MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mustache_kimono | 2025-07-24 14:09:27+00:00
> curl | sh is literally the #1 recommended and most common way to install the rust development toolchain

Rust provides a uniform way to install on any Unix you say? Compared to polyglot boarding house which is Linux package management?

> because it changes too rapidly to effectively be in any repos

rustup is also installable via your package manager, but, if it isn't, that's kinda your own distro's problem. The problem is that Linux is non-uniform. The problem is not Rust for providing a uniform, lowest common denominator, method for Unix. Notice Windows doesn't have the same problem.

See: https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/installation/other.html

> It's crazy that a language that prioritizes security so highly in it's design itself is only compiled through such insecure methods.

Compiled?

Please explain the material security differences between the use of rustup.rs method vs. using a package manager.

I'll wait.
Show HN: LaunchChecklist.pro – Customisable launch checklists with PDF export
by magnoglx | 2025-07-24 14:09:39+00:00
I built this to simplify launch day for solo founders and small teams or anyone who just wants to make a checklist for any occasion.

LaunchChecklist.pro lets you build and track your own launch checklists with themed templates and one-click PDF export (useful for teams, clients, or any occasion).

Built with Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, and Vercel. Would love feedback.

Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/launch-1-3mop

Thanks!
by gspencley | 2025-07-24 14:09:43+00:00
> Btw, "What temperature should a food be cooked to" is a classic example of something where lots of people and lots of sources repeat incorrect information, which is often ignored by people who actually cook. Famously, the temp that is often "recommended" is only the temp at which bacteria/whatever is killed instantly

I love this reply because you support your own point by repeating information that is technically incorrect.

To qualify myself, I have a background in food service. I've taken my "Food Safe" course in Ontario which is not legally mandated to work in food service, but offered by our government-run health units and many restaurants require a certificate to be employed in any food handling capacity (wait staff or food prep).

There is no such thing as "killed instantly." The temperature recommendations here in Canada, for example, typically require that the food be held at that temperature for a minimum of 15 seconds.

There is some truth in what you say. Using temperature to neutralize biological contaminants is a function of time and you can certainly accomplish the same result by holding food at lower temperature for a longer period of time. Whether this makes the food "taste better" or not depends on the food and what you're doing.

Sous Vide cooking is the most widely understood method of preparation where we hold foods at temperatures that are FAR lower than what is typically recommended, but held for much longer. I have cooked our family Thanksgiving Turkey breast at 60C sous vide, and while I personally like it... others don't like the texture. So your mileage may vary.

My point is that you're making a bunch of claims that have grains of truth to them, but aren't strictly true. I think your comment is an application of the dunning kruger effect. You know a little bit and because of that you think you know way more than you actually do. And I had to comment because it is beautifully ironic. Almost as if that paragraph in your comment is, itself, AI slop lol
by incomingpain | 2025-07-24 14:09:50+00:00
I used to read tech books left and right. I did C++ instead of Perl in 24 hours. Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth...

Writing, yes. Many people are still writing tech books. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beyond-vibe-coding/9798...

Very relevant book and likely is worth reading for some people.

Reading? I havent read an actual book on tech in ages. Absolute utter waste of time. If i'm not learning the bleeding edge where there is no book, I'm doing something wrong.

https://www.oreilly.com/search/?q=devstral&rows=100

1 result that's not relevant?

Sure there's some claude code books available but you can watch like 1 youtube video or just use it and know more than the book author.

IT is changing far too quickly to be waiting on the book publication process.
by lastofthemojito | 2025-07-24 14:10:08+00:00
That may be true that a century ago baby girls and baby boys in the US were associated with different colors than today, but the reasoning of "pink, being a more decided and stronger color" seems suspect to me. How come dozens of flags of countries around the world feature the color blue and approximately none feature pink (Spain and Mexico have a small amount of pink in their coats of arms). When it came down to it, the designers of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes and all of the Tribands, etc ... none of them thought, "yeah, lets add some pink to project strength".
by octopoc | 2025-07-24 14:10:12+00:00
The article doesn’t say, but I assume these are SOTA AI chips? If so, it’s a huge deal that American can build them.

Another interesting point:

> AMD and larger rival Nvidia Corp. recently gained a reprieve on restrictions imposed on shipments of some types of artificial intelligence accelerators to China. It’s still not clear how many licenses will be granted — or how long the companies will be allowed to ship the chips to the country, the biggest market for semiconductors.

It sounds like they’re trying to give China some chips but not as many as American allied countries. I wonder if they’re trying to get China “addicted” to western AI chips to hurt Chinese chip manufacturing development?
by tuesdaynight | 2025-07-24 14:10:33+00:00
And Google would still use AI to get money by using that content without having to access your website. Besides that, creating content IS work for a lot of people. Ads and affiliated links are part of the monetization model that works the best, sadly. What you are saying is "people should just code for fun and curiosity, their income should come from elsewhere" while Google is making money with Gemini. It's not necessarily wrong, but it sounds dismissive.
by gnramires | 2025-07-24 14:10:36+00:00
Personally, I give to projects I use (and ones that need most help), and I'm happy that say my younger self or people with no conditions can still use it without paying. I think there should probably be better coordinated efforts in this direction, from say companies to governments. But meanwhile individual donations are already pretty powerful if even a small % of people that can donate do.

In particular, governments traditionally already allocate resources for the common benefit (their main function really), in public research and public science, public infrastructure, etc.. I think this is just another very significant extension of that.

Also companies benefit greatly from OS/(and OSHW in the future?), and frequently maintain private tools at significant costs. Open source can be seen as a coordination mechanism where everybody can (or rather, should) cooperate to lower costs and benefit everyone (basically, their whole industry or rather society gets more efficient) :)
by JustExAWS | 2025-07-24 14:10:49+00:00
This is honestly a naive take and probably comes from someone who is not a minority (I am) or someone who didn’t grow up in the south.

It reminds me of the vomit inducing DEI training I was forced to endure and the “allyship” BS when I did my stint at BigTech between 2020-2023.

There are deeply religious people who sincerely think from decades of growing up being indoctrinated in the church who believe that miscegenation is a sin and that by allowing “the gays” to get married that God will destroy the country.

I also lived in what was a famous “sundown town” until recently for eight years (yes this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0). I didn’t live there myself until 2016. Where we lived is approximately a 10 minute drive from where that outdoor scene was shot. We had a house built in the burbs there. Even though I made by myself twice the household income on what has become the most affluent burb of Atlanta, my 6 foot 3 stepson who had grown up in the burbs of Atlanta all of his life still got questioned by a Karen when he was in the neighborhood pool because she didn’t think he belong there. Was I suppose to approach her and we sit down and have a coffee while introduce her to Black culture? It’s not my duty to be an ambassador to anyone.

Right now, 40% of the country is cheering Trump’s treatment of LGBT and especially trans and immigrants.

And even if someone who is a racist sees me - a successful “articulate”, Black person who happens to know how to code switch on demand, in their mind they probably see ne as “not like other Black people).

Don’t get me wrong, I always “assume positive intent” and I am not at all uncomfortable in spaces where most people think I should be uncomfortable.
by imtringued | 2025-07-24 14:11:57+00:00
You do realize that it's time to sunset a codebase if you can't find anyone to maintain it, right? "LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE" means the code is dead. It's worthless garbage dragging the company down. There is no nothing else to do except shut it down. Software written in the last century isn't something like an irreplaceable artifact from an ancient technologically superior civilization that can never be replicated.

If humanity's technological progress depended on impossibly rare events that never happen again, then humanity would miss the vast majority of them. It would be as if those events never existed in the first place.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-07-24 14:12:03+00:00
Consumer reports found that HEV's were the most reliable, and PHEV"s the least reliable. That's nonsensical, there's little difference between the two.

Toyota is the biggest seller of HEV's, Stellantis of PHEV. That's the difference. EV's on paper should be the most reliable, but Tesla is the biggest seller of those. If you want reliability, choose by brand rather than engine type.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-24 14:12:05+00:00
I read that book and you’re just making up shit. There is no chimp with 3 brains.

You are correct that chinas enemy is not the US. But complexity isn’t the the issue either. The issues are complex but complexity isn’t inherently the causal source of there issues. It’s not like oh the complexity was so overwhelming that it confused people and covid formed and young people checked out.

Your comment is an aside. The point is Japan and China couldn’t be more different. The guy was obviously comparing the two because, hey a bunch of mongoloid Asians reaching prosperity! They must be the same. It’s stupid af.

I’m Asian myself but I will say I don’t care about him being racist. Not trying to raise some social justice garbage here. I don’t give a shit about stuff like that. I’m commenting about the raw stupidity of the comparison not the moralness of it.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-24 14:12:15+00:00
Ah, we've journeyed quite a ways from "I'm saying it's inefficient because of a combination of many things" to "when you sum up overall efficiencies are identical" in just one comment!

I also trust MIT more than Trump (I'll trust a poodle over him), especially on EVs. The point is even Trump's loony EPA clearly states they're better for the environment, inclusive of coal power. (Which MIT agrees with; I quoted your source!)
by jstrebel | 2025-07-24 14:12:25+00:00
I think this "argument" has always been flawed. I don't need to justify what information I would like to share especially with state agencies. In Germany, this is even encoded in a legal principle called "Informationelle Selbstbestimmung" (informational agency). It's not about the information, it's about my right to decide about sharing it.
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-24 14:12:30+00:00
I don't know. They posted this about a year ago and some language was intentionally vague ("third-party") presumably because they were still selecting partners. Not everything was implemented at the time. Hopefully we get an update soon about the status of their private datacenter and more information about the auditing process. As it stands now, supposedly a third-party reviews new machine provisioning, and for releases security researchers will be able to cross-check transparency logs and use cryptography to ensure the binary running on the machine is what Apple says it is.

I think it's a pretty advanced and thoughtful approach, but it definitely has its limitations. Hopefully Apple iterates on this over time.

Between you and me, though, it's hard to tell if Apple's ostensible commitment to privacy is just theatre due to the locked down and user-hostile nature of their operating systems.
by wdroz | 2025-07-24 14:12:36+00:00
I hope you will get further sponsorships so you can continue your cool work in the FOSS space.

I also totally agree that uv makes shipping python software smoother. Prior to uv I hesitated to use Textual to build cool TUIs for internal tools. But now, it’s a totally different story. I wish I had an internal tool to write with Textual right now.

Maybe by the time Toad is officially out, I will have a project ready to dive into.
by qwery | 2025-07-24 14:12:42+00:00
For one thing, I don't think they think they have a silver bullet here. I think they want some financial support and if some users of the project pay the fee that will be some success.

To the specifics, it's not a software license fee -- they aren't selling access to the software. It's a "maintenance fee", to fund the project. So the license of the code isn't a problem, you can (still) choose to license that under whatever terms are available.

From their FAQ[0]:

> Q: What if I don’t want to pay the Maintenance Fee?

> That’s fine. You can download the project’s source code and follow the Open Source license for the software.

> Do not download releases. Do not reference packages via a package manager. Do not use anything other than the source code released under the Open Source license.

> Also, if you choose to not pay the Maintenance Fee, but find yourself returning to check on the status of issues or review answers to questions others ask, you are still using the project and should pay the Maintenance Fee.

[0] https://opensourcemaintenancefee.org/consumers/faq/
by askonomm | 2025-07-24 14:12:46+00:00
I'll add that in Estonia you can also get married and divorce entirely online with a few clicks. No need to show up anywhere, no need to wait for a long time. More and more countries in EU are getting easier in that sense - Malta has many online-everything facilities, Ireland as well. The big countries such as France, Spain, Italy seem to suffer from corruption and bureaucracy, but smaller countries tend to do a lot better - Scandinavia, Baltic countries, etc. Though of course in most places you have to become a resident, or at the very least be a EU national, as only Estonia has e-residency, as far as I know.
by boringg | 2025-07-24 14:14:03+00:00
What you describe is more like the traditional VC structure for most businesses. Provide low cost services while they need to grow user base -- as user base is established the model now needs to extract value from the users - quality drops and the costs increases.

It happens for all VC based products since the drive on returns of invested capital is so high.

Put another way -- early stage products that every uses and love (in most not all cases) should not be assumed to be the end product.
by glitchc | 2025-07-24 14:14:31+00:00
Well that's interesting and true. Looking at the OS landscape, the previous battleground, the software rent model has made a number of companies very rich. And yet, the few standouts gave us Linux and OSS. Do we need more than a few to achieve the same here? I'm personally not paying for Claude, Perplexity, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc... I prefer to obtain open-source weights and run them on my local GPU.
by madcaptenor | 2025-07-24 14:14:44+00:00
I don't know about Clinton. My first thought is that he's too old. But maybe that doesn't matter any more, and he and Trump were born a couple months apart.

There was a poll in April that polled Obama vs Trump, though, and had Obama winning 53-47: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
by livid-neuro | 2025-07-24 14:14:59+00:00
I was in high school in the late 90s to early aughts. The school system used Novell NetWare with Windows NT workstations. At the time, their security was lax. In fact, they set up the directory so that by default, every user logged in using the first four letters of their first name coupled with the last four letters of their last name as the username, and the last four digits of their phone number as their password. I realized this also applied to school employees. Most of whom never changed their password. All of whom were local administrators for computers. Some of whom had network administration rights.

I used multiple school officials' accounts to log in, push a copy of UT99, filled with custom maps, to a network share. We would then copy that folder to the hard drive of the school computers and play UT99 on them. We had amazing LAN parties where we would find empty computer labs after school and play games for hours.

They had BNC networking in that building at the time. It took "forever" in my mind to copy the game from the network share to the local hard drive. Totally worth it.

In those days they even let us maintain the high school website using Dreamweaver...
by bryanlarsen | 2025-07-24 14:15:33+00:00
Steam collects GST so they've already figured that out.

But your basic thesis is correct, it's not apples-to-apples. Debit vs credit is a significant difference. Another major issue is that while the regulations for any one of the alternatives on my list aren't particularly onerous, I imagine the superset of all the regulations/contracts might well be.
by bko | 2025-07-24 14:16:16+00:00
> "So if we burn more of our energy every day on physical activity, on exercise, after a while our bodies will adjust and spend less energy on the other tasks that we sort of don't notice going on in the background," Pontzer says.

I also think this is true related to food. Your body adjusts its metabolism based on the amount of food you eat as long as it's not chronic. That's why you can have competitive eaters that can eat a weeks worth of food and not be overweight. Spikiness and variability are probably good for you. Its funny that the Bryan Johnson types who closely control every calorie in their body have such a bad reaction to any variability. I don't know if its him, but I heard someone not be able to sleep and their levels got all messed up from one sweet. And their conclusion was sweets are so bad for you, rather than you're building your body to be too fragile to shocks.

The interesting thing is when this breaks down. Obviously if you eat a weeks worth of food every day for a sustained period of time, you will start to gain weight. Or if you run 12 miles every day, you will be in such a deficit that it won't be possible to lower your metabolism enough. Outside of the extremes, I think it's a cliff, where you have to have some kind of shock for some period of time for your body to react.
by benrutter | 2025-07-24 14:16:33+00:00
> This would be lovely.

I agree the current model sucks, but I think it being replaced is only good if it's replaced with something better.

> More than likely, people return to publishing content because they love the subject matter

I'd love the idea of people doing things because they're passionate, but I feel a little unsure about people doing things because they're passionate, generating money from those things, but all that money going to AI summariser companies. I think there's some pretty serious limits too, journalists risk their safety a lot of the time, and I can't see a world where that happens purely out of "passion" without any renumeration. Aside from anything else, some acts of journalism like overseas reporting etc, isn't compatible with working a seperate "for-pay" job.
by asdfj999 | 2025-07-24 14:16:34+00:00
ACGME reducing supply hasn't been true for at least 10 years. Medical schools and residency positions are exploding and quality of training is decreasing. Medical schools are now finding it hard just to place their students into adequate clinical rotations because hospitals are saturated with learners. Despite that, we even have to bring in more than 5,000 international physicians every year just to fill the available residency positions because there literally aren't enough American graduates. Meanwhile, reimbursements keep getting cut and physician liability increases.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-24 14:16:53+00:00
I'll take that. But in this case it's even worse, as apparently they never bothered to check if the door is in one piece and just screwed the smashed pieces onto the hinges regardless. So now it's not working as a door neither functionally nor security-wise, but it took someone visiting from outside to see that the emperor has no door.
Show HN: MirrorMind – A Recursive Agent Framework for Interpretable AI
by SH_Oh | 2025-07-24 14:17:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I’d like to share MirrorMind – a recursive agent architecture designed to make AI systems more interpretable, controllable, and reflectively “human.”

This is not just prompt engineering or character simulation. MirrorMind encodes internal structure into LLM behavior through five explicit coefficients:

- Emotion - Reasoning - Expression - Values - Bias

Each persona is a function over these dimensions. The MVP lets you run parallel AI personas with different settings to see how the same input produces radically different (but explainable) outputs.

App: https://hwan-oh-mirrormind-mvp.streamlit.app GitHub: https://github.com/HWAN-OH/MirrorMind-MVP Full story: https://medium.com/@hawn21

This is part of a 4-paper series exploring controllable cognition and AI-personality architecture:

1. Formal Architecture – https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.15921374 2. Human-Agent Coevolution – https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.15929330 3. Persona Collapse & Resilience – https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.15929615 4. Mathematical Proof of Efficiency – https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.15939176

This project was built not by full-time AI researchers, but by someone working in energy strategy, trying to use AI as a thinking partner. I hope it can evolve into a framework for building interpretable AI agents that mirror human complexity.

Would love your thoughts – critical feedback, ideas, or collaboration.

Thanks!
by hinkley | 2025-07-24 14:17:40+00:00
It could though. I don’t think the thought has occurred to him yet. He could make the stack twice as high and go around twice as far. If you moved the worm gear you could go farther, but I don’t know how he would do that with his drive.

He could also go with narrower rope, and spread the load over more windings, which would give him more throw.
by Izkata | 2025-07-24 14:17:53+00:00
That you can exclude them?

People seem to have forgotten StumbleUpon had a pretty decent configuration page where you had to manually select what topics you were interested in, and that submitting new pages wasn't as simple as just submitting the URL. On top of that, I'm pretty sure I remember a "block this domain" option if you clicked the arrow next to the thumbs down: https://i.sstatic.net/VLS4c.png
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-07-24 14:17:59+00:00
I think you would have much better results if you can search for a full word rather than a single character. You are treating it like a substring matches, and that’s not the job it is doing. Full text search engines handle misspellings of words or even similar phrases. Quoting like you have done would produce more favorable results, but I don’t think it works on less than a word. Is there a word or phrase you could use instead?