MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrangle | 2025-07-12 02:16:44+00:00
The whining and flailing about threats to democracy are as sincere as their future level of contentment with Apple leaving the EU.

I hope that it can and does, rather than allowing their product to be compromised by for-profit companies who enjoy local regulatory capture.

No one has to buy Apple products. There are myriad options. Those who push this regulation necessarily need to imply the opposite, as we see here.

It's false that consumer companies are widely compelled to grant third party access to their operating systems. This regulation is selectively applied.

If Apple plays hardball to the point that they are about to leave the market, we'll see if the histrionics were sincere or if it was dishonest manipulation toward encroaching on Apple's assets.

If Apple leaves then its regulation focused critics will have to buy other products themselves, continuously justify to the populace that having no Apple is better than a walled garden Apple, and continuously deal with the political fallout when that convincing largely fails.

That isn't practical. My guess is that this is bullying and bluster, and this looks to be Apple's guess as well.
by dossy | 2025-07-12 02:17:20+00:00
There's still a way to load it under Chrome 138, but when Chrome 139 lands, that's when MV2 will finally be removed.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

> Just as before, Enterprises using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will continue to be exempt from any browser changes until at least June 2025. Starting in June, the branch for Chrome 139 will begin, in which support for Manifest V2 extensions will be removed from Chrome. Unlike the previous changes to disable Manifest V2 extensions which gradually rolled out to users, this change will impact all users on Chrome 139 at once. As a result, Chrome 138 is the final version of Chrome to support Manifest V2 extensions (when paired with the ExtensionManifestV2Availability key). You can find the release information about Chrome 138 and 139, include ChromeOS's LTS support, on the Chromium release schedule
by swesour | 2025-07-12 02:18:28+00:00
> which is not so much concerned that their software might be buggy as that it might be lame

This is not at _all_ my interpretation of Casey and JBlow's views. How did you arrive at this conclusion?

> They're more concerned about user experience and efficiency than they are about correctness.

They're definitely very concerned about efficiency, but user experience? Are you referring to DevX? They definitely don't prize any kind of UX above correctness.
by ryao | 2025-07-12 02:18:56+00:00
Am I the only one who thinks mention of “safety tests” for LLMs is a marketing scheme? Cars, planes and elevators have safety tests. LLMs don’t. Nobody is going to die if a LLM gives an output that its creators do not like, yet when they say “safety tests”, they mean that they are checking to what extent the LLM will say things they do not like.
by refurb | 2025-07-12 02:19:08+00:00
I think it’s important for people to educate themselves about USAID. International aid isn’t the point, it’s a channel for shaping the world according to the US’ goals.

For example, look up the role of USAID in the Vietnam war. It was used to fund village self defense forces and the Phoenix program which used targeted apprehension and assassination to combat the Viet Cong. Sure it dug a few wells but net net I don’t think anyone can argue USAID had a positive impact for Vietnam.

USAID is 98% political interference and 2% aid. You’d think people who oppose US interference in other countries would applaud shutting USAID down.

But apparently not.
by arp242 | 2025-07-12 02:19:23+00:00
> I still think we'd all be better off with infinitely fast, infinitely resourced computers. IMO, austerity offers no benefit.

Well, sure. But these computers don't exist, so that doesn't really matter.

The main reason I bought a new laptop last year is because the frontend build process needed about 5G of RAM and ~4 minutes, which was a real productivity-killed. I'm not a frontend dev, I inherited all of this, and wasn't so easy to fix for both technical and organisational reasons.

Excessive austerity offers no benefit, I agree, but some projects are out of control in their resource usage, and impose a real burden with it.
by 0x5f3759df-i | 2025-07-12 02:19:34+00:00
Yeah the whole idea of public mass social media has basically failed thus far.

Maybe someone will create some enlightened LLM based algorithm that solves the engagement optimization problem but what we have now has proven to be pretty disastrous through many iterations.

Small scale group chats/discord servers are the clear solution right now. Which is sad in some ways because the question then becomes how do you find your way into a good group chat.

But it’s the only way for the sane to not be overwhelmed by the engagement farming, political nonsense, and what Noah Smith calls the “shouting class” of people that have nothing else to do in life but dominate these platforms by stirring up drama all day every day.
by supertrope | 2025-07-12 02:19:58+00:00
While both the Biden Administration and the Federal Reserve chose to err on the side of more inflation than more unemployment, Covid-19 era inflation was a global phenomenon. Several stimulus laws were signed by Trump. The United Kingdom is still going through a cost of living crisis and they had a Conservative government that was replaced with a Labour government. Canada was the exception to the wave of incumbents losing re-election over inflation. I do agree that the name Inflation Reduction Act is propaganda.
by fnord77 | 2025-07-12 02:21:51+00:00
5-Meo is kind of nasty because it has a non-linear pharmacology.

the normal dose is 5-10mg, but LD50 in sheep is about 100mg, it might be as low as 30mg in humans.

It absolutely should not be legal, at least to anyone. Perhaps require training in dealing with drugs with a low therapeutic index
by devwastaken | 2025-07-12 02:23:12+00:00
thats the point. nobody knows how it all works, and by the time you think you do you youve killed people with it.

these attempts to play god always fall prey to the most basic sins. just because someone says they “want to do good” doesnt mean they effecticely can. humans cannot handle the power.

i dont believe in trading lives just so we can fund research grants.
by prepend | 2025-07-12 02:24:16+00:00
I once worked with a software engineer who would do things and then bald face lie about it. This reminds me of that person.

Me: “The build is breaking right after you checked in. Why did you do that?” Him:”I did not do so.” Me: “The commit shows it as you. And when I rolled back everything builds.” Him:”It must have been someone else.”

That person was really annoying.
by demetris | 2025-07-12 02:24:58+00:00
> But the points it puts forward are fluff arguments like "it's a breadth of fresh air" or "it loads faster".

Fluff arguments do exist, but you can also measure. The site is static with minimal JS on the one page, and a bit more JS on the other page, so nothing surprising in the numbers, and nothing you can say was achieved thanks to the magic of Astro, but I wanted to shared them:

HOME PAGE

TTFB: .024s

SR: .200s

FCP: .231s

SI: .200s

LCP: .231s

CLS: 0

TBT: .000s

PW: 108KB

DEMOS PAGE

TTFB: .033s

SR: .300s

FCP: .281s

SI: .200s

LCP: .231s

CLS: 0

TBT: .000s

PW: 174KB
Show HN: MVP for International Trade
by speakguru | 2025-07-12 02:26:16+00:00
I’ve built a Streamlit-based MVP that helps recover value from damaged or rejected goods using a structured platform for:

Goods intake & Assisted valuation

Logistics services (warehousing, packaging, trucking)

Supply Chain Finance decision engine

The idea came from observing how exporters discard or abandon goods after rejection. We saw an opportunity to add value using technology, logistics coordination, and finance.

Right now it’s an MVP, not fully polished, but it showcases the full flow from damaged goods to finance and potential resale.

Would love feedback.

How we’ve approached valuation and logistics

Any ideas to make the auction or credit system better

Whether this has use beyond shipping ports (e.g., FMCG, agri, electronics) I'm not a developer. I'm a functional person. Built the tool with the help of AI.

Live demo: https://dge-complete-module.streamlit.app
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-12 02:26:38+00:00
> As a long-time compulsive Internet user, I am aware of the emotional and psychological risks of this new technology.

> Are there any technologies or apps that are worse than others, particularly for people with obsessive/compulsive tendencies?

Social media, gambling, and "freemium game" sites/apps all qualify as worse than LLM-based offerings in the opinions of many. Not to mention the addictiveness of their use on smartphones.

However, the above are relative quantifications and in no way exonerate LLM offerings.

In other words, it doesn't matter how much poop is atop an otherwise desirable sandwich. It is still a poop sandwich.
by simonw | 2025-07-12 02:30:42+00:00
"Actually the majority of Google models are open source"

That's not accurate. The Gemini family of models are all proprietary.

Google's Gemma models (which are some of the best available local models) are open weights but not technically OSI-compatible open source - they come with usage restrictions: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms
by Neywiny | 2025-07-12 02:31:34+00:00
Good to give mains respect. It can deliver kilowatts of power without breaking a sweat, and breakers are slow enough you could see multiple joules of energy into your device. It's an expert magic smoke emancipator.

Disagree on the surprise that the setup worked, though. Mains is only regulated to a few % in frequency from what I've read. But you can see 0.05 Hz deviations (or 1%aka 1000 ppm). Even a junky crystal at ~100ppm is an order of magnitude better. A 10 ppm oscillator isn't hard to find, so the computer is likely somewhere in the middle. The math all checks out.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-07-12 02:32:19+00:00
It's called EULA Roofie. I think Apple will eventually fade away and be replaced by another company that has a more free and open platform. My main concern throughout this discussion is how we're drifting from regulating the digital market place itself. Preventing things like EULA Roofies etc. where somebody can track your personal life and sell it to others to manipulate you.

According to the App Store policies, if I remember correctly, technically all the customers belong to Apple. Although, the developers are also correct to see it the other way around as well.

The ecosystem was built on the assumption that hardware would be sold with its own profit margin and software would have its own separate profit margin to sustain its own operations, tools, and libraries.

The DMA made the entire software branch unsustainable and everybody thinks that Apple earned enough and they should give the software for free. Well, it's their platform and they're entitled to profit from it as they're pleased. Even the European Commission admitted that as well, because saying otherwise is akin to confiscating their intellectual property. I wouldn't bet the house on it but I think Apple would give up the European market before the core technology fee.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-12 02:32:49+00:00
> It's difficult to conclude anything other than murder-suicide.

Remember that incident where a cop pulled out his taser and tased the suspect? Except he pulled out his pistol and fired it.

The taser looks nothing like a pistol, feels nothing like it, yet it is still possible to confuse the two in the heat of the moment.
by simonw | 2025-07-12 02:33:40+00:00
I'm expecting (and indeed hoping) that the open weights OpenAI model is a lot smaller than K2. K2 is 1 trillion parameters and almost a terabyte to download! There's no way I'm running that on my laptop.

I think the sweet spot for local models may be around the 20B size - that's Mistral Small 3.x and some of the Gemma 3 models. They're very capable and run in less than 32GB of RAM.

I really hope OpenAI put one out in that weight class, personally.
by maxbond | 2025-07-12 02:34:41+00:00
There's precedent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8qCTAjsDg [30s]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT58pzY41wA [15m]

The Cirrus system is deployed by rockets, allowing it to function at a very low altitude. They say that you should deploy it no matter what altitude you are at, and it will add at least some friction. The system has a very impressive track record.

However, at this altitude, with an airplane this heavy, you might have to put the rockets on the plane to decelerate enough to save lives.
by codingdave | 2025-07-12 02:35:33+00:00
You are focused too narrowly. I don't know what you would like. Odds are, neither do you - you haven't tried all the options yet. If you like making things, CS is probably better than business. But is Engineering better than CS? What other areas of creativity have you explored? College has a collection of creative opportunities, so the point is to choose classes that help you explore all the options, figure out what you enjoy, then study that.

These questions are why academic advisors exist. If you know where you are going to school, talk to them - they will know all the available programs and can probably help you figure out a course schedule that lets you explore options as you go, so you can find these answers on the way.
by fcpguru | 2025-07-12 02:36:59+00:00
very nicely done. Love the quiz and then the natural flow to asking for email. I used this picture:

https://i.imgur.com/fDYpTeS.jpeg

of my kitten named SQL just to test. It came up with pretty normal boring names though. I'm keeping "Sequel". He was also our 2nd cat. Get it!?
by ryao | 2025-07-12 02:37:23+00:00
It is possible to turn any open weight model into that with fine tuning. It is likely possible to do that with closed weight models, even when there is no creator provided sandbox for fine tuning them, through clever prompting and trying over and over again. It is unfortunate, but there really is no avoiding that.

That said, I am happy to accept the term safety used in other places, but here it just seems like a marketing term. From my recollection, OpenAI had made a push to get regulation that would stifle competition by talking about these things as dangerous and needing safety. Then they backtracked somewhat when they found the proposed regulations would restrict themselves rather than just their competitors. However, they are still pushing this safety narrative that was never really appropriate. They have a term for this called alignment and what they are doing are tests to verify alignment in areas that they deem sensitive so that they have a rough idea to what extent the outputs might contain things that they do not like in those areas.
by theendisney | 2025-07-12 02:38:39+00:00
People (and kids) were a hell of a lot more interesting the longer you didnt see them.

Pictures on social media counts as interaction but its very limited. You still get to feel like you see them regularly.

You get your desired social interaction but it is arguably fake. Then we stick a display on your mums forehead and rotate advertisements. Not offensive at all.

You get your desired fake soical interaction fix therefore, when you finally meet the person irl (after say a year) you can both look at your phone the whole time because you "interact" with them every day. There is no need to tell stories or go do something.
Show HN: Transition – AI Triathlon Coach
by awormuth | 2025-07-12 02:39:18+00:00
Hey HN, I’m Alex, a triathlete, dad, and software engineer.

I’ve been building Transition — an app for triathletes that creates adaptive training plans based on your goals, schedule, and workout data (Garmin, Strava, etc).

Most plans are static, which never really worked for me as a parent and someone with an unpredictable schedule. Transition adjusts every week using your actual workouts and progress, so the plan changes when you miss a session, set a new PR, or need to shift your priorities.

I built this because nothing else was flexible enough for my life, and I’m curious if others have the same problem.

It’s in beta and free to try. I’d love feedback from the HN crowd — especially around the training logic, onboarding, or any ways to make it more useful for real athletes.

Website: https://www.transition.fun/
by sandspar | 2025-07-12 02:39:22+00:00
High fantasy novels often deal with long-lived people: immortal elves. Fantasy authors have come up with different ways for elves to occupy their time. Off the top of my head:

- master crafts (e.g. build guitars for 100 years)

- reminisce (sink so deep into memory that you lose track of passing days)

- count seasons instead of days or weeks ("I'll see you 4 summers from now" instead of "I'll see you tomorrow")
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-12 02:39:45+00:00
Is it possible to rest the switch on the notch? Does the switch make contact if the switch is in the RUN position but the switch is not completely down?

That is, is it possible they flipped the switches over to RUN but did not seat the switches properly, and instead leaving them on top of the notch, with later vibration causing the switches to disengage?

Just trying to think of some semi-plausible non-active causes.
by ryao | 2025-07-12 02:40:25+00:00
This is analogous to saying a computer can be used to do bad things if it is loaded with the right software. Coincidentally, people do load computers with the right software to do bad things, yet people are overwhelmingly opposed to measures that would stifle such things.

If you hook up a chat bot to a chat interface, or add tool use, it is probable that it will eventually output something that it should not and that output will cause a problem. Preventing that is an unsolved problem, just as preventing people from abusing computers is an unsolved problem.
by amy214 | 2025-07-12 02:40:40+00:00
>I’d argue that it costs more to implement and maintain dark patterns in the software than to do happy paths.

I would agree with this argument. After all, you have to staff the customer service phone lines now to cancel service. It follows that presumably customer service's capacity to retain customers/revenue is profitable after factoring in costs for their wages and overhead. Dark patterns may cost money vs light patterns, but they also may have more net profit.
by stickfigure | 2025-07-12 02:41:19+00:00
> I'm sorry but what does that even mean?

If I want to be generous, something along the lines of "The Law Of Unintended Consequences".

Less generous is "someone turned the dial to the right and didn't realize how far they turned it".

Even less generous is that someone feels some of these things in private but doesn't want to make it too explicit. They personally have a hard time toeing the line between edgy and obviously toxic and programming an AI to toe that line is even harder.
Ask HN: To what extend have you stopped or limited your use of AI?
by dosco189 | 2025-07-12 02:41:35+00:00
Hi HN, I'm a researcher trying to understand the ways in which you have limited or stopped using AI tools.

Knowledge work is evolving, and I'm trying to understand the lived experiences of how you are actually working. There's plenty of content out there in the genre of AI for "X", using tools etc - but I'm curious to learn if you adopted AI as part of some area of work - but have now chosen to stop it. What was the context? What did or did not work?
by general1726 | 2025-07-12 02:42:08+00:00
Indirectly you van have a look on covert cabal YT channel, who is analyzing satellite images of Russian storages. They are essentially empty or near empty.

Directly you can have a look on subs like r/combatfootage and you can tell what year is footage coming from just by used vehicles - The more unusual the vehicle leading the assault looks like, the more recent the footage is. You will gradually get from normal military columns to BMPs and MT-LBs (Tractor for pulling artillery) to Dessert Crosses (golf carts), trucks, old tanks with huge amount of slat armor to soak the FPVs (Assault Barns) followed by BMPs dropping current suicide squad to quickly drive away before it will get hit by artillery or FPV to having suicide squads on bikes today.

Rarity of Russian armored assault today confirm what author is saying. Russians can still make more modern tanks, but is is low number of dozens a year. Not really useful when Russians were able to lose up to a hundred a month when tanks and IFVs were in abundance.
by dgfitz | 2025-07-12 02:42:10+00:00
> The article makes clear that the initiative, though announced by USAID with other partners, was funded primarily by philanthropy.

So, it doesn’t seem like it matters much if USAID was dismantled then.

> But if USAID had been providing important governance, administration or coordination, withdrawing its involvement could still destabilize an effort that otherwise could have been impactful.

But, if. “Maybe we can make a lot of assumptions about a lot of things and pretend they’re true, and make an argument about it.” Isn’t the play. Not a real point, or something to even debate.

> “Blame" is a loaded word. But is it really so strange to you to think that the richest and most powerful country might have some role to play in international problems that arise from comparative poverty? And that the country with the largest military in the world also should be held to a high standard in how it uses that tremendous force.

You completely lost the plot here. You can’t have it both ways. Sure would be pretty neat if _any other country in the WORLD_ stepped up and did… something. Anything. Your argument really died here.
by inkyoto | 2025-07-12 02:42:28+00:00
The separation into RAM and external storage (floppy disks, magnetic tapes, hard drives and later SSD etc) is the sole consequence of technology not being advanced enough at the time to store all of the data in memory.

Virtual memory subsystems in operating systems of the last 40+ years pretty much do exactly that – they essentially emulate infinite RAM that spills over onto the external storage that backs it up.

Prosumer grade laptops are already easily available, and in 2-3 years there will be ones with 256-512 Gb as well, so… it is not entirely incoceivable that in 10-20 years (maybe more, maybe less) the Optane style memory is going to make a comeback and laptops/desktops will come with just memory, and the separation into RAM and external storage will finally cease to exist.

P.S. RAM has become so cheap and has reached such large capacity that the current generation of young engineers don't event know what a swap is, and why they might want to configure it.
by efskap | 2025-07-12 02:42:43+00:00
Yeah I dug up the relevant function because I was curious how one would solve this.

return (r * 1000 + g * 100 + b * 10 + a * 255) / 10000;

https://github.com/Stanko/monorail/blob/2da287a4e822705a99d7...
by temp0826 | 2025-07-12 02:43:48+00:00
With pharmahuasca or ayahuasca analogues maybe. With a normal/traditional brew it's essentially impossible to overdose (think like 3-4 liters of the stuff). Analogues like syrian rue are a lot easier to overdose though, it's a pretty small amount of material needed.

Also the vast majority of people are done purging within a few hours...not "days"

(Source: work at retreat center and have drank hundreds of times)
by joshribakoff | 2025-07-12 02:44:11+00:00
When i call most companies, it always thinks background noise is me talking, in 2025. I find it unbelievably bad. The prompt itself isn’t the issue, its the fact it cant tell the difference between me answering yes/no, and a car going by in the background.

Or if it can actually parse my words, the next issue is that my issue doesn’t fit into a multiple choice format.

Nothing more frustrating than using AI to gatekeep a human when the AI literally is hung up on receiving an answer it cant understand.

Ive found that pretending to not speak english and making weird sounds gets you through to a human faster than trying to ask the AI to do so.