MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by renegat0x0 | 2025-06-25 20:47:30+00:00
So recently two things have happened. I have been banned on reddit technology, and warned on other subreddit that I behave like a bot.

Maybe it was my fault to advertise my own solution in comments.

Such behavior however triggered bot detection. I might have behaved like a NPC. So currently a human can be identified as a bot, and banned on that premise. Crazy times.

Currently I feel I must act like a human.
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-25 20:47:32+00:00
In this case the code in question is actually running on the service providers metal, essentially PaaS.

I wouldn't feel comfortable comparing that to the 30% i-wonder-who takes for providing a store to download packages that then run on the edge.

(And fwiw, all of them should be able to take any percentage they want. It's only an issue if there is no other option)
by 9rx | 2025-06-25 20:48:08+00:00
> They didn't say the $575k was stretching

Not explicitly, but they indicated that for them to move into the downtown they would require the price to be the same or less. That necessarily implies that $575k is the stretch point. If they had a $1-5M budget, we could have looked at downtown homes in that price range too.

> Just that it was the price when they bought it

That is what it said, but as the mortgage sits at 30 years it is likely that it was purchased recently. Yes, perhaps it is technically possible that he has owned it for 30 years already and just remortgaged it for another 30, or that it was a 40 year mortgage initially, but these are unlikely scenarios. If the commenter is concerned about any detail inaccuracy, he can provide an update.

> it's also not "showing off" to live in an expensive area

I mean, fair enough. Growing up in a rural area that was home to many big-co CEOs and professional athletes who were clearly showing off their extensive fortunes, it's apparent that the real flex is getting as far away from the city as possible. But at the same time I don't expect these houses of which you speak are exactly crack shacks either. Would you not say that they were very nice homes? Nicer than what the janitor at the school lives in? Location, location, location. I get it. However, $5M buys a lot more than just location in a suburb.

But it remains that it would be showing off for me. What useful functionality would a $1-5M home offer that I don't already have in my current home?
by bunderbunder | 2025-06-25 20:48:19+00:00
I've been watching my colleagues' adoption of Copilot with interest. From what I can tell, the people who are the most convinced that it improves their productivity have an understanding of developer productivity that is very much in line with that of the managers in this story.

Recently I refactored about 8,000 lines of vibe-coded bloat down into about 40 lines that ran ten times as fast, required 1/20 as much memory, and eliminated both the defect I was tasked with resolving and several others that I found along the way. (Tangentially, LLM-generated unit tests never cease to amaze me.) The PHBs didn't particularly appreciate my efforts, either. We've got a very expensive Copilot Enterprise license to continue justifying.
by cryptoz | 2025-06-25 20:48:39+00:00
I'm building something like this. The value to you would be that you could earn a margin on the token costs. That is, the end user is charged 2x the token cost of the API call. The API provider earns the base cost, the platform owner earns 20% of the remaining cost, and the webapp creator earns 80% of the remaining price.

So for an API call that costs $0.50, the end user is charged $1; and from that AI API earns $0.50, the webapp creator earns $0.40 and the host earns $0.10.

I'm trying this out with https://codeplusequalsai.com right now but it's not clear to me yet that it will take off!

But clearly, the value to you should be that you could earn $ based on the token usage from end-users.
by vaadu | 2025-06-25 20:50:00+00:00
Bloomberg article is terrible. Why is HUD moving?

From foxnews: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hud-becomes-first-major-cab...

"The Robert C. Weaver Building is a vacant and run-down monument to waste with half a billion dollars in overdue maintenance," Ernst said, calling it a "cross between a ghost town and a horror show."

Investments to-date in the Weaver building totaled $90 million over the past 15 years, including plaza, roof and façade repairs.

Mold and asbestos containment have plagued the building, which also has only about half of its elevators in working operation.

I live in NOVA. The economies around here are addicted to government spending. As a federal taxpayer I think they should move many federal agencies to other states. USDA to KC was a start. Agriculture to Iowa, DOEnergy to Texas, NASA to Florida, Interior to Colorado for starters

The DC area doesn't have a right to these overpaid jobs.
by lucb1e | 2025-06-25 20:50:21+00:00
I'm not sure what e.g. showing one one's own change answers. Do you manually review submissions or how does get one out of this initial "put everyone in quarantine" state?

I'm also not sure what "we" are doing now that makes the web look dead to you. I receive no more email spam than ten years ago, less if anything, and I haven't seen any spam on the places that I frequent like HN, stackexchange, wikipedia, mastodon, signal, github, etc.
by mlindner | 2025-06-25 20:50:27+00:00
More discredited "population bomb" thinking. The earth is not heading for overpopulation and there is no shortages in food generation. We produce so much extra food that we feed it to cattle and turn it into vehicle fuel at massive scales. More so, the productivity of farmland in rich areas of the world continues to increase every year, and that productivity increase still hasn't spread to large portions of the world's crop land in poorer countries.

It's to the point that there's serious discussion happening on just covering farmland with solar panels because there's so much excess of it and solar panels are getting cheap enough that it can be more profitable to put solar on farmland than to grow food on that farmland.
by alanrigby | 2025-06-25 20:50:45+00:00
ChatGPT is great but the UI is not, so i built this extension to place a persistent chatbar at the bottom of every webpage. Also it has selective context-memory unlike ChatGPT, so you control what goes into context memory. The vibe was ChatGPT and Dynamic Island have a baby. Landing page is at gptisland.com
by lurking_swe | 2025-06-25 20:51:01+00:00
well built and work well - yes!

However i bought one and regretted it immediately. I think i just don’t like dutch ovens in general. The pot is heavy as hell. I gave mine away to a friend for free lol.

Carrying a 25 pound weight in the kitchen / dining room is not my idea of fun. :) I use an All-Clad stainless steel pot now instead. Weighs half as much and it will last forever.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-06-25 20:51:51+00:00
For far less than the cost of a vendor contract, any government could hire a few developers to work on “their” version of the OS, office suite, apps, etc etc.

It could act as a friendly fork.

Good ideas in the fork could be upstreamed by the gov employees working with the project owners - or (since the gov-run fork is also open source) by literally anyone who wants that good idea upstream.

Seems like the exact thing open source is good at!
by lxgr | 2025-06-25 20:52:01+00:00
Per-container proxy settings are already supported.

I use them for a "home" container that gets routed via my home router's Wireguard VPN independently from all other traffic on my computer (as I don't want to take the performance hit of tunneling everything) using the excellent wireproxy [1].

[1] https://github.com/whyvl/wireproxy
by api | 2025-06-25 20:54:05+00:00
I see a stratified software market in the future.

There will be vibe and amateur banged out hustle trash, which will be the cheap plastic cutlery of the software world.

There will be lovingly hand crafted by experts code (possibly using some AI but in the hands of someone who knows their shit) that will be like the fine stuff and will cost many times more.

A lot of stuff will get prototyped as crap and then if it gets traction reimplemented with quality.
by Nextgrid | 2025-06-25 20:54:09+00:00
It really depends whether the parent is on Linux (where your description would be correct), or on MacOS, where running a container involves first booting up a Linux VM under the hood and having it exchange files/network traffic with the host with tons of overhead (not to mention the pile of shit Electron-based Docker Desktop app that feels like it takes as much memory as the Linux VM itself).
Show HN: MCP Server for Tally – Create and Manage Forms with Claude
by cryophobic | 2025-06-25 20:54:15+00:00
I've built an MCP server for Tally that bridges the gap between their complex API and simple natural language commands.

As someone with ADHD, I built this because context-switching between documentation, form builders, and actual work destroys my flow. Now I can stay in one conversation and just describe what I need.

The interesting technical challenges:

1. API Complexity Abstraction Tally's API requires deeply nested objects for simple fields. An email field needs ~10 nested objects with UUIDs. I built a translation layer so users can just say "add an email field" in natural language, and the server handles the complex structure behind the scenes.

2. Safe Bulk Operations For destructive operations, I implemented a preview-then-confirm pattern. The server generates a confirmation token during preview that must be passed back for execution. This prevents accidental mass deletions while keeping the conversation flow natural.

3. Smart Rate Limiting The server monitors API responses and adjusts its behavior dynamically. When hitting rate limits, it automatically reduces batch sizes and adds delays between requests. Added randomization to prevent multiple instances from hitting the API simultaneously.

4. Type Safety Throughout Full TypeScript with runtime validation for both MCP messages and Tally API responses. This caught several undocumented API quirks during development.

Performance notes: - Batch creation of 100 forms: ~12 seconds with batched operations - Individual creation of 100 forms: ~5 minutes due to rate limits - Human creation of 100 forms: probably a full week of mind-numbing clicking - Submission analysis across 10K responses: ~3 seconds

The code is ISC licensed: https://github.com/learnwithcc/tally-mcp

This particularly helps when you need to create multiple similar forms but your brain rebels at repetitive tasks. Curious if others are building MCP servers and what workflows you're optimizing for.

Also interested in thoughts on MCP vs traditional CLI tools. The conversational interface is slower for simple operations but much better for complex, multi-step tasks where you might forget the exact syntax.
by tycoop81 | 2025-06-25 20:54:27+00:00
I built an app that uses AI to fact check Podcasts and YouTube videos while you watch.

I got sick of listening to podcasts and not knowing if their hosts or guests were full of BS.

My hope is that unbiased, dispassionate AI fact checking agents can help us sift through all the BS and get to the truth, holding the podcast community to a higher standard in the process.

I'd love your help in making this better!
by johnisgood | 2025-06-25 20:54:48+00:00
Agreed, it indeed is Hashcash. I love it. So simple yet effective.

http://www.hashcash.org

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashcash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

C implementation (feature-rich): https://github.com/hashcash-org/hashcash/tree/master/c

A Factor (Forth-like language) implementation of it: https://github.com/factor/factor/blob/master/extra/hashcash/...
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-06-25 20:54:49+00:00
> "If you include young people, then that isn't surprising either."

Meanwhile, from actual poll results:

"A new trend has emerged in American politics: The very youngest voters — 18-to-24-year-olds — say they're more conservative than the cohort that's just older, according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll." https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll in September 2024.

"According to a new Yale Youth Poll, a survey affiliated with the Yale Institution for Social and Political Studies, voters aged 18 to 21 lean Republican by 11.7 points when asked who they would support in the 2026 Congressional elections, while voters aged 22 to 29 favored Democrats by 6.4 points." https://www.newsweek.com/republican-support-poll-young-gen-z... in April 2025.

This is an unwelcome trend that bodes ill for Democrats unless they wake up and smell the coffee soon.
by larrymyers | 2025-06-25 20:55:42+00:00
These places already exist, they're your local game stores! Show up, play games with other people. If you like competition most host official tournaments for various TCG's and table top war-games. These tournaments usually forbid devices while playing, since they can be used to gain unfair advantage, so you are forced to be offline by default. (Plus it's considered rude to be on your phone during a match.)
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-25 20:56:56+00:00
Even if I were to accept the dubious premise that there is enough fractured rock to make a difference and there is no hampering with rocks falling into the void and that it's possible to hit the exact same spot repeatedly without touching the sides, all that would do in big O notation would be increase the constant factor. It would not be super linear after the second bomb.

If your are talking about bombs that hit side by side then clearly that is sub-linear as no matter how fractured the rock it’s not easier to push through than air.
by mmonaghan | 2025-06-25 20:57:14+00:00
It's the right move and authors + publishers should be rooting for it. Either your work lives in the corpus of human knowledge which AI's will increasingly reflect more perfectly over time or you're forgotten. You've also got precedent that they have to pay for access to your work like any other human.

As long as they're not violating copyright laws in output, it's fine and good.
by SirMaster | 2025-06-25 20:57:16+00:00
>Where I live (and true of virtually everywhere else I've lived over the last 20+ years), monthly rent significantly exceeds what the monthly mortgage repayment would be for the property if bought. Rental prices also seem to increase in lock step with or even above house price increases.

That just seems crazy to me as rental price here is like 1/3 of what a mortgage would be on a decent house I can find.

Also property taxes seem to go up just as fast or faster than rental increases.

I mean my rent increases like 2-3% a year over the last 15 years that I have been renting.

If I look back over my spreadsheets I have spent about 100K on rent in the last 15 years that I have been renting and that includes water and heat.
by bronco21016 | 2025-06-25 20:58:41+00:00
Tried it out today. The idea is the fantasy of what Siri should be right? However, just asking basic queries like "What events are on all my calendars tomorrow?" completely fails. It doesn't understand the concept that it needs to query for all the events on my calendar for the next day.

I eagerly await someone to develop something that does what this promises to do. However, I'm not sure anyone will for a few reasons: - Product is potentially immediately disrupted by Apple/Google if they get Siri or Google Assistant to do it. - The ability to make tool calls that make sense largely depends on how your life is organized. Personally I run multiple calendars and display them all at once for various reasons. Others likely run one calendar.
by marcusb | 2025-06-25 20:58:53+00:00
> The TTL for NSEC records are presumably way lower than the TTL for the DS records.

Possibly. It was still an outage they had to wait out the TTL for, due to the design of DNSSEC.

> It’s theoretically possible that it would not have worked for all cases, but that is, in my experience, very unlikely.

This is completely unsubstantiated speculation on your part.

> The bug seems to me to have been reasonably easy to mitigate, but their problem was that Slack did not know what they were doing.

It is indeed reasonably easy to Monday-morning quarterback someone else's outage and blame operators for the sharp edges around poorly designed protocols.

> 1. That number used to be zero, as tptacek liked to point out.

Cool. so, at this rate, in another 100 years or so we should be at 50% adoption.

> 2. The huge operators often have fundamentally different security priorities than regular companies and users.

Priorities like uptime?

> 3. People said the same about IPv6 and SSL, which were also very slow to adopt. But they are all climbing

1) people started rolling IPv6 out once v4 addresses got scarce. There is no such compelling event to drive DNSSEC adoption. 2) SSL is easy to roll out and provides compelling security benefits. It is also exceedingly unlikely in practice to blow up in your face and result in run-out-the-clock outages -- unlike DNSSEC.
by anon22981 | 2025-06-25 20:58:57+00:00
Just for anyone unfamiliar with the game or these types of games and to put out an opposing view — I disagree that the experience of BR games have anything to do with the experience of gambling. I’ve done both and find pretty much nothing in common.

(The cosmetic gambling obviously is very much gambling, though, and is unfortunatly a big part of the game.)
by bgwalter | 2025-06-25 20:59:12+00:00
“Consistent with copyright’s purpose in enabling creativity and fostering scientific progress, ‘Anthropic’s LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something different.’”

More smug nonsense emanating from Misanthropic. There is no creativity that is enabled. People tweak the prompts like children until something that was stolen from others emerges.

Most people working on "AI" have never created anything substantial. They rely on utilizing other people's creations. It is very sad that Alsup caves to big tech and issues a vibe ruling.
by Ingon | 2025-06-25 21:00:54+00:00
I work on connet [1] and from what I've seen iroh seem pretty cool. A few random thoughts I had while watching the presentations/reading the docs:

* the relays serve both for discovery and relay. In connet these are separate responsibilities, e.g. it has control server for discovery and a relay server for relaying connections.

* it seems that the connections to the relays in iroh are TCP (at least what was said in one of the videos), while connet uses QUIC in all cases. This probably makes iroh more resilient, but multiplexing on top of TCP might suffer from head of line blocking.

* it is pretty cool that iroh can seamlessly upgrade from relay to direct connection, connet doesn't do that on a connection level. It will however use direct in the subsequent virtual connections.

* using ALPNs for protocol selection is pretty cool, connet only offers "virtual connections" protocol, where one of the peers is "server" and the other is a "client".

* since there is a separate discovery server (with auth), in connet the endpoints are named separately with logical names, they don't represent peers necessarily. Because of this, you can have multiple peers with "server" role and "client" roles.

Anyhow, thanks for posting this, iroh looks great and I will draw some inspiration from it for sure.

[1] https://github.com/connet-dev/connet
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-25 21:01:37+00:00
The most obvious answer is large-scale media. I can learn about a shooting on the other side of the country within hours of it happening, and think "that could happen where I am". Likewise with any other news, which by definition is about out-of-the-ordinary events. There's more news about violence because there's more news, not because there's more violence, but it feels like there's more violence.
by harshreality | 2025-06-25 21:01:49+00:00
During the initial COVID lockdown, IA implemented their National Emergency Library lending program, which is the only uncontrolled (not 1:1) lending of works known to be under copyright that I know of:

1. Almost all physical libraries, including at universities, had shut down, and IA's efforts were to compensate for that. Supply of previously-purchased-for-public-use books had dried up overnight.

2. Normal 1:1 lending was not observed, but DRM was still applied. No books lent during that period were usable outside of a narrow window, without the end user intentionally circumventing the DRM which is a distinct crime and isn't trivial for the average computer user.

3. IA entered into dialogue with major academic publishers before implementing the emergency library. They published an opt-out address on their blog. That wasn't as visible to all publishers or independent authors as it probably should have been, but everyone knows if it had been opt-in instead, authors and publishers all would have reflexively refused, despite the unique situation. Mainstream publishers and most authors simply do not care if people can't access library books for a month or two. They would ban libraries if they could. They're so high on their intellectual property rights they think those can't be relaxed no matter what.

4. As far as I know, all NEL books were scanned PDFs, from donated library book collections. Casual readers don't read scanned books for entertainment. The idea that this significantly displaced kindle purchases, for instance, or lending of real ebooks from local libraries, needs a citation.

There's plenty of additional background here: https://blog.archive.org/national-emergency-library/
by TacticalCoder | 2025-06-25 21:01:53+00:00
> It may not look like it now, but I think Linux is not viable long-term as a desktop OS.

I'm using Linux on the desktop since the early Slackware days, in the nineties.

The one thing that changed since then is that Linux now powers 500 of the world's Top 500 supercomputers and that's it. Wait, no, I forgot... It powers as well as billions if not tens of billions of phones, routers, servers, TVs, etc. It's in space, in cars, at sea, underground, etc.

It's typically also powering OCI containers, containers host, VMs, Kubernetes (even Talos is still Linux), etc.

Now of course the one thing that hasn't changed is the "This year is the year of Linux on the desktop" joke. But somehow, in the face of billions of devices running Linux, that joke doesn't have the same punch to it anymore.

What makes you think that an OS that basically now powers the entire world isn't suitable long term as a desktop OS?

It's become so easy to use Linux as a desktop OS that even my wife is on Debian: not exactly a "newbie friendly desktop distro".

Is the whole Gnome/KDE/Xorg/Wayland a mess? Sure is. And yet Linux is definitely here to stay.

Linux shall still exist, even on the desktop, long after I'm gone.

Linux is perfectly viable on the desktop.
by phartenfeller | 2025-06-25 21:02:10+00:00
Interesting. This is now the second DB next to Oracle[1] that can do JS (that I know of). pgSQL and PL/SQL of course still stay relevant but in the Oracle spehere the argument is that you can reuse existing code from NPM. Like this blog post [2] describes how to run an GraphQL endpoint from within the DB.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2... [2] https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/creating-a-graphql-...
by bko | 2025-06-25 21:02:13+00:00
For an article arguing the election broke on car ownership as a defining line, I would imagine there was a statistic like:

n% of car owners voted for candidate A

m% of non-car owners voted for candidate B

It doesn't even bother explaining the different neighborhoods and car ownership in those neighborhoods. It just shows a map and basically says "trust me". It's an entire article written on a single tweet.

I'm sorry, but this is really a garbage article