MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by m13rar | 2025-07-04 08:30:48+00:00
From a quick gander. WASM is not to talk to the servers. WASM can be utilized to run AI Agents to talk to local LLMs from a sandboxed environment through the browser.

For example in the next few years if Operating System companies and PC producers make small local models stock standards to improve the operating system functions and other services. This local LLM engine layer can be used by browser applications too and that being done through WASM without having to write Javascript and using WASM sandboxed layer to safely expose the this system LLM Engine Layer.
by exoverito | 2025-07-04 08:31:20+00:00
CO2 levels were triple current levels at 1500 ppm about 50 million years ago. This was during the Cenozoic era when mammals first rose to dominance. Clearly the Earth was livable then.

https://attheu.utah.edu/science-technology/geoscientists-map...

Modern temperatures are actually near an all time low for the past 485 million years.

https://www.climate.gov/media/16817

Consider the possibility that you are mistaken, and the victim of propaganda.
by Lockal | 2025-07-04 08:31:51+00:00
(standing on the gallows awaiting his execution) First time? :)

I've run into this a few times (only more so with Meta, not Google): well, they're within their rights not to pay. Purely theoretically, in my case it would be a lawsuit for violating GDPR (not hacking), but they know that there is no one to sue.
by _pdp_ | 2025-07-04 08:32:20+00:00
Mildly interesting article - I mean, you can already run a ton of libraries that talk to an inference backend. The only difference here is that the client-side code is in Python, which by itself doesn't make creating agents any simpler - I would argue that it complicates things a tone.

Also, connecting a model to a bunch of tools and dropping it into some kind of workflow is maybe 5% of the actual work. The rest is spent on observability, background tasks, queueing systems, multi-channel support for agents, user experience, etc., etc., etc.

Nobody talks about that part, because most of the content out there is just chasing trends - without much real-world experience running these systems or putting them in front of actual customers with real needs.
by neya | 2025-07-04 08:33:15+00:00
> This was incorrect and sloppy work on our end

Cut the grandoise talk. You stole someone's work and now you just shrug it off as "incorrectly attributed as Apache". That's not a mistake, that's a deliberate action plan. The force push others have mentioned is the proof. Atleast be honest in your apology.

I hope YC takes serious action and eliminates you guys from their cohort if you're still in one. This reflects very poorly on them otherwise.
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-07-04 08:33:37+00:00
MSCI Europe is up about 8-9% in euros so far this year—roughly the same as the S&P 500 in dollars.

But the euro itself has climbed ~10% YTD vs the dollar (≈ $1.02 → $1.12-1.18). So you get an ~18% gain if you invest in MSCI Europe in dollars.

Europe hasn't "beaten" US stocks because its companies suddenly out-executed; most of the gap is the stronger euro.

Not that it matters who’s "winning." My gripe is with US headlines that shout "Japan stocks are on fire" or "Europe stocks are on fire," when what’s really happening is that global markets are rising together and currency swings make one region look better than another.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-04 08:34:11+00:00
It's not necessarily a doomsday cult as long as there is incentive to build green infrastructure.

AI is a massive waste of power in many (most?) cases, but electricity does not necessarily need to be generated in a way that releases CO2. Solar panels, wind farms, geothermic energy, and even nuclear plants can satisfy AI's requirements and only leave it to be a local problem.

Unfortunately, the USA, the government of country with the biggest impact per citizen as well as the hotbed of current AI development, has started taking down climate change related information to serve their oil baron masters. That leaves environmental responsibility with companies and their shareholders.

AI isn't a doomsday cult. It's the epitome of the "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders" meme in real life.
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-04 08:34:46+00:00
1. Interview candidates with cameras on.

2. Do not ask basic software literacy questions. First of all, this was completely stupid even before LLMs. Secondly, its easy to cheat. If you absolutely have to do this then do it terms of measures. Most people in software are entirely incapable of measuring anything and LLMs cannot fix their personality deficiency.

3. Ask all questions where the expected answer is a not some factoid nonsense but a decision they must make. Evaluate their answer on the grounds of risk, coverage, delivery, and performance. For example if you are interviewing a AI/ML guy ask them about how they overcome bias in the algorithms and how they weigh the consequences of different design outcomes. If they are a QA ask them about how they will take ownership of quality analysis for work already in production or how they will coach developers when communicating steps to reproduce a defect.

4. As an interviewer you should know, by now, how to listen to people. That is so much more than just audible parsing of words. If their words say one thing, but their body language says something different then they are full of shit. Its okay that they aren't experts in everything. Their honesty and humility is far more important. They can get every question wrong, but if their honesty is on and they can make solid decisions then they are at least in the top half of consideration. 5. Finally, after evaluating their decision making ability and risk analysis then ask them for a story where they have encountered such a problem in the past and had to learn from failure.

This question comes up at least once a month so this answer is copy/paste from a prior comment.
by rockmeamedee | 2025-07-04 08:35:08+00:00
yeah but they're still >50% off SFBA salaries. SFBA comp for a sr dev can easily be $200k+ (and can go higher, lots of anecdotes on here about $350k+ salaries at BigtechCos), for an EU dev scratching 90k euro is considered "good". Devaluing the dollar by 10% and increasing the price of EU salaries by 10% doesn't really change the picture.
by Xss3 | 2025-07-04 08:35:33+00:00
I admit my example is slightly contrived and LastTen still raises questions re frames and time handling, especially as its so small, oops! Lets pretend i said LastHundred and its using a framerate independent method.

If i were to helperise it with a bool I'd use the intent for the bool, CanPlayerJumpAgain or something (again...contrived example).
by fzeroracer | 2025-07-04 08:36:04+00:00
Well, part of the problem is that so much of what's going on is unprecedented, unknown and undetectable. We're trying to plot an estimate for an entire planets climate system and it's hard enough to get even local predictions correct.

But what we can rationalize about is that our current effects on the climate are already having dire effects, worsening disasters and increasing extremes. The bug windshield phenomenon is one example of a potential downstream shift.

By the time we have a more concrete timeline the odds are that it'll already be here and far too late.
by ljsprague | 2025-07-04 08:36:24+00:00
The point of any country is to serve the interests of the people in that country. Pulling up the ladder behind yourself can be rational; imagine a lifeboat scenario where you're about to sink. Settlers are different than immigrants. America is unique for the most part because it was created by a unique set of settlers from England. The same reason Canada, Australia, and South Africa are unique places.
by mns | 2025-07-04 08:36:50+00:00
Because this is how the current corporate world works. It's all about appearances, someone can do whatever bad thing, will go on and say "upsie, I didn't realise that X is bad, it was an honest mistake" and then all is good, the person actually reporting it or signalling it out will be the bad one, for being critical, aggressive, not constructive or open minded.
by saubeidl | 2025-07-04 08:37:14+00:00
A few points here.

If AI were to not use so much energy, we would have a much easier time covering our need with green sources. Yes, we can probably also account for the additional use by AI, but it'll make an already existential challenge so much harder.

Regarding your last paragraph - AI is just the riders of the apocalypse. The doomsday cult is capitalism.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-07-04 08:37:21+00:00
Do you see fewer humans working ? Fewer humans taking their cars to do groceries, fewer humans going to school, fewer humans cooling down their houses ? All AI does is potentially make said humans jobless, with a job here and there created with a bullshit title like prompt engineer. The energy you're "saving" is absolutely nothing. When you pay someone to do data entry, the majority of their energy expenditure isn't the computer they're working on, it's the transportation systems they use, the food they eat, etc. These never go away. Well, not unless you kill said person. The current AI trend is purely additional energy consumption, without any tangible benefits.

Capitalism as a system is fundamentally incapable of functioning without continously running forward, and stopping means the system collapses. It needs consumption, it needs perpetually renewing debt, perpetually working humans. It's a death cult.
by throw101010 | 2025-07-04 08:39:06+00:00
> Under a "republican" administration, no less.

Are you under the impression that this is surprising? Republicans are consistently the ones spending more when they are in power. It's time to dispel this myth that they are fiscally "conservative", they have presented more unbalanced/defficitary budgets than Democrats and the latter in recent memories are the only ones who managed to present budget with surpluses, under Clinton.
by ta1243 | 2025-07-04 08:39:24+00:00
Great for people sitting out on their patios and having barbecues.

Not great for food production. The UK is close enough to a wealthy nation that we should be able to import our food or make enough with high energy/resource requirements. There is a general problem with a lack of resources (hence all the global conflict going on now. Trump doesn't want Greenland because he looked at a Mercator map and got size envy due to his tiny hands, the resources there will go to China, Russia, Europe or the US), but that can be overcome.

The dirty secret of global warming is that Europe can't take a billion climate refugees - even the most bleeding heart liberals will baulk at the UK population increasing from 70m to 200m in a generation, its not sustainable.

America has less of a problem - the population of Central and South America between about 30N and 30S is 500 million. The population of Africa and Asia in that boundary is about 4.5 billion, and as those areas become uninhabitable due to wet bulb temperatures and water scarcity, people will either die or try to move north - mainly to Europe.
by hobofan | 2025-07-04 08:39:35+00:00
Okay, yeah that's what I assumed.

That seems a bit like a game of whack-a-mole where as long as the forging side is willing to go further and further into out-of-hardware emulation (e.g. prosthetic finger on a robot hand to trick fingerprint scanners), they are bound to win. Biometrics don't feel like they hold up much if you can have collusion without fear of accountability.

> Our ZKP library at least makes the privacy end possible.

Yes, that's also one of the main things that make me excited about it. I've been following the space for quite some time now, and I'm happy that it becomes more tractable for standard cryptographic primitives and thus a lot more use-cases.

Thanks for your contributions to the space and being so responsive in this thread!
by scripper | 2025-07-04 08:40:04+00:00
I agree. I am at mid-career. I know many people who dedicated years of their lives learning a craft and building a dignified, somewhat-creative career. I admire these people greatly. The rewards from putting in this effort have disappeared.

For example, I have no knowledge of film editing or what “works” in a sequence, but if I wanted to I could create something more than passable with AI.
by Fendy | 2025-07-04 08:40:10+00:00
This is a broad but really important question, and I feel for your situation. I've interviewed and spoken with quite a few early-stage founders this year, and many of them share similar struggles — the first year or two of a startup can be brutal, especially without a solid network or domain expertise.

From what you’ve written, I wonder if you’re approaching the problem from the wrong direction. Rather than asking "How can I make money without a network or VC backing?" maybe the more useful question is:

- Who exactly are my users? - What painful, urgent problems do they have?

If that’s unclear, it doesn’t matter how technically great your product is or whether it’s built with AI or rocket science — it likely won’t stick.

Most users don’t care how fancy your tech is; they care if it makes their life easier, saves them time, or HELP THEM MAKE MONEY. If you can't pinpoint that user pain and address it clearly, even pivoting to another domain might lead to the same frustration.

One founder I spoke with recently built a job search platform. The space is totally dominated by big names like LinkedIn and Indeed, but their insight was super niche: they focused on foreign job seekers who needed H1B sponsorship. That tight focus helped them grow fast, even without VC money or big marketing budgets. It wasn’t a flashy idea — just solving a specific, urgent pain for a specific group.

Marketing is another area that often gets overlooked by technical founders. Maybe try strategies like: content marketing, Product Hunt launches, engaging with communities, even open-sourcing parts of your stack because it helps with visibility and credibility. Open source can definitely help attract users — but it still needs a strong value prop and ideally some paid tier or enterprise offering to make it sustainable.

One more insight: some of the best early adopters for AI tools right now are… other AI teams. They understand the value and are quicker to pay for solid infrastructure or automation tools. If you’re thinking of building “software for software,” maybe that’s a niche to explore more intentionally.

You're obviously capable builders. If you're going to give it one more shot, I'd say zoom in hard on the problem and the user. Get out of “build mode” and into “discovery mode” for a bit. Try talking to 10, 20, 50 people in a space where you think you can help. It might open up clearer paths than trying to guess from the outside.

Hope this helps, and best of luck — respect for sticking it out this long.
by checksum256 | 2025-07-04 08:41:24+00:00
I can't believe people still put faith in fiat. It is controlled by the government and the sole purpose is to have as much control over the people as possible. Monero is the answer for it. You get full control, privacy and anonymity. The ultimate financial prison break. It saves you from the prison of taxation imposed by evil and nasty governments of the world.
by qwertox | 2025-07-04 08:42:09+00:00
> It is a doomsday cult in the most literal sense.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say. That this article is part of that doomsday cult (those worried about climate change)? If so, why not give it some credibility? Are you doubting the veracity of the linked articles? Because it seems like you are dismissing the claims presented in this article and the linked ones, attributing them to a doomsday cult. I may be getting it wrong, though.

The other meaning could be that you are referring to Silicon Valley's AI companies with their huge demand for power as the doomsday cult, and that they are to blame for the major reversal in ocean circulation.

In any case, it's not like we humans were intelligent enough to prevent climate change, or modify or adapt to it (depending on what your views are, human-made or just natural warming).

It looks like we're still dumb enough (we come from the apes, and they certainly are dumber than us) to not be able to deal with this problem, so it might be better to grant AI some room to compute, and maybe shrink some cities instead.
by not_your_vase | 2025-07-04 08:42:16+00:00
Sample results from "microsoft employees protest" search query from DDG, by year:

2018: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/microsoft-employees-...

2019: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-employees-protest-trea...

2020: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-employees-messages...

2021: https://gameworldobserver.com/2021/04/06/microsoft-employees...

2022: (Well, I couldn't find anything here on the first 2-3 pages, Blizzard acquisition hides everything else)

2023: https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-workers-protest-land...

2024: https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/microsoft-fires-empl...

2025: https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-ai-protest-israel-gaza-...

etc.

One thing that's missing: a single whisper about "hey guys, maybe trashing the xbox/windows/clippy business is not a wise thing to do, it's not too late to change course tho".

There are companies where employees have no effective voice. Maybe Microsoft is such a company, I don't know, I've never worked there. But their employees do make their voice heard by others, if no one else - just not on every topic that matters. And that's my point.
by _pdp_ | 2025-07-04 08:42:18+00:00
The classic playbook: copy an open-source project (or just vibe-code something similar), slap an open-source label on it, and toss in an unproven design system / framework (like Liquid Glass) to give it a shiny veneer.

Less about building something meaningful - more about manufacturing hype in hopes of catching a trend before it crashes!
by chownie | 2025-07-04 08:42:40+00:00
Of course it goes without saying, the ecological niches and evolutionary adaptations different species earned through 50m years of CO2 lowering, they can obviously just do it again if we were to drastically change the CO2 numbers over like a hundred years instead.

We can tell that this is right and logical because the number of insects, a population more sensitive to environmental trends, hasn't visibly and obviously changed at all.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-07-04 08:42:58+00:00
The success rate and failure mode matters. Gps/maps you can look at before driving and confirm it's not completely insane quite easily, and if it takes a suboptimal route you still get to your destination.

If an LLM hallucinates and you don't know better, it can be bad. Hopefully people are double checking things that really matter, but some things are a little harder to fact check.
by ako | 2025-07-04 08:43:43+00:00
Sounds great in theory, but doesn't seem very realistic. There will always be people that want power over other people, and having more than others will give them that power.

And universally, if you have nothing, you lead a very poor life. You life in a minimal house (trailer park, slums, or housing without running water nor working sewage). You don't have a car, you can't travel, education opportunities are limited.

Most kids want to become independent, so they have control over their spending and power over their own lives. Poor retirees are unhappy, sometimes even have to keep working to afford living.

Norway is close because they have oil to sell, but if no one can afford to buy oil, and they can't afford to buy cars, nor products made with oil, Norway will soon run out of money.

You can wonder, why is Russia attacking Ukraine, russia has enough land, doesn't need more. But in the end there will always be people motivated by more power and money, which makes it impossible to create this communism 2.0 that you're describing.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-04 08:43:58+00:00
It certainly can, because it doesn't necessarily know where the closing brace should be, especially when inserting as opposed to writing a completely new line. I'm often deleting random crap in the editors I use with the 'feature' as I'm adding delimiters. '"' tends to be even worse, because the distinction between opening and closing is not obvious.

e.g.:

(a + b > c) -> ((a + b > c) -> (()a + b > c) -> no, I was aiming for ((a + b) > c)

(it sound like you're talking about a different feature/implementation, though, since in the annoying case there's no 'completion' shortcut, it just appears)
by close04 | 2025-07-04 08:45:04+00:00
> 15 seconds of search turned up

...some latent passive aggressiveness and YC's founder ethics code not YC's own ethics code. You need an anchor for the chain of trust. That must be the VC's (YC in this case) integrity and ethics code first.

You stopped reading after the first few words, misunderstood even those, and rushed to answer didn't you?

I addressed exactly how to evaluate ethics and integrity prefunding, and ensure it post with 2 very simple concepts that would have worked perfectly at least for this easy to catch incident:

1) Do your due diligence. In this case "15 seconds of search" would have turned up the original code and the license mismatch.

2) Have clauses to ensure breaches of law or ethics have severe consequences to the founders.

The founders indisputably breached YC's founder ethics code, in particular "Being honest in the YC application and interview process" and "Generally operating in good faith and behaving in a professional and upstanding way". Or maybe the founders were honest and YC accepted this but then we circle back YC's own ethics code.

YC had means to check for this prefunding, and has means to deal with the problem now. If there's no transparency that any of this happened, it didn't happen. So the point of "checking integrity and ethics" becomes moot.
by the_third_wave | 2025-07-04 08:45:40+00:00
Approval poll numbers seem to indicate a plurality of US voters agree with much of what the current government is implementing and for the first time in a very long period the majority of US voters seems to think the country is on the right track. You may not like what Trump and his crew are doing but most people did not like what your preferred candidates were doing and planning to do. Given these numbers I'd say "your democracy" (which is a constitutional republic but I'll just borrow some of the oft-heard rhetoric from the "democratic" party) seems to be functioning quite well and certainly a lot better than under the previous regime when approval numbers were abysmal.
by vidarh | 2025-07-04 08:46:00+00:00
The A3000 was more than twice as expensive. The A4000 even more expensive. They were not mass market machines.

Variants of the A2000 continued in the market after the A3000 was released, such as the A2500, so people who didn't need the upgrades - or could make use of them (e.g. the VideoToaster didn't fit in the A3000 case without modifications) would continue to buy cheaper models.
by TuxSH | 2025-07-04 08:46:05+00:00
> You don't get the standard library

Why is that? Sure, allocating containers and other exception-throwing facilities are a no-go but the stdlib still contains a lot of useful and usable stuff like <type_traits>, <utility>, <source_location>, <bit>, <optional>, <coroutine> [1] and so on

[1] yes they allocate, but operator new can easily be overridden for the promise class and can get the coro function arguments forwarded to it. For example if coro function takes a "Foo &foo", you can have operator new return foo.m_Buffer (and -fno-exceptions gets rid of unwinding code gen)