MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-22 18:06:26+00:00
Generating a password that is unique to the device and print it with a sticky label on the underside of the device isn't exactly rocket-science, and ISPs somehow figured this out at least two decades ago, which was the first time I came across that myself. Surely whoever developed this IP-camera has an engineering department who've also seen something like this in the wild before?
by brokenodo | 2025-12-22 18:06:38+00:00
I am a personal injury lawyer, and am therefore biased. But I submit that they are decidedly not undifferentiated - the problem is that there is no real way for you to differentiate them.

If I were seriously injured, there are about 10 personal injury lawyers in my small state that I would consider. There are no obvious external signals such as billboards, websites, or marketing that convey their superior strategic skill and they just have it qualities before a jury. But if you know them, you know.

If you need a lawyer, call another lawyer (preferably someone involved in the special interest bar association for that field) and ask them who you should call.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-22 18:06:39+00:00
> but that was nothing compared to the extent of investment that was seen after the fall of Communism in Europe

Most of the capital investment and institution building that led to China Shock in the 2000s only happened due to the extreme degree of tech and capital transfer in the 1970s-80s, along with the visiting student program. Heck, Vietnam had a higher HDI [0] and GDP PPP per Capita [1] than the PRC until the early 2000s. The only difference was Vietnam was strictly in the Warsaw Bloc camp, and was negatively impacted by the collapse of the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and GDR while China was able to leverage ties with the US during that period.

[0] - https://countryeconomy.com/hdi?year=2005

[1] - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?end=2...
by dfsegoat | 2025-12-22 18:07:22+00:00
Highly recommend using agent based hooks for things like `[review & test]`.

At a basic level, they work akin to git-hooks, but they fire up a whole new context whenever certain events trigger (E.g. another agent finishes implementing changes) - and that hook instance is independent of the implementation context (which is great, as for the review case it is a semi-independent reviewer).
by cryptonector | 2025-12-22 18:07:37+00:00
Kerberos has FAST for truly addressing the offline dictionary attack issues with PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP. FAST is basically tunneling, encrypting using some other ticket. With PKINIT w/ anonymous client's it's pretty easy to get this to be good enough, but Windows / AD doesn't support that, so instead you have to use a computer account to get the outer FAST tunnel's ticket, which works if you're joined to the domain, and doesn't work otherwise.

There's also work on a PAKE (zero-knowledge password proof protocol) which also solves the problem. Unfortunately the folks who worked on that did not also add an asymmetric PAKE, so the KDC still stores password equivalents :(

> Rotating the KDC/krbtgt credential is also still a nightmare.

I've done a bunch of work in Heimdal to make key rotation not a nightmare. But yeah, AD needs to copy that. I think the RedHat FreeIPA people are working on similar ideas.

> That's a nice dream, but in reality 20 years from know there will still be domain controllers on enterprise networks.

SSPI and Kerberos are super entrenched in the Windows architecture. IMO MSFT should build an SSP that uses JWTs over TLS, using PKI for server auth and JWT for client auth, using Kerberos principal names as claims in the JWTs and using the PKINIT SAN in server certs to keep all the naming backwards compatible. To get at the "PAC" they should just have servers turn around and ask a nearby DC via NETLOGON.
by lenerdenator | 2025-12-22 18:07:45+00:00
I think that laypeople in the US were willing to see more investments in China with the rationalization that it could lead to more human rights. If you had polled random Americans in 1995 with a question like, "Should the US government and American companies invest in the People's Republic of China in an effort to increase human rights and liberalization there?", most people would have responded "yes".

The miscalculation comes from thinking that the investment would actually have that effect. And I do think some people at the top knew it wouldn't have that effect, but of course, there was cheap labor to be had, and that was what they wanted more than anything else.
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-22 18:08:20+00:00
This is one of those situations where that's legitimately difficult. Kevin Perjurer is quite a good documentarian, and there's very little trimmable fat on the four-hour product if you want to keep in all the points he made.

gkoberger's peer comment is a pretty good summary. Another interesting point is that these technologies can benefit the brand bottom-line even when they don't make it into the park, because part of Disney's brand is "tomorrow today." Even when things are one-offs, they become one-offs that people stitch into the legend of the parks (in both the retelling and in their own memories), which gives them a larger-than-life feel; your visit might not include one of the "living characters," and statistically it probably won't.

... but it might. And if it does, you'll never forget it.

Personal anecdote / example: I stopped in at the "droid factory" in the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge area of Disney World a few years back. They had several bits of merch for sale including one life-size R2-D2, inert. I took a close look at the R2 because it was an impressive bit of work. Turned around to look at a rack of t-shirts. And was, therefore, startled as hell to hear a bwoop behind me, turn around, and see that it had followed me out of its charging receptacle and was staring at me. It was not at all inert; it was a very impressive operational remote-control replica.

The cast member behind the counter was doing his best to hold down his grin and not give me a "GOTCHA" look. He has to, because you never know what kids might be watching and he doesn't want to break the magic. And... Yeah, he got me good. "That time I was at Disney World and R2-D2 followed me around the t-shirt shop" is gonna stick with me.
by hannahstrawbrry | 2025-12-22 18:08:23+00:00
For as much as this article harps on the "AARP Lie" i.e. how gift cards can be used by "unbanked" customers on "alternate financial services platform" the first thing I advise seniors to do is AVOID those platforms because of the same exact lack of regulation problem. Paypal and Venmo might give you the run around when it comes to your money but banks don't have that kind of option.
by linhns | 2025-12-22 18:09:22+00:00
To the OP, be proud that you’re brave enough to share this. I live in one of the 3 countries bordering Cambodia, and yes I have been called by scammers and managed to ignore them every single time. A political solution is a must if the world even intends to solve this growing pain, with the end of Cambodia as a country a good solution. Until then, be vigilant and advise others to be as well, and keep pillaging Cambodia whenever an opportunity arises. I always refer to them as Scambodia in daily conversations, gaining popularity myself for that.
by sebow | 2025-12-22 18:09:29+00:00
Please convince me how gov. funding is better than the private sector. Before people jump to the "late capitalism and everything will be profit-incentivized" bandwagon, I fail to see how things like finding a new good medicine/the next propulsion system/new most efficient energy solution/etc. cannot be linked into the more theoretical fields, which I'm assuming are some of, if not most of the positions/areas of science affected by this.

Everything can be "sold", especially in today's age with the new methods of discoverability. But I would argue scientists don't need to "sell" something in the capitalist sense. They need to link the hope of a new discovery to inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs. Sure, some things might "fail" to continue by failing to adjust to the markets, or some scientific discoveries might be used for bad things (ethically), but this is (1) both inevitable and (2) the responsibility of the scientists & the people buying the end product/service. If I'm not mistaken, most bad/evil/etc. discoveries were made by scientists working FOR the government/king/etc. throughout history. If anything, democratizing science through the capitalist markets seems like a more beneficial way to develop self-sustaining science. The key thing is transparency, which can be less present in the private sector, especially when corruption is involved(assuming transparency is demanded by the gov.).
by card_zero | 2025-12-22 18:09:41+00:00
That article wouldn't be deleted, because I can find 20 or so references in paper publications saying things like "The Stack Exchange family of websites is a Q&A service for developers and other technical roles. If you’re stuck on a problem, the chances are someone else was too and turned to Stack Exchange for help", or in some cases doing a quick bio of Jeff Atwood or mentioning codinghorror.

Hmm, OTOH I can also find multiple paper references to perlmonks, such as "Perlmonks is a web bulletin board dedicated to Perl. It’s not specifically a help desk, but if you’ve done your homework and ask a good question, you’re likely to get top-notch help very quickly" - that's from the O'Reilly Perl book. Sometimes I'm overoptimistic about these things, because I want to keep every obscure article.

Well, Perlmonks is still mentioned on the articles for Perl, Outline of the Perl programming language, Perl language structure, and Perl Foundation. (This is because deletionists are lazy and don't actually like doing a thorough job.) So I could see Perlmonks becoming a redirect to one of those pages, which could describe it in a section. Similarly, if Stack Exchange faded into obscurity, it might be rolled into a section of Jeff Atwood's page (or vice versa).
by nayuki | 2025-12-22 18:09:49+00:00
You're right. If you really want to mess with speed and distance, just rename "nautical mile" to "knot-hour". In fact, that might be a great idea for trolling – it is fewer syllables (4 vs. 2), and aviation pilots definitely use knots for speed, so why not simplify the vocabulary and ditch the unique term "nautical mile" in favor of pairing two existing words?

Another place where the cursed unit of hour crops up is describing the amount of electric charge that you can pull out of a battery (especially rechargeable ones) in terms of millamp-hours (mA⋅h). Note that in actual SI, 1 mA⋅h = 3.6 C (coulombs). Even more cursed is high-capacity lithium-ion USB power banks that are advertised like 10,000 mAh (or even "10K mAh"), which should at least be simplified to 10 A⋅h (ampere-hours). But mA⋅h isn't a good way to describe batteries because you also need to multiply by voltage (3.7 V for Li-ion, I think 1.2 V for NiMH) to figure out the energy (usually expressed in W⋅h).

One more fun fact - photographic flash units are advertised in watt-seconds (W⋅s) for the maximum amount of energy delivered in a flash pulse of light. But that just simplifies to joules, which is a shorter and less confusing unit name. People really need to stop multiplying watts with time and use joules as designed in the SI.
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-22 18:09:56+00:00
Yes and... no.

I find the risk here that the requirements are the average of all requirements, so the exceptional things don't really get highlighted.

Because you now get this giant amount of text shoved in your face, you switch from thinking to validating. Is what's there correct, vs starting from a blank canvas. The doc already curtails your thoughts.

Kinda like all cars are starting to look the same. No one takes risks anymore.

No-one wants to / feels empowered to / has the knowledge to ask the really difficult questions.
by Bender | 2025-12-22 18:10:04+00:00
Children could go missing thanks to Flock default settings. HN would tell me to never attribute to malice ... but there may be criminal negligence.

To cover their butts I strongly suggest Flock implement a default "grading system" that will show a city in a banner at the top of their management and monitoring system that based on their camera and network configuration they get an A+ to F-. If the grade is below a C then it must be impossible to get rid of the banner and it must be blinking red. The grading system must be both free, mandatory and a part of the core management code. This assumes Flock will have the willpower to say no when a city demands removal of the flashing red banner. Instead up-sell professional services to secure their mess. I would like to see the NCC Group review their security and future grading system.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-12-22 18:10:05+00:00
Increasing money supply vs taxation is kinda just misdirection. It's politically disadvantageous to increase the tax % versus just siphoning purchasing power out of cash holders pockets silently and through the back door of increasing money supply.

Not sure why it matters what I feel about ICE, besides an attempt to categorize me or my affiliations. However, in general I believe the US has a large amount of very silly self inflicted wounds, a terrible immigration policy has lead to a situation where people only/primarily get in illegally, and then those people have to make compromising choices based on their legality. Attempting to reset the playing field is noble, but fixing the path to legality would have been nobler. A big chunk of it is a waste of money in an attempt to chase the holy grail in America... "Jobs".
by hu3 | 2025-12-22 18:10:11+00:00
Check context size.

LLMs become increasingly error-prone as their memory is fills up. Just like humans.

In VSCode Copilot you can keep track of how many tokens the LLM is dealing with in realtime with "Chat Debug".

When it reaches 90k tokens I should expect degraded intelligence and brace for a possible forced sumarization.

Sometimes I just stop LLMs and continue the work in a new session.
Ask HN: What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
by recvonline | 2025-12-22 18:10:15+00:00
I am a long time Apple user, but their software keeps getting buggier, worse and I just want to switch. I moved all my data to self hosting solutions, so I all I need now is an Android phone which… is fun? Like Framework Computer fun.

Are there still community based OSes out which I can flash onto a phone? Last time I had an Android phone was 2013.
by mjmahone17 | 2025-12-22 18:10:23+00:00
It’s kind of the same argument as that for Node: having a singular language for everything you do lets you have “thick” tightly coupled packages that do everything, which you can compose or decompose in a safe(r) refactor as business needs change.

Once you start using JNI or Objective-C++ to hand off “computationally expensive” work to common C++ (now Rust) libraries, you end up needing to become an expert across a lot of areas.

If 95% of your competitive advantage lies in doing things everywhere with low memory, then taking on an additional 2-3 stacks (SwiftUI + React + Compose) as well as all the bindings and build system and etc overhead can be pretty gnarly.

If 95% of your value add is in your web-based UI, consolidating to a single JS stack of React + React Native + Node can greatly reduce your idea-to-market time, I’d imagine a full Rust stack could do the same if your value add requires maximum performance and only a little UI iteration.
by earlyreturns | 2025-12-22 18:10:26+00:00
Interesting point and pardon my naïveté but I’m curious, by “the west began investing” do you mean public sector investments? Or are you including people like jim rodgers long time China bull? I think private sector investment wouldn’t be done for anything other than profit. It seems like trade liberalism is an ideological thing that people seem to believe in above and beyond geopolitical concerns. Those who believe in trade liberalization (globalization) are sort of religious in their belief that it leads to liberalism in all spheres, not just the economic. I’m thinking of classic liberals, economists, Ayn Rand fanboys, etc.
by rconti | 2025-12-22 18:10:44+00:00
For fairly obvious reasons, most people were unaware this set ever existed. In the 90s (~1993?), my family replaced our old 1970s-era 19" Sony Trinitron with a HUGE new TV, a 35" Toshiba.

At the time, a "big" CRT was a 32". I helped my dad transport the 35" which, from memory, was 150 or 180lbs. It was likely the largest CRT commercially available. (PVM-4300 stragglers aside).

A couple years later (1995-6?), a friend's family bought a 40" Mitsubishi, which I _thought_ was the largest CRT made. But, again, Sony aside, it probably was.
Show HN: LLMKit – Compare LLMs side-by-side with real-time streaming
by chieund | 2025-12-22 18:11:05+00:00
Hi HN!

I built LLMKit after getting frustrated with choosing the right LLM for different projects. Instead of guessing or relying on benchmarks that don't match real use cases, I wanted to see actual performance with my own prompts.

What it does:
• Compare up to 5 models simultaneously (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, etc.)
• Real-time streaming comparison - watch models race to respond
• Custom scoring weights based on your priorities (speed vs cost vs quality)
• System prompt support for production-realistic testing
• TTFT (Time to First Token) metrics for latency-sensitive apps
• No signup required, API keys stay in your browser

The "aha moment" was adding streaming comparison - seeing GPT-4 start fast but Claude catch up, or watching cost-effective models perform surprisingly well. It's like A/B testing but for LLMs.

Built with Next.js + TypeScript. The streaming implementation was tricky - had to handle different provider formats (OpenAI vs Anthropic) and parallel SSE connections.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-12-22 18:11:13+00:00
> those people are still around and writing good software without javascript.

Sure, but their claim is about what others can do with javascript.

> Why not cut out the middleman

Sure.

Every month, tech advances enough to where the AI writes code that requires less and less of my intervention. So it seems obviously the case that the same would go for other roles like project management and code review.

Of course, whether I want this to be the case isn't really relevant. But trying to build a product in a competitive market is one way to accept certain realities.
by bicepjai | 2025-12-22 18:11:16+00:00
I usually don’t like it when people use unnecessary big words. But sometimes a word comes by that explains exactly the idea. One of my favorites is Schadenfreude ( it’s funny and real at the same time). When I noticed the author used Solipsism, I definitely judged him for a moment, but after I read the explanation, it was a beautiful description of his stance :)

Solipsism is a philosophical position asserting that only one's own mind is certain to exist.
by Tech_News_Daily | 2025-12-22 18:11:36+00:00
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by mullingitover | 2025-12-22 18:11:43+00:00
> who are even willing to lose smally if we lose bigly

Realistically though, this has nothing to do with geopolitics. This wouldn't be happening if the research community were driving around in trucks with MAGA flags and sleeping with Dear Leader body pillows.

This regime is entirely transactional and it's a howler to pretend otherwise. The academic research community could be dealing literal tons of hard drugs and they'd get a pass as long as they were card carrying party members.
by epolanski | 2025-12-22 18:11:48+00:00
Actually a PhD is a con, not a bonus if you want normal jobs.

If a private lab needs a chemist or biologist for say, quality assurance, one of the most common jobs in the field, then privates prefer fresh graduates:

- they cost much less

- even if the PhD would be fine with the pay, he/she will still be skipped over a fresh graduate because the person is over qualified and will jump to something more related to his/her field as soon as possible.

Thus these people's CV are genuinely worse for anything unrelated to their skill set.
by psunavy03 | 2025-12-22 18:12:36+00:00
Communism as such has never existed and will never exist because it ignores human nature. Private property rights are a fundamental tenet of human psychology.

But hey, in defiance of 100+ years of failed attempts, if you want to see Politburos putting people in gulags again for being counterrevolutionaries . . . sure, give it another go.

Capitalism is the worst economic system that has ever been tried . . . except for all the others.
by watwut | 2025-12-22 18:12:39+00:00
> It is good for the world. It helps eventually lift the poor.

Not bipartisan. One specific party is literally against already existing medical progress, because it helps weak people they thing should die.

> It helps business.

Not bipartisan unless it benefits super rich millionaires businesses. The moment it benefits their competition, it ceases to be bipartisan.
Show HN: BrowserForge – AI browser agents (1000 free credits)
by grantsingleton | 2025-12-22 18:12:44+00:00
Hi HN. I’m building BrowserForge (https://browserforge.ai), an AI browser agent platform.

It uses the latest and best computer use model, gemini 2.5 computer use. There is no better computer use model right now, and you can try it out free.

Sign up now and get 1000 free credits to try it out.

What BrowserForge does differently is run agents in real Chrome instances and focus on goal-oriented automation. You describe what you want done (as you would to a teammate), and the agent navigates the site like a human would, clicking, typing, selecting dropdowns, waiting for dynamic content, extracting structured data, and completing multi-step flows.

A few things we’re building around:
- Persistent authenticated sessions: log in once, reuse saved cookies/auth state for future runs.
- Monitoring + reliability: agents can retry steps and handle common UI variability (and when something needs human help, that’s surfaced instead of silently failing).
- Integration-ready: trigger runs and receive results via API + webhooks.

Concrete examples people use this for:
- Log into an admin portal, download a daily report, extract key numbers, and forward them to your systems.
- Monitor a marketplace for new listings / price changes / removals and alert when conditions are met.
- Fill out multi-step forms (applications, record updates, ticket creation) inside authenticated SaaS tools.

It’s early, and it won’t work on every site without friction (things like 2FA/CAPTCHAs can require manual intervention), but for a lot of browser-based ops it’s already useful.

I’d love feedback from HN on:
What browser workflow would you automate first?
Where do existing approaches (Playwright/RPA/etc.) break down for you?
What would you want for debugging/auditability when an agent runs?
If you want to try it, it’s here: https://browserforge.ai (CTA: Get Started Free).