MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cicloid | 2025-07-12 01:48:48+00:00
I was one of the backers who got his money back because they “discovered” very late in the process that selling to Mexico was not worth it. I only got a small discount If I wanted to get a regular order in the US.

Bit disappointed and had to handle the expectations of my kid, that was super excited about this for Christmas. It seems TMEC/NAFTA is worthless if even small entrepreneurs discover is very difficult to sell across Mexico and Canada. But decidedly they see less value in selling to Mexico to pass similar (in theory) regulatory hurdles to Canada. The same story with Kiwico, Lovevery, etc.

Even considered building something like this, but I don’t have time.

Honestly, I feel like people just underestimate the market size because of the language barriers.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-12 01:49:27+00:00
Most of the 2.8 million developers in the US work for non tech companies - biting old enterprise companies, government etc.

Are you okay with enterprise dev salaries in second tier cities?

Unless you are working for a non profit, why would you care about what the company does? Now there are companies I wouldn’t work for because I’m opposed to what it does. But that’s different
by ericmay | 2025-07-12 01:49:35+00:00
I’m not going to clarify my post too much because it will lead to a more interesting discussion based on the results I’ve seen so far, but I do want to say I specifically had an issue with the notion, however loosely applied, of assigning blame on the American taxpayer.

With respect to your point about foreign intervention, I actually have come about on Iraq and think that it might have turned out OK if perhaps not worth it monetarily or morally (arguably lying to the American public - I don’t think it’s very arguable but I want to leave room for reasonable discussion) because as I see things today - I think the quality of life in Iraq has improved and frankly they are not under the thumb of a brutal dictator. I wish I knew some folks from Iraq to educate me either way.

With that being said - often times our foreign interventions are seen as good/bad but it just depends on who you ask. We think (and I think) arming Ukraine and Taiwan are good policy - is it? What does China or war-torn Ukraine have to say about that (again with respect to Ukraine please note I am a huge hawk on arming Ukraine against Russia and would advocate for direct US intervention to stop the war), but reasonable people can have differences. The point there just being that sometimes it seems obvious that American taxpayer dollars are well spent but not always. We should just be flexible in that understanding. Just don’t try to assign blame for Americans not wanting to pay for XYZ issue. It’s wrong and counterproductive, in my view.

Not that it matters but thanks to both of you for interesting conversation and dialog.
by shminge | 2025-07-12 01:50:08+00:00
One of my favourite quotes on this topic:

> Using ChatGPT to write an essay is a bit like using a forklift to lift weights. The forklift might do a perfectly good job of moving around some heavy iron plates, but you’d be wasting your time.

The point of writing essays (or doing any other school assessment) is not the completed product, it's the work (and hopefully learning) that went into it.

You can definitely use AI responsibly, but many students will not and do not.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-12 01:50:12+00:00
Some bits here and there. That faded as the US became a super power, and came back a bit as the 80's started stripping down the middle class thst was growing.

Of course, but the 2010's it was decided by the powers that he to re-introduce identity politics as the new form of class warfare. Which was 80% sexism/racism and 20% classisn.
by the_af | 2025-07-12 01:50:16+00:00
But TikTok and Mario Kart tours are just one form of tourism, which you're equating to all tourism that is not living there for some months or doing volunteer work or, I quote your other comment, "going to conferences" (the hell?).

Why not visit Japan and do sightseeing? Or do you think that's automatically equivalent to Mario Kart tours?

Or like someone else argued (not you, I'm not laying this particular burden on you, just mentioning it because the sentiment is similar) "it's clear cut that it's unethical to do tourism in Barcelona". What!? Well, excuse me if I cannot live in Barcelona permanently or spend 6 months there getting to know the locals, does it mean I should just see Barcelona in the movies? Or maybe just go to Disneyland, since apparently it's all the same thing.

Re: the stereotype, it's true I don't know about Japanese tourists in the last couple of years (let's say post COVID), but if that's because of the yen blah blah then that's no defense of the stereotypical Japanese tourist -- it has nothing to do with ethics if it's just that they cannot afford it anymore. And anyway, the obnoxious Japanese tourist exist(ed) and it was common in my country, so why give them a free pass just because this article mentions the kind of tourism that bothers them?

In any case: tourism isn't necessarily evil. You can simply not be the loud careless tourist who trashes everything, is not respectful and complains about everything. A lot of us cannot spend 3 months doing volunteer work or whatever, we just want to see the world and enjoy its wonders in the 2-week or so vacation we get once a year, and planning for the whole family, not just for a single person in their 20s with no attachments and who can backpack the world for a year or whatever.
by danaris | 2025-07-12 01:50:44+00:00
I'm afraid without elaborating at least a little bit on the context, this does not tell me anything about the correctness of my (slightly tongue-in-cheek) statement.

Is the case you linked the case from this article? Is it the case from the ruling preventing nationwide injunctions? If the former, does it mean that this injunction gets around the ruling? If the latter, does it provide a limitation on the ruling that would allow this injunction?

Not everyone has, nor should they be expected to have, comprehensive knowledge of both legal jargon and the specific details of any given case or set of cases, y'know. This comment mostly reads as "look at me, I know how to quote legalese in a way that only other people who are also on the inside can understand. I am very intelligent."
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-12 01:51:43+00:00
> It’s mostly a very public "If I’m wrong, I won’t ever do this again." I’ve been writing informative HN comments since 2008 on various accounts. It’s a big deal to me not to spread misinformation or be mistaken in a situation like this.

I understand that you appear earnest. However, your history of multi-accounting on this site makes your promise to never post on a given topic again meaningless to me, because I have no expectation that you wouldn’t continue to post about it on other accounts that we don’t know about at this time, possibly because they haven’t even been created yet.
by manquer | 2025-07-12 01:52:22+00:00
Perhaps it as combination of how much founders were diluted and how much they are being offered upfront. We are hearing about $100M signing bonuses.

It is hard to say no when Google/Meta gives you say $100M upfront and hundreds more if not Billion+ in RSUs. After 3 rounds it is not unreasonable to have only 5-10%.

10% of a company worth a few billion burning a lot of cash, that needs to keep raising more rounds i.e more dilution, may have less value than RSUs from multi-trillion dollar publicly traded liquid tech company today.

It is also quite hard to raise $5-10+Billion in cash. There are only handful of startups which have ever done so

Very few funds/investors can afford to do so large rounds. This was SoftBank's thesis for most of last decade, compete by just outfunding competing products in a market.
by kragen | 2025-07-12 01:54:51+00:00
I may be the only one who thought this, but this doesn't seem to be related to the fondly remembered Better Software Magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Software_Magazine

It seems to be socially associated with the Handmade Hero and Jon Blow Jai crowd, which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame. They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency than they are about correctness.
by marcod | 2025-07-12 01:57:06+00:00
Reading about Spigot made me remember https://www.projecthoneypot.org/

I was very excited 20 years ago, every time I got emails from them that the scripts and donated MX records on my website had helped catching a harvester

> Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here's something to be happy about -- today one of your donated MXs helped to identify a previously unknown email harvester (IP: 172.180.164.102). The harvester was caught a spam trap email address created with your donated MX:
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-07-12 01:57:36+00:00
When scrollbars are not hidden, icons out of view are more discoverable. This used to be the only way Finder windows worked; there was no option to hide scrollbars. But the Apple decided scrollbars should hide by default, and be very narrow, and be low-contrast… hélas, hélas, c'est pour toujour.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-07-12 02:00:13+00:00
My tone is a combination of genuine curiosity and moderate annoyance at a dismissive but unhelpful comment.

RootsComment: SSD speed is miraculous! Jorvis: well ackshually is just RAM and tricks that run out Me: your comment provides zero value

I am annoyed by well ackshually comments. I’d love to learn more about SDD performance. How is the ram filled? How bad is perf when you cache miss? What’s worse case perf? What usage patterns are good or bad? So many interesting questions.
by westurner | 2025-07-12 02:00:19+00:00
Use case for science and code LLMs: Superhydrodynamic gravity (SQR / SQG, )

LLMs do seem to favor general relativity but probably would've favored classical mechanics at the time given the training corpora.

Not-yet unified: Quantum gravity, QFT, "A unified model must: " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289148

Will be interested to see how this model responds to currently unresolvable issues in physics. Is it an open or a closed world mentality and/or a conditioned disclaimer which encourages progress?

What are the current benchmarks?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899805 re: "Large Language Models for Mathematicians" (2023) :

> Benchmarks for math and physics LLMs: FrontierMath, TheoremQA, Multi SWE-bench: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42097683

Multi-SWE-bench: A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Modal GitHub Issue Resolving Benchmark: https://multi-swe-bench.github.io/

Add'l LLM benchmarks and awesome lists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485226

Microsoft has a new datacenter that you don't have to keep adding water to; which spares the aquifers.

How to use this LLM to solve energy and sustainability problems all LLMs exacerbate? Solutions for the Global Goals, hopefully
by resonious | 2025-07-12 02:00:58+00:00
The project is just a web backend. I give Claude Code grunt work tasks. Things like "make X operation also return Y data" or "create Z new model + CRUD operations". Also asking it to implement well-known patterns like denouncing or caching for an existing operation works well.

My app builds and runs fine on Termux, so my CLAUDE.md says to always run unit tests after making changes. So I punch in a request, close my phone for a bit, then check back later and review the diff. Usually takes one or two follow-up asks to get right, but since it always builds and passes tests, I never get complete garbage back.

There are some tasks that I never give it. Most of that is just intuition. Anything I need to understand deeply or care about the implementation of I do myself. And the app was originally hand-built by me, which I think is important - I would not trust CC to design the entire thing from scratch. It's much easier to review changes when you understand the overall architecture deeply.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-07-12 02:01:52+00:00
Japan is also a very big player in the console market by the way. Anyway, I got sidetracked, nobody has to put their apps on Apple products. The premise Apple is making is that they're allowing access to billions of possible users in exchange for a certain percentage of the sale price.

The record labels are charging artists up to 50% for an album and nobody is even betting an eye about it or talking about regulation. That's why I find all this noise so artificial.
by stephen_g | 2025-07-12 02:01:55+00:00
It’s a pointless exercise though - if one of the pilots wants to crash the plane, there’s almost nothing that can possibly be done. Only if someone can physically restrain them and remove them from the controls.

There’s always going to be many ways they could crash the plane, such a feature wouldn’t help. The pilots are the only people you can’t avoid fully trusting on the plane.
by sgentle | 2025-07-12 02:02:36+00:00
Sure, but you can open the door, pull the handbrake, or turn the wheel so hard you lose control of the vehicle. These are all similarly preventable, but maybe not worth the risk of being unable to open the door, brake or steer if the safety mechanism fails closed, or if your situation is outside the foresight of its designer.

Also, you don't need multiple certifications and 1500 hours of experience to drive a car.
Show HN: VibeKin – Gated Discord Tribes via Personality Matching
by madebywelch | 2025-07-12 02:02:40+00:00
I built an app that matches users to exclusive Discord communities based on a 25-question personality quiz. Inspired by HEXACO but with a novel fuzzy-clustering twist, it creates a "harmony genome" to gate access, ensuring tight-knit tribes (e.g., wellness or creative niches). Think Reddit but curated via psych. Launched to test the idea—feedback on algo, niches, or scaling?
by alganet | 2025-07-12 02:03:10+00:00
> “the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public...”

Is AI a source? It feels like this possibility was unthinkable when that decision was made. Now, it's not.

> “[R]ight conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection.”

Makes sense in the 40s. Now that big corporations have machines that can type following orders, this quote should also be taken with an extra grain of salt.

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These feel like obvious overlooks. It's almost as if they were selected and planted to generate oposition. That makes me believe there's something I don't know regarding how this is going to go. It's too easy.

In other words, this feels like a bait.

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My gut tells me the thing to look for is evidence of manufactured public discourse just before 2017. Whether that manufactured content was generated from a previously unknown widespread deployment of LLMs or manually produced by humans who had prior knowledge of this technology is also a relevant question.
by helsinki | 2025-07-12 02:03:48+00:00
So far, it’s relatively bug-free well-written code that I’ve forked to work behind the walls of a hedge fund, and it works, but the reality is that it doesn’t provide anything that some terminal windows and git worktrees can’t offer. Am I missing something?

You really need to add more features, because I struggle to find a compelling reason for advanced users to use it.
by tw04 | 2025-07-12 02:05:04+00:00
>We didn’t ban these because they’re an extinction threat. (They’re not.)

Sorry what? Biological weapons are absolutely an extinction level threat. If you haven't watched the spread of the flu and covid every year and quickly realized that in the modern day a properly engineered bio-weapon would functionally end the human race, I'd like some of what you're having.

>We banned them because they’re only useful asymmetrically.

That's simply not true and shows either a lack of understanding of history, or an intentional perversion. The Taliban don't care about the Geneva convention, but is functionally incapable of utilizing chemical warfare to any significant degree despite the fact I'm sure they'd have loved to use it to wipe out the US military in Afghanistan for the last 20 years and the Russians before that. On the flip side, their deployment in WWI wasn't asymmetrical, both sides used the weapons and both sides agreed after watching the end result that nobody should be using them.

*If anything, drones are far, far more useful for asymmetric warfare. They can be easily acquired for cheap, there are no export controls, there's very little expertise required, and you can attach something as basic as a pipe bomb to them to do significant damage.
by osigurdson | 2025-07-12 02:05:27+00:00
This certainly aligns with my own usage. I'm currently using OpenAI's own Codex 50:1 compared to Windsurf. For me, I'd rather take some time to create a good quality prompt and have it work away for a few minutes and create a material delta. It isn't always perfect, and I often have to make a few tweaks myself, but it is much nicer and waiting around and watching Windsurf bang around on a tiny part of the solution. Windsurf is still nice to use for quick UI iteration however.
by hengheng | 2025-07-12 02:06:29+00:00
I have a watercooled workstation (don't ask), and one day I made it spin up the pump when the chips heat up. I believe it goes from 17% pwm to 18% whenever any chip is more than 15°C warmer than the water. Changes nothing, and you wouldn't set it up like that.

But the immediate frequency change is enough for me to anticipate a delayed reaction. "Oh, computer is computing. Reach for coffee."
by helsinki | 2025-07-12 02:07:19+00:00
This works in theory and somewhat in practice but it is not as clean as people make it seem, as someone who has spent tens of thousands on Opus tokens and worktrees - it’s just not that great. It works, but it’s just, ugh, boring, super tedious, etc. at the end of it all, you’re still sitting around waiting for Claude to merge conflicts.
by lotyrin | 2025-07-12 02:07:37+00:00
Always have been. It’s why the vast majority of disposable corporate garbageware, products chasing a buck, consumer shovelware, etc is built on the shoulders of thoughtfully designed, high quality, mature software that stands the test of time. No popular production software runs on an OS kernel someone vibe coded yesterday. Durable utility is where quality lies, as the cost of quality is able to amortize. Chasing trends is, by definition, costly.
by rpdillon | 2025-07-12 02:09:58+00:00
Yeah, I hate that this figure keeps getting thrown around. IIRC, it's the price of 2048 H800s for 2 months at $2/hour/GPU. If you consider months to be 30 days, that's around $5.7M, which lines up. What doesn't line up is ignoring the costs of facilities, salaries, non-cloud hardware, etc. which will dominate costs, I'd expect. $100M seems like a fairer estimate, TBH. The original paper had more than a dozen authors, and DeepSeek had about 150 researchers working on R1, which supports the notion that personnel costs would likely dominate.
by sashank_1509 | 2025-07-12 02:10:47+00:00
I find this hard to believe considering all the recent acquihires that happened recently like Character AI, Inflection, Covariant AI, Scale AI, context AI and so on. Maybe you’re right about the specifics of this situation, but my prior for this being an acquihire is very high and I would need to see very compelling evidence that that is not the case.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-12 02:11:29+00:00
> Continues to justify discriminatory laws.

They're under military occupation by a country that uses the presence of Jewish people as a justification for annexing Palestinian land. There are American billionaires who are pouring tons of money into buying up Palestinian property and giving it to Jewish settlers, so that Israel can lay permanent claim to the land.

Of course the Palestinians are trying to stop that.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-12 02:12:01+00:00
You complain about bias, but then cite a website that is quite explicitly an Israeli propaganda operation.

Are you denying that the Haganah launched a massive attack on the Arab neighborhoods of Haifa in April 1948, driving the population to flight? That's just a plain historical fact. Denying that is like saying the US Civil War didn't happen.
by arrosenberg | 2025-07-12 02:12:55+00:00
The culture of the people involved got us to this point, I’m not sure it’s the solution to the problem.

> The progressive spin would be to now ban acquihires somehow, and then whatever new legal invention will be created next.

Progressive has become a moving target, but the pro-competition view would be to break up the massively concentrated companies that are further consolidating markets. Thats what the Khan FTC was trying to do, but we need a Congress interested in a competitive marketplace, which we haven’t had in a while.
by krapp | 2025-07-12 02:13:16+00:00
I assume this is an attempt to set a precedent for the repeal of Section 230 and the rolling nationalization of all large US social media platforms and regulation through a body like the FCC, something the right and many people on HN have been clamoring for.

Any platform with more than some arbitrary number of users which accepts and displays user submitted content will be required to post all legal content and will be prevented from moderating legal content without a court order.

I don't know why they bother, they won after all. Despite all of the "COVID oppression" they complain about, their views are now mainstream and an anti-vaxxer runs American medical policy. I guess they need to keep the narrative of widespread leftist censorship alive.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-07-12 02:13:21+00:00
If its both engines you're fucked anyway if its shortly after takeoff.

But I'm an advocate of KISS. At a certain point you have to trust the pilot is not going to something extremely stupid/suicidal. Making overly complex systems to try to protect pilots from themselves leads to even worse issues, such as the faulty software in the Boeing 737-MAX.
by moron4hire | 2025-07-12 02:13:52+00:00
I didn't realize you could get Taptic Engines. I had wanted some about 10 years ago while I was working on a haptic data glove project, but Apple kept them under tight wraps because they own the patent and wanted them exclusive to their devices. I ended up using small pager motors, but I really think Taptic Engines would have made for a much better experience, both because they are smaller and because they are 3 axis linear vibrators, instead of a single axis rotary vibe.
by upghost | 2025-07-12 02:16:15+00:00
Another weird thing about Carmack, now that you mention it -- and Romero, coincidentally -- is their remarkable ability to remember technical challenges they've solved over time.

For whatever reason the second I've solved a problem or fixed a bug, it basically autopurges from my memory when I start on the next thing.

I couldn't tell you the bugs I fixed this morning, let along the "groodilizer" I optimized 20 years ago.

Oh btw Jank is awesome and Jaeye is great guy, and also a game industry dev!
by analog31 | 2025-07-12 02:16:35+00:00
I'm a scientist, working adjacent to a team of engineers.

My sense is that there's a "conceptual" austerity, due to the limited ability of the human mind to understand complex systems. The programmers are satisfied that the product is documented, because it passes tests, and "the source code expresses what the program does." But nobody can explain it to me, in situations where I have to be involved because something has gone wrong.

The system has surpassed some threshold of conceptual austerity when the majority of the devs have concluded that the only hope is to scrap it and start over, but they can't, because they don't know what it's supposed to do, and can't find out.

On the other hand, the infinite computer would take care of this for us too. We're faced with semi-infinite computers at the present time, that can be filled to the brim with stuff that they can't themselves understand or manage. But all real things are finite.