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Model inference, model products, and AI applications

https://frontierai.substack.com/p/model-inference-model-products-and
2•cgwu•3m ago•0 comments

Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/trump-admin-dismisses-endangered-species-list-as-hotel-ca...
1•voxadam•3m ago•0 comments

Embarrassingly parallel workloads on AWS without the infrastructure overhead

https://docs.coiled.io/examples/batch-gdal.html
1•scj13•4m ago•1 comments

You can try to like stuff

https://dynomight.net/liking/
1•gregorymichael•5m ago•0 comments

How humans became upright: key changes to our pelvis found

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02734-0
1•rntn•5m ago•0 comments

Logless Raft

https://will62794.github.io/distributed-systems/consensus/2025/08/25/logless-raft.html
1•we6251•5m ago•0 comments

Programmable Web Apps

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/programmable-web-apps
1•bko•5m ago•0 comments

PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued

https://social.treehouse.systems/@pine64/115027515081143369
2•fsflover•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Penny for Your Thoughts

https://www.pennyforyourthoughts.ai/
2•vvoruganti•7m ago•0 comments

Researchers Show Single

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/08/430551/protein-slows-aging-brain-and-we-know-how-counter-it
1•_alternator_•8m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare and Browserbase: Pioneering Identity for AI Agents

https://www.browserbase.com/blog/cloudflare-browserbase-pioneering-identity
1•noleary•9m ago•0 comments

What Are Best Firefox Alternatives and Which One Should Zorin OS Have Chosen?

https://galdoon.codeberg.page/en/posts/firefox-pessimo-alternativas/
1•QuantumTaco74•9m ago•0 comments

The Vibe Coding Paradox: Why You Need to Be a Better Developer, Not Worse

https://www.ksred.com/the-vibe-coding-paradox-why-you-need-to-be-a-better-developer-not-worse/
3•indigodaddy•11m ago•0 comments

Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms
2•meetpateltech•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HN: AI-powered email campaigns that convert leads

https://ugenify.com
1•CeresBroker•15m ago•0 comments

China Is Eating the World

https://apropos.substack.com/p/china-is-eating-the-world
4•sg5421•15m ago•0 comments

Young Men Are in Crisis: and They Think Trump Is the Answer

https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/young-men-are-in-crisis-and-they
5•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Anyone deployed MongoDB Vector Search at scale, or is open source good enough?

1•carmagio•18m ago•0 comments

Fuck Google for taking an AI-generated medium article as a reference

https://www.google.com/search?q=are+there+any+open+source+excel+xlsx+library+for+node+js+that+sup...
1•michaellee8•19m ago•1 comments

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

https://danwang.co/breakneck/
2•mooreds•20m ago•0 comments

Professional Chaos Theory

https://katieparrott.substack.com/p/professional-chaos-theory
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VAERS DuckDB Database

2•yehosef•21m ago•0 comments

ESETResearch has discovered the first known AI-powered ransomware

https://twitter.com/ESETresearch/status/1960365364300087724
1•monista•21m ago•0 comments

The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome

https://debramaymacleod.com/blog/the-last-vestal-virgin-and-the-fall-of-rome
2•thomassmith65•21m ago•1 comments

Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/
2•thunderbong•22m ago•0 comments

Bidirectional Signals from the Emitter's Perspective in PHP

https://medium.com/@MortezaPoussane/a-new-observer-pattern-bidirectional-signals-from-the-emitter...
1•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud

https://www.theverge.com/news/767522/microsoft-word-automatic-document-save-cloud-default
2•mikece•25m ago•1 comments

Krea announces a real-time video model

https://twitter.com/krea_ai/status/1961074072487620635
1•dvrp•26m ago•0 comments

Google Labs Stax – End-to-end eval made simple

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/streamline-llm-evaluation-with-stax/
1•bajames•26m ago•0 comments

Deep dive into Kubernetes admission control

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/kubernetes-admission-control-534baab1
3•sagikazarmark•26m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

US to put economic data on 9 blockchains

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/us-puts-gdp-data-on-the-blockchain-in-trump-crypto-push
21•imaginaryunit01•2h ago

Comments

imaginaryunit01•2h ago
See previous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031689
msgodel•2h ago
How is this an improvement over just publishing the data on the web so we can wget it? Which is how it works now.
RiverCrochet•2h ago
I guess the data can't be altered if it's on a blockchain unless a 51% attack on the network occurs, right? Along with the data would be signatures or something similar of who entered the data, so if foul play is suspected, blame can be assigned.
yasp•2h ago
Crypto apps running in eg smart contracts will be able to interact directly with it and trust it, rather than needing to trust a third party oracle that retrieves the data externally.
sniffers•1h ago
They asked how it would be an improvement. You've described how it would be different...
yasp•1h ago
It improves one flow without affecting another. You might not like what it improves but it does improve something.
sniffers•42m ago
You haven't articulated how. You've explained that it is different but not what end goal that enables that actually improves anything.

Like, I can store this data on a server in a yaml file and that would be different. But it wouldn't improve anything. Taking an action and using a technology are not improvements in and of themselves.

glitchc•1h ago
All third-party oracles are simply contracts on other blockchains. The new blockchain is yet another third-party oracle for the contract to interact with.
LargeWu•2h ago
Only possible thing I can think of is they won't be able to just pull down data that is "not aligned with the current administration". I'm not sure that would be an intended side effect, though.
imaginaryunit01•2h ago
“The plan is to put a so-called cryptographic hash of the data — essentially, a tool to verify its integrity — on those blockchains.”

Seems like you could get away with a centralized signing mechanism - am I missing something?

miltonlost•1h ago
Blockchain is a buzzword technology, mostly, for grifters. This administration is corrupt and grifting. Don't look for coherent positive policy. Does this produce chaos, unnecessary churn, and slow down the economy/government? Then it's doing what the administration wants: nothing good.
morkalork•1h ago
No. Whenever someone starts to pitch blockchain as a solution I check this flowchart to see if they're full of shit. Never fails!

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad-Chowdhury-14/p...

IsTom•1h ago
> am I missing something?

Probably just money-laundering through crypto tokens.

scroot•1h ago
It's not an improvement.
hedora•1h ago
Maybe because Trump can’t fire the blockchain if number goes down?

My guess is that he’s not quite dumb enough to take that capability away from himself.

I predict an article detailing all the technical/security flaws about a week after the implementation details are public.

delfinom•1h ago
It's misdirection. They are planning to intentionally publish false data. They are going to say LOOK ITS CRYPTO IT CANT BE CHANGED.

And they are going to poker face it.

slipperydippery•1h ago
Yeah this is entirely pointless.

You can put anything "on a blockchain" but the cases in which that does anything useful versus any of several simpler and cheaper solutions are fairly narrow.

JumpCrisscross•1h ago
“American Bitcoin, the bitcoin miner backed by two of U.S. President Donald Trump's sons, has locked in crypto and traditional investors to back an all-stock merger that will allow the firm to soon start trading on the Nasdaq, the company's largest investor said.”

It aims “to start trading in early September” [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/american-bitcoin-...

bdcravens•1h ago
The conspiracy theorists like to posit that the data is changed over time.
Workaccount2•2h ago
No details on the implementation, but something like this would be great, because currently the fastest way to find out if an economic data print is good or bad is to watch the stock market, and then the numbers turn up in the news and tweets ~2 minutes later.

It's not clear where (and maybe not easily accessible) to get these numbers at -exactly- the moment they release.

baron816•2h ago
WTF are you talking about? All this data is freely available on government websites such as https://www.bls.gov/ and in easily downloaded formats. Putting it on the blockchain is pointless.
longitudinal93•1h ago
Putting it into a public blockchain prevents it from being altered after the fact.
miltonlost•1h ago
Revisions to initial economic data is common, though, once other slower statistics are compiled into a final GDP/CPI number. The initial month-over-month or QoQ are estimates.
elil17•1h ago
So does archive.org
slipperydippery•1h ago
Is that an actual problem we've had?

Nb announced revisions aren't a problem at all, and not one that "blockchain" prevents anyway (you can publish new stuff on a blockchain, no problem)

bogwog•1h ago
Do you think the government would be able to get away with altering data after the fact? If they released it, someone downloaded it, and would be able to easily spot changes. It could even be (and probably is) automated.

And either way, what does the blockchain offer if the government comes out and says that some previously published numbers were incorrect, and they publish new ones? You'll have two competing versions of the same data, with one considered obsolete because the government says so.

And none of this matters if they're altering the data before publishing.

blitzar•1h ago
Why alter it when you can call it fake news and fire the person who published it and hire a new person who is commited to "Fair and Balanced" data*

*data is for 'entertainment' purposes only - Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual data is entirely coincidental.

xenophonf•1h ago
It doesn't prevent altering the data before it gets published, though. Garbage in, garbage out.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5432523-trump-fi...

Workaccount2•1h ago
In my experience it takes a few minutes for the website to update. It comes off like there is a hidden API to request the documents, and then everyone else gets it once the front-end website finishing propagating the update or something.
rco8786•2h ago
> It's not clear where (and maybe not easily accessible) to get these numbers at -exactly- the moment they release.

This is all publicly available to everyone at the exact same time. How do you think the market is moving in response, if this info is not available?

Workaccount2•1h ago
Because the website doesn't immediately update. The blockchain approaches something dynamic, where the update is broadcast to everyone at the same time, not just broadcast to those who know where to ask for it at the right time.

It seems similar to people who harvest the URL of a product before launch, so they don't have to wait for the slow website.

JumpCrisscross•1h ago
On what planet does putting these data on a blockchain hinder insider trading?
blitzar•1h ago
> if an economic data print is good or bad is to watch the stock market, and then the numbers turn up in the news and tweets ~2 minutes later

I can get the number on the internet within a fraction of a second. Back when bots were allowed on twitter I could get it faster than bloomberg.

Workaccount2•1h ago
It should just be served up to anyone who is actively listening at ~8:30:000. Exactly like what a blockchain would do. Broadcast a new block to everyone at the same time.
blitzar•1h ago
A bit oldskool but go retro and try a tv "broadcast" ... anyone who is actively listening at 8:30:000 gets it served to them.

I am getting strong "tech bros invent the bus in 2025" vibes. Putting Founder, CEO, Cereal Entrepreneur on your linkedin bio doesnt make you instantly a genius.

Workaccount2•1h ago
I'm not pushing for a blockchain, I'm pushing for any other way than it is currently done.
blitzar•55m ago
You are right it is not a bus.

Its a vehicle that holds idk like 20 people or maybe even a bigger one that holds 100 or so. It will go from one point to another, along a pre-determined route, stopping at designated places along the way. People can get on and off at any one of the places it stops at.

Its reimagining the way we travel, its going to change the world. A similar thing is in the works that goes on fixed metal rails, the details havent all been figured out yet nor what to call it, but expect exciting news soon.

josefritzishere•1h ago
You can use blockchain with fake data. The problem isn't chain of custody. It's that the source of truth in American financial data has been compeltely undermined and lacks legitimacy.
DevX101•1h ago
Yup, the president just fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner when unfavorable jobs numbers were released.

Blockchain does absolutely nothing to address this trust issue.

barbazoo•1h ago
It’ll be good enough probably for his base.
DevX101•1h ago
His base doesn't read BLS reports.
barbazoo•1h ago
Exactly. It’s all a mirage. They read the headline and think something positive has happened. They’ll get a little dopamine and forget about it.
JumpCrisscross•1h ago
> They read the headline

I doubt even this.

bdcravens•1h ago
It's all smoke and mirrors: leave enough small truths within the lie, and double down on them.
ratelimitsteve•1h ago
verifying data hasn't been tampered with is useless if you don't trust the original source, and no one in their right mind would trust this data.
mason_mpls•1h ago
If it’s not open source, it’s fraud in disguise
lordofgibbons•1h ago
Even if it's open source but a single entity/foundation has full control of the blockchain, it's a fraud in disguise.
lifty•1h ago
The reason why this is useful is for DeFi applications that are blockchain native. If an applications needs to rely on the economic data, it will be able to use it natively without using an oracle. This doesn't improve the integrity of the data or replace the old ways of getting the data, just makes it more accessible to the blockchain ecosystem.
xenotux•1h ago
So... how is it useful? You're trading one oracle for another. Either of these oracles can be manipulated or compromised.

I think one could argue that it's more elegant from the point of view of blockchain maximalism. But I don't quite understand the utility in any other sense.

barbazoo•1h ago
Sounds like a database with an API would have done the trick. Slap a MCP server on top and you can use it with AI and people would have been ecstatic.
blitzar•54m ago
If you are raising funds I am in for 10mil at a valuation of 1B.
imaginaryunit01•57m ago
The 9 blockchains: “Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, TRON, Stellar, Avalanche, Arbitrum One, Polygon PoS, and Optimism.”