deeper designs on your wealth and ultimately your own personhood.

It's too easy to punch down. I recommend anyone presume the best of actual people and the worst of our corporations and governments. The data seems clear.
by vjk800 | 2025-12-04 12:17:46+00:00
1. I work in finance and here people sometimes write math using words as variable names. I can tell you it gets extremely cumbersome to do any significant amount of formula manipulation or writing with this notation. Keep in mind that pen and paper are still pretty much universally used in actual mathematical work and writing full words takes a lot of time compared to single Greek letters.

Large part of math notation is to compress the writing so that you can actually fit a full equation in your vision.

Also, something like what you want already exists, see e.g. Lean: https://lean-lang.org/doc/reference/latest/. It is used to write math for the purpose of automatically proving theorems. No-one wants to use this for actually studying math or manually proving theorems, because it looks horrible compared to conventional mathematics notation (as long as you are used to the conventional notation).
by je00065 | 2025-12-04 12:18:17+00:00
Tryptase:

"A striking finding was decreased tryptase content in mast cells with copper overload, whereas copper starvation increased tryptase content." [1]

Interesting copper-binding metalchaperone metal homeostasis project advertised at Durham. https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/how-do-copper-binding-...

'The wrong metal in the wrong enzyme is toxic.'
by samwillis | 2025-12-04 12:18:26+00:00
There are a few people using it in prod for customer facing web apps.

Extensions are also available - we have a list here: https://pglite.dev/extensions/. We would love to extend the availability of more, some are more complex than others though. We are getting close to getting PostGIS to work, there is an open PR that anyone is welcome to pick up and hack on.
by skrebbel | 2025-12-04 12:18:33+00:00
Give it some time.

I feel like the newer (ish) tools such as Strudel, and also this here Loopmaster, have a much better toolset for producing stuff that actually sounds great (vs just purely the novelty of "look im coding beats"). Like, Strudel comes with an extensive sample bank of actually quality samples (vs relying on synthesis out of some sense of purity), and also comes with lots of very decent sounding effects and filters and the likes.

Combine that with the ability to do generative stuff in a way that Ableton, FL Studio or Renoise are never going to get you, I won't be surprised if people invent some cool new genres with these tools eventually.

Basically, your comment reads a bit like saying demoscene makes no sense because you can make any video better with Blender and DaVinci Resolve. And this obviously isn't true given the sheer overload of spectacularly great demos out there whose unique esthetic was easy to obtain because they're code, not video. (find "cdak" by Quite for an on-the-nose example).

I'm going to be surprised if this new wave of music coding tools will not result in some madly weird new electronic music genres.

Obviously there's plenty of stuff these tools are terrible for (like your example of nuanced instrument parts), but don't dismiss the kinds of things they're going to turn out to be amazing at.
by tomovo | 2025-12-04 12:18:55+00:00
I don't think that's the end of the discussion. Let's try to talk separately about developers and publishers. I'm sure game developers would love to spend time making the game run on everything. But publishers work with a budget and schedule and have to consider the returns. If the potential new customers bring more support load and bad reviews, it's not worth it. That, I think, is the end of the discussion for the publisher.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-04 12:19:22+00:00
> The important number is your odds of becoming that default provider in the minds of consumers.

Markets that have a default provider are basically outliers (desktop OS, mobile OS, search, social networks, etc).

All other industries don't have a single dominant supplier who is the default provider.

I am skeptical that this market is going to be one of the outliers.

All the other markets with a default provider basically rely on network effects to become and remain the default provider.

There is nothing here (in this market) that relies on network effects.
by phaser | 2025-12-04 12:19:50+00:00
Regarding custom buildings, it will likely start as a simple JSON setting some variables like workerCapacity, studentCapacity, depth, height, etc and a voxel 3D file, so players can create cities with custom architectural styles.

Like a city with only stalin-era and soviet-era buildings. Or something where all the residents live in victorian townhouses.
by gnyman | 2025-12-04 12:20:53+00:00
This is nice and for those who's asking, it's different from ngrok and the others in that you don't need a separate client, (almost) everyone has ssh installed.

To the author, I wish you best of luck with this but be aware (if you aren't) this will attract all kind of bad and malicious users who want nothing more than a "clean" IP to funnel their badness through.

serveo.net [2] tried it 8 years ago, but when I wanted to use it I at some point I found it was no longer working, as I remember the author said there was too much abuse for him to maintain it as a free service

I ended up self-hosting sish https://docs.ssi.sh instead.

Even the the ones where you have to register like cloudflare tunnels and ngrok are full of malware, which is not a risk to you as a user but means they are often blocked.

Also a little rant, tailscale has their own one also called funnel. It has the benefit of being end-to-end encrypted (in theory) but the downside that you are announcing your service to the world through the certificate transparency logs. So your little dev project will have bots hammering on it (and trying to take your .git folder) within seconds from you activating the funnel. So make sure your little project is ready for the internet with auth and has nothing sensitive at guessable paths.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842951
by nubskr | 2025-12-04 12:21:12+00:00
Hi, the creator here, I think its a good idea to have S3 backed storage mode, its kinda tricky to do it for the 'active' block which we are currently writing to, but totally doable for historical data.

Also about the kafka API, I tried to implement that earlier, I had a sort of `translation` layer for that earlier, but it gets pretty complicated to maintain that because kafka is offset based, while walrus is message based.
by mlrtime | 2025-12-04 12:21:48+00:00
Every HN thread about AI eventually has someone claiming the code it produces is “trash” or “non-working.” There are plenty of top-tier programmers here who dismiss anyone who actually finds LLM-generated code useful, even when it gets the job done.

I’m tempted to propose a new law—like Poe’s or Godwin’s—that goes something like: “Any discussion about AI will eventually lead to someone insisting it can’t match human programmers.”
by qudat | 2025-12-04 12:21:56+00:00
I run a similar site (https://pico.sh) with public urls and thought the same thing for us. The public suffix has some fuzzy limits on usage size before they will add domains (e.g. on the scale of thousands of active users).

I don’t have tunnl.gg usage numbers but I’m going to guess they are no where near the threshold — we were also rejected.
by hopelite | 2025-12-04 12:22:19+00:00
What you or your politician friends may not understand is that “good people stopping bad things” is a very easily manipulated group, because it often is emotion based and reactionary. It is how America has been dismembered, little by little over the decades, good people doing good to stop the bad.

A maybe as clear as possible example of this is the Patriot Act, even though it’s now 24 years old. It was so easy to manipulate people being emotional and thinking they were doing good and stopping bad, when in reality they were doing the opposite.

I won’t even bother listing several other examples because people are still very deeply invested in those manipulations, because no one wants to believe a) they were so easily fooled and b) what they were raised to believe was just manipulative lies and actually bad, while being told it was good and supporting it made them good. It’s far easier thinking of oneself as good…which is the easily manipulated part.

It’s all very standard psychological manipulation stuff, it just takes on whole other self-fulfilling characteristics when it ascends to a complete majority scale, because things can’t be bad if everyone believes… was trained on it all their lives… right?
by dist-epoch | 2025-12-04 12:23:20+00:00
> The big dram houses aren’t increasing capacity, due to the risks you mention.

Except they are

> SK hynix to boost DRAM production by a huge 8x in 2026, still won't be enough for RAM shortages

> It's also not just SK hynix that is boosting DRAM production capacity, with both Samsung and Micron rapidly increasing their respective DRAM production numbers.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/109011/sk-hynix-to-boost-dram...
by utterdespair | 2025-12-04 12:23:35+00:00
>I just wanted you to know that I hear you and understand.

thank you, this means a lot for me. I should definitely do some physical activity… these last few days I've been rotting, fatiguing to do even the things I love the most. I'm trying to enjoy things a little more though… my university courses are really interesting - Mixed-Signal Circuit Design, RF Circuit Design, Advanced Control Theory, Formal Languages - though with every joy there's always the fear of failure :/

what I think I am missing the most is a positive thinking person in my life… also the friends I still see seem kinda down lately maybe I should get an emotional support cat, though a pet rock would be more appropriate my soul lmao
by andersmurphy | 2025-12-04 12:23:49+00:00
>How would this approach work in an application server that implements concurrency with forking/multiple child processes (Python, ruby, PHP, node cluster, and many many more)?

Sadly it mostly doesn't without a lot of work. You need to use languages that are not single threaded (have native multithreading support): Clojure/Java/Go/C# etc.

It's why python/ruby/php/node etc are fundamentally constrained. I'd argue those languages are the ones that pushed the horizontal scaling trend as they struggle to get the most out of a single machine.