MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonymousiam | 2025-07-10 23:42:17+00:00
Anyone with a security clearance is subject to a polygraph exam at any time. Depending upon the sensitivity of what you do, it can typically be never, seven years, five years, or yearly. Each exam may consist of multiple sessions.

(I was cleared to a bunch of different stuff over 40 years, and I did not get my first polygraph until 30 years ago (about 13 years in). I was getting annual polygraphs for five years, then got them every five years for the remainder of my career.)

My circumstances were not typical, but five years is a typical cycle. It coincides with the "periodic re-investigation" interval, which can also be different, depending upon the nature of the clearances.
by phatskat | 2025-07-10 23:43:40+00:00
This feels like a lot of putting positions onto a group for them in order to discount their beliefs.

Most left left left folk that I know have zero idealization about Rome or the USSR, and haven’t forgotten the atrocities the US has committed both home and abroad.

Anyone who seriously talks about the Roman Empire without wrestling with the realities of it is putting their head in the sand.

Anyone pining for the USSR probably doesn’t know a lot of what went on during its existence. Similarly most people actually wanting some form of communism or socialism probably don’t mean “just like the USSR”.
by aeve890 | 2025-07-10 23:44:05+00:00
>These LLMs are really good at digging up internal docs if you give them access to your knowledge sources with tooling to search and reason in a loop before responding.

Are those internal documents in the room with us right now?

No but seriously, most of the software out there is legacy code (don't quote me on that though). IME, legacy code very poorly documented, if anything at all. Sure you could let the LLM extract semantics from the code alone but with old code, arcane hacks and such LLM interpretation can take you only so far. And even then semantics is not always directly translates to business logic.
by Reebz | 2025-07-10 23:44:41+00:00
Looking at the current benchmarks table, I was curious: what do you think is wrong with Samsung S25 Ultra?

Most of the standard mobile CPU benchmarks (GeekBench, AnTuTu, et al) show a 20-40% performance gain over S23/S24 Ultra. Also, this bucks the trend where most other devices are ranked appropriately (i.e. newer devices perform better).

Thanks for sharing your project.
by preinheimer | 2025-07-10 23:45:18+00:00
It is not easy for children to cut cardboard with scissors. I'd say that remains true at least until age 10. Some younger may be able to manage a small amount of cutting but would get tired quickly.

I volunteer with scouts, kids aged 5-8. We ran a cardboard based activity with the makedo stuff. We tried to supplement with scissors, they were not effective.
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-10 23:46:13+00:00
It's not a blanket dismissal, it's a fact in context. It should read like a profession lashing out - that's what it is.

AI has enormous upsides and enormous downsides. The "you're going to look so dumb in the future" dismissal is lazy. Inevitability does not make something purely beneficial.

It's a fallacious line of thinking that's disappointingly common in tech-minded people (frequently seen in partnership with implications that Luddites were bad or stupid, quotes from historical criticisms of computers/calculators, and other immature usage of metaphor).
by omgJustTest | 2025-07-10 23:46:48+00:00
long story short:

1. boeing and spirit both work on planes

2. damaged rivets discovered and lots of back and forth to get them repaired. boeing does the doors and spirit does the rivets.

3. rework on rivets needed door plug to be removed, someone at boeing (who is not onsite) sees that the door plug needs to be removed, escalates this request but notes that work must wait for the next week because the only door person who is qualified to remove plugs is on leave.

4. door manager - on the day of the plug removal - de-escalates the door plug removal request. later that day the door manager, door master and three door crew enter area near the fuselage & door plug - correct documentation of removal not generated and none of them were trained to remove door plug. No one knows who removed the plug.

5. a boeing technician moves a stand that has what he believed to be a door plug bolt on top of it. he "strapped it and let it hang" to the fuselage.

6. Spirit indicates plug was removed and reworks rivets

7. No one checks the door plug was reinstalled correctly
by tech234a | 2025-07-10 23:47:06+00:00
See also the announcement from late March: https://webkit.org/blog/16574/webkit-features-in-safari-18-4...

Additionally, the API was mentioned in a CMA report from early March (page 248), before it was opened up: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67d1abd1a005e...
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-10 23:47:26+00:00
Really depends on the particular model and when it got refreshed and how much the OEM cares about it more so than the manufacturer.

Sometimes the platforms that the OEMs don't care about are great because the idiot dick swinging engineers who want to hit their KPIs neglect them. Sometimes they're terrible because they get phoned in. The flagship platforms are usually safe but sometimes they put too much bleeding edge tech in them.
by alwillis | 2025-07-10 23:49:32+00:00
Apple is shipping a ~3 billion parameter LLM for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS; it's the largest LLM for mobile devices. Right now, Meta, Google, etc., mobile LLMs are in the 1.5—2 billion parameter range. It can seamlessly use much larger models via Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers.

Probably within a couple of weeks of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26 shipping this fall, Apple will have the most widely deployed LLMs accessible to 3rd-party app developers.

In beta versions of the operating systems, end users can already create automations that incorporate the use of these Foundation Models.

More details: "Meet the Foundation Models Framework" -- https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/286
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-10 23:50:13+00:00
If you haven't seen KERI they're worth a read, I found out about them at an Internet Identity Workshop. It has all those quality of life features for public keys - revocation, rotation, recovery. "Key Event Receipt Infrastructure". Relies on "witnesses" which I don't know if I love it but their presentation impressed me.

https://keri.one/
by nfaucher | 2025-07-10 23:50:24+00:00
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Remote: Yes / Hybrid Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript (Vue, Pinia, Tailwind), Python (Sanic, FastAPI, Django), PostgreSQL, Redis, Rust, C# Résumé/CV: https://nathanfaucher.ca/resume.pdf Email: nathan.j.faucher@gmail.com

Experienced (frontend leaning) full-stack developer (5+ years) specializing in building scalable web applications. Recent projects include architecting a high-volume queue system using Python and Redis to manage millions of requests, building a performant GeoIP microservice in Rust (Warp), and developing a cross-platform ticket scanner app for iOS and Android with Capacitor.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-07-10 23:51:07+00:00
> There's a reason why Murphy's Law is so commonly acknowledged, though.

In particular, the original formulation of Murphy's Law. The folk version has morphed into "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". But the original was "If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way".
by KevinMS | 2025-07-10 23:51:09+00:00
I'm not the biggest fan of AI for everything but you couldn't create something more of a dagger to the heart of the current education system. If you are in the U.S., carefully watch for the D party to turn on AI in their messaging and you'll be witness to the strong influence that teachers unions have on them. Disagree me all you want, but keep your eyes open, I guarantee you'll see it soon.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-10 23:51:09+00:00
The third option is that the person who used Cursor before had some sort of skill atrophy that led to lower unassisted speed.

I think an easy measure to help identify why a slow down is happening would be to measure how much refactoring happened on the AI generated code. Often times it seems to be missing stuff like error handling, or adds in unnecessary stuff. Of course this assumes it even had a working solution in the first place.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-10 23:52:08+00:00
> --- How we built? We patch Chromium's C++ source code with our changes, so we have the same security as Google Chrome. We also have an auto-updater for security patches and regular updates.

So you rebuild your browser on every Chromium release? Because that's the risk: often changes go into Chromium with very innocent looking commit messages than are released from embargo 90 days later in their CVE reference
by red369 | 2025-07-10 23:52:28+00:00
Generally, I think you're right. But there is quite a range even for coupes. I'm sure Porsche can afford to use higher strength steels, but the pillars on a 911 are surprisingly thin: https://h7.alamy.com/comp/B082JF/2008-porsche-911-turbo-in-s...

On the other hand, coupes with rear hatches can be particularly bad: https://www.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/2004-toy...

Looking at the extremes like the Honda CRZ, it does seem to be a low priority area!
by tptacek | 2025-07-10 23:52:48+00:00
I'm like 60% there with you:

* When it gets the design wrong, trying to talk through straightening the design out is frustrating and often not productive.

* I've learned to re-prompt rather than trying to salvage a prompt response that's complicatedly not what I want.

* Exception: when it misses functional requirements, you can usually get a session to add the things it's missing.
by vessenes | 2025-07-10 23:52:53+00:00
I'm an extensive user of both. aider was the best a few months ago -- claude code is substantially more performant and easier to work with as a dev, regardless of aider's underlying model.

Between claude code and gemini, you can really feel the difference in the tool training / implementation -- Anthropic's ahead of the game here in terms of integrating a suite of tools for claude to use.

When I have a difficult problem or claude is spinning, I usually would use o3-pro, although today I threw something by Grok 4 and it was excellent, finding a subtle bug and provided some clear communication about a fix, and the fix.

Anyway, I suggest you give them a go. But start with claude or gemini's CLI - right now, if you want a text UI for coding, they are the easiest to work with.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-10 23:52:56+00:00
"Teaching kids that power tools don't need to be scary as long as they're used safely is a worthwhile output on its own IMO."

True but real safety first thinking is not something that a purchasing decision will fix.

I have a scar on one of my fingers that was caused by a broken broom! How bloody naff is that but it bled like buggery and a 1" flap of finger flapped for a while and needed stitches at A&E (for Americans - that's where you pop in and a few hours later pop out, all patched up without a credit card being involved).

I wasn't wearing gloves. I am a first aider, H&S rep for my company (my company - I care about my troops) and so on. I was sweeping my drive with a broom with a hollow metal tube handle and it partially snapped and hinged and caught my finger and partially sliced a lump. Oh and I am the fire officer and even my house has a multi page fire plan.

I own a plethora of torture devices - a table saw, multiple chain saws, chisels and the rest. I have skied for four decades and drive a car/van/lorry.

Safety first thinking doesn't mean that you escape all of life's efforts to kill you but you do get a better chance of avoiding damage.

A power tool that promises safety might be missplaced. However, this one does not missrepresent itself. It does what it does and it does it well.

For me, I will be digging out the hand cranked jigsaw when I show the grand kids how to chop off their fingers: A fret saw. However that thing looks like a great introduction to dealing with power tools.
by postpawl | 2025-07-10 23:53:32+00:00
The work requirements force people to file paperwork proving 80 hours of work monthly, and Arkansas showed this paperwork maze caused 18,000+ people to lose coverage even though 95% already met the requirements or qualified for exemptions. Arkansas spent $26.1 million just on administration with no increase in employment, and Georgia has spent over $40 million with 80% going to bureaucracy, not healthcare.

For rural hospitals, the bill cuts $58 billion in Medicaid funding over 10 years but only provides a $25 billion rural fund that covers less than half the losses. This puts 300+ rural hospitals at immediate risk of closure since they're already operating on thin margins.

For elderly people, the bill blocks nursing home staffing rules until 2034 and freezes home equity limits at $1 million permanently, plus adds more verification requirements.

The evidence shows these aren't about efficiency. They're about creating barriers that cost more money to administer than they save, while cutting care for people who already qualify.
by ivanovm | 2025-07-10 23:53:54+00:00
I find the very popular response of "you're just not using it right" to be big copout for LLMs, especially at the scale we see today. It's hard to think of any other major tech product where it's acceptable to shift so much blame on the user. Typically if a user doesn't find value in the product, we agree that the product is poorly designed/implemented, not that the user is bad. But AI seems somehow exempt from this sentiment
by jonplackett | 2025-07-10 23:54:07+00:00
They’re not hard to produce but they are hard to produce really cheap as in as cheap as China. For lots of reasons (state aid being one, extreme competition being another).

It’s hard in a capitalist country to do things that don’t make business sense - eg long term thinking. So I don’t see any reasonable route where China isn’t still making all the panels any time soon.
by MoneyIQ | 2025-07-10 23:55:47+00:00
Thanks for the feedback, appreciate you taking the time.

You're probably right about the audience, HN isn’t exactly retail-investor heavy. I shared here mainly to gather early feedback on usability and the concept itself.

As for differentiation, you’re right again that there are tools out there. What makes MoneyIQ different is that it’s designed specifically for everyday investors, not analysts. The reports are plain-English, structured around key insights (not raw data), and you don’t need to sign up or connect brokerage accounts. Just enter a ticker and get a readable report in seconds.

That said, it’s still early. If you do check it out, I’d value any suggestions on how to make the edge clearer.

Thanks again. Steve
by JamesPark1982 | 2025-07-10 23:55:58+00:00
We’re currently testing a native integration between SpatialChat and Canvas LMS, designed to support more engaging, real-time learning experiences directly inside the online classroom.

For those new to it: SpatialChat is a virtual space where people can walk around and talk to others nearby—like being in a real classroom, hallway, or group study room. Instructors can create breakout areas, pin media, and host open discussions in a much more dynamic way than a traditional video grid.

Why We’re Building This Many schools are adopting HyFlex learning, where students attend both in-person and remotely. But most video tools still feel disconnected from the actual learning platform. Zoom links and pop-ups add friction, and remote students often feel left out.

By integrating Canvas directly into SpatialChat, we’re making it easier for instructors and students to interact without leaving their course page—no new tabs or logins required.

What It Does Each Canvas course gets its own virtual room, saved and ready for future sessions.

Students and teachers can move around and talk freely in different areas—great for group work, Q&A zones, or open office hours.

Participation data (like who joined and how long they stayed) can be shared with instructors to help track engagement.

It all works within the Canvas interface, so everything feels like one connected experience.

We’re currently in pre-production testing with a few universities.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-07-10 23:56:34+00:00
> It is their entire friend group and becomes their identity.

This sounds horrific. I did little leagues, grew bored (and nearsighted), randomly played outside for hours, did videogames (sometimes obsessively), built "forts" inside and out, went to / hosted parties, got into trouble, made amends (usually), family vacations, etc. Over identifying with groups and things seems crazy to me.

Maybe I'm overcompensating for my parent's (and at times my own) religious fervor. So much emotional investment seems unhinged.

Hopefully my kids can learn to enjoy their childhood. There will be plenty of time for serious commitments when they're adults.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-07-10 23:57:31+00:00
It would be different I'm sure if they were making contributions to repos they had less familiarity with. In my experience and talking with those who use AI most effectively, it is best leveraged as a way of getting up to speed or creating code for a framework/project you have less familiarity with. The general ratio determining the effectiveness of non-AI coding vs AI coding is the familiarity the user has with the codebase * the complexity of the codebase : the amount of closed-loop abstractions in the tasks the coder needs to carry out.

Currently AI is like a junior engineer, and if you don't have good experience managing junior engineers, AI isn't going to help you as much.
by bound008 | 2025-07-10 23:58:10+00:00
Important Questions:

1. How much did your involvement lead to the fundraising success?

2. How much did your involvement lead to the products' early success?

3. Does it make sense to take the IP early idea that you were passionate about as part of your exit package?

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Expectations:

* you should expect no cash. taking cash will lead to a lower chance of a return on your equity. if you desperately need cash, you should get a small package based on your salary.

* you have no way to protect against being diluted. you have no idea how much work it will take to make this project successful. making it successful will require dilution. at best you could negotiate never being diluted under a certain amount, and making that based on successive valuations. if you leave at pre-seed, and it becomes a unicorn, you likely don't deserve 10%. what do you think you realistically deserve if this is a massive runaway success AFTER you leave.

* one way to think about this, is what would your time have been worth at a company with a higher TC. if you would have been paid $500k including equity somewhere else, maybe you should get the same amount of equity as someone investing 500k in cash, and get the exact same dilution as they would.

* you will not find a standard answer anywhere. you need to find the best solution between:

1. your ego 2. your cofounders ego 3. giving this startup the best chance of success so that all of this time will be worth something for everyone. even if thats less than you want it to be, its better than $0. because all of the hard work lies ahead.
by vessenes | 2025-07-10 23:58:44+00:00
Some good advice here; couple qs: did you get shares for your personal capital contribution?

Simplest thing to do if you think it will work and don't need money is just sit on your vested shares, perhaps ask for a little more as an exit package, be supportive, offer to join the board as an advisor, and move on.

If you'd like a clean break and some cash, you could call your last round investors and offer them a discount to the last price for your vested shares. Depending on the state of the company and what's next, they may be interested -- there's an implication in these conversations that you'll find SOMEONE to buy eventually, which they may or may not like. I'd guess unless things are gangbusters, you might look at 30-50% discount from the last valuation, knowing nothing about the common, the company or the pref stack.

Another possibility - you could offer to sell your shares at a discount to your cofounder, leaving him in a good spot - he could ask around for a loan / investment (in which case the company would be the buyer, and he'd benefit pro-rata).

Personal advice - keep some, sell some, stay available to help.
by xenadu02 | 2025-07-10 23:58:59+00:00
That's true and part of the reason designing for aerospace applications is tricky.

That sort of thing is also one of the legitimate reasons the FAA can have for not adopting an NTSB recommendation. Requiring a seat for small children is one of those calculations. The FAA ran the numbers and assumed some portion of those parents wouldn't fly and of that portion some would drive. Some portion of flights are for physical or emotional health that would not be handled (you can calculate the increase in suicides from things like missing a loved one's dying moments). And of course driving is way way more lethal. So you have to weigh the deaths from not flying plus deaths from driving against deaths avoided if lap children were prohibited.
by sfpotter | 2025-07-11 00:00:40+00:00
Interesting thought but my impression is that the democrats are much more beholden to other forces at play in the school system. I have friends who are teachers in the public school system, have been active in the union, and are indeed against AI in the classroom (although they're hardly rabid or unreasonable about it). On the other hand, the school administrators and IT departments are much more aggressive about pushing AI on them and pressing them to work it into the classroom somehow. Considering that the democrats are largely captured by corporate interest, and considering that tech/AI is one of the biggest corporate interests there is right now... I just don't see things playing out the way you predict.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-07-11 00:00:55+00:00
The cat is out of the bag. Kids will use AI to write papers, learn topics, cheat on take-home tests, etc. Only a completely closed-off environment with no access to the internet could prevent this.

The best option is to change the incentives. 95% of kids treat school as a necessary hurdle to enter the gentry white-collar class. Either make the incentives personal enrichment instead of letter grades or continue to give students every incentive to use AI at every opportunity.
by csallen | 2025-07-11 00:01:47+00:00
1. Don't ask for cash or an exit package imo. This isn't a mature, profitable company. It's a startup. You took a shot, you missed, and you're quitting. I think it's fair for there to just be a clean break there. Either that, or stick with the company and see it through.

2. Keeping the vested equity seems fair to me. The entire point of that vested equity is to represent the sweat you put into the business.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-11 00:02:16+00:00
A British magician called Paul Daniels managed to slice some fingers on a table saw. He had been making his own tricks gear for decades.

Safety thinking can slip - you only have to cock up once when you are pushing an amorphous mass into a blade spinning at say 3000 rpm and lose concentration.

Table saws, band saws etc and the like are dreadful.

My wife manages to make a simple drill/driver somewhat dangerous to the point that I have to sometimes fake a reason why husband should take over (yes I am very careful - she's generally sharper than the tool in question!)
by quantified | 2025-07-11 00:02:29+00:00
> CEO Michael Lingelbach says the tech doesn’t just create more junk, it also expands what’s possible. > “There’s never been a barrier to people making uninteresting content,” he said. “Now there’s just more opportunity to create different kinds of uninteresting content, but also more kinds of really interesting content too.”

The barrier to uninteresting content was that it was hard, so anything actually created was more likely interesting. Just as with any other content. People being humans, slop will rule.