MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Seekeasy – MCP for Restaurant Recs Powered by Social Media Data
by samlauj | 2025-06-12 19:01:08+00:00
Hey HN!

We're building search over social media data - starting with the restaurants vertical first but we plan to cover all lifestyle topics (travel, fashion, beauty, sports etc).

To date, we've ingested 1M+ instagram posts (images and videos), 7K+ food creator profiles, and 150K+ restaurants data across SF and NY (expanding nationwide very quickly).

We got a lot of interest in our dataset so we built an MCP for devs to explore our data where you can query for restaurant recommendations and see results based on relevancy + instagram videos supporting the result (e.g. "first date spots"). We're adding ~1K instagram posts daily and will start ingesting TikTok soon as well.

Additionally we're working on time series analyses to better understand trends such as newly opened restaurants, which restaurants are popular now, creators that are "up and coming"... We are thinking to expose these as APIs or more MCPs for other client applications.

Would love to see if this sort of data is useful to others and hear what other use-cases you might want out of this.

Thanks!

Other links:

* About Seekeasy: https://about.seekeasy.ai/

* Our consumer app if you'd like to give it a spin (all feedback and roasting welcome): https://app.seekeasy.ai/download

* Product Hunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/products/seekeasy-mcp
by austin-cheney | 2025-06-12 19:01:48+00:00
I like people who are fiercely pro-simple even when it isn't yet popular.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Hickey

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sperberg-McQueen

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford
by swsieber | 2025-06-12 19:02:03+00:00
And as a general timeline (IF status times are accurate. I trust the AWS the most due to the down detector stuff, which means it really could be all at the same time anyway due to lag in self-reporting incidents)

~1:00 CT: AWS outage start, GCP outage start

~1:15 CT: NPM registry

~1:19 CT: Github & Cloudflar
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-12 19:02:21+00:00
The risk is never developing the ability because it never became politically beneficial to do so or never judged to be worth it in the short term and in the worst case scenario losing our chance to do it altogether (there’s nothing guaranteeing that we’ll always have our current ability to escape Earth’s gravity well or even get into orbit).

We’ll never get good at things we don’t do and the related technology doesn’t just develop itself. Without intentional efforts to push the space forward, it’ll forever be stuck in limbo.
by gusgus01 | 2025-06-12 19:02:26+00:00
Where did you get 30% from? I'm just curious since NWS data is widely used as a source for creating weather forecasts, which if I had to guess near 100% of people use in one way, shape, or form. I think Google uses it, so anyone with an Android phone is one click away from a forecast using the data.

On the matter of taxes being proportional to income, I'm not going to argue about progressive taxation or any moralistic standpoint of proportional taxation. From purely a utility standpoint, those handful of people probably reap way more value from that NWS data being available. The richest people (those paying the millions for NWS) usually are that rich from the labor of others, and those labor forces all get value from the data to help plan their days, including getting to the workplace safely. Another even more direct use for the economy would be routing of trucks through snowy passes, or planning for large construction companies.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-12 19:02:27+00:00
One of the things that really put me off about Apple's computers, namely their pre-installed OS, was how "chatty" they have become when attached to a local network, let alone the internet.

As such, I stopped buying Apple. I have not owned a Mac since the G4 days. I never attached it to the internet. I would use TCP/IP and a crossover cable to move files.

I always see a high vollume of traffic from other peoples' Apple computers on the wire that is not intitiated by the computer owner. To my sensibilities, this is cringeworthy. Because there is no way to turn if off. The computer owner has no control over it.

Apple fans can argue this is useful and convenient. That may be true. But that does not explain why it is mandatory, on by default and impossible to disable. I am not against useful options and convenience. I am in favor of control.

When I compile and install a NetBSD image the amount of mandatory network traffic is zero. It is up to me to decide what to enable. That's how I like it.
by kibwen | 2025-06-12 19:02:43+00:00
This is an oversimplification. Automatic polymorphization is blocked on several concerns, e.g. dyn safety (and redesigning the language to make it possible to paper over the difference between dyn and non-dyn safe traits imposes costs on the static use case), and/or obscure LLVM implementation deficiencies (which was the blocker for the last time I proposed a Swift-style ABI to address this). Procedural macros don't require double-parsing; many people do use syn to parse the token stream, but 1) parsing isn't a performance bottleneck, 2) providing a parsed AST rather than a token stream freezes the AST, which is something that the Rust authors deliberately wanted to avoid, rather than being some kind of accident of design, 3) at any point in the future the Rust devs could decide to stabilize the AST and provide a parsed representation, so this isn't anything unfixable that would cause any sort of trauma in the community, 4) proc macro expansions are trivially cacheable if you know you're not doing arbitrary I/O, which is easy to achieve manually today and should absolutely be built-in to the compiler (if for no other reason than having a sandboxed dev environment), but once again this is easy to tack on in future versions. As for allowing item definitions in function bodies, I want to reiterate that parsing is not a bottleneck.
by Xelbair | 2025-06-12 19:02:53+00:00
are you... serious?

no I'm genuinely curious - because no matter who you sell it to it will be used against its own populace - look at bloody PRISM(mass data collection of internet traffic in US by NSA in case you weren't aware), Echelon(older project targeted at radio transmissions), 5eyes(US, UK, AUS, NZ, CN asking each other to spy on their own citizens as a loophole) .. or any other scandal in EU when it leaked that such spyware was used against journalists investigating government corruption. Or in Mexico, or anywhere else.

How you are surprised that "western government" might attack journalists when there has been proof of them doing that for years?!
by travisvn | 2025-06-12 19:03:12+00:00
Ok, here's a command that works.

I'm new to actually commenting on HN as opposed to just lurking, so I hope this formatting works..

cat your_file.txt | python3 -c 'import sys, json; print(json.dumps({"input": sys.stdin.read()}))' | curl -X POST http://localhost:5123/v1/audio/speech \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d @- \ --output speech.wav

Just replace the `your_file.txt` with.. well, you get it.

This'll hopefully handle any potential issues you'd have with quotes or other symbols breaking the JSON input.

Let me know how it goes!

Oh and you might want to change `python3` to `python` depending on your setup.
by kittikitti | 2025-06-12 19:03:50+00:00
They provide no references other than self-referencing blogs. It was also suspenseful to read about loss in changing neural network weights when there was 0 mention of quantization. Unfortunately, most of the content in this one was taken from his own previous work.

RAG is getting some backlash and this reads as a backlash of the backlash. I hope things settle down soon but many techfluencers put all their eggs in RAG and used it to gatekeep AI.
by tehjoker | 2025-06-12 19:04:02+00:00
Genocidal comment. It is well known the stats are an undercount due to the genocidal starvation, disease, and deprivation, collapsing buildings on people that are never counted, and the many videos of e.g. Israelis burning children alive in tents.

"True death toll from conflict in Gaza is 41% higher than reported, study estimates" https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r73
Show HN: I rebuilt the recruitment process from the ground up
by ammaramehdghani | 2025-06-12 19:04:38+00:00
Hi HN Community,

Recruitment software is everywhere. The market seems saturated. Every other day there’s a new ATS or “all-in-one” platform promising to fix hiring. But let’s be real — recruiting still sucks.

Why? Because most tools are just reskinned versions of the same broken process: resume parsing, email campaigns, messy workflows, and outdated data. Some throw in a ChatGPT prompt here and there and call it “AI-powered.” But if we’re still stuck in the same flawed flow, it doesn't matter how modern the UI is. I’ve felt this pain personally — both as a recruiter and a job seeker. That's why I built Chronoflow — not just another ATS, but a reimagined recruitment system that actually works.

--What makes it different: No resume parsing. No data entry. Candidate pools build themselves as soon as someone accepts your job invite.

--No email campaigns. You already have the latest candidate data, and the platform shows you exactly who to engage.

--No endless back-and-forth. Job invites include everything — replacing pre-screening calls and endless follow-ups.

--Candidates get live updates and AI-generated feedback if rejected — improving their experience and keeping your brand strong.

--Recruiters focus on decision making and building relationships, which is important for business development.

Chronoflow is built for people who are tired of trying “yet another ATS” that solves 10% of the problem.

If you're curious to see what a rebuilt hiring cycle looks like that drastically reduces time to hire and on top of that makes recruitment transparent and enjoyable, I'd love for you to give Chronoflow a try.

Happy to answer any questions. And if you've worked in recruiting, would love to hear what frustrates you most — maybe I can solve that too. Thank You
by d--b | 2025-06-12 19:04:48+00:00
Okay why not…

One part that is not addressed is procrastination because of tasks that are scary.

I think I have fairly low levels of anxiety in general, but there are things I know I need to do but I’d just rather ignore them because they somehow terrify me.

Things like “call someone to negotiate a price”, or “find a holiday place to rent when I know it’s already too late”, or “reverse-engineer what this giant pile of untested legacy code does, rebuild it in something else, and make sure everything works like before”.

I am 100% sure I’d rather let the receipt printer take a day off than tackling any of these.
by chollida1 | 2025-06-12 19:05:02+00:00
This seems pretty unfair.

Rick Moranis is coming out of a 40 year retirement for this movie. So its hard to level the money grabber on him.

John Candy sadly can't come back for this.

It seems more likely that they found a script they like finally and the cast considers this to be a fun project for them to do.
by marcusverus | 2025-06-12 19:05:44+00:00
Chicago spent $300 Million on freebies for migrants.[0] The mayor of NYC saying that the migrant crisis "will destroy New York City".[1] 1/3 of polled schools said that the influx of ESL migrant children had had a "significant" impact on their school districts, taking resources and attention away from American schoolkids.[2] 77% of Americans considered the border situation to be either a "Crisis" or a "Major Problem"[3]

[0] https://apnews.com/article/chicago-migrants-black-latino-bid...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/adams-migrants-d...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/investigations/an-american-education...

[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/15/how-american...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-12 19:05:49+00:00
No, but the goal of mentoring a Junior or Intermediate developer is that they eventually learn this stuff on their own. The value of helping another human grow is worth the tradeoff

AI is a tool, not a human. I'm not about to invest in it the way I would a Junior developer. If the tool doesn't do the job, it's not a good tool. If a tool requires the same level of investment that a human does it's also not a good tool
by gammarator | 2025-06-12 19:06:00+00:00
I prefer the NASA vision statement from nasa.gov/about:

"NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery."

to Casey's "defend US interests on the civilian side of space."

SLS is an abject failure, indeed, but one whose faults are ultimately Congress's. I see no reason for human space flight to continue to "eat first" given that record of expensive failure. In contrast, astrophysics and planetary science remain--at least for now--world-leading.
by randomuxx | 2025-06-12 19:06:29+00:00
I’ve worked with Next.js professionally for the past 3 years, and it’s been torture. (hosted on Vercel, and the company used almost every single service Vercel sold. Worst vendor locked-in ever)

I replied to Dan’s previous HN post about RSC, sharing how I had a terrible experience and he was right to highlight: "I think RSC itself is pretty solid by this point but frameworks around it (primarily Next.js) are still somewhat rough."

React is fairly mid overall, and Next.js is only accelerating its bad reputation. Stay away!
by cyberpunk | 2025-06-12 19:06:41+00:00
You'd think so wouldn't you?

DownDetector also reports azure and oracle cloud, I can't see then also being dependant on GCP...

I guess down detector isn't a full source of truth though.

https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/ https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

Both green
by grumple | 2025-06-12 19:06:45+00:00
I've spent the past month or so immersed in Penrose diagrams. Some of the implications of the math and diagrams include white holes (opposite of black holes - spew matter outwards), infinite universes contained within one another other, anti-gravity universes, and things like this. You can also fall into a black hole and make it out into another universe instead of meeting the singularity (at least, an idealized, rotating black hole). Anyway, cool stuff.
by fsflover | 2025-06-12 19:07:08+00:00
Thanks, I already know where the coreboot source is (and I'm already using it with Heads). Concerning Secure Boot, I only found this (emphasis mine):

> soc/amd/common/block/psp: Add platform secure boot support

>

> Add Platform Secure Boot (PSB) enablement via the PSP if it is not already enabled. Upon receiving psb command, PSP will program PSB fuses as long as BIOS signing key token is valid. Refer to the AMD PSB user guide doc# 56654, Revision# 1.00. Unfortunately this document is only available with NDA customers
by grafmax | 2025-06-12 19:07:50+00:00
You’re right that technology is a necessary ingredient in some cases such as medical treatment. However workplace safety and 40 hour work weeks are not good examples. In the 1800s factory owners extracted as much value from their workforce as they could; they did this by maximizing working hours, dangerous working conditions, child labor, etc; all while enjoying lives of affluence themselves. It’s the fact that factory owners were living lives of affluence that we know the workers were being exploited. There was an highly unequal relationship between workers and owners. It’s not the productivity growth of the Industrial Revolution the made lives better for workers - actually it got much worse initially as they were squeezed by the capitalist class. It’s only when workers organized to struggle for a larger share of the value they were creating for their bosses that their lives got better.

Today wealth inequality is at unheard of levels. The wealth of the richest person roughly equals that of the 50% poorest. That is profit extracted from the value workers produce for the wealthy. Technological andvancement isn’t required to give workers a larger piece of the pie; the pie today is already quite enormous. Instead workers must organize if they want better lives. In lieu of that, advances like AI will continue to only profit the very wealthy; the rest of us will likely experience a mix of advantages and drawbacks (analogous to what we’ve seen with the internet or smartphones).
Ask HN: HN with Just the Tech?
by mieubrisse | 2025-06-12 19:08:11+00:00
Howdy folks -- I find myself getting sucked into pessimistic rabbit holes when I read HN, often being drawn to the negative/scary news.

I'd love to see just tech/entrepreneurship updates without any politics/war/catastrophe updates. Does anyone currently use a tool that helps with this?
by diggan | 2025-06-12 19:08:18+00:00
> I found o3 pro to need a paradigm shift, where the latency makes it impossible to use in anything but in async manner.

Just like o1 Pro, was the same way. Took some minutes at least to get an answer, so only threw at it what others couldn't solve. o1 Pro is AFAIK the best model for solving things others can't. I kind of feel like you were paying $200/month before but wasn't using O1 Pro at that point, you were kind of missing out :P

Remains to be seen if O3 Pro is better, still evaluating it myself, but definitely true that it shouldn't be used in the same way as faster models.
by dhosek | 2025-06-12 19:08:26+00:00
I bought this Pioneer drive

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0BN66KFV1/donhosek

last year after having two consecutive drives crap out on me with both not wanting to eject discs or acknowledge discs that were in the drive and it has worked perfectly for me for this year. It has my strong endorsement..
by lazystar | 2025-06-12 19:08:27+00:00
lol. not sure what age1s6cz86s99unkfm2sqy045w5w79n8lyyulwu9qy3gkaeydmexwv5qvkh2pp means, but if youre in the greater seattle area and want to teach me how to be an adult, shoot me a text. 360-624-3791
by closewith | 2025-06-12 19:08:43+00:00
No, you're completely wrong. We - as an international society - generally accept the name that countries would like to be called, even in our own languages.

In English, we say: Sri Lanka, not Ceylon, Burkina Faso, not the Republic of Upper Volta, Botswana, not the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Bangladesh, not East Pakistan, The Netherlands, not Holland, Thailamd, not Siam, Etc

Colonialism perfectly sums up the arrogant attitude that you can decide for them what another country will be called.
by edanm | 2025-06-12 19:09:04+00:00
It's inaccurate to say "most" are combatants. The estimate is usually 2/3rds are civilians and 1/3rd are combatants.

Of course it's hard to get real answers on all these questions - Gaza's Hamas-run MoH is not exactly trustworthy, and don't publish a split of civilians vs combatants. And Israel, even assuming you do trust its numbers, doesn't publish estimates of Gazan civilians killed either.
by JadeNB | 2025-06-12 19:09:05+00:00
> The "Fisher-Price" design language was unpopular, but ISTR you could turn off most of the eye candy and get a the Windows 2000 design language. Pretty sure that was like the first or second thing I did with both XP and Vista.

Ah, it is very likely that that's what I did, and so why I don't remember anything notable about it.
by scdnc | 2025-06-12 19:09:13+00:00
I agree that it’s a function of moderation, but I also think moderation is deliberately done in a way to drive/keep engagement; otherwise, there would be far fewer ideological, current-events, and non-“hacker” posts that receive a lot of comments and upvotes.

For example my post got appropriately flagged while a lot of other popular post don't get flagged even though they don't meet the guidelines: https://www.hntoplinks.com/year?sort=upvotes https://www.hntoplinks.com/year?sort=comments
by davidw | 2025-06-12 19:09:52+00:00
> may not understand what is going on

This much is accurate.

Once again, how would this be described in the press if it were another country:

"Secretary for the Homeland said 'We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city'"

And then had a sitting Senator thrown out of the room and handcuffed.

Yeah, that's authoritarianism.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-12 19:10:12+00:00
Those at least look better than they did in the Moon is a Harsh Mistress and O'Neill periods. The US military has tested 2.5 km/s railguns, it takes just 3.5 km/s to get to the Earth-Moon L1 point. If the Starship could really land 100 tonnes, it could land one of those exclusive of power supply... It's not some huge thing that looks like a kilometer-scale maglev anymore.

I could picture one of those things moving say 80 tons/day of bulk material if it wasn't for the problem of the barrel getting trashed in less than one day.

The design of the catcher is a tough problem though and still unsolved. There are lots of answers that aren't so attractive, such as fielding a big piece of styrofoam that you'll eventually melt and reform or some kind of thing that throws a capture device with a cable attached at passing projectiles.
by genezeta | 2025-06-12 19:10:25+00:00
Ah, sorry for not answering sooner.

Admittedly it's not a hi-end phone. I use a Moto G7. Screen is 1080x2270 at 6.2 inches according to [ https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g7-9357.php#eu ]

Trying it again to verify... You're right that it's the width. I get a small-ish horizontal scroll. But the problem is that no matter if I scroll it completely to that side the left still gets cut off.
by cge | 2025-06-12 19:10:45+00:00
>Republic of Ireland refers to the soccer team and nothing else, FYI.

'The Republic of Ireland' is the official descriptive term for the country named 'Ireland' in English, per the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. I have certainly heard 'Republic of Ireland' used in Ireland, or just 'the Republic', but almost always in cases where the descriptive distinction is important. I'd agree that outside of those cases, using 'Republic of Ireland' by default can be a problem.

>Because the country of Czechia has asked the English-speaking world to refer to it that way.

Unlike the political complexities around 'Republic of Ireland', 'The Czech Republic' actually is the official long name of the country in English, with 'Czechia' the official short name; the country's government promotes 'Czechia', but I don't think there is a suggestion that 'Czech Republic' is no longer acceptable. I have also never actually heard anyone in the country refer to it as Czechia in English.
by breppp | 2025-06-12 19:10:53+00:00
not yet, although I am curious why this specific technology is linked to so many scandals involving journalists. Is it simply because that journalists are interested in stories about journalists and that what makes the news, or a power corrupts scenario.

I believe that similarly to phone tapping, this is a technology that in the wrong hands is dangerous, but it can be very effective against some threats that might make this worthwhile

Western democracies have worked for a century after the invention of phone tapping, and even a few decades after inventing a much more dangerous technology, of massive government or corporate surveillance networks.

Zero click exploit makes the news but it has no implication on most of the population, it's too expensive.
by Xelbair | 2025-06-12 19:11:25+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

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

5eyes(spying agreement between US, UK, CAN, NZ, AU) utilizing a loophole to spy on each other's citizens.

Tons of cases with PEGASUS being used to target activists and journalists, usually ones investigating government corruption(EU, Mexico from top of my head).

You know what would also help solve crimes? if every action that everyone did was always observed and recorded. Would you be willing to live in such world? i would rather not.