MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ultrarunner | 2025-06-23 20:16:51+00:00
This is an interesting point, but I wish the delivery wasn't so snarky. There probably are a number of issue of specialization that I wonder about now; is building bridges in an earthquake zone a solved problem at this point, or does it require additional focus that could justify some of the time and money cost. Similarly, desert ground can move a surprisingly large amount through heat and rain cycles; are similar challenges faced in places like Arizona and Texas for more ground-based infrastructure?
by Zacharias030 | 2025-06-23 20:17:02+00:00
This is changing rapidly.

Google announced they are serving 500T tokens per month. State of the art models are currently trained with less than 30T tokens. Even if training tokens are more costly to run (eg, a factor of 3x for forward, backward, and weight updates, and take another factor of 2x for missing quantization), you end up in a situation where inference compute dominates training after a very short time of amortization.
by liurenju | 2025-06-23 20:17:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a tool that lets anyone spin up a dedicated online store in minutes—just by uploading product images. The idea is to make launching a store as frictionless as possible, even for non-technical users. The backend uses AI to generate product details, set up the storefront, and handle hosting and analytics automatically.

We’re in open beta and would love honest feedback from the HN community. Here are a few example stores generated by the tool: - Trailblaze Outfitters (https://trailblaze-outfitters-07642ad3.selltosky.app/) - TechSphere (https://techsphere-d2e066c1.selltosky.app/) - Nordic Nest Interiors (https://nordic-nest-interiors-6904e5b0.selltosky.app/)

Would really appreciate any thoughts, critique, or questions. If anyone wants to try creating their own, I’m happy to share the beta link!

Thanks!
by xienze | 2025-06-23 20:17:10+00:00
> When the company employs designers on a permanent salaried basis, those designers must make changes in order to assure their continued employment.

I don't think it's exactly this, but it's close. Every so many years you have a new crop of talent rotate in and someone wants to make their mark and shake things up in order to be promoted. Rinse and repeat.
by whycome | 2025-06-23 20:18:08+00:00
> In this symbiotic relationship, bacteria take up real estate on the spider’s exoskeletons, and in return, the microbes convert carbon-rich methane and oxygen into sugars and fats the spiders can eat

Doing all the work. Microbes get no respect.

But also, can we attach these to natural methane producers? (Eg decomposing stuff or cows)
by ysofunny | 2025-06-23 20:18:18+00:00
but what is the difference between a shoddy toy model and a real world pro "rigorous research"?

it's like asking between the difference between amateur toy audio gear, and real pro level audio gear... (which is not a simple thing given "prosumer products" dominate the landscape)

the only point in betting when "real AGI" will happen boils down to the payouts from gambling with this. are such gambles a zero sum game? does that depend on who escrows the bet??

what do I get if I am correct? how should the incorrect lose?
by harmmonica | 2025-06-23 20:18:26+00:00
I don't think I'm missing it. I won't rehash a bunch of my comment history on Waymo, but if Tesla can actually do this, without the costs Waymo has, it'll be quite the coup. And as others have pointed out, Tesla already has all the manufacturing in place and though I'm super doubtful they'll offer a "hire your car out" service anytime soon (or ever!) having the whole vertical offering and using fewer sensors puts them at a distinct advantage from a margin standpoint so they could conceivably offer rides at a significantly lower price than Waymo.

Obviously the "if Tesla can actually do this" is doing a lot of work here! I would not surprise me if they had a crash sooner than later and that scuttles the whole thing. But it's also possible that doesn't happen and this works. Or at least I'm not smart enough to know for sure that it won't.
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-23 20:18:31+00:00
You should note, that Republicans only decided to go after artificial colors after the industry had already solved this "problem" for a hundred other countries.

Meanwhile, all this hubbub over "artificial" vs "natural" colors is fucking nonsensical. Very very few of the "artificial" colors have some evidence of maybe causing some harm from chronic exposure. Not that you should have chronic exposure to any of these foods in the first place since the sugar and fat and salt content alone is unhealthy and will cause you significant chronic health problems unless you exercise for a couple hours a day.

But it doesn't matter whether a chemical is produced by some process in nature or some process in a lab. What matters is how the human body reacts to it. Do we have tomes of evidence that eating "natural" colors is actually safe? No, we do not. Most of them are just GRAS (Generally recognized as safe, which is an outright misnomer) and therefore have no evidence of any safety other than "We used in the 50s so whatever".

Nevermind that "natural" food dyes aren't even! To make "natural red #4" involves taking large amounts of carminic acid from some bugs and reacting that with aluminum or calcium salts. In fact in the US, you can do pretty much whatever you want to a naturally sourced chemical and still call the product of that chemistry "natural".

Replacing well studied, simple, dyes with less studied dyes just because a core part of their chemistry was able to be sourced from """Nature""" is utterly stupid and pointless and meaningless. What actually matters is replacing ingredients that show some toxicity to chronic exposure with ingredients that have significant data to show they are not chronically toxic. There's no structural system in "natural" dyes to actually do that.

This push will not stop Dupont from extracting curcumin from turmeric, massively modifying it to make it easier for an industrial process to use without fouling up their equipment, accidentally make it cancerous after you eat it for 20 years, and poison us all with a "natural" chemical for decades.

"Natural" has no structural overlap with "Isn't unhealthy". Organic Ricin will kill you just as dead.
by duxup | 2025-06-23 20:19:14+00:00
I can't imagine any justification for any government device that should be secure to have anything on it but the bare minimum software and the device in whatever hardened mode it has.

If they visit the White House, government facility ... should go in a locker.

I worked for a company that sent people onsite to government contractors. One contractor we rarely visited was at a facility where you arrived at the front gate in your rental car with your ID, keys, and equipment you needed. You were told if you brought anything else expect to lose it.

They took your ID and keys at the gate, searched the car, you were blindfoled and they escorted you to the location of the equipment. If you had to go to the bathroom your were escorted (all the way...). You left with the clothes on your back.

We went through a lot of laptops, but ... that place was secure.
by larkost | 2025-06-23 20:19:23+00:00
Just a warning in case others run into it: on very anemic systems (e.g.: AWS T2.micro running Windows, yes... I know...) uv will try to open too many simultaneous downloads, overloading things, resulting in timeouts.

You can use ent ENV variable UV_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS to limit this. In my case it needed to be 1 or 2. Anything else would cause timeouts.

An extreme case, I know, but I think that uv is too aggressive here (a download thread for every module). And should use aggregate speeds from each source server as a way of auto-tuning per-server threading.
by chriswarbo | 2025-06-23 20:19:35+00:00
> such a workflow supports all tools

Well, it doesn't support anything that we want to actually run on the remote. TRAMP isn't just about files: M-! in a TRAMP buffer will execute the command on the remote; M-x shell will start a shell-mode session that's running on the remote; and so on.

Also, TRAMP remotes don't need to be other machines; e.g. the `sudo` remote lets us open local files with sudo permissions. It's nice to use the same mostly-transparent approach to access other machines, other users, containers, etc.

Also, multi-hop remotes would be more painful to manage without TRAMP, e.g. Emacs will open a path like `/ssh:bastion|ssh:other-machine|sudo:/etc/foo` will open an SSH connection to `bastion`, and from there will open an SSH connection to `other-machine`, and on there will open the file `/etc/foo` using sudo privileges. Again, all the TRAMP goodies like M-! will work as they normally do :)
by kube-system | 2025-06-23 20:19:39+00:00
> nothing to do with security and everything to do with avoiding even the possibility of the appearance of backroom dealing or production avoidance in the event of subpoena

But that is a concern of information security.

Compliance is often part of this calculus, and many on this forum get wrapped around the axle thinking it's always about cryptography or something. Encryption is only a small part of the broader practice of information security.
Show HN: Generate beautiful UI, every time
by tscepo | 2025-06-23 20:19:52+00:00
I built a UI design agent that iterates on its own like a human designer, going from wireframes to polished designs and variations.

Main features:

1. You get 20 designs for free.

2. You get visual renders within seconds, so you can actually track how the design is progressing.

3. Unlike existing tools, the AI iterates and creates variations on its own, massively increasing both visual and functional design quality.
by perihelions | 2025-06-23 20:20:01+00:00
It goes up to 1,344 °C with Li, I think—it's a very different engineering space from the stuff on Earth.

The Soviet ones used K (or maybe NaK eutectic); there's a ring of potassium metal dust around the Earth people track by radar (highly reflective)—a remnant from one of them exploding.
by jorvi | 2025-06-23 20:20:06+00:00
It wouldn't have taken less hardware resources, because would you look at that.. we find h264 hardware decode even in bottom-of-the-barrel mobile CPUs. Pure CPU and even GPU decoding of video codecs is enormously expensive powerbudget-wise.

Not to mention the fact that a mobile radio would have to be kept on high power constantly to pull in that 1Gbit/s stream.

You can be snarky all you want, it was a terrible move by Google.

;)
by globular-toast | 2025-06-23 20:20:07+00:00
Actually not true. One of the main differences with uv is you don't have to think about venvs any more. There's a talk about it from one of the authors at a recent PyCon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV8KRvWKYDw (not the same talk I linked elsewhere in the thread).
by jgon | 2025-06-23 20:20:34+00:00
It doesn't get a hold, because, again, culturally it is very hard for it to take hold. Just like your other response that says "well we should just start enforcing existing laws", the problem is that by the time you get into defining a nuisance in the face of some profit-oriented rules lawyer, or getting bylaw enforcement some breathing room in their workload from the 10000x other calls they have regarding bylaw infractions, you're downstream of the underlying cause and just trying to bandaid things up as best you can. You don't need nuisance based bylaws if people are starting out from a mindset of not wanting to be a nuisance to their neighbors, and Japan probably has bylaw enforcement and its probably really great, but it doesn't just get enforced by magic it gets enforced because they likely have a much smaller workload than exists for bylaw enforcement in my area, and that smaller workload is serviced by a number of people that is probably more sustainable as people generally don't constantly try to oppose any sort of taxes collected and so the department has sufficient funding that isn't at risk of being continually cut every civic election cycle.

On and on up the chain I could go, turning this comment into a wall of text as we work our way up the cause and effect ladder until we ultimately arrive at the things a society values, aka its culture. Its ultimately all downstream of a society and culture that either is constantly looking for a loophole to grab whatever profit there is in a desperate race to the bottom, winner-takes-all struggle, or a society that prizes something different.
Show HN: CodePrism – an AI-generated code analysis engine as MCP
by milliondreams | 2025-06-23 20:21:16+00:00
I wanted to see how far I could push the idea of autonomous software development. So I ran a (slightly reckless) experiment: Could an AI build a real, working code intelligence tool entirely on its own — without any human code?

Over the span of a week — mostly while I was doing my day job — I let a custom AI agent (built with Dragonscale) design, write, and document a full static analysis engine from scratch.

No human-written code. No human-designed features. Just the AI, asking itself questions like:

"What tools would help me understand a repo?"

"How should I explain a function’s purpose?"

"What format should I use to talk to another AI?"

It came up with 18+ tools for explaining symbols, tracing data flows, detecting patterns, and analyzing complexity. It writes natural-language summaries and exposes a full JSON-RPC 2.0 interface via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

The result: CodePrism — a fully AI-generated, LLM-integrated static analysis server.

I’ve been using it inside Cursor, Copilot, and VS Code — and surprisingly, it works. It gives me ~10x faster insights into unfamiliar Python codebases, and often surfaces subtle structure I would've missed.

Links: Homepage + blog: https://rustic-ai.github.io/codeprism GitHub repo: https://github.com/rustic-ai/codeprism

This is still an experiment. No guarantees. It might break. But it’s also kind of fun. If you're curious about the boundaries of AI-autonomous tooling, check it out — and feel free to get involved (no code PRs, please ).

Happy to answer questions and share more about the setup, agents, or architecture.
by tptacek | 2025-06-23 20:21:45+00:00
Right, so stuff about how terroristic Hezbollah is/was isn't motivating to me. I'm not more OK with strikes on Hezbollah because they were "terrorists"; they were a military force, the largest in Lebanon, operated by Iran, launching a continuous stream of rockets (several per day) into Israel. By any normal standards, an act of war by Iran.

I don't think "acts of war" mean much in real statecraft; there's no referee, things are what people say they are and outcomes are determined by military and economic power. But anyone going down that path has to recognize the hole Iran dug for itself here. They didn't have to do any of this.

But the people of Iran, for very obvious reasons, do not like the real leadership of Iran, and Iran does a lot of things just to keep that leadership structure intact.

Finally, and super-importantly: I think HN is just a weird place to have these kinds of discussions, and I'm very sure nobody who's angry at me about my takes on these things know what I actually believe about any of this stuff --- and why should they? What I believe about any of this is immaterial. Like every nerd, I'm motivated to comment when I see something I "know" to be wrong; that's all that's happening on these threads.

In this particular thread, I only appeared because I think the GBU-57 is a very goofy munition. I had previous to last week thought it was like some ultra-explosive "close as you can get to nuclear without being nuclear" kind of weapon. But nope, it's just a normal bomb strapped to a giant anvil. That's weird! Seems HN-y to comment on.

(But now I'm here and I see things like "the SL of Iran has declared nuclear weapons Haram" and, like, I'm not going to let that fly past! But also: not pretending there's anything useful about this discussion. If it's annoying to you, stop engaging! That's what I'm doing.)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-23 20:23:07+00:00
> Your argument was buying a productive asset useful for the business. My argument is that’s a prediction which may be false, you suggesting no they are just randomly buying steel is losing your argument upfront.

You implied that they could just buy something that isn't a productive investment and then claim it as a business expense to defer the taxes. Which they could, but why would they when they could make more money by purchasing a real productive investment? Whereas if it is a real productive investment then the government benefits from the increase in the tax base.

The relevant question isn't the yield they're getting -- they already have the incentive to maximize that on their own -- it's whether they want to invest it or spend it to begin with.

> Leverage is based on loans generating assets that can be invested.

Loans are often used when you can get a lower interest rate to borrow money than the expected returns from an investment opportunity. The yield there isn't the loan principal -- that all has to be paid back -- it's the difference between the rate of return and the interest on the loan.

The difference is relevant exactly because of what deferring taxes does to that math. If your effective compounding rate is 10% rather than 6.7% and the loans available to you are at 8% interest (or any other number between 6.7 and 10), the difference determines whether it makes sense for you to make the investment.
Show HN: SanctionSnap – free 250 sanctions checks via API
by sbjartmar | 2025-06-23 20:23:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I kept seeing teams pull CSV sanction files every day, so I built *SanctionSnap*.

*What it does* - One REST call checks a name against 10 live lists (OFAC, UN, EU, UK, AU, CA, CH, JP, SG, plus a large PEP set). - Data refreshes daily. Typical response: ~150 ms. - Free tier: 250 calls a month, no card.

*Quick test*

```bash curl -X POST "https://sanctionsnap.com/api/search" \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name":"Vladimir Putin"}' | jq

Docs, pricing, and a web console (upload CSV/XLSX, filter, export) live here: https://sanctionsnap.com/docs

I’d love your feedback on: 1. Matching quality—missed hits or false positives? 2. Filters you need (country, program, etc.). 3. Anything that blocks adoption in your stack.

Thanks for reading!
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-06-23 20:24:39+00:00
We’re here.

Claude Code with API key, ran me like $100 in 4 days.

Makes their $100/mo plan a screaming deal. I’m getting 26 days a month free!!!

Go back six months ago and ask me if I’m likely to pay $100/mo/user for any new service. It would have been… unlikely.
by diasf | 2025-06-23 20:24:40+00:00
Pretty terrible of them to do meetings with IYO, see the product and then start a new company with very similar name?? What reason do they have to do something like this given the enormous resources they have? It feels that in the last 10 years more and more startups have started embracing the win-at-all cost strategy which was previously reserved for big tech players like MSFT?
by meowkit | 2025-06-23 20:25:00+00:00
Zero knowledge proofs + blockchain stream payments + IPFS or similar based storage with encryption and incentive mechanisms.

Its still outside the overton window (especially on HN), but the only way that I’ve seen where we can get the benefits of big data and maintain privacy is by locking the data to the user and not aggregating it in all these centralized silos that then are incentivized to build black markets around that data.
by floxy | 2025-06-23 20:25:16+00:00
Solar sails for the near term:

https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI?si=AzuL-NZ6JYJ71Rpj&t=883

...which might get up to 22 AU per year. And then in the future: laser-pushed light sails:

https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-23 20:25:41+00:00
It doesn't matter if they "pay taxes" if they cost more than they put in.

If I make $36k/yr doing the kind of string together mcjobs you do at that income level, pay $0 in effective income taxes, pay 10k of consumption taxes and I cost the taxpayer $20k in benefits then the state is $10k in the hole per person who lives that way. You multiply these people and the result is obvious.
by sgt101 | 2025-06-23 20:25:51+00:00
>If that is true, you have a proof that the Church-Turing thesis is false.

We're talking the physical version right? I don't have any counter examples that I can describe, but I could hold that that's because human language, perception and cognition cannot capture the mechanisms that are necessary to produce them.

But I won't as that's cheating.

Instead I would say that although I can't disprove PCT it's not proven either, and unlike other unproven things like P!=NP this is about physical systems. Some people think that all of physical reality is discrete (quantized), if they are right then PCT could be true. However, I don't think this is so as I think that it means that you have to consider time as unreal, and I think that's basically as crazy as denying consciousness and free will. I know that a lot of physicists are very clever, but those of them that have lost the sense to differentiate between a system for describing parts of the universe and a system that defines the workings of the universe as we cannot comprehend it are not good at parties in my experience.

>For this to be relevant, you'd need to show that there are possible sensory inputs that can't be simulated to a point where the "brain" in question - be it natural or artificial - can't tell the difference.

I dunno what you mean by "relevant" here - you seem to be denying that there is a difference between reality and unreality? Like a Super Cartesian idea where you say that not only is the mind separate from the body but that the existence of bodies or indeed the universe that they are instantiated in is irrelevant and doesn't matter?

Wild. Kinda fun, but wild.

I stand by my point though, computing functions about how molecules interact with each other and lead to the propagation of signals along neural pathways to generate qualia is only the same as tasting beer if the qualia are real. I don't see that there is any account of how computation can create a feeling of reality or what it is like to. At some point you have to hit the bottom and actually have an experience.
by gabrielruttner | 2025-06-23 20:25:52+00:00
yes, similar and we've been toying around with some feedback to have a `pickaxe.memo(()=>{})` utility to quickly wrap small chunks of code similar to `useMemo`.

we'll be continuously improving docs on this project, but since pickaxe is built on hatchet it supports concurrency [1]. so for a chat usecase, you can pass the chat history to the top level agent but propagate cancelation for other message runs in the session to handle if the user sends a few messages in a row. we'll work an example in pattern section for this!

[1] https://docs.hatchet.run/home/concurrency#cancel-in-progress
by danudey | 2025-06-23 20:25:58+00:00
Trump admin is trying to prevent the banning of asbestos, and undo the regulations that have been banning it. Trump seems convinced that "it's all fine, actually" and policy is being based around that, but the catalyst seems to be that the Biden era finalized the last ban on the last type of asbestos still being used (which would take up to twelve years to take effect anyway).

It wouldn't surprise me at this point if the Trump administration started rolling back regulations on lead pipes and enforcing minimum cadmium concentrations in tobacco.
by tpurves | 2025-06-23 20:26:54+00:00
Well, lifeforms on earth are all pretty dependent on being water based, and water in the liquid state specifically. Maybe there is a possibility of exotic life based on some other types of chemistry and/or phases of matter. But the fact that earth happened to form in this particular goldilocks zone for water-based life is probably why that's the only life we can see for now.