skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This part is really damning: a real efficiency audit might need a lot of access to look for signs of hidden activity, but they’d never need to hide traces of what they did:

> Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.

The subsequent message about Russian activity could be a coincidence–Internet background noise-but given how these are not very technically skilled and are moving very fast in systems they don’t understand, I’d be completely unsurprised to learn that they unintentionally left something exposed or that one of them has been compromised.
Is this essentially a compose file in systemd format? Or is there some other complexity that I’m missing
Normal folks vote for the fascists.

How many Americans despise the liberal universities and their students? How many Americans think the US should be a Christian nation?

Fascism is popular. Many people will fall for it. Time and time again. The US is not special- it happened in Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Portugal. It can happen in America.
Posts always got auto deleted. Maybe you aren't familiar with how it worked.
Trump freezes $2B in Harvard funds after it rejects demands
4chan was founded in 2003. I think reasonable people probably disagree on what constitutes the “early” internet and this is where the argument is. Google had been around for 5 years by this point and I (and I suspect many others) remained blissfully unaware of 4chan for a long time after 2003.
so called macrocontrollers, indestructible if Ivan on that day didnt start drinking early morning
Fascinating idea. Though I will note that prompt results aren't usually tables when I ask ChatGPT to ask me questions to help me figure out where I personally stand on, say, hot button political issues.
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Likewise in trail running, Aonijie is building a decent reputation for accessories.
Sure, it’s not infallible, but having other experts in the field read and judge a candidate’s work is at least an honest attempt at assessing merit.

Whereas going by who can write the most enthusiastic essay about diversity, as judged by the blue-haired gender studies major in the diversity center, is a system that will only select for rabid ideologues and disingenuous bullshitters.
This is a great characterization of self-information. I would add that the `log` term doesn't just conveniently appear to satisfy the additivity axiom, but instead is the exact historical reason why it was invented in the first place. As in, the log function was specifically defined to find a family of functions that satisfied f(xy) = f(x) + f(y).

So, self-information is uniquely defined by (1) assuming that information is a function transform of probability, (2) that no information is transmitted for an event that certainly happens (i.e. f(1) = 0), and (3) independent information is additive. h(x) = -log p(x) is the only set of functions that satisfies all of these properties.
What kind of official association could one have with 4chan? 4chan was formative for my early connection to the internet, and I'm really curious what the organization behind it looked like. Was it professionally driven, or just some random guy mailing checks? stuff like that.
I don’t buy things online too often (about once a month, I would say), but regularly I buy on AliExpress things that I cannot find elsewhere at a decent price or at all (mostly electronics and specialised hobbyist stuff). On the other hand, yes, Temi is cheap garbage, and so is much of AliExpress. And Amazon as well, to be honest. Real life leaves room for a lot of nuance.
Mostly, but the few restrictions they do have led to even absolutist-er spinoffs like 8chan being founded.
Every website that allows content uploaded by users have moderators, you can be absolutist as you want but you can't allow CP for example, you also need to handle DMCA (unless you live in a country that couldn't care less).
There videos which YouTube will very very rarely recommended you, especially if they are not monetised and let’s say critical or opposing the mainstream.
So wrong.

There are protocols like zwave, zigbee, and possibly others that not only not need wifi passwords, they don't even need an IP address.
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For example: Slovene language. You simply don't have enough data on it. But if you add all the data that is available on related languages, you will get a higher quality. LLM fails with this property for low-resource languages.
No, it's mostly a cancer survivors support group. Every third post was about cancer, what is causing it, and frank expressions of helplessness in the face of it.

About half the posts were pornography, racist rants, or memes making fun of someone, often for being mentally handicapped.

Five percent was accusing the moderators of sleeping on the job.

Edit: I love that people are down-voting this, it really shows how much people like to have an opinion even while they can't recognize even the most obvious things that requires any information about the subject.
Aren't we 99% sure that was a Ron Watkins grift now?
That way they can save some money litigating Elon and his goons. It's not like that litigation would get anywhere anyway, so better to save the public the waste /s
Hardlist: Breakout hardware startups for European sovereignty
Poor Elon University, I bet people who don't know it think it's related to Elon Musk
Well... A full dump of the board exclusive to moderators and janitors was leaked too so now you could take a look yourself.
It sounds plausible that Mahdawi is the second person on Khalil's case memo [1]. If that's the case, the claim is that "alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States" is deportable.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25894225-dhs-documen...
Let your online friends know if you pass away unexpectedly
I imagine there was a similar tipping point in the Industrial Revolution where machines started marking "better" manufactured items than artisans.
I haven't been there in like a decade but if nobody bumps your thread eventually your post falls off the last page and gets deleted no?
Hmm…

So that's cool, but now I'm thinking: the distant galaxies are redshifted and time-dilated in equal proportion, and also more densly packed because the universe was smaller in the past, so I expect the actual rate of supernovas to be significantly smaller than simply multiplying 1/century/galaxy by 1e11 galaxies.

Edit: also I don't know if rate of supernovas changes over history thanks to different steller environments giving the population-1/2/3 generations of stars…
I think anything before Frutiger Aero became popular (and it didn't in 2003) can be considered "early" Internet.
> Simple answer: Cars and aeroplanes and gov't money for both, and lack of gov't money for passenger trains.

That has nothing to do with geography and everything to do with politics.
I don't get this argument. All the cheap, toxic, unsafe, non-lasting crap will still exist, it's just going to be sold on Amazon with 1-day shipping. Consumers want these products and the market just fills the demand. The deregulation that will take place under this administration will lead to even more, toxic, unsafe crap flooding the market, except it'll just be manufactured in the U.S.
Wow doxing the Jannies!

I mean, wow, they’re doxing people that helped keep a legacy internet place alive and compliant with the law.

Who would do that?
IEEE Spectrum had their usual interesting in-depth look at this a few years ago, for military fiber lasers.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fiber-lasers-mean-ray-guns-are-com...

The technique appears to involve multiple lasers of slightly different wavelength; this allows the beams to be combined and to not interfere with each other.
Sometimes, one stands up to the bully even if its not the most convenient thing to do, something about morals and culture. Bully thinks this is some arab market with standalone greedy participants just like himself, while the game is anything but that.

Bipolar bully on top just generates random chaos, the best course is to cut oneself off as much as possible as quickly as possible, which is clearly happening behind the curtains
I warned about this, but you didn’t have to be clairvoyant to see it coming: https://cedwards.xyz/github-actions-are-an-impending-securit...

GitHub are cutting corners and not working on making their CI/CD offering secure.
Someone apparently did observe ChatGPT (I think it was ChatGPT) switch to Chinese for some parts of it's reasoning/calculations and then back to English for the final answer. That's somehow even weirder than the LLM giving different answers depending on the input.
My tools: always kept a close relationship with a couple c-levels I knew. When the layoffs hit, I had an escape hatch. So I guess you could say I used the power of friendship <3
Temu vs. AliExpress is usually a shipment speed vs. cost tradeoff. Their catalogues also differ quite a bit in some areas, so sometimes one has to use one or the other.

I feel like AliExpress has improved in this area though, likely due to pressure from Temu.
Live by the sword, die by the sword I would say. You don't get to enjoy raising leopards and also get to be surprised when you become lunch one day
Show HN: Run code in (a Linux VM in) the browser
It's like Replit et al. but everything is running in a virtual machine on your end. There's a handful of languages (all the hits really) and you can share what you write as a link.

Just a toy but perhaps you will find it useful.
it's hard work trying to get information on how bad these devices could spy on you

The orange flag is when setup requests my wifi password.

But the big red flag for me is when configuration fails without unfettered WAN access. In this case, the product goes back in the box. If you allow this, you allow anything. Someone else effectively owns the device.

An easy test for this --- simply unplug your network from the WAN modem and see what happens.
Step 1: ask the LLM

Step 3: profit

right? Did I leave something out?
And it seems to work quite well in the current political landscape and the use of such tactics certainly got more common in recent years. It seems to work better with reactionary groups since they would accept any and all reason for their animosity anyway.
Given the nature of the hackers and their immediate actions, it seems unlikely they would reveal that sort of information.
Politicizing the sciences is a huge issue from both sides, and Trump efforts are worrying

I currently worry more about the left though, as it is much more powerful in the academics, and actually creates political "science" today
Tesla was dominant in EVs until Cybertruck. Now they no longer lead sales numbers in China or Europe or Mexico or Japan or Korea. Elon himself said that Starlink would fail without Starship. Or is believing what he says situational?
4chan will be studied for years for its role in alt-right radicalization as well as being a baroemeter for young male discontent.

For example, QAnon started on 4chan (I believe as a joke?) [1]. Nowadays a lot of 4chan users and traffic have since migrated to Twitter for pretty obvious reasons. Pseudo-intellectual racism has a lot of roots in 4chan (eg the popularity of Julius Evola [2]) that's deeply tied to "trad" content, Andrew Tate fandom, the manosphere and "self-improvement" [3].

Things like the Bored Ape Yacht Club originated on 4chan and it's full of racist memes [4]. A lot of racist and antisemitic memes originated on 4chan.

Worst of all, it seems like Elon Musk is motivated by a deep desire to be liked by 4chan [5].

So the point is that 4chan users (and admins) have a lot of real-world influence and that's kinda scary. It also makes them a target for this kind of hack. I suspect a lot of people will be exposed by this and in more than a few cases, you'll find ties to the current administration.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-...

[2]: https://jacobin.com/2022/12/fascism-far-right-evola-bannon-b...

[3]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00732-x

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH3O6mnZvw

[5]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/4/6/how-musk-ushered...
Free. In practice whatever a given janny doesn't like gets the boot. The moderation can get REALLY schizophrenic depending on time zone, and there are persistent rumors that certain boards are controlled by groups of interest (notably the cesspool known as /pol/ is very astroturfed).
the mechanics are old

there's no other online community i know of that still allows fully anonymous posting

the culture changed, but the "environment" causing the culture there to be the way it is still same as the original.

the bump/delete mechanics work well to promote the most controversial, most engaging content, without any advanced statistics or ML.

despite being a shitty place, i don't feel advertised to, spied or in any way abused _by the software itself_ while browsing it
None of those things are in the proposition. The proposition requires design speeds of 200MPH, somewhere in the system. LA to SD in 80 minutes. SF to LA in 160 minutes. Nothing about the ticket prices. You imagined all of that.
Stack overflow was never a good excuse for crappy work and neither is AI.

Your real problem is a people problem: hiring, management, feedback, etc.
I believe there is actually a reason why you want to transfer random blobs instead of from the start: it is waste of resources when a node needs to upload the same block multiple times to the network, if it could be uploading different blocks.

> if you need instant nanosecond delayed stream

I believe nobody was suggesting that.
The Cosmos (both Sagan and Tyson's) shows also display the tiny fraction of life in the history of the universe with their "Cosmic Calendar".
Conclusion is wrong here. There’s plenty of bid for the ad inventory. Google and meta are extremely resilient to this kind of thing
Really? In my experience, Le Chat eventually devolves into spanglish when trying to speak Spanish, so I would have expected worse from Mistral for minority languages.
> it does take experience to shop there

Amen, and resilience. It's a combative UX, trying to force you into bundles instead of single purchases, Choice items rather than cheaper with regular p&p, not advertising that some things (eg bare lithium cells) will be shipped seemingly by sailors chucking corked glass bottles into the sea and hoping they get to you within three business years.

I've not had too much of a problem with outright scams. Some things have been smaller than expected (photo issues - description accurate) and if it's delicate (eg plywood robot models, larger foam planes) they will find a way to grind it into dust before delivery. Both those examples got a refund the next day.

But it's cheap when it works but the central company appears to be honest and helpful when you contact them.
Regardless of date bracketing, I can miss 80's punk and not miss slam dancing.

Maybe someone can list some positive internet culture we got from 4chan that I am overlooking.
I suspect this also happens in programming languages. Subjectively I get the feeling that LLMs prefer to write in Python or JS.

Would be interesting to see whether they actually score better in leetcode questions when using python.
I hope you realize the irony of picking an arbitrary OS theme, something that has no correlation to the Internet in any way, as a meaningful point in the history of the Internet.

As I said it’s all arbitrary. I might pick the time around Google’s founding as the early Internet, others might pick Yahoo, others might pick anything before eternal September.
I am really missing an explaination of how the cable and PCB were non-standard and if that would have been fixable. This feels more like building a new lamp for an existing housing than hacking the existing one.
No. It was what peoppe who want to use guns to force own autocracy say.

The people with guns support these measures.
Dismantling the current world hegemony might have a few unanticipated impacts. When little Timmy responds to burning his hand by evaporating the world economy we might not be so smug.
4chan: Because even Something Awful had some kind of flawed moral compass
This is one of those subtle clues that the LLM does not actually 'know' anything. It is providing you the best consensus answer to your prompt using the data upon which the weights rest, is that data was input primarily as english then you are going to get better results asking in english. It is still Searle's Chinese Room except you need to first go to the 'Language X -> English' room and then deliver its output to the general query room before delivering the next result to the 'English -> Language X' room.
I'm not saying it's only prestige, but to a first approximation, a researcher who has an article published in Nature is highly likely to be better than one who has only published in no-name garbage journal that publishes whatever they are sent. Of course, nothing is certain, but we're talking about probabilities here.
>Anyone getting a package in May will be hit with a $75-$150 or more bill per package

Not "anyone"; only the 4% of humanity that lives in the USA.
As bad as Trump is, most of the opposition to him is just tribalism. To paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut, about 10% of people are always cruel, 10% are always kind, and 80% are in play. From your comment I think you would fit right in on 4chan since you seem to advocate anonymously destroying people that you don't know, without any process, if you vaguely (without really knowing anything about it or bothering to check) think they have crossed you in some way.
No, I'm talking about compile time. A loader at compile time (e.g., for webpack) takes whatever your import path is and translates it into something that can be used by the JavaScript application.

It would be awfully silly to do this at runtime because typescript doesn't exist at runtime, which is sort of the whole point of the library.
Ok, I’ll ask the stupid question:

Why not use _Encrypted_ HTTP/2 traffic? The article goes on and on about HTTP 1.1 and unencrypted HTTP 2.0 but never once mentioned encrypted HTTP 2.0 which I would assume shares the exact same binary/“hard to block” characteristics of unencrypted HTTP 2.0.

I can only assume that everyone knows why that’s already blocked in China, but I don’t
That's why I wrote 'the original'. It's very possible Watkins took control after Q moved from 4Chan to 8Chan from what I've read. I'm far from fully up-to-date on this saga though.
Buy item X from Amazon, which is effectively a Temu product+ a 50% markup.

Or buy direct from Temu/AliExpress and save money?

It's not a hard choice.

I like watches. While I still pay retail for most of my watches, the bands are like 2$ on AliExpress and 15$ on Amazon. Phone cases are much much cheaper.

Certain phones aren't released domestically at all, so now I'm looking at a 100$ fee to import them. If I want to work on a project requiring a PCB that's now impossibly expensive.
> They don't pay the tariffs. The person receiving the package does.

How does that work? I am assuming it’s not US as I had never got any tariff charges or brokerage fees from the likes of FedEx or UPS.
Chicago's commuter rail system is called Metra (operating code MTX).

They own some of their own rails. UP and BNSF operate 4 of their commuter routes. CSX owns most of a few of the Metra operated routes.

Once, I was delayed 2 hours on Christmas Eve by a 1 Mile + Long freight train that broke down while crossing our main line pulling into the freight yard south of O'Hare Airport. A victim of CSX's "precision scheduled railroading".

Back when Metra pre-recorded the automated announcements, they specifically had one for delays caused by "freight train interference". The freight operators don't give a flying fuck who they interfere with, because they are empowered to.
The degree of difficulty for building this is the premise of the 2001 movie Antitrust from back in the old days when Microsoft was evil. Notable as one of the first movies to use Linux desktops and reasonably correct shell script and code in all of their screen shots.
> buy local

I suspect for many imported items there is no local manufacturing and there won't be one. Oh well we'll see soon how the voters react to that.
My bother reports that he was once using the computer lab, and some other lads were in the room looking at things they ought not on a college computer. They were also being loud and annoying and distracting him from his work, so he sent them a message telling them to report to the head of department. They disappeared quickly and left him in peace. (This was using Net Send on Windows XP, I think.)
They certainly don’t get to claim any kind of moral high ground, but as a bystander I can feel empathy for someone hit by a drunk driver, even if the victim had driven drunk before in the past.

Any increase in human suffering is unfortunate, regardless of one’s take on just desserts or karma or whatever.
The parent's russian propoganda post does not mention that the posted savings are full of inaccuracies.

Nor does the propoganda define "waste", if one looks at the actual cuts, it seems to be focused on "things Herr M. doesn't like". which is not a good definition of "waste".
depends on the board you're browsing, if you're discussing gardening you won't have issues with the far-right
Show HN: Speak your target language with real people, not just an app
Hi HN,

I built Lengpal, a simple language exchange platform where two people get instantly matched on video to practice their native and target languages. There’s a timer built in so both sides get equal time to speak.

I created this because I wanted something beyond passive apps like Duolingo. Something to actually speak with real people without the hassle of scheduling or chat fatigue.

Right now we are testing the concept with a waitlist. We’ve collected 77 emails so far from Reddit and IndieHackers. I would love your feedback before launching the MVP.

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Happy to answer any questions or hear your thoughts.
You're trying to argue that 2003 isn't the early Internet. Seems like you're trying to have your "Ackchyually..." moment right now because you didn't know 4chan existed.
> so you won’t need the GUI open to use shortcuts

I've been looking for a Linux clipboard manager to use over SSH but they all error out with for example (on running SSH in Windows Warp to access a LAN Linux box):

echo "doodah" | xclip -selection c
Error: Can't open display: (null)

Here I am trying to copy to the X-11 clipboard in order to paste elsewhere inside the Linux box -- hope that's not too confusing!

Will your (eventual) clipboard manager work over SSH for this use case?
Is the source code which leaked everything one would need to host their own copy of the site?
Are you sure? At some point you have heard every possible joke that can be told in a timeframe of 10 minutes, 1000 times.