MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anyfoo | 2025-06-25 21:56:28+00:00
I did not have more time in my 20s. In my 20s and early 30s, I was busy “getting out there”. Building my life, my interests, my foundation (not just my career). Now I have a happy life to stand on, and can devote more time, attention, and energy to my family.

I don’t deny that your way can work out as well. But OPs advice was “get children before you are 30, don’t wait until after”. Whereas my honest advice, based on my experience, is “wait until you are 35, you’ll be much more stable life in several regards”.

Which approach is best for you depends on a lot of things. For me, I can honestly say, there is no way I would be where I am if I had had kids in my 20s or even early 30s, and I also wouldn’t have been as good a father as I am right now based on how I’ve grown since then. Both things that my child directly benefits from.
by asoneth | 2025-06-25 21:57:08+00:00
Sure, it totally depends on specifics! Only Framework knows how many mainboards they sell per year and can make an educated guess at how many of them end up running Linux.

Also, note that Framework already employs at least one person[1] working full time on Linux compatibility and support, so at least some of the low-hanging fruit may have already been picked. I'm sure they could spend an additional $300k, $3M, $30M, or more on improving Linux efficiency. I can't estimate what the benefit would be at each of those levels, nor do I know what the price impact would be, nor the sales impact. I don't know what they currently spend on Linux support except that it's at least one FTE.

We don't have enough information to answer or even meaningfully estimate most of these questions. I'm not saying they're making good decisions or bad decisions with respect to Linux support, I'm just saying neither of us have enough information to know.

[1] https://matthartley.com who was previously at System 76
by haswell | 2025-06-25 21:58:49+00:00
> Those with dedicated gaming rigs will be more than fine with Linux, but those of us on underpowered hardware still seem better off with Windows, unfortunately.

That’s interesting and good to know. I’m running an 10th gen i9 with an RTX 3090, so I have plenty of headroom performance wise. I’ve been wondering about Linux gaming on lower end hardware for my younger brother’s sake, and hadn’t assumed it would be worse.

One thing to note: I’ve had all kinds of issues with power management impacting performance. If I let the computer sleep/standby, I’ll get 50% slower framerate until I reboot.

Given the fact that you’re on a laptop, I wonder if power management has contributed to the slowness.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-25 21:59:05+00:00
You can renew your HTTPS certificate for 90 days the day before your domain expires. Your CA can't see if the credit card attached to your auto renewal has hit its limit or not.

I don't think the people using IP certificates will be the same people that abandon their IP address after a week. The most useful thing I can think of is either some very weird legacy software, or Encrypted Client Hello/Encrypted SNI support without needing a shared IP like with Cloudflare. The former won't drop IPs on a whim, the latter wouldn't succeed in setting up a connection to the real domain.
by zingababba | 2025-06-25 21:59:55+00:00
It's not really MCP that is 'this', MCP is just the glue that makes the NLP as frontend easy to conceptualize in terms of application. Everyone is getting excited because it's now relatively obvious how you can go from talking to LLM -> large orchestration happening, even though you could do this already with langchain or whatever.

MCP is basically just a protocol you can bring into the context window, do your LLM coding magic, then start up your MCP server and test your tool chain for your NLP as frontend stuff. The only difference is now it's not deterministic so stuff will get randomly fucked up.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-25 22:00:43+00:00
Beautiful. Tear to my eye!

I think this is a rare mix of deep humanity and intellectual thinking in one essay.

Lol then... I saw who wrote it!

Good advice for all HN. Often you see a comment and bio shows an amazing career. However they couldnt be amazing without rest of us being average (average of something...). Can't have a max without a median.
by thewebguyd | 2025-06-25 22:00:44+00:00
And the hardest part of it often ends up being "We can replace most of Microsoft's apps and services except one (and it's usually Excel) so we might as well just keep everything else."

Microsoft is king at "Good enough." It's rarely the best option of anything, but what they do put out is bundled aggressively and is generally "good enough."

So, you have a business where a large portion of the user base needs Excel. So you have licensing for that. Sure you can still use other services - you can use Okta instead of EntraID, some other MDM besides InTune, some other EDR besides Defender but once you have 1 product, why would you, when it's significantly cheaper (both in terms of actual cost per user per month and in terms of employing talent that can administer a MS ecosystem) to just go all in with Microsoft.

Because of the way Microsoft designed their suite of software and services, the only realistic choice is either all in on Microsoft, or no Microsoft at all, and to fix that we need antitrust action.
by kibwen | 2025-06-25 22:01:09+00:00
> Ariadne Conill, a long-time open-source contributor, observed that corporations using open source had responded with ""regulatory capture of the commons"" instead of contributing to the software they depend on.

I'm only half-joking when I say that one of the premier selling points of GPL over MIT in this day and age is that it explicitly deters these freeloading multibillion-dollar companies from depending on your software and making demands of your time.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-25 22:01:34+00:00
I want to run FreeBSD on my laptop, but they don't have a [complete] driver for my wifi card. I've thought about diving into AI coding-assistant agents just to see if I could use one to finish throwing together a working driver... but figuring out the AI agents is frictiony enough that I'm leaving it be. (I'm not a VSCode user)
by tomhow | 2025-06-25 22:02:02+00:00
Users who use flagging inappropriately (i.e., for reasons other than guidelines breaches) have their flagging powers disabled. We do that often. Same goes for unfair downvoting.

If a comment of yours or any other you see is unfairly flagged, you can email us and we'll take a look. We'll explain how we see it and if we agree its unfair we'll restore it and consider action against those who flagged it.

We always discourage complaining about flagging or downvoting in comments as you can never know exactly what has been done by other users or why they did it, and it’s usually a generic tangent from the discussion.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-25 22:02:06+00:00
> any rare books were destroyed in this proces

Does it matter? It's waste at the end of the day. Instead they could have bought e-books. Just because we can recycle paper, it doesn't mean we have the luxury to create waste as we see fit, esp. when climate change became this severe.

> which the courts so far have ruled that it does.

Any concrete cases you can cite?

From [0], for example, while the course said that the authors failed to argue their case, the second observation is complete opposite of what you said. Citing the article directly:

Opinion suggests AI models do generally violate law.

In the same spirit, I think I can safely assume that they violated copyright law, since they earn money by circumventing it, and fair use doesn't like for-profit copying.

[0]: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/meta-beats-copyrigh...
by ChuckMcM | 2025-06-25 22:03:04+00:00
I was thinking exactly two stable states. Presumably you could have a sphere with the light end and heavy end having flats on them which might work as well. The tamper requirement I've worked with in the past needs strong guarantees about exactly two states[1] "not tampered" and "tampered". In any situation you'd need to ensure that the transition from one state to the other was always possible.

That was where my mind went when thinking about the article.

[1] The spec in question specifically did not allow for the situation of being in one state, and not being in that one state as the two states. Which had to do about traceability.
by jonplackett | 2025-06-25 22:03:11+00:00
The thing is though, it doesn’t need to have access to your personal info in the context, so it cant leak anything. And they are obviously used to people talking all sorts of jailbreak shit to their chatbot - so it isn’t really much worse than that.

Also I reckon the cost of running a text chatbot is basically peanuts now (that is, for a giant tech company with piles of hard cash to burn to keep the server farm warm)
by robocat | 2025-06-25 22:03:27+00:00
A beautiful vision.

If the vision were true, we should see it happen with normal goods too. Quality physical goods do not beat the shit goods in the market : crap furniture is the canonical example (with blog articles discussing the issue).

Software (and movies) is free for subsequent copies, so at first sight you might think software is completely different from physical goods.

However for most factory produced goods, designing and building the factory is the major cost. The marginal cost of producing each copy of an item might be reasonably low (highly dependent on raw materials and labor costs?).

Many expensive physical goods are dominated by the initial design costs, so an expensive Maserati might be complete shit (bought for image status or Veblen reasons, not because it is high quality). There's a reason why the best products are often midrange. The per unit 2..n reproduction cost of cheap physical goods is always low almost by definition.

Some parts of iPhone software are high quality (e.g. the security is astounding). Some parts are bad. Apple monetisation adds non-optional features that have negative value to me: however those features have positive value to Apple.
by 6510 | 2025-06-25 22:04:06+00:00
Nike use to have a thing where you could design your own shoes. Maybe we could use that and have the education factories manufacture the employees to fit the occupation.

What an utterly obvious solution, I'm surprised no one thought of it! It logically follows that the new employee should pay say 30-60 k and work for free for the first 1-2 years. Yes, that would be pretty reasonable. Cant contain the sarcasm sorry.
by low_tech_love | 2025-06-25 22:04:54+00:00
You might be half joking, but your hypothesis is interesting to show how many different reasons can exist for the same phenomenon. Lots of people here talking about lead, for whatever reason, but also decriminalisation of drugs, abortion, etc. Most are logical explanations, even if contradictory. Very nice to see how we need to be super aware of statistics; we can force the numbers to say anything we want.
by pamelafox | 2025-06-25 22:05:43+00:00
I had my children at 36 and 38, and I'm the mother, and energy-wise, I've had no issues. Yes, they considered me to be of "advanced maternal age" in the OB department and gave me special treatment due to it, but my doctors told me that the "advanced maternal age" threshold (35) was based off outdated research anyway. In the bay area, most of the mothers I've met were around that age, and my friends are having their kids at the same age.

It was really nice that I had time to establish my career and figure things out before having kids.
by rhet0rica | 2025-06-25 22:06:04+00:00
Unfortunately for your crusade, the soft-G pronunciation has essentially been typo-squatted since before typo-squatting was a thing.

https://file.org/extension/jif

https://fileinfo.com/extension/jiff

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4rirr8/til_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_files
by throwawayffffas | 2025-06-25 22:06:31+00:00
tldr: integer vs half integer spin.

Fun fact, matter can actually have integer spin as well.

For example Helium-4 has integer spin, -1/2 + -1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 for a total of zero. And that's why it can act like a superfluid.
by arp242 | 2025-06-25 22:06:40+00:00
A lot of these "security bugs" are not really "security bugs" in the first place. Denial of service is not resulting in people's bank accounts being emptied or nude selfies being spread all over the internet.

Things like "panics on certain content" like [1] or [2] are "security bugs" now. By that standard anything that fixes a potential panic is a "security bug". I've probably fixed hundreds if not thousands of "security bugs" in my career by that standard.

Barely qualifies as a "security bug" yet it's rated as "6.2 Moderate" and "7.5 HIGH". To say nothing of gazillion "high severity" "regular expression DoS" nonsense and whatnot.

And the worst part is all of this makes it so much harder to find actual high-severity issues. It's not harmless spam.

[1]: https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/advisories/G...

[2]: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0373.html
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-25 22:06:48+00:00
> You'll be surprised if I tell you several universities in India have not updated their curriculum in a very long time

I once asked an Indian colleague why Indians use US/UK-nonstandard English like "kindly", "do the needful", and "revert".

He thought about it a minute, then said "Oh, the texts everyone uses to learn English say that proper letters must always begin with 'Kindly,'".

Sokath, his eyes uncovered.
by cbsks | 2025-06-25 22:07:23+00:00
The keyword is "mono-monostatic", and the Gömböc is an example of a non-polyhedra one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c

Here's a 21 sided mono-monostatic polyhedra: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.13727v2
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-25 22:07:26+00:00
Continously, utterly wrong.

The disingenuous deception will never cease with you, I see.

I never asked you to prove Islam has violent elements. I challenged your affirmation that Islam mandates unrestricted violence against Jews. You showed one end-times hadith about a minority and declared victory.

Your logic: "I found one violent reference, therefore Islam is violent." By this reasoning: humanity commits violence, therefore you, nailer, are violent; because you're human (which is doubtful, since you're behaving more like a broken bot at this point). One red door doesn't make the entire car red.

You're still avoiding the actual questions: Why did Umar invite Jews back to Jerusalem? Why did he not slaughter them?

Why haven't 1.8 billion Muslims enacted this "unrestricted violence" you claim is a part of the religion?

Citation without interpretation isn't scholarship: it's Google, but in your case it's more like Altavista.
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-25 22:07:44+00:00
I don’t know, GPS is quite useful, Landsat is too, along with the various other Earth imaging satellites and systems like modis and sentinel-2. Sure is good having food. Weather forecasts are nice. It’s also quite convenient to be able to use space based data services. It’s also useful for power grids to know when they’re about to be whacked by a CME. I’m sure sailors on sinking ships appreciate being rescued.

But sure, we should solve all the problems on earth with one hand tied behind our backs until we can launch any more rockets.
by rkomorn | 2025-06-25 22:07:50+00:00
Isn't it simply that submission titles for old articles (usually) include the year in parentheses?

eg: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379606

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379688

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44382003
Show HN: Joyspace AI Clips – Automatically Create Short Clips from Long Videos
by joyspace | 2025-06-25 22:09:12+00:00
Hi HN,

Sagar here from Joyspace AI. We've built a video understanding model that works alongside transcripts to deeply comprehend people, objects, themes, personas, and the core message of a video.

Using this model as the foundation, we’ve launched Joyspace AI Clips. Joyspace AI Clips automatically creates short, shareable clips from longer videos like webinars, podcasts, talks, sales calls, Zoom recordings, etc. Our initial testing shows higher accuracy and capturing all key moments from long videos.

Right now, our model performs best when there’s a human presence in at least part of the video. It doesn't need to be every frame, but having a person in the video boosts accuracy significantly. We will update our model for other categories such as gaming videos or faceless videos. To be clear, they still work today but accuracy may not be higher.

Joyspace AI Clips works quite well with presentation-style content. From what we’ve seen, horizontal videos tend to perform better on social when there's a presentation involved, while vertical videos work better for people-first, face-to-camera formats.

All the AI features are currently free while we figure out pricing. We want to keep video transformation as accessible and affordable as possible.

We’d love for you to try it out and share any feedback – technical, product, or even just impressions. It would really help us improve.

Try it here: https://app.joyspace.ai Website: https://www.joyspace.ai

Please try it out and give us feedback. You can submit feedback and feature requests at https://www.joyspace.ai/feedback

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-25 22:09:38+00:00
I empathize with some of the frustrations, but I'm puzzled by the attempts to paint the library as low-quality and not suitable for production use:

> The viewpoint expressed by Wellnhofer's is understandable, though one might argue about the assertion that libxml2 was not of sufficient quality for mainstream use. It was certainly promoted on the project web site as a capable and portable toolkit for the purpose of parsing XML. Open-source proponents spent much of the late 1990s and early 2000s trying to entice companies to trust the quality of projects like libxml2, so it is hard to blame those companies now for believing it was suitable for mainstream use at the time.

I think it's very obvious that the maintainer is sick of this project on every level, but the efforts to trash talk its quality and the contributions of all previous developers doesn't sit right with me.

This is yet another case where I fully endorse a maintainer's right to reject requests and even step away from their project, but in my opinion it would have been better to just make an announcement about stepping away than to go down the path of trash talking the project on the way out.
by William_BB | 2025-06-25 22:10:05+00:00
It depends on what "working on those problems" means to you. If you want to work on those problems as a software engineer, that sounds like an achievable goal.

To me, the interesting, fulfilling bits of building the next Google/ChatGPT/AI/climate change lie in the theory. Arguably with the exception of Kubernetes, this theory does not come from software engineering. As much as I enjoy software engineering, it's a trade. It's a tool to get the job done. And recently, I realized I like building things just as much as I like "the theory".

To me, that was a bitter pill to swallow. I'm not an ML engineer, but I suspect this is also the reason why you can find so many posts about ML engineers trying to pivot to ML scientist roles.
by okanat | 2025-06-25 22:10:15+00:00
It really depends on the size of the business. With smaller businesses it is easy to use alternatives. However any business beyond 1000 employees will give in to shareholder pressure and adopt distrust as its core value.

Microsoft Active Directory has excellent tooling for middle-management-heavy businesses. For better or for worse it provides the most integrated solution to reduce a desktop PC to a perfect thing for repetitive, boring, soul crushing office work. No other software solution comes close.

While I like Windows as a desktop platform, the reasons that it was designed as it is are very clear. To make cheapest laptops as dystopian as possible, you need systems that can run the same boring software for decades. Not for the good for the environment but for profits.

Windows provides all APIs to deeply integrate with Active Directory and MS Office. All engineering, accounting and finance software are deeply integrated with them. They literally run entire countries. I have seen engineering software that used Visio diagrams for designing factory pipelines. It is near impossible to pull the bigger businesses and governments out of this trap without completely upending entire sectors worth trillions. I think only very determined regimes like China can pull it off.
Show HN: An AI agent that debugs your LLM app and submits pull requests
by yuto_1192 | 2025-06-25 22:10:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Kaizen Agent, an open-source CLI tool that acts like an AI QA engineer for your LLM applications and agents.

It helps catch broken behavior, apply fixes automatically, and open a pull request — all in one workflow.

What it does: - Runs test inputs with expected outputs

- If a test fails, it analyzes the failure

- Applies prompt/code fixes

- Re-runs tests until they pass

- Submits a GitHub PR with the fix

Why I built it: I got tired of manually debugging and iterating while developing multi-step LLM agents. Writing test cases, checking outputs, tweaking prompts, rerunning — it was all too repetitive. This tool automates that loop.

Try it: GitHub: https://github.com/Kaizen-agent/kaizen-agent

Would love feedback — especially from anyone building agents, LLM tools, or testing frameworks. Curious how others are thinking about evaluation, brittleness, and automation in this space.
by dark-star | 2025-06-25 22:10:52+00:00
no but you can do something closely related:

- get a domain name (foo.com) and get certificates for *.foo.com

- run a DNS resolver that maps a.b.c.d.foo.com (or a-b-c-d.foo.com) to the corresponding private IP a.b.c.d

- install the foo.com certificate on that private IP's device

then you can connect to devices in your local network via IP by using https ://192-18-1-1.foo.com

Since you need to install the certificate in step 3 above, this works better with long-lived certificates, of course, but aotomation helps there
by zuminator | 2025-06-25 22:11:03+00:00
That article doesn't prove what you say that it does. It just proves because a perpetuum mobile is impossible, it is trivial that a polyhedron must always eventually come to rest on one face. It doesn't assert that the face-down face is always the same face (unistable/monostable). It goes on to query whether or not a uniformly dense object can be constructed so as to be unistable, although if I understand correctly Guy himself had already constructed a 19-faced one in 1968 and knew the answer to be true.
by Melatonic | 2025-06-25 22:13:09+00:00
Windows 11 is also bloated as hell by default. Curuios how they compare to a very optimized and debloated windows 11?

Anybody know if Steam and games in general refuse to install in Windows LTSC? Its basically the stripped down ultimate lean version of windows. Boots insanely fast - no tracking bullshit - no windows store or candy crush. Battery life hugely improved. No big updates - security only - and for a longer supported time.

I know Adobe has forced their installers now to refuse to outright install on LTSC (for no real reason) which is annoying as hell. First they stopped it installing on Windows Server.....

Hopefully we do not see the same thing with graphics drivers and Steam and games because right now its the ultimate gaming OS (especially if you are running it as a second OS while daily driving Linux or MacOS)