skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re absolutely right—Monero XMR is arguably the closest thing to Satoshi’s original vision in terms of actually delivering private, censorship-resistant transactions. But that’s also exactly why it’s under fire. Governments don’t need to ban privacy coins outright—they just have to make them inconvenient, illiquid, and unprofitable to use at scale.

Your hesitation is understandable: betting on XMR feels like betting against the trend of ever-increasing surveillance. And right now, surveillance is winning.

But here’s the thing. Privacy isn’t just for criminals—it’s for everyone. And yet, it’s being pushed into the fringe by design. If we accept that surveillance is inevitable, we lose by default. Governments thrive on inertia—on people shrugging and saying, well, that’s just how things are.

Monero doesn’t have to win completely to be necessary. It just has to exist—as an option, as a hedge, as a last line of defense against a world where every financial move is monitored.

Maybe XMR never goes mainstream. But what happens if it’s erased entirely? That’s the real nightmare scenario.
I’m autofilling usernames and passwords from 1Password’s browser extension probably 100+ times per workday. Are you manually copying and pasting anywhere near that amount? I think I would be miserable with that setup for anything beyond very light use.
Okay, then why is that particular action "useful" to control?
I think there’s a huge argument here for what their research inspired others to do as well.

Just the small work they did on supporting mice so early on (third system to integrate a mouse?) was pretty massive for changing the way we interact and deal with computers.

I know the mouse concept is in “the mother of all demos” but actually first principle integration of the mouse into the system probably belongs to PARC.
This is the biggest hurdle I can’t get over and why I lack crypto fomo. What can one reasonably buy with crypto that is relevant to day-to-day needs? Additionally, given the volatility and the speculative nature of crypto, even if I could buy my groceries, would I? And risk missing additional upside by holding? It’s gambling as far as I can tell.
Yo, Mr. White

Meth might reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes but it has all kinds of other side effects.
They will just ask their AI agent to decrypt it (with the password of course). No need of ability to run gpg.
Little did my guy know that he would be starting one of the more hackernews-ish arguments out there.

"is terraform code?", and despite everyone knowing exactly what he means, everyone must try to prove him wrong because he didn't choose the best example to prove his point.
Same with the straws. Instead of polypropylene they're now paper coated in pfas. The coating isn't perfect so the paper gets soggy and dissolves, making the user ingest pfas as well. Which is inert (the toxins are emitted during the production process) but can still accumulate in the body to questionable effect

Yeah this was not a good trade off. Though most cups (eg polarcup) were already pfas-coated paper so it's not a new problem.

And yes straws aren't really necessary but as someone with sensitive teeth they avoid pain in cold drinks. That's why I use them. McDonald's tried to simply stop serving them here (EU) but the backlash was too great.
2FA does not increase the key strength. The key is solely derived from the password. 2FA limits access to somebody who already has the password to get in. The LastPass leak was of a backup, though, for which 2FA does nothing.
Even Litecoin officially supports privacy these days via Mimblewimble / MWEB, although the privacy is not as strong as Monero. Litecoin is easier to work with since all crypto exchanges support it unlike with Monero. I would like to see Bitcoin similarly support Mimblewimble / MWEB.

Bitcoin Lightning also has privacy, although it's not as strong as MWEB and obviously nowhere near Monero.
IMO, there are fundamental structural barriers that preclude transformers from "superintelligence". In simple terms, I think it's far-fetched to assume that "superintelligence" can emerge from a bunch of text and images. The absurd statistical power of using every available super computer for quadratic time brute force on the entire public internet produces incredibly impressive (and useful) results, but there's only so much blood you can squeeze from a stone considering that the fidelity of reality is, far and away, inconceivably more complex than a textual substrate.

Further, I don't see strong evidence of "regular" intelligence. LLMs are like calculators for text, they have a lot of practical utility, but they don't understand anything, their output is the result of rote mechanical steps that could be executed by hand in principle. I've been using SOTA LLMs daily for years and to this day they still reliably produce nonsense and get things confidently wrong that an intelligent person generally wouldn't. Of course, intelligent people make mistakes, but if they start to hallucinate we immediately lose trust in them. Most people use LLMs in a touch and go manner, and the impressive statistical power fools us into believing we're interacting with something akin to a being, but the facade quickly breaks down the longer you try to engage with it in a manner where coherency matters.

With all that stated, I'm not saying AGI isn't possible, but I don't see language models as a path to AGI no matter how much better we can get them to model language.
I think it's more like an active antennae/analog signal processing structure that can tightly control spatial radiation properties (direction, amplitude, phase). Think beamforming, but with a continuous micro-structured surface rather than discrete antennae. In this case, the "antennae" is not only a planar object with sub-wavelength microstructure, but may also include circuit elements that can dynamically alter the surface properties. At least that's what I got from skimming the first three paragraphs. Sounds very interesting.
It clearly doesn't work if Germany is universally opposed. But if, say, France and the UK and major non-US NATO/EU conventional powers like Poland are supportive of the move and see it as sharing the burden of regional security, then I think the calculus changes.
Aseptic process simulation (APS) is a critical component of the validation process in pharmaceutical manufacturing, particularly in producing sterile products. The goal of aseptic processing is to maintain a product’s sterility by preventing the introduction of microorganisms during the manufacturing process.
Functional vs. Data-Driven Development: A Case-Study in Clojure and OCaml
I feel like this is kind of obvious. Plenty of people write C or C++ and then optimize some low-level function using hand coded assembly. Even the author seemed to suggest they couldn't get their C compiler to do what they wanted so they bailed and hand wrote assembly. How is this any different from rust?

I'd expect the same for rust. You make a safe higher level API. It validates all the inputs and then calls into the private "unsafe parts" implemented in C or assembly. Hopefully you've put enough validation in the high level API so that it will be unlikely to call the low-level API in a way that breaks.
As they indeed should, and should've been doing for decades now.
Nonspecific covid policies getting support from "the mainstream" is proof that HN will support authoritarianism?

Huh.
> at the expense of a lot of the most vulnerable - the blind hopeless follower gambling beyond logic.

The more concerning victims are the very many people whose retirements are heavily if not entirely invested in the stock market through 401ks, etc.

Can't wave that group away with moral hazard arguments and if the Republicans get their way across the board they'll be getting a double whammy in terms of their retirement investments being in tatters and Social Security being mostly destroyed as well.
That's table stakes today. LastPass was not up to standards.
> I think the main difference with traditional parental control software is that the burden would be on the site maintainer to accurately report the appropriateness of their content.

What would reddit.com do?

> If not, they would be legally liable.

We already have CDA/230.

> Of course this introduces the problem that foreign entities not subject to the law are effectively exempt from the requirement.

And so this whole endeavor was just defeated with free trial to any of the _many_ VPN services out there. Even a genuinely incurious person will eventually trip over a free/cheap VPN offer just browsing youtube.
Microsoft is notorious for starting partnerships that end poorly.

Microsoft and IBM partnered to create OS/2, then they left the project and created Windows NT.

Microsoft and Sybase partnered to work on a database, then split and created MS SQL Server.

Microsoft partnered with Apple to work on Macintosh software, they learned from the Macintosh early access prototypes and created Windows 1.0 behind their back.

Microsoft "embraced" Java, tried to apply a extend/extinguish strategy and when they got sued they split and created .NET.

Microsoft joined the OpenGL ARB, stayed for a while, then left and created Direct3D. And started spreading fear about OpenGL performance on Windows.

Microsoft bought GitHub, told users they came in peace and loved open source, then took all the repository data and trained AI models with their code.
> Exceptions for good faith efforts to label correctly. Maybe a special label for user generated content that holds companies a bit less liable for it.

We already have CDA/230
If you are quoting the numbers google put out, recall that those numbers were after they profiled and manually disabled bounds checks in cases where it caused significant slowdown.. so in other words the numbers were garbage.
Your comment isn't specifying what 25% doesn't have access. If you mean China being 1/4 the current human population that could be true you need to be more specific.
Tech Industry Workers Have Become Cogs in a Broken System
The thread of conservative vs progressive cardinals and factions goes through the whole movie, but the ending is the most "agenda" part (although handled subtly).
Again, depends on the country and time I suppose but "Video stores" back in the day used to be completely off limits to kids where I was. Just couldn't get in until 18. I never understood why as a kid.

One time my parents got me in. They had made a deal with the owner that I'd be shielded by a parent from seeing anything in the store on my way to the small corner of "age appropriate" VHSs, so that I could pick out what I wanted and then I'd have to leave the store while my parents went to rent it, coz from the cashier's counter I'd see too much.

Of course today I understand but back then I was just like "WTF!, why not!?"

Funny to think about now. It was a tiny corner I could see and a huuuuuge store I wasn't allowed in.
> Its `SQLITE_INTERNAL` error code is atypical in my experience.

In my experience it's reasonably common. Here are some other examples in what I would consider quintessential, high-quality C libraries:

- zlib has Z_STREAM_ERROR, which is documented in several places as being returned "if the stream structure was inconsistent"

- libavcodec has AVERROR_BUG, documented as "Internal bug, also see AVERROR_BUG2".

- LMDB has MDB_PANIC, documented as "Update of meta page failed or environment had fatal error".

> And for sure, some people have hit bugs that manifest as panics. And those could in turn feasibly be DoS problems. But they definitely weren't RCEs, and that's because I used `unwrap()`.

I feel this is conflating two things: (1) whether or not an invariant should get a dynamic check, and (2) when a dynamic check is present, how the failure should be reported.

Rust brings safety by forcing (safe) code to use dynamic checks when a safety property cannot be statically guaranteed, which addresses (1). But there's still a degree of freedom for whether failures are reported as panics or as recoverable errors to the caller.

I wrote down some of my thinking in this recent blog entry, which actually quotes your excellent summary of when panics are appropriate: https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/03/no-panic-rust.html

(ps: I'm a daily rg user and fan of your work!)
Hah, this is exactly what I was hoping to find. Thank you!
Maybe a stupid solution to that, but it would be cool if each city+location also had a callsign shown next to their messages, and would get highlighted on their screen if you include it.

That way you can at least get their attention after the minute or two it takes me to rattle off a message haha
The externalities of breaking stuff haphazardly can very well outweigh any efficiency gains.
That was after the IBM acquisition.
That's not actually true. The fee is implicit in the continuous and perpetual inflationary devaluation of the currency. Moreover, this fee applies whether you transact or not.
I find it challenging to accept something that talks about "OCR" but then I upload a PDF with text in images, and when I query the document after upload, I get a message that says "I can't interpret images"..

Then are you actually doing OCR, or are you just extracting embedded text?
> You're implying smart 17 year olds don't make it into bars.

Sarcastically, yes :).

It's a reference to the "you must be over 18/21 to enter this porn/alcohol site" banners. Even a "smart" 17 year old will figure the banner out.
> There are no prescriptive dictionaries, at least not correct ones, for living languages.

there are no 100% correct descriptive dictionaries. Any prescriptive dictionary is automatically correct.
There is a partial archive at https://www.oocities.org/
Really? Downplaying intentional sabotage on account of cutting corners to make deadlines being industry standard?
and a ton of government cash doesn't hurt either. Post war science boom was nearly all funded from government grants that have mostly dried up and are extinct under Trump, its why America started falling behind post Reagan.
They should just call it a robotic spacecraft, and then mention private company elsewhere in the sentence if they must.
> Ok, what bucket(s) does reddit fall into?

Well probably various. What is your point?

> it's a supremely subjective task

Yes, but this is beside my point. It can be good enough to meet people's subjective needs. All I meant was, solutions like this don't need to perfectly categorize every single site on the Internet to be good enough to be useful, for those who think such things are useful.
I'm in the same boat. I think i was geocities.com/Soho/???? right when it came out. I had Red Sox trivia questions, and it was multiple choice. The wrong answers linked to wrong.html, and the correct answer linked to 1.html, then 2.html etc. Fun times being a kid on the information super highway.
You're probably suffering rebound headaches at least most of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medication_overuse_headache
for one it is against the law in a lot of places :)

Why it's against the law is another discussion.
> When you lose weight, you don't need all that extra muscle.

Sure, but what if I want it? Maybe I want to jump extra high, or want to be able to lift things 120lbs heavier than I could before?
And yet the ranks of proofreaders and editors never blinked.
Forests and the military are public goods; citizens derive benefit from these things. Bitcoin and gold are not public goods.
I have no idea what 'that' action is youre referring to. In generic terms some impulse actions are good (move hand from burning thing), some indifferent, and some bad ( ie dog barking annoys someone so they punch the dog).

What's useful is the option and ability to do either. I wouldn't want to let go of a hot pan only to have it fall on a baby, even though I'd otherwise drop it.
You're confusing selective availability, which is on the civilian side, with bands.

There are four civilian bands, with a fifth in the works for critical uses. There are two military bands, and they are encrypted.

The military bands (two) have always been encrypted and being on different bands, cannot be received at all by civilian receivers, though I imagine it's mostly a firmware change with some minor hardware changes.

Don't talk about things you wildly do not understand or know anything about.
There are even a handful of ambulances equipped with CT scanners so that stroke patients can be diagnosed and treated in the ambulance. (By “handful” I mean that, when I toured one, I think there were a grand total of two in California.)
lets write a book "law for programmers" if ...condition....then crime and fill the entire book with if else conditions like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription#Formal...
Hi HN community,

Is anyone looking for a volunteer for IT or programming?

I linked my LinkedIn profile if anyone wants to take a look.

I am located in Toronto. I'm good at programming and configuring servers, and basic networking configuration.

Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn or here via Hacker News (see my profile for my contact email).

Also, if anyone knows were I can get in touch with people or organizations looking for volunteers please let me know in the comments or via LinkedIn or email.

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Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener.

What?, no, it is not ok to add cream or sweetener.
It is permissible to add more coffee, a "shot in the dark", coffee with a couple of shots of espresso, or just a mug of espresso.
Fresh made,carefully selected beens roasted by obsessives,stove top espresso machine that isn't
parsimonious, and produces a full measure, once a day, early in the day.
The idea of anything else, produces in me what must be like a gallick umbrage, but of course not so all encompassing and consuming as bieng french.
Poland has the same problem as Germany if not worse, as their domestic space industry is further behind Germany's and Poland directly borders Russia and Belarus, so there is no buffer.

Most non-nuclear European states cannot go nuclear today as they lack the ability to concurrently rush second strike and nuclear triad capacity without being pulled into a conventional war.

The only major non-nuclear European states I can think of that have this capacity are Turkiye (unsurprising due to competition with Russia, Iran, KSA, and Israel) and Spain (significant MIC that has experience and exports in the Mediterranean - and often competed with the French because of Spanish MIC's co-sell deals with Turkiye).

Reality is, most European countries are 5-10 years behind Asian and Middle Eastern regional powers in rearming - all of whom began in the 2010-14 period due to crises such as South/East China Sea, Himalayas, Syria, Myanmar, Donbass-Crimea, and Libya.

European leaders recognize this, and hence why there has been a flurry of Asia and EMEA defense deals over the past 6 months to help raise capital to begin rebuilding manufacturing capacity, but European HN/Redditors do not realize this (though I've tried bringing up).

The fact that the largest shareholder and launch partner for Europe's replacement for Starlink in Ukraine - Eutelsat Group and Eutelsat OneWeb - is an Indian government aligned conglomerate (Bharti Airtel) starkly shows this issue.

European states that aren't UK, France, Turkiye, and maybe Spain will have to rebuild their conventional capabilities in aerospace, space, naval, and land defense tech first before they can even consider a nuclear option.
I hope to find my page with a listing and reviews of 3D Video Accelerator cards, now known as GPUs. I created this in 1998 while in grade 10.
> Buttons ... provide the foundation of interactivity on the web.

This is a very neat way to sum up the difference between the 'old' and 'new' web. Because, of course, it's the hyperlink that provides the foundation of interactivity on the web.
I usually don’t get outraged at bills that are not laws yet, but…
The Congress webpage says it has already passed the Senate and has 20 cosponsors, roughly even from each party.
> Cubitt put undecidability on a collision course with large quantum systems in 2012.

Nominative determinism…
And what evil was Eaton Corporation performing? No, seriously. Put your hyperbolic examples aside that clearly don't fit the facts.

And let's say the company was evil in some way. Well, the defendant was happy to keep working for them (12 years in this case) and only started sabotating when he was demoted. So there's not a shred of a moral stand here. It's just pure self-interest, which is fine. But if you go the route of sabotage, don't be surprised if you end up jail. Is that worth it? The answer is no.

I'm reminded of a really old Simpsons quote [1].

Alternatively, you just hoard information and make yourself impossible to fire.

This article is non-specific about the charge but this article [2] says the charge carries a maximum 10 year sentence, which means it's a felony. So for the rest of his life, he'll be a convicted felon regardless of how much (if any) prison time he gets. That has consequences.

It's also strange he went to trial at all. The conviction rate in Federal court is roughly 99%. Most Federal criminal cases plead out. I'd love to know what, if any, plea deal was offered, if he represented himself (pro se) and, if he didn't, how much it cost him. It has to be tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

You see what I mean when I say, it's just not worth it? "What if it was a moral crusade?" you might ask. It wasn't. That's the point. That's why it's not worth it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtxUiGYrB0

[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/former-eaton-corp-...
Note that Ronald Regan used the word Holocaust to describe what Israel is doing, 41 years ago.
Probably less than that. Consider your suit needs to survive without a tear.
Where I'm from, the recruiters often use dumb questions like "How many years of experience do you have with X?" where any answer below their threshold is an immediate ground for rejection.

Learning new technologies on the go is pretty much the standard, but it's something that employers don't understand.
Unfortunate that Mistral OCR can't tell me details presented in charts and graphs.
> government is spending money inefficiently, which is a rational thing to think (after all, the government doesn't pass audits which means no one really knows how DoD money is spent at minimum), then it stands to reason that inspector generals were doing a poor job and therefore their removal is a good thing because they were complicit in the inefficiency.

That doesn't follow.

First, the existence of inefficiency doesn't mean the IGs are doing a poor job. It's rational to expect the optimal amount of inefficiency and fraud to be nonzero, so it could be the case they are performing as good as they possibly can be expected.

Second, government agencies do routinely pass audits. You highlighted the one that doesn't routinely pass audits, but that doesn't mean others don't. Incidentally DoD is the one with the most bloat, and the one DOGE isn't really going after. In fact, they went after USAID first, which just passed an audit.
Sweet branding! Grandma told me she's not happy with lack of privacy policy.
Flatpak leaves stuff behind on uninstallation.
Yes, the only substantial change to the web's usability (genuinely useful apps like maps excepted) has been addition of streaming video that just did not work all that well in the nineties. Everything else has been mostly fluff. The period of so called "Web 2.0" and the subsequent proliferation of SPA and framework wars around them has felt particularly pointless. In this regard the birth of useful LLMs is a bit of a fresh air in the tech sector in that it feels like something novel has emerged that isn't just an nth way of dynamically spitting out HTML.
People can also apply to become "Calf of Man Ornithological Wardens" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-45965251
Does it work with o1 type reasoning models. I had trouble running phidata (the old named framework) with it.