MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bob1029 | 2025-04-14 10:12:52+00:00
It's not just you.

However, I would say that I've grown to accept that most people prefer these more constrained models of thinking. Constraints can help free the mind up in other ways. If you do not perceive MCP as constraining, then you should definitely use it. Wait until you can feel the pain of its complexity and become familiar with it. This will be an excellent learning experience.

Also consider the downstream opportunities that this will generate. Why not plan a few steps ahead and start thinking about a consultancy for resolving AI microservices clusterfucks.
by graemep | 2025-04-14 10:13:04+00:00
> Relatively, yes. In aggregate, the rich pay the lion’s share of taxes in the West.

Depends on your definition of rich, your definition of "lion's share" and where in the west.

In the UK 18% of government revenue comes from national insurance - which is an income tax only on earned income, and charged at a higher rate on people in lower tax bands.

Another 17% is from VAT. Yes, rich people will buy more stuff subject to VAT, but a much lower proportion of their incomes, and it falls a lot as incomes go up. I would guess it pretty much plateaus for the super-rich.

About 4% comes from council tax, which is per household with an adjustment for the value of the property you live in, and a that adjustment if far from proportionate and there is a maximum level that is far below the typical value of the residences of the rich. There is a penalty for owning multiple houses for personal use. Again, would plateau at some point.

About another 5% comes from fuel and tobacco alcohol duties. Rich people might have bigger cars, but they are also more likely to have EVs, and they do not drink more alcohol AFAIK and are less likely to smoke.

Only 23% comes from income tax which is the only clearly progressive tax - and that becomes less clear when you leave for exemptions and the greater ability of the rich to avoid it.

It would take a detailed analysis to figure this out.

Sources:

https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-key-questions/where-does-go...

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
by pjmlp | 2025-04-14 10:13:13+00:00
As gray dog around the prairie, had Microsoft actually been serious with POSIX subsystem on Windows NT/2000, instead of some marketing material and low level effort, GNU/Linux adoption would never taken off, at least not at a level that would have mattered.

With OS X on one side, and POSIX subsystem on Windows NT/2000 side, everyone would be doing their UNIX like workflows without thinking once to try out GNU/Linux.

At my university we only cared about Linux on its early days, Slackware 2.0 days, because naturally we couldn't have DG/UX at home, and that POSIX support was really unusable beyond toy examples.
by yccs27 | 2025-04-14 10:13:29+00:00
I had two close calls: One time my down tube developed a large crack, starting from a faulty weld to to the head tube. Luckily, the lost stiffness made the bike start wobbling so much that I got off to inspect it. On the replacement bike, they didn't tighten the Hollowtech crank arm enough, so it slowly slid off over a few months and finally fell off. I'm glad that I was away from traffic and in my saddle at the moment it happened, so I could just walk the rest of the way home and put the arm back onto the crankshaft.
Show HN: Copyto.me – I made a better way of copying things to yourself
by silleknarf | 2025-04-14 10:14:40+00:00
I built an app to copy things to yourself and retrieve them using a simple mnemonic.

*How it works:*

- Paste anything → Get a mnemonic (e.g., "cake").

- Use the mnemonic later to retrieve your content on another device.

- No logins, no setup.

*Why not use [Pastebin](https://pastebin.com/)?*

> Pastebin is a great service but it doesn't offer really short mnemonics to easily retrieve your content. Also, copyto.me can preserve your formatting.

*Is this a rip-off of [magic-wormhole](https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole) / [webwormhole.io](https://copyto.me/webwormhole.io) / [wormhole.app](https://copyto.me/wormhole.app) / [instant.io](https://copyto.me/instant.io)?*

> This tool is optimized for convenience, so certain tradeoffs are made at the cost of privacy.

Example advantages vs wormholes:

1. The mnemonics are shorter.

2. Both devices do not be connected to the tool at the same time.

3. Rich text is preserved.

Disadvantages:

1. The mnemonics are guessable.

2. File transfers aren't supported (yet?)

Try it for free here: https://copyto.me

More info on mnemonics and tech stack is in the FAQ: http://copyto.me/faq.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-14 10:15:46+00:00
The oranges he used were very ripe. Lately small oranges like tangerines have been very ripe for me. Sometimes when they are out of season they are borderline green, or actually have visible green on them, or are basically yellow. When they are so unripe, the red/orange bag makes a HUGE difference in how they look, it's night and day.
by xyst | 2025-04-14 10:16:30+00:00
What’s there to "dEcOdE"? They received a mega shit ton of seed investment, super aggressive acquisition/acquihire strategy, monopolized the market (so to speak), then gets gobbled up by big G for a $32B (G cut so many jobs to get the leverage necessary to fund this acquisition).

Could G have _competed_ in the same space without Wiz? Yes.

Could other cloud providers have done the same from a first party perspective rather than rely on a shitty third party product suite? Yes.

"Journalism" like this make me lose faith in this industry. There’s no "secret sauce". There’s nothing special. It’s the same old tired formula that billionaire class have been using:

1) extract as much value from labor

2) prep company for unicorn by getting investor buddies in an investment frenzy

3) buy up other smaller companies to appear bigger

4) then wait for some fossil at big tech to take the bite and reap massive returns for the bois

This is more of a finance bro piece to be honest.
by ahofmann | 2025-04-14 10:16:56+00:00
It does. But scaling to billions of users (or billions of requests per day) is still not easy and you really need high performance for that. Laravel scales to a certain point, where their design decisions (eloquent, the queuing system etc.) are still working.

That said, with today's PHP it is possible to optimize the hot path pretty well with stuff like FFI.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-14 10:17:43+00:00
Some oranges, especially the ones you find in Asia or at Asian fruit stands, can be completely ripe and still completely green. The ones sold in US stores are almost all sour and unripe if they are green (almost always but not always). Different regions in the world 'know about' different citrus fruit (there seem to be a lot of overlap and a lot of non-overlap with fruit), so your mileage may vary. Reddit claims this is because of the temperatures: https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/16ca895/why_are_th... It's fun to go to fruit stands when traveling and try the fruits you don't recognize! Lots of fruits are very different if you travel to countries where they can grow them natively, and there are a lot of tropical fruits that aren't exported. Lots of the English words for fruits are re-used so you can be eating something totally unrecognized and it's a "tree cherry" or something.

For example, what they call a lime in a lot of countries (for example Calamansi) would be called a tiny orange in North America (we don't have that fruit here). What we call a lime they wouldn't recognize, but if they saw/tasted it they might think it's a green lemon or something.
by cometapi | 2025-04-14 10:18:14+00:00
In 2025, OpenAI's GPT-4o has revolutionized the creative landscape by enabling users to generate images reminiscent of Studio Ghibli's iconic animation style. This development has sparked a global trend, with social media platforms flooded with AI-generated Ghibli-style portraits and scenes. However, this surge in AI artistry also raises questions about authenticity, ethics, and the future of human creativity.
by Retric | 2025-04-14 10:18:49+00:00
> Therefore saying it's "suspicious" is as stupid as saying there is "solid evidence".

Hardly, I find quantum mechanics suspect without having a better option. I’m not saying there’s any kind of conspiracy or anything and sure it fits the experiments we have done. Yet, I suspect most people who actually learn the details have similar reactions it doesn’t fit our experience. Sadly the universe doesn’t care it it seems consistent to us.

There’s a deep cultural divide in the US to the point where people have trouble remembering how close support is for each party. Because politics is so regional it’s easy for each side to overestimate how popular that side is. Imagine living in a county where 80% are voting for one side and almost all roadside posters are supporting one candidate. Suddenly the other side winning just doesn’t fit everyday experience.

When either side wins a huge number of people will find it suspicious, that’s just how our heuristics and pattern matching work. A historian looking back on 2020 and 2024 isn’t going to find the election results odd because wider forces definitely favored the winning side in those elections, but people today don’t have that separation. Thinking there’s widespread and obvious fraud is different.
by mhast | 2025-04-14 10:20:08+00:00
You could do that. But then you need to explain to the LLM how to do the work every time you want to use that tool.

And you also run into the risk that the LLM will randomly fail to use the tool "correctly" every time you want to invoke it. (Either because you forgot to add some information or because the API is a bit non-standard.)

All of this extra explaining and duplication is also going to waste tokens in the context and cost you extra money and time since you need to start over every time.

MCP just wraps all of this into a bundle to make it more efficient for the LLM to use. (It also makes it easier to share these tools with other people.)

Or if you prefer it. Consider that the first time you use a new API you can give these instructions to the LLM and have it use your API. Then you tell it "make me an MCP implementation of this" and then you can reuse it easily in the future.
Show HN: I made the first booking platform for digital nomads
by FabianMartin | 2025-04-14 10:20:21+00:00
I love the nomad life but it comes with its downsides. For me the constant research has become a bit tiring. Finding the next city / country to stay in is fun and there's a lot of good tools for that but the rest just feels like a chore at this point:

- Finding the best neighborhood that's fun, safe and affordable - Finding the right accommodation that fits my preferences - Potentially adding a co-working space or a gym - Making sure these aren't too far from each other - Fitting everything in my budget

So I built a booking platform that does it for you. It's a passion project of mine but I thought it might be useful for others too.

Here's how it works:

- Helps you find the best area for you - Creates a package of accommodation + gym + co-working space - In budget - In walking / driving distance - You can swap out each individual part as you like

I got some positive initial feedback from other nomads and spent the past 6 weeks expanding to 130+ cities in over 70 countries. It now has over 70k hotels, 50k gyms and 10k co-working spaces.

I hope this can be a useful resource for other nomads and help save you some time that you can spend traveling instead.
by Panzer04 | 2025-04-14 10:21:11+00:00
Printing money to pay debts is inflationary.

Every dollar printed is a dollar stolen from the collective citizenry of the USA. Of course it makes sense to add money supply commensurate with increased productivity, so that money doesn't deflate, but go beyond that and that is what your are doing.

Either way, someone has to pay the debt, even if you repudiate it.
by muzani | 2025-04-14 10:22:48+00:00
Google laid off the Flutter team. They still seem to be releasing Flutter announcements but it's slow.

One big part of Flutter was that it was a hedge against Java lawsuits back in the day. The other was that it was experimenting with some mobile code, like designing it around lifecycles and all the async UI. But now the same paradigms have been adopted by iOS and Android.

Unlike BE, mobile moves quite quickly too; the last few years have been deprecating a lot of things like push notification security and file access. Mostly to deal with dark patterns. So a platform that isn't in active maintenance tends to fall apart quickly like we've seen with many mobile libraries, Cordova, etc.
by matsemann | 2025-04-14 10:22:53+00:00
I think most people I know in the cycling community actually is quite aware. But we're enthusiasts. Daily someone post a picture of some crack in the frame and people discuss if it's into the carbon or only superficial.

A common problem I've seen, where it's invisible damage, is rust on the handlebars below the bar tape. Especially bikes used on indoor rides during the winter where you sweat much more than on an outdoor ride, corroding the material below.

But honestly, I don't think this is where cyclists should be the most concerned. Separate infrastructure, lower speeds of passing cars etc will do a hundred times more in reducing risks and injuries.
by mcny | 2025-04-14 10:24:52+00:00
Thank you for proving how hard it is to get across to people. I don't want to discourage home ownership. On the contrary, I want home ownership to be easier. However, that requires homes to be abundant and cheaper.

We can't have both:

1. Cheap, affordable housing for everyone

2. Housing as a stable investment that keeps going up in value forever

One of these two has to give.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-14 10:26:52+00:00
In my wealthy European "cycle friendly" city, they put one of the main cycling lanes that goes downhill to the city center, between trams, cars and cubes of rusted steel with 90 edges. Every time I have to cycle through there I get Final Destination flashbacks.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/iq1b5uub7fVx8ez1A
by hnbad | 2025-04-14 10:27:26+00:00
> Through the entirety of human history you'd keep working for the same employer for your entire life

Just looking at the Western world that breaks down during industrialization and falls apart if you go further back then that, journeymen (i.e. tradesmen who had completed their apprenticeship) would often literally travel from town to town for several years to work under different masters before submitting their work to a guild for evaluation and becoming masters themselves. I guess you could say serfs worked "for the same employer" because their feudal lords owned them as part of the territory but that seems like a stretch.

It's not so much that employees used to "keep working for the same employer for their entire lives", it's more that the people running and operating businesses used to be part of a local community and there used to be an understanding of a shared responsibility beyond private property claims.

This isn't something employees can change, either. Even employers aren't really able to change this because they too have to operate in the same economic system that contributes to this effect. It's probably more extreme in the US (and some places in the US more than others) but the economic system does not care for such sentimentalities and a business that does will put itself at an economic disadvantage, especially where the social fabric has already been sufficiently eroded to avoid bad optics (e.g. WalMart arguably failed in Germany because its attitude to employees felt extremely off-putting both to workers and consumers at the time but that resistance may have been eroded by the behavior of other companies since to the point where it would no longer make them stand out the same way if they tried to re-enter the market now - economic changes making this unfeasible notwithstanding).
by thorin | 2025-04-14 10:28:41+00:00
I think this is fairly commonly understood in the UK/Europe at least where they tend to mandate this rubbish. Surely the law should just state that Necessary only is the default... On some sites you have to drag 10s-100s of sliders to turn off all of the optional cookies. This is a good way of knowing a site I don't want to visit!
I created my first product demo video using only free-tier tools
by krzysztofg_12 | 2025-04-14 10:28:48+00:00
Finally made a product demo video — without spending much or showing my face :-)

I’m a solo dev. A while ago, I built a Jira Marketplace App that turned into a small side project with a few paying customers. For years, I wanted to make a demo video to help explain what it does, but I kept putting it off. Mostly because I didn’t really know how to start — and I didn’t want to spend hundreds on software.

Last week, I finally did it using free-tier tools: HeyGen for AI avatar, ElevenLabs for voice, CapCut for editing, and the Windows Snipping Tool for screen recording.

If you’re doing everything yourself — building, marketing, support — this setup might save you some time. Happy to share how I did it.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-14 10:29:34+00:00
It sure fucking seems like it is! Have you tried to buy early stock in startups? You have to have 10K minimum in most cases.

I’d have bought huggingface, openAI, anthropic, unsloth, and many others stock right at this moment if I could get in for less than 10K.

Prove me wrong internet. I’m ready to buy in these companies this minute.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-14 10:30:16+00:00
Similar thing happened to me, after almost 27 years, but my company was a great deal more respectful, in the way that they did it. I left on the best of terms; which is extremely rare, with layoffs. To this day, I still have a lot of respect for my old company.

Also, the writing had been on the wall, for years. I was quite prepared.

What I wasn't prepared for, however, was my post-layoff treatment by the modern tech industry. That was an eye-opener.
by sgt101 | 2025-04-14 10:30:25+00:00
This is what torpedoed the first AI Assistant push in the late 1990's and early 2000s (see electric elves as an example). Basically we thought that personal travel assistants and open trading platforms would be cool things, but then discovered that content aggregators a) had a business model and b) could offer vertical integration and bulk buys, & discounts to goods providers and consumers, while also policing the platform. So we got Expedia and Ebay.

There is a more fundamental problem as well. Multi-agent systems require the programmer of the agent to influence the state of the agent in order that the agent can act to influence the states of other agents in the system. This is a very hard programming task.
by xcodevn | 2025-04-14 10:32:36+00:00
Author here: (1) We didn't remove the stddev term. (2) We use token-level loss (every token has the same weight), which is very similar to what Dr. GRPO does. However, we compute the mean gradient per token, while Dr. GRPO computes the sum. Typically, these are equivalent. However, since we're also doing gradient accumulation over micro-batches to reduce memory usage during training, this led to a bug in our implementation: it gives more weight to tokens in short sequences than to those in long sequences.

Interestingly, this is the same bug that most open-source LLM training frameworks (such as HF Trainer) had and only recently fixed.

In short, I'm working on a quick fix, after that, using sum or mean should yield equivalent results.

P.S. Fixed!
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-04-14 10:34:29+00:00
I think this can largely be solved with good UI. For example, if an MCP or tool gets executed that you didn't want to get executed, the UI should provide an easy way to turn it off or to edit the description of that tool to make it more clear when it should be used and should not be used by the agent.

Also, in my experience, there is a huge bump in performance and real-world usage abilities as the context grows. So I definitely don't agree about a negative correlation there, however, in some use cases and with the wrong contexts it certainly can be true.
by hnbad | 2025-04-14 10:34:31+00:00
Corporations like Google certainly encourage a focus on in-group relationships between employees to reduce churn (i.e. increase stakes for disgruntled employees who might consider quitting). The entire idea of having scheduled leisure activities, daycare, laundry services, etc all provided either by the company or facilitated through the company encapsulates current employees and gently excludes former employees, which likely helps reduce their ability to spread or air negative sentiments following their departure (which apparently can be fairly rapid, which also means fired employees will be stunned and possibly in shock for the limited duration where they may still have access to other employees directly).

There's a reason the "employee retention" behavior of companies like Google and Facebook during the web 2.0 craze was often compared to actual cults.
by damnitbuilds | 2025-04-14 10:35:37+00:00
I worked a at large European company. They announced there would be layoffs. But not who, just the date. On that date, they came round during the day, tapping people on the shoulder, who walked out of the room and were never seen in the office again. Grown men were crying, who weren't even let go.

I never felt good about that company ever again.
by ayushkcs | 2025-04-14 10:35:38+00:00
Intro: Ex-YC Engineer @ Tennr (W23) | Former SDE Intern @ Neuralix Inc. | Senior Undergrad (Class of 2025)

Location: New Delhi, India

Remote: YES (Worldwide)

Willing to Relocate: YES

Technologies: Python, Django, Django DRF, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Docker, Git

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fjRDe08C33KmQSXJqm4wp31Crpq...

Email: kayush2k02@gmail.com

Ps: Recently completed a work trial with Mercor — one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the Bay Area.
by aa-jv | 2025-04-14 10:35:42+00:00
I've heard this said .. admittedly, deep within the bowels of many a coffeeshop .. of marijuana.

Basically, weed rewards us for its continued safe domestication.

Try as I might, I cannot find a way to disprove this theory. The more I test it, the more it seems absolutely correct.

The same of course, is true of coffee and tobacco, albeit the means of domestication differ in magnitude and effect in each case.

The jury is still out on Triffids, however.
by coldtea | 2025-04-14 10:37:17+00:00
>Its mostly hailed as a great artsy movie, that general audiences find super boring

You make it sound like some obscure arthouse. It's one of the most influence movies of all time, art design and worldbuilding wise.

It just didn't catch on at the box office in its time. Way more serious and slower paced movies have been big hits, so it's not being "artsy" that's the problem.

Sci-fi wasn't much of a win with adults at the time, and unlike Star Wars this was an adult oriented movie.

>Nobody hails bladerunner for its pacing.

You'd be surpised.
by ajross | 2025-04-14 10:37:22+00:00
Rising federal bond yields make them a better investment, more or less by definition, unless you're genuinely worried about default.

But that said, I don't think (again, sort of definitionally) there is a "best strategic hedge" in the face of a trade war. In trade wars everyone loses. You can't meaningfully bet against a shrinkage of the global economy in aggregate.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-04-14 10:38:33+00:00
It's got all the hallmarks of a piece written by AI. Lots of purple prose, adjectives where they add no information, bullet lists, etc. All this sits alongside banal content like "[Wiz] Use colors and designs to signal reliability in a high-stakes industry."

It may have been lightly edited & enriched by a human, but most of this article was written by an AI.