MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alberth | 2025-06-30 02:00:01+00:00
Unsolicited feedback (and take with grain salt since I’m probably not your target buyer)

- the subheading is describing the “how” not the “what”. Meaning, what would you use this product for?

- in general, all the headlines could be preposition from the “what” a user would do scenario. Eg instead of saying “Resource Relationship Diagrams” … say “See Resource Relationship with Ease”

- if I’m understanding the tool correctly, this seems like a “lookup” tool. In which case lookup.dev is for sale … just fyi.
by ggm | 2025-06-30 02:00:42+00:00
hence (dys/u)topia above. I think Szilard was off his rocker when he proposed this, it was before he had much to do with Teller. I suspect after the events of the bomb, he might have changed his mind.

(he wrote rather bad scifi about talking to dolphins. Somebody else, Pierre Boule wrote it much more sexy/exciting, that became "the day of the dolphin")
by beeflet | 2025-06-30 02:00:55+00:00
>How much does the security budget need to be?

I don't know but I expect it to be proportional to market cap, not getting cut in half forever.

>The original intention was to fund the network entirely off fees eventually.

I think this was a half-baked idea from satoshi. My theory is that the bitcoin distribution was chosen to avoid having to decide on any "arbitrary" emission schedule. Bitcoin basically acts an experiment to determine what level of coinbase reward is safe, through bisection.

>if a genuine 51% attack were to happen people would be highly motivated to counter it. That may involve bringing more compute to the network, or even changing the protocol.

Who? Just bitcoin users in general? There is no group that stands to gain, it's sort of a tragedy of the commons situation.

Bitcoin's security is tied to ASIC hardware. You can't just spin up a couple desktops at home to protect the network anymore.

>A fallback proof of work algorithm that requires more generalised hardware would work well.

I think monero already does this. Look up "RandomX" it is amazing to read about. But the problem is that these CPU-mined coins are even easier to attack because you can easily rent hardware or use a botnet to do a 51% attack. Whereas with bitcoin you need to buy a bunch of ASICs which would be devalued by such an attack.

>Ultimately the network is decided by the consensus of the users. Accepting signed blocks is the consensus.

I was going to write a long response to this, but in a nutshell classical consensus and PoS sucks.
by rglullis | 2025-06-30 02:00:56+00:00
There is no snark. I'm just genuinely trying to warn you that you seem to be going down a rabbit-hole. You seem to be more enamored by working on your solution rather than solving your problem.

For you, it might be that exercising your design/coding/architecture chops might be valuable in itself - which is totally fine. But do not think for a second that other people need to particularly care about your solution to a problem, when there are already hundreds of similar projects that are more mature, more familiar and ready to be deployed.
by standardUser | 2025-06-30 02:01:04+00:00
Americans like to upgrade their cars, not unlike their cell phones, and they often have a monthly car payment (or two) that never permanently goes away.

That makes some sense to me, but if the goal is to always have a nice car, doesn't it makes much more sense to lease? The monthly payments will be a few hundred bucks less and you can upgrade every 2-3 years. And from what I understand, leasing agents like to give incentives after your first lease to keep you in the cycle.

Personally, if I were aiming for the most economical option, I'd lease a Nissan Leaf for ~$300/mo.
by jesse__ | 2025-06-30 02:01:21+00:00
Hah, thanks for the kind words <3

In all seriousness, I think I have the same propensity to have a hundred unfinished projects and have a hard time finding motivation to complete them. The difference might be that I have this 'big' project called a 'game engine' that wraps them all up into some semblance of a cohesive whole. For example, projects that are incomplete, but mostly just good enough to be serviceable (sometimes barely):

1. Font rasterizer 2. Programming language 3. Imgui & layout engine 4. 3D renderer 5. Voxel editor

.. etc

Now, every one of those on their own is pretty boring and borderline useless .. there are (mostly) much better options out there for each in their specific domain. But, squash them all together and it's starting to become a useful thing.

It just happened that I enjoy working on engine tech and I picked a huge project I have no hope of ever finishing. Take from that what you will

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. --Hunter S. Thompson
by tptacek | 2025-06-30 02:02:55+00:00
Really hard to over-emphasize just how small Douglas MI is; it's about 1,000 people total. An afternoon's walking distance down the beach from where they shot the ending of Road to Perdition, though.

I don't know how much there is to learn from batty ordinances in tiny rural towns (western Michigan is a special kind of rural; there's some farming, but the biggest industry is hospitality for Chicagoans driving up in the summer).
by Bjartr | 2025-06-30 02:03:33+00:00
I think it was all written for the thing it was trying to be. Which is a casual humorous take on the journey this person went through with a little tech education sprinkled in. Any more formal or sophisticated and it would've lost some of the casual humor and been less an interesting journey. But did so in a way much less aggravating than what qualifies for a food recipe these days.
by brandall10 | 2025-06-30 02:03:38+00:00
Even better, a 3 year old used car with low miles.

In 2016 I picked up a 2013 320i Sport w/ 22k miles on the clock for $18.5k. The sticker on the car was just over $36k. I did have to fly to a relatively remote town (Ogden Utah) and drive it home to San Diego, so that was an extra $320 for the plane ticket/shuttle/gas and 14 hours out of a saturday.

It was almost out of warranty, so pre-purchase I paid a local shop $110 to do a similar inspection to what BMW does for CPO and it only needed brake pads. Aside from the brake pads and scheduled maintenance, eventually replaced the tires, so about $2000 in maintenance over that period. Sold it for $14.5k w/ 50k on the clock 6 years later.

Could have held onto it much longer but was eager to do the nomad thing as covid was clearing up.
by zeroq | 2025-06-30 02:03:55+00:00
You're likely right. I bet you are.

But for a side gig that may or may not pop stuff like Auth0/Clerk is absolutely god send. Auth is hard. Compliance around it is hard. Bad actors deterrence is hard.

Sure, I can roll my own auth with better-auth or similar but I have to think about it. It's the same thing as owning a bare metal and managing my own kubernetes. It's a neat idea, and in some scenarios can be cheaper/more beneficial, but for most scenarios, especially low key side projects or startups it's too much of a hassle. I'd better delegate that mess to someone else for free - for now, and pay the bill later on, when I have to money to share.

If I'd be starting a well researched project with decent founding I would probably roll my own solution, but when talking about side project or personal moonshot it's way better to stick with "responsibility as a service" scheme.
by milchek | 2025-06-30 02:04:29+00:00
Perifrantic makes an interesting point in anticipation of critics that will chime in to assert “this will never be the original Commodore.” In his defense, the retro tech enthusiast says “what if we got 47 trademarks from 1982, or original Commodore engineers back, original executives, assistants, ROMs, Amiga? I mean, at some point, it does start to become the real Commodore, right?”

An interesting thought. I’m sure like many here, the C64 was what sparked my interests in gaming, computing, and technology. It even went a bit beyond that to influencing my tastes around music, design and aesthetics, and is probably one of the major reasons I’m working in digital today. Keen to see what they do for the nostalgia.
by jdbohrman | 2025-06-30 02:04:34+00:00
Hey HN, I wrote this blog post after spending about a month fleshing out the core features of my solutions studio, Atelier Logos, in an attempt to provide something different from the fly-by-night "AI agent" agencies that are popping up day after day. Something I personally have always stood by is that the customer experience is something that can drastically set a service business out from the massive amounts of competition in the industry, and while that may not sound like much of a groundbreaking idea, I wanted to share how I applied it in practice via a using AI to turn my NextJS landing page into a self-contained PWA that has features which I hope will keep people coming back and using the services like a product.

The two core features have so far ended up being:

1. An Intercom-like chat implementation (That's right, you can build that yourself, don't pay them) which handles text, audio, and video 2. A content curation service using Exa that scrapes relevant content directly to a users profile

This is all tied to each Atelier Logos user/member's profile, and over time I hope to add other features/modules as they come to mind. My question to the HN community is twofold:

1. Do you think these are useful just as a service 2. Do you think they would be more useful as an API for others to embed in their applications?
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-30 02:05:03+00:00
Super ZZ Zero

A game engine with many similarities like ZZT and MegaZeux.

Written in C with SDL1.

There are many things that help is possible (you are not required to help with all of these things):

- Bug reports (and patches to fix them if you have them)

- Feature suggestions

- Complaining if some documentation is unclear or incorrect (and suggestions about how to improve it)

- Porting

- Code review

- Testing

- Use of the software, if you are interested to use it for making any game

https://github.com/zzo38/superzz0

You may also use my NNTP server for communication (e.g. in case you do not have a account on GitHub).
by itchyouch | 2025-06-30 02:05:12+00:00
This rhetoric of “terrorists” is getting quite tiresome.

The world has been watching for over 2 years the atrocities occurring in Gaza and Israel and its people have has lost its credibility to its victimhood on the world stage.

This article is simply 1 extra reporting on a million of Israel’s offenses in the name of terrorism.
by gene-h | 2025-06-30 02:05:56+00:00
There are proposals for the 6G standard to support Integrated Sensing and Communication(ISAC)[0]. So the hardware might natively be able to support gait recognition. The use cases given are UAV detection and localization. It sort of seems like this could bring Vernor Vinge's localizer mesh to reality, privacy implications be damned [0]https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2024/6/integrated-sensing-a...
by nick__m | 2025-06-30 02:06:50+00:00
here in Canada the active ingredient must be identical in identical quantity but the binding agents, excipient, and propellant are proprietary. The generics have to have the same bioavailability +-20%.In some drugs it doesn't matter, in others there is a world of difference.

I pay the 2$ it cost for brand name ventolin (my insurance cover the cost generic and I pay the difference) as the generic give asthma attack. But I would not pay one cent more for the brand name Vyvaanse. Effect wise the generic is indistinguishable (but damm the pills colors make them looks like a cheap gray market knock-off).

My wife has a paper from her oncologist for original femara because the generic made her faint a few times ( the insurance cover the whole cost because of that paper)
by jianzong | 2025-06-30 02:07:00+00:00
I'm building my personal finance App Percento for iOS. More than 10 years after I switched my career from accountant to Dev, and it has been more than 5 years that I worked on this project, how time flies.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/percento-net-worth-tracker/id1...

https://www.percento.app
by TulliusCicero | 2025-06-30 02:08:00+00:00
Yes really? She got explicit permission from the city to raise the chickens, and then they tried to pull the rug out from under her later, after she'd already spent thousands on a chicken coop.

> The city claimed that it had forgotten to notify the neighbors of their right to object during the review process and had therefore done so retroactively.

Like lmao, that's not how due process works man. You can't tell someone they can build something, then go "oh whoops we fucked up, you can't build it after all" after they're already done and then punish them for it.

Imagine if NYC tried to pull this for a high-rise after it was already constructed. "Oh you already built it? Sorry man, turns out you're not allowed to put a building that tall there, you'll have to take it down. Oopsies!"
by Aurornis | 2025-06-30 02:08:15+00:00
> the lawsuit notes that the ordinance's wording still inherently runs afoul of due process rights. That's because the ordinance provides no clear standard, no ability for Sarkisian to appeal or contest her neighbor's complaint, and no right to a hearing. According to PLF's complaint, this effectively gives her neighbor "a standardless and unreviewable veto over Kathy's use of her own property."

NIMBY policy in a nutshell: All power goes to those who object.

It's strange that the city made the mistake of issuing the permit but is now trying to retroactively un-permit the chickens because one person complained.

Stories like this and even the more casual HOA stories make me glad I live in an area where most families are too busy with their lives to be nit picking minutia in their neighbors' yards.
by norbert515 | 2025-06-30 02:08:25+00:00
Working on https://vide.dev, the Cursor for Flutter devs.

While Cursor stops after writing great code, Vide goes the extra mile and has full runtime integration. Vide will go the extra mile & make sure the UI looks on point, works on all screen configurations and behaves correctly. It does this by being deeply integrated into Flutters tooling, it's able to take screenshot/ place widgets on a Figma-like canvas and even interact with everything in an isolated and reproducible environment.

I currently have a web version of the IDE live but I'm going to launch a full native desktop IDE very soon.
by jacobn | 2025-06-30 02:08:52+00:00
Isn’t it more of an “all of the above”?

A lot of employees at successful startups & FAANG make most of their money from the stock, no? And they need to buy houses and send their kids to fancy schools too, no? So sure, we can reduce it to stock holders, but I’d bet dollars to donuts the 90% of employees who aren’t posting on hn are at least passively ok with “improving metrics”, and some ambitious ones are driving the enshittification initiatives hard.
by ajd555 | 2025-06-30 02:10:02+00:00
I've been working on a fully electric last-mile delivery company: https://hudsonshipping.co

Beyond the landing page (built with Astro), I've been building all of the route optimization, the delivery and warehouse management systems. A combination of go and java has allowed me to write a few microservices in the past 6 months to handle all of my logistical processes, and I'm just testing the mobile app in the field as we speak! I hope to make some of the code open-source one day!
by saurik | 2025-06-30 02:10:26+00:00
This is really brittle, though, and in a way that matters a lot more than reproducible builds. Like, sure: a slightly different compiler might cause a slightly different bug to be introduced into the code, but here a slight bit of non-determinism leads to a drastically and fundamentally different result! And not only is the exact inference engine version important, but sometimes the exact hardware as well (when run on GPU)...
by FabHK | 2025-06-30 02:10:43+00:00
> How much does the security budget need to be?

There's the famous paper "The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain" [0, 1] answering this question. Bottom line: huge.

> Nakamoto’s novel form of trust faces serious economic limits. It is unusually expensive in absolute terms relative to the stakes involved, and its expense scales linearly with the stakes involved. [...] if permissionless consensus in its pure form were to become a more important part of the global economic and financial system than it has been to date, then the costs of securing the trust would become preposterous — more than all of global GDP in some scenarios.

David Rosenthal has good introductory posts on this [2] in his excellent blog.

[0] Original 2018 version: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24717

[1] Updated 2024 version [pdf]: https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/2024...

[2] https://blog.dshr.org/2025/05/who-is-mining-bitcoin.html

https://blog.dshr.org/2018/06/cryptocurrencies-have-limits.h...

https://blog.dshr.org/2019/02/the-economics-of-bitcoin-trans...

https://blog.dshr.org/2024/05/fee-only-bitcoin.html
by elcritch | 2025-06-30 02:10:52+00:00
> Even if the city had followed the proper timing protocols for neighbor objections, the lawsuit notes that the ordinance's wording still inherently runs afoul of due process rights. That's because the ordinance provides no clear standard, no ability for Sarkisian to appeal or contest her neighbor's complaint, and no right to a hearing. According to PLF's complaint, this effectively gives her neighbor "a standardless and unreviewable veto over Kathy's use of her own property."

That’s a great way to frame the argument against Karens and NIMBYs general attitude. What right do they have to an unreviewable veto? They should at least have to prove something a public nuisance or or source of harm.
by ianburrell | 2025-06-30 02:11:04+00:00
The big problem is that there isn't incentive for old companies to migrate. They have addresses and the benefits are mostly for customers who don't know about it. Also, network engineering training is all about IPv4, and it works so they don't want to change.

I think what was needed was organization that could push IPv6. Boring technology needs someone promoting or grows slowly. They could have logo for IPv6 ready devices, and list of ISPs with IPv6. They could write network engineering training for the IPv6 way.

We missed opportunities for cloud computing, Kubernetes, and new companies to be primarily IPv6.
by 827a | 2025-06-30 02:11:18+00:00
It has everything to do with the deflationary nature of the currency. Its stated so right in their potential solutions:

> Tail emission: stop halvings and allow infinite inflation

The reality that no one wants to talk about is that Bitcoin is screwed and there's no way out of it, because of bad fundamental design.

Increasing block size will only work to solve the problem of Bitcoin's Security Budget if it brings in more usage/transactions; but Bitcoin's adherence to its traditionalist values is what led to the creation of a billion other cryptocurrencies to solve this exact problem, they do solve it, and they experience significantly higher transaction volume as a result. There's no evidence that volume is going to come back to Bitcoin. On the contrary; volume is down on Bitcoin, significantly, the usage these days looks more like 2018/2019. Its not coming back.

It also doesn't help that crypto, in general, is a dying technology.

> Burning dormant coins (e.g., Satoshi’s)

The fact that this is suggested, even as the last possible solution, should scream volumes about where this project and Bitcoin is at. This possibility shouldn't even be on this list. Not only would it do all the things the article says it would do (violate property rights, incite riots); it wouldn't even solve the problem. It would just buy a few years of time.

But as long as the miners have to buy their mining equipment using inflationary US Dollars; they're screwed. The only thing that would keep it going is growth in the usage of the currency, but (1) all growth stops eventually, and (2) even if it didn't, Bitcoin seems designed from day one to inhibit its own growth, because it was designed by an idiot crypto-maxy anarchist teenager who made the predictable software engineer mistake of thinking skill in compsci makes you skilled at everything.
by gus_massa | 2025-06-30 02:12:00+00:00
Extract from a comment by myself a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357022

> I think it makes no sense, but as HN discourage swallow dismissal ...

> The easiness to test prediction is the the ratio of the masses of the three generations of particles. The paper claim they are m_n = m_0 exp(-α n^γ) Then then claim something like: "1 : 4.5 : 21.0"

> - top/charm/up quarks: the ratios are 1 : 588 : 80186

> - bottom/strange/down quarks: missing(?!)

> - electron/muon/tau: 1 : 206 : 3477

> - neutrinos: From the article:

>> For neutrinos, this work predicts masses of 0.058 ± 0.004 eV for ν 3; 0:0086 ± 0:0003 eV for ν2, and 0:0023 ± 0:0002 eV for ν1, with mass ratios showing remarkable precision: m2/m1 = 4.5 ± 0.3 and m3/m1 = 21.0 ± 1.5.

> But from the experiments we have only upper bounds of the masses. We know they have mass, but we don't know even an approximation of the value. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino#Flavor,_mass,_and_the... the experimental values are "<0.08x10-6", "<0.17" and "<18.2" so I don't understand how the paper claims "remarkable precision"

After a few days, I consider the missing bottom/strange/down quarks a huge red flag, because any referee would ask it.

Also, by Sabine Hossenfelder "Time has 3 dimensions and that explains particle masses, physicist claims" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzK6nITCK0 that explains the errors in many of the other equations.
by AngryData | 2025-06-30 02:12:31+00:00
To me the populous being able to start chaos and cause downfall is the entire point, it is the ultimate threat towards despots. If you piss off the population enough then people will become dangerous enough to be a threat to everyone and anyone, no matter how rich or powerful someone is.

The strength of an insurgency is in the arms the common people possess, and a weak insurgency means years, decades, even generations of bitter fighting against a despot as they ultimately wait for them to die of old age or in-fighting among the elite and hopefully get someone nicer. I don't think that is an effective or desirable goal, I would rather the issue gets forced quickly. Even if the chance of stability immediately afterwards is lower, I think the ability to mess up despotic ambitions more quickly and decisively makes up for it in being able to do it again rapidly if necessary.

As for people wanting to be part of the death squads, their organizations can be destroyed just as easily as the one they destroyed to gain power. I can assure you that people who want to kill and grift their way to glory and wealth are not the only people armed nor the only ones willing to fight for their values.

Yes, we are sitting on a powder keg, but so is everyone else that want to be king of the powder keg.
by 0x10ca1h0st | 2025-06-30 02:12:36+00:00
Working on the echi network.

A residential proxy network that leverages blockchain by turning everyday users home connections who have no contracts against such practices, into rentable exit nodes, each contributing bandwidth in exchange for rewards. A dedicated blockchain ledger tracks the exact amount of data each node relays and automatically releases micropayments in the network’s native cryptocurrency, ensuring transparent, real-time compensation without a middleman.

But with my adhd, I'll likely end up working on another project sooner than later. Interested in MCP aggregation.