MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by b_t_s | 2025-06-02 18:30:57+00:00
It's wildly more convenient to read on a phone. I prefer the screen, form factor, and overall UX of an e-reader for extended reading sessions, but I haven't turned mine on in years because the phone is just sooooo much more convenient. Most e-readers don't fit in a pocket, and even if they do it's annoying to have to guess when I'll need it and carry the 2nd device. Whenever I have downtime....airport, doctors office, curbisde pickup, wife isn't ready to check out yet, lunch takes 5 minutes in the microwave....that phone/kindle for iOS is always ready to go. I probably do half my reading in 5-15 minute increments of formerly dead time. For a while I even tried switching to the e-reader whenever I sat down to read "for real", but even the relatively painless syncing process wasn't worth the minor UX benefits of the ereader. The phone is my least favorite way to read, but convenience is the one category where it absolutely mops the floor with e-readers(and paper for that matter).
by bgwalter | 2025-06-02 18:31:10+00:00
The article is a bit lengthy, which makes it hard to distill any message. Perhaps the vagueness is on purpose, since it ends with the classic "But what about China?" FOMO.

Clearly "AI" is plagiarism. There are YouTube voice translations now that are trained on the original speaker's voice. How is this not a derivative work?

If you train an AI on 1,000,000 voices so it can pretend to "create" an average voice, that voice is still the derivative work of all input voices.

The EU making "AI" scraping opt-out is disgraceful. It should be opt-in.

Vance and Trump (mentioned in the piece) are irrelevant. Watch Vance in his latest meeting with von der Leyen and Meloni, where Vance suddenly was very friendly when von der Leyen mentioned a total trade volume of $1 trillion.

Von der Leyen also called Meloni (who was previously designated as a "fascist") by her first name. They all were best friends forever.
by datax2 | 2025-06-02 18:31:31+00:00
I was told a story when I was younger (take it with a grain of salt I cannot find anything to corroborate it). The British embassy use to offer (maybe still does) "Tropical" pay for individuals stationed in temperate climates. Washington D.C. was considered a tropical location for years because of the notorious swampy and muggy conditions experienced in the warmer seasons. Stationed diplomats knew of this hazard/tropic pay and wanted to keep it, and when leaders would come to visit they would exasperate the conditions by turning off the AC. One year some time in the 80's they forgot to turn off the AC during a prime minister visit, and at that point the tropical pay was revoked.

Also fun fact they also have a Pub in the basement of the embassy.
by breakds | 2025-06-02 18:32:01+00:00
My suggestion

1. Start by learning a simulation tool, e.g. Mujoco (open source) or Isaac Sim. 2. Learn basics of optimal control and reinforcement learning, reproduce papers/ideas in the simulation. 3. Get your hands dirty on a cheap robot, and try deploy your trained model on it. For mobility and manipulation. Unitree Go1/Go2 for mobility, and robotic arms for manipulation.
by swores | 2025-06-02 18:32:03+00:00
I agree with you about the current stage of things, which is why I said that we're approaching the point but not yet there for AI to be able to match professional readers.

But I disagree with you when you write "it simply doesn't have the information to improve beyond sounding like a human reading words fluently" - it has the same information when reading it as a human does, meaning that the best implementation would have to not only adapt tone to explicit instructions like "... she shouted", but also read between the lines / make subjective choices to suit the different characters.

AI is already capable of doing sentiment analysis on text, and text to speech models are getting better at being able to simulate moods/emotions rather than just speaking flatly, and I don't think we're many years away, if that, from those two sides being paired together in a way that produces the sort of quality output we're talking about for the first time without human involvement. Add to that the fact that AI can train on the many good examples of humans reading things, they may get to the point of emulating not just the core accent but also how each accent should adopt to what meanings in the text and arrive at a great solution without even needing to go through the steps of analysing what the text means to use that to know how to modify the voice being generated.
by jborden13 | 2025-06-02 18:32:19+00:00
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by calmbonsai | 2025-06-02 18:32:19+00:00
This is pure academic theory-crafting. Who is going to pay for this and how will it be financed?

Even in the industrial space, it's simply not going to happen given the costs of securing wrt the business value and relative risk aside from projects that have some sort of community/municipal/national "critical infrastructure" domain (think power generation) where a legitimate business case (think in terms of MARR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_acceptable_rate_of_ret... ) can be made for safety and/or regulatory compliance future-proofing and a source of cheap 3rd party (usually government) capital is made available.

There are also huge legacy IoT investments in capital inefficient low-margin businesses (think mining and ship-building) where this sort of "maintenance" and retroactively applying "defense in depth" makes little sense compared to wholesale generational migration.

Nobody is going to do it until there's some sort of abrupt forced exigent existential externality applied to the entire industry (e.g. ozone layer depletion and refrigerants) and then they'll be a single mass-migration.
by dsyang | 2025-06-02 18:32:22+00:00
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by kentonv | 2025-06-02 18:32:30+00:00
This library helps implement both the resource server and authorization server. Most people understand these two things to be, collectively, the "provider" side of OAuth -- the service provider, who is providing an API that requires authorization. The intent when using this library is that you write one Worker that does both. This library has no use on the client side.

This is intended for building lightweight services quickly. Historically there has been no real need for "lightweight" OAuth providers -- if you were big enough that people wanted to connect to you using OAuth, you were not lightweight. MCP has sort of changed that as the "big" side of an MCP interaction is the client side (the LLM provider), whereas lots of people want to create all kinds of little MCP servers to do all kinds of little things. But MCP specifies OAuth as the authentication mechanism. So now people need to be able to implement OAuth from the provider side easily.

> Experience with the RFCs but have not been able to correctly name it.

These docs are written for people building MCP servers, most of whom only know they want to expose an API to AIs and have never read OAuth RFCs. They do not know or care about the difference between an authorization server and a resource server.
by jborden13 | 2025-06-02 18:32:55+00:00
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by tinyhouse | 2025-06-02 18:33:23+00:00
Great post and a bit ironic that it ends up at the top page of HN...

A comment about the Youtube example:

> This is why YouTubers with millions of followers have hundreds of thousands of views on their first few videos. Those videos didn’t get any views when they were first published. They were revisited after they became famous, by their most loyal fans.

This is a nice example but it depends on the content. If you write an AI blog, readers are probably not going to bother with reading old posts that are no longer relevant. You see it with research papers as well -- if you have an author you follow, you're less likely to read their old stuff. Maybe it's a good idea to write content that don't become stale quickly.
by RajT88 | 2025-06-02 18:33:37+00:00
Currently funding my wife's restaurant which just opened and requires a lot of operational money.

Rewind 1 year: I was buying retro gaming consoles to mod (the exquisitely beautiful, but unreliable Sony PSX). I also bought a mid-engine Japanese sports car to soup up (one of the cheap ones you can get for less than 20k with low miles).

Rewind a little further - paid off the house.

Purchases that fill not a hole, but my time. Hobby-type purchases which create learning opportunities. Or - investments in financial security of some sort.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-02 18:33:43+00:00
Just so we're clear... the idea here is to take an aircraft:

1) whose structural characteristics were calculated with it pressurized at altitude, and instead fly it unpressurized

2) whose control surfaces were designed for a passenger/cargo load, and instead takeoff at max weight and land at minimum weight, with weight concentrated in bombs

3) with rocket assisted takeoff

?

Sure. Sounds great. Will probably, mostly work.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-02 18:33:54+00:00
It's not just you, and I would say that there seems to have been a general coarsening of society. The other day I saw someone with a bumper sticker saying "I pooped today", which I did find funny, but I reflected that it never would've been socially acceptable 30 years ago or so. People seem to have rejected the idea that some things are not acceptable to discuss or display openly. See for example "let your freak flag fly" and so on.

There are pros and cons to it, I suppose. I don't think it's bad for gay people to be out of the closet, for example. But I also find stuff like the rampant swearing* or "I pooped today" to be a bit troubling as I get older and think "man I wouldn't want my kids to learn it's ok to talk like that".

* not casting stones, I have a very strong swearing habit myself that I try to curb. It's hard.
by Vrondi | 2025-06-02 18:34:47+00:00
Not just antibiotics to consider along this line of thought. We historically had a higher load of parasites. Far more of the population had some amount of parasites more of the time. Things like sewer systems/sanitation/clean drinking water/bathing and personal hygiene/wearing shoes/not having piles of animal feces all over the streets. That all changed the amount of exposure to parasites for the common person. We know it affected our immune systems (overall rates of allergies increased). We do not know how it affected our brains. Makes intuitive sense that it must apply to bacteria as well. Before foods were pasteurized (and before refrigeration), for example, we were exposed to more dietary sources for bacteria, both beneficial and non-beneficial.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-02 18:35:22+00:00
The interesting thing about dementia is that it is not normally distributed whatsoever. Pick basically any characteristic imaginable - environmental, behavioral, or genetic, and you're going to find a difference, often very significant, between groups.

Everything from your occupation, to your diet, to martial status, to hobbies, and much more have been shown to have significant relationships with dementia rates. The problem you obviously run into here is that a person's approach towards healthcare is itself a major behavioral characteristic and so seeing varying rates of dementia based on this characteristic alone would be very unsurprising.
by renatko | 2025-06-02 18:35:49+00:00
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by Reubachi | 2025-06-02 18:36:11+00:00
Encryption and non-repudiation to-from any deployed field device back home is analogous to putting a lock and your ID on your front door. It would deter the average "front door unlocked" criminal of opportunity.

When does a device not authenticating itself and all it's comms matter?

Mossad was able to (at great cost, and with an inept enemy) hijack a telecom supply chain to embedd explosives in internet radios.

Were there any operational oversight to simply have these devices call home with signed key challenge, the literal virus OS/code execution/explosive would have at least been caught.

I only bring up THAT example to show that supply chains are as exposed as a bad actor wants them to be.
by jefurii | 2025-06-02 18:36:13+00:00
I had the same reaction to you seeing Ep. 1 for the first time, but I've come to respect the prequels. Not for their acting certainly, but for the way Lucas' scifi retelling of Roman history is so relevant to our current moment. Clone Wars and Rebels both start out pretty childish I think by the end they're nearly as gritty and serious as Andor.

Update: Clone Wars especially benefits from finding a good best-of episode guide to help move the story along.
by mystraline | 2025-06-02 18:36:19+00:00
> Guy Fedorkow is a Connection Science Fellow at MIT, a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks, and a contributor to the Trusted Computing Group.

Talk about the worst corporate doublespeak - 'trusted computing'.

It also goes by DRM, or rental hardware, or you never actually own it cause someone else retains permanent digital control.

There is NO trust here, only control and power in never actually selling anything.

And since we're talking of IoT, this goes hand in hand with proprietary corporate clouds, anti-FLOSS like Home Assistant, rental in the form of sales, forced firmware upgrades that remove previous features to gatekeep and resell what you promised.

I don't even need to read further. Anybody, and I do mean anybody, who uses the moniker 'Trusted Computing', should be ignored, blackballed, and relegated to the bin of computing.
by frankvienna | 2025-06-02 18:36:20+00:00
The "perfect" resume that got me nowhere

I did "everything right" but still couldn't land a tech job - so I built my own solution

The "perfect" resume that got me nowhere

Here's what my resume looked like:

Two summer internships at tech companies

Good grades throughout university

Multiple hobby projects built in my spare time

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Coding almost every single day this year (only 8 days off)

Yet after months of applications: Zero job offers.

Some interviews, lots of ghosting, and a growing sense that having a job is somehow a privilege I haven't earned yet.

The frustrating reality of today's job market

The worst part? Non-technical people keep telling me "AI will replace you anyway" while pointing to some flashy frontend demos with zero actual functionality or scalability. Meanwhile, I'm here building real software every day.

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The traditional path isn't guaranteed - Even with internships and good grades, the job market is brutal

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Show HN: Psuedocode expander- Iteratively build real apps with plain English
by explosion-s | 2025-06-02 18:36:44+00:00
Hi everyone!

I am working on a tool that iteratively takes psuedocode and breaks it down into more and more detailed steps. Essentially at any point you can alter your app with plain text, then once you're satisfied generate full code for it. This system allows you to iterate on specific sections of your application, refine them with normal language, and make any changes you wish, while never writing actual code. Eventually though, the psuedcode that you've been creating is sufficient for a model to generate code.

One example is the model taking this: "Fullstack TODO list app with express backend and Vue.js frontend"

and turning it into this:

Backend (Express.js) API Endpoints for managing tasks Handles business logic for task operations Connects to the database

Frontend (Vue.js) User interface for displaying and interacting with tasks Sends requests to the backend API Manages UI state

Database Stores task data

You can then imagine how this works over time to get more and more details.

Give it a star, a PR or raise some issues and request something!
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