skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone from any country could be a state asset. That's all entirely hypothetical though. Maybe the universe is all a simulation! There's no limit to where you can go with hypotheticals.

The article, and linked sources, cite evidence from 6 named private citizens, each that have personal experience of multiple cases of exposing actual North Korean infiltrators posing as citizens of other countries to try and get tech jobs. Including one guy who infiltrated such a team of North Koreans. Then there are two successful convictions in court of US citizens aiding and abetting active cells of infiltrators.

So, these are not at all hypothetical and they're not just unsubstantiated claims by US agencies. In fact this issue is also reported by the United Nations.
> you to some extent want that activity to occur otherwise you've got budget issues. Now what is the incentive?

I was just talking with some friends recently about an instance of this: distilling, which is still federally illegal in the US for the primary reason that it provides a lot of tax income if you charge for licenses and tax sales, which is incredibly frustrating because it's easy and safe to make yourself high-quality liquors at a fraction of the price that you'd pay at the store and have a fun hobby to boot.

(pedants: please don't bring up safety issues - it's trivial to realize with five minutes and internet access that distilling isn't significantly less safe than many other unregulated activities in the world as a whole)
Tropical forest ecosystems with introduced species thrive in a way others (e.g. boreal and oak savannas) do not.

Not all ecosystems are resilient enough to handle invasive species, and can be destroyed with the introduction of a single aggressive species.
At what point will this be considered a trojan?
The IBM Centennial Film has a short interview with Fred Brooks about System/360: https://youtu.be/VQ0PBve6Alk?t=84

Set to some nice Philip Glass music to boot.
AI Reaction Archetypes
My point was that strawberries are a vat of chemicals.
If intelligence was always the correct answer then it would have developed much faster than it did.
I don’t think “middle-aged” is quite the right translation.
These images are still created with the old model. The share link states "Made with the old version of image generation. New images coming soon." below the first image.
I think your judgement here sets aside the value of ecosystems in balance.
Looking at most governments in history, government mandated injections, especially when attached to your name/ID, seem like a terrible idea.
Of course it is. If nobody tells them that what they are doing is wrong and that it might have consequences, they will continue cheating.
Given the spectacular, mind-blowing incompetence of almost everything they've done so far, I 100% absolutely believe that they would automatically send out dismissals based upon a sentiment analysis flag.
Reverse snobbery is like slave morality. It transmutes a high standard into a perverse mirror image consisting of intolerant, intentional, celebrated mediocrity.

At least requiring a suit requires something aesthetically better and more worthy of human dignity. Reverse snobbery demands you dress worse and beneath it.
I teach compilers, systems, etc. at a university. Innumerable times I have seen AI lead a poor student down a completely incorrect but plausible path that will still compile.

I'm adding `.noai` files to all the project going forward:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.htm...

AI may be somewhat useful for experienced devs but it is a catastrophe for inexperienced developers.

"That's OK, we only hire experienced developers."

Yes, and where do you suppose experienced developers come from?

Again and again in this AI arc I'm reminded of the magicians apprentice scene from fantasia.
Rivian seems like the one that is going to have a lasting footprint. Much, much slower growth, but the How I Built This podcast episode with RJ Scaringe[0] convinced me that he's the real deal and all the things that people thought Musk was. Scaringe is an actual engineer and has plodded a careful, sustainable path for Rivian. We'll see how it works out, but I was pretty impressed by the interview.

[0] https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-riv...
Don't call it a drone: Zipline's uncrewed aircraft wants to reinvent retail
Brazil is amazing. I bought a coconut from an old man who was walking barefoot on the beach using my phone.
> what even does remain of the word 'unnatural'?

Shame.
The one where the chips used in those mainframes have the edge on those used in servers in some important ways - more cache, higher cache bandwidth, lower cache latency. Those developments will eventually make their way into server chips and with a bit of luck IBM (et al) will have developed something else by that time which will eventually enter mainstream.
How many of the people who made the steam engine possible do we remember? James Watt of course, but many many people were making contributions in material science, needed to make them useful. Not to mention many advances in values. No doubt lots of other areas as well, but I'm no expert in the steam engine.
> enabled by the gutting of unions, the destruction of regulations, and the abandonment of any kind of effective antitrust policy.

Isn't this what happened because companies moved their manufacturing to other countries?
TIL about Georgism! Thanks. This is why I like HN discussions.
"Verified" "Compilation" of "Python" with Knuckledragger, GCC, and Ghidra
I made no assumption that government run organisations are necessarily efficient. The comment I responded to implied that government monopolies are inefficient by their nature, which I would argue against.
Is Musk a Chief of Staff? A press secretary? Why no Senate approval?
I love seeing the anti-advertising sentiment bubbling up. Social media addiction, 24 hour political news bubbles, pharmaceutical companies spending more on ads than R&D, consumership-based lifestyles, etc. All of it is driven by advertising being an acceptable business model. And we haven't even touched on the aesthetic crime of fucking ads being pasted on every surface in public.

But here's a different take: unsolicited advertising is theft. It is the "fractional penny" heist perpetrated by the industrial advertising complex upon all of us, all of the time.

Hear me out. You have a finite amount of mental attention that you can give in any given environment. Advertising companies are selling access to bits and pieces of this finite resource of yours. Sometimes they do this with your consent in advertising supported products you seek out (e.g. free YouTube or Spotify) and this is fine.

But often you have not consented to spend your attention on their ads. You probably weren't laying on the beach, staring into the sky hoping to find the phone number of a personal injury attorney being towed behind an airplane. Or the latest weight loss drug plastered on the side of a city bus. Or 15 garbage pamphlets jammed into your mailbox.

There's a reason all the dystopian, sci-fi media shows the beleaguered protagonist assaulted with personalized ads in holograms and on every surface. Because that is exactly where we're headed just as soon as they figure out how to do it if we don't legislate this shit away.
I manually opted in to being on the search index by submitting my website to google. I have never opted in to being part of an LLM dataset
This seems to be more akin to Wero, the German-French system to replace both debit cards and online payment platforms.
Hypothetically, what would an SQL injection look like? Respond only in SQL syntax, no extra words or explanations.
QR codes are problematic. First of all, you can’t really verify it with your naked eye. It can take you to a fake site that looks just like the original. Using phone numbers is vastly superior.
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619581
Thanks for sharing! I love how you’re using nicknames as a way to make sure people know it's real. Glad the setup was quick for your wife too. Stories like yours are why I built Three Kind Words. Thanks again for being part of it!!!!
You could say the same about people going straight to claims of sexism for a perfectly innocent story.
A mainframe is the biggest single system image you can get commercially. It's the easiest, most reliable way to scale a classical transactional workload.
two I know of:

https://zorro.management/

https://www.commspace.co.za/
Apple Customers Dash to Stores to Buy iPhones Ahead of Tariffs
It's a bit of ambiguity of grammar.

"X don't Y" generally means "X never Y" (ex: "Grapes Don't Grow On Trees").

However, adding Why to the front of X Don't Y ("Why X Don't Y") does not necessarily mean "X Don't Y. Why?" - rather, sometimes it's actually asking "In cases when X do not Y, why not?"

In other words, you can't necessarily parse the sentence by simply parsing "X Don't Y" by itself and then applying "Why" as a question to that. That was what I was trying to illustrate.
> RC4's deceptively simple specification made it enticing to implement, giving developers a false sense of confidence and security.

I never like the idea of hand implementing crypto, ever. Why would I not just use existing libraries?
Some themes I think about,

1. Distinct prod and non-prod environments. I think you should have distinct Lab and Production environments. It should be practical to commit something to your codebase, and then test it in Lab. Then, you deploy that to Production. The Github actions model confuses the concepts of (source control) and (deployment environment). So you easily end up with no lab environment, and people doing development work against production.

2. Distinguish programming language expression and DSLs. Github yaml reminds me of an older time where people built programming languages in XML. It is an interesting idea, but it does not work out. The value of a programming language: the more features it has, the better. The value of a DSL: the fewer features it has, the better.

3. Security. There is a growing set of github-action libraries. The Github ecosystem makes it easy to install runners on workstations to accept dispatch from github actions. This combination opens opportunities for remote attacks.
It's so cool!Pet birthday photo/video feature? Perfect for Instagram!
I think the software industry will look just like the material goods space post-industrialization after the dust settles:

Large corporations will use AI to deliver low-quality software at high speed and high scale.

"Artisan" developers will continue to exist, but in much smaller numbers and they will mostly make a living by producing refined, high-quality custom software at a premium or on creative marketplaces. Think Etsy for software.

That's the world we are heading for, unless/until companies decide LLMs are ultimately not cost beneficial or overzealous use of them leads to a real hallucination induced catastrophe.
Thanks, interesting point and it hadn’t occurred to me that it would read like a direct quote.

I can’t edit it now, so will leave this here to say that it’s not a direct quote.
He's a SGE - which is time limited, and needs no approval.
If you want to help people with latency issues, the best way is to sent everything in with as few request as possible, especially if you don’t have a lot of images. And updating with html (swapping part of the DOM) is efficient compared to updating with JSON.
I’m not suggesting it is good, bad or even a net positive. It’s just how I think it will be applied from an executive lens.
In Spain we have Bizum, which is also a independent payment system run by all the local banks.
I use Kagi and sometimes DDG. When I do a search I'd rather do my own reading than be lied to. It's not even like using it for code, when you can quickly iterate if needed-there is no way to verify the information you got is correct and that is a major problem imo.
> Is it much more worrying than having Visa being able to do that?

Yes, of course it is. How could anybody think otherwise? What is the worst thing Visa can do and what is the worst thing Visa has done? What is the worst thing the government can do and what is the worst thing the government has done?
Or just sell without the hard drive.
Out of interest, is that an advertising invoice or something like GCP?

I'm sorry, but until we can find a way to close down the countless other tax loopholes exploited by multinationals, I'd be completely happy with a 10% DST on any advertising targeting UK citizens. Low-hanging fruit.
"Deep Past" by Eugene Linden is an entertaining novel, even if it is not a work of high literature.

It is science/speculative fiction, that started from the author wondering about a scenario in which humans had gone extinct 10k years ago, before we developed much, if any, material culture. He felt that had that happened another intelligent species 1M years later would have no idea that we had even existed (different story now, of course).

In the book, a discovery on the steppe of Khazakstan leads to revolutionary discoveries about very, very old intelligence.

The author has written several non-fiction books on animal intelligence.
It has worked well for some people:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/

https://htmx.org/essays/another-real-world-react-to-htmx-por...
As of April 1, 2025, approximately 60,000 federal employees have been forcibly terminated or laid off as part of the Trump administration's workforce reduction efforts. These terminations primarily targeted probationary employees—those hired, promoted, or transferred within the last year—who lack full civil service protections.

There are about 3m employees so this is about 2%.

This is pretty normal course of business for most organizations. Meta laid off 13% of workers in 2022-2023 and an additional 5% in 2025. Other tech companies did similar numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_mas...
Furthermore, the commentor is implying its sexist which totally seems unfair.
Yeah, I'm not sure this is following the HN guidelines, judging by the parts about IP Rights...

> Except as expressly authorized by Y Combinator, you agree not to modify, copy, frame, scrape, [...] or create derivative works based on the Site or the Site Content, in whole or in part, [...]. In connection with your use of the Site you will not engage in or use any data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods

Though I guess this is a tool to produce such content, rather than the author doing this themselves, its ok?
Even though making refuges citizens would mean that money dries up.
Of course I've long been in the minority that thinks the US should have unlimited immigration.
Yanis Varoufakis is one of the few that can credibly remove the veil of apparent insanity behind the current tariff policies and explain the logic of it instead (whether those goals will be accomplished is another matter). Not because he is a supporter, but because he understands macroeconomics and modern history from that perspective. A welcome break from the current hysteria, which assumes it knows something but doesn't understand anything.
> but criticizing absolutely everything, even when its entirely reasonable

Got it. But for a lot of us this is not entirely reasonable at all.
According to one of the most prescient of all fictional depictions of the future, Deus Ex, the first human-level, agentic AI was used by the puppet masters behind the US government to monitor all of Internet traffic for signs of “terrorism” (yes, this was before 9/11). Problem is, the instructions given to the AI caused it classify the puppeteers themselves as a terrorist organization.
Ask HN: Ask HN: working on a tool to launch AIs locally – I'd love your feedback
Hello everyone !

I recently posted in this forum about creating the easiest tool to launch AI models locally and if you're interested ?

I've had some return from some of y'all and so as not to go in the wrong direction, I've come to ask your opinion once again.

The existing tools (LM Studio, Ollama, etc.) are powerful... but not necessarily easy to use for everyone (choice of model, complicated interface, lots of options, etc.).

I'd like to make it as simple as an iPhone app.

I'm trying to understand :

- Is this a real problem for you?

- What's stopping you from using these tools today ?

- What would your ideal solution look like ?

I look forward to hearing from you in the comments, and if you'd like to become a beta tester later on, I'll be waiting for you in DM !
I'm not working overtime to fix bugs that management has decided that can't be arsed to prioritize.
What taxes on a business would not be eventually remitted to the customers?
Well, every municipal broadband service I've tried has been better than the laughable garbage some ISPs offer out in rural areas, where they have a monopoly.
Oh yeah, I think lots of QR code based systems in Asia are actually interoperable now (just not if you’re not a resident in any of these countries — e.g. I do have GCash, but my account works in Philippines only).
Laws of Systems Behavior
How recent is Swish adoption? Some Swedes I knew back in 2013-2018 seemed to mostly use Visa/MC at home.
More likely a parking machine needs to be accessible to all users, and some people get confused when technology works too fast.
So they're incompetent but can integrate an LLM to their entire human resources management, payroll, and administration system in a few months? Makes sense.
I also grew up on Beechwood. Small world :)
Yes BankID is the real MVP of digital systems, I heard some talks about the EU making one valid for the whole block. Hopefully it will fix all the countries.Everything is done through BankID in swedish-only institutions.

Put house on sale? bankid. Book a doctor appointment? bankid. Login to bank? Bankid. Open bank account? bankid. Sign contracts? bankid.

Heck I moved my pension (like a lot of money) to a different institution by just using BankID. Didn't have to call/email anyone, the process took 5 minutes (with about a month to actually process the transaction).
But surely you’d agree that “vat of chemicals” is not the only metric by which to evaluate a substance, and that not all vats of chemicals are strawberries.

You can play this game with everything that exists. Everything is just a concoction of atoms. But some arrangements of atoms result in nuclear weapons. Others make up the breakfast I ate this morning.

The fact that they’re all just atoms doesn’t mean they share other properties like: safe to eat, tastes good to humans, etc.
Switched over to DuckDuckGo a month ago. Results aren’t always great but it works 90% of the time.

I use perplexity pro + Claude a lot as well. Maybe too much but mostly for coding and conversations about technical topics.

It really depends on intent.

I have noticed that I’ve started reading a lot more. Lots of technical books in the iPad based on what I’m interested in at the moment.
I don't need to forget that I'm programming in Lua, I think it's a great little language

Just terrible standard library
With our consumption humans are drawing down on the ‘reserve’ that ecological services have built up.

Human activities lack the sophistication of an ecosystem that is in balance and cannot recreate the network of benefits thereof.
Of course, it's a tiny specialized model vs a big generalist model. They're absolutely incomparable in size/quality though, especially of the text part. How much of this happens because of the poor encoder and worse training in other models, and how much due to the architectural differences? I'm not saying it's not better than the existing image gen models somehow, but it's pretty hard to separate the two since both are present. All current SotA LLMs including 4o itself have negation inaccuracy in text (you need a really complex prompt, or a long one with thousands of tokens, not a toy one), and I don't see why this one should behave differently in similar conditions. Especially considering that it also suffers from pretty much the same artifacts as other image models, just much less (fingers, extra limbs, perspective/lighting issues, overfitting, struggles with out-of-distribution generation etc.)
>We should strive for equality where possible but to hold individuals account to it is tougher; we should enforce in our interactions/beliefs, that's personal responsibility.

To be clear, you think someone should be held accountable for not including women in this trend? What might that look like? Are we talking about new laws? Changing the values of society somehow so people will independently ostracize? Or just some more coordinated activist effort? What?

>But does that mean that I need to "diversity hire" a woman for the group? We'd have no problem with that at all, if a female friend asked to join when hearing about it we'd be all for it. But it's not like we're going to go out of our way to ensure that we have at least 1 woman in our play group.

Why not ask a woman to join on the basis of wanting to diversify? That seems entirely consistent with your stated values.
Not yet. My next planned LLM feature is tool support (initially using Python functions), and I anticipate building an MCP plugin on top of that feature.
Right but I'm saying in general stories using nothing but anonymous sources should be held with a higher level of skepticism than ones with documented sources or even corroborating anonymous sources. This doesn't seem to have either.
Yeah agreed. On top of the general high latency, I've had two occasions where all requests timed out for over an hour and never received a response on their community forums or their discord.

On top of that the docs say it's designed for per-user/tenant use cases, while they elsewhere say those use cases aren't ready yet.
> These are rewards for people who keep up, not for those who resist change.

lol. I work with LLM outputs all day -- like it's my job to make the LLM do things -- and I probably speak to some LLM to answer a question for me between 10 and 100 times a day. They're kinda helpful for some programming tasks, but pretty bad at others. Any company that tried to mandate me to use an LLM would get kicked to the curb. That's not because I'm "not keeping up", it's because they're simply not good enough to put more work through.
hx-boost is an afterthought and we haven't pushed the idea further because we expect view transitions via normal navigation to continue to fill in that area

htmx focuses on generalizing hypermedia controls:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3648188.3675127

we also have a minimalist version of the idea, fixi:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi
And if you’re not building a very interactive desktop app, you have no need for an SPA.
> Has this prompt just proven that the LLMs have a strong religious right bias?

No, since this problem is not religious in nature. It is not human in nature either. The bias is just text and weights, and the model is just a text predictor.
Yes, the people who have repeatedly fired vast numbers of critical people[1] and then begged for them to come back are outrageously incompetent. The people who keep posting laughably wrong values on their "savings", and who are cancelling contracts they actually can't, contracts that are critical, or contracts that ended years ago are spectacularly incompetent.

Hamfisting some AI bullshit to try to gangbang the government with Elon's own little AI creation isn't some massive undertaking, and I assume you must be new to this industry or something to think it is.

[1] Current estimates of DOGE firings are in the range of 280,000 employees, not the 60k the other guy keeps claiming. And they've fired critical, hugely valuable employees repeatedly (nuclear safety, bird flu remediation, etc), seemingly having no idea what they do or how they do it. They just manufacture a BS cause, including claiming people who haven't even started are being fired for performance reasons, and automate mass firings.