skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're already at a point where AI can perfectly imitate a human, so I don't expect behavioral AI bot detection to work in the long term. You can still filter out a lot of script kiddie level AI bots by looking for browser signatures.

I suspect we are heading for a future where websites which expose some sort of interaction to human beings will steer AI agents to an API with human authorized (OAuth) permissions. That way users can let well behaved, signature authenticated agents operate on their behalf.

I think we need an "AI_API.yaml", kind of like robots.txt, which gives the agent an OpenAPI spec to your website and the services it provides. Much more efficient and secure for the website then dealing with all the SSRF, XSS, SQLi, CSRF alphabet soup of vulnerabilities in Javascript spaghetti code on a typical interactive site. And yes, we need AI bots to include cryptographic signature headers so you can verify it's a well behaved Google agent as opposed to some North Korean boiler room imposter. No pubkey signature no access and fail2ban for bad behavior.

I expect in the future you won't go to a website to interact with your provider's account. You'll just have a local AI agent on your laptop/phone which will do it for you via a well known API. The website will revert back to just being informational. Frankly that would fix a lot of security and usability problems. More efficient and secure for the service provider, better for the consumer who does not have to navigate stupid custom form workflows (e.g. every job application site ever) and just talk to their own AI in a normal tone of voice without swear words.

Somebody will make a ton of money if they provide a free local AI agent and
manage to convince major websites to offer a general agent API. Kind of like Zapier but with a plain language interface. I'm betting that's where the FAANGs are ultimately heading.

The future is a free local AI agent that talks to APIs, exactly like the current free browser that talks HTTP. Maybe they are one and the same.
Even at 20 years old I would not have done this.
> A toggle per site is easier than navigate three level deep into browser setting page.

I don't disagree with your overall point, that flexibility is useful for website visitors, but your statements requires asking the question: "easier for whom?"

Certainly relying on Accept-Language is significantly easier for the website maintainer. And overall it would be a lot easier if the small handful of web browser maintainers added saner settings (even a per-website Accept-Language toggle), than if we were to require the thousands (tens of thousands? millions?) of multi-language website developers to provide their own toggle. Not to mention having a standardized way to do manage this would be better for users than having to discover each website's language toggle UI.

But sure, we don't have those easy-to-use browser settings, so it's (unfortunately) up to every website developer to solve this problem, over and over and over.

(As an aside, it would be cool if websites could return a hypothetically-standardized Available-Languages header in their responses so browsers could display the appropriate per-website UI, with only the supported languages.)
Show HN: I built a Node lib that uses LLMs to to generate DB migrations
This is a small library I built for automatically generating DB migration scripts from Typescript class definitions using LLMs
DnD with the option to switch between 3rd and 1st person views would be amazing.

Personally, I'd like an NFL game where you drop your players on the line, draw the routes on the field, and then switch to 1st person QB view for the snap.
Some stay. And if the younger ones coming up find a lot of peers are also educated, they'll stay too, to work with them.

Yes, you lose some. But not all. And that's how you start.
Which is especially sad because their IDE was the best WYSIWYG GUI editor in existence, then and now. The only alternative that got even close was VB6. If they had made the transition to large screens and responsive design I think they could have dominated mobile app development when it rolled around.

They didn’t just get lost, they got sucked into Pan’s labyrinth.
Maybe it should, but that already exists (and is launching in 2026). See the thread about it in this discussion [1].

https://www.txse.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046115
If Kennedy has his way, will we still have donuts?
Not if the random part of the list changes with each request.

There are two ways to defeat fingerprinting: 1) make everyone look exactly the same (pretty difficult to do), or 2) introduce enough noise and randomness to fingerprinting signals to each request so that each person looks like many different people (much easier to do).
Yes, I often use one LLM to generate a PRD and the include it in the codebase, then ask Cursor agent to implement some part of the system using the PRD as a reference. It can't emit an entire codebase in one-shot (unless it's trivial project like "build me a flappy bird clone") but you can use it as scaffolding to manage implementing a whole project in chunks.
Facebook made it easy for non-techies and kicked off the status game.

That's all I was trying to say. trn was a bit of a learning curve for moms and grandmas. And they pulled the rest of us along into using Facebook and other social media and leaving USENET behind. No gatekeeping or whatever you're going on about here.
I found my new signature quote.
There's still no solution to the fact that everything by design must be mediated by the compositor. The article mentions protocols but they are far from standard. The assumption is basically just that everyone is going to use wlroots to make a compositor.

Gone are the days of 300 line of code apps like xbindkeys or maim that bind hotkeys or take screenshots and work everywhere. Instead it all must go through the compositor! So if you want to make your own accessibility app, you don't use xlib or xcb, instead you must modify your 30,000 line C code compositor to add a protocol for your app to work. And yes, there's supposed to be wlroots and standardized protocols, but not everyone implements them. So for instance KDE has their [own protocol](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=298864) for screenshotting that's completely different than what wlroots uses.

Wayland is graphical communism designed to prevent a mythical class of software vulnerability. If someone has access to the point where they can read keystrokes on a Xorg system, realistically they already have arbitrary code execution. So yes, they couldn't just run their keylogger binary like they could on X, but there are 10 other things they could do to achieve the same effect. They could change the .xinitrc/other configs to load a modified compositor binary, or use some sort of LD_PRELOAD hook to intercept the "keyboard pressed" function on the compositor, as has been noted many times.
> how many still currently active companies participated in the rise to power of WW2 Hitler

Yeah, it's often a surprise how fascism has historically been entwined with corporatism. Putting the word "socialist" between "national" and "party" was a meaningless but ingenious marketing ploy.
The difference is that both CLIs and GUIs are deterministic.
> They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

I do have to wonder: would they have regretted it had they not ended up in camps?
Most importantly, they will refuse to participate in the administration's regular human centipede rituals.
I made a better one that lets you add the files/paths and refresh and copy to the clipboard:

https://paste.mozilla.org/omP4EKE8
Well, "normal" Go binaries grow somewhat quickly as you add libraries. I don't think WASM is growing faster, it just stings more when you're looking at transferring them in realtime over a network. A 20MB binary is not really anything to a modern system, not even a Raspberry Pi. But a 4MB WASM executable can still hurt.

(Though, sadly, only if you care. I just double-checked CNN's website, and given that it autostreams video it's hard to give a concrete "it took this much to load the site", but if I look at how much data was transferred before the home page stopped jumping around and rerendering and unblocking grey boxes and spinners, it was around 20MB.)
In case you were asking genuinely: TDS is "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Generally coined to critique people who are furious with Trump no matter what he does. For instance, one time he ate McDonalds at the white house and there were articles criticizing the event for days. But it's often over-applied by Trump's supporters to dismiss any real criticism (the above being a perfect example).
One of the actual compelling experiences for me on the Oculus Go back in the day was court side NBA games.

I think they did eventually offer VR live games with a few different viewing options.

It's a really nice way to watch a game. Tabletop? Meh, but the ability to control the "camera" with your head, 3d audio of the live stadium etc, that was dope.
This seems unlikely. If even 5% of Trump voters don’t want to see this, that very likely means less than half of voters wanted this. That’s a very small margin to work with. From here in Canada it doesn’t look like this is a popular action to take.

I could be wrong and maybe tons of democrat voters want to see this… But what I’m seeing online indicates otherwise.
I thought it seemed neat. If I was part of your randomly selected individuals, I would give it the green light.

I think the core element of human creativity might be lost in your imagined system of governance.
This is how bad rich people win: don't pay up, fight in court with their legals that is already in the payroll.
Because you're taking other people's money by threat of lethal force to pursue a 4 year party vacation and getting a degree in something useless while you're at it.
Aging reactors: researchers verify the effect of radiation on concrete expansion
My wife would absolutely pay money to go to an auditorium with 100 other people to watch a live taylor swift concert. Even though its technically feasible to do it in your home, or even to watch it the next day, I know she would pay to be part of a "live" experience.
I was working at S.u.S.E. at the time (in 1998) and there was a guy
(I think he was an employee, but I might be wrong) on site who was blind, he and
made sure the Braille terminals worked; yes I think also during installation.
I think the missing context from the post (as it calls out) is that the intended experience is that you have the diorama view at the same time as the actual footage, so it's showing you where everyone is offscreen.
US companies like IBM continued to do business with Germany through front companies in some cases.

Hitler had a lot of support, and still does. The kind of might makes right hyper-elitist ideology the Nazis espoused never went away. It was just pushed out of the public Overton window. Now it’s back.
(shrugs) the majority of people voted for this. Why is their opinion of less value than yours?
This is actually a really cool concept -- the idea that you can "copy paste" cities and blocs of economic/social/cultural/technological activity

I think capitalism & today's global law is an example of how a concept can be "copy pasted", with regional variations. The idea of a restaurant, for example.

Technology and AI does expand what can be gamified - from the basic concept to a very fine-grained, activity-oriented tracking of what people do.

So I guess the question is: given this power, how do you design systems that are good to propagate?

ie, how do you design the education -> workforce pipeline? what incentives do people have? what kind of cultural activities are there? what norms are there?

Fascinating bc there's so much opportunity - a lot of people are blocked bc the systems they live in are not optimal (ie, regional lords, bad incentives, etc). But if we can fix that, imagine if we plopped down SF 2.0 in the middle of Africa, using a combination of technology + human intermediaries to enable a better system.

Unfortunately I think existing systems might not take kindly to this
I would like to see something like this that can scale to 100B+ messages per day (ie. A world scale messaging app), whilst still not revealing who is talking to who.

Clearly the 'send all messages to everyone' approach cannot.

But I wonder if there is an approach that can, with the added complexity that the users use mobile devices and care about battery life and bandwidth usage.

I suspect there is not a design that can still provide anonymity against an attacker who can see all network traffic, but if there is, I'd like to know about it!
Try ChatGPT first. It would provide a distilled dump and you can then decide which way to go. I am doing the same for some issues I am facing. May be pathetic, I agree. But when you don’t have anyone to talk to - except useless therapists or counsellors - ChatGPT is much better - and cheaper. Try it - at the least. Prompt it to give you succint information and references. Use it to brainstorm and can then decide to talk to others.
Turtles are my favorite animals (other than humans, and sometimes even more than them).

Mostly I think they're just cute, which is by itself a perfectly valid reason for an animal to be your favorite, but I've always been fascinated by their ruggedness. It's not weird for a turtle to live to 100 years old, and it feels like they can survive just about anything.

Having a built-in GPS just makes them even cooler.
> The app is owned and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

It’s not. It’s 60-something percent owned by international foreign investors outside of China. TikTok user data in the USA is held under TikTok USDS and managed mostly by Oracle as far as I know.
QI has gone downhill after SF left..
Is this a career ending move for the folks investigating?
I'm generally trying to keep away from the whole political madness going on, but when I do follow a story, Iat least try to verify what I am seeing. This requires a fair bit of mental energy, intelligence and frustration tolerance, and is frankly impossible to do for more than a fraction of what is going on.

For example, the recent headlines of the state department trying to buy $400m worth of armored Tesla vehicles was obviously a Democrat plant. It was done under the Biden administration in December, with no chance of fulfilling before the handover. Some.one thought it would be a simple way of making the Trump admin look bad.

You have to always be wary of being misled by the media in today's age. That said, the shit-slinging coming out of Doge has been largely false and illegal. If Congress assigns money to fund impressionist dancers in Pakistan, then that's what it has to be spent on. The real issue here is that to get a bill passed in the US a lot of fluff has to get attached to it. Doge can't unilaterally cancel payments without breaking the law.

Even in the cases I looked at were real corruption is plausible, ie. the money given to the Clinton Foundation, Doge just straight up lied about the amounts and purpose.

Outside of corruption, there is no good reason to move this fast and reckless. At least no good reason for the American people. They are moving this fast because they know what they do is illegal and idiotic and false, and they are trying to drown us in bullshit.

Musk gets a nice kickback for every single link going back to his own website (that is actually corruption), but more importantly, they are building up outrage fatigue for normal people and a frenzy for their fanatics. This is all about paving the way to paint legality as corruption so that they can justify ignoring the courts and Congress going forward.
Goforth, K. M., Lohmann, C. M. F., Gavin, A., Henning, R., Harvey, A., Hinton, T. L., Lim, D. S., and Lohmann, K. J.

Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles. Nature (2025).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08554-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08554-y

Full text: https://rdcu.be/d9CgI (shortened link as provided on the page below)

( Provided by the lab's 'Publications' page: https://lohmannlab.web.unc.edu/research-publications/ )
Python wasn't on anybody's radar when Delphi first came out. The reference to Oracle is the more likely origin.

The Cassandra DB might've been named with a similar inspiration: Cassandra was an oracle nobody believed even though she was right.
Many journals require LaTeX due to their post-acceptance pipeline. I use Typst for letters and those docs for which my PDF is the final version (modulo incomplete PDF/A in Typst), but for many journals in my field, I'd need a way to "compile to LaTeX" or the journal would need to implement a post-acceptance workflow for Typst (I'm not aware of any that have).
The Ceremony
That's the problem, there is no amount of money that separates something "appropriated by congress" or "slush funding in USAID". USAID was given 50B a year, can spend it on ANYTHING it wants, there is no further congressional approval required. I do think we need to get back to a point where a congressmen needs to approve each check over 10k.

Heck, it would at least give them something to do, and feel the money roll and make their choices in Congress mean something again.
Try Demeo Battles!
>And if they want to major in economics, chemistry, physics, engineering?

Those at least serve a practical purpose to society as a whole, but even then I still would question taking other people's money by force to fund it.
Godwin's Law is now just part of the zeitgeist.
All these publications had no problem when the attack on free speech was being done by the Biden administration. Other media outlets lost their whitehouse credentials. Thousands of regular people were censored across all the large social media sites. News articles were pulled because they were too negative to the Biden admin. Nothing that could be construed as "misinformation" (that ended up being true usually) was allowed.

Zero complaints. Not a peep.
> Jeff Dean just said 25% of the code being checked into Google's internal codebase is now AI generated.

This assertion feels misleading. When I worked at a FAANG, 10% of our codebase was generated Protobuf. Obviously, this was highly repetitive boilerplate that was equivalent to maybe a few thousand actual lines of code. What does the 25% of LLM-generated code actually look like? I'm guessing it's doing nothing particularly novel or interesting. (Also, I have to wonder if a large chunk of that 25% could be encapsulated as a more reliable and deterministic abstraction.)
Why? Do you think that people have to be stupid to be vulnerable to manipulation?
If the LLM did anything besides try to explain the second law of thermodynamics, it failed.
Wow. I must read the article. I remember David I, he was a Borland product evangelist, or something like that. I had read some of his articles long ago.

I have a soft spot for Delphi, as well as classic (Turbo, the non-OO version) Pascal, as well as Free Pascal and Lazarus.

I have used all three of them to some extent. In fact Turbo Pascal was one of the languages is I cut my teeth on, and even made some money from it as a freelancer, back in the day, early in my career.

Apart from the money-making projects done with it, I wrote tons of small programs in it, for learning, for various applications, and had great fun doing so.

I had even used the Turbo Delphi Explorer versions for a short time, both the Win32 and .NET versions.

Now that I think about it, I probably still have a CD with Delphi 1.0, which came with a UK computer magazine that I bought, way back.

I had played around with it at the time, on an early version of Windows.
It took twelve hours to get one of the vandalized pages taken down.

https://bsky.app/profile/pxtl.ca/post/3li5vddrkw227
Your arguments seem to rest on highly questionable assumptions like 'when you educate them, they leave'.
Yeah so tax the rich.

USA is so brainwashed that their brand of capitalism is the only way to go to Heaven that a slight mention of tax is taboo.

You have shittons of debts and continue to pile more because y'all subscribe to the Religion of Tax less invented by The Rich.

I always dislike talking to fellow Americans who would label any slight of divergent from capitalism as socialism. There's a frigging middle ground...
My old man - an old-fashioned cat by anyone’s description — can pick true north anytime, anywhere. It’s made me wonder if he has some kind of internal magnetic compass. And now, having read this, I wonder if this ‘turtle skill’ is latent in humans but only emerges in a rare few.
While some of it may be from authorial design, many elements here are distressingly familiar.

I bet every human language has idioms like "playing with fire", and a lot of people seem to have believed they could accelerate the might-makes-right boulder for some profitable distance and then it would just stop rolling before disaster.

> In the ’20s and early ’30s, the Hitler “brand” was anathema to capitalists and corporate elites. [... Yet by 1933] The New York Times expressed astonishment that Hugenberg, an “arch-capitalist” who stood “in strongest discord with economic doctrines of the Nazi movement,” was suddenly in charge of the country’s finances. Hitler’s “socialist mask” had fallen, the Communist daily Red Banner proclaimed, arguing that “Hugenberg is in charge, not Hitler!”

> As self-proclaimed “economic dictator,” Hugenberg kept pace with Hitler in outraging political opponents and much of the public. [...] Hugenberg laid out an ambitious plan for economic growth through territorial expansion.
I am quite certain that I would hate living in Houston more than I hate the dysfunctional zoning system of a city I otherwise love, so I advocate for change where I am instead.
> I do accounting research. My human-subjects research involves surveying practitioners about their jobs, interviewing them about their experiences, and conducting very simple experiments online that ask them to make decisions. There is virtually 0 real risk to any participants of my studies.

Cool, I guess. I wouldn't want to participate if my answers were visible to my employer because honest answers could put my employment at risk.

> As an academic researcher, it's most frustrating in that it feels like IRB scrutiny doesn't seem to align with risk.

As a worker^H^H^H^H^H^Hhuman I find it most frustrating when academics don't understand what things I consider to be risks.

If my answers to your research are leaked, can they be tracked back to me? Onedrive is terrible, just look at Microsoft's repeated flagrant disregard for security. Dropbox is awful too, just look at how easy it is to accidentally a whole folder. Why would you store your data in such places instead of on a research computer with locked down access? That screams to me of a researcher who doesn't understand the value (and risk) of the data they hold. Or perhaps of a researcher who doesn't value that risk appropriately. Perhaps also researcher who doesn't coordinate with their IT department, or an IT department who's equally or worse as competent.
Nice stereotype. Does it hold water?

I’ve been using the same backend framework professionally for over 10 years, and the same frontend framework for over 6 years. Clearly your thoughts on the matter are not reflective of reality.
Just aheads up, one should be using uBlock Origin, not uBlock. In short, AdBlock now owns the old uBlock

https://ublockorigin.com/
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock