MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exoverito | 2025-07-21 01:24:45+00:00
Arguably the real regime did not change, since the deep state was already in control. Eisenhower had warned of the Military Industrial Complex in his farewell address just a couple years earlier. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had unanimously approved Operation Northwoods, a false flag attack to justify war with Cuba, which JFK had rejected. JFK also fired Allen Dulles, director of the CIA, after the botched Bay of Pigs operation and planned to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." Unsurprisingly, JFK was assassinated shortly afterwards by a Manchurian candidate, Jack Ruby inexplicably killed Oswald, and then Ruby went insane in prison, probably due to MK ULTRA type operations. In sick twist of irony, Allen Dulles served on the Warren Commission, the blatant conflict of interest was lost on many.

I could go on. To put it lightly, consensus reality is manufactured to a significant degree. Even those who imagine themselves to be rebels, like woke leftists, are in large part the product of COINTELPRO type operations. If establishment media like Colbert and the NY Times are pushing the position of 'The Resistance' then you can be quite certain it's controlled opposition. Same applies to types like Charlie Kirk or the Daily Wire.
by breadwinner | 2025-07-21 01:26:23+00:00
There are 50+ deaths if you include Autopilot. Source: https://www.tesladeaths.com/

Some of them were due to the use of cameras as opposed to LiDAR for example: The May 7, 2016 crash near Williston, Florida, in which a Tesla Model S operating with Autopilot struck the side of a tractor-trailer making a left turn across the car’s path. In this incident, both the car’s camera system and the driver did not detect the white side of the tractor-trailer against a brightly lit sky, which resulted in the Tesla passing under the trailer and causing a fatality.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-21 01:26:48+00:00
> A credit card is also bidirectional ...

From a card holder's perspective regarding a transaction being voided or refunded, sure. What I was talking about are services where the account holder can equally perform purchases as well as receive payments.

> I meant to mention Zelle and Plaid too, since they integrate with many (most?) banks already to allow transfers via your online account login authentication credentials instead of traditional ACH

For the purposes of bidirectional fund transfers, the mechanism for how it is implemented is moot. The net effect and account access (intimacy) is functionally the same.
by andy99 | 2025-07-21 01:27:40+00:00
You can't turn it off, it's a static magnet with hundreds of amps flowing in a closed loop in a giant superconducting coil. The usual comparison is that a charged magnet has the same kinetic energy as a loaded 747 coming in to land. To "turn it off" you can bring it above superconducting temp, dissipate all that power as heat, and boil off thousands of liters of helium (fun fact, they usually have ducts to outside for this so everyone doesn't suffocate during a quench). Which might have happened in this case due to physical damage to the magnet, but is not as easy as flicking a switch and having it be "off".
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-21 01:31:20+00:00
You provided a partial answer.. the general idea to work out how need vs ability to pay can be reliably signalled. Don't give up! Or at least keep the idea around, until something shoes up. The general theory of auctions provides other sorts of partial answers, and it doesn't look like there are any mathematical or physical laws that forbid the kind of answer some of us would like to see. I reckon I'm not dehumanizing anybody here :) this is more interesting than imo problems, you might not even want to ask LLMs because that'd make it boring-er. Uber and Airbnb would have peeps on this if they do care*!

Edit: the same basic problem appears everywhere, e.g.

-*the need to make money exceeds the ability to solve general problems

-your need to understand exceeds my ability to explain

-my ability to focus exceeds your need to continue this thread

-healthcare insurance ie try to get tptacek on your side
by jpgvm | 2025-07-21 01:32:40+00:00
Yeah I would say all modern MRIs do. However one misconception is that loss of field strength is instantanous, it's not. The field strength drops off over about 15s or so as the helium boils off and the magnet losses superconducting properties.

So the emergency quench is less useful than it sounds in these situations... it's very likely if an MRI is going to kill you it's going to do it fast enough for it not to be relevant.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-07-21 01:33:44+00:00
> Not that I think Erlang manages to be a nail gun; it has enough idiosyncrasies that the comparison is not terribly accurate. Still, “need” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Yeah it was a bit vague -- I should have said something more like "not many developers/teams/companies need telecom level uptime and resilience enforced at the single system level". In reality, most groups have solved this by redundancy and building multiple systems/distributing them. You could argue it's the wrong solution, but it's been good enough for so many people that... it's probably fine.
by lanternfish | 2025-07-21 01:33:45+00:00
An LLM - which has functionally infinite unverifiable attack surface - directly wired into a payment system with high authentication. How could anyone anticipate this going wrong?

I feel like everyone is saying 'we're still discovering what LLMs are good at' but it also feels like we really need to get in our collective conscious what they're really, really, bad at.
by odyssey7 | 2025-07-21 01:34:15+00:00
Okay, this sounds more serious than I thought. But then, why was someone able to walk into that room with metal around their neck if it was clearly so life-threatening?

Anyway, I’m complaining as someone who personally has turned down recommended medical procedures after checking radiation cancer risk numbers and realizing the radiation risk was being downplayed. When I saw the numbers, to me the cancer risk wasn’t worth it, so I went without a solution to my health problem. Had an MRI been an option, I would have more likely said yes.
by jmclnx | 2025-07-21 01:34:42+00:00
>without permission

How is that possible ? I would think at the very least the door would be locked.

From quick searches I believe it is a for profit company.

https://opennpi.com/provider/1851878409

Granted that probably does not matter, but to me, for profit generally means cut costs, even safety costs to maximize profits.
by cyw | 2025-07-21 01:35:45+00:00
Hello HN,

I posted this project last week and received some valuable feedback. I’ve made a lot of changes since then and wanted to share it again to see what you think.

The idea came from while I was working on a personal project. When I tried to deploy my agent into the cloud, I ran into a lot of headaches — setting up VMs, writing config, handling crashes. I decided to build a solution for it and called it Agentainer.

Agentainer’s goal is to let anyone (even coding agents) deploy LLM agents into production without spending hours setting up infrastructure.

Here’s what Agentainer does:

One-click deployment: Deploy your containerized LLM agent (any language) as a Docker image

Lifecycle management: Start, stop, pause, resume, and auto-recover via UI or API

Auto-recovery: Agents restart automatically after a crash and return to their last working state

State persistence: Uses Redis for in-memory state and PostgreSQL for snapshots

Per-agent secure APIs: Each agent gets its own REST/gRPC endpoint with token-based auth and usage logging (e.g. https://agentainer.io/{agentId}/{agentEndpoint})

Most cloud platforms are designed for stateless apps or short-lived functions. They’re not ideal for long-running autonomous agents. Since a lot of dev work is now being done by coding agents themselves, Agentainer exposes all platform functions through an API. That means even non-technical founders can ship their own agents into production without needing to manage infrastructure.

If you visit the site, you’ll find a link to our GitHub repo with a working demo that includes all the features above. You can also sign up for early access to the production version, which is launching soon.

We’re applying to YC and would love to hear feedback — especially from folks running agents in production or building with them now. If you try Agentainer Lab, I’d really appreciate any thoughts or feature suggestions.

Note: Agentainer doesn’t provide any LLM models or reasoning frameworks. We’re infrastructure only — you bring the agent, and we handle deployment, state, and APIs.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-21 01:37:42+00:00
The extreme and persistent refusal of people en-masse over the years to concede to this, and to insist with absolute certainty that any amount of filtering at all is straight up censorship and so they're now being repressed, has successfully made me give up on the idea of being "pro free speech". I sometimes wonder if that was the goal, both in the political sense, but also in the sarcastic counterexample sense.
by lucb1e | 2025-07-21 01:37:46+00:00
The recommendation I've always heard in the Netherlands is 7°C, it's more recent that I've been seeing 4°C on meat packaging in Germany (where I live now). I doubt anyone's fridge is consistently at or below 4° without freezing things constantly, so I've been assuming this is wishful thinking and/or ass-covering on the manufacturer's part and not what anybody actually does. Your 8°C is close enough that it probably makes little difference, though afaik this is an exponential curve (at 14°C it would last far less than half as long) so I'd not be surprised if things spoil a bit sooner than they otherwise would

Even if your products generally meet their "should be safe at least until" date (Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum, idk if it's the same as "best before"), you might exceed that longevity more often than you do now and thus have less food waste by setting the fridge colder - if food waste is a thing you have in the first place (I'm the type of person that is hungry all the time, opens the fridge when hungry, and isn't super selective (among what I've bought anyway), so food I buy ~always gets eaten before it spoils, but then when I see food waste numbers, apparently that's not the case for everyone so I'm just throwing this out there)

Edit: trying to fact-check myself, I can't find any trustworthy source in Dutch saying your foodstuffs fridge should be more than 4°C. I measure new fridges when moving in and again at least once during the first summer to make sure they stay at or below 7°C when we had the door open a normal amount of times, so I know they're that (and not much cooler, to not freeze items or waste energy). So far, products meet their minimum shelf life date thingy and almost always exceed it. Strange. Maybe this recommendation I heard predates the internet (showing my age here), or maybe every page on the internet assumes that nobody actually measures it properly and so they recommend a value that's half of what's actually safe?
by Syzygies | 2025-07-21 01:38:27+00:00
I'm in the midst of modernizing a 1994 K&R C 32-bit codebase to 64-bit C23, as a museum piece: the computer algebra system Macaulay that I coauthored, since replaced by Macaulay 2.

The horror!

On macOS my environment is Sublime Text as editor, iTerm as terminal. I open two full screen iTerm windows of four panes each, start Claude Code Opus 4 and type "just task" in each pane. CLAUDE.md tells the session to run this justfile command and follow the directions, which generally include instructions to continue by doing "just task" again. Each session may edit its <file>.c and <file>.h but not shared headers; if it has a problem with this I touch STOP in the task directory, the other sessions eventually are told to wait, and then the trouble child session can edit what it wants.

I'm sure in a few years AI will read and fix my 57 C file code base all at once, but for now this workflow has proved invaluable.

The irony? This is the dumbest parallel task manager imaginable yet it works. And our code base has a similar feel: The storage management is a set of fixed sized stacks that outperformed malloc() by 4x back in the day. Etc. Etc.

I learned this gift from my Dad. He devised the Bayer filter for digital photography back in 1974, it looks like ten minutes work (it wasn't) but we're still using it.
by jchw | 2025-07-21 01:38:46+00:00
I have played around with using SVG effects as they are stunningly powerful, but I wouldn't recommend deploying them for too much: even though apparently Firefox does some level of GPU acceleration for SVG filter graphs, in practice a lot of very simple looking graphs I've tried constructing seem to fall back to CPU even with webrender.all turned on. This is kind of a shame because feTurbulence in particular is pretty useful. You could use it for a lot of things. One case I wanted to use it for was to make a gradient grainier, to reduce the obvious banding. Unfortunately, I found that it pegs all of the CPU cores on my laptop immediately :)
by freeopinion | 2025-07-21 01:39:33+00:00
AI might be killing search. But there is more to the web than search. The aspect of thee web where you could look up the answer to any question or find some piece of a long tail seemed miraculous. And those parts are taking a big hit. But the part where I can see if my child is missing any assignments is still great. And the aspect where I can order a part for my bicycle from the one supplier I trust half a continent away? That still works.

The web is still capable of being a better Sears catalog than the Sears catalog. Even without using Amazon or some other unreliable vendor. And it is still a great way to check your bank statement.

AI is going to kill a lot of things about the web, but many of those things should probably be killed anyway. There is a lot of good stuff that is going to survive just fine. It remains to be seen if killing off some bad stuff will outweigh killing off some of the good stuff.
by NiloCK | 2025-07-21 01:39:42+00:00
> Once it becomes economical to run a Claude 4 class model locally you'll see a lot more people doing that.

By that time Claude 5 (or whatever) will be available over API.

I am grateful for upward pressure from models with published binaries - I do believe this is fundamental floor-raising technology.

Choosing frontier-1 for the sake of privacy, autonomy, etc will always be a hard sell and only ever to a pretty niche market. Even me - I'm ideologically part of this market, but I'm already priced out hardware wise.
by jpgvm | 2025-07-21 01:42:46+00:00
> But then, why was someone able to walk into that room with metal around their neck if it was clearly so life-threatening?

Take a look at the Google Street View link someone posted. It's pretty clear this facility -shouldn't- have been able to acquire an MRI machine in the first place.

It also elucidates how such an accident could happen, i.e they clearly don't have the trained staff and protocols necessary given the danger of an MRI machine. It's very likely the poor gentleman didn't understand the immense danger the machine poses.

They are expensive and rare for a reason IMO. Yes it would be great to have more of them but the best place for more of them is within proper hospitals and leveraging economies of scale to share technicians across a fleet of them in a well run facility.
by asadotzler | 2025-07-21 01:43:13+00:00
XUL applications outside of Mozilla existed well before XULRunner (itself barely a product.) Of course Mozilla was the main client at XUL's birth in 1999, but when I joined staff@mozilla.org 25 years ago I worked with OEOne, an ISV delivering a full Linux front-end using XUL. That was late 2000, maybe early 2001. A year or so before them, our parent company, AOL, began working with OEMs on XUL-based thin clients and AOL even re-built Prodigy (the low tier trial run for the AOL main client) with Gecko and XUL in 2001-2002. And of course, Mozilla itself shipped on a nearly a dozen platforms in 2002, and entirely XUL.

XUL was born in 1998 and the spec was finalized in 2001.
by sedatk | 2025-07-21 01:43:18+00:00
Sure, but since there's no enforced standard for how privileges are configured on a system, there's always the possibility that your app to be the only escape ticket.

You can dismiss that possibility of course. But, as a general habit, it's best to use secure alternatives instead of mulling over probabilities every other line.

As a positive side-effect, the change would make your app not crash on systems with long HOME env paths.:)
by saurik | 2025-07-21 01:43:20+00:00
If there merely exists anything which is more valuable tomorrow than today, it is also equally "stupid" to have cash instead of whatever that thing is... and like, that isn't even theoretical: you are generally encouraged to hold more random assets than cash (if you are allowed to and if you can handle the volatility, of course).

The reality is that, even if the stocks you own are going to the moon, if you need food or want a television, it isn't at all "stupid" to sell some of your hoard to buy stuff.
by sebmellen | 2025-07-21 01:43:52+00:00
For an internal workflow where we have an LLM looking at relatively simple data (where the conclusions the LLM may make vary widely depending on what the LLM believes the data represents) we found that taking a consortium approach, where you have multiple models approach the same problem at once and then essentially argue about the results, yields far better outcomes than if you have a single model performing the analysis, or even a single model arguing against itself multiple times. Somewhat adjacent to what’s done here, but it’s clearly true that having model diversity is a plus.
by PaulKHO | 2025-07-21 01:44:45+00:00
Hey founders and VCs! So, I’ve noticed that startup and VC spaces are getting kinda crowded and overwhelming. Wouldn’t it be awesome if we had a spot just for us? That’s what I’m working on—FoundersHub. Picture LinkedIn, but actually built for founders and investors (instead of, you know, literally everyone). Here’s what I’m aiming for: Meet other founders and VCs without all the noise. VCs: Find new deals, way easier. Founders: Connect straight to investors, all in one place. If this sounds cool or there is any feature that you would like to include in this app, I’d love for you to hop on the waitlist. You’ll get first dibs on our private beta, and you can help shape what features go in (tell me what you want—I’m building this for you). Drop your thoughts or wildest feature requests when you join!
by a_bonobo | 2025-07-21 01:46:16+00:00
>Enterprise systems aren't clean APIs waiting for AI agents to orchestrate them. They're legacy systems with quirks, partial failure modes, authentication flows that change without notice, rate limits that vary by time of day, and compliance requirements that don't fit neatly into prompt templates.

Perhaps that's why MCP as a protocol is so interesting to people - MCP servers are a chance at a 'blank slate' in front of the enterprise system. You pull out only the parts you're interested in, you get to define clear boundaries when you build the MCP server, the LLM sees only what you want it to see and you hide the messiness of the enterprise system.
by queenkjuul | 2025-07-21 01:46:50+00:00
I just saw somewhere else that NASA has a manual on exactly this -- apparently there's software running on satellites 30+ years without crashing

Also those tales of C64s running HVAC systems for 30+ years. Aren't there German trains running Windows 3.1?

I guess i am making an assumption that if it's lasted 30 years, it'll just keep going.
by kylemaxwell | 2025-07-21 01:46:54+00:00
The article talks about that at the end, then says:

> Let models talk to each other directly, making their own case and refining each others’ answers. Exemplified in patterns like Multi-Agent Debate, this is a great solution for really critical individual actions. But XBOW is basically conducting a search, and it doesn’t need a committee to decide for each stone it turns over whether there might not be a better one.

In general, this seems reasonable to me as a good approximation of what works with humans, but with _much_ faster feedback loops in communication.
by duxup | 2025-07-21 01:47:31+00:00
So the poor are attending more community colleges than 4 year universities.

But considering the costs, is this even possible or desirable to reverse?

The article says we should make it cheaper, but that's a pretty big demand.

>In the 20th century, rich and poor students were equally likely to get humanities degrees. Today, a majority of humanities students are poor.

That's curious as my local community colleges don't have much in the way of big humanities programs. Do others?

> For example, engineering schools often have separate applications, and they require higher test scores and grade point averages. Some “STEM” programs also expect students to arrive having completed prerequisite coursework — the kind more readily available to wealthy students in well-resourced high schools.

I remember this being the case even when I went to school. STEM type programs (we didn't call them that then) had this track that if you weren't already planning to be in you were discouraged from applying / were told you'd probably fail. There was no real way to be a late bloomer and work your way in.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-21 01:47:38+00:00
It is a bad look, but it makes sense to me.

For what it's worth, right now at least, most thoughts and opinions people have in the English speaking world can be expressed just fine without it getting moderated out, despite what some would claim. And so those who seek out platforms where they won't get moderated will primarily be folks who would get otherwise moderated out elsewhere. One can also refer to cryptocurrencies and Tor for a parallel.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-21 01:48:05+00:00
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by iluvlawyering | 2025-07-21 01:49:06+00:00
Absolutely nothing as drastic as replacing all human labor can happen in a single digit number of years. Governments can be overthrown, continents can be conquered, but peaceful transition from the labor value of exchange to any other model of distributing societal production under prevailing conditions will take at least an entire generation of human beings (10-20 years at the minimum but most likely the entire adult life of a generation so about 40-50 years).

The commandeering of surplus is not the issue, the issue is the generation of surplus in the first place given that capital holders are beholden to general consumption as a matter of brute economic fact, which is an inherent contradiction of the capitalist structure. Namely, that asset values, including even money itself, are entirely dependant on the relative value of human labor. All profit is value taken by one person from another, but the capitalist requires the "enterprise" itself to exist in order to have a profit to take from anyone (whether another capitalist or a laborer, depending on the relative monopoly power, which translates to expropriation through both the market for goods/services and for labor itself).
by al_borland | 2025-07-21 01:49:24+00:00
I’ve been eyeing various 3D printers for a while, but just can’t seem to pull the trigger. I can’t get past the idea that I’d be bringing something into my home where the primary function is melting plastic. I know myself well enough that I won’t put energy into any ventilation, so this just seems like a bad idea. I keep waiting for budget models that solve this problem well enough to dip my toe into the water. It seems like it’s perpetually 5 years away.