MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-09 03:22:40+00:00
Right, and let's hope that nothing is transferred. Although the door is probably already too far open for that. The NYT shouldn't have access to user data. My personal data isn't a pawn in their lawsuit. I didn't sign up for that.

I do want to take this opportunity to encourage people to demand compensation from the NYT, if they do somehow get user data. After all, it's YOUR data. If someone uses it without you expressly agreeing to that use in a EULA, they are effectively engaging in piracy of your intellectual property, and you should be able to get damages. And if a judge approved it? Sue the judge, too. Hell, that's what the world has come to isn't it? The legal system is a big war between corporations and we, the people, are just carried on the wind.

(I am not a lawyer, but whatever the equivalent of a "lawyer" is in the court of public opinion, I think I'm slowly becoming one out of necessity)
by mvkel | 2025-06-09 03:23:45+00:00
So what is your equity really worth?

"The difference between the most recent FMV (409A) valuation and your exercise price."

This will almost never be the case. This doesn't account for different share classes, liquidation preferences, preferred stock, all of which get exercised before common shares.

A better description would be "the most recent 409A valuation, minus preferred treatment, and your exercise price."

All of that is moot though, as an employee wouldn't have access to the cap table or liquidation stack. The short answer is you'll have no idea how much your equity is worth until you get the wire transfer into your bank account.

Equity as an incentive truly favors the employer. With vesting, equity rarely works out to be better than having a market rate salary, unless the company becomes a household name.
by ednite | 2025-06-09 03:23:57+00:00
This hits home. Before I published my first blog and video, I was doing everything except creating. I was procrastinating, researching, overthinking.

YouTube is full of tutorials that can help you get started, but the real shift for me happened when I stopped planning and just hit publish. My first video is rough and super amateur, but putting it out there felt empowering. It made me want to keep going.

I’m no expert, but one thing’s clear is that you only get better by doing. Tutorials help, but nothing beats hands-on learning.

In my case, I’ve always liked Casey Neistat’s raw, authentic style. I’m still working up the nerve to get in front of the camera more, but I know I’ll get there.

I know my comment might sound a bit off-topic since you’re asking about the technical “how-to”, but that’s kind of my point. Don’t get too bogged down too much in the setup. It can keep you from ever starting. Once you begin, the tools and improvements tend to come naturally.

Good luck, and honestly, just start.

Looking forward to seeing your videos.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-09 03:24:38+00:00
Ahh I finally get it: you were claiming you only hang out with nuts (when it comes to AI)

--the link itself says "you", but that's also addressing your friends I presume?

Edit: the politicians too?

>To the consternation of many of my friends, I’m not a radical or a futurist.

(Apologies if you were tipsy at any point in the relevant parts)
by danpalmer | 2025-06-09 03:26:32+00:00
The gas station will be older, crappier. As the shift to electric cars takes hold new gas stations won’t be built, old ones won’t be renovated, and they’ll be squeezed harder. Expect more stuff to buy at worse prices with more advertising.

Chargers will likely rise up around a different type of venue that won’t be seen as a gas station. More cafes, places suitable to spend 15+ minutes. Places with seating.

Increasingly gas stations will just be seen as a dated concept that isn’t living up to the world of 2040. Otherwise they’ll be almost exactly the same as today.
by gizmo686 | 2025-06-09 03:26:47+00:00
This has been litigated well over a thousand years ago. To put it in modern legal terms, the legitimacy of an Eruv is a super precedent. It is discussed in depth in the Talmud, which is the clearest source of Jewish law.

Even in modern law, courts can and do come up with some fairly peculiar readings at times. Particularly with old laws or the constitution itself which can, at times, be vague at best when applied in a modern context.

The rules that the Eruv is a loophole for do not even come from God. They come from the specific interpretation that has developed about those relatively vague laws.

There is an old "joke" in Judaism that God has no place in interpreting Jewish law. I put joke in quotes because the Oven of Akhnai is itself part of the Talmud and is generally read as establishing that exact principle.

This type of "trick" is foundational to both Judaism and every common law system.
by nozbuffer | 2025-06-09 03:27:49+00:00
Hi HN!

Built Mesh2Splat as a fast and straightforward way to convert 3D meshes into 3D Gaussian splats (3DGS). It's basically an adapted UV space splatting technique, and because of this, it's quite fast (0.5ms conversion time on average depending on the model). It’s designed for speed and simplicity, no training. Converter supports .glb/.glTF meshes as input.
by roenxi | 2025-06-09 03:28:16+00:00
There is really quite a lot to like about this post:

1) Gentleman is doing citizen science figuring out a small part of the FBI's intelligence gathering/spying apparatus.

2) Random Fediverse drama tidbits.

3) Interesting sysadmin tactics for small server operators.

4) This torswats fellow sounds like a piece of work and gets arrested which adds an interesting subplot.

5) Seems like quite an intelligent writer, I just like the style.

5 stars. Well worth reading.
Show HN: I built a tool to practice startup pitching with AI investors
by sunboy | 2025-06-09 03:29:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a solo founder who built Pitchine, a tool designed to help founders practice their pitch out loud with an AI-powered simulation of a boardroom of investors.

I realized reading about pitching wasn’t enough ... you really have to say it out loud and get real-time feedback. Pitchine listens to your pitch, asks challenging follow-up questions, and then scores your performance with actionable feedback.

The AI’s responses are modeled on common investor mindsets and questions I studied from YC videos, Paul Graham essays, and real pitch decks.

I’m using it daily myself to prepare for investor calls, and I thought other founders might find it useful too.

Would love any feedback, especially on:

How realistic the investor interactions feel

Features you’d want to see before demo day

Ways to improve the scoring and feedback

Thanks for checking it out!

Pitchine
by jkaplowitz | 2025-06-09 03:29:27+00:00
From the article:

> The eruv is funded entirely by the Jewish community, with a considerable portion of that support coming from wealthy philanthropists.

So, no, you're not paying for this.

I'm quite sure that any religion that wanted to fund the cost and follow the proper permitting procedures could similarly run wires for religious purposes, otherwise NYC would have a First Amendment problem. But I don't think any other religions want to run wires for religious purposes.

And yes, other religions can and do use public space in myriad ways too. As for encroaching on others, the eruv doesn't really encroach on anyone - I'm a secular Jew who has lived in NYC for most of my life, and while I've heard about this before, I've never actually noticed it in person, even when I've probably been within eyesight of it.
by vlovich123 | 2025-06-09 03:30:51+00:00
Clearly they did it for one patient and it was a good result. Doctors and staff generally care about their patients and given there’s plausible scientific reasoning why this worked, they’d help figure out how to make staffing work for 3-5 more patients for a limited time. Additionally, positive results like this start to travel by word of mouth so if this is successful it means more funding for the hospital and more patients seeking care from them. That’s how it should work but bureaucracy of medical care is typically resistant to things like that.
by jemmyw | 2025-06-09 03:31:15+00:00
> Entering Japan there's a nice friendly line marked "Japanese" where everyone just passes in smoothly, and a grim dystopian line marked "Foreigner"

So exactly like the US then? They take your fingerprints and photo and ask probing questions about your visit which the officer doesn't actually care about but are designed to rattle you and trip you up.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-09 03:31:21+00:00
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". Oh okay, send me your entire unabridged hard drive contents, chat logs, phone records, and banking records. You thought they were private? Why? They're just bits in a computer? "BuT ChAtGpT iS DiFfErEnT" literally how?
by komali2 | 2025-06-09 03:32:54+00:00
Neal Stephenson seems prophetic in this sense. In "Fall," someone does exactly that - leverage what nowadays we'd call LLMs but micro ones deployable as a massive botnet, that take a given topic and vomit out unfilterable torrents of garbage about it. In the novel the POC for it is to divide the world into those that believe a small town in Utah was nuked, and those that don't.

The deployment completely destroys the internet as well as a large swath of American sovereignty in its own borders, as a portion of the population becomes AI-addled ungovernable jihadists that spend half their time drooling over AI generated images and the other half crucifying heretics.
by anduril22 | 2025-06-09 03:33:28+00:00
Well it’s not a Jewish neighbourhood if it’s all of Manhattan. Encroachment isn’t always the most obvious - do construction permits require builders to fix any breaks to this, similar to other public utility lines (telephone, electricity)? That would be an encroachment. Does it increase any risk to public workers who fix supply lines, or increase the risk of electrical fires from thunderstorms? That’d be encroachment. Not saying it’ll happen, but some non-obvious examples.

Also, what are other such examples from other groups? There’s a big difference between theoretical (a matter of law) and the practical (societal acceptance). I’m also not sure of telephone poles being public space, I can only imagine the administrative and legal hurdles to overcome to hang something off one.
by deadbabe | 2025-06-09 03:35:20+00:00
> It means you can't sustainably release free apps unless you're willing to just ignore that you're burning $100 a year forever.

The fact that this $100 yearly fee has never been adjusted for inflation, in a time when developers are easily shelling out $200 a month to use LLMs, makes this gripe all the more petty. Especially when software developers are still among some of the highest paid jobs on the market.
by simoncion | 2025-06-09 03:35:35+00:00
So, it seems that you and I are definitely in agreement about the rough proportion of novel research done to "figure out how to fit preexisting things together and patch over the areas where the parts mate poorly" in the software field. I'd argue that the latter activity does qualify for inclusion in the development half of R&D, but -because I don't know [0] the relevant legal definition of the term, I won't strongly argue for the position.

The unfortunate thing that kicked off this discussion was that you talked about "...[selling] software IP...". Thanks to active work by copyright maximalists [1] over the past 20+ years, the term "Intellectual Property" applies just as well to plug-and-chug Enterprise CRUD software that sells for megabucks as it does to leading-edge research projects that -like- actually have Key Personnel and die dead if those folks go away. Anyone who is capable of paying attention and has been in the industry for more than a year or three is quite aware that plug-and-chug CRUD is far more valuable than the overwhelming majority of the people who make it.

So, yeah. From that arose the confusion.

[0] ...and because I can't be arsed to go look it up...

[1] My position in brief: copyright and patents are absolutely essential, copyright terms are insanely long, and patents frequently granted when they should not
by krisoft | 2025-06-09 03:36:53+00:00
> some people stepped up to the Oracle and asked how to conquer Persia. Others probably asked where they left their sandals.

And if the place would be any good at the second kind of queries you would call it Lost&Found and not the Oracle.

> illusion (or a projection) of latent knowledge being revealed

It is not an illusion. Knowledge is being revealed. The right knowledge for my question.

> That interpretive dance between human and oracle is the core of divination, no matter how mundane the interaction.

Ok, so if I went to a library, used a card index to find a book about bird feather anatomy, then read said book to find that the answer to my question is “barb” would you also call that “divination”?

If i would have paid a software developer to turn my imprecise description of a database table into precise and thight code which can be executed would you also call that “divination”?
by zX41ZdbW | 2025-06-09 03:38:23+00:00
It is also worth looking at the number of unique repositories for each agent, or the number of unique large repositories (e.g., by the threshold on the number of stars). Here is the report we can check:

https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#V0lUSCByZXBvX3N0Y...

I've also added some less popular agents like jetbrains-junie, and added a link to a random pull request for each agent, so we can look at the example PRs.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-09 03:39:09+00:00
There are many, no doubt

#if 0 cc -static -pipe -xc "$0"||exit 100 exec ./a.out #endif int puts(const char *); int unlink(const char *); int main(int argc,char *argv[]){ puts("it works"); unlink(argv[0]); return 0; }
by foxfired | 2025-06-09 03:39:30+00:00
There are some good advice here, particularly the "Shaquille" video. But one thing I want to add is that no amount of advice can help you when all you have is a blank piece of paper. I don't mean this in a negative way.

Tips and tricks are great when you have a working machine you want to improve. But when you are getting started, do it a hundred times, or until you figure it out. For videos, you have to get all your bad videos out of the way so you can start making good ones.
by ajxs | 2025-06-09 03:39:48+00:00
Operating systems have gotten a whole lot more reliable since Windows 95. The way I remember it, Windows 98 would regularly corrupt itself and need to be manually reinstalled. I'd done it so many times that I could pretty much recite the license key from memory. Modern Linux is rock solid. Even Windows 10 is very stable. They might be 'bloated', but modern OS's are way, way more stable.
by anta40 | 2025-06-09 03:41:00+00:00
For me, the some of biggest annoying about mobile app development is how the dev environment is space/RAM hungry:

- gradle folder easily reach 7 or 8 gigs per project (more external dependencies = bigger) - Android/iOS emulator also need something like 7 GB (per device). Imagine if you have 3 emulators: Pixel 3 running Android 13, Pixel 4 running Android 14, etc etc

Also agree code deprecation is something often happen. Most of my experience is Android, and yes I've seen emails from Google saying something like "if you don't need this feature, don't call API X and use Y instead. Failure to comply to this within 1 month will result your app is taken down." Oh well..
by Sleepthinker | 2025-06-09 03:42:23+00:00
As a gym enthusiast, if this app can’t give me accurate calorie counts and nutrient data, it’s basically useless to me. But for the average person, this is a big deal because we tend to seek convenience and want the easiest path to our goals. If this app wants to truly deliver results, it still has a long way to go.

Fun fact: The founder of Cal AI is just 18 years old.
by actinium226 | 2025-06-09 03:42:45+00:00
While I love seeing mathy articles on HN, the lead image in this article is terrible.

At first glance I see we're talking about numerical integration so I assuming the red part is this method that is being discussed and that it's much better than the other two. Then I look at the axis, which the caption notes is log scale, and see that it goes from 1.995 to 2. Uh-oh, is someone trying to inflate performance by cutting off the origin? Big no-no, but then wait a minute, this is ground truth compared to two approximations. So actually the one on the right is better. But the middle one is still accurate to within 0.25%. And why is it log scale?

Anyway point is, there's lots of room for improvement!

In particular it's probably not worth putting ground truth as a separate bar, just plot the error of the two methods, then you don't need to cut off the original. And ditch the log scale.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-06-09 03:44:08+00:00
My alternative definition would be something like this. Intelligence is the capacity to solve problems, where a problem is defined contextually. This means that what is and is not intelligence is negotiable in situations where the problem itself is negotiable. If you have water solve a maze, then yes the water could be said to have intelligence, though that would be a silly way to put it. It’s more that intelligence is a material phenomenon, and things which seem like they should be incredibly stupid can demonstrate surprisingly intelligent behavior.

LLMs are leagues ahead of viruses or proteins or water. If you put an LLM into a code editor with access to error messages, it can solve a problem you create for it, much like water flowing through a maze. Does it learn or change? No, everything is already there in the structure of the LLM. Does it have agency? No, it’s a transparently deterministic mapping from input to output. Can it demonstrate intelligent behavior? Yes.
by TheDong | 2025-06-09 03:44:18+00:00
Back in the days of newgrounds, a bunch of kids learned to program by picking up flash, making games, and sharing them with their friends. That would not have happened if you had to pay even $1/year to publish a .swf file.

Now, their friends all have iphones, and if a kid could hack out an app for their friend group and share it around, it would give them great motivation to learn and hack in that ecosystem.

It's kids, idealistic OSS hackers, and people in the global south who see the $100/year and give up.

It's also just plain dumb rent-seeking that no other OS does. I can make an APK for a friend for free, I can make an exe for a friend, an elf for a friend, etc.

Yet, even if I live in the EU and thus can distribute apps to my friends to sideload directly, even then I'm required to pay $100/year or my app stops working.
by calrain | 2025-06-09 03:44:47+00:00
Yes, this is just 'your code' if you're writing your own MCP code, but it's also 'Googles' code if you're using their MCP service in front of GMail.

As with all code reviews, supply chain validation, CVE scanning, SNYK, whatever, definitely keep doing that for your home brew MCP implementation.

For the commercial stuff, then that falls under the terms of service umbrella that covers all the stuff your company is still using from them.

This article from CyberArk seemed to be fear mongering, not really educating people on writing better code.

Not sure what their angle is, unless they are about to deliver a MCP Server service.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-09 03:46:15+00:00
Hacker News deserves a stronger counterargument than “this is silly.”

My original comment is making a structural point, not a mystical one. It’s not saying that using AI feels like praying to a god, it's saying the interaction pattern mirrors forms of ritualized inquiry: question → symbolic output → interpretive response.

You can disagree with the framing, but dismissing it as "I don’t like AI so I’m going to pontificate" sidesteps the actual claim. There's a meaningful difference between saying "this tool gives me answers" and recognizing that the process by which we derive meaning from the output involves human projection and interpretation, just like divination historically did.

This kind of analogy isn't an attack on AI. It’s an attempt to understand the human-AI relationship in cultural terms. That's worth engaging with, even if you think the metaphor fails.
by defrost | 2025-06-09 03:47:53+00:00
Leaving aside that this is about "much of Manhattan" rather than "all of Manhattan" it remains that Manhattan, Brooklyn, New York City in general are well known as one of the larger jewish neighbourhoods on the planet.

Jews comprise approximately 10% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel.

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

Some of your other what if's are addressed in the article, if you're a good faith commenter looking for actual serious issues then there's also 100 years of existence in Manhattan and the wider New York City to draw upon.

Perhaps you could highlight some actual real issues that have cropped up in the last century?
by diwank | 2025-06-09 03:49:09+00:00
Have tried everything under the sun at the moment— broadly just two winners (and both have become my daily drivers for different use cases):

1. Claude Code with Opus 4

2. Cursor with Opus 4 or Gemini 2.5 Pro (Windsurf used to be an option but Anthropic has now cut them out)

3. (Coming up; still playing around) Claude Code’s GitHub Action
by ednite | 2025-06-09 03:50:05+00:00
Some great conversation starters here.

For example, I always believed ostriches buried their heads in the sand to hide, turns out I was naively wrong.

From wiki page:

Ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand to hide from enemies or to sleep. This misconception's origins are uncertain but it was probably popularized by Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE), who wrote that ostriches "imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of their body is concealed".

Thanks for sharing.
by ptero | 2025-06-09 03:51:11+00:00
There is definitely value in stability and the US system worked well for a long time, but it is not the only way for a safe ATC.

So OK, if you want to do development in this space, do learn about the US setup from a retired old fart who worked with paper strips and thinks the system should stay like this forever. But also learn about systems in Europe, Japan and other places; and realize that ATC can move away from the stone age. My 2c.
by Stratoscope | 2025-06-09 03:52:53+00:00
Here is a wonderful video, riding the Wuppertal Schwebebahn in 1902 and 2015 side by side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc

As noted in the description, the 1902 video plays in real time, and the 2015 video has some cuts and framerate adjustments to keep them in sync.
by maxlin | 2025-06-09 03:53:10+00:00
Better do business with UAE and reap the benefits, than let the benefits eventually go to China.

Trying to forever suppress the middle east obviously hasn't worked, so this is just realpolitik with the obvious right choice being what is being done now imho. Saudis are gonna be autocratic in any case, this is just good Hearts of Iron gameplay in real life.