MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nowahlot | 2025-07-09 03:37:17+00:00
American regimes last 4-8 years.

We fixed the longevity problem by treating it like a spoon that isn’t there.

America today is a Ship of Theseus. None of us lived the experiences that motivated Jefferson and the like.

Random figure heads and their only “leadership” role is keep automation and logistics going by essentially making it the public’s work, could work.

It satisfies the story mode types to have Dear Daddy stand on a podium and it everyone else who is indifferent and just wants to be a utilitarian cog until they die.

No cheesy hustle to make line go up narrative. Rotate in some random schlub, but in a display of pretending it’s an election.
by dkjaudyeqooe | 2025-07-09 03:37:51+00:00
This is nonsense. Not mentioned is that Greece has borrowed excessively and had defaulted on its loans. A bailout was organized by the EU and IMF with terms that Greece had every opportunity to reject. No one forced anything on Greece. The referendum was not binding and political theater for the government of the time.

That Greece accepted the terms reflected the reality that the alternative was much worse and would have caused great suffering for Greeks.
by jrk | 2025-07-09 03:38:32+00:00
This is indeed a reasonable cost estimate for competitive short-term H100 rentals (source: much SemiAnalysis coverage, and my own exploration of the market), but there is a critical error (besides the formatting glitch with `*`):

It was 24 days (576 hours) not 24 hours. $663,552 @ $3/hr.
by lmm | 2025-07-09 03:38:38+00:00
Meh. Decades ago most universities realised it made sense to separate "run the IT infrastructure that the university runs on" from the CS department, and after that the university IT department followed the same trajectory as the IT department of every other large institution. It doesn't really make sense to run your own email servers any more if your core business is a paper merchant or steel mill or whatever, and it's the same for universities.

I'm sure the same thing happened with e.g. electricity - at first people in the physics department ran their own generators, then at some point the university was using enough electricity for day-to-day stuff like lights that the main generators moved to being operated by the facilities department, and nowadays the university just gets their electricity from the local wholesaler like every other big organisation and probably doesn't have a whole lot of transformer expertise in their maintenance department.
by Greed | 2025-07-09 03:39:26+00:00
I mean, I was speaking more to the breakdown of the metaphor than the argument itself but if that's your response then it tells me that there is no reasonable way that Suno can ever really claim fair-use. I can't imagine being one of the artists whose material Suno has trained on and being told: "We have no idea when or if it will generate copyrighted content, or how to test for it. But we will continue to use your material and arbitrate on a case-by-case basis as it is brought to our attention." That sounds insane.

Surely, for Suno to claim fair usage and be given free reign to build a commercial business off of literally anyone's original works then the bare minimum bar for allowing that usage would be: make a satisfactory test to prove that you're always doing something transformative and original, within practical limits.
by Izkata | 2025-07-09 03:41:59+00:00
Junior roles, not junior developers. They're useful for exactly the gruntwork you're describing, freeing up seniors for the higher-level or more difficult stuff while learning from it.

The theory is the roles would disappear because now the seniors can just send AI agents off to do the gruntwork instead of having to hire juniors or spend time on it themselves. It doesn't take into account if everyone does this then no one is training new seniors.
by orev | 2025-07-09 03:42:53+00:00
They didn’t say “new car”, just “car”. You can get a loan for a used car as well. In almost all places in the US, a car is a requirement for daily living. You cannot go to work, get food, or do anything else without one. None of this is about “a new shiny” (what an awful phrase by the way), it’s about being able to survive at all.
by thristian | 2025-07-09 03:44:36+00:00
It took me a while to figure out that the nice product shots of Mac computers were actually live, interactive copies of the relevant operating system, running under emulation. Even the laptops with the screen at a weird angle from the camera.

And the emulator tracks whether you've done the things mentioned in the article, like open a particular control panel or tried a particular menu option.

This is amazing.
by georgeg | 2025-07-09 03:46:18+00:00
I am an East-African and this article does not provide the key reasons why Swahili is an important part of East-Africa and which often requires understanding of its history. Tanzania only adopted swahili post-colonial, but the language has flourished along the east-african coast (Mogandishu in present day somalia to Mozambique) for millennia as the glue language of trade. Kenyan coast (Lamu and Mombasa) played an instrumental role in the adoption of the language. Swahili itself is a fusion of bantu,arabic and borrowed some of the works from portuguese (Pesa- peso, Meza- Mezzo) and many others. As a core bantu language, it can be easily understood and adopted across the bantu lands of East, Central and South-africa. These elements are what makes it such a great language for the region. Trying to cement Tanzania as the core reason for the language success is short-sighted.
by baobun | 2025-07-09 03:46:53+00:00
> So, how would we do that? The underlying API token provides complete access to the database and the MCP server is issuing all of the queries as god (the service_role).

I guess almost always you can do it with a proxy... Hook the MCP server up to your proxy (having it think it's the DB) and let the application proxy auth directly to the resource (preferrable with scoped and short-lived creds), restricting and filtering as necessary. For a Postgres DB that could be pgbouncer. Or you (cough) write up an ad-hoc one in go or something.

Like, you don't need to give it service_role for real.
by pixelmonkey | 2025-07-09 03:49:28+00:00
To provide a data point from a long-time ProjectionLab user, I don't really need account linking. I use Monarch Money to link cash and CC accounts to track spending.

I use a custom Google Sheet to track retirement portfolio performance. If =GOOGLEFINANCE isn't enough, there is a nice paid extension called WiseSheets, which adds a =WISE function that fills all the gaps.

My monthly ProjectionLab process is to update the "Current Finances" values on the first of the month, using the values from the other tools. Works well enough for me!
by archagon | 2025-07-09 03:51:06+00:00
Flagged because, apparently, a $50b+ AI company (incidentally headed by someone YC enthusiastically invited to their AI Startup School) tinkering with one of the biggest and most prominent LLMs to blurt out full-on Nazi rhetoric is unworthy of discussion.

Somehow, this is both an evil and deeply unserious industry.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-09 03:51:41+00:00
Being trapped in a kafkaesque nightmare isn't fiction anymore, it's late-stage capitalism's fetish.

I have been getting charged $7.99 from Google every month for a year. I don't know what the charge is and it isn't linked to any of my accounts. I have contacted every single possible Google support line that exists to the public. They refuse to provide any means for me to show them I own this credit card and that I want the charges stopped. But of course, my credit card company also has no human support rep, and their automated support line tells me I need to talk to the merchant. So I cancelled the card. Guess what? They're still processing the fees from the old card, like it never cancelled.
by hattmall | 2025-07-09 03:52:58+00:00
Not only that, there is active backlash for talking about ChatGPT in social circles now. Where as, I guess March 2023-ish it was the topic of conversation. Then when something new dropped it came up again and most people had used it and had an interesting story mainly about asking it for some sort of advice. Now when someone mentions it or tries to show you something it's mostly an eye roll and to the non-tech general user it hasn't made any major improvement since mid 2023. Most people I know are in fact complaining about the amount of crappy AI content and are actively opposed to it.
by johnathon023 | 2025-07-09 03:54:12+00:00
Hey, it looks like this hasn't gotten much attention, but this is actually quite excellent. Hits almost all the boxes I want for a power user UI that doesn't look ugly - I was in the middle of writing MY own too, but I think I'll use litechat!

Two feature requests: - Openrouter-specific options, like provider routing (essential when evaluating if providers are giving you garbage results) - Artifacts support.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-09 03:54:42+00:00
I also strongly enjoyed Daniel Ehrenberg 's recent tour of WebAssembly over time: When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support? Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love glue code.

Talking some of the technics of integrating with the web, and how component model might someday be a facility to make that reasonable, but how the browser folks are waiting to see how it goes server-side first, & might not be interested at all.

I don't really understand what limitations using reference types brings, how much glue code is left. I should try & compare some different language's toolchains, see what glue code each relies on!

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3746174

Regarding the submission here... Nothing but respect for Andy here. And yes finding fit is always so critical. But I do think we are on the cusp on much more, and I especially think the actual web, the front end, would/will be getting millions of miles more out of WebAssembly when async wasm components arrive.

> To answer these questions, we adopt an aesthetically unsatisfying device: the market. Which Wasm deployments have stuck around? Where are people happily using Wasm? Which deployments failed? These are all real indicators by people with skin in the game.

Right now it there are countless constraints on who can use wasm and how. To look at who has been trying today, who has had success today, it kind of ignores that wasm has become an increasingly niche harder to use server side only system. As the number of specs grows less and less runtimes are competitive. Shooting for the moon, but maybe, if async wasm components (wasi preview 3) ship and are good, it could radically expand the ball game.
by BenFranklin100 | 2025-07-09 03:56:37+00:00
Are you seriously suggesting the crappy AI bot on Amazon product pages is evidence of an ‘AI’ revolution? The thing sucks. If I’m ready to spend money on a product, it’s worth my time to do a traditional keyword search and quickly scroll through the search returns to get the contextualized information, rather then hoping an LLM will get it right.
by saurik | 2025-07-09 03:57:49+00:00
Sure. If the MCP server is something you are running locally then you can do that, but you are now subject to parser differential attacks (which, FWIW, is the bane of existence for tools like pgbouncer, both from the perspective of security and basic functionality)... tread carefully ;P.

Regardless, that is still on the other side of the MCP server: my contention with tptacek is merely about whether we can do this filtration in the client somewhere (in particular if we can do it with business logic between the ticket parser and the SQL executor, but also anywhere else).
by decimalenough | 2025-07-09 03:58:47+00:00
Missing piece of info: the official conversion rate is 1.95583 per euro. It will be extremely tempting for merchants to use 2:1 instead.

The situation was literally identical in Germany, where the official rate was also precisely 1.95583 to the euro (because the lev used to be tied to the DM at 1:1), but not so in most other European countries.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-09 03:59:07+00:00
This is solved for using versioning with MFA for delete or corruption risk, S3 export if required to provide a copy. Data can also be replicated to a write only bucket in another account, with only the ability to replicate.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/MultiF...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object...
Show HN: Piplo helps you stay in touch with the people who matter
by airpaulg | 2025-07-09 03:59:37+00:00
I just launched Piplo on the iOS App Store tonight. Piplo helps you stay in touch with the people who matter to you. It provides smart reminders, flexible scheduling, and a simple design to make relationships feel natural again.

I hope that Piplo will serve you well. Please download and don't hesitate to use the feedback link in the app! Piplo will remain 100% free (i.e. no ads, in-app purchases) and, if you really insist on showing your appreciation, I added a link in the app settings to a Doctors Without Borders fundraiser.
by renewiltord | 2025-07-09 04:00:48+00:00
Convincing. I guess I was thinking at step 1 deceleration but this actually depowers step 1 deceleration.

Ideally, we don't have all these structures slowing down societal adaptation. It's like we anneal over time, and that makes us brittle. We need to always be ready to bend to a new wind.
by microflash | 2025-07-09 04:00:51+00:00
> A ghazal is a poetic form originating in and strongly associated with the Islamic cultural sphere.

This just feels wrong to me because ghazals have nothing to do with Islamic cultural sphere. In fact, very many poets who’re prolific at ghazals are decidedly unIslamic.

Apart from this nit, I think “translation” is incorrect way to describe converting a ghazal to English. At best, it can be an “accurate interpretation”, but it’ll always be an interpretation.

Linguistic differences apart, when you read the same ghazal side by side in Urdu and English, you’ll notice the cultural differences, sometimes subtle and sometimes very pronounced. And that’s just the nature of languages which have a vast cultural context. This context makes the feel of a piece very different regardless of how accurate it is to the original.
by riwsky | 2025-07-09 04:01:41+00:00
Most users of written English are not the Great Authors, though, nor are they writing literature. Hemingway is a much more appropriate model for business communication than is, say, Wallace. Though for attention-grabbing copy, you’d probably want Morrison’s or Nabokov’s dynamism. And if you’re code-golfing, nothing beats a Borges, Chiang, or Cusk.
by bntr | 2025-07-09 04:03:54+00:00
A bit tangential, but I recently made a xenharmonic-related library too - focused more on the visual/harmonic space side:

https://github.com/bntre/cs-rationals/blob/master/RationalsE...

Demo piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_x4vtS_I7w
by kaihungchuang | 2025-07-09 04:04:11+00:00
Location: Irvine, CA, USA

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I'm a self-taught prototype product developer who thrives on building what doesn’t exist yet. I take ideas from market insight to fully functional hardware — engineering, fabricating, and testing every piece myself. I’ve launched my own successful 3D printer hardware business, filed provisional patents, and created viral community projects that influenced commercial designs.

My background includes developing embedded systems, vehicle-mounted hardware, and functional electromechanical builds — including a smart navigation unit before CarPlay existed, and a sim racing cockpit that's now widely replicated and commercially echoed.

Looking for a hands-on R&D or advanced prototyping role in automotive, aerospace, robotics, or technology-forward consumer products, ideally on a small, fast-moving team solving novel problems.
by collingreen | 2025-07-09 04:05:43+00:00
Gotta pay all those data scientists and lawyers the big bucks in order to figure out how to checks notes stop actively preventing customers from canceling your service when they want to.

I'm happy to consult on this with all those poor businesses for under $100,000,000 in order to help the court vibes feel like the cost isn't over the limit.

I feel confident I can affordably write a few whitepapers and design guidelines to help these poor folks out as they research if there should be a cancel button and if it should work.
by Treehouse16 | 2025-07-09 04:07:43+00:00
Time blindness is a real thing. However, I know it triggers peope snd it allows them to complain about people being late. "Time blindness" is about temporal processing, and I have it. I only mention the condition when people ask me questions about when something happened, because people think everyone is the same, I have to explain that I can't perceive time. It's real, etc. So exhausting, but they keep complaining about something they don't have. https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.191...
by DidYaWipe | 2025-07-09 04:07:59+00:00
Wow, that whole thing was completely devoid of useful content. Does it even say what the product or service is?

"We’ve also added a few contractors to the team. And these guys are legends. They come straight from the ProjectionLab user community"

So... the product was obviously built, because it had a "user community;" so now they've added contractors? Whoop dee doo.

Is there some advice or playbook we're supposed to take away from this? Or is it self-congratulatory spam?
by userbinator | 2025-07-09 04:11:47+00:00
https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/94-caprice-wagon-...

50mpg from a 5.7L V8, using most of the drivetrain from a truck(!)

My daily driver gets roughly half that, but it has a carbureted 6.6L and an automatic transmission, with some mild performance tuning done. I am satisfied enough with that.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-09 04:12:10+00:00
Not to disappoint you bro, skepticism of your sort still sounds like shallow-but-dressed-up anti-intellectualism. Like asking clearly educated folk to eat shit in the fanciest way you can muster. Neither interesting, nor productive.

Unless you are European literary critic or something, then the interesting bit is why you are on HN
by tiahura | 2025-07-09 04:12:25+00:00
The FTC failed to comply with 15 U.S.C. § 57b-3(b)(1), which states that the agency “shall issue a preliminary regulatory analysis” whenever it proposes a rule expected to have a significant economic impact.

After its own ALJ found the rule’s effect would exceed $100 million annually, the FTC was obligated to publish an analysis of the “projected benefits and any adverse economic effects and any other effects” and the effectiveness of alternatives, as required by § 57b-3(b)(1)(C).
by hedgehog | 2025-07-09 04:13:36+00:00
No the shift hasn't happened yet at all. Let's take those examples one by one.

Banks: Normal retail customers are responsible for managing their account balances, importing transaction data into whatever book keeping system, downloading their tax forms for filing, adjusting their services and strategy based on whatever they're planning to do in their life etc. Private banking is a reasonable model for the service that everyone should get, but can't because it's too expensive.

Online shopping: Most people have to figure out what they're looking for, research the options, figure out where to order from, keep track of warranties, repairs, returns, recalls, maintenance, consumables, etc. Personal assistants can absorb most of that, but that's expensive.

Booking a taxi: On the same theme, for all the scheduled travel that should be booked and ready to go based on your calendar. Personal assistants can do this too, but again it's expensive.

The core ideas of giving the service provider context, guidance, and autonomy to work without regular intervention are not unique to automation but only recently is there a conceivable path to building software that can actually deliver.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-09 04:14:31+00:00
> Anyone optimizing for some specific taste already has an implicit theory of linguistic efficiency

I don't follow. How do you connect taste and efficiency in your perspective? Efficiency in what terms? They seem almost unrelated from my perspective.

> Most writers aren’t optimizing for anything at all, and they have no taste, and their writing is boring, and it wastes my time, and I hate it.

Wasting time is probably my favorite reason to read. Cannot disagree more.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-07-09 04:15:01+00:00
> Human desires are many, and the resources to satisfy them are few. Left to their own devices, people will contend with each other, and the destruction and chaos leaves everyone worse off. The ruler replaces the chaos with order by establishing the state and elevating the worthy to positions of controlling authority.

This, I think, is the core assumption of authoritarianism, and, I think, is false.

Yes there are people who behave like this. But it's not the majority, and communities are capable of dealing with them internally without imposing an authority on them.

The one caveat is, obviously, that this only really works in a world without violence. If the bad folks are able to use violence to get what they want, then any community can be threatened by a large enough group of bad folks who are prepared to use violence. This leads, ultimately, to the authoritarian rule of the most competently violent. The state has a monopoly on the use of violence and enforces its rules on its citizens with the threat of violence. The "elevation of the worthy to positions of controlling authority" is a violent act.

But the underlying assumption that people cannot work together unless forced to by an authority, I think is false. I think that people will naturally work together and create harmonious communities if left to their own devices.

I could be an idealistic fool, though.
by tomhow | 2025-07-09 04:16:10+00:00
pg writes [1]:

YC grew out of a talk I gave to the Harvard Computer Society (the undergrad computer club) about how to start a startup. Everyone else in the audience was probably local, but Steve and Alexis came up on the train from the University of Virginia, where they were seniors. Since they'd come so far I agreed to meet them for coffee.

The talk he gave was How To Start A Startup [2]. The reason he was asked to give that talk was not because he had money, but because he was a Harvard CS alum who had built/sold a successful startup then spent the subsequent few years sharing his knowledge/ideas via books and essays.

The reason Steve knew about pg was that he had read/liked his Lisp book and read/liked his essays on Slashdot.

Money was a necessary but not sufficient condition for him to start YC. Nobody would have applied to YC if not for his books and essays.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-reddits

[2] https://paulgraham.com/start.html
by lutusp | 2025-07-09 04:16:11+00:00
"Rules of good writing", really? The article's title ironically commits a lexical gaffe by presenting its topic as a value instead of a choice.

Whether the title draws more readers than "Rules of clear writing" is a separate topic, one dealing less with principles and more with marketing.

Strunk & White, the source for most of the article's ideas, isn't mentioned. We may bury the past, but we can't deny it.

I recently boiled my copy of Strunk & White until little remained. At the bottom of the pot was "Make every word count."