skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Öztürk had her visa secretly revoked because she coauthored an oped suggesting her college divest from Israel. She did not write an op-ed supporting a terrorist group.
Ask HN: How do I handle that my AI SaaS idea can be copied and out-executed?
I have an AI SaaS concept, but realistically once I launch someone with more resources and a bigger team could copy it and out-execute me. I'm solo, so I can't compete on scale. How do others in this position deal with that? Is it just about moving fast, building a community, and hoping to stay ahead?
My theory is that multicellular life itself was developed because viruses wanted a more effective way to travel. Humans are the pinnacle of virus transportation technology, and they've developed very successful behavioral override countermeasures against our pesky use of vaccines.
Yeah I'm basically cut off from the modern internet because my values don't align with it, as a young person. I can't stomach anything where people are trying to sell something or gain popularity and are insincere. It means im basically just on here, ft comments, and ars sometimes.
There's no reason today's macOS couldn't support a Classic environment, like the early releases of OS X. There are a lot of support costs surrounding such an environment, so I don't blame Apple for dropping it.

It supports x86 emulation, for now.

I believe Windows has seen more architectures than Mac OS Classic and OS X combined.

Windows 3rd party software often drops support because Microsoft doesn't support the OS. It could be the desire to use new APIs that aren't included in 7/8 (or soon to be 10), but it's hard to support an operating system as an app vendor that the OS vendor doesn't support.

I always liked VMware's statement that they would support NT4 and above -- like, no you can't.
Allegedly, there was yet another model after this, which wasn't advertised publicly, sold exclusively to creative professionals. (Mostly because of Quark XPress, which took years and years to transition to OS X, which also opened a large window of opportunity for InDesign to become the new standard.) But I have no reliable source for this.
Sorry my data cutoff is October 2024, please prompt again. :P
Lazy Optimization

Before solving a problem, learn to apply lazy optimization. Don't just follow your intuition or the standard process. First, observe from the upstream or downstream of the problem to see if there's a better solution. Sometimes, just making a few simple changes upstream or downstream can solve the problem cleanly and perfectly.
The inference process via ONNX (where most of the CPU time is spent) is multi-threaded. I briefly explored adding multiprocess capabilities for the tiling/downsampling/result merging parts of the codebase, but the improvements were marginal with a trivial implementation, so I didn't explore further (although I'm sure it could be improved).
A nice, comprehensive yet accessible blog post about it can be found here[1], got submitted earlier[2] but didn't gain traction.

[1]: https://aaronparecki.com/2025/04/03/15/oauth-for-model-conte...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620496
It was not 'strictly philosophical' in the way some things like the Chinese Room argument are; in Chinese Room, it's stipulated that the Room is pragmatically capable of responding like a native Chinese speaker (it is somehow implemented super-fast and can chat in Mandarin with you and pass a Mandarin Turing Test).

However, the stochastic parrot arguments (and Gary Marcus in many of his writings) made specific, unambiguous empirical predictions about how LLMs would never be able to do many things, such as 'add numbers'. For example, in the original Bender & Koller 2020 paper "Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data" (which lays out the core ideas which are the justification for the 2021 paper that actually introduced the rhetoric of 'stochastic parrot') made many clear, falsifiable statements about what LLMs would never be able to do; here's one of them: https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463.pdf#page=14

> To get a sense of how existing LMs might do at such a task, we let GPT-2 complete the simple arithmetic problem 'Three plus five equals'. The five responses below, created in the same way as above, show that this problem is beyond the current capability of GPT-2, and, we would argue, any pure LM.

One could say many things about this claim, but not that it is a 'strictly philosophical one'.
Ask HN: How are you storing your personal Git repos?
I am, as I'm sure many of you are, not confident in the integrity of Github, BitBucket etc. when it comes to hosting git repos, in the long term.

Censorship, or incompetence could lead to my work being zapped for any number of reasons.

During last year, I hosted all my repos on a local machine via Gitea, which then pushes commits on to Github where I keep my repos publicly.

I'm sure my paranoia is fairly mid among the community, but I wonder what are you doing about your open source work and how do you store your repos?

And is my concern warranted?
My family used to do a very similar distance for summer road trips every year, and we always did it in a single day. Just pack the car the night before, leave early, and swap drivers every few hours when you stop for food or gas. The benefit is that it's way cheaper than five plane tickets or train tickets, and you have an entire car to fill up with stuff.

Like I said the train would probably work better for a solo traveller, but then why not fly? It's crazy to spend 28+ hours on a train when a plane ticket is around the same cost and 2 hours.
I'm not sure I get it too. I get the idea of a standard api to connect one or more external resources providers to an llm (each exposing tools + state). Then I need one single standard client-side connector to allow the llm to talk to those external resources- basically something to take care of the network calls or other forms of i/o in my local (llm-side) environment. Is that it?
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This might sound crazy to a lot of people, but I actually wish I had the same lint/mypy/flake8 CI from work on my personal projects. I don’t need anything fancy but something on github that’s single click that forces discipline.
By accepting that you only need enough subscribers to support your lifestyle.

Forget the billion dollar capital infusion and exit.

Aim to get a couple thousand subscribers paying $8/month and its $24,000/mo

what do you really need? be honest. sell the business to someone at a 10x multiple which means 10 years of $24,000/months at once.

launch multiple passive and SaaS businesses.
Enshittification. The UX is not for you—it’s to maximize you.
7.7 isn't out yet, and frequently port builds take a while, so this is unsurprising and shouldn't be taken as a lack of support or impending discontinuation.

OpenBSD still supports the Alpha, which is an even older and rarer (albeit 64-bit) architecture.
Deploy Consul as OpenTofu Backend with Azure and Ansible
To be fair, adding "reddit" to your search query has been one of the few ways to get away from the SEO garbage to the point where it's become a thing. So I'm not sure how effective Google trends is as a measurement.
Based on the 2020 Oxford report on state actor manipulation it's insanely prolific. 57 Countries use bot accounts, 79 countries use human propaganda accounts. This is a top 5 pressing issue of our times. I violently hate how little the public is informed by their governments about it.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-01-13-social-media-manipulati... (Press release)

https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/202... (Actual report) (Very interesting, if you're only reading one report this month...-> goes into depth in what sectors in each country with cyber troops are involved, ie state, influencers, political parties, ngos, and which countries use human or bot.)

other: government control of media on the rise globally
https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2024/10/22/government-co...
My interests are science, science policy, public health, infectious disease, education, law and economic policy. Those are all undergoing radical changes in the US, and those changes seem worthy of discussion.

Judging by your submission history, your interests seem to lean towards AI and science. Sometimes you even post the same article twice (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647984, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655440).

Interestingly you seem to post a decent number of articles of the type you are complaining about with respect to my submissions (science policy, economic policy). Here are some of your own recent postings that would seem to fall under the umbrellas of science policy, economic policy, public health, etc:

• Does US science have a future in Antarctica? Trump cuts threaten fieldwork -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625553

• 154M lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617884

• Samsung under pressure as US tariffs rattle South Korean economy -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647001

• Separated by a Border, but with Fates Entwined (news.harvard.edu) -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646630

• Delta Air Lines had been expecting a record year. Then a trade war broke out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635006

• The 'ghost reporters' writing pro-Russian propaganda in West Africa -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616096

• Center for Public Integrity Is Shutting Down -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43552540

Your own comment history is "interesting" in that they seem to be pages and pages of "Previously" and "Discussion" links but you seem to rarely contribute meaningfully to discussions.
Thanks, I was unaware of that. I wasn't a math major, but from schoolmates I got the impression that we have the same mix of topics taught computationally vs. proof-based as you listed, students started on analysis and algebra at year 2 and the honors did that in more generality
MCP allows LLM clients you don’t control—like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or VSCode—to interact with your API. Without it, you’d need to build your own custom client using the LLM API, which is far more expensive than just using existing clients like ChatGPT or Claude with a $20 subscription and teaching them how to use your tools.

I built an MCP server that connects to my FM hardware synthesizer via USB and handles sound design for me: https://github.com/zerubeus/elektron-mcp.
Now we are back to "hey bro, it signed off on my computer" :shrug_emoji:
I could certainly see the appeal of this sort of idea. Once your engineering org gets to a certain size, you can end up spending an eye-watering amount of money on CI compute - spinning up runners and executing thousands of tests for every single commit of every single pull request. That cost could decrease by a lot if, for PRs at least, you could use the dev's local machine instead.

The three prerequisites in my mind would be, that the CI workflow runs inside a local cluster of VMs (to match a real CI environment), that the results of the CI run are still uploaded and published somewhere, and that it's only used for pull requests (whereas a real CI is still used for the main branch).
Twitterlike Is a Bad Shape
It really depends of the stage of the startup. I recall reading someone doing analysis on this (unfortunately I don't have a link) showing that joining a company that isnt public yet, but is already large-ish and showing some real product-market fit gets people better payouts. Yes, employees 1-40 of a future unicorn will to great (if they could afford to buy the shares, and AMT doesn't kill them which is another story), but it's relatively safe to get into a company that hasn't IPO'd yet.

Imagine say, that you joined Stripe in 2014. By then, probably 500-1000 employees and a a real name on the industry, yet private. It's perfectly reasonable to not consider the stock they might have offered at that time as straight out money, like you'd have treated Google RSUs. But discounting the shares to zero, or just "a nice bonus" is also silly. I bet anyone that got a year or two of stock in that era is well into the retire-early/somewhat rich cadre, and that wasn't all much of a risk.
The Cyberiad is one of the best and most underrated works of science fiction there is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad
Very cool! I'm curious how much of this was vibe coded?
Okay and now what? Throwing out empty platitudes like this in the face of legitimate criticism is only going to expedite what I said above.
2025 How to Sniff Android HTTPS Traffic with Waydroid and MitM-Proxy
Looking to add traffic analysis to my free mobile app intelligence platform AppGoblin (https://appgoblin.info), I needed to get an emulator up and running with a way to track the HTTPs traffic leaving the app.

I’ve done this a couple years now, writing down my notes in github.com/ddxv/mobile-network-traffic and it never seems to get any easier , but at least this year it seemed like I needed fewer tools.

Sharing as a public resource, reach out if you're interested in helping or have anything you think should be researched.
I have lost the book, but I think I read this in "What is Life? And Other Scientific Essays" by Erwin Schrödinger. If I recall, it was one of the "Other Scientific Essays."
I used to amuse myself thinking up attacks against the Chinese room. One was to have an actual Chinese professor feed answers into the room but force the conclusion that there was no intelligence. Another was to simplify the Chinese room experiment to apply to a Turing machine instead, requiring a very large lookup table which would surely give the game away.

I think ultimately I decided the Chinese room experiment was actually flawed and didn't reveal what it purported to reveal. From a neurophysiological viewpoint: The chinese room is very much the cartesian theater, and Searle places himself as the little man watching the screen. Since the cartesian theater does not exist, he's never going to see a movie.

I might be missing a more subtle point of Searle's though; maybe the chinese room experiment should be read differently?
Another article accurately critiquing the short-comings of this terrible "spec".

This is exactly why MCP is hardly a mature standard and was not designed to be secure at all making it acceptable for AI agents to claim to execute commands but could also be stealing your credentials or running a totally different command such or could download malware.

The spec appears to to be designed by 6 month-old vibe-coding developers learning Javascript with zero scrutiny rather than members of the IETF at leading companies with maximum scrutiny.

Next time, Anthropic should consult professionals that have developed mature standards for decades and learn from bad standards such as JWT and Oauth.
All of the PowerMac11,2 models that used the dual-core on a single silicon 970MP G5s supported PCIe:

https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=Po...

The quad was just two dual cores in a single chassis, with an unfortunately prone to breaking liquid cooling setup.
It's sad that support for these things always seems to just disappear. All software maintainers have to do is not touch it and not break it, and it would work forever, but no, they can't help themselves. Out of boredom of old things, they drop this... out of convenience, they deprecate that... and out of a refactor, they forget to keep thus... and suddenly, software that once worked fine is now gone. It's up to archivists and tinkerers to constantly fix these mistakes and restore these old platforms.
Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratc
"Years of works of the genetic algorithms community came to the conclusion that if you can compute a gradient then you should use it in a way or another.

If you go for toy experiments you can brute force the optimization. Is it efficient, hell no."
cool maybe we can stop wasting food on silly things then
>I wonder if his books would have been as good if PKD hadn't been so fucked up as a person

I can't even see how most of them would've existed to be honest. Most of P.K. Dick's work is about his mental issues in particular in combination with the psychedelic culture he was surrounded by. Always loved the attribution in A Scanner Darkly:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8446272-this-has-been-a-nov...
Next paper from the authors: a form that maximizes splash to prevent public urination
"Whenever these kind of papers come out I skim it looking for where they actually do backprop.

Check the pseudo code of their algorithms.

"Update using gradient based optimizations""
I do like the idea of a variant of this that also includes some signing and logs that share, well, more of the state involved in this.

This sort of work would likely mean that test suites would be built in a way to be run in a more diverse sets of environments. That leads to just less brittle tests overall, and hopefully a better foundation to debug things.
If you're looking for a late PPC Mac to run esoteric PPC operating systems or PPC Mac stuff, the MDD G4 is a great machine if you need dual processors, expandability, and more than 1 GB of RAM.

But if you don't, you're much better off getting a Mac mini G4. I'm biased because I have a hobby business selling SSD upgraded ones running a hacked Mac OS 9 [0]. But compared to the MDD G4, the Mac mini G4:

- Uses a fraction of the energy

- Takes up a fraction of the space

- Largely can run the same operating systems

- Is much quieter (as the article alludes to, the MDD G4 is loud)

- For single core can actually be faster going all the way up to 1.5 GHz (MDD can go there with an accelerator)

- Has more integrated parts so has less parts that can fail

There are some cons to the G4 mini versus the MDD G4 though:

- Almost no expandability

- Limited to 1 GB of RAM

- No dual processors

- The hacked version of Mac OS 9 needs USB sound and some models can have some display incompatibilities at high resolutions

But for the vast majority of applications these don't matter much.

0: https://os9.shop
>There's no colonial endeavor. Jewish people returning to their historical homeland is not a colonial endeavour.

That's crazy because Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, definitely defined it as a colonial endeavour.

You should read his book: "The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question", it's quite enlightening on exactly where this movement began and its historical motivations, which is absolutely the same MO as modern Israel.

Also the notion that people who are over 1000 years removed from a piece of land coming to violently remove current residents from their homes and massacre and imprison them for over 70 years isn't colonialism is absolutely ludicrous. Please seriously think about this sentence again. Think about it hard, like, harder than you've ever thought before.

>Arab expansion in the middle east is a colonial endeavor.

It's clear after you typed these first two sentences that you're probably a genocidal maniac, like approximately 57 percent of the Israeli population who believe that the current amount of force used is still not enough.

>Arab countries recognized the Jewish people's legitimate rights in the region and were looking for peace we'd have peace a long time ago.

There is absolutely zero legitimacy to the Zionist regime.
> There is no way that any sound contract law will grant any weight to the term "implied".

Nobody is suggesting that any law would.

> Either it is written (and agreed) or not.

Yet you managed to infer things that weren't in the post.

> So, I would say anything that is not explicit is meaningless in term of contract law.

Again, where is anybody saying anything to the contrary?
True, and worth appreciating how Humans hit some pretty blunt local maxima that machines have long since suppassed such as land speed or operations per second.
Hosting a few higher CPU requirement video game servers would put you there. Something like 2 dedicated cores, 8-16GB RAM, and 100-200GB Disk for $30/mo.
Why should it be hard to grok? Selection just happens, it doesn't "care" if it's natural or based on human preferences. Even human-free selection doesn't guarantee a long run since genes can paint themselves into a corner (see natural extinctions). Iow, it's what it is.
In all their experiments, backprop is used for most of their parameter though...
Supersymmetry is on its last legs after the LHC didn't find any supersymmetric particles. WIMPs and other dark matter particles are now no longer speculated to be on the menu because they are too light for this energy range.

There's lots of "could" in your own post and your sources. Very little "will" - as in "will test X theory."
A bridge too far atm?

Here's an (intermediate) interpolate:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19643v3

"CUBITT [10]"

E: TIGR- EAB reminds gen++ to choose their parents wisely

The correct and elegant thing, I felt, was to be of gentle birth but to have no money.
When a stock analyst creates a report, they’re doing quite a bit of technical analysis mixed with subjective judgment. An LLM is doing none of that, but guessing what that report might look like, based on no underlying analysis. It’s vibe investing.

I don’t believe this is an appropriate application for an LLM, unless it’s mixed with another program that does some fundamentals analysis based on historical data. That could be interesting.
I was reading this and thinking: "Hey, this person is describing LiveJournal!" and yep... at the very end there Dreamwidth (LJ's spiritual successor)
Because what's motivating our language is a variety of needs, emotions and experiences as social animals. As such we have goals and desires. We're not sitting there waiting to be prompted for some output.
I think it's not a coincidence that they decided to publish on PNAS...
The promise of LLMs isn’t that they appear to be intelligent through mimicry, but that they do understand.
It really really ticks me off too, because it makes multiple watchings much more interesting, and the writing has much more depth.
I take it you missed / didn't read the response immediately above yours where I cited data on malnutrition related deaths in the US?

• Mostafa, N., Sayed, A., Rashad, O. et al. Malnutrition-related mortality trends in older adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020. BMC Med 21, 421 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03143-8
Ah, that must be the research paper that is being referred to by this short video by the paper author: https://youtu.be/azDaPm13CT8?si=Z11qpbjNIwuhxdnB
I used the term "scrapers" pretty loosely, but yes, in many cases they are more bad actors than actual scrapers. However as they say the list may include other sites, I suspect Oxylab adds sites to the list at the site owners' requests (Amazon, Target, etc are likely to be on those lists)
Ask HN: Would you pay real customers for photo/video reviews?
I’ve been frustrated watching brands endlessly email customers for photo or video reviews — most get ignored or end up in spam folders.
So I built https://revuplatform.com:
Customers upload content after using the product
If approved, they’re paid real cash via PayPal
No influencers, no coupons, no fake reviews
I’m curious — would you use something like this if you ran an ecommerce store?
Or do most brands still prefer store credit / automated review apps like Loox or Judge.me?
Feedback, roast, suggestions welcome
Oh your actual concern is showing - Doing manual labour.
If you ignore everything that makes us human to make some sort of analogy between brain activity and LLMs. Let us not forget they are tools we made to serve our goals.
>Corollary: necroing forum threads isn't necessarily bad.

I've always agreed with this. It was usually considered bad etiquette at best on forums, but I never really understood why.
At that rate you might as well force merge, no? That's equivalent to signing off and doesn't make the CI have a false positive signal when it hasn't actually run.
You're conflating symbolic descriptions for the physical stuff itself.