skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently, this is not just putting Plex's own proxy/DNS service behind a paywall -- they will also gate some small features (such as the "custom server access urls") that are necessary for one to run their own reverse proxy and DDNS.

As in, Plex will prevent you remotely accessing your own server, even if you're not using Plex's services for that remote access. So this is purely extractive move, and not really based on their costs at all.
You apply for a visa in your country of residence. If you are in the US already you need to have a valid visa.
Appeal, appeal, appeal, and run for President of the United States, and never actually pay?

You can buy a lot of lawyering for a tiny fraction of $660M.
This says “creative writing in laws” but in fact every breakdown of the judges decision to rescind Elon Musk’s pay was dramatically sort of uncreative, in fact it seemed that what Musk really wanted was a more spirit of the law interpretation than a letter of the law interpretation, what he wanted was an activist judge who would take his side rather than a strict interpretation of the law.

Is that wrong? None of the attacks on the judges decision I’ve seen have really gone into the merits.
How does the "competition is good" crowd around here come to the conclusion that spurring a competitive mindset is wrong when it comes to international affairs?

Is it a slippery slope argument with apocalypse war at the end of it? Or something else?
Were these bots also using random IPs and random User-Agents and if so, how do you know they are LLM agents?
Why couldn't it be as simple as not wanting your taxes spent overseas when you're own communities are struggling?

It's hard to understand your adversary when you have so much contempt for them.
In Australia we have mandatory voting. The worst we got was Scott Morrison, and that was pretty awful. But he isn’t patch on your current president.

If you had mandatory voting (and a sane polling day) you’re likely have a better represented Congress and Senate.

Instead, you have Trump.
Kicking AWS of the internet would effectively break half of everything. So much stuff is relying on services running on AWS that it's not even funny.

We've seen random stuff break when AWS has had outages, not because we used AWS ourselves, but because suppliers do.
Let's encrypt is free and easy to set up
I bought my lifetime pass in 2016/2017. That's 8 years of service for like $70? Not bad imo
Not much to see when a senior public official makes a stock recommendation? LOL!
Yeah you have a point, hmmm, wish there were a way to somehow generate those garbages with minimum bandwidth. Something like, I can send you a very compressed 256 bytes of data which expands to something like 1 mega bytes.
Apple TV+ is losing $1B every year, per report
So people who invade the seat of power are good people worthy of pardons, and people peacefully protesting are terrorists? I thought that "fascist" may have been slightly misused prior to this, but investigating peaceful protest crosses a very serious line.
Or even worse, lots of them are using barely legal residential proxies so the requests are coming from everywhere. In Drew DeVault's article linked in this post he complained precisely about the residential-looking source IP addresses [0]. And I think I remember something about a Chinese company, some months ago, very aggressively scraping using that method.

Companies like DataImpulse [1] or ScraperAPI [2] will happily publicize their services with that specific target.

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0: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
1: https://dataimpulse.com/use-cases/ai-proxies/
2: https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai-data/
The plex app refuses to play 4K and says my connection is too low. Doesn’t matter if it’s wired or an ap 5 feet away, my iPhone gets almost 850mb down in the same room. If I play the 4K file directly from VLC I see absolutely 0 stuttering or glitches. I really don’t understand why plex has issues direct streaming (no transcoding). The computer has 16 cores so it’s not the problem, only plex has the issues.

Plex has a much better UI and UX than anything else.
I agree you can avoid it with care, but I do think it's a JavaScript problem, at least moreso than in other languages. The culture is one of acceptance of churn. It seems like everything from minor libraries to major frameworks is much more likely to introduce a breaking change in JS than in Rust, C++, or even python. I've never written any emacs lisp that I had to change when upgrading emacs, and the third-party libraries I use there also tend to deprecate things rarely and carefully. But, if we stop working on a JS codebase for more than a few months, there's a very real chance that it will no longer build with current tools or that an upgrade to fix e.g. a security vulnerability will turn into a gordian nightmare.
Here's a really dumb algorithm:

for i in range(1, 10**10):
for k in range(1, 5):
s = str(pow(2, i, 10**(10**k)))
if '1' in s or '3' in s or '5' in s or '7' in s or '9' in s:
break
else:
print(2**i)

It's really easily to parallelize, I was able to run it up to 10**8 in about 15min, so you would be able to run it up to 10**10 in a few hours with parallelization.
Social security is an incredibly good thing. It defines Europe.

There's a price for it and that's what we're discussing here.
NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoorfor the be
Exactly. They're renting infrastructure on well-known clouds, not cycling through consumer IPs like yesterday's botnets. Block all web traffic from well-known cloud IPs, and you can keep 99% of the LLM bots away. Alibaba seems to be the most common source of bot traffic on my infrastructure lately, and I also see Huawei Cloud from time to time. Not much AWS, probably because of their high IPv4 pricing.

You can allow API access from cloud IPs, as long as you don't do anything expensive before you've authenticated the client.
I'm in the same boat - and if they came to me and said "If you can, an extra $20 would really go a long way", I'd probably give them another $20.
Can't they prove or disprove by just getting some ocean water in a tank, adding those metal balls to it and observing if any oxygen is produced or not?
From wikipedia: "Deel Inc. is an Israeli-American outsourcing and human resources company,[3] based in San Francisco, California"

Also, they're listed on https://www.israelitechalternatives.com/company/deel/
Huh? FOSS licenses work exactly like designed! I'm literally using MIT because I don't give a fuck what people do with the code I publish, limiting it to "humans" or restricting the usage makes it very not FOSS.

Sure, if you want to try to prevent AI training by licensing, do that, but it's no longer FOSS, so please don't call it that.
At https://sprinters.sh we offer AWS-hosted runners at a price point that will be much more suitable for a company like yours.
I've got it behind a Caddy proxy, which then automagically sorts out Let's Encrypt for me. It works very well there, if that's any help to you?
"Making money" is only a relevant goal when you need money to persuade humans to do things for you.

Once you have an army of robot slaves ... you've rendered the whole concept of money irrelevant. Your skynet just barters rare earth metals with other skynets and your robot slaves furnish your desired lifestyle as best they can given the amount of rare earth metals your skynet can get its hands on. Or maybe a better skynet / slave army kills your skynet / slave army, but tough tits, sucks to be you and rules to be whoever's skynet killed yours.
Ok, apologies, I got some of my facts mixed up. I believe a birth certificate can be part of the documents needed for a visa application, which the government may now deny if the gender marker on the birth certificate doesn't match the one on your passport. It was American citizens that may have their passports confiscated if there is a discrepancy there. Still makes me not want to even attempt to go though, even though I have friends there that I'd really like to see
Yes. Nato is has been testing the Watchment muon detection system that was designed to track nuclear material, specifically looking for nuclear submarines.

https://thedebrief.org/darpas-secretive-new-neutrino-detecto...
While that is right, “divider” or “divider line” are common as well, and easier to search for. Try a search for “rule page layout” or “rule typography” or “rule css”.

Admittedly, we already have <hr> and <table rules="…">.
Show HN: SearchDuo Dual-column layout for Google search
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I just have to say that it's a little ironic to see a conservative Republican go with the argument "evolution will fix it"
For my family using Tailscale + Infuse (AppleTV/iOS/MacOS) works fine. I run a TrueNAS machine as my SMB target, point Infuse there and I can stream from anywhere.

Plex might have more features, but I found not having to install (plex/jfin/etc) server software worth it. To each their own.
That video made sense. Using the information from a prior graphic showing that the entire map is made from the perspective of the earth, the video then places that data in one of the arms of the theoretical Milky Way where the earth is meant to be located, and clearly shows a lack of data in the direction of the center of the Milky Way. That tracks with anything I'd imagine the results to look like
The Ministry of Truth would like a word with you.
It's "enshittification" BTW.

And why say no to a word that almost perfectly describes the phenomenon? My only complaint is that it should be "shittocene".
AMD has an entire line of ARM chips and there's an ARM in every x86 CPU they make. They've been making ARM chips for a long long time.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/soc....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
Maybe in progressive circles. There’s life outside too.
Oh. I have a [PR#4519842] that implements a biased value system of labour which should reduce the time available for such patterns to occur, and limit the recursion to a brief few who can embed/summarise such artefacts in written record as a form of memoization.

Should I rebase on your workaround?
Yes, you're not a legitimate passenger if you haven't paid the fare.

It's immaterial though. They could instead face increased cost in taxes, decreased investment elsewhere, or good-old eminent domain for infrastructure expansion. The downstream effects of an infinite number of backup lines to guarantee service following an infinite number of track trespassers are not good for passenger satisfaction.
Show HN: Email Blaster, blast emails to reach inbox zero
Doing my best to make email fun.

If your boss asks why you didn't get back to them explain you accidentally used the spam bomb on their emails.
There is also the (male) French professor's story who attempted to enter US for a conference and was sent back because they searched his phone and found some criticism to trump's policies, not sure how close to the frontpage it made it but it is currently flagged [0]. I think one problem is that there are too many stories on more or less the same topic, but each of them has a bit different angle.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43418059
In this case, it doesn't even help to downsize the problem. Erdős once asked the same question, but with powers of 2, base 3, and the set {0,1}. (If you want to, you can disguise that version as something more natural-looking like "Which powers of 2 can be expressed as the sum of distinct powers of 3?") But we're still nowhere close to solving it.
Why should one pay for a service that charges extra for things that people actually want to watch?

Is that so hard for them to understand ?
Exactly, plus they're announcing the removal of the fee for mobile apps. So if the server owner has Plex Pass, the remote experience is now totally free.
A few 100
I have a half-dozen pairs of North Face pants I bought when I was climbing a lot in the mid 90's. They're seriously out of style, but I wear them all the time because I love how practical they are. Except where I've damaged them due to my own negligence, every pair is still in great shape. It's incredible how well they've held up, and I have other garments and shoes of that era from TNF, Patagonia, REI, and the like that are the same.

During the pandemic, I bought two more pairs of TNF pants (my first since the 90's). Different styles, but within weeks each had developed holes in the pockets, then other weird problems. I hung onto them for a couple years because they were still new and I hate throwing stuff away, but I stopped wearing them because they sucked, then finally, I tossed them. All of the pants from 30 years ago are still going strong.
Boycott them !
For your next X requests you need to process these many tokens. I mean that sounds utopian for sure.
HEVCut – AI-Coded iOS App for Video Compression and iCloud Storage Savings
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Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hevcut/id6737538832
> One piece of feedback: Could you add some explanation (for humans) what we're supposed to do and what is happening when met by that page?

Will do! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/25
I know the guidelines.

But downvoting without comment would not have helped get my point across in any way. I also hope of making other people scrutinise their own voting behavior, and be more mindful/conscious in those interactions and their outcome.

I personally love HN for the fact that you often have interesting insights in comments from the people actually involved; meme-like comments like the above drown those out, and I would rather try and prevent that.
My LO has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's officially for 5 years. Memory was lost, didn't remember his mother, or past life, acted like a 12 yr old. he was 75, He had some terrible night as he kept asking to go to the bathroom and get up at night. The doctor prescribed a sleeping pill (zolpidem), but it had a very bad side effect on him (delusions and hallucinations) and we decided not to give it any more and went for the Neuro X program that was introduced to us by his primary care doctor, he was on the Neuro X program for Alzheimer’s disease from Uine Health Centre for 6 months. The treatment relieved symptoms significantly, After the treatment he’s all of a sudden back active again, almost all his symptoms are gone, no signs of agitations, his sleeps pattern are back to normal. His memory loss has greatly improved and he tells stories about his past life, we got the Neuro X program from uinehealthcentre. com. I want to clarify that my comment is not a paid promotion or any form of advertisement. I am absolutely confident that this program offers a viable solution and hope someone find it helpful.
I see this as a temporary problem. A human brain can be trained on way less than the entire corpus of everything humans have ever written. Ultimately, this will apply to LLMs (or whatever succeeds them) too.

There's another aspect to this too: China and DeepSeek. While this was released by a private company, I think there's a not-insigificant chance that it reflects Chinese government policy to "commoditize your complements" [1]. Companies like OPenAI want to hide their secret sauce so it can't be produced. Training an LLM is expensive. If there are high-quality LLMs out there for free you can just download, then this moat completely evaporates.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
... and it's not just the overhead but also that a memory update on just part of a "word" is not atomic which is a problem for a multiprocessor machine but also for a single processor machine which is multitasking if there isn't some barrier to stop the process from being interrupted between the read and the write.
Would be nice if you could filter based on license. I really want to avoid non-(A)GPL tools where possible.
I wish they would say what 95% AI written really means, what is the 5%? Presumably 70% of the code is library code right?

But it’s also 25% is 95%, is this the most high tech companies? Just landing pages?

And the maybe another interesting question. Is the AI writing more code? So like, maybe the 5% is more like 20% of the code that a human would write, there’s just four times as much code.

I’m excited about this (maybe not as excited as I would be by the same benefits in construction or manufacturing) but as someone who’s trying to do more AI assisted coding on my side projects, it probably is like having a front end developer at my disposal which is cool, but if I’m only writing 5% of the code, it’s the 80/20 rule 5% it’s not that it takes me 1/20th of the time.
Another Schlock Mercenary fan? Or does this adage have many adherents?
Stop asking generative AI for "Information" and ask it to generate ideas. I guess there needs to be a basic disclaimer and and 1 line tutorial before every query.
Are you suggesting that everyone move their projects to a single code forge (GitHub)?

Also, isn't this basically just extortion? "I know you're minding you're own business FOSS maintainer, but move your code to our recommended forge instead so we can stop DDoSing you?"
Sad to see Hacker News turn into Reddit, flagging the only informative comment because it does not validate the mob's hatred. This headline is meaningless, and by the way, $TSLA has shot up alongside the US tech sector and is now positive. Will we get updates on the front page every five minutes?
It's not strictly illegal, but it's against Federal ethics rules.

The problem is, punishment is exclusively up to their superiors. Which, here, is the President.

Kellyanne Conway did this in the first Trump admin. No real consequences then, either.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/Kellyanne-Con...

> Federal ethics rules on conflicts of interest specifically exempt the president and vice president. But for any other executive branch employee, the rules prohibit using public office for personal gain, or “for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise, or for the private gain of friends, relatives or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity.”
You assume they will innovate better than their competitors. Their cyber truck is shoddily built, can’t tow loads properly, can’t get certified for road worthiness in the UK or Europe and has a litany of safety problems.

In the meantime, BYD just announced an incredibly fast charge time on their new vehicles Tesla can’t match.
What's the Deal with LLM Mid-Training?
Not sure about Biden, but it's certainly easy to find Fauci clips "leaving noticeable room for the unknown".
They scraped this post as soon as you hit submit. Maybe just state it here?
Part of the design constraint here is to reuse the existing properties that exist for multi-column layout which have existed for a long time - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/column-rule

This proposal extends this mechanism to be more general.
I'd love to become a larger AWS competitor for a certain service.

I've got a colocation agreement in a large local datacenter, a few racks of servers are humming day and night and you know what? The more energy I consume, the more I pay per kw/h because green.

Yeah, sure, you are welcome to scale up and compete with AWS.
You seem certain about this but I don’t know how you came at such certainty.
> I commented that Patagonia made great stuff and actually cared about their materials

Last I checked a lot of their clothes were full of forever chemicals and processed plastics but maybe they've made progress.

https://www.insidehook.com/gear/patagonia-major-microplastic...
> Because few ever write diagrams in SVG. SVG is an output format, not an input format...

Aside from "try Inkscape", that sounds like a human problem not an LLM problem.

LLMs output what they input, and if diagrams in blog articles or docs are SVG, they merrily input SVG, and associate it with the adjacencies.

One might as well say MidJourney won't work because few ever make paintings using pixels. You're asking it to translate whatever you're asking about (e.g. scenes and names of painters you'd expect the model to know, like Escher or DaVinci), into some hidden imagined scene, render that as brush strokes of types of paint on textured media, and then generate a PNG out of it.
If you cite an article, you should link to it.
A big part of TSLA's valuation was being a meme stock. Was never actually worth $1T.
> https://www.anthropic.com/news/mapping-mind-language-model

I wouldn't read into marketing materials by the people whose funding depends on hype.

Nothing in the link you provided is even close to "neurons, model of the world, thinking" etc.

It literally is "in our training data similar concepts were clustered with some other similar concepts, and manipulating these clusters lead to different outcomes".
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks – METR
The thing about due process rights is that even actual terrorists who openly admit to terrorism get them :)

Under the Constitution, it's during due process where the state must prove "the role this plays in maintaining physical security."
Those underwears have so much character they can literally stand on their own.
Yes, that's explicitly the point. Districts are working hard to make it difficult for the "wrong" (i.e. not likely MAGA) voter to vote.
Nvidia Unveils AI-Q Blueprint to Connect AI Agents for the Future of Work
On the other hand a jury of nine people, vetted with voir dire, found them guilty. There's probably something there. I'm waiting to form opinions until the appeals are over.
Good to know which companies to go after for security bounties. There will be a feast.