MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-12 10:32:17+00:00
>The fact that you didn't

Mate, I don't have time to flag all comments that I find inflammatory, especially when I flagged many comments in the past and nothing happened to them, so what's the point? I flagged this one after and the comment was still there. So why are you throwing the blame on me? Why didn't you remove that comment after I pointed it out?

> Again, when you see this, email us.

Mate please, be serious, me and most normal people have better things to do with our time than go full Karen "I want to talk to the manager" mode, and go to such lengths like emailing HN mods about other peoples' comments. Downvotes and flags are enough for me.

The fact that there are people here who have the time to send you emails about my comments that don't break the rules, just because they're butthurt, says something about those users (unemployed, terminally online, mentally unstable on SSRIs, social and politically activists, etc). Normal, employed people with healthy social lives don't send mod emails about comments they don't like on internet. WTH?

>These parts break the guidelines against assuming bad faith

Then by that yardstick, isn't the comment I was replying too also in bad faith, just like I pointed out initially? Since he was using Android 2 to justify that Android 16 is the superior UI. And I replied that's in bad faith since the alternative to Android 16 shitty UI is not going back to Android 2 to make Android 16 look good, but version 10 is a good counter to that of why version 16 is bad. How is my comment in bad faith and that one not?

>fulminating

Why was it fulminating? Was it any more than the rest of comments everyone on HN? That was just criticism of Android's UI evolution. Since when is criticism of something with arguments considered "fulminating"? Please explain, I'm genuinely curious. Because otherwise this so called rule break of mine in this case feels blatantly discriminatory and double standards.

>you're going to get more flags, and complaints made about you

Bro, you're straight up admitting to biased moderation here. That the community doing the flagging cares more about WHO is saying something rather than WHAT is being said. How can you talk about free speech and fair moderation with a straight face in this case?

Please, answer me these questions.
by n4r9 | 2025-06-12 10:32:39+00:00
My guess is that - like all competent people - the US Navy staff is fighting a constant battle against short-term managerialism. Occasionally stuff will slip through because of time and financial pressures. I can practically imagine the conversation:

"We need this contract to be signed and rolled out next month"

"But our decision process alone takes a month!"

"Decision takes a month?! How hard can it be? What do we need to do to expedite this?"

"Well, I guess we can outlay some of the review work to the interns"
by piker | 2025-06-12 10:32:47+00:00
Somebody tell the Danish legal team that Tritium (https://tritium.legal) runs on Linux :).

I said it on the prior thread, and I think it's worth reiterating: Politics aside, Microsoft has such a strangle hold on so many industries it's insane. That reach is just extending with copilot + OpenAI and Azure. The next few years could be bleak if it plays the way MSFT is trying to push it. Good for Denmark.
by dimitrisnl | 2025-06-12 10:32:59+00:00
Oof. I'm sure Vercel might patch this issue. But I had had enough of these little annoyances. For example, the documented way to identify prefetches in the middleware has been broken for weeks (months?).

A lot of small issues that keep adding up. I'm not going to shill something else here, but I have a bit of Next.js fatigue lately. Still love the JS ecosystem though.

Anyway, thanks for bringing this up!
by Aeolun | 2025-06-12 10:33:35+00:00
I’m not saying it should be shared. I’m just struggling to come up with truly terrifying things you can do with the information.

That whole article is going mental over the fact that a cop can run a nationwide search on license plates of all things? What’d be the point of running it on a select few states?

“I’ve established that the suspect is not in Texas.”
by einpoklum | 2025-06-12 10:33:53+00:00
> having the entire base system developed as a single project has worked well for the BSDs.

Well,

* I don't believe BSD develop their own GUI and apps. So, just the "base system" like you said.

* BSD is a 60-year project, started by a university, and taken up by many individuals and organizations, not a personal hobby project.
by kashunstva | 2025-06-12 10:34:35+00:00
Devastating. In the video, the aircraft climbs at a low pitch angle, never retracts the gear, then enters a high AoA and appears to stall.

Loss of thrust and failure to maintain V2? Takeoff misconfiguration? (Hard to see clearly from the videos; but are the flaps extended? Would probably be flaps 10 or 15 for the likely takeoff weight.)
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-12 10:34:59+00:00
To be honest I found it hard to read, it seemed to be more focused on using big words and formal language than explaining the point. Not trying to roast you, just honest criticism. I think that's what gives the "ChatGPT" feeling.

I know someone else that writes like that, he is deeply involved in government bureaucracy and they have this complex jargon that I don't know.
by abu_salem | 2025-06-12 10:35:21+00:00
I built a simple iOS Shortcut called TextFixer that fixes grammar, typos, and clarity in any app using AI.

It’s powered by ChatGPT via a proxy server, so it works even in regions where ChatGPT is blocked.

Supports 90+ languages

Doesn’t require the latest iPhone (no Apple Intelligence needed)

Works through the Share Sheet in any app

Doesn’t change your tone or message — just tidies things up

It started as a personal tool — I second-guessed my writing a lot, especially in English as a second language. When friends started using it and asked for access, I decided to open it up.

Live here: https://www.textfixer.co.uk

Feedback welcome!
by db48x | 2025-06-12 10:35:44+00:00
That’s just the broken window fallacy writ large. The positive economic output of the research is counterbalanced by the negative economic output of the taxes paid. There are certainly worse things to spend tax money on, since there are things that generate no economic output at all, but that alone doesn’t justify it.

The fact is that taxpayer–funded medical research is just a subsidy for the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical companies rake in billions in income from their successful products and don’t really need any subsidies.

And you’re right, the NIH is relatively small. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that ending the NIH entirely would raise the cost of developing medicines by less than 10%. There’s no way that’s a crisis. That’s just a slightly different way of doing business.
by aa-jv | 2025-06-12 10:36:02+00:00
Disclaimer: this is a highly charged and controversial opinion, forged after decades of interest in the subject both laterally [0] and in terms of consumption of science-fiction (speculative fiction) - but it is my personal theory that the entire UFO subject is just crypto-racism. You can't be an out-and-out racist any more - so an analog is substituted, instead, to give actual racists a means of expressing their frustrations by projecting the internal turmoil (both personal and social) into a manifestation that is a 'socially acceptable' form of expression, no matter how weird or batshit. [1]

But then again, it is actually racism to compare humans as a race along with all our multi-variate foibles and accomplishments, with 'some ethereal other, whose capabilities are beyond our comprehension' and instill fear and loathing.

I don't have any reliable means of 'proving' this, other than to observe that the rise in UFO'ology parallels the civil rights movement, and I am fairly certain that the CIA/Pentagons psychologists [2a/2b] also identified this phenomenon in the post-war, factually very, very racist and intolerant period of Western society, and so decided to exploit it - as a means of blowing off the racist steam in their socities, but also as a handle for controlling it and directing it, as they see fit, for their own fundamentalist, racist intentions. The powers within the US empire have demonstrated, for decades, their own desire to manifest a rigid and technologically-biased hierarchy over cultures they have deemed inferior, and thus ripe for subversion/destruction - and the whole UFO phenomenon is, in my opinion, an harmonic of this factor within western society.

To many around the world, the arrival of, say, an F35 in their skies is just as terrifying as a tictac or two.

But then again, maybe we really do share the planet with a race that is vastly superior to our own in so many ways, and maybe there are races on this planet which covet the wealth and resources of lesser, inferior forms of the species.

Either way, until they actually show up and either invite us to party in the galactic core, or start the harvest/rapture, the fact of existence of higher life forms is about as useful as the fact of our own species, literally killing itself - which is to say, its just not of any use, whatsoever, to speculate on ones own position.

I do predict, though, that as soon as we get invited to the galactic core, the people of Earth are going to become as racist as fuck .. at least until we catch up with the rest of the galaxy, technology-wise.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)

[1] - https://archive.org/details/lureofedgescient0000bren

[2a] - https://ia800203.us.archive.org/17/items/MessengersOfDecepti...

[2b] - https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/biases/Experime...

[3] - See, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wretched_of_the_Earth
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-12 10:36:27+00:00
>t's EU regulation and laws that make it so expensive to run that the margins are not enough.

Not exactly. The EU regional market fragmentation and domestic protectionism of each country is a way bigger nerf to scaling tech companies domestically.

That's why all EU tech unirons aim straight for the US to sell their products/services there first, and only once they reach escape velocity there, then open themselves to EU customers.
by jap | 2025-06-12 10:36:44+00:00
Thank you! Would never expect anyone to find all the words, but the full alphabetised list is useful to help box in the yellow words that are in the quote. Some of the words in the list are indeed pretty arcane, but I hope it can be interesting for players to see new words, and that those don't really interfere with the fun of the game. By the way, you can tap a word to see its definition.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-06-12 10:36:49+00:00
> LLMs have obviously reached the point where they are smarter than almost every person alive, better at maths, physics, biology, English, foreign languages, etc.

I dont think memorizing stuff is the same as being smart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

> But because they can’t solve this honestly weird visual/spatial reasoning test they aren’t intelligent?

Yes. Being intelligent is about recognizing patterns and thats what arc agi tests. It tests ability to learn. A lot of people are not very smart.
by ordu | 2025-06-12 10:37:14+00:00
Hmm... What if some matter falls into our black hole? I know there are some weird time-space effects on the boundary, which I do not have any intuition about. To my knowledge it may be, that it will never fall in our time frame, or that it have fallen all already. The question is, will we able to see and welcome new matter entering our Universe?
by gizajob | 2025-06-12 10:38:31+00:00
For any of their finance or planning people using Excel as a daily driver, the productivity lost will far outweigh any financial or ethical gains.

We’re also at the cusp of AI getting added throughout MS Office and Windows which will be the next driver of productivity and collaboration, and it’ll be at least a decade before Libreoffice catches up.

Saying this as a believer in open source and with no great love for M$. It’s just not 1997 any more.
Show HN: I build an AI-powered recipe app solving „what's for dinner?" problem
by mssaucemoss | 2025-06-12 10:38:34+00:00
Hi HN,

Happy to share the project I've been vibe-coding on for past few months. The Problem: Like many people, I often found myself staring at a fridge full of random ingredients (some about to expire) with no idea what to cook. I was tired of food waste and the repetitive cycle of making the same few meals. I wanted a way to creatively use what I already had.

The Solution: So, I decided to build Chefiniti. It's an iOS app that acts as a personal AI chef. The core idea is to turn your available food into delicious, custom recipes. I know there are already tons of apps like it but this one is mine :)

Here's what it can do: * Scan Ingredients: Take photos of your fridge or pantry, and the app's vision model identifies the ingredients. * "Recipefy" a Dish: See a meal you like online or in a restaurant? Snap a photo, and the app generates a recipe to help you recreate it. * Generate from Prompt: Just describe what you're in the mood for (e.g., "a spicy, gluten-free pasta dish"), and it will create a recipe from scratch. * Import from URL: Paste a link from a recipe website to import it into your cookbook.

You can also save all these recipes, create shopping lists, and set detailed preferences for diet, allergies, cuisine, and even the cookware you own. App is in a freemium model, within limits you can really test out core features without any payment or even account creation.

The Tech Stack: For those interested, the app is built with: * Frontend: React Native (with Expo) * Backend: Firebase Functions for the API layer. * Database & Storage: Firestore and Firebase Cloud Storage. * AI: Google's Gemini API for recipe generation and analysis. * Image Generation: DeepInfra API (for Stable Diffusion). * Subscriptions: RevenueCat.

I've just launched on the App Store and would be incredibly grateful for any feedback, thoughts, or questions you might have.

You can check it out here: https://chefiniti.app Or download directly https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chefiniti-smart-recipe-creator... Thanks for taking a look!
by decide1000 | 2025-06-12 10:38:52+00:00
I don't agree with the author on the GO thing. I've created agents that work 24/7 on GH issues for me, in Rust, Python and PHP. I use Claude (api). The result overall is very good. When I wake up there is always a fresh PR waiting for me.

I don't like the word "agent" because it is not a blind LLM, small or fast script. It is a complex workflow with many checks and prompting before writing a single line of code. That's also the key to AI powered development; context.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-12 10:39:27+00:00
Ideally, yes, we should. Because the fibre owner or equipment manufacturer could choose to shut it down at some point.

And don't forget, since January this year a lot of those far-fetched ridiculous possibilities have proven to be reality and not so far-fetched at all. Though I'm sure this project has been in the works for much longer, it's certainly well-timed.
by mrweasel | 2025-06-12 10:39:45+00:00
There is no data mining/profiling in Googles educational offering (also no ads, which there is in regular Gmail):

> Google Workspace for Education Core Services (like Gmail, Google Calendar, Classroom, and more) have no ads, and student information in Core Services is never used to create profiles for ad targeting, or sold to third parties.[1]

1) https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/our-values/privacy-securi...
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-06-12 10:40:00+00:00
Have you heard of this thing called batteries?

You know, those that lately achieved the milestone in California of being the largest producer from sundown to midnight in terms of GWh.

What is it with the nuclear cult and this false dichotomy?

Is it because you need to justify spending 10x as much money on new built nuclear power coming online in the 2040s, which is too late to solve anything relevant?

Nuclear power is the worst ”peaker” imaginable.

Lets calculate running Vogtle at a 10-15% capacity factor like a traditional fossil gas peaker.

The electricity now costs $1-1.5/kWh. That is Texas grid meltdown prices. That is what you are yearning for.
Show HN: Eyes Mail – Bulk email in one page after our "too-much-AI" pivot
by ryohey | 2025-06-12 10:41:49+00:00
Twelve years ago our 4-person Tokyo studio built the app called "feather for Twitter", once #1 in Japan’s App Store, until Twitter’s API shutdown.

Jan 2025: we pivoted to B2B. Eyes Mail’s MVP let GPT-4 craft subject-line variants and auto-optimize opens/CTR.

Users? They uploaded a CSV, hit Send all, and ignored the AI wizard. Bulk email is grunt work—speed beats “smart.”

So we cut 70 % of the code and rebuilt Eyes Mail as one page: upload → write → send → instant report. Tasks fell from minutes to ~30 s.

With friction gone, customers asked real questions (“Which segments convert?” “Can AI draft follow-ups?”), so we spun up Eyes Analytics: merges mail + web data and calls AI only when you ask.

What we learned → Half-baked AI hurts; make the boring path blazingly fast first.

Happy to answer anything, tech stack, Japan-specific SaaS hurdles, etc.
by uncircle | 2025-06-12 10:42:23+00:00
> It utilizes different shades of grey borders to convey a sort of faux surface-normal highlight on beveled edges to indicate whether the element is raised or sunken.

You mean this? https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/user_images/01HQQV8HYE6GKB...

That's the Windows 9x style ported to a low resolution UI, probably with some shaders because computers today are fancier than 1995. It's not interesting innovation, though I agree it's much better (and feels better) than the flat UI boring aesthetic.

Behold the peak of desktop UIs: https://blogs.ubc.ca/nancyhuang/files/2015/10/Windows95.png

See also SerenityOS with an Office 2000 look which added some flatter UI concepts, yet it still is tastefully tactile and three-dimensional: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SerenityOS/serenity/refs/h...
by letters90 | 2025-06-12 10:43:56+00:00
It's simple to setup a resolver, really. Basically just "apt install unbound" and you have a resolver ready.

the only thing you might have to adjust is the access control

https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/set-up-unbound-dns-resolver...

access-control: 10.0.0.0/8 allow access-control: 127.0.0.1/24 allow access-control: 2001:DB8::/64 allow
Show HN: 2d Tower Defense Mini Game in Three.js (Geodefense)
by krisdigital | 2025-06-12 10:44:13+00:00
Three levels (+random) so far - can you beat the game?

It is not polished by any means but I checked it on all devices I own (in landscape) that it is beatable :)

Tips: Move quickly and don't forget to upgrade your towers...

Geodefense was a popular iPhone game in 2008 which is no longer available (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoDefense)

I did it mostly to play with shaders and three.js.
by XorNot | 2025-06-12 10:44:25+00:00
The other side of this problem can be that its going to be financially impossible to support the products (which for the military would be low quantity, heavy compliance burden) if they're not also able to maintain the staff who actively work on support.

If no one in the company is regularly employed to oversee that product line directly, they might be concluding that there's no actual way to support the product at the price point being negotiated.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-12 10:44:49+00:00
There's decent companies doing web and mail here. Most of them don't have a global CDN but for digital sovereignty that's not really an issue. Putting servers in other jurisdictions means they are vulnerable to local laws.

And also, you have to start somewhere. And the American companies often employ business practices we frown on here. Like Google datamining their users. Microsoft linking their services together and abusing their market position. Meta pirating to train their AIs.

Without those things the services will be more expensive, but they'll also be more honourable. I see a lot of people really defeatist these days "why care about privacy because you have none anyway" and this is mostly because of American companies.
by ivape | 2025-06-12 10:45:14+00:00
Prestige economy is what I suspected. I recently read an AI paper that I mostly came up on a random walk, but there was a Stanford student that had already created the research paper (not exactly but more or less). In terms of “true” signal, I’d imagine that student getting reviewed as credible signals that we’re in bad shape because I can promise you I came up with the exact thesis and implementation and it was truly just common sense stuff - not research worthy.

Makes me wonder, have I turned brilliant or is it quite unimpressive out there?

I’m inclined to even suggest to you that the prestige economy started with truly prestigious research work, of which then the institutions “ordered” as many more of those as they could, hence the industrial levels of output. Not unlike VCs funding anything and everything for the possibility of the few being true businesses.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-06-12 10:45:19+00:00
> I've created agents that work 24/7 on GH issues for me, in Rust, Python and PHP. I use Claude (api). The result overall is very good.

It's quite possible it's a case of holding things wrong but I think at least the basic evaluation I did that made me come to the conclusion that Go works particularly well isn't too bad. I just get results that I feel good with quicker than with Rust and Python. FWIW I also had really good results with PHP on the level of Go too, it's just overall a stack that does not cater too well to my problem.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-12 10:45:43+00:00
I agree that their proposed "fix" is not a fix at all, due to the fact that you can run arbitrary shell commands that achieve the same thing.

OTOH, if in addition to restricting to a whitelist of actions you completely forbid ad hoc shell commands (i.e., `run:` blocks), now you have something that can be made secure.
by AndroTux | 2025-06-12 10:46:56+00:00
I don't know what you're smoking if you prefer Nextcloud over Google Workspace from an admin point of view, but hey, good for you.

But no, Nextcloud is not comparable to Google Workspace. Not as a user (their office web implementation is spotty at best, constantly crashes and disconnects; their calendar, meeting and chat apps are barebones; the clients regularly corrupt files or have issues syncing, etc.), and definitely not as an administrator: You have to constantly deal with manually updating the instance, re-enabling "incompatible" apps for some reason, deal with the updater taking 4 hours to download the zip file because their servers are overloaded again, updating the database server or PHP version because it will soon no longer be supported, etc. How is that better than having to navigate the Google Workspace admin interface every few months?
by input_sh | 2025-06-12 10:47:05+00:00
I don't disagree that there are valid EU alternatives for hosting, I'm saying it's irrelevant to their goal.

Allow me to make an analogy: imagine someone switching to Linux desktop and then installing Slack or Discord because they can't be bothered to convince other people to use Matrix. Is that completely unacceptable or is it a healthy compromise and still a win overall?

It's also highly unlikely that the group of people working on that DNS resolver is the same group of people that made a website for it, as these sorts of sites tend to be outsourced to some tiny web design companies. One of my previous jobs was in one of those tiny companies and a part of my responsiblity was to maintain some of Eurotunnel's servers, so would you blame me for their decision to rebrand themselves to far less descriptive Getlink which happened around the same time?