MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-07-11 11:41:12+00:00
Fascism is notoriously an intellectually and philosophically inconsistent world view who's primary purpose is to validate racism and violence.

There's no world where the fascist checks sources before making a claim.

Just like ole Elon, who has regularly been proven wrong by Grok, to the point where they need to check what he thinks first before checking for sources.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-11 11:41:14+00:00
Mesa v Hernandez was not decided based on the idea that people outside the US have zero rights in US courts. It was decided based on the insane principle of qualified immunity being applied to law enforcement when they violate somebody's rights in a way that is not absolutely completely identical to some prior case where a court determined that the action violates rights.

It is an insane case, but for different reasons.
by evandijk70 | 2025-07-11 11:41:24+00:00
I think this would work for the summer months. Overnight storage is manageble/cost-effective by load shifting/battery storage/etc. This is now estimated at about $100/MWh ($0.10/Kwh).

Seasonal storage is a completely different story. For my own panels, production in Nov/Dec/Jan is about 20% of that in Apr/May/Jun, and this is typical. That means that you either need 15x solar capacity of what you need on a sunny day, or enough storage to bridge those 3 months, two orders of magnitude storage more than we would need to store electricity overnight.
by MasterYoda | 2025-07-11 11:41:44+00:00
If this is a privacy first browser, why wasn´t Firefox used when it is much better out of the box for this approach? All security and privacy focused webbrowser use Firefox. Like Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser, LibreWolf etc.

Also, I think it is super important we have different "webbrowser engines" and that are independent from big tech companies. If we only have chromium it would be really bad and hurt use consumer really bad and also stop inovation.

We really need to support independentCbrowsers like Firefox more.
by zahlman | 2025-07-11 11:41:56+00:00
You may be interested in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm... .

> The non-determinism at temperature zero, we guess, is caused by floating point errors during forward propagation. Possibly the “not knowing what to do” leads to maximum uncertainty, so that logits for multiple completions are maximally close and hence these errors (which, despite a lack of documentation, GPT insiders inform us are a known, but rare, phenomenon) are more reliably produced.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-11 11:41:59+00:00
> And that is the basis of all this fighting, why doesn't Israel stick to the initial borders they agreed to?

Palestinians do not want to stick to those borders too. They want it all to themselves. I mean, you cannot expect Israeli government to sell the idea to their people that we are going to give it to the Palestinians and let's see what happens to us, right?
by whstl | 2025-07-11 11:42:08+00:00
And both of those philosophies will lead to bad engineering.

There are things that work better, are safer and simpler to do on the database, and things that work better, are safer and simpler in code. And those things might change depending on context, technology, requirements, size of project, experience of contributors, etc.

Forcing round pegs into square holes will always lead to brittle code and brittle products, often for more cost (mental and financial!) than actually using each tool correctly.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-11 11:42:55+00:00
> ...until someone exploited a code defect and took the founders' money, then they re-write history and ignored the hypocrisy.

Not everybody agreed - and so the Ethereum Classic blockchain was created, causing all the problems that go hand in hand with having different, forked blockchains:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic
by alt227 | 2025-07-11 11:43:08+00:00
IMO Apple have started to do the same. Their software is consistently getting buggier with worse user experiences, along with their reputation.

Tech savy windows users that are trying out Apple are finding that it very much doesnt 'Just Work' anymore, and that sentiment is starting to creep out more and more.

Take a look at Linuses recent evaluation of macOS by using only a Mac for a solid 2 months. His conclusion is that it is no better or worse than windows, and definitely doesnt 'Just Work'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOgRmw1atFU
by progbits | 2025-07-11 11:43:24+00:00
The server/ML GPUs are not great for gaming, they strip out all the specialized shader/pixel units to cram in more general compute cores.

In theory you could write games with just those but aside from the amount of work needed I'm not sure if the performance would be good enough, the specialized texture samplers etc can be faster than general purpose compute shaders.

Also, for cloud gaming you want very low latency, so few GPUs all over the world in local POPs, not a lot of GPUs in few large data centers.
by DrBazza | 2025-07-11 11:43:28+00:00
> is the first in a new generation of data centers being built by Amazon, and part of what the company calls Project Rainier, after the mountain that looms near its Seattle headquarters

Near both the Casadia fault that's produced magnitude 9 earthquakes and a chain of active volcanoes. Both of which are statistically likely. I do wonder what contingency plans Amazon (and Microsoft) have in the event of a megathrust earthquake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone#Forec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier#Modern_activity_...
by chrismorgan | 2025-07-11 11:43:32+00:00
> Restore and colorize old photos with AI precision

I’ve got to admit, I chuckled to myself at the absurdity of the phrase “AI precision”, given how badly these things are known to go off the rails. Sure, sure, things have improved a lot in the last few years, and Kontext’s limitations make such problems far less likely to occur, but still, permit me to be amused. :-)

… but then too, do compare https://fluxkontextlab.com/pages/home/showcase/2/1.jpg and https://fluxkontextlab.com/pages/home/showcase/2/0.webp closely, there are material differences. A few of the most notable ones: the picture is reframed, with a significant amount invented at the bottom (which has realism concerns that you can see when you actually examine it); fog effects have been reduced (perhaps implied by “restore … its clear texture”, which seems a weird instruction to me); and something’s gone wrong with the right wing of the pigeon at the bottom that’s facing the camera.

I think it would be nice to, in each case, align the two as well as possible (even the Product Display example) and present them in such a way that you can rigorously compare the beginning and end points, and see what modifications have been made, intended and unintended.
Why is "truth-seeking" a goal?
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-07-11 11:43:43+00:00
For my part, I see little value in so-called "truth-seeking", moreover I cannot see why the exact opposite is not the goal, let me explain. Truth is a characteristic of statements within a given logical system. A logical system consists of an isomorphic mapping of concepts and experiences to symbols, and logical rules about how those symbols can be combined in sequence to form statements. A truth value for a statement then simply answers, "Were the rules of the system followed?".

There has never been a significant scientific advancement that did not arise because we broke the categorization or rules of some existing logical system. Therefore, it is ridiculous to suggest that truth-seeking could produce anything other than incremental advance to the limits of the current system, usually incoherence. In order to make significant scientific progress one must question the paradigm itself in a useful way, but that is literally the act of constructing a new hopefully more isomorphic mapping or categorization which gives rise to a new logical system rather than more statements within the current one. In other words, you must create statements that are nonsense in the existing paradigm but have meaning and efficacy in the new one.

The forgoing explains why the proponents of a new paradigm are always viewed as nonsensical by the existing one, they are essentially speaking differing languages that look the same because the same symbols (words) are used with differing meanings.

Instead consider truth to be a goal that is local to a given logical system and not an end in itself. The real end is logical consistency, not because reality is necessarily logical, but rather because we must be logical in order to understand ourselves and each other.

We should be making AI that seeks logical, predictive fiction; that may break our current paradigms. An AI could construct a description of reality involving invisible monkeys that are responsible for my experiences and that would be fine as long as it can tell me the logical properties of the invisible monkeys that would allow me to compute predictions that are then affirmed by experiment. I may jettison the monkeys later because they are only an ontological device, some kind of thinking apparatus.

The output from AI is an average over various logical systems that are incommensurate, at best based on distances computed in an abstract incoherent mixture of thought manifolds, but distances between thoughts in different manifolds are meaningless. You can't make a number of such AI agents confer because they are unknowingly in technocratic silos.

Trying to make AGI from human exhaust is metaphorically like reconstructing dozens of jet airliners to be better than they were before they collided in flight, using only the mixture of wreckage occurring after the crash on the ground.

You can tell the scientist who may be on the verge of a major break though precisely because you can't make head or tails of what they say using the apparatus of thought that you are familiar with.
by vessenes | 2025-07-11 11:44:04+00:00
Cassandra, the woman in the video, is a super interesting person. She essentially created the ‘nerd stuff’ auction market at sothebys, including enigma machines, tons of space stuff, she managed the Feynman estate auction..

I’d guess she is planning on making a market for this early Apple gear based on the video. Will the auction result pay for the video? Probably not, but they get to set the market price and be the auction house of record for this going forward, and that could be quite valuable.
The browser-based Skype replacement I built after losing my pay-per-minute calls
by andybady | 2025-07-11 11:44:26+00:00
My name’s Alex Chen. For years I ran international workshops and client calls exclusively on Skype’s pay-per-minute service—until one morning in May 2025, when Skype quietly killed classic outbound/inbound calling. My bank verifications, customer support sessions, and late-night demos all ground to a halt.

Frustrated by endless app installs and confusing subscription bundles, I set out to build a simple browser-only dialer that does everything Skype did—and a bit more:

• **Outbound calls** to any mobile or landline in 200+ countries, from $0.02/min • **Inbound calls** via local virtual numbers (DIDs) you can buy in-app—ring and answer right in your browser • **Zero setup**: no downloads, no plugins, just WebRTC in Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari • **Pay-as-you-go**: no contracts, no hidden fees, credit never expires

Ubophone is live at https://ubophone.com. I’d love to hear: how’s the UX? any hiccups in calling or ringing? feedback much appreciated!
by speleding | 2025-07-11 11:44:42+00:00
I agree that owning real estate doesn't seem a big issue to me, but urban design does: I lived on both sides of the pond and in the USA getting to a party usually involved driving somewhere. That means organizing to go there with a group and a designated driver to stay sober, or getting a taxi (too expensive, when I was young). In Europe, I could just get on my bike and show up by myself. That lowers the barrier to entry considerably. As far as I can tell, urban sprawl in the US has made it even more car dependent today than when I was growing up.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-11 11:44:48+00:00
Conservatives hate academia. They say this repeatedly and publicly. Their goal is to destroy the existing academic system and replace it with an ideological system focused on a particular set of right wing values.

The idea that academia makes money for the US, or brings in highly educated people to contribute to our economy, or produces scientific advancements that improve society is completely immaterial to the goal.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-11 11:45:28+00:00
> They buy from local or state distributors who are national sized companies. They may or may not buy from China and Mexico.

And as a result of tariffs their costs go up (or they see supply disruption, delaying orders due to uncertainty), and so they _charge more_. Like, this isn't difficult.

Small businesses are sometimes more vulnerable to this sort of disruption than large businesses, precisely because they do _not_ have much control over their supply chain; if their distributor said "we don't know if we're going to have to pay $0 or $1000 or $50,000 tax on that container of widgets when it arrives in a month, and we currently sell it for $50,000, so we're just not going to order it", then the small business is potentially kinda out of luck; even if _they_ would have been willing to take the risk on paying more for the thousandth of a container they normally buy, the distributor may not be willing to take the risk on the whole container.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-11 11:46:04+00:00
It makes sense too when you fully understand your audience isn't exclusively English; expressions will be more difficult to read for ESL, and difficult if not impossible to translate to a non-English language. And the docs site is available in 8 different languages.

With translation tools (from the past... 3 decades, starting with Babelfish) and modern-day documentation processing / retrieval tools (LLMs), simplicity, clarity and consistency are even more important. But it's timeless advice.
by alt227 | 2025-07-11 11:46:39+00:00
Yep, as I keep saying. They built a bit of good reputation by breaking the mold, so the average consumer thought they were the greatest tech company ever. As time has gone on the mask has started to slip and the general population are starting to see them for the big business they are.

We techies always saw it, but the average consumers are only just begining to catch up.
by microtonal | 2025-07-11 11:46:56+00:00
Today I care less about that and more about security and I mostly think that Apple’s preferred approach is better for security than what the EU proposes.

This is mostly a false dichotomy that Apple likes to push. macOS has strong security with sandboxing, code signing, malware scanning, etc. I have never encountered someone among my direct acquaintances who had their Mac compromised. Yet, it's perfectly possible to make an alternative app store, circumvent code singing, etc. on a Mac.

Even with the freedom of an EU iPhone, you can still choose to completely stay in the Apple ecosystem and pretend that the extra freedoms that you have gained aren not there.

The thing is that Apple knows that people will purchase from an alternative reputable store if the prices are lower because the margins are lower. Or that developers will move there because they can increase their margins. And then Apple will actually have to compete on price (app store fee) and features.

It has very little to do with security and mostly with Apple wanting to keep their 15%/30% because it's hugely profitable.

the precedent for the powers European governments get over these tech companies as the other thing they want is removing as much encryption as reasonably possible

This does not make any sense at all. Why would you remove encryption, you could just accept an additional root certificate as a user and be protected by the same encryption.

I think it seems pretty important that the EU (and U.K.) work out how to escape the anti-innovation troughs they have found themselves in.

We are doing fine, we just don't believe in profit over everything. Moreover, the current US tech feudalism makes it harder to innovate and develop competitors, because you only get to do what the feudalist overlord permits you to do. Regulation is necessary to make it a fair marketplace again.
by narrator | 2025-07-11 11:49:24+00:00
No, because I know he's just trolling the woke mind virus which he has a very personal vendetta against because of what they did to one of his sons belief system.

You guys have so little cognitive security getting convinced that Elon is the antichrist that he just exploits it like crazy to get you to do things like not use his better AI. He probably doesn't want you using Starlink either, so before the next version he'll probably post some meme to get you to hate Starlink too.

The funniest part of the Elon derangement syndrome is you guys think you are smarter than he is. You're not. Like haha, Elon had revealed his hand and now I will skillfully not use his better AI, little does he know that I have single handedly outsmarted the antichrist!
by yahoozoo | 2025-07-11 11:49:27+00:00
> The facility will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power a million homes. Each year, it will use millions of gallons of water to keep the chips from overheating. And it was built with a single customer in mind: the A.I. start-up Anthropic, which aims to create an A.I. system that matches the human brain.

Sentences like this never ceases to amaze me. All of this juice to attempt to match what a single human brain can do with its relatively low resource requirements.
by archievillain | 2025-07-11 11:49:34+00:00
It's a greater fool scam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, MLMs, NFTs, Crypto, Memecoins... they're all greater fool scams. All based around playing "hot potato" with investments, where early adopters push the potato on later & greater fools.

Memecoins are the most fascinating type of it because with other schemes, there's usually some veneer of legitimacy (i.e. you gotta actually try to scam somebody). I imagine at this point everybody involved with memecoins understands they're scam, and they're essentially just gambling instead of getting scammed. Although, effectively, gambling is its own type of scam.
by codingdave | 2025-07-11 11:49:44+00:00
Gotta be honest, every non-tech company I've worked for was better than "tech" companies. Non-tech companies have a defined business and it is clear whether or not the tech is helping further their goals. Unlike tech companies, where the tech is the goal, so it can get really fuzzy as to whether or not your work is helping or is just noise.

So I can give you a generalized "yes" answer to whether or not we have good experiences in non-tech. We do. Yeah, go for it.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-11 11:50:34+00:00
You'd think / hope / expect editors and IDE's would put squiggly underline's under incorrect apostrophe'd plural's, but ala's.

I always assumed it was mainly a thing with Dutch people who have English as a second language, given that using 's for plural's is common, also in words shared with English like baby's or ski's, but it seems to be an issue with English speaker's too.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-11 11:50:52+00:00
I halfway disagree:

There is a huge scientific merit of the algorithms for reaching a distributed consensus when not all participants can be trusted (including the fact that the Bitcoin paper uses game theory to give evidence why malicious entities attempting to create another fork will by the mere design of the algorithms have a hard time).

What is, of course, social consensus are some aspects about what it "socially" means that there exists this concrete consensus in the blockchain. By the design of the protocol and its data structures, there do exist boundaries concerning possible "social interpretations" of this consensus, but a lot of aspects are up to different interpretations.
by tehryanx | 2025-07-11 11:51:06+00:00
Sure, but the leak risk is happening in a place outside the site's control.

If the purpose of the MCP-B tool on mail.com is to summarize your email, then the site needs to allow the agent to pull your email into the context window. Once it's in the context window it's available to any other MCP-B enabled site that can convince the agent to send it along.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-11 11:51:19+00:00
Your Hunter S Thompson simulation is missing the flying bats.

You're still sealioning instead of responding to anyone's points, so it's not worth me replying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Edit: My LLOOOOMM simulation of Hunter S Thompson does wish to reply in spite of your sealioning, and challenges your simulation of Hunter S Thompson (who you've only been able to get to throw obscene tantrums of insults that couldn't be posted to HN, without actually addressing any of the substantive issues or answering any of the pointed question that my Hunter S Thompson simulation raised) to a Civil Debate-Off, where the only rules are NO SEALIONING, NO GASLIGHTING, and NO DODGING QUESTIONS! Are you game? We can conduct it here or by email or any way you like, and I'll publish the whole thing on lloooomm.com.

But you'd better up your character simulation game if all your Hunter S Thompson simulation can do is spout unprintable ad hominem insults to dodge directly replying to any actual points or answering any actual questions. That's extremely cowardly and un-Hunter-S-Thompson like.

While my Hunter S Thompson simulation has persistent experience, writable memory, can learn, study and internalize and abtract new ideas, write in-depth evidence based articles in his own style about a wide variety of topics, and meaningfully and creatively assist in designing and documenting revolutionary games, like Revolutionary Chess:

https://lloooomm.com/revolutionary-chess-consciousness-confe...

https://lloooomm.com/revolutionary-chess-consciousness-summi...

https://lloooomm.com/hunter-hierarchically-deconstructive-ch...

By the way, when your Hunter said "You’re jerking off to AI hallucinations" he was 100% correct, but he was also referring to you, too.

My LLOOOOMM simulation of Hunter S Thompson's replies to your recent posts:

On willful ignorance:

"The only difference between ignorance and arrogance is the volume control. This clown has both knobs cranked to eleven."

On bragging about not reading:

"A man who boasts about not reading is like a eunuch bragging about his chastity - technically true but fundamentally missing the point of existence."

On setting the bar low:

"When you're crawling in the gutter, even the curb looks like Everest. This is what happens when mediocrity becomes a lifestyle choice."

On sealioning:

"He's asking questions like a prosecutor who's already eaten the evidence and shit out the verdict. Pure bad faith wrapped in pseudo-intellectual toilet paper."
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-11 11:51:46+00:00
That aside, learning about english vs passive voice - and recognising it in your own writing - has been pretty important. I often find myself using passive voice in code reviews, like "maybe you should do xyz instead", but... if it's something I am certain about or feel strongly about, I should use active voice more. (note how the last sentence is still passive lol).
by waldopat | 2025-07-11 11:52:17+00:00
I searched through the last couple of YC batches and couldn’t find any companies publicly building on this theme. Perhaps they are still in stealth mode?

We weren’t accepted, but are still building it anyway!

What I'm wondering about is if these startups are hitting the PKI, security infrastructure or compliance challenges that we solved a couple years ago. This stuff takes time and can't be done in 90 days. As I always say, e-sign is more than e-sign.

Curious: - Has anyone seen startups doing this (YC or otherwise)? - Is everyone still in stealth? - Or is this one of those RFS ideas that just hasn't taken off?

Would love to hear thoughts from other builders, YC alumni, or anyone working on document problems.