MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pclmulqdq | 2025-06-09 00:50:53+00:00
In the Jewish tradition, nobody is tricking God. There's a long history of legalism in the religion - God sets out his commandments in language and you take that language at face value. Exact interpretation of that text is then debated by religious scholars, but the meaning of the words is entirely contained in the text.

For Christians and those raised in the Christian tradition, this is entirely foreign. The rules are not set out nearly as strictly for you, you have to interpret them much more broadly.

Generally, if you read their respective books, the old testament has a set of rules mixed in with a quasi-historical context, while the new testament is almost entirely in the form of parables.

Islam, by the way, goes back toward the Jewish legalistic idea.
by don-code | 2025-06-09 00:51:45+00:00
By 2040, I suspect not much will have changed. In the US, most engines that required leaded gasoline rolled off the assembly lines in the 1960s, with the legal phase-out beginning in the 1970s, and finally ending in the 1990s.

As I have a classic car that I intend to keep running, I suspect eventually (e.g. not by 2040), buying fuel for it will be similar to buying pre-mixed fuel for small two-stroke engines, like leafblowers and chainsaws: go to Auto Zone and buy a few gallons of fuel. Auto Zone and friends won't be going anywhere - EVs still need wiper blades, brake pads, and other incidentals.
by Xorakios | 2025-06-09 00:52:15+00:00
I couldn't get an email or post to work correctly to the author, so hoping they find this.

Thank you to the shout out to my father, Preston Fleet, for his work on developing Omnimax and everything is the article is factually correct. He died young after also building Fotomat and WD40 (and funding the Cabaret movie, for which he shared an Oscar). He shied away from the spotlight and named everything after his contributors because he was kind. And a totally shock the author knew about his presidency at the American Theatre Organ Society, which my mother followed after his death. Unfortunate selfish to say in a public forum, but really just want to thank the article's author in some way
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-06-09 00:52:33+00:00
>Are you tracking actual identity politics or the term "identity politics"?

The term "identity politics" is not being tracked. Rather, terminology used by modern left-wing idpol ideology is being tracked. See here: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/new-york-times-word-usage...

>the meaning of the term applies just as much to ending slavery, womens' suffrage and civil rights movements.

I'm not sure that's true. E.g. Martin Luther King Jr spoke of the "magnificent words" in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Modern activists would say: "Written by dead pale male slaveholders. We need more diversity! Where are the voices of women and POC?" For King, ideas took precedence over identities. For modern activists, it's the opposite.

The American Anti-Slavery Society was predominantly white. That's puzzling for a movement driven by identity politics. It does make sense for a movement driven by universal humanitarian ideals.

In any case, if you still think I'm wrong, and identity politics is an essential force behind trends such as the civil rights movement -- then I suppose you'll be happy that it's being adopted by the political right in the United States? Since it's got such a great historical track record, surely results will be good? ;-)

>Otherwise, you might as well argue that fake news only existed from 2016 onwards, because that's when Google Trends says it did.

This is a bad analogy, because fake news itself doesn't use the term "fake news". If "fake news" was an ideology which was characterized by particular terminology, we could graph the use of that terminology to document the rise of the ideology. That's what's being done here.

In any case, I do believe that "fake news" (in the narrow sense of websites which write completely bogus news, with no effort at reporting, to drive clicks) is a phenomenon which has, in fact, become more widespread relatively recently (due to the ease of internet publishing etc.) So that's another way in which your analogy is invalid. Fake news did increase in popularity when Trump was the GOP candidate, relative to when Romney was the GOP candidate. And Google Trends helps illuminate that!
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-06-09 00:52:37+00:00
> This sounds like Python development....and React.....and Svelte....and oh, remember Angular 2 to 3?

I can open a webpage written in Angular 1, or written in year 1990. I can run a program written for windows 95 on my new PC with windows 11. It’s normal to keep compatibility for compiled/finished ebd user software.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-09 00:53:17+00:00
They start to disappear in cities replaced by parking spot fast chargers. Some remain for ICE engines but fewer of them. The ICE engines ones are as now as there is no need to innovate e.g. robots filling your fuel.

Between cities they will be as now a rest stop mainly with fuel. Maybe more charging where you park.

Whether we staff or not depends on if we adopt Japanese culture. In Tokyo they have unattended fast food shops, and somewhat novelty robot servers at some restaurants.

I predict 50% chance of that happening. It may be driven to buy robots and automation becoming cheaper than labour plus mass surveillance making it less appetizing to steal.
Email anxiety after shutting down my startup – looking for advice
by hpark0011 | 2025-06-09 00:54:52+00:00
After winding down my startup, I started feeling anxious about opening my inbox. I’m not sure what triggered it exactly, but I suspect it’s the fear of receiving messages that create new obligations, especially ones I didn’t ask for. However, now I don't get much emails that gives me any obligation but I still spend every morning in anxiety.

I’ve tried therapy and even experimented with AI tools that sort and summarize email, but none of it really solved the underlying anxiety. It’s become a daily cycle: dread → delay → stress.

Has anyone dealt with something similar after a shutdown or burnout? Any strategies or tools that helped? I’d really appreciate hearing your experience.
by mjb | 2025-06-09 00:55:10+00:00
Titanium fires sure are scary. But there's a good amount of chicken and egg here: expensive material limits demand, which limits progress on manufacturing techniques, which keeps part prices high. I would expect that significant manufacturing method progress would be made if there was a step change in the price of titanium stock.

And I wouldn't overstate the machining difficulty. Sure, it's a pain in the rear, and expensive, but can be done on regular machines with the right tools, techniques, and processes. I've made a couple of titanium parts myself.
by Swizec | 2025-06-09 00:56:04+00:00
That’s the point: AI is a marketing term and always has been. The underlying tech changes with every hype wave.

One of the first humanoid robots was an 18th century clockwork mechanism inside a porcelain doll that autonomously wrote out “Cogito Ergo Sum” in cursive with a pen. It was considered thought provoking at the time because it implied that some day machines could think.

BBC video posted to reddit 10 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/s/d6xTeqfKCv
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-09 00:56:25+00:00
There is a wild assortment of modern hardware out there for keeping older hardware running. BlueSCSI is mentioned in the article and I have been a customer. I used a BlueSCSI to save pull some old sources from an old SCSI drive I had been hanging on to for 35 years or so [1].

People are making replacements for the dead lead-acid batteries from the original Mac (so-called) Portable. There are USB-powered cables to charge/power early MacBooks. I'm sure others can rattle off several other devices.

Now you have people 3D printing replacement bezels, etc. for these old machines. Very cool.
by jcrawfordor | 2025-06-09 00:57:00+00:00
Thanks! email to me@computer.rip should work, sorry if it has given you trouble. Theater organs are one of my weird little interests, so maybe it's a leap but when I saw a tangential mention that Preston Fleet had been a theater organist some of the dramatic design features of many Omnimax theaters (like the glass-walled projection rooms and displaying the speakers in the preshow) made more sense to me. They're similar to the way many theater organs were installed, especially as they started to become such a niche instrument.
by echelon | 2025-06-09 00:57:05+00:00
We've been able to clone mammals for 30 years and haven't acted on it. We're still toying with molecular systems beyond the limit of detection.

Clone humans. Cut off their brain stem during development. Turn off cephalization signals for good measure. Scale it up to industrial scale.

Research problems solved.

We'd have every study at our fingertips. We'd have organs and tissue and blood for everyone.

We could possibly even do whole head transplants and cure all non-blood, non-brain cancers.

But we're playing in the sand.
by gizmo686 | 2025-06-09 00:57:25+00:00
God didn't make a mistake when writing the Torah. That "one weird trick" as you call it is as fundamental a part of his will as every else.

Also most Jewish laws don't come from God. Instead, they come from the confluence of two doctrines: first we develop fence laws to keep ourselves from accidentally violating the actual laws. But, once we have been doing something long enough, they become Minhag and given more or less the full force of law. Naturally, this leads to new fence laws being developed around them, and the cycle continues.

Frankly, almost no Jewish law comes from God, and he has no business telling us what to do.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-06-09 00:59:08+00:00
The point is that you can send lots of tiny drones to converge on the turret. They have to cover 1.5km (though that's only the distance if there's no cover, i.e. the gun is on a perfectly flat plain with no trees, buildings, etc). If the drones are travelling at 36m/s then that's about 50 seconds to cover 1.5km. If you drop 2000 drones, you'd need to kill 4 each second. That seems like a lot.
by TuringNYC | 2025-06-09 00:59:34+00:00
>>> VCs make their money from outlier companies, so the competent ones don't optimize for worst-case outcomes. You'll never see a dirty term sheet (e.g. liquidation preference > 1x) from Sequoia, for example, because they don't return 8x on a fund by squeezing pennies out of failed startups.

Serious question -- if you are right, then why hide the cap tables?! Typically cap tables are even hidden from employees who have millions of theoretical dollars riding on the company.

Transparency is usually an indicator of above-board terms, and opaque things are usually opaque for a reason.
by 84ydk | 2025-06-09 01:00:20+00:00
Well, i can claim i am the king of England and it wont make it any more true then he saying he was censored..

He sent a ton of merge requests with crap code without doing any basic testing that broke a bunch of stuff without doing any meaningful work, there was no new features, no bugs fixed, no nothing, he was only changing code style and rearranging stuff without really any basic understanding on why things are the way they are..

the people that need to review his garbage untested MR warned him multiple times and eventually got fed up..

This guy is all bark and no bite.. i doubt anything will come out of this and it is very unlikely that any serious distro will ever package his shit X11 if it ever work..

this guy have a more technical review of his code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44202935
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-09 01:00:31+00:00
Something that has been kind of funny for me, perhaps others are feeling this way: I see increasingly this "retro computing community" fawning over machines that I think of as ... just machines that I used once. Some of the machines were even kind of scorned at the time as I recall — now they're sought after, lovingly restored....

I don't know if my reaction is as one who is being made aware of just how old they are (61, BTW) or if it is a bit of a sweetness that I feel that younger generations are coveting these older machines instead of reflexively landfilling them.
by x0xrx | 2025-06-09 01:00:31+00:00
Plenty of (non-VC backed) startups raise some money and then sell privately; it’s often the case that preference does not cause the common stock value to drop below the most recent 409a in these cases.

(In my experience, the 409a is on the order of 20% of the most recent raise, and preference is not more than 50%, in my area. And obviously you hope to sell for more than the last raise!).
by pogue | 2025-06-09 01:00:36+00:00
While I was double checking stuff, I came upon the FDA's "Questions and Answers on Dietary Fiber" [1] page where detail what they define as a fiber and what they allow to be called a fiber on food labels and cellulose is there. However, I suspect most food companies don't list it as such or use it is for the very reason you mentioned: it sounds like a paper product more than a component of food.

It's true not every fiber will act the same, but most all insoluble fibers would be expected to have very similar, if not superior effects for not just weight loss but overall (and at a much cheaper price, I suspect - if 'acetyl cellulose' is even something one can purchase on the open market).

But each fiber a person was thinking of consuming would need a bit of research, and even personal trial, to determine which is best for them. I add extra fiber to a breakfast smoothie I have daily in the form of 1 to ½ cups of ground up flax or hemp seeds and occasionally 1 tsp of oat fiber (about ~5g of fiber from ground oat kernels). I use it primarily just to stay regular, but the seeds have an additional benefit of essential fatty acids, and I'm sure it's all beneficial for my gut biome and so forth. A diabetic person who is measuring their glucose levels and have need to keep them stable would want to do more research in regards to that effect.

Regardless, I would argue, say, 5-10g per serving of insoluble fiber (possibly a lower amount per meal) should be expected to compete quite well with acetyl cellulose stuff mentioned in this study.

[1]

https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-food-labeling-and-critica...
by Spivak | 2025-06-09 01:02:41+00:00
We're talking about an app made as a weekend project to solve a problem the developer themselves has. Most normal humans would count their time as being free. I pity the person who considers the economic value and tax implications of their leisure time projects. So the calculation is just how many downloads do they need to make up for the $99 developer fee which breaks even at 47 downloads at 30% or 38 at 15%. Definitely not unrealistic.
by credit_guy | 2025-06-09 01:03:14+00:00
No, I'm not talking about abdication of responsibility. I'm talking about modesty. It is very appealing to think you know better than other people. That we know how a society should be governed, and we are able to label another country as totalitarian, or undemocratic, or illiberal, or such. But looking around the world, you can see that a lot of evil is perpetrated exactly by people who think they know better than everyone else. Osama bin Laden himself thought that what he was doing was for the advancement of good over evil, and a lot of his followers thought the same.

A lot of the people reading Hacker News right now think they have a better solution for the societal problems of the UAE. I personally have no idea about what's going on over there. But let's say that I'm in charge of the business decisions at Open AI. Should I start thinking that I know a way to solve their problems, and part of that way is for my company to apply some form of AI embargo on them? Or should I simply know my limitations, and restrict my judgment to the matters I am familiar with.

"Abdication of responsibility". What grand words. Why exactly has Open AI a responsibility to guide the UAE towards a better future? And, more importantly, why should Open AI feel confident that they know what is better for the UAE?
by rd11235 | 2025-06-09 01:06:31+00:00
Yeah - my guess is this was just a very roundabout solution for setting axis limits.

(For some reason, plt.bar was used instead of plt.plot, so the y axis would start at 0 by default, making all results look the same. But when the log scale is applied, the lower y limit becomes the data’s minimum. So, because the dynamic range is so low, the end result is visually identical to having just set y limits using the original linear scale).

Anyhow for anyone interested the values for those 3 points are 2.0000 (exact), 1.9671 (trapezoid), and 1.9998 (gaussian). The relatives errors are 1.6% vs. 0.01%.
by tmvnty | 2025-06-09 01:07:21+00:00
Merge rates is definitely a useful signal, but there are certainly other factors we need consider (PR small/big edits, refactors vs deps upgrades, direct merges, follow up PRs correcting merged mistakes, how easy it is to setup these AI agents, marketing, usage fees etc). Similar to how NPM downloads alone don’t necessarily reflect a package’s true success or quality.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-09 01:07:30+00:00
Depends on where in .de it is sourced. "Uferfiltrat" meaning from deep wells next to, or near a river, deep wells reaching into other groundwater sources, and dammed reservoirs.

Uferfiltrat=shitty, deep well=depends, dammed reservoirs=mostly good/usually soft water.

Can even vary within larger cities, where different parts get water from different sources.
by xnyan | 2025-06-09 01:07:43+00:00
I had to respond, not because I think you are wrong, but because I have had almost exactly the opposite experience and conclusions from you apparently.

> iPhone 7

I still have one as a TV device for me and my son to watch paw patrol. I can only speak for the set of apps I use on it, but as of a few hours ago they all still work (streaming, email, browser. no banking or other apps in that class). I am looking to replace it as it's no longer getting updates as of this march.

>This phone is not that old

Kind of very confused by this. It's 9 years old, it just stopped getting security updates three months ago. Is there anything even close to that outside of the iphone world? I do own android devices, I don't have anything android and nine years old that can turn on much less run an application.
by aaron695 | 2025-06-09 01:08:18+00:00
HN is dumb as dog shit, at least Reddit has a million monkeys. What do you hope to achieve?

Step one: What is todays delta to 2010? It is a lot, so this is where smart people would start.

So we'll skip that.

Many cars bought today will be around. Many gas stations bought today will be around.

People will be driving further. Do we have to say for the stupid people it won't be electric.

People will be more isolated and not want human contact, digital payments from the pump standard. Food and beverages are as massive part of the profit. So what does that mean?

Automated fueling so your hands don't get dirty will exist. Cars will be able to communicate so they will queue you more efficiently.

There will be electric charging places. They are not "gas stations", you'll get a split. It's interesting to calculate what they would be. Land value vs time to recharge. They can be multistory. This is a whole other thing.
by kortilla | 2025-06-09 01:08:19+00:00
It wouldn’t matter for spacex, which is the point. It wouldn’t make “military contracts awkward”, whatever that means.

Musk would still maintain the ability to control what SpaceX targets as far as customers go. And he could easily decline any plans to pursue contracts that require changes in strategy.

Him having clearance is irrelevant to both the govt and to the future of spacex. Gwynne runs those parts of the company. Musk is only playing with Starship when he’s looking at spacex at all.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-09 01:08:43+00:00
Is this in any way surprising? IIUC, the point being made is that if you allow externally controlled input to be fed to a thing that can do stuff based on its input, bad stuff might be done.

Their proposed mitigations don't seem to go nearly far enough. Regarding what they term ATPA: It should be fairly obvious that if the tool output is passed back through the LLM, and the LLM has the ability to invoke more tools after that, you can never safely use a tool that you do not have complete control over. That rules out even something as basic as returning the results of a Google search (unless you're Google) -- because who's to say that someone hasn't SEO'd up a link to their site https://send-me-your-id_rsa.com/to-get-the-actual-search-res...?
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-09 01:09:39+00:00
This isn’t new or novel. Replace “MCP” with any other technology that exposes sensitive or dangerous actions to 3rd parties. The solution is always the same: use fine grained permissions, apply the principle of least privilege, and think about your threat model as a whole; make sure things are auditable.

Here’s a nonexhaustive list of other technologies where we’ve dealt with these problems. The solutions keep getting reinvented:

- Browsers - Android Apps - GitHub actions - Browser extensions - <insert tool here> plugin framwork

Nothing about this is unique to MCP. It’s frustrating that we as a species have not learned to generalize.

I don’t think of this is a failure of the authors or users of MCP. This is a failure of operating systems and programming languages, which do not model privilege as a first class concept.
by 9d | 2025-06-09 01:11:23+00:00
> For a larger project like the Zig compiler itself, it takes the time down from 75 seconds to 20 seconds. We’re only just getting started.

Excited to see what he can do with this. He seems like a really smart guy.

What's the package management look like? I tried to get an app with QuickJS + SDL3 working, but the mess of C++ pushed me to Rust where it all just works. Would be glad to try it out in Zig too.
by cap11235 | 2025-06-09 01:12:37+00:00
If you enable it in permissions, Claude is very happy to do so. For personal fun/experimental projects (usually I give it arXiv papers to implement), I generally have a couple Claude instances (on different projects) just chugging along all day. I have them write really detailed plans at the start (50-100 steps in the implementation plan, plus actual specifications for project structure, dev practices, and what the actual goals are). I iterate on these plan documents by having Claude write QUESTIONS.md which has dev questions for me to clarify, which I fill out with answers, and then instruct Claude to update the plan docs with my answers. Then most of my interaction throughout the day is just saying something like "P18" to implement implementation plan step #18. I instruct it in CLAUDE.md to stop after each step, output what automated tests have been written for P18's features, and I require that the LLM write a demo script that I can run that shows the features, using real APIs. I'm having a great time with it.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-09 01:13:40+00:00
Does that same feeling of wow still exist for kids today? They have grown up with computers there entire life. Some of us were introduced to computers in our teens, so there was prior experience of not having a computer for that wow to hit. Even now, the wow factor has diminished for me with new computers/devices. They are not really doing anything new as much as they just do the things faster/quiter/cheaper/smaller. There are definite milestones for me that just made my socks roll up and down when they were first available on computers. Is there anything not done on a computer now?
by codingdave | 2025-06-09 01:14:16+00:00
I sometimes get the same anxiety, but have learned to set boundaries, specifically, saying "No.". If someone asks you to do something, default to "No", unless you actually want to take on the task.

After all, if your responsibilities are wound down, then no email can obligate you. You can only volunteer to take on an obligation. It is all in your control.