MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by macintux | 2025-07-25 15:15:12+00:00
> In the context of modern age regulation, at a social level, nobody is arguing people at large should not have access to violent and sexual content.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-por...

> Just five pages into the foreword by the president of the far-right Heritage Foundation think tank, the proposal stakes out an uncompromising position that porn should be banned, porn producers and distributors should be sent to prison, and tech companies that circulate it should be shut down.
Ask HN: Appetite for Subscription MCP Servers?
by NiloCK | 2025-07-25 15:15:18+00:00
Some recent events:

LLMs happened, and then major providers offered API access and many SaaS were born as wrapper companies.

Architecture: User <-> SaaS <-> LLM

This is well and good.

Now, many LLM providers are providing more and more full-featured (and agentic) front-ends for their users. Include claude-code and gemini-cli in this list. These front-ends are also, in general, mcp clients.

Yesterday, Nia posted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44671601 ) a developer-focused context-as-a-service subscription MCP server at $15 / Mo.

Architecture: User <-> LLM <-> CaaS

My questions:

1. Are there many known instances of CaaS providers out there? EG, revenue generating products whose interactions w/ end users are primarily (or maybe entirely) mediated by LLM providers?

2. How far can the model go in sufficiently general cases? In the specific Nia case, if its secret-sauce is effective for general software development, I would expect that anthropic and google would seek to embed the same functionality into their agentic coding assistant environments. More niche products, or products that pull from private data sources, seem to me more likely to have at least medium-term viability

3. Would you pay for MCP to augment your agents in personalized ways? A pitch: progressive language-immersion via LLM clients. Combine a traditional interactive-tutoring-system or SRS with MCP hooks such that the agent keeps an up to date handle on the foreign-language concepts you understand well, and your zone-of-proximal-development. It can then communicate by default in your target language at appropriately challenging level and fallback to English where you aren't well equipped.

(the pitch is related to my work with http://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder , a general toolkit for SRS++ edtech development)
by KK7NIL | 2025-07-25 15:15:33+00:00
> Intel has just said that unless a miracle will bring them serious external customers for their 14A CMOS process, they will stop developing it

Here's the actual quote:

> This Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Words such as "accelerate", "achieve", "aim", "ambitions", "anticipate", "believe", "committed", "continue", "could", "designed", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "future", "goals", "grow", "guidance", "intend", "likely", "may", "might", "milestones", "next generation", "objective", "on track", "opportunity", "outlook", "pending", "plan", "position", "possible", "potential", "predict", "progress", "ramp", "roadmap", "seek", "should", "strive", "targets", "to be", "upcoming", "will", "would", and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which may include statements regarding:

> ...

> potential pause or discontinuation of our pursuit of Intel 14A and other next generation leading-edge process technologies if we are unable to secure a significant external customer for Intel 14A;

I think it's pretty obvious that it's more of a statement to legally cover the company's behind from investor lawsuits than the current plan, and the fact this wasn't repeated anywhere else more prominent backs that up.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-25 15:15:39+00:00
> The right question is "how much total value do all of the links provide", not "what percent are used".

Yes, but it doesn't bring in the sweet promotion home, unfortunately. Ironically, if 99% of them doesn't see any traffic, you can scale back the infra, run it in 2 VMs, and make sure a single person can keep it up as a side quest, just for fun (but, of course, pay them for their work).

This beancounting really makes me sad.
by notjoemama | 2025-07-25 15:16:02+00:00
Wow. By your other comments I know you "know things". But this...this you do not know.

Rails was "hot" 20 years ago? lol, and you have completely missed IIS, .Net, and (dun dun duuuuuuuuunnnnn!!!!!) PHP. I bet you don't even know what ASP was.

Also...wth with C++ or python on a web server...20 years ago? Ok maybe this is entertaining now. Since you know so much, tell me about the framework libs needed for C++ web apps 20 years ago. eats popcorn <- that...is from BBS, maybe look that up too.

Are you an LLM bot or real person?

You're not just kind of wrong here; you're not just a little wrong; you're "having a bad day" level of wrong.

Take the afternoon off, and drink a Jamba Juice. Maybe call some family and tell them you love them.
Ask HN: Why haven't we seen AI as opponents in video games?
by duxup | 2025-07-25 15:16:16+00:00
Civilization used to be my favorite video game series. I played it since Civ I and as much as any software it came along for the ride with my interest with computers. But around Civ VI the competition provided by the computer opponent seemed to fall apart completely. Often the computer just rage quits and doesn't build a military, declares war and does nothing, and so on.

This makes me wonder why we haven't seen AI as a gaming opponent much. I suspect even a flawed AI would at least do something. Gaming AI opponents seem like a natural place for something like AI where they could provide a lot of unexpected fun and "interesting decisions".

Is there something about the current AI landscape that makes it incompatible, difficult, or unprofitable?
by astrobe_ | 2025-07-25 15:17:04+00:00
You realize you are talking about something you have never seen, right?

I do. Maybe my ten thousand lines of Forth were barely readable. But not anymore. I have dozens of scripts meant to be throwaways, not something perfect and beautiful meant to published on Github, some of them I actually reused No Problem.

And I'm not even a professional Forth programmer; it only has been my go-to language for scripts, prototypes, utilities for a solid decade now.

Maybe your intuition tells you that it "has" to be write-only. Full disclosure: I became interested in this language because I thought there's no way it could be viable - forget about "write-only" and "readability", I was already over those fallacies at that time. But on the other hand, there was contrary evidence [1]. So I gave a honest and earnest shot at it.

What I learned, among other things, is that most of the work is about going against the habits and ways of thinking that you learned from mainstream languages. Of course it is not something one can learn by stagnating in the comfort zone of Algol++ languages.

[1] https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-apps/
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-25 15:17:32+00:00
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Goo.gl

https://tracker.archiveteam.org/goo-gl/ (1.66B work items remaining as of this comment)

How to run an ArchiveTeam warrior: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

(edit: i see jaydenmilne commented about this further down thread, mea culpa)
by mbananasynergy | 2025-07-25 15:17:51+00:00
>Complete Bullshit. Provide links to the videos, otherwise that is another evidenceless attack and just confirms your pattern.

I assume you're not disputing that Rossmann has a verified Kiwi Farms account, that much is well documented.

https://youtu.be/wgF92Wi8J7o

The above video refers to a video by Destiny (https://youtu.be/ba383Zux0Mo) where he spends a bunch of time defending Kiwi Farms. Rossmann making a video about it and joking about "lolcows" is what has contributed to people at Kiwi Farms worshipping him, and his fan starting a thread about Daniel there where people tell him to kill himself.

Stop defending this stuff and finding every opportunity you can to try and gaslight others - it's weird.
by ongy | 2025-07-25 15:17:58+00:00
The core devs were all paid to work on it when I was still active.

Not sure how many of the gnome (mutter) people are paid. Last I checked, the nvidia support was donated by nvidia (paid) for both KDE and Gnome.

I think KDE got some work sponsored by valve (before gamescope), though I'm not quite sure on that.

Overall, outside the sway/wlroots group I was a part of at the time, people generally worked adjacent or directly on wayland for day jobs.
by enobrev | 2025-07-25 15:18:53+00:00
This is what I imagined when reading Neuromancer and other sci-fi of that time. A public online space that we share. Sure, some corners will get gross and dangerous. But that's what humanity looks like.

It's strange to me that we never included public spaces in our growth and innovation of the internet over the past 30 years. Of course I expect companies to do their thing as they've had free reign to do, but it wouldn't have taken much cost or effort to add a couple publicly funded data-centers where everyone gets a little space for themselves.

At least in the US, I think it's because we've allowed those who run our government to get far too old. The people running the country have not really understood the public good of the internet outside of commerce. Don't get me wrong, I've benefited from said commerce for my entire career, but I think we, as a society, have lost quite a bit of ground by not collectively owning a piece of this thing as it grew.

Once upon a time the airwaves were ours, and music thrived because of it. These days the airwaves are all practically walled off with massive monopolies controlling them. It's an overall detriment to our creative progress.

I know I'm an old man barking at clouds, but I miss the radio from when I was young - there was actually new and interesting music there. The internet feels the same way for very similar reasons.
by danaris | 2025-07-25 15:19:51+00:00
a) One way or another, that's "not letting them enjoy the same freedoms as other companies"

b) How would you then prevent them from re-amalgamating the way Verizon and AT&T did after the Baby Bell breakup? Not just for a few years afterward, but ever?

c) I think that payment processors actually make a pretty convincing natural monopoly: consider that if we had 400 payment processors with no common interface protocol between them (and let's face it, without being forced to, companies aren't going to make such a standard), your Baby Visa #27 credit card wouldn't be accepted at a merchant who only accepts Baby Mastercard #100-200 cards. And even accepting that many different payment processors would be pretty onerous.

Remember, this isn't the card issuers we're talking about; this is the backend processors. The only reason our current "universal" credit card infrastructure works is because nearly everyone takes Mastercard and Visa, and most credit cards—and many debit cards—are either Mastercard or Visa. Sure, it would be possible to create some kind of an interchange standard that all 400 processors would follow, but again, where's the incentive for any single processor?
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-07-25 15:20:06+00:00
Yes it does and the ticket scanner should put all the suggestions of it being malicious theft by immigrants (not you but there’s seriously posts along those lines here as of now) to rest.

Both baggage that’s popped open and loose items get put aside at some stage of loading.

A handler looks at it all and puts loose items in the nearest bags respectively and sends it forward to the lost bag crew. That’s pretty much the simplest explanation here.
by duxup | 2025-07-25 15:20:20+00:00
My neighbor was a part of a facebook mom's group that went that way. It was a normal group, all the discussion you'd expect, but then the person running the group pretty much took the wheel and turned it hard to the right and even tried testing the locals for their loyalty and etc. Expelling anyone even wondering what was going on and so on. It was wild.
by OutOfHere | 2025-07-25 15:20:56+00:00
Women (or people) can be highly emotional at times, and they risk blurting out nonsense on the app when they're in a bad mood. It is precisely at these times when they can do their worst.

Of course I want them to be safe, but safety begins with seeking good proxy traits in a person that minimize the risk of abusive behavior to begin with. They also sometimes continue an abusive relationship when they should be ending it asap.

Also, there are worse things, like STIs, that the app could do nothing about, with the point being that anyone who shares a recent panel result is likely invested in mutual safety anyway.
by BreakMaker9000 | 2025-07-25 15:21:52+00:00
> The idea of a single entity being responsible for development, operations, observability, and support is flawed from the start.

Why? I have seen this done successfully at my work time and again. I've just switched to a company that has this separated out and the chaos is unimaginable. what's even worse is that everything is a finger-pointing exercise. devs can't ship their features because they have to fight (or wait) for DevOps to set up things. SRE is trying to add observability and is swamped with 18 teams having services in different tech stacks. Service health is basically non-existent. If someone tries to set a standardized process, then 'how dare you suggest anything outside of your domain?'. Everyone seems to focus on what they think is right and are rarely convinced by others. Worst, not even a tiny bit taking seniority into consideration. not saying seniors know it all better, but the one or two things they have seen are fully disregarded.

At FAANG at least, each team has full ownership AND responsibility across all dimensions. But the good thing was that the people knew that and if anything went wrong, then business was asking hard questions and service teams (product, ux, engineer, sometimes science) had to explain and potentially pivot their processes. which was easy, because everyone was pulling on one string together.

> That’s not a one-person job Correct, that's why you are working as a team on all these things together.
by amendegree | 2025-07-25 15:21:56+00:00
Hamas shared the videos… not sure what else you’d call it when a violent mob made up of both young and old people jostles and jeers and attacks innocent civilians and then throws rocks and chases their car. This don’t happen just once, it was a crowd of 1000s every time.

Here in America we call that a lynch mob.

Maybe you should stop with the bigotry apologism.
by motorest | 2025-07-25 15:22:42+00:00
> Right , just to remind that China is the country that supports Proxy wars with west (...)

The current US administration directly and very overtly threatens two NATO members with invasion and annexation.

I personally can't interpret Trump administration's insistence on supporting Russia on all fronts alongside its enthusiastic push to completely cut military support for Ukraine as anything other than something far more damaging to the collective west's protection than whatever support China or even North Korea is providing to Russia.

There is no way to spin this: the US is the biggest threat to the collective west, not only by reneging on their obligations towards their allies in general and NATO in particular but also by it's clear and very overt threats.
by cutlilacs | 2025-07-25 15:23:26+00:00
> nebulously stupid standards

You should listen to the racist recording. It wasn't nebulous, it was clearly and explicitly racist. Most people think he went way too far. This isn’t a case of subtle racism where people might be overreaching; what he said was awful.

Sorry you can't outgrow your childhood, but you should come to terms that the man you idolized was a shitty person.
by pjc50 | 2025-07-25 15:23:56+00:00
In the UK this is regulated spend, except the rules weren't updated for social media and all sorts of dark money adverts started appearing.

The UK system gives both a minimum and a cap. Parties are entitled to a TV slot and I believe each candidate gets a free constituency mailshot as well. Beyond that the amount of money that can be spent is supposed to be capped.
by Nasrudith | 2025-07-25 15:24:14+00:00
Why does "morality" enforcement always devolve into obsession with what other people do with their genitals among consenting parties and completely ignore empathy, welfare of humankind and others, or any of the inconvenient and possibly expensive "Treating people beneath you nicely?". We never see such "moralists" punishing those who do such profoundly immoral things like actively forbidding helping the homeless.
by brainwad | 2025-07-25 15:24:46+00:00
So long as the price is the same for cash and card (and Pix?), then you should pick the one that gives you the best kickbacks. I don't think capping CC fees will actually lower prices for consumers much (because merchants prefer round prices for psychological pricing). For evidence, see the fairly uniform pricing of products sold in euros between countries, despite varying vat rates between eurozone countries.
by brokegrammer | 2025-07-25 15:24:51+00:00
My thoughts exactly. Inference should be dirt cheap for LLMs to truly become powerful.

It's similar to how computing used to be restricted to mega corps 100 years ago, but today, a smartphone has more computing power than any old age mainframe. Today we need Elon Musk to buy 5 million GPUs to train a model. Tomorrow, we should be able to train a top of the line model using a budget RTX card.
by bogwog | 2025-07-25 15:24:52+00:00
These are ridiculous scenarios to try and optimize for. A smartphone feature isn't going to save someone from an abusive spouse or a serial killer, and if it does, it'll be an exceptional situation.

There was a youtuber who got kidnapped in Haiti a while back, and his kidnappers demanded to search the photo gallery on his phone for something. So what he did was delete the pictures, but not empty the trash, hoping they wouldn't know about that feature. They didnt, and he got away with it. Did Apple envision a kidnapping scenario when they were designing that feature? Probably not. Is there a design lesson that can be taken from that situation? Also probably not, because it just as easily could have gone the other way.
by cubefox | 2025-07-25 15:25:06+00:00
Yeah, since then there were some games with very natural looking contrast and colors, perhaps most notably Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018). Or, years later, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (2025), which you already mentioned. As a negative example: as far as I can tell, Horizon Forbidden West (2022) mostly doubled down on the exaggerated color contrast he criticized in the predecessor.
by asveikau | 2025-07-25 15:25:22+00:00
People do large rewrites that subtly break expectations and need to slowly add back features to get parity with the old thing at Microsoft all the time. Source: I worked there at the end of the 2000s.

Sometimes it's very visible, like they are pushing a new UI framework. Other times it's under the hood, like they changed how a lot of GDI works.
by TXTOS | 2025-07-25 15:25:27+00:00
I’ve built multiple RAG pipelines across Windsurf, Claude, and even Gemini-Codex hybrids, and I’ve learned this:

Most of the current devtools are competing at the UX/UI layer — not the semantic inference layer.

Claude dominates because it "feels smart" during code manipulation — but that’s not a model quality issue. It’s that Claude’s underlying attention bias aligns better with certain symbolic abstractions (e.g. loop repair or inline type assumptions). Cursor and Windsurf ride that perception well.

But if you inspect real semantic coherence across chained retrievals or ask them to operate across nonlinear logic breaks, most tools fall apart.

That’s why I stopped benchmarking tools by "stars" and started treating meaning-routing as a core design variable. I wrote a weird little engine to explore this problem:

https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY

It’s more a semantic firewall than an IDE — but it solves the exact thing these tools fail at: continuity of symbolic inference.

tl;dr: The tools that win attention don’t always win in recursive reasoning. And eventually, reasoning is what devs will benchmark.
by lorenabudoian | 2025-07-25 15:25:33+00:00
Salutare! Eu și echipa mea construim o platformă unde oamenii pot trimite întrebări scrise către medici sau avocați verificați și pot primi răspunsuri online. Fără programări, fără apeluri.

Platforma e deja live și am avut sute de utilizatori până acum. Dar observăm un tipar care ne pune pe gânduri: oamenii intră pe profilurile experților (se uită, citesc)… și apoi pleacă fără să trimită nimic.

Nu sunt erori, nu sunt bug-uri. Doar ezitare. Ne întrebăm: e lipsa de încredere? Nu știu ce să întrebe? Nesiguranță legată de preț? Altceva?

Dacă ați trecut prin genul ăsta de comportament pe platforme B2C sau marketplace-uri, mi-ar plăcea tare mult să aud părerea voastră. Ce ajută, în experiența voastră, să crești încrederea și să încurajezi acțiunea?