MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perk | 2025-06-28 16:29:28+00:00
Several things! But my favourite use-case works surprisingly well.

I have a js-to-video service (open source sdk, WIP) [1] with the classic "editor to the left - preview on the right" scenario.

To help write the template code I have a simple prompt input + api that takes the llms-full.txt [2] + code + instructions and gives me back updated code.

It's more "write this stuff for me" than vibe-coding, as it isn't conversational for now.

I've not been bullish on ai coding so far, but this "hybrid" solution is perfect for this particular use-case IMHO.

[1] https://js2video.com/play [2] https://js2video.com/llms-full.txt
by yamalight | 2025-06-28 16:29:48+00:00
Those games are usually brilliant - but those are very rare. Like "once in a few years" kind of rare IMO. While that is a valid approach, I play way more than that haha!

What I found interesting with Vaporlens is that it surfaces things that people think about the game - and if you find games where you like all the positives and don't mind largest negatives (because those are very often very subjective) - you're in a for a pretty good time.

It's also quite amusing to me that using fairly basic vector similarity on points text resulted in a pretty decent "similar games" section :D
by idatum | 2025-06-28 16:29:53+00:00
Dang, I was almost motivated to figure out how to get Debian working on my old i5 Surface Laptop 1.

No way I'm tossing it since it works fine (even battery is decent still). But no way I'm spending time with Linux if Win10 will still get updates.

If I will really need another Windows device though, I'll just buy a cheap N100 device.
by randomcatuser | 2025-06-28 16:30:03+00:00
Yeah, one way to think about it is like... protocols restrict things, so that people can expect the same stuff.

With a traditional API, people can build it any way they want, which means you (the client) need API docs.

With MCP, you literally restrict it to 2 things: get the list of tools, and call the tool (using the schema you got above). Thus the key insight is just about: let's add 1 more endpoint that lists the APIs you have, so that robots can find it.

Example time: - Build an MCP server (equivalent of "intro to flask 101"): https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/guides/remote-mcp-s... - Now you can add it to Claude Desktop/Cursor and see what it does - That's as far as i got lol
by daneel_w | 2025-06-28 16:30:05+00:00
I don't know. Here are some numbers to plug into your calculator:

"The country's water needs were estimated at 24.8 billion m³ in 2015, with an average fixed annual growth rate of 7 percent. With 84 percent of the total water demand, the agricultural sector is the largest consumer of water in the country."

"In 2015, these plants had a total production capacity of 6.28 million m³ per day, which increased to 7.4 million m³ per day by 2020. By 2024, the combined production from both public and private desalination plants reached approximately 11.5 million m³ per day."

https://saudipedia.com/en/article/2549/government-and-politi...
by mdaniel | 2025-06-28 16:30:11+00:00
If that were true, they'd just open up copilot agent for general access for any open source project, otherwise their training data will skew toward Microsoft-centric interactions on Microsoft-centric languages and processes

I was going to offer the terraform or ansible organizations as examples, since I'd guess a lot of those bugfixes are rote work, but then realized there's no way Microsoft would assist IBM to ship products

Can't be qemu, given their recent no-slop policy, so maybe the idea is harder than I thought
by MrJohz | 2025-06-28 16:30:21+00:00
As someone living in Germany, that philosophy of "we don't have the right to intervene or say anything" is definitely embedded in the culture here. Obviously there are plenty of people who don't follow this philosophy, and there are left-wing pro-Palestine movements here as well, but overall there's a big cultural sense of obligation to Israel due to Germany's history.

A friend of mine even ended up talking to a German diplomat in Israel, who said much the same thing: they could cosign other nations' condemnations of Israeli actions when they happened, but they couldn't condemn Israeli actions unilaterally. Obviously that was just his opinion and not an official viewpoint of the German government, but I found it fascinating that Germany still felt this sense of needing to make things right to Israel specifically.
Ask HN: Personal Finances AI Tool
by SMAAART | 2025-06-28 16:31:01+00:00
I am pretty savvy when it comes to Personal Finances and Investing, but I am also old, and this week I just realized that I messed up a bit by not taking advantage of the "Back door Roth IRA" stratey and also by keeping my excess cash into a regular money market and not in something like SGOV..... but I diverge.

Two questions:

1) Is there already an AI tool to help me out with my personal finances? More like strategically than tasks or picking investments.

2) Is there/will be a market for it?

3) Is anyone working on it?

Thanks in advance.
by gramie | 2025-06-28 16:31:57+00:00
I'm not a very critical reader*. When I read something, I don't have conversations with myself about "this could be better if..." or "the writer shouldn't have..." Instead, I accept what has been proffered and at the end decide if it had value for me.

* unless I make a conscious effort to, like when I'm asked to review someone's work
by hoistbypetard | 2025-06-28 16:31:59+00:00
I work with (a few someones) who see fit to send out schedules as PDFs, 3 months at a time. I have a script that feeds Claude the PDFs and gets it to generate an ICS file. Then a script that feeds it both the ICS file and the original PDF and asks it to highlight any differences between the two.

Getting those events onto a usable, sharable calendar is much easier now.
by rickydroll | 2025-06-28 16:32:59+00:00
And in your comment lies a possible solution. Support people into their mid-70s, and then the only medical care they get is palliative, so they don't suffer from whatever takes them out. Half of their estate is allocated to the social welfare fund.

Another solution is to increase the sources of funding. For example, in the United States, your Social Security contributions are capped once your income exceeds approximately $160,000. Eliminate that cap, and include income from other sources (i.e., taxes on estates, capital gains, and buy-borrow-die) in the Social Security tax calculation.
by breppp | 2025-06-28 16:33:04+00:00
Palestinians can be arguably labeled as the aggressor country if that's how you want to spin the narrative. As Jews were peacefully buying lands when the massacres and ethnic cleansing started at 1929.

Most germans were living in their respected newly founded Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia for hundreds of years if not more when expelled.

Italians, even if they were colonialists, were expelled from their homes, by people who previously have been colonialists themselves, some when arriving with the arab conquests.

Bulgaria expelled the turks in the 1950s, and the partition of india, forming pakistan and india, were two newly formed countries around the time of israel and palestine, included ethnic cleansing from both sides

Do you think that these examples of ethnic cleansing post ww2 are irrelevant when no new country was formed?
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-28 16:33:06+00:00
> I didn't particularly like Israeli policy towards Palestinians for the last 15 years, but they were certainly not treated as "sub-human".

Garbage. Gaza had its only airport bombed to oblivion 20 years ago and was told any attempt to repair it would result in the same. Its port has been blockaded by the Israeli navy for 15 years. Its only land exits have been heavily locked down.

Israel will routinely turn electricity off to the country for days to punish for something, be it a rocket attack, or teens throwing stones. They’ve even turned off water for days too.

That’s treating people as subhuman, imprison them and do things like that to them for decades.
by pininja | 2025-06-28 16:33:56+00:00
Mapbox is just a small step away from that with their MCP server wrapping their pay-by-use API. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a subscription offering with usage limits if that somehow appealed to them. MapTiler already offers their service as a subscription so they’re even closer if they hosted a server like this on their own.

https://github.com/mapbox/mcp-server
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-28 16:34:13+00:00
> Satellites are the most extreme of edge cases.

Were the most extreme of edge cases. That was entirely because of space economics being stuck in a death spiral. SpaceX near single-handedly[0] turned this around, by focusing on slashing launch costs and increasing launch cadence. Both of that lead to more missions, meaning less risk, so satellites can be smaller and made of cheap COTS parts because now you can do 10 for price of 1, which enables economies of scale, blah blah. A feedback loop.

Or rather, the feedback loop. It's the same one that enabled mass production and commodities in every aspect of our lives. Satellites aren't an exception to my argument - space industry is just late to the party, but it's going through a commoditization process right now, in front of our very eyes.

10+ years from now, you won't find a hand-made part in any satellite outside obscure prototype edge cases.

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[0] - Of course it was possible thanks to NASA COTS programs which funded it, and accumulation of knowledge, etc. SpaceX was the "operating end" of this transformation.
by wtcactus | 2025-06-28 16:34:44+00:00
1st: you claimed Israel was carrying out ethnic cleansing since 1948. You are now trying to mix words, but when you do ethnic cleaning, you carry out genocide. You were caught in your dog whistle and then tried to get out of it with semantics.

2nd: “Zionist colonialists” is what you call the people that want to have their home in the tiny piece of desert where they where expelled from. By contrast you don’t seem to have any qualms about the Arab colonialists that took all the Middle East and north of Africa. In fact, you support they should even get to keep the tiny piece of desert that belongs to the Jew people. Your problem clearly has to lie in the ethnicity of the people doing the so called colonialism (you even go as far as calling colonialism to people taking hold of their homeland).
by gambiting | 2025-06-28 16:35:53+00:00
>>We can always find words to justify being a follower instead of a leader

I'm not sure what you mean by that in this context. Just like I have to be part of my local "nerdy" store to play MtG every Friday, I kinda have to be part of local MTB groups to know when they are riding. I could like you say, be a leader and organise my own rides I suppose? Is that what you mean? If so, then I'm sure you can see limitations to this approach.
by shalev123 | 2025-06-28 16:36:15+00:00
Oh boy, if only our personal AI assistants could be as reliable as a good old-fashioned pizza run by the CEO. The irony is delicious - we're moving towards universal plugins not because of some grand vision, but because everyone's desperate to make sure their AI doesn't go on an energy-saving nap mid-task.

It's almost poetic how we're now incentivizing interoperability simply because our digital buddies have to eat (or rather, drink) to stay awake. Who would've thought that the quest for connectivity would be driven by the humble Watt hour?

I guess when it comes down to it, even AI needs a good power-up - and hopefully, this time around, the plugins will stick. But hey, I'll believe it when my assistant doesn't crash while trying to order takeout.
by Arainach | 2025-06-28 16:36:18+00:00
Of course the team developing these AI models should be dogfooding them. Telling the rest of the company they have to use them is pushing tools without understanding contexts.

If AI is that much more amazing, just measure employees on the usual metrics and those using AI should be so obviously far ahead that you can get rid of the others. Measuring "usage of AI" is a garbage metric that will not achieve anything good.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-28 16:36:20+00:00
> I'm also not really sure what's wrong with the moral compass of the Chinese communist party? From what I can see at the moment it is authoritative, but not necessarily venal?

It's certainly corrupt. Xi didn't launch major, disruptive anti-corruption drives for no reason, but because he saw it as an existential threat to the CCP's legitimacy (after all, it did torpedo the Soviet Union).

Granted, an alternate rationale was internecine power struggles within the party and removing political enemies, but there was some real corruption.

The strongman argument against the CCP's moral compass is that it has no concept of or respect for individual rights: the party is above all.

Historically, this has always ended tragically because eventually it will be abused to either justify suffering or party gain at the expense of people.

Authoritarianism only works until someone bad grabs the reigns, and single-party non-democratic systems have a way of rewarding sociopaths.
by ahmedhawas123 | 2025-06-28 16:36:47+00:00
I'm curious about how this world will evolve in the era of AI agents/MCP. It is not entirely unlikely that AI agents will have access to limited wallets etc to facilitate a broader set of use cases. In that case, a one shot solution to bot vs. human may not make sense, and a more nuanced human/bot-we-like/bot-we-don't-like may be needed by corporations. This would esp be the case for unofficial MCP servers that would use technologies like headless browsing etc to support an API.
by nine_k | 2025-06-28 16:37:38+00:00
Look, it's not expelling some imperial troops. but peaceful citizens, who sometimes had lived there for centuries.

The idea that people of different ethnicities live, unmixed, divided by neat borders of nation-states is pretty recent. This was the case neither in Europe, nor in Middle East for a very long time before the advent of state-based nationalism in the 19th century. It was quite normal for people of different ethnicities, languages, and even faiths to live intermixed in certain regions, especially areas of intense trade, which the entire Mediterranean coast used to be. Borders were more about economic and political control than ethnic identity.

(The ethnic unity purportedly achieved by nation-states formed in 19th and early 20th centuries is also often more by fiat: look at the variety of German or Italian languages prior to unification of Germany or Italy, for instance, to say nothing about India.)
by sschueller | 2025-06-28 16:37:50+00:00
Hollywood from Edison...

> Thomas Edison's aggressive patent enforcement in the early days of filmmaking, particularly his control over motion picture technology, played a significant role in the development of Hollywood as the center of the film industry. Driven by a desire to control the market and eliminate competition, Edison's lawsuits and business practices pushed independent filmmakers westward, ultimately leading them to establish studios in Los Angeles, away from Edison's legal reach.
by madaxe_again | 2025-06-28 16:38:39+00:00
We had an exceptionally wet winter - reservoirs which I have not seen full in a decade are suddenly at capacity - or were, a few weeks ago. There’s now a rapid draw-down however as the weather has shifted to unseasonably hot almost overnight.

The main problem isn’t reservoir levels, however, as most agriculture in Iberia doesn’t use reservoir water, rather, on-site boreholes - and the groundwater is getting seriously depleted.

There’s a whole bunch of stuff that folks do here that doesn’t help matters, however - olive groves and other arboriculture, which is a large part of agriculture in Iberia, are kept with bare topsoil, as the belief is that the grass steals the water, and irrigation is done with broadcast rather than drip, and it all evaporates almost as fast as they can spray it. We don’t plough or irrigate ours, and we get a crop - we just cut the grass at the end of spring to reduce the fire hazard. There’s also a tragedy of the commons affair going on, where people pump as much as possible from their boreholes in the spring to keep in open black plastic lined storage ponds, because they feel that if they don’t their neighbour will get the water and there won’t be any for them - so water which would have been safely stored underground is brought to the surface and put in perfect conditions to evaporate.

None of it is sustainable, and it’s going to end in tears.
Show HN: CopyTrack – un clipboard tracker invisibile e automatico per Windows
by loki3737 | 2025-06-28 16:39:07+00:00
Hi HN I built CopyTrack, a tiny Windows tool that automatically logs everything you copy (Ctrl+C) into a plain .txt file on your desktop — with timestamps.

It has no UI, no popups, no distractions — just runs quietly in the background. Set it and forget it.

Main use cases:

Keep track of code, messages, notes, etc.

Recover text you copied and accidentally overwrote

Simple and focused — does one thing only

Features:

Open-source (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Fully offline

Logs to CopyTrack.txt with timestamp

Auto-start on boot

No config needed, no GUI

GitHub: https://github.com/loki3737/loki

I made it for personal use but it surprisingly got 200+ downloads in just two days. Would love your thoughts and feedback — thanks for checking it out!
by cma | 2025-06-28 16:39:29+00:00
> One was Liran Tancman, an entrepreneur and reservist in the IDF’s 8200 signals intelligence unit, who called for using biometric identification systems outside the distribution hubs to vet Palestinian civilians.

Gives the feeling of the serial number tattoos the Germans used, with tech "fixing" the bad optics of doing that, but the biometric ID serves as one.
by scop | 2025-06-28 16:39:54+00:00
I did the same thing recently, excluding quotes from books. Every other note, How To, and To Do gone. It provided tremendous relief. The vast majority of the stuff may as well have been written by a complete stranger. But, again, I kept my book quotes and notes as that is something I reference regularly. I guess the main thing was the realization that I literally don’t access 90% of my notes and they were of no value other than making me feel something about myself.
by mellosouls | 2025-06-28 16:40:24+00:00
the AI Agent wave made interoperability hype, and vendor lock-in old-fashioned

Perhaps but we see current hypes like Cursor only using MCP one way; you can feed into Cursor (eg. browser tools), but not out (eg. conversation history, context etc).

I love Cursor but this "not giving back" mentality originally reflected in it's closed source forking of VS Code leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth and I believe will ultimately see it lose developer credibility.

Lock-in still seems to be locked in.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-06-28 16:40:58+00:00
Another POV is that when you distill everyone’s experiences, not just yours, into legitimate votes, people, on both sides of this conflict, choose violence. Does the discourse you participate in achieve your goals? No, it achieves the opposite.

What is this discourse? “Sharpen the fractal of demographics and opinions until you get some rare alignment between them, and you find a supposedly irrefutable and most valid position.” Can you see why winning Internet arguments and getting upvotes doesn’t translate to your goals?

Of course you should share these thoughts and forums like these should publish them. But as much as I hate the Intellectual Dark Web and its philosophies, which are as ridiculous as, “you can gain power by thinking about things differently,” I think they are right that popularity contests are not the end all be all of conflict resolution.
by exodust | 2025-06-28 16:42:02+00:00
> "surface patina"

Tell that to the victims of gleeful brutality under the guidance of fundamentalist ideology, like that engrained in Islamist governance and extremist militant groups.

Your post reads like the come-down from intellectual pill-popping. Your attempt to dilute a serious problem in the world to "patinas" and reduce the problem to imperial vs colonized peoples, sounds like a manifesto from the lawns of a university activist encampment.

Consider the framing, you ask. I considered it and reject it, The subjugation of "infidels" under expansionist oppressive religious groups with the intent to bring "peace" is an imperialism all of its own, but much worse. Peace... at the cost of freedom, autonomy, expression, equality.
by superkuh | 2025-06-28 16:42:31+00:00
Not really. These people would be "spiraling into television psychosis" if it were 30 years ago. It not the cause, it's just the environment. Like how many modern mentally ill people have latched on to the idea of radio waves where in the past they'd be harassed by "spirits" etc. They're just projecting their innate mental issues onto the stimuli they notice in their social environment.
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-28 16:42:47+00:00
Very much the same. I almost never have more than half a dozen browser tabs open. They are always ephemeral. I don't save browser history or cookies either. Dispite all technology advances, a person's short-term memory can still only actively handle to four to seven things at a time. I'm probably on the low side of that. Having 30 browser tabs open is utterly pointless as I won't have any idea what 25 of them are for.
by perihelions | 2025-06-28 16:42:50+00:00
> "A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Nature that parasitic roundworms can cause significant damage to crops, leading to economic hardship for farmers. The criminal complaint filed with the case doesn’t mention parasitic roundworms — only Caenorhabditis elegans, a type of roundworm frequently used in the laboratory as a model organism."

A PhD researcher at U. of Michigan was arrested and charged for possession of... C. Elegans? And the secret police dude is telling the media it was a national security threat to US farms?

Did I parse that correctly?
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-06-28 16:43:22+00:00
With any tech this engaging and real-seeming, there is bound to be a very small percentage of people with dormant mental health issues who are predisposed to have extremely negative reactions. I can totally see how a hallucinating human-sounding chatbot could be the trigger paranoia/obsession in some people.

I don't think there's something inherently wrong with the technology. Mental stability is a bell curve; the majority of people are "normal", but there will always be an unfortunate subset who can react like this to strange new stimuli, through no fault of their own. It's no different to people getting unhealthily hooked on TV/smartphones and driven into conspiracies.
by Wistar | 2025-06-28 16:43:30+00:00
Actually, I discovered that, as long as the machine has a TPM and it is turned on, I can just set it (Win 11) up initially with a throwaway MS account. Then, I add local admin and user accounts and, using the admin account, I delete the MS account. I have done it many times now. It’s easier than all of the other crap trying to avoid that MS account.