skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things have changes since the Raegan era. There are a couple of elements to ICMB defense:

1) If you can strike the the ICBM's before the MIRV's separate, you only need a fraction of the number. To do this, you need to already have the interceptors (or whatever else used to shot them down) in orbit before the ICBM's launch.

Independently of AI, Starship is making it much cheaper to place objects in orbit, and can help with this. (Though it could trigger a first strike if detected, it might be possible to hide interceptors within Starlink satellites, for instance.)

2) Coordination and precision. This is what wasn't in place at all in the 80s. I'm old enough to remember when this was going on, and labelled impossible. I still remember thinking, back then: "This is impossible now, but will not remain impossible forever".

Whether it applies to interceptors already placed in orbit, novel weapons such as lasers, typically also placed in orbit or interceptors intended to stop reentry vehicles one faces a coordination problem with time restrictions that makes it very hard for humans or even traditional computer algorithms to solve properly.

This, more than the volume, was the fundamental showstopper in the 80s (the willingness to pay was pretty significant).

Now, with AI tech, plenty of known options open up, and an unknown number of things we didn't think of yet, could also open up.

Accuracy and coordination is the most fundamental one. Here AI may help distribute the compute load into satellites and even independent interceptor vehicles. (Both by making them more autonomous and by improving algorithms or control systems for the dumber ones.)

But beyond that, AI may (if one side achievs a significant lead) also a path to making manufacturing large numbers much cheaper, meaning one could much more easily scale up enough volume to match whatever volume the enemy can deploy. Also, with more advanced tech (allowed by ASI), interceptors can potentially be made much smaller. Even a pebble sized chunk of metal can stop most rockets, given the velocities in space. The hard part is to make them hit the target.

Basically, what I'm saying is that whoever has ASI first may at minimum get a time window of technological superiority where the opponent's ICBM's may be rendered more or less obsolete.

In fact, I think the development of the Poseidon by Russia was a response to realizing decades ago that ICBM's would eventually be counterable.

However, AI tech will possibly even more suitable for detecting and countering this kind of stealthy threats. Just like it is currently revolutionizing radiology, it will be able to find patterns in data from sonars, radars, satellites etc that humans and traditional algorithms have little chance to detect in time.
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They show a picture in the article where a few website are linked on top of the answer.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AI-Mo...

I assume the ads could be to replace the first website by an ad.

With LLM, it's also very possible that the ad get injected directly into the result.

For instance, searching for 'is car insurance obligatory?' would return the usual paragraph about yes and why and then tell you insuranceX has pretty good car insurance pricing and reputation.
Show HN: I Built an AI Travel Agent Because I Hate Planning Trips
A few months ago, I realized something: planning a trip is a pain in the ass. Hours wasted comparing flights, scrolling through hotel reviews, and trying to guess which "Top 10 Must-See" list isn’t just SEO spam.

So I built Planitly – an AI travel planner that actually does the hard work.

Tell it where you're going, and it builds your itinerary.
Personalized recommendations based on your budget, interests, and past trips.
Real-time suggestions for restaurants, activities, and hidden gems while you're on the move.
One-time payment option—no subscriptions if you don’t want them.
It’s like having a local guide in your pocket—except it doesn’t try to upsell you a tour.

Would love feedback, ideas, and thoughts. What frustrates you the most about planning trips?
> I want to see a social network that solves the bot problem by requiring a fee to post.

Why would people pay to post?
Why do people post in the first place?
How about qwant.com? Privacy friendly, no nonsense by default.
The moreso that those things don't even figuratively set my mind on fire.
This can only be a good thing. The Europeans tend to do things a bit more slowly but more rigorously.
Oh, shut up! Ukraine is not "our greatest ally." They never wear suits to meetings, and they never say thank you. Why should we care what happens to them? /s
Student Uses AI Beats Amazon's Brutal Technical Interview. Uni Suspends Him
Build Model Context Protocol(MCP) Server for Star Wars with Nebius and Couchbase
> immigration, that will ultimately destroy a country's cultural and ethnic fabric

I may have it wrong, but aren't most Americans there as a result of immigration?
> while the other is less likely to take a bad decision

That's not necessarily the case, actually. You will be slow so you may make outdated decisions and you will try to "cover everything" in advance, which means you may well cover the wrong things. "No plan survives contact with the enemy".

A business case-in-point is Nokia vs Apple. Nokia was caught completely off-guard by the iPhone and they then spent years planning their response (down to the usual comprehensive technical design specs covering every details) while Apple was churning one new version of the iPhone almost every year.

Perhaps a similar scenario is playing out with SpaceX vs Arianespace (Ariane 6 design started in ~2012 with first flight in 2024, "only" 12 years later).
It's interesting to compare these signs of progress with the disappointment that GPT 4.5 was so far.
> "The main-top mast, from head to heel, was shivered into a thousand splinters..."

I hadn't realised the origin (presumably) of the stereotypical naval saying "shiver me timbers" was from lightning striking masts.
Interesting take on minimalism, if not a bit at odds with my own. Rather than align it with cheapness, I see it as a challenge of efficacy in communication, asking how we can convey an idea in as few words, symbols or pictures as possible and still achieve general understanding. In my experience (mostly in writing product manuals and trying to keep them from turning into novel-length publications) communicating in a minimal way requires far more work. I think of the problem of labeling nuclear waste sites as an illustration to my point.

You might be right about European tourists, though. I appreciate the cathedrals and the like for what they are, but my draw to travel in Europe has more to do with the reminder and humility that comes with doing something so mundane as eating a piece of licorice in a sweets shop that's been in operation longer than my country has (US), or something to that effect. Things like that are great medicine for staying grounded and alleviating symptoms of American Exceptionalism.
It's shocking how often other companies just outright clone what Apple does. That new start menu grid isn't just similar to the iPhone App Library, it's identical.
Whatever you think about the quality of the response, this is an end of an era right here. The 30-year reign of 10-link SERPs is on life support.

I can't remember what I used for search before AltaVista? I know I had a notepad on my desk. A lot of web sites I used didn't even have domains so you had to just note down all the IPs.
Did I just catch you doing an antisemitism? Visa revoked. /s
hard no on the unnecessary login, apologies, looks at least surface level interesting
Another example of history repeating itself... 80 years ago, McCarthy and the HUAC were going after alleged communist supporters, now the Trump admin is going after alleged Hamas supporters.

Maybe we should all study more of history, with an open mind, instead of assuming that everything is different now and people have never been in a similar situation before.
CSP headers can leak urls, but I assume that isn't the cause here if the subdomain is an entirely separate project
> Arguing that there's scientific agreement or consensus for anything is anti-scientific.

Do you imagine that in a world of scientific men and women engaging in empiricism, we should disregard the agreement in our discussions and simply rediscover medical science again and again from ground zero? We're going to tell patients "Oh, wait a few lifetimes, we're busy reconfirming everything because credibility and consensus is anti-scientific."

That's what it means to disregard consensus. At some point you have to trust an entire discipline of professionals if you want to do Enormous Scale Medicine, not just singular pinpoint arguments or results.
Student was right. I also don't know why the university would suspend him. Him cheating big tech interviews using an AI has nothing to do with school work.
What's cooking on Sourcehut? Q1 2025
I'm genuinely curious why anyone would download a beta of Windows... can someone enlighten me?

I can think of one scenario only - You have a desktop app or drivers that you want to ensure will work in the upcoming non-beta, so getting a head start would be good I suppose.

But for anyone else, why would you test software for free from a trillion dollar company that have a bit of a track record now of hostility towards users.

This isn't a troll, I'm a Windows 11 user myself. I am genuinely at a loss.

Edit: I'm being a dumbass (on first coffee as I write this), there's plenty of reasons why people would download a beta... I was thinking from my perspective only!
OpenAI's $10k/month AI Software Dev Agent? No, thanks
Yes. This is part of russia's constitution. Why don't you know this?

https://ukraineworld.org/en/articles/analysis/what-russia-wa...
Thank you for your feedback! Really appreciated
I manage the Windows 11 desktop system of my parents. The interruptions, feeding of click-bait news, trying to force Edge, Bing, OneDrive and other online services, tons of overt and covert telemetry, the older parts of Windows visible like a sore thumb... All of these things push me away and away from Microsoft every day.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'm happy with my Linux desktops and Mac laptops. They're interoperable, using Macs are trouble free 99.99% of the time, and my Linux desktops just work.

Life is good, at last.
Self-plug here, but very related => Robustness and the Halting Problem for Multicellular Artificial Ontogeny (2011)

Cellular automata where the update rule is a perceptron coupled with a isotropic diffusion. The weights of the neural network are optimized so that the cellular automata can draw a picture, with self-healing (ie. rebuild the picture when perturbed).

Back then, auto-differentiation was not as accessible as it is now, so the weights where optimized with an Evolution Strategy. Of course, using gradient descent is likely to be way better.
Frank Herbert knew it: This is basically an implementation of the mentats recursive self inspection described in Dune.
S1h: SSH and scp and passwords manager unified in one simple CLI
Hello everyone, I use ssh a lot, and I have a mixture of passwords & private key, which is a pain to work with. To solve that pain point, I created this tool called s1h inspired by k9s.
Hope you find it useful as well!
In light of recent events, I've noticed more and more people online opting for EU made products.

I'm an indie developer from Dublin and I made an iOS app called "Treu" designed to help you check if something is from the EU with a photo.

The irony isn't lost on me that I'm promoting EU made products using an app that runs on devices primarily designed in California and manufactured in China.

How it works:
Take a photo of a product or its packaging
The app analyzes manufacturing information, origin labels, and CE markings
You get an analysis telling you if it's EU-made

If you're wondering, yes, it's another one of those AI wrapper apps. It was a fun little side project I built in a few hours yesterday to see if I could get it from start to published in under 24 hours.

Cheers
> Responding with unexplained fear in my heart, we’re just getting closer to Skynet!

I'll take a cold logical machine super-intelligence over the mad human lunatics wielding current iterations of "A.I." technologies in some really terrifyingly dangerous ways. As someone else commented on some other thread earlier "I look forward to being paperclips".
This might be trivial, or deep, depending:

We have done a lot of that improving historically by publishing research and textbooks. I can solve (some) problems today in minutes that would have stumped Isaac Newton for a life time (or at least a few weeks).

Of course, you are hinting at a more general distillation, I suspect.
That's exactly the reason, so you can test in advance.

(Unless there's some new feature you're really looking forward to. But I'm not aware of many of them.)
And the iPhone is just a copy and evolution of the PalmOS paradigm. I'm not mad at Apple, because when they put up that UI, the PalmOS was basically dead.

Then (what remains of) Palm had cloned the UI of Apple Watch for their "small" phone.
it can carry more, the whole value proposition of dsl was a high speed link over existing cabling, I think the dial up limitation is what speed can you sneak over the existing speech focused analog signal processing equipment. where as the article explained by making that analog link as short as possible it could improve speeds quite a bit. dsl was what you could achieve over the same lines when you were not forced to constrain your signal to speech frequencies
Just yesterday, I ordered a mac for me the first time in my life because I lost hope of PC hardware ever catching up to the convenience and stability of a mac. This is from a person who likes Windows and especially Linux much more than MacOS.
It looks like this is still a closed platform, isn't it?

Is there a way to just browse the chat of a public server without signing up? I would like to have a more open, low friction, internet searchable alternative to Discord. Revolt doesn't take it far enough.
https://archive.is/guMF1
I only keep it (Prime) for Amazon Prime Video really - there are some videos in the catalogue that I enjoy watching again, and new stuff is generally good.

It's not about 1-day delivery for me, or anything else. And £9.90 will not make any effect on my month expenses, not as much as the energy impact on my household, which doubled in one year.
Launched a New AI-Powered SaaS Feedback Tool for Startups
I’ve launched my first SaaS tool designed to help startups collect and analyze user feedback using AI. It integrates seamlessly, delivers real-time insights, and supports growth-focused decisions. Feedback and thoughts from the HN community are welcome!

https://feedinsight.xyz
You'll find out that macOS is much easier to interconnect with Linux than Windows, and will probably have a little happy ecosystem around you.
This looks like a massive win if you were the NHS and had to scan and process old case notes.

Same is true if you were a solicitors/lawyers.
I'm not sure. It might just be related to the US (and by extension American companies) being seen as less reliable in light of recent political developments.
It is patiently obvious that not all "searches" are questions. Google would be crazy to drop that capability. Otherwise if I type in IKEA I would get an article about a store, which is not what anyone would want.
There was barely a web before AltaVista. I can remember buying "web directories" - physical books or magazines of nearly every website that existed at the time.

Then there was the Yahoo Web Directory. I actually wish this would come back. A curated directory of major and trustworthy web locations would actually be pretty good, especially for less experienced web users who can otherwise be easily tricked.
How different are these two systems?

Might be worth modifying the Starlink terminals so they work with Eutelsat infrastructure instead of becoming scrap.
time to select my new search engine
No such requirement to remove gas; the grant won't fund the boiler part of a hybrid system, but it doesn't preclude having it.

I did consider it but all the installers said I'd have to upgrade the piping (i.e. rip out every floor in the house)
You're crazily instrumental, because there's a benefit to pleasure. In almost all instances, fun is learning, but exactly what a person learns is personal and obscure.
I reckon it depends on what kind of experience you want from your OS: there may be a variant that works for you already.

Take me for example. I want my OS to GTFO of my way. It's a toolbox, like the one a carpenter would carry around. I use the applications on it (the saw, hammer, nails etc.), not the OS itself (the carpenter toolbox).

In my case, the Enterprise LTO (or whatever it's called) is almost exactly what I need but the consumer variants are constantly trying to "help" me with shit I don't want.
>The internet isn't for nerds any more

That! Hit me hard. May be perhaps why the internet felt so different. Sigh.
After decades of being surveilled by the US government and US corporations, the information sold to the highest bidder, the lowest bidder and then given away for free - it is refreshing that my country has taken an interest in me.
In addition to testing in advance that your own (hard|firm|soft)ware will work, some people will just want to get new features early and are willing to deal with the potential extra bugginess.
I think the idea is to use a book that you have already read in your language, maybe even multiple time (favourite book).

This way your mind already has all the associations stored in your brain for easy access, and you just need to link it to the foreign concepts. Supposed to be a great way to learn new languages after you know the basic grammar and such.
Perhaps do a couple of independent runs, and then combine them afterwards?
This is no simple case of FOMO. I'd rather say that this is a classic case of the Innovators Dilemma. It's their Kodak Moment.
fucking bring the folder menu back for start. win 7 had it perfect. everything else is stupid.

it is not even nostalgia, it just worked.
Does anyone know how the terminals are built?
Any chance the Starlink branded ones are actually generic enough to be used with a better firmware?
You fear? Or, it's all but guaranteed? The current administration has openly advanced Israel's plan to ethnically cleanse 2 million Palestinians from their homes. Trump specifically stated that he's giving Israel everything they need to "finish the job."

I don't believe in giving both parties the benefit of the doubt anymore.
The vendors you spend at have to pay for credit card processing fees. That cuts into the margin for the business and ultimately the consumer pays for that, whether they recognize it or not.

Issues like surveillance and insecurity are largely political and by the time they are realized on an individual level they are too late to solve. It is pretty easy track down protestors when the government has access to the network of all their transactions. Not to mention control: payment processors are private companies and can simply choose not to do business with you, locking you out of the market.

With a typical bank, your money is protected by "open source" information like your name, address, and such. If you can copy information from a credit card you have everything you need to authorize a transaction: skimming is a major issue. When this security inevitably breaks down, it's called "identity theft" and the responsibility is pushed onto the consumer who has no agency to secure themselves.

In a cryptocurrency, it's a keypair so the information needed to authorize the transaction (private key) is separate from the information needed to verify it (public key). And the end user has ownership of the keypair so they can take initiative in their own security. If they want to use a certain hardware token, they can do that. If they want to outsource some security to a third party, they can do that voluntarily with a multi-signature scheme.
Nice, wish it would link to my locale Wikipedia.
Thanks for the feedback, tons in there.

- Agreed. OpenZiti is not trying to focus on indie hosts. It has the goal to completely transform how networking and connectivity are done, to make secure by default and a simple user experience the de facto standard.

- Our path to do this definitely depends on monetising enterprise rather than indiehosters. That said, you can build abstractions on OpenZiti, which are much more simple and focused on indie hosters. A good example is zrok (https://zrok.io/), which makes sharing super simple (publicly, privately, and more), and is built on OpenZiti. Likewise, it's FOSS and permissively licensed under Apache 2.0 while also having a free SaaS.

- Likewise, we truly do believe in the power of app-embedded to transform networking and connectivity, but I would note the majority of people (self-hosters and enterprises alike) today use it as a superior private connectivity platform rather than for the app-embedded. They may use the SDKs, or consider it in the future, but the main selling point is the power of the platform, making it dead simple to do private connectivity across networks while abstracting away a lot of complexity (no need for VPNs, SDWAN, inbound ports, complex ACLs, L4 load balancers, public DNS, etc).
We need to force companies to be ethical and sustainable. Evil companies hurts everyone except a few who become extremely rich. A first step would be regulating markets where there are less then 5 competitors. A common strategy now is to remove the competition rather then having a better product.
Cancelled it too.
Translations suffered a similar fate already a while ago. Some of the results are completely unusable AI gibberish now, sometimes even with invented words. That's for English -> German.

What's baffling is that translation is the core competency LLMs were designed for.
Remember how he suddenly 'gave' Jerusalem to Israel, acknowledging it officially? That was a moment of desperation across whole sunni arab world, making it clear that palestinian cause is dead. Not saying whether I agree with any of this, just remembering few facts.

He was too busy pleasing that murderous p.o.s. MBS and forcing them into 'peace agreement' with Israel at all costs, which as we all know lasted few months. Thats his style, lack of any sort of emotional intelligence to understand actual complexities of politics make people do horrible things to others. All clinical sociopaths struggle with this their entire lives, not that they care.

I strongly believe that events of 7.10. were directly caused by this, thats what happens when you have part of population having no issue with terrorism for their cause being literally cornered and losing all hope - a vicious emotional attack.

He is an elephant in porcelain shop, servant of chaos with some outright evil traits. That guy caused, is causing and will cause biggest loss of civilian life in modern times, putting him well within the category of Mao, Hitler, Stalin and so on. Happy to be proven wrong by history on this since it comes back to literally all of us, but so far thats how facts look like.
An upside of the latest political turmoil is that it’s shown me how apathetic I’ve become over the last 10-15 years. Having seen tech-bro after tech-bro bend the knee recently, it’s prompted me to take more responsibility in my choices and stop giving money to cowards.
i mean that the device only has 100/10 in current year. i know what fast ethernet is
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Unfortunately, those humans are developing that super-intelligence. Are you ready to submit to Elon Musk's Grok ASI?