skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those complaining about not allowing 3rd Party JIT engines for 3rd Party Browsers. Please consider the vulnerability track records for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari:

I'm taking the best year for all of these (2024) - there are far worse years in the past 5 that could have been picked.

Chrome had 107 vulnerabilities that were Overflow or Memory Corruption. That is a vulnerability every 3.4 days. [0]

Mozilla had 52 vulnerabilities that were Overflow or memory Corruption. This is a vulnerability about every 7 days. [1]

Safari had 10 vulnerabilities that were Overflow or Memory Corruption. This is a vulnerability about every 36 days. [2]

Sources:

[0] <https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?...>

[1] <https://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html...>

[2] <https://www.cvedetails.com/product/2935/Apple-Safari.html?ve...>
Agree on the Web App. Cursor with Claude 3.7 is a pretty good "CoPilot" experience though.
> That's the standard tier of competence you expect from Ng. Academia is always close but no cigar.

Academics do research. You should not expect an academic paper to be turned into a business or production overnight.

The first neural network, the Mark 1 Perceptron, was invented during WWII for OCR. It took 70 years of non-commercial research to bring us to the very useful multimodal LLMs of today.
As small independent free radio station we had to pay an annual overall fee to the rights holders. This is bad for independent, underrepresented artists, because on average they are played more and get less. But it was a huge burden to come up with exact set lists for each individual radiomaker without technical help.

KTRU, one of the world's biggest independent stations, still prefers physical records over digital. But even they have now technical support, because they were forced to stream digitally, so they have exact set lists and pay the independents much more. They only play independents, major labels are forbidden.

But AI miners paying nothing is ridicolous.
Guardian Interview, 1974: In-demand Gene Hackman resists 'the star thing'
HN has been full of privacy and critical-of-government-surveillance articles regardless of the presidency for over a decade.

Most obviously, who was President when Snowden leaked things?

Methinks you are overly sensitive on behalf of your chosen boss.

OR you are trying to deflect from the surveillance by making it a partisan thing.
> It's also conjecture that consciousness and intelligence are unrelated.

That's true. We shouldn't casually conflate the two but also shouldn't make the assumption that they're independent.
you guys didn't already know this stuff?
I'm shocked when in 2025 the term "you stay in control" regarding browser emerges as something exclusive.

When a web page or a program is downloaded to my computer I cannot imagine anything else, yet every major company tries to do something opposed - take the control from me as soon as possible.
Yes, if you are funding a program to get broadband to underserved areas, including rural and low income populations, it's reasonable to require a plan for outreach so that those groups know they can connect. Why have a program if people don't know about it?

They didn't come up with program out of nowhere, it's been well studied those groups had less connectivity and broadband availability.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10688393/

I'm not sure what your point is here besides that you dislike inclusion. The point of the program is to level the playing field by offering broadband where it might not normally have been profitable to expand.

Outreach shouldn't slow anyone down. The cost of doing some marketing and data analysis is probably miniscule compared to the actual infrastructure build out.
Yeah I do imagine that on a regular basis yet, something about my comment appears to be unpopular since I’m being downvoted. I usually don’t mind but this one bothers me a little bit since writing to congress is just about the only thing an average American can do to influence the legislation. Actively participating in democracy is not cool these days.
> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

The fact that this surprises me must be an indicator that Mozilla still had a good reputation with me. No longer. Starting the search for an alternative browser now.
Their planned satellites still aren’t on par. They have to be twice as high in orbit it because they don’t have the launch tech to hit lower orbits. Bad news for the world though - if they have issues, space debris at that altitude will take hundreds of years to fall back down. Starlink satellites take a max of 5 years to fall back and burn up. China is creating a huge risk of space debris issues.
I'm starting to believe these talks of fancy high-complexity solutions come from people who desperately try to come up with convoluted problems they create for themselves only to be able to say they did a fancy high-complexity solution. Instead of going with obvious simple reliable solutions, they opt for convoluted high-complexity unreliable hacks. Then, when they are confronted by the mess they created for themselves, they hide behind the high-complexity of their solution, as if the problem was the solution itself and not making the misjudged call to adopt it.

It's so funny how all of a sudden every single company absolutely must implement Paxos. No exception. Your average senior engineer at a FANG working with global deployments doesn't come close to even hearing about it, but these guys somehow absolutely must have Paxos. Funny.
> Without ublock origin, the internet is simply unbearable

Oh please. Change your DNS to AdGuard or NextDNS and job done.
They started throttling recently. Perhaps you've hit that 10 images/hour limit?
This is a classic Sergey snark. He is basically saying that number is 60 not 40. (Also diminishing returns does not usually imply "net negative" but less ROI on the marginal hour you put in.)

Point is, Google seems to be somewhat trying to get back their mojo and get rid of their retirement home reputation, at least as far as their AI products are concerned.

I am sure entitled googlers will be vocal though.
I didn’t want to believe that at first but that became crystal clear after the responses I got.
uBlock origin is so much better than just DNS-level blocking can ever be
Large parts of my coding are now done by Claude/Cursor. I give it high level tasks and it just does it. It is honestly incredible, and if I would have see this 2 years ago I wouldn't have believed it.
I think the point here is not savings it’s the appearance of (or actual) corruption/capture. It might be cheaper now, because he’s aware of scrutiny, but will it be cheaper when this cools down? Also, isn’t the point of govt bidding that we end up with the cheapest anyway, so that he would win anyway? So why does he need a shortcut?
Is there another browser that can do "container tabs" really the only thing that's keeping on Firefox now
Tesla is doing better than most other brands still. Somehow all the articles claiming Tesla sales falling in Europe is due to politics are missing that the missing sales basically almost fully shifted to Chinese EVs and not other European or American brands. In other words, people are buying the cheapest thing. If the politics mattered they would probably not support Xi.
They’ll cave eventually and walk it back if history is anything to go by.
Only one AI section out of 12 total sections, and while the second section has an AI example, it's only one out of five.

It's basically Alfred with more (?) functionality. Which is basically Spotlight with more functionality. Which is basically a tool to "do stuff" from anywhere on the device.
Just don't bring your phone with you. With low power states and opaque software and hardware, you really can't risk it. You can never be sure it's truly off, unless it's in a Faraday bag. But is it worth it?
good read, saw your recent raise in BI - congrats!
Possible missing words in line 5: "and they operate on respect me"?

I think I can parse that as and they operate on the concept of "respect me". Took me a while.
Kagi Small Web (2023)
Tangential: I have a U.S. Skype Number (i.e., a real phone number offered by the Skype service) that's mainly used to receive and make (occasional) calls from/to a bank and to receive SMS occasionally. The cost is about $40 a year. With Skype Number not available for purchase since December and the Skype platform (including Skype Number) going away soon, what are some simple, good (and preferably cheaper) alternatives for a VoIP service that works on an iPhone? I do not have any (other) real phone number in the U.S. I guess my current Skype Number cannot be ported or moved to another service.

Are there any alternatives to get a real U.S. phone number that will work in another country for long periods (AFAIK, many providers require the phone to connect to a local cellular network periodically)?

Edit: In case it wasn't apparent, I'm not physically in the U.S.
This service still exists, and you can even still pay for it separately, but it's also included with Apple Music.
Major vendors also employ teams of engineers to steal your data, identify and locate you, so it cuts both ways, depending on your threat model.
I mean the scaling laws were always logarithms, and logarithms become arbitrarily close to flat if you can't drive them with exponential growth, and even if you do it's barely linear. The scaling laws always predicted that model scaling would stop/slow being practical at some point.
I see this thread pop up about once every 3 months for a different service. Its always the same license term that spooks people.
That’s a clear trademark violation though.
I wanted to like it, but like all tiling window managers for macOS, it feels too tacked on and janky. For instance, Finder tabs simply aren't possible when using Aerospace.

I settled for Cmd+Ctrl+[h|j|k|l] window snapping via Hammerspoon, and let my Arch/Hyprland box keep the tiling window manager.
Rude perhaps, but I think it very much is the actual reason. "If they listed it as 4:45ET their support costs would be higher" is perhaps the more polite way of putting it, but the meaning is not actually any different.
I'm lucky enough that all the people I communicate with regularly use iPhones, so, I use iMessage.
It’s at the point now where basically everything you do is online owned by some online mega-corp.
You don't have to, have a nice one. Your comment is already over my quarterly limit of being assumed and interpreted.
you should add zen browser[1] too, i tried some from your list, librewolf breaks some websites (online banking doesn't work) floorp is a good one, but in my experience zen is better.

1: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop
I don't think they can succeed though, because the 5. is the crucial step, as being a baby-making machine is a full-time job, and no lobby is going to get a lot of following from the business with the premise to cut the available workforce by half.
This posting has fortuitous timing, as of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065
I'm sure Justin Sun's purchase of $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial has nothing to do with it.
Except, a diabetic's immune system already wants to kill those too...
And we all know what a credible organisation they are.
Pitch Hubert
Did they eventually fix the game desync bug that would happen when you have a multi-core CPU?

We used to play Generals at LAN parties all the time - but once multicore CPUs hit the market, it was difficult to just get to the end of a game, because peers would desync and you'd suddenly find yourself playing singleplayer. Its clearly some race condition in the game engine which makes the game non-deterministic in a multicore situation. Does anyone know - is that still a problem?
For real, CnC Generals was the game that has taught me the most about the frivolity of war: there are no winners, both sides lose, it's just a grand burning of resources... for nothing.

You build a wonderful base and war machine, only to watch it burn.

If this was "required playing" to all kids, I would be greatly surprised if war would still be a thing... it basically mocks war. In the most fun way possible!

Look up Jeffrey Sachs' address to EU Parliament, if you are unsure about the real geopolitics of this century... you won't find it in US media.
1. I said the majority of the problems, and the article I linked also mentioned this. Nothing “curious” really, but if you thought this additional source adds sth more, thanks for adding it here.

2. We know that “open”ai is bad, for many reasons, but this is irrelevant. I want processes themselves to not depend on the goodwill of a corporation to give intended results. I do not trust benchmarks that first presented themselves secret and then revealed they were not, regardless if the product benchmarked was from a company I otherwise trust or not.
FrontierMath benchmark people saying OpenAI had shared folder access to some subset of eval Qs, which has been replaced, take a few leaps, and yes, that's getting "data under the table" - but, those few leaps! - and which, let's be clear, is the motte here.
What makes marking unfair? Look harder at validity
To the people that forced their friends and family to switch to Firefox be sure to schedule the tech support visit.
Can you make landline calls internationally with it for cheap ?
It seems what you are looking for is a SIP provider. There are many. Some of them allow interconnection with the "real" phone network.
With the game engine opensourced, I doubt thats true. Its probably going to be much easier to just get this code building (patching out any proprietary bits and pieces) and going from there.

Modding the game to work properly at a high framerate doesn't sound very hard when you have the original assets & source code to work from.
The guys at Founders Inc in SF cloned their GP using AI while he was sick. These real calls are sent to his voicemail. Thought it was a clever attempt to get deal flow.

Might to be an easy way to practice pitching.

https://x.com/fdotinc/status/1895340420558921993
I imagine the story is likely accurate (conservative father adopts increasingly bizarre right-wing conspiracy theories and family becomes alienated - is it dementia or something else?) and it also may fit NPR's editorial angle. To me it does seem like something of an invasion of privacy, particularly if it was published without permission.
This is written like AI bot .05a Beta.
This was the drop in the bucket I was waiting to migrate my daily use to Firefox, and keep a vanilla Chrome installation around to test my frontends.

It's funny how Chrome became practically my new Internet Explorer.
Odd. The 45-second "rule" was not new to 2010. It apparently went back to the 1940s.

> The longest Oscar speech was given by Greer Garson at the 15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. Her speech ran for nearly six minutes.[11] It was shortly after this incident that the academy set forty-five seconds as the allotted time for an acceptance speech and began to cut the winners off after this time limit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_speech

There's no citation for that claim though and I can't find anything definitive, but here's Denzel Washington referencing the limit in 1990:

https://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/062-2/

Here's an article from 2001 referencing the 45-second limit again:

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=108258

It seems like there's news articles every year claiming the limit is a new thing. Here's an article from 2010:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/feb/16/oscar-winners-s...

(Linked from the original article, but clearly the 45-second limit predated 2010.)

Regardless of when the limit first appeared, the orchestra did attempt to hurry Brody along after he was several minutes into his speech and well over 45 seconds:

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/adrienbrodyoscarsp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HgWANva9Xk
This. It's extremely expensive to keep core functionality like this in a fork. Every single surface that manifest v2 touches (js runtime, extension hosting, permissions, network, APIs, chrome even) that gets changed upstream has to be redone to account for v2. Every new system built into Chrome that only works with v3 has to be effectively back ported to v2.

The only other option is to keep v2 in chromium itself and have Chrome disable it... While still paying the cost of supporting it in all new feature dev.

There's no world where Microsoft spins up a new engineering team solely to deal with the extra cost of keeping v2 around.

That said this sucks. I got my first internship on the Internet Explorer team by talking about how hard it was to install an ad blocker in IE, compared to Chrome.
- I love Shortcat (https://shortcat.app/). It lets you do almost anything on your screen without having to leave your keyboard.

- Also, Houdahspot (https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/) for advanced searching and file-filtering (you can even exclude results from certain folders). It has search templates, saved searches (which appear as files in Finder), and the ability to export the current search as a Smart Folder (amazing!).

I just wish that Smart Folders worked on iOS and Dropbox …
I've been using LibreWolf as my daily driver for a couple of years. Highly recommended!
Available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Ranked as the highest for privacy protection in a 2022 study: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/06/15/privacytests-reveals-how-y...

Occasionally, you might get a broken website but to fix it you just click on the shield icon and lower the privacy settings.
> Do I need to tell you how to communicate?

No? By the way, what is this comment, exactly? What is it trying to communicate? What I'm understanding is, it is good to talk down to people about how "they can't communicate", but calling a lie a lie is bad, because maybe they were just kidding (lying for fun)

> That comment is making fun of their wording. Maybe extracting too much meaning from their wordplay? Maybe.

What does "maybe" mean here, in terms of symbolical logic?

Their claim "we tested it and it didn't get better" -- and the link shows, they tested it, it did get better! It's pretty cleancut.
Awesome, what dedication!
John Siracusa has an app which is extra and opinionated Dock, although not directly for windows:

https://hypercritical.co/switchglass/

There's a detailed FAQ.
google fi
I am not (only) a docker dev but a developer using docker tooling for my development environment. Feature wise docker and flatpak are not even comparable IMO. Just wanted to make a point, why flatpak is not (yet) an option for some people, and projects like this are very welcome.
Yeah, but Tim Apple might.
Specifically, it's boilerplate to prevent Firefox for being dinged for bog-standard browser behavior, presumably in jurisdictions where that might be a possibility.

Here's the clarification from Mozilla:

We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.

The new policy merely allows Firefox to function as it always did, to help users visit web pages, allow the browser permission to store your personal information such as form data, or to access a file that you wanted to upload to a website.
Wait... What? That application-window trick is awesome. How have I been using been using Macs for twenty+ years and never found that? Discoverability = not-awesome.

As repetitive as these top-tips threads can be, we need one every now and again. Someone's guaranteed to learn something from them, and I'm grateful it was my turn today.
I don't understanding how post ranking works. At the time of writing the ChatGPT announcement has the following stats:

- 833 points | 10 hours ago | 652 comments | 2nd

And this post the following:

- 432 points 5 hours ago | 155 comments | 6th

Also interesting is that the EA CoC post has the following stats:

- 828 points | 12 hours ago | 222 comments | 13th

Subjective opinion: the comments here are mostly positive, the comments over there is a bit of a mix. I _feel_ that it's not quite justified as with many recent posts.

The rule I have read a lot recently says if a post gets a lot of comments relative to opints then it can get flagged/deranked. Is it the number of parent comments/replies as well, does it depend on the author and commenter's points, the rate at which points and comments occur, etc.?
That sounds exactly like what youtube music does
It isn't just software: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/access-mozilla-services...

I will maintain it is an issue of clarity. Your argument is that Mozilla isn't offering online services but this isn't true and clarifying what actions upload information and exactly how that information would be used would mollify this. The list would probably be quite extensive. Moreover, the clause doesn't necessarily give them a license to all information input through firefox and that clarification should be demanded of them.
Here’s my tip: Messages stuck with a badge but you have no idea what’s unread / how to clear it? Ask Siri for your unread messages. It’ll go through them and remove the badge.
Any recommendations for an Android Firefox replacement?
Talking about the poor as if they were to be discarded

The context was Hashicorp pricing for a web service, I was not talking about the poor.

Not being able to afford a B2B service is not an injustice.

there's still a lot of money to be made meeting people's needs doing the work others don't want to do. I feel like this applies from the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder

Are you betting your breakfast on walking your talking?

even "bad" customers are still customers

That’s why I don’t recommend going out to find them. They tax your ability to provide high quality. You will have enough problems without trying to get lava from a turnip.

it probably wasn't your best look, you know

For better or worse, it’s not going to keep me up grieving on long winter nights.
Could it be that Spotify had the licenses (mostly) in place at the time, but that the labels didn't happen to have a nicely wrapped zip file of all of their catalogues ready to hand over? In that case, using pirated music seems perfectly legitimate..
I'm on Sonoma (14.5). In System Settings > Siri & Spotlight,

1. I can deselect some pre-defined categories that Spotlight searches

2. I can click the "Spotlight Privacy..." button (at the very bottom right). Then I can add folders for it to ignore.

(My preference is for Spotlight to ignore almost everything, so that it isn't indexing stuff and eating CPU on this old Macbook Air. I only have it scan Applications, Calculator, and System Settings. I have it specifically ignore my entire home directory which is where all my git repos are.)
My house has hard wired smoke detectors and they all have batteries and all get to chirping on their schedule every 3 years or so.

I'd be willing to bet the NEC says "must be able to perform without mains power" for any hard wired setup.
One developer account can distribute to 100 iPhones without the App Store. You can distribute to an unlimited number of devices if you leave the app in a permanent beta test without full App Store approval. You simply distribute via Test Flight.
Brave is fantastic.
Altman mentioned GPT-4.5 is the model code named "Orion". Which originally was supposed to be their next big model, presumably GPT-5, but showed disappointing improvements on benchmark performance. Apparently the AI companies are hitting diminishing returns with the paradigm of scaling foundation model pretraining. It was discussed a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42125888