MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johschmitz | 2025-07-10 12:18:56+00:00
At the end of the day you often need to consider the energy efficiency of a system which is also reflected in the cost of operating it. For use cases where this is relevant the suggested MCP approach potentially offers large benefits compared to what's probably meant here by "AI". However, the disadvantages of public access discussed in other threads need to be considered as well, therefore, I expected this only to be used for certain niche use cases. Testing and retro fitting non-public websites come to mind.
by Asraelite | 2025-07-10 12:19:32+00:00
> I understand the point but I wouldn't use the term "echo chamber" anymore.

This doesn't sound it would accomplish much. You're essentially starting a euphemism treadmill. Start calling it a foo, right-wingers will start complaining that everything is a foo.

The solution is learning (and teaching others) that if a term is co-opted by a group who abuse it for their own goals, that doesn't retroactively change the intended meaning when the term is used by other groups in good faith. It's obvious what Kagi meant here, and that's all that should matter.
by db48x | 2025-07-10 12:19:48+00:00
Yes, Congress should probably revisit the threshold. But all thresholds are arbitrary, and for this purpose a hundred million is arguably as good as any. It’s not the end of the world if they only do that every few decades. In fact I would argue that instead of being inflation adjusted, the threshold should be adjusted so that the FTC always has to do a review on some percentage of their new rules. But simplicity has a lot going for it too.

> All it takes is a couple of bad actor companies…

Keep in mind that this threshold is not about bad actors at all. It’s about the impact to the legitimate companies that are not defrauding people at all. The FTC estimated that there were over a hundred thousand companies that would be effected by these new rules, and possibly that there were 5× that. As the judge noted, the implementation cost of these new rules would have to be less than $1000 _per company_ in order for it to be below the threshold. That’s two days of an average engineer’s salary, or even less if they’re getting paid well instead of just average. And since the rules involve more than just adding a button to your webpage the work involved would need to be done by more than just an engineer.

And hitting that threshold is no bad thing, since it just means that the FTC has to allow an extra public comment period with the specific purpose of coming up with alternative rules. If any of those alternative rules would be effective but cheaper to implement then the FTC is supposed to drop their own rules and adopt the alternative rules instead. That keeps the cost down for the legitimate companies while still allowing the FTC to go after the illegitimate ones that aren’t going to bother following the rules anyway.
Show HN: 120 AI Chat – Native cross-platform AI chat app
by 120-dev | 2025-07-10 12:20:09+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been building 120 AI Chat, a native cross platform app (macOS - ready, Windows and Linux - coming soon) designed for working with multiple AI models in a fast and clean interface.

The latest release (0.3.0) includes:

- Anthropic and Open AI support via your own API key

- Local models via Ollama: Llama 3.2, Mistral, Deepseek R1, and Gemma 3

- Multi-threaded chat: branch off conversations without losing context

- Chat settings: context limit, temperature, penalties, top-p, output tokens

- Message tools: edit, delete, copy

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- [120 Email](https://120.dev/120-email): AI-assisted native email client

- [120 Table](https://120.dev/120-table): Table UI with built-in charting

- [120 HN](https://120.dev/120-hn): A free native Hacker News reader

Thanks for checking out and I would love to hear your feedback.
by redleader55 | 2025-07-10 12:20:11+00:00
I have a few big problems with this ruling:

1. The sum. You are tracked and you get shown some ads. How does that causes you 5k EUR in damages?

2. Responsibility. If a site decides to add tracking or ads from a company, is only the ads company responsible for the tracking and damages?

3. Many of the services on the internet are free or cheaper because of ads. Because of that I find the attitude of the judges making these rulings disingenuous.

4. How much of this is outrage against American companies caused by the rift between US and Europe?
by chrismorgan | 2025-07-10 12:20:41+00:00
OK, initial feedback: you need to work on your colours and contrasts. Disabled Previous button isn’t clearly disabled, placeholder value looks almost the same as an actual value, focus indicator is too subtle. I reckon these things are noticeably harder to get right on dark than on light colour schemes.

Also keyboard navigation is poor: when you shift to a new page, you should probably focus the first field; or at the very least reset focus to the start of the document so that when the user presses Tab after having clicked the Next button they get to the first field, not the footer “Powered by Ikiform” link. (This doesn’t affect pressing Enter from one of the inputs—when they disappear, focus shifts back to the top.)

But I’m pleased to say that it’s nothing like Typeform. I strongly recommend ditching any comparison with it, you’re doing things sanely, unlike their experience.
by berkes | 2025-07-10 12:20:49+00:00
I'd wager that this is marked as "by design" because it technically follows some IMAP spec. What the app does, purely on a technical level, is correct.

I've so often had debates and threads in issues where a developer entrenched in a domain has so much domain-knowledge (ie. tunnel vision) that "technically correct" or "by the spec" is the only correct way. I've been that developer in many cases too, in hindsight.
by consumer451 | 2025-07-10 12:20:59+00:00
I was about to post this as well. The reason being that I think it's important to see the best of what is possible with these tools.

Film/video is one of the most compelling mediums we have, and it is extremely interesting to see the bar being lowered for its production. This project wasn't just magically created by "AI," just enabled by it.

Link to list of tools used: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1lvtwj3/i_used_ai_...
by briangriffinfan | 2025-07-10 12:21:15+00:00
I get more and more exhausted every time I see the, to give a hyperbolic comparison, "The momentum generated by our economy of scale means we really have no choice but to keep the orphan-crushing machine going."

I may be an old man yelling at the clouds here, but I just wish "Maybe the fact that they're trying to be so big that problems like this become inevitable" were rhetorically explored more.
by natmaka | 2025-07-10 12:23:39+00:00
The BWRX seems way more adequate (safer, more affordable)...

Let's check!

Hitachi Nuclear, hard hit by the reactor shutdown in Japan following Fukushima, canceled projects, even in Europe (inherited through the acquisition of Horizon Nuclear Power) and even their R&D for Generation 3 (ABWR).

Their overall move is moving them away from the energy sector (abandoning their wind turbine division in 2020).

The deal with GE ("GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy") dates back to 2007 and has produced nothing to date: these large industrial companies (inertia...) with very different and poorly complementary cultures have not worked together, and none will be permanently based on the soil of their first customer (Canada).

The combination of their resources and weak hopes will accentuate the difficulty of orchestrating a large two-headed project: Areva NP (French+German), worse.

The BWRX design is truly innovative and very recent; no examples exist.

Specification adjustments demanded on the fly by the safety authority will likely rain down, delaying and increasing the cost of the project.

The client will be sensitive to this, having already suffered this (at Darlington, the host plant itself) and is experienced (Darlington has been in operation for 30 years).

The customer is strict (their nuclear power is renowned for its good performance), well-positioned to benefit from the advice of US and French safety agencies (whose relevant institutes are interested in SMRs), and perhaps a little bitter about not being able to deploy their national CANDU.

This SMR model has been optimized to be low-cost (series effect), which could (the magnitude of the side effects of certain modifications) make it difficult to adapt despite its modularity.

I see a recipe for disaster likely to make the 4 EPR projects and Vogtle look like resounding successes.
by pornel | 2025-07-10 12:24:40+00:00
You could get 100% on the benchmark with an SQL query that pulls the answers from the dataset, but it wouldn't mean your SQL query is more capable than LLMs that didn't do as well in this benchmark.

We want benchmarks to be representative of performance in general (in novel problems with novel data we don't have answers for), not merely of memorization of this specific dataset.
by ljm | 2025-07-10 12:24:41+00:00
I'm sure I saw this gem posted a few days ago (maybe not on HN?) and at the time all the docs were in one mahoosive README.

I think it's a massive improvement that it's been broken down into chapters in a docs folder. I can take or leave the writing style but do miss the old whimsy of _why and his poignant guide to ruby. The examples are great and quite thorough.
by therealpygon | 2025-07-10 12:25:35+00:00
I’d say it was entirely incorrect. PKI and attestation are things done by the manufacturer using a publish open standard. Manufacturers are not required to certify anything or pay a single royalty. Certification is optional and has other benefits which includes jointing the Thread Group (which steers the standard); the costs are simply a way of funding both the certification process (which requires people) and the Group, which also provides support and other resources (which again, requires people).

Basically, it’s not much different than when an Open Source project is supported by a company that separately offers an “Enterprise” option where they host the application and provide additional Enterprise features and support. It’s not required, but a business might choose to do it.
Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built the future
by wdharmon | 2025-07-10 12:26:12+00:00
LinkedIn has become a carnival of fake engagement, spammy DMs, and job listings that lead nowhere.

After years of watching my resume vanish into the abyss of the "Jobs" tab, I realized it was time for something new.

I’m not alone. I surveyed 1,000 recent college grads—and the vast majority shared the same frustration: Why is there no platform that helps candidates stand out, instead of blend in?

So I built userpitch: a candidate-first public platform where people can showcase who they are—not just what they've done—through short, voice-based elevator pitches.

No feeds. No spam. No corporate jargon. Just real humans, real potential, and real opportunities.

I’m looking to collaborate with both companies and job seekers who believe the hiring process should be more personal, transparent, and human. Let’s build the future of recruiting—together.

All feedback is welcome! Please and thank you!
by infecto | 2025-07-10 12:26:19+00:00
Like all things in life it’s about balance. If you are to say things like the person I replied to says he does you are ultimately creating friction for absolutely no gain. Hence why I said being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic or in other words, being difficult for no good reason. There is a time and place for everything but over a decade plus of working and building many different APIs I see no benefit.

I cannot even recall a time where it caused me enough issues to even think about it later on. The business logic. I have had moments where I thought something was strange in a Elasticsearch API but again it was of no consequence.
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-10 12:26:43+00:00
> To be honest, when people start talking about "echo chambers" it's usually because they are upset that I won't listen to bigoted alt-right hate.

Good observation! Just like people who talk about peace treaties or cease fires are always enemy agents trying to weaken our resolve. But they can't fool you and me, we're smarter than that.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-10 12:26:54+00:00
>Let's say HN were full of edgy comments, memes and flame wars.

Ackshually, edgy meme websites with no moderation don't have any flame wars since everyone there is on the same page.

Flame wars are in places like HN where moderation is heavily one sided and arbitrary, while pretending to be objective and inclusive.
by lnsru | 2025-07-10 12:27:17+00:00
First 15-20 years old Siemens panels come off the roofs right now in Germany. Still having 2/3 of the rated power generation capability. Absolutely fascinating thing. And since they cost more or less nothing it would make absolutely sense to install them in some lower cost of living area in southern Europe. I can get the panels in Germany, who wants to take over the southern Europe part?
by anenefan | 2025-07-10 12:27:42+00:00
I think those who surf the web and really like their coffee knew last year wholesale prices for coffee were on the way up. [1] [2] Speculation was something that was bound to happen.

The futures market is supposed to offer product stability / availability but from what I've seen of it, more often it leads to the demise of farmers if they are on contract to a large trading body or conglomerate which likely can still profit at far lower margins.

[1] https://www.gcrmag.com/reality-hit-brazils-coffee-industry-s... (31st Oct 2024)

[2] https://coffeetalk.com/daily-dose/top-news/09-2024/104672/ (Coffee Prices on the Boil as Natural Disasters Decimate Crops - 23rd Sept 2024)
by nop_slide | 2025-07-10 12:27:43+00:00
Love seeing this is a true “SPA”, a literal single index.html page built using one of my favorite little libraries Alpine.js

https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/blob/main/src/inde...

My pendulum has swung so far away from react and its ilk that this is refreshing to see.
by pyman | 2025-07-10 12:27:45+00:00
The best way to avoid echo chambers is to actively seek out a mix of perspectives, even the ones you don’t agree with. But only very intelligent people do this. A tool like this can help by providing multiple sources and showing different sides.

However, this tool doesn't let you ask questions or dig deeper into the context, it's mostly summaries and headlines. Asking questions is actually one of the best ways to avoid echo chambers. But then again, whoever controls the model controls the narrative. That's exactly why Google and Microsoft have poured billions into this tech. Without Microsoft's infra (and "the Gates demo"), ChatGPT probably wouldn't even exist, or it'd just be another research project.

The only downside I see in trying to improve news is that news conglomerates often sue developers or big tech companies. Google, for example, was sued over its Google News operations.
by verandaguy | 2025-07-10 12:29:37+00:00
Quanta is a pretty popular, popular science outlet. It tends to be closer to the theory than (capital P, S) Popular Science magazine, but ultimately much of what they publish is digested to a degree for lay consumption.

They had an article just the other day about a more optimal sphere packing that was up my alley as a technical (programmer) person with a casual interest in broader pure math.

They do sensationalize a bit as a side effect of their process though, no argument there.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-07-10 12:30:34+00:00
Extensions and VPNs have been doing this for years, it's not a secret. Where I worked we paid a proxy/scraping company that also offered 'stealth' scraping using residential IPs. They got those IPs using techniques like these extensions.

Chrome web store changed its policy years ago to prohibit these with the rationale that an extension should have a single purpose. Apparently their scanning tools aren't enforcing the policy strictly enough.
by ColinWright | 2025-07-10 12:30:37+00:00
From the post where I saw this:

"A developer managed to reverse pixelation in video using FFmpeg, GIMP and edge detection - no AI involved.

"By analyzing motion and edges across frames, they could reconstruct original content from blurred areas.

"It’s a reminder: pixelation is visual, not secure."

-- https://mathstodon.xyz/@DevOpsPink@mastodon.social/114824580...

De-referenced: https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/114824580363645831
by pas | 2025-07-10 12:30:43+00:00
they were shit all along, but the energy (and productivity) surplus allowed for decades of amazing growth, which created the feeling of prosperity

unfortunately most people doesn't understand (and as a consequence doesn't appreciate) how little wealth we have compared to capacity, in other words how much upkeep we do to maintain that wealth

and now that it's time to scale back the waste a bit people are up in arms
by bonoboTP | 2025-07-10 12:31:02+00:00
Still, it may be surprising to learn that these weren't doing their famous work within the university system: Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Leibniz, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Leeuwenhoek, Halley, Spinoza, Hobbes, Cavendish.

Kepler didn't get a professorship and did his most famous work (elliptical orbits, Kepler's Laws) later in Prague as imperial mathematician.

Newton is the main one who indeed was a prof in Cambridge during his main works.
by simondotau | 2025-07-10 12:31:17+00:00
I think it's far more likely there are a tiny handful of mid-tier unhinged sycophants among those 1000 employees who think that pleasing Elon means polluting the model to make Grok an unhinged sycophant, because that's what an unhinged sycophant would think to do.

Elon explicitly ordering this? Press X to doubt.
by db48x | 2025-07-10 12:31:24+00:00
“The commissioner sees it as important that his government department actually follows the rules as written down by Congress” seems like a fairer interpretation.

Congress literally wrote “You must do X when Y”, and the FTC said “Well, probably Y isn’t true anyway, so we can skip doing X”. It’s true that Y involves an estimate, since there’s no way to calculate the exact number, but their estimate was clearly cooked with the specific purpose of letting them rush.

The new rules seem like good rules, too, so it’s really a shame that they decided that it was more important to rush than to do it right. That makes the old commissioner a bungler at best.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-10 12:31:44+00:00
Iterating on less bad still goes bad with time. The fact that you've boiled the frog slowly doesn't mean the frog is any less boiled than if some extremist shows up and sticks their dick in various sectors of the economy in a short time period.

If anything the slow boil is worse because it more thoroughly cements the dysfunction as people eek out various niches within it.

The "neoliberal" approach that you are advocating for has been done for the past 50-100yr depending on were you want to measure the start and the results are all around us. Just because things can get worse doesn't mean the current approach and it's peddlers aren't all some combination of wrong and/or evil.

Fractional central planning, which is basically what the current approach aims for with it's carrot and stick policy solution to literally everything, is still central planning. It just gets co-opted and fails slower so instead of the 2nd or 3rd iteration of decision makers sending it all to hell it's the 12th or 13th or whatever. Whatever the level of sustainable central planning is is clearly less than we have now.
by kouteiheika | 2025-07-10 12:31:48+00:00
Ah, so you explicitly asked it to be racist as part of a roleplay, and now you're surprised that it was racist? If you'd prefer a model which would instead refuse and patronize you then there are plenty of other options.

As long as it doesn't do it in a normal conversation there's nothing wrong with having a model that's actually uncensored and will do what you ask of it. I will gladly die on this hill.
by Defletter | 2025-07-10 12:32:05+00:00
> To be honest, when people start talking about "echo chambers" it's usually because they are upset that I won't listen to bigoted alt-right hate.

Agreed, though they aren't necessarily using that term in recent years. Nowadays they tend to use terms that evoke "echo chamber" without actually saying it, like "woke mind virus" and "groupthink". And while I agree with some of the other comments that "echo chamber" has since been more used to refer to algorithms, this might be a result of being on Hacker News, which is an echo chamber in itself. I do have a somewhat instinctual aversion to the term "echo chamber" though given its prolific use as a thought-terminating cliche.
by psychoslave | 2025-07-10 12:32:05+00:00
>The reality emerges from the collision of different viewpoints and perspectives - that's how we separate signal from noise.

No, representations, not reality is what is obtained from this process. Reality is the encompassing whole where these processes happen and whose absolute actual relevant interpretation is beyond what the most sophisticated educated intelligent human will either be able to grab.

I agree this is being very picky about words, and generally speaking, sure shame on me to bring to much focus on such a triviality. But in this specific case of a public announcement of how a company is going to greatly improve news, I feel like it's very relevant that they consider their words with caution.

All that said, good chance to them in the endeavor, that's a nice goal.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-10 12:32:06+00:00
I have to wonder, how long until the browsers just natively do this.

Gets around the AI blockers that CloudFlare is pushing with the added benefit of seeing information that a crawler would never see.

Just hide it behind an "AI Browser" that just sends everything your browser sees to the cloud anyways for processing...

Throw in some vague "privacy" promise for good measure.

(I realize this is being more sneaky and doing stuff in the background, but my question remains)
Docker supports AI agents, introduces GPU‑powered cloud service
by djdto | 2025-07-10 12:32:35+00:00
Big move from Docker here adding support for defining AI agents directly in Compose files, plus a new cloud “Offload” service for GPU workloads. Seems like they’re aiming to make agentic and AI-based apps as easy to deploy as microservices were a decade ago. Curious how folks see this fitting into existing workflows—or if people have tried the beta yet?

https://devclass.com/2025/07/10/docker-adds-ai-agents-to-compose-along-with-gpu-powered-cloud-offload-service/
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-10 12:32:37+00:00
You're reasoning from a standpoint that LLMs must have permissions to do everything. That's where you're going awry.

If they don't, they can't.

They don't need to have blanket access to be useful.

And even when sensitive actions need to be exposed, HITL per-sensitive-action authorization ("LLM would like to ____. Approve/deny?") and authorization predicated on non-LLM systems ("Is there an active change request with an open period?"), to toss out a couple trivial examples, are on the table.

Things like this aren't being done now, because initial LLM integrations are lazy and poorly thought out by the dev teams, from a security perspective. (Read: management demanding AI now)
by Scott-Synaptech | 2025-07-10 12:32:39+00:00
I’m Scott, the author of OverflowSort. This algorithm emerged from a low-level experiment in using simulated integer overflows as a natural mechanism for sorting — sort of like "hardware tick-based" sorting.

I’ve benchmarked it against qsort and radix sort on real-world data. SIMD versions are included. Still refining the performance at scale — open to ideas and optimizations. I couldn't find anything similar so not sure if it is new or not.

Repo: https://github.com/SynaptechLabs/overflowSort

Happy to answer any technical or low-level systems questions!