skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two scandals

- OpSec failure to use an insecure non-DoD channel to communicate military operational status. Doesn't matter if it's signal, SMS, Slack or anything.

- Signal specifically is e2e encrypted without retention, in fact a first class feature to delete messages after some time. This bypasses legal requirements for record retention. Even if an "approved" DoD channel was used, the deletion of communications is a massive, massive scandal.

As others have noted, specifically Signal has a special bulletin due to exploits by Russian actors. This is a big infosec story proceeding in real time. The Hegseth / Yemeni / Goldberg angle is a small facet of it, and possibly least important.
Don't you think that presenting this as learning or knowledge is unethical?
I will find this for you if it takes me a year. Bookmarked this comment.
No. Just run single mode.
This is not factually true, it’s a philosophical statement.
And OpenAI is announcing their ImageGen in 4o

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474112
Same with new phones. The new phone is always the fastest cpu, gpu, and best camera ever!
It's not particularly difficult to deal with, as far as C++ goes (I'd take it over most template shenanigans, the rules are a little simpler). It would be easier if C++ had ever tried to improve the preprocessor instead of just saying "don't use it" and trying to get templates to do a subset of the same kind of things you might want the preprocessor for.

(Also, there's a much better version of this I decribed above: mucking about with re-including the same file multiple times is unnecessary and constraints things too much. You can make a much nicer interface for users of the macro with only a little extra effort)
A life spent improving human lives and promoting peace.
I don't know... I bought an expensive mic with a budget at a prior role, but it kept picking up background noise more than my mac would, and ultimately it's sitting in the garage.

The difficulty of testing, getting feedback, setting audio devices reliably, muting, adjusting settings (my mic had literally 5 different audio forms, all of which picked up too much background noise), etc made it seem like a huge nightmare for potentially inferior results.
Now, even better, allow any neighbor to open a legitimate (yet small-scale and cheap) coffee shop or wine bar by-right in the garage space under their SF home.
On the way home from the subway one snowy Boston evening, I joked with my wife that what the world needs is yelp, but for snow shoveling. People could get out all their passive-aggressive and aggressive-aggressive crap about their neighbors by complaining about the quality of the snow shoveling in the sidewalks in town.

It seems Nextdoor has fulfilled that need and more.
I recently heard some salty chap here on HN use the term "ClickOps" as opposed to "DevOps" or "GitOps" to describe the "just click on the button in the dev console web page to do that" approach.

https://www.wiechtig.com/blog/clickops-is-the-worst/

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/clickops/

https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2022/12/01/what-is-clickops-an...
> Yes, they have been observed

Any references?
Phones are limited by hardware manufacturing, plus maybe the annual shopping cycle peaking at Christmas. People won't have bought multiple iPhones even in its heyday.

These LLM models were supposedly limited by the training run, but these point-version models are mostly post-training driven, which seems to be taking less time.

If models were tied to a specific hardware (say, a "AI PC" or whatever) the cycle would get slower and we'll get a slower summer which I'm secretly wishing.
This is not what a doomer is. A doomer is not a nihilist. A doomer is someone who recognizes a great threat of impending doom. They may raise the alarm bell in response. If they choose to lie down and wait to get run over, that's a nihilist doomer.
I've been using a math puzzle as a way to benchmark the different models. The math puzzle took me ~3 days to solve with a computer. A math major I know took about a day to solve it by hand.

Gemini 2.5 is the first model I tested that was able to solve it and it one-shotted it. I think it's not an exaggeration to say LLMs are now better than 95+% of the population at mathematical reasoning.

For those curious the riddle is: There's three people in a circle. Each person has a positive integer floating above their heads, such that each person can see the other two numbers but not his own. The sum of two of the numbers is equal to the third. The first person is asked for his number, and he says that he doesn't know. The second person is asked for his number, and he says that he doesn't know. The third person is asked for his number, and he says that he doesn't know. Then, the first person is asked for his number again, and he says: 65. What is the product of the three numbers?
I'm frustrated with:

First-page Google results being 80% ads
Amazon reviews gaming the system
No transparency in recommendations

So I built Lumigo Lumigo that:

Only shows merit-based results
Cites all sources (blogs/forums/reviews)
Never takes ad money for products results

Questions for HN:

Would you actually switch from Google for product search?
What killer feature would make it indispensable?
How much do you care about seeing 'why' something is recommended?

Bonus Q: What's your worst product search horror story?
Normal Google rollout process: Bard is deprecated, Gemini is not ready yet.
The emphasis on filial piety in east Asian cultures is undeniable, but I think this thread is overlooking the significant complication that east Asian countries also have some of the lowest birth rates in the world. Americans have more kids than the Japanese, for instance--not fewer--and birth rates across southeast Asia are collapsing, including in China.
We managed to bounce a signal of Venus this weekend, due to the proximity (42M km):

https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2025/first-venus-bounce-with-t...
x/post

I do not recommend WHITIN or, by association, any "Amazon-only" brand. They copy styles from more expensive sneakers at much lower quality to hit cost.

I purchased a pair three years ago as a replacement for Merrell Vapor Gloves that were difficult to find. (Merrell stopped making their Vapor/Trail Gloves for a while, though they appear to be back.) They were heavier than the Merrell's while using cheaper fabric and less comfortable soles.

While affordability of minimalist sneakers is a real issue, I'd recommend spending a little more and getting XERO's.
High-performance plastics like Mylar and Kevlar are stretched in manufacturing too.
LLMs all the way down
Healthcare can buy you regular screenings to catch problem much earlier on, when there is better chance to cure them
Did they time it with the Gemini 2.5 launch?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473489

Was it public information when Google was going to launch their new models? Interesting timing.
So just to be clear, it’s not effective, but you can’t say at what, but the world is a much different, much worse place, millions are dead as a direct result of terrorism, but it doesn’t matter?

I don’t think this is a fruitful thread.
These are an innovative way to sell New York Times subscriptions, but most of us aren't making charts for interactive marketing.

These sorts of animations are cool, but my experience has been that if you have to deal with them daily, you'll want a way to turn them off. People will jam a bunch of charts with considerable data onto the page, and the animations will barely work due to the strained performance.
In the rest of the world (London, at least), WhatsApp is used for communities/building developments. It's the exact same NextDoor hell, but just with more instant messaging.
> It's estimated that bitcoin mining uses as much energy as a small country like Poland.

That's probably the first time Poland has been described as "small". It's number 39 by population!
The point isn't to capture what it's like to be a biological organism, but rather the necessary functional/computational dynamic for sentience. It's plausible that sentience is a class of phenomena, of which biological sentience is but one. An LLM processes tokens represented as vectors embedded in a meaning-space, which is then transformed according to various semantic attributes. This is analogous to how organismal cognition operates on the semantic properties carried by its various sensory states. If cognition represents a kind of functional/computational dynamic over semantic states then learning the dynamic necessary to produce the kinds of texts cognitive systems produce may recover the necessary dynamic for cognition. It certainly won't be equivalent to a biological organism's cognition for the reasons you mention, but the space of cognitive entities may be much broader.
Using an app has inherent security implications (it's very, very hard to trust apps). However, I agree that in terms of security, using an app with local control is better than something cloud-connected.

My primary issue with requiring the use of an app is that apps are a pain in the ass. Allow the use of an app as an option, sure, but the appliances should be able to be fully used with the controls on the appliance itself as well. Requiring the use of an app is a dealbreaker for me, but for usability reasons more than security reasons.
Claude is still the king right now for me. Grok is 2nd in line, but sometimes it's better.
That was me reaching REALLY REALLY deeply to find _any_ reason why some of our most powerful leaders would make an obvious blunder like this.
I came here to say the same. Sense of community in the suburbs? That has not been my experience and tends to be one of the main complaints about the suburbs.
Private Markets Get More Public
It’ll be on soulseek. Most forget it exists.
Flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia
1. I find the actual typeface made for the track rather pretty. Definitely of an era, but given how in that era's graphic design is right now I'm surprised I haven't seen more of it out and about

2. Sadly the article neglects to mention Haroumi Hosono, whose vocals are also on the track. If you haven't checked out his work, either solo or with YMO, it's well worth a listen.
Any way you try to categorize and algorithmically select music is always going to be sub optimal because of the lack of human creativity. For sure, algorithmic selecting can lead to some great listening experiences, but if that's all we have then the totality of our music experience is devalued.

I quite like the interface they made for Orbit, but maybe not for the reasons they intended. I think a tool like this would be best if they open sourced it and let users feed their own choices in.

I've been a heavy Spotify user and it's not perfect but I am frequently delighted at how good its recommendations are. They often give me really obscure stuff, they know my tastes and they often challenge me, and I can tell that there's some clever algorithms that tap into what other people like me are discovering.

Equally as entertaining as Spotify, I find NTS radio [1] to frequently deliver brilliant listening experiences ... but in contrast to Spotify they have a tiny budget. The NTS 'rule' is No Rules Radio: so it's human-centric, often far out and cutting edge, and seriously entertaining. Humans are good!

[1] https://nts.live
The metaphor also breaks down because if you're trying to make a bacon and eggs dish without any hens then you end up eating bacon with bacon instead.
Yeah, I'm totally being too hard on you. Apologies if it comes off too harsh.

All the power to you & good luck with the project! Teachers deserve every help they can get.
Wow, was able to nail the pelican riding on a bicycle test:

https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/FImn7kAo
The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos
No; I'm saying that there is a lot of useless junk that has a clearance. I did not say that taking boxes and boxes and boxes of cleared materials into a likely-uncleared site was okay (it most definitely isn't).
For better or worse, Google gets more bad press when their models get things wrong compared to smaller AI labs.
I mean, I know you're kind of kidding, but there's also a lot of truth in it. When I was last on Nextdoor, a woman had posted asking for any information about a car that hit her as she was riding her bike and sent her to the hospital. She was trying to find people who might have witnessed the incident. People were answering that it was her fault for being on a bike. I uninstalled the app right then and there.
This is so endearing. I've been at odds with my HOA [board] since I moved in and its a decades long tale of my community where everyone is treated poorly by our HOA.

I've asked the board for block parties annually, and events semi annually and theyve rejected it over and over again. Meanwhile I miss this type of community that I had in every building I lived in around NYC before moving to the mountains
I’m sure there are some microwave antennas still out there doing the Lord’s Work. At least in the Plains states where hills are low and putting antennas on two of them gives you some extra distance. How far do microwaves bend over the horizon?
If you go that route MOCA over your cable tv coax works very well too!
You are completely right that I can always just wait. I prefer not to though... there are a lot of times when it is amazing to have 10G between my main machines.
Hopefully there's an expiration date on the supply contract. It would be too bad if the mining cramped the town's ability to use electricity as it (hopefully) increases usage.
It will be huge achievement if models can get to the point where so much selection effort isn't required: gemini.google.com currently lists 2.0 Flash, 2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental), Deep Research, Personalization (experimental), and 2.5 Pro (experimental) for me.
Why would you compare against all the models from a competitor. You take their latest one that you can test. Openai or anthropoc don’t compare against the whole gemini family.
which was written by ChatGPT3.5
As a job, at least. Programming does not exist exclusively in that realm, hence the demo scene.
You can do this with OpenPubkey, since the user's client can sign challenges that include the scope of the authentication.

Doing this on the web requires being really careful design because you can't trust a javascript client sent to you by the party whose scope you want to control. They could just send you a javascript client that approves a different scope. You still need to do something like the OAuth/OIDC origin-based isolation dance.
He has written and spoken a number of time about the need for more mathematical (which I think would include logic and metalogic) education and thinking in CS

If all programmers/ software engineers had a reasonable level of mathematical formalism (could understand and write proofs), and some amount of formal logic, that would be much better.

I think that is his position

Also, understand this is coming from one of the most prominent living people in the field. People ask him for his opinion about this stuff, so he shares it.
Johnny Gaudreau, NHL star, and his brother Matthew were hit and killed by a drunk driver while in New Jersey for their sister's wedding last summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gaudreau
Care to share your thesis? Sounds interesting! What was your degreee in?
> I am hopeful that in my lifetime, the web will die.

I'd like to see the www go back to its roots as a way to share and browse documents, hyperlinked together. The web worked when it was just documents to render and click on links. It is terrible as an application platform.

It's been 30 years since JavaScript was invented. Imagine what we'd have today, if instead of making the WWW into this half-assed application platform, those 30 years of collective brainpower were instead spent on making a great cross-platform native application development and delivery system!
> Boost Hana (which still has some runtime overhead compared to the same logic with hardcoded values)

Can you elaborate on that? What was your use-case for which this was true?
Was going to comment the same thing, which has been bugging me off lately on all announcements that start with "our" followed by empty superlatives. Happy to not be alone on this!
I love it that Computerphile gave him the platform to dive much deeper into these subjects. Also, awk as a favorite language is a interesting choice, but I kind of get it!
I think this pattern is obvious enough that it's clear what's going on, but I can see where you're coming from.
it's not true and it's not technically feasible on iOS
https://web.archive.org/web/20250324194236/https://www.theat...
Could you explain "The sum of two of the numbers is equal to the third"??
The benchmark numbers don't really mean anything -- Google says that Gemini 2.5 Pro has an AIME score of 86.7 which beats o3-mini's score of 86.5, but OpenAI's announcement post [1] said that o3-mini-high has a score of 87.3 which Gemini 2.5 would lose to. The chart says "All numbers are sourced from providers' self-reported numbers" but the only mention of o3-mini having a score of 86.5 I could find was from this other source [2]

[1] https://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/
[2] https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/aime-2025-03-24

You just have to use the models yourself and see. In my experience o3-mini is much worse than o1.
If everyone is treated poorly by the HOA, you should be able to get them together and dissolve the HOA. Read the documents, there should be a procedure for dissolution.
>> the kind of person who will make a thread asking if anybody knows this new runner they saw jog by their place

That's what the urbanologist Jane Jacobs, in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" called "eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street".

As she said, "The first thing to understand is that the public peace - the sidewalk and street peace - of cities is not kept primarily by the police, necessary as police are. It is kept primarily by an intricate, almost unconscious, network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves, and enforced by the people themselves".

To many people, of course, this is disgusting behavior.
Some key differences I observe:

OPKSSH covers only logging in through SSH to an existing user account, while authd covers all forms of login (console, graphical, SSH) and user/group management. The latter makes it much more of a full AAA product rather than just a new way to login with SSH. This means it's a deeper investment, with implications for network file systems (as covered in the docs), while OPKSSH can be added on top of just about any existing infrastructure.

In terms of process, authd uses the Device Authorization Flow to handle logins, which is more vulnerable to phishing. It also requires both sides to have online access to the IdP, whereas the ID token-based approach of OPKSSH allows the authenticating side to have no (*) or limited outbound connectivity. Also, authd seems to support only Microsoft and Google as IdPs right now, whereas OPKSSH (since it builds on OpenPubkey) supports any OpenID Connect IdP.

* = In theory, at least; the current implementation doesn't fully deliver on this, though the one online resource it does need is fairly static and quite cacheable
Please can you enlighten me, I'm a mathematic plebian?
Traditionally at Google experimental models are 100% free to use on https://aistudio.google.com (this is also where you can see the pricing) with a quite generous rate limit.

This time, the Googler says: “good news! you will be charged for experimental models, though for now it’s still free”
Partly because it is fairly fast, partly because, whatever you’re running your language on, chances are better that you can run a C compiler on it than that you can run most other languages.
Is the blood level diagnostically significant with vit D? Or is this something like magnesium where serum levels can be normal while having a magnesium shortage? IIRC vit d is fat soluble, does the body store any excess quickly, or does it linger around?
I'm hitting up all my sources and activating my music-finding sleeper agents. Soulseek as a last result but it's probably there.
Navigating the Euro's Most Volatile Week: Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Brokerage
The first week of March 2025 will undoubtedly go down in currency market history. The Euro experienced its largest one-week fluctuation since its inception, and global traders (retail and institutional alike) rushed to capitalize on every potential opportunity. As the person responsible for managing our brokerage's technical infrastructure, I had a front-row seat to the exhilaration and the challenges that come with such unprecedented volatility. Here's how we kept our operations running smoothly in the face of extraordinary market conditions.
The dog part is definitely key. We moved a few blocks — so within the same neighbourhood — shortly after getting our dog, and it was amazing how much more quickly we got to know our new neighbours with our (extremely extroverted) then-puppy compared to the previous place. (And, on the flip side, I'm on a first name basis with every dog on my block, which usually implies also being on a first name basis with at least one of their humans.)
After vibe coding comes vibe observability
CMake has a particularly irritating flaw here, though, in that it makes no distinction between host and target which cross-compiling, which makes it really difficult to do this kind of code generation when supporting this use-case (which is becoming more and more commoon).
This isn't complex. It's a bit unusual, but not hard to understand if you understand the basics of how #include and #define work.

If you're working on the sort of C++ codebase that would benefit from this sort of code generation, and you're not reasonably skilled in C++, then god help you.
Fresh versions of Firefox-ESR, Brave and Opera made it for the moment, however you need to find a way to allow them cookies while they persistently re-iterate, disabling our settings window. I find it absolutely unacceptable behavior to lock people out of their data - their property - without providing comprehensible reasons such as 'your browser is too old, only versions from xxx are supported'. And if this doesn't happen automatically, it should be communicated immediately in support requests. The way it is done, despite all good intentions, are malicious experiments with the users.
How long back are you talking about? Do you remember what version? When I was working there, there were improvements made to "Change Management" ie. promoting changes from Test -> Production. After I left I heard the improvements continued. When I was there, it was a ~50 person company that was very focused so this was a pain point they were well aware of.
Looks like you can just buy it (not an endorsement, just random googling):

https://www.2ddrhair.com/
"Interesting timing" It's like the 4th time by my counting they've done this
Currently free, but only 50 requests/day.
Thanks for the feedback. I am working on this feature!
Cliché but woodworking and working on my house! Been learning tons of new things that have nothing to do with coding. I’d probably get into rehabbing/flipping houses before I’d ever go back into tech
May have been a tongue-in-cheek.
Show HN: Algebraic Structure Toolkit and Dataset
Half code library and dataset; half reference resource and teaching tool.

I have been working on this project for a few months to encode and visualise Abstract Algebra structures. The broad goal is that it will encourage more accessible ways of researching and cataloguing Abstract Algebra without sacrificing rigour.
"How can I eat cookies when the theory of relativity has escaped me?!" is a pretty good line
Looks about what you'd get with FLUX and attaching some language model to enhance your prompt with eg more text
Or to build the generating code for the host instead. Most build systems that support cross-compilation can do this, except CMake.