MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-19 17:49:32+00:00
>yes I do believe this administration is completely and sincerely focused on Israel and the interests of Israel

100%, and I completely agree with you. This administration seems positively subservient to Israel.

But they don't care an iota about antisemitism. Many in Trump's circle are infamous antisemites. It has long been an observation that Trump is pro-Israel yet paradoxically simultaneously an antisemite. Trump himself seems to view Jewishness as being loyal only to Israel -- he has quite literally stated this -- and that those that aren't loyal to Israel are not actually Jews. Trump has frequently repeated stereotypes and caricatures about Jews.

I don't for a moment think Trump cares an iota about antisemitism, even though I think he's a strong ally of Israel. Which is fair because it's possible to be critical of Israel without being an antisemite. The simple conflation of the two -- as this administration does -- is itself antisemitism. I conflates Jews worldwide as mere vassals of Israel.
I'm 17, Building in Public Instead of Waiting – Lessons from Failing Fast
by sahil423 | 2025-06-19 17:49:35+00:00
Hey HN — I’m Sahil, 17, based in India. I’m not waiting for a degree to start building. Instead, I’ve been spending the past year launching small projects, failing fast, and learning faster.

Some things I’ve built:

Startanator: A collection of startup ideas, niche site inspiration, and public resources to help anyone ship faster and smarter. Think of it as a launchpad for solo builders.

Gamod: An AI research lab project focused on game development. I'm experimenting with how generative AI can write game scripts and evolve characters in real time. Still super early.

[TxtNest]: A privacy-focused offline-first notepad that stores everything in localStorage — no accounts, no cloud.

A few failures: Supvote (a community-built email list product), .

Here are a few raw lessons I’ve picked up:

Projects > promises. Most people talk. Just shipping a rough build puts you ahead.

Distribution is underrated. Great builds mean nothing if nobody sees them.

Being young is an edge if you lean into it. People notice when you take initiative early.

Build for yourself, but in public. That’s how others find value too.

No playbook. No blueprint. Just me, a laptop, and an unreasonable amount of curiosity.

If you’re building solo, still in school, or figuring things out — happy to chat or answer anything. I’m here to learn, not pitch.
by jitl | 2025-06-19 17:49:45+00:00
I think Pulumi is in a similar spot, you get a real programming language (of your choice) and it gets to use the existing provider ecosystem. You can use the programming language composition facilities to work around the plan system if necessary, although their plans allow more dynamic stuff than Terraform.

The setup with Terranix sounds cool! I am pretty interested in build system type things myself, I recently wrote a plan/apply system too that I use to manage SQL migrations.

I want learn nix, but I think that like Rust, it's just a bit too wide/deep for me to approach on my own time without a tutor/co-worker or forcing function like a work project to push me through the initial barrier.
by JdeBP | 2025-06-19 17:50:00+00:00
As someone with a WWW site hit by Brexit where half the country voted to stop me having my domain name (and some other things) I read this with interest to consider how badly it would be caught out on the sort of false positive where a WWW site owner has to change ASes, change HTTP servers, set up redirects and meta information for the time left before eu. becomes unavailable, and even change DNS servers let alone a number of resource records. A lot of those seem to be things that will add up in this model. As would the fact that my prior domain name is today parked. In Canada!

Not the first sudden and unwelcome discontinuity, either.

Google came close to thinking that I was dead, and turned out when I recently checked to be still looking for me under eu., years after the fact.

And with a broader view, this sort of stuff happens to the world, and there are enough people in the same boat that it is worth thinking of false positives when major upheavals occur. They can range from ISPs just up and deciding to close up shop with zero notice (which also happened to me) to international geopolitical upheavals. Who knows! If Brexit happened, it is conceivable that one day, the island of Niue might eventually prevail and then decide overnight that non-Niue citizens may not own a nu. domain. (-:

I wonder how many times Marginalia would have declared me dead, by now. (-:
by gchamonlive | 2025-06-19 17:50:34+00:00
> versioning is a bit confusing analogy because it usually additionally implies some kind of improvement

Exactly what I felt. Semver like naming analogies bring their own set of implicit meanings, like major versions having to necessarily supersede or replace the previous version, that is, it doesn't account for coexistence further than planning migration paths. This expectation however doesn't correspond with the rest of the talk, so I thought I might point it out. Thanks for taking the time to reply!
Show HN: Everyone's Building AI Startups – But Most Are Missing This One Thing
by sahil423 | 2025-06-19 17:51:19+00:00
I’m 17 and spending most of my time exploring the AI space — building, failing, watching, and learning. Every day, I see dozens of AI tools being launched: wrappers, chatbots, slide generators, email assistants. It's clear we’re in the middle of a gold rush.

But here's the problem: Most AI startups today are solving convenience, not necessity.

We’ve over-optimized for speed, but under-delivered on value. Yes, AI can make your slides faster or write a cold email in seconds — but that’s not game-changing. That’s just incremental.

Where I see real opportunity:

AI + distribution: Helping niche creators, educators, and solo businesses get discovered or monetize without paid ads.

AI as a teammate, not just a tool: Imagine AI that thinks with you, not just for you — code companions, research agents, strategic decision-makers.

Local-first or low-bandwidth AI: Not everyone has high-end GPUs. AI that runs in poor conditions will reach the next billion.

And most importantly: AI + taste. You can replicate workflows, but taste — good UX, emotional nuance, insight — is still very human. The AI tools that win will feel like they understand you, not just process inputs.

I’m currently building and experimenting in this space — from AI-powered game dev (Gamod) to helping people ship faster (Startanator), all while trying to figure out what real pain looks like in this hype cycle.

Would love to connect with other indie hackers, builders, or even skeptics. Let’s talk use cases, not just models.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-06-19 17:51:20+00:00
Twenty years or so ago, Eliezer Yudkowsky, a former proto-accelerationalist, realized that superintelligence was probably coming, was deeply unsafe, and that we should do something about that. Because he had a very hard time convincing people of this to him obvious fact, he first wrote a very good blog about human reason, philosophy and AI, in order to fix whatever was going wrong in people's heads that caused them to not understand that superintelligence was coming and so on. The group of people who read, commented on and contributed to this blog are called the rationalists.

(You're hearing about them now because these days it looks a lot more plausible than in 2007 that Eliezer was right about superintelligence, so the group of people who've beat the drum about this for over a decade now form the natural nexus around which the current iteration of project "we should do something about unsafe superintelligence" is congealing.)
by creer | 2025-06-19 17:52:13+00:00
To be fair, there is now a thorough understanding and computing capability for doing statistical failure analysis. They are not doing this at random. And SpaceX is NOT testing everything in actual flight. See engine testing, pressure testing, static fires, massive instrumentation (tests including flights with gathering data as the primary objective) - all as evidence of that. And they have commented on the wide availability of hardware - currently arriving faster than the capability to try and launch it. So, no, not similar.
by noname120 | 2025-06-19 17:52:28+00:00
> They remind me of the "Effective Altruism" crowd who get completely wound up in these hypothetical logical thought exercises and end up coming to insane conclusions that they feel trapped in because they got there using pure logic. Not realizing that their initial conditions were highly artificial so any conclusion they reach is only of academic value.

Do you have examples of that? I have a different perception, most of the EAs I've met are very grounded and sharp.

For example the most recent issue of their newsletter: https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?e=7023019c13&u=52b028e7f79...

I'm not sure where there are any “hypothetical logical thought exercises” that “end up coming to insane conclusions” in there.

For the first part where you say “not realizing that their initial conditions were highly artificial so any conclusion they reach is only of academic value” this is quite the opposite of my experience with them. They are very receptive to criticism and reconsider their point of view in reaction to that.

They are generally well-aware of the limits of data-driven initiatives and the dangers of indulging into purely abstract thinking that can lead to conclusions that indeed don't make sense.
by TheCoreh | 2025-06-19 17:52:57+00:00
These remind me of the Elliptic Curve pieces from another post on the HN front page right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44315321) I wonder if the poster was inspired by that one to also post these here?

Anyway, these are pretty cool/unique looking! I hadn't seen curved origami like this before.
by johnfn | 2025-06-19 17:53:01+00:00
If a park ranger said "I looked over the first 2% of the park and concluded there's no mountain lions" - that is, made an assessment on the whole from inspection of a narrow segment - I don't think I would take his word on the matter. If OP had more experience to support his statement, he should have included it, rather than writing a shallow, one-sentence dismissal.
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-19 17:53:05+00:00
> Am I all of a sudden the one lacking imagination?

No, The reality of what these tools can do is sinking in.. The rubber is meeting the road and I can hear some screaching.

The boosters are in 5 stages of grief coming to terms with what was once AGI and is now a mere co-pilot, while the haters are coming to terms with the fact that LLMs can actually be useful in a variety of usecases.
by Jderenne | 2025-06-19 17:53:20+00:00
The idea is to make strategic thinking accessible to the lower layers of any organistation (which is not the case today for 99%) . This does not mean that strategy, once done should not be shared and debated between stakeholder, on the contrary.

What is important is that is done, talked about in quick cycle, and that our agentic ai offer strong qualitative guidance (but flexbilty). Strategy is not a frozen document.
by westurner | 2025-06-19 17:53:48+00:00
Do docker-pussh or docker-pushmi-pullyu verify container image signatures and attestations?

From "About Docker Content Trust (DCT)" https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/trust/ :

> Image consumers can enable DCT to ensure that images they use were signed. If a consumer enables DCT, they can only pull, run, or build with trusted images. export DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST=1

cosign > verifying containers > verify attestation: https://docs.sigstore.dev/cosign/verifying/verify/#verify-at...

/? difference between docker content trust dct and cosign: https://www.google.com/search?q=difference+between+docker+co...
by jitl | 2025-06-19 17:53:57+00:00
It's the same model that both Apple and Microsoft use for their OS updates, especially when upgrading from "dark ages" version to the latest version. I just think that most Linux distro providers either don't have the resources or the passion for Windows programming to make & maintain the windows .exe part of the pathway. Wubi is neat, but living out of a file on an existing partition doesn't feel like a pathway to full-time Linux. But if it already exists and is maintained, why hasn't it become the standard approach for all distros?
by spamfilter247 | 2025-06-19 17:54:03+00:00
My takeaway from the demo is less that "it's different each time", but more a "it can be different for different users and their styles of operating" - a poweruser can now see a different Settings UI than a basic user, and it can be generated realtime based on the persona context of the user.

Example use case (chosen specifically for tech): An IDE UI that starts basic, and exposes functionality over time as the human developer's skills grow.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-19 17:54:09+00:00
I'd like what the original sources would have written if someone had fed them some speak-clearly pills. Yudkowsky and company may have the dumbing-down problem, but the original sources often have a clarity problem. (That's why people are still arguing about what they meant centuries later. Not just whether they were right - though they argue about that too - but what they meant.)

Even better, I'd like some filtering out of the parts that are clearly wrong.
by cassepipe | 2025-06-19 17:54:10+00:00
I read the whole tree of responses under this comment and I could only convince myself that when people have no arguments they try to make you look bad.

Most of criticisms are just "But they think they are better than us !" and the rest is "But sometimes they are wrong !"

I don't know about the community and couldn't care less but their writings have brought me some almost life saving fresh air in how to think about the world. It is very sad to me to read so many falsely elaborate responses from supposedly intelligent people having their ego hurt but in the end it reminds me why I like rationalists and I don't like most people.
by wolfman1 | 2025-06-19 17:55:00+00:00
This is typically true for day trading signal services. I'm very skeptical of them too. I've tried many of them and none worked for me. There are a lot of scams.

The best model I tried was from The Technical Traders. They offer a trend based model for SPX/QQQ and they consistently outperform buy and hold for 10+ years now.

We were inspired by their service and wanted to take a modern spin on trend based models with a more affordable price point (they charge $2500yr).

Trend changes don't happen all that frequently. Therefore, they wont disappear immediately either. Timing trend changes correctly can make a huge difference.
by 9rx | 2025-06-19 17:55:01+00:00
> In fact, right now a high-speed rail line is being planned between Las Vegas and LA.

Right now and since 1979!

I'll grant you that people love to plan, but it turns out that they don't love putting on their boots and picking up a shovel nearly as much.

> But outside of Nevada, there are many equivalent distance routes in the US between major population centers, including

And there is nothing stopping those lines from being built other than the lack of will to do it. As before, the will doesn't exist because better options exist.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-06-19 17:56:55+00:00
This seems like exactly the opposite of everything I've read from the rationalists. They even called their website "less wrong" to call attention to knowing that they are probably still wrong about things, rather than right about everything. A lot of their early stuff is about cognitive biases. They have written a lot about "noticing confusion" when their foundational beliefs turn out to be wrong. There's even an essay about what it would feel like to be wrong about something as fundamental as 2+2=4.

Do you have specific examples in mind? (And not to put too fine a point on it, do you think there's a chance that you might be wrong about this assertion? You've expressed it very confidently...)
by not_your_mentat | 2025-06-19 17:57:21+00:00
The notion that our moral obligation somehow demands we reduce the suffering of wild animals in an ecosystem, living their lives as they have done since predation evolved and as they will do long after humans have ceased to be, is such a wild misunderstanding of who we are and what we are and what the universe is. I love my Bay Area friends. To quote the great Gwen Stefani, “This sh!t is bananas.”
by nearbuy | 2025-06-19 17:59:02+00:00
It's not the case. Effective altruists give to dozens of different causes, such as malaria prevention, environmentalism, animal welfare, and (perhaps most controversially) extinction risk. It can't tell you which root values to care about. It just asks you to consider whether the charity is impactful.

Even if an individual person chooses to direct all their donations to a single cause, there's no way to get everyone to donate to a single cause (nor is EA attempting to). Money gets spread around because people have different values.

It absolutely does take some money away from other causes, but only in the sense that all charities do: if you give a lot to one charity, you may have less money to give to others.
by ofjcihen | 2025-06-19 17:59:08+00:00
Oh yeah definitely. The context matters.

For making CRUD apps or anything that doesn’t involve security or stores sensitive information I 100 percent agree it’s fine.

The issue I see is that we get some people storing extremely sensitive info in apps made with these and they don’t know enough to verify the security of it. They’ll ask the LLM “is it secure?” But it doesn’t matter if they don’t know it’s not BSing
by FeepingCreature | 2025-06-19 17:59:44+00:00
Well, the rational thing is obviously to be scared of what ideas sound like.

> Rather than judging an individual on their actual intelligence

Actual intelligence is hard to know! However, lots of factors allow you to make a rapid initial estimate of their actual intelligence, which you can then refine as required.

(When the factors include apparent genetic heritage, this is called "racism" and society doesn't like it. But that doesn't mean it doesn't work, just that you can get fired and banned for doing it.)

((This is of course why we must allow IQ tests for hiring; then there's no need to pay attention to skin color, so liberals should be all for it.))
by dasil003 | 2025-06-19 18:00:48+00:00
Intelligence and rational thought is useful, but like any strategy it has its tradeoffs and limitations. No amount of intelligence can overcome the chaos of long time horizons, especially when we're talking about human civilization. IMHO it's reasonable to pick a long-term problem/risk and focus on solving it. But it's pure hubris to think rationality will give you anything approaching high confidence of what the biggest problems and risks actually are on a 20-50 year time horizon, let alone 200-500 years or longer.

The whole reason we even have time to think this way is because we are at the peak of an industrial civilization that has created a level of abundance that allows a lot of people a lot of time to think. But the whole situation that we live in is not stable at all, "progress" could continue, or we could hit a peak and regress. As much as we can see a lot of long-term trajectories (eg. peak oil, global warming), we really have no idea what will be the triggers and inflection points that change the social fabric in ways that are unforeseeable and quickly invalidate whatever prior assumptions all that deep thinking was resting upon. I mean 50 years ago we thought overpopulation was the biggest risk, and that thinking has completely flipped even without a major trajectory change for industrial civilization in that time.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-06-19 18:01:37+00:00
HPMOR is not supposed to be rigorous. It’s supposed to be entertaining in a way that rigorous philosophy is not. You could make the same argument about any of Camus’ novels but again that would miss the point. If you want something more rigorous yudkowsky has it, bit surprising to me to complain he isn’t rigorous without talking about his rigorous work.
by zahirbmirza | 2025-06-19 18:02:06+00:00
Exactly that. So, I wanted to send voice messages that I pre-record, and then can send later. The easiest way for my workflow was to be able to access and then send them from my cameral roll, which is pretty much where I store everything that I want to send. So, this records audio, makes a simple wave visualisation, and because its a video file and not purely audio, it can be saved to the photos app ie camera roll vs to files.

I think you have a point, I should make this app's intent clearer.
by mort96 | 2025-06-19 18:02:16+00:00
> there's one small button on the [bottom] right.

Wait there's an always-present AI button in the normal text editing UI? That's way more prominent than I expected, I assumed it was just an option in a settings screen somewhere. I definitely don't want an AI button that's always on screen.

I just downloaded Zed to see this for myself and found not only one but two AI buttons in the lower right, one for integration with chat bots and one for their "prediction" AI. Both try to get you to log in to online services (even though, yes, a local chat bot is an option for one of them).

It seems like you can remove the chat bot ("agent") button through their config file, but I found no option to remove the "predictions" button.

Man this editor is pushing "AI" way harder than I imagined. As I said I genuinely assumed that it was just like iTerm2's chat bot integration where you could enable it in a settings screen.
by fragmede | 2025-06-19 18:02:21+00:00
If you can't think of another city in Nevada off the top of your head, are you even American? (Reno.)

Anyway, New York to Las Vegas spans most of the US. There are plenty of routes in the US where rail would make sense. Between Boston, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. Which has the Amtrak Acela. Or perhaps Miami to Orlando. Which has a privately funded high speed rail connection called Brightline that runs at 200 km/h who's ridership was triple what had been expected at launch.
by deadbabe | 2025-06-19 18:02:31+00:00
Money now is better than money later. If you have a secret that is guaranteed to make money, but only over the course of several years, you could just sell it now and get that profit today instead of waiting.

The person buying the secret will pay less than the long term profit as a fee for them giving you the money upfront now.

But if you have rights to resell the secret multiple times you will earn money far quicker, perhaps more than the secret’s long term value.
by skhameneh | 2025-06-19 18:02:35+00:00
Maybe try out PlatformIO and check out the Sparkfun QWIIC ecosystem (it’s I2C based, but made to be very approachable) which is also supported by many Adafruit offerings. You can get pretty far with some cheap hobby servos. Then as you get more comfortable, maybe try driving some stepper motors, etc.
by danans | 2025-06-19 18:02:49+00:00
> A third reason I didn’t identify with the Rationalists was, frankly, that they gave off some (not all) of the vibes of a cult, with Eliezer as guru.

Apart from a charismatic leader, a cult (in the colloquial meaning) needs a business model, and very often, a sense of separation from, and lack of accountability to those who are outside the cult, which provides conveniently simpler environment under which the cults ideas operate. A sort of "complexity filter" at the entry gate.

I'm not sure how the Rationalists compare to those criteria, but I'd be curious to find out.