MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by K0balt | 2025-06-06 14:53:30+00:00
I don’t think op meant that at all. Your response reads a lot like “if you don’t have anything to hide…” arguments against privacy and encryption. Liberty always comes with a cost. It is de-facto a lack of control by the state. It is precisely this lack of control that creates value in liberty.

The state will always go through cycles of opinion, witch hunts, political interference, and other malfeasances of power. It will probably be corrected, only to temporarily careen off the rails again. This is -the best case scenario- for a healthy democracy.

The only way to limit the effect of this meandering pathfinding on individuals is to place some things intentionally out of reach of the state. To abuse their power, then they must break the law. This triggers the correction that brings democracy back towards the just path. Without limits to break, the state will careen so far off the path that it may have a hard time righting itself.

We must force the state to use open coercion when it wants to stretch the limits of its reach. This is a critical element for democracy to function… its reach must have well defined limits that stop well short of any legal activity, even if it means criminals and deviants will face less obstacles. This is the cost of freedom.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-06 14:53:57+00:00
The USA's trade war with China is putting an end to trade with china.

The EU similarly have enacted policies to replace or eliminate every export from China.

Whereas China is heavily dependent on this trade continuing at 2019 levels.

Since that's not going to happen, China's population will have to reduce greatly. Current estimates is that China will drop from 1.4 billion to about 600 million by 2100. These estimates are just looking at set in stone patterns, not accounting for pandemics or wars. Obviously they can speed up the decline by going to war.

China needs about 4-5 million/year of immigrants to fix the problem. Where are they getting these people? What's the incentive to go?

China does have some new birthing strategies, marriage leave is 25 days? maternity leave is 150 days? $50,000 baby bonuses. Criminalized any media that have a negative view of having a family. Men can get essentially month's rent by donating good sperm. Women can get ivf trivially? major restrictions on abortions that would make pro life republicans blush with envy.

They've had some limited success in improving this situation; but $ is the limiter and that's going to be a struggle given the above problem.
by closewith | 2025-06-06 14:54:09+00:00
An attack can be devastating without harming any military capabilities at all.

9/11 was devastating. October 7th was devastating. Pahalgam was devastating.

The drone attacks against Russian airbases were highly destructive, caused extreme shock, and were extremely impressive - the literal definitions of devastating.

The response will depend on the emotional and political reality within Russia. Although they have not lost their nuclear strike capabilities, they have lost face and now Putin may feel the need to act to retain his strongman hold on the country, or risk being Ceaușescu'd.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-06 14:54:16+00:00
They seem to have gone for option 3, based on the article; hiring _staggeringly incompetent_ people with no prior experience. No-one bright would be saying, to paraphrase the article "no-one should have acted on the output of my shit software, but also it would have been cool if other federal departments had adopted my shit software".

(It's very characteristic of a certain type of AI booster, though; "it's fine as long as you don't use the results for anything, also you should buy more".)
Show HN: An open-source browser extension that integrates difftastic into GitHub
by WiggleGuy | 2025-06-06 14:54:34+00:00
This was meant to be a weekend project and ended up taking a liiiittle longer (only a couple more weekends haha).

Difftastic (https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic) is a popular tool that generates structural diffs. Its diffs are often nicer than git's default diffs, but it's a CLI only tool - so I made a browser extension that can display them directly within Github.
by RankingMember | 2025-06-06 14:54:49+00:00
That power steering/brakes made the experience easier for women doesn't mean they were implemented for women, though, and there's no evidence that this was the reasoning behind their invention (e.g. power steering was first used en masse in large trucks in 1938, which few women would've been driving). These features made the driving experience easier for everyone, and so were originally luxury features when first implemented for cars (the Chrysler Imperial being the first mass-produced car to have power steering, known as "Hydraguide").
by 90s_dev | 2025-06-06 14:55:49+00:00
... at least if I can get the simplest Visual Studio + CMake + vcpkg hello world working.

Which I can't.

This always happens every few years. It takes me about a week to get a C++ program compiling and running, and by the end of it, I've lost all motivation, forget how any of it works, and delete it all and move back to TypeScript/web stuff. At least that I know despite all its warts.

[edit] figured it out

Hello me from the future, googling this in a few years. It's actually really simple: just follow the same steps on that page you were on[1] except you HAVE TO run the `vcpkg new --application` and `vcpkg add port fmt` commands in the dev cmd prompt, you can't just add the file manually for some reason, even though that's all it seems like it's doing.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/get_started/get-star...
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-06 14:56:08+00:00
As a single almost 40yo overweight man I've gotta disagree.

McDonald's doesn't taste better, it tastes worse, but what working adult has the time next to their day job to eat healthy?

You have to be either

1. Rich enough to be able to spend a premium at restaurants for most of the week

2. Be rich enough to have a partner that doesn't have to work a 40-50h work week

3. Be rich enough to have a personal cook

4. Not work and get by via other avenues.
by ericmay | 2025-06-06 14:56:32+00:00
Completely agree - we focus on spending time rushing to get food and things so we can get back home and spend time scrolling, but we should actually be spending time, in my humble opinion, cooking and enjoying life. I think over the long-term people in America will recognize this more and more.

Also, after a while you realize at least outside of some dishes like maybe ramen or something like that, you can cook day-to-day better than just about anywhere you can go out to eat. It also makes you appreciate really good restaurants a bit more too. At least that has been my experience.
by titusjohnson | 2025-06-06 14:56:38+00:00
> I truly have no idea where all that energy was going.

Growing your body. I was the same in my late teens and early 20's. Family called it the POW Aesthetic. 6'1" & 150lbs, couldn't put an lb more on. I was strong as shit though, in a practical sense. No issue throwing 100lb feed bags over a shoulder and walking it up some stairs into storage, things like that. I was both doing active things all the time, and finishing growing my body. The summer I got my last growth spurt was agony, my bones hurt every night and I was a bottomless void of hunger.

Also, do not underestimate this bit:

> All I did for activity was ride bikes some and lift weights a little, plus usual kid stuff, no serious sports or training.

Specifically I believe the "usual kid stuff" part was doing a lot for you, I know it was for me. Looking back I now realize that my "usual kid stuff" was me being very, very active. I was pounding out 20k+ steps a day just moving around the family farm, miles on a bike (often on grass too), and then maybe an hour of pick-up soccer in the evening. This was just normal activity for me back then, I would not have considered any of it Intentional Exercise. Today I'd have to intentionally train for an ironman to even start approaching that level of activity.

I gained 15lbs the _summer_ I got my first desk job, that was entirely because I replaced 8 hours of walking around and doing things with 8 hours of sitting in a chair, and about 30 minutes of walking for breaks and lunch.
by gspencley | 2025-06-06 14:57:13+00:00
> We’re talking about content neutral hosting platforms.

There is no such thing as a "content neutral hosting platform." I know that people like to talk about social media services in the same umbrella as the concept of "common carrier", which is reserved for things like mail service and telecommunications infrastructure. And that might be what you're conflating here. If you're not, then please point me to the law, in any country even, where "content neutral hosting platform" is a legal term defined.

> If you want to not be liable for the content posted to your platform then you may not moderate or censor it seems like a fair compromise to me.

Compensation for what? The "platform" built something themselves. They made it. They are offering it on the market. If anyone is due compensation, it is them. No matter how much you don't like them. You didn't build it. You could have, maybe. But you didn't. I bet you didn't even try. But they did. And they succeeded at it. So where does anyone get off demanding "compensation" from them just for bringing something useful valuable into existence?

That is a pretty messed up way of looking at things IMO. It is the mindset of a thief.

> Either you are knitting forum carefully cultivating your content and thus liable for what people see there,

Thank you for conceding my argument and shining a spotlight on how ridiculous this is. You agree that according to your world view, the knitting forum should be liable for the content others post on it just because they are enforcing that things stay on topic. Even just for removing SPAM bot posts this would expose them to this liability.

> Right now we let people platforms be whichever favors their present goal or narrative without considering the impact such duplicity has on the public users.

The beautiful thing about freedom is that along as people don't infringe upon the rights of others, they don't need your permission to just go build things and exist.

The YouTube creators didn't have to ask you to "allow" them to build something useful and valuable. They just went and did it. And that's how it should be.

I get that certain creators run into trouble with the TOS. Hell, I've tried to create an Instagram account on several occasions and it gets suspended before I can even use it. And when I appeal or try to ask "why?" I never get answers. It's frustrating.

But the difference between you and me, is I don't think that people who build and create things and bring valuable shit into existence owe me something just by virtue of their existence.
Show HN: I Built an Agent That Writes Fresh Newsletters for Any Topic
by Arindam1729 | 2025-06-06 14:57:28+00:00
Recently, I was exploring the idea of using AI agents for real-time research and content generation.

To put that into practice, I thought why not try solving a problem I run into often? Creating high-quality, up-to-date newsletters without spending hours manually researching.

So I built a simple AI-powered Newsletter Agent that automatically researches a topic and generates a well-structured newsletter using the latest info from the web.

Here's what I used:

- Firecrawl Search API for real-time web scraping and content discovery - Nebius AI models for fast + cheap inference - Agno as the Agent Framework - Streamlit for the UI (It's easier for me)

The project isn’t overly complex, I’ve kept it lightweight and modular, but it’s a great way to explore how agents can automate research + content workflows.

If you're curious, I put together a walkthrough showing exactly how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYnR_MlErg

And the full code is available here if you want to build on top of it: https://github.com/Arindam200/awesome-ai-apps/tree/main/simp...

Would love to hear how others are using AI for content creation or research. Also open to feedback or feature suggestions might add multi-topic newsletters next!
by pandaman | 2025-06-06 14:57:44+00:00
It could very well be that Idaho cyclists are the next step in human evolution and the laws and rules designed for mere mortals would only hinder their superior decision making, I have never been to Idaho so I would not know. Where I lived though, including such populous states as California and Texas, cyclists don't exhibit any advanced intelligence, they put themselves and others into dangerous situations all the time and fall and crash. E.g. I see someone riding on the wrong way of a double track every single time, usually it's several people riding next to each other and blocking the whole trail, but there are also solo cyclists getting on the left lane in corners. They do collide or slide off the track and fall, but it could be that they are doing something great but impossible to understand on my level of evolution.
by voxic11 | 2025-06-06 14:58:01+00:00
From the law itself:

> 1. The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay...

> 3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

> e. for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

The law makes no reference to the idea that the legal claims must be under a member state or EU law.
by alizaid | 2025-06-06 14:59:35+00:00
thanks for sharing - that’s super helpful

the idea i have in mind is to build something like a product hunt killer not just another list, but a real product that feels fresh and useful

i’ve been doing all the marketing for my other product (thumblifyai.com), and i actually enjoy that part a lot

also, i know how to code - and with tools like cursorai - i’m confident i can build MVP in a month

appreciate advice though, means a lot
by AlexandrB | 2025-06-06 14:59:56+00:00
> cast doubt on vaccination

This seems like a bizarre retcon. No only did Trump fund "Operation Warp Speed" but he still (occasionally) expresses pride at funding the vaccine research. This is not "casting doubt on vaccination". I think the US right was generally doubtful of vaccination, but I'm fuzzy about whether this started before or after the vaccine mandates. Certainly I remember it being more of a phenomenon once Biden took office - perhaps as knee jerk opposition to a Democrat president.
by sebtron | 2025-06-06 14:59:57+00:00
Ah, that's a good question. It's kinda random (except that the name of the solver is "H48"). Setting up that web app required some extra HTTP headers (I explain that in the post), and the easiest way I found to do that without messing up the rest of my website was using a different port. https://h48.tronto.net redirects there too.

Later I looked into a better way to do this, but I could not fully work it out. I use OpenBSD's httpd, which does not support setting extra headers, and relayd. At some point I'll take a look at this again, or I'll move the tool to another domain.
by afavour | 2025-06-06 15:00:09+00:00
Again, back to that being a fatalist perspective. It won’t work so there’s no point in trying. IMO it’s always worth trying.

The opportunists are a minority and they should be ostracized. They’ll always hire each other of course but the reality, as we’re seeing, is that they aren’t actually very good at what they do. For years Musk was seen as an Iron Man genius but by any metric you choose DOGE has been an absolute failure.
by pyman | 2025-06-06 15:00:46+00:00
Here we go again. We're amplifying accusations from pseudo blogs with little credibility, and spreading rumours in a forum where most of us are AI/ML engineers, researchers, founders, and university professors. We should know better.

I read their site and blog, and they have a lot of screenshots of their internal apps. It can't be fake! One of them shows templates of well known sites. Based on what I read, you choose a template, Natasha or something else handles the assembly, which I assume is just a fancy way of saying it checks out a repo and installs dependencies. Then the Indian programmers do the rest. This is clearly explained on their website.

Guys, take a look at their blog or website. There's plenty of information about their apps, which were reviewed by Microsoft before they invested 250 million.

Here's the dashboard where you choose an app: https://www.builder.ai/images/Choose.jpg

And here's the project progress dashboard showing how long it takes to build. In this case, it's 7 months. Clearly, there’s no GenAI involved if it takes that long:

https://www.builder.ai/images/builder-studio-project-progres...

Indian programmers and mathematicians are incredibly talented. In fact, an Indian programmer invented the first Transformer, which led to the rise of GenAI. The world chess champion is also from India. So let's stop mocking them. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Infosys and BuilderAI employ thousands of Indian programmers who are in the top one percent.

The founder of BuilderAI is also from India and was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2024. He hired directors from Microsoft and Amazon. The Head of AI was a former AI Director at Amazon.

You need to stick to the facts. Their website looks legitimate and makes no mention of GenAI.

Verdict: FAKE NEWS

(Note: Indian devs are amazing)
by krapp | 2025-06-06 15:01:45+00:00
You can build a project linking SDL3 with Lua and have access to all of the features of SDL3, with the obvious caveat that you'll have to code the rest of the owl yourself, but it isn't difficult. I have a basic CMake script that I use for projects and it works fine. (also, obviously you can just run the Lua code locally and skip the build process altogether when developing.) I use LuaJIT though, and the FFI generator here[0].

[0]https://github.com/sonoro1234/LuaJIT-SDL3
by shakna | 2025-06-06 15:01:53+00:00
Apart from all the accidental suicides from overdosing on alcohol, or taking cleaning products, or... There were a lot of news articles about this, at the time. They got to interview dying people, who admitted their mistakes.

Which is sorta why there actually is studies done on the impact of the misinformation [0].

> Following this misinformation, approximately 800 people have died, whereas 5,876 have been hospitalized and 60 have developed complete blindness after drinking methanol as a cure of coronavirus.34–37 Similar rumors have been the reported cause of 30 deaths in Turkey.38 Likewise, in Qatar, two healthy South Asian men ingested either surface disinfectant or alcohol-based hand sanitizer after exposures to COVID-19 patients.39 In India, 12 people, including five children, became sick after drinking liquor made from toxic seed Datura (ummetta plant in local parlance) as a cure to coronavirus disease.40 The victims reportedly watched a video on social media that Datura seeds give immunity against COVID-19.40

[0] https://www.ajtmh.org/view/journals/tpmd/103/4/article-p1621...
by anthk | 2025-06-06 15:01:55+00:00
I disagree, with Lisp you have metaprogramming exercises under every book, be CACS, SICP or the ones for S9 (s9fes Scheme) from Nils.

That for Scheme; under Common Lisp loop it's hell and, well, on PAIP you implement a Scheme Lisp interpreter.

Heck, on Scheme you need to understand eval and apply and how do they operate recursively.

More? Both Scheme and CL have books exercises on implementing a mini-Prolog.

On Forth: immediate. You have a raw Forth core, implement do...loop and if, then, else. Have fun.
by foxyv | 2025-06-06 15:02:43+00:00
The inevitable answer is money. It was done with a firehose filled with money.

iSpace is running on a $50 million budget. The moon landing was $250 billion in today's dollars.

Edit: To put that in perspective, SpaceX has invested about $5 billion into Starship. The F-35 program cost about $2000 billion.
by ghaff | 2025-06-06 15:02:50+00:00
Assumption is probably that you're willing to pay (a reasonable amount) for comfort, a day or two of extra travel time isn't a big deal, you find advantages for city to city center travel (though you don't actually get that with San Francisco), and don't really like driving long distances.

And private jets are more than a "bit" more expensive for most people. Multiples of first/business class even for a group.
by dapurv5 | 2025-06-06 15:03:06+00:00
We've analyzed how popular watermarking methods (KGW, Gumbel) affect language model alignment—revealing critical tradeoffs impacting truthfulness, safety, and helpfulness. We propose "Alignment Resampling," a simple method to mitigate these alignment degradations, with theoretical insights and empirical results.

Paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2506.04462

Feedback appreciated!
by sambyte | 2025-06-06 15:03:07+00:00
Five days after launching Rustoku on crates.io (11 days of development), I've hit 1050+ downloads with zero marketing - validating there's real demand for educational algorithmic tools.

The core implementation uses bitmasking for efficient row/column/box constraint tracking, with cell-based candidate caching for performance. When human-solvable techniques are exhausted, it falls back to backtracking with minimum-remaining values (MRV) heuristic.

What sets it apart: beyond just solving, Rustoku generates a complete solve path for transparency - you can see exactly which techniques were applied and when the algorithm switches to backtracking.

The constraint satisfaction problem space feels ripe for more innovation, especially tools that bridge the gap between "just works" and "shows you how it works"

https://github.com/huangsam/rustoku
by gruez | 2025-06-06 15:03:08+00:00
>They should include the part where the order is a result of them deleting things they shouldn’t have then. You know, if this isn’t spin.

From what I can tell from the court filings, prior to the judge's order to retain everything, the request to retain everything was coming from the plaintiff, with openai objecting to the request and refusing to comply in the meantime. If so, it's a bit misleading to characterize this as "deleting things they shouldn’t have", because what they "should have" done wasn't even settled. That's a bit rich coming from someone accusing openai of "spin".
by mmillis1 | 2025-06-06 15:03:44+00:00
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by matklad | 2025-06-06 15:04:46+00:00
From the user's perspective, this doesn't matter at all. Zig is implementation detail, what we actually ship is a fully statically linked native executable for the database, and "links only libc" (because thread locals!) .a/.so native "C" library for clients. Nothing will change, for the user, if we decide to rewrite the thing in Rust, or C, or Hare, nothing Zig-specific leaks out.

Form the developer perspective, the big thing is that we don't have any dependencies, so updating compiler for us is just a small amount of work once in a while, and not your typical ecosystem-wide coordination problem. Otherwise, Zig's pretty much "finished" for our use-case, it more or less just works.