MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 123yawaworht456 | 2025-07-05 18:41:27+00:00
>It can't possibly be a moral crusade as it keeps happening with different players, but I don't understand the purpose.

it's not a moral crusade. they don't give a shit about children. they don't give a shit about crime. to the people in power, crime - even the most heinous kind - is just background noise. the laughably short sentences given to the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes in the EU/UK reflect that.

mass surveillance is a means to identify and suppress dissent.

the people in power care only about maintaining it. it's that simple. and once you acknowledge that, it will finally make sense why the US/EU/UK are implementing the same measures that China and Russia do.
by danjl | 2025-07-05 18:42:58+00:00
You are experiencing the Dunning-Kruger effect of using AI. You used it enough to think you understand it, but not enough to really know how to use it well. That's okay, since even if you try and ignore and avoid it for now, eventually you'll have enough experience to understand how to use it well. Like any tool, the better you understand it and the better you understand the problems you're trying to solve, the better job you will do. Give an AI to a product manager and their code will be shit. Give it to a good programmer, and they're likely to ask the right questions and verify the code a little bit more so they get better results.
by willseth | 2025-07-05 18:44:57+00:00
Who is they? Even if Anthropic doesn’t have incentive to run their models on your phone (but really why wouldn’t they?), Apple, Google, and Samsung do. And DeepSeek was very much a something. It was a something that demonstrated the barrier to entry can be at least an order of magnitude lower than previously thought. LLM technology is easily commoditized, and moat building will be difficult. Supply and demand is doing just what you would expect.
by ericmcer | 2025-07-05 18:45:09+00:00
WoW was amazing back when it first launched, I tried it again a year ago and everything felt on guardrails now. There was a linear set of quests that led you down an unmissable road to level up and get gear. You never were stuck with missing or low level items, each quest gave you the pieces you were missing and you get purple gear for doing the right steps in the right order, not for taking risks and getting lucky.

I remember first playing and feeling totally lost as I wandered from place to place hoping not to stumble into something with a skull that would murder me. Any item you lucked into was a godsend and people were equipped with a jumble of gear that was the best they could get. If you got your hands on an epic you wore it forever. Maybe it is just nostalgia but it really didn't feel great for it to be so straightforward now.
by antonymoose | 2025-07-05 18:46:08+00:00
Years ago I was hired as an Engineering Manager at a small company, within about the first month on the job I had to have the awkward conversation about firing two of the employees on my team.

See it turned out that the boss worked remote 4-1/2 days of the week, and the employees were in office.

One would show up at 10, take 2 hour lunch around 11.30 and leave around 2.30. He did not work remote. This employee was as always behind on his work.

Second wasn’t even a programmer. He just lied on his resume and got the job over beers and a handshake. He was a graphics designer, he played off a few WordPress template installs as his portfolio.

To keep a story short, the owner spent months doing everything but firing the two employees, demanding I try to teach the designer some computer science and ignored the other scammer. He refused to believe he paid these men 6-figures for years on end. That I must be coming in here to lie and wreck his company, that I left my cushy high-frequency trading job to ruin his startup.

When I asked the sole good engineer on the team what in the hell was going on at this company she simply told me “Oh, the old manager just did all the work for the other two guys since he was their buddy and hired them originally.”
by abra0 | 2025-07-05 18:46:17+00:00
> MTG-S1 is the first geostationary meteorological sounder satellite to fly over Europe

I was confused for a minute on how it's both _geostationary_ and _over Europe_ -- you can't be geostationary if your orbit is not over the equator!

Turns out[1] the MTG-S1 satellite is in fact geostationary and parked at exactly 0°00'00"N 0°00'00"E (off the coast of Ghana), 42164 km up from the center of Earth, it's just pointing at Europe at an angle.

1 - https://space.oscar.wmo.int/satellites/view/mtg_s1
by ipnon | 2025-07-05 18:46:32+00:00
It’s a good question. I think a better benchmark than the current options is “go make $X dollars this quarter.” Right now the models fail this miserably. Claude can’t even run a vending machine inside Anthropic HQ. So there is still some kind of strategic activity that comes naturally to humans that LLMs struggle with. I know the big conundrum is “scaling solves this in the next N years” but my bet is that N > ~20 in this case.
by danjl | 2025-07-05 18:46:47+00:00
And, we are not managing the LLMs. We are communicating with them. The better a developer gets it communication in general, the easier their life will be in the better job they will do for their company. The more they understand about what their customers need, the better job they will do building those tools. None of this is about managing. It's about learning how to communicate, how to ask the right questions and how to listen.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-07-05 18:47:17+00:00
Generalization beyond n-back tasks had not been established, at least at the last time I looked into the field, maybe 8 years ago. There was always the hope that tasks that focused on specific core cognitive processes would lead to broad cognitive improvements, but I am not too confident about it.

One problem in this field has been weak control conditions..e.g. no train conditions. I often thought that a cardio control conditions would be useful. I'd almost guarantee that for most people, 60 minutes a week jogging would lead to better cognitive improvements than 60 minutes of n-back.
by mkagenius | 2025-07-05 18:47:56+00:00
Three clear advantages of a local first software:

1. No network latency, you do not have to send anything across the atlantic.

2. Your get privacy.

3. Its free, you do not need to pay any SaaS business.

An additional would be, the scale being built-in. Every person has their own setup. One central agency doesn't have to take care of all.
by coffeecoders | 2025-07-05 18:49:09+00:00
Lately, I have been following this approach and going towards local-first software. I like simple softwares with barebone features.

- Password manager: KeyPassXC

- Notes: Logseq

- Analytics: Plausible

- Media: Jeyllyfin

- Uptime kuma

- Finance tracker: Actual Budget etc is too heavy so I built this. https://github.com/neberej/freemycash/

- Search: Whoogle? is kinda dead. Need alternative.
by prmph | 2025-07-05 18:49:25+00:00
Here's a salad recipe that is very tasty to me that I never tire of eating. I'm happy to pass it on, since it makes not feel like I'm missing out on anything.

Ingredients:

- Fresh Kale (shredded) or Aragula/Rocket leaves

- Fresh onions (or better still the greens of leeks, since onions were making my reflux worse), sliced

- Cherry or Roma tomatoes (sliced if necessary)

- Canned chunky tuna in vegetable oil (preferably olive oil) with a bit of salt

- Red apples (sliced). Could sub Clementines or a bit of dried mangoes (shredded) instead.

- Pecan or Cashew nuts (toasted)

Method:

Just toss together the veggies and fruit, spoon the tuna on top, and sprinkle the nuts on top, that's all. Very crunchy, tasty, and healthy.
by fragmede | 2025-07-05 18:50:00+00:00
Same thing that happened to pets.com or webvan.com and the rest of the graveyard of failed companies. A bunch of investors lose money, a bunch of market consolidation, employees get dilluted to worthlessness, chapter 7, chapter 11. The free ride of today's equivalent of $1 Ubers will end. A glut of previously very expensive hardware for cheap on eBay (though I doubt this last point will happen since AGI is likely to be compute intensive).

It's not going to be fun or easy, but as far as the financials go, we were there in 2001.

The question is assuming we do get AGI, what the ramifications of that will be. Instead of hiring employees, a business can spin up employees (and down) like a tech company can spin up EC2 instances. Great for employers, terrible for employees.

That's a big "if" though.
by prmoustache | 2025-07-05 18:50:04+00:00
Well it depends which side she took. I didn't really asked for a reasonning but if that new girlfriend is the reason her ex dumped her, that mean she is not that bad and a Casio may not be that inferior to a Rolex (which would anyway have led to a straight no had she asked for it). After all, a Casio F-91W is more reliable than a Rolex to give time and has other features such as an alarm clock.

I think Casio in some latin countries played with it as meme on twitter at the time.

I also think a Twingo is overall a much better car than any Ferrari for daily and lawful use.
by throw101010 | 2025-07-05 18:50:09+00:00
Nobody prevents you from spending and replacing bitcoins, besides maybe the governments that insist on taxing smaller transactions as if it wasn't a currency.

You should ask them why they've generated about 58 million millionaires and 2,700 billionaires worldwide. That's some actual "hoarding" you should be concerned about, instead of concern trolling about Bitcoin.
by danjl | 2025-07-05 18:50:19+00:00
Sure, you can try it charge subscriptions, but what are you actually charging for? You're not storing any of the customer's data or providing a service that they need, since the software should work entirely without your help. Fundamentally charging a subscription without having a centralized server is pretty tricky. Even the traditional desktop apps that transitioned to the cloud, like Photoshop or Maya, have really worked hard to beef up their cloud-based service to justify the subscription fee. A mismatch between your business model and your technical infrastructure is not going to stand up well over time. Don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to figure out what business model works for local-first software?
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-05 18:50:38+00:00
>This is a naive perspective.

Okay.

SR&ED had 22,758 applications last year. Software development only accounted for 40% of it. So 9000 applications from software dev firms, the majority being very small firms. That is a tiny, tiny minority of software firms in this country.

>In reality, most of the software development that a typical growth company does is eligible

No, it absolutely is not, unless you are lying on the application. And yes, a lot of people lie to get government grants and subsidies. And it works out pretty good until someone audits it and realizes that someone is making a shitty instrumentation console that absolutely no one would say advances scientific knowledge and demands the credit back plus interest and penalties.

And yes, I've seen people's absolute bullshit SR&ED applications before. I've had peers ask me to review theirs, where they do bog standard bullshit dev but read on HN how super easy it is, and they convince themselves that "everyone is doing it". Only those signatures on the form that lies about what is actually being claimed.

Again, it's awesome...until it isn't. Which is why the vast majority of software firms are not claiming this.
by almatabata | 2025-07-05 18:52:05+00:00
> But radar and ultrasound did not cost a lot and he got rid of those too, suggesting it was more than cost that made him go vision only.

They did get rid of the radar at a moment when there was a shortage of parts. They had the choice, ship now without the part, or wait and ship less cars.

Maybe that was always the plan, and the shortage only accelerated the decision.
by hasanyildiz | 2025-07-05 18:53:28+00:00
Great question! tinykv isn't trying to replace SQLite – they serve different needs. SQLite strengths: relational queries, ACID transactions, SQL. Complex data relationships and multi-user concurrent access. tinykv strengths: zero setup (no schema, no SQL), human-readable files (JSON – you can git diff them!), simple key-value API, built-in TTL support, Serde integration (any Rust type → storage).

Use cases where tinykv fits better: CLI tool config storage, game save files, application preferences, prototyping/MVP development, when you want to inspect/edit the data file manually.

I built it because I kept reaching for simple persistence, but SQLite felt like overkill for storing a HashMap<String, Value>.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-05 18:55:21+00:00
Unfortunately, that is not correct:

> Three young children who are US citizens - including one with cancer - were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families' lawyers.

> One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child's family said. [0]

0: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8yj2n33yo
by StopVibeCoding | 2025-07-05 18:55:34+00:00
When they fail they will pretend that the CEO of a messaging company is actually a criminal mastermind, and will throw him in jail for almost a week as soon as he steps into a european country, then he will not be allowed to leave the country for over a year, but I'm obviously exaggerating this would never happen, right?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/telegram-pavel-durov-travel-...
by RaftPeople | 2025-07-05 18:55:36+00:00
> I’ve been through this with (including but not limited to) PCs, OOP, client-server, SOA, XML, NoSQL, blockchain, “big data”, and indeed, multiple definitions of “AI”. Turns out all but one of those were actually somewhat useful in the end, when applied properly, but they didn’t eliminate the industry. Just roll with it.

My non-technical boss was excited about some silver-bullet tech and I had to walk him through how these things play out.

I talked through most of the industry's overhyped "trends" since the 70's and describe the promise and the reality (very similar to your list).

I did mention that there were 2 trends that had more lasting general application (compared to things that were just another tool in the toolbox used for some situations):

1-Relational databases

2-Internet
by imiric | 2025-07-05 18:55:57+00:00
> The only things that will be out of reach for most, is compute - and probably other expensive things on the infrastructure part.

That is the moat. That, and training data.

Even today, compute and data are the only things that matter. There is hardly any secret software sauce. This means that only large corporations with a practically infinite amount of resources to throw at the problem could potentially achieve AGI. Other corporations would soon follow, of course, but the landscape would be similar to what it is today.

This is all assuming that the current approaches can take us there, of which I'm highly skeptical. But if there's a breakthrough at some point, we would still see AI tightly controlled by large corporations that offer it as a (very expensive) service. Open source/weight alternatives would not be able to compete, just like they don't today. Inference would still require large amounts of compute only accessible to companies, at least for a few years. The technology would be truly accessible to everyone only once the required compute becomes a commodity, and we're far away from that.

If none of this comes to pass, I suspect there will be an industry-wide crash, and after a few years in the Trough of Disillusionment, the technology would re-emerge with practical applications that will benefit us in much more concrete and subtle ways. Oh, but it will ruin all our media and communication channels regardless, directly causing social unrest and political regression, that much is certain. (:
by hasanyildiz | 2025-07-05 18:56:27+00:00
Exactly! Python's dbm is a great comparison. tinykv aims for similar simplicity but with some Rust-specific advantages. The key difference is dbm gives you flexibility in storage format, tinykv gives you zero-ceremony type safety + readability. If you want the Python dbm experience in Rust with modern ergonomics, that's basically tinykv's sweet spot.

Both solve the "I just need simple persistence" problem, tinykv just does it the "Rust way" with strong typing and serde.
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by arnasstucinskas | 2025-07-05 18:56:28+00:00
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by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-05 18:56:53+00:00
"The gap" is probably what allowed humans to evolve complex solutions. Rather than just bang things together, they had to think of how they would do it before they even began. That seems to be the differentiator between other animals and humans: we can shave a lot more yaks.

I have spent a year on a project that is not really much closer to completion than when I started. But I have been shaving yaks like a motherfucker. Research, design iterations, acquiring tools, making jigs, creating space. (I have also wasted a lot of time due to coping with ADHD and depression)

I could have done it sooner if I had compromised more. But I wasn't yet experienced enough to know what compromises to make and still end up with an acceptable solution. Many things have come up that I didn't expect in my initial dream. If I'd known then what I know now, I would have dialed things down.

Ignorance amplified my ambition, and my ambition exceeded my grasp. But if you never give up, it's not sabotage: it's perseverance. And I refuse to quit. My grasp is getting stronger. I'm moving forward faster, getting better. So my ambition (in this case) is a stupid form of self-improvement. It turns out I'm not building a camper. I'm building Me.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-05 18:57:16+00:00
I really struggle with equivocating these things, because I’m just going to point out, that both of these stories are incredibly one sided, they hurt Democrats and help Republicans. In fact, looking only in retrospect, I would say the hunter biden laptop suppression was more likely to be a false flag, given who it helped and who it hurt.

But how is it that no matter who politicizes anything, it’s always actually one sides fault. And, like you implied, who cares if Republicans succeed in consistently and repetitively politicizing the FBI, because the Democrats may have done it once in a way that royally backfired. Two wrongs make a right.

But I love how Democrats keep getting punished for the one story that has helped Republicans more than any other of the past decade.
by echelon | 2025-07-05 18:57:49+00:00
This entire paradigm gets turned on its head with AI. I tried to do this with purely local compute, and it's a bad play. We don't have good edge compute yet.

1. A lot of good models require an amount of VRAM that is only present in data center GPUs.

2. For models which can run locally (Flux, etc.), you get dramatically different performance between top of line cards and older GPUs. Then you have to serve different models with different sampling techniques to different hardware classes.

3. GPU hardware is expensive and most consumers don't have GPUs. You'll severely limit your TAM if you require a GPU.

4. Mac support is horrible, which alienates half of your potential customers.

It's best to follow the Cursor model where the data center is a necessary evil and the local software is an adapter and visualizer of the local file system.
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-05 18:57:52+00:00
Bro, cool program, I wish you good luck in further development, I gave you a star on GitHub, I hope there will be more of them, and by the way, here are the improvements I found:

1. Strict typing & validation — support ranges, regex, custom types (dates, emails).

2. Better error messages — clear feedback on invalid args.

3. Auto-generated help — built-in --help with descriptions and examples.

4. Advanced aliases — support multiple aliases and priority handling.

5. Nested options — parse flags like --db.host into objects.

6. Async validators & transformers — for things like file existence checks.

7. Config file support — load defaults from JSON/YAML files.

8. Named positional args — support and validate ordered params.

9. Localization (i18n) — multi-language error/help messages.

10. Performance optimization — handle large numbers of args fast.

11. Test integration — utilities for easy CLI testing with frameworks.
by hibikir | 2025-07-05 18:58:08+00:00
It's not quite that. LaLiga got a ruling (310/2024, Dec-18-2024) So that they can demand Spanish ISPs to block IPS that LaLiga claims are used to pirate soccer games. But as one would expect, piracy like this involves some CDNing, and therefore CloudFlare IPs. But since those don't necessarily point to individual customers on the other side, in practice it means parts of the internet don't work well in Spain while a game is going on, as the IP blocks that are deemed to be full of piracy are hosting all kinds of other things.

So the issue isn't whether piracy is getting stopped or not, but that the blast radius hits a whole lot of people, including other cloudflare customers.
by ddingus | 2025-07-05 18:58:56+00:00
I live seeing efforts like this.

But I am just going to put this here so the general thoughts incorporate a fundamental problem before significant labor investments go too far:

What is a probable, viable, possible answer to the geometry kernel problem?

Parasolid, arguably the leader and generally most capable geometry kernel we have today, is or at least I can't see past...

...is just not something easily duplicated.

There are a bazillion man months of time in that body of code. And those are hard hours!

For those unfamiliar, the geometry kernel is the piece that resolves geometry cases to make operations possible. Imagine a cylinder and rectangle. Now imagine they have some common volume. They intersect, in other words.

Put a fillet on one edge to blend the edge.

How many literal edge and corner cases can you come up with?

There are way more than you think!

Now multiply that tiny problem space with all the geometry used every day.

And then multiple that time again by what it takes to make it robust.

And the whole thing, as it stand today is not even multi-threaded!

Any CAD that we expect to see even moderate general use in a professional sense, needs this piece.

How do we, meaning anyone interested in CAD this way, get past this?

I wish there were some OSS type license for Parasolid. It could be treated like the Linux kernel.

Whatever replaces Parasolid and friends, should be treated like the Linux kernel.

The closest we have is Open Cascade.

Sorry. I do not want to piss on a good vision. But this has to be said.

Peace and good luck!

I used voice input on this. Pleqse forgive typos.