MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Timon3 | 2026-01-05 18:03:12+00:00
> I would assume so. It's sort of a catch 22 because if they delete your data, they have no way of knowing about you when they buy another batch of data. To have some sort of no track list, they have to keep your data.

If I ever stumble upon such an obvious oversight/loophole, I find it's best to not immediately stop, but to ask: "How do they intend to solve this?"

In this case, the first part of the terms of use solves your conundrum:

> By submitting a deletion request through DROP, you consent to disclosure of your personal information to data brokers for purposes of processing your deletion request pursuant to Civil Code section 1798.99.80 et seq. unless or until you cancel your deletion request. Additionally, you acknowledge that data brokers receiving your deletion request will delete any non-exempt "personal information," as defined in Civil Code section 1798.140(v), which pertains to you and was collected from third parties or from you in a non-"first party" capacity (i.e., through an interaction where you did not intend or expect to interact with the data broker).
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-05 18:03:20+00:00
This is what I've been looking for. I love Tailscale, but as our tailnet has grown from "just me and a few servers" to "entire engineering team + prod/staging/dev environments," the ACL file has become terrifyingly long.

I always have this low-level anxiety that I accidentally left a tag too open or messed up a source/destination rule in the HuJSON. Anyone else? The fact that this can run in CI/CD is a huge win.
by tharmas | 2026-01-05 18:03:22+00:00
The $US as world's reserve currency played a big part in why manufacturing was offshored. As manufacturing processes mature they move to the periphery. Because of the reserve currency status of the $US, this periphery meant outside the United States.

The periphery got the jobs and the US Elite got the $$$'s. What should've happened though was the Elites should've invested their cash into in technologies. Sure they did to some extent (NVIDIA is an example) but mostly what they did was pile their money into fixed assets, hence the inflation (e.g. housing) we have today.

The Blame lies with the Investment class elites, the Bankers, and the Donor Controlled politicians. Washington D.C. (Donor Controlled).
by mordymoop | 2026-01-05 18:03:30+00:00
I also had a good friend who was an absolute wizard with early stablediffusion. he could make the model do things that were supposedly impossible at the time. His prompts were works of art. Now any of the commercial image models go far beyond what he could do. It's interesting to think about how there was this ephemeral art form of manipulating image models that existed for about a year.

The same could be said of prompt engineering. Gone are the days of telling the model that it is an expert software engineer with a PhD in the most relevant subtopic. These days the common wisdom is to just clearly articulate what you want it to do. Huge amounts of energy put into prompt engineering are now completely swept away by incremental model advances.
by EGreg | 2026-01-05 18:03:44+00:00
There is a legal way to do this.

When pitchin / designing the project, bake in cryptocurrency / some sort of credits system. Have a way to airdrop some to users etc.

The client is trained to view it as win-win stuff. Customers can take advantage of the credits to do some actions. The more volume, the more credits the client needs to buy.

So they start small but when it gets too big to fail, customers start kvetching and it’s not a surprise change to the site, it’s built in. And it’s gradual, not one lump sum.

Cryptocurrency is the right fit here because you want it to be tied to something the client can’t just mint unlimited amounts of. A lot of the site has to be reading the blockchain, so it would be expensive to refactor.

Anyway - just another use of cryptocurrency that properly aligns everyone’s incentives and prevents legal disputes through continuity instead of abruptness.

PS: 4 seconds after I posted it, it got downvoted. Then 10 seconds later, -2. Because it has the word cryptocurrency. No one can load, read and react that fast. This is getting ridiculous. Turn off the bots based on a word, and engage with the substance.
by true_religion | 2026-01-05 18:04:25+00:00
When you don’t pay for your salesforce Licence it disables your integrations, and puts up a banner saying this has been done for non payment so you should contact an administrator.

Far be it from me to hold them up as a beacon of moral value, but in business it’s fair to say you have to pay for service.

It’s not a humiliation, it’s just factual.
by KomoD | 2026-01-05 18:05:05+00:00
This probably explains why they're not paying: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

> Company status: Dissolved

> Dissolved on 16 December 2025

His other company:

> Company status: Liquidation

People are now attacking the guy on Instagram because I guess the developer or someone, made a Tiktok video about it.
by regular_trash | 2026-01-05 18:05:14+00:00
Before I got into software development, I worked at a company doing technology-adjacent things. Nothing too fancy, but I got to improve a lot of things just by knowing a little powershell.

One day, a senior developer there - a guy very fond of music - was showing me his process for converting a text file into SML. His process consisted of opening two notepads: one with an SML template block, and one with the text file to be converted. He then proceeded to convert each line into SML by copying the prefix tags and postfix tags and pasting them around each line.

I wrote a powershell script in front of him to automatically do that and save an entire days worth of work, and he just stared at me. I had removed the one really mindless part of his job that he could use as an excuse to listen to a TON of music. Needless to say, he never used the script.

Reflecting on this, I feel fortunate to have had this experience early on - it really helps put things into perspective - perceived improvements to anything depend entirely on the workflow of the people impacted.
by cryptonector | 2026-01-05 18:05:34+00:00
See my sibling comment. Basically each text fragment (either each branch-free run of instructions or each function/method) would need to be an object w/ capability, and the linker-loader must arrange for all text references to have the correct pointers. And then it would work. It's just a complication of the linker-loader, but once a program is loaded there would be no further lookups (unless you use something like `dlsym()`). The compromise to make is that within each such text object you have linear addressing with small offsets.
by swagasaurus-rex | 2026-01-05 18:05:40+00:00
What’s missing from these conversations are the cost of living.

We’ve financialized the housing market, meaning the very basic needs of shelter now rises in price in accordance to the market. If tech workers make 2x or 3x the median annual salary, it makes housing prices rise for everybody else in the city.

In order to pay a “living wage” employers have to pay enough for their workers to make rent and groceries. In america, one of the highest GDP per capita in the world, the “living wage” is somewhere between 3x to 10x the offshore salary.

If you could house millions of people at the bare minimum cost, if you could provide them food and healthcare at prices that aren’t inflated, then the living wage doesn’t need to be so high.

We talk a lot about raising the minimum wage. What about lowering the minimum costs? That would mean a less stressful life for workers and cheaper labor for employers.
by aziaziazi | 2026-01-05 18:05:41+00:00
Hydroxyproline isn't essential though, humans can produce their need from collagen, which they also produce as well as most other animals.

> You need to eat a ton of quinoa

Most don't: at 4.4% protein, a 65kg man like me needs 1.5kg of cooked quinoa per day and it's not a big deal:

- You'll digest it like a king: quinoa is full of soluble and insoluble fibers and you won't feel puffy for eating too much. Easy in, easy out.

- Like milk or wheat, there's many transformations possible like flour, flakes, marinades, beverages, soups... alway a joy to cook and eat, no boredom with that grain.

Can't speak for the bodybuilders though but I'm sure most manage they nutrition. I think soy/pea is more popular.

By the way, very few eats only quinoa or any other single aliment. They also get amino acids from grains, pulses and seeds... even fruits like tomatoes but it's obviously negligible.

Quinoa is also fulled with minerals, vitamins and it's proteins have the same biological value (BV) as beef - or more depending on the source.

> its high-quality protein, complete set of amino-acids, and high content of minerals and vitamins. [0]

> exceptional balance between oil, protein and fat [1]

> Quinoa has a high biological value (73%), similar to that of beef (74%) [2]

0 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15528014.2022.2...

1 https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsfa...

2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303845280_Quinoa_Ch...
by spir | 2026-01-05 18:06:05+00:00
> we live under a system that is arranged for the sole benefit of the owners of capital

This is totally false. The vast majority of consumers enjoy huge benefits from the system while owning almost no capital. For example, Walmart customers or iPhone owners.

A lot of people can't tell the difference between capitalism (which has made their lives materially wealthy beyond imagination) and the root cause of today's economic troubles for ordinary people, which is affordability, which is mostly driven by the housing crisis, which is dominated by nimbyism in megacities.

Fix megacity housing regulation to enable cheap/low risk building that the market wants, and you fix the affordability crisis.

No need to rebuild the (greatest system in the history of humankind) from scratch.
by Gagarin1917 | 2026-01-05 18:06:05+00:00
>if you were unable to write, storyboard, and communicate your idea before AI--than AI is not going to be "the thing" that suddenly turns you into a filmmaker.

The person you are replying to doesn’t say that they couldn’t do these aspects before. In fact they mention that they are able to communicate EXACTLY what they want to AI. The only problem was that their idea is high concept.

Getting a high concept film made is one of the most privileged positions in the world. Practically no one can actually just do this. Even people in the film industry with family connections to producers struggle to get their films made.

You have no idea what you’re asking from people when you tell them they should have just made it.

> You're writing anyway, you just call it prompting. If you feel that the AI is giving you back more than what you're putting in with that writing, you have to ask yourself who's vision the result really is.

They didn’t say that, they said they were getting exactly what they were seeing in their head.
by nine_k | 2026-01-05 18:06:22+00:00
In a way, I agree. If you can verify the entire system throughout, you can remove certain runtime checks, such as the separation between the OS and tasks. If you have only one program to run, you can use a unikernel.

I suspect that specifically car / aircraft / spacecraft computers receive regular updates, and these updates change the smallest part they can. So they have separate programs / services running on top of a more general OS. The principles of defense in depth requires that each component should be hardened separately, to minimize the blast radius if a bug slips in.
by sega_sai | 2026-01-05 18:06:27+00:00
I have very little sympathy towards "Open"AI, but in the same time, I think there will be always people in bad mental state who will unfortunately commit suicide after some interaction. I don't think there is a way to avoid that completely, no matter how "smart" AI is. I don't honestly know if current OpenAI protections are too weak or not, but I am somewhat worried that people will be too eager to regulate this based on single cases.
(irrespective of that, obviously companies should not be allowed to hide things from court proceedings)
by drysart | 2026-01-05 18:06:34+00:00
But this is very obviously not "no stuff". This is "different stuff".

Taking the website down entirely or just blanking it out is a very, very different matter than replacing it with a different message; and doubly so when the different message is actively harmful to the customer. Unless the designer's contract with the customer explicitly allowed them to do this, this sort of thing is a slam dunk legal case of either vandalism (using a physical metaphor) or in the UK as in this example, a criminal violation of the Computer Misuse Act.

Not to mention that it's an enormous red flag that will scare away other potential customers for this designer; because it demonstrates that you're very willing to sabotage their operations.
by EGreg | 2026-01-05 18:06:43+00:00
No unauthorized access but they would argue unauthorized vandalism by the developer, which blocks the entire site.

Airing dirty laundry is in some jurisdictions a legal offence. Which is exactly why there needs to be agreement spelled out in contracts upfront, that this could happen, and the client would just sign it.

And I am a fan of smart contracts and cryptocurrencies, see my suggestion below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502285
by ddingus | 2026-01-05 18:07:07+00:00
"Not an outlier"

A quick look at the last few administrations is all anyone needs to see how this one interprets the powers and duties that come with the office.

One of my favorite phrases coined during the last Trump administration was something like, "not just wrong, but wrong beyond normal parameters." It basically meant exactly what we are discussing here; namely, being an outlier of some sort.
by eastbound | 2026-01-05 18:07:17+00:00
What’s frustrating about the VisionPro is their absolute refusal to address it as a giant screen.

All people I know describe this usecase first: “Will be awesome when it replaces my 2x34" screens”. I described it to the salesman when he asked me why I wanted to try it. He never showed it. Gave him 0/5, he complained, I explained this is specifically what I asked. You can emulate one screen in VisionPro but it’s absolutely obnoxious about making it about apps and iPhotos 3D whatever. Users desire it. Apple is hell-bent in not addressing that usecase, and addressing family usecases first.

Imagine they find a proper UI to visualize an infinite Typescript file. Something like flinch and you find yourself in a method, look elsewhere and you immediately see the other method. Make it viral by making it possible to write files in a way that is not practical to normal-screen users, like the old “max 1 screen height” limit. View your team in the corners of your vision. THE tool for remote working.

Workplaces would look futuristic. Your experience at the workplace would be renewed thanks to Apple.

And then, reuse the desktop’s UI on VisionPro instead of the desktop using VP’s concepts.

But no, Apple prefers killing off VisionPro and imposing LiquidGlass to everyone. (In waiting for my threat letter from Steve Jobs for suggesting ideas now).
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-05 18:07:18+00:00
To answer the GP, you'll have to take a look at why the entire industry offshored at the same time.

What makes you think the problem that caused the industry to go won't also cause it to fail if somebody forces them to stay or tries to bring them back? Also, why one industry leaving made people there destitute?

Those things are always more complicated than they seem.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-05 18:07:22+00:00
https://www.akti.org/age-based-knife-laws/

NYC has a four inch limit on knives carried in public, even kitchen knives. https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/about/faq/knives-faq.page

And you can't display that knife. "New York City law prohibits carrying a knife that can be seen in public, including wearing a knife outside of your clothing."

(You can take one to work. "This rule does not apply to those who carry knives for work that customarily requires the use of such knife, members of the military, or on-duty ambulance drivers and EMTs while engaged in the performance of their duties.")

"Knives are sharp" disclaimers are easy to find. https://www.henckels.com/us/use-and-care.html

(The CPSC is likely to weigh in if you make your knife unusually unsafe, too.)
by 1123581321 | 2026-01-05 18:07:27+00:00
Maybe. A lot of freelancers and agencies have amateur or no contracts.

A neutral service suspended message or no response from the server is more defendable if the client goes after you. If you actively communicate on their website, it could be argued you tried to cause reputational harm etc.

Even if you're right, provoking a legal response from a client is more than a lot of creatives and developers can handle, especially if the client is big enough to retain legal or staff a GC.

I suspect that things will turn out fine for this particular developer since the client seems small and the message is mostly innocuous.
by puppycodes | 2026-01-05 18:07:29+00:00
That isn't how the collection of data works.

It's not like brokers wait around for you to sign up for something new.

Old data is resold, merged with new data, mixed, stolen, discovered, reformatted... etc...

Your actions of course do have an impact, but does changing your behavior prevent the outcome of your data being collected?

Not even close.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-05 18:07:45+00:00
> Astroturfing: Coordinated campaigns... [to post,] upvote, leave supportive comments, and ask follow-up questions—creating the illusion of organic excitement... Critical comments receive coordinated mass downvotes.

I thought that was the dictionary definition of social media? If it isn't yet, it should be, Reddit is just the tip of the iceberg.
by M95D | 2026-01-05 18:07:58+00:00
OK, there are 4 reasons listed there:

> Improved compatibility [...] That means scripts/programs written for other Unixes or other Linuxes and ported to your distribution will no longer need fixing for the file system paths of the binaries called, which is otherwise a major source of frustration. [..]

Scripts authors should use the binary name without a path and let the user's $PATH choose which binary to use and from where.

This union denies me the choice of using the statically linked busybox in /bin as a fallback if the "full" binaries in /usr are corrupted or segfaults after some library update.

> Improved compatibility with other Unixes (in particular Solaris) in appearance [...]

I don't care about appearances and I care even less about what Solaris looks like.

Did they take a survey of what Linux users care about, or just imposed their view on all of us because they simply know better? Or were paid to "know better" - I never exclude corruption.

> Improved compatibility with GNU build systems. The biggest part of Linux software is built with GNU autoconf/automake (i.e. GNU autotools), which are unaware of the Linux-specific /usr split.

Yeah, right. Please explain to me how GNU, the userspace of 99% of all Linux distributions isn't aware of Linux-specific /usr split.

And how is this any different from #1 ?

> Improved compatibility with current upstream development

AKA devs decided and users' opinion is irrelevant. This explains why GNU isn't aware of Linux /usr split - they simply don't want to be aware.
by NikolaNovak | 2026-01-05 18:08:07+00:00
I genuinely don't know if this is a sarcastic/troll post or a honest one. I assume it's sarcasm, but I have seen people earnestly suggest such complex and orthogonal solutions to a solved problem, so I have to check (I neither up voted nor down voted fwiw. As sarcasm it's kind of funny. If genuine, I don't even know where to begin - our axiomatic frameworks may be too far apart:)
by crazygringo | 2026-01-05 18:08:09+00:00
This.

You're opening yourself to claims of defamation, tortious interference, disparagement, even coercion, depending on where you are. Not saying the client will win, but they can make it so you'll need to pay lots of legal fees to defend yourself.

It's much smarter to just take the site down without any kind of message, or just something that says "temporarily unavailable". Play dumb with the client, say you don't know why it went down but to fix it but you need to be paid first. Or say it depended on cloud credits that were going to come out of payment, if you don't want it to look like the site went down due to your incompetence.

Making a big public stink might feel good, but it's not a smart business strategy.
by ineedasername | 2026-01-05 18:08:15+00:00
I don't know, I figure with a billion dollars Apple should be able to do much better at being awful than this. More proactive rather than accidental awfulness. Something that isn't just bad but capital intensive at the same time. Anyone can build a bad UX on a few menus, or a whole system incrementally over time. But to really lean in? Maybe commission famous artists with eye watering fees for each icon, truly over the top marketing campaigns, really get the cash-fired furnaces going. Really just go full-potlatch on things.
by knowitnone3 | 2026-01-05 18:08:35+00:00
"right before a mass layoff to avoid paying her severance" if that was the case, wouldn't they have done that for everybody in order to avoid severance pay? Also , according to the Labor Board, "There is no requirement in the FLSA for severance pay. Severance pay is a matter of agreement between an employer and an employee (or the employee's representative)." So if they didn't want to pay a severance, they didn't have to. Her parents failed her more than anybody and they are only trying to turn her into a paycheck.
by SamBam | 2026-01-05 18:08:58+00:00
And yet I suspect it's super effective, because of the powerful illusion of it being real people.

There's the classic search "hack" of adding site:reddit.com to any product recommendation search, to find "real" recommendations.

Most of the time this is going to find 5-10 posts, each with only a dozen comments and a dozen up-votes. And yet it feels do much more real than whatever at the top of Google that many people will trust these reviews.
by VoidWhisperer | 2026-01-05 18:09:07+00:00
I understand that this is to drive research and help security researchers in this case, but I personally think Github should take a harder stance against this kind of repo, education purposes or not - saying it is for educational purposes is definitely not going to stop someone (especially people who wouldn't know how to develop this level of rootkit on their own) from going and using it.

Also the specific details in README regarding 'make sure you randomize this or you'll be detected!' makes it feel even less like it is explicitly for educational purposes since you are providing users easy instructions on how to work around countermeasures this code.