skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article isn’t about that. It’s about the externalized costs that LLM companies are pushing onto webmasters because of their aggressive scraping. It’s one thing to believe that LLMs are a good thing, it’s another thing to believe that individuals and cooperative groups that run small internet services ought to be the ones to pay for that good.
Robust OTA Updates for Linux Devices, the Easy Way
Actually there are a lot of users asking for exactly this.

That Apple are using their monopoly to further their position is a classic, illegal tactic and these bureaucrats should have come after them a long, long time ago.
>Is that because the tech is 50 years old from before QWERTY was the standard?

QWERTY predates electronic devices.
good point. it's my web playground one big app with many games hosted on it including 3D games

i need to optimize but it's just a playground

I host the bigger projects then on separate domains etc.

also this one uses canvas heavily
It's just a VC.

But it's so big (maybe biggest in the world), so its reach and influence is immense. And as a result, it has raised money from nations and other enormous entities.

Run by Masa who many consider an oracle because his placed massive bets years before other people and those bets have paid of big.
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I suspect the only way to answer your question is to actually get quotes from manufacturers

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Yes, basically this but I would like to do some "napkin math" using a complete database such a Mouser

Basically a "if it is on mouser speaking with the producers and buying a relevant quantity I will get at least a 30% discount"
The article mentions "web fundamentals" and "getting back to the fundamentals". Sounds great! Would anyone care to have a conversation about what this means? Like does the author mean DOM manipulation or TCP stack? I feel like this is pretty broad and even though I've been doing full stack for a bit now I'm suddenly not sure if I know the fundamentals.
>The woman who had "sympathetic" photos of Hezbollah on the phone
Although I personally disagree with her, I think you're correct here. They clearly wanted to make an example of her.

>The professor who attended a Pro-Palestinian protest.
This is disingenuous, he was the leader of the group that organizes those protests. In Europe, I probably wouldn't be welcome too long if I was the leader of a neo-nazi group while on a visa.
I have published a lot of content about a particular topic online and I want it to be publicly accesible. A lot of people use it to create YouTube videos, that's fine (and a lot of them even cite me). I have a problem with LLM profiting from them.

Which now I realize is not different from people amaking YouTube videos. I feel there is a difference but I don't know how to explain it. Maybe there isn't. Ouch, writing this comment was not a good idea...
I'm guessing this is a side effect of mistakes in the reinforcement learning face. It'd be really easy to build a reward model that favors passing tests, without properly measuring the quality of those tests.
plan is to add a feature where the AI tells you how to cutemax to have a better chance being their pet
Noobs. Almost all typescript devs and React devs and especially NextJs devs are terrible programmers and absolute beginners. So that creates churn.
Is there a reason the price of the water can’t be equal to marginal cost of getting more water, so the net effect of the data center is zero?

Water can be piped in from elsewhere, can be made from reverse osmosis from even briney aquifers or seawater or even sewage. Is this really an unsolvable problem or is it just a mispricing of the water? This makes me skeptical of stories like this.
https://anything.world/
And that's the ultimate fail of capitalist ethics - the notion that we must all work just so we can survive. Look at how many shitty and utterly useless jobs exist just so people can be employed on them to survive.

This has to change somehow.

"Machines will do everything and we'll just reap the profits" is a vision that techno-millenialists are repeating since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, but we haven't seen that happening anywhere.

For some strange reason, technological progress seem to be always accompanied with an increase on human labor. We're already past the 8-hours 5-days norm and things are only getting worse.
Large Language Models (LLMs) dominate AI, but Small Language Models (SLMs) are emerging as a serious alternative. They are faster, more cost-effective, and privacy-focused, making them ideal for on-device AI in sensitive industries like healthcare, finance, and defence.

Why SLMs?

* No Cloud Costs – Runs locally, eliminating expensive API calls

* Privacy First – Data stays on-device with no third-party servers

* Low Latency – Real-time AI without cloud dependency Offline AI – Works in planes, submarines, and remote areas Customizable & Efficient – Tailored AI without large-scale infrastructure

The Challenge

Running AI Locally Deploying SLMs on resource-constrained devices is difficult. Even a small 7B model requires optimization techniques like quantization and pruning to run efficiently. Local data storage is another issue—traditional AI systems rely on the cloud, but for true Edge AI, we need a local-first approach.

The Experiment

Running AI Fully Locally We built a ChatGPT-style AI assistant that runs entirely in the browser with no network connection required.

Stack

SLM (Stories15M) running fully in-browser with wllama GoatDB for local chat history storage Zero cloud dependencies This is just the beginning. SLMs and Edge AI could enable medical AI chat applications that are HIPAA-compliant, offline assistants for embedded systems, and much more.

Read more at: https://dev.to/nadav_benitzhak_7703f5b2/the-case-for-edge-ai...
Got it .. looks I misinterpreted your interpretation.
My conspiracy theory is that FE engineers do this on purpose for job security. Otherwise there simply wouldn't be enough work to justify headcount and salary. Of course there's very few actually devious people who do this on purpose, but who among us hasn't thought "tickets are light this week, how about if I upgrade xxx or yyy?"
Fast is always better than slow, if the quality isn't worse.
Comments like these are why I come to hacker news! I'm working on a project right now where I've been learning mermaid, but have gotten to the point where it would be easier for me to draw it out and convert this way by a lot. I'll try this!
Not sure I understand — passwords are generally hashed in databases. Even if leaked, an attacker would still need to brute-force the hash to retrieve the actual password, wouldn’t they?
Fully agreed that the amount of "that was last year's answer" is obscenely frustrating.

Would be one thing if there were minimal boilerplate for the options, but so many patterns are quite involved.
That's how the big software companies have been doing it to us for years, so it does seem like turnabout would be fair play.
TV+ Losing $1B Annually as Apple Services Falter
Do I need to be worried about my bill if I've rented a simple EC2 instance without any fancy autoscaling stuff?
There might not even be any need for V2G or V2H.

Just charging your car when the demand is low is probably enough to drastically reduce the overall cost of the system. And this has basically no impact on the battery lifespan.
I saw a fair amount of that kind of behavior, too, mostly around the summer of last year. At some point it dropped off sharply. Over the last few months, at least for the servers I keep an eye on, most of the trouble has been from Chinese cloud IPs.

Either the LLM devs got more funding, or maybe the authorities took down the botnet they were using.
Man files complaint after ChatGPT said he killed his children
Pretty thorough blogpost. One clarification though: digital watermarking has been a core (but optional) part of C2PA since version 2.1. There is now a standard way of linking any (approved) digital watermarking technology to C2PA manifests and use the watermarks to created stronger content credentials and allow recovering removed manifests, more about this here: https://www.digimarc.com/blog/c2pa-21-strengthening-content-...
> If you have 1 massive job, Ray sucks and doesn't provide table stakes.

Can you say more?
Presumably the issue is that GH underpriced Actions such that it's not worth improving because driving more usage won't drive revenue, and that then forced prices down for everyone else because everyone fixed on the Actions pricing.
> So long as the resulting model does not contain copies, it is not infringement

That's not true.

The article specifically deals with training by scraping sites. That does necessarily involve producing a copy from the server to the machine(s) doing the scraping & training. If the TOS of the site incorporates robots.txt or otherwise denies a license for such activity, it is arguably infringement. Sourcehut's TOS for example specifically denies the use of automated tools to obtain information for profit.
> It’s just nuts to me the degree to which FE development as a whole seems to embrace the breaking change, the deprecation, etc.

I’m amazed at how much of this is driven by the FE influencers. The FE world has embraced social media, YouTube, and even Twitch to a degree that I haven’t seen in other domains.

Influencers in these areas need to have a constant stream of fresh material to stay relevant, so they’re always driving toward something new that they can produce content about.

This is in addition to the very active conference circuit. FE and JS conferences feel like one big competition to present on some hot new topic.

There’s also a huge market for selling FE courses. These course creators need you to convince your boss to approve a $700 (limited time price!!!) video course to learn the new hot thing, but they can only do that if they get the industry to move away from the old thing that everyone knows already. So they push hard to drive the new thing and deprecate the old thing.
Pebble let developers request HR data at a max frequency of 1Hz, so I'm not sure how you could calculate HRV from it (Nyquist theorem).

https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pebble.com/guides/even...

I also tinker with health data from wearables. I've built some Whoop-like UIs for a couple cheapo wrist straps from Aliexpress, but their HR monitors are always so bad that they're useless outside of when you're sleeping.
Until they threaten you to pay a huge bill or they will shutdown your services. No thanks. Cloudflare has extremely questionable business practices.
https://archive.is/20250320103959/https://www.wired.com/stor...
Cloudflare also locks out non-Chrome/Firefox browsers, stifling the development of alternatives.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
See absolutely every other sector of industry and economy for copious counter-examples.

If there's profit on the table, capitalism will not allow it to sit there at any cost.
oh the irony of this being a Crapagonia product..

"plastic microfibers are us"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/patagonias-poly-hypocrisy-blend...
It's not about secret vs public, it's about resource overload on the websites. Existing crawlers so far mostly respected robots.txt, the LLM crawlers don't.

You, as a user, might not care, but as servers keep going down, more and more website owners start blocking LLMs. Good riddance, hopefully all good stuff gets locked down.

Or to use an analogy, your comment is similar to: "sure those delivery vans violate speed limits and occasionally hit the pedestrians. I don't care, those fast deliveries have been proven wildly useful to me"
It's a sarcastic reference to a satire. The point they are making is that politely protesting in a way that doesn't have any impact on anything is ineffective and the abusers with power know this which is why they always clutch their pearls and try to prevent, undermine, or disparage anything else.

Protest is an interesting thing. Sometimes you can just raise awareness through the approved, legal methods but sometimes you live in a society where the laws protect evil actions and punish anyone trying to change that. Obviously there will never be agreement from everyone about which situation calls for which actions.
Have you only tried the free models or the paid ones?
A class action, funded by their rivals could hurt quite a bit, especially for sites damaged monetarily by these LLM scrapers.
No, but I don't see a good reason why you can't recycle the cells especially given they contain a thin layer of silver. Google already finds local recycling firms, since it's required by WEEE.

(The 500 years question has issues for all the other sources of energy as well!)
The interesting thing here is that the weights of the model contain PII, hence under the GDPR, blocking output is not enough, a GDPR removal request requires you to retrain or refine the model.

Think of the cost of being compliant if this holds in court.
A slippery slope I think describes it pretty well.

Right now it's an unflattering opinion of the current administration, being penalized without regard for the combined precedent of all previous administrations.

The kind of precedent that was within reach of all other US presidents from all parties continuously both before & after the Statue of Liberty got here, otherwise there wouldn't have been enough respect built in Europe for Liberty to be erected to begin with. It was obviously supposed to be a permanent icon representing the never-ending March of Freedom & Democracy, and only a real bozo could screw that up.

Yup, only an anti-American effort of some kind could drop the ball on that, and it's no accident.

What does it take before the same penalty applies for "lack of verifiable enthusiastic support of the current regime"?

Or "failure to make financial contributions to the party"?

Or even "providing insufficient information on associates who may not enthusiastically support the regime"?
Do CRMs improve customer relationships?
Data centers don’t need any water. They can reject heat directly to the air. If the price of water were high enough, that’s what they’d do instead of evaporative coolers. This is a fake problem driven by clickbait headlines or, at worse, mispricing of water.
Rewarding Ideas
This difference in emotional reaction is because of the effort involved in the process. Functionally, we see YouTube video creation as a fundamentally difficult exercise (to do well) and results in a singular product (one video). Any additional content would need an ongoing investment of time and money from the creator. The LLMs though would not require an ongoing investment beyond the first training run, that is probably why you have a problem with it, they're an extremely high leverage way of taking advantage of content.
why are we pretending that these gambling sites have any weight on anything
I'm missing something on the discussion of correctness for Linear types:

let file: File := openFile("test.txt");
writeString(file, "Hello, world!");
g(file);

If I have any other function 'g' that takes a File and returns Unit, wouldn't the compiler be ok with that. Now I have a dangling file pointer.
Besides flooding them with junk, what about outright sabotage in the form of serving zip bombs or other ways to waste computational resources?
I don't know that I'd say I was "emotionally stunted" when I was younger. I still felt emotions strongly then; I just often didn't know what to do with them.
Probably not. Keep an eye on bandwidth usage since you'll be charged for that but you would need to attract an incredible amount of bot traffic for that to add up to anything meaningful.

The thing to watch out for is platforms like Vercel or Google Cloud Run where you get charged more for compute if you attract crawlers, potentially unbounded (make sure to set up spending limits if you can.)
Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average
> I'm literally using MIT because I don't give a fuck what people do with the code I publish

MIT license requires this:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Do the AI companies follow this requirement?
Most video games compress booleans to bitfields in the save files to save space. Depending on the game, a save file can contain thousands of objects, so it makes sense to keep it small.

At runtime, booleans are 1 byte each. The additional work of shifting and masking to get to the bit you want simply isn't worth it. When reading from memory, the CPU will read a whole cache lines of 64 bytes anyways. So unless you want to process a lot of booleans (and only booleans) at once, it's simply not worth having them 1 bit each.

Because aligned data runs faster, a single boolean sandwiched inbetween integers or pointers can even take up 4 or 8 bytes of memory.

Note: Some languages have built-in optimisations where an array of booleans is actually 1 bit each. C++'s `std::vector<bool>` is such a case and I'm sure there are more.

I've seen people advise to never use booleans, simply because a number (or enum) can convey more meaning while taking up the same amount of space.
Sure, because Meta certainly followed copyright law to the letter when they torrented thousands of copyrighted books from hundreds of published and known authors to train Lama. Forgive me if I doubt a text disclaimer on the page will slow them down.
There seems to be a large region of the universe, beyond furthest edges of the observable, but "in front of" the CMB, that is already outside of our past light cone due to expansion of the universe.
A lot of fighters have it even worse. Buttons around an MPD, or a T9-like system where number keys are overloaded for ~3 values each.
Nemotron vs. Qwen – Game Theory and Agent Reasoning IV
A Tiny Twist Sparks a Quantum Revolution in Superconductors
> easy-to-use API

A lot of C (not so much C++) programmers thought it was easy to use correctly. Mostly, they were wrong.
You are confronted with automation.

Individuals who have to do work in order to use your content to do work to create their own content is qualitatively different than automation trivially doing whatever.
> This prediction market has it at 12% likely to succeed

Randos on the internet with a betting addiction are distinctively different from a court of law. I wish people would stop talking about prediction market as if they mattered.
Alright, I'll move on. It hurts but it is what it is
I’d built an AI agent to accomplish this using Ghidra + GDB for dynamic analysis (tested it on crackmes)

It worked surprisingly well

Applied to YC with it, sadly no interview

Was later told by some accepted friends/VCs that our application was good, but without pedigree we needed traction to de-risk / get accepted :(
> It's trivial to setup a basic account for any site that doesn't contain any personal data you want to keep hidden

It's equally trivial for a restaurant to set up a custom domain with their own 2-page website (overview and menu) on any of a hundred platforms that provide this service.

Most of these services are not free like FB, but any business that can afford a landline phone can afford a real website.
They can call it Dasani and sell it for more than they charge for the sweetened flavored carbonated beverage.
Government usually, same as it is with Nestle in the US.
We should try separating good bots from bad bots:

Good bots: search engine crawlers that help users find relevant information. These bots have been around since the early days of the internet and generally follow established best practices like robots.txt and rate limits. AI agents like OpenAI's Operator or Anthopic's Computer Use probably also fit into that bucket as they are offering useful automation without negative side effects.

Bad bots: bots that have a negative affect website owners by causing higher costs, spam, or downtime (automated account creation, ad fraud, or DDoS). AI crawlers fit into that bucket as they disregard robots.txt and spoof user agent. They are creating a lot of headaches for developers responsible for maintaining heavily crawled sites. AI companies don't seem to care about any crawling best practices that the industry has developed over the past two decades.

So the actual question is how good bots and humans can coexist on the web while we protect websites against abusive AI crawlers. It currently feels like an arms race without a winner.
I'm not talking about the ethics of scraping itself. I think scraping is fine from an ethics perspective for exactly that reason. I think LLM companies, however, are scraping ineptly and with poorly implemented tooling, which is causing problems for the websites they're targeting, and that sucks ass and they should be held liable.

On the legal end though, I do think there's a few things that should be done:

* Scrapers should be CLEARLY, and CORRECTLY identified as what they are, and who they are being dispatched from. Changing user agents to get around blocks should not be permitted, ever. If you only get a certain amount of content or a certain subset of pages when you identify as a scraper, that is a choice the website operator is making and it should be respected.

* Scrapers MUST OBEY robots.txt. We didn't create that for a fun hacker weekend. It's an important technical component of how we organize websites and how we want them crawled, if we want them crawled. It should be the first stop for any scraper on any website, and again, it should be respected.

* Scrapers should always meter their traffic with respect to the website owner. Pounding an entire website's library of content request after request with only milliseconds between is, to put it bluntly, being a fucking asshole. And not just to the owner, but to anyone else attempting to use the site at the time.

If a website operator configures their site incorrectly and pages they don't want scraped are, or pages they do want scraped aren't, then that is on them and they need to fix that. It is not in the scraper's purview to end-run around that configuration to "be real sure" they got everything they were meant to, and it's especially not that to get things the web operator has explicitly tried to not let the scraper have.

And yes, all of these things should be legally actionable, with financial penalties attached and for serial offenders, we should have a registry of scraper bots that we disallow entirely because they are acting in bad faith.
> You know those "gang members" that were kidnapped to Venezuela torture prison without any due process?

Many are not "fine" with it and legal actions are proceeding. The form of the question is definitely an excellent example of outrage bait. And yes, the US definitely has some legal bangers left on the books that gives Gödel more credence. [0]

Claimed non-governmental organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren_de_Aragua

Deportation of Venezuelans to El Salvador: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/deportation-...

Due process involved: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alie...

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_Loophole
What exactly should be rate-limited, though? See the discussion here -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413 -- the traffic at issue in that case (and in one that I'm dealing with myself) is from a large number of IPs making no more than a single request each.
It can be necessary if you’re passing it to a generic type/function.
I dont quite understand the benefit. How does running commands from the Makefile differ from running commands directly on the runner ? What benefit does Makefile brings here ?
> Do the AI companies follow this requirement?

I haven't seen any LLMs being able to reproduce full copies or even "substantial portions" of any existing software, unless we're talking "famous" functions like those from Quake and such.

You have any examples of that happening? I might have missed it