MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by op00to | 2025-07-16 03:52:11+00:00
It only seems aggressive if you believe that HN somehow owes you the precise content you are seeking over whatever it’s delivering now.

If you don’t like the topic, don’t read it. No one’s forcing you to do so.

Don’t yuck someone else’s yum.

The internet’s a big place and life is short, spend your time reading stuff you like rather than bitching that you want things another way.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-16 03:53:25+00:00
Aluminum salts may be irritating or cause allergies in some, but plenty of people take about a half gram of aluminum hydroxide as an antacid on a regular basis.

That's a lot different than the milligram amounts which are concerning to those whom I assume would not come within a mile of Mylanta.

Sometimes dissolved metals turned out to be more toxic than was originally thought, but regular aluminum consumption sure doesn't look like there's any consensus that it kills easily. Even though it may not be very ideal either.

Definitely not completely non-toxic though, and way more absorbed in some forms than others. Here's a fairly recent paper:

https://u.osu.edu/toxicologyblog/2021/06/14/aluminum-toxicol...
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-16 03:53:49+00:00
I had a similar question. After a bit of perusing, it isn't immediately clear (especially since the install page just has a message saying it's not yet available to the public). But the following FAQ seems to suggest that it will run directly on the TV:

>Can I run Plasma Bigscreen on my TV or setup-box?

>In theory, yes. In practice, it depends.

>Hardware support is not dictated by Plasma Bigscreen, instead it depends on the devices supported by the distributions shipping it. See the install page for more details of distributions shipping Plasma Bigscreen.
by jonjacky | 2025-07-16 03:56:49+00:00
> AI didn't even exist 25 years ago

Er, the term "AI" was coined almost 70 years ago, in 1956.

By the mid-1960s AI was in full career, with ChatBots (Eliza and its variants), neural nets (Perceptrons etc.), and many applications including chess playing programs, etc.

Science fiction writers and other authors were well aware of all this - it got lots of coverage in the popular press.

There was a huge, huge AI boom from the late 1970s to the late 1980s, mostly based around the technology of rule-based expert systems. Venture capital flowed copiously -- lots of startups made a big splash -- some lasted several years -- Intellicorp, Symbolics, etc. -- but now they're all gone. Money also flowed from big government programs: The Fifth Generation in Japan, Strategic Computing in the US. It all collapsed in the AI winter that started in the late 1980s.

The Cyberpunk genre began during the 1980s AI boom. I recall Neuromancer appeared in 1984, at its very peak.

Do people really not remember any of this? I'm an old guy, but it wasn't that long ago. Isn't there any institutional or community memory in computing? The 1980s AI boom was huge -- in its time it was similar to the excitement around LLMs now. I can't forget that it all disappeared without a trace, as I observe the current wave.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-16 03:58:21+00:00
What do you mean, you don't think it's perfectly reasonable to ask

Have you EVER been a member of, involved in, or in any way associated with any organization, association, fund, foundation, party, club, society, or similar group in the United States or in any other location in the world?

And then demand dates, locations, roles, etc for each and every time you have?
by mparramon | 2025-07-16 03:58:43+00:00
I've yet to have one single problem after running Firefox as my main driver for ~3 months. Only 2 webpages have made me quickly open Chrome instead to check them out, and the content wasn't worth engaging for long.

It puzzles me how more programmers don't switch to a real open source browser not controlled by an advertising giant which will use their overwhelming monopolistic force to steer the way browsers work so that it benefits its bottom line.

Vote with your feet, use Firefox.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-07-16 03:59:22+00:00
One argument I've seen forwarded elsewhere is that school methods have tracked university methods.

According to the argument, watering down standards to increase retention (and revenue) gained legitimacy in the sixties as the higher education act empowered administrators to increase the size of their ranks and policy views at colleges across the country. These colleges trained education majors according to their new philosophy, who became a new rank of principals and superintendents in the eighties and onwards, promulgating the transactional and nihilistic view of the purpose of teaching.

On the one hand, it sounds farfetched. On the other hand, all five of the teachers and professors over 50 whom I've raised the topic to over the years agreed wholeheartedly.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-16 04:02:06+00:00
Except SLS/Orion should be cancelled. The SLS is pejoratively called the Senate Launch System, because it has no real place in the market yet is continuing to consume tens of billions of dollars. It was mostly obsoleted by Falcon Heavy years ago (SLS has been a black hole of funding since 2011), and its costs are completely ridiculous. You're looking at billions of dollars per launch if it ever is confidently flight ready.

And mind you it's not some amazing technological marvel that's driving these ridiculous costs. It's essentially a really expensive refactoring of the Space Shuttle program to the point that it will be using the literally exact same rs-25 engines.

And you already hit exactly on why they're not being cancelled - there's going to be a very short degree of separation between Congressmen and the people charging absurd costs for simple tech that's being used in this project. To me, this is perhaps the purest embodiment (and reason) for governmental dysfunction, at all levels. It's simple pork and corruption.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-16 04:02:16+00:00
Could be, or it could be a simple flawed net present value calculation, similar to Effective Altruism.

SBF said if he had a die and it had a 99% chance of killing everyone and a 1% chance of making the world 1 million times happier he would roll the die. Repeatedly. And Silicon Valley loved him.

I think AI is a similar calculation. Humans are tearing themselves apart and the only thing worth betting on is AI that can improve itself, self replicate and end scarcity. I believe that these VCs believe that AI is the only chance to save humanity.

And if you believe that, the net present value of AGI is basically infinite.
by cyw | 2025-07-16 04:03:04+00:00
We are working on Agentainer, a platform to make deploying and managing LLM-based agents as microservices feel effortless — especially for developers who don’t want to wrestle with infrastructure. This isn’t a pitch. we're sharing a pain we’ve run into hard, and we want to know if others are feeling it too. We’ve built agents using AutoGen, LangChain, and custom setups to monitor APIs, automate tasks, or manage systems autonomously. But running these in production? It’s a mess.

Most cloud platforms are designed for stateless apps or short-lived functions — not long-running agents that need to:

- Stay alive for hours or days

- Recover from crashes without losing context

- Expose secure APIs for integrations

- Scale up when demand spikes

- Persist state across redeploys

Dealing with Dockerfiles, Kubernetes, and manually wiring Redis/PostgreSQL eats up too much time — time we'd rather spend improving the agent’s logic.

Agentainer is our attempt to fix this. It’s a platform that gives agents the runtime treatment they deserve. Highlights:

- One-click deployment: Upload your code or Docker image, no YAML or infra scripts. (oh, and we designed it in a way where other AI agent can do it as well!)

- Lifecycle management: Start, stop, pause, resume, and auto-recover — via UI or API.

- Persistent state: Redis (runtime), Postgres (config), with automatic rehydration.

- Per-agent secure APIs: Each agent gets its own REST/gRPC endpoint with token auth and usage logging.

- Scaling and cloning: Horizontal scaling with optional memory cloning.

- Logs and metrics: Real-time logs, crash history, uptime, Prometheus-backed metrics.

What makes Agentainer uniquely flexible is that we expose the entire platform through APIs. This means not just you, the developer, but also your own developer agent can programmatically deploy, monitor, or retire other agents. Want a planning agent that spins up task-specific agents on demand? That’s a first-class use case. We’re building toward a world where autonomous agents can coordinate and manage infrastructure without human input — and Agentainer is designed with that architecture in mind.

We are applying to YC and would love unfiltered feedback from anyone who’s run agents in production:

1. What’s the hardest part of deploying or scaling agents for you?

2. What infrastructure or tooling would actually make your life easier?

3. What debugging/monitoring features would save your sanity?

Honest takes are super welcome. If this idea feels useful — or totally off-base — we’d love to hear why.

Note: Agentainer doesn’t provide any LLM models or reasoning frameworks. We’re infra-only — you bring your own agent code, and we handle the deployment, state, scaling, and API exposure.
by tomhow | 2025-07-16 04:03:36+00:00
We've asked you before to refrain from engaging in gender flamewar on HN. Please cease from doing this now and make an effort to observe the guidelines, particularly these ones:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't fulminate.

Eschew flamebait.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by andrewstuart | 2025-07-16 04:05:36+00:00
I am aware of that - “download one file” is not enough.

It needs “download all files”, as I said.

It is crazy to end up with 16 files listed in the hamburger file list and need to click download 16 times and keep track of what you’ve downloaded and then rename them properly.

As I said, Claude needs to fix this with sftp or download all files or git pull or something.
by defrost | 2025-07-16 04:06:39+00:00
FWiW you appear to basing your take on a reading pushed by Dr. C.A. de Lange of CO2Coalition of an unaccepted paper by William. A. van Wijngaarden and William Happer.

Original paper (on arvix, not accepted by any mainstream journal so far): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.03098.pdf

C.A. de Lange loves it, claims it as game changing etc: https://co2coalition.org/publications/van-wijngaarden-and-ha...

There are a number of discussions re: the original paper and why it was not accepted, eg:

What is technically wrong with Wijngaarden & Happer's paper claiming to show that CO2's contribution to surface warming is saturated? - https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/25227/what-...
by lbxa | 2025-07-16 04:07:20+00:00
Humanity needs a paradigm shift in fighting digital misinformation in the age of AI: we introduce a decentralized, incentive-driven model where content creators stake real money on factual claims and earn rewards through a smart-contract-powered jury system, embedding “trust” at the core of the content economy.

This is just an idea, not a finished product, so your feedback and critique are welcome.

Thanks
by JdeBP | 2025-07-16 04:07:42+00:00
You <----> residential ISP <----> VPN endpoint <----> CloudFlare CDN <----> actual site

The older blocks were being done by residential ISPs, so using a VPN (even simply with an endpoint inside the U.K.) bypassed them. One could obtain the same effect by having a business ISP instead.

Now CloudFlare is also doing the blocks in its CDN, which means that it does not matter whether the ISP is business or residential, or whether a U.K. endpoint VPN is being used. All three end up talking to CloudFlare's CDN from inside the U.K., and that CDN is now blocking the content.

The tinfoil hat brigade can rest easy. (-: They aren't detecting VPNs. They're just blocking things at a point that is closer to the content origin than all of the U.K. VPNs and ISPs, rather than at a point that that is further away than the U.K. VPNs are.
by cogencyai | 2025-07-16 04:09:06+00:00
Most AI agent frameworks today are really just big event loops pretending to be distributed systems. True actors are isolated, stateful entities that communicate only via messages.

Cogency’s design moves in that direction with modular nodes and message passing, but it’s not fully distributed or truly actor-based yet. The real challenge is building that kind of system in a way that stays manageable and debuggable.

It’s definitely the natural next step for AI frameworks. Thanks for putting it so clearly.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-07-16 04:09:12+00:00
On this topic — how to harden security of the keychain db on the Mac? One is — keep the Mac password long and difficult to crack. What else? Is there any other way to make it harder? Like is there a way to ensure that those db files can’t be accessed even with the mac password on any other hardware?

Also — on a mac why are these files not saved in a location that requires elevated access?

Because that file has everything — password, wifi keys, passkeys; and it is not very practical to have 8-10 word long passphrases for your daily computer.

Basically — I am thinking about the scenario when the data of passwords/keychain db might be compromised but not the Mac password itself.
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-07-16 04:13:14+00:00
Need some competition to commercial near-monopolization (in the pre-to-mid 2010s when it was funded), some other program, they already funded SLS (which was funded to carry way more payload than FH), let it play out, IMO.

Also, not to say it isn't a time to start acting, if we are another decade out still adding funding to SLS with the current balance sheet, we have major issues.

But $30B over 10Y isn't that crazy when we spend ~$900B a year (with much more in 2026) on defense.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-16 04:13:39+00:00
You're not imagining it. The period roughly between 1500-1800 is usually called the early modern period (with endless debates over the precise endcaps). Rather than stagnating or isolating though, historians usually consider it one of the most dynamic and volatile periods in European history.

The 17th century in particular is usually divided in two between the thirty years war and the post-westphalian era when nation-states begin to exist.
by gitremote | 2025-07-16 04:14:48+00:00
I do TDD and write proofs as tests. TDD practitioners never said TDD is a substitute for thinking.

> Problem is, when you write tests first, especially tight, easy to run unit tests, you will be tempted to write code that pass the tests, not code that does the right thing. Like throwing stuff at your tests and see what sticks.

I never had that problem, but I knew how to code before I started TDD.
by binary132 | 2025-07-16 04:15:01+00:00
It seems obvious to me that the baby boom was caused by plentiful access to secure, affordable homes in decent communities, lots of communal social activity outside of the home, common religiosity, and plentiful access to reasonably well-paying work, for most people of a modest level of education.

We have none of these things today. A small amount of cash is not going to fix it.
by eviks | 2025-07-16 04:16:03+00:00
Modal editors can be (in principle) made non-modal by changing keybinds to combos that change modes behind your back, so you'll keep insert mode as your primary one. So strictly speaking, non-modal editors are the ones that force you into only one style

But not sure real editors are as capable since some can have adverse actions on mode changes (e.g. resetting your selection or changing undo stack etc)
by johnisgood | 2025-07-16 04:16:16+00:00
Why the down-vote? You don't rotate your logs? Thought it is commonplace. Rotating logs includes compressing old ones. Or are your log files actually over 100 MB? Why? What are you printing? Output of "yes"? :D

As someone mentioned, Emacs is over 100 MB, so it does not have to be hypothetical. That said, I use emacs (and vim) interchangeably and I have nothing against it. I have LibreOffice, too, which is also a behemoth, but so is Haskell with its modules that I see getting updated regularly. In any case, I still prefer KISS and the fewer bloat as possible.
by dralley | 2025-07-16 04:16:35+00:00
The kneejerk Mozilla hate on HN gets so fucking tedious.

Google's marketing budget for Chrome is greater than Mozilla's entire budget. They sponsor a Formula 1 team FFS. They spent a decade paying off Adobe, Java, AVG, Avast and all the other shitty free AV softwares to auto-install Chrome. They targeted Firefox users with Chrome ads on the homepages of Google and YouTube. That's literally billions of dollars worth of marketing alone that they don't even have to pay for.

Mozilla's competitors (Google, Microsoft, Apple) are collectively worth the GDP of three entire continents combined (Africa, South America, Australia) with a couple trillion USD to spare. Each controls an operating system (or two) with more than a billion users each on which their browsers are pre-installed.

No shit they struggle to compete on brand and marketshare. They're basically forced by the economics of the market to do search deals with Google, and whenever they try to develop independent sources of revenue people shit on them for that too. People shit on them for making deals with Google and make insinuations about them being "controlled opposition" because of that dependency, but also shit on them for pursuing any other independent sources of revenue, like the branded VPN service or the innocuous cross-promotion of that Disney movie with the Red Panda.

People shat on them for trying to compete with Android via FirefoxOS because the bet didn't work out, even though it was probably the only way they could have avoided this outcome and gained real independence, had it worked out.

"Just focus on Firefox", they say - unless that means laying off people that work on Rust, or AV1, or Opus, or WebAssembly, or Let's Encrypt, or experimental browser engines that wouldn't have been production-ready for a decade. According to HN, Mozilla should focus but also keep churning out and spinning off research projects, but only successful research projects, not ones that fail. Anything Mozilla does is always retroactively terrible if it fails but if it works out great they never get credit for it anyway.
by tomhow | 2025-07-16 04:18:21+00:00
An article titled "[name] is a traitor" is not a good article for HN, no matter who it's about, as it's flamebait.

Flagging bots and users who flag inappropriately don't have much effect here. We review flagged posts, and for any account that is flagging inappropriately, their flags get switched off.

Almost every day the accusation is made that anything critical of the U.S. administration or tech celebrities is censored here. And the response is always the same. This stuff gets flagged, correctly, by users who want HN to stay true to its intended purpose, which is to discuss topics that engage intellectual curiosity.

The day-to-day posts criticizing the U.S. administration or tech celebrities normally don't fit this category, because they generally say the same thing as the version was posted the day before, and the comments in the discussions also say largely the same things.

Still, we frequently turn off flags on politics-related posts, or indeed posts about tech celebrities, when they contain "significant new information" and can sustain a discussion thread that contains new ideas in the comments.

The users who keep complaining that these stories are censored are users who seem to want HN to be something other than what it has always been intended to be.
by cogencyai | 2025-07-16 04:18:28+00:00
Thanks for the kind words. I actually stripped out most routing recently in favor of a lean, single-loop ReAct core. The last architecture was classic wheel reinvention. It still maintains the light abstractions and modular nodes wired together with simple, explicit logic.

That’s part of why the DX feels tight and fast. Boilerplate was ruthless cut to focus on core reasoning and tool use. Keeps things nimble and maintainable.

Glad the approach resonates! :)
by KPGv2 | 2025-07-16 04:19:11+00:00
> The whole Mozilla situation is even more of a scam than how the Wikimedia Foundation uses sob stories about paying for Wikipedia to get people to donate money to an entity which spends almost no money on Wikipedia... but, at least it does run Wikipedia! lol :/.

I don't think these are comparable at all or how it's a scam. The CEO of the entire wikimedia foundation makes half a million a year. The foundation is considered a GREAT charity to donate to by Charity Navigator. https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703
by gwbas1c | 2025-07-16 04:21:36+00:00
Smokedot.org, in 2002.

I'll let you guess what the site was!

The problem was similar to a Goldfish group I left on Facebook: Every day someone, in a panic, would ask for help with a sick goldfish with the same exact symptoms as a post made the day prior.

Needless to say, if a community can't occasionally discuss what content it wants, and what content to exclude, it devolves. HN has a "no politics" rule. I think it's okay to discuss if other content needs to be excluded too.
by tguvot | 2025-07-16 04:21:51+00:00
i recently read paper on their self identification. Rather recent. iirc split is something like:

- Israeli Arabs : 30%-40%

- Palestinian Arabs: 30%-40%

- Palestinians: 10%-15%

- Christian Arabs: 5%-10%

- Etc : 5%

Guy that I spent two years with in same room was self identifying as "Arab, Orthodox Christian, Communist".

Those who live in west bank have more permutations of identities, with some of them mostly identifying with their clan or religion