MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-07-27 21:41:14+00:00
This article is easily disproven by the fact that humans have dramatically increased our lifespan, so no, we are not completely at the mercy of nature and we do have agency, as well as effective free will.

And a huge part of why we’ve achieved this is morality driven by reducing suffering.

In fact, we’re only extending our moral circle. At one point we would enslave and kill anyone outside our tribe, then outside our nation, skin color, etc. We continuously included those with differences in our circle of empathy and have now added certain species of animals to reduce suffering further.

The obvious next steps are to include other species of animals who also are sentient and feel suffering and we will be better off for it as well.
by tuomasj | 2025-07-27 21:41:27+00:00
I spent good amount of my summer holiday rebuilding Masterlist (https://masterlist.fi)

This is probably third (or fourth) incarnation of the app and I like writing a web apps with Hotwire more and more. Especially leaning more on <turbo-stream> features removes frontend complexity compared previous versions. Highly recommended, both Hotwire and rewriting your apps!
by giantg2 | 2025-07-27 21:41:39+00:00
I believe they already have the propellant transfer worked out. There was a paper a few years back looking into Musk's general plan. They already had some mechanism for refueling. If I remember correctly, the biggest questions were around lifesupport systems with their efficiency and heat shields. Which were technically still solvable with current technologies and slightly different approaches.

From my perspective, the thing they're mostly waiting for is additional tech to make everything easier and lower risk, or for an aggressive administration that can push it and fund it.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-07-27 21:42:10+00:00
>For any question, there are nearly an infinite number of statements that either do not apply or make some error in fact, judgement, or conclusion.

Q: should one vote for Trump A: No, because it will distract from his duties to distribute toys to good children once a year.

Is that a wrong answer or a right answer, assuming that one agrees on should not vote for Trump.

At any rate let us put it in the set of wrong answers, is it a wrong answer that will ever actually be given in seriousness to the question? Sure it is a potentially wrong answer to the question, as is "2 + 2 equals 5" but while potentially wrong is it ever going to be wrong in actuality.

The set of potential wrong answers to any question is infinite, the set of actual answers probably are not infinite, and as I noted from my experience seems to actually converge on a normative set of wrong / stupid answers.

> each one has narrower possibilities than the next: Pragmatic (immediate), strategic, and innovative (novel solution).

given your use of potential answers that are wrong to show how that set is much bigger I would think you would see that the innovative is probably bigger than immediate (depending on constraints of problem) and also unknowable.

>"What should we do to pass the time?" shows a question

>"We could go hang ourselves..." shows not a serious attempt to answer the question, in my experience, but a refusal to consider the question important enough to answer.
by const_cast | 2025-07-27 21:43:26+00:00
If the content is AI generated, it explicitly does.

Think about it, would you rather listen to a Spotify AI generated piano solo? Or Donna Summer's 1978 Album "On the Radio"?

AI content is slop, plain and simple and there's no way around it. I would expect a literal child to produce better content than even the most advanced AI models available.

That doesn't mean that AI is bad - it's very, very good at certain things. But media and art are uniquely human creations - if you remove the human part, what are you left with? Is it surprising that something Sora is producing isn't really comparable to The Devil Wears Prada?

Now, if you create content and then slightly edit it with an AI, that's fine. But if, say, the NYT shifted to all AI generated stuff, they would go out of business remarkably fast.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-27 21:43:38+00:00
>but human spaceflight is not what’s getting cut at NASA. Instead, very productive current and future science missions are getting killed, in defiance of Congress [1].

Sounds like ye olde Sowell quote[1] about organizational priorities and budget cuts in action.

[1]https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2013/03/thomas_sowell_budge...
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-27 21:44:14+00:00
I was curious about this so I visited ChatGPT and asked if there are documented cases in the UK where these things have happened, and I was met with a deluge of well-documented cases where corporations hired private intelligence firms to infiltrate activist groups and surveil critics and ex-employees, complete with links to primary and secondary sources which I briefly checked out just to make sure it wasn’t hallucinating. Then it asked me if I wanted a second deluge and I declined.

I don’t know why people have a mental model of the world that is so incompatible with reality that they’ll post skeptical takes to HN when we live in a world where so much data is available at the tip of our fingers.
by nowittyusername | 2025-07-27 21:44:27+00:00
Working on a complex AI system that will eventually allow AI overseer subagents to create complex workflows internally on the fly for multi step reasoning capabilities. Its a vey complex system but easiest way I can describe it as a metacognitive framework for self organizing workflows depending on context and dynamic adjustment capabilities depending on environmental signals. lots of cool little systems that will do all types of fun stuff like feed logprobs to various Ai subagents to give extra bias signals or have the llms understand their own confidence in answering this or that query. Anyways I could write a whole decertation on all the various goodies in it. But currently at the moment starting small and working on developing automated hyperparameter reasoning evaluation system. its important to know the most affective hyperparameters per model and no better way to converge on those numbers then an automated system. After that using dspy or my own home brwe system to do same on converging for "best" system prompts for various tasks. And then setting up the various mcp servers that give these abilities to whatever llm uses them. Lots of work, but learning a lot in the process plus I love RND. I see potential in modern day systems for recursive self improvement just have to set up the system around the capability. thats the hard part, the vision is always easy...
by benreesman | 2025-07-27 21:44:54+00:00
TailScale sells certificate escrow, painless SSO, high-quality integrations/co-sell with e.g. Mullvad, full-take netlogging, and "Enterprise Look and Feel" wrapped around the real technology. You can run WireGuard yourself, and sometimes I do, but certificate management is tricky to get right, the rest is a pain in the ass, and TailScale is cheap. The hackers behind it (bfitz et all) are world-class, and you can get it past most "Enterprise" gatekeeping.

It doesn't solve problems on my personal infrastructure that I couldnt solve myself, but it solves my work problem of getting real networking accepted by a diverse audience with competing priorities. And its like 20 bucks a seat with all the trimmings. Idk, maybe its 50, I don't really check because its the cheapest thing on my list of cloud stuff by an order of magnitude or so.

Its getting more enterprise and less hackerish with time, big surprise, and I'm glad there's younger stuff in the pipe like TFA to keep it honest, but of all the necessary evils in The Cloud? I feel rather fondly towards tailscale rather than with cold rage like most everything else on the Mercury card.
by robbomacrae | 2025-07-27 21:45:03+00:00
I'm working on an open source wrapper and MCP server to give Claude Code voice capabilities (and Slack and WhatsApp messaging). It works with system default TTS and google free ASR on Mac out the box but allows you to BYOK to your favorite TTS/ASR provider. I've also tried to make it a viable python library to make it easy to switch between ASR/TTS providers.

With Claude Code I really like being able to multi-task but right now it's a bit like a Tesla on autopilot needing your hands still on the wheel. With TalkiTo I can do housework/go out for lunch and keep it on the right track remotely.

https://github.com/robdmac/talkito
by tootyskooty | 2025-07-27 21:45:16+00:00
Still working on https://periplus.app!

It's an environment for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, exams, flashcards, maps and more!

Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time (very Obsidian-esque).
by the_af | 2025-07-27 21:45:54+00:00
Is there any evidence this has any traction, is actually feasible (the reintroduction part), and is not merely a publicity stunt for some biotech startups?

I think a more realistic point of view is that once a species is gone, it's truly gone, and that we should worry about keeping alive those still existing, because there's no "undo" button.
by felurx | 2025-07-27 21:45:55+00:00
You actually can connect two machines via USB-C (USB4 / Thunderbolt) and you get a network connection.

You only get Link-Local addresses by default, which I recall as somewhat annoying if you want to use SSH or whatever, but if you have something that does network discovery it should probably work pretty seamlessly.

See https://christian.kellner.me/2018/05/24/thunderbolt-networki... or https://superuser.com/a/1784608
by Maxious | 2025-07-27 21:46:20+00:00
US veterans have to seek permission to enter employment or invest in companies that do business with foreign governments https://dodsoco.ogc.osd.mil/Portals/102/summary_emoluments_c...

Australia introduced a less onerous 1/5/10 year permission period but for anybody with "training in military tactics and use of software or technology with military applications" https://www.defence.gov.au/news-events/news/2024-05-07/new-l...

Most famously due to a former US citizen turned Australian citizen awaiting extradiction back to the US for allegedly training chinese fighter pilots (although this seems to be more of an ITAR violation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Daniel_Duggan
by godelski | 2025-07-27 21:46:23+00:00
> the world leader in space science.

I also want to add that science is a critical investment area for anyone interested in engineering.

There is this common belief of "I just want to make things work" and that science is really unimportant here and are concerned with things that don't matter. The truth is that science builds the foundation for that other stuff. It is the very ground you stand on. Engineering without science is like trying to run without ground.

In a lot of ways, science is just like engineering (I say this having been both, professionally). Any good engineer knows it is important to find problems. Then you fix those problems. Well... that's really what science does too. When doing science you're just working at the next level of abstraction. It is all about "making things work." Everyone is on the same team here and I'm not sure why we draw these divisions. I mean what would science even be about if it wasn't "making things work?"

So I hear people say that engineering is where we get the real value (especially monetarily), but I'd disagree. It matters, but I think it is framing things weirdly. I'd be willing to wager that the economic impact of Newton and Leibniz's invention of Calculus[0] is larger than the economic impact of any engineering product, ever. I'd make a slightly less confident wager that the economic value of calculus is more valuable than all inventions post 1700. That's just one thing too... even if it was the only Science/Math "investment" then it seems like a pretty good ROI

[0] Yes, math, but I'm throwing under science. Nitpick if you want but you're missing the thesis
by LinguaBrowse | 2025-07-27 21:46:35+00:00
At 17 years old, I think it's comfortably outside of the scope of the article I was focusing on (the last decade), but thanks for bringing it to my attention!

> Ejacs is based heavily on work by Brendan Eich (SpiderMonkey, Narcissus) and Norris Boyd (Mozilla Rhino).

I did mention all of these, at least!
by fredrikholm | 2025-07-27 21:46:40+00:00
CL for performance and 'Lispiness'.

Scheme if you really enjoy recursion.

Clojure if you need the JVM and/or employment (this is me).

Racket if you drink the DSL kool aid.

Fennel (same author as Janet) for Lispy Lua.

Janet for Lispy C.
by fleebee | 2025-07-27 21:46:48+00:00
I think it's cool that producers are experimenting with co-fermented coffee in search for new experiences, but truth be told, the co-ferments I've had have always left me disappointed. I'm guessing the process is delicate and it's easy to end up with over-fermented, overripe fruity notes that overshadow the subtler coffee notes. I've tried these coffees from several award-winning roasters and the experience has always been similar. The first sip catches you off-guard like "wow, I didn't know coffee could taste like that", but once your palate catches up, it can be a chore to finish the cup. The flavor is intense, but I think it comes at the expense of clarity and depth. It works great for competition where you need to stand out, but not so much for home consumption.

I feel the same way about beer with fruit adjuncts. Yeast and hops -- like coffee -- can express an unbelievable variety of aromas and flavors on their own. For example, a Flanders red ale can taste so much like sour cherries that you couldn't believe none were added to the ferment, mostly thanks to the magic of yeast.

When you have this kind of expressiveness in your ingredients to begin with, co-fermenting with fruit is a bit of a shame in my opinion.
by wonger_ | 2025-07-27 21:46:53+00:00
I'm working on a webapp for home inspectors. Early phases, no demo yet, just occasional updates and screenshots: https://wonger.dev/nuggets#n166

It's been tough to find work, so I figured I'd revisit an old SaaS idea. I worked for a home inspector in the past and saw a need for better (cheaper/faster/easier) report software.

Even if the business side flops, I'd still be satisfied with the experience. I've learned a lot about new tools like WASM and web components. I also like the UX challenge of designing for inspectors filling out reports on their phones.
by ashitanojoe | 2025-07-27 21:46:55+00:00
I've been using Brave Browser for a while. And I don't have any problems with Brave. However, I got curious because of this article. Installed Firefox, and configured it following the article. And I love it so far! It's much more configurable than Brave. Also, add-ons that work on mobile is a nice feature. I think Brave's adblocking must be better because it happens on the browser level. However, I didn't have any issues with uBO so far.
by leptons | 2025-07-27 21:47:15+00:00
>For once, people will get to experience direct consequences of their vote. And this is the silver lining in this whole mess.

They may experience consequences, but they sure won't care about any consequences so long as they still believe that "demonrats" are systematically raping babies. They'll endure any consequence as long as they think their team is punishing the libs.
by const_cast | 2025-07-27 21:47:20+00:00
1. I don't really think this is true generally.

2. Using a secure, but niche, service is still more secure than using a service with no privacy.

Sure, you can argue using Signal puts a "target" on your back. But there's nothing to target, right? Because it's not being run by Google or Meta. What are they gonna take? There's no data to leak about you.

If I were a criminal, which I'm not, I'd rather rob a bank with an actual gun than with a squirt gun. Even though having an actual gun puts a bigger target on your back. Because the actual gun works - the squirt gun is just kinda... useless.
by ben_w | 2025-07-27 21:48:38+00:00
The tether is always in tension, in general the payload is allowed to be in either tension (if attached to the tether on the "top") or compression (if in a pouch of the same material as the tether, e.g. shepherd's sling configuration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling_(weapon)), at the preference of the system designer.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-27 21:48:44+00:00
It's better now -- I can read the main page, although it is much slower to load than the real thing. Clicking on "new", "past", "comments", etc. doesn't seem to work.

Comments do work.

I think it would be better for something like this to make a clean break from the HN interface (I don't know in what way) because right now it doesn't seem any better, just slower.
by linuxhansl | 2025-07-27 21:49:03+00:00
> Why do you then tell others how to live their lives? Is really leaving everyone to their own devices the good idea?

Huh? Wait? Are you suggesting that by telling people to leave me alone I am infringing on their freedom to haggle me?!

What a disingenuous and hypocritical way to twist this around! Just wow.

(I did not downvote.)
by quectophoton | 2025-07-27 21:49:18+00:00
And the other side of the middle ground, Grafana being AGPL but requiring you to disable 4 analytics flags, 1 gravatar flag, and (I think) one of their default dashboards was also fetching news from a Grafana URL.

https://github.com/grafana/tempo/discussions/5001#discussion...

(Yes, that's for Grafana tempo, but the issue in `grafana/grafana` was just marked as duplicate of this.)
by gabriel-uribe | 2025-07-27 21:49:33+00:00
https://attachedapp.com

We focus on people with relationship issues, and so far it's been deeply fulfilling. So many people have written in about how this has helped them heal.

Launched with React Native about 8 weeks ago, and continuing to grow fast. This is a niche space with lots of potential over the next few years I think.

Just submitted an update to help people compare their unique relationship needs to others which is so cool.
by andy99 | 2025-07-27 21:49:52+00:00
I think it is an information virus, but differently - it's homogenized everything, and made people dumber and lazier. It's poisoned public and professional discourse by reducing writing and thinking from the richness of humanity to one narrow style with a tiny latent space, and simultaneously convinced people that this is what good writing looks like. And it's erased thought from board classes of endeavor. This virus is much worse than the relatively benign symptoms described in the article.
by edsuryadi | 2025-07-27 21:50:56+00:00
I’m Edward Suryadi, and I recently invented and open-sourced a new data structure: the Conjoined Tree.

It’s like a tree with multiple roots and shared leaf nodes — ideal for modeling things like pivot tables, OLAP cubes, or high-dimensional sparse matrices.

Here’s the blog: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tree-two-roots-new-data-struc... GitHub: https://github.com/esuryadi/conjoined-tree
by tinynews | 2025-07-27 21:51:08+00:00
Hey HN,

I recently built [Tinynews](https://tinynews.site) — an open-source blogging system that runs entirely on YAML and Markdown. No CMS, no database, no backend — just content files, a config, and Git.

It’s meant for developers who want something more customizable and less bloated than WordPress or headless CMSs. It’s ideal for personal blogs, changelogs, and docs — anything where you just want to write and ship.

Everything is stored in plain files, hosted on Netlify, and versioned with Git. You can clone it, edit a post, push, and deploy — no admin panel required.

Demo: https://tinynews.site Code: https://github.com/thetinynews/tinynews
by tempnew | 2025-07-27 21:51:08+00:00
Microsoft just compromised the National Nuclear Security Administration last week.

Facebook was breached what last month?

Google is an ad company. They can’t sell data that’s breached. They basically do email, and with phishing at epidemic levels, they’ve failed the consumer even at that simple task.

All are too big to fail so there is only congress to blame. While people like Rho Khana focus their congressional resources on the Epstein intrigue citizens are having their savings stolen by Indian scammers and there is clearly no interest and nothing on the horizon to change that.
by chetanvaity | 2025-07-27 21:51:51+00:00
When we used to talk about the data-collection for various reasons - but primarily for ad-targetting and later personlization purposes, we always were quite concerned.

The data-collection felt very wrong. But, we kinda collectively sighed and allowed it, thinking ads are a necessary evil.

First of all, as engineers, this is a cop-out.

Even if we grant ads as a necessary evil, this should always have been stop-gap to a better - a less evil - business model.

As engineers, we again failed to stand up against this <i>continued</i> use - for decades now.

But,

nobody ever agreed for the data to be made available to the State.

This is a breach of trust!

If anyone says their hands were tied - I say they were tied with money.
by reisse | 2025-07-27 21:52:02+00:00
> I'm still waiting for the apple laptop killer (a 12h+ laptop with plain Ubuntu) but it's still brittle as fuck.

Try Intel's Lunar Lake. My Zenbook 14S (S is important here!) does 12h+ on VS Code, browser & meetings (but compilation is remote). The screen is better than on Macbooks (it's high-res OLED), overall build is good. You probably won't be able to run Ubuntu LTS without installing latest kernel, but regular version should do just fine.

If you don't like ASUS, you can also try Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 13. It's a bit on the smaller side and costs twice as much, but it's a pretty neat device.
by robbiejs | 2025-07-27 21:52:13+00:00
I am working on a platform called ikverdienbeter.nl (i deserve better) that educates people on recognizing healthy behaviour and healthy boundaries. I take snippets from popular tv, like dating shows, and mark the "red flags" on a timeline. For instance: "here at time 1:05 you see the woman gaslight the man. Gaslighting means [...]".

Using AI for auto subtitles and actor matching. Will build some auto deploy fragment to social media as well. I think these short fragments will do well op TikTok.
by gf000 | 2025-07-27 21:52:31+00:00
If you bring parallel processing into the picture (shared memory model), then the achievable performance caps per dev work change significantly though.

I will very easily write a faster parallelizable program in Java, before I get the C one even remotely correct and then we haven't even taken into account every future maintenance cost. Also, the way C devs often hide the cost is simply.. less efficient code like copying stuff right and left, etc, which can actually be more "bravely" avoided in managed languages.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-27 21:53:11+00:00
Better pictures elsewhere:

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/biberach-entgleister-regiona...

https://www.bild.de/news/inland/zugunglueck-in-baden-wuertte...

Probable cause: Hangslide(s) caused by prolongued heavy rains, as supported by the pictures.