skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that at first as well. Then I read the notes which made me reframe it as ‘odds your digit sequence won’t include a six ever’ and note that checking up to 2^50000 has only two candidates with the first 15 digits even, and I came down on ‘shrinking so quickly it’s super unlikely’. No proof here due to HNs comment limits of course..
Granian: Rust HTTP server for Python applications
I like the minimalistic approach! How to test such agents?
Sure I hear you. I agree that this distinction matters.

What annoys me is that revocation is even an option at all. I think this scenario is such an edge case that it really doesn't need an exception, and if supporting it means having the power to revoke a degree, then in my mind it's a lever for abuse and not something we'd want to normalize. It seems, to me at least, like a petty abuse of power that they shouldn't even have.
The stated problem was about indexing, accessing content and advertising in that context.

> I solved user problems for myself. Most of my web projects use client side processing. I moved to github pages. So clients can use my projects with no down time. Pages use SQLite as source of data. First browser downloads the SQLite model, then it uses it to display data on client side.

> Example 'search' project: https://rumca-js.github.io/search

That is not really solution. Since typical indexing still works for masses, your approach is currently unique. But in the end, bots will be capable of reading on web page context if human is capable on reading them. And we get back to the original problem where we try to detect bots from humans. It's the only way.
What accuracy does a human have? What's the false-positive rate?
"why you cannot register your service in a global or p2p indexer"

Network effects anyone? So yes, we should work on a different way of indexing the web again, than via google, but easier said than done I think ..
> there's one user reporting one minute delay, and another - from his phone

> out of those only 3% passed Anubi's proof of work, hinting at 97% of the traffic being bots

This doesn't follow. If I open a link from my phone and it shows a spinner and gets hot, I'm closing it long before it gets to one minute and maybe looking for a way to contact the site's maintainer to tell them how annoying it was.
I've heard from a Mexican buddy that Coca Cola is cheaper in Mexico than drinking water.
I accounted for that in my math. Investing $32B for 10 years at 15% interest compounded continuously = $132B.
I do wonder if it's a customer on Alibaba Cloud that's doing all this or if it's entirely Alibaba's own doing that's been wrecking havoc on everyone's sites (mine included)

I don't really like blocking an entire ASN, especially since I don't mind (responsible) crawling to begin with, but I was left with no choice
Sadly don‘t know the original source. A design teacher of mine said it out load when he judged a design from a student.
This article is a great example of motivated reasoning. It's comparing two wildly different numbers: the Ford Pinto number is the total number of deaths that the NHTSA found to have occurred in rear-impact crashes that resulted in a fire. The Cybertruck number is the total number of deaths from all incidents involving fire and a Cybertruck.

According to the Wikipedia article about the Pinto:

> At the time only 1% of automobile crashes would result in fire and only 4% of fatal accidents involved fire, and only 15% of fatal fire crashes are the result of rear-end collisions.

So as a back of the envelope calculation, we'd expect the total number of Pinto fire fatalities to be about 6.5x the fire fatality rate specific to rear-end collisions. Even then, I doubt that statistic would include incidents like the Las Vegas case where the man shot himself in the head while detonating an improvised explosive in his Cybertruck.

This doesn't even get into sample size - the Tesla numbers are based on only 3 incidents and 5 fatalities:

- one, a single-car accident in which 3 people died,

- two, a single-car accident in which 1 person died, and

- three, the driver shot himself in the head

If, say, the first driver hadn't had any passengers and the third driver had not been included in the sample (because it's not a collision), the Cybertruck's rate would be 60% lower. With such a small sample, it's very silly to make confident assertions about the relative risks here.

Finally, both articles are only talking about fire risks, not overall safety record. I would definitely bet that the Cybertruck has a significantly lower fatality rate per mile than a 1975 Pinto purely based on changes in vehicle safety testing and engineering since the 1970s.
No there are far far more degrees of certainty available to us than just those. How much certainty is appropriate for which decisions is itself part of the domain of expertise here, a matter of research & informed discernment all on its own.

"This benefits everyone" has long been the battle cry of rentseekers and resource overexploiters. It may be technically correct in some narrow dispersed sense but come on. I benefit much more from a functioning ocean ecosystem than I do from a 0.0003% boost to the economy or whatever.
> "FOSS sites damaged by extreme incompetence and unaccountability."

Given this info, the natural next question is “who is doing the harm?”

The answer is “AI companies”. Most people would now view the situation as having a lot to do with AI companies.
Discussion from another URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384826 (112 points | 3 days ago | 79 comments)
Might be time for a class action lawsuit. Something like that could work out really well for the little guy as it would probably make a dent in the LLM companies pockets and access to data.
I hate the fact that CI peaked with Jenkins. I hate Jenkins, I hate Groovy, but for every company I've worked for there's been a 6-year-uptime Jenkins instance casually holding up the entire company.

There's probably a lesson in there.
> That value is only great if it's shared equitably with the rest of the planet.

I think this should be an axiom which should be respected by any copyright rule.
> However, CI is not "configured", it is coded. . . . YAML was continuously extended to deal with that, so it developed into much more than just "markup", but it grew into this terrible chimera.

Brings to mind the classic "Kingdom of Nouns" [0] parable, which I read to my kid just last week. The multi-line "run" nodes in GitHub actions give me the heebie-jeebies, like how MUMPS data validation was maintained in metadata of VA-Fileman [1].

0. https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...

1. https://www.hardhats.org/fileman/pm/gfs_frm.htm
This threw me off when I was making a doc parser, it’s much easier nowadays with the change to docx.
But they were far from honest, if, as you say, crawlers impersonate real users and their browsers.
Lol, such a childish excuse to not answer.
We already have systems that work better. None of them depend on copyright. Crowdfunding [generally commissions], patreon-type platforms, sponsored content, live performances, etc etc etc.
I'm with you! I kind of love GitHub Actions, and as long as I keep it to tools and actions I understand, I think it works great. It's super flexible and has many event hooks. It's reasonably easy to get it to do the things I want. And my current company has a pretty robust CI suite that catches most problems before they get merged in. It's my favorite of the CI platforms I have used.
Purpose a Wellbeing Economies Film Virtual Screening
The film is centered around the idea of establishing an alternative to the GDP as the metric to measure success of a country/society. The film follows mostly Katherine Trebeck on her journey of convincing countries to look beyond the GDP.
Since it's quite hard to view such independent movies this is a rare occasion to view it online in a virtual screening. This screening is organized by the Permaculture Institute and donation based!
Hint: There is another screening one day later in case you miss the one the 29th.
Pretty stylish.

Wouldn't want to read this on a phone though I tell you hwhat.
If you as an individual recognizably regurgitate the essay you read, then you have infringed. If an AI model recongnizably regurgitates the essay it trained on then it has infringed. The AI argument that passing original content through an algorithm insulates the output from claims of infringement because of "fair use" is pigwash.
Detect AI scraper and inject an in-page notice that by continuing they accept your terms of use.

Terms of use charges them per page load in some terminology of abuse.

Profit... By sending them invoices :-)
The SPIRAL program generation system
Most "CI" platforms suck in some way. I attribute it to a mix of misaligned incentives (less efficient pipelines, more premium-rate CPU cycles to resell, lockin, etc.) and the fact that it's actually just a hard problem.

See: https://packetlost.dev/Why%20Does%20CI%20Suck
Absolutely. It took me a while to realize that I hated web development and why: because of all the layers of stuff you have to deal with on top of that document fetching platform. Something as simple as maintaining a login session is a complicated problem, even before you get into validating users, single sign-on, etc. You can put a lot of that out-of-sight/out-of-mind by letting a framework deal with it, but it's still there, lurking, waiting to bite you. And that's just one small aspect of building a web app.

It's too bad Java sucked so much. Maybe we could have had applets that worked like desktop apps, keeping the app-type stuff within applets and leaving the document reader alone. Probably not.
Given that they weren't optimizing around them, I'm guessing not-so-good. But maybe I'm wrong.
@dang - why is this flagged?

There is a considerable group of users outside of the U.S.A. that is very interested in learning and discussing about the current developments when it comes to this kind of treatment of foreigners in the U.S.A.

These kind of threads can be very problematic to moderate and require attention in regard the nature of the discussion. However, whether backpacker or high potential talent, this kind of information is very relevant, and I think it is imperative to bring this to public attention.

It has also come to my attention that these kind of threads get flagged very often on HN. Are you analysing/monitoring the groups of peope that are flagging these threads or whether the conditions for flagging are set to the right treshhold?

Thanks!
Some areas go full on gourmet. Others just do a sausage sizzle. Depends where you are. Sydney is huge.
There are only three energy storage forms that are relevant for the next decade. All the others looked promising, but the learning curve on batteries has rendered them irrelevant. Your link is from 2020, it is out of date.

The best energy storage form is "final form". Some energy products can be stored. For example if you are using the energy to create heat, you can store heat for use in the future. Heat storage sucks as a way to store energy destined for electricity, but is a great way to store energy destined for use as heat.

The utility of batteries for daily storage is obvious and well proven.

Thirdly, the best annual storage is pumped hydro. It's the cheapest and it can be used pretty much everywhere -- all you need is water at one end of an elevation change and a way to build storage at the other end.

All the other forms that you'd think would fit in between the two are being quickly subsumed by the rapid price drops in battery pricing. The cutover points are rapidly shifting -- batteries are now cheapest for biweekly-ish.

And the primary sources are getting so cheap that overbuilding is an alternative to storage. Rather than storing for the reduced amount of daylight in the winter, just overbuild. More overbuilding and a few days of storage will let you handle a stretch of cloudy, windless days in January. No annual storage required.
Did anyone else mistakenly read this as “LCARS” and expect something related to the Star Trek interface?

Clearly I need more coffee.
That would be revolutionary.
AWS Gen AI exec leaves to launch startup
Does the PoW make money via crypto mining? Or is it just to waste the caller's CPU cycles? If you could monetize the PoW then you could re-challenge at an interval tuned so that the caller pays for their usage.
And after 3-4 searches google will start flooding you with captchas
Any modification addition/removal of query parameters or dorking causes googe to throw captchas
The great (!) article misses the holy grail of the Energiewende in the chapter „Addressing the challenges of solar intermittency“: a intercontinental smart grid. As shown by data of ENTSO-E in Europe a power system plays a crucial part to overcome intermittency problems of renewables.
Make builds in docker by mounting volumes and have your sources, intermediate files, caches, etc. in these volume mounts. Building a bunch of intermediate or incremental data IN the container every time you execute a new partial compile is insanity.

It's very satisfying just compile an application with a super esoteric tool chain in docker vs the nightmares of setting it up locally (and keeping it working over time).
I think it depends on where you go.

These stories typically drop off /news pretty quickly, but /active has loads and loads of them. I also seem to see flagged ones, which is probably down to my settings.
What about appropriate, consensual touching?
At least we generally aren’t fighting “use source control”. Maybe the VCS used by the shop is dogshit but it’s better than nothing!
But even then, what benchmarks contradict it? You’re claiming an inherent bias, but other benchmarks also run just as well on Apple Silicon when normalized for core count. Cinebench, Specs etc…
I don't see how that helps the case where the UA looks like a normal browser and the source IP looks residential.
I think they also try to provide their own content, blending your library with what they can license for you. It would be cool if they combined your library with a catalogue similar to Netflix in one app.

My pet peeve is that they focus too much on that side of the business (adding new content) while ignoring the streaming experience. There are feature requests on the forum that are being ignored. For example, I would like music artwork per song instead of per album so kids can find their songs more easily. I would also like offline content to be available in the standard catalogue without going through "Downloads". The device that plays the content should prefer that downloaded copy instead of fetching it again via a network when you play it. And so on...

As someone already said, this is probably intended to squeeze some money from the illegal content streaming farms before they close them. They are probably forced to suspend anything suspicious by the legal departments, and this way, they get a bit out of it.
50% Plugin Vehicle Market Share in China – February 2025 Sales Report
The claims by the company in question were for far more than defamation:

"[the lead attorney representing Energy Transfer] said all three Greenpeace defendants worked in concert to send supplies to the protests, share intel with protesters and pay Native activists to conduct trainings in the camps that encouraged demonstrators to break the law.

He showed the jury photos of construction equipment with broken windows, anti-pipeline messages written in graffiti and gas tanks filled with sand. He also displayed photos of vehicles on fire."

-- https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/03/17/greenpeace-case-in...
The good news is that the farmers have an economic interest in not following his advice. If RFK Jr. came up with a reason that farmers should burn down their cornfields, would they do that?
I think this is going to turn out like the exotic panel chemistries: batteries are simple and have powerful continual improvement in performance and price, while the others turn out to be more complicated. In particular solid state wins over mechanical anything almost every time.
screenshots in place of links, cited articles likely shadow-banned on HN, FOSS is under attack 2.0.
Has ArsTechnica and TechCrunch lost its way
I'm wondering because it seems more and more their stories are around politics instead of the tech and science of tech. It's sad to see more previously good reads go down this path and lose readership. Plenty of media out there covering the stuff - stick to what you do best. I am sure to get more downvotes.
You're forgetting money. O&G were, and continue to be, cheaper than nuclear so the slander stuck.

The fossil fuel industry is trying the same playbook against solar power now. For a long time because solar + batteries were more expensive they didn't have to work very hard at it.
Front end web isn’t my specialty, but I really don’t know why framesets were deprecated. Having resizable panes as a primitive is crazy useful and applicable to several use cases (documentation with a nested tree sidebar comes to mind, for example).

Yeah they were ugly and looked like they came straight out of the Netscape 2.0 era (because they did) but that’s nothing CSS couldn’t have fixed.
$1 billion a year is a little over 1% of Apple’s profit. Which would make sense if it is a part of an ecosystem play. But I don’t see how it is.

It doesn’t sell any more AppleTVs or iOS devices. There are AppleTV apps for every media connected device available.

The crazy conspiracy theory and somewhat tongue and cheek that Apple punditry puts out is that it lets Cook say “look at all of the great services that we put out” and bring up AppleTV+ when everyone knows that most of the service revenue comes from the Google deal ($20B+ a year) and in app purchases of loot boxes and coins for pay to win games.

The latter came out in the Epic Trial that 90% of App Store revenue comes from games.
Why is it beyond stupid to allow payment using a currency without needing several layers of non-government middlemen (Apple and ParkMobile, for example)

Seems beyond stupid to require me to have an Apple program or a Google program and specific hardware to pay for parking when I can just have the coins in my pocket.

Especially since ParkMobile could just decide not to support the version of android I’m running, so that I’m forced to purchase a new device.

Coins aren’t subject to code rot.

A bonus is that meter toll collectors would have a job.
Anything we humans deem private in nature from other humans.
I think there's a big question in there about AI that breaks a lot of my preexisting worldviews about how economics works: if anyone can do this at home, who are you going to sell it to?

Maybe today only a few people can do this, but five years from now? Ten? What sucker would pay for any TV shows or books or video games or anything if there's a comfy UI workflow or whatever I can download for free to make my own?
^ I’d advise this same thing.
After they unlock your money you should get in the practice of regularly transferring funds out of your payment processor.
I had this happen with another processor. Their fraud division activated for no known reason, they froze a huge payment. It took me months and dozens of calls. They never deigned to explain why the freeze happened. They never apologized. I am filled with a burning hatred for them so much so that I won’t even mention their name in order to disparage them.

They will eventually unlock your funds when it becomes clear that you’re not doing anything illegal. It will take a long time and a lot of patience.
Code released today: https://github.com/Roblox/cube
A 10x faster batch job by batching PostgreSQL inserts/updates with Rust
https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/exterminations-a-review
I don't share the enthusiasm people have for AI summaries. In AI coding you can deal with something being wrong 5-20% of the time because you're going to test it, but having to check summaries for simple errors defeats the whole point of making summaries. [1]

I've been thinking about writing something that busts down titles down to 80 characters for HN submissions. It's a task that I screw up maybe 3% of the time, more when my condition is acting up. Options I'm looking at are: (a) rule-based, which can be very safe

"very" -> ""
"novel" -> "" (in a scientific paper title)
"Study finds X" -> X
"$350 billion" -> $350B

and (b) training a T5 model which would mostly learn to do the above, with the advantage of maybe getting it right when "novel" is "Bukowksi's novel Post Office" or "novel result on prime numbers" but would screw up sometimes and worse, not really understand the 80 character limit so it would sometimes be squashing things down harder than it has to, and other times squashing down to 82 characters

[1] The real problem I see with the current environment is not "reading is hard" but other forms of information overload, the most problematic of which now is that when I want to show somebody some content on the web I usually have to direct them to ignore 2 or 3 ads even though I'm running an ad blocker and if I wasn't running that ad blocker I'd probably have to close 4 or 5 pop up windows before seeing any content at all.
>with coming decline in x86

What indication is there that x86 is on the decline? Intel might be on the decline, but AMD seems to be doing fine, and Windows on ARM looks to go nowhere, even with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon
Vibe coding has taken over for frontend dev, but outside that narrow band of very visible coding, most models aren't great at more esoteric programming languages. Even Swift gives Claude trouble. So the reason to fine-tune is simply that the best newest models still remain bad at things outside their comfort zone (how human).
Metal tokens that don’t change in functionality at the whims of a random VP at some private company?

Yes. High tech != smart.
It now has a FAQ available at https://7159997483.com/about:

----------------------------

715-999-7483 is a phone-powered multiplayer website builder. By calling the phone number, anyone at any time can update the homepage by describing the changes they'd like to make to it. What happens when you give the public the power to change one central website? Will they use the power for good, for stupidity, and will they wait on hold to use it?

Frequently Asked Questions

How does it work?

Call (715) 999-7483. You'll be prompted to describe the changes you'd like to make to the website. You'll have 30 seconds. A queue will form if there are multiple callers.

What happens if multiple people call at once?

We have an intelligent queue system that handles multiple callers. If someone is already updating the site, you'll be placed in a queue and informed of your position. Once it's your turn, you'll be prompted to describe your changes.

Why can I only call once every 24 hours?

This shit is expensive.

Why is it taking so long to update?

What, to make an entire website using only your voice? Also, models' access and speed fluctuates.

Are there any content restrictions?

Yes. Try not to be a jerk and ruin it for everyone else.
$20M a year savings? They could save a lot more by stepping up enforcement against fare evasion.
Makerdiary NRF9151 Connect Kit Board Offers LTE-M, NB-IoT, DECT NR+, and GNSS
OK I'm dumb.
Patent Registration System: Panacea or Problem?
I suspect inner monologue is the useful metric for token count. I don't know if (any, let alone most or all) human brains think in token-like chunks, but if we do, and that's at 180/minute, thats 180x60x5x48 (working weeks/year) = 20,736,000 tokens/year. At that rate, $160k/year would be ~$7700/million tokens.

My guess is that this is better than a human who would cost $16k/year to hire. But with the logarithmic improvements in quality for linear price increases, I'm not sure it would be good enough to replace a $160k/year worker.
that's nothing https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-caught-breastfeeding-cat-pla...