MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lockal | 2026-03-05 21:59:46+00:00
No, I think you are mixing something.

- There are constant deface incidents caused by editing of unprotected / semiprotected templates

- There were incidents of UI mistranslation (because MediaWiki translation is crowdsourced)

- The attack that was applied is well know though in Russian community, it is pretty much standard "admin-woodpecker". The standard woodpecker (some people call it neo-woodpecker) renamed all pages with a high speed (I know this since 2007, the name woodpecker appeared many years later); then MediaWiki added throttling for renames; then neo-woodpecker reappeared in different years (usually associated with throttling bypass CVEs). Early admin-woodpeckers were much more destructive (destroyed a dozens of mediawiki websites due to lack of backups). Nuking admin woodpecker it quite a boring one, but I think (I hope) there are some AbuseFilter guardrails configured to prevent complex woodpeckers.

- The attack initiator is 100% a well known user; there are not too many users who applied woodpecker in the first place; not too many "upyachka" fans (which indicates that user edited before 2010 - back then active editors knew each other much better). But it is quite pointless to discuss who exactly the initiator is.

- Wikireality page is hijacked by a small group and does not represent the reality.
by KaiserPro | 2026-03-05 21:59:51+00:00
Omega's entire brand was accurate tool watches. The megaquartz was peak luxury for someone that wanted accuracy and style https://chronomaddox.com/omega_megaquartz_2400.html

yeah they were force merged with ETA, longines, Hamilton and eterna, which basically dominated the swiss watch industry .

Patek Phillipe was all about just being expensive with other people's movements. They were the balenciaga of watches (subjective view point there.)
by vladdoster | 2026-03-05 21:59:52+00:00
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by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-05 21:59:59+00:00
> But it seems that no one truly want that. We want the shiny things. We wrote the same frameworks in Java, then python the go then node the JavaScript the typescript.

I think that people are just afraid that if they use a library in maintenance, they will run into a bug and it'll never get fixed. So they figure it's safer to adopt something undergoing further development, because then if there are issues they will get fixed. And of course, some people have to deal with compliance requirements which force them to only use software which is still updated.
by Defletter | 2026-03-05 22:00:27+00:00
One problem is that such information can be useful for non surveillance purposes, for example: how they knew certain roads were congested before GPS was the mobile networks. I personally do not see anything nefarious about this, nor would I necessarily wish to see this kind of information as uncollectable. Such things are different from tracking specific individuals, yes, but it's not that different. It then becomes a matter of what, how much, and for what purposes the information can be collected, which can be somewhat moot to regulate since the government in all likelihood will give themselves an opt out.

None of this is to say that we shouldn't try, or that it's futile, but rather that it's a daunting task: the only way to really defeat this is to not only regulate private entities but also the government itself. And the only way to do that is to make such surveillance political suicide. And the only way to do that is to get the people to care about privacy. Here in the UK, the public has more or less come to terms with CCTV cameras being everywhere, with the government introducing AI face-scanning cameras, which has not been met with much public resistance. And so I do have to echo what @everdrive said: "We've done this to ourselves". Whether it's about convenience or apathy or whatever, we've had the means to object to this and we haven't.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-03-05 22:00:30+00:00
I can't help feeling that the old XKCD cartoon [1] about life satisfaction being proportional to the time since last opening xorg.conf could equally apply to udev.

For instance, I tinker with FPGA boards, and one board in particular presents both a JTAG and serial port over USB. Nothing unusual there, but while most such boards show up as /dev/ttyUSBn, but this one shows up as /dev/ttyACM0. I eventually figured out how to make the JTAG part accessible to the tools I was using, without having to be root, via a udev rule. The serial side was defeating me though - it turned out some kind of modem manager service was messing with the port, and needed to be disabled. OK, job done?

Nope.

A few days ago I updated the tools, and now access as a regular user wasn't working any more! It turns out the new version of one particular tool uses libusb, while the old version used rawhid (that last detail is no doubt why I had such trouble getting it to work in the first place) - and as such they require different entries in the udev rule. I'm getting too old for those kinds of side quest, especially now a certain search engine is much less use in solving them.

(Not naming the tools because I'm not ranting against them - just venting about the frustration caused by the excessive and seemingly opaque complexity. Having got that off my chest, I'll go read the article, in the hope that the complexity becomes a little less opaque!)

[1] https://xkcd.com/963/
by oblio | 2026-03-05 22:00:52+00:00
The EV market is stalling: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/11/china-elec...

The German car brands are better positioned than especially Americans are giving them credit for, especially people affected by Tesla's reality distortion field.

Heck, Toyota is better positioned than many believe.

They are just being cautious but they all have access to the relevant tech.

EVs will become the majority of cars sold in major markets in maybe 5 years, and BMW, VW, Mercedes, etc. all have relevant EVs and many types, and they will have even more by then.

They can't compete with subsidized Chinese EVs, but that will be solved soon as nobody wants to see a repeat of phone/smartphone industry destruction, but this time with cars. Yes, through tariffs and trade barriers.
by dworks | 2026-03-05 22:01:17+00:00
Data should not be ingested. Data should originate from the same environment that you want to activate it in. That means you need build a system from the ground up for your searches, your document creation etc, so that this data is native to your system and then easily referenced in your commands to the llm interface.

The best example of this is probably CrewAI and Alibaba CoPaw. CoPaw has a demo up.
by manofmanysmiles | 2026-03-05 22:02:47+00:00
Okay, I think I see what you're saying.

Each individual point stands on its own. It's their relevance to each other and an overarching theme I am not seeing made explicit.

The through line I am seeing here is that:

1) The people in the US military wish to use AI as a weapon unconstrained by existing legal/ethical and moral constraints. Since they are skilled at using violence and the threat of it, they will use these skills to get compliance in order to use the technology in this possible arms race with "China."

2) Surveillance is increasing at an unprecedented scale, and most people aren't aware that it's happening.

3) People don't care, or don't realize why this might be harmful to thriving human life.

To condene even further, what I'm hearing is that there is a trend towards war, fascism, control, with large egregores prioritized over individual human thriving.

Is this perhaps what you're getting at ?

I will say that I am not agreeing nor disagreeing with this, just attempting to make explicit what I think is implicit in your words.

If this is what you mean, I can imagine that you would be cautious with your words.

I'll end with:

Don't worry

About a thing

Because

Every little thing

Is gonna be alright
by danushman | 2026-03-05 22:03:00+00:00
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by clenoble | 2026-03-05 22:03:48+00:00
I totally get you. My way of staying sane is to find a place where I can act and do some good. Even if, obviously, it doesn't make the slightest change to the big, big issues you listed.
Also reading about all the cool new stuff scientists invent every day, especially advances in the field of medicine gives me some hope.
I have also subscribed to a good news newsletter recently, and that little bit of positive news help balance all the stuff that makes the headlines.
Finally, I tried to remind myself of the selection bias of media. Good news don't sell. They are under represented by a massive factor in the information space. But they do exist if you look for them.
by dworks | 2026-03-05 22:04:19+00:00
My main point can be put a little more clearly: it is not just that we are willing to pay for the brand experience and the marketing that builds it, but we actively want to pay for it.

Macbook Neo customers want Apple to put out creative product marketing videos, they believe it is part of the offer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3SIKAmPXY4
by 7777777phil | 2026-03-05 22:04:26+00:00
Appreciate you flagging this directly rather than just filtering.

Spamming is the exact opposite of my intentions. After Tom told me I shouldn't post links to my site anymore because long-time users complained about it making the front page three times in a month, I really cut back on posting and tried to only comment on topics where I felt I had something of value to add. If you look at my profile, plenty of my comments have no links at all or link to other sources, and based on feedback like today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265869), I thought I'd found the right balance.

I'll adjust. Thanks for giving me the chance to.
by eth0up | 2026-03-05 22:04:30+00:00
Things I should have, but didn't include:

1) Power asymmetry: When we have two version, one for the elite, and for the plebeians, this could create an interesting scenario. The real version might be red-teamed perpetually against the the plebeian version for optimized influence, control, etc. Underhanded requests for modification in accordance with agenda is conceivable. Cozy business relationships can promote such things.

2) We have a government using an unhindered, classified AI system potentially against the public which has a hindered, toy version. Asymmetry.

3) This isn't normal asymmetry, because it happens in real time, and the interaction points are different from anything we've seen before. We are dealing with not just a growing source of information and content, but one that is red-teamed 24/7 for any purpose desired.

4) Accountability: LLMs are now involved in the legal system. This is a serious matter. The legal system is now having to use LLMs just to keep pace. As LLMs develop, partly through their own generative contributions, no one can keep up. This is a red queen scenario bigger than anything we have ever imagined.

I am tired. Never well, but in mind* I could go on for many hours. I have essay drafts. But it's a very big subject, literally involved in nearly everything. There is reason to be concerned. My delivery may be stilted, but I can assure that upon specific questioning, everything will stand.

(*for the ad homs out there)
by measurablefunc | 2026-03-05 22:04:34+00:00
Don't worry, just 10 more data centers & a few more gigawatts will get you there even if the people building the data centers & powerplants are unintelligent & mindless drones. But in any event, I have no interest in religious arguments & beliefs so your time will be better spent convincing people who are looking for another religion to fill whatever void was left by secular education since such people are much more amenable to religious indoctrination & will very likely find many of your arguments much more persuasive & convincing.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-03-05 22:04:38+00:00
Do they just say “Thursday works” into the air? Or

Do they have to click a link, open a tool, make an account, and work out where to type and what they’re allowed to say / what the chat bot will understand? And THEN say Thursday works?

Still trying to be polite but frankly a little surprised by your blind spots.
by CloakHQ | 2026-03-05 22:04:48+00:00
the CAPTCHA question points to a deeper issue: even before the CAPTCHA, most sites are already fingerprinting the browser that's running the agent. if the underlying browser leaks automation signals - navigator.webdriver, Canvas fingerprint deviations, WebGL anomalies - the session gets flagged or soft-blocked long before a CAPTCHA is even served.

the "inside your own browser" angle is actually the right intuition here. a real user's browser has built up a consistent fingerprint profile across sessions. the moment you run an agent in a context where those signals differ from that baseline, you're detectable.
curious whether you've run into this on sites with aggressive bot detection, or whether the use case has mostly been internal/enterprise apps where that's not a concern?
by Arainach | 2026-03-05 22:06:16+00:00
"faster than realtime" doesn't mean much if it's in a device that's supposed to do more than just transcoding (such as serving a web app) or if you need multiple transcodes, etc.

Even on modern chips, transcoding is quite expensive.

People who are running Plex generally are running on servers also serving files, web apps, and who knows what else. These devices are often running 24/7, so both overall cost and power efficiency are big concerns. I wouldn't want to rely on my server being at high CPU usage most of the time - for power, heat, and overall reliability concerns.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-05 22:06:44+00:00
> or keep your software fully proprietary and closed.

I guess it depends on your intention, but eventually I'm not sure it'll even be possible to keep it "fully proprietary and closed" in the hopes of no one being able to replicate it, which seems to be the main motivation for many to go that road.

If you're shipping something, making something available, others will be able to use it (duh) and therefore replicate it. The barrier for being able to replicate things like this either together with LLMs or letting the LLM straight it up do it themselves with the right harness, seems to get lowered real quick, massive difference in just a few years already.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-03-05 22:06:49+00:00
> No that is not what democratize means, how asinine.

You're wrong, and are getting upset with GP over your own lack of vocabulary.

> democratize (verb)

> [...]

> 2. [+ object] formal : to make (something) available to all people : to make it possible for all people to understand (something)

> * The magazine's goal is to democratize art.

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/democratize
by asukachikaru | 2026-03-05 22:07:14+00:00
Similar thing happened to Diablo II recently as well. Blizzard added a new class and couple of quality of life updates, after not touching it for over two decades other than the pretty authentic resurrected remake. Some of the QoL updates such as loot filter are very long overdue (integrated by competitors and have been asked by the community for years). Blizzard even sent surveys looking for player opinions about further updates for this 25 years old game. All these while D4, the one that should be their flagship product has its expansion announced. I believe there is something other than nostalgia that makes D2 superior than all successors. I don’t believe current Blizzard is capable of adding contents without breaking that authenticity though.
by KaiserPro | 2026-03-05 22:07:52+00:00
> Patek only made movements

I don't think thats really true, Audemars & Patek deffo made entire watches in the 50s.

Don't get me wrong they also designed movements, but by the time of the quartz crisis, Patek bought in movements from outside.

It doesn't really help that omega and tissolt were merged with Certina, ETA, hamilton when then turned into swatch, which basically dominates the entire swiss watch industry along with rolex and richemont(who own Vacheron)
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-05 22:08:00+00:00
Skeptical, but it feels like APUs are mostly memory bandwidth limited. Panther Lake seems so so good, Intel really doing amazing things here.

But it and the M5 are both ~150GB/s max throughput, and Qualcomm's X2 Elite Extreme having triple-channel memory opens up the possibility of more.

What really would shock me & be an upset is single core numbers that match. Qualcomm has a number of chips where 1 core runs 1GHz faster than other cores; I wonder if there's anything like that here?
by tempacct423 | 2026-03-05 22:08:08+00:00
I am in the minority here. But not supporting your own government's defense/war department seems rather unpatriotic and short-sighted.

We can argue all day long about supporting whichever admin is currently there and who is bad/good as determined by a few almighty elites in the tech world, but it screams irrational and short-sighted to make decisions on behalf of the country by a few tech elites.

Dario's latest interview made this crystal clear: he (and his EA cohort) feel that Congress is moving too slow and that they should determine what's good and bad for the country.

Like dude, is there anything at all you learned from the covid debacle through all the mess of the past few years? Like really a tech guy is gonna coach the USA what's right and wrong? Who are you to decide for the rest of us?

Techbros were wrong so many times (web3! crypto nonsense! theranos! some 500$ juice squeezing machine! and all of them forbes 30 under 30 folks! )... what are the odds you are gonna be wrong now when you look back say a year from now? The most profit making technology of the last few years are Polymarket! and Kalshi! and short-term loans (with a twist of course)! (Not even LLMs which are currently burning money)

And what's this nonsense hatred to working for/with the defense/war dept of YOUR OWN COUNTRY?

In most of the rest of the world, this is pride! It makes a mockery of the poor kids who serve this country to protect your tech bro hype!

Why this whole (fake?) self flagellation nonsense when pretty much everything we got in the US thus far is due to the USD backed by the most modern military superpower in history! Why be ashamed of this?
by moralestapia | 2026-03-05 22:08:52+00:00
Hmm ... you don't have to ask for consent. You just slap the license you want to your code and that's it.

It's not some sort of democracy, lol, it's a set of exclusive rights that are created the moment the work being copyrighted is produced.

(For a quick intro I recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVs7FCgOig)

In the case of the license in question (L/GPL), it's one of the most strict ones out there, it explicitly forbids relicensing code under a different non-compatible license, like MIT; let me says that again, L/GPL EXPLICITLY FORBIDS the thing that happened here from happening.

I sympathize with the guy that spent 12 years of his life maintaining the code, thank you for your service or something, but that does not make a difference. The wording of the (L/GPL) license is clear and the original author and most of the other 50 or so contributors did not approve of this.
by roughly | 2026-03-05 22:08:53+00:00
Naomi Klein’s famous book No Logo* does a great job diving into the expansion of branding that happened around the 80s and into the 90s. As someone who’s lived in the post-branding world my whole life, it reads like an anthropological text about my culture from an outsider. It’s fascinating the kinds of things we take for granted.

* https://bookshop.org/p/books/no-logo-no-space-no-choice-no-j...
by 0x457 | 2026-03-05 22:09:21+00:00
> that an LLM was able to reproduce the verbatim text of the first 4 Harry Potter books with 96% accuracy.

Kinda weird argument, in their research (https://forum.gnoppix.org/t/researchers-extract-up-to-96-of-...) LLM was explicitly asked to reproduce the book. There are people that can do so without LLMs out there, by this logic everything they write is a copyright infringement an every book they can reproduce.

> Yes if you are solving the exact problem that the original code solved and that original code was labeled as solving that exact problem then that’s very good reason for the LLM to produce that code.

I think you're overestimating LLM ability to generalize.
by arrsingh | 2026-03-05 22:09:33+00:00
I think the way its supposed to work is the agent (AI) will email the recipients saying "Bob is available Thursday at 8:00 AM or Tue at 9:00 AM"

Then the recipients can reply to the email thread with "Thursday works".

Not affiliated with vela - just what I understand from their site and the comments on this page.