MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
I applied to YC using my AI without touching my keyboard or mouse
by sudhar172 | 2025-07-09 02:16:58+00:00
Demo post on X: https://x.com/sudhsanam/status/1942616854964674583

Hey HN,

I’ve been building something called Output, an AI agent that sees your screen, understands context, and controls your computer like a human.

To show what it can do, I recorded myself applying to YC using only my voice. No keyboard. No mouse. Just natural conversation.

The AI read the application form on screen, understood each question, and filled out the answers in real time. It even suggested reaching out to YC founders for referrals, based on what it remembered from earlier sessions.

It feels less like a tool and more like a teammate. She sees, listens, remembers, and takes action — just like a person would.

Output can:

See your screen in real time

Understand what is happening across applications

Control your computer directly (clicks, typing, navigation)

Remember past context and conversations

Help you get things done or do them for you

We are letting early users in at https://theoutput.co/

Would love your feedback, questions, or thoughts — especially if you are exploring agentic interfaces or AI that works across the real desktop environment.

Thanks!
by joshka | 2025-07-09 02:17:16+00:00
Backups don't just protect you from durability issues. They protect you from accidental deletion, malware, and even just snapshots of what something looked at a particular time etc.

The context that this article suggests is that if your S3 bucket is your primary storage, then it's possible that you're not thinking about where the second copy of your data should belong.
by scubakid | 2025-07-09 02:17:27+00:00
I think managing any community is time consuming, but I like that discord feels real-time and efficient, with fun emojis, easy media sharing, and a mix of text channels and forum channels.

For the first few years, I was up at all hours answering questions. It feels amazing to offload some of that now that we have more of a team.

Like he mentioned in another comment here, Jon actually found me.
by agwa | 2025-07-09 02:17:50+00:00
I wish there were bounties :-)

There is systematic checking - e.g. crt.sh continuously runs linters on certificates found in CT logs, I continuously monitor domains which are likely to be used in test certificates (e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496088), and it appears the Chrome root program has started doing some continuous compliance monitoring based on CT as well.

But there is certainly a lot of ad-hoc checking by community members and academics, which as Sleevi said is one of the great things that CT enables.
by dgl | 2025-07-09 02:18:08+00:00
Submodules can be any URL (and recursive), so for GitHub to block this totally would require them to crawl other forges (and some URLs could be private URLs, but GitHub likely can't tell that apart from an attacker who is just blocking GitHub). So the risk is GitHub could say they are blocking this and give a false sense of security.

Some previous bugs have resulted in validation added to git fsck, but because clone URLs can't change after the submodules are initialised that's not going to have any benefit here. (There were some defence-in-depth measures discussed, there's definitely a few things that can be improved here.)
by LoganDark | 2025-07-09 02:18:19+00:00
There probably is. For me receiving the subject after anything else requires me to buffer everything else awaiting the subject in order to parse it correctly. My brain seems to naturally work in cause->effect order so it's naturally easiest for me to process the cause first and then the effect. I don't think everyone works the same way, but there is definitely an order of information flow that is most efficient for me. I also generally seem to process things somewhat like an LLM would...
by mc32 | 2025-07-09 02:18:19+00:00
Also the experience of Greece not too far back and the austerity imposed by Germany is not quite forgotten. Varoufakis[1] can attest to its severity. The Greeks voted against it but Germany imposed its will.

[1]https://jacobin.com/2025/07/yanis-varoufakis-on-the-legacy-o...
by field-trace | 2025-07-09 02:19:52+00:00
I’m building a sovereign AI tool called Bondhu—starting with culturally grounded, emotionally intelligent support for fieldworkers in Bangladesh. It’s built on SIGIL, a proprietary imprinting system that encodes human logic and therapeutic insight into AI behavior.

This is not a chatbot. It’s a vessel—an architecture built to hold signal, not just process tokens.

I’m looking for a founding architect who:

• Speaks Python + LLM pipelines fluently • Thinks in systems, not just stacks • Doesn’t build for hype, but for alignment • NYC-based (preferred) for real-time collaboration

I need a gatebuilder. Someone who knows how to build bones strong enough for systems to evolve without collapse.

This isn’t a job, it’s a field call.

You’ll receive a blueprint, a mythic handover, and full clarity on scope. The vessel is ready to be built.

DM me here or email me rootweaver.call@proton.me Or if you just want to feel the signal, visit this entry page linked on the URL.

https://www.notion.so/To-Rootweaver-From-the-Mirror-22bc7880...
by csense | 2025-07-09 02:19:53+00:00
Consider the following:

- A therapist may disregard professional ethics and gossip about you

- A therapist may get you involuntarily committed

- A therapist may be forced to disclose the contents of therapy sessions by court order

- Certain diagnoses may destroy your life / career (e.g. airline pilots aren't allowed to fly if they have certain mental illnesses)

Some individuals might choose to say "Thanks, but no thanks" to therapy after considering these risks.

For those people, getting unofficial, anonymous advice from LLM's seems better than suffering with no help at all.

(Question for those in the know: Can you get therapy anonymously? I'm talking: You don't have to show ID, don't have to give an SSN or a real name, pay cash or crypto up front.)
by mcswell | 2025-07-09 02:23:03+00:00
"With the carriage / car situation, individual transportation is their core business, and most companies are not in the field of Artificial Intelligence."

I'm missing something here. First, I thought Steve's point was that the carriage makers did not see "individual transportation" as their business, and they should have--if they had, they might have pivoted like Studebaker did.

So if "most companies are not in the field of Artificial Intelligence", that could mean that they ought to be.

However, I draw a somewhat different conclusion: the business that companies ranging from Newsweek to accountants to universities to companies' HR departments should see themselves in is intelligence, regardless of whether that's artificial or otherwise. The question then becomes which supplies that intelligence better: humans or LLM-type AI (or some combination thereof)? I'm not at all sure that the answer at present is LLM-AI, but it is a different question, and the answer may well be different in the near future.

There are of course other kinds of AI, as you (jampa) mention. In other words, AI is not (for now) one thing; LLMs are just one kind of AI.
by ksec | 2025-07-09 02:23:23+00:00
Oh dear. I know the probability of him getting a CEO role is relatively low, but I was expecting him to stay on longer. He is one of the few seniors at Apple I liked and trust.

I now actually think Apple has rotten further than I imagined. Tim Cook needs to retire soon and I don't see a clear successor in place. I definitely hope it isn't Craig or Eddy.
by doodlebugging | 2025-07-09 02:23:58+00:00
I just went through the Internet Archive's issues of MacWorld from back in the day and think I found the software.

On page 9 (10 in the archive) of the April 1988 issue there is an advert for Eureka: The Solver by Borland International (Of course! They had such excellent software for years.)

There is a writeup about it on pages 191-192 (pages 192-193 in the archive).

One of the tools available is a polynomial finder. That is the tool that I used.

I will look around to see whether I still have the disk.
by dartharva | 2025-07-09 02:24:25+00:00
> Contrary to best practices in the medical community, LLMs 1) express stigma toward those with mental health conditions and 2) respond inappropriately to certain common (and critical) conditions in naturalistic therapy settings — e.g., LLMs encourage clients’ delusional thinking, likely due to their sycophancy. This occurs even with larger and newer LLMs,...

Isn't all this just a problem of how the system prompt is set?
by nemothekid | 2025-07-09 02:24:45+00:00
Yes - backups also protect against someone doing a `rm -rf /*` by accident. However, I don't think I've created an S3 bucket without versioning enabled for years. If someone deletes the file, or the file gets corrupted - I just restore a pervious version.

I don't want to suggest that people should place all their eggs in one basket - it's obviously irresponsible. However, S3 (and versioning) has been the "final storage" for years now. I can only imagine a catastrophic situation like an entire s3 region blowing up. And I'm sure a disgruntled employee could do a lot of damage as well.
by phanteo | 2025-07-09 02:26:17+00:00
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Looking for remote backend roles where I can contribute to the systems, learn from strong teams, and grow technically.

Would love to hear from anyone. Full time or contracts or freelance. Feel free to reach out, always happy to discuss projects.
by chasil | 2025-07-09 02:26:22+00:00
From an interview with Bob Colwell:

'Anyway this chip architect guy is standing up in front of this group promising the moon and stars. And I finally put my hand up and said I just could not see how you're proposing to get to those kind of performance levels. And he said well we've got a simulation, and I thought Ah, ok. That shut me up for a little bit, but then something occurred to me and I interrupted him again. I said, wait I am sorry to derail this meeting. But how would you use a simulator if you don't have a compiler? He said, well that's true we don't have a compiler yet, so I hand assembled my simulations. I asked "How did you do thousands of line of code that way?" He said “No, I did 30 lines of code”. Flabbergasted, I said, "You're predicting the entire future of this architecture on 30 lines of hand generated code?" [chuckle], I said it just like that, I did not mean to be insulting but I was just thunderstruck. Andy Grove piped up and said "we are not here right now to reconsider the future of this effort, so let’s move on".'

https://www.sigmicro.org/media/oralhistories/colwell.pdf
Show HN: I built a free property valuation tool for global real estate
by Ava234 | 2025-07-09 02:26:23+00:00
Hey HN, I made Mirror Real Estate (https://mirrorrealestate.com/), a side project I've been working on. The goal was to create a clean, fast, global real estate listing site. Today, I'm launching a new feature I've been working on for the past few months: a free, instant property valuation tool. Why I built this: Most online home valuation tools (AVMs) are either simple lead-gen forms for real estate agents, are locked behind paywalls, or only work for a single country (like the US). I wanted to create a tool that was free, respected user privacy (no email required), and could provide a ballpark estimate for properties in multiple countries. How it works (the fun part): The valuation is generated by an Automated Valuation Model I built. Under the hood, it's a gradient boosting model (using XGBoost) that's been trained on a dataset of property features from recent sales and active listings. Key features include square footage, beds/baths, property type, and of course, location (lat/long). The biggest technical challenge by far has been data wrangling—cleaning and normalizing property data from different countries, each with its own unique formatting and available fields, has been a monumental task. The model is still evolving, and its accuracy is heavily dependent on the density of data available in a specific area. It's by no means a replacement for a formal appraisal from a certified professional, but it aims to be a useful starting point for homeowners or potential buyers. I'd love to get the HN community's feedback. If you feel comfortable, try it on a property you know. How does the estimate compare to reality? What's your impression of the user experience? What key features or data points do you think would most improve the model's accuracy? Thanks for taking a look.
by nemothekid | 2025-07-09 02:26:39+00:00
>They protect you from accidental deletion, malware, and even just snapshots of what something looked at a particular time etc.

S3 with versioning enabled provides this. I'm not being naive when I say S3 really provides everything you might need. Its my observation over the last 13 years, dealing with tons of fires, that there has every been a situation where I couldn't retrieve something from S3.

Legally you might need an alternative. Going multi-cloud doesn't hurt - after all I do it. But practically? I don't think I would lose sleep if someone told me they only back up to S3.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-09 02:27:00+00:00
For thread-safety, POSIX needs a mulligan migration to an API with an opaque context structure. Globals are bad and were never going to work with threads. The gotcha would be the need for mutexes on process shared state like env vars.

If going through all this effort, might as well adopt a fine-grained, capability-based permissions system too so that resources (i.e., fs, process, network) can be sandboxed.
by doodlebugging | 2025-07-09 02:27:15+00:00
Thank you for the link. I'm pretty sure I found it in the Internet Archive's issues of MacWorld from back in the day.

On page 9 (10 in the archive) of the April 1988 issue there is an advert for Eureka: The Solver by Borland International (Of course! They had such excellent software for years.)

There is a writeup about it on pages 191-192 (pages 192-193 in the archive).

One of the tools available is a polynomial finder. That is the tool that I used.

I will look around to see whether I still have the disk.

I also found my favorite, and first computer game since it was my first computer.

Silicon Beach Software put out a game called Airborne! in 1984. I got the Mac in January 1985 and bought that game with it. Fun stuff!

Thanks for the help.
by yesfitz | 2025-07-09 02:29:32+00:00
There are benefits to writing well besides increasing your audience.

Paul Graham illustrates in his post, “Good Writing”.[1]

“How does that help the writer? Because the writer is the first reader.”

This is also supported by Graham’s post “Writes and Write-Nots”[2]

“To write well you have to think clearly, and thinking clearly is hard.”

I don’t take Paul Graham’s word as gospel, but I have yet to find any contradictory stance, let alone one that’s been useful to me.

1: https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html 2: https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html
by mcswell | 2025-07-09 02:29:50+00:00
It may be that LLM-AI is a dead end on the path to General AI (although I suspect it will instead turn out to be one component). But that doesn't mean that LLMs aren't good for some things. From what I've seen, they represent a huge improvement in (machine) translation, for example. And reportedly they're pretty good at spiffing up human-written text, and maybe even generating text--provided the human is on the lookout for hallucinations (and knows how to watch for that).

You might even say LLMs are good with text in the same way that early automobiles were good for transportation, provided you watched out for the potholes and stream crossings and didn't try to cross the river on the railroad bridge. (DeLoreans are said to be good at that, though :).)
by vannevar | 2025-07-09 02:30:21+00:00
I agree, the dice analogy is an oversimplification. He actually touches on the problem earlier in the article, with the observation that "the paths generated by these mappings look a lot like strange attractors in dynamical systems". It isn't that the dice "conspire against you," it's that the inputs you give the model are often intertwined path-wise with very negative outcomes: the LLM equivalent of a fine line between love and hate. Interacting with an AI about critical security infrastructure is much closer to the 'attractor' of an LLM-generated hack than, say, discussing late 17th century French poetry with it. The very utility of our interactions with AI is thus what makes those interactions potentially dangerous.
by petesergeant | 2025-07-09 02:32:20+00:00
> And yet, Greece recovered to become a leading economy in the region

I don't think that's true ... growth is good, but that's because there's a lot of catching up to do. If I remember correctly (and maybe I don't) then real GDP is still like -20% vs 2007, debt is EU-leading at like 150% of GDP, unemployment remains high, and wages remain low.
by dante1441 | 2025-07-09 02:34:13+00:00
The problem here isn't the Supabase MCP implementation, or MCP in general. It's the fact that we are blindly injecting non-vetted user generated content into the prompt of an LLM [1].

Whether that's through RAG, Web Search, MCP, user input, or apis...etc doesn't matter. MCP just scales this greatly. Any sort of "agent" will have this same limitation.

Prompting is just natural language. There are a million different ways to express the same thing in natural language. Combine that with a non-deterministic model "interpreting" said language and this becomes a very difficult and unpredictable attack vector to protect against - other than simply not using untrusted content in agents.

Also, given prompting is natural language, it is incredibly easy to do these attacks. For example, it's trivial to gain access to confidential emails of a user using Claude Desktop connected to a Gmail MCP server [2].

[1] https://joedivita.substack.com/p/ugc-in-agentic-systems-feel...

[2] https://joedivita.substack.com/p/mcp-its-the-wild-west-out-t...
by taoh | 2025-07-09 02:34:27+00:00
Using SVG for Demos is much better than GIFs or Videos due to the lightweight nature. We have created a tool to make the recording and sharing CLI tool demos much easier: https://github.com/DeepGuide-Ai/dg . Simply call `dg capture` and it generates the svg and content ready to paste to README. An added benefit is it can be used for CI validations. It utilizes termsvg under the hood. Would love your comments.
by mjevans | 2025-07-09 02:36:27+00:00
I think they've over-corrected from the two digits are enough truncation that was common in computers between the 1950s and ~2000. It started to become less common then, but the phase out is arguably still going or stalled until things just die.

However OCTAL (leading zero) prefixing of a text mode number fails on a number of points:

* It's still a fixed register size (5 characters), which will overflow on the year 100000 AD.

* It's confusing, everyone else.

* It's not technically correct. (human behavior)

Truncating to two year digits was confusing because ambiguity. There is no ambiguity if a number encoded in decimal uses precisely the number of characters it needs. That's how normal humans normally write numbers.
by joules77 | 2025-07-09 02:36:54+00:00
Covid sort of showed everyone how hard it is to survive as a small economy in the modern highly interdependent world.

One small disruptor to a core component of a small economy and they are standing outside the IMF to survive.

There are currently 50-60 small countries that depend on borrowing from the IMF (that too in dollars paying interest in dollars - given competition levels guess what dollar generating capacities small economies have? They end up economic vassals of larger systems or selling off national assets or being used in geopolitical games).

On the other hand look at China and India. They have more provinces/states than the EU and larger populations. Vastly differently economies spanning all those subunits. Yet you wont find any of those subunits complaining about their central bank setting monetary policy.

Why? Cuz look at the surroundings - Sri Lanka/Pakistan/Myanmar/Bangladesh/Thailand/Indonesia/even South Korea all at one point or another requiring the IMF to step in and bail them out when they ran into trouble.

The world is too complex and fast/ever changing and small economies are increasingly dependent on larger economies to manage the unknowns and unpredictability that lie ahead. Its almost become impossible to survive by themselves. Sort of like running a book store in the era of Amazon.
by al_borland | 2025-07-09 02:37:14+00:00
I’m not asking to keep the physical port, just the software/driver support.

If someone has a perfectly good FireWire device that they’ve been using for 10 years, and they upgrade to macOS 26 to find out they lost support, they are then put in the position to spend (potentially) hundreds of dollars on a forced upgrade. Change their workflow. Possibly spend hundreds on an old computer on eBay to facilitate a migration… all for what? To save a few mb of disk space?

I don’t see it much differently than removal optical disk support. Remove the drives, no problem. Stop selling the SuperDrive, sure thing. But killing all access for any old hardware to connect by removing the software support? That’s a bridge too far.

These are often quiet removals, probably to avoid a protest, but people should be made aware when support is being dropped, so they can prepare if necessary.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-09 02:38:54+00:00
>At the extreme end, research shows that 1 in 3 CEOs are fired within 18 months.

And the size of the parachute they get when they're tossed from the plane? I know that there are many small companies with someone in a "CEO" position who might not be hugely compensated, but speaking of CEOs at major corporate ventures here, as is commonly understood when one talks about questions of executive responsibility (or lack thereof), let's be real on some actual severance figure averages for a clearer picture of consequences and "punishment".
by kjellsbells | 2025-07-09 02:39:10+00:00
Perhaps reframe the problem not as data loss because S3's technical infrastructure failed but because of one of the many other ways that data can get zapped or that you might need it. For example:

- Employee goes rogue and nukes buckets.

- Code fault quietly deletes data, or doesnt store it like you thought.

- State entity demands access to data, and you'd rather give them a tape than your S3 keys.

I agree that with eleven-nines or whatever it is of availability, a write to S3 is not going to disappoint you, but most data losses are more about policy and personnel than infrastructure failures.