MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Eupolemos | 2025-06-28 14:55:15+00:00
If you go to huggingface.co, you can tell it what specs you have and when you go to a model, it'll show you what variations of that model are likely to run well.

So if you go to this[0] random model, on the right there is a list of quantifications based on bits, and those you can run will be shown in green.

[0] https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruc...
by numair | 2025-06-28 14:56:11+00:00
Absolutely. I think the FB CoI within American venture capital, where they have fully infested the LP and GP ranks of most funds, is a much bigger and more important story. It really helped me understand that we need to work really hard to keep the rest of the world’s capital markets free and open — a major focus for me these days.

You never know which stories The Information won’t run, or which “negative” articles are actually deflections. Similarly, you never know which amazing startups remain shut out of funding, and a lot of entrepreneurs have no idea about the amount of back channel collusion goes on in creating the funding rounds and “overnight successes” they’re told to idolize.

A random dude on HN such as me shouldn’t be the source of this knowledge. Hope someone takes up the cause, but we live in a time of astounding cowardice.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-06-28 14:56:31+00:00
Since you bring up anti-discrimination law, I would point to the concept of “hostile work environment” as a good example. It’s fuzzy and ultimately subjective to draw the line where crude jokes become so offensive and so pervasive that they constitute harassment. But if you refused to draw any line, you’d end up with a lot of workplaces where women aren’t in practice welcome.
by jdkoeck | 2025-06-28 14:56:43+00:00
It’s good you ended on the one thing JSX got right: everything is an expression. It’s that simple. There’s nothing imperative about evaluating a template, it’s entirely covered by functional programming techniques. You’re just producing a value.

And yes, modern JavaScript uses tons of concept from functional programming, where it is understood that mutating values and triggering side effects should be a last resort. This is why a good js programmer uses ten times more maps then he uses for loops.

Maybe you don’t know how dominant React is today? Two third of JavaScript developers use React at work (https://2024.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-framewo...).

It feels like you’re out of touch, have you used JavaScript lately?
by arp242 | 2025-06-28 14:57:22+00:00
Also, just to add, a lot of this generic population data just doesn't factor in the current military action at all, they just operate on the last known figures. It's a complete red herring to this discussion. No one knows exactly how many people are in Gaza right now. Israeli policy is actively obstructing people from finding out. I suspect (fear) the total death toll may be well above the ~100k figure.
by kcorbitt | 2025-06-28 14:57:41+00:00
Looks cool! With vLLM v1, prefix caching is enabled by default and seems quite performant. Is the advantage of LMCache the fact that you can offload to CPU and disk as well? How much is throughput/latency affected if you need to pull a large KV cache from disk/cpu instead of GPU RAM?

Also, how realistic would it be to share the KV cache across vllm nodes within a data center? It would be really nice to be able to freely distribute requests to a pool of vLLM workers without worrying about prefix-aware routing, but maybe that isn't the right approach because moving the KV cache around would be too slow?
by jampa | 2025-06-28 14:57:59+00:00
I don't want to sound like a skeptic, but I see way more people talking about how awesome MCP is rather than people building cool things with it. Reminds me of blockchain hype.

MCP seems like a more "in-between" step until the AI models get better. I imagine in 2 years, instead of using an MCP, we will point to the tool's documentation or OpenAPI, and the AI can ingest the whole context without the middle layer.
by ednite | 2025-06-28 14:58:24+00:00
I really enjoyed this POV, it feels like the perfect counterweight to a recent piece I wrote about why it’s absolutely worth quitting when you’re stuck in a toxic environment.

Sometimes leaving is the healthiest, most rational decision you can make. In your case, staying was clearly the right call.

You are correct that every “shiny” opportunity is worth chasing, especially when you’re already in a good place. The impulse is more FOMO than genuine purpose.

This kind of honest self-reflection is refreshing in a space where the narrative often defaults to “if it’s risky, it must be brave.” Sometimes, staying put is a brave choice.

Thanks for sharing, and well done.
by fjfaase | 2025-06-28 14:58:27+00:00
Good question. Through the years, I have become more restrictive about what I write especially with respect to others. I am aware of the fact that I am more open to share about my personal life than many people around me. Maybe it is related to fact that I want to have some, hopefully positive, effect on the world. (Maybe one day in the future it might become material for some historic research.)

There is also a lot, I do not share. I keep a personal diary and since 2010, I am recording my daily activities in Moleskin daily planners (the only planners I have found that have the same space for Saturdays and Sundays as for working days).
by kaashif | 2025-06-28 14:58:52+00:00
I feel like this too. I remember one time I came across a stack of notes (the throwaway kind I just write to help me learn) from school and I read through them, it made me very nostalgic. Especially reading homework set by teachers who have since died.

It actually did make me tear up a bit.

I even feel nostalgic and tearful looking at random doodles on a piece of paper that I did during my first job many years ago.
by rpeden | 2025-06-28 14:59:04+00:00
I like OCaml a lot - but I think I like F# a little more. They're very similar, since F# as essentially Ocaml running on the .NET VM.

I know some people dislike the fact that F# lacks OCaml's functors, but I can see why they weren't included. Due the the way F# integrates .NET classes/objects, I can accomplish more or less the same thing that way. In some ways I prefer it - a class/type full of static methods has the same call syntax as a module full of functions, but gives me the option of overloading the method so it'll dispatch based on argument types. Having everything that's iterable unified under IEnumerable/Seq is nice, too.

Having said all that, I still enjoy OCaml a ton. One thing I wish I could have is F#'s updated lightweight syntax brought over to OCaml. I think ReasonML is great, but after using it for a while I realized that what I really want isn't OCaml that looks more like JavaScript. What I want is OCaml that looks like OCaml, but a little cleaner. F# gives me that, plus, via Fable, compilation to JS, TypeScript, Python, and Rust. And via the improved native AOT compilation in .NET 9, I can build fast and reasonably small single-file executables.

Despite all that, I still try to dive in OCaml whenever it's a decent fit for a problem for the problem I'm trying to solve. Even if it's a little quirky sometimes, it's fun.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-28 14:59:30+00:00
Microsoft got much more than a slap on the wrist. They got a consent decree, which they then had to live under for... I forget how long, but at least a decade. They got monitoring from the DOJ during that time. So, they didn't get broken up, and they didn't get a huge financial hit, but they got handcuffed in a way that actually curbed their behavior.
by yoavm | 2025-06-28 15:00:36+00:00
Genuinely wondering what terrible effects would there be for Israel if they used nukes? Not morally, internationally. IMO it's perhaps one of the few conflicts in the world where one side could theoretically use nuclear weapons and essentially no one will shoot back. "Trickle the deaths over time" doesn't make any sense - there are probably more births in Gaza than deaths now, and that's not including the general Palestinian population.
by hedora | 2025-06-28 15:00:53+00:00
Jewish groups have been supporting those protests in the US, Europe and Israel.

I have no idea what crowd composition at European protests looks like, but the vast majority of the people upset about the ongoing genocide are not antisemetic.

There is a propaganda campaign in the US trying to conflate being against genocide with being antisemetic. I'm sure similar tactics are being used in Europe.
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-06-28 15:01:12+00:00
I’m programming software development workflows for Claude in plain english (custom commands). The non-deterministic is indeed a (tiny!) bit of a problem, but just tell Claude to improve the command so next time it won’t make the same mistake. One time it added an implementation section to the command. Pretty cool

This is the big game changer: we have a programming environment where the program can improve itself. That is something Fortran couldn’t do.
by CommanderData | 2025-06-28 15:01:41+00:00
Clever piece of engineering that needs to be studied. The US and Israel setup a company/foundation to "distribute" aid. I guess to escape the accusations that they are systematically starving Gaza's population. It seems to be working, they can hide behind this while inflicting even more crimes against Palestinians.

I was going to ask if people really fall for this, but it seems like they do.
by willsmith72 | 2025-06-28 15:01:44+00:00
I completely agree, and haven't had the meta/twitter/reddit apps in years. But facebook does keep me around (or at least keep me from deleting my account) through marketplace. I've now found my last two apartment rentals there, both of which were nicer and cheaper than alternatives on dedicated rental sites.

I find keeping an account open solely for desktop marketplace is a fine compromise
by Nevermark | 2025-06-28 15:02:24+00:00
I don’t think antitrust is defying the wishes of the rich (law of gravity).

The rich in general have had enough of these gatekeepers. Epic Games has had it up to here!

The hyper dominance of some tech companies is making many billionaires uncomfortable.

On the glass is half full news: once again, the regular citizen wins big! … when their concerns happen to coincide with the powerful.
by kaashif | 2025-06-28 15:02:52+00:00
I would enjoy a digital hoard of stuff like that, but not a physical hoard. I have since digitized all of the stuff my parents hoarded and got rid of a lot of the physical items.

It doesn't really cost me anything on an ongoing basis to have this huge digital dump of files sitting around. It was a one time effort to scan everything. If my parents had done that and just left a huge archive of digital files, that would be fine.

If people feel neutrally about digital hoards, that makes sense.
by bgwalter | 2025-06-28 15:03:27+00:00
They are still pushing the "AI dominance over China" argument to clueless politicians.

The anti regulation clause sneaked into the "Big Beautiful Bill" ($5 trillion new debt) facilitates consumer exploitation and has no impact at all on military applications.

If China dominates consumer exploitation, let them and shut off their Internet companies.

Strangely enough, why not invest $500 billion in a working fusion reactor if these people are so worried about U.S. dominance?
by lyu07282 | 2025-06-28 15:03:46+00:00
I think you downplaying it, but I understand the need to defend the US at all times. A source on the matter for example:

> "This analysis paper begins by examining how the U.S. occupation effectively dismantled the Iraqi state post-2003, paving the way for sectarian conflict and allowing for armed groups and sectarian elites to fill the resulting gap. It explores the weaponization of sect and identity and its devastating consequences for the country. The second part focuses on the Baath Party-enforced political and institutional order to explain how the former regime was able to constrain the space for group identities."

> "Sectarianism would not have become the powerful, destructive force that it did were it not for the weaponization of identity and sect by the exiled opposition and a series of disastrous post-conflict reconstruction policies"

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sectari...
by spenczar5 | 2025-06-28 15:03:53+00:00
honestly, yes - but MCP includes a really simple 'reflection' endpoint to list the capabilities of an API, with human readable docs on methods and types. That is something that gRPC and OpenAPI and friends have supported as an optional extension for ages, but it has largely been a toy. MCP makes it central and maybe that makes all the difference.
by mrcwinn | 2025-06-28 15:04:15+00:00
I love the Jewish community, so I don’t say this lightly, but I view Netanyahu actions as somewhat resembling Nazi Germany in one respect (though certainly not others). He may not believe Israeli Jews have a birthright to the whole world (rather they are trying to strengthen one nation’s borders), but there is no doubt in my mind they are indiscriminately cleansing a people out of existence. That is their aim, beyond simple deterrence or defense.

The October terror attack is not to be defended, but the response is disgusting behavior by the state of Israel. There’s nothing proportionate about this. Rather Israel sees this as an opportunity to strengthen its position and wipe out its enemies - and innocent men, women, and children.

In the United States, we talk about Israel as if it must be protected because it’s the Middle East’s only democracy. It is not a liberal democracy. It exists only to protect the rights of one type of people with one particular type of ethnicity. In America, we wouldn’t recognize this as a democracy.

For our part, it’s important to protect our own interests in the region and so yes, strange bedfellows. But given Netanyahu’s comfort with war crime, given Israel’s weak and distorted democratic institution, and given what nationalism can do to a country, we should be very careful to balance and diversify our interests.

Israel in another 10 years might not be recognizable. It’s cause for alarm.
by ath3nd | 2025-06-28 15:04:23+00:00
The fact that the West persecuted Assange for exposing their crimes against humanity doesn't give right to Saudi Arabia to kill its journalists with impunity either. Surely crimes against humanity and violating human rights can be done by multiple governments, as Netanyahu's genocide against the Palestinians can coexist at the same time as MBS's chopping of journalists and illegal incarcerations.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-06-28 15:05:56+00:00
SOAP was worse than horrendous though. I’m sure i’m not the only one hit by ‘well Java SOAP and .net SOAP encode differently so they don’t work together well’ (let alone all the other different implementations each with their own similar differences).

Or how about ‘oh it looks like your client is using SOAP 1.2 but the server is 1.1 and they are incompatible’. That was seriously a thing. Good luck talking to many different servers with different versions.

SOAP wasn’t just bad. It was essentially only useable between same languages and versions. Which is an interesting issue for a layer whose entire purpose was interoperability.
by Bjartr | 2025-06-28 15:06:00+00:00
Unfortunately there are some real problems with that. Imagine a pair of regular glasses with a small dark rectangle on the lens. Do your eyes see the nice sharp edges of the rectangle? Nope, they just see a dark blob because it's too close to focus on.

In the same way, even pixel perfect darkening has the same problem. You don't see a nice cutout, you see a blurry blob.
by kyo_gisors | 2025-06-28 15:06:12+00:00
> As of November 1, Israeli authorities held nearly 7,000 Palestinians from the occupied territory in detention for alleged security offenses, according to the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked. Far more Palestinians have been arrested since the October 7 attacks in Israel than have been released in the last week. Among those being held are dozens of women and scores of children.

> The majority have never been convicted of a crime, including more than 2,000 of them being held in administrative detention, in which the Israeli military detains a person without charge or trial. Such detention can be renewed indefinitely based on secret information, which the detainee is not allowed to see. Administrative detainees are held on the presumption that they might commit an offense at some point in the future. Israeli authorities have held children, human rights defenders and Palestinian political activists, among others, in administrative detention, often for prolonged periods.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/29/why-does-israel-have-so-...
by keysdev | 2025-06-28 15:06:41+00:00
https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private

Recently used DDG browser it just cant get some sites to clear! Try the flame button. But still logged in after few browser data clearing.

Are company resorting to this kinda tactic to keep user remembered. Its a major booking for lodging site!!!

Qubes OS seems more and more attractive.
by yoavm | 2025-06-28 15:06:51+00:00
I am myself supporting many of these protests, and it's exactly from this perspective that I say that many of them are antisemitic. But this is a bit of a useless discussion because neither you nor I can bring any evidence into how antisemitic they are, or how and if they would react if (or when) Palestinians are slaughtering Jews.

If you think it's nonsense, try to go into a anti-war protest with a t-shirt saying that Jews too should be able to live in Middle East. If this thought makes you slightly concerned, you got my point.
by eastbound | 2025-06-28 15:07:05+00:00
Ok. The parent is the same kind of rhetorical question, whose counter-argument is so evident that it shouldn’t have existed, and it’s disappointing that one side gets the right of way on HN and the other is downvoted, one camp is making use of flaws in your rules to win without merit, aka bullying.

But yes. I’ll speak without snarkiness.
by rpeden | 2025-06-28 15:07:30+00:00
F# has diverged from OCaml a bit, but they're still very similar.

I mentioned in a top-level comment that F#'s "lightweight" syntax is basically what I want when I use OCaml. I know ReasonML is a thing, but if I'm writing OCaml I don't want it to look more JavaScripty - I prefer syntax like "match x with" over "switch(x)" for pattern matching, for example.

I know some people dislike the way F#'s newer syntax makes whitespace significant, and that's fair. But the older verbose syntax is there if you need or want to use it. For example, something like

let things = let a = 1 in let b = 2 in let c = 3 in doSomething a b c

should still work in F# like it would in OCaml.
by johng | 2025-06-28 15:08:19+00:00
I agree with you about the price of this being just bonkers. But for someone who's life passion is cars it can be seen as reasonable. Or, somewhat reasonable.

The same way that someone spending a bonkers amount of money on a computer might be seen as insane to a person who thinks that a calculator is the only type of computer they'll ever need (back in the day).

We all have our passions and categories we might over-spend on.... audiophiles come to mind as well. I can't ever tell a difference between the expensive stuff and the cheap stuff.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-06-28 15:08:45+00:00
discriminating in employment due to one's affiliation is illegal in state and federal employment [1]. That does not mean one can break ToS and for example, publish on a massive public platform, your private opinion (which can be misconstrued as your employer's). Most employers have ToS against online activity during employment, for that reason.

It is also illegal to do the same for students. [2]

Faculty is already protected under tenure rules. And even for the nontenured, who really needs protecting ? Only 5.7% of all faculty are registered as conservative as of 2020 [3]

My point remains. "Filtering out" is illegal. Setting the stage on what is american, is not.

[1] https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/political-aff...

[2] https://www.nysasa.org/index.php/news/6558-schools-cannot-en...

[3] https://www.thecollegefix.com/democratic-professors-outnumbe...
by dataflow | 2025-06-28 15:08:55+00:00
> If someone's having ill intent, one could easily create a burner account and fill in some random content for the sake of getting thru the visa application.

The timestamps will immediately give it away if you try to pull that though. Not to mention that they could also (if they want) just harvest data on what accounts already exist at what point in time, to detect actions like this. Lots of data brokers have such data already. And they could just do some cursory searches for other accounts you might have too, if you don't deactivate them...
Ask HN: Would interactive TV commercials be acceptable with privacy safeguards?
by amichail | 2025-06-28 15:09:01+00:00
For example, a TV commercial could react to what it sees and hears in your living room.

As a privacy safeguard, all camera and microphone inputs would be processed locally by on-device AI, and only short text summaries would be sent to company servers.

This way, a TV commercial could interact with you and your surroundings while still protecting your privacy.
by qsort | 2025-06-28 15:09:35+00:00
Regardless of how good a model gets, it can't do much if it doesn't have access to deterministic tools and information about the state of the world. And that's before you take into account security: you can't have a model running arbitrary requests against production, that's psychotic.

I don't have a high opinion of MCP and the hype it's generating is ridicolous, but the problem it supposedly solves is real. If it can work as an excuse to have providers expose an API for their functionality like the article hopes, that's exciting for developers.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-28 15:09:43+00:00
This. Israel demonstrably has the capability for precision warfare.

That they chose to level infrastructure across Gaza instead is indicative.

And it'd be real stretch to assume they did so even for military-economic reasons.

They knew the world community would give them some leeway after Oct 7th, so exploited it as far as possible to militarily achieve their geo-political goals.

To wit, the elimination of anything resembling a Palestinian state: politically, economically, and demographically.

Which is cynical and evil as fuck, given they're smart enough to realize they eventually either have to (a) kill every Palestinian or (b) make a deal.

Instead, they decided killing 50,000+ Palestinians was worth improving their negotiation position and kicking the can down the road.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-06-28 15:09:55+00:00
Magnesium is your friend here. There is a product called natural calm that is basically flavored magnesium citrate. Keeping upping the dose on this until you get to the pooping out water big macs from 1984 level of pooping then back it off slowly till you achieve the consistency you want. Usually it ends up around the dose on the bottle or slightly more. Fiber has nothing on magneaium as far as fine tuning the water content of your poops.
by vinceguidry | 2025-06-28 15:10:10+00:00
You'll never cut through this attitude. It is, as you say, perpetual. HN is their safe space, hence the strong reaction you're receiving. You're going to have to learn how to operate within the mindset if you want pleasant interactions here. Learn to appreciate the dull rationalistic mental sludge.

Putnam himself would feel perfectly comfortable here.