MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MBCook | 2025-06-19 04:22:31+00:00
But that’s not really the point is it.

If PC vendors can’t match some important specs from multiple years ago on an Apple laptop, isn’t that kind of a problem?

Sure you can get a faster laptop than an M1. But can you get one that’s faster and silent at all times?

You can get a bigger battery. Or screen or whatever. But all those trade off some other desirable quality.

Has anyone matched the full package? Speed + size + weight + battery life + noise + specs?

Shouldn’t framework be able to match that, especially if you’re willing to give some on the weight or cost? If not, why?
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-19 04:23:30+00:00
> One server per API? That actually sounds crazy if you're doing backend

Not familiar with elixir, but is there anything prohibiting you from just making a monolith MCP combining multiple disparate API's/backends/microservices as you were doing previously?

Further, you won't get the various client-application integrations with MCP merely using tool-calling; which to me is the "killer app" of MCP (as a sibling comment touches on).

(I do still have mixed feelings about MCP, but in this case MCP sorta wins for me)
by hinterlands | 2025-06-19 04:23:38+00:00
Every person says this, but it's a massive industry for a reason. It's the same as with The North Face logo on jackets. You're never paying attention and you don't recall any specific person wearing the jacket. But somehow, when it's time to buy a jacket, you know about the brand, and know all the people in your socioeconomic circle seem to like it.

Some online ads want to grab your attention, but most are just about building almost-subliminal connections like that.
by timr | 2025-06-19 04:25:12+00:00
They go on to discuss more than a page of examples, all of which sound completely reasonable to me. Or perhaps you could just quote the very next paragraph, which is pretty specific:

> Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.
by eesmith | 2025-06-19 04:25:16+00:00
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." (Attributed to Cardinal Richelieu; disputed.)

The more information given, the more likely there will be a false positive.

"You say you didn't visit the US but here's a picture of you in Vegas." "That's the Eiffel Tower. In Paris." "No, it's Las Vegas - I saw it last month. Entry rejected."
by defrost | 2025-06-19 04:26:19+00:00
jfengel might disagree, but if you absolutely must watch a Shrew variation made for TV at least give the BBC's Shakespeare ReTold version a gander:

https://booktalkandmore.blogspot.com/2011/03/shakespeare-ret...

Everything comes together brilliantly in this adaptation, which remains remarkably - and surprisingly, perhaps - true to the source material, ...
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-19 04:26:23+00:00
> Karpathy is consistently one of the clearest thinkers out there.

Eh, he ran Teslas self driving division and put them into a direction that is never going to fully work.

What they should have done is a) trained a neural net to represent sequence of frames into a physical environment, and b)leveraged Mu Zero, so that self driving system basically builds out parallel simulations into the future, and does a search on the best course of action to take.

Because thats pretty much what makes humans great drivers. We don't need to know what a cone is - we internally compute that something that is an object on the road that we are driving towards is going to result in a negative outcome when we collide with it.
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-06-19 04:27:53+00:00
interesting, who (why?) is using and even paying for this service?

1. if you are on device, then use on device OCR (e.g. use Apple Vision directly)

2. if you are on cloud, then self-deployed OCR models

3. if you are on browser, then WASM/local self-deployed OCR models
by WatchDog | 2025-06-19 04:28:30+00:00
Wow these are incredibly broad, in particular:

> Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.

There are plenty of dual citizens that would proudly admit that their first loyalty is to Israel.

Other examples from the document use the term "Jews as a people", whereas this example seems to apply to accusing any individual.

Although perhaps a generous interpretation of the example, is that it excludes Israeli dual citizens, because Israel would be one of "their own nations"
by somenameforme | 2025-06-19 04:28:58+00:00
PRISM [1] says hello. He may have fallen out of the news cycle, but he's not only still around but bigger, badder, and more invasive than ever. That phone you used to set up 2FA online with? Well that conveniently ties your real name, address, and more right to specific accounts. And he's collected it and passed it along for storage, in perpetuity.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
by Moto7451 | 2025-06-19 04:29:31+00:00
Especially when the reality of building and permitting will mean someone else, even if it’s from the current administration, will be in power long after the check is cashed and ground broken if it even happens. Because of the time scale there’s plenty of time for the “aw shucks it didn’t work out” if that’s the better path. Hitting a few milestones but not enough to actually break ground can be exceptionally profitable.
by maeil | 2025-06-19 04:31:08+00:00
I'm not sure how to phrase this within the rules of HN, but I don't understand how anyone on HN 1. can not understand why Meta and Microsoft aren't fighting this 2. can still be remotely surprised by any of this 3. can act this has a single thing to do with security or even with Israel - neither of which remotely factor into the reason behind this policy.

Genuinely, have people been living in Bikini Bottom? I'm so tired of this cognitive dissonance, not wanting to face the reality. As tired as I am of these developments themselves, really. I'm too tired to still be nice. I thought people here were bright.
by mikewarot | 2025-06-19 04:31:29+00:00
A few days ago, I was introduced to the idea that when you're vibe coding, you're consulting a "genie", much like in the fables, you almost never get what you asked for, but if your wishes are small, you might just get what you want.

The primagen reviewed this article[1] a few days ago, and (I think) that's where I heard about it. (Can't re-watch it now, it's members only) 8(

[1] https://medium.com/@drewwww/the-gambler-and-the-genie-08491d...
by psviderski | 2025-06-19 04:32:23+00:00
That's an interesting idea. I don't think you can create a subcommand/plugin for compose but creating a 'docker composepussh' command that parses the compose file and runs 'docker pussh' should be possible.

My plan is to integrate Unregistry in Uncloud as the next step to make the build/deploy flow super simple and smooth. Check out Uncloud (link in the original post), it uses Compose as well.
by Moto7451 | 2025-06-19 04:32:28+00:00
This is what immediately popped in my mind. What’s that definition of insanity again…

I’d love it if things were streamlined when building. Just as a homeowner it’s amazing how hard it can be to get a permit or an inspection. The lame duct tape fix seems to me some weird CMS and ArcGIS, as if that somehow fixes the human and policy problems.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-19 04:33:38+00:00
Not in my opinion, works fine in general, wrote 2500 lines of tests for me over about 30 min tonight.

To your point that this isn't trivial or universal, there's a sharp gradient that you wouldn't notice if you're just opining on it as opposed to coding against it -- ex. I've spent every waking minute since mid-December on MCP-like territory, and it still bugs me out how worse every model is than Claude at it. It sounds like you have similar experience, though, perhaps not as satisfied with Claude as I am.
by godelski | 2025-06-19 04:34:27+00:00
Personally, I block them. But the people running these programs think they can get all of us. They don't seem to understand that the harder they try the more they piss off people like me. Meaning I'll put in more effort to circumvent or poison their data, making them spend a disproportionate amount of money on people like me. At this point I don't they'll give up, so let's find out who can live the longest. The number of people on my side are growing
by anythingworks | 2025-06-19 04:34:34+00:00
exactly! I think that was tesla's vision with self-driving to begin with... so they tried to frame it as problem general enough, that trying to solve it would also solve questions of more general intelligence ('agi') i.e. cars should use vision just like humans would

but in hindsight looks like this slowed them down quite a bit despite being early to the space...
by lucubratory | 2025-06-19 04:38:27+00:00
They generally only look on Weibo & other Chinese-exclusive social media, and they do it all the time, not just while you're in customs. For something on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook etc it would need to be something really, really egregious (and you would know about it) like organising or raising funds for the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or something similar. It wouldn't be enough to just express a political opinion that the US State Department has expressed, like "China is committing a genocide of the Uyghurs". Maybe if you're saying it in Chinese it's more likely that would lead to issues because that's what they're used to dealing with, but I think it's unlikely. They care about what their nationals are doing, and they care about what's happening on their own social media networks; that's mostly it.

My general advice for people travelling to China is to not talk about politics on Chinese social media, or if you do just talk about the domestic politics of your home country & keep in mind that Chinese people might disagree with you. That's also my advice for people travelling to any country, but it's more important in China.

All that said, if you must discuss politics on Chinese social media while you're there, the thing the censors really have an issue with is calls for action, explicit or implied. More than one very pro-PRC heritage speaker who went to China has had their Weibo posts raging against America or Japan censored because they thought the criteria were "Posts have to be pro-China", when really the criteria is "Posts can't be a call to collective action that wasn't started by the party". What the party is actually concerned about is just stopping any sort of organised mass movement that they didn't start. The CCP's point of view is that mass movements are inherently unpredictable & could lead to civil disorder (even if they're nominally "pro-China"), so they're too risky a tool to let anyone other than the state use - important context to that is that Chinese culture, similar to some other East Asian cultures, puts way more value than we do on civil order, harmony etc.

Also if your posts do get censored, it's not as big an issue as it would be here. Where I live, the government deleting my social media posts would feel approximately as serious as armed police rappelling through my windows, and if the former happened I'd at least think about the possibility of the latter happening shortly afterwards. Think something like the Christchurch shooting live feed. It's not like that in China; it's completely normal, for example, that you get angry & post something that gets deleted by a censor, & that is literally the last you ever hear of it, a lot like tweeting something against ToS. If you continue posting about it or try to get around the censorship, eventually a police officer will visit you and talk to you over tea about why you have to stop doing that, and if you keep going that's when the actual legal consequences like deportations or arrest start.
by travisgriggs | 2025-06-19 04:40:02+00:00
So with Podman, this exists already, but for docker, this has to be created by the community.

I am a bystander to these technologies. I’ve built and debug’ed the rare image, and I use docker desktop on my Mac to isolate db images.

When I see things like these, I’m always curious why docker, which seems so much more beaurecratic/convoluted, prevails over podman. I totally admit this is a naive impression.
by protocolture | 2025-06-19 04:40:54+00:00
>If you're applying for a visa it's because you don't have the right to enter. Not only is there no reason to apply for a visa if you already have the right to enter, it's usually illegal to do so.

Really hinges on how you use the word "right". There's plenty of people in Gaza that have a right to return to their homes, but are unable to thanks to some dicks with tanks and a big wall.

There are plenty of people worldwide who are unable to enter countries when they have an established right to. Like I said. "How do you know"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement

>The US has always been unreasonable

True.
by Animats | 2025-06-19 04:42:27+00:00
What's a "foundational semiconductor"?

This seems to be a political term, not one the electronics industry uses.[1] "Foundational chips (also called “legacy,” “lagging edge,” and “mature node” semiconductors) are often defined as chips made with a 22nm manufacturing process or above."

Is there actually a lack of 22nm and larger fab capacity in the US? Or is it just that they're not being used much.

[1] https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...
by practal | 2025-06-19 04:42:34+00:00
Great talk, thanks for putting it online so quickly. I liked the idea of making the generation / verification loop go brrr, and one way to do this is to make verification not just a human task, but a machine task, where possible.

Yes, I am talking about formal verification, of course!

That also goes nicely together with "keeping the AI on a tight leash". It seems to clash though with "English is the new programming language". So the question is, can you hide the formal stuff under the hood, just like you can hide a calculator tool for arithmetic? Use informal English on the surface, while some of it is interpreted as a formal expression, put to work, and then reflected back in English? I think that is possible, if you have a formal language and logic that is flexible enough, and close enough to informal English.

Yes, I am talking about abstraction logic [1], of course :-)

So the goal would be to have English (German, ...) as the ONLY programming language, invisibly backed underneath by abstraction logic.

[1] http://abstractionlogic.com
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-19 04:42:35+00:00
Well, to me, it sounds as if the ban on LGBT folks joining the armed forces is a kind of protection of LGBT folks, especially given the world seems to be moving towards an inevitable near-future in which US forces will be deployed to Canada, Greenland, Panama, Iran, Russia (to protect it from invasion by Ukraine and/or Europe), Gaza (to protect the construction of Trump's Oasis on the Mediterranean), Taiwan.

Non-LGBT front line.
by pugworthy | 2025-06-19 04:43:36+00:00
I used to have this AM headphone radio that I’d listen to from Oregon. Late at night these remote California stations would start to come in and I’d pick up things that my coastal small town living did not imagine existed. Like the good Doctor.

Well that and listening to my brother’s Firesign Theater albums.

edit

Ah. Archer twin speaker AM radio headphones. Impulse buy off eBay just now.
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-19 04:43:54+00:00
Yea, and it was effectively a lie.

I'm in the Pacific Time Zone which covers LA, SF, San Diego, Seattle, or 51 million people. Apparently, 90% have a smartphone (that includes kids) which is lower than 90% but for adults is 97%. Looking various statics of sales, upgrade cycles, etc there are probably at between 500k of 1million iPhone 15 Pros (not 15, not 15 Pro Plus, just 15 Pro)

Every iPhone 15 Pro will have the exact same fingerprint. The only settings that "leak" are langauge, time-zone, font-size, light/dark preference. There's isn't anything else an iPhone user can change.

Given those, and given most people have those set to the default, at best there are 100k people giving the same fingerprint, likely more. But, if I go to the Eff's site on my iPhone 15 pro it will falsely claim my fingerprint is unique. (https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/)

Yes, it might be unique to their server since no one visits. But if no one visits there's no point to fingerprinting. It's only popular sites that would gain from fingerprinting and yet the EFF is effectively lying about those sites ability to fingerprint.
by wpm | 2025-06-19 04:44:40+00:00
I wish Framework made a small laptop with inverted-T arrow keys. I *hated* the full height left and right keys on my old touchbar MacBook Pro, and rejoiced when they wisely fixed that mistake.

I don't need to go to a 16, the only laptop they sell with the proper arrow key arrangement. I need something small and cheerful as a secondary Linux laptop, and ugh, the 12 and the 13 come so so close, only to trip right before the finish line.
by worthless-trash | 2025-06-19 04:44:56+00:00
Re-reading what was said, I believe we might be cross talking.

The 'reasonable way' that most people believe is to 'do it as its always been done'.

> do you think that doesn't characterize the motivating factors that lead to invention?

We as humans tend to to believe that this is the easiest path. Inventors and innovators are not a majority in the population, often popularized as outcasts or outliers in society through popular story tale.

Only in the last few decades has this narrative changed, but I can agree that indirectly yes, these avoid pain, uncertainty and limitation of their future choices.
by bedit | 2025-06-19 04:48:28+00:00
I love the "people spirits" analogy. For casual tasks like vibecoding or boiling an egg, LLM errors aren't a big deal. But for critical work, we need rigorous checks—just like we do with human reasoning. That's the core of empirical science: we expect fallibility, so we verify. A great example is how early migration theories based on pottery were revised with better data like ancient DNA (see David Reich). Letting LLMs judge each other without solid external checks misses the point—leaderboard-style human rankings are often just as flawed.
by glaucon | 2025-06-19 04:50:14+00:00
> so any conclusions that you're "unique" (in the world?)

I don't think too many people are labouring under this idea, I think it's implicit that "unique" is in terms of those people those people who've volunteered for fingerprinting by this site.

I was amused to see that my referer value of 'https://news.ycombinator.com/' matched 1/1000th of "all" browsers, Hacker News is popular in certain circles but clearly this is self-selecting sample.
by KingMob | 2025-06-19 04:52:38+00:00
Many are reasonable, but several are not.

> Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

One does not entail the other. You can support our right to self-determination while not supporting Israel's apartheid-style policies, but this sentence conflates them.

> Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

This is pure whataboutism. Israel is actually given incredible leeway by America, and I usually see this trotted out to shut down legitimate criticism. There's a good discussion to be had about why we don't criticize China, or why we ignore atrocities in African countries, but none of that absolves Israel from its misdeeds.

> Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

Call it "sparkling ethnic cleansing" then. Ironically, actual genocide scholars have pointed out that when the Shoah is your metric, then almost nothing can compare, rendering the word useless.
by antinomicus | 2025-06-19 04:52:52+00:00
God this comment reads exactly like someone asked gemini to make a classic hacker news comment reply to this post. Slightly useful insight, that perfectly transition into an ad for the commenter’s startup. Actually, I asked o3 for a response to the OP and here’s what it generated.

“Using AI for code has reminded me of this sensation… switching in and out of “driving” feels more exhausting than being 100 % one or the other.” You’re not imagining it. There’s a fair bit of cognitive-science literature on task-set inertia: every time you hand work off (human→AI or AI→human) you pay ~100–150 ms to reconstruct the mental model, plus an exponentially-longer “resumption lag” if the state is ambiguous.¹ Do that dozens of times per hour and you’ve effectively added a stealth meeting to your day. A few things that helped me when pairing with an LLM: • Chunk bigger. Treat the AI like a junior dev on 30-minute sprint tickets, not a rubber duck you ping every two lines. • Use “state headers.” I prepend a tiny recap in comments — // you own: parse(), I own: validate() — so I can scan and re-hydrate context instantly. • Declare no-AI zones. Sounds counter-intuitive, but reserving, say, test-writing for uninterrupted solo focus keeps me in flow longer overall. …have you tried anything successfully to address it? We were annoyed enough to build something. At Recontext (YC S24) we sit between your editor and whatever LLM you’re using; every AI request is automatically tagged with the diff, dependency graph, and TODO items so when you jump back in, you get a one-glance briefing instead of spelunking through scrollback. Early users report ~40 % fewer context switches during a coding session. If anyone wants to kick the tires, we’re handing out private beta invites — email is in profile. ⸻ ¹ See Monsell, “Task switching,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2003 — the “switch cost” math is sobering.
by robin_reala | 2025-06-19 04:53:07+00:00
0.74% does seem a bit low, but most people browse the web on mobile phones, so knock off 50-70% immediately, then of the remaining most will be integrated GPUs from Intel or AMD in laptops. Take away Macs and you’re basically just left with gaming PCs, and laptops where the browser decided the task was difficult enough to spin up a discrete nVidia GPU.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-19 04:53:41+00:00
A key issue in this is that the screening process is completely opaque. I have acquaintances who have tried to get visas to the US, and it usually takes several attempts - with nothing really changing in between. It mostly comes down to the exact immigration officer working somebody's application, and the waxing and waning of the moon.

The reasons given are extremely broad, so it makes nuances like this largely irrelevant. If an immigration officer perceives their duty (or maybe it's just their own personal opinion) to be to reject applications which are critical of Israel, then that's exactly what they're going to do. And you have no ability to appeal decisions, not that you'd even know what caused those decisions.

FWIW the people I'm referencing were also completely upstanding, educated individuals with high competence in English. It's a great way to make one loathe the double standard given to people who just illegally cross the border. Even moreso when you consider that each of these applications costs hundreds of dollars in places where that's often a rather substantial sum of money (just as it would be in most places in e.g. South America).