MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by guptadeepak | 2025-07-14 23:04:49+00:00
I'm Deepak, and I wrote this as a guide for founders navigating today's overwhelming tech media landscape. The pace of AI and startup tools in 2025 creates real challenges for attention management and strategic awareness.

Key insight: entrepreneurs shouldn't read broadly—they should read selectively by aligning blog sources with business models (B2B SaaS, AI-first, etc.).

How are you filtering tech content today to avoid information overload while staying technically sharp?
by burntsushi | 2025-07-14 23:05:44+00:00
> The mentioned sizes are the executables only, because I think that not taking advantage of dynamic libraries if you can is a downside, though there are arguments going the other way.

I addressed and accounted for this in my comment. All three of GNU grep, ugrep and ripgrep can dynamically link libc and PCRE2.

ripgrep doesn't bundle any compression code or terminal databases. ripgrep does bundle a significant number of Unicode tables.
by MBCook | 2025-07-14 23:06:16+00:00
Seems you already found the answer.

I’ll note Apple hasn’t shipped an Nvidia card in a very very long time. Even on the Mac pros before Apple Silicon they only ever sold AMD cards.

My understanding from rumors is that they had a falling out over the problems with the dual GPU MacBook Pros and the quality of drivers.

I have no idea if sticking one in on the PCI bus let you use it for AI stuff though.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-14 23:06:36+00:00
In which case:

$ ping 127.0.0.1

Provided you have a working IP stack, your ping service requirement is met admirably 8)

I run a lot of pfSense boxes and they (and OPNSense) have a pinger daemon to test connectivity which is really useful for multi-link routing. Bad idea for single links because you add an extra thing to fail. On a router with multiple internet links they are handy. You mostly ping known "reasonably stable" anycast addresses - they are the best option and usually end up being DNS servers - 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 etc are all good candidates.
by amethyst | 2025-07-14 23:08:08+00:00
Google Fiber isn't rolled out to most of the bay area. Monkeybrains is wireless with speeds significantly slower than what Comcast offers me. I've checked just about every wired ISP possible, and Comcast is the only option that services my neighborhood.

And FWIW, I own my house in the east bay — I am the landlady ;)
by eternityforest | 2025-07-14 23:08:34+00:00
I'd have a hard time imagining gas pumps using just an AVR, because they have some pretty large LCD screens and fancy cryptography for tap to pay.

And I'd imagine anything that big and expensive would use Ethernet or something, rather than messing around with any low level serial link business.

But one could just make an embedded Linux based controller as one of the standard modules.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-14 23:09:46+00:00
My anecdotal experience has been that the demand for data science/analytics jobs has cratered for the past couple years. Probably has something to do with AI, but even before ChatGPT it felt like the data science demand was vastly inflated. Financier capital in America is over, the era of lean startups is here to stay for quite some time.

Unless you're interested in applying your statistics knowledge to the military industrial complex or AI market, I'd probably recommend diversifying a bit. My honest $0.02.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-07-14 23:11:14+00:00
Christianity Today's (you could call them moderate non-maga evangelicals) take on AI:

https://archive.is/7mMl5

I felt a little guilty after reading this in my own negativity about AI, which largely stems from a dislike of the loudest characters in the room on the subject. I'm working to be more positive about it and finding ways to help my friends, especially older ones, take advantage of it. I also felt a little more validated in my own philosophical belief that superintelligence as described is probably unachievable (much like how crypto was supposed to become the singular currency for mankind, lol)
by EA-3167 | 2025-07-14 23:11:22+00:00
You famously the key point of slavery (at least the sort that existed in what would become The Confederacy) is that it was for life, heritable, and you had no way out, no human rights, and if you tried to escape you were hunted down and tortured.

It's possible to point out that there are problems with migrant labor without making such an inflammatory and inappropriate claim no one can really engage with you seriously.
by mandevil | 2025-07-14 23:13:05+00:00
Oracle sued Google, and Google won, 6-2 (RBG was dead, Barrett had not yet been confirmed when the case was heard).

Supreme Court ruled that by applying the Four Factors of Fair Use, Google stayed within Fair Use.

An API specification ends up being a system of organizing things, like the Dewey Decimal System (and thus not really something that can be copyrighted), which in the end marks the first factor for Google. Because Google limited the Android version of the API to just things that were useful for smart phones it won on the second factor too. Because only 0.4% of the code was reused, and mostly was rewritten, Google won on the third factor. And on the market factor, if they held for Oracle, it would harm the public because then "Oracle alone would hold the key. The result could well prove highly profitable to Oracle (or other firms holding a copyright in computer interfaces) ... [but] the lock would interfere with, not further, copyright's basic creativity objectives." So therefore the fourth factor was also pointing in Google's favor.

Whether "java" won or lost is a question of what is "java"? Android can continue to use the Java API- so it is going to see much more activity. But Oracle didn't get to demand license fees, so they are sad.
by rayiner | 2025-07-14 23:13:06+00:00
> No, the immigration laws are not draconian. They have guidelines around reunification of families, etc. The Reagan era Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 even legalized most illegals from before 1982.

They really are. For example, there's expensive crimes relating to "encouraging/inducing" illegal immigration that could put a lot of people in prison if they were aggressively enforced: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual... ("Encouraging/Inducing -- Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) makes it an offense for any person who -- encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law.")

Similarly, criminal penalties for knowingly continuing to employ an alien one knows is unauthorized: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual... ("Subsection 1324a(2) makes it unlawful for any person or entity, after hiring an alien for employment, to continue to employ the alien in the United States knowing the alien is or has become an unauthorized alien with respect to such employment.").

> The Reagan era Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 even legalized most illegals from before 1982.

That one-time amnesty was a compromise in return for aggressive enforcement going forward. The pro-immigration folks reneged on that compromise, so now it's mass deportations.

> But then this all is just red meat tossed to consumers of red meat. So there's that.

No, it's vindicating a fundamental collective right to decide who gets to be in this country and who doesn't. It's an effort to undo the effects of decades of broken promises around immigration enforcement: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi...
by chrsw | 2025-07-14 23:13:17+00:00
I'm leaning "no" and "yes, for what we know so far" to your questions.

I think tools are fine depending on how you define a tool and its relationship to human intelligence. If we build an artificial pancreas that learns about the body its sitting in and is able to function just as well as a natural pancreas would we say humans solved this problem? In some sense because humans built the machine. But not in another sense because humans are not the machine. Just like we say "AlphaZero beat the world's best human chess player". We don't say usually say "the humans who designed AlphaZero beat the world's best chess player". Did the humans who designed AlphaZero master chess? Not necessarily.

My argument is that there are examples of cognition that we know the human brain currently doesn't operate in. Are these learnable by the human brain? We don't know yet so we can't say the human brain is completely general.

As I type this and as you read this our bodies are constantly rebuilding themselves. Maybe if you connect the appropriate actuators we can do the same thing with our conscious minds? I highly doubt it due to the nature of the problem and how inefficient the brain would be in solving this sort of problem. It likely wouldn't work, but it's too far for me to say "rovably beyond the structural capability of our brains". I'll just say "I'm very pleased I don't have to do that right now". Developing a living organism, either starting from a single cell or from a fully grown adult, in real time in the real world is a very difficult problem to solve and the human brain would be terribly inefficient at it.

These are just my opinions.
by baby_souffle | 2025-07-14 23:13:46+00:00
I am absolutely not defending Comcast here but its worth pointing out that every anecdotal bit of evidence about performance and reliability can be true.

Network performance in that last mile can differ by block and even by season. An otherwise functional run of coax might have intermittent ingress but only shortly after it's rained while cold out.

This isn't even counting all of the flaky performance anecdotes that really boil down to overcrowded Wi-Fi or poorly configured consumer gear or anything else that isn't strictly the fault or problem of Comcast.
by vudueprajacu | 2025-07-14 23:14:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the founder and developer of SUDX. I've been passionate about open source for years, but I've always been bothered by how difficult it is for essential projects to find sustainable funding. Many rely on inconsistent donations or the goodwill of burnt-out volunteers.

I built SUDX to experiment with a potential solution to this problem. It's a protocol on the Polygon network that uses a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to create a community-governed treasury.

Here's how you can "play with it":

The Core Idea: The community of SUDX token holders can propose and vote on which open-source projects receive financial grants.

See the Live DAO: The entire system runs on Aragon. You can see our DAO and the first active proposal (transferring admin rights to the community) right now. You don't need to own anything to view it.

How it Works: If a funding proposal gets enough "yes" votes, a smart contract automatically sends the funds from the treasury to the project's wallet. There's no middleman.

This isn't just an idea; the protocol is live on the Polygon mainnet. We've also tried to build trust in a space where it's often lacking:

Locked Liquidity: 100% of the initial liquidity pool is locked in a public, verifiable contract on UNCX.

Vested Team Tokens: My team's tokens are locked in a 3-year vesting contract with a 1-year cliff.

I'm here all day to answer questions. I'm particularly looking for feedback on the governance model and potential challenges you see in using a system like this for funding real-world open-source development.

You can find all the relevant links (Whitepaper, contract addresses, etc.) on the official site linked in the title.
by movedx | 2025-07-14 23:15:43+00:00
Yes and no.

Yes, I agree, because life would get boring really quickly. People should be able to express themselves (in a civil, legal manner) so that the world can be more colourful and filled with art and beauty.

But also no, I don't agree. Have you seen the impact tourism in Japan has had on the local ecosystem as of late? They've literally banned tourists in some areas because frankly: more tourists act like animals. They litter, act rude and disrespectful, and are just obnoxious. Also, in a lot of cases, they provide little to no financial growth or benefit to the local economy. Look at Venice, for example.

So I think when making something like this, there has to be some degree of forward thinking around how it's going to divert (tourist) traffic to the area and what impact that's going to have on the locals.
by godelski | 2025-07-14 23:16:12+00:00
I didn't get to do much. Had a hard time clicking on Firefox and then getting to the nav bar and type in "Hackernews". Boy was that wild watching it type. Those definitely weren't letters. Then it tried to translate the page for me into Finish and weirdly the "I'm not a robot" box would appear, disappear, and then I'd see the title of some paper. I never actually made it to the Google results...

It's an interesting project. I'll totally accept "for fun" or "because" but I'm interested in the why. Even if just a very narrow thing, is there any benefits we would get from using a ML based OS? I mean it is definitely cool and that has merit in its own right, but people talk about Neural OSs and I just don't "get it"
by paul7986 | 2025-07-14 23:16:15+00:00
Microsoft said they were beefing up their expenditure in AI with and or around the announcement of layoffs.

So does this mean all the web designers, web developers and many other white collar jobs will now be done by one such professional using AI; so XYZ use to require ten people to get the job done now only one who uses AI gets the tasks done (tasks that those ten use to use software applications to complete). All the while a few hundred of Ruoming Pangs make more money then God in which their work further helps killing white collar jobs.

Is there anyone else concerned about this? I am federal worker indirectly yet per some news today not sure how much longer I will be and whether or not it wise to go look for another web design/developer/UX Researcher (think this is safest out of three as you are talking to ppl)position. There are throngs of others looking now to compete against including now competing against AI for less jobs.
by Hansenq | 2025-07-14 23:16:25+00:00
Historically, when a company gets acquired, the terms of the acquisition vary wildly. Many acquisitions over the past few years have led to a payout of all equity holders, pennies for employees, and layoffs for much of the existing team. This outcome is no worse than an existing acquisition--people just want details because of the new structure. My point is that this is financially no worse than an existing acquisition. It just _feels_ worse because of how it's structured.

And to your last paragraph, read reference [1]. The distribution of that 2.5B is in accordance to the existing cap table; it will make sense once you read that tweet. You must allocate money according to the cap table, and so that allocation is already determined in a company's previous funding rounds.
by sunshine-o | 2025-07-14 23:17:32+00:00
It is hard to know what is going on with the EU.

Europe has gone from 90% of U.S. GDP to 65% over the last 10+ years, that's a fact. And this doesn't really account yet for all the effects of the war in Ukraine.

One thing I have witnessed for sure is Europe have seen the entire computer / Internet revolution passing it by in the last 30-25 years. Keep in mind Western Europe was absolutely very well positioned to become a major actor at the time (as well positioned as the US in many regards). A lot of talents to who ended up emigrating to the US.

This failure cannot be blamed on the EU institutions but individual countries. The EU had in fact nothing to do with it, they were still busy thinking mostly about agriculture, industry and other things.

But there have been a growing interest from the EU institutions in digital in the last 10 years and quite some money spent. I have been involved in some of them, it is usually so twisted that nobody involved even believe in it.

In 2019 the EU cloud was supposed to be something called Gaia-X, now there is something called Eurostack.

There is a huge problem with the EU type that is they truly believe if they think of something, declare it, it will happen. It is very similar to Byrne's book idea "The Secret to the Law of Attraction".

I get very nervous when they apply this to defense. Because the EU has literately let its armies and defense industry die in the last 50 years, but suddenly get very belligerent (maybe for good reasons, I am not an expert) and at the same time rush into trying to rebuild its capabilities. I must have missed that chapter in Clausewitz and Sun Tzu.

Same with the Cloud & co, they have been very belligerent with Big Tech but have nothing to escape to right now, it is just another vision. The EU runs on the Microsoft stacks, last time we talked it was on MS Teams.

What I mean is the EU took a very central / leading role in many things in the last 5 years but it seems they have no idea what they are doing. It might actually be a system designed to integrate and fix economies post war (WWII and Cold war) but nothing more.
by kjellsbells | 2025-07-14 23:17:37+00:00
I worked in this space for a while, in the US. Outside of the major cities, Internet service falls off extremely quickly. Like, shockingly so: you can be as close as fifty miles from, say Philly or Flagstaff and have zero fiber, zero cell coverage, just nothing.

The people who attempt to fill these gaps are commonly rural telephone companies, electric cooperatives, tribal entities, or mom and pop shops where the owner grew up on a Ditch Witch and only knows as much IP networking as essential to light up the fiber and get the packets flowing upstream.

They are enormously resource constrained in ways you might not expect, too, eg operations can grind to a halt because everyone is out with a chainsaw after a storm, or because the Guy that Knew Stuff about their network died suddenly.

They are very, very unlikely to decide to run an IPv6 network just because. There's no upside that makes the juice worth the squeeze for them.
by Aloisius | 2025-07-14 23:18:52+00:00
The Nazis didn't actually need the pre-occupation data from the civil registry to easily find Jewish people.

In January of 1941, the Nazis ordered all Jews in the Netherlands to register themselves and virtually all of them, some 160,000, provided their name, address and information on any Jewish grandparents to the government.

If the lesson one learns from the Holocaust is that one shouldn't collect data just in case some genocidal group comes to power, then I fear one has learned the wrong lesson.
by thfuran | 2025-07-14 23:21:12+00:00
>exercise in general, is not your thing? You clearly have more pressing interests and there are other ways to maintain good health.

This is profoundly bad advice. Being completely sedentary is absolutely awful when it comes to health. A single anecdote of a person who didn’t exercise but didn’t die young is meaningless. I’m not going to recommend people take up smoking because my grandpa smoked for 60 years and is still alive at 95.
by hall0ween | 2025-07-14 23:21:59+00:00
Current data scientist here, working for a cloud consulting firm. Two things stand out from my experience: (1) my company isn't hiring, while the DS team is doing fine revenue wise, the rest of the company is doing poorly; so uncommunicated moratorium on hiring; (2) I interviewed at an AI company that I'm currently subcontracting under - and they like me - and I didn't get past the first round because their requirements are so high right now (aka I did mediocrely on one interview and that was enough to tank me).

All this is to say, GenAI is booming but there's competing factors going on for businesses to hire.

Also a different take, look for contract jobs. As with (1) above, my company isn't hiring FT but they're open to contractors.

I wish you luck.
by toss1 | 2025-07-14 23:22:07+00:00
>>adding qualifying criteria

It is not merely adding qualifying criteria, it is setting qualifications AND sortition to select legislators and executives.

>>solve a problem that hasn't been demonstrated to exist ...The main threat to a well-functioning society are people acting in bad faith.

Your second sentence there is entirely correct, and specifically disproves the first. We have a problem

>>we should test it at a smaller scale, such as a city for instance

100% agree, we should test and adjust any changes before scaling up

>>start without any criteria and see if that works well enough

We've pretty much demonstrated that it doesn't

>>uneducated people may not be very effective in coming up with solutions, but their presence is important to remind educated people of their existence.

We do not need to hand uneducated people the keys to power to be reminded of their existence, any more than we should give loaded handguns to toddlers to be reminded of their existence. Intelligent people suitable for leadership can remember the existence of both just fine, thank you. Moreover, with qualified sortition, the selection is random so it is highly likely that qualified, educated, accomplished people who are adjacent to people with issues will be p[ut in power and able to do something for them
by lukev | 2025-07-14 23:22:24+00:00
This effect is well known but not well documented so far, so great job here.

It's actually even more significant than it's possible to benchmark easily (though I'm glad this paper has done so.)

Truly useful LLM applications live at the boundaries of what the model can do. That is, attending to some aspect of the context that might be several logical "hops" away from the actual question or task.

I suspect that the context rot problem gets much worse for these more complex tasks... in fact, exponentially so for each logical "hop" which is required to answer successfully. Each hop compounds the "attention difficulty" which is increased by long/distracting contexts.
by creddit | 2025-07-14 23:22:33+00:00
OpenAI - DoD invested in them and now I guess you agree with it!

Anthropic - same as above

xAI - same as above

CoreWeave - Doesn't make LLMs

Glean - Doesn't make LLMs (wow this startup investing thing might be harder than for you than you thought!)

Perplexity - Has finetuned LLama models AFAIK. Maybe you think Meta should've gotten the nod from DoD as well?

PlayAI - AFAIK only voices

Cohere - Not sure if they are LLama or otherwise

Cyera - Doesn't make LLMs

Replit - Doesn't make LLMs

Windsurf - Doesn't make LLMs

Mistral - Does make LLMs, you got one! Is French, though.

Anysphere - They make an IDE called Cursor

Scale - Doesn't make LLMs, basically a Meta subsidiary (you really must have wanted Meta to get the nod too!)

Harvey - Legal focus, not general

Thinking Machines - Mira Murati's company, just started 5mos ago, no public products. Definitely don't fit your definition of "has revenue"

helsing - Hadn't heard of them, are German.

Cluely - LOL

Suno - If the DoD gets into music generation this would be a great choice.

Clay - Don't know them, doubt they have LLMs.

Crunchbase - lol is correct

Lubega Geoffery - No idea

Caris LIfe Sciences - Life sciences doesn't sound right!

C3 AI - Scam

Runway - Media generation, not general use

LangChain - Doesn't make LLMs

Rigetti Computing - Dude, come on. They're a quantum computing company

Cowbell - Don't know them, but a google shows they're an insurance company lol

Almost all the rest don't even have anything to do with AI. So all-in-all, nearly a complete failure at suggesting even close to 20 alternatives for the DoD to invest in. Your answer didn't even hit US companies that do have some alternatives: Meta, MSFT, AMZN, SSI maybe?
by sabdelrahman | 2025-07-14 23:23:50+00:00
Author here. This post is about how quality metrics can mislead us, if all we’re worried about is sharing green dashboards.

I’ve seen teams celebrate green dashboards while their product quietly decays. Metrics can be useful, but only if you also know what they’re not telling you.

Curious how others have tried to make quality visible without turning it into performance theater?