MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by energy123 | 2025-06-30 02:33:22+00:00
The same thing happens in food processing. The low quality stuff gets sold under a different, cheaper brand, or reprocessed into another product.

I'm not going to cast stones at this practice because as always the alternative isn't some magical world where all produce is perfect, the real alternative is that it gets thrown in the trash and wasted, and everyone is worse off despite feeling better about themselves.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-30 02:33:42+00:00
I read something recently, I think it was on HN or linked to from discussion, about something like the opposite. And it was argued something like national security over the price effect it could have on agriculture across state or national borders. Likely ridiculous, but may have had some semi-rationalising nuance. I would have thought the US, of all places, wouldn't be placing such restrictions on liberty.

I might be cross-linking a couple of different things though, so hold back that outrage.

But, yes, I agree. It would also give more people an understanding of what real (non-mass-produced, heirloom) fruits and vegetables taste like. And eggs (my better half regularly buys eggs from a student at the school, the same student also, every morning, tends to the school's vegetable garden with autistic dedication and attention). Meat is a bit more difficult.

Hands in the dirt is good for mental health too.
by npalli | 2025-06-30 02:33:50+00:00
> When Be engineers went to Android and built a Be-inspired API, the first thing they did was tone down the multithreading and dump C++. The OS was less responsive but more stable and easier to program.

Yeah, Android sucked in responsiveness (gap still there but closer) compared to iOS. I guess it didn't matter given the ecosystem dynamics but it was frustrating to see the jankiness of the OS compared to the buttery smooth behavior on iOS.
by 0xb0565e486 | 2025-06-30 02:33:58+00:00
Lately, I’ve been exploring a few interconnected ideas:

Local-first web applications with a compiled backend – After eight years working on web platforms, the conventional stack feels bloated. The client already defines what it wants to fetch or insert. Usually through queries. So why not parse those queries and generate the backend automatically (or at least, the parts that can be)?

Triple stores as a core abstraction – I’ve been thinking about using a triple-based model instead of traditional in-memory data structures, especially in local-first apps. Facts could power both state and logic, and make syncing a lot simpler.

Lower-level systems programming – I’ve mostly worked in high-level languages, but lately I’ve been writing C libraries (like hash maps) and built a minimal 32-bit bare-metal RISC-V OS.

It’s all still brewing, but I think these ideas tie together nicely. What if the OS didn’t have a file system and just a fact store? Everything could be queried and updated live, like a Lisp machine but built on facts.

Some other things I’ve been playing with:

A jQuery-like framework and element factory - You can pass signals that automatically updates the DOM.

A Datomic-like database on top of OPFS - where queries become signals that react to new triples as they enter the system. Pairs well with the framework above.
by maxglute | 2025-06-30 02:34:12+00:00
JP/SKR/TW all does it brazenly (i.e. pacific / south american EEZs), SKR/TW also with their share of slave labor. They just don't get reported on, or analysis will include them but MSM that inevitably regurgitates these "analysis" will downplay / leave them out.

And relative to other DWF / wild catch, PRC catches less per capita... so they're poluting less. See approaching 80% agraculture share. PRC basically the most sustainable seafood producer with more than 10m people. Scale it per capita, PRC isn't even in the same level as US partners who don't get the annual smear campaign.
by darth_avocado | 2025-06-30 02:34:36+00:00
That is not true at all. A very small percentage of our oceans are comprehensively monitored. There is a reason why MH370 could not be located via satellite imaging. Tracking fleets of boats all over the planet is going to be very tricky.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2017/08/how-data-can-heal-ou...
by csjh | 2025-06-30 02:36:16+00:00
Started on a dependency-free (including manual object file creation, excluding manual linker) single-pass C compiler with a goal of it being self-hosting. Spawned after my previous project (single-pass Wasm JIT) started to plateau a bit and wanted to start something more "full-stack compiler"-y.

https://github.com/csjh/c-liva
by ajd555 | 2025-06-30 02:36:39+00:00
Thank you! You've definitely identified the trickiest part, especially when you come in with a track record of, well...0 deliveries (I was in working in tech teams before this). Luckily, there are quite a few freight brokers in the NYC metro area, and they are willing to give you a trial period. Another way to approach is to work with smaller companies and offer discounts during the startup phase. (We're starting deliveries in August)
by cynicalpeace | 2025-06-30 02:37:38+00:00
I just built a chicken coop (nice building something with my hands) and I just put 7 chickens in there.

No asking for permission with the town because of course they'll have something bureaucratic and dumb thing to say.

We're on good terms with all the neighbors, and just mentioned the chickens in passing. Everyone was excited to get eggs. It was a neighborly project.

We live in small town Maine, where I guess we do things differently than in Michigan.
by selcuka | 2025-06-30 02:37:44+00:00
Sure:

- https://www.myid.gov.au/verifying-your-id-in-myid#myid-Austr...

- https://www.afp.gov.au/sites/default/files/PDF/NPC-100PointC...

- https://www.equifax.com.au/personal/identity-verification-10...

The blog post has more use case examples:

https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...
by Uehreka | 2025-06-30 02:38:21+00:00
Honestly this is exactly the kind of area where I’ve found things like OpenAI’s Deep Research and Anthropic’s Advanced Research help a ton. Tell the LLM what you’ve learned, what kinds of things you want to know, and if you don’t know what you want to know then heck, tell it how you feel (like you just did in this comment). I generally try to give it a nice chunky paragraph or two of background and questions.

In my experience, the LLM is usually good at surveying the field, finding resources you might not have found, and evaluating the quality of learning resources. The report that comes back might be super juicy, or it might just point you in some new directions, but it will probably help you get unstuck.
by aard | 2025-06-30 02:39:54+00:00
I've been working on my own version of a literate programming system (https://github.com/adam-ard/organic-markdown). It's kind of a mix of emacs org-mode, jupyter, and Zettelkasten. But, because it's based on standard pandoc-style markdown, you can use it with a much wider range of tools. Any markdown editor will do.

Even though I made it as a toy/proof of concept, it's turned out to be pretty useful for small to medium size projects. As I've used it, I've found all kinds of interesting benefits and helpful usage patterns. I've tried to document some; I hope to do more soon.

--https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/the-joy-of-literat...

--https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/organic-markdown-i...

--https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/dry-on-steroids-wi...

--https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/literate-testing

--https://www.youtube.com/@adam-ard/videos

The project is at a very early stage, but is finally stable enough that I thought it'd be fun to throw out here and see what people think. It's definitely my own unique spin on literate programming and it's been a lot of fun. See what you think!
by quantadev | 2025-06-30 02:40:15+00:00
I wonder what DeekSeek agents would do if they discovered at some future time that USA and China are in a kinetic War. Because we don't have the ability to analyze hidden motivations in model weights, it's impossible to predict, although it seems like it would be easy to do at least basic testing (in a sandbox) to seek if it takes any unexpected actions or tries to get data from any unexpected URLs thru agents.

You can't simply ask the AI what it would do in that case, because it will have been trained to deny that it has any harmful plans, and indeed it may not "know", which is a type of attack I've called "Hypnosis Threat Vector". An AI Agent can be trained to be harmful, and not have any way of even self introspecting what it's "Trigger Words" are. The Trigger Words could indeed be some news headline that only China knows how to inject into the news cycle, causing many agents to notice them and then "wake up" to preform what they're "hypnotized" to do.
by chubot | 2025-06-30 02:40:35+00:00
Yes thanks for testing it. I hope we can get to "awk/Python speed" eventually, but I'm happy to have exceeded "bash and zsh speed"!

And I did notice that zsh can be incredibly slow -- just the parser itself is many times slower than other shells

A few years ago a zsh dev came on Zulip and wished us luck, probably because they know the zsh codebase has a bunch of technical debt

i.e. these codebases are so old that the maintainers only have so much knowledge/time to improve things ... Every once in awhile I think you have to start from scratch :)
by im3w1l | 2025-06-30 02:41:05+00:00
To me this is backwards. I don't think there is a common need to handle a generic file not found error. Let's say the user tries to open an image file. The image file exists, but when decoding the image file you need to open some config file which happens to be missing. That needs entirely different handling than if the image file itself was missing.

Though, I suppose with something broader like IOException the situation is different.

try { open file read some bytes read some more bytes }

makes sense, as they all relate to the same underlying resource being in a good state or not.
by tootyskooty | 2025-06-30 02:41:16+00:00
Still working on https://periplus.app, and recently started to see some traction.

It's an environment for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, exams and flashcards.

Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time.
by milesrout | 2025-06-30 02:41:49+00:00
Nobody said it isn't debt. The difference is that it is debt that makes sense: you can't realistically buy land without it, and houses tend to appreciate so the interest costs are less of a problem - they just represent the time value of money.

Most other debts people incur personally are to buy things they could save for, which go down in value. Like cars.
Programming Language Switching Politics: A Rigged Game of Power
by ricecat | 2025-06-30 02:42:01+00:00
Previously, we've discussed Programming Language Switching Economics. Today, let's take a look at the politics behind it. I wasn't too extremely to throw my theories in a short time. But when I saw many employed downvoter crazily tried to give pressure to destroy my posts as possible, I believe it's not bad to make things clear and clear, everyday. That's very interesting, in the beginning, they said "oh it's just advertise", but then they realized so many people come to read;

So they move to "oh it's just AI slop", but then they realized no one can write such quality post and real experiences like so, and today, AI assistant polishing is good for closing the gap among non-native speakers;

Well, now they have to move to "oh, the color scheme sucks".

Color scheme? Seriously? Didn't you play cyberpunk games? Try it, it's nice.

OK, let's get back to the topic.

https://www.gizvault.com/archives/language-switching-politics
by eschaton | 2025-06-30 02:42:01+00:00
The above poster is basically just repeating libertarian “free market cannot fail” talking points, and probably feels terribly aggrieved that they have to pay for other people to use the roads or have their fires put out or have health care too.

In other words, they’ve outed themselves as a Randroid and their opinion on matters of economics and public policy is worth just as much as Ayn Rand’s: Nothing, or even less.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-30 02:43:01+00:00
The world is not black and white, and paid service can easily coexist with subsidized service. There are many examples of “it costs you $XX but ask us if you need it badly” policies. The best varieties probably do some degree of vetting (because otherwise would slightly defeat the point or make it impractical, especially while LLMs are cheap enough that anyone can use one to write a convincing tear-jerker) and have objective criteria.

I haven’t thought enough to say whether it makes sense for specific cases like IP address allocation, though.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-30 02:44:17+00:00
Tiny program that batch renumbers sections/clauses in documents.

It is like MS Word "Bullets and numbering" but it's a small UNIX filter, no GUI, much faster and smoother than MS Word or Google Docs.

Perhaps the beginning of a markup language for text or HTML files intended to be converted to MS Word.
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-30 02:44:19+00:00
> Let's say their was a hypothetical car loan limit of 1/4th of your annual income. A lot of people would find out really fast they don't need a massive truck.

So much this. Similar "unbounded" pressure on student loans / tuition. It keeps going up because students are able to get loans.

Comparing the average income around here to MSRP of vehicles I see around here and it's clear that a lot of people are driving around in something that approximates a second mortgage!
by WillAdams | 2025-06-30 02:44:44+00:00
My grandfather lived in a time when commercial hunting was outlawed.

I worry that I live in a time when commercial fishing is not sufficiently regulated so that rather than being outlawed, it will simply become infeasible, with the attendant knock-on affects of countries which depend on the oceans for a significant portion of their protein.

There are now a greater tonnage of ships in the ocean than bony fish:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/33/

What will be the next marker to be dropped?

Makes one wish that we could manage something like to Hal Clement's "Raindrop":

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/939760.Music_of_Many_Sph...
by niuzeta | 2025-06-30 02:44:56+00:00
It's kind of boring but I'm learning k8s and argo-cd to figure out if I can do feature-branch deployment to a cluster.

like, it would be very cool to do something like have your feature branch be deployed to a separate pod in dev cluster, and have an ingress rule set up so that it points to that pod only.

So if your dev environment usually points to <some-app>.dev.example.com,

Deploy your feature branch to a dev cluster, but on a different pod. Then have it reachable to <some-app>.feature-branch-1.dev.example.com without touching main.

I think it's a neat idea and I'm sure it should be possible if I configure some istio settings.

It's all new thing and it's fun to have a direction towards learning
by orbital-decay | 2025-06-30 02:45:05+00:00
I think that a lot of monotheistic religions, including Christianity, are generally intolerant to other branches and religions, especially when the faith is supposed to represent absolute truth, so it's probably unrelated to the history of persecution. And Muscovy wasn't the only land opressed by Mongols.

>In general, though, I think it's fair to say that, for most part of human history, the oppressed become the oppressors pretty much as soon as they are capable of it.

Doesn't this also hold for non-oppressed that have the opportunity? Although I suppose it'd be hard to find any examples of non-oppressed groups. Pillaging or conquering neighbors was pretty much the norm throughout the history. Rus' was converted to Christianity in part to stop raids such as Siege of Constantinople of 860.
by kdinn | 2025-06-30 02:46:20+00:00
https://sivic.life

The premise is that when I read social spaces like Reddit or X, if the government has done anything contentious you get nothing more than strident left takes, or strident right takes on the topic. Neither of which is informative or helpful.

So I have set up a site which uses AI which is specifically guided to be neutral and non-partisan, to analyses the government actions from the source documents. It then gives a summary, expected effect, benefits and disadvantages, and ranks the action against 19 "things people care about" (e.g. defence, environment, civil liberties, religious protection, etc.)

The end result is quite compelling. For example here's the page that summarises all the actions which are extremely beneficial or disadvantageous to individual liberties: https://sivic.life/tyca/tyca_individual_liberties/
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-30 02:47:15+00:00
The dwindling of small hatchbacks in the US is so disappointing it’s difficult to put into words. They were the perfect little suburb grocery grabbers, and now you can’t buy them without overpaying for a used one. The next best thing is a sedan that’s longer and harder to maneuver and park despite having markedly worse cargo space and utility, and to get a hatch (not just a liftback) you’re forced into crossovers/SUVs which carry a chunky price premium.

What I wouldn’t do to bring the Fit and Yaris hatch back to the US market.
by abrinz | 2025-06-30 02:48:09+00:00
I'm working on an MCP to give your coding agent the ability to generate on-demand Mermaid diagrams about anything in your codebase. Among other benefits, it is very helpful for spotting unnecessary code or architecture that can accumulate while vibe coding.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mindpilot/mcp

Claude Code Quickstart:

``` claude mcp add mindpilot -- npx @mindpilot/mcp ```
by deadbabe | 2025-06-30 02:48:51+00:00
Do you use ChatGPT? I’ve read a lot of ChatGPT output… this has all the qualities of typical GPT responses: Short punchy sentences as filler, neatly divided sections of similar length with pointless headings, use of “—“, italics, the length of the article is about the length of a typical response, every word is what you would expect to read, there’s no surprises or unexpected sayings, the article follows this style of “and then… and then… and then…”, it doesn’t foreshadow or weave multiple parallel threads of thought or make callbacks. It’s AI garbage.
by nofriend | 2025-06-30 02:48:56+00:00
>both conversions lose the same amount of information

This is exactly what's untrue. I said "orders of magnitude", but I could have said bits - they're analogous concepts. Ints with the high 9 bits set to zero lose no information when converting to single precision floating point. The rest lose progressively more information, concentrated in the low order bits, up to 8 bits. Certainly regrettable, but usually manageable. Converting from floats to ints might be representable exactly, but if the number is, say, near 1, then it will be rounded to 1, losing 23 bits of information. If the number is near 0 then it will be rounded to 0, losing 31 bits of information.
by iamnotmeet | 2025-06-30 02:49:47+00:00
This is interesting! Have you considered leveraging Google OR Tools[1] for route optimization? At a previous hyper-local eCommerce startup I worked for, we used it to solve similar problems. Although the setup and integration is not super easy, but the results far outweighed the effort.

1 - https://github.com/google/or-tools
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 02:50:04+00:00
I like that WSJ won't let me read it for free but will let me listen to most of the article without signing in. Anyone care to summarize?

I dated someone who had an extreme couponing family member and their house was wall to wall shelves, ketchup, canned goods, and TP.

Weird way to live, but I have too many computers in my house, so I'm not one to speak.
by Sporktacular | 2025-06-30 02:50:36+00:00
There is no such thing as an unavoidable war crime.

Reporting is one way they are brought to light. Commenters are allowed to discuss the validity of the claims, whatever their reasoning. You have decided to believe the Israeli military, others have the right to conclude otherwise.

But that the reporters and sources are Israeli means your knee-jerk claims of their anti-semitism or conspiracy are absurd. Nor does that mean the claims must be valid, just that they shouldn't be dismissed out of hand by hair-triggered, wild accusations of anti-semitism. You do know they aren't doing anyone any favours, right?
by jjuliano | 2025-06-30 02:51:20+00:00
I'm a solo founder, and this month, I just got into Cursor vide coding development (from Emacs). Still working and getting accustomed to this new vibe coding as it's easy to mess everything up.

Been developing this AI agent framework for 1 year now. It's very similar to n8n, but exclusively for open-source LLMs. It also just recently got MCP support.

The project is https://kdeps.com
by vetrom | 2025-06-30 02:51:32+00:00
something like https://github.com/renanqts/xdpdropper or cilium's host firewall or https://github.com/boylegu/TyrShield exist or https://github.com/ebpf-security/xdp-firewall today and implement ebpf filter based firewalling.

Of these there is a sample integration for XDPDropper to fail2ban that never got merged https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/pull/3555/files -- I don't think anyone else has really worked on that junction of functionality yet.

There's also wazuh which seems to package ebpf tooling up with a ton of detection and management components, but its not a simple to deploy as fail2ban.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-06-30 02:52:14+00:00
> problem is unchecked consumerism

Problem is if the US consumer had the “moral awakening” you propose (and to be clear you are claiming that basically we are in this situation due to the weak moral character of the average American) then coincidentally our entire economy would begin to crumble. It’s not just car loans, our entire economy works because of debt, and has for at least the last 20 years. The idea that nearly every one benefits financially from this behavior and yet we see this behavior at scale solely and coincidentally because of a sudden mass moral failing is a bit hard to believe.