MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pkdpic | 2025-07-14 21:43:55+00:00
From that article:

> KEY POINTS

> The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it's granting contract awards of up to $200 million to several AI companies.

> The DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said the awards will help the agency accelerate its adoption of AI solutions.

> The recipients of the contract awards include Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI.

[https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/07/14/anthropic-google-openai-...]
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-14 21:44:14+00:00
Yeah, it is often mentioned that WSL1/WSL2 are bad names when 2 isn't a direct successor as much as a peer that works well side-by-side. Something like WSLA and WSLB might been useful to help it feel less abandoned. The number of scenarios where WSL1 is better than WSL2 are fewer and weirder, so it will always feel "second ran", but Microsoft still seems to want to support it for the few weird use cases that are left (just not huge new ones that would need massive rewrites or compatibility lab teams to run more massive suites of Linux applications).

Also, yeah the lack of Google Play Services sure was a big issue with WSA, no matter how much Amazon want people to believe their replacements for Google Play Services are fine enough for most users/apps. Google Play Services is quite a moat today.
by itishappy | 2025-07-14 21:44:47+00:00
It's only spherical in a Schwarzschild (non-rotating) black hole. A rotating black hole is called a Kerr black hole, and stuff gets weird, such as there being an oblate event horizon, a weird outer horizon called an ergosphere where spacetime gets dragged along such that it's impossible to stand still and you can accelerate objects using the black hole, a weirder inner horizon called the Cauchy horizon where time travel is possible, and a singularity in the shape of a ring. Your intuition is correct that during a merger it would be weirder still.

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

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.0622

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

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

Edit: Updated the bit about about horizons as I research a bit more. It's complicated, and I'm still not positive I have it exactly right, but I think it's now as good as I can get it.
by observationist | 2025-07-14 21:44:48+00:00
They'll vary wildly, as much as they think they can get away with, in the hopes that you will never use the service and pay them as much as possible for it, and they'll bury your mailbox with crap to try to wear you down into coming back.

They will happily let you pay for years, for services that no longer exist, no longer connected to any of their networks. They'll take you to court rather than pay anything back; they know they are receiving extra money, and there's a significant amount that comes in, but "oh, it's so confusing, and there are so many legacy systems, we can't possibly catch every mistake."

The money they shuffle back and forth between each other, daily, reeks of book cooking - you might have a stretch of 20 miles of trunk in which there are 20 separate owners - not concurrent riding separate fiber lines, but in sequence, each paying rent to or getting rent paid by the adjacent rider, even though only a single company actually services the entire span.

It's funny how construction companies and ISPs get these rackets going, and then when people come along like these PrimeOne guys and offer a reasonable rate on a decent product, it's somehow vastly disruptive and threatening.

They'll expand, and be encouraged and allowed to expand, and after 5 or 6 years, the big ISPs will start circling, and eventually buy them out, and they'll retire happy. AT&T or Lumen will own their network inside of 10 years, and they'll claim it's modernized and upgraded infrastructure. People with shitty oversold undermaintained cable internet will be left alone until the money stops.

Starlink to phones is great, if it only didn't make ISPs so much money handling the base stations on the ground.

There's fiber all over the US just hanging there, unused, unmaintained, because merger after merger after merger left giant piles of assets under the ownership of companies like comcast and centurylink and at&t, who left infrastructure to rot, often built with public funding, and maintained their local monopolies and shitty service.

Whatever it is we're doing to regulate the industry at a federal level isn't working, but I imagine that's where a lot of the money goes.
Show HN: Limotein, AI-powered food tracker (voice, photo, or text input)
by maskar | 2025-07-14 21:45:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Limotein, a mobile app that simplifies food tracking using AI. The frustration of manually entering every ingredient, scanning barcodes, or building recipes from scratch pushed me to create something easier.

With Limotein, you can:

Speak, take a photo, or write what you ate

The app uses AI to estimate calories, protein, carbs, and fat

Tracks your meals across the day, and gives weekly/monthly stats

Works for takeout, homemade food, and even vague meal descriptions

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by jMyles | 2025-07-14 21:46:17+00:00
It's not unreasonable to take such a position, yes.

Look, if you believe that:

a) humanity is headed toward sustained peace

b) a transition from the current world order to a peaceful one is better done in an orderly and adult fashion

...then yes, at some point we all need to back away from participation in the legacy systems, right down to the drywall.

My observation, especially of the younger generations, is that belief in such a future is more common than it has ever been, and it's certainly one I hold.
by treetalker | 2025-07-14 21:48:30+00:00
I'm not steeped in computer science, so please pardon me if the following are dumb questions.

> Programs written for Bedrock can run on any computer system, so long as a Bedrock emulator has been implemented for that system.

Isn't that true of any program? As long as the language that the program is written in is implemented on the system, any (valid?) program in that language will run on that system?
by kens | 2025-07-14 21:49:00+00:00
A month ago, the proposed NSF budget would shut down one of the two LIGO observatories in the US, wrecking its ability to triangulate the location of events such as this black hole merger. A shutdown would also severely damage the noise margins and detection rate. Does anyone know if the shutdown is still planned? (I couldn't find any recent info.)

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-proposed-cut...
by underlipton | 2025-07-14 21:49:11+00:00
"Lottery, past a reasonable post," is highly underrated. The randomness is there to account for the uncertainty of the objective criteria chosen ("Is it the right criteria?" "Did we measure correctly?"). Work in an escape clause in case things go horribly wrong with the ultimate "choice".

I strongly believe that this is how you solve elections, admissions, and recruitment (or, at least, get closer to an ideal solution).
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 21:50:21+00:00
For me it was all about OS-9 at the end

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

which had a decent C compiler at the very least. I was checking out everything I could about Unix from the public library and creating my own version of as many Unix tools as I could. In terms of OS, the Coco 3 was head and shoulders over anything else you could get up to that point. It even had a windowing system that was a lot like Plan 9.

At some point though I was frustrated with there not being a lot of software for it and I did a data processing job for my Uncle Bob that paid for a new 286 machine although if I knew how much value it made for him I should have asked enough for a 386. The 286 was a massive step up in performance -- in high school I developed a CP/M program for a teacher using a Z80 emulator that was 3x faster than any Z80 could you buy!
by yuntian | 2025-07-14 21:51:37+00:00
Thanks everyone for trying out NeuralOS, and apologies for the frustrating user experience!

I coded up the demo myself and didn't anticipate how disruptive the intermittent warning messages about waiting users would become. The demo is quite resource-intensive: each session currently requires its own H100 GPU, and I'm already using a dispatcher-worker setup with 8 parallel workers. Unfortunately, demand exceeded my setup, causing significant lag and I had to limit sessions to 60 more seconds when others are waiting. Additionally, the underlying diffusion model itself is slow to run, resulting in a frame rate typically below 2 fps, further compounded by network bottlenecks.

As for model capabilities, NeuralOS is indeed quite limited at this point (as acknowledged in my paper abstract). That's why the demo interactions shown in my tweet were minimal (opening Firefox, typing a URL).

Overall, this is meant as a proof-of-concept demonstrating the potential of generative, neural-network-powered GUIs. It's fully open-source, and I hope others can help improve it going forward!

Thanks again for the honest feedback.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-14 21:51:50+00:00
If I come up with an invention I don't have the capability/finances to bring it to market. Without patents, I have no incentive to show it to possible investors/manufacturers because they can just steal it and keep all the profits. So my idea that could have helped society dies with me. So it costs society nothing to give me protection, but society get's nothing without the protection versus efficiency, safer working conditions, better health, whatever benefit from my invention.

Without copyright it was hard to assemble high quality educational books/manuals, because they take a lot of effort with relatively little reward/return. In fact the first 'modern' copyright act in 1701ish was titled something about improving education.

Without copyright it is not worth it for authors to spend nights/weekends flushing out plot ideas for complete sharable works, so you end up with less/lower quality literature as no one can be a professional author. Which has better quality on average, published books or self published? Self published tend to be the 'passion projects' you would still have without copyright, published books tend to be what get's created when authors are compensated for their efforts. Society can't lose from copyright because without it the works would never have existed. If I say 'I'll bake a cake if you will buy a piece' and I bake a cake and sell a piece, society didn't 'lose'. If I don't bake a cake because no one would buy a piece than society was a little sadder, a little plainer that day. There is only upside, there is no downside. Anyone that would release if copyright didn't exist is still free to waive their copyright protection. So having it is the best of both worlds, those that want to release just to release can, and those that want to try and create something that can be sold can.

Without copyright there are no big budget movies, only passion projects because no one is injecting millions when the work will just be copied no sold/screened/rented.

Without copyright the world has less joy, less discussion, less contemplation, less entertainment, less education. Without patents the world has less productivity, less safety, worse health, less food, worse/much less clothing/housing, less free time. The systems in their current forms have been abused and are unfit for the original purpose but when kept to the original purpose with reasonable protection periods they are a HUGE net plus for society.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-14 21:51:59+00:00
I honestly don't know what you're talking about anymore. I'm saying that investors don't hold homes empty for no reason. They rent them out whenever possible to make money.

And when you say "It is crystal clear to me and anyone I know who rents: renting is more expensive than owning", your crystal clarity is wrong, sorry. I haven't responded to your census.gov link because it's irrelevant. You can be "cost-burdened" renting even while renting is cheaper than a monthly mortgage would be. The link doesn't have anything to do with the discussion here. But if you don't want to google it, here are literally the first two links I got when searching for whether it's cheaper to rent or buy:

https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/rent-vs-buy-affordabili...

https://www.kiplinger.com/real-estate/buying-a-home/renting-...

The first line of the first link:

> On average, renting a home is cheaper than paying a mortgage in all 50 of the largest U.S. metros in 2025 — with the cost difference between the two growing in 38 metros since last year.

Hope that helps you understand not "my position" but just the facts. And I truly can't imagine why you'd tell someone seeking tenure to get a union job instead. I don't see how that could come across as anything but insulting, to tell them they should pick a job more like yours.
by jarredkenny | 2025-07-14 21:53:40+00:00
My napkin math is that I can now accomplish 10x more in a day than I could even one year ago, which means I don't need to hire nearly as many engineers, and I still come out ahead.

I use claude code exclusively for the initial version of all new features, then I review and iterate. With the Max plan I can have many of these loops going concurrently in git worktrees. I even built a little script to make the workflow better: http://github.com/jarredkenny/cf
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-14 21:54:09+00:00
Is a statistical analysis of the specific number actually the point? Suppose it was three felonies a year. What difference does that make when the prison sentence for each felony is also at least a year? The problem is the same; a prosecutor can throw anyone in prison simply because there are so many laws nobody can follow them all or even realize when they're violating one.
by fiforpg | 2025-07-14 21:54:22+00:00
While the idea — of shuffling a societal system a little bit to prevent it from going stale — sounds important, I'm not convinced. Random shuffling leads to good results only when it is combined with a good fitness estimate (see: natural selection). And establishing a fitness test for a societal order seems to be a much harder issue than than that of an organized randomization.
by jtrn | 2025-07-14 21:54:59+00:00
Regarding under- and over-eating: it seems you think I am a simple mathematical average that doesn't factor that in. I stand by my observation, as and observation, not fact.

Lisdexamfetamine is not amphetamine—not chemically, not in terms of its half-life, not in subjective experience, and not in any study that tracks behavioral or long-term effects. At best, it's a prodrug of an enantiomer of amphetamine. You are also mistaken about the study. Reading even the abstract would clear that up for you.

Let me clean up the unnecessary, convoluted language before I answer: Q: Does it stop being called "abuse" once a doctor prescribes it? A: No. The prescription stopped hospitalizations due to amphetamine overdose.

Q: Is it simply safer to use drugs with a doctor's help? A: That was not answerable based on the study's design. It is also not a useful question to ask in this context, since it's comparing apples and oranges. Some of the worst cases of drug abuse are created and maintained by doctors. However, taking drugs collaboratively with a doctor is probably safer on average than getting them from random webpages.

Q: Is this specific amphetamine safer than others? A: Yes, as is the case with any substance we ingest. You can quibble over the details, but beer is safer than hard liquor. Likewise, different medications in the same category or receptor affinity group have different LD_{50} doses (the ratio of the clinically effective threshold to the threshold where 50% of subjects would die).
by codr7 | 2025-07-14 21:56:05+00:00
I'd do this in almost any other language than C :)

In C, I like just passing a const char * around as input; this also gives me ability to return progress and unget chars as an added bonus.

https://github.com/codr7/shi-c/blob/b1d5cb718b7eb166a0a93c77...
by Expurple | 2025-07-14 21:56:07+00:00
Indeed, the choice is actually between:

- "a low quality solution"

- "a low-quality solution, but you also spend extra time (sometimes - other people's time) on learning to solve the problem yourself"

- "a high-quality solution, but you've spent years on becoming an expert is this domain"

It's good that you brought this up.

Often, learning to solve a class of problems is simply not a priority. Low-quality vide-coded tools are usually means to an end. And the end goals that they achieve are often not even the most important end goals that you have. Digging so deep into the details of those is not worth it. Those are temporary, ad-hoc things.

In the original post, the author references our previous discussion about "Worse Is Better". It's a very relevant topic! Over there, I actually made a very similar point about priorities. "Worse" software is "better" when it's just a component of a system where the other components are more important. You want to spend as much time as possible on those other components, and not on the current component.

A (translated) example that I gave in that thread:

> In the 1970s, K&R were doing OS research. Not PL research. When they needed to port their OS, they hacked a portable low-level language for that task. They didn't go deep into "proper" PL research that would take years. They ported their OS, and then returned straight to OS research and achieved breakthroughs in that area. As intended.

> It's very much possible that writing a general, secure-by-design instrument would take way more time than adding concrete hacks on the application level and producing a result that's just as good (secure or whatever) when you look at the end application.
by TuringNYC | 2025-07-14 21:56:13+00:00
I did k-12 in the NYC Board of Education system (public school.) Some higher-end public high schools schools did randomized entry, which was a positive in my mind. The only selection was self selection into the lottery, where like-minded and ambitious students/families applied.

Unfortunately even that gets abused. I dont know how my process went, but I sure know how my kids' experience was. The school wont give you an application, or send you to the head office to apply (even though you can also apply in-school), or they will do the residency screening the last Friday of the application period (too bad if you happen not to be home on the day they visit.) They will sometimes ask you for original deeds or birth certificates (but your friends will tell you they werent asked for it.)

The randomness can be theatre to show public fairness, but in reality it is anything but random.
Ask HN: Why can't OpenAI, Cursor, Fyxer etc. send their invoices per email?
by AnhTho_FR | 2025-07-14 21:57:27+00:00
Every month I need to log in in to our SaaS to download invoices.

-> https://community.openai.com/t/please-automate-the-invoice-to-be-send-by-email-is-it-so-hard/1139369

If OpenAI, Cursor, Fyxer (and countless others) can't send invoices to their end users via email, it's because it's not that straightforward. And they all use Stripe Billing.

Genuinely asking: WHY?
by slg | 2025-07-14 21:57:55+00:00
Thank you, this is a perfect example of the type of inconsistencies I’m talking about when discussing these issues. The prior comment says encryption saves lives and that is accepted without question, but the idea that empowering law enforcement saves lives is met with a request for evidence. Why did you not reply to both claims the same way?

And if you truly believe that finding and arresting criminals does not make us safer, that is an indictment of our entire justice system. It would also make license plate cameras a rather silly place to draw the line.
by jakebasile | 2025-07-14 21:58:17+00:00
I'd suggest going straight to the source and reading through Antiqua et nova direct from the Vatican [1]. I think it's a very well written document about the subject and very clear.

Pope Leo has mentioned AI often since his election[2], so I expect we'll be hearing more from the Magisterium on it in the coming years.

[1]: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

[2]: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/taglist.cultura-e-societa.Cult...
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-14 21:59:30+00:00
Again I understand and I don’t doubt you’re getting insane value out of it but if they believed people would spend $2000 a month for it they would be charging $2000 a month, not 1/10th of that, which is undoubtedly not generating a profit.

As I said above, I don’t think a single AI company is remotely in the black yet. They are driven by speculation and investment and they need to figure out real quick how they’re going to survive when that money dries up. People are not going to fork out 24k a year for these tools. I don’t think they’ll spend even $10k. People scoff at paying $70+ for internet, a thing we all use basically all the time.

I have found it rather odd that they have targeted individual consumers for the most part. These all seem like enterprise solutions that need to charge large sums and target large companies tbh. My guess is a lot of them think it will get cheaper and easier to provide the same level of service and that they won’t have to make such dramatic increases in their pricing. Time will tell, but I’m skeptical
by avidiax | 2025-07-14 21:59:48+00:00
> It sounds like you want to enable people to be criminals.

Yes, wherever it is criminal to improve the wellbeing or support progress of society, I support the ability of people to be criminals.

Rosa Parks wasn't allowed to sit at the front of the bus. Criminal.

I doubt MLK had a permit for every march. Criminal.

I doubt the founding fathers were legally allowed to oppose the British taxes. Criminals.

A society with no crime is a dystopia.
by jfim | 2025-07-14 22:00:15+00:00
Anecdotally, I can take on and complete the side projects I've always wanted to do but didn't due to the large amounts of yak shaving or unfamiliarity with parts of the stack. It's the difference between "hey wouldn't it be cool to have a Monte Carlo simulator for retirement planning with multidimensional search for the safe withdrawal rate depending on savings rate, age of retirement, and other assumptions" and doing it in an afternoon with some prompts.
by andyferris | 2025-07-14 22:00:16+00:00
> Expand the House (and make provisions that keep it updated with each census).

Interesting. Looking in from a country with a smaller lower house, I think members in the US are already so numerous they seem to fade to the background and their survival becomes mostly about party politics not making a good impression on their district. It's not like most of them could make a good speech while most members are present and listening. Only senators seem individually important enough to make a name for themselves (with the exception of the speaker etc).

But I've never lived and voted in the US so maybe I'm missing something important here.
by TuringNYC | 2025-07-14 22:00:18+00:00
>> because if you don't, they won't have any ability to do anything for it anyways.

Well seems even the "home team" cant do anything either, so why not go for better candidates.

When I was in 4th grade, we struggled with public education, healthcare, etc. Now I have 4th graders of my own and they struggle with the same issues. No progress in a generation.