MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-06-28 07:29:13+00:00
To be brutally honest, FortyTwo VC is a low-mid tier early stage investor in the Indian market.

There are better angels and early stage funds in India, but these guys couldn't differentiate themselves in the now increasingly competitive Indian VC scene.

The cream of the crop of early stage startups in India tend to go to YC, Peak XV, some university alumni network programs, Antler, and a couple others.
by gabrieledarrigo | 2025-06-28 07:29:15+00:00
Well done.

I also think that mental clarity comes from a lean, blank sheet of paper, instead of a useless pile of accumulated knowledge. I'm still familiar with the act of deleting, which is liberatory: destroying drawings, writings, trashing things from the past, pictures, and deleting graffiti.

I don't want to be productive, I don't care about being able to access a thought from 7 years ago to do...what? I don't want to summarize, I don't want a stupid LLM to dictate my knowledge. I'm a human being, I change, I forget, I can fail, I'll die, and that's it.
by gsliepen | 2025-06-28 07:30:09+00:00
If you drop the requirement that the image has to be taken with wavelengths our eyes are sensitive to, you could image it using radio telescopes. We already have this capability, the problem though with radio interferometry is that while you can get an effectively huge aperture, the contrast level will be very low, and I am guessing that after subtracting the signal from the star, the signal from the planet will not be above the noise level. Note that optical interferometers would have the same problem.
by tommica | 2025-06-28 07:33:36+00:00
I'd hate to lose the ability of just going back 20 years later and read my own thoughts and ideas, to meet the person I was at that point.

I have a project/idea journal that I've had for over 10 years, and going through it sometimes is really fun. I remember being so proud about my code-generation tool that allowed me to quickly start a new html+css project that I was doing that work as a freelancer. Seeing that page in my journal brings up a smile.
by laughing_man | 2025-06-28 07:35:21+00:00
It used to work because District court justices used to operate within the limits of their constitutional authority. For the most part. National injunctions are a relatively new thing, and certainly the volume of injunctions from such a small number of justices is unique to the second Trump administration.

I am legitimizing Trump ignoring national preliminary injunctions by district court judges, yes. These judges have broken the system.
by notsydonia | 2025-06-28 07:36:13+00:00
I enjoyed reading this but it also made me think I must be a bit weird. Depending on what I'm working on and where I'm at, I keep notes in Apple notes or obsidian, extended descriptions on bookmarks, physical sticky notes, an actual journal and pages files on desktop - barely any of it is tagged and I'd call it 'notes' rather than a 2nd brain but i go through it all every eight-12 weeks, cull what now seems irrelevant and try to act on the rest of it. I should probably learn how to actually use obsidian properly but I still don't get the 'second brain' terminology.
by 1dom | 2025-06-28 07:38:46+00:00
I don't really like this. I think the author let their own personal issues lead to the destruction of knowledge. I relate to the issues, but the nuclear option seems extreme.

They could have just left their library for a bit, there was no need to burn it to the ground.

"I've just lobotomised myself and I look forward to having to relearn everything and doing it all again".

If nothing else, in 7 years time, they'll regret not being able to compare how their new manifestation of internal knowledge anxiety compares to their previous.

There was no need to do this. Please anyone, if you're considering this, just zip them up and put them on a usb or cloud storage somewhere out of the way - that's a lot harder to regret.
by firesteelrain | 2025-06-28 07:39:13+00:00
As I have been saying, courts aren’t not the only avenue to resolve. So what if their strategy is to not appeal? Find another way. Vote, change immigration law, apply political pressure, demand change through democratic means

But certainly don’t use one course of action

Finally injunctions were not envisioned by the Founders. Foreign concept along with circuit court. Only fairly recent
by defrost | 2025-06-28 07:40:01+00:00
Access to Defense sat microwave sensors with ability to map structure inside hurricanes closed down with five days notice.

No indication whether this was budget related (end of financial year), repurposing by military, or denied out of political reasoning as it's "environmental" and on the chopping block.

This view into storm structure comes from sensors onboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites. Those data will no longer be taken up, processed and sent out to the National Hurricane Center or other non-Department of Defense users. The exact reasons for the shutoff are unclear but appear to be related to security concerns.

~ the SciAmer article linked

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) is a United States Space Force program that provides weather, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial data for the Department of Defense. It uses polar-orbiting satellites to gather imagery of cloud cover, and the program's data is used for military planning and operations. The program is managed by the Space Force, with on-orbit operations handled by NOAA. All DMSP data will be permanently suspended on June 30, 2025

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Meteorological_Satelli...

NOAA notice: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2025/06/MSG_20250625...
by gjm11 | 2025-06-28 07:40:18+00:00
On the other hand:

> Every note in Obsidian. Every half-baked atomic thought, every Zettelkasten slip, every carefully linked concept map. (4, though I suppose you could argue it's 1 + 3)

> But over time, my second brain became a mausoleum. A dusty collection of old selves, old interests, old compulsions, piled on top of each other like geological strata. (2, albeit with a 3 inside)

> Instead of accelerating my thinking, it began to replace it. Instead of aiding memory, it froze my curiosity into static categories. (2)

> The inhabitants of the library, cursed to wander it forever, descend into despair, madness, and nihilism. (2 with a 3 inside again)

> It is associative, embodied, contextual, emotional. We do not think in folders. We do not retrieve meaning through backlinks. Our minds are improvisational. They forget on purpose. (4, 2, 2)

I think the author (either in person, or via some LLM that did much of the actual writing) is just fond of this sort of rhetorical repetition, and it happens that if you're doing that then 3 is often the best number. (Because 2 may not be enough to establish the rhythm, and 4 may be enough to feel overdone.)

I do think there's too much of it here, and specifically too many threes, but I think the underlying fault is "too much parallelism" and the too-many-threes are a symptom.
by laughing_man | 2025-06-28 07:43:33+00:00
That last point is where we disagree. It takes many years for a case to wend its way through the courts. We're looking at a world where a relative handful of lower court justices can issue injunctions one after the other until it's impossible for the president to do his job.

There's only one court that has the authority to issue nationwide injunctions, and that's the Supreme Court.
by alwa | 2025-06-28 07:45:27+00:00
I choose to think optimistically, in the same way as I did when smartphones put a camera in everyone’s pocket: suddenly, “bokeh” is a term with purchase in the mainstream! “Portrait mode” for every adorable baby pic! A ring light in every makeshift bedroom-dresser studio!

Everybody’s participating now, and taking pride in using more of the visual language of photography for themselves. That makes us all richer!

Now, then, that the language-bots have sensitized our collective ear to the hypnotic rhythm of a parallel-constructed triplet, the drama of a “—“, and the muscular power of a strong active voice (…that’s three, right?)—aren’t we all richer for it?
by keizo | 2025-06-28 07:45:39+00:00
i like this. complexity bad, delete it! Most pkm, tools for thought, second brain apps confuse me. I drank the coolade with roam research but it drove me kinda nuts I've spent almost 3 years making my own tool. I mostly use it as a paste-bin, todos, lists -- and for the only thing i would never delete, voice notes on funny sayings or interactions with my 3 y/o daughter. my project is over at https://grugnotes.com if anyone else fits the anti note app vibe i'm kinda leaning into.
by motorest | 2025-06-28 07:47:11+00:00
> Possibly because a large number of organisations don't really have a good system for capturing somethings as "messy" as notes.

To build upon this point, there's a problem that writing docs is a thankless job: those who benefit from it do so silently, whereas those who selflessly shared notes later can find themselves involved in issues they have no involvement.

It's a lose-lose situation.
by Ezhik | 2025-06-28 07:49:15+00:00
I don't know about everyone, but I found the whole PKM/second brain "industry" a bit much, I was never able to stick to complex rules and things like atomic notes.

Instead I mostly just write notes with hyperlinks: https://ezhik.jp/hypertext-maximalism/

I like hoarding my notes. I don't actually have to come back to the notes I write unless I need them. Because I keep my system very simple, having lots of notes doesn't weigh on my mind.

My notes are glimpses of my old selves and old interests, but I like being able to trace a line between my old self and my present self. At the same time, I'm not really at odds with my past self - but we all have different relationships with time.
by nobody9999 | 2025-06-28 07:49:53+00:00
IANAL, but IIUC (and I many be wrong) if there is no controversy (e.g., competing precedents in multiple jurisdictions) there's nothing to litigate.

Moreover, assuming that the "winner" of a case has gotten "relief," they no longer have standing to sue.

That said, the issue at hand doesn't include a decision on the merits of a case, but rather what the scope of a Preliminary Injunction (PI)[0] might be.

In the example I used, if a court implements a PI it's to limit the potential harm to those impacted by the harm claimed by the plaintiffs.

The SCOTUS ruling limits the scope of such a PI to just those who are either directly named as parties to the case and/or those within the jurisdiction of the district court.

In that circumstance, there is no set of cases to be consolidated since no trial has been held.

Given a government acting in bad faith, this leaves open the option that those harmed by the action of the government can be detained and moved outside the jurisdiction of the district court. At which point, according the the SCOTUS majority, the government can cause the harm being litigated and anyone caught up in this would need to bring a new case in the new federal district jurisdiction, even though Federal law applies everywhere in the US.

Please note that at the point a PI is granted, no one has "won" anything -- only that the judge has ruled that there is harm (and as such, standing to bring the case) and that those bringing the case are likely to succeed on the merits.

Again, since a PI isn't precedent, and the litigants claiming harm have already gotten relief -- at least until the trial is complete, they have no standing to push anyone to extend the PI to additional litigants in other Federal district jurisdictions, even though the legal question is relevant across all those jurisdictions, as it's Federal action.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction#Preliminary_injunct...
by rpozarickij | 2025-06-28 07:50:49+00:00
I use EAR Classics too. I sleep on a dense pillow, so when there's some noise outside/near the apartment I lay down on the side and put in the earplug into the "top" ear so that the other/bottom ear is then blocked by the pillow. If I change my position during sleep, the noise is usually gone by then (also I tend to be bothered less by noise if I'm already asleep). This is because for some reason I generally sleep better when my ears aren't covered.
Show HN: I open-sourced a $1M engine for closing loops in embedding space
by WFGY | 2025-06-28 07:51:07+00:00
Hey folks, I’m the creator of WFGY — a semantic reasoning framework for LLMs.

After open-sourcing it, I did a full technical and value audit — and realized this engine might be worth $8M–$17M based on AI module licensing norms. If embedded as part of a platform core, the valuation could exceed $30M.

Too late to pull it back. So here it is — fully free, open-sourced under MIT.

---

### What does it solve?

Current LLMs (even GPT-4+) lack *self-consistent reasoning*. They struggle with:

- Fragmented logic across turns - No internal loopback or self-calibration - No modular thought units - Weak control over abstract semantic space

WFGY tackles this with a structured loop system operating directly *within the embedding space*, allowing:

- *Self-closing semantic reasoning loops* (via Solver Loop) - *Semantic energy control* using ∆S / λS field quantifiers - *Modular plug-in logic units* (BBMC / BBPF / BBCR) - *Reasoning fork & recomposition* (supports multiple perspectives in one session) - *Pure prompt operation* — no model hacking, no training needed

In short: You give it a single PDF + some task framing, and the LLM behaves as if it has a “reasoning kernel” running inside.

---

### Why is this significant?

Embedding space is typically treated as a passive encoding zone — WFGY treats it as *a programmable field*. That flips the paradigm.

It enables any LLM to:

- *Self-diagnose internal inconsistencies* - *Maintain state across long chains* - *Navigate abstract domains (philosophy, physics, causality)* - *Restructure its own logic strategy midstream*

All of this, in a fully language-native way — without fine-tuning or plugins.

---

### Try it:

No sign-up. No SDK. No tracking.

> Just upload your PDF — and the reasoning engine activates.

MIT licensed. Fully open. No strings attached.

GitHub: github.com/onestardao/WFGY

I eat instant noodles every day — and just open-sourced a $30M reasoning engine. Would love feedback or GitHub stars if you think it’s interesting.
by esperent | 2025-06-28 07:51:25+00:00
Yes. I never play fancy dress with suits. Formal for me means a nice, comfortable shirt and jeans or other clean trousers. On an average day I wear shorts and sandles because it's damn hot. I wear suits to funerals, and once to a wedding, but even most of the weddings I go to have a "smart casual" vibe them, no full suits required.

I rarely meet with investors or anything like that, but when I do, not dressing up is a test. If they judge me for what I wear, beyond basic cleanliness, we're not a good fit for working together.
Show HN: A Chrome Extension to Hide LeetCode Difficulty Labels and Fight Bias
by sumit-paul | 2025-06-28 07:52:23+00:00
Labels like “Easy”, “Medium”, and “Hard” on LeetCode can unintentionally shape how we approach a problem. For some, “Hard” creates hesitation. For others, “Easy” makes a problem feel not worth attempting. In both cases, it's the label influencing the decision, not the problem itself.

I built a small Chrome extension that hides difficulty tags across the platform. The goal is to reduce cognitive bias and help developers focus purely on the logic and structure of each problem.
by defrost | 2025-06-28 07:53:54+00:00
The sats are designed for earth observation geared towards weather prediction; not just microwave but also multi-spectral bands on a constellation (of unknown number) of polar orbit (orbit time ~hour and twenty minutes or so) platforms.

These would be beefed up modern versions of MODIS and similar sats. This defense source might be a small number of sats that provide "peace time" hurricane coverage by sitting in the one great circle polar orbit track that passes over Florida every time (no precession). The relative sun angle on the ground changes for the sat but microwaves don't care much.

(Note: that's some side brain off the cuff speculation about something else, typically met sats are in Sun-synchronous polar orbits that take a while to pass over the same point of interest again).

It's possible the DoD wants real time high grade weather reports, modelling and predictions under some other great circle track and has sats that can be repositioned.

That aside, there's a wealth of things that can be done with multiband data .. monitoring changes against a normalised base image can turn up all manner of things in a dynamic theatre, changes in croplands can indicate vehicle movements, new and covered over buildings, stuff.
by severnaya123 | 2025-06-28 07:55:54+00:00
The literal translation is "business". But the contextual meaning here is closer to "arrangement/understanding". In India the word sometimes refers to underhanded/corrupt practices (there's a bollywood song where the lyrics go "sab ganda hai par dhandha hai ye", which can roughly be translated as "it's shady work, but that's business")

With that said, I don't really agree with the parent comment here, but I don't know enough about business practices in Dubai so I may be wrong.
by clauderoux | 2025-06-28 07:58:17+00:00
The problem of measuring intelligence is that most of these techniques reveal more about what we think intelligence is in a specific cultural context. Which means that individuals who rank higher in these tests are those who conform the most to a society expectancies. High level of literacy, proper nutrition during their childhood, proper education, help foster better IQ. Which of course leads to a better understanding of how your own society works, hence to a better evaluation of probabilities. If you have grown up in a family with money, you have a much better understanding of how to benefit from your investments.
by melvinroest | 2025-06-28 07:58:43+00:00
So...

I just use Apple Notes and almost never reread my notes. The search functionality is almost always enough to find what I'm looking for. If I really need to dive deep/search deep, then I just open up the SQLite db that's somewhere on my Mac to find a very particular note. That's only needed if I have 100s of notes to sift through.

I guess I don't need to know all the link between what I know?

The reason I write my experience is: I never got it. Why make things so complicated? How do you write stuff up if you're severely sleep deprived but still have a fun thought? I just become a mess of old habits and even can't be bothered to open my Apple Notes so I just WhatsApp my thoughts to myself, to sort it out later what to do with them when I'm not sleep deprived.

Can anyone relate and did they make the switch to something like Obsidian? If so, I'm curious what I'm missing out on or what it is that I'm not understanding.

I'm currently around 2500 notes, I started 2 years ago. I wanted a note taking habit for years, none ever stuck. The Apple Notes habit is the only one that really stuck. It's a very KISS-style approach, on purpose. When it becomes more complicated I can only follow through 50% of the time. Now I can follow through 98% of the time.
by coldblues | 2025-06-28 07:58:49+00:00
Digital notes take an insignificant amount of space, you can just keep them and ignore them, use them when you need to. Deleting them seems to me like neuroticism. Some kind of symbolic gesture for emotional relief. There are a lot of productivity gurus online that will try to sell you a course on the best way to take notes, and perhaps the author has fallen into one of those traps, taking notes of things they don’t have interest in. in a way that does not feel natural and satisfying. I only take notes when I am compelled to. It’s a gut feeling that I rely on. It’s effortless for me to take notes because of it. It provides me comfort and relief knowing that my memories are accessible, and I gladly write them. The author makes some grandiose assumptions that we have to forget. You don’t have to, and neither do you have a choice in it. It’s some kind of idealist way of thinking to justify the author's actions. Seems misguided. Memorization plays an extremely important role in learning, but for those of us with executive function problems, using our notes augments our life for the better. Just as the author talks about how memories work, my notes are just like my thoughts, webs of interlinked notes strung together. A lot of times, I just remember what tags and backlinks I can use to find the information I am looking for in my notes.
by firesteelrain | 2025-06-28 07:59:22+00:00
It is fair to say that the system isn't perfect, but it's functioning the way it was designed

Class certification for the entire United States of those classes of people might be too large. Usually the courts prefer a more narrow class

some people will fall through the cracks in the meantime (and you may not like this answer), but that doesn’t automatically justify expanding judicial authority beyond what Article III or the separation of powers allows

The system without national injunctions is functioning as designed
by vessenes | 2025-06-28 07:59:40+00:00
It's because in the US, you are granted the right to copy (copyright) broadly and under a number of circumstances. The creator is given a right to prevent copying under a limited (albeit very broad) set of circumstances.

Since we have a usage based assessment system on the major chip in the right to prevent copying, "fair use", which by the way is designed specifically for the common good -- enhancing the overall value to society of works that are limited by their creators -- its not about the copying. Its about the usage. Reading by an llm is fair usage in this case according to this judge's early speculations.
by noisy_boy | 2025-06-28 08:00:05+00:00
> Rendering [failed] in red and [passed] in green would achieve the same. It's not emoji vs text. It's color vs no color.

Thats only true for the terminal. When the same output is saved to a file or viewed via a non-terminal interface, the colors won't always be retained but the text/icons will be. E.g. in Jenkins console logs, you need to enable ASCII coloring explicitly to be able to see colored text.
by pedalpete | 2025-06-28 08:03:03+00:00
Thanks for clarifying. I'm a Canadian in Australia.

I think this statement clarifies it for me > The issue isn't whether a single Federal judge can make rulings affecting the nation, but rather that the Executive and Legislative Branches must heed the rulings of the Judicial Branch, regardless of where those rulings originate.

And that makes perfect sense. Thanks for your thorough response.
by motorest | 2025-06-28 08:03:33+00:00
> No, there are entire classes of memory vulnerabilities that are impossible to check with static analysis because checking them is equivalent to the halting problem.

This is the sort of goalpost-moving that lays bare how superficial and misleading these accusations are. You're trying to argue that some very specific types of memory vulnerabilities can't be detected with static code analysis tools. That is different than claiming that it's not possible to detect memory vulnerabilities in languages such as C or C++, isn't it? But somehow this strawman is used to imply that Rust is invulnerable whereas developers using any other language are prevented from ever learning that standard FLOSS compilers support out of the box things such as detecting use of uninitialized variables.

So what is it then?
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-28 08:04:03+00:00
I disagree with the framing here. Sure, the great man theory of history is not wholly adequate to explain human history. But neither is it useless to the point that it deserves to be contrasted with "actual history". It happens often enough that history really does change based on the whims of people in power. Dismissing the great man theory of history out of hand (as I understood your post to be doing, maybe I'm wrong) isn't any better than using it as one's only theory of history.