MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pembrook | 2025-06-24 18:22:05+00:00
This is just simple economics. Now that the whole “serendipity and living in domestic spaces like a local” thing is dead and most Airbnb providers have professionalized —- it’s now just about value. Logically, who is going to provide the best value:

- A massive hotel chain with economies of scale, purpose built properties, decades proven systems and hospitality processes

- Individual startup hoteliers renting out non-purpose built spaces with ikea furniture, no economies of scale, no systems, ad hoc processes and expensive platform fees as overhead

The highest end Airbnbs still offer what used to be available in the early days, but it just doesn’t make sense anymore for most people
by golergka | 2025-06-24 18:23:04+00:00
If you buy an ordinary vehicle in Tesla price category and then drive it as an Uber yourself, you can pay off the price of the vehicle and earn yourself some money as well. You would also have to deal with all the same risks and maintenance.

If you remove the "driving vehicle yourself" component and have it drive itself almost for the entire day, on it's own, while you're busy with your own stuff, how can it become a worse deal?
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-06-24 18:23:41+00:00
Is the plastic you ingest this way significant though? I don't remember the details, but the Veritasium video on this subject suggested that the scraped teflon you ingest from pans is less significant than the plastic that leeches into food in products like microwave popcorn. I assume this has to do with the reaction between the substance being contained (popcorn oil, in this case) and the item containing it (plastic-lined paper).

If the plastic particles are large enough, I assume we pass them.
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-06-24 18:24:05+00:00
This annoyed me. Any app that pushes me adverts gets its push notifications turned off. Sure, I'd love to know my package status Amazon, but you send me some advert of something stupid every 3 hours (it feels like)... so no, you don't get notifications.

I get enough advertising in my life, without it constantly assaulting me every time I check my watch or phone lock screen. So no Apple Wallet, you do not get to keep your notification privileges.
by Isamu | 2025-06-24 18:24:10+00:00
I struggle with taking this too seriously YET, knowing that we ingest all manner of tiny things, and breathe in all kinds of particles and toxins all the time. NOT SAYING this is fine, but rather I haven’t heard anything yet to bump it up higher in the list of concerns.

I mean I already have exposure to lead and asbestos, and the random particulates I breathe in aren’t going away. I feel like this is getting attention because it’s a new issue, not that all other concerns pale in comparison.
by jerf | 2025-06-24 18:25:15+00:00
I really should have included the word "default" in there somewhere. It's effectively impossible to make any blanket statement about "what LLMs do" because it's one prompt away from doing almost literally anything else.

However, it's a style that currently has a lot of popularity.

Indeed, asking for answers in the style of Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite things to do, like programming questions. The extra frisson from something so non-whimsical being expressed so whimsically via such a complicated technology goes all the way around the "cringe/cool" circle at least twice; you can decide for yourself where it lands in the end.

I did finally hear about the students getting wise to LLM style issue. I just saw a YouTube video about a student saying he would 1. have the LLM write his essay 2. rephrase the first two paragraphs in his own style 3. tell the LLM to rewrite the essay from step 1 in the style exemplified from his rewrite. AI detection tools, which are really "default AI detection tools", call it 0% AI. Stick a fork in them, they're done at that point. I don't think any "AI detection tool" is likely to defeat that, unless LLMs suddenly freeze in advancement for, oh, at least 3 years or so, which seems unlikely.
by Henchman21 | 2025-06-24 18:25:17+00:00
Total aside from this tragic news:

One thing that I’ve learned in my decades in tech: adderall strips people of their ability to empathize.

Now, certainly this isn’t applicable to everyone. Further, its likely to garner many downvotes— no one likes looking in the mirror and seeing the bad parts. I get it, I too have had substance abuse problems. Admitting it is the first step :)
by dekhn | 2025-06-24 18:25:31+00:00
It's very unlikely we're going to inject prions into poultry. Clicking on the article, you can see the author has a clearly stated bias: "Sean witnessed the corruption within the system and developed a burning desire to expose the secrets that protect the elite and allow them to continue waging war on humanity. Disturbed by the agenda of the elites and dissatisfied with the alternative media, Sean decided it was time to shake things up". Further, clicking through to the source article shows that source is also heavily biased (https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-06-23-usda-wants-to-contami...) and doesn't actually cite any reliable sources.

If there is any supporting evidence for this claim I'd love to see it.
by roughly | 2025-06-24 18:25:34+00:00
I've got a VPS and domain I've had for a long time - for most of these, docker compose + the VPS did the job just fine. I was in the same boat - I'd fallen behind on a lot of the ops stack, and project setup wound up being a tar pit for a couple projects before I got frustrated and just said "Fuck it" and did it the dumb way, which wound up being the correct approach.

I found the trick with the personal projects was to pick the thing I was trying to learn with that project and focus on that - if I was trying to learn React, don't also try to learn kubernetes or lambdas or anything else. You really have to be comfortable with your project kind of sucking for all this to work.

So I'd say if you want to learn proper modern deploy + CI/CD + etc, take a project where you already know the rest of the stack (hell, make it Hello World if you have to) and use that. Keep things simple and in scope, get something stupid working, and then iterate to make it better.
by otoolep | 2025-06-24 18:25:53+00:00
rqlite[1] creator here, happy to answer any questions.

If you're interested in writing Raft-backed databases you might be interested in my talk at GopherCon 2023. It walks through doing exactly that, step by step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XbxQ1Epi5w

[1] https://rqlite.io
by mrtksn | 2025-06-24 18:27:05+00:00
In the video they mention accusations rumors by people she knew, some of whom are other animal sanctuaries.

Apparently there was a reddit sub for harassing her: https://www.reddit.com/r/saveafoxsnark/

Somewhere else they mention kazeolion, wildliferehab, pale-explanation as the culprits.
by sowbug | 2025-06-24 18:27:08+00:00
Your project is vastly more specified than a toy project, because it has a real customer (you) who will expect it to work after it ships. That expectation is what separates toys from real tools.

I bet you could write a word processor in an hour. It might only add or delete one character at a time (no selections). It might persist only to a hard-coded "output.txt" filename. You might have to kill the process because there's no quit operation. But that would suffice for a toy word processor.
by Whoppertime | 2025-06-24 18:27:08+00:00
https://www.cato.org/blog/new-k-12-productivity-chart It's hard to believe that education is getting less funding. There seems to be a perception that spending more money on education will result in smarter students or higher test scores but that doesn't seem to be the case. Obviously if you spend $0 on education results will suffer, but there's a point of diminishing returns where $1 more in spending doesn't seem to have any impact on key metrics
by tptacek | 2025-06-24 18:27:53+00:00
If you're talking very specifically about MCP, and not about tool calling more generally, and you're just sort of making the point that the standards aren't fully baked or ready for general use --- that you can't yet reliably plug any API into an agent like Claude Code you don't control, then sure. But MCP is the public face of tool calling, and for tool calling generally that's not a real problem: you can make your own arrangements in your own agents, which are truly simple to write.

I think as a developer, as opposed to an IT integrator or something like that, you should be the most excited about this situation.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-24 18:29:16+00:00
> and you're still limited to what unicode allows instead of just bundling whatever image you want (which is a great excuse to sell new phones with "new emojis" I guess).

Except that every chat client now supports stickers, which are nothing but custom images that are guaranteed to render the same way for the recipient that they do for you. The recipient does not need to have them installed.

But stickers have to be their own full message in the clients I know of. Once they start to be integrated into textual messages, clients will have developed all the way to where MSN messenger was in 2003.
by rglover | 2025-06-24 18:29:19+00:00
Airbnb lost me a few months back.

My wife and I eloped and had a weekend getaway planned to celebrate. The place was out in the woods down back roads, had little to no lights (we got there at night), a narrow, unmaintained gravel driveway with literal boulders in it, and the cherry on top: none of the windows had curtains or blinds (you could just roll up the driveway and look right into the house). We left 20 minutes after getting there.

Resolving this required three days of back-and-forth with Airbnb "support," being repeatedly gaslit that this was somehow my fault (I sent in multiple videos with the support rep lying and telling me I didn't upload anything), and told that they could do a partial refund. I had to threaten the employment of the support rep before they'd escalate and finally admit this was sketchy and issue a full refund.

I knew things were unravelling when one stay at a different Airbnb about two years back left instructions that I had to place sheets and towels in the dryer before leaving (mandatory—with assumed threat of a negative guest review—despite having a separate cleaning fee).

On top of this, I've noticed a decent chunk of the new construction homes in my area are/were just being bought for the express purpose of being an Airbnb. So, instead of families having access to affordable housing, a town house with no yard, built with Alibaba-grade materials in Middle Tennessee (in a town most people haven't heard of) starts at ~$300-400K [1].

Airbnb was a great idea in the past, but now it's just not worth it. Much better to spend roughly the same on a nice hotel where you're staying.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1561-Ansley-Park-Dr-Cooke...
by saurik | 2025-06-24 18:29:40+00:00
It isn't at all obvious to me that the LLM can decide to blur their vision, so to speak, and see the tokens as tokens: they don't get to run a program on this data in some raw format, and even if they do attempt to write a program and run it in a sandbox they would have to "remember" what they were given and then regenerate it (well, I guess a tool could give them access to the history of their input, but at that point that tool likely sees characters), rather than to copy it. I am 100% with andy99 on this: it isn't anywhere near as simple as you are making it out to be.
by rattray | 2025-06-24 18:29:58+00:00
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "it requires a trip through an LLM for every transaction"?

In a normal case of "production software", yeah, you would not want to add an LLM in the middle to make an API call. That's silly – just write the code to make the API call if you can do it deterministically.

If you're talking to an LLM in a chat experience, and you want that LLM to go interact with some foreign system (i.e., hit an API), you need _some way_ of teaching the LLM how to make that API call. MCP is one such way, and it's probably the easiest at this point.

Doing it through MCP does introduce some latency due to a proxy server, but it doesn't introduce an additional LLM "in the middle".

(Disclaimer: I work at Stainless. Note that we actually sell SDKs at Stainless; our MCP generator is free.)
by nottorp | 2025-06-24 18:30:48+00:00
I'm in a gloomy mood.

Suppose someone comes up with a platform that allows us to pay 0.05$ for one article. They count articles we've selected and charge us when it makes sense due to credit card fees, probably at $10 worth of views.

How long will it take till they start pushing ... a subscription?

Pay us $10/month for $12 worth of article views! 20% savings! *

* Terms and condisions apply. Your $10/month subscription is only good for the 3rd tier content, but there are $29 and $99/month subscriptions that allow access to 2nd tier and first tier. Price valid for a 3 year commitment.
by iw7tdb2kqo9 | 2025-06-24 18:31:05+00:00
I bought a Xiaomi phone (poco) for the first time in my life. I am furious about system app showing Ad.

If I want to change wallpaper, ringtone, it will show full page Ads. Even file manager app shows Ads. Wallpaper and ringtone apps are pure garbage.
by timr | 2025-06-24 18:31:12+00:00
There have been "heat dome events" every year I've been alive. We just didn't call them that, because we used to call this phenomenon "summer". When I was growing up in central Ohio several decades ago, it would routinely get up into the high 90s on summer afternoons.

I'm very serious. And no, I am not a "climate denier". The earth is getting warmer, but you cannot measure it in discrete events like you're trying to do.
by danmcs | 2025-06-24 18:31:42+00:00
HackerOne was already useless years before LLMs. Vulnerability scanning was already automated.

When we put our product on there, roughly 2019, the enterprising hackers ran their scanners, submitted everything they found as the highest possible severity to attempt to maximize their payout, and moved on. We wasted time triaging all the stuff they submitted that was nonsense, got nothing valuable out of the engagement, and dropped HackerOne at the end of the contract.

You'd be much better off contracting a competent engineering security firm to inspect your codebase and infrastructure.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-06-24 18:31:43+00:00
Is this the visitor's own take on what happened? Or did they tell him "you're denied entry because of your JD Vance meme"? Per the article they also asked him a bunch of other things like about right wing terrorism. Maybe his answers sucked? Maybe he was being evasive?

There was the case a few months ago of a Canadian lady being detained and denied entry "for no reason", and then it turned out she wanted to work in the US while on a tourist visa, and also was attempting to evade border patrol by flying to Mexico and entering via the southern border instead of the northern border or at an airport, where she had previously been denied admittance.
by 9rx | 2025-06-24 18:31:46+00:00
> I'd need, at minimum, a four-bedroom, two-bathroom property in the city.

Check out a settler home sometime. They were tiny, one room houses that housed themselves and their eight+ children just fine. You don't need this in any way, shape, or form. I do understand why you find it desirable, though.

> It will need to be zoned for a good school for obvious reasons.

I don't live in crazy orange man land. What are the (unfortunately, not so) obvious reasons? It befuddles me that different school zones would be different in any way beyond their geographic positioning, which isn't usually a concern when it comes to schooling. I've never heard of such a thing before.

> Can you find a condominium in either city for this price or less?

What's wrong with where you already are? If you found the lack of jobs, restaurants, entertainment, healthcare, etc. in walking to be a problem, you'd have changed it already. Like we established, the only reason those things aren't found where you are is because you and your neighbours have decided you don't want it.

I just don't understand your logic as to why you don't want it, but also don't want to live in the country. What's the benefit of living where you have all the downsides of the city and all the downsides of the country all wrapped up in one?
by vel0city | 2025-06-24 18:31:51+00:00
> so what have you gained by living in the city?

Jobs, hopefully paying a good bit more than minimum wage. If not for the city they wouldn't have any kind of income. They don't move to the city because they want some Parisian lifestyle, they move to the city because there are practically no jobs in the actually rural areas.

> They don't want the restaurants, shopping, healthcare, etc. to be anywhere nearby

Correct. They see these things as unsafe for their families to be around. They don't want to live within walking distance of a nightclub.

> Even though they cry that they afford to the transportation to get to them, funnily enough.

Most of the people arguing for better walkability and better transit access are absolutely not the same people actively choosing to live in places like Forney and Princeton and what not. They're generally fine having that commute and are fine driving to the Walmart when they need something that isn't just delivered to their home. Why even bother getting in the car to go to a restaurant, Uber Eats will bring the restaurant to them, and they don't have to deal with the crowds. Which, the few places with actual stores in these areas are massively crowded, because it's just oceans of houses around a few dots of shopping areas with giant parking areas surrounding them.

> What compels one to be tripping over their neighbour, but at the same time not wanting to engage in a community with them?

That they were willing to settle for the hour commute and not a two-hour commute, and that was the biggest single-family home they could afford in that hour commute radius and had a decent school district.

You're looking at it in pretty much the opposite direction from how they're looking at it. You're looking at a community you want to live in and then decide the home you can afford. They're looking for the house they want to live in, and then find the community they can afford to buy in. People didn't choose to live in Princeton or Forney or Melissa or Anna (or dozens of other "cities" around DFW) because of city amenities, outside of maybe a school district. They live there because they could buy a big single house cheap.

When I talk to friends about "if you could just move tomorrow, where would you want to live in DFW", their choices are rarely based in closeness to amenities. It is often about wanting more land, more space, more rooms. A family of four with a four-bedroom house with a dining room and two living rooms, too cramped. Need to move further out and get a bigger house. Definitely down to trade close access to the bike trails, walking distance to a large shopping area, walkable to the transit system to go all over the city, public parks with public swimming pools within walking distance, the elementary school around the corner and the middle school down the street for another few hundred square feet of land.
by Twirrim | 2025-06-24 18:31:53+00:00
I'm senior, been working in the industry for closing on 25 years now, majority of that dealing with *nix systems of various descriptions. I usually avoid anything "ohh shiny".

I've tried prompts in the past, and they mostly annoyed me, or never showed me useful information. I've been a happy starship user for several years now. I've got the config tweaked so that it only shows me things I specifically care about. It's lightning fast.
Show HN: I made a data lineage tool for AI data pipelines
by badmonster | 2025-06-24 18:31:56+00:00
Hi HN, I made a data lineage tool for AI data pipeline, as a companion to open source ETL framework cocoindex.

After months in private beta (and lots of love from early users), we’re excited to officially launch it today.

It offers: - Before/after of the data are available at every transformation node - Every output field can be traced back to the exact set of input fields and operations that created it - Lineage is first-class - Zero pipeline data retention, connecting seamlessly to on-prem CocoIndex server

This tool is free, and you can get start by running

cocoindex server -ci main.py

with any of the cocoindex projects https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex/tree/main/examples

Thanks! Linghua
by yjp20 | 2025-06-24 18:32:02+00:00
This is pretty fair: in claude code, I have the github mcp server installed, but the agent actually prefers to use the CLI. There's also other advantages too, such as incremental discovery of subcommands for more complex CLIs. Certainly agents already don't have a problem using CLIs.

That said, this doesn't fully work in environments on websites like claude.ai. Perhaps you could have an org-wide Dockerfile or something that opens every time you start a chat which gives it MCP-like capabilities, but that sounds more complicated in many ways than what MCP does. There's also more problems that MCP solves, like with Prompts and Sampling (which are pretty under-used at the moment), and there aren't great analogs for that in the CLI world.

Also developers like you and I might find it trivial to install CLIs, set up auth, and open an agent locally, but this isn't widely true. As an example, at Stainless we have non-engineer folks who ask questions like "who are the most interesting people who have signed up yesterday", and with the right MCP tools wired to claude.ai, claude actually does an excellent job of answer these kinds of questions, all in the browser. This was all without a doubt possible before MCP, but MCP reduces the friction enough, such that it becomes worth-it/easy-enough to develop these tools.
by csense | 2025-06-24 18:32:27+00:00
The following is not legal advice, it's just my opinion. DYOR, check with a lawyer, etc.

"Do you want to relocate or resign?" is a false dichotomy. You can always just refuse to answer (possibly with soft words like ""I'm not sure" or "I haven't decided yet") -- keep doing your job, and wait until the company lets you go.

I'm pretty sure, if a company moves its operations and your job no longer exists in the same location, you're entitled to unemployment benefits -- but not if you resign.

The "Relocate or resign" phrasing seems to be trying to trick the affected employees into giving up their rights to unemployment benefits.
by nikkwong | 2025-06-24 18:32:39+00:00
Jesus christ at the numbers on the Rxbars. So much for "4 ingredients with no B.S.". Kind of insane that they could get up to 30,000 ng/serving with such a small serving size consisting of something like 4 blueberries, 4 cashews, and 3 dates.

Also the negligible levels of plastic detected in plastic water bottles is surprising. I was under the impression, based on other reports, that water in plastic bottles is something we should avoid.
by roughly | 2025-06-24 18:32:42+00:00
For what it's worth, the two tricks I found for leet-code interviews were 1) do the simple stupid thing first - get something _working_, and then make it good and 2) explain what you're doing and what you're thinking about to your interviewers. I'm still not Great at the leet-code style, but you can get a lot of the way there with some basic knowledge about algorithmic design and complexity and data structures. In general, I've found finishing the problem and being able to talk coherently about it trumps finding the ideal solution.

(I also code like a psychopath - I'm constantly rewriting what I'm writing while I'm writing it, so a) slowing down and b) telling interviewers what I'm doing and why made that look less chaotic.)

I'm also not the person you want to hire if you're looking for deep algorithmic knowledge, though - I've got a long career of delivering high impact systems and solutions, but if you want someone to rewrite the index parsing algorithm in your mature database software to minimize lookup speed, you've got the wrong guy.