MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by furyofantares | 2025-06-24 17:20:23+00:00
I can see the value if I'm connecting to MCPs other people have written. Or sharing MCPs for a team.

As a solo dev though, I don't know of any MCPs that are really valuable to me that aren't more valuable exposed as a commandline tool. I have an "imagine" tool that creates/edits images and audio with various services available to it and guidance on how to use it, I have a "think" command that allows claude or (scripts claude or I write) to use different LLMs for different things and with a library of prompts for specialized tasks, etc. I don't have a kagi command but tbh that sounds useful and I may write a little wrapper for it so I can have it from the terminal too, rather than use an MCP.

(None of this is a complaint about MCP btw - just not sure if I'm missing anything that would make it also useful to me right now.)

Something I am interested in, is if claude code would do better with access to a language server. I love how claude produces most of it's diffs by string replace, rather than producing a diff and using an "apply model" like cursor does; but it seems it would be better off if it could "go to definition", "find references", and "rename" rather than use grep etc.

I do see one project in the list you linked to that seems like it's going for that. Although again I'm not sure if that's better than having a language server cli available.
by quickthrowman | 2025-06-24 17:20:28+00:00
1.5% back on the purchase via CC rewards beats earning 1% over 3 months (4% yield) in a HYSA every time, anyone using BNPL is using them suboptimally.

For a 3 month BNPL loan to be worth it, HYSA rates must be over 6%, and actually a bit more due to the time value of money; you get CC reward cash after the statement period but it takes 90 days (and up to ~120 days) to get three monthly interest payments.
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-24 17:21:05+00:00
The why is that plastic is an extremely convenient, cost effective way to make lots of things. And the evidence that it was deleterious to human health was negligible.

And to be fair, it's still fairly uncertain. We demonstrated endocrine problems with BPA, but aside from that microplastic consequences on health still seems uncertain. At best we're mostly doing the correlation/causation thing that leads people down a confusing path of cure-alls and snake oil.

If there was a smoking gun for the consequences of this in our day to day living, surely it would be regulated out of existence[1], but thus far that evidence doesn't exist.

[1] - ha ha, who am I kidding. In reality industry groups would muddy the waters, try to pretend it's "political", finance astroturfing groups, and soon enough a certain segment of society will be proudly clutching onto their microplastics, demanding higher dose services, and ascribing it with magical cure-all powers.
by Vegenoid | 2025-06-24 17:21:28+00:00
This is by far my most common usage of LLMs, and they’re good at it. Sometimes you have to be intentional about preventing it from being sycophantic and just telling you that you’re right, through a system prompt or by phrasing the question such that it’s comparing ideas neutrally instead of comparing “your” idea to some other idea.

It feels like Claude and ChatGPT have both become more sycophantic over the past months.
by linsomniac | 2025-06-24 17:21:45+00:00
>Perhaps you’re a user of LLMs. [...] But I might suggest resisting the temptation to use them for projects like this.

I agree. However: Your best bet is likely to build it by hand and then see if you can get an LLM to build it.

It is looking like we are living in a world where an important tool to have in your toolbox is going to be the skills and experience of working with the LLM/AI tooling. There are skills, knowledge, tools, tips and techniques that you need to develop to effectively use these tools, just like the honing you get from writing the code.

Over just the last half hour I did a brain dump of "hot tips" to a friend of mine who is just starting to use Claude Code to kick-start him.

The LLMs are REALLY good at writing small toy programs, and at the end of the day it's great to have little tools that you'll use every day.
by fragmede | 2025-06-24 17:22:02+00:00
I can't see in the dark, can't see in the fog or the rain, can't see UV, my eyes only see in the rough direction my head is facing, there's a limited ability to track objects. Bicycles coming from behind are particularly easy to miss. Speaking of easy to miss, there's a hole in your vision m that you doing notice, where the optic nerve is. Hell, there's a whole body of work for times when human vision falls short and gets fooled, called optical illusions. There's another whole field of study about failures of the lenses and other parts in the eyes themselves. Some of those failures an electronic camera system is also going to have/have a reliance on components not being broken.

Given the number of shortcomings of human vision why shouldn't our self driving cars be designed to have better than human vision, especially if the goal is to not get into crashes. Humans, with human vision and human object tracking skills, and human reaction times get into crashes all the time. Shouldn't we want better and more sensors, which would lead to few fewer crashes, simply because better sensors have better data available?
by coolThingsFirst | 2025-06-24 17:22:34+00:00
There's ZERO room for innovation in the projects suggested.

Wanna do some creative thinking? Read some books, learn how normal people think. Explore latest datasets. That's where the meat is. 98% of what you read online has been written by super uncreative(boring) people. They have no imagination whatsoever, IQ is well statistically speaking not too flattering.

Internet is ran by the bottom. It's slop by the bottom, for the bottom. So you need to hang out with creative people.

Tech people write the most boring blog posts because it's aimed at getting hired. Nothing of substance is shared. That's why gwern stands out like a sore thumb. The majority of human beings are incapable of creative thought.
by ticulatedspline | 2025-06-24 17:22:37+00:00
For closed models the storage problem isn't really a problem, they can be judged by what they produce not how they store it as you don't have access to the actual data. That said, open weight LLMs are probably screwed, if enough of the work remains in the weights such that they can be extracted (even if it's without even talking to the LLM) then the weight file itself represents a copy of the work that's being distributed. So enjoy these competent run-at-home models while you can, they're on track for extinction.
by ayushrodrigues | 2025-06-24 17:22:47+00:00
Ah yes, we're still entirely built on Stripe, so all your chargeback management, tax handling, subscriptions and payments are still handled by them! We are not a Stripe replacement.

When our users integrate Autumn, they don't need to handle the state syncing or any Stripe events, as we do all of that for them.

Eg, one of your users, John, subscribes to a Pro tier. We'll listen to that event from Stripe, and grant them access to the right features (eg premium analytics and 100 messages).

From your app, you just query Autumn to ask "does John have access to send messages?", and Autumn says "yes".

When the John's payment fails, we again handle that event from Stripe. Now when your app asks whether John has messages, Autumn says "no, their payment failed".

When you log into Stripe, you can still see everything as normal, and take actions as you normally would!

Edit: now that I'm writing this comment, I realize that we probably should be listening to the chargeback event so we can block access to features if that happens. We'll definitely handle this case, it's just that no one has needed it so far...
by throw0101c | 2025-06-24 17:23:07+00:00
> Why should I trust […]

Why should you trust anything? "Do your own research."

From §See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_indices

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy-Dictatorship_Index

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Ranking

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_index

* Maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
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by vcodes | 2025-06-24 17:23:20+00:00
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by altruios | 2025-06-24 17:23:35+00:00
which AFAIN IANAL, copyright and exhaustive rights are completely different. Under copyright, once a book is purchased: that's it. Reselling the same, or transformed (re: highlighted) worked 'used' is 100% legal, as is consuming it at your discretion (in your mind {a billion times}, a fire, or (yes even) what amounts to a fancy calculator).

(that's all to say copyright is dated and needs an overhaul)

But that's taking a viewpoint of 'training a personal AI in your home', which isn't something that actually happens... The issue has never been the training data itself. Training an AI and 'looking at data and optimizing a (human understanding/AI understanding) function over it' are categorically the same, even if mechanically/biologically they are very different.
by mapt | 2025-06-24 17:23:38+00:00
These were completely valid short-term responses to a situation where an effectively quarantined country had a small outbreak in Venice Beach and we didn't know a lot about spread.

But we were not that country. If the front door is wide open and there's a large sign above it saying "Free stuff - take what you want" because your spouse wants to embrace minimalism and throw away all your joint belongings, then triple deadbolting the back door and installing security cameras are not effective measures to protect your belongings.

There are other policy areas where states can experiment with "Red state" vs "Blue state" policies and compare how they perform, but pandemic spread is not one of them. The most permissive line of defense is the decision that has been made for everyone, and all it takes is one person (we used to call these 'bioterrorists', now we call them 'Presidents') to decide to "get this over with before the election", and it renders any other sensible precautions moot.

Areas where very aggressive precautions were implemented to counterbalance reckless policies elsewhere... didn't do that. You can't do that, without a very strong quarantine around the different policy regions.

This does not offer any commentary on the idea of sensible precautions, in a vacuum. The politicization of COVID that happened very rapidly didn't need to occur, and it did not occur in most other pandemics in this country, or in many other countries during COVID.
by bell-cot | 2025-06-24 17:23:56+00:00
Nothing against the people of St. Louis - but Michigan Chemical's "fill mineral supplement containers with look-alike poison, and sell that statewide" epic fail had a vastly larger impact than anything they did locally. From a regulatory & safety PoV (vs. the article's general "chemicals=bad" PoV) that was also a very different sort of failure, vs. the "casually dump & burn" crap that the article's mostly about.
by _benton | 2025-06-24 17:23:56+00:00
Possibly tangential, but I've really been enjoying writing software with very minimal tech stacks with no dependencies (or very few). Go works well for this, but really any language that lets you create a file and just start writing straightforward code is sufficient. As soon as I need to use some CLI to scaffold out a project with tens or hundreds of files, or pull in a ton of dependencies, I kind of check out. It's fine when you have a team and a big serious project, but in my free time I really just enjoy having a couple files of straightforward code and that's it.
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-24 17:24:03+00:00
I think that's a technicality. From my perspective 100% discount is called "Free", and I get that a few times a year when flying (tickets, upgrades, etc)

I calculate 100% based on the amount I get from my preferred airline for paying cash for groceries (0) vs the amount I get by using a card they issue (a few imaginary points/$). Then I trade those points for things I couldn't have had by paying cash. As long as I don't pay interest, we're in "Free" territory.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-24 17:24:11+00:00
I don't know how any of that had to do with liberal arts. To give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're interpretation is correct: do you blame the person when they panic in a major earthquake, as they watch their peers crushed around them?

It wasn't normal times and abnormal times need preparation. It's a great thing the acting president during COVID removed the pandemic response team the previous year. It's not wonder we were chickens wandering about without our heads.
by tsumnia | 2025-06-24 17:24:20+00:00
I think the issue is that its actually quite difficult to "unlearn" something once you've seen it. I'm speaking more from human-learning rather than AI-learning, but since AI is inspired by our view on nature, it will have similar qualities. If I see something that inspires, regardless of if I paid for that, I may not even know what specifically inspired me. If I sit on a park bench and an idea comes to me, it could come from a number of things - the bench, park, weather, what movie I watched last night, stuff on the wall of a restaurant while I was eating there, etc.

While humans don't have encyclopedic memories, our brain connects a few dots to make a thought. If I say "Luke, I am your father", it doesn't matter that isn't even the line is wrong, anyone that's seen Star Wars knows what I'm quoting. I may not be profiting from using that line, but that doesn't stop Star Wars from inspiring other elements of my life.

I do agree that copyright law is complicated and AI is going to create even more complexity as we navigate this growth. I don't have a solution on that front, just a recognition that AI is doing what humans do, only more precisely.
by OutOfHere | 2025-06-24 17:24:23+00:00
There is no universe in which release and drop are near synonyms. They're used as such only by dorks, click optimizers, and SEO scammers.

There also is no inhabited universe in which the words yes and no can survive being flipped in their meaning, because an attempt at such a flip will result in total collapse, in a universe without life.
by bananalychee | 2025-06-24 17:24:28+00:00
Alcoholics know that they drink, chain smokers know that they smoke... Obesity has an impact on longevity that is on the same order of magnitude as cigarette smoking. I would hope that it would come up during a checkup. If it doesn't, rationalize it however you want, but it's clearly because the doc decided it wasn't worth the risk of saying it out loud. In other countries it's not uncommon to be blunt about it with friends and family, let alone at the doctor's office, but in the US it's considered extremely rude. As a result, I know many people who have a skewed definition of obesity. To them a BMI of 30 is a tad overweight and obese starts maybe at 40. They're prescribed pills and CPAP machines and no one ever tells them they need to lose weight as long as their blood work looks decent. It's easy to neglect a health issue that no one wants to talk about.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-06-24 17:25:16+00:00
> The HN crowd dislikes brick-and-mortar landlords but often sides with charging rent for certain bits. Which side will prevail?

I don't think that's exactly the case. A lot of the HN crowd is very much against the current iterations of copyright law, but is much more against rules that they see as being unfairly applied. For most of us, we want copyright reform, but short of that, we want it to at least pretend to be used for what it is usually claimed to be for: protecting small artists from large, predatory companies.
by Eridrus | 2025-06-24 17:25:19+00:00
Yeah, I think this is misclassification based on UDP port.

If you take their random source ports (21,925), ~0.004% come from any single port, which lines up with what they said was "Other" traffic. The numbers don't quite work out right, but it seems like its within a factor of 2, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was something like udp source/dest port = 17 => QOTD.
by cryptoalex | 2025-06-24 17:25:33+00:00
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by mannanj | 2025-06-24 17:26:04+00:00
Another we refuse to accept and admit, due to the implications of other things that touch our skins, are the plastics from polyester fabrics that enter our body through our skin stream. The skin is the largest organ and has the largest surface area exposure, and these polyesters are one of the largest polluters of micro and nano plastics into the environment - and effectively, our bodies, the skin being one of the most efficient filters and processors of the plastic poison in them.

Don't research the poison of the plastics that wash out of those volatile fibers whiilst in the laundry machines. Oh, did you think that the only source of the micro-plastics in the water supply was water bottles?
by toast0 | 2025-06-24 17:26:42+00:00
I doubt most people would pass a financial audit, unless they had built their life around "proper accounting controls". Of course, if they had an incentive to do so, it probably would only take two or three years to get things in place and consistent. But then, most people don't have 1.3 Million active employees [1], who knows how many contractors and retirees. The DoD's finances were not designed around audit requirements and it takes time and consistent attention to retrofit accounting controls into a very large organization.

[1] https://dwp.dmdc.osd.mil/dwp/api/downloadZ?fileId=136507&gro...
by almatabata | 2025-06-24 17:26:51+00:00
I know, but the article mentions that a separate ruling will be made about that pirating.

quote: “We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic’s central library and the resulting damages,” Judge Alsup wrote in the decision. “That Anthropic later bought a copy of a book it earlier stole off the internet will not absolve it of liability for theft but it may affect the extent of statutory damages.”

This tells me Anthropic acquired these books legally afterwards. I was asking if during that purchase, the seller could add a no training close to the sales contract.
by mediumdave | 2025-06-24 17:27:13+00:00
> I seem to recall that early versions of Linux wouldn’t run on a cheap 386sx until the kernel started to incorporate embedded applications from widespread use in the late 90s.

I ran Linux on a 486SX with 4MB RAM in early 1994. Prior to that (1993?) I had been running 386BSD. Both OSes ran quite well on that hardware: certainly sh, vi, gcc, and make ran well, and what else do you really need?

4MB wasn't good enough for X Windows, but I had a VT102 connected to a serial port so that I could have two terminal sessions going at the same time.
by v5v3 | 2025-06-24 17:27:15+00:00
A lot are no longer private owners renting out, it's professional management companies managing a large number of properties.

So now there are middle men salaries to be paid and so they need to find ways to maximise profits.

Good for startups and software Devs as there is a resulting demand for tech platforms and integrations

An example of one of their conferences https://barcelona.scalerentals.show/
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-24 17:27:17+00:00
Except it means backing up or moving your credentials is somewhere between a pain and infeasible, and you're requiring people to go buy another device for little to no real security benefit. Every browser already generates strong random passwords that are tied to specific sites. They've done so for many years. Passkey attestation in a non-managed-org context is trying to solve a problem that's way past the point of diminishing returns while making things more fragile for users. You also can't really do attestation without having a blessed set of vendors (otherwise a software implementation could do it), so lockin is required.
by martythemaniak | 2025-06-24 17:27:22+00:00
You can think of these as essentially multi-modal LLMs, which is to say you can have very small/fast ones (SmolVLA - 0.5B params) that are good at specific tasks, and larger/slower more general ones (OpenVLA - a finetuned llama2 7B). So a rpi could be used for some very specific tasks, but even the more general ones could run on beefy consumer hardware.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-24 17:27:24+00:00
> I tend to think copyright should be extremely limited compared to what it is now, but to me the logic of this ruling is illogical other than "it's ok for a corporation to use lots of works without permission but not for an individual to use a single work without permission."

That's not what the ruling says.

It says that training a generative AI system not designed primarily as a direct replacement for a work on one or more works is fair use, and that print-to-digital destructive scanning for storage and searchability is fair use.

These are both independent of whether one person or a giant company or something in between is doing it, and independent of the number of works involved (there's maybe a weak practical relationship to the number of works involved, since a gen AI tool that is trained on exactly one work is probably somewhat less likely to have a real use beyond a replacement for that work.)