skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a categorical difference with your examples for "phantom increase due to reporting". On one side it's something done to you/someone, in particular a serious crime, on the other side it's something about you/someone, in particular not a crime.

This is important, because the risk of getting caught, not necessarily severity of punishment, is the main factor in crime deterrence, as far as I know. I presume, increased vigilance and ease/encouragement of reporting has a significant deterring effect on potential perpetrators. As with all sexual abuse, the vast majority of cases happens in settings where the victim knows/trusts the abuser beforehand, therefore conviction entirely depends on the victim's willingness, prospect and ability to name/accuse the abuser. Coming with the reporting, there is probably also greater awareness and knowledge about the manipulation tactics and situations enabling abuse, helping guardians, friends and authorities to identify concerning dynamics and encounters.

However, I presume, the increased ease of reporting and awareness also indirectly prevents further abuse by subsequently encouraging victims to seek help and work with their trauma. I've heard a significant share of perpetrators have been victims of abuse themselves in the past, so seeking therapy after being victimized may also break the cycle of violence.
In some ways we are just like plants. Direct exposure to fresh air and sunlight will greatly contribute to a burst of energy and focus.
And this is probably the best argument in favor of AdNauseam.

You can still install it on Chrome, but it is a manual process instead of just downloading from the Google Store.
Remember what happened to ARM?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329731
Because the tariffs Trump started imposing a few days are very big in the news now and so people will naturally assume the article is about those.
Why is that the bar though? Imagine LLMs as a kid that has a box of lego with a hundred million blocks in it, and it can assemble those blocks into any configuration possible. Is the fact that the kid doesn't have access to ABS plastic pellets and a molding machine, and so they can't make new pieces; does that really make us think that the kid just interpolates and can't create?
> Leadership within the Democratic party is saying that Trump ignoring court orders is not really a big deal until they ignore an order from the Supreme Court

If (and likely when) the administration ignores an order from the Supreme Court it's going to be too late.
I hate this timeline
I'll scan the headlines on the front page, but then spend most of my time on the "New" page, scrolling through every single headline, page after page...

An interesting alternative to the front page is the second-chance pool...

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
You're referring to outdoor advertising; the article is talking about something much more fundamental. But of course you would know that if you had read it
Maybe the US Constitution?
The only thing that fixes the Budget deficit is higher taxes (likely on the upper middle class and on up, especially the wealthy and corps) and lowered spending. Nothing else will fix it. It's not because of trade deficits. Any moron can see that but that says a lot about Trump and his toadie circle.
A "no deps" form/cookie authentication service for Nginx reverse proxies
swad is the "Simple Web Authentication Daemon". I just started it and crafted a first release that's still pretty limited in functionality, but does something (IMHO) useful, which I already use myself. More info in the github README.md.

There's a background story. For a few months, I was wondering why most of the time, I couldn't activate my camera in MS Teams meetings (for work) without completely killing my audio ... obviously a bandwidth issue with my upstream that hasn't been there before. Then I stumbled across some article, I think it was ars technica, describing a horrible problem with misbehaving AI bots crawling for data with no limits and no respect (and even trying disguises), causing extreme amounts of traffic and corresponding problems for opensource projects hosting their own infrastructure. Gave me the idea to finally check my nginx logs again. Ok, it was full of bots. The interesting thing is, I don't host any opensource code there. What they downloaded were build logs of my "poudriere" (a package builder for FreeBSD), which can get very large, and I just had them public because there was no reason to hide them ... well until now. WTF do those bots learn from that, uhm, "shit scrolling by"?

So, what to do here? Although I really felt inclined to try one of the nice and naughty tools to poison these bots (IDK, is build logs already some kind of poisoning?), it was clear the pragmatic thing to do is add authentication. Well, you can easily add some HTTP "Basic" auth, but that's far from great. You're typically limited to checking credentials against some "password file", and worse, e.g. Microsoft already decided that "Basic" is "insecure" (oh dear, really? I don't think so as long as you use TLS) and disabled it by default in their "Edge" browser. And chances are you can't change that when using some device you got from your employer.

I did have some old dusty code implementing some very limited HTTP stuff in C lying around that was never published (only used it for experiments with some darknet "hidden services"). I thought it might be fun to implement something. Yep, it was fun. And call me stubborn, but I like doing stuff in plain C, small, efficient, few dependencies. Finally this old HTTP code got some polish and is released as part of something actually useful.

For completeness, I'm well aware I could have taken a very different road. "Just" install some identity provider implementing OIDC. For example keycloak. Well sure, that's awesome stuff. And huge and complex. If you don't have a massively distributed deployment of services and don't intend to ever federate with other organizations, it just felt like using the H bomb to kill a fly.
I have a Wordle-type clone I'm toying with and getting it to wrangle the correct letters is a harder problem than it seems. Hopefully you're able to streamline your design process so it's as painless as possible!
Same thing that stops other countries from doing this. It would create a (multi) generational block against all foreign investment and devastating sanctions.

Cuba did this as part of the revolution. The nationalization of American owned businesses was a major contributor to later hostilities. We don't have an embargo on Russia, yet we still maintain the trade embargo on Cuba.
I think that’s WASI Preview 1 that’s currently supported by swiftwasm (and I don’t think the spec implementation is even complete), not the current WASI 0.2. Preview 1 was the current status quo about 2 years ago.

Writing WASM in Swift so it can only be run by a Swift runtime also misses out on a huge aspect of that “bring your language” approach to wasm. It should support enough of the spec so a current wasm binary compiled from say Go can be executed in a WASI runtime powered by Swift and vis-versa. It’s a long way to get there.
Sign me up for a monthly internet pass. Shit, bake it into my monthly internet access fee and make it so the service providers then pay back into internet infrastructure. Just like we do for radio and TV.

I'd love to see the internet become relatively non profit, instead of the current for-profit, for absolutely shit model we are living in.
This begs the question: how could you reliably distinguish advertising from other forms of free speech?

The courts already distinguish "commercial speech" as a class of speech. Would we prevent all forms of commercial speech? What about a waiter asking you "would you like to try a rosé with that dish? It pairs very well together." Is that "advertising" that would need to be outlawed?

What about giving out free samples? Is that advertising, and thus should be illegal?

What about putting a sign up on your business that says the business name? Is that advertising?

I hate advertising and propaganda. But the hard part IMO is drawing the line. Where's the line?
Under this administration? Mainly that Trump doesn't want to directly own everything.

What's stopping the current admin from saying "we don't like you, you gotta sell", now that's another question! Currently the main answer is "your willingness to pay bribes".
More than ads, it's engagement algorithms that are killing us. We should outlaw those first and then see where we end up. Engagement algorithms do nothing except ruin society by incentivizing content creators to lie to us, and to make videos that are psychically horrible to society.
yes, the solutions are not unique, it would be very hard to make sure the puzzle has a unique solution probably requiring a brute force algorithm, the puzzle itself is NP complete, the way I generate the puzzle is to first create the "loop" with all cells having numbers in them then removing numbers from cells at random.
How many things on the internet do you really need and that are paid for via advertising?
> But when I click your link in backround thats not ok.

Why not?

If you don't want bots clicking on your link you should put a captcha on it. If your link is publicly accessible, my background click is authorized by consequence.
These are short little words that are not uncommon even if you are not familiar with sportsball teams. If you struggled unscrambling these words, I'd suggest your vocab is just in dire need of expansion.
In the same range of the probability of it happening anywhere else, but (if you’re honest with yourself) a bit lower. Seizure of property and/or nationalization of whole industries is not a novel concept.
Advertising has consequences, and I’m not a big fan of it, but it’s also a necessary evil.

It’s easy to dismiss advertising as just a profit engine for ad platforms, but that’s only part of the picture. At its best, advertising plays a meaningful role in solution and product discovery, especially for new or niche offerings that users wouldn’t encounter otherwise. It also promotes fairer market competition by giving smaller players a shot at visibility, and by making alternatives accessible to customers, without relying solely on monopolistic platforms or the randomness of word-of-mouth.

That said, today’s ad ecosystem is far from ideal - often opaque, invasive, and manipulative. Still, the underlying idea of advertising has real value. Fair advertising is a hard problem, and while reform is overdue, banning it outright would likely create even bigger ones.
You seem to care about the truth and I do. That makes two…

I’m optimistic that we can find new ways to ground our media in truthfulness over the next few decades. Some people care about that a lot.
For reference, Nissan has been manufacturing the Rogue (and a number of their other models) in their Tennessee factory since 2023.

What this is saying is they will stop co-mingling parts from their Japan, Thailand, China, and India suppliers, and stick to using their NAM suppliers.
Like what China does? ARM is well known example.
A less generous take would be that humans are also stoichastic parrots that can't help themselves but say something when they see a trigger word like math, Trump, transgender, or abortion.
Holes are left at the poles. A filler is the Universal Polar Stereographic projection.

UTM actually doesn’t cover a lot more than you think. Because at the extreme poles exaggeration would make them basically useless.I think they terminate at 84 degrees N and 80 degrees S.

It’s been a long time since I studied this stuff so I’d look this all up rather than take my word.
I don't think it's LLM, not everthing is AI, just because that's the hot topic of the day. This forumla is too simple, it's essentially 0.5 * (their_portion_of_trade_deficit / total_trade_deficit_with_country) % . It's not complex at all and that formula fits all the % calculated by Trump's board of "liberation" too closely to not be essetially what he and his cronies came up with. Likely one of the DOGGie boys
This is free speech. It's not open for discussion.

Our right to free speech is not granted by anyone's consent or by government decree. It preexists the state and cannot be taken away.

We hold this truth to be self-evident. We are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.

If any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.
At least for eduction this increase can be explained by the simple supply and demand; Americans on average have never been as educated as today. The demand for college degrees and above has skyrocketed; according to the same source as you use [1]. Stuff costs less, so more people put their children through college, so education price goes up; it's the symptom of a good thing.

[1] https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics
> trillions of dollars

That is monetary value. The poster may have meant "delivery" value - which has been limited (and tainted with hype).

> Text generation

Which «text generation», apart from code generation (quite successful in some models), would amount to «trillions of dollars worth of economic activity» at the current stage? I cannot see it at the moment.
I remember fondly the early internet which was full of hobby sites and forums and niche link rings. This was an innocent better time where the internet was full of small scale creativity and sharing and mostly kindness.
Actually yes...If the kid spends their whole life in the box and never invents a new block, that’s just combinatorics. We don’t call a chess engine ‘creative’ for finding novel moves, because we understand the rules. LLMs have rules too, they’re called weights.

I want LLMs to create, but so far, every creative output I’ve seen is just a clever remix of training data. The most advanced models still fail a simple test: Restrict the domain, for example, "invent a cookie recipe with no flour, sugar, or eggs" or "name a company without using real words". Suddenly, their creativity collapses into either, nonsense (violating constraints), or trivial recombination, ChocoNutBake instead of NutellaCookie.

If LLMs could actually create, we’d see emergent novelty, outputs that couldn’t exist in the training data. Instead, we get constrained interpolation.

Happy to be proven wrong. Would like to see examples where an LLM output is impossible to map back to its training data.
There must be a reason someone hasn't invented a browser plugin for microtransactions on the internet?

I'll gladly pay 25 cents to read an article from a news website, but I won't subscribe for a whole year for $25+, especially when there's dozens/hundreds of sites.

Obviously credit card transaction fees would be a problem, but that could be mitigated by depositing say $15 at a time and deducting from the balance each time.
hackthebox.eu - hack 20 boxes on your own, a mix between easy and medium. Be sure to focus more on Windows than Linux. Then start applying for jobs at corporations. Do a double approach: just apply and do your best to network with people in the field by sending them a message that you want to switch over to the field as well. Keep on hacking and networking and eventually you'll land a job.

That's how a friend did it. To be fair, he's Dutch and did this with Dutch companies. So not sure if this would work in your country.
"It is obvious that..." usually means "with large amounts of algebra but very little actual thinking" when properly used in a math textbook or lecture. It has its utility.
> What if we made money illegal?

Good luck.
Yes. It feels like the language is being handled by academics who don't actually use it, Swift 6 really drives it down.

The lack of Sendable support for Combine and half-assed support on Async Algorithms only makes it more painful to transition at this point in time.
A lot of snapdragon 845 phones tend to work fairly well no?

I'm not sure what the status of the newer devices is but those older oneplus 6/poco f1 era phones tend to work well with mainline kernel:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Mainlining#Supported_SoCs
Following that logic I should never click any links on the internet, since I would be potentially logging as activity on someone else's computer
Chindogu: the art of useless invention (2002)
I think it is a good question, but there are some answers. For one thing, it is paid for, though a system set up for the purpose of putting commercial speech on someone else's profit making media.

Many laws do draw lines in areas that are equally difficult. Its a problem, but far from a fatal one.
Well, the thought piece had one simple answer: Were you paid to say it, with the intent of motivating said person, to buy a product?

Though, this piece made me groan with the buzzwords "a micro-awakening of the self." Great way to make me cringe if I send it to someone.
> This whole posting is 74 words, which I imagine is about the total amount of quotable thought Nissan has given to the topic.

Nikkei is Japan's Financial Times (they own that too) or Wall Street Journal, so they have a strong relationship with Japanese, Chinese, Korean, ASEAN, and Indian businesses and policymakers.

Nikkei is easily the best source of English language business news in APAC.

There also wasn't any reference to "coffee shops" in the article either.
> No, they can't. These are the people who don't know the difference between a variable and a function call or what a module is. (90 percent of applicants.)

Yes they can and you don't know if they don't know that.

You can't stop them from doing this.

The only way to stop them is to do in person, bounties and asking about their real world experience.
What sort of things are you referring to when you say "Apple-isms"? Not that I doubt your claim -- I just don't do much UI development so I don't have a good reference for what things might be 'platform specific' in that way.
> Advertising has consequences, and I’m not a big fan of it—but it’s also a necessary evil.

At one time, definitely. Now though? We all carry around all of humanity's collective knowledge in our pockets. If you need a solution to a problem you have, if you need a plumber, if you need a new car... you an get unlimited information for the asking.

I don't remember the last time I responded to an advertisement. If I need things, I search Amazon/Etsy/local retailer apps or just go to a store. If I need contractors, I check local review pages to find good ones or just call ones I've used before. And some of that I guess you could call ads, but I mean in the traditional sense, where someone has paid to have someone put a product in front of me that I wasn't already looking for? Nah. Never happens.
> No one is entitled to yell at you “GET 20% OFF THIS UNDERWEAR YOU GLANCED AT YESTERDAY” with a dopamine megaphone in your bedroom. And to track 90% of your life to know when and how to say it. That's not free speech, that's harassment.

The author is off their chair. Yes, even commercial speech is protected as long as it’s not fraudulent. And there are already laws prohibiting nuisances. Advertising isn’t a nuisance in any legal sense; it just comes along with the ride when you willingly consume sponsored media.

Listen to and watch only public media, and stop going to sponsored websites and using social media if you want to avoid advertising. It isn’t the most convenient thing, but it’s not impossible.

If you disagree with this comment, please respond instead of downvoting. Don’t be a coward.
I agree, but I think news was always unreliable, but the difference was that there were only a few news networks and newspapers, and they all basically said the same thing. Everyone believed the same lies, so the system worked. But thanks to the internet, we gave people the ability to create highly individualized bullshit at scale.
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/263884/
Language is a symbolic system. From an absolute or spiritual standpoint, meaning transcends pure linguistic probabilities. Language itself emerges as a limited medium for the expression of consciousness and abstract thought. Indeed, to say meaning arises purely from language (as probability alone) or, to deny language influences meaning entirely are both overly simplistic extremes.
Show HN: A self-solving Rubik's Cube designed with the help of AI
While this looks interesting I'd like technology to make graphing more accessible to blind students. I switched from computer science to telecommunications because the graphs got complicated enough in Calc II that I couldn't pass the class. Calc III would have only been worse. Maybe new resources exist but this was over a decade ago.
Help shape the future of VisPy 2.0 – ideas, feedback, and contributors welcome
Speed. Adaptation to change takes time, fast changes lead to mass extinctions.

And we are not in a stable situation, we don’t know wha will be the new normal, nor when it will be reached, and finding more positive feedback loops like this one put everything in the extreme side of things.
It's designed to destroy America's position in the world and is almost certainly a dictate from Russia. I mean they didn't even put tariffs on our most antagonistic supposed adversary, and why would they do that other than he has Trump by the short hairs? for god sakes they put tariffs on penguins on a virtually unknown island nation.
I guess it depends on how deep you want to go, I think the real predictors are based on publicly known algorithms such as TAGE. This seems to be nice overview: https://comparch.net/2013/06/30/why-tage-is-the-best/ (it's 2013, so definitely not SOTA, but advanced enough for my taste :) )
Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator
Hi HN,

I teach tech design history, and one of the key stories I cover is the development of the original iPhone keyboard by Ken Kocienda. Reading about it in his book "Creative Selection" is great, but I wanted my students (and now you!) to actually feel this step in the process.

So, I built a web simulator of the "Blob Keyboard", Kocienda's very first attempt at a touchscreen keyboard that actually works, from September 2005:

Try the Blob Keyboard: https://juliendorra.github.io/blob-keyboard-simulator/blob-k...

- Tap for the middle letter

- Swipe left or right for the side letters

More on the github repo: https://github.com/juliendorra/blob-keyboard-simulator

The Blob Keyboard prototype emerged during a UX crisis for iPhone team (their software keyboard just didn't work at all, fingers being too big, and the Newton failure loomed over them), highlighting how innovation is rarely a straight path. It was developed on a tethered touchscreen display codenamed "Wallaby".

To make this simulator as authentic as possible, I referenced images from Kocienda's book and even got direct feedback and guidance from Ken Kocienda himself on Bluesky.

What to expect (or… what not to expect):

This is a reconstruction of a very early prototype with limitations reflecting that specific moment. The goal was to test first if typing with accuracy was even possible, as all the rest was moot if it failed!

It's NOT QWERTY: They were still hoping to get us out of QWERTY, but then familiarity won.

No Backspace: You can't delete.

No Cursor Movement: The text field is just a simple display.

No Caps or Numbers: Only lowercase letters.

No Smooth Animations: Keys just "pop" instantly when pressed. Kocienda noted that your eye fills in the gaps, giving a sense of movement.

Best Experience:

While it works with a mouse/trackpad on desktop, it's designed for touchscreens to better replicate the original Wallaby hardware interaction. Use it on your phone!

This project aims to provide a tangible glimpse into a turning point moment in iPhone development and the iterative nature of design. It's like stepping back in time and trying out that early demo on Kocienda's desk.

I would love to hear your reactions and thoughts on experiencing this piece of UI history! What other significant prototype do you wish you could experience?