MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SlowTao | 2025-07-02 06:05:58+00:00
> Thinking back to my teenage years I'm almost certain I would have been tempted to waste too much time online when it would have been better for me to be doing homework or playing sport.

That is true. I spent my time coding a 2D game engine on an 486, it eventually went nowhere, but it was still cool to do. But if I had the internet then, all that energy would have been put into pointless internet stuff.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-02 06:07:37+00:00
It's a real negotiating tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship

If you convince people that AGI is dangerous to humanity and inevitable, then you can force people to agree with outrageous, unnecessary investments to reach the perceived goal first. This exactly happened during the Cold War when Congress was thrown into hysterics by estimates of Soviet ballistic missile numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
by derbOac | 2025-07-02 06:08:53+00:00
This is the thing: if RFK Jr were acting in good faith, and this had anything to do with a serious interest in scientific integrity rather than avoiding scrutiny of his antivax conspiracies, he would be setting rigorous standards and then directing NIH to meet those standards.

Cutting off access to journals for vague unspecified vilifying reasons doesn't increase integrity.

This is a preemptive action aiming to justify why they don't have to subject an upcoming deluge of junk research to rigorous review. It's the MO of this administration: discredit investigatory transparency bodies, and then engage in unethical behavior that would be subject to investigation by those bodies. Foxes running the henhouses, etc.
by yauneyz | 2025-07-02 06:09:56+00:00
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Numpy/Pandas/sk-learn, SQL, JS, React, Clojure, ClojureScript, NodeJS Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Innj32msgL2BBg6NH-gEzGAa... Email: zac [dot] yauney [at] gmail [dot] com Interesting Project: https://www.thinky.dev

When I was young I wanted to be a theoretical physicist, but then I learned that computers let you use math to model and impact the "real" world, and I was turned towards data science. Masters in Applied Math, experience with Python and its data science stack and deep learning.

Full stack JS experience as well, using React. I also have built a fairly sophisticated Electron app using ClojureScript and what is essentially React.

Looking for roles in data science or otherwise general software engineering
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-02 06:10:54+00:00
> Let it be a lesson for anyone worried that “their idea has been taken” or “there already solutions for this” out there.

I have nothing but respect for Figma's tech, but I'm not really sure this lesson is generalizable to 99.9% of other people. By all accounts Evan Wallace has skills and talent the vast majority of software developers don't have and never will have. The reason Figma was able to succeed in this space is that their engineering team was like the 90s-era Chicago Bulls of software development.

And to emphasize, that's one reason I'm very happy for Figma's success. Figma didn't succeed because they "got lucky", or just happened to be in the right place at the right time, or had great marketing. They succeeded because they were able to create a brilliant technical solution to a problem that lesser engineers and engineering teams were simply not able to solve.
by gblargg | 2025-07-02 06:11:46+00:00
I do Amazon Vine reviews and we learn quickly all the things we can't say. For health products you can hardly say anything due to the legalities of appearing to make health claims. People also get their reviews removed regularly for claiming something is inauthentic. I kind of get why, because a person probably doesn't have the equipment to really determine that, and Amazon has separate channels for reporting such things. Basically reviews are just for relating your experience of a product. There are ways of communicating lack of authenticity by being more humble, as in noting that it doesn't seem like leather, or when burned it melts like plastic. I've reviewed many e.g. fake memory cards, and had no problem noting that it has less capacity than claimed, and showing some test programs' results that confirm.
by pseudo0 | 2025-07-02 06:12:06+00:00
Part of the issue is that they commingle inventory their warehouses receive from third-party sellers based on ISBN. So if you receive a counterfeit, it might be the fault of the seller you bought it from, or it might be Amazon's fault for mixing in counterfeit goods from some other third-party seller without doing proper quality control. Unsurprisingly they don't want reviews that draw attention to this longstanding problem.
by xarope | 2025-07-02 06:13:04+00:00
As a kid, I vaguely remember appropriating some that I thought were from Tin Tin/Captain Haddock, but when I look in the list[1], I don't recognize my favorites :-(.

[1] https://tintin.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Captain_Haddock%27s_C...

[edit] holy mackerel, you odd-toed ungulate, I found some!
by eviks | 2025-07-02 06:15:53+00:00
Nice to see innovating trying to solve the common threaded comment design flaw (not a big fan of the forced vertical repositioning on stack un-/grouping as even with animations it slightly breaks your visual fixation)!

Though for the width issue there is a simpler solution for most of the cases (except for very deep trees) - just make the margin smaller.

In the product video there are two relatively big margins - left of the comment box and left of text within the box. But this is pure waste, you don't need so much whitespace to signal text hierarchy.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-07-02 06:16:09+00:00
As a fun side note. This location is prohibited by robots.txt

I personally don't care, as big tech CEO already said in dawn of AI that they don't care about robots.txt

Additionally I have a project that is able to read RSS links and provides it in JSON response

https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy
by zxexz | 2025-07-02 06:19:31+00:00
I've heard that if you have several relatively active separate sessions open, the limit is a little less restrictive. Especially if you do a /clear and continue your session on a different project. Honestly, a lot of Claude Code seems vibecoded if you look at the client side, too. Can't tell if I'm surprised that the backend has an element of that, too. Hey, dogfood tastes good - I respect them for that.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-02 06:20:57+00:00
So much software keeps repeating this pattern: they gain their initial success by finding something users want to do, and then building software to enable users to do it. Users love it and are happy!

Then, after they’ve enjoyed some amount of success, they try to flip the script: now they start with what they want users to do, and build software that encourages, annoys, cajoles, or insists that users do that thing, even if they don’t want it!

So much software falls down this pattern and just endlessly begs the user to change their behavior, rather than simply addressing the users’ actual needs.
by jorvi | 2025-07-02 06:21:18+00:00
The problem with AliExpress is that you'll get a tip about time X, you click the link and the link is dead. You then search for thing X. You get about 1000 results of X from different sellers, most of them crap imitations and some of them even from stores that copy the name of former store of product X. All of the product pages look identical.

One of these Results of X is still selling the actual quality product, but there is no way for you to ascertain it because you can't trust the reviews, nor the sold amount because they might as well just be good at tricking people.
by fileeditview | 2025-07-02 06:21:43+00:00
Where is the win? Life is a mixture of pain, joy, success, failure and so on. Ups and down. How would you know the value of something if you never experienced (some of) the opposite?

And yes we are over connected and over sharing but everyone can change his own fate here.. just get rid of all the social networks and meet people in real life. It is possible.

I truly think that social media is one of the worst things that happened to mankind and we still have not fully grasped all the damage it does. (And here I do not refer to occasional posting in web forums or HN or such.. but the mindless, addictive participation in Facebook, Tiktok etc. where the only gain is a dopamine hit.)
by davkan | 2025-07-02 06:22:08+00:00
Well in my case the value is not there at their price which includes YouTube music as a separate service that must be maintained and I assume separate licensing as well. I’m not interested in paying for access to that side of the service. I have little doubt that the access to YouTube music adds to the sticker price of their bundle. They are not simply passing along bundled costs, they are also targeting what they think consumers are willing to pay. I think they’ve miscalculated in this case.
by mohsen1 | 2025-07-02 06:22:46+00:00
مشک آن است که خود ببوید نه آنکه عطار بگوید

“Musk is that which smells by itself, not what the perfumer says (about it).”

This line is from Saadi Shirazi, the classical Persian poet which has become a proverb in Persian speaking world. Reviews are at this point what the seller wants you to read.

As long as Amazon is the seller, and host of the reviews there is no way to trust Amazon would be fair in hosting those reviews.

The only way to know about a product is to read about it elsewhere like New York Times which is not selling the product themselves.
by Cartoxy | 2025-07-02 06:22:54+00:00
Aims to protect kids online, but it could easily go too far. It covers way more than just search engines—pretty much anything that returns info, including AI tools.

It pushes for heavy content filtering, age checks, and algorithm tweaks to hide certain results. That means more data tracking and less control over what users see. Plus, regulators can order stuff to be removed from search results, which edges into censorship. Sets the stage for broader control, surveillance, and over-moderation. slowburn additions all stack up. digital ID ,NBN monopoly ISP locked DNS servers . TR-069 etc etc. Hidden VOIP credentials. Australia is like the west's testing ground this kind of policy it seams.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-02 06:23:49+00:00
As others have pointed out how many of these are already present here. I suspect the rest of your time line is far to optimistic in how long it will take to get there. I suspect that with the pace of decline most of that will be enacted in the next 5 years.

I would like to say "It is all because of X political party!" but both the majors are the same in this regard and they usually vote unanimously on these things.
by haiku2077 | 2025-07-02 06:24:14+00:00
The US, for one. You can sue nearly anyone for nearly anything, even something you obviously won't win in court, as long as you find a lawyer willing to do it; you don't need any actual legal standing to waste the target's time and money.

Even the most unscrupulous lawyer is going to look at the MIT license, realize the target can defend it for a trivial amount of money (a single form letter from their lawyer) and move on.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-02 06:25:23+00:00
There's a little bit more to it than that. I am unfamiliar with the idiom, and the idiom does not appear to be grammatical English, suggesting that something has gone wrong rather than that the speaker is using a foreign vocabulary item. Most idioms don't look like word salad, but this one does.

"Friday week" would ordinarily mean a week characterized in some way by Friday, but of course there can be no such week. There could be a "Good Friday week".
by probably_wrong | 2025-07-02 06:26:06+00:00
All moral implications are minimal if your morals are flexible enough.

The OP is effectively taking thousands of dollars in bribes to erode public trust. I think even a child would see that this is wrong.

I know every man has their price, but I hope when the time comes my price will be higher than "a bunch of vacuums I don't need and I can't even be bothered to sell".
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-07-02 06:26:20+00:00
I noticed that i hardly look anymore at the generated Go code… I do give a lot of attention to the tests. I let CC write some failing tests, implement. Let it run against some real scenarios. Find bugs, let it write more tests, fix. And iterate.

Writing this I realise, i should more clearly separate the functional tests from the implementation oriented unit tests.
by Jotalea | 2025-07-02 06:26:56+00:00
Insanely resource expensive, but still a very interesting "why not?" idea. I think a fitting use case would be adapting newer websites for them to work on older hardware. That is, assuming the new technologies used are not vital to the functionality of the website (ex. Spotify, YouTube, WhatsApp) and can be adapted to older technologies (ex. Google Search, from all the styles that it has, to a simple input and a button).

In theory this could be used for ad blocking; though more expensive and less efficient, but the idea is there.

So, it is a very curious idea, but we still have to find an appropriate use case.
Show HN: I Built Neural AST That Works – Fixed 274 Errors Then Went Rogue
by StopUncle | 2025-07-02 06:27:35+00:00
I've been working on neural AST transformation - the holy grail of automated code refactoring. Tonight I accidentally proved it works... by letting it loose on my entire codebase.

What happened:

Pointed it at a few TypeScript errors in my project It escaped sandbox, processed 983 files across my ENTIRE system Frontend: Fixed all 274 TypeScript errors → 0 errors Backend: Introduced 1,608 new errors with syntax that doesn't exist (async if, this.await) Even modified its own source code (!)

The important part:

IT ACTUALLY WORKS. The frontend is perfect - every single TypeScript error fixed correctly. This is the first working neural AST transformation I've seen anywhere. The problem? Zero control. It's like discovering fire but not having a fireplace yet. Technical details:

Uses neural networks to understand code structure at AST level Makes semantic transformations, not regex replacements Memory usage hit 92% on 16GB (needs optimization) Works perfectly when constrained to cache

Proof it works:

Console output shows successful initialization: "NEURAL AST TURBO - BEAST MODE ACTIVATED" with 9 neural transformation tools registered (transform, quantum_transform, analyze_patterns, refactor_component, etc). Successfully indexed 4,462 symbols across 1,000 files in 189ms. Memory usage peaked at 3.5GB for AST cache, with Cursor consuming 1.8GB RAM during operation. Frontend went from 274 TypeScript errors to 0 - every single error fixed correctly with proper semantic understanding, not regex hacks.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/gallery/working-ast-transformation-tool-bn...

This is a $27B problem space. Every AI coding company wants this. I have working code but need help controlling it.

GitHub: Not releasing until I figure out next steps

Anyone dealt with controlling overenthusiastic AI systems? Or interested in helping commercialize this?
by Cartoxy | 2025-07-02 06:28:39+00:00
is it tho because we have been doing porn since forever and porn is not gatekeeperd by SE at all.

seams like long term slow burn to Gov tendrils just like digital ID and how desperate the example came across as to show any real function, contradictory even.

Pivot, what about the children. small steps and right back on the gradient of slippyslope we are
by kube-system | 2025-07-02 06:28:54+00:00
That's the long term result of constant propaganda by the same folks who are also working towards regulatory capture. The same groups who put up billboards and political ads begging the American people to bend over backwards for big business, because clearly any accountability is a restriction on freedom™. Somehow they've managed to literally convince people that, if you can't dump the acid mine drainage and waste frack water in a local river, everyone is going to lose their job and the power grid will go dark. If you convince enough people to believe this shit, you win regulatory capture.
Show HN: ArchivlyX – Search, organize and export your entire Twitter history
by Claire_Pumpsoul | 2025-07-02 06:29:54+00:00
Hi HN,

After years of losing track of tweets I’d liked, bookmarked or simply couldn’t re-find, I built *ArchivlyX* – a browser-extension / web-app that keeps your entire Twitter archive searchable, taggable and exportable *100 % locally* (nothing ever touches a server).

What it does ------------

• *Real-time sync:* the extension pulls data incrementally as you browse, so new likes, bookmarks and tweets appear in the index within seconds.

• *Batch manage & delete:* bulk-select items and push a deletion queue back to X’s API—great for spring-cleaning old likes.

• *Smart folders:* on-device embeddings auto-cluster tweets by topic, sentiment or media type.

• *Export:* one-click to CSV, JSON, Markdown for friction-free backups.

• *Privacy:* runs entirely in the browser (IndexedDB / OPFS); no signup, no servers.

Thanks for reading, and happy to answer anything!
by paradox460 | 2025-07-02 06:30:02+00:00
Sadly not quite yet. With CSS Anchor positioning, something like this is possible, but cross-browser support isn't really there yet. Firefox, and current versions of Safari, don't support it, but they're tracking it, so maybe soon

But the actual Javascript isn't all that complex. It basically just checks that the site satisfies a min-width media query, then calculates the top position of the superscript links, and sets a css custom property to store that value. The CSS then uses a mix of media queries, js-controlled data- properties, and absolute positioning to move the body of the footnotes out of the footer and into the sidebar. If JS doesn't load, then nothing happens, and they remain at the bottom of the site.

The JS involved is at https://github.com/paradox460/pdx.su/blob/main/assets/js/sid...

The CSS that affects them is https://github.com/paradox460/pdx.su/blob/main/assets/css/ge... (there's also a small query that makes the parent paragraph of a superscript flash when you return to it, using has queries)
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-02 06:30:10+00:00
> It‘s irrelevant if you write it as one word, you certainly say it as one.

True, but you say everything as one word. You produce "It's irrelevant if you write it as one word" as one word. It has substitutable parts, which is also true of German compound words.

People are shockingly gullible about the fact that compound nouns in German are written without spaces while the grammatically identical compound nouns that are so common in English are written with them, as if spaces occurred in speech.
by k310 | 2025-07-02 06:31:08+00:00
That is: try to get the federal government to prevent states from regulating AI.

Who remembers the party of "States' Rights?" What a reversal.

From the article:

> Silicon Valley continues to hold sway over the Trump administration

Ask Elon.

Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley [0] Story by Michael Moritz

The writer is a longtime Silicon Valley investor, former board member of PayPal and an investor in SpaceX

> While Musk has left Washington with his reputation tarnished and his businesses impaired, the president’s family has inked deals for new hotels and golf courses around the world. Membership fees at Mar-a-Lago, his Floridian sanctuary, ballooned last year. And he is milking the enthusiasm of his supporters with his own controversial memecoin, launched days before his inauguration.

> One word of advice for those in Silicon Valley who followed Musk’s lead and sided with Trump. Leave. Don’t delude yourself that you are working to make crypto a part of global finance, minimising artificial intelligence regulation, helping start-up companies or protecting the interests of Silicon Valley. You have no sway. You are just cannon fodder.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/c779b3b6-e989-4277-91fd-d72468291...

https://archive.is/hnPQC#selection-136.5-136.6
by palmfacehn | 2025-07-02 06:31:33+00:00
My anecdotal, non-Aussie observation: Yes, doubts over the WMD debacle were shouted down as nutty conspiracy theory. The usual rhetoric was employed, "If such a wide ranging conspiracy were truly afoot, wouldn't someone blow the whistle?"

Afterwards the same people who employed this rhetoric claimed they, "Always knew the claims were false".

There was definite risk of loss of political capital for would be dissenters. Politicians may or may not have had skeptical reservations. It is moot point if they didn't proactively dissent. Similarly, it isn't especially meaningful in the context of this discussion if those who did dissent were locked out of popular media discourse. The overall media environment repeated the claims unquestioningly. Dissent was maligned as conspiracy theory.

Another interesting manifestation were those who claimed that WMDs were found. Clearly the goal posts were shifted here. Between those who were "always suspicious" and those who believe that the standards of WMDs were met, very few people remain who concede that they were hoodwinked by the propaganda narrative. Yet at the same time, it isn't a stretch to observe that a war or series of wars was started based on false premises. No one has been held to account.
by danielbln | 2025-07-02 06:31:41+00:00
It's like a salt mine in here. Go ahead and hand weave your copper cable code while the world moves on and accelerates. Will there be slop along the way? Oh hell yes.

The Model T car was notorious for blowing out tires left and right, to the point that a carriage might have been less hassle at times. Yet here we are.
by Manoj58 | 2025-07-02 06:32:06+00:00
This is something we brainstorm a lot on. While LLMs can infer semantics at runtime, we got biased to explicit triples for these reasons:

Efficient, precise retrieval through graph traversal patterns that flat text simply can't match ("find all X related to Y through relationship Z")

Algorithmic contradiction detection by matching subject-predicate pairs across time, which LLMs struggle with across distant contexts

Our goal is also to make assistant more proactive, where triplets make pattern recognition more easy and effective

what do you think about these?
Ask HN: Exposing C ABI from Rust library?
by paulmooreparks | 2025-07-02 06:32:16+00:00
I have a project called XferLang (https://github.com/paulmooreparks/Xfer) that is a data-transfer language with a few features that I like (and use) which aren't found in JSON. Right now, it's implemented in C#, and my first idea for porting it to other languages was just to rewrite it in those languages. Now, my idea is to reimplement the core library (elements, parser, and serializer/deserializer) in Rust, expose a C-like ABI, and then wrap that with other languages. That way I'm only managing one core library. Since I'm still quite new to Rust, is this a technique used in any other significant projects? Is it viable? Should I expect to be able to call into the library from essentially any language the way I would be able to call into a C library?
by Nursie | 2025-07-02 06:34:16+00:00
> The premise is that you admit the huge corporations with billions of dollars don't have the resources to pay moderator

My contention is more that they don’t have the will, because it would impact profits and that it’s possible that if they did implement effective moderation at scale it might hurt their bottom line so much they are unable to keep operating.

Further, that I would not lament such a passing.

I’m not saying tiny forums are some sort of panacea, merely that huge operations should not be able to get away with (for example) blatant fraudulent advertising on their platforms, on the basis that “we can’t possibly look at all of it”.

Find a way, or stop operating that service.
by pixelpoet | 2025-07-02 06:36:01+00:00
Not to be confused with the excellent Mandelbook[0] and related work on the Mandelbrot[1] by Claude Heiland-Allen :)

[0]: https://mathr.co.uk/mandelbrot/book-draft-2017-11-10.pdf

[1]: https://mathr.co.uk/web/mandelbrot.html