skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Chrome sending new x-browser headers?
While digging around in webserver logs I noticed that Chrome 134 seems to have added new headers:

"x-browser-channel": "stable",
"x-browser-copyright": "Copyright 2025 Google LLC. All rights reserved.",
"x-browser-validation": "wTKGXmLo+sPWz1JKKbFzUyHly1Q=",
"x-browser-year": "2025"

The x-browser-validation value has been the same for all users I've observed. Does anybody have any idea what the validation header is doing? Haven't found any info online nor with a (rather sloppy) search on the chromium source code. I find this combination of headers rather weird - why should a browser tell each web server who has the copyright on it and what update channel you're on?
Cat6 is twenty years old and still entirely usable today in a residential setting.
There it is, you are pushing this stuff because you have an anti medication bent. Thanks for owning up.
I don’t know chrome devtools enough to say whether or not it already has all of these features. I will say that you can place a nail with a hammer, but if you’re building houses for a living, it might be best to invest in a nail gun.
> FBI investigated and declined to bring charges

Does the FBI make this determination? Wouldn’t that be the Attorney General’s call?
I'd give an exception for helicopters. About the only thing they have in common with airplanes are the prop contours.
How about a restaurant that doesn't have menus and requires patrons to scan a QR code?

Acrylic table menus have inserts which can be easily replaced.
I find it surprising that Ken Shirriff's blog[1] didn't make it to the top 5000. Does it not count as a blog?

Looks like it's explicitly excluded[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=righto.com

[2] https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/blob/d...
b.t.w no it doesn't optimize tail calls. maybe that's a goal for gemini 3.0?
We have no evidence we're not the first.

I remind you that I'm not claiming we're first; I'm asking for justification for claims that life exists elsewhere, or is common, or that we're not the first. Myself, I am taking an agnostic position, not committing myself to unjustifiable conclusions.
> Draw a birthday invitation for a 4 year old girl [name here]. It should be whimsical, look like its hand-drawn with little drawings on the sides of stuff like dinosaurs, flowers, hearts, cats. The background should be light and the foreground elements should be red, pink, orange and blue.

Then I asked for some changes:

> That's almost perfect! Retain this style and the elements, but adjust the text to read:

> [refined text]

> And then below it should add the location and date details:

> [location details]
Ya, came here to say the same thing and I'm glad others are similarly surprised.

I do think that people who live in the most downtown of downtown areas are more similar to cul-de-sac style suburb dwellers, because there's often a similar kind of implied distance to third-spaces that people want to be in, as if taking the elevator down is equivalent to getting in the car and driving somewhere, and being elevated is like having your fenced off yard in a way, but there's so much more to urban spaces that include skyscrapers than there is in suburbs that include cul-de-sac car centric hellscapes, imo.

If you move to the city from a particularly isolated suburb, please leave the social isolation where you came from, and do what you can to just be present and open to conversation, it's amazing how it feels to be connected to people that you can by on the street because you're both going to the train stop or cafe, and it's this sense of connectedness that makes the thought of moving back to my hometown quite repulsive, despite the individuals who live there otherwise being alright
Mark Cuban said something along these lines, when you have control over the White House your EV company is not that important.
Sure. Absolutely works. Right up until it doesn't. I think the MIL was the wrong people to assume "we will never need packets from these network blocks"

The other thing is that phone numbers follow a numbering scheme where +1 is north america and +64 is NZ. Its easy to know the longterm geographic consequence of your block, modulo faked out CLID. IP packets don't follow this logic and Amazon can deploy AWS nodes with IPs acquired in Asia, in any DC they like. The smaller hosting companies don't say the IP range they route for banks have no pornographers on them.

It's really not sensible to use IP blocks except for the very specific cases like yours: "I never terminate international calls" is the NAT of firewalls: "I don't want incoming packets from strangers" sure the cheapest path is to block entire swathes of IPv4 and IPv6. But if you are in general service delivery, that rarely works. If you ran a business doing trade in China, you'd remove that block immediately.
"A small porch, platform, or staircase leading to the entrance of a house or building."

- Google
And while some people preach hard-wired everything I’d probably increasingly not bother at home. . I’ll have to see how
much networking and audio stuff I even do given a kitchen fire with s
I keep my religious beliefs and scientific beliefs mostly segregated, so they don't affect each other too strongly for the most part. The reason for this is that those 2 things are reinforced by different sources. My religious beliefs are reinforced by spiritual experiences (such as repeatedly being stumped by [challenging life/work problem], praying for help, and then getting distinct thoughts or impressions that miraculously unblock me... or sometimes I'm miraculously unblocked through the actions other people), my scientific beliefs are formed and are refined by reading scientific literature + critical thinking. If the 2 are in conflict (which is pretty rare), it's usually my religious beliefs that adapt to new scientific understanding. For example, if evolution seems to be in conflict with intelligent design, I reconcile by concluding evolution itself may have been the thing that was intelligently designed (i.e. "this computer program can't have been intelligently designed, we've proven it was created by an LLM" --> "ok, then the LLM was intelligently designed").

One thing that would probably alter my religious beliefs significantly is if abiogenesis or synthetic life were proven possible (i.e. you can clearly show in a lab how to make life arise from non-life, or how to create artificial life). I don't find the current "primordial soup" or other abiogenesis arguments convincing enough to abandon religion, though I do re-visit the wiki every couple years to see what's new on that front.
Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces
The intent is for it to not give me any interpretations of what it’s been trained on but instead provide me with an interpretation using the plain text I’m giving it. Of course it’s going to use its training, but I don’t want it to regurgitate interpretations of the poem that it was trained on.
That's the whole point of hacking is to use something in a way unintended by its maker. That could be for something cool/interesting, or it could be for something nefarious. Nobody ever thought a coffee maker should run Doom, but they do. Not sure if there's a morality clause type of dis-qualifier for a Show HN, but there's a lot of people that would be interested in seeing how something benign was used for a different purpose. Especially if if saved them money/compute/time/resources/etc.
It would be interesting if the moral teachings started with Christianity, but they did not. There are plenty of other philosophical teachings from that time that had great impact on morality without feeling the need to subjugate others. For example, Greek philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle taught about virtue and justice centuries before Christianity. Confucius in China emphasized benevolence and duty long before Christian doctrine existed, and Buddha’s teachings focused on compassion and nonviolence without forcing conversion. These traditions show that moral ideas thrived in many places independently.
People were telling the models explicitly to fill it to the brim, and the models were still producing images where it was filled to approximately the half-way point.
Cool! I live close to Valencia/17th. Was just wondering if it was somewhere in my area: the houses looked Missiony but I couldn’t immediately place them.
TIL Krebs is a personal blog! I had assumed it is a team
It depends on whether the information on the website is supposed to be publicly available or not. "This information is publicly available except to people from Israel" sends a really terrible message.
Testing for unpinned actions is supported in CodeQL, the security-extended suite
Reductionist statement is reductionist.

I'm sure that Jasleen Kaur, Kendrick Lamar, and Bethany Baptiste all have mobile phones, and yet, they were all recognized as top creators in 2024. Plenty of people with jobs they hate were dead inside long before mobile phones were invented -- they were addicted to alcohol instead. People levied the same complaints you're making about newspapers and books.

Instead of painting any technology or distraction with a broad brush, it's best to focus on the potential harms and find out who's most impacted. We can help those folks better if we don't just demonize their vice across the board.
>Bandwidth isn't free

Via peering agreements it is.
You're mostly driven by bodily conditions and hormones. A computer recording of you isn't going to behave the same because it has no particular motivation to behave any specific way in the first place.
I love books with hidden little things in books, like Hofstadter's GEB where he writes messages in the first letter of each line. Not to mention the plethora of meta self-references and recursions.
Forgive me hanging a view in a detailed conversation but you're discussing the english translation post James of a work written after his lifetime in any other language than English, assuming literalisms in the metaphorical quality of a transcription of a transcription.

I think thats close to a definition of insanity. Either move to the Aramaic, or Greek, or stop discussing the "literalism" of the words in question.
King co-wrote the song!

(Carole King that is)
What we are seeing with students is that it's harder to get them to do work if they are demotivated, but that there's so many more tools for them to learn quickly and effectively when they are. Yes, LLMs can be used to cheat on an assignment, but they can also be used to get instant feedback and reasonably good advice when the teacher might bring judgement.

This has always been the issue of the internet: It's good at giving us what we want. It's just that many times, what we want is really bad for us. The same tool that finds friends that share a hobby is the same whether the hobby is building gundams or participating in conspiracy thinking.

So what I expect we'll see is outcome divergence. For some people it's a great boon. For others, the worst thing we could have done for them. What made someone successful in the 1980s might be very different in the 2030s
How could they? They can't block every 8 character tag. And you can push the tag before you push the commit. (You know which short sha to impersonate because you can see it locally.)
You guys are forgetting that you have to scan the QR code from Signal's "link new device" menu, and then approve the new device, which is a somewhat uncommon thing for a restaurant menu to ask you to do.
That's not really different than a human and the context they need? I'd think it would come down to how frequently such exercises exist in its training, and how much they show modifications to responses. Given that the most common place for them is probably offline versions of classes, I'd imagine its weaker than in other areas but maybe still has a lot..
That doesn't seem to happen for me. If you lower the BPM (the value on the right is a non-obvious text input) does it still seem to trigger incorrectly?
That’s how the business world of tech is. It’s not that tech didn’t love you. You were looking for a creator centric universe.

And that is how most professions are as well. You go to school for four years learning to do this one small little thing. You practice that for ten years in a professional scope. And you trade one practice for another, say management. And then you change.

I would think in parallel to your creativity, you could find another system for monetization in education. You could also find a third system in theoretical studies.
An Introduction to Correspondence Texting
DALL-E was an autoregressive encoder; it's 2 and 3 that used diffusion and were much less intelligent as a result.
The US Chamber of Commerce [...] named Florida as one of the states where the situation is severe, counting only 53 available workers for every 100 open jobs.

Here is the study: https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/the-states-suffering-mos...
Why is that “the real test for image generators”? I mean, most image generators don't inherently include image->text functionality at all, so this seems more of a test of multimodal modals that include both t2i and i2t functionality, but even then, I don't think humans would generally pass this test well (unless the human doing the description test was explicitly told that the purpose was reproduction, but that's not the usual purpose of either human or image2text model descriptions.)
Gabbard confirmed that no classified information was contained in the conversation.
Or that they just shed microplastics during their lifetime. Car tires and clothing being a huge source.

It would be cheaper to just ban stuff like polyester fleece than to try to clean it up after.
>Probably people have felt this way throughout all of history but this time seems different.

You're assuming that people in the past were wrong when they felt that way. People love to bring up Socrates being charged with "corrupting the youth" in 399 BC but always seem to forget that Athens was conquered by the more rural, agrarian, and presumably more socially conservative Macedonians 60 years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_macro claims they go back to the 01960s, but unfortunately the reference is to a DDJ article. Is there a chance we could like run a Kickstarter to buy DDJ's archives and fix their website?
In case you are interested, here is some data on how scholars view apostolic authorship: https://thesacredpage.com/2024/12/13/the-2024-survey-of-paul...

To me, it is apparent that the data cannot support any clean division between two "sides", it tells a more complicated story about sometimes there was apostolic authorship, sometimes not, and sometimes we don't really know.

I would suggest that the real academic consensus is that we can confidently rule out the us-vs-them preoccupation that is common in lay discussion.
Intrigued by your "real-time kernel-level enforcement" (like freezing suspicious processes). Sounds powerful, but also risky—how do you prevent false positives from bringing down legitimate workloads? Is there a built-in policy tuning mechanism, or are users expected to rely on predefined MITRE detections as-is?
Or unluckily. Europe has Christian roots, values, and dreams. Cutting that out without also destroying or transmuting Europe is not necessarily possible.

It seems to me that the rise of woke ideology is an attempt to replace a religion sized hole in the fabric of society.

That objection aside, Europe is well below replacement birth rates. Should that continue, it will be replaced by cultures which reproduce. Is religion required for that? Maybe
I recall working in a building that:

1. Was the former HQ for a local telecom company
2. Was now an office building with a couple floors of data.

Ages ago, one of the DC providers in the building had run 36 cores to the roof to service a telco.

It was a massive undertaking, the building is riddled with asbestos and old plant. Had multiple renovations etc.

Anyway, a few years later, every telco in the state wanted to be on that rooftop. And they had the only reliable means to service it with fibre. That 36 core became a massive profit generating asset, one that they could have monetised even further if they had have run 100 core instead. But it was never feasible to drill holes for a new duct (Asbestos regulations getting tighter), and it was never feasible to shut down 12 telcos for a day to use the existing fibre as a draw cable.

Getting a single core rented here, and throwing on Bidi's, was like mana from the gods at the time.
the x-browser-validation string value being identical for all users tends to suggest it's value is low to none. It feels like a misunderstanding of need and outcome. If its a super-encoded version string, well and good. It might be constructed over a shared secret and encode bitflags to capability or something but it looks like junk science or a misnamed field.

The copyright thing, there are different opinions about the need to assert (C) and it's existence. If you were about to go into lawfare with e.g. Brave, then evidence of assertion would probably help when you came close to the steps of the court.

it's not even immediately clear what they assert copyright over. The body of text sent as the HTTP header? Are they claiming intellectual property rights in the SPECIFIC set of type:values, or the value part only, or the type part only?
Found a list of services which would be affected by WWVB shutdown:

https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...
> it appears to be generating the image tokens and decoding them akin to the original DALL-E

The animation is a lie. The new 4o with "native" image generating capabilities is a multi-modal model that is connected to a diffusion model. It's not generating images one token at a time, it's calling out to a multi-stage diffusion model that has upscalers.

You can ask 4o about this yourself, it seems to have a strong understanding of how the process works.
The linked article is clearly sensationalist and focuses on "experts" who are trying to make their career off this "crisis" (I expect they all have books lined up and speaking engagements).

Meanwhile "As the New York Times reports, schools where smart devices have been partially or fully banned during instructional hours have seen incredible increases in student attentiveness and communication."

As much as their opinion page sucks, I'm much more inclined to go with the reporting in the New York Times instead of someone who says "zombie apologists" in all sincerity.
A US public watchdog is now sueing for action to be taken.

The people in the chat group included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, various other Trump administration officials and aides and notably
Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

As American Oversight lawyers pointed out in their lawsuit Tuesday, Rubio is also the acting archivist of the United States and, as such, “is aware of the violations” that allegedly occurred.

The lawsuit, brought by the watchdog group American Oversight, requests that a federal judge formally declare that Hegseth and other officials on the chat violated their duty to uphold laws around the preservation of official communications.

Those laws are outlined in the Federal Records Act and, according to lawyers for American Oversight, if agency heads refuse to recover or protect their communications, the national archivist should ask the attorney general to step in.

~ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-sued-over-signal...

Time will tell how this buttery Signals chat plays out .. it's certainly given other many other countries more fuel to ridicule the USofA, it's hard to believe these clowns are our partners in global "intelligence".
Models are famously good at understanding themselves.
> In various texts, including Apocryphal works that date to around the same time as the Gospels proper, Joseph appears to suspect Mary of infidelity.

This struck me as a strange statement to not explain further. Plenty of Christians interpret Matthew 1:19 to mean Joseph was going to divorce Mary because he believed she was unfaithful.

> The consoling notion of divine impregnation was commonplace in the Hellenistic world, with countless tales of gods foisting demigods on virgins. Plutarch, for instance, described Rome’s founder Romulus as born to a divinely impregnated vestal virgin.

The later is true but it's strange to use Plutarch as an example considering that at best he would have been writing Parallel Lives at the same time the Gospels were being written.

> Those attributed to Jesus—described in language nearly identical to accounts of the Greek mystic and holy man Apollonius of Tyana, say—are neither more nor less convincing than others.

Well "Life of Apollonius of Tyana" was written in the early 200ADs, approximately 100 years after the last Gospel was written. Once again, the point may be correct but the example given is confusing cause and effect.

> A scholarly paradigm that has shone in recent years shifts the focus: the Gospels are now seen as literary constructions from the start. There were no rips in the fabric of memory, in this view, because there were no memories to mend—no foundational oral tradition beneath the narratives, only a lattice of tropes. The Gospel authors, far from being community leaders preserving oral sayings for largely illiterate followers, were highly literate members of a small, erudite upper crust, distant in experience, attitude, and geography from any Galilean peasant preachers.

That seems like an extraordinary claim to make. The Gospels were drawn from no oral tradition, really? So there was a complete disconnect between the practitioners of early Christianity, who obviously would have their own oral tradition, and the Gospels writers. And the early Christians then accepted the Gospels even though they had no relationship to their existing traditions? Or is the claim the Christianity didn't exist until the Gospels were created, in which case you have to contest with the Apocrypha and historical accounts of Jesus.

The simplest explanation seems to be that the Gospels drew from early Christian oral tradition and now lost writings. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoptic_Gospels# for an explanation "now lost writings".
This site might be very inspirational for you: https://plaintextsports.com/nba/2025-03-24/lal-orl

Funny too, I was just browsing through this thread today: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123378/command-line-unix...

And https://v2.wttr.in/ is decent.

I think you'll find that ASCII-only is very limiting, and a few Unicode symbols like the Braille dots would make a big difference. That's been my experience anyways making ASCII things.

Wagon wheels in particular seem like a very tough ASCII challenge -- I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
This zombie apocalypse hits different
Yup -- asking a chatbot to create a novel in one shot is very similar to asking a human to improvise a novel in one shot.
> There are also a lot of cartoony or CG images in communities dedicated to fanart.

Asian artists don't color this way though; those neon oversaturated colors are a Western style.

(This is one of the easiest ways to tell a fake-anime western TV show, the colors are bad. The other way is that action scenes don't have any impact because they aren't any good at planning them.)
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a planet like rss feed from these?
I feel structural demographic is getting older because salaries and job safety are shrinking due to immigration
Both.

A 35% change in one month, when the production lines are being retooled for a new version of the most popular model… is nothing special. Because it was planned and couldn't be managed differently (except by stuffing inventories, which is stupid when you annonce a new model). This can easily be compensated with raising sales of the most popular vehicle being sold globally. That what's the Chinese market is proving already with ~130,000 units to be sold this quarter (same as last year).
Interestingly, the model hallucinated the ability to use a search tool when I was playing around with it
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