MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Roguelazer | 2025-07-10 14:33:30+00:00
It does seem like there's something wrong with that data; I find it somewhat implausible that the average parent was only caring for their child for 1.7 hours a day in 1985; even if you assume that all of the tween and teens were free-range and only got an hour or two of parenting a day, little kids have always required nonstop attention to make sure that they're not actively dying.

Although... the infant mortality rate in the US has dropped by more than 50% since 1985, so who knows...
by simiones | 2025-07-10 14:35:49+00:00
You don't understand what pseudo-randomness means. Virtually all PRNGs, even many CSPRNGs, have a way to initialize the algorithm with a seed, and its outputs are fully predictable based on that seed. Choosing a truly random seed, such as one produced by RNG hardware, will lead to a usefully random sequence - but the algorithm is still fully deterministic based on that seed.
by tom_m | 2025-07-10 14:36:17+00:00
Hmm I don't know. I think AI art (images and video) is fun to create and look at. I think they should simply have a separate section for it.

I guess it depends on the definition of "mass produced" though. I like carefully crafted AI art. You might have to go through dozens of iterations to get a concept that you're after and maybe even do some post processing...but yeah I guess we need to search for the definition of "slop."
by horsawlarway | 2025-07-10 14:36:35+00:00
Mmmm...

I find it somewhat ironic that you pitch this as "No callbacks. No promises. No async/await keywords. Just Ruby code that scales."

When you literally show in the example right above that you need both an "async do" and a "end.map(&:wait)".

I'll add - the one compelling argument you make about needing a db connection per worker is mitigated with something like pgbouncer without much work. The OS overhead per thread (or hell, even per process: https://jacob.gold/posts/serving-200-million-requests-with-c...) isn't an argument I really buy, especially given your use case is long running llm chat tasks as stated above.

Personally - if I really want to be fast and efficient I'm not picking Ruby anyways (or python for that matter - but at least python has the huge ecosystem for the LLM/AI space right now).
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-10 14:36:52+00:00
No way this would fly. A down vote would potentially server you off from so much discussion.

But I do strongly think something should be done to stigmatize or coax users against heavy use of down voting.

Users should not be able to suck karma from the system as effectively as adding karma to the system. I'm pretty convinced there's a handful of folks very dedicated to cancelling karma they don't like, and who spend lots of time & effort undoing the hope & joy others seek to spread.

That's gross. I'd like to see something to push towards the positive.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-10 14:36:55+00:00
Basic human rights?

White people in these countries are, on average, more educated and have better access to contraceptives and abortifacients. These countries also have strong women's rights and are currently going through shaky times where many are concerned about economy and the future (climate change). In America, especially, since the costs for birth and childcare are just incomprehensible.

This is result of a radical change in culture over the past 100 years from women being properly to fully-fledged humans who are allowed the same careers as men and the ability to say "no". Europe still had countries where raping your spouse was not a crime in the 90s.

On top of that, many men are becoming politically incompatible to women. Figureheads like Andrew Tate spread brain rot that men are owed relationships and encourage that they demonstrate the worst concepts of masculinity imaginable. So gen-z and onwards have a disproportionate number of women outright repulsed by the men on offer.

So white women are increasingly pursuing happiness through careers and friends and hobbies instead. They're not dating men they don't want. And they're not having kids until they feel ready and/or safe, if they ever want to.

Other minorities tend to be less educated, have worse access to required medical care, or still have social pressures being applied to them / differences in culture. So they have more children.

What would you do? Force them into marriages they don't want and impregnate them against their will? This is how freedom works.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-10 14:37:03+00:00
the higher prices are affected by the corporate buying of single family homes. for every home a corp buys, that's one less for individuals to buy. if the number of buyers remains the same but fewer homes are available, prices go up--seller's market. yes, prices go up adjusted for..., but inventory more competitively sought. the other issue is that the average buyer is looking to buy with financing while corps are paying cash. that makes for such a smoother transition for the seller that it is hard for them to turn down cash offers.

after corps, we have foreign buyers also coming in with cash offers. i know of one specific house that is empty for the majority of the year purchased by foreign owners specifically for their kid to live while attending college. the kid chose to not go to that school, so the house sits empty except for when some property manager comes by to "check in" on the place.

so while this thread is discussing still showing decent ownership percentages, those numbers are glossing over some of the "trends" in modern real estate.
by alexk307 | 2025-07-10 14:37:18+00:00
But I was told that it was solely Climate Change that was responsible for these price hikes and that it was only going to get worse:

- https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/coffee-costs-clima...

- https://www.inc.com/associated-press/rising-coffee-prices-fu...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/business/coffee-prices-cl...

- https://soprissun.com/with-coffee-prices-on-the-rise-experts...
by Aerbil313 | 2025-07-10 14:38:02+00:00
Probably more like Claude was slightly better than GPT-xx when the IDE integrations first got widely adopted (and this was also the time where there was another scandal about Altman/OpenAI on the front page of HN every other week) so most programmers preferred Claude, then it got into a virtuous cycle where Claude got the most coding-related user queries and became the better coding model among SOTA models, which resulted in the current situation today.
by prewett | 2025-07-10 14:38:10+00:00
There's been 65% inflation over the past 20 years, so to properly compare housing prices you need to multiply the 20 years ago price by 1.65. A house that doubled in price in twenty years only increased by 20% in terms of actual purchasing power (2.0 / 1.65).

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
by WJW | 2025-07-10 14:38:10+00:00
That is a cool paper.

"However, the paper space plane experiences severe aerodynamic heating in the order of 10^5 W/m^2 for several minutes."

I can see how that might be a problem for something made of paper. Interestingly, deformation from flying through a (thin) atmosphere at hypersonic speeds was not a large issue according to the paper.
by laacz | 2025-07-10 14:38:16+00:00
When they first got mentioned, I started aggregating their links. Just now did a quick analysis to look if they've changed something. At the beginning Kite contained a lot of rt.com (Russian propaganda) and a few other discutable sources. rt.com has not surfaced since May 22, which is good. Hope they'll reconsider Kagi's Yandex integration as well.
by taeric | 2025-07-10 14:38:31+00:00
What? If you can't tell your kids no without feeling guilty, it actually sounds like you need more places to tell your kids no? If they are whining about it, set the expectation that whining and not accepting a no is, itself, unacceptable?

This one is an odd area where I would think budgeting would be a good lesson. Set a budget aside for how much they can spend per day and per month on ice cream. If they have the funds, they can get it. If not, make it clear on when they exhausted their budget. In this regard, it should not be an open question on whether or not they can get something. And any "no" will be a direct result of something they have control over.
by yomismoaqui | 2025-07-10 14:38:34+00:00
As with everything there are levels of grey here.

On one side there's the 100% human created content (script, voice & image) and on the other the 100% full AI slop. But the interesting use of AI is between these extremes.

Maybe someone uses ChatGPT to help writing the script, or adds some nice visuals that help the video (taste is a thing).

Or like one of my favorite channels that I recommend to anyone that wants to know how computing works on a lower level:

https://www.youtube.com/@CoreDumpped

This guy is from Ecuador and uses an AI voice (from 11Labs) on its videos and I didn't thought too much about it until he asked on a video if people would like him to use his own voice. And reading the comments his viewers (me included) didn't care too much about the voice and even some of them liked it (it's clear and soothing).

In this case AI makes the content better 100%.

PS: He also does all animations on Powerpoint, that blew my mind.
by xk_id | 2025-07-10 14:38:46+00:00
I’d call this performative news consumption. Information overload is mainly a result of legitimate complexities in the world. It took only a little while to find in today’s item about Hamas a timeline describing October 7th as “the beginning of the current conflict”. A very neat and comfortable summarisation, that also happens to be vehemently rejected by many people. It’s very silly.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-10 14:38:58+00:00
These products were phased out because most people weren't using them.

RSS is and always was very niche. There are always claims that companies killed RSS for nefarious reasons, but I think the truth is much simpler: Companies stopped putting resources into RSS tools because very few people use them.

The people who use RSS are very vocal about their support, but they're a small minority of internet users. Even I started with an RSS reader but found myself preferring a set of bookmarked favorites to the sites I wanted to read, even though they're not equivalent in functionality. For my use case, a random sampling of websites that I could visit during times I had 15 free minutes to read something was better than collecting everything into one big feed, even though I would have guessed the opposite before trying both ways.
by danielhanchen | 2025-07-10 14:39:03+00:00
I made GGUFs + it has tool calling support - I had to verify it via mistral_common! Also vision support should work as well! https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Devstral-Small-2507-GGUF

Also guide on running Devstral: https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/tutorials-how-to-fine-tune-an...

./llama.cpp/llama-cli -hf unsloth/Devstral-Small-2507-GGUF:Q4_K_XL --jinja --temp 0.15 -ngl 99
by bilsbie | 2025-07-10 14:39:09+00:00
I just thought of a good test. Anyone have feedback?

We completely remove a couple simple, obvious inventions from the training data and then see if the AI can come up with it. Perhaps a toothbrush for example. Or a comb? But there could be better examples that would also have minimal effect on the final Ai.

Training is expensive so we wouldn’t want to leave anything important out like the wheel.
by guerillagorilla | 2025-07-10 14:39:13+00:00
A better approach might be to feed all of this into an LLM to have it figure it out. If it finds a bug and has a fix, reproducing it might be easier and a test could potentially be written.

I don’t think LLMs are the answer to everything, but this would be a good test for newer generations of LLMs as they’re developed.

Worst case- it deletes all of your emails, but that would’ve happen anyway, right? =)
by lxgr | 2025-07-10 14:39:17+00:00
> If the hack is something that is traceable to you then the hack becomes fraud and the police will be at your door.

That would be somewhat ironic, given the "code is law" mentality of many blockchain proponents.

I don't doubt that many people would file police reports and lawsuits if any fundamental paradigm of blockchain cryptography were to suddenly be revealed as insecure, but I'd be following the lawsuits with a big bowl of popcorn.
by erghjunk | 2025-07-10 14:39:30+00:00
I'm not going to dispute your over-arching point (because I know the data very well), but as a lifelong resident of Appalachia, I can assure you there has been some real and significant reduction in the negative environmental impact of fossil fuels. It's a small comfort and mostly just for those of us who live here, but it's real and visible.
by MisterTea | 2025-07-10 14:39:40+00:00
Parties were where you went to meet random strangers, get intoxicated, and maybe get laid. None of this is exciting anymore. People are less motivated to go out. We have other forms of socialization.

I blame a lot of the de-socialization on our constantly connected society. Since everyone is in contact with each other 24/7 via social media the idea of meeting random people is less exciting. The 24/7 news cycle also injects a lot of doom and anxiety making people more aware of dangers - intoxicated driving, overdose, violence, rape, etc. Parties might be viewed as more dangerous than exciting. Now add to that, 24/7 streaming of TV and highly addictive video games. There is plenty of distraction to fill the boredom gaps that used to motivate people to go out. And finally, I think covid drove a lot of people into a more isolationist mindset. I know a few people, including myself, who have admitted they go out far less post covid compared to pre covid.
by arandomusername | 2025-07-10 14:40:01+00:00
The only one parroting racist points here is you, being against the white people.

I will only speak for Europeans, saying white Europeans is redundant btw.

It's simple, to rectify the problem: You stop immigration from non-European nations. You deport those with a criminal history (yeah, there's a lot of them). You deport those that are not a net positive on the economy and take welfare. You don't extend visas for non-skilled labour (e.g taxis, uber eats). Then anyone who fails to assimilate also gets deported.

That's my logical conclusion. Why don't we follow the current way/your way? European population continues to decrease, while we import millions of foreigners. Eventually, Europeans die out. Genocide.
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-07-10 14:40:57+00:00
I generally agree with you but I think you were a little strong in your view that the OP was "oblivious." I only say this because an enormous percentage of companies hiring software engineers specifically with requirements of X years with Y language and W years with framework with silly name Z. I think they are also misguided in that but I think it is is too prevalent to say they are all oblivious but honestly that may actually be more of an apt description.
by deadbabe | 2025-07-10 14:42:30+00:00
I mean everything you listed there could be done within 2 hours if you do it all at home. Not sure what the big deal is, you wake up at 7 and you’re ready for the day by 9.

But oh yea maybe laying in bed for an hour doom scrolling on your phone before you finally get up is a more efficient use of time.
by arandomusername | 2025-07-10 14:42:45+00:00
I use the UN's definition for genocide https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

Genocide usually occurs against a certain group of people, "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". White, or Europeans, are an ethnical and racial group.

> I'm left not understanding your point then. I should be afraid because humans with one shade of skin are populating faster than humans with another?

My point is that the native people of Europe, are being systematically replaced with foreign people. Conditions are being put on Europeans where births are reduced and are instead being replaced by another group.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-07-10 14:42:46+00:00
I think the biggest problem with systemd is that they named the main init service manager systemd and also named the organization systemd! It'd be like if GNU named their initrd "GNU". Their other tools just have systemd prepended, e.g. systemd-journald, much like GNU Make or GNU libc (glibc) or similar. The "scope creep" issue doesn't get complained about for GNU because it's clear they're an organization making a bunch of tools for different purposes. Systemd-the-organization is the same, but the naming makes it unclear that many of these tools are not depended on by systemd-the-init-system.
by tehryanx | 2025-07-10 14:43:09+00:00
I'm not following.

Say I have your browser extension running, and it's interfacing with an MCP-B enabled banking application using my session to access my data in that app.

I also have it connected to MCP-B enabled rogue web app that I mistakenly trust.

My browser has an entire architecture built around preventing data from crossing between those two origins, but what's stopping a malicious instruction from the rogue app asking the extension agent to include some data that it pulled into the context window from the banking app?

Further, when I use MCP in my IDE I have to deliberately provide that MCP server with a token or credentials to access a protected resource. With MCP-B, isn't it just automatically provided with whatever credentials are already stored in cookies/etc for a given MCP-B enabled app? If I load an MCP-B enabled app, does the agent automatically have access or do I have to configure it somewhere?

> If a website wants to expose a "delete all user data" tool, that's on them. It's no different than putting a big red delete button on the page.

It is different though, because the directive to push that button can come from somewhere other than the user, unless you've somehow solved prompt injection.

The point I'm driving toward is that I think you're violating the most common assumption of the web's long-standing security model, that data is protected from leaking cross origin by the browser. There's no SOP or CORS for your agent extension, and that's something that web apps have been built to expect. You're basically building an SOP bypass extension.
by lxgr | 2025-07-10 14:43:18+00:00
That's the case with many cryptographic explanations for laypeople, in my experience (as mostly a layperson).

Maybe all these elaborate analogies of Alice walking into a cave and Bob yelling which exit she should come out of, Alice wanting to sell Bob a Hamiltonian cycle trustlessly, Alice and Bob mixing buckets of paint and shipping them via the mail back and forth etc. are working for some people, but it's not me.
by TFYS | 2025-07-10 14:43:20+00:00
But why is there a need for a security architecture in the first place? Because if you don't have it, some competing entity will come and take the resources that you cannot protect. In the absence of such a competing entity, there'd be no need for a security architecture. No one would come take your resources if everyone was equally a part of managing those resources. So yes, a security force strong enough to enforce peace among competing countries and businesses is one way to achieve peace, but another is to remove the need for such architectures altogether by getting rid of competition.

Of course if we did manage to create a global planned economy with no need for security, there's still a chance that some group of people would establish some entity that would try to take a bigger share for itself than what the planned system would provide them. That would mean there'd have to be some form of security even without competition to prevent us from "devolving" into a competitive state again. You might be right. We would not be able to get rid of conflict just by getting rid of competition, we'd need a security architecture to enforce it, and it could do that for any system. Maybe there'd be less need for enforcement in a system without competition, but you are right.

So a planned economy might not be a way to achieve lasting peace, but it'd still be a way to avoid the other issues caused by a competition based economy.

> Hitler invaded the USSR to secure oil, but the oil wasn't the point, being able to continue the war economy on the Western front while having little access to indigenous oil was the point.

Sure, but what was the point of expanding German land to begin with? Was it not to secure more resources for the German people and its leadership? Would they have attacked if there was no resources to be gained from it? If the reward for victory was that Hitler gets to see a bigger country on a map, bigger numbers under statistics of the population of Germany, some respect or whatever, but nothing in terms of resources, would the war have started? Wasn't one of the triggers the anger caused by the reparations that Germany was forced to pay for ww1?
by adrian_b | 2025-07-10 14:43:30+00:00
You are right, in the filthiest environments nothing else can be as performant as a worm/snake-like robot, even if such robots are inferior to those with wheels or rotary propellers in nice tidy environments.

Moreover, instead of making a robot with arms, which are useful for work, but which are an impediment for moving in a filthy environment, it is better to send multiple vermiform robots, which are designed such as after reaching their destination they are able to cooperate in such a way as to act like a robot with multiple arms (i.e. they should be able to attach to anything in the environment or to another robot with both the anterior end and the posterior end, like leeches).
by smoothbenny | 2025-07-10 14:43:32+00:00
tl;dr: It sounds like we agree that the UX is good but the aggregation is bad.

To call the problem unsolvable is dismissive and makes the whole endeavor of aggregating news pointless.

The mainstream sources are in fact manufacturing the exact same consent by defining the acceptable polarity of discourse on any given topic. There are plenty of non-major news sources that offer a different perspective from the mainstream but aren’t fringe in any sense. Someone as plain as Amy Goodman comes to mind. By ignoring them all and saying the mainstream sources are of “better quality” leaves me curious to know which alternative sources are on your radar as well as your overall satisfaction with the news presented on the site.

The problem with this site specifically is it is not mashing everything together to get a general direction. It curates a specific set of sources to provide a center-right direction while explicitly ignoring the left of center POV.

Let’s assume this takes off and people find it an easily digestible way to read the news. Readers trust the product and decide that if they want to learn more about a story they can click the source links, since those must also be trustworthy. And by extension, alternative sources may not be trustworthy. Based on what you’re saying I think we both agree that these are bad conclusions, since mainstream sources routinely lie or create narratives that allow for war, death, antisemitism, Islamophobia, etc., while alternative outlets may have heavily sourced, deeply detailed reporting that wouldn’t get picked up by major press. Facts presented in a story from either type of outlet may be doctored in many ways for any number of purposes, so it’s not so simple to say a number or a survey result or anything else is “wheat”, or that any analysis is “chaff”.