MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sandeep1998 | 2025-06-19 07:02:31+00:00
I am very interested in this setup as well. I feel Bigscreen Beyond 2[0] has a very good balance of size and weight. But its VR and not AR. I can't wait to create something that does computing in VR well. Something that Simlula VR[1] has been trying for a while now

[0] https://www.bigscreenvr.com [1] https://simulavr.com/blog/intermediate-products/
by adrianmonk | 2025-06-19 07:03:22+00:00
> Was it some technical constraint of the typewriter that caused “1” to become more like “l” come XX century?

The typewriter I grew up with simply didn't have a key for it. It also didn't have a 0 or an exclamation mark or a plus sign. There were well known substitutes:

For the number 1, type lowercase letter l.

For the number 0, type uppercase letter o.

For the exclamation mark, type a period, hit backspace, and type an apostrophe / single quote.

For the plus sign, I'm not aware of a good substitute. You could maybe superimpose a slash on a hyphen, but it would look bad.

There was no division sign, and using a slash to denote division was not yet something I'd ever seen anyone do. You could probably have superimposed a hyphen and a colon to get ÷.

Oddly enough, it did have other characters which you won't find on a standard US keyboard today: ¼, ½, and ¢. The cent sign was useful, and it seems logical to me that if you're going to have $ you should have ¢ too!
by abdullin | 2025-06-19 07:03:27+00:00
Tight feedback loops are the key in working productively with software. I see that in codebases up to 700k lines of code (legacy 30yo 4GL ERP systems).

The best part is that AI-driven systems are fine with running even more tight loops than what a sane human would tolerate.

Eg. running full linting, testing and E2E/simulation suite after any minor change. Or generating 4 versions of PR for the same task so that the human could just pick the best one.
by Rersk | 2025-06-19 07:04:57+00:00
Thank you for trying out our tool and for your feedback!

We're sorry to hear that the result didn't resemble Jarvis Cocker as expected. Our model is still in its early stages, and while it's designed to generate stylized interpretations rather than exact lookalikes, we understand that resemblance is key to a satisfying experience.

We're actively working to improve both the accuracy and flexibility of the outputs, and your input helps us move in the right direction.
by chneu | 2025-06-19 07:05:35+00:00
CEO doing it to get quick cash from Trump.

Any company large/influential enough to get in front of trump right now is gonna be in the news saying this stuff. The entire admin runs on "the last person to convince trump".

Trump pardoned a bunch of criminals, drug dealers, and other trash people because the right person talked to him at the right time.

This is exactly what people said would happen. It's open season for bribery
by mrob | 2025-06-19 07:06:28+00:00
I've seen this repeated many times but never seem any evidence for it. At typical PWM frequencies the perceived brightness is just the average brightness of the wave. I believe this myth arose from people driving low-brightness indicator LEDs using PWM for increased efficiency when using simple current-limiting resistor circuits. People saw the energy savings from less waste heat in the resistor and somehow confused it with something happening in the eye.
by nottorp | 2025-06-19 07:07:04+00:00
> One unexpected discovery: the phone performs OCR faster when slightly warm (but not hot). Cold Canadian mornings mean slower processing times - something I never would have noticed with wall power.

Interesting. Apple throttles on cold too?

In my experience it would shut down on cold, but I don't think I noticed throttling. But then I don't run anything important enough to benchmark on a phone...
by trhway | 2025-06-19 07:07:17+00:00
>Saturn V did in a single launch with 1969 technology,

for up to 0.8% US GDP per year. Today that would be $200B/year, pure spent. Where is Space X today is making, ie. it has a revenue, $15B/year.

>Perhaps web development is not the only thing that is susceptible to bloat.

similarly - web dev today can be done on $300 laptop by any schmuck. Even simple programming back then required a computer which cost a lot, and it was an almost academic activity.
by vidarh | 2025-06-19 07:08:03+00:00
There's also little reason not to. I have an app server in the works, and all the API endpoints will be exposed via MCP because it hardly requires writing any extra code since the app server already auto-generates the REST endpoints from a schema anyway and can do the same for MCP.

An "entire server" is also overplaying what an MCP server is - in the case where an MCP server is just wrapping a single API it can be absolutely tiny, and also can just be a binary that speaks to the MCP client over stdio - it doesn't need to be a standalone server you need to start separately. In which case the MCP server is effectively just a small module.

The problem with making it one server with 100 modules is doing that in a language agnostic way, and MCP solves that with the stdio option. You can make "one server with 100 modules" if you want, just those modules would themselves be MCP servers talking over stdio.
by goku12 | 2025-06-19 07:08:12+00:00
That's what it seems like to me too. From the slo-mo video, it looks like one of the propellant tanks (likely the methane tank on the top) burst open, spilled a lot of the propellant and then caught fire. Engines are unlikely to be the culprit here. Interestingly, there seems to be a crack or a gap already on the surface, along which the tank bursts open when the accident occurs.
by rkrisztian | 2025-06-19 07:09:03+00:00
Looks like you still don't get it. The article had zero intentions to talk about indoors, and you think it's my fault, because you asked "You do realize that indoor air quality is also a thing, right?" Whatever the spirit of HN is, it would be rude to dismiss my comment just because I talked specifically about the claim of the article, which is global warming in general. If you want to talk about indoors, do it in a different thread, and stop bullshitting me. You have only been inappropriate and rude to me.
by alightsoul | 2025-06-19 07:09:20+00:00
The web started dying with mobile social media apps, in which hyperlinks are a poor UX choice. Then again with SEO banning outlinks. Now this. The web of interconnected pages that was the World Wide Web is dead. Not on social media? No one sees you. Run a website? more bots than humans. Unless you sell something on the side with the website it's not profitable. Hyperlinking to other websites is dead.

Gen Alpha doesn't know what a web page is and if they do, it's for stuff like neocities aka as a curiosity or art form only. Not as a source of information anymore. I don't blame them. Apps (social media apps) have less friction than web sites but have a higher barrier for people to create. We are going back to pre World Wide Web days in a way, kind of like Bulletin Board Systems on dial up without hyperlinking, and centralized (social media) Some countries mostly ones with few technical people llike the ones in Central America have moved away from the web almost entirely and into social media like Instagram.

Due to the death of the web, google search and friends now rely mostly on matching queries with titles now so just like before the internet you have to know people to learn new stuff or wait for an algorithm to show it to you or someone to comment it online or forcefully enroll in a university. Maybe that's why search results have declined and poeple search using ChatGPT or maybe perplexity. Scholarly search engines are a bit better but frankly irrelevant for most poeple.

Now I understand why Google established their own DNS server at 8.8.8.8. If you have a directory of all domains on DNS, you can still index sites without hyperlinks between them, even if the web dies. They saw it coming.
by piva00 | 2025-06-19 07:09:51+00:00
> And, given their unusual needs and scale, there will probably be some kind of bespoke abstraction, whether it's an SDK, or a document, that says this is the subset of things you should be using, and how to use them, so that we can practically deploy our very unusual setup with different providers and customer facilities.

Now I understand what you meant, I wouldn't have classified this as a bespoke solution since it's more of an operational guide and tooling, most places I worked at running k8s had something similar (a tech radar/best practices of sorts). When I read "bespoke" I thought of "custom built" which I don't think would be the right approach, running k8s and customising the control plane is quite common.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-06-19 07:10:03+00:00
>back then

And still.

General Electric was (just a few decades ago) the largest non-gold asset, and isn't even Top 50 anymore.

Saudi Aramco was (just a few years ago) the largest non-gold asset, and isn't even Top 10 anymore.

If you want to read about similarities in Xerox's own hubris/downfall, Dealers of Lightning is one of my favorite non-fiction reads of the past few years (about their SFbay PARC Labs of the 70s/80s... and its failures to adapt).
by t-3 | 2025-06-19 07:10:50+00:00
Probably more that the artifacts with the most ancient handwriting have been destroyed by time and so all we have left are the chiseled and carved samples. Monuments designed for display are going to have very clear and legible text which is hard to misread so that everyone knows that the person who commissioned it was really awesome, while handwritten cursive often only needs to mostly legible to one reader.
by ItCouldBeWorse | 2025-06-19 07:11:00+00:00
Because agile project management approaches ala space x, can not easily be copied by waterfall bureaucracies ala europe? Ariane was feature freeze in 2016 - and space X reached reliable Falcon 9 reuse-ability in 2017. For the tortoise of europe - the hare just went by - and suddenly all the grass is gone and hares are everywhere. The idea that software-culture, could subvert and easily out-compete the old aristocracy culture of hardware production (like cars) must feel terrifying for the dinosaurs who relied on that to feed them.
by seanhunter | 2025-06-19 07:12:56+00:00
Notice that one of the authors is John H. Conway. Serious badass, among many many other things known for:

- The game of life

- The fractran language (a Turing-complete programming language consisting only of fractions)

- Surreal numbers

- The “Conway base 13 function” (a brain-scramblingly hideous function that is everywhere discontinuous and yet somehow takes on every real number on every interval - invented as an analysis counterexample to prove that a function can satisfy the intermediate value property and yet not be continuous).

- A lot of work on sporadic simple groups. The three groups Co1, Co2 and Co3 are named after John H. Conway, and he was co-author of the “Monstrous Moonshine” paper and conjecture that Richard Borcherds won the Fields medal for proving.

… and a bunch of other whacky stuff, such as inventing an algorithm to figure out what day of the week any given date in history was (he used to do this in his head)

Sadly he died of complications from Covid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-06-19 07:13:00+00:00
I agree with you, but I would prefer to not socialize the risks of the project among thousands of individuals, because that lessens their ability to collect against me legally.

By keep just one party to the loan, and most important, by me offering collateral to the loan in the event I do not deliver, then it keeps enforcement more honest and possible.

Furthermore, the loan contract should be written in such a way that the game is judged by the ONE TIME sales performance of the game (no microtransactions) and not qualitative milestones like features or reviews. Lastly, I would add a piece of the contract that says two years after the game is released, it becomes fully open source, similar to the terms of the BSL.

This is the fairest thing to the players, the bank, and the developer, and it lets the focus be absolutely rock solid on shipping something fun ASAP.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-19 07:13:54+00:00
> Edit: I want Grok to succeed but I'm afriad this move by Musk will kill it

What would 'success' look like? Given that it's just another LLM whose only distinction is being owned by the same company as twitter, one might be forgiven for assuming that being a propaganda engine for Musk _is_ the success state.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-06-19 07:13:59+00:00
I think the worst thing about this attitude that sites like HN aren't social media is that it lets users feel superior just for using these sites even if they engage in the same low quality behaviors found on other social media.

"Sure I exaggerated the privacy risk and hyperbolized my experience but it's because I'm passionate about privacy! I'm not like those losers on Facebook spreading fake news."

They're doing the exact same thing. Pseudonymous and anonymous social networks are also social networks and suffer from the same problems of discourse. The smug "we're not like the normies" attitude often makes this even worse than mainstream social networks, not better.
by shmoe | 2025-06-19 07:15:40+00:00
They didn't regress like starship has though... they literally just went from orbit to controlled landing in ocean and catching the booster on a fork to the ships blowing up in orbit or not making it there and the boosters aborting the catch for a controlled landing offshore or blowing up as well.

Now they have regressed to blowing up on the pad during static testing.

Seems very different to me than the Falcon story, 100%. Granted, they had luck too.
by aredox | 2025-06-19 07:15:43+00:00
You are comparing "sending a small crew for a few days on the Moon ASAP for propaganda purposes" with "setting up a permanent outpost on the Moon".

Do you know the McMurdo permanent Antarctica base is costing us far more than the dogs, sleds, and tents of Admundsen and Shackleton? Incredible, isn't it?
by veltas | 2025-06-19 07:16:02+00:00
> I drive rarely, but the oncoming headlights are blinding when I do.

I drive a shallow car with old lights, and once I was blocked on a street by a much taller car sitting in front of me with very bright LED lights, and I couldn't see a thing because of the glare. I was unable to manoeuvre out the way because of this. They sat there for a minute or so stubbornly refusing to move for me before finally moving out the way.
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by bartzalewski | 2025-06-19 07:18:35+00:00
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by politelemon | 2025-06-19 07:18:51+00:00
> You can't just put things there any time you want - the RFC requires that they go through a registration process.

Actually, I can for two reasons. First is of course the RFC mentions that items can be registered after the fact, if it's found that a particular well-known suffix is being widely used. But the second is a bit more chaotic - website owners are under no obligation to consult a registry, much like port registrations; in many cases they won't even know it exists and may think of it as a place that should reflect their mental model.

It can make things awkward and difficult though, that is true, but that comes with the free text nature of the well-known space. That's made evident in the Github issue linked, a large group of very smart people didn't know that there was a registry for it.

https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/llms-txt/issues/2#issuecommen...
by lipowitz | 2025-06-19 07:18:55+00:00
> Also, to be pedantic, you don’t have to have citizenship of a foreign country in order to have a greater allegiance to it.

The behavior of the christian conservative cult is a bit more than a pedantic detail at this point. Why is trying to get Israel into a conflict to get Jesus to come and accelerate the end of all jews on Earth not antisemitism? I don't see wanting to use the Jew for cockfighting making it to the State Department's summary of antisemitism.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-06-19 07:19:28+00:00
A mixed ever-shifting UI can be excellent though. So you've got some tools which consistently interact with UI components, but the UI itself is altered frequently.

Take for example world-building video games like Cities Skylines / Sim City or procedural sandboxes like Minecraft. There are 20-30 consistent buttons (tools) in the game's UX, while the rest of the game is an unbounded ever-shifting UI.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-06-19 07:20:29+00:00
Become ungovernable...

This hn account is my only social media account.

I do not use apps, nor carry a cell phone.

If your parking requires an app, I am not paying.

Should the court require me to sign an affadavid stating I do not use email nor text messaging, so shall I attest.

Fun tip for ex-redditors: you can view multiple subreddits (without an account) adding `+` between communities within URLs, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/hackernews+worldnews+dataISbeautifu...
by nicbou | 2025-06-19 07:22:23+00:00
I am facing this problem. It’s devastating to think that my job is now to prepare LLM training data. I am still doing useful work translating the real world into useful guides, just with half the audience and half the pay. If the trend continues, I will need to stop doing this full time.

Google and other AI companies effectively killed the incentive to share text on the internet. With it dies an important chunk of the independent web.
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by kristoff200512 | 2025-06-19 07:22:25+00:00
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by neya | 2025-06-19 07:22:44+00:00
> The problem with making it one server with 100 modules is doing that in a language agnostic way

I agree with this. For my particular use-case, I'm completely into Elixir, so, for backend work, it doesn't provide much benefit for me.

> it can be absolutely tiny

Yes, but at the end of the day, it's still a server. Its size is immaterial - you still need to deal with the issues of maintaining a server - patching security vulnerabilities and making sure you don't get hacked and don't expose anything publicly you're not supposed to. It requires routine maintenance just like a real server. Mulitply that with 100, if you have 100 MCP "servers". It's just not a scalable model.

In a monolith with 100 modules, you just do all the security patching for ONE server.
by lazyhummingbird | 2025-06-19 07:22:49+00:00
I think the issue is that a person reading without an interlocutor has a better chance of getting some truth from the sum of the bill than reading with an “expert” bent on swaying them towards a fringe interpretation or even directly lying to distort the content. The feature lets them put on an air of factuality but really just inveigle people with a chopped take on a document.
by Aziell | 2025-06-19 07:24:14+00:00
I’ve noticed a lot of AI agents start off doing pretty well, but the longer they run, the more they seem to drift. It's like they forget what they were supposed to do in the first place.

Is this just a context limitation, or are they missing some kind of self-correction loop? Curious if anyone has seen agents that can catch their own mistakes and adjust during a task. Would love to hear how far that has come.
by MrSkelter | 2025-06-19 07:25:03+00:00
This is an inane comparison.

Starship is “the program to build a permanent base in the moon”. It’s not even the only vehicle involved in the moon program. It’s a rocket designed to take astronauts from moon orbit to the moon’s surface. The astronauts will actually fly to the moon in SLS.

So far it’s proved incapable of being launched, attaining orbit, and returning to earth as designed. That’s without a payload.

It has no life support system built and is literally years behind schedule.

Rather than making progress it is being redesigned on the fly to mitigate fundamental problems with its capability which Musk laughs off as “moving fast and breaking things”.

The problem is we aren’t moving fast at all.

The rocket is a disaster. Saturn V was better by an order of magnitude and likely cheaper if you consider how much fundamental work went into creating it which is now easy to buy off the shelf.

Comparing the programs while ignoring the fact that hobbiest regularly reach the Karman line is deceitful.

Starship is doing this on easy mode and it’s failing.
by creata | 2025-06-19 07:25:47+00:00
Did Ilhan Omar actually say "the US is one of the worst countries"? The only quote I'm finding[0] is one in which she says it's turning into one of the worst countries. In the same sentence she calls the US a "beacon of hope".

[0]: https://youtu.be/7CSD5UbE77w?t=28
by neya | 2025-06-19 07:27:05+00:00
I'm not sure about that. Newer models are able to output structured outputs perfectly and infact, if you combine it with changesets, you can have insanely useful applications since changesets also provide type-checking.

For example, in Elixir, we have this library: https://hexdocs.pm/instructor/

It's massively useful for any structured output related work.
by int_19h | 2025-06-19 07:29:48+00:00
I don't claim to understand the specifics, but I was a heavy user of custom XMPP clients on early Android phones, and they did require a persistent notification to keep the app (and thus the connection) alive, which did translate to measurable battery impact. My understanding is that the built-in notification manager helps with this by multiplexing and batching everything.
by empiko | 2025-06-19 07:32:38+00:00
The problem with your argument is that what you call agent is nothing like what Minsky envisioned. The agents in Minsky's world are very simple rule based entities ("nothing more than a few switches") that are composed in vast hierarchies. The argument Minsky is making is that if you compose enough simple agents in a smart way, an intelligence will emerge. What we use today as agents is nothing like that, each agents itself is considered intelligent (directly opposing Minsky's vision "none of our agents is intelligent"), while organized along very simple principles.
by LandR | 2025-06-19 07:33:53+00:00
In VS Code, everything lines up. The start of the code is on the same column as the start of the comment, but in the snippetshare its tabbed in ?

https://snippetshare.dev/c/MuiWWZknPgkRGFf4bt1LAD3m2zAP5Irwp...

Nice extension, I can see me using this :)