skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI driven drones in particular seem like ideal tools for carrying out a genocide: identify an ethnicity based off some physical characteristics, kill. No paperwork, no transport, no human conscience. Just manufacture, deploy and instruct at scale. Sure, it might get it wrong sometimes but you've got to break a few eggs...
Changes in schizophrenia diagnoses associated with cannabis use disorder
Just guessing here, but does it have anything to do with the fact that 9 is the same as 6 rotated?
I love the roadmap ideas for this. I'm a heavy user of pocketbase and I'm very happy with it, but I'd be more than happy to see this type of solution become more common and address needs like multi-tenancy. I'm also stoked to see the focus on performance (though pocketbase does excellent in this regard as it is)
I've always sat there wondering if my Breville expresso machine is running Breville JavaScript(c) inside it.
Have you tried using RCS when you're used to iMessage? It's terrible. Constant failures, weird behavior when changing towers between telcos - not to mention what happens when traveling internationally, where RCS turns on, off, on, off... for a day after arrival.

And of course there's no encryption standard.
I believe the main reason is for achieving the best possible performance. Someone closer to the compiler could give more detail.
It sounds like they're distracted, tbh. It's hard to imagine how a company that specializes in getting children addicted to unboxing videos can possibly be good at killing people.. oh, wait, maybe not after all..
Is DuckDuckGo really secure? It's just Bing re-skinned. Makes me question the rest of the list.
But lots of features are likely to be unavailable to invitees (indeed the article specifically mentions a couple) without Apple devices. Apple loves to use network effects to make people with Android phones feel like outsiders.
Vegas has Dig This: https://digthisvegas.com
At this point I think I'd just resort to throwing together a quick script in Python or Julia to run the scenarios.
> better browser engine

I'm confused. Are you saying Chromium or Trident browser engine is better? And, in 2025, is there a better engine than Chromium?
Honestly, having used it now, I don't think they should have implemented it at all. It's terrible, unpredictable, breaks when changing networks…
Something depressingly self defeating about people paying money into the system to acquire ammo for the purposes of..

bringing down the system?

Win or lose, I'm thinking money is flowing up to the same people.
Congress has the power to create spending, the president has the power to stop spending.
Okay this is the third article I have seen posted on HN about this - and once again, it is just a circular mish-mash of anonymous second hand sources.

These articles are all so circular I have resorted to asking CoPilot to analyze them and tell me what each source is, if they are 1st 2nd or 3rd party, and whether or not they are anonymous.

In this article, the analysis came out with:

Let's break down the claims and sources in this article:

Crises Notes: Reports that the Trump-Musk Treasury payments crisis of 2025 involves the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gaining access to the Treasury Department's payment system. The article mentions concerns about the potential for irreversible damage to the systems and the exposure of sensitive personal and financial information1. The sources are unnamed, and there is no direct evidence provided.

CBS News: Reports that DOGE has access to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which disburses trillions in payments each year, including Social Security checks and federal salaries. The article mentions concerns from consumer advocates and Democratic lawmakers about the potential risks of this access2. The sources are unnamed, and there is no direct evidence provided.

Truthout: Reports that labor unions and an advocacy group have sued the U.S. Treasury Department to halt DOGE's access to the critical government payment system. The article mentions concerns about the scale of the intrusion into individuals' privacy and the potential for unauthorized access to sensitive information3. The sources are unnamed, and there is no direct evidence provided.

In summary, all the sources cited in the article are anonymous, and there are no first-party sources or direct evidence provided. This makes it difficult to verify the claims independently. The lack of named sources and concrete evidence raises questions about the credibility of the claims.

Also, I will go ahead and paste my previous output from the other articles below (I'm going to post them as child comments so this isn't just a huge wall of text):
Thought I was entirely immune to this. Until I played Mirrors edge.

Whatever they did there with the parkour movement emulation triggers something.

Not bad so could still play but definitely some unpleasant sensation undertones in there.
So you just spent three paragraphs hand-waving away the exact situation this article was about.

"I don't know how common it is... not really a common mode of identity fraud... the more common identity fraud here would be..."

It was a homeless victim in this article. It seems like the improvements you're suggesting are entirely off-topic if you admit they wouldn't have helped here.
I forgot to mention

There's was recently a cool article on things to you can do with python decorators

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918846

Basically the python function is created as a regular python function but then passed to a jit decorator

@something.jit
def some_func():
....

Which takes the source code and uses it as a dsl for something else compiles it say something to run in the GPU and assigns it the name of the original function. Technically you haven't hooked creation of of the func just replaced it with a wrapper or in this case a related function that doesn't call the original but it does the job.
I think the thing to remember is, however bad it is, it could always get worse.

A world without the US navy is one without sea shipping because pirates will come back.
If you dig into the detailed benchmark numbers[1], both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 scores are around 10% lower for the 5090 than the 4090, and GPU Compute is a massive 18% lower.

That the driver for the 5090 is immature seems likely, and thus it might leave a lot on the table. Especially the compute deficiency doesn't make much sense to me otherwise.

Like you say the 5090 has more cores and a lot more memory bandwidth, so scores being lower does not seem reasonable outside of driver issues.

[1]: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/5725vs4606/GeForc...
Yeah every argument about Oracle being bad is business related, not tech.
Swiss maybe, but as a Dutch resident who was just in SF for the holidays... SF food is definitely more expensive.
The risks needs to be weighed against the downside of not deploying a capable system against your enemies.
This is fucked.
The below is in reference to this article (also posted in HN)
https://newrepublic.com/post/191117/elon-musk-25-year-old-ai...

I did the same manual analysis I did on the OP one, and could not find a first party source or non-anonymous claim.
I asked CoPilot to analyze the sources and identify the individual claims, and their proximity to a 'first party source'.

Once again, there is 0 evidence this is actually happening -- there are however a lot of news organizations ready to throw their reputations away over a few 'anonymous sources' that aren't even primary.

Here is the analysis of your source, AND the linked sources in that article:

Wired: Reports that Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer linked to Elon Musk, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the U.S. government. The sources are unnamed, and they claim Elez has administrator-level privileges, including the ability to write code on the Payment Automation Manager and Secure Payment System1.

Talking Points Memo: Confirms Wired's reporting, adding that Elez has already made extensive changes to the code base for the payment systems. Again, the sources are unnamed1.

The New Republic: Details that Elez has complete access to critical payment systems at the Department of the Treasury, despite being only 25 years old. The sources are unnamed, and the article mentions that senior government officials have been locked out of employee databases1.

Raw Story: Reports that Elez has been given full control over the computer code that directs Social Security payments, tax returns, and other payments owed to Americans. The sources are unnamed, and the article mentions that federal IT workers are concerned about the potential for irreversible damage to the systems2.

In summary, all the sources cited in the article are anonymous, and there are no first-party sources or direct evidence provided. This makes it difficult to verify the claims independently. The lack of named sources and concrete evidence raises questions about the credibility of the claims.
More and more, whether you have a job is a function of your political utility, not your output.
If that's true, and you've offered no evidence to support that it is, canceling funding for anything tangentially associated with "DEI" doesn't seem like it actually solves any of those problems.
> Why?

Because if I was running SIGINT at the NSA and collaborating with the FBI to arrest activists, the very first thing I would do is start up a bunch of VPN providers that bill themselves as "private" and then log everything aggressively.

The second thing I would do is have useful idiots (i.e., influencers) spread vague anecdotes about Tor users being "de-anonymized" when VPN users are never "anonymized" to begin with. I would make sure these anecdotes never clarify whether it's "Tor users accessing Hidden Services and getting popped by a Firefox exploit" or "network attack that enables traffic correlation" so everyone fills in the blanks and assumes Tor is dangerous, when it isn't, thereby pushing activists to my VPN services.

After all. There is no real enforcement mechanism if a "private" VPN lies.

https://www.theregister.com/2011/09/26/hidemyass_lulzsec_con...
I don't think we would ever be justified in going on the offensive nor do I think that makes us safer in any way.
It’s remarkable how this has changed. Back in what I call the “Facebook golden age” (2012-2016), before it turned to complete crap, it was unthinkable to host an event that was NOT organized by Facebook. I recall throwing birthday and holiday parties and all I had to do was scroll through my friends list and invite everyone and that was that. Everyone would see it and everyone would RSVP.

Oh well - it was nice while it lasted.
It has. Apple escaped this cycle. Their software is great. Instead of you being the product, you buy the product. People then just complain the product is expensive. On this website, I roll my eyes.
insurance requires it, unfortunately.
Others disagree that you were reasonable and civil.
I attempted to implement the schedule trigger [1] on GitHub Actions as an example, but it is not being triggered as I expected. It needs more digging if you're so inclined.

Aside from that, the whole gist is that the initial data can be injected into the static files during the build step, or even saved as separate JSON files that the app can load instead of reaching out to the API. As long as you're willing to refresh the static data from time to time, of course.

I created a basic example at https://schedbuild.pages.dev/ with a rough, manual implementation of a build step. Frameworks like Next.js offer a more sophisticated approach that can render the entire HTML, allowing users to load the static page with the initial data already rendered without Javascript, and subsequent interactions taking over from there more seamlessly.

If the Github Actions schedule feature is ever sorted out, in my opinion it's a reasonable alternative to setting up a backend just for this.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosin...
Ask HN: Why Do YC Startups Require a Demo Meeting Before Getting Access?
The pandemic was a national emergency. Covid was an extremely contagious disease without a lot of existing immunity. The right call was made for the safety of several hundred million Americans. Most other countries made the exact same one.
I have 100k+ unread email messages. Probably 2x that actually read. The only mail client that can handle my entire mailbox is outlook. And only up to outlook 2013. I have used every mail client from lotus notes to thunderbird and all of them choke after reading 25% of my mailbox.

Further outlook 2013 can handle all of this PLUS handle my various offline mailboxes going back to 1997. I obviously don’t like using an outdated mail client so will give this a shot and report back on my findings!

Edit: the privacy policy is a nonstarter. This is not an offline application and the question of what happens to my data after acquisition is not answered satisfactorily. Back to the drawing board :)
And in reference to: https://www.rawstory.com/musk-treasury-doge/

Sure, let's break down the key witnesses and their claims:

David Lebryk: Former acting Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. He resigned after resisting granting DOGE access to the Treasury data1. His claim is based on his direct experience and position within the Treasury Department, making him a first party witness.

Ron Wyden: The highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. He expressed concerns about the potential misuse of the data by DOGE1. Wyden is a second party witness, as he is commenting on the situation based on his oversight role but not direct involvement.

Anonymous AP Sources: Two people familiar with the situation spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. They claim that DOGE has gained access to sensitive Treasury data1. These sources are second party witnesses, as they have indirect knowledge of the situation.

X User (@rayinsideout): Revealed names of alleged DOGE employees who accessed the Treasury payment system. Musk accused this user of committing a crime by sharing private information2. This user is a third party witness, as they are relaying information they claim to have obtained from other sources.

NOTE: The rawstory article DID NOT mention Scott Bessent, but CoPilot 'thoughtfully' added this for context:

Scott Bessent: Treasury Secretary who granted DOGE access to the data. His actions are central to the claims, but he hasn't made public statements about the specifics of the access3. Bessent is a first party witness due to his direct involvement in the decision.
I've tried cannabis a few times but I couldn't get it to do nearly anything at all. I've tried a few different kinds and also tried THC tincture, but could never get anything to happen other than some slight dissociation. Is that "stoned"? Is my brain just not receptive to it or something?
I think this is the standard: https://reactflow.dev/
You only need an iCloud+ account not an Apple device.

Thus there’s zero hardware lock-in, an Android user could send invites. Though obviously iCloud is more appealing if you’re part of there ecosystem, you can just use it for file storage etc.
I dont dispute this at all - I want the research, I would pay higher taxes to support it, but it baffles me how the government can continually lose money and people handwave away the entire issue
This already happens. My adult friend group has to create a separate group chat for me and another friends and we get the invite after the main group.

partiful was actually a decent solution but they just got sherlocked
Yeah it seems pretty obvious where this is all going and yet a sizable proportion of the programming population cheers on every recent advancement that makes their skills more and more of a commodity.
Have a look at what explosive drones are doing in the fight for Ukraine.

Now tell me how you counter a thousand small EMP hardened autonomous drones intent on delivering an explosive payload to one target without AI of some kind?
> I don't know why that's relevant

We care about CVD because of mortality, and if mortality rate is terrible then it's a moot point.

> people living past 100 was far from uncommon

"uncommon" is not a number. The most we can infer from the data is that life was exceedingly harsh and short on average. Even if we believe it was 70 years old, that's still worse.
This is pretty vague and gestural, I'd love specific examples to support your accusation. I work on NIH funded grants, and while I don't write the grants, I'm reasonably familiar with the process. I disagree with your assessment when it comes to any grant I've been involved with. I've never seen corruption like that. These grant proposals look a lot like private sector bids: here's what we want to do, and how it aligns with your mission, and here's how we plan to do it, and how much we're asking for. The process is competitive, and a committee decides on the outcome. Everything has oversight, and is very procedural. Before working on NIH grants, I worked in the private sector doing large contracts for 13 years, and the downside of the way the NIH does it is not corruption, if anything it's bureaucratic slowness and overcaution. The private sector was much shadier and prone to cronyism, and has nothing to teach the government on that count... believe it or not.
I'm really interested and really hoping this is something I can sink my teeth into. I've always had frustrating experiences with trying to wrap my head around git and have to regularly use it at my job.

Branching, making commits, and creating pull requests come easy, but beyond that, I know utterly nothing about it.
those are mostly drawn on how difficult it is to manage their effects. chemical weapons are hard to target, nukes are too (unless one dials the yield down enough that there's little point) and make land unusable for years, and biological weapons can't really be contained to military targets.

we have, of course, developed all three. they have gone a long way towards keeping us safe over the past century.
Go read the article. All of this is a few drops in the bucket. There are some absolutely enormous line items that, by themselves, put us well into deficit territory.

On top of that, these things make the US money. We have, by far, the strongest pharmaceutical and medical technology industry anywhere. Those companies pay taxes.

(Those companies also screw us and the government over in myriad ways, and that should be addressed, but cutting off the research system that supports the entire industry in like throwing out the baby without even draining the bathwater.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berghuis_v._Thompkins for the curious
MSTR was not a crypto company when it was listed so this crypto backdoor trojan horse is an exception
This isn’t true and is a nice internet trope.

Never mind that “wealth” can evaporate as quickly as it’s created, the numbers don’t make sense at for “borrow until you die”.

If you think it does I challenge you to do it. Instead of selling taxable equities during retirement, just borrow against them then let your heirs get them tax free when you die.

You can insanely cheap margin loans against your holdings if you keep the ratios high. Like 1-2%. Sure it won’t add up to much but you can do it.

Then kept rolling it over for 20+ years and tell me how 1-2% interest is less than a 25% capital gains tax.

Maybe if you’re going to die within a few years (and can time your death).

Then explain why if it works so well why Musk paid $10B in taxes when he sold Tesla stock if it works so well.
I'm confused. Are you saying specifically that you think the experiences described in this article are for the good of the country? Or do you think they're an exaggeration/lie.
Maybe an increase in misdiagnosis?
I'm not a fan of Trump but I also feel he has not been so bad that I think that surrendering the world order to Russia and China is a rational action that minimizes suffering. That seems be an argument that is more about signalling that you really dislike Trump than about a rational consideration of all options available to us.
People have this strange concept that weed is supposed to make you see rainbows and stuff lol. I'd say your experience is about normal.
Semantic chunking is where I would start with now. Also check this out: https://github.com/chonkie-ai/chonkie
It tells me that git is the wrong tool for the majority of people but it just happened to stick.
I'm trying to say that having a society of people breathing in leaded gas would be insanely expensive. Both in terms of lost productivity from stunted brain development, and actual acute symptoms. Public money was crucial to unbiased understanding of that, and lead to prevention. How much money do you think that saved/grew the economy? For like 0.5% of the Federal budget.

That's just one (big and easy to recall) example. There are countless.

Spending public money on public research grows the economy. Cutting it is penny wise and pound foolish.

I work at a biotech. We have $150 million in private funding. My biotech wouldn't exist, and I wouldn't have a job if it weren't for decades of public research doing the foundational work that allows us to target a protein to make a drug to help people. None of that would exist if not for NIH, NSF etc
> [0]: Again, I'm not paying for the lawyers or doing anything useful at all!

It sucks that these kinds of disclaimers are necessary these days. I've also had more than my fair share of "you're not helping so you don't get to have an opinion"
You should only use reasoning models if your prompt needs reasoning (eg debugging a weird error or writing an optimized algorithm).
What i've learned in the last week is that if an unelected bureaucrat thinks it will hurt the Trump administration to follow their order through a manner of malicious compliance, then they will. But if they don't, then they'll ignore the order and pretend they're defending the constitution.

a serious audit of the endless money printing of the federal government is well overdue
Kind of meaningless in anycase.

OpenAI has already signed a collaboration with Anduril.

Killer robots will be a reality very soon; everyone is very obviously getting prepped for this.
China has a massive advantage.
lol that’s such wishful thinking and seeing those congressmen in a way too competent light. If they had any hard evidence they’d have published it. It isn’t hard to understand is it.
Since we don’t have outgoing searches, it’s safe to assume that 100% of the drugs reported in this way are incoming. You’d need to look at Mexico’s and Canada’s detail to see how much we’re sending that way. (Notably, it was a point of emphasis on the Trump-Sheinbaum call where she was asking for help since so many cartel firearms enter Mexico from the US)
Google Public Sector: https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/public-sector/
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