skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Passive DNS" is a thing people sell. If people connect to your systems and use public DNS servers, chances are I can "map the complete endpoints of your infrastructure" without touching that infrastructure for a small cost.

If client X doesn't want client-x.your-firm.example to show up by all means obtain a *.your-firm.example wildcard and let them use any codename they like - but know that they're going to name their site client-x.your-firm.example, because in fact they don't properly protect such "secrets".

"Blue Harvest" is what secrets look like. Or "Argo" (the actual event not the movie, although real life is much less dramatic, they didn't get chased by people with guns, they got waved through by sleepy airport guards, it's scary anyway but an audience can't tell that).

What you're talking about is like my employer's data centre being "unlisted" and having no logo on the signs. Google finds it with an obvious search, it's not actually secret.
No no, you see, there will be no more maintenance done by humans. The AI will rewrite the app completely from scratch every time you deploy.

The whole product will be defined by a specification distilled out of company meetings, slack messages and emails.

There will be only one button labeled "build and deploy" and if something breaks you press it again.
The alternative is that Ukraine loses land, US sucks up a bunch of ukrainian resources from what land remains, and their people reach depression level poverties instead. All while probably being at risk of another way in 5 years and Trump help Putin recover faster than Ukraine every could in this situation.

The human cost for this sad excuse of a "peace treaty" will completely decimate Ukraine and simply delay the next attack.
I would encourage you to try Replit!

Deployment is literally a button. Granted, to a replit subdomain. But following some documentation to add your own domain is not out of reach.
some people see what they want to see
I mean the US is spending money on US weapons and arms and sending them to a foreign country. We're not sending them cash. The military industrial complex in the US benefits.

Not to mention the huge benefit to us that this equipment is field tested in a way that it can't be done by just testing. That feels a little crass, but the first major comflict of this century has changed somewhat how war is fought.
Psh, the companies are freely giving up the data. It is unmentioned where the villagers got the carrot initially, maybe they also stole it from the library or promised their users the carrot would not be eaten. Lol
The really funny thing is: Vance is ~right that the Europeans "steal money" from the US. What I do not get is why that is a bad thing. A "trade" nowadays basically always involves one side getting something tangible that they want, be that goods or services or commodities. And the other side getting something intangible claims or money.

If I can get something inherently valuable for essentially nothing but an empty promise? That's an extremely comfortable position to be in..
Wait...what about all the "Learn to Code!" shouting four years ago?
Yes but have you tried vibe plastering? It's like artex, but not intentional.
They lost 30k lbs of honey to the LA fires and will struggle to rebuild hives
I don't necessarily see the complication. The benefit would be that I, the domain owner, would be able to communicate to clients what certificate they should be expecting, and in turn, clients would be able to tell if there's a mismatch. Sounds like a simple win to me.

According to my understanding, multiple CAs can issue a certificate covering the same domain just fine, so that on its own showing up on the CT logs is not a sign of CA compromise, just a clue. Could then check CAA, but that is optional and clients are never supposed to check that according to the standard, only the CAs (which again the idea is that one or more are compromised in this scenario). So there's a gap there. This gap to my knowledge is currently bridged by people auditing CT manually, and is the gap that would be filled with DANE in this setup in my thinking, automating it away (or just straight up providing it, because I can imagine that a lot of domain owners do not monitor CT for their domains whatsoever).
My Haskell comment was regarding specification of the overall system, not tests specifically. It was a reference to the incredible type system.

> this "tests can prove correctness" idea

You are the only one putting forward such an idea. It's not that I think tests passing proves correctness. It's that I know from experience that I don't fully understand the system. The code that breaks is always a surprise to me because if it wasn't then I would have fixed it before it broke.

So if my code breaks and tests don't catch it then I figure that before I fix it I should add a test for it.

Of course there are some categories such as multithreading that you generally can't test. So you take extra care with those, and then inevitably end up sinking time into debugging them later regardless.
This is a shockingly incomprehensible article.
1. learn how the deficit works. It's not the same as private interest

2. Learn how we are funding the war. It is helping us instead of costing a bunch of money.
That's very true. But programmers are extremely expensive. I don't think these tools or vibe coding replace expensive programmers, but they do make it possible to noodle where once it would have taken a potentially very risky commitment for a small business / solopreneur.
Yes, it was far too convenient, so we ignored the problem of Russia's imperialism for far too long. Then we didn't.
Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools you pay for
I got tired of collecting open source projects in my chrome bookmarks so I decided to compile a curated list of:

- Recently active projects on GitHub

- Mostly dev tools (but also productivity, analytics)

- Projects which are "Alternative to X software"

My bookmarks are finally empty:D

If you have a great open source tool you use, I'd be glad to hear your suggestions.

Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Literally made up.
> It's just like the infinite monkey theorem, hitting the enter key repeatedly without understanding the actions and eventually reaching their goal.

Reminds me of this https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277318632...

>Non-trivial text generation during the lifespan of our universe is almost certainly impossible.
> Derek Sivers also shares some really great questions for journaling for reframing [3].

That book is really helpful to me. Thank you for the link!
I believe you are thinking about Yeltsin (unless both visited a Texas supermarket and were surprised to discover how well stocked it was).

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending...
Tebako: Cross-platform, self-contained executables
https://openstreetmap.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.h...

There are actually a lot public information available on Layers -> ArcGIS Online.

I used to see ongoing Waterworks maintenance in there. In the area I live, there are also very up to date earthquake information from Government feed.
One obvious reason to not make it open source is licensing, if you do that, all of your competitors can cookie cutter copy what you're doing.
The LLM is not messing with you.

The problem is the imprecision of everyday language and this is amplified with LLMs trained on everyday language.

It is arguing with a talking calculator if the calculator "knows" 1+1=2

In one sense, it is absurd to think a calculator doesn't know 1+1=2.

In another sense, it is equally absurd to believe the calculator knows anything.

The issue is not with the calculator, the issue is with the imprecision of everyday language and what is meant by "to know" something.

This scales to basically everything. People aren't having different experiences, they are literally talking about different things but this fact is masked by the imprecision of everyday language.
That's a convenient narrative but it overlooks the desire to prevent normalization of hostile takeovers.

Russia tried to pretend that its satellite states and NATO were similar arrangements (with the latter thus being under US control), because that would make it seem like they were on even ground.

To the extent it ends up being true, it will be due to Russia's influence (conveniently allied with others' authoritarian tendencies).
Agreed! The similarities are stark. let's take the comparison further... Nvidia is the dotcom bubble's Cisco.

But the internet stuck around. It was still useful.

Just because something is overhyped, or doesn't meet the standards of the world's most demanding engineering organisations, doesn't mean that it's not here to stay and improve.

Perspective.
I'm sorry, but a code comment does not demonstrate lack of expertise, although such a perspective certainly brings your own expertise into question. Perhaps we should all assume a little less?
Which is ironic, because Trump seems pretty against war on the whole.
Animation vs. Coding
What's the point in cutting vinyl from a digital source? Fashion?

I thought the whole point of vinyl was that it maintains analog from recording to playback
> I dont want them safety critical

Then hopefully they run on a computer without network access, otherwise everything is safety critical.
AGI is effectively already here. We’ve repeatedly seen that giving AI models more time for deeper reasoning dramatically enhances their capabilities. For example, o3-mini, with extended thinking time, already approaches GPT-4.5-level performance at a fraction of the computational cost.

Consider also that any advanced language model already surpasses individual human knowledge, since each model compresses and synthesizes the collective insights, wisdom, and information of human civilization.

Now imagine a frontier model with agency, capable of deliberate, reflective thought: if it could spend an hour thinking, but that hour feels instantaneous to us, it would essentially match or exceed the productivity and capability of a human expert using a computer. At that point, the line between current AI capabilities and what we term AGI becomes indistinguishable.

In other words: deeper reflection combined with computational speed means we’re already experiencing AGI-level performance—even if we haven’t fully acknowledged or appreciated it yet.
I don't think it is merely a matter of redistribution. It can escape the zero-sum game through productivity gains, technological progress, recycling, and better legislation (for example, policies that regenerate forests). It may even create new industries as replacements. Because of this, I don’t believe it is inherently a zero-sum game.

> The only thing we can put economic value on are goods and services that use finite resources

A software patent does not consume physical resources (aside from the initial human labor) yet holds tremendous economic value. An app can be easily duplicated, making it a virtually infinite resource, while the patent remains attached to its novel functionalities.
Perhaps ego is a better term. Concretely, why migrate hotmail from unix to Windows except due to ego? The NPV has to be negative here.
Something similar to Firefox Sync is Floccus. If you only need bookmark and tabs sync it looks straightforward in setting up

https://floccus.org/
>Allowing minorities to define the agenda, no matter how glamorous it seems, is the path for disaster
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It's a really good thing every civil movement, including the civil war itself, disagrees with you. No progressive movement ever suddenly started with a bunch of people changing their mind on a dime withno infuence from the "minorities" first.
The real question is whether the fabs will ever come, or if they will be “too little too late”. As a former resident of Columbus, I’m skeptical of the Ohio government and Intel’s ability to get a value-positive operation running here.

So much of the Ohio population is hostile to the very acts like CHIPS which are funding this project and Ohio infrastructure generally. I have that on account of a couple civil engineers in Ohio who are friends and family.
Yes, we can take anything to the extreme and hyperbolize in order to prove a point, but that doesn't really add anything useful to the discussion.
Relaxing Music Generator v0.2 (On IPFS)
I have no issues that an isolationist US uses it. I have issues if the US foists the garbage on the EU, just like it now wants to dump Biden's Ukraine war on the EU by insulting Zelensky and deliberately provoking a protective counter reaction in EU leaders.

EU/British leaders are very naive. Just like getting everyone dragged into that Ukraine conflict, the US now drags everyone into AI and makes them pay for it.

Just like the war hype, the AI hype will collapse. In one case the MIC made the profits, in the other case it will be tech bros.
No gatekeeping. Anyone can write programs.

But to build something which could handle a customer’s credit card, password, or other PII and charge them for it, you better know what you’re doing.

It’s all fun and games until you’re the cause of someone’s identity or password getting stolen.

Anyone can use CAD software, but if you’re designing a public space, you better know something about safety.
Show HN: Doom Train
The goal of Doom Train (metaphor stolen from Liron Shapira) is to make debates about AI safety more productive. People who are concerned about existential risk will ride the doom train all the way to the end. People who think these concerns are unwarranted will get off before the end. The question is: where do you get off the doom train? Once that's been established, there might be a more productive conversation. Let me know if I missed any stations.
Vance just gets worse and worse every day, and so does certain SV circles’ infatuation with him. An absolute snake.
The strong reason for this attack was Russia's security concerns got ignored and stepped on by a military alliance (NATO).

NATO is a defensive pact. Putin invaded Ukraine because he wants their port, arable land, and because he wants to go down in history as "reuniting" the Russian empire. Also, Russia has wanted to exterminate the Ukrainian cultural identity, which they've tried to do since before the Soviet Union:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-i...

Putin's whining about NATO is pure bullshit propaganda. Just like his claims of Nazis in Ukraine. It's all fiction, where he writes Russia as the victim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F:

“18F is a digital services agency within the Technology Transformation Services department of the General Services Administration (GSA) of the United States Government. 18F helps other government agencies build, buy, and share technology products. The team consists of designers, software engineers, strategists, and product managers who collaborate with other agencies to fix technical problems, build products, and improve public service through technology.”

Clickable URL from this post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ronbronson_18f-has-indeed-bee...
How many human lives are you willing to bet on that?
> I just want a free script or addon that will do its job instead of paying someone on upwork to do it for me. simple as.

So, you pay the billionaires to rent their graphics cards so you can avoid paying a normal person? -_-
How about we don't tell other people how to code? It's one thing to make suggestions, it's another to make demands. I've been doing this for a long time and I can code laps around most people. I also like well-commented code that allows me to quickly skim code and check it for correctness.

You can have your preferences all you want and that's great, but when you start passing irrational judgement about the value of someone's code just because it's liberally commented, your perspective becomes less respectable.
And to address that gap between the rich and poor, Trump is ... firing middle-class government employees, cutting taxes (which primarily favors the rich), and toying with cutting social programs?
So why can a single executive decide to force rules in? Why is an unelected, unvetted team of a few dozen people capable of firing millions of employees? WHy can a court of 9 people not voted in determine the law of the land?

Not really shocked such a take is contradictory in and of itself.
This is such a lame comment. He's looking at publicly available geospatial data, not trying to build a bomb.
No.

My reply was just based on your question, the point being that your question originated in Russian propaganda. That it was based on dishonest reasoning by Putin. And that asking the question was helping Putin. Read a history book: anyone can give reasonable sounding justifications for invading a country. At the very least leaders need support for their wars, so nobody lets loose the dogs of war, saying "yeah I just want their stuff". In geopolitics, the truth is not always in the middle.

But if you're now asking me my personal opinion, should we "continue the war", then, yes I think we should continue to enable Ukraine to defend itself. So if Ukraine wants to send more soldiers to the front, to defend their nation, then yes we should support them. Note: that does not automatically mean sending American or European soldiers, but that was never on the table.

We should continue to support them because we engaged ourselves to support Ukraine in the 90's, when we forced them to hand over their nukes to Russia.

We should continue the war because as both recent and less recent history has borne out, allowing Russia to perform a landgrab will give the wrong ideas to other countries, ultimately resulting in geopolitical instability everywhere.

We should continue to allow Ukraine to defend itself because demonstrably, it is effective.

I have kids, and do not want WW3. But if after losing hundreds of thousands of men, during a three year war, Putin has not started a nuclear war; do you really think he will start one now? If anything, supporting Ukraine will prevent future conflict.

All of this is obvious for anyone who has performed even a cursory study of history. Which probably explains why you were downvoted.
I hope no one will try vibe surgery.
This is a simplistic, even childlike, view of the relationship between the US and Europe. The situation is the way it is because the US wanted it like that.
Statesman like Dean Acheson and George Marshall designed it this way.
To throw 75 years of relative peace and stability away because you feel it’s unfair? A world that revolves around American military, economic and cultural power, and uses the U.S. dollar as its reserve currency unfair? It galls me that small, arrogant, petty people with no notion of history are throwing all this away because they have a schoolyard understanding of fair and unfair.
You can do this with github pages too, including your own subdomain. ChatGPT could walk you through the steps but there is no requirement for an LLM.

There's been big efforts to simplify this stuff for years. Lots of good tooling out there (which the right questions to an LLM will yield for you).

I think LLMs help with stuff like deploying a website, but they aren't a requirement. You still need to know what you are doing if you want to do something complex.
If AI does all the coding you are customer not a programmer.

Or do you think a customer who describes his requirements to a programmer who writes the actual program is a programmer too?
Firefox Sync does sync history. If you mean cross-browser, I don’t think there is a way.
they use winter like a nuclear deterrent. It’s as good as having an ocean.
Isn't this the same thing as no-code, low-code, MS Access, Excel, HyperCard, 4GL, COBOL etc. we've already had? The idea being that you can build something without knowing how to build something (on a gradient -- you could argue that on the COBOL end of the spectrum you need much more than the no-code end).

I doubt this time around, the AI-flavoured variant is going to change much, except perhaps the volume.
Right, so that sort of thing needs to be part of whatever proposed solution to the housing problem. This will of course raise building costs etc., and the regulations will need to have teeth so people can't just build apartments out of cardboard and paint them concrete-color. Also, that concrete will need to be really thick to ward out subwoofer noises. Maybe you could get around this by banning subwoofers.
That's a very valid concern. What kind of maintenance though? Most of the examples in this article are very simple. Maintenance might involve iterating on features, no real live services that would require any work.

Security patches though, yeah, that's tougher. My position is that if security is a concern, you need to hire someone. As much as many of these tools can integrate with databases and set up auth, I'm not sure how much I trust it personally. Especially if the actual code is hidden.
> if you have a hobby or job, imagine the new guy coming in, knowing absolutely nothing and doing shit they technically can do, but shouldn’t be done

Isn't that the definition of gatekeeping? and even so, who cares? the new guy coming in creating/doing something in a way that "shouldn't be done" will eventually fail and notice the shortcomings of what they did. Then they will either drop their project or learn the way "it should be done" (like we all did, except now with AI).
I used to believe this but changed my mind when I learned about that Brazilian orphanage for deaf kids. They were kinda left on their own and in the end developed their own signed language.
I started building the list 5 days ago and after a little hackathon I think it can be more useful than my full chrome bookmark list. I also tried to make it look decent and have some UX features such as search and sorting. I hope some people find it useful.
They assume there's a fixed amount of wealth to go around and if they give anything up they should immediately get something more valuable in return else they're losing out.

In reality, by making certain trades or investments new situations and opportunities can be created, making everyone better off.
Replace the word easy there with the phrase "technically may be possible with great effort and expense, probably"
If you're searching for a physical reference guide, I'd imagine "Word Clues" from middle school still holds up.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1616203.Word_Clues_Vocab...