MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grayhatter | 2025-12-01 13:57:25+00:00
I am blaming the developers who use AI because they're willing to sacrifice intellectual control in trade for something that I find has minimal value.

I agree it's likely to be a complex or intractable problem. But I don't enjoy watching my industry revert down the professionalism scale. Professionals don't choose tools that they can't explain how it works. If your solution to understanding if your tool is still functional is inventing an amusing name and trying to use that as the heuristic, because you have no better way to determine if it's still working correctly. That feels like it might be a problem, no?
by crazygringo | 2025-12-01 13:58:26+00:00
I'm not following you. I didn't say 60%? And 60% is a supermajority, not a majority. Which is a huge distinction. And US constitutional amendments require much stricter thresholds than that -- two thirds of Congress and three quarters of states. That's a gigantic bar.

Yes voters try to restrict their own freedoms all the time. We have constitutions with rights to block them from doing that in fundamental ways. That's what protection from tyranny of the majority is all about. Just because you have a majority doesn't mean you're allowed to take away rights. That's a fundamental principle of democracy. Democracy isn't just majority rule -- it's the protection of rights as well.
by komali2 | 2025-12-01 13:58:28+00:00
I believe they mean the Hamas attacks against Israel on Oct 10, and are pinning Trump's reelection on that, and drawing a thread from there to the whole "woke is dead" thing that followed, e.g. Zuckerberg going on Joe Rogan and trying to present himself as masculine and anti woke now, some companies ending DEI policies, that sort of thing.
by bluGill | 2025-12-01 14:00:22+00:00
Only if you bid on the same houses. Bid on a smaller house.

Don't forget too that inflation works for you! If you save and get in a nice house early and the STAY THERE (I can't emphasize enough how important this is - sometimes life forces you to move, but avoid it), your payments measured against inflation will go down - just put that difference into a 401k (that is don't do a cash out refinance along the way as so many do) and in 30 years the house is paid off and your have a great retirement account.

When you are in the early years the above plan looks impossible, but time is your friend.
by Retric | 2025-12-01 14:00:23+00:00
Some parts of voice assistants used AI techniques other parts didn’t. Calling the whole thing AI is like calling Office 365 AI, it’s too vague to be useful. The most reliable parts are using dictation to interact with the preprogrammed bits.

Also, early attempts at dictation wasn’t considered AI, instead a machine learning etc was found to be useful so it’s been tossed into the AI bucket rather arbitrarily.
by tom_ | 2025-12-01 14:00:29+00:00
xor clears the carry as well? In fact, looks like xor and sub affect the same set of flags!

xor:

> The OF and CF flags are cleared; the SF, ZF, and PF flags are set according to the result. The state of the AF flag is undefined.

sub:

> The OF, SF, ZF, AF, PF, and CF flags are set according to the result.

(I don't have an x64 system handy, but hopefully the reference manual can be trusted. I dimly remembered this, or something like it, tripping me up after coming from programming for the 6502.)
by pas | 2025-12-01 14:00:37+00:00
varies by jurisdiction, but just as you can

- sell a knife that can lead to digit loss, or

- sell software that interacts with your computer and can lead to data loss, you can

- give people software for free that can lead to data loss.

...

the Antigravity installer comes with a ToS that has this

The Service includes goal-oriented AI systems or workflows that perform actions or tasks on your behalf in a supervised or autonomous manner that you may create, orchestrate, or initiate within the Service (“AI Agents”). You are solely responsible for: (a) the actions and tasks performed by an AI Agent; (b) determining whether the use an AI Agent is fit for its use case; (c) authorizing an AI Agent’s access and connection to data, applications, and systems; and (d) exercising judgment and supervision when and if an AI Agent is used in production environments to avoid any potential harm the AI Agent may cause.
Ask HN: A restaurant that shows a video of your burger's cow in happier times?
by amichail | 2025-12-01 14:00:47+00:00
What do you think of a fast food restaurant that shows customers a video of the cow that was used to make their burger in happier times on the farm?

The restaurant would also serve vegetarian food.

Maybe this would be a way to encourage more people to become vegetarian?
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 14:01:08+00:00
Of course not.

But IPv6 is not the solution to Ipv4's issues at all.

IPv6 is something completely different justified post-facto with EMOTIONAL arguments ie. You are stealing the last IPv4 address from the children!

- Dual stack -- unnecessary and bloated - Performance = 4x worse or more - No NAT or private networks -- not in the same sense. People love to hate on NAT but I do not want my toaster on the internet with a unique hardware serial number. - Hardware tracking built into the protocol -- the mitigations offered are BS. - Addresses are a congintive block - Forces people to use DNS (central) which acts as a censorship choke point.

All we needed was an extra pre space to set WHICH address space - ie. '0' is the old internet in 0.0.0.0.10 --- backwards compatible, not dual stack, no privacy nightmare, etc

I actually wrote a code project that implements this network as an overlay -- but it's not ready to share yet. Works though.

If I were to imagine my self in the room deciding on the IPv6 requirements I expect the key one was 'track every person and every device every where all the time' because if you are just trying to expand the address space then IPv6 is way way way overkill -- it's overkill even for future proofing for the next 1000 years of all that privacy invading.
by hansvm | 2025-12-01 14:01:18+00:00
It's >12x the ad revenue they bring in per monthly-active YouTube user (suggesting they'd still be happy with a much lower price), and the price has increased 75% in the last decade (compared to the 40% real inflation over that period, suggesting they intend to continue increasing the price till public backlash or other effects reduce their total revenue). Plus they're boiling the frog, slowly adding ads back in to music and shorts for premium users, and we'll see how far that initiative goes.
by short_sells_poo | 2025-12-01 14:01:47+00:00
They already do this. Including peripherals which appear as an actual mouse, but they are there only so that cheat software can take control of the input without modifying the game memory. There are cheats which run on a separate machine and access the game memory via a dedicated DMA card (which itself presents itself as an innocent piece of hardware). Note, this can still be detected either via detecting the DMA card itself, or eventually these shenanigans will be killed off by IOMMU.

Unfortunately, there are also plenty of offerings which do not touch the game memory or process at all, and work purely based on image recognition and these days they actually use AI that is trained on specific games. I have no idea how they plan to detect these. All the cheat needs is the video feed and the ability to provide input via mouse and keyboard, and as you say this is trivial to do in a way that is entirely undetectable.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-01 14:02:17+00:00
> The idea that any (currently realistic) cheat prevention is unbypassable is silly.

The idea that anti-cheats don't make sense because they don't catch 100% of the cheaters is what's silly, who believes that? Not even the people writing these anti-cheats believe catching 100% of them are possible, why are you under the assumption that others think that's possible?

If it removes 80% of the cheaters from the game, the experience goes from "Holy shit lets leave" to "Ok, bothersome, but fine", this is what they're reaching for, not some fantasy utopia that you seem to be under the impression is the target.
by skandinaff | 2025-12-01 14:02:25+00:00
In the part of the world I'm form, my childhood of the 90's to early 00's was exactly the same, and I experienced explosive increase in "stuff" surrounding me. Going from landline phones and phonebooths as status quo - to mobile internet just in 10 years. But I digress. Your point made me wonder - is it possible that the culture of material wealth - is the problem here? Could we have stepped on a poisonous flower - and now suffocating in the abundance of stuff we dreamed about as young people, now realizing, but not brave enough to admit that there is no meaning in it? And the optimism we had then, was a byproduct of a tighter communities, common struggles and just the architecture of life where we had to interact and care for one another more?
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-01 14:02:56+00:00
The point of an economy is to put a stupid flag on mars. Or to melt the ice caps so that Russia has access to ports that aren't clogged with ice. Or to get revenge and throw lavish parties. Or any of a million other arbitrary goals dreamed up by those few who get to steer this thing.

For most of us its just gas or breaks, but those at the top have non economic goals. The economic indicators are looking positive because progress is being made towards those goals, but the gloom persists because most of us don't want the outcomes that were progressing towards.

We're in a car that we can't steer, and the economist article says everything is fine because look how high the number on the speedometer is.
by sparkie | 2025-12-01 14:03:03+00:00
It's not only xor that does this, but most 32-bit operations zero-extend the result of the 64-bit register. AMD did this for backward compatibility. so existing programs would mostly continue working, unlike Intel's earlier attempt at 64-bits which was an entirely new design.

The reason `xor eax,eax` is preferred to `xor rax,rax` is due to how the instructions are encoded - it saves one byte which in turn reduces instruction cache usage.

When using 64-bit operations, a REX prefix is required on the instruction (byte 0x40..0x4F), which serves two purposes - the MSB of the low nybble (W) being set (ie, REX prefixes 0x48..0x4f) indicates a 64-bit operation, and the low 3 bits of low nybble allow using registers r8-r15 by providing an extra bit for the ModRM register field and the base and index fields in the SIB byte, as only 3-bits (8-registers) are provided by x86.

A recent addition, APX, adds an additional 16 registers (r16-r31), which need 2 additional bits. There's a REX2 prefix for this (0xD5 ...), which is a two byte prefix to the instruction. REX2 replaces the REX prefix when accessing r16-r31, still contains the W bit, but it also includes an `M0` bit, which says which of the two main opcode maps to use, which replaces the 0x0F prefix, so it has no additional cost over the REX prefix when accessing the second opcode map.
by ossa-ma | 2025-12-01 14:03:06+00:00
The biggest issue with Antigravity is that it completely freezes everything: the IDE, the terminals, debugger, absolutely everything completely blocking your workflow for minutes when running multiple agents, or even a single agent processing a long-winded thinking task (with any model).

This means that while the agent is coding, you can't code...

Never ever had this issue with Cursor.
by trinix912 | 2025-12-01 14:03:36+00:00
Because with Windows, MS can put a list of trusted rootkit anticheats in the kernel and that cannot be changed (without having the source or breaking signatures when hex editing etc).

If Linux did the same, anyone could recompile the kernel with their fake anticheat’s signature. The fake anticheat would then present itself as real to the game. One could go as far as to rewrite the relevant syscall to falsely indicate to the game that the legitimate version is running.
by super256 | 2025-12-01 14:04:05+00:00
Are they? Cheats for games like Fortnite, CS (Faceit), Rust, LoL have become very expensive (100 USD per month are not unheard of) or require you to purchase special hardware.

And I have yet to come across an anti cheat driver of the big publishers (EAC, Faceit, Javelin, Vanguard) being exploited and allow access to r/w kernel memory. It is more likely that the driver of some hardware is being exploited for, rather than anti cheat drivers.

Personally, I only remember the ac driver of Capcom ever being exploited. Compare this to the dozen hardware/av drivers which were exploitable, like the Intel LAN utility driver, ASUS IOMap64, MSI NTIOLIB or that one Razer driver. Oh, and CPU-Z and the Avast Hypervisor driver were exploitable too and allowed r/w on kernel memory. These drivers are way more likely to be weaponized than ac drivers.
by tim333 | 2025-12-01 14:04:23+00:00
I'm not sure Wikipedia itself has become a commercial project but commercial enterprises will certainly try to influence their portrayal as will different interest groups in general. I guess it's just an inherent problem with that kind of thing.

Any examples of sponsored editors? Google and the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_editing_inci... don't seem to have them
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-01 14:04:41+00:00
I'm ordering a new laptop to work on LLM stuff, and while I thought about jumping through the hoops to get Linux running with secure boot...

I had a realization, it's a cold day in hell when someone else is going to tell me what I can run on my computer. All the latest multiplayer games are now requiring secure boot on Win11 as well

I'm actually wary of all these anti-cheats, they're literally hyperinvasive maleware.

I don't need gaming that much.

And if I do I'll stream it with Gamepass or another cloud service.
by tarsinge | 2025-12-01 14:05:16+00:00
I am also hiring, in Europe with very good work/life balance but modest salaries and like the parent I'm also not that impressed with candidates, so to me the other explanation is that candidates have a wildly incorrect estimation of what is a somewhat reasonable pay in 2025.

The position with FAANG like salaries have reduced drastically. Companies paying 6 figures just to have the privilege to have an entry level developer with this then seen as magical skill of being able to type code was a dream that is over. Look at salaries of engineers in other industries, breaking 6 figures needs a lot of seniority, $150k is rarely heard of for ICs.
by a-l-e-c | 2025-12-01 14:05:20+00:00
Whenever crows are mentioned I think back on the idea of using crows against your enemies [0]. I'm sad and relieved that I live in a country where we don't have crows ...yet?

The idea itself could be rather interesting but rather a dark-comedy instead of only horror focused.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554810
by grayhatter | 2025-12-01 14:05:24+00:00
> You don’t think people are trying very hard to understand LLMs? We recognize the value of interpretability. It is just not an easy task.

I think you're arguing against a tangential position to both me, and the person this directly replies to. It can be hard to use and understand something, but if you have a magic box that you can't tell if it's working. It doesn't belong anywhere near the systems that other humans use. The people that use the code you're about to commit to whatever repo you're generating code for, all deserve better than to be part of your unethical science experiment.

> It’s not the first time in human history that our ability to create things has exceeded our capacity to understand.

I don't agree this is a correct interpretation of the current state of generative transformer based AI. But even if you wanted to try to convince me; my point would still be, this belongs in a research lab, not anywhere near prod. And that wouldn't be a controversial idea in the industry.
by Towaway69 | 2025-12-01 14:05:27+00:00
It’s a fine line and there must be a difference, otherwise there won’t be two words.

How the founders relate to adolf is beyond me. OTOH some would argue adolf was being patriotic (mostly these are on the conservative side of life), others say he was a nationalist (these tend to be left spinning), i just say adolf was an evil human being.
by dripdry45 | 2025-12-01 14:05:27+00:00
But DID the Luddites overreact? They sought to have machines serve people instead of the other way around.

If they had succeeded in regulation over machines and seeing wealth back into the average factory worker’s hands, of artisans integrated into the workforce instead of shut out, would so much of the bloodshed and mayhem to form unions and regulations have been needed?

Broadly, it seems to me that most technological change could use some consideration of people
by intended | 2025-12-01 14:05:58+00:00
Theres so many times I've written a comment, only to delete it on HN.

Not because of being afraid of government censorship, but because of the sheer futility of fighting peoples faith and outmoded ideas of how our market place of ideas works.

Counter speech, is NOT working. "the best ideas rise to the top" is untrue. We don't have an information economy, we have a content economy. Its the equivalent of the junk food era, just for content.

Governments around the world are going to enact speech controls. Voters are clamoring for it. Its going to eventually be a disaster.

I also do not think that there is going to be any effective opposition, if people keep showing up to battle lines drawn in the 90s and 2000s.

If you want a market place of ideas, you have to figure out how to ensure its a FAIR market place. Not a place where you pit regular folk against corporate PR teams, information teams, and behemoths of all kinds.

And for those holding out hope for decentralized solutions (Mastodon, Bluesky): These have a chance, but there is no solution to moderation labour and costs.
by ben_w | 2025-12-01 14:06:08+00:00
Mm.

I don't know.

My expectation is that a lot of social breakdown happens with AI that's not quite capable of fully replacing human labour. A lot of angry unemployed people, or a lot of people who suddenly find they're unable to compete with data centres for electricity and can no longer afford to keep their freezer frozen, groups like that may not be able to pull of a Butlerian Jihad, but they're absolutely relevant to the timelines, and I think they happen before fully-automated security bots that are worth bothering to install.

Fun failure mode: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/

Humans that aren't trying to hide are likely easier, so search-and-rescue bots will happen well before security bots are worth bothering with.
by fuzzy2 | 2025-12-01 14:06:15+00:00
Well "use it" is a bit of a stretch. I’m a bit of a device hoarder. It's one of my experimentation platforms for Linux stuff, currently running Fedora Kinoite (with Universal Blue).

My daily driver (of sorts, don’t really need a laptop anymore) is a MacBook Pro Late 2013, with NixOS. It’s so much better in every regard, it’s not even funny. It also still has its original battery.
by qcnguy | 2025-12-01 14:06:38+00:00
Those debates just show why Grokipedia is needed. Truth seeking is the opposite, it's when you demand crowdsourced consensus that debates become endless and stupid.

Here's a cut and dried case: the BBC admitted recently to broadcasting faked video of a Trump speech. It wasn't a mistake and the lying was institutional in nature, i.e. an internal whistleblower tried to get it fixed and BBC management up to the top viewed it as OK to broadcast video they knew was fake. Even when it was revealed publicly, they still defended it with logic like "OK, maybe Trump didn't say that but it's the sort of thing he might have said".

So the BBC can't be considered a reliable source, yet Wikipedia cites it all over the place. This problem was debated here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not...

The discussion shows just how stupid Wikipedia has become. Highlights include:

1. Calling The Telegraph a tabloid (it's not)

2. Not reading the report ("What exactly was editted incorrectly?", "it's just an allegation")

3. Circular logic: "This just seems like mudslinging unless this is considered significant by less partisan publications" but their definition of "less partisan" means sources like the BBC, that just lied for partisan reasons.

4. Shooting the messenger for not being left wing enough.

5. Not fixing the problem: "Closed as per WP:SNOW. There is no indication whatsoever that there is consensus to change the status of the BBC as a generally reliable source, neither based on the above discussion nor based on this RfC".

Wikipedia is as broken as can be. It institutionally doesn't care that its "reliable sources" forge video evidence to manipulate politics. As long as left wing people turn up to defend it, there is no consensus, and nothing will change even if those people clearly don't even bother reading what happened. The death of Wikipedia will be slow, but it will be thoroughly deserved.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-01 14:07:04+00:00
I generally have three types of Linux devices I typically use. My desktop, servers locally/remotely, and "mobile" devices (more like tablets I guess).

For the first, I want the lowest latency for everything I do, together with the highest burstable speed whenever possible, for pretty much all the components.

For the servers, I basically have two types, one which does storage, they just need large disks that can be slow, and one which users actually connect to, that one needs focus on throughput, latency and performance isn't as important as "can serve all requests in a reasonable timeframe, even under load".

Finally, many of the portable devices run on batteries, so on those the focus is power-saving, even if it compromises on performance.

I'm sure others out there have more device types, like ultraweight watches, security devices, monitors, radios and much more. Each one of these have different tradeoffs, and tuning the kernel and OS for each use case makes it a lot better usually. Personally I use NixOS for everything except my desktop (CachyOS right now!), and it makes it really trivial to create profiles based on the same configuration, deployed to all devices, and today they're are tuned for exactly their purpose, as Linus intended :)
by yardie | 2025-12-01 14:07:18+00:00
I've done the US university dorm living. I was already pretty well socialized being involved in many social causes and clubs. Unlike the movies, my roommate and I didn't turn into lifelong friends. Our living arrangement was strictly business. Now, I am lifelong friends with my apartment roommates. We shared a house together but did not share a room.

Also, campus ties you closer to home more than you imagine. They shutdown campus for different breaks and you're more or less forced to go elsewhere, which is typically your family home.

But honestly, double and triple occupancy rooms are completely unnecessary and uniquely American.
by n4r9 | 2025-12-01 14:08:09+00:00
Yeah, some US (and British and other) businesses had dealings with the Nazis as documented on Wikipedia [0], and some industry titans admired Hitler. I agree that there are parallels with today's tech authoritarianism. I'm not convinced that there was a strong case for arresting individuals, that was brushed under the carpet in order to save the economy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Na...
by phicoh | 2025-12-01 14:08:15+00:00
It is a bit of a bummer if you spend quite a bit of time tracking down a very weird DNS bug and it turns out to be systemd-resolved.

And I don't want to go into all of the time spend getting systemd unit files correct. There is very active community suggesting things you can add, which then of course breaks your release for users in unexpected ways. An enormous waste of time.