MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by newAccount2025 | 2025-07-02 18:25:16+00:00
I don’t disagree with the characterization of ICE officers as racist thugs, but retaliatory violence is (1) still immoral and (2) self-defeating.

You aren’t realistically going to overpower them, so any violent resistance just helps them DARVO harder and excuse escalating their brutality. That’s why they’re always so eager to find or create violent one-offs within non-violent mass protests.
by sethhochberg | 2025-07-02 18:25:26+00:00
When you work with Apex (or really any other technology bridge to the traditional financial world, Q2's Helix is common for traditional banking, Apex Clearing is common for stock trading, etc) they require you think about things like this during your implementation. Its not quite as turnkey as something like opening a Stripe account; your implementation will need to demonstrably pass a playbook of tests before your partner will allow you to play in real financial transactions - and those tests typically include things like account closure or program shutdown.

Basically, the traditional financial services partners who give startups access to these legacy networks know their clients are startups who might not fully understand the space or might want to cut corners. They're good at making sure they're protected against their clients' behavior, and in most cases legally the end users are actually the customer of the financial services company, the startup will be considered a "deposit broker" instead of a "bank" etc. Its been longer since I've touched the stock broker side so I'm fuzzy on the specific terminology but its similar there.
by jasonlotito | 2025-07-02 18:25:47+00:00
> Firing the CEO was an expression of said free speech.

They didn't fire him. They even tried to get him to stay after he resigned.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/faq-on-ceo-resignation/

He made a choice, and to the best of my knowledge, he hasn't corrected the record.
by artemonster | 2025-07-02 18:25:48+00:00
I am very surprised that people read this and think: "HoW CaN yOu SuppORT GaME AFter BANkRUPCY! THIS WILL KILL MMOS" Jeez, learn to fucking read. If a company kills a game with multiplayer-online requirement, release the goddamn server or let people make and host servers. this is the only thing that is being proposed.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 18:25:49+00:00
> Yes, going from a modern sedentary lifestyle to running will feel rough for a few months as you acclimate

Right. Which is why people don't exercise. That's a lot to ask of people with other things on their plate.

To be clear, I know I should exercise. I just find it very difficult to do so, and it's very easy to convince yourself you should do something else with that energy.

I think team sports are probably the best way to get into exercise. This allows tying the benefit directly into a reward system. I ran long-distance in high school and, without teammates to let down, it was very difficult to push myself beyond the bare minimum effort. Most of us don't have the ability to summon a team sport into our work schedule though.
by IshKebab | 2025-07-02 18:26:07+00:00
This is a good explanation:

https://users.scala-lang.org/t/what-is-a-monad-in-scala/4169

It's like... what would you call all types that have a .write() method? Writable right? What would you call all types that have a .dispose() method? Disposable. What would you call all types that have a .flatMap() method? Monad obviously.
by sunrunner | 2025-07-02 18:26:09+00:00
I'm compelled to make sure any comment mentioning Conway's Law has a reply linking the following video (and perhaps I should create a bot to do this):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY

This analysis of the real-world effects of Conway's Law seems deeply horrifying, because the implication seems to be that there's nothing you can do to keep communication efficiency and design quality high while also growing an organisation.
by fsflover | 2025-07-02 18:26:12+00:00
They put themselves as a middle man for almost the whole Internet, collect huge usage data about everyone and block anybody who doesn't use mainstream tools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897705

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41864632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577076
by j_walter | 2025-07-02 18:26:37+00:00
Probably losing appeal because, as another article pointed out, the 18A process has been found to be roughly equivalent to TSMC's N3 process, which was in HVM in 2023...not exactly what was promised the last few years (which was better performance than TSMC N2).

What is interesting is TSMC claimed this over a year ago and Intel denied it.
by babypuncher | 2025-07-02 18:26:44+00:00
TAA isn't a crutch being used to hold up poor performance, it's an optimization to give games anti-aliasing that doesn't suck.

Your other options for AA are

* Supersampling. Rendering the game at a higher resolution than the display and downscaling it. This is incredibly expensive.

* MSAA. This samples ~~vertices~~surfaces more than once per pixel, smoothing over jaggies. This worked really well back before we started covering every surface with pixel shaders. Nowadays it just makes pushing triangles more expensive with very little visual benefit, because the pixel shaders are still done at 1x scale and thus still aliased.

* Post-process AA (FXAA,SMAA, etc). These are a post-process shader applied to the whole screen after the scene has been fully rendered. They often just use a cheap edge detection algorithm and try to blur them. I've never seen one that was actually effective at producing a clean image, as they rarely catch all the edges and do almost nothing to alleviate shimmering.

I've seen a lot of "tech" YouTubers try to claim TAA is a product of lazy developers, but not one of them has been able to demonstrate a viable alternative antialiasing solution that solves the same problem set with the same or better performance. Meanwhile TAA and its various derivatives like DLAA have only gotten better in the last 5 years, alleviating many of the problems TAA became notorious for in the latter '10s.
by fzysingularity | 2025-07-02 18:27:05+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve been building agentic VLMs that operate over visual data (i.e. images, PDFs, videos), and were surprised at how underdeveloped the current infrastructure is for multi-modal tool-calling. MCP is all the rage these days, but it sidesteps a fundamental issue that no one seems to talk about - especially in multimodal contexts.

Some of the pain points we ran into when building our MCP server: - LLMs call tools by-value. That’s fine for text and JSON arguments, but completely breaks down for visual inputs. - You can’t pass images or videos as base64 - it kills context limits and latency, and leads to poor-dev experience. - Most “multimodal” MCP servers out there are single-turn demos. They assume local files and don’t support remote or persistent objects, making it impossible to build real workflows that operate on intermediate visual state - which is the core of most computer vision tasks.

So we built our remotely-hosted MCP server (https://docs.vlm.run/mcp/) that makes it trivial for agents to see, understand, and act on visual content using a suite of computer vision tools. We expose these tools (face detection, redaction, captioning, tracking, etc.) through a clean MCP-compatible API. Any agent that can hook into remote MCP servers - Claude, OpenAI, Cursor - can use it out of the box.

Here are a few end-to-end examples (orchestrated by Claude, using our tools):

[1] Document Redaction: https://docs.vlm.run/mcp/examples/document-redaction [2] Face Detection + Blurring: https://docs.vlm.run/mcp/examples/face-redaction [3] Template Matching + Visual Search: https://docs.vlm.run/mcp/examples/template-search [4] Video editing: https://docs.vlm.run/mcp/examples/video-captioning

We’d love to hear what workflows you’re building - and what visual tools you'd want your agents to build on.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-02 18:27:09+00:00
They're historically very interesting but you have to be careful about what you understand about contemporary quakers based on reading on the internet. Their traditions & cultural impact are attractive to a lot of people, who then write about it.

But quakerism as a living religion is extremely small and quite diverse for its tiny size, and groups practicing the traditional silent worship are a small minority even within that. The majority of living quakers experience a religion much closer to the main stream of evangelical christianity than you will expect from reading about it online. IIRC something like half of quakers are african.
by jabrotapu | 2025-07-02 18:27:12+00:00
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

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- Typescript, js, python

- Node, Express, Nest, Next, GraphQL, React-native, Microservices

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by miloignis | 2025-07-02 18:27:23+00:00
But Google doesn't have to be involved! GrapheneOS is specifically a de-googled Android. Even for normal Google-y Android, you could provide the APK to side-load, so it doesn't go through the Play Store or Google's FCM at all, an option you don't have with Apple.

I think this is what the Graphene posts are trying to say.

As others mention, having a web app would make a lot of sense.
by missedthecue | 2025-07-02 18:27:50+00:00
That 8% is only if you include the labor costs of final assembly at the GM plant. But their inputs also were built by labor. GM buys turbochargers not out of thin air, but from Garrett Motion inc., in Plymouth Michigan, who also has sizeable labor costs. Repeat not just for turbochargers, but for the rest of GM's input supply line. If you include only their direct suppliers, the cost of a new car that goes to human wages is about 30-40%.

Chinese turbocharger suppliers have lower labor costs and therefore BYD, Changan, Great Wall and others have more pricing power vs GM and Ford products.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-02 18:27:54+00:00
> There are plenty of established performance management mechanisms to determine individual contributions

"Established" != valid, and literally everyone knows that.

The executives you reference are never ICs and are definitionally accountable to the measured performance of their business line. These are not superstar hires the way that AI researchers (or athletes) are. The body in the chair is totally interchangeable so long as the spreadsheet says the right number, and you expect the spreadsheet performance to be only marginally controlled by the particular body in the chair. That's not the case with most of these hires.
by crooked-v | 2025-07-02 18:28:05+00:00
As someone who's on the autism spectrum, I think there's an immense qualitative and quantitative difference between someone's brain working differently and the straightforward presence or lack of a specific physical capability.

I'd still be cautious because there's the long-running tendency for any kind of 'cure' for anything inheritable to be used as a eugenics bludgeon, but that's about society rather than the direct effects.
by guhcampos | 2025-07-02 18:28:17+00:00
Software Engineer / Platform Engineer / Site Reliability with 20+ years of experience, starting in server consolidation of telco companies, HPC, the advent of cloud computing, containers. Worked in Telco, EDA, Fintech and UX markets.

Besides SWE and SRE have around 4-5 years of accumulated leadership experience on product-focused SRE teams.

My skills shine on Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines (realtime), Finops, DevOps, you name it. Python is my comfort language but I'm open to almost any stack. My weak point is frontend, so I don't consider myself a fullstack person. I have limited experience with training Deep Learning models and have been slowly adopting Agentic AI as the hype goes away and the real benefits surface.

Willing to join Product companies, SaaS or not; would love to join non-profits, Science and other aspirational industries, but not limited to.

NOT interested in gambling and otherwise scammy industries.

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Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but open to discussion

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by The5thElephant | 2025-07-02 18:28:29+00:00
I actually have the opposite problem with Figma. It is way too basic and simple, targeting every kind of design and the average designer skill level.

I work in complex SAAS product design. Basic things I can do in CSS I can't do in Figma. Things like a table? Yeah it is entirely faked and awful in Figma. Don't even get me started on anything more complicated than flex rows and columns.

Half the debate over designer/dev handoff in the industry right now is simply because of Figma's limitations and the refusal of designers and front-end devs alike to learn HTML and CSS.

We need a Blender-like tool for web and app product design. Highly capable and advanced, you aren't expected to know all of it, and it can do anything you want it to.

I need a tool that is more than just a fancy rectangle drawer.
by ericmay | 2025-07-02 18:28:41+00:00
Can you do tap-to-pay on iPhone 8?

You can't play the latest games with the same performance and battery life on your iPhone 8 (if at all) as you can on the latest iPhone. You might not care about that but there are lots of people who do. Same with pictures. Do you have cinema mode on your iPhone 8? No you don't. For some that's a reason to upgrade - they really care about the features and quality of the camera.

I don't see what the debate is here. This is very obvious and become more obvious and true the older the iPhone is.
by mritchie712 | 2025-07-02 18:28:58+00:00
it wasn't obvious to me how Double is significantly better than an ETF. It'd have to be MUCH better (e.g. at least 50bps to 100bps) to warrant taking a bet on an unproven company.

They had cute names for the indexes ("Founder Mode")... but do those actually make me better returns than an ETF? Probably not.

this[0] also scared me away

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377934
by mk_stjames | 2025-07-02 18:28:59+00:00
Yes, we could, but there are very few open source fully parametric couplings of kernels and the file format out there. FreeCAD (using OpenCASCADE as a kernel) is one of the few. And that is nothing close to the vastness of modern CAD+PLM systems in level of functionality.

There is a reason that systems like Dassault's CATIA are both ubiquitous in aerospace and automotive and closed source- it is literally the culmination of probably 3000+ person-years of programming, stemming from the 1970s. The same for many others... making them interoperable would mean making the entire chain of systems open source and there isn't a reason for them to do so.

For small projects though, building DSLs and graphical tools on top of OpenCASCADE (which is GNU LGPL version 2.1 licensed) is about the closest you could get right now, particularly, in my opinion, building something like a pseudo-gui+textural tool with the Python package Build123D.
by jabrotapu | 2025-07-02 18:29:03+00:00
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- Typescript, js, python

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- Docker, AWS-Cloud Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Ec2.

- Learning RUST

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by dceddia | 2025-07-02 18:29:09+00:00
Yep this terrifies me, 100%. We’re slowly losing the open internet and the frog is being boiled slowly enough that people are very happy to defend the rising temperature.

If DDoS wasn’t a scary enough boogeyman to get people to install Cloudflare as a man-in-the-middle on all their website traffic, maybe the threat of AI scrapers will do the trick?

The thing about this slow slide is it’s always defensible. Someone can always say “but I don’t want my site to be scraped, and this service is free, or even better yet, I can set up my own toll booth and collect money! They’re wonderful!”

Trouble is, one day, at this rate, almost all internet traffic will be going through that same gate. And once they have literally everyone (and all their traffic)… well, internet access is an immense amount of power to wield and I can’t see a world in which it remains untainted by commercial and government interests forever.

And “forever” is what’s at stake, because it’ll be near impossible to recover from once 99% of the population is happy to use one of the 3 approved browsers on the 2 approved devices (latest version only). Feels like we’re already accepting that future at an increasing rate.
by andrecarini | 2025-07-02 18:29:34+00:00
Lots of bad takes in this thread. The whole idea behind this is just to stop defrauding customers that buy your software and then are left holding the bag. Nobody is asking for developers to keep running server infra for eternity.

Any of the following options are enough to satisfy this proposal:

- Put an expiration date on the storefront and make it clear that your software is not guaranteed to continue working after date X.

- Have your server source code (stripped down of proprietary stuff) ready for public release at EoL.

- Allow customers to reverse engineer the binaries and communication protocol after EoL.

- Package dedicated server binaries with the game and allow customers to connect to it via a LAN or direct IP option.
by firefax | 2025-07-02 18:29:42+00:00
Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/) is pretty useful and ad free.

You can use the !wt bang command on duckduckgo to query it directly. It will bring up English definitions of words in other common languages like German.

Ex: !wt Schreibtischtäter brings you to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schreibtischt%C3%A4ter
by gnubison | 2025-07-02 18:29:45+00:00
> the solution of any one of which would change not only the career of the person who solved the problem, but possibly life on Earth. Many have stood like mountains in the distance, rising above the clouds, for generations.

Whether or not this is AI, this comment is not true. An axiomatic derivation of a formula doesn’t change how it’s used. We knew the formulas were experimentally correct, it’s just that now mathematicians can rest easy about whether they were theoretically correct. Although it’s interesting, it doesn’t change or create any new applications.
by ashwinsundar | 2025-07-02 18:29:53+00:00
When I was in grad school, I had one unpaid internship at a flashy startup, and a paid internship at an established company. The latter led to a full-time offer, while the former ended up being such a waste of my time that I left it off my resume for years out of spite.

Some features of a high-quality internship imo:

- mentorship by smart/experienced people

- opportunity to work in different departments or on different projects. There's no need to hyper-specialize early in your career

- the company is actually interested in using internships as a pipeline for their full-time staff, not just as cheap labor

- yes, paid adequately

---

Things that don't matter:

- a young workforce. Yes it's good to have a blend, but it's a yellow/red flag to me when everyone at the company is under the age of 30. Some things only come with experience. Plus, you only get to learn from the older generation once, and that's early in your career (when they are late in their careers and about to retire).

- remote work. Buy some dress clothes, nice shoes and walk into the office and network. Hallway conversations can turn into friendships that last a long time. In-person meetings, presentations, boring town halls that you can joke about with other interns...that all matters early on, just as much (or maybe more) than just improving your core skillsets. Those connections will grow in value over time, and just make you a more sociable person (which is a lacking skill in engineering in general...)

- random perks. You can buy lunch/snacks/whatever with your own budget, that should not be the reason to go to work.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-07-02 18:29:58+00:00
There's no federal law requiring officers to give you their name or badge number. It's a myth they have to do so when asked, just like it's a myth cops have to tell you they're law enforcement when asked during a sting operation.

All they have to do is assert their authority, and they don't even have to do that on a particular timetable. If you don't like it, tell you legislator to do their job and change the law.
by amberlyfrec | 2025-07-02 18:30:03+00:00
Absolutely.

1. We also custody with Apex so you'll be able to transfer easily between Frec <> Double and continue to see your assets held independently.

2. We can definitely setup a call to review the individual positions and the evaluate risk of positions being sold to rebalance.

You can book a demo here: https://calendly.com/frecdemo/frec-demo or feel free to email me amberly@frec.com
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-02 18:30:05+00:00
Apple tracks user location too. If you log into your iCloud from a country you've never been to, you're going to have to need to provide your 2FA code even with a valid session token. They're not stupid.

Apple is very much in favour of user privacy, as long as that privacy means "protecting your data from third parties". When it comes to the data Apple itself collects, they're far less conservative. They don't share information derived from their massive databases per se, but they do keep track.

Thanks to Apple and Find My, stalking people is easier than ever. The company can look up where you are and where you've been. They'd probably fight a court order to provide live location data to ICE, but who knows what that'll mean with the current American government.

Even on iOS, user data ends up in the hands of data brokers through ads. They're not supposed to collect all that data, but that's not stopping an unethical company from trying.

Android's privacy issues are there, but only if you're protecting your privacy against companies. If you're trying to protect your privacy against the government, there's no difference, really.
by The5thElephant | 2025-07-02 18:30:17+00:00
What about variables that don't use pixel units? Often values appear as hardcoded in dev-mode when they are actually meant to be a % unit or something else Figma doesn't support because Figma doesn't actually use CSS for rendering.

When my devs just copy whats in Figma dev-mode they get so much stuff wrong.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 18:30:59+00:00
It's also worth noting that missions were often a chit to curry political favor with the catholic church. This was sort of the manufactured consent of the 17th century.

There's also this illuminating letter sent from King Leopold II to missionaries in the late 19th century: https://www.fafich.ufmg.br/~luarnaut/Letter%20Leopold%20II%2...

I would quote it, but it's worth reading in its entirety and is extremely blunt in its intent.