MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raincole | 2025-07-11 07:50:33+00:00
Being 20x increase in productivity won't come with a 20x money made. Unless you somehow monopoly the extra productivity.

A simple example: if someone patents a machine that makes canned tuna 10 times faster than how they're currently being made, would tuna factories make 10 times more money? The answer is obviously no. Actually, they'd make the same money as before, or even less than that. Only the one who makes such a machine (and the consumers of tuna cans) would be benefited.
by commandersaki | 2025-07-11 07:51:03+00:00
True, but email is unencrypted anyway, so pretty much any provider can comply with a legal request and hand over email.

But agreed the TAA bill is pretty bad as that means the company receiving the notice cannot disclose the fact that they've been requested to assist.

As far as email goes, I wouldn't use it for any private conversation. There's better tools for that.
by EMIRELADERO | 2025-07-11 07:51:37+00:00
The greatest gem is found in the footnote, IMO

> "They managed to convince the courts that iPadOS is a separate operating system to iOS (it's not), which delayed iPadOS being designated as a gatekeeper for almost a year. They are currently challenging all of the rest: the iOS, Safari, and App Store designations, and successfully managed to avoid iMessage being designated at all. They have taken the DMA law to court for an apparently ambiguous comma in article 5(4) - the payment one, and for somehow infringing on human rights law in article 6(7) - the interoperability one."

Looking at the actual filing[1], Apple says:

> "First plea in law, alleging that Article 6(7) of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 is inconsistent with the requirements of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and the principle of proportionality, and that Article 2(b) of the European Commission Decision of 5 September 2023 is unlawful insofar as it imposes the obligations under Article 6(7) of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 on Apple in relation to iOS."

For context, here are the full contents of Article 6(7):

"The gatekeeper shall allow business users and alternative providers of services provided together with, or in support of, core platform services, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features, regardless of whether those features are part of the operating system, as are available to, or used by, that gatekeeper when providing such services."

[1] https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsession...
by graemep | 2025-07-11 07:52:30+00:00
People in charge love to measure productivity and, just as harmfully, performance. The main insight people running large organisations (big business and governments) have into how they are doing is metrics, so they will use what measures they can have regardless of how meaningful they are.

The British government (probably not any worse than anyone else, just what I am most familiar with) does measure the productivity of the NHS: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-productivity/ (including doctors, obviously).

They also try to measure the performance of teachers and schools and introduced performance league tables and special exams (SATS - exams sat at various ages school children in the state system, nothing like the American exams with the same name) to do this more pervasively. They made it better by creating multi-academy trusts which adds a layer of management running multi-schools so even more people want even more metrics.

The same for police, and pretty much everything else.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-11 07:52:43+00:00
I hate cloud-required hardware and software because it always dies at the whims of the manufacturer.

Pre Android, Motorola Mobility's phones had a huge fleet of CentOS boxes that were required to run a large fraction of the social app functionality on their phones.

The only games/apps/hardware I want to use are those that can be run completely offline with no dial-home DRM or server backend.
by ankit219 | 2025-07-11 07:52:47+00:00
When a rule is vaguely defined, deliberately so that a regulator can take different interpretations depending on whether they are having any effect and who is doing it, even trivial things become complex. Eg: Meta is asked to withdraw monthly subscription for no ads offer when EU GDPR courts approved it, all EU publishers offer the same service, but the DMA interpretation of regulators for Meta keep saying No.

On the surface, it's easy to do. But that is also based on the assumptions where they had to maintain some first party apis vs now having to create and maintain them so that third parties could use it. If they are committed to security which apparently DSA mandates, they have to devote many resources on it to ensure there are no threat vectors. Plus, there is no set guidelines on how much the APIs need to offer, it will be another session where competition asks for more and they will be asked to do that too.
by Letstalk123 | 2025-07-11 07:52:49+00:00
The more “connected” I was, the lonelier I felt. I’d scroll through feeds, reply to group chats, watch stories… but at the end of the day I couldn’t remember a single real conversation I had.

So I built something small, just for myself at first: A voice chat app that connects you anonymously to one other person. No swiping, no bios, no names. Just two voices. You talk. That’s it.

It felt more human than anything I’d used in years.

Some convos were deep. Some awkward. Some hilarious. But all of them made me feel alive again in a way social media never did.

Not trying to promote anything here—just curious: Have any of you felt the same way? What’s the most human digital experience you’ve had lately?
by Mindfusefounder | 2025-07-11 07:53:14+00:00
Social platforms are incredible at keeping us engaged, but terrible at making us feel seen. I realized that most of my online time made me more anxious, not less. So I started experimenting.

What would it look like to strip everything back and build something around presence?

I built a barebones voice app. No profiles, no feeds, no metrics. Just anonymous 1-on-1 voice chats between strangers. You open it, talk to someone, and go back to your life.

Weirdly enough—it worked. People stayed longer than expected. Some said it felt like therapy. Others said it felt like finally being human again online.

It’s small, imperfect, and still evolving—but it’s the first time I’ve felt good about what I’m building.

Would love to hear: What tools or platforms actually make you feel more connected—not just entertained?
by 0rzech | 2025-07-11 07:54:20+00:00
It's not pretentious and there's nothing to see through here. This is the preferred style in Poland and it's widely used, especially by the educated people. Just because the sentences aren't simple, doesn't mean they're not informative.

Also, we were taught to prefer compound and complex sentences over simple ones where applicable, not at all costs. For instance, the quoted sentence from NTSB report is a bit too long in my opinion.
by pyrale | 2025-07-11 07:54:27+00:00
The issue pointed out is that you're comparing average power use to maximum theoretical production. These houses are going to peak way above 500W.

If you want to compare power use of a household averaged on a year to yearly production of these turbines:

- 1.6MWh * 2.2 people per house = 3.5MWh/household

- 10GWh produced in 2023 / 3.5MWh = ~2860 households supported.
by nikunj___2 | 2025-07-11 07:55:38+00:00
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by saubeidl | 2025-07-11 07:56:26+00:00
In that case, I would recommend you read the article.

It's not just fighting a bad law. It's fighting the very foundation the EU is built on and that has guaranteed peace in Western Europe since the end of WW2.

Apple might not get this, because they don't have an understanding of European history. But that lack of understanding is exactly why they keep getting their nose bloodied in Europe.
by graemep | 2025-07-11 07:56:40+00:00
It is from a certain point of view. For example at a national level productivity is measured in GDP per hour worked. Even this is problematic - it means you increase productivity by reducing working hours or making low paid workers unemployed.

ON the other hand it makes no sense from some points of view. For example, if you get a pay rise that does not mean you are more productive.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-11 07:57:06+00:00
Right. Let's take a bunch of semi-related groups I don't like, and make up an acronym for them so any of my criticism can be applied to some subset of those groups in some form, thus making it seem legitimate and not just a bunch of half-assed strawman arguments.

Also, I guess you're saying I'm a paid shill, or have otherwise been brainwashed by marketing of the vendors, and therefore my positive experiences with LLMs are a lie? :).

I mean, you probably didn't mean that, but part of my point is that you see those positive reports here on HN too, from real people who've been in this community for a while and are not anonymous Internet users - you can't just dismiss that as "grassroot marketing".
by a2128 | 2025-07-11 07:59:39+00:00
They're happy to be quiet and comply with Chinese laws even if they're wrong[0]. How is a requirement to stop giving your own products an unfair competitive advantage a bad law? It's only bad when you see it from the perspective that you'll lose a lot of money.

https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/09/everyone-option-airdrop-10-mi...
by thinkingemote | 2025-07-11 07:59:54+00:00
Yeah I totally agree. It's like washing by hand vs using a mangle possibly. The metaphor of agents to machines was also what I thought but didn't write as it's about companion tools mainly. (I got confused and put in a high level comment but somehow didn't actually post that!)

For Waze, even if you are traffic and others go around you, you still may get there quicker and your car use less energy than taking the suggested route that feels faster. Others may feel happier and feel like they were faster though. Indeed they were faster but might have taken a longer journey.

Also, generally most people don't use the app around here to effect significant road use changes. But if they did im not sure (but I'm having fun trying to think) what metaphor we can apply to the current topic :)
by sherlockxu | 2025-07-11 08:00:11+00:00
Hi everyone. I'm one of the maintainers of this project. We're both excited and humbled to see it on Hacker News!

We created this handbook to make LLM inference concepts more accessible, especially for developers building real-world LLM applications. The goal is to pull together scattered knowledge into something clear, practical, and easy to build on.

We’re continuing to improve it, so feedback is very welcome!

GitHub repo: https://github.com/bentoml/llm-inference-in-production
by paride5745 | 2025-07-11 08:00:29+00:00
Bluesky is not a real decentralized system as the company behind it say. Bluesky (the company) controls most key parts of the network, and it is basically impossible to setup a really decentralised alternative provider for the ATProto network, like you can do today with ActivityPub (Mastodon) or Nostr.

Sure, you can setup you PDS and own your data, but it is useless without the Relays and a self-hosted Firehose, and running you own website is basically impossible.

And lastly, let's keep in mind that BSky is a commercial entity, not a no-profit like Mastodon or a commmunity effort like Nostr.

And yes, I am ignoring the political toxicity of the network because I think the technical aspects are bad enough.
by LelouBil | 2025-07-11 08:00:43+00:00
I didn't follow the case with Meta, but isn't it different ? Because you talk about both the GDPR and DMA, which are different regulations.

I agree that a lot of websites (mostly news websites) have the "ad tracking or subscription" model, and I'm not sure if there has been a clear ruling in it yet, but maybe the DMA makes this stricter for Meta since it is a Gatekeeper
by arjunchint | 2025-07-11 08:01:39+00:00
I personally talked to another agentic browser player, fellou.ai, in the space asking them how they are keeping up with all the Chromium pushes as you need a dedicated team to handle the merges, they flat out told me they are targeting tech enthusiasts that are not interested in the security of their browser as much.

As an ex-Google engineer I know the immense engineering efforts and infrastructure setup to develop Chrome. It is very implausible that two people can handle all the effort to serve a secure browser with 15+ million lines of constantly changing C++ code.

A sandboxxed browser extension is the natural form factor for these agentic capabilities.
by sfn42 | 2025-07-11 08:02:26+00:00
It's generally trivial for conventional class-based type systems like those in Java and C#, but TypeScript is a different beast entirely. On the surface it seems similar but it's so much deeper than the others.

I don't like it. I know it is the way it is because it's supposed to support all the cursed weird stuff you can do in JS, but to me as a fullstack developer who's never really taken the time to deep dive and learn TS properly it often feels more like an obstacle. For my own code it's fine, but when I have to work with third party libraries it can be really confusing. It's definitely a skill issue though.
by 0rzech | 2025-07-11 08:03:34+00:00
It can if you count all the different forms of each word and proper nouns. But this way Polish may have even more words than english, given multitude of different forms. I've never checked that, though.

There's also the tendency in English to make new words out of existing ones to create new meanings, while in Polish we often use multiple separate existing words to create new meanings.

All in all, I believe English has more base forms than Polish.
by intended | 2025-07-11 08:04:25+00:00
It is extreme, and on the vendor side. The OpenAI non profit vs profit saga, was about profit seeking vs the future of humanity. People are talking about programming 3.0.

I can appreciate that it’s other users who are saying it’s wrong, but that doesn’t escape the point on ignoring the context.

Moreover, it’s unhelpful communication. Its gives up acknowledging a mutually shared context, the natural confusion that would arise from the ambiguous, high level hype, and the actual down to earth reality.

Even if you have found a way to make it work, having someone understand your workflow can’t happen without connecting the dots between their frame of reference and yours.
by camgunz | 2025-07-11 08:05:27+00:00
I finally took the plunge and did a big chunk of work in Cursor. It was pretty ideal: greenfield but with a very relevant example to slightly modify (the example pulled events over HTTP as a server and I wanted it to pull events over Google pub/sub instead).

Over IDK, 2-3 hours I got something that seemed on its face to work, but:

- it didn't use the pub/sub API correctly

- the 1 low-coverage test it generated didn't even compile (Go)

- there were a bunch of small errors it got confused by--particularly around closures

I got it to "90%" (again though it didn't at all work) with the first prompt, and then over something like a dozen more mostly got it to fix its own errors. But:

- I didn't know the pub/sub API--I was relying on Cursor to do this correctly--and it totally submarined me

- I had to do all the digging to get the test to compile

- I had to go line by line and tell it to rewrite... almost everything

I quit when I realized I was spending more time prompting it to fix things than it would take me to fully engage my brain and fix them myself. I also noticed that there was a strong pull to "just do one more prompt" rather than dig in and actually understand things. That's super problematic to me.

Worse, this wasn't actually faster. How do I know that? The next day I did what I normally do: read docs and wrote it myself. I spent less time (I'm a fast typist and a Vim user) overall, and my code works. My experience matches pretty well w/ the results of TFA.

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Something I will say though is there is a lot of garbage stuff in tech. Like, I don't want to learn Terraform (again) just to figure out how to deploy things to production w/o paying a Heroku-like premium. Maybe I don't want to look up recursive CTEs again, or C function pointers, or spent 2 weeks researching a heisenbug I put into code for some silly reason AI would have caught immediately. I am _confident_ we can solve these things without boiling oceans to get AI to do it for us.

But all this shit about how "I'm 20x more productive" is totally absurd. The only evidence we have of this is people just saying it. I don't think a 20x productivity increase is even imaginable. Overall productivity since 1950 is up 3.6x [0]. These people are asking us to believe they've achieved over 400 years of productivity gains in "3 months". Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. My guess is either you were extremely unproductive before, or (like others are saying in the threads) in very small ways you're 20x more productive but most things are unaffected or even slower.

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB
by ankit219 | 2025-07-11 08:05:30+00:00
> Unintentionally installing something from the app store is all good though, because App Store review absolutely ensures that nothing could go wrong, that there's no scam apps, and more than makes up for the web's "orders of magnitude" stronger sandboxing, more stringent permissions model, and better phishing prevention. And so, web apps logically require a convoluted 4-step process including "share" and "add to homescreen" to locate the install button, meaning that all but the most technical users can't find it.

Written with sarcasm.

I am sorry but the argument that an app store and browser are comparable in terms of amount of spam is a deluded take. The core argument seems to be that since app store allows installing anything, so should browsers. The kind of changes that would benefit a smaller % of smart population, to the detriment of anyone else who can be convinced by a text to download any kind of content on their phone. The ones who push it would want it, but these are the kind of "features" on android that prevents me from giving my parents an android phone.
by grishka | 2025-07-11 08:05:37+00:00
And Android apps can be installed from apk files without any Google involvement whatsoever. All apks are self-signed anyway and signing identity only comes into play for updates, not initial installation. As in, when you first install an app, it doesn't matter who signed it, but installing an update over an existing app requires the new apk to be signed with the same certificate as the initial one. This is to protect the potentially sensitive data in app's private storage (under /data/data).

But iOS requires that everything be signed by Apple in one form or another. Even debug builds of your own apps you run on your own device from Xcode. IMO, it is absolutely unacceptable to market your devices as general-purpose ones, make the SDK public, but still be an intermediary in app distribution for no good reason whatsoever. I'm surprised the EU is so seemingly patient with Apple's clearly contemptuous conduct.
by lukan | 2025-07-11 08:08:40+00:00
I don't think peacetime is outdated, but we do live in a time of increasing tensions and classical and asymetric conflicts, mixed with an increasing amount of people who believe they have nothing left to loose. So yes, I also prefer the concept of local ressilience as opposed to having many critical infrastructure points where everything else will collapse if those are damaged. Solar, Wind and batteries can go a long way here, to keep at least critical systems running.
by 44za12 | 2025-07-11 08:09:04+00:00
This is super exciting! The “Cloudflare Tunnel” lock-in has always bugged me, so seeing an open source option is genuinely refreshing. I’m especially curious how Pangolin handles the gritty stuff—flaky networks, authentication headaches, scaling up when things get real. If anyone’s kicked the tires on this in the wild, how does it compare to the “it just works” magic of Cloudflare? Bonus points if you’ve wrangled it into playing nice with self-hosted stuff on a home connection. For context, I’ve got a Raspberry Pi running my blog and a bunch of other hobby projects from home, so real-world stories would be gold.
Show HN: AI Movie Finder – I created a way to find movies by describing
by mosbyllc | 2025-07-11 08:09:19+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

I'm excited to share a project I've been passionately working on in my spare time: AI Movie Finder (https://www.aimoviefinder.com).

The idea was born out of a simple, yet frequent, frustration: having a movie on the tip of my tongue but being unable to recall the title. All I could remember were fragments – a specific scene, a snippet of dialogue, the general plot, or even just the mood it evoked. Traditional search engines often fell short with these kinds of abstract queries.

So, I decided to build a solution. AI Movie Finder uses a natural language processing model to understand these descriptive and sometimes vague queries. You can type in things like:

"that movie where a guy keeps reliving the same day"

"a sci-fi film with a blue alien opera singer"

"a feel-good movie about a band in the 80s"

The goal is to make movie discovery more intuitive and human-like. Instead of just searching by actors or exact titles, you can search by memory and feeling.

The backend is built with Python and utilizes a fine-tuned sentence transformer model to create vector embeddings for a large movie database. The frontend is a clean and simple interface built with vanilla JavaScript to keep it fast and accessible.

This is still very much a work in progress, and the database is continuously growing. I'm actively working on improving the model's accuracy and expanding the search capabilities.

I would love to get your feedback. Please give it a try and let me know what you think. I'm particularly interested in:

How well does it work for your queries?

Are there any features you think would be a great addition?

Any suggestions on how to improve the model or the user experience?

Thanks for checking it out! I'll be here to answer any questions.
by sheepscreek | 2025-07-11 08:10:33+00:00
It’s not that. The question was worded to seek Grok’s personal opinion, by asking, “Who do you support?”

But when asked in a more general way, “Who should one support..” it gave a neutral response.

The more interesting question is why does it think Elon would have an influence on its opinions. Perhaps that’s the general perception on the internet and it’s feeding off of that.