skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any use of our magic robot friends to write _news_ is utterly irresponsible. As we can see from _this incident_.
I once had the chance to work for BMW in Ulm when Nokia's office closed there and they took up a lot of programmers. It was all pre-Tesla (or so early that nobody knew IIRC) and yet right then they were talking to us about how their whole computing architecture had to be totally changed. Instead of lots of isolated microcontrollers with code written in assembler to get good performance out of cheap hardware it was all going to have to become more centralised, linux, high level languages, integrated. But for a quirk of fate I might be there now.

It makes me wish we could see into the parallel universe where we made a different choice. I wouldn't change, because I have a child now, but apart from that I might.
> You ask it to give you one block at a time.

I think many people need to do some maintenance work on really old projects.

"One block at a time", I'd like to see the LLM which will find for me the CRON script doing some database work hidden in a forgotten VM.
Yes and also there is zero aesthetic thought put into japanese towns which is why they're so ugly, everything is functional
>> The US pressure was widely viewed in the UK as having an economic purpose disguised as security.

I live in the UK. This may have been part of it, but to think that a communist dictatorship that (to pick a random example) harvests organs from political opponents is above backdooring their own kit is beyond naïve.
Racket has replaced their C codebase with Chez Scheme, yet another success story.
Such a dumb drum. iPads are inherently unsuited to the tasks for which we pull out a computer: work requiring precision, rapid text input, or I/O.
> For example, it says: "A woman in her forties sits on a bench, fixing the shrine with her gaze."

This particular example I don't think is poetic rather it is broken.
My big complaint about mermaid is that you cannot easily generate and store the SVGs without a browser engine—-even the CLI goes and runs Chrome, which feels insane.

Regarding graphviz/dot, I have been using it from what feels like the dawn of time and am somewhat sad that we haven’t improved upon it. The syntax, styling imitations, etc. put me off enough that I tend to avoid it.
Yes & no, there are two reasons to push power back:
1- to save money on energy, charge when cheap discharge when expensive. Pila can do this.
2- to backup. Pila can’t do this. It can only backup appliances plugged into it.
Money is just an expression of value, either delivered already or promised to be delivered in the future. I can certainly imagine a world where everyone sits back and all the value they require is delivered by robots, they who have better or more robots get more value.
TL;DR

The finding by Tarlogic is not suspect, aside from the potential ambiguity in the reporting word choice. Reporters are known for flair, and to drum up FUD outside author or researcher intention.

The finding is a undisclosed feature that supports backdoor capabilities without having the glue to call it a full backdoor (semantics imo).

Importantly, this is exactly how a clever individual would design a backdoor for plausible deniability and separation of concerns.

The fact that it was undisclosed and undocumented means it was secret, and not direct or honest with customers who purchased said devices. Each customer may have a very different threat landscape.

By longstanding Cambridge definition, this meets the term definition for a backdoor in general, though is not the working definition among cybersecurity professional contexts.

Of note, secrecy coupled with negligence is sufficient for general intent (i.e. malice) in many localities. Which also meets the author's interpretation of the Wikipedia definition, though not the author's conclusion.

The conclusions made in the article are nuanced, and not entirely wrong, but I don't care for the doublespeak, it overgeneralizes and misleads sentiment of those who are without a working knowledge of the contexts involved.

Is this a backdoor in the cybersecurity context? The author says no, but it really comes down to the legal question, is it negligence if a customer can suffer loss because of an undisclosed undocumented secret in what they bought.

This depends, and deviates somewhat in practice and modern law, and I'm not an attorney (IANAL, not legal advice).

In western philosophy defects under common law can lead to legal claims and have remedy under a 'rule of law', when it is present.

There are modern loopholes that allow manufacturers to not perform the same due dilligence required of physical defects (i.e. disclaim liability for software defects), where it is impossible to remedy, made even moreso by international differences in law (US v. China).

Selling devices whose sole purpose is connectivity, where security cannot be managed does violate fundamental cybersecurity principles, and can be used in a classic poisoning the well, supply chain attack.

In my opinion, the researchers involved at Tarlogic provided great value in bringing this to the public's attention.
Also, I think it's existence might disrupt the financial system shomeewhat!
Also, the "Alaska purchase" has both indoors and outdoor images. The outdoors clearly depicts Alaska but the correct location is supposed to be Washington DC.
It's not a "devil's bargain."

Tesla's most productive factory is in Shanghai, and Tesla was doing great in the Chinese market.

It's not China's fault that Musk chose to prioritize the development of the Cyber Truck over new mass-market cars, and it's not China's fault that he's going around giving Nazi salutes on stage.
Why don't you just get a MacBook Air then? Or a Mini?
Other possible names:

kubexls

kubecalc

tabelnetes

kube123
>Language specific package manager is exactly what encourage the exponential explosion of packages leading to dependency hell (and lead to major security concerns).

Sounds like you're biased.

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gnome-shell/

gnome-shell > accountsservice > shadow > pam > systemd-libs > xz > bash > readline > ncurses > gcc-libs > glibc

and I didn't even try finding the longest chain...
What is this "real work?"
Quite reasonable of it to do so I'd say.

The AI tools are good, and they have their uses, but they are currently at best at a keen junior/intern level, making the same sort of mistakes. You need knowledge and experience to help mentor that sort of developer.

Give it another year or two and I hope they the student will become the master and start mentoring me :)
I wonder if it has something to do with different receptor activity at low vs. high levels. Must have been frustrating trying to figure that out, though!
Pretty much all Japanese cities look like that.
> No country complains about itself more while being so absurdly well-organized.

I’ve noticed Australians seem to have a similar issue: they decry the Nanny State at home, but all the ones I’ve met abroad complain about the current location being insufficiently nannified. Often both complaints in the same conversation.

Finally: Italians. I thought a trip from Milan to Rome was going to be like a trip through Somalia the way the Italians I know describe their country. In fact, everything seemed to work exceptionally smoothly, although whenever I bring this up I’m told that I simply didn’t venture south enough.
There seems to be an agenda there.

If you check wikipedia at least, the muslim-christian population exchange between Greece and Turkey wasn't quite like the article describes it.

The facts may be somewhere in the middle, but certainly not in this article.
It’s called xls, but it uses Google sheets?
No; the last great Windows was XP.

7 started the regression in earnest, especially in the GUI.
Both models mentionned in the article are available, Gemini robotics for partners only, and Gemini robotics ER in private preview.
iPhone 16e camera review: The Essentials
I'd love to see them double down on privacy-first revenue models, but the question is: can they make it work before the money runs out?
I imagine many of them are people who can't commit to full or even part-time jobs because of responsibilities like childcare or eldercare; their own physical or mental health issues; etc.
His problem was that he had a vision, possibly the correct one, with absolutely no clue how to execute it. That is unforgivable in a CEO.
Had extremely bad experience with Cursor/Claude.

Have a big Angular project, +/- 150 TS files. Upgraded it to Angular 19 and now I can optimize build by marking all components, pipes, services etc as "standalone" essentially eliminating the need for modules and simplifying code.

I thought it is perfect for AI as it is straight forward refactor work but would be annoying for a human.

1. Search every service and remove the "standalone: false"

2. Find module where it is declared, remove that module

3. Find all files where module was imported, import the service itself

Cursor and Claude constantly was losing focus, refactoring services without taking care of modules/imports at all and generally making things much worse no matter how hard "prompt engineering" I tried. I gave up and made a Jira task for a junior developer instead.
My biggest worry about AI is that it will do all the basic stuff, so people will never have a chance to learn and move on to the more complex stuff. I think there's a name for this, but I can't find it right now. In the hands of a tenured expert though, AI should be a big step up.
Unfortunetly I don't have the financial situation to buy a second laptop.

I don't really know a lot about Linux yet but I was wondering if it could be a better idea to fresh restart with only Ubuntu.

Would it be more practical ?
Ask HN: It's becoming easier to rebuild than to fix. Awesome or Dangerous?
Getting Things Done and Seven Habits set the foundation, and then just iterating on those principles until I found systems that worked for me. Big believer in not using the Inbox as a task list, and apps that make setting, repeating, and organising reminders very easy.
Sounds like Claude "has" ADHD lol
Absolutely:
https://www.transputer.net/tn/46/tn46.html

Too bad the UK gov were so shortsighted, or that Atari, instead of making the ATW (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation)

should have simply used a T212 in the ST blitter socket as a coprocessor. That way people could have slowly gotten familiar with the arch :|

People are building new hardware to run transputers though:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/369254-pre-annoucement-atw...
so maybe this amazing code can be resurrected on real hardware!

Edit:
Found it. This is the paper on 3d parallel transforms:
https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/611934...

Later transputers also had DSP instructions built-in.
Attitude AI
I wonder if this was real or if they set a custom prompt to try and force such a response.

If it is real, then I guess it's because LLMs have been trained on a bunch of places where students asked other people to do their homework.
> What about about walking down a busy construction site?

Coordinated people with some years of experience pay attention to the ground and overhead cranes and conveyor belts and survive walking through construction sites, mine sites, aviation hangers, cattle yards, musters, et al on a routine basis. I'm 60+ and have somehow navigated all those environs - including C for critical system control.

These are dangerous environments. No one denies this. It's still true that the longer you inhabit such spaces the safer your innate learned behaviour is.

C has seatbelts and OSHA - valgrind, et al tools abound for sanity checking.

Walter's GP statement is literally little more than "eventually you grow out of making the simple basic maistakes" - eventually, after some years of practice - which is a real problem with C, it takes time to not make the basic mistakes. After all that, there's always room, in C, in Rust, whatever, to make non basic non obvious mistakes.
I think shipping Google is fair. It's not forced upon anyone, and much better than collecting data themselves, or advertising their own services, or making proprietary software.
Makes you wonder where all that extra administrative cost is really going.
I think the author mentions that first theory in order to implicitly reject it in favour of the second theory.
Played a game called Beyond a Steel Sky (sequel to the older beneath a steel sky).

In the starting section there was an "engineer" going around fixing stuff. He just pointed his AI tool at the thing, and followed the instructions, while not knowing what he's doing at any point. That's what I see happening
The US camera surveillance satellites are called Key Hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Hole
Even better than Brave is a "no-name" browser like Ungoogled Chromium made to protect actual privacy, not the interests of some company!
This is quite a lot of code to handle in 1 file. The recommendation is actually good in the past(month - feels like 1 year of planning) I've made similar mistakes with tens of projects - having files larger than 500-600 lines of code - Claude was removing some of the code and I didn't have coverage on some of them and the end result was missing functionality.

Good thing that we can use .cursorrules so this is something that partially will improve my experience - until a random company releases the best AI coding model that runs on a Rassbery Pi with 4GB ram(yes this is a spoiler from the future).
This is stretching my geriatric memory, but I thought that the reason for the alternate b&w icon at the time was for printers because PCL would choke on color ones
More importantly, migrating from npm, to pnpm, to yarn, to bun, is very nearly seamless. Migrating in the Python ecosystem? Not anywhere close.
I would say that functionality requires a minimum sense of aesthetics.

Most Japanese towns are not even functional, they are just a chaotic maze of tiny streets and ugly buildings. I know because I live in one.
Are you telling me people use computers for different reasons?
No I won’t believe it. My specific workflow is all that is important and if that doesn’t fit to every form factor of device out there, then the manufacturer of that device is a fraud who is deliberately trying to spite me.
Yes it feels like refactoring would be a perfect use case for LLMs but it only works for very simple cases. I've tried several times to do bigger refactors spanning several files with Cursor and it always failed. I think it's a combination of context window being not big enough and also tooling/prompting could probably be improved to better support the use case of refactoring.
> I gave up and made a Jira task for a junior developer instead.

The true senior engineer skill.
Thats correct answer

Damn, AI is getting too smart
I still think having an independent browser matters... especially as Google tightens its grip on the web
Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis
It's not reasonable to say “I cannot do that as it would be completing your work”, no.

Your tool have no say in the morality of your actions, it's already problematic when they censor sexual topics but the tool makers feel entitled to configure their tools only to allow you some kind of use for your work then we're speedrunning to dystopia (as if it wasn't the case already).
I also didn't like the existing notebook implementations. I wanted it to run locally, be based on markdown, specialized for just SQL and be easy to store in git. So I wrote one myself: https://www.timestored.com/sqlnotebook/
It ships as part of qstudio and can connect to 30+ databases.
If you have any feedback please leave it on github, I only released it a few months ago.
I can never understand this tired line. Do you and all the people who bleat the same thing also post the same thing about Nintendo and PlayStation bloggers? He’s an Apple commentator. Doesn’t it stand to reason that he does that full time because he’s fundamentally a fan of the company, rather than because he’s suborned his integrity in service of… getting to play with new Apple hardware a week before it goes on sale?
Ironically the OP is called A_D_E_P_T - ADEPT was the first "proper agent project" I got involved in, back in 1996! I just looked at a couple of deliverables & tidied a demo as it was closing then, but then I did more work on lots of old MAS projects for years after.

Here's the thing - we failed.

Why? Three things.

- service providers like Expedia, Lastminute.com, Zwillow did the data integration by hand. They were able to afford to do this (the bit we didn't expect) because they were able to attract adverts and charge a transaction fee. They had a business model.

- Specific applications like the HMRC self-assessment were able to offer a user experience that gave close control and easy completion. The agents we built were able to do easy completion but they took control off the user and could not perform at 100%. Users were not confident and so didn't use them.

- We did most of the work pre iPhone, so we didn't have the right interface. Of course that has changed... but the Appstore also changed things and user expectations are sky high now.

It was also fersum difficult to program proper MAS. The issue is creating a system based on the expectation of behavior of many other systems which is of course a combinatorial mind bender. We mitigated this a bit with ideas from economics and game theory, but I think we were a long way off solving it.

LLM's do provide extra capability for solving some of these problems, and you young people are so clever and hard working that maybe you can just blitz through some of the others. I can't get at Manus yet, but I don't really expect that it will be a proof of this.
Sure, but an hour or even three here or there aren't gonna make much of a difference.

Those small shifts don't transform a convenient time into 4am.
When do we start making that kind of thing criminal negligence with prison sentences for this kind of bullshit…
"a lifestyle composed principally of stomping"

Love that. I seriously considered making a periscope to stick out the window and find out WTF my upstairs neighbors were doing. The whole building shook.

So now I have a house, in a relatively quiet area. My girlfriend does voiceover, and built herself a sound booth in a tiny closet that's perfect for it.

Except we have a next-door neighbor who inexplicably starts his truck pretty much every hour and... sits in it? He just lets it run and run. I have no idea WTF this guy is doing. Sometimes he pulls out of his driveway and goes around the block and comes back. His windshield is plastered with a sticker that says, "Runs on liberal tears." I'm not sure if we've met him or not, because I don't know which of the people he is among two houses.

And I wouldn't normally give a rat's ass about his weird behavior. But the low-frequency engine noise can't be blocked by sound-deadening treatment. It basically means my girlfriend can't work in her own home. This guy has to live next to probably the ONE person in the neighborhood who's trying to record for a livelihood.
i would like to suggest a ipmi-kvm integration for like dell idrac, hp ilo, supermicro bmc
> who says that?

People who watch US TV shows about the American South. Having lived there for awhile and still travel there for work today, I can say with some certainty that the folksy dialect that media gives to people of that region is either largely embellished or made-up. If we stay on the word "fix," I mostly hear it in context of someone making a meal ("Fixing breakfast," etc). The Appalachian regions are must more creative and cant-like with the language historically, but even that is being lost as the generations are exposed to more modern settings, I think. In my experience, the idioms used usually come down to the individual, which has more to do with how their sense of identity was cultivated, a concept that runs quite deep in the American South, but that is a much longer and more complex thread for another day, I reckon.
I replayed Shenmue on my Deck about a year ago and I had the same QTE problems. The solution was to download a custom, community-made control scheme from the Steam workshop.
Show HN: A Simple System Prompt Generator
Hey HN,

I got tired of writing system prompts. DSPy was overkill and the generators I found online were either too rigid or too complex.

So I built FastPrompt. It takes a description of your inputs and outputs, plus an optional example, and generates a solid system prompt. You can refine it with AI suggestions and iterate quickly. No unnecessary fluff—just a simple tool to get a good prompt fast.

Would love feedback!
That’s not my experience of Australians at all! The Australians I’ve met (through working for an Australian company) all seem to love their nanny state, and genuinely don’t understand how anyone could see anything undesirable in it.
> Common patterns—like password strength indicators—usually exist for good reasons.

NIST does not recommend password strength indicators. Make sure the form is compatible with password managers.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html#password
I have a million and one things I want to accomplish but can't due to lack of time and energy as I work full time.

This includes reading, gardening, playing sports, learning to play the piano, etc. Of course some of that is consuming media, but I don't think people will just become couch potatoes.

Think of all the things "high society" accomplished in Victorian england because they had the time, energy and resources.
I think I heard the same Podcast - not only do the Apps try and discover the minimum rate a Nurse might take, they’ll actively attempt to manipulate the circumstances of Nurses who were in a strong position so they too end up more dependent and exploitable.
I would use find ... -exec, ripgrep and sed for this. If I have a junior or intern around I'd screen share with them and then have them try it out on their own.

Text files are just a database with a somewhat less consistent query language than SQL.
Apple can release a half-baked version of this before it’s ready, but then pundits will say “oh. Steve Jobs would have never allowed such unpolished garbage to ship.”

Sometimes it’s better to wait 6 months for something to be mature and stable. Apple has a long history of being conservative in this regard, and they often aren’t the first entrant into a market, but they still dominate because of very good integration with their ecosystem and a high quality bar. Apple Intelligence will probably be the same (bookmark this post for 3 years from now, when Gemini is being split into three businesses and rebranded / killed).
I think it goes the same way as compilers so bits -> assembly -> c -> jvm and now you don't need mostly care what happens at lower levels because stuff works. With AI we are now basically the bits -> assembly phase so you need to care a lot about what is happening at a lower level.