MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-20 13:33:17+00:00
"The issue where I am is that all adoption agencies facilitating adoptions from other countries have shutdown. All of them because of massive scandals where the adopted children was more or less sold or the parents where lied to."

Specifically, American parents tried to return to sender a kid they didnt like. Ie they thought they deserved a kid.

"Adoption from abroad is tricky at best, and now it's no longer possible. [...] That's not to say that there aren't children being adopted, but the waiting list is 10+ years."

Being a parent is a about giving yourself away. If you cant do that you're not ready or suitable for a kid.

"Most children are placed in foster care, which is very different."

Who deserve loving families.

Look, I haven't adopted a foster kid: because Im scared Im not good enough; I admit it. But let's not pretend that there aren't a plethora of kids in need of families that we must have IVF for those who are not capable of conceiving their own.
by mbrumlow | 2025-07-20 13:33:28+00:00
No. I refuse to play your silly game that everything reduces race based of twisted reasons. It’s nonsensical reasoning that nobody with a line of reason should ever have to put up with.

Beyond that you are also horridly wrong. Age is not the only exclusion today.

1. Age is one. 2. Being not disqualified: not having certain felony conviction, or being judged mentally incompetent to vote (depends on state) 3. Residency in the state you are voting 4. Being a citizen.

While 18 year olds can make informed decisions they also are super capable to manipulate into making super bad decisions. Queue student loan crisis. But beyond that making school going age people capable of voting will reduce our ability to educate further by making schools and places of leaning battle grounds for political beliefs, which regardless is the leaning that wins will only result in a worse education.
Ask HN: US expats/nomads, how do you find remote-out-of-US jobs in US?
by rudnevr | 2025-07-20 13:34:57+00:00
Given most remote jobs assume or prerequisite US soil, how do you find a job/niche which hires worldwide? UPD. It's not about legal side, but rather how to identify those HRs and hiring managers who open to hire a US citizen living in another country.
by taneq | 2025-07-20 13:35:19+00:00
Seems like it would be a survival trait in the wild. Doubling back reduces your exploration rate (you're not updating your map as much and you're less likely to spot some new snack) while increasing your exposure to unknown predators that might have been alerted but not positively identified you the first time. There's still good reasons to double back, like trying to outwit a known, active pursuer or evader, or being in a very hazardous environment. All else being equal, though, I'd think continuing forward would be more beneficial overall.
by steveBK123 | 2025-07-20 13:35:25+00:00
Part of it may be matching to the use case.

Men will buy a shirt and wear it until its seams break in 2-10 years.

Women will buy blouses or dresses with cuts/colors that only work in certain seasons to be worn for a specific occasion that won’t come to pass again soon.

Now where women have more trouble is just in the utility work wear shopping space because that clothing is utilized frequently and until it fails.
by antirez | 2025-07-20 13:36:15+00:00
Yep when I use agents I go for Claude Code. For example I needed to buy too many Commodore 64 than appropriate lately, and I let it code a Telegram bot advising me when popular sources would have interesting listings. It worked (after a few iterations) then I looked at the code base and wanted to puke but who cares in this case? It worked and it was much faster and I had zero to learn in the proces of doing it myself. I published a Telegram library for C in the past and know how it works and how to do scraping and so forth.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-20 13:36:29+00:00
Communism has been tried many times always with severe quality issues. But my point isn't just about communism. You have to run a different argument for mercantilism, command economies, mixed economies, barter economies, etc.

The fact that people have historically tried devaluing currency for as long as they've had currency suggests that there's a force that favors attempting to sell inferior goods without decreasing price and that this force predates the industrial revolution.

> So if you were referring to China... they are the world's foremost capitalists right now.

This is the same logic by which communists called socialists who believed in democracy "fascists". It's just an attempt to excommunicate people from the church if their interpretation is different from yours.
Ask HN: How do you validate a product idea before building?
by Husena | 2025-07-20 13:36:37+00:00
I spent months building a product that nobody wanted. A classic, painful lesson.

For my next project, I want to avoid this at all costs. My question is: What's your most effective method for validating an idea before writing a significant amount of code?

Not just "cool idea" comments, but real signals of commitment.

I'm considering a platform where founders offer steep lifetime deals to get their first 100 committed users (via email sign-up) before they build. Think of it as a "Kickstarter for SaaS ideas," focused on validation, not funding.

Would you use something like this? What's the most obvious flaw I'm missing?

I'm open to all brutally honest feedback.
by EmilyJM | 2025-07-20 13:36:45+00:00
Idk if its just me but it seems the link to the article is not working, I believe this is the original https://fortune.com/2025/07/20/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxi-serv... . Honestly really excited in general for the expansion of driverless vehicle services like robotaxi/waymo, but I am a bit cautious on the robotaxi camera only approach (correct me if I’m wrong) compared to Waymo’s combination of LiDAR, radar and camera
by maxglute | 2025-07-20 13:37:03+00:00
OP is flat out wrong. Some SKUs got value engineered to be less durable over time to keep up with inflation (or material costs, i.e. solid wood is just more expensive now), i.e. expedite->kallax, billy. But new SKU enabled by new tech/manufacturing processes like their power coated steel / stamped metal pieces are absurd dollar per quality relative to engineered or even solid wood. Of course it's not to everyone's taste, but fundamental reality if ones taste is solid wood, that material is no longer abundant/cheap/affordable, like how we use to feed lobsters to prisoners. A $90 heavy duty BROR shelf is ~$30 IN 1990 DOLLARS, about a cost of a Billy back then, except it's larger and much stronger.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-20 13:38:00+00:00
Are you asking outside the context of the home surveillance cams? just whether it's possible to prevent backdoors to your iphone camera?

IME you have no control over the baseband chip of a cell phone, no reason to trust it's not enabling its camera or microphone at any time. I have a flip phone which comes in a non-camera version. I have an iphone without a SIM I can connect to its hotspot if I need to do something smartphoney.
by constantcrying | 2025-07-20 13:38:08+00:00
This "unknown phenomenon" is so unknown that it is one of the most discussed topics in behavioral psychology. Even in popular science it is well known.

Some of the most well known books about psychology, like "thinking fast and slow", describe how humans act seemingly irrational under various scenarios. Finding another example is the exact opposite of "unidentified".

Surely the researchers must be aware of the discourse and the competing theories to explain the thousands of other examples of this?
by jasoneckert | 2025-07-20 13:38:18+00:00
The gap is widening largely because the maintainer left the project due to the Linux kernel rust drama. But there is still plenty of very talented contributors who have taken over. That, combined with a rapidly growing interest to run Linux on Apple Silicon instead of macOS, will likely result in faster development over the next few years.

But for me, the long term momentum of new platforms as they release doesn't matter - what IS supported is excellent (including the brilliant GPU driver).

My Mac Studio M1 Ultra runs Fedora Asahi Remix perfectly with full support and is exactly what I need. So those who are looking for a fast Apple Silicon system that can run Linux natively will save $$ and buy a used M1/M2 from Apple or otherwise.
by randallsquared | 2025-07-20 13:38:19+00:00
The curves largely break about 1971 across a wide set of areas, but the energy connection is interesting. J Storrs Hall argues in "Where is My Flying Car?" that the proximate cause is breaking the increasing availability of energy per person, which could only have been continued with very widespread nuclear, and that the turn from nuclear was a symptom of a culture of increasing regulation and excess caution, such that the only major industry that escaped the trap in the 70s and continued existing growth curves was computing.

Now that computing has advanced sufficiently and is being applied to everything else, we're finally getting sudden, major advances again in other areas (electric and autonomous cars, drones, reusable rockets, pharma...), but computing is in the race against smothering that most industries lost in the 20th, and it remains to be seen whether stagnation or abundance will win.

A side note is the resurgence of nuclear, and supersonic flight, etc, which suggests that maybe the problem was more about post-war culture than a systemic turn away from growth and prosperity... we'll see!
by spwa4 | 2025-07-20 13:39:14+00:00
Colonialism ENDED the genocide that was going on in most of Africa before the Ottoman empire was defeated. A genocide generally referred in older texts as "the islamic slave trade", because islamic economies were entirely dependent on the slave trade for more than a millenium, oh and because it's part of the religion/state that islam was at the time.

Economically it was quite accurate to say that the islamic slave trade WAS islam. As in, everything else was a rounding error. Even now, because the slave trade is still easily 95% of the entire existence of the religion.

For "some" reason people are now trying to rename it "African slave trade". Not at all to get people to focus on the 1% of slaves that went to work in western colonies in the New World (which is what Americans historically called it).
by canucker2016 | 2025-07-20 13:39:22+00:00
According to Tim Paterson's blog and Paul Allen autobiography, MS bought SCP's QDOS on 1981 July 27 (MS had a non-exclusive license for QDOS to sell to OEMs). This is before the IBM PC release in August.

see https://web.archive.org/web/20190722012644/http://www.paters...
by shdon | 2025-07-20 13:39:38+00:00
I run several job boards, and though there hasn't yet been any postings requiring the candidate's using AI (also not all that likely in the particular field), I am noticing a definite increase in the number of lists with emoji preceding each bullet point, and the use of em dashes. Personally, if I were a job seeker, I'd find that off-putting just as much as if I were presented with the requirement to use AI in my job.
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-20 13:40:17+00:00
That's beautiful about your uncle. Becoming a well paid classical musician is very rare, he must be very good; your grandparents did well.

When I was in undergrad there was this 16 year old street urchin (for that's what he'd become) who'd hang out with us. He was a foster kid, and his was a life long story of abuse and neglect.

He was a nice kid too and, despite all the drugs he took, he could have been very smart.

What contrast good parents make.
by svat | 2025-07-20 13:40:18+00:00
Great set of observations, and indeed it's worth remembering that the specific details of assistance and setup make a difference of several orders of magnitude. And ha, he edited the last post in the thread to add this comment:

> Related to this, I will not be commenting on any self-reported AI competition performance results for which the methodology was not disclosed in advance of the competition. (3/3)

(This wasn't there when I first read the thread yesterday 18 hours ago; it was edited in 15 hours ago i.e. 3 hours later.)

It's one of the things to admire about Terence Tao: he's always insightful even when he comments about stuff outside mathematics, while always having the mathematician's discipline of not drawing confident conclusions when data is missing.

I was reminded of this because of a recent thread where some HN commenter expected him to make predictions about the future (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44356367). Also reminded of Sherlock Holmes (from A Scandal in Bohemia):

> “This is indeed a mystery,” I remarked. “What do you imagine that it means?”

> “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

Edit: BTW, seeing some other commentary (here and elsewhere) about these posts is very disappointing — even when Tao explicitly says he's not commenting about any specific claim (like that of OpenAI), many people seem to be eager to interpret his comments as being about that claim: people's tendency for tribalism / taking “sides” is so great that they want to read this as Tao caring about the same things they care about, rather than him using the just-concluded IMO as an illustration for the point he's actually making (that results are sensitive to details). In fact his previous post (https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114877789298562646) was about “There was not an official controlled competition set up for AI models for this year’s IMO […] Hopefully by next year we will have a controlled environment to get some scientific comparisons and evaluations” — he's specifically saying we cannot compare across different AI models so it's hard to say anything specific, yet people think he's saying something specific!
by al_borland | 2025-07-20 13:41:29+00:00
I check out some of their stuff and if I like their vibe or they make me laugh, I’ll go see them. I just make sure to only check out a joke or two, not a full set. I made that mistake once, where I saw a comic live, and after the first 5 minutes, I had heard every joke before. That wasn’t very fun.
Show HN: MCP that adds RAG for private repos
by wwdmaxwell | 2025-07-20 13:41:44+00:00
I know there’s a bunch of these tools already out there for public sources of info. I built this tool because I was getting frustrated by having to clone repos of libraries/APIs I'm using to be able to add them as context to the Cursor IDE (so that Cursor could use the most recent patterns). I would've preferred to just proxy GitHub search, but that seems to be limited to public repos via Copilot chat, and not available via graphql. This repo hosts a remote MCP server to facilitate a RAG query against an indexed GitHub repo. Indexing is performed via Cloudflare workflows, I’ve included info for how to deploy this in your own instance as I think having remotely accessible embeddings can be very useful for an organization.

[readme](https://github.com/edelauna/github-semantic-search-mcp/tree/...)
by quantumHazer | 2025-07-20 13:42:09+00:00
I'm going a little offtopic here, but I disagree with the OPs use of the term "PhD-level knowledge", although I have a huge amount of respect for antirez (beside that we are born in the same island).

This phrasing can be misleading and points to a broader misunderstanding about the nature of doctoral studies, which it has been influenced by the marketing and hype discourse surrounding AI labs.

The assertion that there is a defined "PhD-level knowledge" is pretty useless. The primary purpose of a PhD is not simply to acquire a vast amount of pre-existing knowledge, but rather to learn how to conduct research.
by MITSardine | 2025-07-20 13:43:06+00:00
I think this disregards the costs associated with using AI.

It used to be you could learn to program with a cheap old computer a majority of families can afford. It might have run slower, but you still had all the same tooling that's found on a professional's computer.

To use LLMs for coding, you either have to pay a third party for compute power (and access to models), or you have to provide it yourself (and use freely available ones). Both are (and IMO will remain) expensive.

I'm afraid this builds a moat around programming that will make it less accessible as a discipline. Kids won't just tinker they way into a programming career as they used to, if it takes asking for mom's credit card from minute 0.

As for HS + college providing a CS education using LLMs, spare me. They already don't do that when all it takes is a computer room with free software on it. And I'm not advocating for public funds to be diverted to LLM providers either.
by figassis | 2025-07-20 13:43:25+00:00
That is not a goal that can be shared without alienating the current workforce. So you can bet that goal was clearly stated at CXO level, and is being communicated/translated piece wise as let’s find out how much more productive we can get with AI. You’re going to find out about the goal once you reach it.

That is not to say you should work against your company, but bear in mind this is a goal and you should consider where you can add value outside of general code factory productivity and how for example you can become a force multiplier for the company.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-20 13:43:27+00:00
You seem to be arguing that Go is more popular than Rust, but that's not what we're talking about.

The claim made was "Go is the only popular modern language (ie from this millennium)"

That's a binary, either a programming language is "modern" (from this millennium) or not and either it is "popular" (undefined) or it is not, Go is popular and modern according to the claim.

On your lists you find Go is anywhere from 7th to 13th in popularity. So apparently "popular" might mean 9th like Ada on TIOBE's list right? Or maybe "modern" includes Typescript, on several of these lists?

No, the whole contrivance is silly. Go is a relatively popular modern language, nobody is surprised to discover that. Is it the most popular? No. Is it the most modern? Also no.
by l0b0 | 2025-07-20 13:43:52+00:00
No mention of value engineering? Isn't that what every big company does to a successful product? Barely-noticeable quality decreases compound over years, and more noticeable ones are rationalized away as necessary for survival. It doesn't take a genius to see where that leads.

Also enshittification, the more general trend where an initial offering is excellent, maybe even provided at a loss, to spread the word and provide great feedback, and then more and more money is squeezed out of it while riding consumer satisfaction lag, until the offering is taken behind the shed and mercy killed.
by dtagames | 2025-07-20 13:43:57+00:00
It likely died for 3 reasons, all related. First, it only supported the Amazon app store, not Google Play, and no one cares about that.

Second, Google decides what versions of Android get the Play Store and not all "open" versions qualify. Google telemetry and other stuff are required, so MS would never get the Play Store.

Finally, Google itself supports publishing Android apps directly on Windows through their Google Play Games packaging method. [0]

[0] https://play.google.com/googleplaygames
by antirez | 2025-07-20 13:44:21+00:00
Agree with that. Read it as expert-level knowledge without all the other stuff LLMs can’t do as well as humans. LLMs way to express knowledge is kinda of alien as it is different, so indeed those are all poor simplifications. For instance an LLM can’t code as well as a top human coder but can write a non trivial program from the first to the last character without iterating.
by jjav | 2025-07-20 13:44:25+00:00
> However, a common experience for me is that I own something of good quality from 5/10/15 years ago and now buy the successor model from the same brand, but the product has gotten worse, being cheaper made.

Yes, absolutely. Quality has gone down across the board in nearly everything. What has gone up is more features. So at a high level comparison it seems like the newer thing does a lot more than the older same thing. Which is true, but that is not a measure of quality. Many of the added features are gimmicks that provide no meaningful value and at the same time the product is far more brittle and built much cheaper, so the overall quality is far lower.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-20 13:44:31+00:00
>> Government failure and cultural malaise are what "late stage capitalism" predicts. It then predicts a collapse of the whole thing under its own weight.

> If capitalism gives what the market demands, then you are suggesting that The People want government failure and malaise

You are both correct here. Obviously people don't want malaise directly, but some directly seek government failure, and the rest vote for things that result in malaise and government failure, wittingly or otherwise. Often such voters do so because they think it will get them more money, which is a reasonable desire under capitalism.

> Hopeless and failed ideologies (Communism/Socialism)

Oh, I didn't realize till the end that you were treating this discussion as a team thing, and capitalism is "your team", so you must attack "the other team", even though nobody else mentioned it. Maybe instead of treating "the other team" as something nice to hold on to and use as your scarecrow for anything bad you see in the world, you can keep discussing the substance of things? You did a good job of this for a bit.
by rs186 | 2025-07-20 13:45:17+00:00
When I vibe coded with GitHub Copilot in TypeScript, it keeps using "any" even though those variables had clear interfaces already defined somewhere in the code. This drove me crazy, as I had to go in and manually fix all those things. The only thing that helps a bit is me screaming "DO NOT EVER USE 'any' TYPE". I can't understand why it would do this.
by daquisu | 2025-07-20 13:45:25+00:00
> The "You are an expert software engineer" really helps?

Anecdata, but it weirdly helped me. Seemed BS for me until I tried.

Maybe because good code is contextual? Sample codes to explain concepts may be simpler than a production ready code. The model may have the capability to do both but can't properly disguished the correct thing to do.

I don't know.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-20 13:45:28+00:00
> For most of history, people believed the opposite. For thousands of years, people in every major civilization believed that there WAS an objective notion of quality (i.e. value). The idea that these things are purely subjective is a very recent concept in human history.

Value has always been subjective, people in previous eras simply didn’t have the tools or technology to figure it out as quickly as today.

For example, IKEA furniture does 99% of the job for 90% of the people at less than 50% of the price of what was previously known as “quality” furniture.

The amount of money IKEA has saved me afforded multiple vacations, plus it is easier to move. So is it lower “value”?

Lots of people like to gripe about lower quality houses today. But I don’t want a house that lasts 500 years. I want a house that I can easily modify or repair that lets wireless signals through the wall, with drywall, wood studs, PEX piping, etc. And it will be a lot cheaper than a house built with masonry.