skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually Google applications uses high level network storage services like collosus, BigTable or spanner and these high level services are backed by dedicated storage appliances where they bypass the kernel for SSDs and use direct block IO for slow disks. For network, they are moving towards userspace network [1].

[1] https://research.google/pubs/snap-a-microkernel-approach-to-...
It's strange that they are ending Windows 10 support so soon after they stopped selling it. Windows 11 came out October 5, 2021.

Edge came out in 2015 and they kept supporting IE11 until June 15, 2022.

Given that the major Windows 11 features were things like introducing a screen grabber to make your passwords and private data vulnerable to theft, it's no wonder people have resisted adopting it.
It’s ironic that some of the first intelligent chatbots very quickly became Nazis and racists, and now we’ve swung the other way.
I guess this only works for very small codebase?
These "experts" have/had access to the most sensitive data.

Highly illegal[1] but sadly once the dust clears and Elon finally gets prosecuted he will receive a pardon.

We do not live in a fair society, it's as clear as night and day that the most powerful will never face the consequences of their crimes.

[1] https://youtu.be/GaZ7g0mPhLA?si=3ESWpntjJDishHD9
Not sure it is solely "the masses" that engage in that behavior.
What's wrong with socialist values per (the apparent implication in) your statement? I can understand the rest.
I'm exaggerating a bit, but the broad outline is essentially there already I think. The move to walled gardens everywhere (if we call this site a walled garden) is the first move almost everyone has made in terms of where they allocate attention. I think people will just move to smaller and smaller circles of interactions they trust (discord/group chats) especially if you don't need to query the open web for information anymore, and you trust an LLM agent for information retrieval / commerce.
Great job! I'm happy if I could provide useful feedback. I wish you luck, this is a fun learning tool!
hysteresis (sp.?) is usual thing in theory of automation, and tricky to walkaround right.

another such ping-pong is languages: non-typed, all typed, non-typed, all typed (on top of non-typed)..
Don't date cops. Just don't. ... Years ago, a friend of mine went on a few dates with a cop. She ended up not being interested, so she broke it off. Then the harassment began. Her phone/landline rang non-stop. Cops in marked cars would sit outside her house. He even showed up at her work, talking to her co-workers, claiming she was under investigation for some kind of fraud (she wasn't). And, strange dudes started following her in the subway (NYC).

Who do you call when you're being harassed by the people you're supposed to call when you're being harassed? ... Luckily for her, she had a cousin that was a 20-year NYPD veteran. Him and some other veterans cops went to "have a talk" with the younger cop. Problem solved, but it was a total nightmare for her.
I built a portable AI account that connects to apps with one click
Hi HN!

I believe there are many issues for devs and users with the current approach of copy-pasting AI provider API keys into applications.

I have built brainlink.dev as a solution to this and would love to get your feedback.

It is a portable AI account that users can connect with one click to every application that integrates the SDK. It works as follows:

1. The user clicks the connect button to link his brainlink account with the app.
2. The app obtains an access token to perform inference on behalf of the user, so the user pays for the usage.

Behind the scenes, a secure Auth Code Flow with PKCE takes place so that the app obtains an access and refresh token instead of directly an API key. When the application calls a model providing a user access token, the user pays for the inference.

I believe this approach offers multiple benefits to both, developers and users.

As a developer:

- I can build and test my app against a specific model without being tied to what API key the user provided, ensuring that everyone gets the same UX.

- I can easily move my app to a different model at any time. Without brainlink, if users add, let's say, an OpenAI API key, to change to Claude I would need to ask every user to update their API key.

- Asking for API keys goes against the ToS of most providers

As a user:

- The initial friction of configuring API keys disappears, especially for non-technical users who don't know what's an API key.

- My privacy increases because AI providers can't track my usage as it goes through the proxy.

- I have a single account that I can connect to multiple apps and see how much each app is consuming

- I can easily revoke connections (tokens)

I tried to make it very simple to integrate with an embeddable button, but you can also create your own button. Here is a live demo with a very simple chat: https://demo.brainlink.dev

I would love to hear your feedback and would be happy to help anyone who wants to integrate it.
I used SuSE for many years as my daily driver, and it was generally a very nice ride, and I have/would recommended it to others. I got away from it a few years back because I was always hitting something I wanted to install that was "we know about Debian and Redhat...everything else you're on your own". I think I remember the last-straw was getting a video-in card and associated OSS HDTV software running...fought for a while with SuSE and Debian 'Just Worked'. If I had more time to build-from-source this probably would have been a non-issue, but if I'm going to get a new hobby building everything from source, there are probably a couple of other distros I should look at.

I should definitely revisit it...I keep running into "the Debian + Backport version of this software is just a little too out of date for what you want to do" and Ubuntu has pissed me off in other, more annoying ways too many times.
>I'm attacking their argument, not them.

Why? What are you fundamentally working towards?

Is it to argue for your own benefit? If so then this makes sense.

If it is to convince the other person, then what matters is understanding them and how to get to them.

>It seems to be decreasing as of late.

You seem like a person who aims to be thoughtful. I will speak from my own actions - I anticipated and called this escalation out, probably a decade ago by now.

I am not very smart. If this is obvious to me, it should be obvious to any other thinking person, perhaps after moving some assumptions around.

This is how I work to continue to communicate and uphold my principles, in an environment that is changing.

If something ceases to work, and to repeat the behavior, is .. well its many things, but lets call it frustrating.

So I ask again - what is the point? You end with the goal of convincing someone.

I won't urge you to use my techniques, or my crack brained approach.

But is it fair to point out to you - that something is rotten in the state of Denmark, that people are increasingly immunized to our typical attempts at reason?

If you agree so, and if you also believe in the spirit of inquiry, the search for truth and the pursuit of progress (lots of "ifs"), then would it be a stretch to say new tools, approaches are needed?

(Side note - I read tons of stuff on misinformation, indoctrination, and communities. So I am not exactly completely flying high without a tether)
You could’ve done this with a visitor IP address look up
Ahh, right! I could've used IP geolocation to get all the info I needed, without that intrusive location request. It would've been a much better experience and a lot simpler to implement for me as well. Thanks for pointing this out - definitely a learning moment for me! :-)
Well, except for VIP helos. Basically certain military and government aircraft can do things other pilots can't.

I can guarantee you, if I were flying the helo, the transcript between myself and ATC would be significantly different. When you're certain military and government pilots, it's basically, "Um, sir, I don't mean to disturb you, but are you certain you have visual?".

The real issue is allowing certain military and government aircraft to essentially do whatever they like. I understand the whole "National Security" thing, but, I mean, maybe we can at least talk about the practice? It's not a practice that seems unsafe. It's a practice that is unsafe.
Asking for our locations is very creepy for a poem website
[I work at Kagi]

Indeed, this is the intended interpretation of "Kagi's implementation of Privacy Pass" - we're talking about building out the server infrastructure, the UX, the browser extensions, the mobile applications, the Orion browser integration, the support and documentation, the Tor service, etc. The cryptography is obviously an extremely important piece, but it is far from the only piece.

As other commenters have noted, the code in question is MIT licensed [1] and we're pulling it in as a standard dependency [2], it's not like we've gone out of our way to obscure its origin. The MIT license does not require us to do anything more.

That said, I can understand the author wanting more visible attribution, and that's very reasonable, we'll add a blurb to the blog post acknowledging his contribution to Kagi's deployment of Privacy Pass.

[1] https://github.com/raphaelrobert/privacypass/blob/main/LICEN...

[2] https://github.com/kagisearch/privacypass-lib/blob/e4d6b354d...
The main conclusion is flying helicopters this close to a commercial airport approach at night is a bad idea. I'm sure it's much safer, but ever seen the approach into SJC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpT1wjwlL3Q&t=254s&e=270
Conservatives - particularly post Trump populists - would make academia their enemy regardless, because conservative ideology harbors a longstanding prejudice against what it considers the perfidious influence of "cultural Marxism", postmodernism and secularism within academia on American culture.

And academia excludes them because it rightly understands that the goal of conservatism is to destroy them utterly. One cannot have a foundation of science while accepting people who want to normalize Christian Biblical literalism, racial realism and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. These two paradigms simply cannot coexist.
Regarding #1 for those who think you have nothing to hide:

You might get the cop that takes an hour to remove all of the seats and scratches things up, and they aren't going to help you put it back together.

Maybe you had a passenger who had something fall out of their pocket and end up between the seat cushions that you don't know about.
Some real revisionist history as Rails cribbed most of those gems from Python. Now Python just rebranded for web and its doing everything Rails does and more.
Just use is.gd, it has lasted a long time without any enshittification.
I had to read it twice, it could have used the addition of the word helicopter after the phrase "only one" to make it absolutely clear what was meant.
The last president literally pardoned his son for “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

Despite four years of saying he would absolutely not do this. Not even for a specific crime either - just a blanket decade of immunity.

Enough of your partisan bickering; it goes both ways.
You can do local NAT. Most VM hosts will do it. You just don’t need NAT everywhere anymore.
What makes you think that step 4 will ever occur?
In the year of our lord 2025? I doubt it. I'd put money on "some third party cloud service was configured in a silly way".

But, I would love to see details.
To those wondering, the missing context is that Chapelle's friend is white. In the story, he's brazen in his interaction with a police officer because he doesn't get hassled by cops as a white man.
Ostensibly, an unbiased, well-trained model would solve this because it would/could write fast, performant vanilla. As a product owner, you probably care more about the performance of the product over the specific technical implementation details.

I take that to be the point of the article: the bias towards React and of course the training data being stale means that generated code will always have a bit of staleness and as we provide less context for the AI (e.g. StackOverflow), the bias towards staleness will amplify given the large body of stale information it has ingested and amalgamated.
Will Smith Eating a spaghetti 2025 4K [video]
The problem is that Apple intelligence is currently kinda useless. They rushed it into production in a misguided effort to "stay relevant". It may take a few years but we should eventually get useful personal assistant type AIs.

I would say LLMs are very useful for specific scenarios. They're also getting better. Just takes time to iron out the kinks.
They’ve long abandoned the pretense of fixing anything, and have gotten a lot of buy in from their base to just torch stuff and leave it in ruins.

Unfortunately (for all of us, including for their base) this isn’t actually what people want or need, except the ideologues pushing it with a clear understanding of the expected outcomes. The base just infers that the ruin of these “inefficient” programs is a noble end in itself, because their supposed inefficiency is the problem with the programs themselves.
It's good it is not on government servers. It would be a security risk if it was.
One of the missions of those helicopters was the immediate evacuation of personnel in the event of attack against Washington D.C. That requires the speed and range that a helicopter can provide but cars can't. To do that mission requires training and practice flying through the area, because as everyone in the military knows, you fight like you train, and so they need to be flying through DC regularly, both day and night.

As for DCA itself, yeah, there have been people trying to close it for decades- that was originally the plan once they opened IAD in 1962. But DCA was so close and so convenient to the city and IAD (and later BWI) are so far away that no one has really wanted to pull the trigger on closing it, even as the airspace got more and more complex after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
How does running a Tor relay compromise your privacy?
> In Louisiana, maternal and infant mortality remain near the worst in the nation.

If they stop mass vaccination, they seem likely to experience infant mortality due to measles (which is currently not much of an issue due to mass vaccination, as infants are too young to receive the vaccine themselves). And pertussis (quite dangerous to infants, and expectant mothers and caregivers are frequently advised to get extra vaccine doses to minimize risk to the infants).

Oh, and while hemolytic disease of the newborn isn’t managed by a vaccine per se, the same group of people seem to dislike the mitigation. Treating it is surely far more expensive than preventing it.
First analysis of Apple's USB Restricted Mode bypass (CVE-2025-24200)
I also like expenditures as % GDP. It was generally far below 5% federally during non-war periods between civil war and ww1, and for most that time no income tax for regular workers. We also had pretty solid growth in that period, pretty close to that of the post WW2 boom.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjNDwxtXwAAYvL5?format=png&name=...
I wonder if site being hacked belongs to hacker news.
Again that doesnt make sense.

You have 100 open positions.

You filled 50.

You left the other 50 spots open so that you could have the right composition amongst HALF of the required workforce?

Heck, if you hire everyone, you solve this problem completely.
I suspect that this will end up applying to 18+ Reddit, it would make them compliant with the latest "ID up" hotness, and create a much-needed revenue stream. I don't think it will work well, in fact I can't imagine many people paying for access to what's left of Reddit at all, but they're a public company and have to at least try to generate an income now.
Windows 10 is the IPV4 of operating systems.
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, January 2025
Well 2 years ago when I built a new desktop i took great care to order hardware that works on windows 11.

Then I read the stories saying 11 has even more telemetry that you can't disable, ads on the start menu, Edge that you can't get rid of... and when I got around to setting up Windows on it I ordered a Win 10 license. They're still available even now, I think.

Win 10 does try to trick me into upgrading to 11 randomly on boot (full screen ad with a very hidden "fuck off and skip this" button) but so far I've managed to avoid it.
Found the DOGE employee
Some of those people who accepted were told they could not accept it, this is really shabbily done.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5296910/trump-federal-w...
> don't talk to cops and don't agree to searches

The people who trust cops are the most at risk of this. Those who don’t know their rights or who are afraid to assert them are also at risk.

The people who have already internalized this statement are least at risk.

But we are all at risk when police are corrupt. And the fact that police who do these things still have jobs means that the number of corrupt officers is far larger than it should be.
Same as GDPR forbids the same thing from EU.
I think I kind of get it. By the time someone actually gets to the point of filing an issue report, they are at the end of their rope. They have tried everything they can think of. They have googled and found no one else having the same problem, or fixes that don't work, or people saying "why would anyone need that feature". They feel like they're being gaslit, their time is being wasted, and that the developers are intentionally antagonizing them. And then the form to submit the issue has way too many fields and comes across as very adversarial.

That's certainly how I felt when trying to get my drawing tablet to work properly under Linux Mint, although in my case I skipped filing an issue and just gave up and went back to Windows.
> When I buy an iPhone and use iOS, I’m making an active choice to be an Apple user.

I disagree. I’m choosing to be a user of the specific device that I bought, nothing more.
Enjoy Simplicity
It's good that your grandfather isn't alive to see the catastrophe that is GE.

Jack Welch is the reason corporate America is a shit show, and GE is a joke.
That seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of policing.

Maintainers seem more like HOA boards than police.
The combined height of a blackhawk and a large jet is about 60ft. The combined length is a bit over 300ft, and since neither aircraft is unlikely to be level, some portion of that length gets contributed to their effective height while flying. Just given the size of the aircraft, I wouldn't be surprised if they can potentially overlap even if their altimeters are 100ft apart.
TIL about /active.

There have been so many of these types posts that have been hidden from the front page.
What's your point? Windows 7 had 11 years of support. Windows 10 had 10. Nothing strange about it.
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This site offers over 200 font styles, most of which are Unicode fonts, and a small number of TrueType custom fonts like https://freakyfont.io/font/lego, https://freakyfont.io/font/death-metal
That's not SI, therefore inadmissible.
You've never played Plague, Inc. and it shows.

One of the better strategies in that game was to spend all you points on mutations that improve contagiousness and minimizing "scary symptoms" (like haemorrhaging from the eyes) early on, and then ramping those up later on so you kill everyone before scientists can complete their research into a cure. Research only started when your plague became disruptive.
DOJ has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers in a room with 1 hour to decide
It seems like cases (1) and (2) would both be better handled by letting the user give their user agent a separate security context if they choose, instead of trying to detect/guess what kind of browser made that http request. I'm thinking about things like oauth permissions, GitHub's sudo mode, etc. Otherwise your magic detection code will inevitably end up telling an ELinks user "sorry, you need to download chrome to view your payment info".
yep, I just realized that. Mentioned it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049817#43050201 I think I over-engineered!
The thoroughly modern Pascal system from the 1600s?
Exactly, the pardon power should be taken away from the president and moved into a non partisan committee or something like that for these innocent rotting in prison.

It should also be illegal (which it is as far as I know) to retaliate against your political enemies.
My sister and I hopefully banged into our father's head saying almost everyone on the internet is a trash connection and never to be trusted unless you have met them in person. Do not accept or respond to any messages on your phone or on the Internet from strangers.

Overall I don't think he ever got scammed with us banging all that into his head while my close friends' father has been scammed numerous times. They had to take away his bank account access after learning of him being scammed. They did so cause they know he still would continue to talk & give money to these totally fake ...beautiful young people who said they loved him.

Personally i think it's best to treat everyone on the internet as scammer until they have proven else-wise. On dating apps I will ask to see if they want to do a video chat or set up a date in a few days or more once we've connected conversationally. If they don't they are a suspect scammer to me and I move onto the next (flat out then tell them i think u might be a scammer ..i am not and want to show you i am genuine looking for a real relationship). Tho video chat soon-ish via deepfakes won't be able to be trusted. I saw a Chinese nationalist try to deepfake ID.me (IRS's authentication system). Thus in person in a few days to less then two weeks to meet for a date is best to ensure real or forget it!
Just yesterday a New York AG resigned because she was forced to drop a case. There won't be a prosecution of Elon.
That's incorrect - or, at least, not seriously tested with a true far-left candidate with the DNC'S full backing. Dan Osborn was decidedly not that.

Bernie Sanders is, of course, the quintessential example, as he polled better against Trump than all 3 of Trump's eventual Democratic opponents. Katie Porter flipped a red district and was well known for taking corporate stooges to task; the DNC undermined her latest election, and now she's out of politics, IIRC.

Then there's the case in Kentucky, where Charles Booker had a real chance to unseat Mitch McConnell in 2020; he was exceptionally charismatic and had poll numbers that were rising terrifically fast because he was home-grown and made a point of trying to unite people through shared interest. The DNC shoveled millions into primary opponent Amy McGrath's campaign, and even locked black Kentuckians out of their sole voting center in Louisville, suppressing the vote; right-of-center McGrath won, but it's hard to overstate by how narrowly.

She was trounced in the general, and it's important to point out why: because she represented too little difference from McConnell. She was never going to peel voters off the real thing with a milquetoast knock-off. Booker growth in the polls before it was cut short was so pronounced becaus he offered a real choice to Kentuckians. But the problem, for the DNC, isn't that far-left policies aren't popular (they are, wildly, and particularly among the demos that stay home if not activated with a promise of positive change); it's that those policies are anathema to the elite within the party and party donors.

That's the actual reality. Which is sobering, because it means that the left's best chance to make real progress would be when an economic reckoning robs that elite of the funding to buy their preferred candidates.