skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, we would require it to be a separate company altogether. Could there still be collusion? Sure, but it would introduce a misalignment of profit motives, which would introduce competition between the platform and the advertising service.
>Does it work internationally?

Does crypto? You may have heard of this thing called "tariffs" lately. Even purchases of software licenses are tariffed in Brazil[1]. The average person purchasing goods with crypto is just going to ignore this and several similar laws.

If you say crypto works to transact internationally, keep in mind: so does TF2 hats.

1: https://www.machadoassociados.com.br/en/2021/05/brazilian-fe...
And if it isn't already false it will be false in 6 months, or 1.5 years on the outside. AI is a moving target, and the oldest people among you might remember a time in the 1750s when it didn't talk to you about code at all.
Crushing unions is partly to blame here. I've got relatives whose families have been working in the mining industry for a few generations. They all lament the good old days that are long gone now.
Yeah, the us subsidy for violent crime aka "no money for the unemployed" is quiet counterproductive.
Shame. Crypto has bought the government. Even the president has a scam coin.
The Canadian Armed Forces, and he always supported a free Palestine. But your point still stands.
Right. I'm not even old, I'm in my prime; I exercise and eat healthily. My working deadlift weight is about 350 pounds. I keep a dumbbell next to my chair, and I use tools like Pomodoro. Whenever I need to take a bathroom break, I also try doing some squats or push-ups.

But younger kids seem oblivious to what kind of damage this line of work does to your body, and it's pretty much unavoidable. They'd be "Ah, so what that I've been typing for fourteen hours straight? My knees are fine; I can just walk it off...". Yeah, well, try figuring out your Python dependency conflicts or broken GitHub Actions, or focus on some concurrency bug when your sciatic nerve is pinching or your neck hurts like you received a bullet straight under your shoulder blade.

I'll see how they sing their "the easiest job ever" song when they get to experience chronic pain and become nearly incapable of sitting in front of the screen, not even for forty minutes, let alone hours.
> we'll solve climate change

Things can help solve a problem without being sufficient to solve it on their own. Do you refuse to use LED lights because they won't bring your power bill down to zero?
> Many people don’t realize that prices of cars have remained stable over last 20-30 years (beating inflation)

Many people don't realize that the average real wages remained stable over the last 30 years either lol. You can buy more subscriptions and other useless gadgets but the basics are the same (cars) or higher (rent/building). You're in a blind spot because you're in the top 30%, go ask the bottom 70%...

Even if everything was "stable adjusted to inflation" it would hardly be a win, and definitely not something to cheer for or call "progress", that's 30 years of stagnation with a few bells and whistles

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/blog_...

https://inflationdata.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2023/1...

https://assets.weforum.org/editor/HFNnYrqruqvI_-Skg2C7ZYjdcX...
Show HN: Git Game Show – Multiplayer Game in Your Repo
Transform your Git repository into an interactive multiplayer trivia game for team building and fun!
> How’s basing the US economy on services looking now?

It looks really hollow, like we will be over a barrel when we experience a real embargo. I wish your brother all the luck in the world, I think his time will come soon because at the very minimum having guys like him on our team keep us from getting gouged to death.
>As one of the authors of the Unix Haters Handbook

One day, one remote day, mankind will attain Reason and will award you a Nobel Prize for speaking out loud against retrograde computing.

I salute you, hero, veteran.
Most pull request advice focuses on technical aspects. This post is about something I think is more important: using PRs to grow influence, build trust, and make engineering more human (and ultimately more productive).
OpenSSL 3.5.0 [LTS]
>Yes BankID is the real MVP of digital systems, I heard some talks about the EU making one valid for the whole block.

Sweden is actually in a pickle here. The dominant but private BankID doesn't satisfy all security requirements for the EU's digital identity wallet. It just isn't profitable.

The government is now working on a public government eID with a higher security standard, but many Swedes might still be left out since adoption will take some time.

This is one of many reasons why eIDs shouldn't be run by for-profits corporations, and sadly nothing would likely have happened without pressure from the EU.
Would love to try it out. Is it for large code bases or what specifically?
Lambda programming errors that could cost you thousands of dollars a day (2018)
This is a fair bit easier as a remote worker, but even in-office you would just sandbag your time rather than publishing the finished work immediately. In-office it's more likely that you would waste time on the internet rather than working on a personal project though.
I thought the selection tool allows you to limit the area of the image that a revision will make changes to, but I tested it and I still see changes outside of the selected area which is good to know.

As an example the tape spindles, among other changes, are different: https://chatgpt.com/share/67f53965-9480-800a-a166-a6c1faa87c...

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9055440-editing-your-ima...
I’ve been learning a bit about it after learning about RRCF (Robust Random Cut Forests). The ISOTree library is really well documented if you want to play with it.
Building an AI Firewall: Three Things I Learned While Securing MCP
If you are building or using AI agents, three critical lessons I learned:

1. There is no "best" model or tool
2. Build for today's ecosystem (stdin/stdout), not tomorrow's (SSE)
3. MCP is stateful — and that is going to change *everything*
Very close story here as well. lol. “You can always underdress but never overdress!”

Thanks mom!
I'm at a loss at to how you reached that conclusion from my reply.
> Not even close…

Belt and road? Investing in ports? Infra build support for owned to CN? This literally just happened over the last decade, that’s plenty reason.
> Do not put your money into Pix

You do not "put your money into Pix", your money is in your bank account. Pix is just a bank transfer mechanism; if you have a Brazilian bank account, you can send and receive through Pix.
what's the most interesting use case you've seen so far?
Show HN: TensorFlow Implementation for Optimizer
> still a very young country

Oh come on. The amerindian/indigenous culture has (almost) _nothing_ to do with US culture, which is very much a thing. In fact, it's so much a thing that US almost had a "cultural victory". Part of the cold war victory was US cultural victory, because people all over the world aspired to the american dream. Hollywood movies are some of the most watched entertainment worldwide. English is the world's lingua franca because of the US, not UK (well, UK, but indirectly via US). All the american problems and internal conflicts will spill over to the world - or at least western world - sooner or later (it's unbelievable how much university environment in say, Germany is influenced by what is happening in the US universities; identity politics recently became a thing in Romania, when it seemed to be completely gone and irrelevant).

Don't kid yourself, USA absolutely has a very strong and well defined (and influential) culture. Not in that each citizen is the same, but that there are clear patterns, societal norms, generally-shared values etc. I'll take just one example: there are a lot of Indians in the US, AFAIK. They _largely_ don't have arranged marriages in US (definitely not 90% of the US citizens of Indian heritage!).
After pro-Palestinian students, now foreign students being targeted by Trump
It’s a powerful reminder that relationships, even in professional settings, are the foundation of success. By approaching every interaction—whether it's a pull request or a team meeting—as an opportunity to build connections, we can foster stronger collaboration and create lasting value in our careers. It’s easy to overlook the importance of these small moments, but they truly make a difference in the long run!
Show HN: AI detectors suck, here's an open-source way to embed proof in AI text
AI detectors suck.

They flag real students as cheaters, mislabel original writing as “likely AI,” and rely on statistical guesswork that just isn’t reliable. Even OpenAI shut down their own detection tool, citing low accuracy.

So I built EncypherAI: an open-source tool that embeds verifiable cryptographic metadata into AI-generated text at the moment of creation.
Think of it like a digital fingerprint: invisible, tamper-proof, and verifiable in milliseconds.

- No changes to how the text looks or reads

- Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, local models, or custom pipelines

- Lightweight Python package with CLI

It uses invisible Unicode variation selectors to embed the metadata without altering the visible text.

Metadata can include model ID, timestamp, purpose, and even user or session IDs, all verifiable offline using HMACs.

We're hoping this becomes a baseline standard for AI content attribution, something platforms and LLM providers can adopt to prove when something was generated, instead of guessing. This is already sparking conversations with leading LLM providers building toward responsible AI infrastructure.

Here's the GitHub: https://github.com/encypherai/encypher-ai

Website: https://encypherai.com?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=post&utm_cam...

Article + 1-min explainer: https://encypherai.com/blog/what-if-ai-content-came-with-bui...

Would love your thoughts.
Is this the kind of system we need to make AI content more trustworthy?
On paper. That's not to say we don't have the greatest potential for even greater prosperity but you can't eat stonks. Right now we are making good on promises to the boomer generation while absolutely dicking over the generations who are making good on the promises of old.
It's a lot more than just two.
What if they just fork a lot of stuff/not change it

I also have a self-updating github readme, it commits everyday
The disagreement is over the highlighted line:

>People like that will always be more effective at their job once employed

My experience is that "self taught" people are passionate about solving the parts they consider fun but do not have the breadth to be as effective as most people who have formal training but less passion. The previous poster also called out real issues with this kind of developer (not understanding time complexity or how to fix things) that I have repeatedly seen in practice.
Proving a negative is a fools errand. The fossil record developed thus far doesn't support it. Additionally there is such intelligence as the Octopus which has an evolutionary split much earlier than mammals and birds.

The last common ancestor of [humans] and octopuses is a flatworm that
trawled the sea floor 750 million years ago. This is the most recent
creature that we both have a direct line of descent from – it represents
the point at which we diverged down separate evolutionary pathways. To
illustrate just how early this was, this was 80 million years before any
animal showed bilateral symmetry – the familiar body plan with a defined
top and bottom, and right and left; 350 million years before tetrapods –
the first four legged creatures that gave rise to all birds, reptiles,
mammals and amphibians – came into existence; and 500 million years before
the emergence of dinosaurs.

https://eusci.org.uk/2020/06/22/an-alien-in-our-sea-a-look-a...

Nice book about the topic is "The Deep History of Ourselves" by Joseph LeDoux.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-History-Ourselves-Microbes-Consc...
We setup a solar on in our home in Pakistan back in 2023. Our primary driver was cost since it was getting extremely expensive during summers when the ACs were on. We expected to get the return in 4 years but inflation went so high in subsequent years that it took just 2 years.
Not difficult when given the common ancestor of birds and mammals and a few hundred million years of relatively calm environment.
Nearly $13M stolen from Abracadabra Finance in crypto heist
I think you believe we all struggle with your framed problem and your tool is some panacea. In reality, every tool and process has its limitations and rough edges, including yours as you've hopefully gleaned in comments here.

Being married to a specific tool like GT is limiting. GT doesn't work with most industry languages _today_, even though _in theory_ it could. It's written and scripted in a language few use, which makes it unapproachable
The problem is "knowing their salt to do recruiting" is very hard. In all places I've been, the kinds of interview we are talking about here (technical problems, etc...) are delegated to regular engineers. So those technical interviewers are likely great at reading and writing the code, but they many not be the best at spotting fake AI.

(The recruiters only come in for non-technical parts like resume filtering, general information and benefits. Sometimes there is non-technical "culture fit" interview, that is usually some sort of middle manager from the department doing the hiring)
Detective accused of weighing down laptop keys to pretend to work at home
I mainly use search engines indirectly via Copilot (the app). It uses Bing in the background to give current results, so I can ask it about what happened yesterday.
That's because Wall Street investors use it as a hedge against their traditional investments which, as you know, are not so stable right now.
To bring this back to where it started:

> It reminds me of people who won't eat certain foods because it contains "too many chemicals".

Maybe I misread this, but I took this to refer to the current food industry and how it processes/produces foods. The market is filled with products labeled "strawberry" that are not really strawberries or even close to the makeup of strawberries.

> What do you mean by "vat of chemicals called a strawberry?"

The breakfast food aisles at most (American at least) grocery stores summarize what I'm getting at. Many of the "strawberry" products are highly processed and highly artificial.

My point was that the ship of Theseus analogy seems misapplied, since we're not talking about a situation where the food choices we have are between the real thing and some molecularly perfect replica.

And secondarily, to call strawberries just a "vat of chemicals" in this specific context seems like a misnomer when considering that the reason people "avoid food with too many chemicals" is quite unrelated to the fact that everything is made up of the same stuff of the universe and more to do with questioning whether or not the human-made processed option is safe in the long run.
No, I go straight to GPT. Because I’m not usually searching for a webpage. What I’m really looking for is to learn through the course of an interactive discussion. Where I can ask any question no matter how stupid it is. Imagine a patient elderly colleague who will never lose their temper or mock you. Sometimes they get things wrong, but that’s where critical thinking comes in.
Yeah I think people that complain about git should try running a project with CVS or subversion.

The amazing flexibility of git appears to intimidate a lot of people, and many coders don't seem to build up a good mental model of what is going on. I've run a couple of git tutorials for dev teams, and the main feedback I get is "I had no idea git was so straightforward".
I'd hate to see a system like that where I live, because the government will abuse it. We've already seen Canada freeze bank accounts of protestors, and US officials put protestors on the no fly list.
Well yeah, but copyright infringement isn't a function of how quickly you can view and create works.

Copyright is meant to secure distribution of works you create. It's not a tool to stop people from creating art because it looks like your art. That has been a thing for centuries, we even categorize art by it's style. Imagine anime was had to adhere to a copyright interpretation of "it's my style!".
I have to ask- you're not interested in candidates if they have experience in certain frameworks?
That’s a perfectly fine answer, but providing no supporting arguments makes this a very difficult conversation.
I am excited to see the next 20 years :)
They use machine learning, pattern matching on what "good" and "bad" requests look like, based on experience.
Oh boy here we go, the bolsonaristas are here to claim that Bolsonaro and his cronies definitely didn't try to overthrow the current government in favor of a military dictatorship and that there's definitely not a mountain of evidence pointing in that direction. Nope, it has to be some deep state commie conspiracy of course.
At least in my corner of the EU woods, Microsoft is so ingrained in government processes (at all levels) that it's nigh impossible to remove.

It would take an EU directive pushing "open source or EU sourced" down our govt's collective throats, and a few decades, to actually implement.

Instead I suspect it'll lead to many loud initiatives, a few €B to the usual players, and a quiet promise to Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and others to not to worry.
Dave Cutler, the head of the NT project came from DEC where he did VMS. Big lawsuit when MS hired him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
SpacetimeDB
sigstore is not a github action specific tool, you can use the python client with any CI/CD tool runner. You can attest with py_pi attestations and publish with twine.

When migrating the steps don't have to use the same syntax and tools, but for each step you can identify the desired outcome and create it without actions from the gh marketplace on a different CI/CD.

More importantly, you consciously decided to make your pipeline not portable by using gh actions from the marketplace. This is not a requirement nor inevitable.
This is another Trumpian miscalculation that will certainly cost America in the long term.
Andy Grove, "How to Make an American Job" (2010), https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/documents/areas/adm/loeb/11_35...

The first task is to rebuild our industrial commons. We should develop a system of financial incentives: Levy an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. (If the result is a trade war, treat it like other wars—fight to win.) Keep that money separate. Deposit it in the coffers of what we might call the Scaling Bank of the U.S. and make these sums available to companies that will scale their American operations. Such a system would be a daily reminder that while pursuing our company goals, all of us in business have a responsibility to maintain the industrial base on which we depend and the society whose adaptability—and stability—we may have taken for granted.

Aaron Slodov, "Rewiring Silicon Valley for the World of Atoms" (2025), https://x.com/aphysicist/status/1906552189880844664

Manufacturing demands capital, tech, and execution, creating moats through scale and complexity. Returns could dwarf SaaS multiples if a startup nails a sector where efficiency gains translate to real massively scalable growth. The risk is higher (upfront costs, R&D, hardware flops), but it does scream classic venture asymmetry. Compared to, say, biotech's long timelines or consumer tech's saturation, this hits a sweet spot: tangible impact, massive macro tailwinds, and a shot at monopoly-like dominance.. The greatest returns of the next decade won't come from shuffling bits, but from reimagining atoms—and it will take our entire capital ecosystem working in concert to make it happen.
Bot Detection Evasion is becoming an increasingly relevant topic. Even for non-abusive automation, it's now a necessary consideration.

Interesting research and reading via the HN search portal: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bot+detection
Not sure what you mean by this - it's not as if steam engines are an extensive technology today, and certainly no university is teaching "steam science", while nearly every school is teaching "computer science".

Perhaps this is just the attitude that drives Mr. Kay's point home - do individuals who are interested in CS have little value for who and what has come before them?
That's why China created UnionPay, so it wouldn't be held hostage to a large foreign corp (Visa, MC) for CC payments.

But most countries didn't have that capability. Kudos to Brazil for putting something together for domestic digital payments so as not to rely on a foreign company.
I love this but only because I hate advertising. I dont' have a good economic argument.
I built Mochi to help brands post to Reddit strategically, not randomly
Hey HN!

I’ve been working on a tool called Mochi – a Reddit content scheduler and strategist built specifically for people who are trying to grow their product or brand without spamming or burning accounts.

Most social media schedulers treat Reddit like Twitter, but it’s a very different ecosystem:

Timing matters more.

Tone matters a lot.

Context is everything.

And subreddit rules can get you banned fast if you're careless.

I got frustrated watching teams (including my own) miss key engagement moments on Reddit. We'd either be too late to respond to relevant posts or end up posting in the wrong way, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

So I built Mochi to:

Monitor chosen subreddits for rising posts worth engaging with

Analyze engagement patterns to figure out what type of content works

Build weekly content strategies based on your goals (e.g. warm up an account vs. light brand mentions)

Schedule posts/comments in advance while following subreddit-specific guidelines

It’s already helping early users cut through the noise and be present on Reddit without living on Reddit.

If you want early access (we’re rolling it out slowly), the waitlist is open now. Early users will get a better launch price and a direct say in feature prioritization.

Would love your feedback, especially if you're in SaaS, indie hacking, or handle brand growth through content/community.

(And I’m happy to answer anything about how it works technically too.)
There's a way to do it. This playbook has been used repeatedly throughout the 20th century.

First you invite industry to reshore via subsidies and preferential access to government contracts. If necessary, the government must directly invest in new firms. (They already do this in a very small way with In-Q-Tel and others, so it's not totally beyond the pale. For a time there was even a US Army VC firm.) If you talk to a Chinese factory owner or mine boss, many of them will tell you that they got their start with a >$2M direct investment from their government.

Second you gradually tighten the screws on foreign finished products, not industrial inputs like metals, plastics, ores, etc.

Third you streamline export paperwork requirements and relax things like ITAR.

Then, when that's all humming along and the factories are working, you can launch blanket tariffs to protect your nascent industries, if need be. But you must exempt necessary industrial inputs from tariffs.

What's happening now is completely backwards/inverted and it's going to lead to total chaos.
If a manager thinks paying $20 monthly for an AI tool will make a developer or artist 5x more productive, he's delusional.

On the other hand, AI can be useful and can accelerate a bit some work.
Redhat was doing enterprise Linux well before IBM was involved. It was the rational platform for non-legacy .com 1.0 businesses.