MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-05 20:04:24+00:00
Okay let's get one thing out of the way: You can't use a narrow legalese-defined definition of "wiretapping" and act like it's the same as the popular definition of wiretapping. You do this when you talk about the "wiretapping" in the bill and say that it "really is that crazy". You might not realize that you're doing this, because it might be so ingrained in your training as, whatever profession you are, but it doesn't fly with me. You MUST choose between one definition or the other, and either way, your argument falls apart.

Secondly, if "someone disagrees with me an organization I like in a strident and caustic way" is enough to make you reach for an ad hominem, then that just shows an unfortunate delusionality on your part. Not really helpful to your cause me-thinks.

> Far from merely shielding tracking pixel abusers from "frivolous" lawsuits <blah blah blah>

It appears that we agree on the substance of my argument. Which is enough for me.

EDIT: After reading a comment below, it seems that you might actually be using the "popular" definition of wiretapping, in which case, please provide an example of a scenario where this law allows something nefarious, taking into account other laws such as the CCPA. I doubt one exists.
by loudmax | 2025-06-05 20:04:34+00:00
The current US copyright duration is 70 years after the life of the author. This is absolutely bonkers. 50 years from publication would be a significant improvement.

50 years ago was 1975. If copyright were limited to 50 years, we'd be looking at all of the Beatles works being in the public domain. We'd be midway though Led Zeppelin, and a lot of the best work from Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones.

Also, Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man. Disney would still profit from the MCU films which they produced in the 2010's, but they couldn't stop you from releasing your own Batman vs Spider-Man story.

The Harry Potter books would still belong to JK Rowling, but the Narnia stories would be available for all.

The Godfather 1 and 2 would be in the public domain, as would be original Star Trek TV show, and we'd be coming up on Star Wars pretty soon.

If there were no copyright protection, these works wouldn't have been created. It is good that Paul McCartney and George Lucas and JK Rowling have profited from their creative output. It would be okay if they only profited for the first 50 years. Nobody is counting on revenue over half a century in the future when they create a work of art today.

This is our culture. It should belong to all of us.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-05 20:04:36+00:00
Don't kill yourself for a position that is clearly of limited duration, though. Don't take on so much of a workload that you can't have a private life, including things like interview prep.

I generally advise against sacrificing for any company that isn't yours anyway, but double so for a company that's going under. You don't have to do all the work that needs doing.
by rchaud | 2025-06-05 20:05:27+00:00
I think he has an extremely long horizon. What we are seeing in the US today, the accelerated pace of institutional destruction (science and technology funding crushed, regulatory bodies hollowed out, constant division qnd threats of civil war) is precisely what occurred in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. These go a lot further than just carrying out the fantasies of American conservatives. They are about destroying the very pillars of American power, something Putin has wanted ever he saw the damage wrought by the overnight transition of Russia into a democracy and market economy, which happened at the behest of western economists and business interests. And just like in Russia, these events always result in one outcome: dictatorship.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-05 20:05:42+00:00
I think this is debatable. But I've used Cursor and various extensions for VS Code. They're all fine (but cursor can fuck all the way off for stealing the `code` shell integration from VS Code) but you don't _need_ an IDE as Claude Code has shown us (currently my primary method of vibe coding).

It's mostly about the cost though. Things are far more affordable in the the various apps/subscriptions. Token-priced API's can get very expensive very quickly.
by echelon | 2025-06-05 20:05:55+00:00
They're also still too expensive, and that's creating a lot of opportunity for other players.

Even though ElevenLabs remains the quality leader, the others aren't that far behind.

There are even a bunch of good TTS models being released as fully open source, especially by cutting-edge Chinese labs and companies. Perhaps in a bid to cut off the legs of American AI companies or to commoditize their compliment. Whatever the case, it's great for consumers.

YCombinator-backed PlayHT has been releasing some of their good stuff too.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-05 20:06:02+00:00
Making it difficult for ordinary people to sideload apps that access their SMS or accessibility features (e.g. screen recording, controlling the phone) is the point.

I think what people on HN really forget is that the average person isn’t equipped to tell the difference between a legit source sideloaded app or a Trojan horse app that some TikTok video instructed them to install.
by riebschlager | 2025-06-05 20:07:01+00:00
I didn't see anything about this in the documentation or prompting guide, but... is it supposed to be able to sing?

Since I am a fundamentally unserious person, I copied in the Friends theme song lyrics into the demo and what came out was a singing voice with guitar. In another test, I added [verse] and [chorus] labels and it's singing acappella.

[1] and [2] were prompted with just the lyrics. [3] was with the verse/chorus tags. I tried other popular songs, but for whatever reason, those didn't flip the switch to have it sing.

[1] http://the816.com/x/friends-1.mp3 [2] http://the816.com/x/friends-2.mp3 [3] http://the816.com/x/friends-3.mp3
by hallh | 2025-06-05 20:07:12+00:00
I don't think you can classify reading as a purely visual modality, despite being a visual medium. People with dislexia may see perfectly fine, but only the translation layer processing the text gets jumbled. Granted, we are not born with the ability to read, so that translation layer is learned. On the other hand, we don't perceive everything in our visual field either, magicians and youtube videos use this limitation to trick and entertain us, and these we are presumably born with, given that its a shared human trait. Evidently, some of the translation layers involved with processing our vision were seemingly evolved naturally and are part of our brains, so why would we not allow artificial intelligence similar advance starting points for processing data?
by crazygringo | 2025-06-05 20:07:13+00:00
HFCS isn't any meaningfully different from sugar. It's basically chemically the same as honey. And no, they don't put it in everything. It's in soda and certain sweets (obviously) and sweet sauces, but it's not like it's creeping into unexpected places in some huge way. Yes, there may be foods with a hint of sweetness that have a hint of HFCS, but then it's a negligible amount anyways. HFCS isn't some kind of bogeyman. It's essentially just sugar. Treat it accordingly.
by mikeshi42 | 2025-06-05 20:07:41+00:00
I agree - rotel seems like a really good fit for a lightweight lambda integration for OTel, it of course should work already since we stand up an OTel ingest endpoint so it should be seamless to send data over! (Kind of the beauty of OTel of course)

I've also been in touch with Mike & Ray for a bit, who've told me they've added ClickHouse support recently which makes the story even better :)
by hyperjeff | 2025-06-05 20:08:16+00:00
I can’t speak to the errors you’re seeing, only that my experience is different. I’ve written well over a hundred CLI apps on macOS, of all sizes. I consider it a very good language for it too (also for scripting). A nice thing is that you can leverage the whole of AppKit/Foundation/Carbon/etc in CLI apps allowing for uniquely powerful tooling & integration.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-05 20:08:32+00:00
If your AI scaling statement is accurate then the problem will eventually solve itself as organizations that mandated AI usage will start to fall behind their non-AI mandating peers.

My experience so far is that if you architect your systems properly AI continues to scale very well with code base size. It's worth noting that the architecture to support sustained AI velocity improvement may not be the architecture that some human architects have previously grown comfortable with as their optimal architecture for human productivity in their organization. This is part of the learning curve of the tools IMO.
by Shmungus | 2025-06-05 20:10:30+00:00
Thanks for the transparency and for sharing this perspective. I understand the fine line communities have to walk between fostering visionary ideas and maintaining grounded, meaningful discussions.

ANGELCORE definitely embraces ambitious, even mythic language, but it’s deeply rooted in technical work and concrete progress. The recursive and symbolic elements aren’t just poetic; they reflect real architectural decisions in the codebase that enable self-reflection, ethical reasoning, and biological interfacing.
by palmotea | 2025-06-05 20:11:08+00:00
> Making it difficult for ordinary people to sideload apps that access their SMS or accessibility features (e.g. screen recording, controlling the phone) is the point.

I wonder if they could solve that with delays. E.g. you can sideload, but the process is deliberately delayed to take two full days and require carefully reading warning screens and correctly answering questions about the warnings, then getting time to think, multiple times.
by zyntraxis | 2025-06-05 20:11:17+00:00
There’s a force within each of us — subtle yet undeniable — that fuels clarity, focus, and strength. For me, it’s the black tourmaline, a stone that anchors energy and sharpens the mind.

Zyn is no different. It’s not just a build system — it’s a source of unseen energy for your code, a silent catalyst empowering developers to create with flow and precision.

Maybe you’ve heard of Zyn. Maybe you’ve even used it. But what’s happening now is just the surface.

Like the tourmaline holding mysteries beneath its surface, Zyn holds potential that reveals itself only when you’re truly ready to tap into it.

The story is unfolding — quietly, powerfully — and it’s already rewriting the rules of how we build.

You’re part of this story.

Keep watching. The real power is yet to come.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-05 20:11:44+00:00
I do not know how to interpret the benchmarks. OCaml is really fast, so the numbers do not make sense to me, at a quick glance. Is it worse or better to Python or Ruby according to the benchmark? I would like to see the code, too, because if it is that much slower than Python or Ruby, then there is a serious problem with the implementation.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-05 20:12:57+00:00
So what you're implying is that my apartment complex can MITM my TLS connections and sell my data? And my window-cleaning company can use lasers to bug my office? And there's no recourse for me? There are no other laws that cover this? Such as at the federal level? Or, are you missing important context and other factors?
by notahacker | 2025-06-05 20:13:27+00:00
> It's not at all standard practice to deliberately dispose of satellites this way (SpaceX is a major outlier), and wasn't even on the radar in the 1990's, when this satellite was being built.

tbf it is now a standard practice (quite literally: it's part of ISO24113) for satellites in LEO to lower the orbit to allow reentry via natural orbital decay within 5 years or less (recently reduced from 25 years or less). Your average CubeSat launched into the lower reaches achieves this naturally through atmospheric drag without propulsion, but anyone sticking their satellite at 700km needs propulsion and sufficient total impulse to be able to conduct a deorbiting mission at end of life.

But yeah, certainly wasn't in the 1990s when congestion of LEO wasn't a consideration
by sieste | 2025-06-05 20:13:33+00:00
Impressive. However, I don't like how AI foundation models are always advertised as alternatives to "traditional" (physics based) forecasting. Virtually all AI weather models are trained on ERA5 reanalysis, which is a blend of observations and numerical model forecasts. Without a good global numerical model of the atmosphere there would be no AI model. I wish this synergy were emphasised more, rather than always going straight for the easy "AI beats physics!!1!" headline.
by JadeNB | 2025-06-05 20:13:43+00:00
> Is Pierre Menard's Quixote a repetition of Cervantes' or is it a completely different work that just happens to contain the same words?

I think that that is not the right question. It is a repetition of Cervantes's work by design, at least if one takes, as I do, 'repetition' to mean saying or writing the same words in the same order. I think the question is whether it is therefore the same work, or a different work that contains the same words.
by jaredklewis | 2025-06-05 20:13:48+00:00
> I have heard Dr Lilach Mollick, dir of Pedagogy at Wharton, say this has been shown numerous times. People who follow her husband, Ethan, are probably aware already.

I'd be curious to see the sources.

Basically every study I have ever read making some claim about programming (efficacy of IDEs, TDD, static typing, pair programming, formal CS education, ai assistants, etc...) has been a house of cards that falls apart with even modest prodding. They are usually premised on one or more inherently flawed metrics like number of github issues, LoC or whatever. That would be somewhat forgivable since there are not really any good metrics to go on, but then the studies invariably make only a perfunctory effort to disentangle even the most obvious of confounding variables, making all the results kind of pointless.

Would be happy if anyone here knew of good papers that would change my mind on this point.
by gosub100 | 2025-06-05 20:14:07+00:00
Just to enumerate a few of the sides of this problem:

- economics. Junk food is more available because processed foods last longer and can be stored at mini marts and gas stations. It is true that beans and rice are cheaper than junk food, but junk food is a very cheap way for a dopamine hit.

- time: people have less time to cook due to working and commuting

- urban planning: walkable neighborhoods are few in the US. Lots of daily exercise is foregone for this simple reason.

- culture: the US has a very pleasure-seeking culture. Given the choice of having healthy food vs gratifying food, we tend to the latter.

All of these factors conspire to get us where we are.
Ask HN: How do traditional software systems fit into an agentic future?
by calflegal | 2025-06-05 20:14:13+00:00
Like many, I'm a little frustrated by the relentless push into AI (though I use and love cursor), specifically agent patterns. Is there no home in the future for simple systems with button interfaces and function calls? Do you expect those to be built on the fly by some agent?

There's so much python slop being slung around, but I guess one day these things will write their own bytecode, I don't know.
by voxlax | 2025-06-05 20:14:17+00:00
I´m living in the middle of a city, and PM2.5 levels get very high at times. We are way above the yearly 5ug/m3 recommendation. So I just bought a lot of air purifiers (just HEPA, everything else commercially available is useless) and they get switched on if the levels get high (via HomeAssistant). I have a device in the garden and another inside, so I am monitoring the difference on a regular basis. I optimize (manually, no fancy data crunching) for low noise produced by the filters and low <2-3ug/m3 PM2.5 values indoors. I don´t have forced ventilation, so I need to know how much do I open the windows to get humidity and VOCs down, while not letting in too much smog. Sounds more complicated than it really is.
by NewMountain | 2025-06-05 20:14:35+00:00
There's something very wrong with the Russian one. The first example "Jessica | Tell History", is British woman speaking British English transliterated from Russian. It's absolute murder of the Russian language and painful to listen to.

The second example "Jessica | Record a commercial" is perfect. Confidence restored.

The third example "Laura | Help a client" is back to glass in your ears. This time an American is speaking American English transliterated from Russian.

Yikes. The English sounded fine, but the Russian has serious issues. Either there's a bug in your configuration (I hope) or your evals for Russian are unsound.

Edit: dial back the editorializing.
by roywiggins | 2025-06-05 20:15:19+00:00
The thing we seem to be learning especially now with GLP-1 drugs is that a lot of skinny people are not skinny because they have iron self control, but because they don't need it, because their bodies aren't constantly sending them screaming chemical signals to eat. These drugs turn those signals down and suddenly people stop wanting to eat so much.

So another hypothesis that seems totally in keeping with the data is that either 1) some group of people have always had this problem in history, they just haven't had access to food like we do now, and/or 2) something about modernity is pushing those chemical triggers up to overdrive in more people.

Self-control really sucks as a solution to anything. When was the last societal problem solved by a national campaign of personal self-control?
by yencabulator | 2025-06-05 20:15:22+00:00
It's a research project. It has been influential enough. Researchers have also made hardware prototypes that pushed this message-passing-cores design ever further.

In the non-academic world, HPC and realtime people have reimplemented some of these ideas into Linux, making it so that a core can be fully dedicated to an application, not receiving interrupts ("tickless"), not handling any kernel tasks, etc. For example, https://htor.inf.ethz.ch/ross2012/slides/ross2012-akkan.pdf https://insidehpc.com/2009/10/tilera-100-core-x86-architectu... https://lwn.net/Articles/549580/ https://lwn.net/Articles/816298/
by Zigurd | 2025-06-05 20:15:35+00:00
The way this is designed appears to be entirely intentional and sensible. Yes, you can still install malware using ADB. It's just harder. That seems really sensible. It's a speed bump, but not a prohibition.

I also haven't seen any specific examples of software that's frequently sideloaded that would be unjustly discriminated against.
by gptacek | 2025-06-05 20:16:16+00:00
If you're willing to abstract a bit from populations of animals to populations of bacteria, there is the minimum selective concentration (MSC), which is the smallest amount of antibiotic you can add to the growth medium and detect antibiotic resistant bacteria competing out non-antibiotic-resistant bacteria:

https://revive.gardp.org/resource/minimal-selective-concentr...
by ReptileMan | 2025-06-05 20:16:31+00:00
>These policies reinforce Google’s control over Android’s ecosystem under the guise of security but have sparked renewed concern over digital autonomy, innovation suppression, and user rights.

Ahhh yes. You want some of the action apple is getting from EU commission don't you?

Talking about the api-s that discriminate between playstore and side loaded aps. Which is not clear if are Singapore only
Ask HN: Best way to make the most of WWDC?
by jspann | 2025-06-05 20:16:36+00:00
I've always wanted to go since I built my first app in middle school and I finally have the opportunity this year! I'm from the east coast but will spend the whole week there and had planned on going to the live sessions / workshops.

Any advice on taking advantage of Cupertino or suggestions on how to make the most of the conference?
by sdeframond | 2025-06-05 20:19:52+00:00
> And you think that addiction is a moral/spiritual problem? Nope, it is an endocrinological problem.

Interesting point. Addiction needs a drug. Drug needs dealers.

Thankfully, dealing drugs is forbidden.

Selling unhealthy and bordeline addictive "food" is défini legal though. Should we regulate this more?
by NickC25 | 2025-06-05 20:21:52+00:00
>A lot of these flyover country bigots you speak of have no clue who is part of the Jewish faith and who is not

A good indicator can usually be their last name, especially if they are of German origin.

> wear religious garb that would make them stand out

Ever been to Brooklyn? How about Miami Beach? I'm from close to one of those places, and live in the other - and see Jewish people choosing to dress in religious garb every day. The more religious one gets (goes for Islam too), the more obvious it is to a passerby.
by Shmungus | 2025-06-05 20:22:22+00:00
The mycelium aspect is the first major component that will be underway. It’s hosted in a separate repo on my GitHub focused specifically on bio-computation with living fungal networks. This part of the project is quite resource-intensive—it requires access to a biotech lab and specialized equipment.

Right now, I’m actively in talks with DARPA for funding to support this work. I just received ERIS technical approval about a month ago for that specific project, which is a critical milestone. However, securing funding and setting up the lab environment naturally takes time.

I’m committed to sharing progress publicly as soon as the work advances beyond the initial stages. I can even share the screenshot from DARPA for technical approval. Think of Angelcore as a project that takes a piece of all the other projects I'm working on and combines them into one platform.
by throw0101d | 2025-06-05 20:22:42+00:00
Of course any signal can be jammed if you throw enough watts out, but Loran is five millions times stronger:

* https://www.militaryaerospace.com/rf-analog/article/14181490...

And even if your ground transmitters can be taken out, it's a lot easier to build some new Loran transmission gear and radio towers than it is to launch new GNSS satellites (which are also vulnerable to attack).
by cycomanic | 2025-06-05 20:22:50+00:00
This is over stating the extend of the replication "crisis" (which is a terrible name). The reality is that fraud rates are much lower than in pretty much any other part of society. The irony is also that the problems have increased significantly, because of making scientists constantly having to justify the "monetary value" of their research. It incentives overstaying impact (everyone who's ever written a grant application knows how ridiculous it is, everything is supposed to be high gain/risk, but at the same time you're supposed to already know everything you'll find out and how you will use the results).
by alanbernstein | 2025-06-05 20:24:51+00:00
One of the main draws of Amazon for me is that I can buy a piece of hardware, try to install it on my house/bike/project/whatever, and if it's physically incompatible in some unpredictable way I can return it. This enables certain things that are just not possible with the selection available in local stores. I realize this probably does not account for a large portion of Amazon returns though.
by macNchz | 2025-06-05 20:25:02+00:00
I love when I ask it to remove things and it doesn't want to truly let go, so it leaves a comment instead:

# Removed iterMod variable here because it is no longer needed.

It's like it spent too much time hanging out with an engineer who doesn't trust version control and prefers to just comment everything out.

Still enjoying Gemini 2.5 Pro more than Claude Sonnet these days, though, purely on vibes.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-05 20:25:16+00:00
> Addiction needs a drug. Drug needs dealers.

> Thankfully, dealing drugs is forbidden.

This is an example of equivocation: Insofar as there is a definition of "drug" for which "Thankfully, dealing drugs is forbidden" is (well, minus the subjective judgement "thankfully") categorically true, it is not one for which either "Addiction needs a drug" or "Drug needs dealers" is also categorically true.