MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noduerme | 2025-12-13 03:16:40+00:00
I don't think this is the strongest argument. Every technological revolution so far has initially benefited the wealthy and taken a generation or two for its effects to lift the masses out of previous levels of poverty, but ultimately each one has.

To me the stronger argument about AI is that this revolution won't. And that's because this one is not really about productivity or even about capital investment in things that people nominally would want (faster transport, cheaper cotton, home computers). This one is about ending revolution once and for all; it's not about increeasing the wealth of the wealthy, it's about being the first to arrive at AGI and thus cementing that wealth disparity for all perpetuity. It's the endgame.

I don't know if that's true, but that's to me the argument as to why this one is exceptional and why the capitalist argument for American prosperity is inapplicable in this case.
by measurablefunc | 2025-12-13 03:16:41+00:00
I know you copied & pasted that from an LLM. If I had to guess I'd say it was from OpenAI. It's lazy & somewhat disrespectful. At the very least try to do a few rounds of back & forth so you can get a better response¹ by weeding out all the obvious rejoinders.

¹https://chatgpt.com/share/693cdacf-bcdc-8009-97b4-657a851a3c...
by prescriptivist | 2025-12-13 03:17:56+00:00
That's awesome and I have a few similar conversations with Claude. I wasn't quite an AI luddite a couple months ago, but close. I joined a new company recently that is all in on AI and I have a comically huge token budget so I jumped all the way in myself. I have my choice of tools I can use and once I tried Claude Code it all clicked. The topology they are creating for AI tooling and concepts is the best of all the big LLMs, by far. If they can figure out the remote/cloud agent piece with the level of thoughtfulness they have given to Code, it'd be amazing. Cursor Cloud has that area locked down right now, but I'm looking forward to how Anthropic approaches it.
by defrost | 2025-12-13 03:18:38+00:00
When Musk purchased and rebranded Twitter as X he also unbanned a large number of accounts famed for Nazi and similar race based content.

He has famously thumbs-ed up significant chunks of such content and in the event mentioned here replied to an explicit statement (as outlined about) as being "the actual truth".

See, eg: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67446800

He is an unquestionable fan of Nazi like content, many will shrug it off as his grandfather was an actual Nazi fan (having to move from Canada(?) to South Africa because of such beliefs), and his uncle (IIRC, certainly a close family relative) was a senior member of the South African apartheid government.
by namibj | 2025-12-13 03:18:56+00:00
1) when did they downgrade? I've stared for hours at that particular code...

2) no you just don't get to move data freely.

3) I don't believe JSON has any place in a system that needs C because it can't handle Rust.

4) JSON can't handle non-tree structures, it's further very limited in expressivity. Rkyv is more of a code gen akin to ASN.1

Happy benchmarking, feel free to use the rkyv benchmark tooling and ensure you have enough link time optimization going on.
by kelchm | 2025-12-13 03:19:11+00:00
Are you really making the argument that human flight hasn’t been effectively achieved at this point?

I actually kind of love this comparison — it demonstrates the point that just like “human flight”, “true AGI” isn’t a single point in time, it’s a many-decade (multi-century?) process of refinement and evolution.

Scholars a millennia from now will be debating about when each of these were actually “truly” achieved.
by glenstein | 2025-12-13 03:20:38+00:00
Neil DeGrasse Tyson made an amazing point some years back that string theory costs practically nothing to develop. It takes some human capital to be sure, but in terms of infrastructure investments, it's pencils and paper and some computers. There's no high stakes mega project requiring massive infrastructure investments for questionable returns; no super colliders or gravitational wave detectors.

For a field repeatedly challenged for not bringing testable predictions to bear, the fact that so much of its rich theoretical framework has been able to be worked out with minimal infrastructure investment is a welcome blessing which, I would hope, critics and supporters alike can celebrate.
by themafia | 2025-12-13 03:21:31+00:00
It always surprised me that in the path of so many glibc functions are calls to open() items in /etc and then parse their output into some kind of value to use or possibly return.

The initialization of these objects should have been separate and then used as a parameter to the functions that operate on them. Then you could load the /etc/gai.conf configuration, parse it, then pass that to getaddrinfo(). The fact that multiple cancellation points are discreetly buried in the paths of these functions is an element of unfortunate design.
by mannykannot | 2025-12-13 03:22:40+00:00
I like the way you made me think! It had not thought about it until now, but I take your point.

While thinking about it, this phrase occurred to me: “silver bullets are a defense against zombies.” It is not the same phrase structure as the original, but it also has the double-negative vibe, yet it feels more reasonable to me than “…are a defense for zombies”, which to me suggests that zombies would employ them against their enemies.

I think the resolution here is that defense is inherently against something, so these phrases are not unequivocally double negatives - though I also agree with nine_k’s point about a better way to say it.

EDIT: Duh! The fact that defense is inherently against something is precisely what makes these phrases look like double negatives! The resolution must be something else - maybe agreement in mood or sentiment…
by bonoboTP | 2025-12-13 03:24:02+00:00
"This is just semantics" is a set phrase in English and it means that the issue being discussed is merely about definitions of words, and not about the substance (the object level).

And generally the point is that it does not matter whether we call what they do "understanding" or not. It will have the same kind of consequences in the end, economic and otherwise.

This is basically the number one hangup that people have about AI systems, all the way back since Turing's time.

The consequences will come from AI's ability to produce certain types of artifacts and perform certain types of transformations of bits. That's all we need for all the scifi stuff to happen. Turing realized this very quickly, and his famous Turing test is exactly about making this point. It's not an engineering kind of test. It's a thought experiment trying to prove that it does not matter whether it's just "simulated understanding". A simulated cake is useless, I can't eat it. But simulated understanding can have real world effects of the exact same sort as real understanding.
by terrycody | 2025-12-13 03:24:10+00:00
This is a known Google soft penalty in order to contain spam contents and domains, but unfortunately, this thing penalized a lot of good, clean, and legit blogs, and when you caught this penalty, in 99% cases, you will never recovered.

It will only shows 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11, or simialr numbers when you site:yourdomain on Google.

I found this thing around 2019, and it still exists till today.

A way to identify this: first post more than 20-30 articles on your blog, and if after several months, it still shows only several pages when you site: your domain, then it mostly caught this thing.

More info: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/anyone-site-only-4-results...
by parineum | 2025-12-13 03:24:28+00:00
> nobodies lives will improve from space expansion (except for the grifters’ during the grift).

Aspiring to goals and accomplishing them makes life worth living to a lot of people. Furthermore, humanity seems to have an innate drive to explore and learn.

Even to those left at home, it's inspirational to think that there are people who are taking steps to explore the universe.

Maybe it won't help anyone live but it will give a lot of people something to live for.
by kjellsbells | 2025-12-13 03:26:05+00:00
The weird thing I find with the Cybertruck is that I never see anyone using it for obviously truck-y things. For example, I've never seen a CT in the wild with the bed open.

You'd expect to see it hauling ladders or tools or towing horse boxes and so on, but nope. It makes me curious why. Is the truck overpriced for anyone who needs a truck to work? That seems unlikely, trucks are already north of 70,000 bucks. Are there no accessories like towing hitches? Seems unlikely. Is it just not a usefully sized bed? That would be a bizarre miss for a truck designer. I just dont understand it.

As a truck, is the CT any good, or no?
by jackfranklyn | 2025-12-13 03:26:17+00:00
The 9-month vs 24-month ramp claim is interesting but I wonder how it holds up when the junior moves to a new codebase or domain. The traditional ramp isn't just "learning to code" - it's building mental models of how systems fail, developing judgment about when to ask questions, learning to read legacy code that makes no sense.

AI tools are fantastic at collapsing the "how do I syntax this" problems. But I've seen juniors get stuck when the AI confidently suggests something that compiles but misses the business context entirely. That kind of failure mode is harder to debug than a stack trace.

The economics argument makes sense though. If you're losing 36% before breakeven anyway, reducing that to 15% is huge even if the quality distribution stays the same.
by simonw | 2025-12-13 03:29:06+00:00
Not quite the same thing. Implementing skills specifically means that you have code which, on session start, scans the skills/*/skill.md files and reads in their description: metadata and loads that into the system prompt, along with an instruction that says "if the user asks about any of these particular things go and read the skills.md file for further instructions".

Here's the prompt within Codex CLI that does that: https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/ad7b9d63c326d5c92049abd...

I extracted that into a Gist to make it easier to read: https://gist.github.com/simonw/25f2c3a9e350274bc2b76a79bc8ae...
by nhaehnle | 2025-12-13 03:29:56+00:00
That's the whole point. They aren't law, and they were (probably) never meant to be so far-reaching, and yet the clear purpose of this Executive Order is to tell the states what laws they can enact. The EO doesn't have the legal power to do that directly, but it clearly outlines the intention to withdraw federal funding from states that refuse to toe the line.
by colechristensen | 2025-12-13 03:30:03+00:00
Eh, again you're just saying "it's not real because..." whether or not you attach the word theory. It is a space with lots of possible parameters being explored and is not one set of parameters with predictions because all of the sets that have been explored so far are either broken or don't represent reality. That in itself does not mean it doesn't have merit. It's simply incomplete, but given its history it's fair to doubt that it ever will close the loop and have a final form that models our reality.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-12-13 03:30:54+00:00
The setup was great, but the ending was disappointing. I was expecting him to visually show a2 + b2 = c2 by cutting up the two squares into tiny pieces and rearranging them to show that they're the same as c2... but sadly he didn't.

So I'm still left waiting for actual visual proof that goes all the way.
by mikeyouse | 2025-12-13 03:32:23+00:00
It's hard to say what they're actually qualified to do but they went from receiving 1 or 2 contracts per year in the early 2020s for a few 10s of millions and I think one larger $200M one to this since Trump was reelected;

$200M - https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/1527a7adaff14a5280fc7...

$140M - https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/c0203e75ec2949e78966f...

$31M - https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/8b0b944955064864942fc...

$1M - https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/86d997fbd8a74d0cb298c...

$642M over 10 years - https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/c9878b113f5143cba7edb...

$3.1M - https://sam.gov/opp/f15d4b63ebc846cd9f4870cfa0772fff/view

$160M - https://www.anduril.com/news/anduril-awarded-contract-to-red...

$86M - https://www.anduril.com/news/special-operations-command-sele...

$100M - https://www.anduril.com/news/anduril-awarded-usd99-6m-for-u-...
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-13 03:34:45+00:00
This is good news. I'd take it even further. I would like to see a requirement for responsibility in the code we write, like Civil Engineers have.

We have no way of defending our jobs. If we build it and it breaks, it's on us. If we find it unsafe, and provide alternatives that cost more / take longer our job is on the line.

If we feel we cannot humanly review the insane amount of AI slop PRs coming in, because we have a sense of ownership, because it is OUR name on the document, it's on us.
by drnick1 | 2025-12-13 03:38:12+00:00
This OSMC box looks interesting, but does it allow to run arbitrary programs like a plain Linux box? What I have in mind here are things such as VacuumTube (YoutubeTV front end), a Web browser to stream from various online sources, etc. I found KODI (as running on Linux) far too restrictive when it comes to streaming from the Internet, and the add ons to be terrible. (In particular the YouTube add-on requires an API key registered with Google, which makes it a far worse proposition than using VacuumTube anonymously.)
by bitwize | 2025-12-13 03:38:13+00:00
The cheat code is Sceptre dumb TVs from Wal-Mart's web site. I want Hackernews to know about this so that Sceptre and Wal-Mart can get sales and know that there's a substantial market for these devices, not shrug their shoulders and go "we may as well take these off the market and sell enshittified crap instead; it's not like our customers know or care about the difference."
by raincole | 2025-12-13 03:39:46+00:00
I 100% agree. I don't know what the GP is on. Being able to write instructions in a .md file is "further away from AGI"? Like... what? It's just a little quality of life feature. How and why is it related to AGI?

Top HN comments sometime read like a random generator:

return random_criticism_of_ai_companies() + " " + unrelated_trivia_fact()

Why are people treating everything OpenAI does as an evidence of anti- AGI? It's like saying if you don't mortgage your house to all-in AAPL, you "don't really believe Apple has a future." Even OpenAI does believe there is X% chance AGI will be achieved, it doesn't mean they should stop literally everything else they're doing.
by Alupis | 2025-12-13 03:40:20+00:00
You shouldn't depend on the auth service, just subscribe to it's messages and/or trust your IDP's tokens.

This article, in my interpretation, is about hard dependencies, not soft. Each of your services should have their own view of "the world". If they aren't able to auth/auth a request, it's rejected - as it should be, until they have the required information to accept the request (ie. broadcasted role information and/or an acceptable jwt).
by jchw | 2025-12-13 03:40:55+00:00
IMO this is the best approach, but it is worth noting that musl libc is not without its caveats. I'd say for most people it is best to tread carefully and make sure that differences between musl libc and glibc don't cause additional problems for the libraries you are linking to.

There is a decent list of known functional differences on the musl libc wiki:

https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...

Overall, though, the vast majority of software works perfectly or near perfectly on musl libc, and that makes this a very compelling option indeed, especially since statically linking glibc is not supported and basically does not work. (And obviously, if you're already using library packages that are packaged for Alpine Linux in the first place, they will likely already have been tested on musl libc, and possibly even patched for better compatibility.)
by drnick1 | 2025-12-13 03:41:53+00:00
You just need to pull the fuse or physically remove the telematics unit. In some cars you need to partially disassemble the dash to do this, but there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube. An independent shop should also be able to do this, although dealers will generally refuse since they are among the ones benefiting from the "telemetry," aka spyware.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-12-13 03:42:24+00:00
> I wonder why it’s not 14%, given that that’s the Safari market share

That's Safari's market share among _browsers_, but lots of other stuff (IoT devices, mail servers, curl, etc.) can be configured to use 1.1.1.1.

> Safari is the only browser that does HTTPS DNS requests in its default configuration

I've opened [0] in both Firefox and Chromium on Linux, and it shows that ECH is enabled in both (which therefore means that HTTPS RRs are being queried). I don't think that I've changed any settings to enable this, but I was testing out ECH a few months ago, so I might have changed something then and forgotten.

> A1: it’s naive to assume we’re at 100% https:// adoption? Any http:// URL will not trigger an HTTPS DNS lookup

Cloudflare also has statistics on HTTP vs HTTPS [1], but that's going to be biased in favour of HTTPS since CF handles that automatically for sites they host.

> A2: site popularity and downstream caching of 1.1.1.1 means CloudFlare see fewer requests for HTTPS DNS than there are https:// connections?

Yup, but this also applies to A/AAAA records too, so this shouldn't make a difference to the ratio between different RR types.

[0]: https://tls-ech.dev/

[1]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage#http-vs-http...
by Brajeshwar | 2025-12-13 03:43:12+00:00
This is an Interface font, most suited for User Interfaces (Websites, Apps, etc). Almost all fonts that I have seen that distinguish the “O0 & Il” properly do not look good when used as an Interface font, but look good as an editor or something you do with it (Notes).

For instance, I set Inter[1] as my UI font in Obsidian, but I have set “Atkinson Hyperlegible Next”[2] as my Editor Font. I would gladly use such clean sans-serif fonts (Inter, Flex Sans, Geist, etc.)[3] because they are easy for the human eye to read quickly, even if there is a spelling error, and hence the distinction between the “O0 & Il” would not matter.

So, It Depends on the use case. “Atkinson Hyperlegible Next” is a fantastic, highly readable/recognizable font, but it will look pretty ugly when using it to design interfaces.

1. https://rsms.me/inter/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible

3. https://vercel.com/font
by coffeefirst | 2025-12-13 03:43:26+00:00
> Perhaps that is to be expected in the era of TikTok and A.I. Some education experts believe that in the near future, even the most sophisticated stories and knowledge will be imparted mainly through audio and video...

In no world would I consider a person who says "it's okay if the next generation is illiterate" an education expert.

And the guy selling excerpts software says there's no data suggesting a deep, unsolvable flaw in his product. Cool.

> Timothy Shanahan, a leading literacy scholar and an author of the StudySync curriculum, said there was no data suggesting that students become stronger readers when they are assigned full novels.

... If anyone is working on reversing this I'd love to hear where you're starting.
by mbreese | 2025-12-13 03:43:59+00:00
I’ve never heard it described this way: AGI as similar to human flight. I think it’s subtle and clever - my two most favorite properties.

To me, we have both achieved and not human flight. Can humans themselves fly? No. Can people fly in planes across continents. Yes.

But, does it really matter if it counts as “human flight” if we can get from point A to point B faster? You’re right - this is an argument that will last ages.

It’s a great turn of phrase to describe AGI.
by dorianzheng | 2025-12-13 03:44:10+00:00
The problem: AI agents are most useful when they have freedom—freedom to write code, install packages, run scripts, explore solutions. But that freedom is dangerous. One hallucinated rm -rf / or a malicious package install, and your host system pays the price. So we restrict them. Limit file access. Disable network. Whitelist commands. The agent becomes safer but also dumber—unable to iterate, experiment, or recover from mistakes like a human developer would. I wanted to give AI agents a full computer they could break without breaking mine. Why not existing tools? When I started sandboxing AI-generated code, nothing quite fit: - Docker shares the host kernel—container escapes are a real attack surface, and that makes me nervous - QEMU/libvirt is powerful but heavyweight—XML configs, daemon processes, steep learning curve - Cloud sandboxes (E2B, Modal, etc.) work, but you're locked into their platform with limited customization - Kata Containers is designed for Kubernetes orchestration, not for embedding in a Python script The SQLite idea: I've been thinking about why SQLite works so well. Before SQLite, databases meant running a server—PostgreSQL, MySQL, managing daemons, configuring connections. SQLite asked: what if it was just a library? No server. Just import sqlite3. I wanted the same thing for VMs. So I started building BoxLite—an attempt to make VMs embeddable like SQLite. A library call that gives you a real micro-VM with its own kernel. No daemon. No root. import asyncio import boxlite async def main(): async with boxlite.SimpleBox(image="python:slim") as box: result = await box.exec("python", "-c", "print('Hello from VM!')") print(result.stdout) asyncio.run(main()) To be clear: this is early. It works on macOS Apple Silicon and Linux. You can pull OCI images, mount volumes, forward ports. There are some higher-level abstractions (BrowserBox for Playwright, ComputerBox for desktop automation). But there are bugs. Boot time is 200ms for hot runs (I want it under 100ms). Documentation is thin. Error messages could be better. macOS Intel and Windows aren't supported. I haven't battle-tested it at scale. I'm sharing it now because I'd rather build this with feedback than in isolation. What I'd love to hear: - Does the SQLite-for-VMs idea make sense, or am I stretching the analogy? - What would you actually use this for? - What's broken or confusing when you try it? GitHub: https://github.com/boxlite-labs/boxlite PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/boxlite/
by thwarted | 2025-12-13 03:47:06+00:00
What's missing in this writeup is if/how capsudod can be configured to drop/acquire capabilities (in the capabilities(7) sense, in a namespace sense, or using openbsd's pledge(2)) before executing the command. From looking at the code it seems to rely on filesystem permissions to access the capsudod socket; when in order to make mounting USB drives actually safe via this kind of permission proxying method, you'd want to only give it very limited access to operations, like only the ability to make the mount(2) syscall. I generally agree, this is sudo in a different format and with a daemon; perhaps that's better. And it's written in C, which doesn't speak to avoiding the classic C-related privilege escalation risks (although this is a small amount of code compared to sudo).
by ur-whale | 2025-12-13 03:48:36+00:00
Score one more for CAM (computer assisted math) and automated proving tools.

In a world where your academic colleagues will only pay attention to your paper if it comes with a Lean or Coq proof (or at least an MM sketch), we would not be in a "it will take years just to understand the paper" type situation.

The title of the paper would then be: "Birational Invariants from Hodge Structures and Quantum Multiplication: the source code".

Other major offender in that space is Mochizuki's [1] "Inter-universal Teichmüller theory".

The very name of the work uses words that make no sense in common English.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki