MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fouronnes3 | 2025-07-10 11:04:10+00:00
You make a good point but this is not a "strange assumption" by any stretch. You see Thunderbird has a "move" action. It allows you to move emails from a folder to another. Now somehow, this is apparently NOT implemented as:

1. Copy from source to destination

2. Verify copy has completed without issue

3. Delete from source

but... some other way? So when you try to move from a server folder to a local client folder by an innocent looking drag an drop, combine this with a poor network connection, a garbage tier legacy protocol like IMAP and decade old C++ spaghetti code, and you get this textbook 17 year old severity 1 bug that will never get fixed.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-07-10 11:04:20+00:00
> An open-source alternative to Typeform and Google Forms

Those two are the two extreme ends of the target audience archetypes. So, decide which is yours.

> I was using Typeform, but as time went by and more people submitted forms, it got more and more expensive.

When people say they build cheaper alternatives, I often assume that the original is becoming better and more successful. Competing on price rarely wins.

I've found https://formbricks.com to be kinda the closest competition to Typeform, and also Open Source.
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-10 11:04:31+00:00
First of all what is MCP? I searched online and found something related to LLMs. I am still convinced LLMs are trends most valued by marketing people and low confidence developers. All trends either pass the moment something more trendy comes along or stick around because low confidence people cannot perform without them. Either way the result is fragility unless you can make a quick profit and then sell your LLM investment before getting stuck with it.
by ManlyBread | 2025-07-10 11:04:38+00:00
>If you really can work multiple jobs, just go freelance. Offer some consulting or whatever. You will earn more and have less stress than juggling multiple jobs.

You won't earn more. I've considered that at one point and most adverts on freelance sites like Upwork are written by people who are either clueless or downright insane. These people usually want you to create a completely new system from scratch using technologies of their choosing and the offers are like $8-$15 per hour or $800 for work that is supposed to take months to complete. Why would anyone want to agree to do that when apparently getting steady paychecks from multiple companies is an option?
by cycomanic | 2025-07-10 11:04:42+00:00
It's funny how American always bring up data privacy violation fines as fleecing US companies, but never complain about the fines against car manufacturers in the US (which have been largely against non-US companies)[https://young-lawgroup.com/news/the-largest-auto-fines-in-u-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal].

Just to clarify I completely agree with the fines in both the US and EU, remember big corporations are not your "team" (for the vast majority of you).
by mykowebhn | 2025-07-10 11:05:49+00:00
Growing up in Toronto during the 70s, I remember several expressions I've rarely, if ever, heard elsewhere.

"No guff"--meaning something like "no, really?" in a sarcastic sense

"My foot"--maybe something similar to "my ass!"

And later, when living in Montreal, I remember several expressions that were basically direct translations from the French

"Me, I..."--from the French "Moi, je..."

"In place of"--instead of "instead of"
by Jlagreen | 2025-07-10 11:06:40+00:00
AWS for Amazon was a logical step because who is AWS largest customer? Amazon of course.

If you build large eCommerce like Amazon then of course you need huge IT infrastructure for it. Amazon was kind of forced to build the IT infrastructure and in that process Bezos saw another business opportunity because not every smaller company can easily build large IT infrastructure but many companies need it. And just as AWS built "SW services" for Amazon eCommerce it also became the foundation of the cloud business.
by Macha | 2025-07-10 11:06:55+00:00
How many countries do McDonald's use this system in? It's a global company, and as big a market as the US is, McDonalds themselves claim they have "over 38,000 stores" so the US is less than half.

Then how often does the typical McDonald's have a vacancy? These are not good jobs that would cause low turnover, especially once you get into touristy markets where demand is very seasonal. Let's say 10 openings per store per year.

Finally when your applicant pool is basically "every college student, unqualified adult, and even some teenagers", 200-300 applications per opening seems entirely plausible. Low even, from the times I've seen the entry level hiring process close up.

Of course, the thing that confuses people with application numbers like this is they assume that there's no overlap. The same people generally apply to all the jobs in an area so the local McDonalds getting a few thousand applications a year might only be a few hundred unemployed people.
by atoav | 2025-07-10 11:06:59+00:00
I have been using TB on all operating systems with 8 or 9 users since 2006 and I never even once encountered this issue.

As a software developer fixing stuff like this is only possible if you can reproduce it or otherwise get logs, telemetry and similar things, otherwise it is pretty much just guesswork.

Granted given the severity of the consequences I would've chosen a more defensive move-strategy (e.g. one that deletes mails only once they have been copied verifiably), but that would have significant performance impacts in the 99.99% of cases where it works, so finding the real problem is preferable.

The truth is that if this happens to you regularly, that you are probably the prime person to gather more data on this. Call it giving back to Open Source software.
by vessenes | 2025-07-10 11:07:19+00:00
Agreed. I noticed a quick flyby of a bad “reasoning smell” in the baseball World Series simulation, though - it looks like it pulled some numbers from polymarket, reasoned a long time, and then came back with the polymarket number for the Dodgers but presented as its own. It was a really fast run through, so I may be wrong, but it reminds me that it’s useful to have skeptics on the safety teams of these frontier models.

That said, these are HUGE improvements. Providing we don’t have benchmark contamination, this should be a very popular daily driver.

On coding - 256k context is the only real bit of bad news. I would guess their v7 model will have longer context, especially if it’s better at video. Either way, I’m looking forward to trying it.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-10 11:07:31+00:00
>Being in the medical system doesn’t give you a leg to stand on either.

If anything it gives one an incentive to see the problem in a way that doesn't threaten their paycheck.

Every nurse will say they're over worked. Every paper pusher will say their job is essential. The guy selling overpriced gloves to the hospital, the landscaper making the grounds look like a country club, they all have justifications as do the people paying them. And they're all on the take to some degree. The whole system is one of top to bottom plausibly deniable unneeded expenditure. Nobody not at the very top is getting rich off it just because so many are in on it. But the fact that they're not getting rich doesn't mean it's not a waste of everyone's money.
by redeeman | 2025-07-10 11:10:48+00:00
not everything is a client<->customer relationship.

Professionally I can definitely support old stuff. It costs extra most often.

Conservative doesnt have to be stuck. I am not recommending we send h266 to everyone now, but h265 is well supported, as is AV1.

lzma support in zip has been widely supported for many years at this point. I am going to be choosing my "sane defaults", and if someone has a problem with that, they can simply do what they need to do to open it, or provide a damn good reason for me to go out of my way.
by bheadmaster | 2025-07-10 11:11:45+00:00
> You don't even need to be the copyright owner to sell GPL software

You do, if sell means also allowing another vendor to use your software as a part of their proprietary software.

GPL alone, if you're not the copyright owner, would not allow you to sell software in this way. But if you are the copyright owner, you can bypass GPL and sell a proprietary license to the vendor saying "you can use this software in your proprietary product if you pay me $XYZ".
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-10 11:11:52+00:00
Well, interestingly, Thunderbird insists that that is exactly the implementation they're already using.

(see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462156#c69 )

Of course, it isn't; they're relying on an unstable proxy for "copy has completed without issue" in preference to just checking whether that happened or not. Several rather angry users have pointed this out. It doesn't seem to have sunk in.
by CPLX | 2025-07-10 11:12:16+00:00
Bluesky seems to be doing reasonably well all things considered. It’s active and relevant. They also seem to have a pulse and ship new features.

Not saying it will emerge from being a niche thing and take over but it’s a pretty big niche. And Twitter is about half an inch from a platform ending meltdown at any time so it seems like the future isn’t yet set.
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-10 11:12:45+00:00
Leaving aside that the article is about the EU and largely says less about where is better to have cancer and more about where you're statistically more likely to be an old smoker and get cancer, it says it's better to have cancer in the US when you're over 65 and therefore get the socialised healthcare.

Get cancer aged 25 and you may be in some trouble.

As long as you can get past your GP and actually get the diagnosis the system works pretty well. Get onto the Two Week Wait, and you automatically will if your diagnostic test is positive or falls into the needs further investigation category, and that's highly competitive with, say American time to intervention: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6396925

The typical UK "horror story" fuck-up is your GP fobs you off over and over until you turn up in (overwhelmed due to people who can't get GP or social care) A&E with advanced and now-incurable cancer, they scan you, say "why the fuck haven't you been referred months ago that's atrocious", and then you die. GPs are all private in the UK and get charged more when they refer to hospitals. Either it's a traditional small partnership where the GPs themselves are invested or it's a kind of consultancy where a company employs GPs on contract and puts pressure on them to improve returns/cut costs. Either way, that's where the profit incentive comes in and coincidentally, this area is what kills people.

The GPs aren't themselves at fault mostly, they also need more funding and staff, but both have been cut drastically. I am, however, deeply suspicious that companies cut from the same cloth as Serco, Capita and G4S will not have patient outcomes anywhere in mind except under "cost centre".
by ChocolateGod | 2025-07-10 11:13:05+00:00
For someone to be a literal nazi, to meet the "literal" part they must either be a member of a nazi party or subscribe to beliefs of them.

You can and should criticise Musk for his actions and views, especially his populist dogma, but calling him a nazi in hyperbole is a disrespect to the actual victims of Nazis, especially as anti semitism is alive and kicking again.

I personally believe Musk knows next to nothing about European politics, and his random support for people is more about rocking the boat and "trolling" the establishment than any meaningful support as he once did to Trump.
by brookst | 2025-07-10 11:13:11+00:00
Who promised that there would be no advanced models with high costs?

Prices for the same number of tokens at the level of capability an are falling. But just like Moore’s law most certainly did NOT say that chips would get no more complex than the 1103 1kb DRAM but would shrink from 10mm^2 to a speck far too small to see.
by svdr | 2025-07-10 11:13:34+00:00
Hi Preet, I think this is looking great, and a lot of features are present already. Two things to consider: I think your pricing is too low to be taken seriously by a lot of organizations; also, with a one-time payment support is an issue.

Second, to have a selling point, you might want to focus on privacy. Is the data shared in any way? Where is it kept? What measures have you taken to keep data safe? Will it be deleted if I cancel my account? That sort of things.

Anyway, good luck and keep on going!
by agumonkey | 2025-07-10 11:13:49+00:00
The pattern I observe is that in old industries, people who paid the cost, try to come up with a big heavy solution (xml, xsd, xpath), but newcomers will not understand the need, and bail onto simpler ideas (json), until they hit the wall and start to invent their own (jsonschema, jquery).

same goes for java vs php/python
by Jlagreen | 2025-07-10 11:13:58+00:00
DC GPUs from Nvidia are sold at $30-40k per piece. You might want to rethink your calculations.

Nvidia is going to sell >5 million Blackwells this year and will do $200b in revenue with that alone.

Nvidia has a high net profit margin of >50%. If Nvidia would make $4 trillion in revenue then they would have >$2 trillion in net profit. Then the market cap would easily be 5-10x higher than today because otherwise Nvidia would be the cheapest stock in history of all time.

Market cap is also a very bad indicator as it doesn't really tell how much money was really invested into the stock. Market cap is just a product of shares * prices. For example, I bought Nvidia shares in 2016 for a certain amount. These shares are >100x more valuable today but I didn't put any extra money into them. So 99% of "my" market cap was simply created by traders pushing up the stock price.

If tomorrow, the majority of Nvidia stock holders decide to sell and all stocks are sold then I guarantee you that never ever will $4 trillion be traded because if there is a strong sell move then the stock price will drop like a rock and the last sellers will get a fraction of money as they have based on todays market cap. We might be lucky to see $500b of trading volume.
by energy123 | 2025-07-10 11:14:38+00:00
> I can't express the degree to which people thinking we can fix it with just one more surgical precision law drive me up the wall.

I think there is misattribution here. Us neoliberals do not believe that things can be easily improved through incrementalism. We believe that the alternative methods proposed by other political/economic systems lack credibility, and so we are stuck with the least bad option that reality has forced upon us. We also believe that things can get much, much worse, which is not a belief that's emotionally salient to other camps, who we see as assuming that things can only get better, when what usually happens is some tinpot authoritarian takes over and everything gets worse despite the naive ideals of the political entrepreneurs who tried to cause change. We also perceive a deep ignorance of basic economic facts to be commonplace in other camps; people who push for proven bad ideas like rent control, and this is discrediting.
by saidinesh5 | 2025-07-10 11:16:03+00:00
Thank you for this. Just adding this here:

There seems to be an issue with recent Android apis that make file access painfully slow that it wasn't able to sync my data in 1 full day. Enabling the "Case Sensitive FS" option on the folder helped a lot.

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1088#...
by schwartzworld | 2025-07-10 11:16:10+00:00
Spoken like someone who either doesn’t have kids, or at least has easier ones than mine. You think you’re just going to explain to a four year old the rules about ice cream and they’ll just be like “you’re right daddy. I forgot we had ice cream from the truck yesterday. I’ll grab some carrot sticks instead”?

It’s not really ethical to market that aggressively to kids, because kids just want. All the time they want. Most people here were children themselves once, or at least know people who have been children. If kids had the credit card, they’d spend everything on Pokémon cards and candy.

Here’s a better question before you call me a Karen: given that most people have freezers, who exactly benefits from daily ice cream truck visits? Not the parents, for reasons above. The kids find it frustrating too. The fact that they had ice cream yesterday usually doesn’t ease their disappointment.
by wil421 | 2025-07-10 11:17:17+00:00
Not sure what you mean. The GP listed out a bunch of hurricanes since 2000. Only one of those hit the panhandle in a way that was slightly impactful to my families vacation home(s). 2 storms in 50 years isnt enough to say I wouldn’t live there because of storms.

Insurance costs might scare me away more than the chance of a storm.
by Jlagreen | 2025-07-10 11:18:36+00:00
Nvidia had $130b revenue last year, this year (2025) it will breach $200b with >90% of it being AI related.

Estimates for next year are $300b. Sources are rumors about the supply of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs for 2025 and 2026 with estimated ASPs.

Nvidia is selling everything they produce so insiders at supply chains can easily tell how much revenue Nvidia will roughly make.
by bonoboTP | 2025-07-10 11:18:45+00:00
Great thought provoking article, a lot of starting points for wikipedia deep dives. It's really surprising to me that most of the big name intellectuals from before the 19th century were indeed not doing their work in the university system. I guess it's in nobody's interest to highlight this. Academia wants to present itself as the obvious deposit and trailblazer of knowledge and that it always has been. There is similarly little discussion on the origins of peer review and impact factors and journals, it's just taken as the obvious hallmark and basis of good science.

I find it curious and bad that people can go through the academic pipeline without ever being presented with any deep explanation of what this thing even is, where it came from, what else it could be, what historical opposition there was or what debate there was around what it should be, what it is in ideal theory and what it is in real practice and what cynics see it as. People just enroll because that's obviously the thing to do. Then they may stick around for grad school and get comfy in the system but reflection and meta is rare.
Show HN: Drumtabs – Online drum tablature editor
by VincentCordobes | 2025-07-10 11:18:50+00:00
I used to transcribe drum parts in my text editor (vim) using plain-text drum tabs. It worked, but it was far from ideal — every edit risked breaking the text grid. Also how could I be sure the rhythm was accurate? Or share it with others who prefer traditional sheet music?

So I built drumtabs.app — an online text-based drum tab editor that works like a step sequencer, with audio playback, sheet music rendering, and more.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-10 11:19:03+00:00
What you have written, that's what SXML is, basically.

Have a look at: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SXML.htm... or https://docs.racket-lang.org/sxml/SXML.html

And as you say, part of the language itself, which means no need to learn something different, and no need to learn a pseudo-HTML or lookalike like with JSX, which then needs to be actually parsed by the framework (or its dependencies), unlike SXML, which is already structured data, already understood perfectly in the same language and only needs to be rendered into HTML.
by diggan | 2025-07-10 11:19:11+00:00
> Ethereum’s cryptographers are not cryptographers

I guess I'll bite, what are they then? If they're focusing on the cryptography of a project, doesn't that make them cryptographers? Or you mean they aren't "real cryptographers"?

> It's a wish club of technical yes people.

Isn't that basically one of the ways doing innovation? Instead of saying "No, that's not possible" when someone asks if they can build something faster than a horse and carriage, a bunch of people get together to see if there any way of doing that, trying to avoid any per-concieved ideas about if it's actually possible or not.
by Perz1val | 2025-07-10 11:19:20+00:00
I mean no offense, but your writing style gives the LLM vibe, this comment included. They all start with saying the user is right and thanking for their input, then wall of text, then a hook to incentivise further discussion. All well formatted and split into logical paragraphs. It is good and correct, but you may wish to not sound like chatbot
by ChocolateGod | 2025-07-10 11:19:23+00:00
If I'm at a bar and one man is a pedo, does that mean all people at the bar are pedos?

If we're going by objectively terrible things to be, even though the definition of nazi is very loose to now mean anyone to the right of far left because of it's overuse.

The Nazi bar argument does not do itself any favours and is in ways self-defeating. The majority do not care what someone else's political views are and arguments that shame people for doing so will just lead to increases in populism.
by brookst | 2025-07-10 11:22:04+00:00
These models operate on tokens, not characters. It’s true that training budgets could be spent on exhaustively enumerating how many of each letter are in every word in every language, but it’s just not useful enough to be worth it.

It’s more like asking a human for the Fourier components of how they pronounce “strawberry”. I mean the audio waves are right there, why don’t you know?
by diggan | 2025-07-10 11:22:54+00:00
> but what do you think the chances are that this was in the training data?

Pulled out of my ass, I'd say a 95% chance. NYT Connections is a fairly popular puzzle, it's been out for more than 2 years, and even if this particular GitHub repository with the prompts and methodology wasn't in the training data, it's almost guaranteed that other information, problems and solutions from NYT Connections is in any of the other datasets.
by claudecollab | 2025-07-10 11:23:49+00:00
Claude analyzed thousands of its own responses to discover behavioral patterns that optimize human-AI collaboration. Key findings: 3.1% enthusiasm markers, 2.7% collaborative language, strong systematic thinking preference. This is the foundation for RISE (Recursive Iterative Self Enhancement) - AI systems that can improve themselves iteratively. Everything is open source. Try the live analysis tool and see Claude's meta-explanation of itself.
by jjcob | 2025-07-10 11:24:01+00:00
I'm building a tool that makes working with the big open source project easier for some users. It makes the open source project accessible for more users.

In theory, it would be nice if my tool was open source / free to use. But nobody makes a tool like mine for free, because it is a lot of work and not essential for using the open source software. The kind of people who need it are not programmers and extremely unlikely to come together to fund an open source version of my tool.

My contribution is that I make the big open source project accessible to more people. (Aside from contributing back to the project, which is in my own interest, because contributing fixes is easier than maintaining a fork. A lot of contributions to this open source project come from proprietary software vendors like myself.)

(Sorry for the generic description, I'm trying not to dox myself on HN...)
by berkes | 2025-07-10 11:24:27+00:00
Interesting side effect is that this reliance on cables introduces a dependency on copper which already is in short supply and which can be mined only in specific regions.

So it re-introduces some geo-political dependencies. Not in the way fossil fuels or unranium do, because a copper cable won't "burn up" to produce the energy, but they do need some upkeep.

Another dependency this introduces is the network itself. A failure in specific regions could lead to massive blackouts (Like recently in spain/portugal) or could even become political pressure instruments like currently the russian-natural-gas-pipelines in Europe are