MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-22 15:15:33+00:00
It’s prioritizing material wealth above other pursuits.

Not only in their own lives, but as the primary measure of success.

One side effect of this is that they stop investing effort in things that don’t generate material wealth.

Personally, I think that tends to turn people into dicks (non-transaction friendships are valuable to me), but they do them.
by jl6 | 2025-07-22 15:15:34+00:00
It’s not giving up soft power, it’s gambling with soft power. The outcome Trump hopes for is that UNESCO fires whoever is setting its “woke” policies and comes back cap-in-hand, offering an agenda that is more to his liking. The risk is that UNESCO ignores the US and finds another patron state that wants to buy some influence - and that’s when the US loses.
by savanaly | 2025-07-22 15:15:40+00:00
>Doesn't this miss the point with Tailwind and why we have Tailwind in the first place?

Not for me. Say I have a new app and I want it to have a left nav. I could write my own styles with tailwind or...I could just put a .menu on there and gets all the sensible defaults for padding, spacing, font size, background colors, etc.

But having done that, I'll still want to edit the specific padding, spacing, fonts, and background color of the menu to suit my needs. Plus there's...the whole rest of the site, not all of which is made up of DaisyUI components. So I will be wanting Tailwind for all that for the regular reasons one wants Tailwind.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-22 15:15:48+00:00
It took me a long time to realize that most people don’t make any effort to understand politics beyond surface level headlines.

A lot of people treat politics like they behave in the HN comment section: They see the headline, arrive at a conclusion based on previous assumptions, and head straight to the comment section to argue their side without ever even making an effort to read the article. With politics, politicians are experts at crafting headlines and sound bites that feed these people their confirmation bias and tickle the part of the brain that says this person is on your side.

I’ve had some success discussing issues with these people calmly and openly, adding facts one at a time until they realize the situation isn’t what they thought. There are a lot of “That can’t be right” lightbulbs going off as the facts start to conflict with their idea of how the world works. This goes for both extremes of the political spectrum, BTW.
by evertheylen | 2025-07-22 15:16:04+00:00
Why don't we embrace proportional (i.e. not monospace) fonts more for coding? IMHO, they are a big step up when it comes to legibility. I personally switched after I noticed reading stuff in the sidebar (which is usually in a proportional font) felt more comfortable than reading code.

You can't use it for a terminal of course, and occasionally I find comments relying on monospace alignment. Other than that I see no downside to proportional fonts.

I use Input, which gives more room to special characters and is pretty nice overall: https://input.djr.com/
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-22 15:16:04+00:00
Agreed - there needs to be a space for known issues that are not worth tracking. Issues that need to be understood as real, but perhaps may never be viable to fix. Something you can ctrl-F for when you have time and are curious if there's something you can clean up.

It drives me insane that so many tools/processes treat TODOs as essentially code smells.
by notahacker | 2025-07-22 15:16:22+00:00
This is may be true of many Muslims, though they should probably factor the possibility the current administration despises them as a demographic much more than it despises LGBT people into their decision making. In any case, views on Christian bakers don't seem to be a particularly good reason to endorse the behaviour of Trump or believe that international trade is a pissing contest, or mass incarceration without due process or many other things the current administration is far more interested in than SCOTUS lawsuits, and I don't think many of Trump's voters backed him out of adherence to Islam...
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-22 15:16:26+00:00
The CLI has long had `-noremote` for a long time to tell it you want a second Firefox. It's useful with `-ProfileManager` or `-P $profileName` for multi-profile workflows, which are out of fashion this decade, especially with Multi-Account Containers being able to do most of those workflows in the same browser window now with different tags. But some of us still have ancient profiles for ancient reasons and ingrained habits regarding them.

Ancient documentation: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-22 15:16:32+00:00
Then they would be lost. Comments are for understanding how something works. TODOs are for understanding how something might not work.

Edit: And if you put them in a tracker, they'd be distracting and confusing for team members less intimately familiar with the codebase, e.g. a PO. You could also choose a word other than "TODO", as long as it won't produce a ton of false positives in a search.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-07-22 15:16:40+00:00
> it's important to remember that ML/LLM/etc can only re-arrange what's already been created. They're not really capable of generating anything novel

Any music that is completely novel is crap. All good music is inspired by, borrows from and outright steals from past music.

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.”

- TS Eliot

An LLM may certainly be not as good as a human at creating music. But it's certainly capable of creating music that is either more novel or less novel than any arbitrary human composition. You just need randomness to create novel music, but to make it tasteful still requires a human.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-07-22 15:17:11+00:00
Some history is called for here. The UNESCO issue extends far beyond Trump.

Under the Obama administration, the US stopped financing UNESCO in 2011(!) after it voted to include Palestine as a member state that year.

The Trump administration decided to withdraw fully from the agency in 2017.

The Biden administration rejoined UNESCO in 2023 and agreed to pay it $600 million(!) in back dues.

Now, the Trump administration is quitting it again.
by cryptonector | 2025-07-22 15:17:14+00:00
What are you talking about? The subject was TFA implying that the CIA should be able to kill or otherwise remove the sitting POTUS. The CIA does not implement "the will of the people" -- the POTUS in principle does, and should, but the POTUS is an individual with his own will. There is no "will of the people" involved in this sub-thread. The question is: should the CIA have the capability and power to remove the sitting POTUS, yes or no?
by tiwarinitish86 | 2025-07-22 15:17:21+00:00
Infrastructure has become a key driver of observability cost. More than data volumes, this is because of approaches like replication, cross AZ data transfer and almost no compression.

In this post we explain the infra cost of running Parseable for 100TB telemetry data on a daily basis. This is based on extrapolating ingestion volumes for an hour.

Looking forward to your comments / feedback on this!
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-07-22 15:17:24+00:00
Left out by what? Left out by whom? Are these people actually satisfied that what the administration is doing will improve their lives, or did the administration just tap into their anger and prejudice for votes?

You'll have to forgive me for being suspicious, but I hear these arguments, too, and the people I see who feel "left out" are largely left out because they hold fringe beliefs or because they are told they are left out despite actually being part of highly influential groups.
by graemep | 2025-07-22 15:17:27+00:00
> When people say Linux would be more secure in these environments, maybe. But if Linux or Red Hat took over everywhere, you can bet it would become the juiciest target immediately.

I do not think that is the only difference between Windows and Linux though.

For one thing Linux has multiple distros, some very varied. Its less of a monoculture. If Linux was more widely used it would also get grater usage for BSDs because a lot of things that run on Linux will run on them too.

Linux IS very widely used on servers, and on Chromebooks, and embedded. The kernel and a few other bits are widely used on phones too.
by adinagoerres | 2025-07-22 15:17:35+00:00
Hi HN! Adina here from superglue. Today I’d like to share a new benchmark we’ve just open sourced: an Agent-API Benchmark, in which we test how well LLMs handle APIs.

tl;dr: LLMs suck at writing code to use APIs.

We ran 630 integration tests across 21 common APIs (Stripe, Slack, GitHub, etc.) using 6 different LLMs. Here are our key findings: - Best general LLM: 68% success rate. That's 1 in 3 API calls failing. Would you ship that? - Our integration layer scored a 91% success rate, showing us that just throwing bigger/better LLMs at the problem won't solve it. - Only 6 out of 21 APIs worked 100% of the time, every other API had failures. - Anthropic’s models are significantly better at building API integrations than other providers.

What makes LLMs fail hard: - Lack of context (LLMs are just not great at understanding what API endpoints exist and what they do, even if you give them documentation which we did) - Multi-step workflows (chaining API calls) - Complex API design: APIs like Square, PostHog, Asana (Forcing project selection among other things trips llms over)

We've open-sourced the benchmark so you can test any API and see where it ranks: https://github.com/superglue-ai/superglue/tree/main/packages...

Check out the repo, consider giving it a star, or see the full ranking at https://superglue.ai/api-ranking/

If you're building agents that need reliable API access, we'd love to hear your approach - or you can try our integration layer at superglue.ai.

Next up: benchmarking MCP.
by runako | 2025-07-22 15:17:43+00:00
> When there's nothing for you why wouldn't you want to just burn it all down? Then you can build a more "fair" system.

Notably, the people who lived under legal oppression for centuries in this country did not take this approach. Instead, they worked inside the system and were able to affect change. The "burn it down" side ended up having its cities literally burned down.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-22 15:17:43+00:00
The American heartland has been hollowed out. Almost all of mom's generation of family (cousins, distant cousins, etc) left Iowa. That left few in her generation to have new Iowans, and those few raised/taught their kids to stay in Iowa because farms, family, whatever their motivation for staying was. Lots of the remaining country folk are country for religious reasons and again aren't super likely to move (though they have started starting new religious colonies around the country).
by Krssst | 2025-07-22 15:18:07+00:00
> I took the vaccines and was pretty lucky to not suffer any major consequences.

Lucky as in 999,990 chances on one million of being safe (myocarditis, see: https://labeling.pfizer.com/showlabeling.aspx?id=19542&forma... ). Long covid is a multi-percent risk by comparison, extremely larger.

It's insane how some people seek to blame a few pieces of RNA rather than the virus eating your arteries to reproduce. Medicine should of course be checked for safety but we're way past that. Of course people getting sick from vaccines deserve recognition and help but long covid patients just as much.
by ImHereToVote | 2025-07-22 15:18:20+00:00
ChatGPT knows about the ChatGPT persona. Much like I know the persona I play in society and at home. I don't know what the "core" me is like at all. I don't have access to it. It seems like a void. A weird eye. No character, no opinions.

The persona; I know very well.
by gryn | 2025-07-22 15:18:32+00:00
> We aren't Israeli citizens. Why are we treated like we are?

shower thought, maybe you aren't, if we look at history, the closest analogy is:

you are the equivalent of 'natives' in the colonial era where the vassal states population have all the obligations (and more) and none of the rights and need to jump through hoops to show allegiance and maybe gain it at the individual level as a reward in the end.
by Angostura | 2025-07-22 15:18:39+00:00
You say “the UN doesn’t work” apparently because “working” means it being a source of soft power for the US.

It had several remits, but its most important is probably the one to prevent a world war. It’s designed specifically as a talking shop to help countries find other ways of resolving disputes than kill people - and promote international understanding . It’s far from perfect, but in general it does a pretty good job.
by addicted | 2025-07-22 15:18:40+00:00
The Democrats have a structural problem.

The party is defined as being composed of the people who are already elected. So the priority of the Democratic Party ends up reflecting the priorities of those who are already in office, which is to make sure the incumbents get reelected.

This means there's very little incentive to expand the electorate (which would mean younger voters, who are likely to vote younger candidates, so that threatens the aging incumbents), or spend resources in expanding the map (because by definition there are no incumbents there whose interests are represented in the party).

For as advanced as the US political system is, it's incredibly backwards when it comes to professionalization of the political parties. A good comparison is the BJP in India. Setting aside policy, ideological issues for a moment, what they're really good at is being professional. The head of the party is not elected, and constantly rotates the party representative in each election, keeping their bench deep. They also have a soft age limit.

In a way, Donald Trump's greatest contribution to the Republican Party was destroying the incumbency advantage for Republicans. As a result the Republican slate was completely refreshed with younger (although generally worse) candidates, but while it may have made the party significantly worse from a policy/ideology perspective, it has made it politically stronger.
by xcf_seetan | 2025-07-22 15:18:53+00:00
I have been using the extension SingleFile to save pages for offline reading and archival for ages. I started using it on the basis of reading something online and later talk to someone about it and when i try to find it again, it may be gone, dont find it, etc. So i started to save all the relevant pages to have a local reference of what i have read online.
by tpm | 2025-07-22 15:19:19+00:00
I would not hold up any country because there are flaws everywhere; and I don't like writing about free speech because it has different meanings for everyone. But even in our puny Slovakia raiding newspaper offices and taking peoples private data at the border is not something that would happen and didn't happen for at least the last 25 years or so, even though we had and currently have horribly bad governments.

The situation in the UK is particularly bad I think because the legal situation is a hodgepodge of a missing written constitution, interweaving of the government branches (as I understand, the government can sometimes ignore the courts or is above them), the libel laws, and while still (for now) a member of the ECHR which gives some guarantees, it's rulings are always (many years) after the fact. Crucially, the UK is a very class-based society. The ruling class gets what it wants and it does not want free speech.
by neom | 2025-07-22 15:19:44+00:00
I know 2 MBA types who have been in tech a long time who are currently doing a combo of vibe coding v0 style coupled with a regular LLM spitting out code (o3 pro I believe), coupled with a coding agent in slack they talk to, connected to github, both of them seem to be making considerably progress on being able to launch to a few 100 users on their own. That said, both of them seem to realize they can't scale an app without devops, so they will hit a wall there I suspect. Largely agree with this blog, but we'll see where things go with agents.
by maybebyte | 2025-07-22 15:20:04+00:00
Sure, I'll add it in. I'll post the links here as well just in case:

https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-next-mo...

I'd recommend getting it from there rather than the Braille Institute's website since they require an email and EULA, but here's the other download link anyway.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

Also, Nerd Fonts added Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono in their v3.4.0 release.

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.4.0

With Nerd Fonts, I'd recommend downloading both and setting up a fallback system through fontconfig though. Unfortunately, some versions (Nerd Fonts, official download) are still missing the backtick/grave glyph.

https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible-next-mo...
by tgv | 2025-07-22 15:20:08+00:00
Their goal is not to enforce laws. It's to provide a regular space for nations to talk. It's diplomacy, which some see --not without reason-- as a particular kind of hypocrisy, but in a world-wide context.

Under the UN, there are organizations that do international work, governed by an international alliance. These do work that otherwise would be fragmented. That's not impotent.
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-22 15:20:08+00:00
I'm talking about consciousness because that's what the parent comment was making claims about. They original claim was that LLMs are definitely not conscious. I responded that we don't understand consciousness well enough to make that claim. You responded that consciousness is not necessary for language. I do not dispute that claim but it's irrelevant to both the original comment and my reply. In fact, I agree, since I said that I think that LLMs are likely not conscious and they have obvious language ability, so I obviously don't think that language ability necessarily implies consciousness. I just don't think that that, alone, is enough to disprove their consciousness.

You, and the research you advice I look into, is answering a totally different question (unless you are suggesting that research has in fact solved the question of what human consciousness is, how it works, etc, in which case, I would love you to point me in the direction so I can read more).
by louthy | 2025-07-22 15:20:15+00:00
Cloning anything creates a new object of a known type (well, the runtime knows at least) and so if the object re-runs the init-properties of the known type then it will be the same as constructing that type afresh.

You could even imagine a compiler generated virtual method: `OnCloneReinitialiseFields()`, or something, that just re-ran the init-property setters (post clone operation).

Is there some other inheritance issue that is problematic here? Immutability isn't a concern, it's purely about what happens after cloning an object, whether the fields are immutable or not doesn't change the behaviour of the `with` operation.
by scotty79 | 2025-07-22 15:20:27+00:00
You are always free to update the value before paying tax. If somebody is willing to pay more than it's worth to you they probably have an idea how to turn it into more economic value for the society. So the society should allow them to do that. For a price, of the tax. What I'm proposing is about the financial rights. Individual right, like the right to call yourself author of any given creation should be inalienable.

There are always some cases on the edge. The question is if saving them is worth the cost of the major players running rampant.
by gota | 2025-07-22 15:20:37+00:00
Disregarding the law (I'm ignorant) - why should PIX be "auditable"?

Almost everyone (very close to literally everyone) uses PIX and we have zero reported cases of mishap, errors or bad faith attacks...?

I quite frankly don't care that the system backed/created by the public services and imposed on banks is "closed"; to the point I'm generally curious as to what are the arguments for caring

Hope this does not sound dismissive - as a heavy user with no complaints for years, why should I care PIX is a black box?
by smallerfish | 2025-07-22 15:20:41+00:00
> All LLMs hit a ceiling of complexity beyond which they cease to understand the code base

That's a sign that you need to refactor/rearchitect/better-modularize the initial code. My experience is that with no existing code patterns to follow, the LLM will generate a sprawl that isn't particularly cohesive. That's fine for prototyping, but when the complexity of the code gets too much for its context, taking a day or so to reorganize everything more cleanly pays off, because it will allow it to make assumptions about how particular parts of the code work without actually having to read it.
by abdirahman22 | 2025-07-22 15:20:47+00:00
Hi HN!

I’m Abdirahman Ahmed, and I built WhatsReplay — a free, fast, and mobile-friendly app that lets you explore historical events, famous birthdays, and important moments on any day in history.

I’d love feedback on the concept, UX, and ideas for new features. Thanks for checking it out!
by cjbgkagh | 2025-07-22 15:20:50+00:00
I would advocate for fixing both dysfunctions at the same time… sometimes fixing two difficult problems simultaneously is easier than individually.

The whole medical cartel is under immediate threat by both LLMs and cheap peptides (e.g. semaglutide). In my view ozempic really is a miracle drug that is unusually effective for autoimmune conditions which I think make up the vast majority of undiagnosed and untreated conditions.

It used to be Dr. Google giving better advice, now it’s Dr, ChatGPT. And at least for my conditions it gives better advice than any doctor I’ve ever been to and I’ve been to a lot.
by BoorishBears | 2025-07-22 15:20:50+00:00
If you're making the effort-cost tradeoff like this, you typically choose a model, test a few inference stacks with prompts that are representative lengths for your use case, then benchmark.

To benchmark you identify a maximum time to first token your users will accept, and minimum tokens per second they'll accept, then test how many concurrent requests you can handle before you exceed either limit.

I can tell you, in my case the only reason why the pricing is somewhat competitive for self-hosting is that I'm aggressively seeking cheap rentals, have a use-case that requires very long prompts with few cache hits, and I've used extensive (and expensive) post-training to deploy smaller models than I'd otherwise need.
by ruffrey | 2025-07-22 15:20:54+00:00
I've been toying with the following attempt to explain all this:

- Information bubbles (this is the top issue, and it's really incredibly persuasive)

- Geographic location and social environment

- Lack of time to deeply evaluate truth vs noise and consider multiple sides of an issue

- Conviction of values - how much does a person believe their values are tied to the political view (leads to subtly drawing emotional conclusions and implicitly trusting a political party)

- Belief that due to one's own intelligence, one is not subject to propaganda (a clearly false belief that many smart people fall into)

Deep emotional awareness is not as strongly related to intelligence as people think.
by stouset | 2025-07-22 15:20:56+00:00
> I can nuke an fs snapshot in a single line of bash if I accidentally leak something, and fs snapshots don't contribute to the slowness of a big repo.

Leaking isn’t really a concern; none of these ephemeral commits ever leave your local machine. I have used jj on a very large monorepo with > 10yr of commits, and I never noticed a performance issue.

jj was literally created by Googlers at Google for the purpose of being used at Google. I have no idea how that’s going, but it makes me suspect that it works better at that use-case than you’re giving it credit for.