MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CollectiveClay | 2025-06-03 11:37:18+00:00
You know the saying, "Your network is your net worth." In my own startup journey, that network has always felt… underdeveloped. Network poor.

My solo ventures never quite hit the mark, and I sometimes wonder how things might've gone if I'd taken that SF job, embraced VC, or dived into the funded startup world before my 30s.

With "vibe coding," the creator economy, and movements like Build In Public (and its cousins, the Indie Hackers) taking off, it's clearer than ever that you can build things you're passionate about, even with limited time. Success stories are everywhere. Solo makers are finally making it work.

Yet, even in this world of "self-made" wins, true solo success is rare. Behind the scenes, there are often private group chats, support communities, 'reply guys' and insider networks. Even YC heavily relies on the network.

So, I wanted to build something for people like me: solo builders, creators trying to carve out their space, who don't have a pre-existing network or interest in traditional accelerators, but do want to build successfully in public while finding genuine peers. Iron sharpens iron.

That's BIPCombinator (Build in Public Combinator) - bipcombinator.com

It's a straightforward community project aiming to: - Run seasonal cohorts for makers who are Building In Public. - Connect members thoughtfully based on focus area, location, project stage, etc. - Provide a Discord for communication, help coordinate weekly check-ins. - Host an 'end of season' online demo day (think TikTok/YouTube/X streams).

What it's not: - No VC, no equity, no funding involved. - No fees, and no monetization plan. This is a community service, not a business.

This is born out of my own desire for such a community. It's not my full-time gig, but it's something I felt was missing, so I'm working on it.

If this resonates with you, I'd love for you to check it out and consider joining.

Cheers, CG
by joshuanapoli | 2025-06-03 11:38:35+00:00
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by jabrotapu | 2025-06-03 11:38:46+00:00
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies:

- Javascript, Typescript, python

- Node, Express, Nest, Next, GraphQL, React-native, Web-Sockets

- React, Redux, MobX

- MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

- LLM agents, LangGraph, LangChain, RA

- vision diffusion AI models Flux Schnell with Comfy UI

- Docker, AWS-Cloud Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Ec2.

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Full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience to build, to architect software systems.

Actively looking for a remote job opportunity to contribute to business projects for long term partnership

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by MangoToupe | 2025-06-03 11:40:25+00:00
Now that we have institutions devoted to spying on people and justifying it, there's no way this is going away through the normal mechanisms of government. You need to kill these things in their infancy or people accept them as normal. Folks working at the institution are invested in preserving it, and those jockeying to join the institution are incentivized to be more zealously bought in to the value of spying in the first place.
by fjfaase | 2025-06-03 11:40:30+00:00
I did follow your suggestion to break it down in separate prompts, but that to did not result in any useful code. I did not try to compile it, but I get the impression that it does not even compile. There is nothing remotely related to the VirtIO protocol in the code. See Section 5.18 of https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.3/csd01/virtio-...

When I added the prompt: 'Could you use the specification given in Section 5.18 of https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.3/csd01/virtio-...' it produced almost the same code preceded with some babbling from the document, but not using anything from the specification, not even the code fragments mentioned in the section.
by Pamar | 2025-06-03 11:40:43+00:00
I am Italian, and I have some interest in Japanese history/culture.

So when I saw a completely unknown city I googled it up because I was wondering what it actually had in common with Venice (I mean, a Japanese version of Venice would be a cool place to visit next time I go to Japan, no?).

If I wanted to know, I dunno, "What is the Chinese Twin City for Buenos Aires" (to mention two countries I do not really know much about, and do not plan to visit in the future) should I trust the answer? Or should I go looking it up somewhere else? Or maybe ask someone from Argentina?

My point is that even as a "digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria" LLM seem to be extremely unreliable. Therefore - at least for now - I am wary about using them for work, or for any other area where I really care for the quality of the result.
by 7bit | 2025-06-03 11:40:45+00:00
Learn what exactly? Homomorphic encryption allows for mathematical operations on the data. X+1 can be applied to the data, but it still won't let you know whether x was 1, 2, 3 or any other value.

Despite all this, fuck the EU for consistently trying to undermined data privacy and introducing Kim Jong Um style mass surveillance. None of that shit protects privacy, as they claim.
by EtienneK | 2025-06-03 11:41:01+00:00
> Most people understand these two things to be, collectively, the "provider" side of OAuth

Citation needed. As another commenter already noted, the term "Provider" is rarely used in OAuth itself. When it is mentioned, it's typically in the context of OpenID Connect, where it refers specifically to the Authorization Server - not the Resource Server.

> the service provider, who is providing an API that requires authorization

That’s actually the Resource Server.

I understand that the current MCP spec [1] merges the Authorization Server and Resource Server roles, similar to what your library does. However, there are strong reasons to keep these roles separate [2].

In fact, the MCP spec authors acknowledge this [3], and the latest draft [4] makes implementing an Authorization Server optional for MCP services.

That’s why I’m being particular about clearly naming the roles your library supports in the OAuth flow. Going forward, MCP servers will always act as OAuth Resource Servers, but will only optionally act as Authorization Servers. Your library should make that distinction explicit.

[1]: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26/bas...

[2]: https://aaronparecki.com/2025/04/03/15/oauth-for-model-conte...

[3]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...

[4]: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/basic/au...
by jabrotapu | 2025-06-03 11:41:10+00:00
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Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies:

- Javascript, Typescript, python

- Node, Express, Nest, Next, GraphQL, React-native, Web-Sockets

- React, Redux, MobX

- MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

- LLM agents, LangGraph, LangChain, RAG pieplines

- Docker, AWS-Cloud Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Ec2.

---

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by bandrami | 2025-06-03 11:41:31+00:00
The "one happy path" idea is what you want, though. Non-technical users use software through rote muscle memory (it's why in 25 years as a sysadmin I've had thousands of "there was an error message" reports and precisely 0 of those people actually read the error message to report it to me: not in the happy path means user simply shuts down).

The problem becomes that people try to make software too complicated to have one happy path. This is the road to perdition.
by detourdog | 2025-06-03 11:41:41+00:00
My cousin went to RISD in 1972 after graduation she started hanging around MIT eventually studying under Negroponte before the formation of the media lab. After graduation she worked as a computer animator.

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

She is in the photo at the terminal working on the last starfighter.

She has been creating computer art ever since. She has often expressed confusion and disillusionment with the field. She is often unsure if she or the computer is the artist.
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-03 11:41:41+00:00
> I find it easy to admit that computer art did not contribute to the advancement of art.

(We = humans) We made the tweets. We made the paintings. We wrote stupid things on Reddit (or the smarter things). We photographed nature. We built LLMs. In a way, what LLMs are doing is derivative/product of 'our' (and nature's) work. It's like adding 4 ingredients to the blender, blend it for only a few seconds, and you get variation. If you put 4 similar ingredients and you blend again for the exactly same amount of seconds you will get something similar but not the same.

LLM is a blender :)
by avemuri | 2025-06-03 11:42:08+00:00
I agree with your points but I'm also reminded of one my bigger learnings as a manager - the stuff I'm best at is the hardest, but most important, to delegate.

Sure it was easier to do it myself. But putting in the time to train, give context, develop guardrails, learn how to monitor etc ultimately taught me the skills needed to delegate effectively and multiply the teams output massively as we added people.

It's early days but I'm getting the same feeling with LLMs. It's as exhausting as training an overconfident but talented intern, but if you can work through it and somehow get it to produce something as good as you would do yourself, it's a massive multiplier.
by throwaway71271 | 2025-06-03 11:43:07+00:00
Wow! What an amazing story!

I started writing forth few months ago, wrote few interpreters, with jit or with types etc, and its just amazing, I think anyone should do it. TBH I don't think any other exercise has thought me as much about programming as this.

I also notice the "return" of Forth, as it is probably the easiest high level language to make for computers with addressable memory and fetch execute cycle. The parser is just few lines of assembly and of course you can write the parser in the inner interpreter's bytecode, you don't even need assembly :) So hobbyists can just "make it" and make their own tiny operating systems with it. Of course everyone makes their own dialect, but I think thats OK. Things like https://github.com/howerj/lfsr LFSR CPU/VM running Forth, or UXN or duskos/collapseos.

Now you can also use language models to help you onboard into the language, it do some practice programs and rewrite one program in many ways.

So if you are young or old and never tried to Forth, don't miss out, its super fun.
by zamadatix | 2025-06-03 11:44:31+00:00
The latter type case is what the article is talking about though. At the same time, as the article also discusses, it's unlikely to have actually been caused by malware vs something like a poorly packaged update.

Backup tools should deal with file changes lacking corresponding metadata changes despite it being more convenient to say the system should just always work ideally. At the end of the day the goal of a backup tool is to backup the data, not to skip some of the data because it's faster.
by onthedystopia | 2025-06-03 11:45:47+00:00
One is made by a human for other humans. The other is a randomly recognized pattern built from the stolen art of millions, and has no intended audience (because it itself is incapable of consuming art).

I also want to emphasize the "banana sticked to a wall" complaint is an often right wing stance to devalue art.

Art can be emotional, but not everything that creates emotion is art. In time I think we will work out a better definition of what constitutes art. One that excludes generated images and videos and emphasizes the human connection of artwork.
by amiga386 | 2025-06-03 11:45:52+00:00
Just rephrase as "surveillance is bad when bad people do it and surveillance is good when our guys do it" to get the self-contradictory doublethink.

If you want nuance, say that surveillance harms a person's privacy, and mass surveillance harms _everyone's_ privacy. You can then think up scenarios where you deem privacy invasion acceptable - for example, if you have reasonable suspicion a crime is being commited by a specific person, but not to put fear into the hearts of citizens and to spy on and thwart any organised resistance to your grip on power. You might then conclude that you should not perform mass surveillance as it's in keeping with the totalitarian approach.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-03 11:46:16+00:00
> for the things the EU bureaucracy is doing,

While I agree with the rest of your comment, it doesn't make sens to talk about “bureaucracy” here, the Commission isn't a “bureaucracy” (which means unelected civil servants), and more like a government (the commission is proposed by head of European states and approved by parliament).

That doesn't change anything to the problem though, Western democracies have been doing creepier and creepier stuff year after years when it comes to mass surveillance.
by cess11 | 2025-06-03 11:46:47+00:00
The ECHR and the EU charter have loopholes that basically say "unless stipulated by law and being necessary in a democratic society" or similar. This is why we already have extremely intimate surveillance by secret police laundered with some supposed petty crime as excuse.

The current regime demands too much bureaucracy and too many employees to be rolled out broadly, hence this push to do what they're already doing but on a much larger scale and just store the data until they want it. From the perspective of politicians it's already something that's being done, e.g. in the US surveillance programs and everyday policing and software from large US corporations and so on. They think the resistance from their subjects is infantile and stupid.
by jmyeet | 2025-06-03 11:47:10+00:00
You say it sucks but that's the reality. Why? It doesn't have to be this way.

Denying people shelter is violence.

We could end homelessness with a fraction of what we spend on the police and prisons. Yet we'd rather spend money on an increasingly militarized police force and the convict slavery system to protect property prices so Jeff Bezos can have $220 billion instead of $200 billion.

War and revolution are the ultimate forms of wealth redistribution. When people such as myself advocate for a decent basic standard of living at the expensive of the wealthy having slightly less, we're really trying stave off the guillotines.
by Longhanks | 2025-06-03 11:48:04+00:00
> This is certain to be illegal though.

Then any and all of the supporters of the protocol should as soon as possible be stripped from all political powers and monetary compensation, now and future, and be forbidden from ever getting into politics again; fines should be applied, raised, and if not sufficient, prison time should be considered.

It is simply not acceptible that this matter comes up again and again despite a) being illegal and b) the people voting against this. Politicians need to face serious consequences for their ignorace of the law and the people's will.
by mazurnification | 2025-06-03 11:48:40+00:00
"But you say 'if it's not allowed', but not allowed by whom?"

Not allowed by EU law obviously. Role of courts (in general) is interpreting law and thus deciding how said laws apply case by case. Law in EU flows down from EU treaties that where negotiated and signed by member countries. The big ones (treaties) needed also be "ratified" by country wide referenda.
by jiryu | 2025-06-03 11:48:50+00:00
That's a really cool technique oggy, I don't think I've heard of anything exactly like it. If you haven't told the TLA+ community about it yet, I'm sure they'd like to learn about your approach, either on the mailing list[1] or at the next TLA+ conference[2] in 2026.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/tlaplus

[2] https://conf.tlapl.us/home/
by ozim | 2025-06-03 11:49:03+00:00
Well basic markdown is super useful to do stuff quickly.

Problem is when people started to build systems upon systems upon something that should not be used for more complicated cases.

Maybe not a problem because I don't care but I just see how loads of things that someone created to be "just that" someone takes without understanding and builds on top instead of understanding limitations and scope of the initial idea or system.

It is "oh it is missing a feature" - where it is "no it wasn't built to do that".

I have seen notepad in windows shipping some formatting features, I don't see that as an improvement. Notepad was notepad for purpose.
by voidUpdate | 2025-06-03 11:49:10+00:00
The russians left a scary amount of radioactive material in random places after the union fell :/ I'm reminded of the Lia Radiological Incident (three men irradiated by the remains of soviet RTGs) and the 1997 Tbilisi, Georgia incident where 11 servicemen were irradiated by a radioactive source in a jacket, left over from soviet training
by baq | 2025-06-03 11:49:19+00:00
when you stop to think, your fifteen (...thousand) competitors will all attempt a different version of the thing you're thinking about and one of them will be the about the thing you'll come up with, except it'll be built.

it might be ok since what you were thinking about is probably not a good idea in the first place for various reasons, but once in a while stars align to produce the unicorn, which you want to be if you're thinking about building something.

caveat: maybe you just want to build in a niche, it's fine to think hard in such places. usually.
by ryukoposting | 2025-06-03 11:49:24+00:00
Fun fact: magazines actually distributed software on paper briefly in the 1980s.

https://youtu.be/mIGotStRCkA?si=toG5xeLMZzjIGTxC

It's more like a long, linear barcode, but still. More often, they put the source code in the magazine and you'd just type it into your machine.
by theshrike79 | 2025-06-03 11:50:09+00:00
The usual solution is a multi-tiered one.

First you use any LLM with a large context to write down the plan - preferably in a markdown file with checkboxes "- [ ] Task 1"

Then you can iterate on the plan and ask another LLM more focused on the subject matter to do the tasks one by one, which allows it to work without too much hallucination as the context is more focused.
by jamesmunns | 2025-06-03 11:51:02+00:00
You definitely can, I designed a 206x85cm standing banner for my last trade show as one of the first "production" things I built in Typst:

https://typst.app/project/r1YNDcKpoF1sVXHf5n4VKB

Plus you can share the rendered and preview form of the project with a single link, which is pretty neat.
by lugao | 2025-06-03 11:51:17+00:00
> On top of that, there is no easy way to create a template

Templates are just functions [0].

I think much of the frustration comes from typesetting being a harder problem than it seems at first. In general a typesetting system tries to abstract away how layout is recomputed depending on content.

Supporting contextual content -- cases where the content depend on other content, e.g. numbered lists, numbered figures, references, etc -- involves iterative rendering. This is evidentidly a complexity sinkhole and having a turing complete script language will bite you back when dealing with it. I recommend reding their documentation about it [1] where they explain how they propose solving this problem.

[0]: https://typst.app/docs/tutorial/making-a-template/

[1]: https://typst.app/docs/reference/context/#compiler-iteration...
by sdoering | 2025-06-03 11:51:21+00:00
Any institution that does not kill thousands every year:

Annual Deaths (Recent Years): - Mediterranean Sea 2,000–3,000+ (60% drownings) - Pushbacks/Frontex Several hundred (2,000 deaths linked to Frontex actions) - Land Borders/Camps Dozens to hundreds (Winter peaks, underreported)

There are by far too few NGOs or journalists looking into the despicable practices of the EU - but we Europeans definitely should not sit oh the high horse and preach about human rights to anyone.

It is a disgrace what we as a European people let our elected officials get away with.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-03 11:51:38+00:00
Born catholic, sexually assaulted by my priest while young, and became atheist. Was mostly just nothing until the sam harris crew came along then i went very militant atheist. Stoicism and meditation came along. In about then i was intrigued with the idea of morality and could it be done without anything external.

The big question, you really get to choose if you want to be a good or bad person. Of course you choose to be a good person, but then how do you do that?

When trying to figure that out, the realization is that lots of people fail at being a good person. It's not about the 'would you like to give $2 to childrens charity' but rather a training that is needed for your brain. When you look for what this training is, you become buddhist.

Through meditation, you can train to be aware of your thoughts, which arent yours, and thus by extension your actions which arent yours until after training. Once you become aware of the proverbial bad and good angels on your shoulders. You start responding and not reacting to life.

There comes a point where you dive into the Jhanas. Then you buy an at home EEG to become an expert at meditation. Right concentration by Leigh Brasington explains all.

Then you go through some stuff and end up a christian suddenly. Realizing that christianity is a buddhist sect; or really that all religions are trying to explain an unexplainable thing that cant be captured by human language.
by NishJain24 | 2025-06-03 11:52:06+00:00
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by criley2 | 2025-06-03 11:52:12+00:00
I asked ChatGPT o3 if lidar could damage phone sensors and it said yes https://chatgpt.com/share/683ee007-7338-800e-a6a4-cebc293c46...

I also asked Gemini 2.5 pro preview and it said yes. https://g.co/gemini/share/0aeded9b8220

I find it interesting to always test for myself when someone suggests to me that a "LLM" failed at a task.
by skrebbel | 2025-06-03 11:53:05+00:00
> There is no need for the production of more works of art, particularly no need for “computer art”

I mean, if you're against new art in the first place then the rest kinda follows from that right? This article is like titling an essay "Against Chelsea" and then halfway subtly dropping that, well, actually, you hate football in general and people should stop playing it.