skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the takedown of APT28, I continued to receive spam from IP ranges that were associated with APT29's malware campaigns.

Turns out there's a lot of fake shell companies that act either as hosting companies specifically for malware campaigns from Russia and China or specifically as a company that tries to fraud people, e.g. their CEO being on the FBI most wanted list or the company being sanctioned by the UN.

I'm currently creating some sort of cyber map of these spam/phish/malware campaign overlaps, as part of my antispam [1] effort.

I got tired of LLM based targeted spam where they have a system in place that is trained on my social media profiles, because they are very hard to identify as being spam.

Blocking specific domains is a useless effort because they keep on spawning new fake company domains that are either copies of legit ones or are generated fake profiles. They are so automated that they also create staff members and fake profiles on LinkedIn, specifically for that spam effort. Nobody at LinkedIn gives a shit about those fake avatars, I reported hundreds by now and they did absolutely nothing.

Anyways, long story short, here's the blocklist of those ASNs and companies. I'm working on the map at the moment and don't wanna publish it until I can prove its correctness:

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/antispam
I know two people that are just now getting out of bed and able to do basic things, both diagnosed with Long COVID. Knew another that was sick for a year afterwards, and my brain can't hold info like it used to. It's ugly when it gets a hold of you, that's for sure.
> These are real questions that Americans are trying to answer right now.

No they’re actually not. You made those questions up as absurd examples, and they’re absurd.
It is such an absurd take. That essentially implies that out of three options

1) Do nothing
2) Try to have detailed review of different programs
3) Stop everything

The latter is the most beneficial.
Looks like it lets you transfer textures, poses, and general "vibe of object" stuff, but still doesn't let you control composition.

Overall the example images still look like overly corporate slop.
I was thinking the same. Living in Europe I want to extend this to any alt-right figures, identarian politicians and autocrats of all sort. Looking at the news has just become too 'intellectual challenging'.
I’ve had it for a few years too, it’s really hard, hang in there!

If you want another thing to try, I found that temporarily wearing a nicotine patch [1] helped a lot. But it seems like it doesn’t work for everyone.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36650574/
The browser session concept has “eroded” over time. Many, if not most, laptop users rarely closer all browser windows and hence sessions can last months. Haven’t checked but I wouldn’t be surprised if session cookies survive a browser update, started from the menu at
And while kids often end up with just headache and slight fever that goes away after a day - adults end with at least proper flu (e.g. higher fever, joints/muscle pain ...) for a week or two.
For real. The “I can be trusted with nuance” crowd strikes again!

These people are beyond logic.
is it remote from the reaction chamber? i.e. if people have to go in to wipe/re-coat stuff, it takes longer to do it safely, but it's cheaper/faster if you can get a machine to do it with the people controlling it from a distance. still, doesn't seem terribly hard, when surgery has been done with remote controlled robots.
If what goes in and what comes out is 1:1 by weight, he was sitting on some hefty stools.
So a party which has almost absolute control of the political system but can't be trusted in setting up said structures is the party you trust with slashing and burning spending in a way that "balances" the budget.

Why do you think there aren't incentives at play here in whats being cut?
Globalstar fulfills the most crucial product requirement: emergency contact

I think people who don't go outside much underestimate how much this is used.

Almost every week a hiker or tourist or someone is rescued in the wilds of California or Idaho or Nevada thanks to an iPhone SOS signal. You don't see it in the news much because it happens so often that it's not really news anymore.

A friend recently joked that Apple is starving the coyotes of a regular food source.
You eat 6-9 lbs of cheese a day plus sticks of butter and meat on top of that?
So glad to see this. I have been down a long road of text editors:

- Sublime
- Vim
- Emacs
- Atom
- VSCode
- Jetbrains IDE
- Neovim
- Zed
- Cursor

And these aren’t just little flings. I’ve spent months if not years in most of these editors. However, at the end of the day I always come back to one: Sublime.

It is a beautiful piece of software. It feels like writing with one’s “good pen and good paper”, that high quality stationary sort of thing. It is just me and the code. There is something that just feels different or even tactile about Sublime. That actually leads me to ask as this is outside of my expertise: why does Sublime feel more tactile/real than other editors? When I look at the code in other editors it feels like I’m looking at a projector on a wall. When I look at the code in Sublime it feels like I’m looking at something painted on the wall. Anybody else have the same experience? What’s the psychological/software reason for that?
Show HN: Gemini 2 with unrestricted code execution
I recently experimented using Gemini 2 Flash and Gemini 2 Flash Thinking with unrestricted code execution in a local sandbox and open sourced the results: https://github.com/gradion-ai/freeact. Here's an example that uses Gemini 2 Flash Thinking as agent that acts via code, executed in a sandbox based on IPython and Docker: https://gist.github.com/krasserm/dcdae47f85ee9922e3284953d07...

Gemini's code execution environment is restricted to selected Python libraries like NumPy or SymPy and prevents the model from installing new packages, besides other limitations. While this may be useful for agentic applications in restricted environments, it may prevent agents from adapting to new environments, especially agents that write their actions in code (see CodeAct paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01030).

Has anyone else experimented with Gemini 2 as a CodeAct agent? I'd be particularly interested in hearing about approaches to unrestricted code execution.
I'm surprised those are right next to it, but then, I can imagine they need to do a lot of filtering because the firehose of data is too much to send over the internet unfiltered.
I've gotten emails with links "From" my parents names, but checking the addresses it was accounts on random .edu domains. The fact that separate emails came from two different names I knew really made me feel targeted.
Keeping a Pulse on DeepSeek
This is a bunch of slop. The model seem interesting but the article has very very little content, a lot of fluff, and some pushes of an unrelated tool.
Starlink to T-Mobile is using PCS spectrum (1850 – 1990 MHz) licensed to T-Mobile to provide Directo-to-Cell (DTC) service, not whole 5G spectrum.
Would it be beneficial to anyone if this design was scaled up (more or longer half pipes) or many of these were created and dotted around the world?
It does. Google is good example. I have fully closed my computer for a while and restarted it and session is still there. It is amazing just how long they can last if you regularly use it.
I liked this article. It provides a comprehensive overview of how browsers request permissions and how this mechanism impact web privacy and security. I think that the author does a nice job breaking down the different permission types and how they can be abused by bad actors via nested iframes.

I think it is very interesting how the permissions are delegated between iframes. Due to how the browsers prompt for permission requests, I agree that with the current approach the final users could be easily tricked into grant permissions to agents they don't really want to.

Should browsers give a more comprehensive information to the user of who is requesting the permission? I mean, maybe instead of saying www.example.com is requesting access to your camera: "an iframe in www.example.com is requesting access to your camera" or "www.example.com is requesting access to your camera on behalf of www.iamanadpage.com".
I am not seeing how charitable applies here and to whom. But, I am not interested in a back and forth. Have a good day.
"Progress" as a goal is only meaningful with a defined direction. But I disagree with you, definitionally any change is progressing towards something.

This is precisely the issue I have always had with considering oneself "progressive". The end goals you are aiming for are the important factor to call out, the fact that you are simply progressing means only that you don't want to stand still.
Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy
Yep. Sure, call it what you want, but (1) and (2) have proven not to work. The federalist political system has a weakness in that it incentivizes politicians to advocate for endless spending on behalf of their constituents. That means a perpetual state of either higher taxes or inflation. Over the last 50 years only a single federal government has operated with a budget that didn't increase the national debt.
Objective-C has plenty of dynamic moving parts, although C is part of the picture.
I was surprised to not find the funding freeze discussed on HN yesterday and I am speechless today at some of the comments I am reading in here. Are readers not aware of the scope and impact of this? I will tell you my story: I am funded by NASA to develop and maintain open-source machine learning software that they use directly on satellites. I am not the only one: many open source scientific software projects that are in widespread use are funded via federal grants of one form or another.

Such grants are funded on a reimbursement basis (or at least mine is): each month, I submit an invoice (via the scientific software 501(c)3 of which I am a part). Then NASA pays it. When the EO was announced, my guidance was simply that NASA was not going to pay out for a while and my February paycheck was just going to not show up for a while. To my knowledge, this was basically the guidance for every NASA, NSF, NIH, etc. grant. (I believe DARPA grants are not frozen.) These do not just fund what the more conservative among us might call 'mathematical wankery', they fund all kinds of things across science.

The issue is not whether some of these grants should have been issued in the first place. The issue is that suddenly, a large group of researchers is either not going to get paid, or their organizations are going to have to float their salary themselves on behalf of the federal government, because the federal government has just said that they plan to renege on their agreements. How many will miss rent or mortgage payments?

Although the order has been blocked for now, it is still unclear what it will mean for me and others. (I would submit an invoice on Feb. 1... would it be paid?) It's not like I just got laid off and can go look for other work now: the funding is likely to come back, I just get the joy of having no idea when.

For those of you who seem to have little problem with the EO itself: please take at least a few moments to consider whether your principles outweigh the real human costs here, and whether there might have been a less brutalistic way of achieving the same principles.
Nonsense - there is already a decade plus of litigation on copyright and sorts with China. The days you could find carbon copied designs in China are of the past.
An “entire nation” didn’t vote for him. He won less than a third of eligible voters.

He does not have the mandate from the electorate that he claims, so let’s stop acting like he does.
The tragedy isn’t that we don’t wear masks routinely, it’s that people think they have a right to infect anyone because of their own sense of personal freedom.

Immediately when restrictions ended here, you could be in a large department store or supermarket and hear people coughing badly, or sneezing. If you know you feel under the weather, pop on a mask. But no, “freedom”, “it’s a conspiracy”. I swear “freedom” is just short hand for “I’m an asshole”.
> But if you don’t know how to create products that people want, market it, have funding for it and not get crushed by a larger company that can throw a team at it, you won’t be successful.

Yes, but you can keep trying. In entrepreneurship, you only need to be right once. Most successful entrepreneurs have had failed startups and projects before they got it right.

>The whole idea of if you work really hard you are guaranteed success gives too many people unrealistic hope

It's not guaranteed, but it's the best system to get what you want, that we have.
I’m curious how this diet compared to traditional diets of Inuit people. These diets are also known to be high in animal fats and proteins.

(1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004896...
> technological advantage AST has in comparison with Starlink Direct-To-Cell

Unverified and unverifiable to date. Unacceptable for an ex-SPAC which nearly got delisted from the exchanges when it dropped to $2 a share a few months back.

>Other thing is difference in AST and Starlink architecture which makes Starlink not easy to properly integrate in the terrestrial networks since they have gNodeB modules on the satellite, where AST is integrating with the gNodeB modules on the ground.

Their bent-pipe architecture is going to have to do a LOT of heavy-lifting to mitigate the impacts of their anti-doppler mechanisms on top of the latency, SNR and jitter. Whole thing hinges on Bluebirds phased-array performance and their ability to handover cells at scale - presuming they've achieved a fraction of what they claim to have achieved using unmodified commercial handsets in real-world environments.

Schadenfreude at SpaceXs very understandable FCC interference issues is a bad look considering ASTS are wholly dependent on SpaceX to put their constellation into LEO!

>There are many details that make AST leading in the game of direct-to-cell communication in comparison to other solutions.

A deSPAC with no major R&D heads of note, headed by an Auteur (Abel Avellan) whose only credence is partnerships with Rakuten/Vodafone leading to board seats.

ASTS have missed every single self-imposed roadmap delivery milestone, have had to hit up their ATM, previously lost 80% of their value from NAV, and are propped up pricewise by a small float and a rabid reddit-style fanbase as a holdover from the SPAC days. They've proven absolutely nothing so far, despite many lofty claims to the contrary, and Rakuten has already hit them up with a multi-million dollar fine for what was effectively non-delivery.
Breaking Up the Master Diagram
No, I think all AI should be shunned in the arts. There should be social stigma against using AI and misrepresenting it as art
Also, minutes of planning without understanding the topic can lead to months of coding.
The uncertainty alone is already stopping people from making job offers this year in physics. Will the department of Energy keep funding fundamental physics research, for example? Will the NSF or NASA? No one knows. The rational response under these circumstances is to pull back on hiring.
You really should write a book on programming a text editor. It seems like we’ve all been on this journey with you.
He was having 3kg of cheese per day. You saying that you were having 30kg (orders of magnitude) or more of cheese per day? I don't believe you.
Sublime is really snappy and responsive. But it also doesn't have as many fancy automation like jetbrains. Maybe that keeps the code "real", rather than some artifact that you have the computer manipulate for you.
Seeing it from this perspective, maybe I now see it: the residual radioactivity inside the reactor may be strong enough to mess with the electronics of a robot you're sending inside. Maybe there are challenges in getting enough shielding while keeping the robot reasonably sized and maneuverable.
iPhone 16 already has satellite SOS.

And 15 and 14. I don't know about 13.

So you don't even need the latest gear to do it.
Huh, so the only side effect of eating more than 6lbs of cheese every day for almost a year is a minor painless cosmetic issue?
Libraries aren't sacred to begin with. They're not like cows in India (if not in reality, then proverbially), popping up wherever they please, and nobody can do anything about it. Oh well, had this nice business here, but then someone opened a library, and since they are sacred, we had to move. That's not the situation.

Libraries taking up too much floor space doesn't mean much, since so does anything else. At the same time, they and all other things also take up too little floor space, since "taking up floor space" by itself doesn't really mean anything I can discern. Libraries are unique, and valuable; what other unique and valuable thing does their existence prevent?

To measure things you need at least two things. Maybe even three: an object to measure, a scale or another object to compare to, and some sort of heuristic as to what the result might mean (for you). It's pointless to say that it doesn't satisfy your standards of "usefulness" or what exactly your concern is, if you don't share those standards.
They are talking about in in the gut, not on wounds. Morganella morganii has a commensal(maybe) relationship within the intestinal tracts of humans.

It may be more pathogenic than we thought if it causes increases in IL6.
I'm jealous, too.
Dimethylmercury, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
Full link: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2024%20Y...
Nuclear fusion has been 3 decades away since as far as I can remember (I believe I first read about it in National Geographic in the late 70s or early 80s)
In PRC's accusation, the vape is a cover up for what was leaked that eventually developed into dangerous strains of covid. Hence origin starts in US, hence US should open up biolabs to WHO investigation. Me linking AJ video merely shows it's consistent with PRC propaganda timeline. If you're trying to interpret propaganda, at least do it right. Regardless, this is not a discussion interrogating the validity of the propaganda - because it doesn't matter, it's about geopolitics. There's no reason for PRC to entertain US propaganda any further if US doesn't entertain PRCs. If you're trying to follow a discussion, at least do it right.
You've just stated it, no? If you only care what is on that blackboard right now, not what was there — why even bother storing knowledge about its previous states?
> The final study population comprised 341 participants (90.6% females) who completed blood sampling and answered the questionnaire. A total of 232 (68%) were seropositive

How does this compare to the base rate in a similar population? Two thirds sounds like a reasonable estimate for "ever had COVID" in Denmark in 2022, though maybe a smaller percentage would in fact be seropositive. It would be interesting if self-reported long COVID had little or no correlation with having had COVID at all.
The first one I saw was like that. But I went for a Second Opinion, as is my right, and it was a world of difference.
Great comment on the medical site:

RE: "6 to 9 lb of cheese, sticks of butter, and additional fat incorporated into his daily hamburgers"

This implies a daily intake of hamburgers (presumably ground meat only if it's a strict carnivore diet) with 6-9 pounds of butter and cheese extra per day? Is that time frame correct? Is there an approximate daily kcal for that? A pound of butter is 3200 calories, while a pound of mozzarella is 1200.
thanks! and that's a cool idea — I like the localstorage idea, plus I'm thinking adding some hotkeys could help too (so pressing h would switch to hex mode).

I'll take a look in the next few days!
I had analyzed the paper as well, and gave some quick thoughts on a few of the low level things that stood out and would affect NVDA here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856652

I have to agree. I'm not sure the architectural and engineering changes here don't put NVDA further ahead. Some stuff all gpu makers can do. Like quantize on transfer. But NVDA is so far ahead in other areas and DeepSeek leans heavily on that industry leading tech. At least at the low level.

But I'm betting the average investor doesn't have the level of facility with ML to properly analyze the information that's come out. Heck, I'm betting most of the people working in AI are really just TF or PyTorch monkeys. The real AI experts have probably been hovered up by MS or FB or AMZN or OpenAI or what have you. So it feels like we could get lucky here and the AI related market could drop like a rock taking the good with the bad. Which I think would be awesome for most people in a position to wait for it to happen.
Autism diagnosis requires (or at least should, for it to be done properly) a multidisciplinary evaluation.

In the case of my children, there were certain tests that were absolutely definitive, and not reliant on interpretation - namely, idioms and metaphors. It's raining cats and dogs, for example.
Until the cardiac arrest.
What would be the point? Politics is hopelessly broken so even if people did talk about it there is nothing that we can do about it.
I found that robots.txt does an OK job. It doesn't block everything, but I wouldn't run without one because many really busy bots do follow the rules. It's simple, cheap and does knock out a bunch of traffic. The AWS WAF has some challenge rules that I found work great stopping some of the other crappy and aggressive bots. And then the last line of defense is some addition nginx blocks. Those three layers really got things under control.
Show HN: Open-Source Compliance (Vanta and Drata Alternative)
Hey HN,

We're about to launch the first ever open source compliance platform as an alternative to companies like Vanta, Drata & Delve.

Ask us anything, we'll be answering questions over the next few hours!
> Sometimes boring is good, especially for your core toolkit.

I agree, but considering the "editor space" has progressed a lot in the past decade or so, i would hardly call Sublime Text "done".

It has it's strengths and weaknesses, and while it was a great editor 15 years ago, and had it's share of innovative features, things have stagnated quite a bit in recent years. ST4 felt more like a minor update to ST3, and ST3 was probably also just a minor update to ST2 (i forgot which one was the big rewrite, but i think it was ST2).

Compare that to what has been going on with VSCode and Zed in recent years, which far surpass Sublime Text in many ways, and doing it for free.

So, in the end, for me, it turned out to be a subscription based "slightly better than average" editor. Yes, i still love it, and i would love for it to get a revival and spring to life again, and i would switch back in a heartbeat, but sadly the "maintenance mode" has been going on for almost a decade now.
Something is fishy. How is it physically possible to eat 12,000 calories of cheese per day plus hamburgers and lose weight? Somebody here is lying.
I can’t go into too much detail here, but I interrupted a severe depression by fasting for two straight weeks. It’s hard to say why it worked — my friends assume that the microbiome is implicated because of the dietary change. Plausible, but hardly a proof. This gives me at least one direction to look in.
There was this podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-...

which has a pretty good analysis of "How did online trolls get so nasty?" that would pretty obviously apply to the anti-vax fringe that the FP panders to but never makes the connection, for instance.