skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The disclosure isn't that HN's comments are public (of course they're public), it's that the US government has decided to start trawling them in bulk. That's not exceptionally surprising either, but it wasn't certain, and it's IMO notable that that's now a confirmed thing.
From the paper, they are going by body weight, and then a conservative age as a proxy:

“To ensure safe population-level recommendations can be easily interpreted at the individual parental level, and given the variability across an age cohort of weight, we suggest that recommendations should be based on weight rather than age.

“Alternatively, the recommended age threshold may need to be higher (eight years), to ensure the dose per weight would not be exceeded given normal population variation in weight.”

This is quoted at the end of the Guardian article, which is better than the Sky one: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/12/under-eights...
To be blunt, I don't think it's very good. It still sounds LLM-generated, using too many similes, incoherent similes and metaphors, and disjointed or meaningless descriptions. Ex: the second sentence: "Already, you can hear the constraints humming like a server farm at midnight—anonymous, regimented, powered by someone else's need." What does "humming like a server farm at midnight" mean? How is it relevant to the rest of the story?

I think most great writers form a coherent mental model of a scene in their head, then everything they write further illuminates this scene. Even "filler text" is just negligible details of the scene. "Red herrings" are rare and intentional. In fact, bad writers are often such because their mental model is not coherent (leading to plot holes, seemingly-important details that are dropped later, etc.). LLM's don't have a mental model at all, or at least a coherent one, probably by design (being "next word predictors"). It's the same problem as diffusion models generating extra limbs and other anomalies a human would never do: they do that because they don't understand logical coherence (only statistical correlation) and they don't have a mental model of the image (it's generated incrementally, by generating random noise then magically de-noising it).

However, I do feel this LLM is a bit better than ChatGPT. I think the story is more interesting and less generic, although I only skimmed it because of the amount of insignificant text.

Moreover, I think this is the right direction, because I think creativity is a form of general intelligence, perhaps the only form (whereas math, programming, etc. consist of, except the creative parts, just following complicated algorithms in one's head). I predict if someone successfully makes a model that can write "interesting" things, that model will happen to be generally intelligent and impressively good at logic, perhaps surprisingly good, because it will need coherence and a mental model.
General thing of the internet, really. We've all become used to being rewarded for negativity and critique.
Sounds good! Can I deploy my Wordpress website with it?
Motherduck has pretty generous free usage limits, I figured it was worth asking...
No, UBI makes sense right now (the exact level that makes sense changes over time), it is a lower-bureaucracy, lower perverse-incentives alternative to means-tested welfare (and, possibly, also minimum wages) as a means of providing a support floor (its not really a flat addition because any means of financing it will provide some form of clawback, and if done through the progressive income tax, it becomes redistributiion that compresses the pre-benefit-and-supporting-tax income distribution.

UBG is a completely different story, though.
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We just migrated off Azure after one to many deprecation or downtimes caused by some random new feature or change of how permissions work. We gave up.
> Bittorrent V2
There are different alloys of aluminum with different properties. Just like steel. And of course it's been used in the aviation industry for a long time as well. Car manufacturers are using aluminum castings in cars these days. And there are engine blocks made out of aluminum as well.

Anyway, this is the ship yard I mentioned. They have a few decades experience making ships out of aluminum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incat
Making sure to cover the write-protect holes on the top with Scotch tape, of course.
Pardon my ignorance and I understand the appeal of keeping everything within one cohesive language, but are some of the these core utilities really being made "safer" by rewriting them in rust?

I mean, is 'cp' really unsafe in C and will be magically safe in Rust?

Or is this partly to appeal to the comfort of having one uniform language?

Admittedly in the long term regardless these rewrites may well pay off quite well.
the changing power dynamics seem really risky, particularly facing a rising China who can step into so many of these relationships. Like if we’re worried about China’s dominance, shouldn’t we be using our hard power against China, and not all the allies that could turn on us to support them, or at the very least abandon us and reduce our hard power?
hmm, it says "Drop a file", not "Upload", on this step it uploads the file to your local browser for sharing, but the file is not actually uploaded anywhere on the outside
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You are 100000% correct. It's telling that shitty gradio webuis like oobabooga or automatic1111 got SO many github stars.

ComfyUI is huge despite literally just bringing the node based editor paradigm to Stable Diffusion.

UI/UX for LLMs and GenAI is so hilariously shit right now. So many investors want to invest in yet another LLMops company instead of a meaningful competitor to the terrible LM-studio.
AI failed to detect critical health conditions: study
A dump truck full of bouncy balls sounds a lot easier.
> LNG's climate impact (in terms of global warming) is no better than coal. I'm sure it's beneficial compared to bunker fuel,

Why are you sure of that?

Oils release an amount of CO2 that's midway between natural gas and coal. So unless bunker fuel is causing some other big release of greenhouse gasses, if natural gas is near coal then it's worse than bunker fuel.

On top of that, doesn't the sulfur pollution from bunker fuel have a cooling effect?
Advertising is a cancer on society, just 'cause it's sometimes nice to look at doesn't really change that. IMHO of course.
If having someone intall transmission (or your favorite torrent client) is not a hurdle, I like the privtracker approach a lot :
https://privtracker.com/

The reason I like it more is that most torrent clients can run in the background by default so it's not dependant on keeping a browser tab opened

It made it to the frontpage not so long ago but it'd be a pity if you had missed it
It doesn't seem like a great idea to use what is essentially fertilizer as a fuel. Surely this new demand will drive up the price of fertilizer.
it's that the US government has decided to start trawling them.

It's some ICE contractor make-work, an actual obvious case of government waste.
They did a fresh Windows install though, that wouldn't normally keep any software they previously had on there, but yes it's the best reference I could find. Feel free to find a better source yourself, I've tried

Must say I read over the bit about invisibly stealing IE clicks. That's obviously nonsense, Chrome was never malware
Well, I have to point out that classified!=important.
It's not just system calls. E.g. reflection package uses unsafe too: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/reflect/value.g... .
Many packages from Go standard library use unsafe one way or the other, so it's not fair to say that unsafe package is separate from the rest of the language
How interesting. I'm trying to learn enough SystemVerilog to be able to do packet processing with https://github.com/fpgasystems/Coyote (which seems to be your background (?)). I've gone through Harris,Harris but never followed their code. This looks like a great series of tutorials. Thank you.
Integrate LLM?

(I wish I was kidding. https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-ai-prompt-build...)
This is an overview article, but it links to these studies:

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2024.0...

https://bioengineer.org/virginia-tech-study-reveals-machine-... (study info at bottom of page)
this is useful context, thanks. would edit my prior comment but it is no longer editable. after some more research it seems his comments on the matter were reasonable
the actual post I replied to originally said

"build the ammonia producing plant close to your solar/wind parks"

You can't pick that and then decide not to transfer the ammonia and decide not to transfer the electricity. Unless your solar plan is at the loading dock or something.
No screens is the best way, because any screen is just too absorbing for a kid. The tough thing is you have to do it for yourself, too, or they will very quickly figure out the hypocrisy.
Of course the US government is surveilling HN, the US government is surveilling everyone, everywhere, all the time. You think they wouldn't pay close attention to a forum owned by a billion dollar startup incubator that hosts talks by Elon Musk and was once run by the guy who went on to run OpenAI? Shit yeah they're surveilling HN.

And SV has always had deep connections to the military industrial complex. Feds post here, they doubtless have influence programs running here. Look up the relationship between Google and the CIA sometime. This was never a safe space from the government.
Mermaid - support in many markdown rendering pages. Embedding a ``` block in Markdown and having it versioned as text is the big win.

Graphviz - same basic reason as Mermaid, though no markdown support. Versioning text is a lot easier than versioning binaries.

Draw.io - if you've got to have a binary, this is it. In particular, it allows you to embed the drawing information in the image so that you can import a .png file into draw.io and get the drawing.
From Building Features to Driving Outcomes: A Mindset Shift for Engineers
The suggestion of shipping ammonia was for the sake of convenience, not a burden. It's optional.

Yes you have to transfer electricity in that case. We already know transferring electricity is easy.

Don't get hung up on "picking" one as if the downsides get locked in at the pre-design phase. If it's difficult to transfer ammonia then nevermind go back to the existing easy option of wires.

In other words, if that specific detail doesn't work out, it is not an argument against ammonia. It was just a potential bonus, not core to the idea. And it doesn't fundamentally change things. It's not the "opposite" plan.
No, but I do own a couple UPSes that power sensitive electronics.

It does, and it is, but those are not super major factors.

I expect to save my pennies and do a whole house LiFePO4 bank at some point
I don't get this idea that to build a stable product you must make your life hard as much as possible.

One can use ai AND build stable products at the same time. These are not exactly opposing goals, and even above that assuming that ai will always generate bad code itself is wrong.

Very likely people will build both stable and large products using ai than ever before.

I understand and empathise with you, moving on is hard, especially when these kind of huge paradigm changing events arrive, especially when you are no longer in the upswing of life. But the arguments you are making are very similar to those made by boomers about desktops, internet and even mobile phones. People have argued endlessly how the old way was better, but things only get better with newer technology that automates more things than ever before.
Anecdotally, having done multi-year deep-dive security reviews of both Asian and Western carrier equipment (and compared notes with many colleagues working on similar efforts), there is a stark difference. It's not even close. I've focused on firmware security analysis of RAN/eNodeB/gNodeB equipment but have also done many pentests targeting core infra as well. Western nations have actually done the baseline assessment over years and years of deployment and defence - this is why we are able to see the contrast in the comparison.
We know every modern LLM was trained on masses of in-copyright material without a license, and no one has had trouble releasing them, so that's probably not the issue with release of this model.
Totally looks like an AI generated video.
AI slop security company, article is just advertisement.
i think this is where a large portion of the tech consulting market comes from. Someone in business gets absolutely fed up dealing with IT and trying to get something they need in production. Next, they go find a budget, call a couple firms, get some proposals, pick one, and do it themselves.
I've been using my current window manager (fluxbox) for far more years than he's been alive. Now talk about muscle memory!
Ok, that’s a good point. But gravity wave is commonly used as shorthand for gravitational wave.
That could totally be something that we encounter in the future, and perhaps we'll eventually be able to see some through line from here to there. Absolutely.

But in this thread, it sounds like you're trying to suggest we're already there or close to it, but when you get into the details, you (inadvertently?) admitted that we're still a long ways off.

The narrow-if-common examples you cited slow experienced people down rather than speed them up. They surely make some simple tasks more accessible to inexperienced people, just like in the translation app example, and there's value in that, but it represents a curious flux at the edges of the industry -- akin VBA or early PHP -- rather than a revolutionary one at the center.

It's impactful, but still quite far from a paradigm shift.
The Intercept wrote an article about ShadowDragon and SocialNet a few years ago:

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/21/surveillance-social-medi...
And "Facebook", "Flickr", "Fetlife", "Fediverse" [1], "FlightFinder", and "Furaffinity" in the F's. Not to mention "PGP", "Peleton", "AnimePlanet", "Apple Music", "Bodybuilding", "Companies House"... It would be news if any site got left out -- gotta tell them they got to keep an eye on "DPReview".

[1] but not Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. I got the feeling these folks might have trouble finding some of the sites that want to surveil
Just your run-of-the-mill hallucinations, e.g. mocking something in pytest but only realising afterwards that the mock was hallucinated, the test was based on the mock, and so the real behaviour was never covered.

I mean, I generally avoid using mocks in tests for that exact reason, but if you expect your AI completions to always be wrong you wouldn't use them in the first place.

Beyond that, the tab completion is sometimes too eager and gets in the way of actually editing, and is particularly painful when writing up a README where it will keep suggesting completely irrelevant things. It's not for me.
German spy agency concluded Covid virus likely leaked from lab, papers say
What city regions have better energy, are good economically, and have natural beauty (ocean, mountain, plants)?

It is easy to find faults with the SF bay area (politics, costs, and derivative issues), but is somewhere actually better?

EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes. It was an honest question, and I badly wanted to be informed, having given the issue in-depth consideration over the years. I wasn't being snarky.
I'm waiting for the demo where it makes my coffee and brings it to me.
Do you think the people who keep commenting "X was always a problem" are really unaware of this? Or they are just trying to dampen any alarm on purpose?
Brave does not need manifest v2 for it's ad blocker to work. It is not implemented as an extension. It is built into the browser itself.
Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal to anyone who went looking
Thanks for the heads up! Just ordered one.
I can build POCs, or I can just come up with high level ideas and ask my most senior architects to do the research and build the POC to see if my ideas are feasible.

And I avoid “frontier tech” as often as possible. I want to base my implementation on proven technology with a healthy ecosystem. I don’t want to use “frontier tech” just to read a blog post six months later about “our amazing journey”.

(I’m not a CTO. I am a tech/implementation lead).
You can entirely remove the word “forensics” and my statement would be the same…
This is inline assembly.
Will this be made available to use?
Reread the first paragraph of this blog post.

How many academic papers start with "I went for a NVIDIA recruiting event some days ago, that was a great event and it motivated me to try to rewrite the sorting algorithms using CUDA."
Supporting custom domains for apps: AWS vs. Vercel
There's an awful lot of personal susceptibility linked to the use of magnesium I suspect. In other words what's good for one person may not be good for another. For me magnesium in chloride hexahydrate form converted into a magnesium oil spray is great for a lot of things like aches and pains, and even improving sleep patterns. It's also dirt cheap if you make it yourself. Also magnesium citrate is perfect for me to regularize bowel movements. But again, YMMV.
https://kasmweb.com/ ?

https://github.com/kasmtech

https://github.com/nurdism/neko

https://github.com/codeAshu/browsergap.ce

https://github.com/novnc/noVNC

https://guacamole.apache.org/
It’s not America’s fault that Europe strangles their companies with red tape.

The main thing is to just get started, start growing, and then you can figure all of this stuff out.
HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
Yes. I would.
Me too. That resonates really strongly with my feelings.

I’m hoping that most people aren’t full steam in AI.

I haven’t had any coworkers who just rely on AI… I have had some bosses who do tho…
Wow... sounds pretty good... you should be doing PR for them... I might give it a try, sounds like I should.
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I sometimes wonder if there is a whole generation that has no idea who Snowden is. Or even if they know who he is they have no idea what secrets he released to the world.
If it is part of the language reference it is part of the language.

Usually when language reference books used to be printed, or we used ISO languages, what is there on paper, is the language.

We are only discussing semantics, if it is hardcoded primitives, or made available via the standard library, specially in case of blessed packages like unsafe which aren't fully implemented, rather magical types for the compiler.

Hence why the only thing you will see here is mostly documentation, https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/unsafe/unsafe.g...

Which is nothing new since the 1960's that there are systems languages with some way to mark code unsafe, the C linage of languages are the ones that decided to ignore this approach.
That's incorrect. What you're describing is STUN, when it works. TURN is what is used when peer-to-peer remains impossible. All data transfer is via the TURN server.
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea Intelligence Sharing
It was one of the two: VDem, or Freedom House.

I don't remember with 100% surety which one it was. I think it was VDem.

The reason I called it a "deep dive" is because it took a huge amount of digging in their publications to find the specifics of the methodology.
Moomins - the 90s version especially. Most of the episodes are suitable for toddlers and at least our kids have been enjoying it.
Excellent article. I wish more old people would pick up weights. What often keeps me going to the gym is the knowledge I want to be strong when I'm old.
And about the ones in the code flow, it was also pretty common practice in those days to use NOPs as time delays.
it would be awesome if these worked:

duckdb -ui data.parquet
duckdb -ui data.sqlite
The ban always seemed weird to me. Not even a shred of a technical argument made it into public discourse when this was an issue. Governments just said "trust us" without giving any examples. This thread is the first time I read a hint at why that decision was made. Still, I don't know how much of this was a political stunt vs. grounded in reality. Maybe I am too jaded/cynical?
I highly recommend checking out P1 Security's presentations around mobile telco security: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/day1-hacking-telcoequip....

It's old but there's no reason to believe things have improved as there are zero incentives to. Also, software security vulnerabilities are only part of the problem - the other part is that telcos willingly outsource control and critical access to the lowest bidder: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/
The ad actually sticks out in my mind not only for the visuals but because it introduced me to both Jose Gonzalez and The Knife.
The NIH dominates the health research – in charts
And now things are kind of going full circle, because part of the reason why Mozilla/Firefox increased their scope was to create services that would capture marketshare from a specific audience; which seems to be those who care about their privacy, though executive pay isn’t apart of that, and I don’t know if theres a viable defense for that.
And take the calls.

Don't like being paged at 3am? Write robust software and test.
DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneur
Register variables are idiomatic when you're locking down every single register anyway, which is always the case for system calls. If you're writing assembly where you want the register allocators help, by all means use regular inline assembly.
Torrenting to seed US Government scientific datasets
Self respect
Strength of will
Self reliance
Integrity
Decency
Respect for competence and hard work
It eventually completed! But, when I asked it to recommend me an article, it recommended "https://www.recombee.com/blog/breaking-the-news-the-role-of-..." which has never appeared on hacker news. So, I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

My main takeaway from this is the art of displaying progress for long-running tasks needs to come back for a lot of these long-running LLM-powered workflows.
I don't know if this is about targeting red states so much as it is about just finding anything to tariff. In 2023, the EU had a trade surplus on goods with the US of about $150 billion. It's much easier for the US to find things to tariff than for the EU, since they're importing more.
Ask HN: I just want to build the future of software dev and AI. How?
Programming is my first love. I've been getting paid for coding since I was 14.

I've been so excited since Cursor launched, there's so much that's going to happen that will change the software dev industry completely. And I want to be building that, because we only get one life and I want to dedicate mine to my first love.

I built a product to solve cursor hallucinations and it's just moving sideways. Maybe I didn't hit on a strong enough pain point and that's okay, I know how to learn from my failures and pivot.

I recently sold all my belongings and moved to SF. It's so difficult without a network. How can I get in touch with startups and companies to understand their pain points around AI and software dev and help them code faster?

I've been reading HN since I was a kid and your advice is the most valuable to me.
Pretty cool, it'd be interesting to try other things like running a C++ daemon and letting it run, or adding something to cron.