MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-13 19:59:38+00:00
> This same distinction applies to rationality: there's a huge difference between someone who strives to be rational and someone who belongs to a "rationalist community".

I consider myself a member of both these groups, and I fully agree. Many people are in the rationality community only because they like the vibes, not because they actually try to practice the art. It probably can't be avoided -- the community is open to newcomers and has no formal membership.
Show HN: Magicnode – Build and share AI-powered apps visually, no code required
by zuhaib-rasheed | 2025-08-13 20:00:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on Magicnode — a visual platform to build AI-powered apps without writing code, and then share, embed, or monetize them. Think “Canva for AI apps”.

The idea came from repeatedly seeing friends and colleagues who had ideas for small AI tools (e.g., lead generation bots, TikTok content generators, onboarding assistants) but didn’t have the coding skills or time to build them. Existing no-code tools often require a steep learning curve or lots of manual integrations — we wanted something you could use in minutes, not hours.

With Magicnode you can:

Create an app by dragging blocks (prompts, APIs, UI components) on a canvas.

Share it instantly with a link, or embed it on a website.

Let others “remix” your app to make their own version.

Optionally publish to our public App Store for discoverability.

A few example apps made in Magicnode:

Podcast Summarizer → paste a link, get a 5-bullet summary.

Viral Caption Generator for TikTok videos.

Custom PDF Chatbot for onboarding docs.

We’d love feedback from the HN community, especially on:

Use cases you’d like to see pre-built.

Features we could add to make this useful for technical users.

Thoughts on our “remix” model for app virality.

You can try it here: https://magicnode.ai (no signup needed to test a demo).

Happy to answer all questions, and if anyone wants to build something together on Magicnode, I’d be excited to collaborate.

— Founder @ Magicnode
by horsawlarway | 2025-08-13 20:00:15+00:00
Hey - no argument here.

I don't think the concept of copyright itself is fundamentally immoral... but it's pretty clearly a moral hazard, and the current implementation is both terrible at supporting independent artists, and a beat stick for already wealthy corporations and publishers to use to continue shitting on independent creators.

So sure - I agree that watching the complete disregard for copyright is galling in its hypocrisy, but the problem is modern copyright, IMO.

...and maybe also capitalism in general and wealth inequality at large - but that's a broader, complicated, discussion.
by triknomeister | 2025-08-13 20:00:27+00:00
And cooling. Look here: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2025...

Especially a special PDU: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/newsroom-jupiter/images-isc-202...

And cooling: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/newsroom-jupiter/images-isc-202...
by m4r71n | 2025-08-13 20:01:08+00:00
What does GPU-aware mean in terms of a registry? Will `uv` inspect my local GPU spec and decide what the best set of packages would be to pull from Pyx?

Since this is a private, paid-for registry aimed at corporate clients, will there be an option to expose those registries externally as a public instance, but paid for by the company? That is, can I as a vendor pay for a Pyx registry for my own set of packages, and then provide that registry as an entrypoint for my customers?
by johnfn | 2025-08-13 20:01:11+00:00
I couldn't disagree more. Every anti-AI argument I read has the same tired elements - that AI produces slop (is it?) that is soulless (really?). That the human element is lost (are you sure?). As most arguments of the form "hey everyone else, stop being excited about something" typically go, I find these to be dispassionate -- not passionate. What is there to get excited about when your true goal is to quash everyone else's excitement?

Whereas I find pro-AI arguments to be finding some new and exciting use case for AI. Novelty and exploration tend to be exciting, passion-inducing topics. It's why people like writing about learning Rust, or traveling.

At least that's my experience.
by debugnik | 2025-08-13 20:01:57+00:00
Funny, I moved to OCaml to sidestep F# tooling. At least last time I used F#: Slow compiler, increasingly C#-only ecosystem, weak and undocumented MSBuild (writing custom tasks would otherwise be nice!), Ionide crashes, Fantomas is unsound...

But OCaml sadly can't replace F# for all my use cases. F# does get access to many performance-oriented features that the CLR supports and OCaml simply can't, such as value-types. Maybe OxCaml can fix that long term, but I'm currently missing a performant ML-like with a simple toolchain.
by martin-t | 2025-08-13 20:02:04+00:00
Yep, just like it's illegal to sell your organs or sell yourself into slavery, society needs to recognize that even through the severity of exploiting personal data is much lower, the principle is the same - the power differential between the two parties is so large that the weaker one has no choice but to agree.

It's the illusion of choice that gives is the veneer of legitimacy.
by ender341341 | 2025-08-13 20:02:13+00:00
> So it's pretty simple for a certified electrician to just make a 240v outlet if needed. It's just not the default that comes out of a wall.

It'd be all new wire run (120 is split at the panel, we aren't running 240v all over the house) and currently electricians are at a premium so it'd likely end up costing a thousand+ to run that if you're using an electrician, more if there's not clear access from an attic/basement/crawlspace.

Though I think it's unlikely we'll see an actual need for it at home, I imaging a 800w cpu is going to be for server class CPUs and rare-ish to see in home environments.
by catigula | 2025-08-13 20:02:17+00:00
Why? The premise of the post is that we're all world citizens.

Why does it matter where I live?

I need only simply desire to live somewhere and be something and my wish should be granted lest I be sad, which the Japanese must obviously take very, very seriously. They must ensure I am not sad.

In fact, the comparison is even more apt because it becomes more obviously absurd.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-13 20:02:21+00:00
It is still there according to "opam show dune --all-versions", so no, it has not been removed.

Anyways, what you could do is:

opam pin add dune 3.7.0 opam install dune

Alternatively, you can use the tarball directly:

opam pin add dune https://github.com/ocaml/dune/releases/download/3.7.0/dune-3.7.0.tbz
by SLWW | 2025-08-13 20:02:34+00:00
> During a group date, my date's friend wanted to go to a bar. He asked if I could get in without ID because he didn't think I was living here legally. One moment I felt like I belonged with them. The next, I was reminded that I'm not really part of the group. It made me sad to hear that question.

I'm not sure what type of self-hatred this is. Someone wants to go to a bar, unsure of the legal status of another, color plays a factor but we know nothing about their socioeconomic status or if this writer is in California, the friend of the date asks not as if he is looking for something to get the writer on but rather to make sure they won't have issues. This does not imply anything about his opinions of the writer, and seeing how he is ok with the writer's presence I doubt that this is an issue of "patriotism", it's a legal concern.

Patriotism in America is about uniting under the flag and it's values; it's not about if you are a certain color. There's a reason why we have American patriots of all races; you don't really see that too often in other places. If you don't have those values, then you aren't one of us, that's what patriotism is by definition in this country and our context.
by Herring | 2025-08-13 20:02:36+00:00
Society pays for cars in a lot of ways other than just taxes. Roads/highways/parking takes up tons of valuable land (opportunity costs). Cars cause a lot of medical conditions, from respiratory/cardiovascular diseases, to obesity. Cars add to climate change, which causes extreme weather events. Congestion and noise impacts health and the economy, etc. Cities all around the world would be net improved with much fewer cars.
by nradov | 2025-08-13 20:02:41+00:00
Jamming or not isn't a binary condition, nor is there a clear line between jamming versus spoofing. Certain types of signal interference will still allow for a position fix but with greatly degraded accuracy. There are algorithms to detect signal quality, but again that alone isn't considered adequate for anything safety critical.

Commercial aircraft aren't legally allowed to fly with only GPS for navigation, and for good reason.
Ask HN: Would a list of coffee shops serving good specialty coffee be useful?
by pomdevv | 2025-08-13 20:02:46+00:00
I struggle to find a proper coffee shop when traveling.

I try to guess the quality of the coffee by looking at images on their google page, but it's not 100% accurate.

Would you find useful to have a list of specialty coffee shops of the city you just arrived in ?
by OgsyedIE | 2025-08-13 20:02:50+00:00
The historical data is that porn usage is inversely correlated with sexual violence: the countries with more access to porn have less rapes.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601...

If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn and are less motivated to rape.
by ptribble | 2025-08-13 20:02:56+00:00
There was nothing about screwing anyone involved in the choice of the license. The license had to be something all the copyright and license holders were prepared to accept (and getting them to accept CDDL was hard enough, not everyone did hence the few closed components).

Our belief was that Linux would be unlikely (and unwise as the overall system architecture is sufficiently different that it would be hard to port) to take the code. We expected - and encouraged - the concepts to be taken (as with the slab memory allocator).
by moritzwarhier | 2025-08-13 20:03:05+00:00
I see your point there regarding the money/power of the audience being a substitute for popularity with different interests, weakening my claim that Händel would've been "like a pop musician" at his times".

Sure, the comparison was probably painted with a brush that was too broad, thus flawed.

I should have gone into some more detail there regarding the music patronage demography
by suspended_state | 2025-08-13 20:03:06+00:00
While I think there's very little chance for the author to overturn this decision, and thus agree with you that he should just move on, you should have a look at the amount of features this small project offers. I don't think this could be considered "trademark squatting", there's a real effort put in that project, and for many years.

Perhaps I have the wrong idea of what it means to do trademark squatting, or did I misunderstand your point?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-13 20:03:17+00:00
When I was young we lived just as spread out. We just biked/skateboarded to places. We stashed our surf boards at the closest house to the beach. We made third spaces happen.

Why has that stopped being an option? Is it because people's parents are too scared to let them do it when they are young (we were taking public busses to downtown Santa Cruz in junior high but we were latch key 80s/90s kids with zero oversite) and so they don't realize it's an option when they are older or?
by ofjcihen | 2025-08-13 20:03:34+00:00
No. It’s not.

ECD includes the mechanisms by which children naturally explore the world and grow.

I’m going to give you a spoiler and tell you that children are wired to explore and attempt to reason from birth.

So to fix your analogy, you reading about ECD is like you learning what an engine is before you tell a room full of people about what it does.
by sitkack | 2025-08-13 20:03:53+00:00
> I'm not comparing single-file vs multiple files, I'm comparing single-file vs NPM/PIP/go get/Cargo

You are talking about your own thing. Everyone else is talking about the number of files, not the distribution and update mechanism.

The packaging system could support single file and still be able to track versions and upgrades. The JVM ecosystem is effectively single file for many deps esp now that jars can contain jars.
by SamBam | 2025-08-13 20:04:09+00:00
The internet would not exist if it consisted of people just putting stuff out there, happy that it's released into the wilds of the overall consciousness, and nothing more. People are willing to put the time and effort into posting stuff for other reasons. Building community, gaining recognition, making money. Even on a website like HN we post under consistent usernames with the vague sense that these words are ours. If posts had no usernames, no one would comment on this site.

It's completely disingenuous to say that everyone who creates content -- blog authors, recipe creators, book writers, artists, etc -- should just be happy feeding the global consciousness because then everyone will get a tiny diluted iota of their unattributed wisdom.
by sapphicsnail | 2025-08-13 20:04:25+00:00
This sounds a bit like arguing that doctors shouldn't be liable for harming a patient. If you make a shady app you should be held responsible for losing your customers' money.

Edit: I use grapheneos and I don't agree with google gate-keeping what people put on their phone. I just thinks crypto companies, like any company, should be held accountable for their actions.
by more_corn | 2025-08-13 20:04:53+00:00
Claude is really good about documenting what it has done. I’ve also had some good luck with “I’m interested in this part of the codebase please explain it to me” And “this part is not working let’s diagnose” I’ve been doing a lot of productionization of nontechnical vibecoding. And I provide a lot of feedback on best practices (one of which is to ask “is this best practices for security and data protection?”)

That being said there’s no replacement for a real knowledgeable human software engineer.
by blokey | 2025-08-13 20:04:54+00:00
Please don’t make such personal attacks, it doesn’t add to the conversation.

If you want to have a wallet app that is not backed by a company with a banking license, then could you not side load it?

We have basic minimum standards in our food safety, why not have them in our financial services?

You, as an expert in the field still can download any application you wish, but others that may not be an expert, are given some protection from potentially AI Slop apps that they wouldn’t understand are dangerous.
by cpursley | 2025-08-13 20:04:58+00:00
Very cool, thanks. Somewhat related I vibed up a simple docs/support chat bot that uses the markdown files for an astro starlight docs (all of these similar chat bot tools are like $50 a month): https://star-support-demo.vercel.app/en/getting-started

repo: https://github.com/agoodway/star-support-demo
by horsawlarway | 2025-08-13 20:05:11+00:00
I guess I don't derive my personal value from the esteem of others.

And I don't mean that as an insult, because I get that different people do things for different reasons, and we all get our dopamine hits in different ways.

I just think that if the only reason you choose to do something is because you think it's going to get attention on the internet... Then you probably shouldn't be doing that thing in the first place.

I produce things because I enjoy producing them. I share them with my friends and family (both in person and online). That's plenty. Historically... that's the norm.

> I guess what we should really ask, is why on Earth should anyone produce anything, if the end result is not one sees it?

This is a really rather disturbing view of the world. Do things for you. I make things because I see it. My family sees it. My friends see it.

I grow roses for me and my neighbors - not for some random internet credit.

I plant trees so my kids can sit under them - not for some random internet credit.
by WorldPeas | 2025-08-13 20:06:32+00:00
I guess what I don't get is we, to some extent, watch shows for commonality, maybe it differs for some, but half of the fun of a show like the Sopranos is /who/ Tony is, maybe for superhero movies the disposable nature of the characters makes them easier to paper over but the only modding I could imagine would be things like community modpacks that repackage an entire cut of a show to change context, but then are shared as a common pack e.g. "The Snyder cut". Of course though the studios would never release a raw directory of recuttable footage, even if they could generate revenue from the resulting free labor.
by adastra22 | 2025-08-13 20:06:33+00:00
I didn't invent this interpretation. It's how the word was originally defined, and used for many, many decades, by the founders of the field. See for example:

https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/generality.pdf

Or look at the old / early AGI conference series:

https://agi-conference.org

Or read any old, pre-2009 (ImageNet) AI textbook. It will talk about "narrow intelligence" vs "general intelligence," a dichotomy that exists more in GOFAI than the deep learning approaches.

Maybe I'm a curmudgeon and this is entering get-off-my-lawn territory, but I find it immensely annoying when existing clear terminology (AGI vs ASI, strong vs weak, narrow vs. general) is superseded by a confused mix of popular meanings that lack any clear definition.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-13 20:07:04+00:00
My town still has quite a few third places (the mall, bowling alleys, bars, etc.) and even some new ones like a trampoline place. Most of them are struggling because the young people don't go out. Go into a corner bar on a Saturday night, and you'll see more people in their 50s than 20s. The pool league that used to run 6 divisions a week is now down to 2.

So as far as I can tell, people (especially the young) stopped going out, and then third places started going away.
by cubefox | 2025-08-13 20:07:16+00:00
A vibrator still works as intended if you believe it doesn't love you. GPT-4o stops working as intended if you believe it doesn't love you. The latter relies on an illusion, the former doesn't.

(More precisely, a vibrator still relies on an illusion in the evolutionary sense: it doesn't create offspring, so over time phenotypes who like vibrators get replaced by those who don't.)
by perfectlyzero | 2025-08-13 20:07:31+00:00
I’ve been building https://accountproxy.com — a zero-knowledge, privacy-by-design service for creating pseudonymous identities with persistent email aliases. The goal is to let you sign up for services (VPNs, adult sites, IPTV, etc.) without ever putting your real-world details on the table.

The catch is… I may have pushed the privacy model to the point where only a tiny sliver of people could actually use it.

Here’s the gist:

- You get a random AccountID when you start. No name, no email, no phone. That ID is the only thing the system knows you by.

- You can enable MFA — but only with an authenticator app. No SMS, no email codes.

- You can create multiple pseudonymous identities, each with its own fake profile details (name, address, etc.).

- Each identity can have multiple unique email aliases, typically one alias per service, so nothing can be linked across accounts or platforms.

- Designed for long-term, ongoing accounts, not throwaway or disposable email — so you can keep the same alias for years without exposing your real identity.

- We keep zero personal info, so if you lose your AccountID… it’s gone. No recovery.

Why not just use Proton or Tuta?

They’re excellent mail providers, but what I’m building isn’t a mailbox — it’s an identity layer. You can point your aliases to Proton/Tuta if you like, but AccountProxy sits in front as the privacy shim.

- Per-service isolation: Multiple identities, each with multiple aliases, usually one per service to prevent linkability.

- Vendor-agnostic: Works with any inbox you choose.

- Beyond email: The long-term goal is a pseudonymous identity platform with not just email aliases but also phone/SMS numbers, Telegram bot relays, and eventually OAuth2 “Sign in with AccountProxy” for truly compartmentalized logins.

Access works via prepaid tokens you buy from third-party vendors. You redeem one, time gets added to your account, the token is discarded. Buyer and redeemer can be two totally different people. We don’t see who bought it.

No Google Analytics, no third-party cookies, no third-party XHRs, no logs — and authentication uses stateless JWTs, so there’s no session database, no IP retention, and nothing to tie activity back to a user. From a data-collection standpoint, it’s about as close to best in class privacy as I know how to build.

Where I’m stuck — and what I’d like your take on:

- Is “no recovery without ID” too extreme, even with warnings and backup instructions?

- Should MFA be optional, or mandatory?

- Is the token-based subscription model worth the friction for the privacy gain?

- Will a Mullvad-style account number make sense to people outside the VPN world?

It’s invite-only right now, so I’m not trying to get people to sign up — just wondering if I’ve built something actually usable?
by SahAssar | 2025-08-13 20:07:32+00:00
(Posting while the title is "Fuse is 95% cheaper and 10x faster than NFS", I'm guessing that will get changed based on the HN rules)

This is not at all about NFS vs FUSE, this is about specific NFS providers vs specific FUSE with some specific object store backends.

FUSE us just a way to have a filesystem not implemented in the kernel. I can have a FUSE driver that implements storage based on rat trained to push a button in reaction to lights turning on, or basically anything else.

NFS is a specific networked filesystem.
by maxmartinezruts | 2025-08-13 20:07:42+00:00
That's a very good point! I was assuming all tools will converge to the similar answers because we're reaching a point of convergence where all models are similarly capable and use the same web sources.

In that world where correctness is no longer a competitive advantage because all of the alternatives are correct, I do thing aesthetics play a bigger role. But I agree with your point is right that sacrificing correctness for aesthetics brings us to a bad path.
by dakiol | 2025-08-13 20:07:46+00:00
I'm brushing up with Python for a new job, and boy what a ride. Not because of the language itself but the tooling around packages. I'm coming from Go and TS/JS and while these two ecosystems have their own pros and cons, at least they are more or less straightforward to get onboarded (there are 1 or 2 tools you need to know about). In Python there are dozens of tools/concepts related to packaging: pip, easy_install, setuptools, setup.py, pypy, poetry, uv, venv, virtualenv, pipenv, wheels, ... There's even an entire website dedicated to this topic: https://packaging.python.org

Don't understand how a private company like Astral is leading here. Why is that hard for the Python community to come up with a single tool to rule them all? (I know https://xkcd.com/927/). Like, you could even copy what Go or Node are doing, and make it Python-aware; no shame on that. Instead we have these who-knows-how-long-they-will-last tools every now and then.

They should remove the "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." from the Python Zen.