MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by withshakespeare | 2026-02-27 22:21:27+00:00
Data Broker Price (what they pay for your profile):

Base: $0.50 - $2.00 per complete profile
Adjustments for demographics, location, income level
Higher value for: older, higher income, homeowners, recent purchasers
Lower value for: younger, students, privacy-conscious behavior

Advertiser Value (what they make from your profile annually):

Base CPM rates: $2-15 per 1,000 impressions
Average person sees 4,000-10,000 ads daily
Conversion rates: 0.05-2% depending on category
Average purchase values: $50-500 per conversion
Annual calculation: impressions × CPM + (conversions × purchase value)

The Markup Calculation:
Annual advertiser value ÷ data broker price = markup percentage
Example: $829 annual value ÷ $1.97 broker price = 42,000% markup

Standards from these Industry sources:
Data broker prices: Acxiom, Epsilon, Experian public rate cards
CPM rates: IAB reports, programmatic platform benchmarks
Impression volumes: Nielsen, comScore media consumption studies
Conversion rates: Industry benchmarks from Google, Facebook ad studies
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-27 22:21:31+00:00
What I'm reading of this law is that it requires OS developers to require users select their age (really their age bracket) when making a user account, and an interface for applications/websites to read that user-provided field. I.e. not age verification, but just a standard way to identify if a user is on a child account. If that understanding is correct, how is this bad at all? It's a way to put to rest people's concerns and pearl-clutching over children accessing adult content without every individual app and service provider contracting with Palantir to scan you and guess your age. Instead they can just read the IsAdult header and call it a day. What's the cost to user-freedom? You have to be presented a Date of Birth field or I Am an Adult / Teen / Child selector when setting up a device... a thing that every operating system impacted by this law already does.
by ysnp | 2026-02-27 22:22:23+00:00
>I don't think this has changed at all since.

There is common knowledge to suggest that it is not the case (or maybe is no longer the case):

>Mainstream smartphones do not provide DMA access from the baseband to the application processor's memory... Yes, getting baseband access then lets you monitor regular voice and SMS comms. But no, it does not instantly compromise the AP so using the Signal app would still be secure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906488

>Apple mitigates baseband processor vulnerabilities by putting it behind what's essentially an IOMMU.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440154

>This is false FUD that keeps being repeated. It's not true. No iPhone ever has had a baseband with DMA access to my knowledge, and modern Qualcomm devices have advanced IOMMU systems to firewall away the baseband from the rest of system memory. I'm sure some phones somewhere existed where the baseband was privileged, but it's not the norm.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30393283

>Connecting a cellular radio via USB provides far less isolation than the approach of a tiny kernel driver connected to an IOMMU isolated cellular radio on mainstream devices. USB has immense complexity and attack surface, especially with a standard Linux kernel configuration. Forensic data extraction companies mostly haven't bothered using attack vectors other than USB due to it being such a weak point. Many of the things people claim about cellular radios in mainstream smartphones are largely not true and they're missing that other radios are implemented in a very comparable way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841004
by monooso | 2026-02-27 22:23:00+00:00
This is false.

Kagi had a post discussing this which made the front page of HN about a month ago [1]:

> Google does not offer a public search API. The only available path is an ad-syndication bundle with no changes to result presentation - the model Startpage uses. Ad syndication is a non-starter for Kagi’s ad-free subscription model.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708678
by bee_rider | 2026-02-27 22:23:21+00:00
I have basically the same experience of trying DuckDuckGo, getting useless results if the search is outside the domain of the handful of sites I already know, and then trying Google. But I find Google usually also returns useless sites.

ChatGPT is the only general-purpose search engine that seems to have any chance of producing a link that is both new to me and useful. Of course, I try not to use it too much, people say it’s bad for the planet or whatever.
by singron | 2026-02-27 22:23:26+00:00
The whole point of the bill is to create a cause of action for the Attorney General to sue companies. In the bill, they say the damages are up to $2,500 per negligently affected child ($7,500 if intentional), so it doesn't matter how many non-children it affects. E.g. if the OS/appstore/accounts/application is in the context of a workplace that only employs adults, none of this matters.
by xiphias2 | 2026-02-27 22:23:26+00:00
For anybody who thinks it's about Trump vs other administration: it's not, both AI surveillance of all people and using it for automatic fight was just bound to happen.

The only question is whether the safety of the models were really done well enough to protect the people and be a net positive force in the world.

I guess if they would be safely trained to do more good than bad (how Dario and SamA said), there wouldn't even be a need for the contract terms.
by b112 | 2026-02-27 22:23:48+00:00
This team politics, the me-vs-them, this red-vs-blue that your country, and you, and everyone upthread was precisely what I was commenting on. It's sad, it's destructive, and both sides of your little game have created the situation you are in today.

Jumping on a guy because he corrected someone, and immediately presuming it had an entire slew of politics attached, instead of it being a mere technical correction, is prime example of everything wrong with the US today. Everything.

Me vs them. One word means a political stance. The wrong thing said, accidentally, you're the enemy. It's literally sad. I stand, as a Canadian, watching my brother make horrible life choices, and I want to help, yet I just see more anger and hate and discord.

None of this serves any of you well, it all serves your enemies. Right now, your acts, and the act of the guy super-upset that someone said DOW, serves your enemies. 90% of this is fueled by state actor controlled bots and comments, and you guys eat it up as manna.

So yes, I have an entirely reasonable point. The guy literally might have had no idea. I certainly didn't. You don't even know if that dude is american or not!

DOW is all over the news.

The presumption is wrong. The anger is wrong. The hate is wrong. The attitude is wrong.

On both sides. Of both sides of your little squabble.

I don't care who started it. The entire lot of you need a parent to come into the room, and tell just that, and that you both should go to your room.

And if you don't watch it? If you don't stop stepping out of bounds. If you don't halt it.

The rest of as are going to have to.

And that would be the saddest thing of all. For all of us.
by delusional | 2026-02-27 22:24:07+00:00
> It’s not OK as a hard requirement for anything else such as banking.

It is in fact not a hard requirement. It just happens that when you have a relatively cheap and efficient digital identity, which is by definition trusted by the government, banks will use that to reduce risk. It's not that they can't verify your identity any other way, this is just the obvious and easy one.
by rpdillon | 2026-02-27 22:24:28+00:00
Wow, TIL. Thanks for mentioning this. I ran across this as I was researching the background:

> The "beige box" era was largely the result of strict German workplace ergonomics standards (specifically the TUV and DIN standards) that became the de facto rules for the entire global industry. The law didn't explicitly say "thou shalt use beige," but the regulations were so specific about light reflectivity and eye strain that beige (or "computer gray") was essentially the only compliant option.
by redleader55 | 2026-02-27 22:24:39+00:00
Everyone thinks this bubble will continue until AGI(bulls) or until someone calls them on it(bears). I think it will continue until someone finds a quick way to make cheap energy(bullish) or until we can't build more power plants to support AI growth(bearish).

While nothing fancy has happened yet in the area of cheap energy, there is still enough power around the world to build AI data centers. The problem is this power exits in countries that the West has decided, many times for good reasons, they don't want to deal with their leaders.

I'm predicting that over 2027, either the US will become more aggressive in making war with these countries or company CEOs will start developing "reality-distorsion-fields" around them and decide having enough power for the next datacenter is more for the good of humanity. Before that Europe will decide that AI training on human faces(eg. of non-Europeans) is not really a problem and will allow US companies to train their models in EU countries.
by leptons | 2026-02-27 22:25:00+00:00
"Anthropic" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, and I think a lot of people would avoid it simply because it doesn't have a catchy name like OpenAI or ChatGPT. It's also far more fun to say "I did a Google search" than "I did a Duck Duck Go search", and one still dominates over the other no matter the privacy concerns or how easy it is to switch. People can be simple like that.
by robotpepi | 2026-02-27 22:25:04+00:00
we had local, small and noche business before. and even today.

the point again is that nobody says that certain mechanism of the market can have positive effects. the point is that way overestimated. we have extremely complex procedures that cost insanely amounts of money for stuff like ads. we could have a fraction of that power and people would still know about the products they need, etc.
by xpe | 2026-02-27 22:25:45+00:00
You make many good points.

Before I say anything else,
I want you to know that I definitely don’t want to box anyone in with false dichotomies. I don’t think any of my arguments rely on them.

I’m not asking that you anchor on any one counterfactual exclusively. If you don’t like my counterfactual, reframe it and offer up others. I’m not a “one model to rule them all” kind of person.

If one of your big takeaways is we should keep our eyes open and not put anyone on a pedestal, I agree.

At present, my general prior that Amodei is probably the best of the bunch. This is a complex assessment and unpacking it might require gigabytes or even petabytes of experience. (I know that is a weird and unusual way to put it, but I like to highlight just how different people’s experiences can be.)

I am definitely uncomfortable with Palantir. Are you suggesting that Anthropic is differentially worse compared to other AI labs? Are you suggesting the other labs would do better if they were in Anthropic’s position?

If you don’t like the way I framed these questions, I suspect we have different philosophical underpinnings.

You might be aware that you’re implicitly referencing deontological ethics (DE). I’m familiar and receptive to many DE arguments. Overall,
I’m not settled on where I land, but roughly my current take is this: for individuals with limited information and/or highly constrained computational resources, DE is generally a safe bet. It probably is a decent way to organize individuals together into a society of low to moderate complexity.

But for high stakes decisions, especially at the organizational level and definitely the governmental level, I think consequentialism provides a better framework. It is less stable in a sense. Consequentialist ethics (CE) is kind of a meta-framework (because one still has to choose a time horizon, discount rate, computational budget, evaluation function, etc.) It is rather complicated as anyone who has tried to build a reinforcement learning environment will know.

I fully grant that CE will admit a pretty wide range of concrete ethics (because the hyperparameter space is large). Some even can be horrific, so I don’t universally endorse CE. But done within sensible bounds, I think it CE is one of the most powerful and resilient ethical frameworks for powerful agents dealing with a complex world.

DE feels ok in the short run in areas where people have strong inculcated senses of right and wrong. But I would not trust it to keep the human race alive through rapid periods of change like we’re facing.

To be blunt, deontological ethics just cannot survive contact with modern geopolitics and AI risk. This is why I don’t put much stock in the kind of arguments that merely single out actions that don’t look good in isolation.
Show HN: Forge-GPU – 55 C lessons for SDL's GPU API, built with Claude Code
by leobelle | 2026-02-27 22:26:03+00:00
Open-source tutorial series teaching real-time graphics programming with SDL's GPU API. Covers everything from Hello Window to SSAO, with math lessons, engine lessons, and a UI track building font rendering from scratch. Every lesson is a standalone C program with commented code explaining why, not just what.
The whole project was built with Claude Code. Each lesson also distills into a reusable Claude Code skill — copy them into your own project and build games with AI that actually understands the GPU patterns.
by stephen_cagle | 2026-02-27 22:26:36+00:00
I use KVM/QEMU on Linux. I have a set of scripts that I use to create a new directory with a VM project and that also installs a debian image for the VM. I have an ./pull_from_vm and ./push_to_vm that I use to pull and push the git code to and from the vm. As well as a ./claude to start claude on the vm and a ./emacs to initialize and start emacs on the vm after syncing my local .spacemacs directory to the vm (I like this because of customized emacs muscle memory and because I worry that emacs can execute arbitrary code if I use it to ssh to the VM client from my host).

I try not to run LLM's directly on my own host. The only exception I have is that I do use https://github.com/karthink/gptel on my own machine, because it is just too damn useful. I hope I don't self own myself with that someday.
by jakeydus | 2026-02-27 22:27:03+00:00
That doesn’t sound like you solved it, that sounds like you obfuscated it. Feels a bit to me like you’ve got a wall around a property and people are using ladders to get in, so you built another wall around the first wall.

I recognize I’m being pedantic but two layers of the same kind of security (an LLM recognizing a prompt injection attempt) are not the same as solving a security vulnerability.
by eek2121 | 2026-02-27 22:27:10+00:00
Agreed...mostly. I've been using DDG for many years on and off (shoot, since they first became a thing), and for about 3 years full time. About 15% of my searches end with me adding !g to the end to perform a Google search. Google gets things right another 5-10% of the time. For the oddest of searches, I have to tweak my search terms several times to even attempt to figure out the answer.

Search is hard.

Breaking up with Google is even harder, but definitely worth it. I still have a Gmail account that is used for spam/low effort email nonsense (I currently use hey.com for most email...a decision I am considering revisiting in the future since I've found a good way to host my own email with a provider that won't get auto rejected/blacklisted). That and the searches I mentioned above are my only use of Google Products at this point in time. Maps is gone. Photos is just a memory. I kicked Android out the door years ago. All my home integrations are via open source and/or Apple, and I'm finding ways to NOT have to rely on even Apple for that.

I never really used docs or other services. For storage I am currently using OneDrive and iCloud, however I am about to push all of the cloud storage stuff to Backblaze and Cloudflare.

While I almost never see ads, when I do see them, I notice that they are never targeted ads. Even some of the odd "coincidences" have gone away...say, verbally chatting with my spouse about how I am thinking about buying such and such a product...only to see an ad for it later on (and assuming it was a coincidence)...things like that have stopped.

I've also been avoiding Amazon as well, for the same reason.

Just my 2 cents.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-27 22:27:15+00:00
Let's consider the two possibilities here:

1. They have a policy of marking apps as NSFW if using them has a high probability of loading NSFW content onto the device. We can't easily rule this out. It's a small project so they have to be reserved about compliance issues because they don't have the resources to defend against expensive litigation and they could just be exercising an abundance of caution.

2. They're trolling Republicans with malicious compliance. They don't like the laws being enacted, they know the people enacting them like the Bible, so they apply the policy in the way which is maximally adversarial to the opponents imposing it on them. "If you don't like the consequences of your law then feel free to repeal it."

Which one of these is even objectionable? It seems like you want that if they're doing the second one they should admit to it, but in that case they're just maintaining kayfabe. The trolling is more effective when it's ambiguous. It's obvious that it could be that. If the message is to invite their opponents to go eat sand then it's not being lost in translation. But making that explicit only makes it easier to dismiss them as antagonists, or retaliate against them for being overtly defiant.

Whereas if they play it straight, what is someone going to say? That it shouldn't apply to this, right? Okay, then we need to pin down the rules for how exceptions work. Exceptions that could then be applied to other things. Which is to their advantage to have their opponents doing in this context because then they want the exceptions to be broad and reasonable instead of not caring if someone else is getting screwed by them.
by colkassad | 2026-02-27 22:27:42+00:00
I've had this internet handle since the last century. Most people in here are talking about Hyperion but Simmons was a fantastic cross-genre author. My favorites were his historical fiction that contained a fantastical bent:

Drood: Has Wilkie Collins as an unreliable narrator, depicting the last five or so years of Charles Dickens' life.

Crook Factory: An FBI agent is sent to Cuba to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway, hijinks ensue.

The Fifth Heart: Henry James and Sherlock Holmes team up to solve a mystery.

The Terror: Tells the story of what happened to the HMS Terror that attempted to make the northwest passage. The Arctic is a character in itself in this amazing story. I thought the TV mini-series was fine.

Abominable and Black Hills: I haven't read these yet but look forward to doing so.

Honestly, I think Dan Simmons is my favorite author. I know his politics became unpalatable but I could never find it in myself to care. My heart sank when I saw this post.
by rustystump | 2026-02-27 22:27:50+00:00
I did and every example used is pushin 20 years old. Platforms and communities absolutely change in that time span.

Is saying it is like reddit here useful and break earlier guidelines, yes. But again, the dismissal wording is weird. It is a, you are wrong because your opinion is wrong which ironically is pretty reddit back in 08 and today.

To be constructive, that rule about reddit could be removed with the earlier rules still catching the trope. Idk why it was added originally but I suppose it was a different time 17 years ago.
by whaleofatw2022 | 2026-02-27 22:27:50+00:00
Not the person originally replying, but as someone who avoids JS I have to ask whether the abstraction you provide may have additional baggage as far as framing/etc.

Ironically, naively, I'd expect something more like a callback where you would specify how your input gets written to a buffer, but again im definitely losing a lot of nuance from not doing JS in a long while.
by maximillion123 | 2026-02-27 22:27:50+00:00
Been testing a bunch of AI tools lately and randomly came across APEX-1 on a.ai.

Not exaggerating it feels faster and more direct than most models I’ve used. The answers are structured, less fluffy, and it actually reasons instead of just sounding confident.

It’s still early, but this is one of the few times I’ve thought:
“Okay… this could get big.”
by cyanydeez | 2026-02-27 22:28:19+00:00
is it though? If you setup a PC for a 12 year old and prompts you something like [12~16] and thats reported to whatever, what exactly is the fear? You can scream slippery slope but these laws are just going to boil down to technical capability because enforcement isn't realistic.

There's real harms by large businesses such as Meta. Should we pretend those arms don't exist?
by Groxx | 2026-02-27 22:28:20+00:00
Yeah, I personally know a couple people where self-research found the correct diagnosis, and I am one of them. We had a fantastic primary, who worked with us quite closely and did a lot of research after we found some new information from him.

Doctors don't know everything and don't have access to everything, they are just quite a lot better than the alternatives in the vast majority of cases, so your default odds are much better following their recommendation than anything else. Training is worth a lot, and everyone also knows it's not perfect, and that's entirely fine.
by NittLion78 | 2026-02-27 22:28:22+00:00
I can testify that Qwant, if nothing else, is a superior image search engine (basically does what GIS used to do 10-15 years ago) and it's better for just getting to a quick answer without your first 4 results being ad-driven.

Unfortunately, when needing to do deeper dives on things, Google is still more or less the best for results past the first page in my experience, though it's rare I need to dig that deep these days.
by SllX | 2026-02-27 22:28:28+00:00
> And yet, term limits are something many people want in the hopes that it will solve some of the problems in Washington DC.

Plenty of shitty ideas are popular based on a hope and a prayer. That’s why you don’t give in to populism. If we’re to impose any kind of limits on Congress, it has to be more intelligent than term limits.
by ses1984 | 2026-02-27 22:28:32+00:00
On the other hand, there is so so much art out there, I could never hope to consume it all. It’s simple for me to use the character of the artist as a filter. I can break that rule whenever I want, but by default, other things being equal, I would prefer to consume art for pleasure from artists I respect as people.

I do consume art from outside this bubble but more to satisfy academic curiosity than pleasure.
by libraryofbabel | 2026-02-27 22:28:42+00:00
Oh, boy. The Shrike. That thing still haunts me in a way that no other monster or alien across all of Sci-fi or fantasy really does. It's something about the inscrutability of it, especially in the first novel (still my favorite) where its purpose and backstory haven't been revealed. Sure, it's scary, but I think the mystery of its motives - and its ability to unpredictably act apparently benevolently sometimes - is where the real terror lies.