MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hungryhobbit | 2025-05-12 22:26:08+00:00
There's no fork because there's no need for a fork.

If the WordPress idiot was like "I'm going to make WordPress worse, and I don't care what anyone thinks", there would be a fork. But that's not what's happening. What's happening is that one WordPress host (the official one) is miffed that other hosts aren't paying a tax for the use of (100% open source) software.

That makes the guy in charge an idiot who doesn't understand OSS, and his idiocy is helping to destroy his entire company ... but he's just being a bully: he's not hurting anyone's use of the software.

Ergo, no fork.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-05-12 22:26:12+00:00
I mean, kind of? You can't really start any kind of trade business without credentials (other than low-paying under the table work for people who don't care).

You can't stop someone from doing electrical repairs on their own home but if the house burns down as a result, the homeowners' insurance will probably just deny the claim, and then they risk losing their mortgage. Basically, if you make it bureaucratically difficult to do the wrong thing, you'll encourage more of the right thing.
by hiatus | 2025-05-12 22:26:14+00:00
There's a limit though right? How about, if you can accurately predict the doctor's diagnosis it's free? If not you pay. This person needed a doctor's approval presumably for a prescription they couldn't get without authorization which leads to this gatekeeping. Not to mention also contributes to the insane medical costs in the US. $93 for 5 minutes is over 1k _an hour_ for what amounts to a rubber stamp (because how much can you really dig into a person's medical history and condition in 5 mins).
by const_cast | 2025-05-12 22:26:24+00:00
Women just partake in less risky behavior, period.

One fun example of this is gay bars versus lesbian bars. Lesbian bars are exceedingly rare. Some previous owners have talked about it, but it boils down to:

1. Women don't have the same rate of alcoholism as men. Gay bars are fueled in large part due to men's substance abuse issues combined with higher rates of substance abuse in gay men.

2. Women don't seek sex with people they barely know like men do, and particularly gay men. Well, there goes the allure of the lesbian bar.

Women die less, drink less, smoke less, do crime less, everything.
by standardUser | 2025-05-12 22:27:11+00:00
I used to sell acid in the 90's and I couldn't even guess at the actual content of LSD per hit we were selling. Every sheet or vial was different, and if my dealer was ever telling me "X micrograms" I probably ignored it the same way I ignored every drug dealer's marketing pitch. For us, it came down to understanding the amount of this particular acid needed for a trip. I've taken 5+ hits at a time that were weaker than single hits from different origins.
by scubbo | 2025-05-12 22:27:17+00:00
It is true to say that "a bad thing with an extra bad thing is worse than just the original bad thing", yes. If there exists a market for imaginary trading cards whose value is loosely predicated on how well a company markets itself (rather than on how much value it actually creates in the world), then I agree that it's desirable for that market to exist with as few capitalist hoarders as possible. So, yes, the absence of "corrupt middlemen" is a good thing, and a market without them is better than a market with them.

But an even better outcome is for the whole damn edifice to cease to be.
by makeitdouble | 2025-05-12 22:27:50+00:00
> Slack is just a messaging application.

I kinda like this angle. While Slack makes an effort to work basically everywhere with low effort, I wonder what would follow if it wasn't the case.

For instance if for some stupid legal reason Slack was banned from macos, how many people would just switch to another OS ? I'd bet it would be a non trivial amount of users at this point.
by devnullbrain | 2025-05-12 22:27:55+00:00
The inaccesibility for mere mortals ruins any claim it has to being a representative of brutalism, IMO. Of course it looks nice, it was made by the City of London at eyewatering cost with absurd levels of craftmanship. The movement wouldn't have such a bad image if other buildings had that kind of budget for upkeep and gardening. But they don't: they're rotten and barren.
by bityard | 2025-05-12 22:28:15+00:00
I wonder if they vary in quality by location? I've stopped into ours at least a half-dozen times and never found anything interesting.

We _used_ to have a warehouse-sized second-chance store for home items and building materials. It was run by the city and all items were donated. Prices on most everything was very reasonable and all the funds went towards running the store and maintaining the city's other recycling programs. It was great. Every time I went in there, I came out with something awesome and only a slightly lighter wallet. (Generally tools or lumber.) Unfortunately, they shut it down at the start of COVID for unclear reasons and never reopened.
by haswell | 2025-05-12 22:28:45+00:00
> To the extent that further improvements to AI remain economically useful, "let's do these other things first" means your economy trails behind those of whoever did work on the AI.

The major question is: at what point will unaddressed climate change nullify these economic gains and make the fact that anyone worried about them feel silly in retrospect?

Or put another way, will we even have the chance collectively enjoy the benefits of that work?
by rvz | 2025-05-12 22:28:59+00:00
> If you think AI is “smart” or “PhD level” or that it “has an IQ of 120”...

It's not there yet, it's still learning™, but a lot of progress in AI has happened recently, which I would give them that.

However, as you point out in your newsletter already, there are also lots of misleading and dubious claims alongside too much hype in the hopes to raise VC capital which comes with the overpromising in AI as well.

One of them is the true meaning of "AGI" (right now it is starting to look like a scam), since there are several conflicting definitions directly from those who benefit.

What do you think it truly means given your observations?
by theultdev | 2025-05-12 22:29:31+00:00
OP didn't qualify the statement "This is exactly why I think software engineering should require a licensing requirement".

No mention of PII or any specifics.

SWE already has regulations. I see no need for a license requirement...

Concerning PII, it's kind of hypocritical for the gov to regulate when the NSA was proven to be collecting data on everyone against their will or knowledge.
by neilv | 2025-05-12 22:29:44+00:00
An additional trick for handling some kinds of suspected scam eBay buyer problem reports, which has worked for me multiple times...

I ask the buyer to double-check, saying that if there's still a problem, I'll refund their money and ask the Postal Inspector to investigate how the problem could've happened.

Whether it works because the person is sure to go and double-check, and thereby realizes an honest mistake, or because the complaint wasn't honest to begin with, I can only guess.
by bgnn | 2025-05-12 22:30:21+00:00
I agree, forgetting happens naturally. For example, it would be pretty difficult to produce vacuum tubes now. But I doubt this is applicable for CMOS technologies. Most of the steps down to finfets (TSMC 16nm) are rather well known. Yes we don't know the exact recipe of TSMC, Samsung or Intel, but it's not like alien technology. I read technical papers from all these fabs regularly and it's more open than what would people expect. Of course they keep their secrets too, for the cutting edge. There's so much knowhow out there that it's quite probable we can get there again in a short time if TSMC vanished fron earth all of a sudden.
by reissbaker | 2025-05-12 22:30:44+00:00
Ah, I hadn't realized that. Still, given that it was 3-0, all three of the former FTC commissioners would have had to be unanimous against deferral — and given that all of them voted for deferral on Jan 19th [1] (the original deadline, when none had been fired and Lina Khan was still onboard) — I don't think there's much change here.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/10/ftc-delays-enforcement-of-...
by throwaway314155 | 2025-05-12 22:31:16+00:00
Are integrations hooked into via their MCP implementation? Or are you hooking in more traditionally and then exposing MCP on top of that?

Also, are these one-time/event-based syncs well supported by the integration providers? I know for instance that discord (and i assume others like slack) frown upon that sort of wholesale archival/syncing of entire chat rooms, presumably due to security concerns and to maintain their data moats.

Finally (i think), do you have to write custom "diff" logic for each integration in order to maintain up-to-date retrieval for each one? I assume it would be challenging to keep this accurate and well structured across so many different integration providers. Is there something i'm missing that makes keeping a local backup of your data easier for each service?

All in all, looks very cool. Have starred the repo to mess around with tonight.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-12 22:31:21+00:00
> Why, as someone from England — with arguably the best football league in the world — would I want to watch American Soccer? I don’t even watch the English league.

So you're the type that doesn't watch the Special Olympics I take it? MLS is the geriatric retirement league for super star players, or the not quite good enough to play in the other leagues league. One season, I tried to get into MLS. At one point I tried using a stop watch to clock how much time the ball was out of play in MLS compared to "real" leagues, and it was close to 20% which is not far away from amateur kids level of play.

I don't blame you for not liking the MLS branding. However, I'm guessing they paid a couple of shiny coins for that privilege, so they're naturally going to try to do anything to recoup that money
by jbl0ndie | 2025-05-12 22:31:37+00:00
Every detail of the Barbican is a joy. Even the skirting board where the wall meets the flooring is gently curved, making it a easy to clean.

Another fun Barbican fact is their Garchey System for waste disposal.

The wet food waste is collected communally and taken away by custom-built tanker vehicles that connect to the holding tanks. https://www.barbicanliving.co.uk/barbican-now/garchey/the-ga...
by CuriouslyC | 2025-05-12 22:32:14+00:00
You can, but Aider is designed to work in a console and be interacted with through limited screen real estate, whereas cursor is designed to be interacted with through a full screen IDE. Besides the resource consumption issue, Cursor's manual prompts are hard to interact with when the window is tiny because it wants to try and pop up source file windows and display diffs in an editor pane, for instance.

When we're managing 10-20 AI coding agents to get work done, the interface for each is going to need to be minimal. A lot of cursor's functionality is going to be vestigial at that point, as a tool it only makes sense as a gap-bridger for people that are still attached to manual coding.
by hiatus | 2025-05-12 22:32:19+00:00
Are there regulations regarding doctor's working hours similar to say, truck drivers? I found this [1] article which states doctors are limited to 80 hours a week whereas truck drivers are limited to 70 hours in a 7 day period. [2]

[1] https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/duty-hours-and-patient-safety

[2] https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/Dri...
by freyfogle | 2025-05-12 22:32:19+00:00
I lived there for three years, rented a flat. Living in the Barbican was fantastic, livign in my flat was not fantastic. I used to joke it was a time machine to 1965. There was not only no dishwasher, there was literally no space for a dishwasher. Day one that seems funny, a few days later less so. I was spending a fortune in rent to spend 30 minutes every day handwashing my dishes. I did know people who had bought and renovated, they had amazing places. Oddly on my hall of 10 there were 10 flats of which 4 were empty. I don't mean someone just came occasionally I mean 100% empty with no furniture, with rich people just using it as an investment. Overall though was a greart experience, it's a fantasic place.
My little script turned into a Profitable SaaS
by MoJony | 2025-05-12 22:33:57+00:00
I made my first SaaS a few months ago, getting the first users has been super hard, I tried posting in Facebook, discord, reddit and more communities, in places where I know my target audience is, knowing my SaaS solves a real problem they have.

Posts were removed by mods, ignored due to self promotion, and gained no traction generally.

I switched strategies, I started actively engaging with the target audience, offering advice not strictly related to my SaaS and pitching it where it fits, this actually worked I got my first users from reddit, and as redditors are they were passionate about their niche and therefore my product.

I kept at it for a few weeks but it was time consuming, endless scrolling, searching, sifting through threads to find ones I fit in to.

So as a dev, I saw the problem, broke it down, and automated it. I made just a small script made it in a couple of days, let it run on my pc and collect leads while I'm at work and asleep, I took inspiration from F5bot which I tried using but gives poor results, I got email notifications throughout the day about people having a problem I'm solving.

This worked well, I started getting way more users and also paying users. but I loo at my little script and I think, this is super useful, surely others could use it too!

I set it to market itself, find conversations about struggling to market, quickly I get a few leads, message them, they are interested. I modify my janky script to be able to handle different users with different needs and this is my beta, users are happy!

behind the scenes, my computer randomly turns off or python exits, the "robust lead finding system" aka my janky script is down for hours because I am sleeping and didnt put it back up

But users are happy, they give positive feedback and say its something they would pay for!

Fast forward a few months, CrowdWatch (Totally not cloud watch) is born! a truly robust system, microservices deployed on AWS, no longer a janky garage script.

Best of all, it practically markets itself! Meanwhile my original project, its still getting users even though I've neglected it long ago, my comments on reddit stay forever and people searching on google for help and finding those threads reach my solution

Anyway that's my story I hope it gives other Indie hackers some motivation!

If you want to check out the project its free to try here https://crowdwatch.tech

Feel free to ask any questions about reddit marketing or building a SaaS solo, I am not an expert but I got my hands dirty and I have some mild success that I am proud of, I'll be happy to help!
by ben-schaaf | 2025-05-12 22:34:44+00:00
> It might also be a push to get developers to publish on the App Store (where Apple can be more sure (hopefully) that the apps are safe).

Apps on macOS need to be signed and notarised. Apple has the exact same capability to scan for malicious behaviour and revoke your keys regardless of how you publish. We all know the real reason they want to push apps towards the app store.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-05-12 22:35:10+00:00
We could probably stand to stop treating software engineering like some holy calling for geniuses only and start treating it for what it is: a skilled trade that can be regulated and accredited like all the rest of them. It's really not a wild idea and it wouldn't stop kids (or anyone, really) from learning on their own. My parents taught me how to use tools as a kid and I learned how to fix my own toilet, but I didn't decide that made me qualified to go start plumbing professionally without apprenticing first.
by tweetle_beetle | 2025-05-12 22:35:12+00:00
I'm not sure how to feel about most of those these days. They are iconic and I'm glad that experimental ideas actually made it to completion, but ultimately they have failed at reimagining life for ordinary people.

In the cases of the buildings, over time their value has increased faster than an average dwelling in the vicinity, making them more exclusive and restricting access to those higher and higher up the socio-economic ladder - effectively turning them into gated community without the residents needing to feel the guilt of living behind physical gates.

The buildings are still there, and they have inhabitants, but the investment potential has long outlived any philosophy. I guess you could argue there are some secondary effects from their influence, but I wonder how the architects would feel today.

See also Park Hill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Hill%2C_Sheffield
by wizardforhire | 2025-05-12 22:35:27+00:00
Haven’t read the article yet, yet alone the paper but based on what you’ve quoted these are ongoing challenges with regards to confinement. Think tokamak vs stellarator. Magnetoplasmahydrodynamics is hard because you have all the complexities of the navier-stokes combined with Maxwell and thats just scratching the surface. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions has never been so sinister as in plasma confinement. Orbital perturbations quickly lead to turbulent instabilities which lead to containment breach which can lead to multi-million degree hyper velocity jets tearing a hole through your multi-billion dollar toy in seconds.
by palmotea | 2025-05-12 22:35:47+00:00
This has a ton of holes:

> Z-Day + 15Yrs

> The “Internet” no longer exists as a single fabric. The privileged fall back to private peering or Sat links.

If you can't make CPUs and you can't keep the internet up, where are you going to get the equipment for enough "private peering or Sat links" for the privileged?

> Z-Day + 30Yrs

> Long-term storage has shifted completely to optical media. Only vintage compute survives at the consumer level.

You need CPUs to build optical media drives! If you can't build CPUs you're not using optical media in 30 years.

> The large node sizes of old hardware make them extremely resistant to electromigration, Motorola 68000s have modeled gate wear beyond 10k years! Gameboys, Macintosh SEs, Commodore 64s resist the no new silicon future the best.

Some quick Googling shows the first IC was created in 1960 and the 68000 was released in 1979. That's 19 years. The first transistor was created in 1947, that's a 32 year span to the 68k. If people have the capacity and need to jump through hoops to keep old computers running to maintain a semblance of current-day technology, they're definitely f-ing going to have been able to repeat all the R&D to build a 68k CPU in 30 years (and that's assuming you've destroy all the literature and mind-wiped everyone with any knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing).
Show HN: I built ThumblifyAI to generate scroll-stopping YT thumbnails with AI
by alizaid | 2025-05-12 22:36:13+00:00
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by nradov | 2025-05-12 22:36:15+00:00
It's also disappointing that the LLM would falsely claim that a low-fat diet is "great for overall health". That claim has been thoroughly debunked in the scientific literature (or at least not supported by evidence-based medicine), and yet the recommendation still keeps popping up. While there are certain specific types of fats that can be problematic, in general a moderate amount of fat is fine as a macronutrient.
by bigyabai | 2025-05-12 22:36:15+00:00
And to NSO Group's delight, they don't review SMS messages or Safari contents either. The "curated security" shtick is a lie, it does not protect anyone and doesn't function reliably in the first place. Both targeted malware and generic scams are rampant and unrestrained on iOS. Many of them are promoted as iPhone Search Ads, or suggested Siri results.

The knock-on effects it has are even worse. By relying on this game of shuffling private entitlements around, Apple has less incentive to actually review what developers are doing with them. Look at the Uber iPhone app's screenrecord permissions, or when TikTok stole iOS clipboards.

Apple uses "secure" review as an excuse to not review apps or secure their runtime.
by wubrr | 2025-05-12 22:37:42+00:00
I mean, it really depends on what you're trying to diagnose/do. Yeah, a math PhD might have spent a decade+ studying the subject. Doesn't mean I need to pay for their skills instead of using a calculator/program to solve my math problem.

> Why you think an AI could do better than a human at that is beyond me.

Why do you think an AI couldn't do better than a human, when we have ample evidence of computers/AI exceeding humans in many areas?
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-05-12 22:37:54+00:00
Just recently learned I should be installing mac apps into my home directory Applications, not the system Applications (as every single app installer suggests). Of course, only makes sense for a single-user machine.

If I downgrade myself to a non-admin user, and install apps into my home Applications, then I'm not bothered by permissions requests from apps to update themselves. Almost all of them can just do it, on their own, with non-admin permissions. The only exceptions I've found are Tailscale and other stuff that needs higher level OS integration.

Edit since upvotes: Non-admin user operation was recommended by the Pareto Security app, see info on this specific item: https://paretosecurity.com/mac/checks/not-using-admin

All Pareto security checks: https://paretosecurity.com/mac/checks

App: https://paretosecurity.com/mac and https://github.com/paretoSecurity/pareto-mac
Show HN: Open-source AI code review agent that's aware of your entire codebase
by msukkarieh | 2025-05-12 22:38:10+00:00
Hey HN!

I'm one of the cofounders of Sourcebot, an open source alternative to Sourcegraph. Sourcebot lets you index thousands of repos across multiple platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), and gives you a powerful interface to search across them. You can learn more in our original HN launch post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711032

We just added an AI code review agent that reviews your PRs and automatically detects issues that a human reviewer may have missed. We've been using an AI code review agent for a few weeks now, and it regularly catches issues that we would've merged to prod.

The review agent automatically fetches relevant context from code you've indexed in Sourcebot to provide accurate reviews. We’ve found that fetching this context is critical for the LLM to provide meaningful suggestions.

Would love any feedback if y'all get the chance to try it out! We're planning on expanding the context fetching capabilities to support: - Fetching definitions from function calls in a code snippet - Fetching all usages of a function across all your repos to ensure proper usage patterns - Any other code context fetching y'all think would be useful!

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