MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tolerance | 2025-07-12 23:16:03+00:00
My friend (we're friends now, and that makes you middle-aged by association):

I hope it didn't seem like I was advancing premises that you never proposed outright. I was derived that premise on my own. I take full ownership of the words that you put in my mouth by the virtue of what you did say being thought-provoking.

And I ask you, if our brains can't tell the difference then what does turning it off actually achieve? If your self esteem or your sheer will to live is broken offline, going online does not solve this problem on its own. I'm speaking unconditionally and not in a way that can be made subject to circumstance.

If you feel ugly, or feel like dying, or feel anything, in a way that resonates with you at the very core of your being (and I know, I know, who's to say a supernatural "core of being" exists right?) then it's a wrap for you. It's going to take about as much effort to redeem yourself as it would if you were physically harmed in the street.

At the end, I don't think that what I'm saying is spectacular for anyone who has basic qualities of self-awareness and empathy (and I'm not saying that you're not one of them) or psychology (of which I am no savant and would even follow your lead to some extent if you have any trails to offer).

The point of contention is a matter of belief—ideologically and morally—and the depths that we're willing to go to scrutinize what gives us pleasure and why. In a way I think that this runs counterintuitive to the notions of "civil liberty" that pervade modern thought and any attempt to distinguish right from wrong on a scale greater than the individual makes the powder-wigged patriot in us quiver in our britches.

So there's that. I'm tapped.
by davidw | 2025-07-12 23:16:34+00:00
After having lived in Italy for years, there are some real upsides to being an American customer. Returning stuff that is genuinely not right in some way to a store in Italy is a huge PITA. Here? "I'd like to return this half-eaten thing of salsa, Costco" "sure, no problem!". Italy: "sorry, but grocery stores close on Wednesday afternoons and Sunday? Forget it!". That has subsequently changed, but it blew people's minds who weren't used to it.

I could spend a lot of time comparing the relative benefits and drawbacks of both countries.

The US has a lot of good things going for it which is what makes what is happening now all the more heartbreaking.
by bluehatbrit | 2025-07-12 23:17:59+00:00
Your comment is pretty meaningless without more specifics.

I switched to Firefox again back in 2017, I have 0 issues with it. If anything it's faster and less resources hungry than chrome in my usage. The extension ecosystem is now arguably better with MV3 being rolled out to chrome.

Probably the only annoying thing was learning where the buttons are in the devtools. They're all still there, just laid out differently. It took about a week to get to grips with that.

What exactly makes you say it's an awful browser?
by zikzak | 2025-07-12 23:19:35+00:00
I spent a very frustrating 20 minutes with someone this week (a nice person I like, which is why I spent this time) explaining that the Python code chatgpt had provided them would just copy files from one folder to another and was no different from using Windows drag and drop copy.

It would not do any of the things they thought (lots of parsing and file renaming that it took a while for them to articulate). We also discussed how the corporate IT would not be installing a Python interpreter on their computer. Oh what's that? Let me explain. And so on.

ChatGPT didn't help, in this situation, as it turned out.
by typewithrhythm | 2025-07-12 23:20:14+00:00
Migration is a policy issue, not some natural force like osmosis. It's entirely irrelevant why migrants want to come, when you have an existing population that is being harmed by migration policy.

It's simply that the wealthy benifit from increasing labour supply; this is the "enrichment" you get. Not an improvement in culture or conditions, an increase in wealth concentration.

It's entirely reasonable for a citizen in an English speaking nation to complain about other languages becoming common, as it is direct evidence of the migration policy that is doing them harm.
Show HN: Cellular-engine – ready-to-use backend for building coding agents
by vincor-qc | 2025-07-12 23:20:51+00:00
I've been playing around with building specialized programming agents recently, and found that there weren't many useful libraries that provided a solid backend for out of the box development.

So I built a general purpose backend for building coding agents here: https://github.com/vincent-qc/cellular-engine

The project is built on top of the gemini-cli, and exposes its backend as an express integration. We provide engine() and stream(), which abstracts exposing the gemini agent, and streaming it across an API, respectively.

Would love your feedback and questions!
by LordDragonfang | 2025-07-12 23:20:52+00:00
> Most of the discussion about adblocking technically "still working" under MV3 misses this point.

Because it's a dishonest point. Ad blocking still works. All the same ads can still be removed from the page. Tracker blocking doesn't. This is still a huge problem for privacy. But while nearly everyone dislikes seeing ads that interrupt your content, people who actually care about tracking privacy are a much smaller group. The latter group are trying to smuggle concern for the latter issue by framing it as the more favorable issue to garner more support from the former.
by anondude24 | 2025-07-12 23:21:22+00:00
> I'd also like to separate the logistics from the morality here. If you believe it's hard to do it without satisfying privacy concerns, totally true! But then the focus should be on finding a good privacy-respecting solution, not just arguing for the status quo.

I like this point. I feel like the tech community just figured politicians would forget about the issue. Instead of working together to develop a solution.
by pear01 | 2025-07-12 23:21:27+00:00
You don't seem to grasp the argument.

From above:

> These people will never actually ban pornography

> Not sure how one can say that with a straight face when there are US states that literally block pornhub, but okay

You then say, well actually they weren't blocked by the states, they were blocked by the sites themselves to protest a bill that passed.

The issue is this clarification is totally irrelevant given the context of the above comment.

The root comment claims in this domain, the right wing is targeting "anything other than heterosexuality". Not sure what their evidence of that claim is. I would think anyone with even a basic familiarity re the right-wing American culture warrior would know this isn't the case. They are simply following the standard far right modus operandi, which is to start their cultural attack on the most vulnerable at the margins where it is easiest.

Similarly, passing age verification is essentially a strategy to enact an effective ban, because it is a demand that cannot be met and is easier to pass than an outright ban. So the comment suggesting it's not serious to suggest this is simply or _only_ about "anything other than heterosexuality" is correct, or at least, not impeached by your conclusion they have it backwards by essentially hyperfocusing on some rather irrelevant pornsite protest tactic which entirely misses the point. If anything, the fact they passed the bills after the self initiated “bans” simply bolsters the rejoinder to the root comment.
by al_borland | 2025-07-12 23:21:29+00:00
This would actually be an effective way to teach kids about technology. If they learn enough to install their own OS, let them have their smut.

I’m hearing more and more how younger generations don’t have what people used to call basic computer skills, because everything just kind of works now. Putting up some road blocks that require research and hands on tinkering to solve, is an invaluable part of the learning process.
by mlyle | 2025-07-12 23:22:18+00:00
Current prices of installed systems at peak scale are 150-350k/MWh.

Replacing it all on a 20 year cadence seems like a reasonable assumption.

Arguments assuming a positive return to scale 4 orders of magnitude out may be true— or may be unduly optimistic. I don’t like to have too much faith extending the lines too far off the right of the graph. When that is required, I want whatever margin and ways to reduce risk as possible: which is why I would like more nuclear in the mix. A grid with 12pc nuclear and the rest renewable (so about 3-4pc of nameplate power nuclear) would require much less over provisioning and storage.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-12 23:23:24+00:00
Nope. Phyllis Schlafly's son Andrew (Phyllis is the woman who more or less single handedly ensured the ERA didn't pass, persuading American women that somehow they didn't even want equality) ran (still runs maybe?) a web site where among other things he "re-translates" the Bible so that e.g. Jesus's preaching is "Properly" translated to mean whatever it is suits his worldview.

Religion is about believing things you have no evidence for, that's its whole thing.
by mlyle | 2025-07-12 23:23:57+00:00
They should buy the electricity because it is better than leaving the electrolyzers idle when there is no surplus of renewable power alone, and higher utilization spreads capital costs over more production. It can be a tiny portion of the energy cost during the day, and a large part at night. Having a few percent of nameplate power being nuclear doesn’t push up costs too much when renewables are producing.

Having a few percent of nameplate power being nuclear means much less total nameplate power, and allows loads like p2g for longer term storage to run more of the day (and means you need to tap the p2g less often, so you can have a -lot- less electrolyzer infrastructure— better utilization and less need).

Diversity of approaches lower risks and may lower costs.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-12 23:24:37+00:00
> he child can't consent to medical procedures without a parent, today, and if the parent says no, the decision is deferred until the age of majority.

What does the parent's opinion have to do with it? Their opinion is equally ignored when it comes to statutory rape, no?

This is not a "this is a private matter between the child and the parent" scenario. Some things are, but a clear majority of people do not feel that this should be one of those things.
by siliconc0w | 2025-07-12 23:25:45+00:00
It's a matter of time before the US system crumbles if these assaults on the federal system and civil liberties continue.

I live in state with a population of 40 million who gives $83 billion more to the federal government than gets back. It's absolutely insane we have to be ruled by afar by what is effectively a small minority. This will come to a head not only in Censorship, Immigration, Tariffs, Abortion access (banning abortion medication federally), Industrial policy, etc.

At a certain point California is going to say, "No Thanks" and peace out.
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-07-12 23:25:46+00:00
All of these are true. Bluesky blew up because it was the first large "not Twitter" social media and it has solid communities. Threads has blown past them because of network effects. If you have an instagram account, you have a Threads account just waiting to be activated. It's very easy transition.

The great thing about decentralized social network is that you can easily push to all of those accounts and if I were Bluesky, I would make it easy to link Threads and Mastodon to Bluesky so you can push messages to all 3.
by schrodinger | 2025-07-12 23:25:48+00:00
I'm going to assume you're asking in good faith, and the short answer is yes — this is already happening!

Before engaging in what could be a huge discussion here, I suggest you do some quick searching about legal risks of performing life-saving abortion procedures, gender-affirming care for prison inmates, and workplaces choosing whether the health insurance they provide employees covers gender-affirming care as starting points to learn about the sad state of affairs.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-12 23:27:00+00:00
> Yes, but since when do we allow the majority to dictate what healthcare options are available?

We've always done so - popular opinion as reflected by the voters dictate that you aren't getting a prescription for arsenic (anymore? Or crack cocaine, for that matter.)

The government, for good or bad, regulates all healthcare, and that government is guided by its voters.

The majority of voters don't see this as a bigger problem than the issue they are currently voting on.
by ModernMech | 2025-07-12 23:28:29+00:00
> They also frame transgender ideology and LGBTQ+ educational materials as falling under “pornography”, essentially calling for these to be banned.

Close, but it's worse than that -- they don't want LGBTQ+ material merely banned; they want LGBTQ+ people dead, or at the very least banned from all public life. The next step is where they call for the death penalty for child abuse (also in Project 2025). So according to them LGBTQ+ is pornographic -> pornography is child abuse -> child abuse is punishable by death -> therefore existing as a queer person is punishable by death.
by johnb231 | 2025-07-12 23:28:46+00:00
These are all "too big to host at home". I don't think that is the issue here.

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2/blob/main/docs/deploy_...

"The smallest deployment unit for Kimi-K2 FP8 weights with 128k seqlen on mainstream H200 or H20 platform is a cluster with 16 GPUs with either Tensor Parallel (TP) or "data parallel + expert parallel" (DP+EP)."

16 GPUs costing ~$30k each. No one is running a ~$500k server at home.
by Nasrudith | 2025-07-12 23:29:13+00:00
Nuclear plants and their cooling towers tend to be made of reinforced concrete. That makes them harder to bomb. If you want to take out power you bomb the transmission or substations instead as they are far less durable.

I recall hearing in school that 9-11 masterminds had considered planes against nuclear power plants but abandoned it after doing the math and realizing that it would do little damage. Not sure how true that is admittedly.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-12 23:29:14+00:00
If MCAS is running the trim, the thumb switches override it.

MCAS affects the stabilizer, the thumb switches affect the stabilizer, the cutoff switch affects the stabilizer.

The elevators are controlled by the control column and the autopilot.

> The trim switches override MCAS, but when released, MCAS can resume trimming down again.

That is correct. That is why the procedure is to return the trim to normal with the thumb switches, then turn off the trim system. That's it. That's all there is to it.

> but they can make the controls so heavy that it's impossible to pull up.

Almost right - the trim has more authority than the elevators. The trim's ability to travel far is to provide great ability to get out of trouble. I don't really know what factors the aerodynamics guys used to calculate the max travel required. I do know there is a travel limiter on it (as I worked on that, too!) which reduces the max travel at higher speeds, because otherwise it can rip the tail section off, which is a big no-no.

There are sooo many constraints on the design of an airplane I sometimes wonder how anyone manages to make one that works at all. The Wright Bros calculated that their machine would fly, and it did, barely. Their contemporaries did seat of the pants design, which is why they failed.
by jasonfarnon | 2025-07-12 23:29:16+00:00
This image in particular made me wonder if there was some type of tracing aid involved. Maybe the dutch-looking street reminded me of Vermeer's method. I wonder what input device they were using? I was using a pretty nice input surface for doing CAD work sometime around 1990-93 on a PC, and we had occasion to lay transparencies on top and trace on them. I don't know if Macs 5 years before that had this type of peripheral. And anyway, there were certainly some special artists I knew of back then who could do this with a mouse and enough time.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-12 23:29:40+00:00
> The intent of the ISO spec is to allow you to request fine-grained data, like birth year only, but if you read the W3C standard, they explicitly call out privacy as a complex thing that maybe should be regulated.

Aren't the regulations the problem here? If not for that nobody would be getting pressured to divulge this personal information to every shady app and website in the first place.

Suppose I want to make a service that verifies your age by asking you questions about what life was like before 9/11. Can I do that? And if I can't, is the problem the standards, or the law?
by brudgers | 2025-07-12 23:30:14+00:00
File under "Falsehoods developers believe about laptops."

I am quite sure no developer out there uses a lowly 2019 laptop for their work. Most probably have 32-core top-of-the-line systems

There are many many casual developers.

And running a current operating system on old hardware is a very common reason for choosing Linux. And broken shit that used to work is a far more critical metric in the real world that anything measured for the article.
by semfreak | 2025-07-12 23:30:47+00:00
Hey HN – I’m Jason, a backend dev and AI tool builder at Titanium Computing. I’ve been working on a project called Context Forge that solves a pain I kept running into with Claude and AI-powered IDEs: context loss during long sessions.

Claude and other LLMs often “forget” previous instructions mid-session due to compaction. So I built a CLI-based system to structure, version, and re-inject context directly into the coding workflow.

What Context Forge does: • Scaffolds a CLAUDE.md file to define coding rules, format standards, and AI guardrails • Creates a /prps folder full of Product Requirements Prompts (PRPs) – combining scoped reasoning, validation steps, and feature history • Adds a /docs folder for staging narrative documentation and implementation planning • Works hand-in-hand with Claude Code’s new preCompact hook to re-inject scoped context when compaction happens

Bonus: I built a companion CLI called Claude Hooks Manager to auto-detect Claude context compaction events and reload the right PRPs from the repo.

This setup has been a game-changer for keeping Claude on track through long dev sessions, and it works across: • Claude Code (CLI) • Cursor IDE • Copilot • n8n and other AI-assisted workflows

Open Source: • Context Forge: https://github.com/webdevtodayjason/context-forge • Claude Hooks Manager: https://github.com/webdevtodayjason/claude-hooks

Right now it’s just me dogfooding this heavily in my own work, but I’d love to hear what others in the AI + coding space think — especially if you’re building systems that rely on consistent context management.

Appreciate any feedback or ideas!

— Jason
by vincent-manis | 2025-07-12 23:33:20+00:00
One of the Hennessy/Patterson books has coverage of GPUs. But the definitive description of GPUs at a conceptual undergrad level has yet to be written, I think.

As for microarchitectures, for the most part those have evolved over the last 50 years. If you are looking to extract the last bit of speed out of a CPU, the only complete resource is the documentation. But pipelines and caches have heen around for a long time, look at the System/360 Model 85 and 91. A C programmer can use a fairly primitive conceptual model of a microarchitecture to get a pretty good first-order approximation of performance issues.

I am not saying that we should teach undergrads with 1980s materials. I am saying that a good understanding of pretty much any assembly language can get a programmer pretty far.
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-12 23:33:30+00:00
Here's the OP I'm responding to:

> Not sure how one can say that with a straight face when there are US states that literally block pornhub, but okay.

Note the word "literally" in the statement that US state are literally blocking Pornhub.

That is not the case. Pornhub blocked the states preemptively, not the other way around.

Hope this helps.
by anthonyeden | 2025-07-12 23:34:07+00:00
The official Gravity Forms post [0] indicates you were only compromised if you installed Gravity Forms via direct website download or Composer install.

From what I can see, Composer install methods use the same Gravity Forms API to fetch the install package as the auto-update feature within the plugin. Their WP-CLI plugin uses the same mechanism too.

It will be interesting to see if the Gravity Forms developers engage a third party security firm to investigate this incident. So far they have not mentioned it.

[0] https://www.gravityforms.com/blog/security-incident-notice/
by landl0rd | 2025-07-12 23:34:11+00:00
Many of them are. I just don’t see any reason to say “I disagree with the conservative Christians pushing this” rather than “I disagree with the people who support this.” There are secular folks who also support such legislation. It hints at a generalized animus towards religion and likely in particular towards Christianity, kind of like Fox News boomers complaining Obama wouldn’t say “radical Islamic terrorism”.
by suspended_state | 2025-07-12 23:36:51+00:00
That might be a lack of understanding from my part. I had the impression from your comment that you were implying that there was (and is) hope in internet development (ie. many people hold a positive opinion about it), but there cannot be any hope in LLMs (ie. nobody can build a positive opinion about it, because presumably some hard fact prevents it).

As for what I said, I was just mimicking the comment of GP, which I'll quote here:

> The internet actually enabled us to do new things. AI is nothing of that sort. It just generates mediocre statistically-plausible text.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-12 23:37:13+00:00
"I think the earth is flat"

No that's not true

"Well it's true that I think that."

You got me!

For other readers: OJFord doesn't know what s/he's talking about and you should look up tests for the specific brands for the specific spices you're looking to buy, especially if you have children and/or you use spices liberally in your food. The US does not systematically test spices for contamination like this and it does show up in high levels in the American spice supply. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there are brands that are across-the-board good on contamination.
by e1g | 2025-07-12 23:37:14+00:00
Context rot. My use case is iterating over a large codebase which quickly grows context. All LLMs degrade with larger context sizes, well below their published limits, but pro models degrade the least. R1 gets confused relatively quickly, despite their published numbers.

I think Fiction LiveBench captures some of those differences via a standardized benchmark that spreads interconnected facts through an increasingly large context to see how models can continue connecting the dots (similar to how in codebases you often have related ideas spread across many files)

https://fiction.live/stories/Fiction-liveBench-May-22-2025/o...
by tialaramex | 2025-07-12 23:38:07+00:00
You can see how this model worked in Ireland for example.

Historically Abortion was literally prohibited constitutionally in the Republic. That changed†, one of my friends lived there at the time and she's got a picture somebody made (painted? sketched?) on her wall of the group watching the results come in. But for most of my life, abortion was absolutely illegal in the Republic of Ireland.

So, if you were poor, too bad no abortions, they're illegal. But if you're wealthy you just decide to "go on holiday", maybe a long weekend somewhere nice - and miraculously while abroad you stop being pregnant. No problem

†https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-sixth_Amendment_of_the_...