MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jtagliabuetooso | 2025-06-22 16:26:55+00:00
Marimo and astral are great and we use them both, they are not however infrastructure companies, so the parallel is a bit imperfect. Wouldn't you use AWS because it's closed source? And BigQuery? Or Motherduck?

There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to building companies, and the right answers depend on many factors: it would be interesting to know your choices for example!

I do agree with you that is important to give back to the ecosystem, but per size / dollar, bauplaners have done and continue doing as much as anyone. All in all, we have shared our ideas in the community in 50+ research papers in top venues (with thousands of citations), and we have quite a few popular open source contributions, with millions of downloads and >10k GitHub stars in total (our FaaS scheduler simulator was just open sourced with our VLDB25 WS paper).

You can be a good citizen of the Python / AI / database ecosystem without doing open source as a business strategy: the reality is more nuanced I believe!
by androng | 2025-06-22 16:27:41+00:00
I couldn't finish the article because my attention span was too small and the author was going on rambles and tangents. I have no patience. But like the article says, I also noticed while reading history books that people's speech was way more sophisticated and used flowery language in 1900 that we simply do not use today. My lexicon is probably only 25% of people back then. eg Ada Lovelace quote: “I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.”, in my language: "I think I'm special enough to be a scientist"
by treetalker | 2025-06-22 16:27:49+00:00
On another webpage[1] linked from this article, I came across the following comment from the poster por9984, and that comment seemed worthy to repost here in its entirety:

> por9984

> 18 June, 2025

> Sometime ago I read how, in the comic book evolution of Superman, he became less interesting, the more powerful he got. Sure these cars are engineering marvels, but when did everything become about horsepower & drag racing?

---

For those interested, according to Motortrend[2] this car will retail for $190,000–$200,000 (if you can get your hands on one).

[1]: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a65079885/2026-chevrolet-c...

[2]: https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-chevrolet-corvette-zr1x...
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-06-22 16:28:06+00:00
The Core2Duo were the first Intel Macs worth a hoot. IIRC, you could get this CPU in the white MacBook, along with an education discount and iPod rebate.

I rocked dual Xenons until early 2023's M2Pro mini (the energy savings are substantial, with minimal GPU performance degredation).
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-22 16:28:53+00:00
Exactly. Well said.

A thing we learned in this process is that there's many levels of abstraction which you can think of rollback and locking down SSH and so on and so forth.

If your abstraction level is AWS and the big hyperscalers, it would be to use Kubernetes, but peeling layers of complexity off that, you could also do it with Docker Compose or even Linux programs that are really battle tested for decades.

Most ISO certified companies are not at hyperscale so here is a fun one: Instead of Grafana Agent from 2020, you could most likely get away better with rsyslog from 2004.

And if you want your EKS cluster to give you insights you have configure CloudWatch yourself so does what hands-off is there comparing that setup to Ubuntu+Grafana Agent?
by somenameforme | 2025-06-22 16:29:02+00:00
I'm citation heavy, but it's also a fact I wouldn't cite as I think/thought it was fairly common knowledge. Here [1] is some random report on it. There's a huge difference in criminality rates between urban and rural, and this applies to most of everywhere in the world.

[1] - https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/ncvrw2018/...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-22 16:29:45+00:00
> That's precisely why LLMs are valuable for deep exploratory thinking, so when we engage teammates, we're bringing higher-quality, focused questions instead of raw exploration.

This isn't really new though. We used to use search engines and language docs and stack overflow for this

Before that people used mailing lists and reference texts

LLMs don't really get me to answers faster than Google did with SO previously imo

And it still relies on some human having asked and answered the question before, so the LLM could be trained on it
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-06-22 16:29:51+00:00
I don’t think a book from 1995 is going be especially alternative. High Fidelity was written then, and it’s mostly concerned with issues we’d consider contemporary today - and it’s not as if it’s written to be a timeless classic. The weirdest thing in it would be landline telephones.

Gatsby on the other hand is a considerable departure from modernity.
by libertine | 2025-06-22 16:30:37+00:00
> aggressive and loaded comment you made here.

I disagree, but in light of your previous comment, it doesn't shock me.

> Actions provoking WW3 are as I commented.

You're wrong, they're not. You have pretty clearly chosen PARTISANSHIP by stating a country being invaded and fighting for their lives and sovereignty as the ones salivating for WW3.

It's a remarkable backward-thinking exercise. Russia is clearly:

- violating International Law, the UN Charter, and many other agreements and memoranda;

- all while threatening nuclear annihilation of Ukraine, UK, USA and other European countries;

- Attacking and destroying third countries' civilian infrastructures;

Among other atrocities and crimes.

But somehow, through magical thinking, you deem them as the victims here who have nothing to gain from this.

You are not OK with stock market gains, but you're OK with Russia stealing Ukrainian natural resources, their population, including kidnapped children?

Let me ask you this: according to your logic, were Hitler and Stalin the victims, and was Poland salivating for starting WW2?
by georgeecollins | 2025-06-22 16:31:07+00:00
The US occupied Japan and West Germany after WW2. Admittedly mostly with the support of local authorities. But that was the US with a pop of ~133m and Japan with a pop of ~70m. So yes, if the US had the political will it could occupy Iran.

Does it have the political will? No way!

Michael Shurkin-- a former rand analyst and I strongly recommend his podcast-- says that politicians say "there is no military solution" when they mean there is no military solution that people would politically support. The US could do all sorts of things in Iran but the US people would not accept the casualties or the human rights abuses.
by BoredSmurf | 2025-06-22 16:31:10+00:00
Why should one ever court a woman on a date, if 98% of the time you are not allowed to interrupt her dabbling with her smartphone?

As if they were afraid of talking.

Most of them only want dinner and taxi for free and have three pics for insta: one of the dinner, one of the dessert and one of the fool paying.

I met my girlfriend at a metro station just like that, unprepared, both with empty smartphones, we exchanged the numbers oldschool, on napkins.

Just avoid any situation that looks like "dating" - too many rules, expectations and pretexts. Too much lying and deceptions.
by djtango | 2025-06-22 16:34:14+00:00
I don't think we're in disagreement. In the past the environment necessitated that even scholars be fit and strong because they probably had to carry tomes around and fetch things from shelves whereas today we carry more than the Great Library in the palm of our hands.

The plough spared people from back breaking labour but now we have the opposite problem where less than 25 percent of Americans walk for more than ten minutes continuously in a typical week[1] and this presents both health problems both MSK and cardiovascular but also burdens on the healthcare system.

You seem to place a lot of faith in LLMs just being middlemen but the real life proof seems to be that many people, especially children and students, are leaning on it heavily in place of learning and understanding

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130151132.h...
by UltraSane | 2025-06-22 16:34:39+00:00
"Iran with nukes is more geopolitically stable situation than Iran without nukes."

This is one of the most wrong things anyone has ever said. If Iran successfully develops a nuclear weapon, it would almost certainly compel its regional rivals, namely Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt, to pursue their own nuclear weapons to maintain a balance of power. A Middle East with multiple nuclear states is a nightmare scenario, dramatically increasing the chances of miscalculation or nuclear use.

Iran with nukes would almost certainly act far more aggressively just like Russia has with Ukraine.
by kriro | 2025-06-22 16:35:17+00:00
My/our setup for papers is: Latex installation on laptop, (home, work, conferences) + private Github repo + Zotero (with notes and highlighting directly in the PDFs) + notes.md for thoughts/ideas etc.

Team members all have local Latex installs as they have CS/math backgrounds.

Works well, easy to onboard new colleagues. Probably harder if there were people with other backgrounds (MBA), however an industrial designer on the team also uses GitHub for basic pull/commit.

For my fiction writing, I also use local Latex install+GitHub.
by diggan | 2025-06-22 16:35:20+00:00
> Good journalism is not about providing equal forums to all sides to spew propaganda in equally metered time

No one claimed this. I'm merely stating the obvious that no one is 100% impartial here, and Reuters is reporting based on what they've been able to verify.

> The best of journalism is about presenting verifiable facts

The fact is that person X said Y, and that's what they're reporting. It's not original reporting about what the quote is about, it's a quote from a person, and that they're sharing that quote means they've verified that it was said by that person.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-22 16:35:22+00:00
Hahaha, and what do you think's going to happen to Iran if this stuff is successful? They already have more refugees living there than in any other country in the world except Turkey [1], owing to US adventures in other parts of the world. And they have more than 3x the population of North Korea on top. For that matter they also have more than 3x the population of Syria.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_re...
by georgeecollins | 2025-06-22 16:35:24+00:00
Also: Khadafy. We asked him to not pursue nukes (and for whatever reason he didn't). When there was unrest in his country the European powers (first) and the US (later) struck him. They would have never done that if he had a nuke.

Now we have regime change and Libya is a paradise. /s

One of the problems with all of this is we may hate the government, but in getting rid of it we don't get anything better.
by dreghgh | 2025-06-22 16:35:32+00:00
The PLO pulled out of Beirut in the early 1980s after being given guarantees from the international community that the remaining Palestinian population, unarmed civilians, would be protected both from Lebanese Christians and Israeli forces.

Then Israeli forces colluded with Christian militias to massacre Palestinians in their camps.

Hamas was never going to disarm and hand back the hostages based on "Trust me, bro".
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-22 16:37:32+00:00
If you want me to assess what I would be needing the next 5-10 years, I'd make a very different thread here on HN.

The defining conditions is my current setup and business requirement. It works well and we've resisted pretending that we know where we will be in 5 years.

I am reminded of the 2023 story of the surprisingly simple infra of Stack Overflow[1] and the 2025 story of that Stack overflow is almost dead[2]

Given that the setup works now, one can't add that it is only working "for now". I see no client demand in the foreseeable future leading me to think that this has been fundamentally architected incorrectly.

[1] https://x.com/sahnlam/status/1629713954225405952

[2] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...
by ImJamal | 2025-06-22 16:39:11+00:00
https://www.wired.com/2010/10/wikileaks-show-wmd-hunt-contin...

Some of the chemicals qualified as WMD. Almost none of them were properly stored and weren't usable, but a little bit were usable.

Also, I'm not making the claim they were trying to make new ones, just that they had some.
Show HN: Cognition-wheel – parallel LLM fusion with bias masking and judging
by Hormold | 2025-06-22 16:39:17+00:00
GitHub: https://github.com/Hormold/cognition-wheel | npx mcp-cognition-wheel

While building agent flows, I kept hitting a gap: sequential-thinking helps models reason step-by-step — but what about cross-checking?

cognition-wheel runs 3 top-tier models (Claude-4, Gemini 2.5, OpenAI o3) in parallel, anonymizes them (Alpha / Beta / Gamma), and uses a random judge model to fuse the answers into one take.

The pain: • Models contradict each other — which one do you trust?

• Brand bias skews output

• One model fails? You’re stuck

The fix:

• 3 LLMs think in parallel

• Names masked to avoid bias

• Random judge model synthesizes a final answer

How it fits:

1. Call sequential-thinking for step-by-step reasoning

2. Pipe the result into cognition-wheel for fast consensus check → deep logic + fast cross-validation

Built this because I wanted multi-model reasoning without orchestration hell. Would love feedback, weird edge cases, or ideas on smarter judge selection.
by mattmaroon | 2025-06-22 16:39:40+00:00
Because they are a death cult. They sincerely believe exactly what they profess, everyone who Israel kills is a martyr and goes to heaven with extra benefits.

From their perspective it’s all wins. Every bomb Israel drops sends their people to heaven and makes Israel look bad to the world.

The hardest part of conversing with a lot of people about this situation is getting them to understand the idea of a death cult. Once you accept that some people not only don’t fear death but actively seek it for themselves and their tribe, the Middle East makes a lot more sense. There’s so much evidence both in what they say (they do not hide it) and what they do but so much of the west refuses to accept it.
by wavemode | 2025-06-22 16:40:33+00:00
On first seeing this I wasn't sure what analogy the author was trying to make. After reading the article my best guess is that they are simply trying to say that, writing an allocator is easier than it seems on the surface.

Though it's not clear to me that the article does a good job of establishing that this is actually true ("mimalloc is only a few thousand lines of code" doesn't pass the smell test).
by mdaniel | 2025-06-22 16:40:36+00:00
I love this idea in principle, but in practice I would guess it means one of two sub-optimal things: either the node caches them for a window of time, in order to know whether to really transmit them, or the logs are mutated post-delivery as kind of a "tiny expiry"

Everything else I could write is just turning various trade-off knobs, which is why I'd guess you haven't seen an out-of-the-box offering that does what you're describing. There's not just one solution to it that would be reasonable for all audiences
by Glyptodon | 2025-06-22 16:41:52+00:00
My mental model does assume they must have plutonium in a meaningful quantity rather than just uranium for a dirty bomb to be remotely "effective" and I have no idea if that's even plausible. And if they do I'm not sure exactly what would lead to a dirty bomb over attempting an actual nuclear device.

But even a not very effective permutation of a dirty bomb seems like it could lead to headlines that look more "positive" for their leadership. (IE create outsized headlines.)
by uncircle | 2025-06-22 16:42:05+00:00
It’s not even education. Many people operate on the belief that being able to use Google and following a couple “experts” on Twitter, of both sides, automatically qualifies their opinion.

At best everyone is repeating the same propaganda talking points, whether US or Iranian (though most of us are from Western countries, so it skews heavily on one side). The Internet is an echo chamber of ill-informed opinions.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-06-22 16:42:14+00:00
I'm honestly not sure if this is satire or why you feel the need to tell me what I believe.

> All Muslims have their own agency. They are all humans capable of making their own decisions. And like all humans are happy to be held responsible for the decisions they make.

And I'm not sure why you feel I don't recognise the agency of Muslims?

As I said previously please make an argument or explain your position and I'll respond to it, but it feels absurd to entertain these seemingly baseless ad hominems.

I grew up in a conflict zone and feel that I have some understanding of the group dynamics. That's totally reasonable and I encourage you to ask yourself if your apparent anger and incredulity here is misplaced.
by perihelions | 2025-06-22 16:42:27+00:00
New updates on the estimates of damage at Fordo:

> "A senior U.S. official acknowledged that the American strike on the Fordo site did not destroy the heavily fortified facility but said the strike had severely damaged it, taking it “off the table.” The person noted that even 12 bunker-busting bombs could not destroy the site."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/22/world/middlee... ("Assessing the Damage at the Nuclear Sites the U.S. Attacked")

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/world/middleeast/iran-for... ("Iran’s Fordo Site Said to Look Severely Damaged, Not Destroyed")

Linked articles also have new satellite imagery from Maxar and Planet.
by Dfiesl | 2025-06-22 16:43:03+00:00
I defo agree that unless you get to interview you're unlikely to get any feedback, but showing your application to others in the industry (or university tutors as in this girls case) and getting their feedback can be super helpful.

With C, I think it always helps to demonstrate some knowledge of what the company gets up to so if your application does get a second glance then it seems like you actually care about the company, and that does take time.
by hinkley | 2025-06-22 16:43:33+00:00
> Chromium is produced

Brearley steel debuted in 1915. The question is not how it is produced in 2025 but how it was produced in 1915.

Wikipedia partly agrees with GP:

“Also in the late 1890s, German chemist Hans Goldschmidt developed an aluminothermic (thermite) process for producing carbon-free chromium.[29] Between 1904 and 1911, several researchers, particularly Leon Guillet of France, prepared alloys that would later be considered stainless steel.[29][30]”

Though it points out a host of household names that knew of iron chrome alloys, including Faraday and Bunsen. Chrome steel existed for 75 years before Brearley came along but seems to have been used for things like canons, which are a lot more dear than cutlery. I wonder how they got their chrome 50 years before Goldschmidt.
by uncircle | 2025-06-22 16:44:13+00:00
The sentence you quoted says “the common opinion”, and for some reason you think you’re being singled out. I was making a generic, societal argument with another poster.

I do not get why you disagree with such hostility, and take it personally.

It is fine to disagree, you know. It would be better to debate the opposing opinion instead of getting so defensive, but alas. This is getting tiring. Good day to you.
by ivape | 2025-06-22 16:45:58+00:00
Can you explain to us what the genocide in Gaza is? I need a thorough explanation of the images I see out of there. What the hell is 50k dead and ghetto camp conditions?

“Tame”

Either you have no respect for my eyes or brain or I am truly an idiot. Write blog articles explaining how what we see and hear is bullshit and post it here please, we’ll assess.

1200 != 50,000

But here is the true mind fuck, 1200 != even one innocent.

Barbaric != Tame

So we march people down from the North to the South, level the area, and then logistically starve them? Tame. Do you know how the Americans marched the Native Americans to death? We’re all fucking idiots to you right?

HN is just subset of society. You’ve got everyone here, including Israeli apologists. Plenty of Jewish developers too. You don’t have to live or die by your “team” when they are literally fucking wrong about this.

Your typical educated American does not even attempt to defend most American policy since the end of WW2 (there’s literally not a single right thing America did). Maybe we’re lucky that we get to have such clear heads about it finally, and I hope the same for those on the wrong side of history on this one, however long it takes.

When one realizes they were barbarically wrong is a true moment of personal and spiritual growth.

The definition of modern national pragmatism appears to be the following based on what so many apologists say:

2 wrongs == 1 right

(The only way this can be correct in anyone’s heart is if emotions have fully overtaken the person)

Let me fix that for you:

2 wrongs != 1 right
by satisfice | 2025-06-22 16:46:19+00:00
Some disconnected reactions:

- There was never a golden age of wide “Overton Windows.”

- Composing a rambling article like this takes a lot of concentration.

- In the oldest days a typical man would get sufficient exercise with the physical labor of life as a warrior or farmer or peasant laborer. I suspect even merchants were more active. Now we have to make a specific activity for ourselves called “working out.”

I guess it’s the same with phones, etc. We must explicitly choose to concentrate.

- Avoid TikTok.
Show HN: I built a gamified YouTube learning app that hit #1 ProductOfTheWEEK
by BUILDERMARCUS | 2025-06-22 16:46:33+00:00
Hey everyone 656 users and 14 days later… Zeno 2.0 is here. But, how did I do it?

No, I'm not a coder. Yes, I built it anyway.

This isn't my first product,I run a startup studio (ikivibelabs . com).

Here's how I built Zeno and hit #1 Product Of The Week on Product Hunt, in 15 steps:

> Noticed how I waste hours on YouTube podcasts without retaining enough > Realized the pain was knowledge retention, not consumption > Studied every AI YouTube summarizer tool in the space. Most felt... meh. > Studied GoogleNoteLLM. It felt... meh. > Visualized exactly what I wanted. > Studied my ideal solution journey > Engineered the perfect prompt for Lovable website and Base44 app > Designed the first UI in a night Plugged in YouTube API + AI > Locked in and built for 10 days straight (bug fixing included) > Tested obsessively for 2 Cold DM’d 50 people > Launched on Product Hunt with zero marketing > Reached #1 Product of The Week > Spent 10 days fixing bugs and implementing feedback. > Stopped using YouTube. > Now, I only use Zeno ahah. +++++++

What you should do to achieve the same results, in 5 steps:

> Be Vision/driven > Focus on Prompt Mastery > Know about product management > Follow your gut > Fix your own problem +++++++

Ps. next?

Im looking for a cofounder.

DM me!
by prox | 2025-06-22 16:46:49+00:00
Thanks for the reminder, I used to use Lungy a lot. Forgot about it.

I just tried v1 again, it blocks me from using it because it wants the microphone but I don’t want to give access. Can you make it optional in settings? Just following the visual is enough for me.

Don’t think it needed it when I used it. Does v2 also have the same issue?
by globular-toast | 2025-06-22 16:47:07+00:00
Sorry but do you really think someone who can't program could follow the instructions on how to learn Python? Copy/paste hello world then just "run it"? Really?

Does this have any way to gauge what the understanding of the user currently is? I'm struggling to understand who could follow those instructions but still needs to be told to write hello world in a new language.

Is finding and reading literature really such a lost art now that people need something like this?