MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlindner | 2025-06-19 13:59:58+00:00
Sure, but Elon's (SpaceX really) isn't trying to build a heavy lift rocket (they already have one in the Falcon Heavy, and technically even the Falcon 9 in expendable mode) they're trying to build a fully reusable vehicle, and you need a rocket the size of Starship to have enough margin to afford the hardware for reuse on the vehicle.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-19 14:01:13+00:00
I know you are being rhetorical and exaggerating. But being executed for writing something is something that has happened during political instability in my country and not a rhetorical risk. It really puts things into perspective.

no I don't consider US border officers to be a risk in my threat model. I'm more concerned about dying from what I post, whether by a junta or kidnapping thieves. I personally wouln't care much other than perhaps suing for a refund of the flight .

If I'm denied entry because of something I said, it's not the end of the world, I would at most sue for a flight refund.
by rsync | 2025-06-19 14:01:18+00:00
This is where gambling and vaping come in…

As a viewer of ridiculous ad placements, and as a frustrated buyer of online ads, I continue to conclude That adtech Is largely snake oil. In fact, I encourage you to look into the well-founded claims and research which call into question the very activity of marketing as a whole.

So then:

What to do with this massive infrastructure and billions of dollars of investment and workers employed by this global machine?

This is where gambling and vaping come in.
by mort96 | 2025-06-19 14:01:43+00:00
> Also very much depends on the business and specific company. In my banking mega corp, no AI is even allowed to be used

This is a huge thing tbh. I don't like these AI things in general so I wouldn't use them anyway, but I just can't imagine going to my clients and asking them, "Hey is it okay with you if I routinely upload all your code to these random American venture-backed start-ups?". And I really can't imagine just doing that behind their back. I couldn't really imagine doing that with an employer's code either.

Ideally I don't even use software where accidentally toggling the wrong checkbox in some settings screen results in automatically uploading client code to these American start-ups either. Now I won't pretend that my stance against AI is purely out of some principled cybersecurity concern, but it's definitely a factor.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-06-19 14:02:12+00:00
Now you're blatantly ignoring my argument and attacking a straw man. The position I'm expressing: "efficient systems first, then work within those systems to help people" is a middle ground.

You asked why not reverse the order of that and design economic systems around helping people first, and efficiency as a secondary concern. I'm pointing out that the reductio ad absurdum conclusion of that logic is communism, which we know empirically isn't good at being efficient or at helping people. Your position is flawed.

Regarding dumping toxic waste; that's an externality which needs to be accounted for by taxes or regulations in order for the market to function properly. We already talked about that. See: NYC's congestion pricing, carbon credits, and that Wikipedia article you previously linked on Pigouvian taxes.
by steveBK123 | 2025-06-19 14:02:50+00:00
Congrats to the team, but the media coverage is a bit silly here.

"Solo unicorn.. well, ok it was $80M not $1B.. and, sure ok it wasn't 1 guy, he had a team of 8.." LOL.

Guy lists himself as an "angel investor" and "Forbes 30 under 30" on his Linkedin, so clearly not his first rodeo and has good connections, likely a stronger ingredients than the tech.

So you know, not bad money, and I'd certainly take it. But doesn't seem like any step function change in ROI for startup founders due to LLMs here.

As others have pointed out, Wix bought the leads/client list.. not the tech.
by move-on-by | 2025-06-19 14:02:51+00:00
I was a bit confused by this article, since the NTP pools do not currently support NTS (last I checked at least). So, I spun up a Plucky install to have a look.

/etc/chrony/sources.d/ubuntu-ntp-pools.sources contains:

pool 1.ntp.ubuntu.com iburst maxsources 1 nts prefer pool 2.ntp.ubuntu.com iburst maxsources 1 nts prefer pool 3.ntp.ubuntu.com iburst maxsources 1 nts prefer pool 4.ntp.ubuntu.com iburst maxsources 1 nts prefer

You'll note that the domain is no longer ntp.org. Further down in the file is this:

# If you can't or won't use NTS, then here are the old NTP-only definitions #pool ntp.ubuntu.com iburst maxsources 4 #pool 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 1 #pool 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 1 #pool 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 2

So, as I suspected, they are no longer using the NTP pool servers. Having a look at dig:

1.ntp.ubuntu.com 185.125.190.122 2.ntp.ubuntu.com 185.125.190.123 3.ntp.ubuntu.com 91.189.91.112 4.ntp.ubuntu.com 91.189.91.113

It seems like you get two different regions with the NTS setup, UK and US. Doing some queries against the NTS instances, they are all stratum 2. Doing some queries against the NTP pool, there is a mix of S1 to S3. Of course, with the NTP pool, there are a ton of different hosts spread out across a large geographic region. Also, the pool monitors the different instances and automatically removes false/down tickers from the pool - so not using the pool does comes with some loss of functionality. Of course, I have no idea how the *.ntp.ubuntu.com instances are configured. They are all S2 - so perhaps they are still getting the same S1 time source as the pool. It seems the trade off made for the added security is a loss of regional diversity and perhaps some automatic fail-over handling that is provided by the pool. It would be nice if NTS support could be added to the pool so that we could have the best of both worlds.
by vinnymac | 2025-06-19 14:02:53+00:00
It’s funny you mention this because I have an issue with Cursor where if I leave it open for more than a few hours my M3 Max starts to melt, the fans spin up, and it turns out to be using most of my CPU when it should be idling.

Zed on the other hand works perfectly fine for me. Goes to show how a slightly different stack can completely change one’s experiences with a tool.
by jasonshen | 2025-06-19 14:03:41+00:00
First off congrats on launching a novel idea and hitting HN front page.

Question / feedback — why is there no way to see what one of these looks like on the website? You have a header that says "see it in action" that literally doesn't allow you to see the video you're saying it produces.

I have an idea in my mind of what it looks like but I think you'd do well to have multiple examples illustrating different situations where this product could be useful.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-19 14:04:56+00:00
So you can create a more buggy code remixed from scraped bits from the internet which you don't understand, but somehow works rather than creating a higher quality, tighter code which takes the same amount of time to type? All the while offloading all the work to something else so your skills can atrophy at the same time?

Sounds like progress to me.
by Expurple | 2025-06-19 14:05:57+00:00
I think, this is only relevant for staying on an older version of uv? Which is only a temporary solution, in any ecosystem and in almost any situation. It's just "even more temporary" in Python :)

If your old preferred alternative becomes unmaintained in the meantime and starts suffering from the same problems, that's basically equivalent to having to maintain a fork of uv. With the difference that it may be already out-of-date when the uv fork happens
by wslh | 2025-06-19 14:06:38+00:00
When I'm in skeptic mode like you, I still see all these projects as valuable contributions to general research in the field, even if they fail. My skepticism is mainly about the idea of an "all-knowing LLM" but I'm less skeptical about the value LLMs can provide when it comes to digesting large amounts of data and decision making. I was very impressed by the following news [1] but the people team is top notch.

[1] https://team-atlanta.github.io/blog/post-atl/
by numpad0 | 2025-06-19 14:06:40+00:00
He was named after the title of the ruler of Mars in a novel written by Wernher von Braun, so ultimate goal for him has to be Mars.

Settlement on Mars is out of one gravity well into another, so it's not clear if it's the best first location of a extraterrestrial human territory - Moon might be easier and more reasonable.

So the camp is split between Moon and Mars, and Musk has to be on Mars.
by chantepierre | 2025-06-19 14:07:05+00:00
Yeah his site isn't currently the clearest for that.

Here's a direct link to his build instructions [1] and I've made a temporary by-item BOM [2] while he improves things.

PETG is great, ASA and ABS might be better if you have the capacity.

[1] https://la3emedim.fr/assets/SMALLEST%20-%20README.pdf [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XXZB4jRtvtlDIqlR69C0FRri8x8lZDpxO6ZGnSp3L2Y/view
by mistersquid | 2025-06-19 14:07:21+00:00
> I can recognize images in one look.

> How about that 400 Line change that touches 7 files?

Karpathy discusses this discrepancy. In his estimation LLMs currently do not have a UI comparable to 1970s CLI. Today, LLMs output text and text does not leverage the human brain’s ability to ingest visually coded information, literally, at a glance.

Karpathy surmises UIs for LLMs are coming and I suspect he’s correct.
by cddotdotslash | 2025-06-19 14:08:46+00:00
This "AI will never replace _my_ job" attitude by security folks (and I say this as a security engineer myself) is insufferable. Yeah, there are likely lots of vulnerabilities getting vibe coded into apps right now. But AI is improving rapidly, and in a few years you'll likely look back wondering what happened to the job market. Adapt or don't, I suppose.
by tinyhouse | 2025-06-19 14:08:49+00:00
After Cursor is sold for $3B, they should transfer Karpathy 20%. (it also went viral before thanks to him tweeting about it)

Great talk like always. I actually disagree on a few things with him. When he said "why would you go to ChatGPT and copy / paste, it makes much more sense to use a GUI that is integrated to your code such as Cursor".

Cursor and the like take a lot of the control from the user. If you optimize for speed then use Cursor. But if you optimize for balance of speed, control, and correctness, then using Cursor might not be the best solution, esp if you're not an expert of how to use it.

It seems that Karpathy is mainly writing small apps these days, he's not working on large production systems where you cannot vibe code your way through (not yet at least)
by chantepierre | 2025-06-19 14:08:58+00:00
There are a bit more information on his website [1] and I've made a temporary grouped BOM [2] :

[1] https://la3emedim.fr/assets/SMALLEST%20-%20README.pdf [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XXZB4jRtvtlDIqlR69C0FRri8x8lZDpxO6ZGnSp3L2Y/view

Basically anything but PLA will work, PETG will be the best difficulty/cost compromise.
by dizlexic | 2025-06-19 14:09:32+00:00
When I was a kid my parents divorced (as did many). I moved away and lived with my mother. Every two weeks I'd stay with my dad, and he'd give me cassette tapes of Dr. Demento that he'd record because where my mom lived, we couldn't get the show on the radio. My dad has since passed, and just thinking about those tapes right now almost makes me cry.

Dr Demento was a huge part of my childhood in a way I'm sure he never intended. I really can't express how great his show was for a sad kid grappling with the world growing up.

I'm extremely thankful for all the laughs and joy he brought me.
by Maciej-roboblog | 2025-06-19 14:09:54+00:00
This code was written in pure vibe-coding style — mostly for fun. I've got about 10 years of experience in IT, and even I fully agree: a 1000-line main file like this one probably deserves to be locked away in a secure facility.

But hey — if it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.
by dtgm93 | 2025-06-19 14:10:23+00:00
>If you have a game, website or mobile app that involves player to player chat, or a website or mobile app (inc. web/mobile games) that includes any kind of purchasing, you need to be aware of and compliant with EAA – though micro-enterprises (small headcount, small turnover/balance) are exempt.

Seems like indie devs would be fine?

Also for the other one, what does it mean to specifically target the European audience? There are so many itch.io games and throwaway garbage, none of them have a safety rep...
by flumpcakes | 2025-06-19 14:10:24+00:00
What is meant by a 'machine code token'? Ultimately a processor needs assembly code as input to do anything. Registers are set by assembly. Data is read by assembly. Hardware is managed through assembly (for example by setting bits in memory). Either I have a complete misunderstanding on what this thread is talking about, or others are commenting with some fundamental assumptions that aren't correct.
by mig39 | 2025-06-19 14:10:26+00:00
I'm Canadian. Before Trump, I made several trips a year to the USA. all my vacation money was spent there. Now I go to Europe every summer instead.

Meanwhile, I recently received a survey from some industry association in the USA asking what it would take for me to return to travelling in the USA. Like asking a bunch of questions about accommodations, travel, flights, etc. Without even mentioning the obvious.

Do Americans not know how they are perceived in the rest of the world?
by poorcedural | 2025-06-19 14:11:26+00:00
It is not the code, which just like prompts is a written language. Software 3.0 will be branches of behaviors, by the software and by the users all documented in a feedback loop. The best behaviors will be merged by users and the best will become the new HEAD. Underneath it all will be machine code for the hardware, but it will be the results that dictate progress.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-19 14:11:52+00:00
I don't know about the health risks and harms, but it sure as hell is annoying if nothing else. I don't think it's due to PWM specifically, but the light in my fridge strobes at the mains frequency, so it "samples" my arm as I move it around in there when picking stuff out. But 50 Hz is extremely low - so it looks like as if my arm's movement "stuttered". Super jarring.

Not sensitive to this thankfully, so apart from making me act a diva and pissing me off, it doesn't affect me, but I sure wish I understood the EE side of it all so that I could properly avoid all these lights, at least in my own home.
by Maciej-roboblog | 2025-06-19 14:12:00+00:00
If you have some time, feel free to open a pull request — even just with a description or clarification of what's going on! It all sounds super interesting, but I’m still trying to fully grasp the business logic behind it Once I get the idea, I’ll be happy to jump in and implement it.

Repo is here if you're curious: https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-19 14:12:19+00:00
Tesla is asked to delay Robotaxi launch in Austin by Texas lawmakers - https://electrek.co/2025/06/18/tesla-asked-delay-robotaxi-la... - June 18th, 2025

> A group of seven Austin-based lawmakers in the Texas Senate and House have signed a letter asking Tesla to delay its launch until September:

> As members of the Austin delegation in the Texas Senate and Texas House of Representatives, we are formally requesting that Tesla delay autonomous robotaxi operations until the new law takes effect on September I, 2025. We believe this is in the best interest of both public safety and building public trust in Tesla’s operations. If Tesla opts to proceed with the June 22, 2025, launch date, we request that you respond to this letter with detailed information demonstrating that Tesla will be compliant with the new law upon the launch of driverless operations in Austin.
by chantepierre | 2025-06-19 14:12:55+00:00
Dobsonian mounts are made to feel great and work with friction between (here) plastic and teflon pads, both in the altitude and azimuth axis. The goal is to have your telescope properly balanced so there is no need to apply force to hold it in position, nor need more force to start a movement than to keep moving, which would lead to jerky motion. Properly balanced, everything must feel smooth and easy.
by busterarm | 2025-06-19 14:13:01+00:00
Yes, absolutely I want our government deporting people _at points of border entry_ based on their political beliefs. That shouldn't even be controversial.

If you're into North Korean or Iranian hardliner "Death To America" politics, I sincerely hope that CBP calmly and politely has you gtfo at point of entry and hopefully no later.

Granted, I wouldn't want it to be _these_ political beliefs, but if you're a journalist publicly flying afoul of the political administration of the country you're traveling to, being denied entry is pretty much status quo around the world. It shouldn't be a shock to anyone.
by wredcoll | 2025-06-19 14:13:21+00:00
Much of the appeal of star wars is that things actually looked like they had purpose and function despite being a purely imaginative future.

> every single alien you saw in Mos Eisley eventually got an official name and canonical backstory (

This is such a weird meme. I suppose if you looked up every single story ever published referencing star wars you might be able to come up with names for most of them, but if you don't want to, why are you putting in the effort?

I'm not usually a fan of "don't engage with it!" defenses, but we're not talking abouy ignoring one movie out of a trilogy, we're talking about not deliberately searching out obscure fan fiction.

Beyond that, the people in the cantina should have names, because that's what "real people" have, and this is supposed to be a movie about a reality like ours that just happens to have spaceships and spacemagic.

In a universe with literally trillions of sentient beings, spaceships and literal magic, if your imagingation is lacking magic, I think that's on you.
by layer8 | 2025-06-19 14:13:21+00:00
The problem is, for any change, you have to understand the existing code base to assess the quality of the change in the four tries. This means, you aren’t relieved from being familiar with the code and reviewing everything. For many developers this review-only work style isn’t an exciting prospect.

And it will remain that way until you can delegate development tasks to AI with a 99+% success rate so that you don’t have to review their output and understand the code base anymore. At which point developers will become truly obsolete.
by bluGill | 2025-06-19 14:13:34+00:00
A better training plan gives you a chance of winning competition. Most of us wouldn't win no matter what plan we follow (at my age only drugs could make me a winner and those have side effects I don't want), we just want enough strength for general life and health. With those more modest goals 3x5, 5x5, or since something not as good still will get us there.

What are your goals?
Show HN: Domain Locker – Track and manage all your domain names
by lissy93 | 2025-06-19 14:14:05+00:00
I built Domain Locker to keep track of all my domain names in one place. It shows registrar, expiry, DNS, SSL, subdomains, and more - plus alerts you before something important changes or expires.

It's free and open source, can either be used at domain-locker.com, or self-hosted with Docker. The source is on GitHub at https://github.com/lissy93/domain-locker

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or ideas!
by ImaCake | 2025-06-19 14:15:10+00:00
>The problem with trying to reason everything from first principles is that most things didn’t actually came about that way.

This is true for science and rationalism itself. Part of the problem is that "being rational" is a social fashion or fad. Science is immensely useful because it produces real results, but we don't really do it for a rational reason - we do it for reasons of cultural and social pressures.

We would get further with rationalism if we remembered or maybe admitted that we do it for reasons that make sense only in a complex social world.
by bootsmann | 2025-06-19 14:15:19+00:00
You're still falling into the historicist trap of thinking that a societies future development can be inferred from it's history (which is simply untrue because the future of knowledge is fundamentally unpredictable, how would we know what we will know in the future without knowing it).

Also historically, difficult times don't breed resilient people, the dark age was a millennium long.
by cwizou | 2025-06-19 14:15:30+00:00
Definitely a cool idea ! Some feedback on your page :

The "See it in action" section doesn't really show it in action ? There's a picture but it's abstract, is it representative ? Are there multiple styles ? Is it just an image or a video ? Just looking at this I don't really know. Consider putting a gif/video preview in there so we get a better idea and/or add multiple examples ?

It got more confusing when I got below and saw the "How to use" > "visualize" section below where you have a mountain picture ? So which is it ?

Also maybe add video somewhere when you mention mp4, for non tech users. Visualization (which you use a lot in your text) doesn't convey that to me, but just my 2 cents!
by r2b2 | 2025-06-19 14:15:34+00:00
I've found that as LLMs improve, some of their bugs become increasingly slippery - I think of it as the uncanny valley of code.

Put another way, when I cause bugs, they are often glaring (more typos, fewer logic mistakes). Plus, as the author it's often straightforward to debug since you already have a deep sense for how the code works - you lived through it.

So far, using LLMs has downgraded my productivity. The bugs LLMs introduce are often subtle logical errors, yet "working" code. These errors are especially hard to debug when you didn't write the code yourself — now you have to learn the code as if you wrote it anyway.

I also find it more stressful deploying LLM code. I know in my bones how carefully I write code, due to a decade of roughly "one non critical bug per 10k lines" that keeps me asleep at night. The quality of LLM code can be quite chaotic.

That said, I'm not holding my breath. I expect this to all flip someday, with an LLM becoming a better and more stable coder than I am, so I guess I will keep working with them to make sure I'm proficient when that day comes.
by garciasn | 2025-06-19 14:15:51+00:00
The thing I want to see is what is shared with the participating locations as well as what is shared back with you; none of this is addressed ok your site.

You’re definitely collecting data and selling it to someone; who are those companies and how much of that data are shared about the purchases I’ve made at the participating locations (CC numbers, location data, purchase price, etc).
by bluGill | 2025-06-19 14:16:04+00:00
> that person doesn't need an AI coach. That person is already optimizing by fractions of a performance percentage point.

But that is the person who will use and pay for the app. If spending $100 will get them a training plan that is 0.01% better they will do it. Couch potatoes know they need to change, but they probably won't pay for a app (if they do they won't use it).
by jmaestrooper | 2025-06-19 14:16:32+00:00
The full and rapid reuseability is the ultimate goal.

Make rocket launches as frequent and routine as commercial plane flights. Whether they use it for Mars or Moon on Earth-to-Earth or anything in between is irrelevant, this will revolutionize entire industries.

Just look at the share of Falcon 9 comparing to all other launch providers, and that one is only half-reuseable. If they manage to get the StarShip right this will be a game changer.