skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Bouncy Castle's particular situation. The Java build tools are totally fine with resolving thousands of version dependencies so everyone is happy. You can depend on A which in turn depends on B version 1.2 and also depend on C which depends on D which depends on E version 1.1 and you only end up with one version of B included, version 1.2. Java execution environments also support all kinds of classloader isolation so you have multiple versions of the same jar and classes, all in the same JVM, only visible to the components that wanted to see them, so there's no clash.

But Bouncy Castle - and almost nothing else - adds another dimension across its artifact names. This is not standard! You now have to watch your dependency trees like a hawk to see that some other artifact doesn't bring in <artifactId>bcprov-jdk14</artifactId> to fuck with your <artifactId>bcprov-jdk18on</artifactId>, and if they do, you need to slap an <exclusion> on that dependency's dependency.

The reason Bouncy Castle does this is because it chooses to support some very old versions of Java, that predate JDK 9 introducing multi-release jars (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/specs/jar/jar...) which removed the need for different named jars for different JDKs (...but only from JDK 9 onwards)

So, in general, the Java tools have this solved, unless you're Bouncy Castle.
I was actually more angered about the fact that the hiring process would be further automated, frustrating candidates even more..

Ultimately I see nothing wrong with replacing everyone, providing the newly generated wealth would be distributed to all, not just the select few "owners" of these things.. we'll see..
I don't think informed consent is violated by removing a pollutant. But adding a substance as a healthcare treatment denies informed consent as an individual right, and turns it into a majority right. I'd hate for that to happen to other civil rights.
Scattered Spider: Still Hunting for Victims in 2025
'a post-singularity application-level protocol designed to track and manage biological humans ("legacy consciousness instances")'
It's an interesting hypothesis, but it requires us to look more deeply into American antipathy for each other. We've been fighting these culture wars for as long as we've been a country. They led to a shooting war less than a century later, and after that we kept taking it out on each other in the form of Jim Crow, anti-communism, Vietnam war protests, and red-states-vs-blue-states.

The boredom may have given these things free time to sit and stew, but it has also been a deliberate political strategy. We've always exploited our ideological differences for political gain. We just finally perfected the formula, first via 24-hour TV news, then via social media.

Neither the boredom nor the antipathy seem especially tractable. The antipathy has existed forever. The boredom may be new, but it was so easy for the antipathy to rush in to fill the void. It tells people that they are fighting for virtue against the forces of evil. It pushes emotional buttons in a way that no hobby (not even sex) will ever match.

Other countries are managing it, or were. Europe has more leisure than Americans do. And while they, too, are nodding in the direction of culture wars, they're not as far along the curve as we are. I don't know if we can apply any of their lessons, but it seems like a place to start.
Maybe there are some products that this argument works for, but certainly not footwear I'm sure.

The US exports ~1 billion worth of shoes per year, and imports ~25 billion (mainly from Vietnam and China), according to https://www.usitc.gov/research_and_analysis/tradeshifts/2023...

I also think the argument is bad in general, because more/similar exports than imports would only really hold for the countries least affected by the new tariffs, anyway.
I loved asking questions as a kid. To the point of annoying adults. I would have loved to sit and ask these AI questions about all kinds of interests when I was young.
Most of their categories have straightforward interpretations in terms of students using the tool to cheat. They don't seem to want to/care to analyze that further and determine which are really cheating and which are more productive uses.

I think that's a bit telling on their motivations (esp. given their recent large institutional deals with universities).
US has been "coming for us" for decades. What the US does does not fit neatly into its own borders.

Extraordinary rendition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

Coups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
> don't listen to ignorant luddite technophobes

Calling large numbers of professional software engineers "luddite technophobes" on Hacker News of all places is so ridiculously absurd I can't tell if you are trying to be serious or not

There are legitimate concerns about the effectiveness of AI tooling. Shouting that anyone expressing those concerns is a luddite is ridiculous

Please get a grip
Exactly. There's a big difference between a student having a back-and-forth dialogue with Claude around "the extent to which feudalism was one of the causes of the French Revolution.", versus another student using their smartphone to take a snapshot of the actual homework assignment, pasting it into Claude and calling it a day.
China hasn't changed, as their new "partners" will be reminded of soon enough.

I suspect they will squander the opportunity the US unforced error has provided, but we'll see.
I am not sure all humans work the same way though. Some get very very nervous when they begin to struggle. So nervous that they just stop functioning.

I felt that during my time in university. I absolutely loved reading and working through dense math text books but the moment there was a time constraint the struggle turned into chaos.
What is an "agent"?

To my understanding of this protocol it looks like it's an entity exposing a set of capabilities. Why is that different and complementary to an MCP server exposing tools? Why would you be limited to an "everything agent" in MCP?

I am struggling to see the core problem that this protocol addresses.
I was going to link the excellent solereview article but it looks like that's exactly what the post is about.

I used to be able to buy good running shoes on clearance every year at $30-$50

Even through 2020-2021 or so

But not anymore, now even on "clearance" they almost never drop below $100 and never ever to $50
Unionization is not possible while there are hundreds of millions of eager scab workers in other countries.
In Guatemala, painted altar found at Tikal adds new context to mysterious Maya
Excellent write up.

The example you used to demonstrate is well done.

Such a simple way to describe the current issues.
Google's newest Gemini AI model focuses on efficiency
You're answering a question that wasn't asked so you can bring your view on unionization into the conversation. The implicit question is whether management should, not whether they can.
It's more like an analysis of what items people order from McDonald's, using McDonald's own data which is otherwise very difficult to collect.

Your loss!
It is helping me do that projects that would otherwise take me hours in just a few minutes, soooo, shrug.
• Info¹

• Gnome Devhelp²

• Zeal³

• Local RFC archive⁴ dumps (by Debian⁵)

• Man pages

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/info/

2. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp

3. https://zealdocs.org/

4. https://www.rfc-editor.org/

5. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/doc-rfc
> is going to be interesting

It all depends on the security pyramid you have, and how much risk are you okay with. I store all my passwords in Dropbox .kdbx file, but I need these always in case of emergency, even from a different device. So I must not enable 2FA on Dropbox. The password to it (and the .kdbx file) lives only in my memory. I hope not to get hit in the head.
I've spent the majority of my adult life in small towns, some co-opted by chain stores and some resisting. Have to agree that the terrible space usage and car-centric design of these buildings has a huge impact. I don't totally get the "keep your money local" angle - nobody is going to locally produce toilet paper or toothpaste or affordable home goods that you need today and don't exist in thrift stores, but yes the chain stores don't source local goods even when locals are desperate enough to sell for competitive prices, and that's not good for your local economy.

But another aspect I didn't see mentioned is the disruption of skill and network development. The jobs these places bring are largely entry-level menial jobs. Anyone who takes that job is not learning business skills or apprenticing in something their town needs. Not only that, but the new chain store is not going to build relationships with small businesses in the region, leaving your town more exposed to national/global economic disruptions.

I've also heard gossip about some dollar generals in small towns being fronts for drug activity, but I don't know.
This is exactly right. It also depends on how all the AGI promises shake out. If AGI really does emerge soon, it might not matter anymore whether students have any foundational knowledge. On the other hand, if you still need people to know stuff in the future, we might be creating a generation of citizens incapable of doing the job. That could be catastrophic in the long term.
We are using sonar-pro
I don't really get it, but I'm also not using chrome, but looking at the website's source instead.

- Does the website actually do anything related to SXG?

- Would this also work if I search something completely different, goo offline and then just click on the first result?

- What is the point of the code if it's just hardcoded?

- What is the random progressbar doing? Just for visuals?

Edit: I explored a bit more and this blog post[0] by the OP would probably be a better entry-point for this post.

[0]: https://www.pawelpokrywka.com/p/stretching-google-prefetchin...
If you had read the article, you would have been able to see that the conclusions don't really align with any economic goals Anthropic might have.
Sometimes it's genuinely hard to convince myself that A16Z's employees aren't involved in one big elaborate troll on Marc and Ben. If I paid people to be this wrong all the time, I'd be put out of business years ago.
>And society will not give them any of that without a job.

Unless you are an aristocrat. Them your "job" was to fleece the peasants, and somehow "society" accepted this for thousands of years.
U.S. Bond Sell-Off Raises Questions About 'Safe Haven' Status
I dunno, looks pretty bad

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/18/a-visual-guide...
Meanwhile in this article/thread you have a bunch of programmers complaining that LLMs don't improve overall productivity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633288
Something like a grant from the government to work on your project of interest with no expectation that it be commercially successful. You want to be an artist the government gives you a grant to support yourself while contributing to the cultural lexicon. Scarecity is manufactured today for profit and not real; nobody needs to work at a 7/11 but they are essentially trapped into those sorts of jobs because they are profitable for those business owners vs a good use of creativity or labor for our species.

Now before you get all hung up how this isn’t possible. There is precedent. The government would do just this during the great depression, sponsoring artists knowing it is more valuable to have artists in the population than to lose that talent pool and benefits to culture over cold cruel economics.
What does this has to do with the topic of trying to be clever with the border police with some tricks to conceal information? (as opposed to not having it in the first place)

Otherwise yes, you are right - they are bullies.
OK, will change my behavior.
I've been calling this out since the rise of ChatGPT:

"The real danger lies in their seductive nature - over how tempting it becomes to immediately reach for the LLM to provide an answer, rather than taking a few moments to quietly ponder the problem on your own. By reaching for it to solve any problem at nearly an instinctual level you are completely failing to cultivate an intrinsically valuable skill - that of critical reasoning."
One thing I suspect is that leadership at tech companies that would have previously been working off of direct experience with technical processes, even if they no longer work directly on their own codebases, is pretty clueless about AI coding because it's so new. All they have to go with is what they read, or sales pitches, or their experience dabbling with Cursor to build simple python utilities (which AI tools work pretty well for most of the time), and they don't see what it can and can't do on a real codebase.
> But the PRS-350 was released in 2010, so the fact that it still works at all at this point is exceptional.

The saddest tale about non-replaceable batteries. There is literally nothing inside that can break in the next century, except for one component, which is glued/welded/nailed in a way that destroy the whole device if you try to change it.
It has to do with your argument of "if you don't like it, don't go there". Also, you specifically asked "who came for you" so it's direct answer to your question.
tariffs are assessed based on the country of origin. you can't skip a tariff by routing your goods through another country. or maybe you can, but that's called smuggling and the only way to do it is outright fraud and lying on the import forms.

if your product is sourced from china, you pay the tariff on china whether you are importing it from a canadian supplier, a cambodian supplier, or a chinese supplier.
Informed consent for unnecessary medical treatment is just not a thing in the US. See also: infant circumcision.
> writing good documentation is an art and not a well-taught one.

Some recommendations here: <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.htm...>
I think that's a good analogy. We use on-prem co-pilot and it works pretty good. I find it more useful exploring problems or debugging than I do at using it to make code.
$0.28/gb for net traffic on the Maincloud is pretty brutal.
This reminds me of an old post somewhere

"Everyone will not just"

If your solution to any problem includes the phrase "If everyone would just X" then you don't have a real solution, because there is no future where "everyone will just X"

"Everyone just needs to learn not to trust the AI so readily"

That isn't a real solution. Everyone will not just become more skeptical and better at critical thinking
Still $25 when they hit the burlington or ross in 6 months then back to $75 when people resell those ross shoes on ebay.
>Regret to inform that all of them are crazy.

I'm sure it's comforting to assume that all politicians are equally corrupt and equally insane and so your vote doesn't actually matter one way or the other but Kamala Harris wouldn't be acting like this, nor would Biden. Hell, not even other Republicans.
That's just one part of it. Keep in mind MCP supports 3 transport methods: stdio, SSE (which would be your HTTP) and websockets. Irrelevant baggage would be having to consider the workings of any of those (given a decently implemented client+server library), rather than merely declaring the servers, tools, resources and prompts to be accessed. There's also a debug mode I believe.
I feel CS students, and to a lesser degree STEM in general, will always be more early adopters of advancements in computer technology.

They were the first to adopt digital wordprocessing, presentations, printing and now generative AI even though in essence all of these would have been disproportionately more hand in glove for the humanities on a purely functional level.

It's just a matter of comfortability with and interest in technology.
Yeah, there are real regional variations. I think the problem Uber has is that they’re valued like a high-end tech company (with locked in overhead like compensation) but they don’t have much of a competitive moat. They can have a better app and global reach is a plus for frequent travelers, but at the end of the day their profit is anchored by how much a taxi costs – even if the service is better people only value that so much, especially in a down economy like the one just created.
The tariffs undermine US-Europe alliance, and US hegemony. These are core goals of Putin's Russia.
Tiktok has rotted my brain for this length of article
Much debated question but if we run with your definition, then A2A adds communication capabilities alongside tool-calling, which is ultimately a set of programmatic hooks. Like "phone a friend" if you don't know the answer given what you have available directly (via MCP, training data, or context).

My assumption is that the initial A2A implementation will be done with MCP, so the LLM can ask your AI directory or marketplace for help with a task via some kind of "phone a friend" tool call, and it'll be able to immediately interop and get the info it needs to complete the task.
This derekguy guy always has the best posts clothing related afaik.

Also
> Again, it's a popular misconception that all overseas production is sweatshops. Production can be done ethically abroad and still be relatively cheap because the cost of living is not the same everywhere. I encourage you to note assume that every Asian worker is a slave

No not necessarily slave slaves but I do assume they’re wage slaves, at least the line workers, the higher ups will be compensated a bit better I’m sure.
My company gives burner phones and laptops for employees and salespeople traveling to countries with agressive borders. USA is on the list, together with Israel, Iran and a few others I can't remember now.
When modern search became more available, a lot of people said there's no point of rote memorization as you can just do a Google search. That's more or less accepted today.

Whenever we have a new technology there's a response "why do I need to learn X if I can always do Y", and more or less, it has proven true, although not immediately.

For instance, I'm not too concerned about my child's ability to write very legibly (most writing is done on computers), spell very well (spell check keeps us professional), reading a map to get around (GPS), etc

Not that these aren't noble things or worth doing, but they won't impact your life too much if you're not interest in penmanship, spelling, or cartography.

I believe LLMs are different (I am still stuck in the moral panic phase), but I think my children will have a different perspective (similar to how I feel about memorizing poetry and languages without garbage collection). So how do I answer my child when he asks "Why should I learn to do X if I can just ask an LLM and it will do it better than me"
But the cost of buying and holding inventory goes up. If a store has 10k shoes in inventory @ $50/each, they are carrying $500,000 in inventory. If the shoes now cost $75, they need $250k more for inventory. Capital for inventory isn't free.
I don't wholly disagree with this post, but I'd like to add a caveat, observing my own workflow with these tools.

I guess I'd qualify to you as someone "AI crutched" but I mostly use it for research and bouncing ideas (or code complete, which I've mentioned before - this is a great use of the tool and I wouldn't consider it a crutch, personally).

For instance, "parse this massive log output, and highlight anything interesting you see or any areas that may be a problem, and give me your theories."

Lots of times its wrong. Sometimes its right. Sometimes, its response gives me an idea that leads to another direction. It's essentially how I was using google + stack overflow ten years ago - see your list of answers, use your intuition, knowledge, and expertise to find the one most applicable to you, continue.

This "crutch" is essentially the same one I've always used, just in different form. I find it pretty good at doing code review for myself before I submit something more formal, to catch any embarrassing or glaringly obvious bugs or incorrect test cases. I would be wary of the dev that refused to use tools out of some principled stand like this, just as I'd be wary of a dev that overly relied on them. There is a balance.

Now, if all you know are these tools and the workflow you described, yea, that's probably detrimental to growth.
We can afford to be lazy, the chinese have their own problems.

Word for that, hubris
It's from previous searches actually, we have an 'enrichment' step after the initial rankings come back which helps with semantic deduplication and tries to give us a canonical website domain. We store the Product and tag all matching rankings: https://productrank.ai/product/microsoft and use a 3rd party to map website <-> brand logo.
Tell HN: Amazon order info is getting sold
Today from Amazon, I bought an iPad (sold by Amazon.com) and an iPad cover (sold by ZMSolutions in receipt, TiMOVO in Amazon order page) in a single order at 10:11 AM EST. At 10:15 AM EST I received an obvious scam call asking if I authorize a MacBook Pro purchase from Amazon.

I rarely receive scam calls, so its proximity to an actual purchase has me very concerned. Since it was a phone call, it means not only my online shopping history and phone number, but probably also email and physical address were compromised.

I don’t know who in the purchase supply chain sold my info to scammers, but somebody did and very quickly too. Be safe out there.

For completeness, I am including the voicemail transcript:
“This call is to authorize the payment of $1499 for the recent order of Apple MacBook Pro on your Amazon account if you do not authorize this payment please press one to speak to our customer support representative”. The call was from +1 (843) 966-5162.
If in order to gain support for a political position, you have to publish fraudulent science; is the political position tenable?
Making a contract with intent to defraud someone is not legal (i.e. pretending that you are going to work full time while knowing you are not going to do it).
It’s not exaggerated. Uber was losing hundreds of millions of dollars per year operating. That’s billions.

I don’t know if I trust Ubers numbers on this. I don’t know what they’re counting as “cost per ride”. Does engineers salaries factor into that? What about data centers? Advertising?

If you factor all of it in, then they’re losing billions.
No specific reason, just started with these three, will add Gemini soon!
> Read the Reference

> don’t ask the LLM

To be fair, you can use LLMs to get to the reference. Gemini is pretty good at that. ie. You can ask it how to do such-and-such in Python and to provide a link to the official documentation.
Inverters are built to last for the life of the solar system. They typically have 10-15 year warranty. And no reputable solar installer is going to put panels on a roof that is due for replacement. By the time a roof needs to be replaced, the panels have already paid for themselves and can be swapped out for newer, cheaper, and more efficient models. That's Swanson's law.