skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same was true for Web browsers in 2002, yet MS controlled 95% of the access to the web thanks to that bundling and no other "good enough" competitors until Firefox came along a few years later and took 30% from them giving Google an in to take the whole game with Chrome a few years later.
They go back about 11 years.
You will only stay subscribed if what Netflix surfaces what you "want" to watch
> The entire legal edifice around recognizing and protecting intellectual property is an entirely artificial construct

The presence of “natural” vs. “artificial” argument is a placeholder for nonexistent substantiation. There is never a case when it does anything else but add a disguise of objectivity to some wild opinion.

Artificial as opposed to what? Do you consider what humans do is “unnatural” because humans are somehow not part of nature?

If some humans (in case of big tech abusing copyright, vast majority, once the realization reaches the masses) want something and other humans don’t, what exactly makes one natural and another unnatural other than your own belonging to one group or the other?

> that goes against the nature of information and knowledge

What is that nature of information and knowledge that you speak about?

> forcing information to behave like physical goods, so it's not unfair to the creators in an economy that's built around trading physical goods

Its point has been to encourage innovation, creativity, and open information sharing—exactly those things that gave us ML and LLMs. We would have none of these in that rosy land of IP communism where no idea or original work belongs to its author that you envision.

Recognition of intellectual ownership of original work (coming in many shapes, including control over how it is distributed, ability to monetize it, and just being able to say you have done it) is the primary incentive for people to do truly original work. You know, the work that gave us GNU Linux et al., true innovation that tends to come when people are not giving their work to their employer in return for paycheck.

> IP laws were built on moral arguments, so it's only fair to change them on moral grounds too.

That is, perhaps, the exact point of people who argue that copyright law should be changed or at least clarified as new technology appears.
Everything woke turns to shit
Even worse: only for those who suck up to those who get to choose. Which usually means if you give me funding, I'll help you back.
Remember Google tried to play this trick with ChromeOS?
Well, they said it is a $10B industry. Not sure how they measure it, but it counts for something, I suppose.
It’s not only about suppression; it’s about cultivating fear around expressing your opinions.
There are groups actively working to have individuals fired for voicing support for Palestine.

For instance, a woman wrote “Freedom for Palestine” in Gaelic on LinkedIn, prompting a group of Israelis in a WhatsApp chat to actively coordinate efforts to get her fired.

The General Manager of Wix, Batsheva (Levine) Moshe, responded in a WhatsApp chat saying:

“Hi yes we know. Being taken care of since it was published. I believe there will be an announcement soon regarding our reaction.”

Wix were orderd to pay €35K for unfair dismissal.

ref(s):

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-inf...

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/israeli-tech-firm-ordere...
sanwy.ch is the name of the YC25 startup tackling AI sandwich tech.
I know this is not an accurate portrayal of your point, but this sounds very much like the “the left needs its own Joe Rogan” argument to me.

The problem with it is that we delegate the duties towards our fellow citizens to the talking heads on TV or in our algorithmic feeds and wash our hands on it—I say “we” because it has been happening in basically every country at this point.

If democracy has failed, as some people love to say, it was not because it was supposed to fail, but because politicians have successfully managed to replace it by the current series of popularity contests we have in place.
Couldn't understand your comment well but I am making a SQLite library for Elixir (via Rust bindings) so that would be one less dependency on external systems. I happen to believe that most projects don't need a full-blown database server.
Being intolerant of soulless rent-seeking corporations doesn’t turn you into a cool person. It just shows you are intolerant.

There must be a name for the phenomenon when a minority escapes persecution and hate, and upon reaching their promised land become intolerant and hateful of any outside group.
If you get pwned by some AI code hallucination you deserve it honestly. They're code assistants not code developers.
> Googler...

Whole things reads like someone leaving a cult.

It's ok to be sad about leaving a job but your identity shouldn't be so tied up in it that you're crying in a blog post online.

We all lose jobs and we all get on with it. Obviously they're talented and will land fine somewhere.

I'm not trying to be mean but it's bad that a person can get upset to this point around a job. The corp isn't caring.
Nope.

I just think it’s insane to attack a company for something they’re not doing, with the implication they are still doing it.
do you feel like it is “Israel’s war on Gaza”? Does that represent reality fully? Is that what children should be taught, that there is a demonic people that kills children? You don’t see any problem with omitting the massacre of israeli civilians, the captured hostages and many thousands of rocket launches towards densely populated civilian communities? is that how we achieve peace in your view?
I think you may be underestimating it.

At this point in college, LLMs are everywhere. It's completely dominating history/english/mass comm fields with respect to writing papers.

Anecdotally all of my working non-tech friends use chatgpt daily.
I think would depend on whether the author of the article title was intentionally going for the more common meaning or not. But given that this seems to be a watch news site, I feel like there’s a decent chance the headline is only referring to the term of art (but I don’t know anything about watches, so this is pure speculation).
> ie trying to not do new things because it takes more work to change

That's not what the word conservative means, not by the dictionary or even politically.

Conservative is the averse to change or to hold traditional values without logic. It's more like a type of fear. Even if the change was easy or have 0 cost, a conservative entity won't do it.
And according to Wikipedia [1] the first commercial use of Gorilla Glass was the original iPhone in 2007, even if the name was officially coined in 2008

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass
Orthogonal — the remarkable thing about DeepSeek-R1 seems to me is that it shows how easy it in fact is to create an LLM. A quantitative hedge fund was able to throw money and develop a competitive LLM. Maybe that somewhat reveals that it's just a "man behind the curtain."
Sure, until... https://youtu.be/8_BFMEQOH2Q?feature=shared
Mentoring in Gaza's First Hackathon
Amazon also invests in own hardware and silicon -- the Inferentia and Trainium chips for example.

But I am not sure how AWS and Google Cloud match up in terms of making this verticial integration work for their competitive advantage.

Any insight there - would be curious to read up on.

I guess Microsoft for that matter also has been investing -- we heard about the latest quantum breakthrough that was reported as creating a fundamenatally new physical state of matter. Not sure if they also have some traction with GPUs and others with more immediate applications.
> They are not worth less in dollar terms. The same number of dollars will still settle next months mortgage bill, or tax bill regardless of what it may or may not exchange into Euros

By that logic you are saying if the US dollar to Euro went 10 to 1 or even 100 to 1 there would be no impact because the same number of dollars will still settle the mortgage or tax bill.

Surely there is a flaw in your logic.
Tariffs Will Hammer Solo Stove. Its Amish-Made Rival Is Ready
Claiming people are being funded by "foreign entities" is one of the commonest excuses dictatorships use for persecution.

I do not know what the state of free speech in Russia is, but that explanation is not credible.
Qubes has such functionality.
Existing userswon't leave when you tick them off, if you lock them in somehow (say, by having their social network all using your platform, or maybe by having previously sunk lots of time into curating a library of their favourite X on your platform).
yeaaaaa go jacob go!!! (also hi!)
We used that particular feature quite heavily. A lot of our clients often have poorly cropped photos or something with branding that needed removal and the context-aware generative fill was quite good.

But we decided to drop Adobe after some of their recent shenanigans and moved to a set of tools that didn't have this ability and, frankly, we didn't really miss it that much. Certainly not enough to ever give Adobe another cent.
Windows ME was peak Microsoft, buggy, glitchy, a haven for viruses. It was pure crap and that defined best what Microsoft was and is: cancer
It's a fun part of the code to work on for sure :).

I started trying out datastar in another part of the app by the way, mostly for the frontend signals so far e.g. https://github.com/jacobobryant/yakread/blob/8a61443235d1f6f...

Since this app isn't collaborative it's not clear to me if there'd be any benefit of doing any long-lived SSE vs. just sticking with the request-response model I'm already doing with htmx. Also since various parts of the app do take 100 - 1000ms to render/query, so rerendering the whole page on any change I don't think would be a good fit. But even just having the signals part baked in is pretty nice.
1/2 kW/minute costs about $0.001 so you technically could make a profit at that rate. The real problem is the GPU cost - a $20k GPU amortized over five years costs $0.046 per second. :)
90% of Netscape users were free users and by late 1997, less than two years after the IPO and massive user growth, it was free to all because of MS's bundling threat. That didn't help. By 2002, MS owned 95% of access to the web. No one has ever reached even close to first mover Netscape or cheater bundled IE since, with the far superior non-profit Firefox managing almost 30% and Chrome from the biggest web player in history sitting "only" at about 65%.

Bundling a "good enough" products can do a lot, including take you from near zero to overwhelmingly dominant in 5 years, as MS did.
ha, hi to you too!
I'll have to listen to the podcast later but what's the predicate for the determination of their age?
Dr. Indiana Jones discovers that his bid for tenure has been denied
As mush as I enjoy shitting on Adobe, I also want to encourage companies to embrace platforms other than Twitter. Simply because at times it's the best way to get customer service these days.

I think I would have had more respect for Adobe if they had left the posts up.
Well I'm a senior looking for an Elixir job. What constitutes "wanting too much money" btw? Really curious.
If you like reading HN then you’d probably enjoy an LW meetup!
The article contains nothing new. Just opinions including a security firm CEO selling his security offerings.

Read this instead, it's the technical report that is only linked to and barely mentioned in the article: https://socket.dev/blog/slopsquatting-how-ai-hallucinations-...
If the Marshalls neglect their oath to the Constitution (whether ordered to by superiors or not) then the court can deputize others to carry out court orders. IIUC correctly that's usually the police.
Everyone is jumping to conclusions. The majority of comments on this thread are assuming this is at least someone with inside knowledge, and several are saying Trump or his administration are directly involved.
I buy Lidl store brand biscuits as well as Lidl store brand cleaning products, among many other things, so I guess I would.
I'm using Qubes as my daily driver on my desktop, so no.
I’d be happy to increase the limit for you. The current restriction is in place to help prevent excessive usage and mitigate the risk of being banned by LinkedIn.
You’re comparing an LLM to expert programmers. Compare an LLM on the same task versus the average college student. And try it for a math problem. A poetry problem. Ask it a more complex question about history or to do an analysis of an essay you wrote.

Put it this way — I’m going to give you a text based question to solve and you have a choice to get another human to solve it (randomly selected from adults in the US) or ChatGPT, and both will be given 30 minutes to read and solve the problem — which would you choose?
If possible watch Episode 1 of Season 7 of "Black Mirror."

>... ads would become the main option to make money out of chatbots.

What if people were the chatbots?

https://youtu.be/1iqra1ojEvM?si=xN3rc_vxyolTMVqO
It went forward a little, but yes not really driving. But the upside down part is just a demo of the vacuum thingie technology, not the main point
AdventureX2025
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The argument in the article breaks down by taking marketing by definition and try to apply it to a technical argument.

You might as well start by saying that the "cloud" as in some computers really float in the sky. Does AWS rain?

This "AI" or rather program is not "training" or "learning" - at least not the way these laws conceived by humans were anticipated or created for. It doesn't fit the usual dictionary term of training or learning. If it did we'd have real AI, i.e. the current term AGI.
Haha, I will take it
I give you a lot of clues on how to detect a bot
I did not said that all people that disagree with me ar bots, for example I disagree with lot of MAGA uninformed people and they are not bots, I can see they are behaving like regular people.

Read those hints again, is your account a f ew days old, do you only post about Israel? do you comments appear super fast in response to my comments like it was triggered by alarms? If those are yes then you are a bot, can't be 100% sure if you are paid, could be someone doing is mandatory unpaid military service.
Another idea in this vein, but with a surprisingly straightforward implementation (27 lines): https://github.com/GrantMoyer/lambda_hpp

I started out trying to write something like the OP, but changed direction when I convinced myself there would have been no sane way to implement member call syntax. I honestly can't decide if it's cursed or genuinely useful (minus the unicode name, that's cursed).
Ask HN: Using an Open Source API for Meeting Transcription Infra?
Hey HN,
For those building apps that need meeting data (AI agents, sales tools, CRMs, etc.) – how are you handling the real-time transcription piece?
Building the necessary infra (bots for GMeet/Zoom/Teams, scaling, real-time streaming) seems like a major distraction from core product work.
We're developing Vexa as an open-source (Apache 2.0) API layer specifically for this – think of it as transcription infra you can build on.
Our v0.2 just launched a simple API for GMeet bots & real-time transcripts.
Curious about the builder perspective:
Would an open-source API like this accelerate your roadmap vs building it yourself or using closed APIs?
What are the biggest pain points in getting reliable transcription data into your application?
What features (platforms, data formats, etc.) would make such an infrastructure layer most valuable?
Looking for thoughts and experiences from fellow builders!

repo: https://github.com/Vexa-ai/vexa
+1, that's what I think too :P
The Importance of True Data in AI-Generated Reviews
Rust doesn't have a runtime so it looks just like C in compiled form. c-bindgen even spits out a c header. I’m not sure what skipping C practically means even if you can argue there’s a philosophical skip happening.
Companies that show little loyalty should expect little loyalty. It seems to be a general business culture truth right now that loyalty is something that will be exploited rather than lauded. That's just my experience as someone who has been in 3 consecutive layoffs over the last few years and became a bit jaded/bitter before my current gig.
I'm waiting for the AI apologists to swarm on this post explaining how these are just the results of poorly written prompts, because AI could not make mistakes with proper prompts. Been seeing an increase of this recently on AI-critical content, and it's exhausting.

Sure, with well written prompts you can have some success using AI assistants for things, but also with well-written non-ambiguous prompts you can inexplicably end up with absolute garbage.

Until things become consistent, this sort of generative AI is more akin to a party trick than being able to replace or even supplement junior engineers.
Do you think that craftmanship and longevity, in terms of keeping these people on board, go hand-in-hand?

As an example, Hamamatsu Photonics has been in the optics field a long time, and is going hard on developing for quantum physics applications. It's refreshing, since pretty much every company in quantum computing is very young, so hasn't had the time to build that craftsman vibe yet. Of course, there are people who've been working on quantum information technologies for a few decades now.

I look forward to seeing this ethos developing in quantum, for sure.
I am currently in CS, Year 2. I'd argue that ~99% of all students use LLMs for cheating. The way I know this is that when our professor walked out during an exam, I looked around the room and saw everyone on ChatGPT. I have a feeling many of my peers don't really understand what LLMs are, beyond "question in, answer out".
https://archive.ph/hiAuf
I Am Not a Mathematician
I see your point, and tend to agree. However, at least for the time being, I see the AI tools not inherently different than refactoring tools which were available over a decade ago. It helps me move faster, and I feel like it's one more tool I need to master, so it will be useful in my toolbox.
Fun to see this on the front page! I worked on Yakread full time for about 8 months as an attempted startup, after a few years of other recommender system startup ideas. Now it's a side project that I develop on the weekends after my kids fall asleep, aided by caffeine (me, not the kids). I'm in the middle of open-sourcing/rewriting it. Hopefully will be done in a couple months? Then I can finally get back to adding new features. I talked about some potential ones in my previous post: https://obryant.dev/p/rewriting-yakread/

also I guess a link to the actual app wouldn't hurt: https://yakread.com
Could be, if an AI actually wrote it.
Agree. QT is based on C++ and Electron is JS. QT is much faster, but I'm not too happy with the ui from QT - too boring
This is a real problem, and AI is a new vector for it, but the root cause is the lack of reliable trust and security around packages in general.

I really wonder what the solution is.

Has there been any work on limiting the permissions of modules? E.g. by default a third-party module can't access disk or network or various system calls or shell functions or use tools like Python's "inspect" to access data outside what is passed to them? Unless you explicitly pass permissions in your import statement or something?
Haven't Nvidia published roughly as many chip designs in the same period?
>> France and Britain alone used to be able to defend trade routes. I don't think it's a huge expense.

That was a different world. France and Britain today have nowhere the kind of force projection the USA does, via its military bases and aircraft carriers.
> Did the Framers not consider the threat of a runaway executive?

They kind of did consider this. Pretty sure that's what impeachment is for.

I suspect the framers expected all three branches to be independent of one another. Right now, Executive branch is holding Legislative on a leash. Judicial branch has no levers.
Ask HN: Are remote cofounders eligible for L1
Currently, I am cofounder of a US based Startup. I am paid as a contractor.

My question is - Am I eligible for L1? How do founders based out of EU resolve their visa situation.

I have been going in with ESTA for meetings but would be great to have something that allows for longer residency and less renewals.
your position is to omit agency of the palestinians which is harmful to any peace process
Why do portals create pocket dimensions when a small portal put into bigger one? [video]
Do you have anything that ties together this trade with those investors?

Anyone who held equities that day were up 6-7%, so many billionaires were up that much or more without touching their holdings.
In the evolution of life, did metabolism come first?
Beliefs? No.

Actions? That’s a different story.
I would recommend getting your board involved. They can help you navigate this better.
Tariffs are bad news for batteries
I honestly think the problem is you are just a lot smarter than I am.

I find these tools wonderful but I am a lazy, college drop out of the most average intelligence, a very shitty programmer who would never get paid to write code.

I am intellectually curious though and these tools help me level up closer to someone like you.

Of course, if I had 30 more IQ points I wouldn't need these tools but I don't have 30 more IQ points.
A few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644880
The Emperor's New Clothes, Kejserens Nye Klæder