skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's wrong with VPNs? Seems like the tamest thing to sell in terms of ethical impact.

Well, for starters the actual "security" that is often promised from these services is WAY overblown. You are already very secure browsing the internet using https. The TLS standard grants a huge amount of security that doesn't allow for snooping from a MITM.

So, when they start saying "everyone needs to do this to be safe". That's simply a boldface lie.

Your security when going through a VPN is from using https. If you are unfortunate and get a less than scrupulous VPN you might end up with them adding themselves as CAs (yes, some VPNs do that). That allows them to crack and access data within the secure stream.

Most of these VPN services are also trying to get you to do DNS with their DNS servers. Again, a major potential privacy leak problem.

> That's what a security app needs to properly protect you

VPNs aren't anti-virus software and any VPN selling that should be EXTREMELY mistrusted. You are right, they can only provide that sort of service by decrypting your secure payloads. That is where all the scamminess comes into play.

Certainly not every VPN service is bad, but I'd have an inherent mistrust in one that has both a cheap fee and the seemingly endless budget to advertise everywhere on youtube. They are getting money from somewhere and I doubt it's from grandmas signing up for the service.
APIs in the Age of AI
Funny how this is exactly the process that one has to go through for getting an app through a review for an app store - you're told you've done something wrong, and it is up to you to fix it. The reviewer will never point out the specific issue they have with your submission.
I don't get the last one?
Show HN: FancyLock v0.0.5 – Now with Hyprland (Wayland) Support
I've been working on a fancy screen locker for Linux, and I'm excited to share that FancyLock now supports Hyprland in version v0.0.5!

What is FancyLock?

FancyLock is a feature-rich screen locker for Linux, built to replace boring, static lock screens with something more dynamic and customizable.

Key Features

Dynamic media playback during lock screen (e.g., videos, ambient visuals)

Multi-monitor support

PAM-based authentication

Intelligent idle timeout

Highly configurable (via JSON)

Now supports Hyprland (Wayland) alongside X11

Technical Highlights

Written in Go

Uses X11 extensions and Wayland protocols for input/window management

Integrates with mpv for flexible media playback

Designed to be clean, minimal, and extensible

Current Version: v0.0.5

Full support for X11

New: Hyprland Wayland support

Actively developed with more compositors and features planned

GitHub: https://github.com/tuxx/fancylock

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or feature requests. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
It's relevant that the corruption charges against Erdoğan's opponent are obviously trumped-up, whereas the ones against Le Pen are entirely legitimate.
Things which reach the level of getting on here are basically always outliers. And is the outlier real or a false positive? There's a huge selection bias towards the false positives.
LOL "[conflict] resolution is not yet implemented"
You can automate it using their API and some Python. It's like a puzzle game and I'm personally thankful for the free tier, it's pretty cool if you max it out you have multiple IPv4 addresses, IPv6 prefixes and so on - the machines boot via UEFI, you can run nixos and ZFS on them, you have a serial console via ssh/vnc and at least in Germany they have good connectivity and 10tb Traffic is plenty. Using it for something serious? Probably not. But for tinkering it's pretty cool and interesting if you enjoying some small quests. Running incus and some Kubernetes stuff on an arm box and 24gb memory and 200gb SSD is at least 10-20€ elsewhere.
baseball is an arms race though. In golf the ball is on a tee.
In baseball, the pitchers get better every year, and throw faster every year.

There's innovation happening on both ends.
Yes, but are consumers that knowingly bought into the Apple ecosystem harmed?
Making web standards even more complicated one change at a time.
What is wrong with YouTube Kids? I think it works fairly well and use it in my own home: https://abparenting.substack.com/p/effective-youtube-kids
My wife and I alternate and handle conflicts by exception. Meaning, if we have a conflict the other person subs in. I think calendaring things around your home schedule will be hard for the 'things'. Like, a lot of our evening activities are scheduled events that we can't control (concert, theater, etc) or even a group (dad's dinner, etc) and the occasional work stuff. Anyways, I just think it would be hard to plan for the home duties as a conflict and instead we try to sub in for each other and shoot for something that 'feels fair' over time instead of quantitatively fair on a tracker. I'm all for building tools for youself so if you think this would be of use then that's awesome, just thought I'd share my 2 cents on the 'problem space' :)

Also, FWIW, I think I'm the one that is in the deficit of fair although dad's usually get a bad rep in this regard. I end up doing a lot more night time reps because she does frequent girls nights and has multiple friend groups she's trying to stay engaged with and is in a theater group and mahjong group, etc. However, I balance it with my occasional "take an entire day" to myself. Stuff like this is hard to track and why I think it's important to shoot for what 'feels fair' and make sure you talk about it occasionally so nobody suddenly has repressed feelings of inequality.
OpenAI closes $40B funding round, startup now valued at $300B
My impression is that this will be painful for the code I work on because the libraries you mention depend on being able to modify private and/or final fields.
I wrote a blog post about that if it helps others. It is a real game changer: https://abparenting.substack.com/p/effective-youtube-kids
this is really cool!

That said, my impression is that Airflow is a really dated choice for a greenfield project. There isn't a clear successor though. I looked into this recently, and was quickly overwhelmed by Prefect, Dagster, Temporal, and even newer ones like Hatchet and Hamilton

Most of these frameworks now have docs / plugins / sister libraries geared around AI agents

It would be really helpful to read a good technical blog doing a landscape of design patterns in these different approaches, and thoughts on how to fit things together well into a pipeline given various quirks of LLMs (e.g. nondeterminism).

This page is a good start, even if it is written as an airflow-specific how-to!
Don't know what the fuss is about over a dino jump game, Claude made me a flappy bird esp32 game last month in one go: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGcgYlrI_NK/?utm_source=ig_we...
He's a popular blogger: https://zedshaw.com/
Models aren’t great at deciding whether an action is irreversible - and thus whether to stop to ask for input/advice/approval. Hence agentic systems usually are given a policy to follow.

Perhaps the question “is this irreversible?” should be delegated to a separate model invocation.

There could be a future in which agentic systems are a tree of model and tool invocations, maybe with a shared scratchpad.
You must be confusing my posts with someone else. Or claim doesn't mean what you think it means. Forgive me if it's difficult to forgive you when you place so much negative spin on what I wrote.
you mean fine tuning that feels like SFT but is different (since you can't use that with reasoning models) built around the DeepSeek class of models?
It's actually a trrickle-down system. Smaller youtubers who have never heard of the extension (let alone were approached to advertise) may be hurt the most, because a larger youtuber who took the deal advertised it. e.g. a tech youtuber could be hit a lot if Linus Tech Tips advertise Honey, because they have a strong overlap in subscribers.

It was something a youtuber I was subscribed to was talking about in how he was still seeing his affiliate numbers drop overthe last year or so, and it was actually putting his existing deals in danger. Then as a test after the expose, he asked a few family members who did use his links if they also installed Honey. He definitely never advertised Honey himself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt/comments/10jlyyk/kurzges...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(rocket_engine)
Perhaps they should fine the companies that want to do such intrusive tracking? Apple’s not sharing data with third parties for their internal stuff, that’s a big difference when Dominos wants to share with someone that isn’t Dominos.
As a parent of kids in 2025, there are approximately zero kids out there who share your view.

However, they're all subscribed to SkibidiDirtKickerz on Tiktok, YouTube and Snapchat. Don't forget to smash that like button!
Firefox doesn't have ad measurement and interests sharing built in yet (or am I wrong?) so it is very relevant for me. I would rather use black-and-white selects everywhere rather than having an advertising engine built into the browser.
There are quite a few things were the sentence can be enforced even during the appeal.

For example, you can be jailed before your trial ; you can have your driving license overturned if you kill someone ; and, it turns out, you can get banned from running into élections if you're found guilty of embezzlement.

Fortunately for her, the next elections are in 2 years ; I would not be surprised is she get an appeal, a reduced ineligibility sentence to allow her to run in the next legislative election. And she might be happy with that - two round presidential elections are hard for her party, and, more importantly : winning an election is a _terrible_ situation in France.
It is not the right question. The goal is not to destroy Apple, it is to force them into compliance. In order to force them into compliance, you only need the fine to be higher than what it costs to comply.

And €150M is a lot of money, you can have on the order of a thousand people working on the problem for a year to get even. I am sure they can figure out a way.

Same idea with, say, a parking ticket for nonpayment. It may be nothing to a millionaire, but the important part is that in the long run, it is more cost effective to simply pay for parking.
This is why iPlayer is worth its weight in gold in the UK.
Possible, yes, even probable given the state of protest against the company. (Arson is a felony, but if we're now going to recategorize arson as terrorism, that's a big can of worms to open)

However, it's not like Teslas haven't had the reputation for being fire risks for years.

https://medium.com/@davidsehyeonbaek/why-tesla-evs-catch-fir...
Because HTML historically was designed for marking up text articles by hand rather than building UI with tools.
I think the genart scene and demoscene might be at best related, but I don't think the genart scene _is_ the modern demoscene, as you seem to be implying.

(That said, I'm assuming by "genart" you either mean modern AI-based generative art, or you mean all generative art in general. Either way, while somewhat/tangentially related to the demoscene, they are not direct analogs or descendants.)
Answering to your and original question above: there are no poles (or axes of rotation) in the Universe. On large scales (think distances to include thousands and millions of galaxies each with billions of stars with even more planets) the Universe is uniform - isotropic and homogeneous [1]. It is expanding with acceleration in all direction in each and every point of its space, so there is no preferred direction thus in average we should have 50% of clockwise and 50% of counter-clockwise galaxies since orientation of those should also be absolutely random in average, unless something when the Universe was being created or evolving affected that balance.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle
> What future sponsor would sign up if they knew LTT might make an expose about them in future for clicks.

ideally, ones that don't want to secretly sap at his revenue stream.
New funding to build towards AGI
If they keep this up, we'll soon have feature parity with VB6.
I grew up hearing about Java vulnerabilities over and over before I really learned programming, so I could not point to any specific ones. But this discussion expresses the same sentiment: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/57646/why-do-i-...
Article:
https://archive.is/TOvAo

The letter:
https://archive.is/3rIir
Why not?

“~= 0” just means we likely will be unable to measure any effect. Not that there literally is no effect.

Us being unable to do science on something means we cannot scientifically state that it does not exist. Not that we can categorically state that it does not exist.
> TLDR : the main problem is SYSTEMD

I couldn't agree more.

Its a testament that this s/w is _still_ NOT LIKED by so many people.

I've been a linux on the desktop, FreeBSD for the server user/admin for over 20 years.

It's a great combination...
Well considering that sales of Tesla are down around 40% in Europe, and as much as 70% in some countries, it's pretty clear there's dissatisfaction with the company.
"scalable"
I agree up until the coding example. If someone doesn't know about version control I don't think that's any fault of the company trying to stretch the technology to its limits and let people experiment. Cursor is a really cool step in a direction, and it's weird to say we should clamp what it's doing because people might not be competent enough to fix its mistakes.
why don't we throw in a belt pouch as well??
Around 19 year late, still better than never.
Duo, perhaps?

I'm not exactly certain but under the family tab there are two options: Duo and Family
If the pitchers are getting too good, just make it harder to pitch. Don't make it easier to hit better pitches.

Golf is also an arms race too. Look at the lengths of golf courses over the last 50 years. It's comical. It used to be 6000 yards was a championship course... now it's over 8000.

They used to put bunkers in front of greens to make them more challenging, but the equipment evolve to maximize height, and stop the ball on a dime. It's completely convoluted, because we just keep letting technology overcome every obstacle, but players don't like the obstacles, but you're not supposed to like the obstacles. So we let the tech overcome those obstacles, and then we build new, more difficult obstacles, and it's a never ending process of legalizing more tech, and then building more obstacles. And it continues until the game is unrecognizable from what it was a half century earlier.
private fields are no issue
There's ongoing work, as part of Project Leyden, to cache certain computations -- either performed by the user code or the JVM -- from one run of the program to the next, including the caching of JIT-compiled machine code. The early parts of this work were discussed here: https://www.morling.dev/blog/jep-483-aot-class-loading-linki...
Speaks volumes about how they see their clientele
I Had to Use Google's Gemini 2.5 Advanced to Cancel Google's Gemini 2.5 Advanced
the cars might still not drive themselves, but the jokes do write themselves. and they're fire.
I love Kagi and I think the basic ideas here are a step in the right direction. I would really like to see the curation be social so I can share and collaborate with friends and my kids school. As it is I help my kid use an EOL Chromebook to find Origami designs but it is always side-by-side and I have tight NextDNS controls to keep weird weird ads away from my kids.

On this topic I have been drafting and collecting thoughts on internet and digital media curation the last few nights. Here is what I have so far:

Thesis: The role of children's teachers and caretakers in curating an environment for children to learn and grow is more important than ever with the overwhelming variety of books, videos, shows, etc all of varying quality and alignment with caretaker and child interests. However, curation in the digital age is also more difficult than ever. The web is a collection of walled gardens which give parents limited and inconsistent controls over what the child will see once inside the walled garden. And, adding controls on-top of a walled garden is impossible or only possible by very computer savvy users (e.g. YouTube frontends).

What are ways care takers can practically and easily curate today?

Examples

- YouTube Kids: https://abparenting.substack.com/p/effective-youtube-kids

- Jellyfin or Calibre for ebooks

- Open WebUI with a custom system prompt for kids

Counter Examples

- Netflix, Disney, Amazon, etc: difficult to non-existent curation controls - all or nothing

- Kindle Kids: there are controls but for Library books the process is 12+ clicks between the Libby and Kindle app: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/can-you-share-kindl...

"Our young students are just beginning to develop their powers of discernment. By curating a good library collection, we can help them learn to weigh the merits of a few authoritative works on a subject rather than plowing through hundreds of internet sources of uneven quality. And while a computer search is undeniably efficient, we firmly believe that browsing a shelf of books is more rewarding and more educational. It deepens students' understanding of organizational principles, brings them unexpected discoveries, and rewards patient exploration rather than offering instant gratification"
Colin here, author of the post - would love to answer questions about this.

And make sure to try out the open-source repo! It's a super easy starting point for experimenting with coding agents. It's nearly one-click to run agents in isolated Docker containers on SWE-bench Verified problems, ensemble the results, and run the SWE-bench evaluation harness to compute scores.

Check it out here: https://github.com/augmentcode/augment-swebench-agent
The gas was long gone, it wasn't being filtered.

However, I don't see that it proves pollution is the cause. What about infection? Air filtration can reduce the spread of pathogens. Schools throw together a large pool of people, the bug of the day will go around. Less if there are good filters.
> if FOIA protects a current constitutional right, it is at best the tenth amendment, not the first.

This article is about the entire first amendment, not just FOIA or transparency in general.

> to the point where the right to redress is abrogated?

Certainly to the point where it requires a higher standard than "the rest of us".
I disagree, and I've been watching basketball for 40 years. Basketball with positions was more fun to watch and objectively more popular amongst the viewing audience than this current dreck with positionless basketball and basically no travelling rules. Defenders are afraid to play defense and offensive players can just step back without a dribble to create separation. It's a terrible, boring product to watch because it's reduced the best athletes on the planet to standing around waiting for an open look at a 3. They don't need to get rid of 3s, but they need to modify what they are for. They're supposed to be a bonus shot, not the fundamental aspect of offenses. Eliminating the mid range is bad for the sport.
You can't make enough HTML elements to make everyone happy. This was the wrong idea from the start.
The article says that the crystals don't affect the taste or scent. The crystals are a signal that you have a good cheese, but not the cause of a good cheese. Adding them to a bad cheese won't make it a good cheese, so in that sense I'd call it a fake.

There is some gray area in that they affect the texture, which is a part of the whole experience. But that's again mostly signaling--we like the crunch because we associate it with good cheeses, not because there's anything inherently better about it.

There are some interesting philosophical questions here. If you put a fake label on some wine, and people perceive it as higher quality than it is, is it really fake? On one hand, obviously yes. And yet there was a real effect on the perceived quality.
Instant Clusters: Multi-Node AI Compute in Minutes
We recently launched Instant Clusters at RunPod, enabling on-demand deployment of multi-node GPU clusters with up to 64 H100 GPUs. This helps scale massive AI workloads like LLaMA 405B and DeepSeek R1 in minutes, leveraging high-speed interconnects and frameworks like PyTorch's torchrun.
Would love to hear how others are tackling multi-node orchestration challenges or scaling distributed AI workloads!"
The main thing keeping me from the murderbot series is the value prop. They are incredibly short which doesn’t play as well with a credit based purchasing system. For seven credits I get a little over 20 hours of content. Project Hail Mary is 16 hours for one credit.
Didn't the guy that ran Skeptoid go to jail for similar?
Windshield washer fluid is just liberal tears, after all.
I don't know exactly, because I don't smoke/vape that much, and my experiences with what is offered in shops is mostly limited to some small resort town in Colorado, sometimes San Jose, CA, Austin, TX(no 'shopping' there), Hamburg, Germany,(no shopping there either, just strange vapes with 10-OH-HHC(P)), Rotterdam, NL, and finally Georgia, the country at the Black Sea, no shopping there, either, and couldn't read it anyways because of their most weird alphabet, but it has been good, no regrets so far.

So my 'knowledge' about that stuff is a patchwork of what I've read in the media, concerning the region/changing legislature/over time, and personal experience, be it by consuming it itself, or just smelling it from afar and thinking for myself 'I'd never touch that crap with a ten foot pole!'

I can say that I feel safest with Colorados model, which basically amounts to that all the stuff has to be tested before it is allowed to be sold legally, be it in shops, or online. Not halfassed shit like in the Netherlands, where it is only decriminalized, and the 'Coffeeshops' pay taxes for 'not drunken coffee', while the supply chain is still VERBOTEN and shrugged off, or the recent German model, which is shitty in similar ways, and doesn't even allow 'Coffee-shops'. Georgia, the country? They also messed the supply-chain and shop-thing up, or decided not to bother at all. Just consuming and maybe up to hand full of plants for personal use is legal, and that's it.

Which means anywhere not following Colorados mandatory testing model has a black market, and thus the potential 'quality problems' which they bring with them.
E5200.
Now what I'd love is an extension that would inject a person of my choosing as the last click.

Amazon et al don't allow you to offer this as an affiliate program partner, not without a special and custom agreement at least, but if the extension was partner-agnostic and released by a party unaffiliated with Amazon in any way, there's nothing they could realistically do about it.

It'd be one way to bring Amazon Smile back, and on many more sites than just Amazon.
Weapons grade infinte snark, probably.

He seems to have stopped blogging a few years back. I kinda miss his epic rants and Learning $whatever The Hard Way stuff. Part of me hopes them and whoever used to run n-gate moved to Portland and are now running a bespoke hand made piano business together or something.
A. G. Streng would probably have been forgotten about like so many if he hadn't been such a risk taking experimental chemist. Now someone's probably going to make a movie or comic book about him.
Well since FreeBSD is pulling ZFS source from Linux, I am not certain what are the rough edges. And I have ran ZFS for 7+ years on Linux with zero issues.
I just want to fine tune deepseek v3 chat but it’s not possible or easy for regular consumers
Japanese firms take copyright pretty seriously, and Miyazaki is famously not a fan of CG or automation or indeed the US. I suspect lawsuits will not be long in coming.
I wonder if the senior engineering talent OCI poached from AWS (including the guy who introduced formal methods to AWS) is still there?