MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by margalabargala | 2025-06-12 19:48:26+00:00
> If anything, what is happening in the US is exactly the opposite: Trump, who won the popular vote, therefore a representative of the oppressed majority, is waging a war against their oppression (as masses seems it) by the authoritarian deep state.

Countries have laws that govern how they are nominally meant to operate.

When the ruler of a country breaks the laws that are supposed to constrain his behavior, and faces no consequences, what do you call that?
by roywiggins | 2025-06-12 19:48:37+00:00
A million Americans did die of it, the lost QALYs was... a lot. A lot of people died who had more than a decade, actuarially. That's a big deal.

But it doesn't matter for what I'm saying: paying too much attention to the news about a weird new virus from China would have clued a person in that something big might be coming, on whatever dimension you care to measure it.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-12 19:48:52+00:00
Google’s the one I have the most trouble with in this regard. The more things you sign into the worse it gets, seemingly, which really sucks if for example you’ve got a bunch of Android test devices and simulators sharing test accounts. A high profile example is how on the WAN Show, Linus or Luke always get booted out of the show Google Doc and have to sign back in at some point during.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-12 19:48:55+00:00
true, you want microsecond decisions at the core, no doubt ; but that’s only half the game. an ideal action in clean memory isn’t the same once it hits fragmented liquidity, stale quotes, partial fills. if the algo doesn’t account for execution drift or book pressure post-placement, the microsecond edge fades fast. so yeah, fast compute’s necessary but not sufficient without modelling the messy tail end too
by sandworm101 | 2025-06-12 19:49:25+00:00
The key wording is the change from innovate to defend. Across the board, government policy is now about returning to a previous, largely imagined, state of affairs. If NASA proposed an Apollo 2.0, half the country and all of government would rally behind recreating the old program so long as it used the old blueprints. The longstanding fear of progress common amongst the old/rich is now manifest. NASA must therefore adapt. Words like "innovation" and "humanity" need to be replaced with "defend the status quo" and "repeat our past successes".
by adamcharnock | 2025-06-12 19:49:27+00:00
This is actually one of the reasons I founded our company [1]. I had talked to a lot of companies about doing exactly this and the feedback was, "yeah, but we don't want to hire for that". So the idea was to provide bare-metal servers with DevOps included, and thankfully it is going rather well!

The thing that really gets me is that one of the reasons it is hard to hire non-cloud engineers is the pressure applied by the cloud companies. Either because they hire those engineers, or because they do their upmost to ensure everyone reaches for AWS Lambda instead of systemd (which, in many cases, would do the job just fine).

Anyway, I could bellyache about this for hours (and, of course, the cloud does have its place), suffice to say I agree.

[1]: https://lithus.eu
by filoleg | 2025-06-12 19:49:54+00:00
> I cannot believe that new hires would be upset by the choice of version control software.

I can, if the version control software is just not up to standards.

I absolutely didn’t mind using mercurial/hg, even though I literally haven’t touched it until that point and knew nothing about it, because it is actually pretty good. I like it more than git now.

Git is a decent option that most people would be familiar with, cannot be upset about it either.

On another hand, Source Depot sucked badly, it felt like I had to fight against it the entire time. I wasn’t upset because it was unfamiliar to me. In fact, the more familiar I got with it, the more I disliked it.
by troyvit | 2025-06-12 19:50:02+00:00
Yeah I totally fail to grasp the concept of national-level Physical Access Control. In the richest country in the world, with a population approaching 400,000,000 people and 7,458 of land borders (not even counting our sea borders), the phrase sounds quixotic without a lot of bounds set on it. We consume over a third of the world's resources with just 5% of the world's population. Simple laws of diffusion operate against any kind of long-term enforced border control.

What makes the violent crimes high profile? I don't see anything done by illegal immigrants that isn't done at a higher rate by citizens, be it rape, murder, gang activity, you name it. It's a well documented fact (you can look it up yourself) that illegal immigrants in the U.S. have a lower crime rate than legal immigrants or citizens.

As far as tying cybersecurity to this, sure. The only safe network is one that its unplugged from the rest of the world. Problem is it's also a pretty useless network.

What is a low hanging fruit policy wise is clearly not so low-hanging from an execution perspective.

I oppose anybody preying on our citizens, not just foreigners. While there might be a political need to control immigration it ignores basic human nature, which has been around far longer than any political system.
Show HN: StrideDoc – SaaS for Instantly Capturing Interactive Software Demos
by mihha | 2025-06-12 19:50:14+00:00
We built StrideDoc, a SaaS application, that lets you capture each step of a software workflow as you go and instantly generate an interactive demo guide.

No more manual screenshots or writing out steps—just click through your process, annotate as needed, and share the result.

We’d appreciate feedback from anyone who’s struggled with demo creation or documentation.
Ask HN: What is your ultimate AI-assisted coding setup?
by nico | 2025-06-12 19:50:35+00:00
What is the best setup for AI-assisted coding, including: IDE (Cursor, VSCode, Windsurf, Zed, etc). AI assistant (LLM) like Claude, Gemini 2.5 Pro, OpenAI, DeepSeek. MCP, rulesets, extensions, tools, workflow, and anything else?

And what kind of project are you building/maintaining with it (framework, language, deployment infra, aprox # of users)?

It seems like there are a lot of options out there, and a lot look very similar, maybe just different styles
by rcxdude | 2025-06-12 19:51:03+00:00
This tends to more to do with food supply security and costs of distribution than anything else (as well as political opposition to socialising food supply).

i.e. if we want to avoid food shortages, we need to overproduce the raw goods and therefore waste some. Transporting and transforming those raw goods into food that someone can eat still costs money, it's not just so farmers can get paid. We probably should still actually make sure no-one goes hungry, but that does actually involve some cost and effort on the part of the government, and the challenge there is mainly political elements who don't like the idea of someone getting something for free.
by jfengel | 2025-06-12 19:51:04+00:00
That's true, but it's also a reasonable response. The proper time for action was back in November. For a variety of reasons, we failed.

Your outrage will not affect the people who voted for this administration. They are glad about this choice and they are glad about your outrage.

Your outrage will not affect those who voted against this administration. They can't vote harder than they did last time. They still only get one vote each.

Conceivably your outrage might get affect people who didn't vote at all last time, but that seems unlikely. They were told very clearly what the consequences would be. Why would they care more today, when this is a fait accompli, than they did six months ago when it was obvious that this would happen? I don't know their reasons for deciding not to vote, but I don't think anything has happened that would alter their reasons.

Your outrage won't affect any of the politicians. They know how you feel about it. They're doing what they can, for or against you. Your support only matters when you voted.

Going numb doesn't help, but I don't see how it hurts, either. If it's what you want to do, you might as well.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-06-12 19:51:42+00:00
This depends on your "world model", that is, what situations do you anticipate the people using your web site / application are in?

The assumption that basically, device = same person (browser session really) over a long period of time is the right one, 99% of the time.

Sometimes it's appropriate to make much more conservative assumptions. People might be in bad family situations (where not everyone with access to a shared device might be entirely trustworthy) or using a shared computer because they access things from a library, etc.

You can't help much (the computer might as well be compromised) but short session timeouts can make sense.
by bumby | 2025-06-12 19:51:51+00:00
I think the OP was alluding to unreliability in the CEOs mental state, but I’ll add another aspect: they are sometimes skirting well-established norms. An example is not performing material quality checks on critical parts. This is standard practice in the domain, yet they choose not to and it resulted in a loss of a rocket and its payload. They later added those quality checks to their process. SpaceX is good, but there’s no need for repeating well worn industry mistakes just because you fancy yourself as “different”
by standardUser | 2025-06-12 19:52:25+00:00
The US has (had) saved itself from the crippling demographic curve that looms over the rest of the Western world thanks to being a nation of immigrants. It also became the research capitol of the world, among countless other benefits gained from welcoming the types of people willing to take risks and go to a foreign land to build a better life. And unlike in Europe, immigrants to the US are overwhelming from similar cultural and religious traditions.

It's only the MAGA few who buy into this whole anti-immigrant rhetoric. Even the Republican party still loves immigrants - as any business-oriented party would! - even if they're forced to pretend otherwise due to temporary political concerns.
by rtkwe | 2025-06-12 19:52:43+00:00
In theory if you run it using negative priced energy you could maybe run with older less efficient hardware that's not viable for current mining that would be much cheaper, if you can source it. I'm thinking older ASICs for BTC for example where the best in class kHash/W has moved on and the price doesn't support running the older devices but the negative price would offset that by giving a reliable return on time to offset the extra energy burned.

It'd take a far amount of math to figure out if that tips it over though I don't feel like tackling haha.
by bbatha | 2025-06-12 19:52:46+00:00
> I wonder if how much value there is in skipping LLVM in favor of having a JIT optimized linked in instead. For release builds it would get you a reasonable proxy if it optimized decently while still retaining better debugability.

Rust is in the process of building out the cranelift backend. Cranelift was originally built to be a JIT compiler. The hope is that this can become the debug build compiler.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift
by rcxdude | 2025-06-12 19:54:34+00:00
This is the kind of thing that is funding the massive expansion in renewable energy build-out at the moment. The whole reason there's an energy transition happening is that solar and wind and batteries are cheap enough you can make a lot of money building them, and that'll remain true until basically the whole grid is renewable (finally kicking out the expensive gas turbines), and the average price drops to reach cost of supply.

(And the kind of optimisation that happens with this kind of paper is really in the margins stuff. It generally helps the predictive power of the grid, and usually doesn't make much money once more than one group starts doing it, since it's pretty cheap to run and the margins shrink quickly)
by knowitnone | 2025-06-12 19:55:31+00:00
that a very vague vision; a bunch of words with no actual goals.

It used to be "land on the moon" - they've done that. A space telescope - they've done that many times. What is their goal now because I don't know and most Americans don't know but NASA certainly want us to pay millions for their toys. Set a goal, ask for funding. At this point, NASA shouldn't even be ran but the government. Run a patreon and have citizens pony up the money. Those who support NASA can fund NASA.
by jeremyjh | 2025-06-12 19:56:33+00:00
There is very little incentive to actually do information security correctly - because hardly anyone can tell if you have - consequently there are very few people who try. It is all just theater to cover their asses, and they'll admit it under the right circumstances.

They don't want to change idiotic policies like this because it means they'd have to admit they've been dogmatically enforcing counter-productive policies for decades.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-12 19:57:30+00:00
Only if you make a bunch of assumptions that may not apply. My employer allows BYO and has a default Outlook Web session timeout.

Is it ok that my son stopped at my desk at home and saw customer PII that was left open?

I enforce these kinds of policies at my company even though I find them personally stupid. I do so because I’m the custodian of my customers property and have a duty to minimize risk of employees or contractors acting poorly.
by Kon-Peki | 2025-06-12 19:57:41+00:00
The Caterpillar model might work better for the Navy. Not a huge number of ships, used year-round.

I’m not condoning Deere, BTW. Just pointing out that there are tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands?) of farms that get very busy twice a year and much less busy the rest of the time. Having the capacity to make sure a farmer gets service quickly during those busy times is really hard. And expensive. If anyone had a better idea on how to do it they’d be a billionaire. I mean, there probably aren’t enough helicopters available for Deere to do what Caterpillar does.
by pfdietz | 2025-06-12 19:57:58+00:00
Even using F9/FH would have been much cheaper than SLS. And F9/FH are proven, working technology.

The craven avoidance of in-space refueling begs the question of what kind of future is NASA imagining for humanity in space, if something as simple as transferring a fluid from one tank to another is too difficult.
by fragmede | 2025-06-12 19:58:17+00:00
This framing is off. Weather data isn’t a fucking mars habitat, it’s core infrastructure. Airplane travel, agriculture, emergency response, and private weather services all depend on it. If anything, handing it off to profit-driven firms creates more risk with things like black-box pricing, gaps in data coverage, or national security issues.

And, “dubious returns” ignores that some of the highest-leverage investments in history looked like this. Government-funded satellite weather programs, GPS, and early internet tech weren’t obviously profitable, but I'm so glad we wasted tax dollars on that.
by trentnix | 2025-06-12 19:58:19+00:00
For the younger crowd: fancy head units (that's what we called the essential aftermarket CD player/receiver in the dash of your vehicle) would show you CD Text with artist, album, and track name. It would melt the brains of your friends when the name of the song that was playing would scroll by on an old-school, single- or multi-line LCD display. It was a massive flex in its day.

Good times...
by spacechild1 | 2025-06-12 19:58:40+00:00
> The problem with this approach is that you might lose important context which is present in the documentation but doesn’t surface through the LLM.

Oh, I'm definitely aware of that! I mostly do this with things I have already done, but can't remember all the details. If the LLM shows me something new, I check the official documentation. I'm not into vibe coding :) I still want to understand every line of code I write.
by dnissley | 2025-06-12 19:59:44+00:00
NE seems relatively affordable?

Expecting starter homes to be a category of real estate that is newly built seems naive. Starter homes are some combination of older, smaller, bad location which makes them more affordable. Why wouldn't real estate developers satisfy the demand at the high end before moving down market? Seems like the easiest way to turn a profit to me. Rational actors etc
by marklubi | 2025-06-12 20:00:14+00:00
Culture is a fourth one.

Currently working towards the end of a contract/earn-out at a company where people just toss stuff they don't want to deal with over the fence for others to handle with usually zero communication about why/what/how. Just suddenly get a new project with no context. Also, three different bosses in two years because they keep leaving.

Second worst company I've ever worked for.

The worst one involved multiple c-suite executives that would throw objects at employees when they didn't get the answer they wanted. Thankfully I wasn't under contract there and got out ASAP.
by brudgers | 2025-06-12 20:00:23+00:00
My guess is that “fastest gun in the west” might be a bit anti-pattern with respect to community.

Because in ye olden times, mild URL shenanigans seemed to have been a common hack to bypass more strict dupe detection.

And the community probably doesn’t really benefit from aggressive karma seeking —back then being first would give you a point for every resubmission. [1]

But that’s all speculation based on a supposition that what is more likely to be submitted by other users is not a better criterion for choosing to submit.

But I could very well be wrong and probably am.

[1] and number of submissions is probably at best a noisy signal for front page placement and might be negatively correlated with curiosity…I mean even here, what Apple is doing doesn’t stray too far from yesterday’s big press release by one of the most valuable corporations in the world.
by watusername | 2025-06-12 20:01:25+00:00
It used to be kind of distributed, but Google has been strong arming carriers to use their hosted Jibe service through a combination of proprietary extensions (e.g., E2E which is finally standard) and bypassing carrier control (if the carrier didn't provision RCS, Google Messages would use their own service iMessage-style).

From the end user's perspective, if the carrier didn't use Jibe RCS, it simply wouldn't work well.
by tetha | 2025-06-12 20:01:43+00:00
I was somewhat pondering along these lines.

At work, we have somewhat of a two-staged auth: Once or at most twice a day, you login via the ADFS + MFA to keycloak, and then most systems depend on keycloak as an OIDC provider with 10 - 15 minute token lifetimes. This way you have some login song and dance once a day usually, but on the other hand, we can wipe all access someone has within 15 minutes or less for services needing the VPN. And users don't notice much of this during normal operation.
by stared | 2025-06-12 20:01:46+00:00
Thank you for sharing!

I am curious for two things:

- How you stay motivated to create this task list each time. Or for another question - is it a new cool recipe, or have you been sticking to it for more that 3 months?

- What to do so not to go into the rabbit hole of creating and splitting tasks? For me, it is easy to overdo this step, both in breadth (too many things to accomplish) and in detail (too many steps; if you think about it, making and easting a sandwich is a dozen steps or so).
by terom | 2025-06-12 20:02:45+00:00
From the Cloudflare incident:

> Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency. As a result, certain Cloudflare products that rely on KV service to store and disseminate information are unavailable [...]

Surprising, but not entirely unplausible for a GCP outage to spread to CF.
by Whoppertime | 2025-06-12 20:03:10+00:00
That's the thing. COVID was a crisis an emergency, and that justified emergency powers. Donald Trump is declaring the current situation an emergency and is making use of emergency powers. You cannot assume "your side" is going to maintain political power forever, and build institutions with that in mind. Build a political system then hand it to your political opponents to run for 4 years. I think people who cheered on the use of emergency powers over the last 4 years are going to have it boomerang back on them, as I predict the next Democratic president will use the precedent set by Trump in a way that will boomerang back on Trump supporters who were cheering him on
by redczar | 2025-06-12 20:03:29+00:00
By similizing the American electoral system to those in authoritarian countries, you trivialize the suffering of people oppressed and often physically exterminated by authoritarian regimes around the world. Millions? Seriously?

There’s a spectrum of authoritarianism. Not all instantiations involve mass murder or other forms of mass suffering.

Your argument boils down to: others have it worse therefore you have no right to complain.

Consider that if we don’t stand up now and complain now that the foundation will be set for the infliction of mass suffering. Your reasoning is quite bad.
by titaniumrain | 2025-06-12 20:03:44+00:00
This post is hilarious. People like this author are the ones vetting start-ups? Please. The idea that alignment leads to a degradation in model utility is hardly news.

But let’s be clear: fine-tuning an LLM to specialize in a task isn’t just about minimizing utility loss. It’s about trade-offs. You have to weigh what you gain against what you lose.
by const_cast | 2025-06-12 20:04:02+00:00
I disagree, I think the device at a conceptual level is bad.

The thing is that VR headsets don't offer very much new in exchange for what they lose, which is a lot. When smartphones came around there were a few tradeoffs. You couldn't type as fast and applications had to be severely dumbed down to work on a such a small device. But the upside is you could carry a mostly capable computer with you everywhere you go.

VR headsets, like the smartphone, have a really bad human communication problem. Using voice command or little pinching isn't a very good method to communicate with computers. It's cumbersome, takes 10x as much time as typing and clicking, and makes 10x as many errors. But on top of this, VR doesn't offer a new way to engage with applications. At least, not in a way that matters.

Sure, we can now watch a movie on the vision pro instead of a monitor or TV. But does that matter? Is the experience better? Same thing with facetime. How is this an improvement over using your phone or computer?

When I think back to the whole Metaverse idea, I can't help but feel it's all novelty and no substance. Yes, we can have a meeting in VR in a fake conference room. Now what? Why isn't this over Zoom? Because Zoom does the same thing, but better. I can share my screen, I can see real faces (not avatars), and I don't really care about seeing people's fake bodies. So what am I actually gaining here? It's a strictly worse experience.

Or Walmart's VR shopping experience thing. Why would I push around a fake cart and look at fake shelves? I can already go online and scroll, see products, and put them in my cart. That's faster, that's easier, I get a much better look at the product. I can see reviews, I can read the nutrition label, and I can hop back over to Google to cross-reference. So what does the VR add? Nothing. It only takes away, and that's all it can ever do.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-06-12 20:04:04+00:00
> One more thing: I've been on the hiring side a few times and I have observed that candidates with very long gigs (5+ years in the same job) are often seen negatively (Why did they stay in the same job for 6 years? Do they lack ambition? Don't they like a new challenge? Etc.)

Even so, there's some companies with notorious reputations for culling staff (often only loosely correlating with performance). I'd be wary of hiring someone with long tenure from one of those places, to survive, you have to be a certain type of ruthless.