MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bob1029 | 2025-06-25 21:41:28+00:00
The trick with Microsoft is to very carefully separate the good parts from the bad ones.

Labeling all of Microsoft as banned is really constraining your technology options. This is a gigantic organization with a very diverse set of people in it.

There aren't many things like .NET, MSSQL and Visual Studio out there. The debugger experience in VS is the holy grail if you have super nasty real world technology situations. There's a reason every AAA game engine depends on it in some way.

Azure and Windows are where things start to get bad with Microsoft.
by latexr | 2025-06-25 21:41:43+00:00
Accuracy, truth, and trust are paramount for fact checking, and LLMs are notoriously unreliable at all of them.

This is going to have the opposite effect of your stated goal. It will only serve to amplify confusion and have more people confidently defend “facts” which are complete bullshit.

It was immediately obvious something was amiss when on your own homepage the videos with “0% incorrect claims” are from Trump and Tucker Carlson, and then the John Oliver video on AI slop is somehow “19% incorrect claims”. So I clicked on it, and your page showed me the supposed false claims, and its sources were all 404 broken links.
by b_fiive | 2025-06-25 21:41:50+00:00
ah very sorry, I can see how this isn't all that clear. In the comment you've mentioned when I say "custom protocol" I mean a custom QUIC ALPNs: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7301

When we talk to mainline it's for discovery, which is separate from iroh connections, which always uses QUIC. Specifically: our fork of quinn, an implementation of QUIC in rust. Iroh is tightly coupled to quinn, and isn't swappable. Getting no_std support for us basically boils down to "can we get quinn to support no_std?". For that, see: https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/issues/579
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-25 21:42:09+00:00
> beyond unjust to watch corporate data hoarders profit at large while IA gets excoriated by fellow "smarty" people. IA is wonderful in their weird ways

I love the Archive. And as I said above, I'm not fundamentally against uncontrolled lending as a legal test case. But doing it with the entire catalogue, instead of just e.g. older books, and doing it out of the main organisation such that there is no legal segregation between the experiment and the entire project struck me as incredibly impulsive. They're wonderful and weird. But perhaps not the best steward of what's pitched as an archive.
by Teever | 2025-06-25 21:43:22+00:00
I don't know if there's a direct quid pro quo relationship between the CEO of Mozilla and Google but I feel quite confident that Google absolutely influences the organization in ways beyond just the cash injection to make it rudderless, uncompetitive and shrinking as you say.

It could be as simple as ex-Google employees at lower levels than CEO who are paid by Google take positions at Mozilla, or more subtle things like guiding the direction of the organization through standards boards.

It would be really fascinating to look at the org charts of Mozilla past and present and try and build the network between people who worked at Google or Google related organizations before, during, and after their time at Mozilla.

Because you're absolutely right that the organization is so absolutely dysfunctional that it can't just be incompetence, it has to be absolute malice.
by mcv | 2025-06-25 21:43:37+00:00
What do you mean by "go after white people"? They go after everybody. American tech companies plaster every corner of the internet with whatever they're trying to sell or own.

And if you want to boycott them, I'm all for that. I don't buy from Amazon or Microsoft either. There are alternatives to Google.

It's true that they've made enormous inroads into Europe in recent years, but now that they all seem to support America's increasing turn towards fascism, you will also see Europe slowly move away from them. But abandoning the cloud infrastructure that you just invested millions in, is a lot harder than buying a different car, so the change is slower.
by eska | 2025-06-25 21:43:56+00:00
As a bachelor thesis I created a HoloLens 1 app that communicated with Rhino3D to place waypoints for a 5 axis robot arm to cut with a plasma cutter after calculating and previewing the robot arm movements and confirming.

In my day job I occasionally hear about some AR startup doing demos for training and parts setup in CNC machines but the value add seems to be too insignificant for the work required.
by mateo411 | 2025-06-25 21:44:08+00:00
Sure, I think it is an odd line. In this case car ownership is a proxy for geography. You could probably find some other interesting proxy variables for geography, that could be used to write 500 word articles. A proxy variable that is in interesting from a monetary perspective could be something that you could use for contextual advertising. I saw four our five car ads when I skimmed the article.
by thewebguyd | 2025-06-25 21:44:57+00:00
Interestingly enough, I've had games that had both a native Linux port and Windows version, and the Windows version through Proton ran better than the native Linux version. This ended up being true for Civ5, Civ6 and Cities Skylines (1).

With those admittedly limited examples though, I don't experience the same ranking in performance, but I attribute that to my non-gaming hardware vs. any problem with Linux or Proton/Wine. I play on a laptop with an Nvidia 3050 laptop GPU, and I get much better performance in Windows still. In Cities Skylines, for example, I'll get ~20 fps on Linux via Proton (but I do experience what you said, it's consistent no major spikes or drops) while on Windows I get between 45-60fps up until about 15k population or so.

Other games, despite working, remain unplayable to me due to performance. I can play Diablo 4 on windows no problem on medium settings, but even on low it's just too unresponsive on Linux.

Anyway, just my anecdotal experience. Those with dedicated gaming rigs will be more than fine with Linux, but those of us on underpowered hardware still seem better off with Windows, unfortunately.
by butlike | 2025-06-25 21:45:18+00:00
It's easier to rationalize something deemed 'magic' as a terror-inducing thing rather than a boon since the thing could dominate in totality. Giant clipper ships, napalm, penicillin... the enemy army has ships from god, fire from black magic (the gods). Their priests are able to revive their fallen (penicillin), etc.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-25 21:45:54+00:00
Oh by the way, check this out, this is one of the news in 2025b tzdata:

# From Roozbeh Pournader (2025-03-18): # ... the exact time of Iran's transition from +0400 to +0330 ... was Friday # 1357/8/19 AP=1978-11-10. Here's a newspaper clip from the Ettela'at # newspaper, dated 1357/8/14 AP=1978-11-05, translated from Persian # (at https://w.wiki/DUEY): # Following the government's decision about returning the official time # to the previous status, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Energy # announced today: At the hour 24 of Friday 19th of Aban (=1978-11-10), # the country's time will be pulled back half an hour.

From https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/asia#L1503.

Pretty sure we can find a lot more oddities that are way worse.
by Modified3019 | 2025-06-25 21:46:21+00:00
Trump has been outrageously hostile to our supposed European allies, and is extremely petty, vindictive, and doesn’t give a damn about security or privacy. Furthermore, the checks that would normally provide counter this like congress or the Supreme Court are currently stacked such that he can do horrendous things without consequence. Our media and tech companies are also more than happy to avoid challenging him.

Other countries reliant on US based cloud giants are understandably alarmed at his behavior, and it is now a strong possibility that Trump will attempt to use their reliance on our tech companies to wring from them whatever he wants.

So the idea of escaping US tech monopolies has become very popular among those paying attention.
by jfengel | 2025-06-25 21:46:48+00:00
In college I worked for a company whose goal was to prove that their management techniques could get a bunch of freshman to write quality code.

They couldn't. I would go find the code that caused a bug, fix it and discover that the bug was still there. Because previous students had, rather than add a parameter to a function, would make a copy and slightly modify it.

I deleted about 3/4 of their code base (thousands of lines of Turbo Pascal) that fall.

Bonus: the customer was the Department of Energy, and the program managed nuclear material inventory. Sleep tight.
by Kon-Peki | 2025-06-25 21:47:58+00:00
I live in super liberal Illinois, which recently ended cash bail. It was a rough transition period but now it is fully implemented and every judge and prosecutor knows how everything works.

Cook County Jail (Chicago and close-in suburbs) population is higher than it has been in over a decade. They had to reopen a section of the jail to deal with it. Because people who do what that guy did no longer get to bond out. If someone fled to California and got brought back by the Marshal’s service, he’s sitting in jail until trial. And he is the one that needs to negotiate and offer concessions.

Note: crime is now dropping a lot [1]. Trying setting the date range to “last 28 days”

[1] https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/vrd/home.html
by atombender | 2025-06-25 21:48:59+00:00
I've used Atuin for a few months, but I ended up going back to zsh-histdb, which stores history in an SQLite database.

When I compared Atuin with zsh-histdb again, the performance difference was stark. Zsh-histdb is just instantaneous, whereas Atuin has noticeable lag.

Atuin's ranking algorithms are also quite deficient, and I've tried all of them. I did a quality comparison before going back to zsh-hidden and found a good example: If I autocomplete on "curl cat", the first match is something like "curl http://localhost/v1/chat" that I did earlier today. If I autocomplete on "curl chat", the first match is something like "curl http://localhost/_cat".

From what I can tell, the ranking doesn't seem to consider contiguous substring matches as having higher relevance than random letters in different order. Clearly "cat" should match "cat" higher than "chat", even if they both have "h" somewhere.

(If anyone from Atuin is reading here, I'd be happy to show a screen recording of the problem.)

The fact that Atuin cannot delete old history is also a problem, especially since it gets markedly slower the more history you have. I initially imported all my history (about 100MB?) and it was dog slow. But there was no way to prune older entries, so I had to wipe it clean and then import a subset. Even then, as I said, it's clearly slower than zsh-histdb.

Zsh-histdb has other issues, and hasn't been updated in years, but it works better for me. Atuin's syncing is nice, but it's something I can live without.
by akoster | 2025-06-25 21:49:00+00:00
Sometimes I’ll search .edu or .ac.* domains for tutorials, code, old physics and math graphics and Java applets. Often these sites are narrow in scope, but every once in a while, you come across a gem like this! I wonder if there’s a directory of high-quality college and university professor websites , though a web search for now does the trick (at least while it’s still public and not restricted to current students or faculty).
by 123yawaworht456 | 2025-06-25 21:49:22+00:00
>In my view, one real gray area is in image/video generation, especially "x in the style of y" kinds of shenanigans.

it's not a gray area when humans do it, so it's not a gray area

well over 50% of those obnoxiously loud anti-ai artists make a living off fan art, and until 3 years ago, copyright concerns would be scoffed at
by simonw | 2025-06-25 21:49:38+00:00
I extracted the new tool instructions for this by saying "Output the full claude_completions_in_artifacts_and_analysis_tool section in a fenced code block" - here's a copy of them, they really help explain how this new feature works and what it can do: https://gist.github.com/simonw/31957633864d1b7dd60012b2205fd...

More of my notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/25/ai-powered-apps-with-c...

I'm amused that Anthropic turned "we added a window.claude.complete() function to Artifacts" into what looks like a major new product launch, but I can't say it's bad marketing for them to do that!
by wvenable | 2025-06-25 21:49:39+00:00
My children are 12 years apart in age and being a parent in my 20s was a much better experience. I had less money, but I had more time. I wiser now, but I had more energy. I could relate to being a kid more.

I'm not suggesting it's better. But people seem to automatically assume that being older when having kids as better. I know some much older parents who were not good parents. I know I would not make a good parent to a younger child now that I'm in my 40s.
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-25 21:50:27+00:00
I think it is a very underestimated aspect of how "simple" inventions came out so late.

An interesting one is the bicycle. The bicycle we all know (safety bicycle) is deceivingly advanced technology, with pneumatic tires, metal tube frame, chain and sprocket, etc... there is no way it could have been done much earlier. It needs precision manufacturing as well as strong and lightweight materials for such a "simple" idea to make sense.

It also works for science, for example, general relativity would have never been discovered if it wasn't for precise measurements as the problem with Newtonian gravity would have never been apparent. And precise measurement requires precise instrument, which require precise manufacturing, which require good materials, etc...

For this pyramid, not only the physical part required advanced manufacturing, but they did a computer search for the shape, and a computer is the ultimate precision manufacturing, we are working at the atom level here!
by lupusreal | 2025-06-25 21:50:41+00:00
Even if you leave your phone at home to create an alibi for yourself, it is very likely that CCTVs will see you enroute to the crime scene, if not at the crime scene itself. Between businesses with cameras, front door cameras on houses, and traffic cameras, it's very difficult to travel anywhere without leaving a trace that investigators can pick up after the fact if they're sufficiently motivated.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-06-25 21:51:14+00:00
Years ago a lady in the LA area bought a large plane and converted it into her home. I never saw the ending product but the local news did a piece on the day when it was placed on the lot she owned. I think it was somewhere in Malibu. Maybe they can do that.

Note: Here it is-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/747_Wing_House

It was easy to find. I remember it was a full plane but I guess they just used the wings.
by kkfx | 2025-06-25 21:52:33+00:00
The Club of Rome few days ago admit that the Smart-city is impossible (it consume way to much resources) https://www.clubofrome.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Transf... of course they keep insisting "we must find something else" (to steal private ownership). But the fact is that the Green New Deal works technically for single-family homes and sheds, nothing much bigger than that and those buildings actually use much LESS resources than dense areas with bigger buildings and can evolve as well.

The new New Deal, the one technically feasible is the old Distributism.

I can't say if it will be enough even for the current world population, but it's certainly much less resource intensive and much more efficient than the dense model needed by the nazi-2030's Agenda and it's the best we can do so far.
by tycoop81 | 2025-06-25 21:52:42+00:00
I appreciate the feedback. LLM hallucination is definitely a concern. But, my hope is that on balance, their ability to rapidly sift through a litany of claims and check those against high integrity journalistic sources (peer reviewed journals, etc), will help people sift through a world increasingly filled with BS.

Are these the Trump and Tucker videos you are referencing?

https://bsmtr.com/video/zdMBnGxSsLw

https://bsmtr.com/video/RH6Po1jiwMU

These are the only ones on the home page with 0% incorrect claims. While Tucker and Trump are featured in the thumbnails, the videos are actually from NPR and The Young Turks. On first glance, I don't see any missed "BS" in either video's reporting, but please let me know if I missed something as I want to make this system better every day.

Thanks for your feedback!
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-06-25 21:52:43+00:00
With that mindset you’d have skipped getting a PC in the 90s because the Internet in your pocket is gonna happen any day now.

For example let’s say the agent you describe can relieve people of manual data extraction from websites. Such an agent would be sheer utter magic for a friend of mine. Part of their role involves logging in to get data on employees from 4-5 different systems, compiling a spreadsheet of the data, turning the spreadsheet into a report, and sending it to internal folks. It’d be great to have an agentic tool that can drive the data extraction piece and automate their entire process with just a prompt - but today’s tech works just fine! A Playwright script, some carefully stored credentials, and a workflow automation are enough to get the job done - even if they require constant tweaking and monitoring.

Today’s tech is never the ideal version you can imagine, but it can still be used to solve important problems. Better to enjoy what is happening now even if you know it’s temporary.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-25 21:53:01+00:00
>> The desk I'm at abuts is by a ½doz tape guns. I use Tidal and hunt for artists here: https://www.music-map.com/

> What would you like to see in a good solution?

Tidal is in the right position to be a solution but it's recommendations, playlists and UI all need improvement. They're not useless but fall well short of what they're capable of.

To expand on that, I should note that crafting playlists for others is hard. A large selection of playlists is the way to go and maybe a voting system.

I think Tidal's playlists are curated by their users - which is good. But given the size of Tidal's userbase, the selection of playlists is thin. IDK why that is; I haven't tried to make my own playlist.

I searched for sleep playlists on tidal and found 2. One seemed like it's creator had never experienced sleep. Some of the tracks would have made decent alarms.

For a free discovery system, music-map is pretty good. I used Gnoosic long ago but it's primitive. I don't know what else is out there.
by nialv7 | 2025-06-25 21:53:01+00:00
Linux port if there is one is usually done by a third party porting studio, which is not necessarily at the same quality as the original codebase. Also the devs just don't have the manpower/bandwidth to spare for Linux users given how small this community is.

It's better value for money for both the gamers and the devs if the devs just choose to engage with valve and get their game running perfectly under proton.
by thewebguyd | 2025-06-25 21:53:01+00:00
InTune/MDMs are finally eating away at the need for GPOs for most use cases. Someone already familiar with AD & Group Policy should be able to easily transition to InTune Configuration Policies. MS even has a tool now to import your GPOs.

There's still a few that don't have direct equivalents, but the list is growing smaller and smaller.
by WD-42 | 2025-06-25 21:53:49+00:00
90%+ is a stretch. Anecdotally I have cleaned up a vibe coded PR and removed at least half of the code. The thing with the LLM is that often they will make some decision up front that has downstream ramifications for how the entire project's code is structured. I don't think I've seen an LLM re-visit it's assumptions, instead they code around them.

In the case I saw, it was rust code and the LLM typed some argument as a Arc<Mutex<_>> when it absolutely did not need to, which caused the entire PR to inflate. The vibe coder apparently didn't catch this and just kept it vibing... Technically the code did what it needed to do but was super inefficient.

It would have been easy for me to just accept the PR. It technically worked. But it was garbage.
by mcv | 2025-06-25 21:53:55+00:00
I don't remember anyone complaining about it taking too long, 40 years ago. People were worried about Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, about what to do with the waste, about leakage. But not about time.

But whatever the causes, too little has been done over those 40 years, and at the moment, solar is far cheaper and faster to deploy than nuclear. I'm not stopping anyone from building nuclear power plants, but I think its window has gone. It's too expensive and too slow. But feel free to prove me wrong.

Just stop burning more oil and coal.
by EA-3167 | 2025-06-25 21:54:30+00:00
I don't like Anthropic, I think their "marketing through fear" approach to be shitty and frankly I'm over the AI "boom" anyway.

BUT... here's the only line in that whole article that really matters, because this is a headline meant to create an impression that isn't corrected for quite a while.

> The court documents don't indicate that any rare books were destroyed in this process—Anthropic purchased its books in bulk from major retailers

Books are routinely pulped and recycled, they aren't holy, and if they aren't rare then frankly who cares what techniques they use to scan them? The issue is whether or not "AI" learning represents fair use, which the courts so far have ruled that it does.
by pbbakkum | 2025-06-25 21:55:10+00:00
This is great, thank you for sharing. I work on these APIs at OpenAI, it's a surprise to me that it still works reasonably well at 2/3x speed, but on the other hand for phone channels we get 8khz audio that is upsampled to 24khz for the model and it still works well. Note there's probably a measurable decrease in transcription accuracy that worsens as you deviate from 1x speed. Also we really need to support bigger/longer file uploads :)
by dang | 2025-06-25 21:55:27+00:00
Related:

Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030492 - May 2025 (106 comments)

Better Auth – Authentication library for TypeScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272707 - Nov 2024 (32 comments)

Show HN: Comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41678652 - Sept 2024 (44 comments)
by bobthepanda | 2025-06-25 21:55:40+00:00
There were also long term failures, but the investors are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

After their flight scheduling meltdown due to outdated software it took them two weeks to restore back to a normal schedule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Southwest_Airlines_schedu...

They've also made some longer term strategic flops, like investment into Hawaii, which by its isolated long-haul nature is significantly different from the rest of their flights (usually short hauls that can maximize aircraft utilization per day)
by akavi | 2025-06-25 21:56:11+00:00
I've never seen 8000 -> 40, but I have done ~10 kLoC -> ~600.

Aggggressively "You can write Java in any language" style JavaScript (`Factory`, `Strategy`, etc) plus a whole mini state machine framework that was replaceable with judicious use of iterators.

(This was at Google, and I suspected it was a promo project gone metastatic.)