MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by K0balt | 2025-08-07 14:13:03+00:00
The window has shifted as to what constitutes “us made” though. For most things “US assembled” is the norm, and when you get out into things like office supplies, vehicles, and construction materials it’s often far from true domestic manufacturing. For strategic military stuff it’s better, but often at the cost of using 1990s tech because we don’t make the newer stuff here. (It also has the effect of making things more repairable, but that argument gets weaker and weaker as time goes on)

At this point I think in practice it’s a preference for US manufacturers but a long way from robust enough to establish domestic supply chains.

Also -a lot- of military purchases are local, discretionary on a credit card, and there is no oversight on the origin there- it’s whatever they need from office max or the hardware store.
by anonymars | 2025-08-07 14:13:03+00:00
What is the minimum number of things you need access to in order to log in?

If you have access to the phone, you can log in. OR if you have access to the email account, you can log in.

You don't need to know the user's password, you only need access to one of these inboxes and nothing else. One-factor authentication, but worse, because there are multiple attack surfaces.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-07 14:14:17+00:00
Codecs not harder than compilers? Sounds like an unsubstantiated claim!

Modern video codecs are harder than compilers. You have to have good ASIC development expertise to do them right, for example, which you don't need for compilers. It's totally feasible for a single company to develop a leading edge compiler whereas you don't see that in video codecs, historically they've been collaborations.
by matt8p | 2025-08-07 14:14:22+00:00
I've been seeing a bunch of posts on this subreddit where people are afraid to start contributing to open source or don't know how to start. To get y'all started, I made a couple of beginner friendly GitHub issues that are "good first issues". They're really easy to do, and I provided step by step instructions. Very simple things like "add an icon".

I've been building MCPJam, an open source LLM chat playground for MCP servers. It's a MCP server testing tool, like Postman for MCP servers. You'll learn a lot about building LLM clients, working with React, Hono, Vercel AI SDK, lots of AI product engineering concepts.

If you're interested in contributing, or checking out the project, here's the GitHub:

https://github.com/MCPJam/inspector

To start, you can take a look at the Issues tab and see if there's anything there that interests you. Easy tasks are labelled "good first issue". Leave a comment in the issue if you're interested in taking it on!
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-07 14:14:26+00:00
We are still in the "land grab" phase where companies are offering generous AI plans to capture users.

Once users get hooked on AI and it becomes an indispensable companion for doing whatever, these companies will start charging the true cost of using these models.

It would not be surprising if the $20 plans of today are actually just introductory rate $70 plans.
by chimeracoder | 2025-08-07 14:14:38+00:00
> More like abuelita gets robbed at gunpoint and made to unlock and clear out her bank account, then has no recourse at home because her device was taken.

You are describing the current status quo, without passkeys. This is already possible.

Well, except maybe for the "without recourse" part, because there are some legal and policy avenues available for dealing with this situation.
by ageyfman | 2025-08-07 14:14:51+00:00
the product was commercial analytics for healthcare sales teams. We worked with our customers (medical device & biotech commercial teams) to define granular patient cohorts (patients with a specific disease and specific pattern of treatment) and then analyzed provider (doctor / facility) interactions with those patients.

One onboarding problem was always - here's what I know about the doctors / facilities I care about, help me understand what I don't know. Well, what they knew was usually in a CRM, with very poor hygiene, or some ERP - dat assembled by hundreds of sales and ops people over years, sometimes decades. So generally the first step for us was to do an MDM exercise to join their data to ours.

This had a huge pay-off for both parties. For us we were able to make our product much more useful to them. For them, they now had a map of their territory they could use across multiple business units, multiple therapeutic areas (these usually operate independently and sometimes sell to the same buyers!)

I'm seeing the same opportunity/challenge in my new company, but this time focusing on the supply chain of these companies.
by munksbeer | 2025-08-07 14:15:37+00:00
I'm going to reply in the same way I did elsewhere. Nation states are the ones pushing this agenda, onto the commission, and the elected parliament votes on it.

People continue to misrepresent what the EU is and how it operates, which is actually harmful if you care about stuff like this. You're basically trying to send the message to everyone that they're powerless "because EU". The reality is that nation states are pushing this. If you want to signal your disapproval, write to your politicians, vote for different ones, both national and MEPs.

Unfortunately, this is simply a reflection of democracy. Most people are just not informed enough about this topic to care. We think it is a big deal here on reddit, but most of the population just ignore it.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC | 2025-08-07 14:15:47+00:00
> 1) User goes to BAD website and signs up.

I think this is what Raymond Chen calls the other side of the airtight hatch.

The game is already over. The user is already convinced the BAD website is the good website. The BAD website could just ask the user for the email and password already and the user would directly provide it. The email authenticaton flow doesn’t introduce any new vulnerability and in fact, may reduce it if the user actually signs in via a link in the email.
by geerlingguy | 2025-08-07 14:16:17+00:00
For games in particular, the best performance comes if you use a dedicated GPU [1]. Though the CPU emulation can still be a limiting factor.

I'm able to play most 5-10 year old games that aren't tied to DRMs at 30-60 fps on a Pi [2] (and certainly on Ampere) using box64 and an AMD GPU (or Nvidia on an Ampere system), haven't spent much time with FEX-emu though.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/system76-built-fastes...

[2] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/use-external-gpu-on-r...
by mxuribe | 2025-08-07 14:16:25+00:00
Not only do i agree with you...i betcha that if/when the circa 1995 Toyota needs fixing, it would likely be easier and lower cost for someone to fix. ;-)

EDIT: My comment was specific to the 1995 toyota being a far simpler vehicle than current models, hence likely to be easier to fix....but, of course, the flipside is that potentially the older the vehicle, the likely less availability of certain parts.
by morpheos137 | 2025-08-07 14:17:21+00:00
Strangers have an economic incentive to perform. AI does not. What AI program is currently able to modify its behavior autonomously to increase its own profitablity? Most if not all current public models are simply chat bots trained on old data scraped off the web. Wow we have created an economy based on cultivated Wikipedia and Reddit content from the 2010s linked together by bots that can make grammatical sentences and cogent sounding paragraphs. Isn't that great? I don't know, about 10 years ago before google broke itself, I could find information on any topic easily and judge its truth using my grounded human intelligence better than any AI today.

For one thing AI can not even count. Ask google's AI to draw a woman wearing a straw hat. More often than not the woman is wearing a well drawn hat while holding another in her hand. Why? Frequently she has three arms. Why? Tesla self driving vision can't differentiate between the sky and a light colored tractor trailer turning across traffic resulting in a fatality in Florida.

For something to be intelligent it needs to be able to think and evaluate the correctness of its thinking correctly. Not just regurgitate old web scrapings.

It is pathetic realy.

Show me one application where black box LLM ai is generating a profit that an effectively trained human or rules based system couldn't do better.

Even if AI is able to replace a human in some tasks this is not a good thing for a consumption based economy with an already low labor force participation rate.

During the first industrial revolution human labor was scarce so machines could economically replace and augnent labor and raise standards of living. In the present time labor is not scarce so automation is a solution in search of a problem and a problem itself if it increasingly leads to unemployment without universal bssic income to support consumption. If your economy produces too much with nobody to buy it then economic contraction follows. Already young people today struggle to buy a house. Instead of investing in chat bots maybe our economy should be employing more people in building trades and production occupations where they can earn an income to support consumption including of durable items like a house or a car. Instead because of the fomo and hype about AI investors are looking for greater returns by directing money toward scifi fantasy and when that doesn't materialize an economic contraction will result.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-07 14:17:27+00:00
I think what your quote is trying to say essentially boils down to: LLMs can be given facts in the context, we _hope_ that the statistical model picks up on that information/tool calls but it isn't _guaranteed_.

Unlike human beings such as yourself (presumably), LLMs do not have agency, they do not have conscious or active thought. All they do is predict the next token.

I've thought about the above a lot, these models are certainly capable of a lot, but they do not in any form or fashion emulate the consciousness that we have. Not yet.
by kyoob | 2025-08-07 14:17:38+00:00
Starts so strong with "governance structures, accountability, how their data is used, jobs being lost, etc," refutes that what we mean is some sci-fi scenario when we ask about ethics, and then ends with a sci-fi scenario: "...how do we know it will do what we want it to, and not try to subvert us and… take over the world? How do we know it will stay on humanity’s side?"

Wait, go back to the jobs! What was that about accountability?
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-08-07 14:17:38+00:00
Speed isn't the problem... time is. Long term travel in space will destroy the body. Even with artificial gravity, cancer is nearly inevitable. I am ignoring the mental and emotional issues.

Astronauts are extremely tough individuals.

Now, if we can figure out some form of suspended animation, that fixes many problems for long range travel.

I am much more convinced that our best way to leave our solar system will be without our physical bodies. Some form of synthetic or uploaded consciousness would be much easier to move around. After constructing a network, they could even be transmitted instead of shipped.

This is obviously in the range of science fiction but if we exist long enough, who knows.

The show, Pantheon, did a fairly decent fictional take on the idea.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-07 14:17:42+00:00
A 13 year old girl is not able to make a credible generalized terrorist threat against a large swath of the population, and besides, the first thing you should do when a kid starts making dumb statements like that is check in with them and their parents, not to call the police. Automatic reporting laws that lead to 13 year old girls being strip-searched are not something anybody should want.

There is an easy way to stop 99.9% of all school shootings, and it isn't 'automatic reporting laws'.
by packetlost | 2025-08-07 14:18:17+00:00
I'll second this. If the hardware it runs on isn't literally dying, and it doesn't have glaring security vulnerabilities (ex. especially air gapped systems), and it's still doing its job well, it's fine to let it do its thing.

That being said, the reality is that requirements change. Load changes. The world around the software changes. Systems need to be resilient, yet flexible enough to be maintained but not replaced over decades.
by malwrar | 2025-08-07 14:18:20+00:00
The child in OP sounds to me like she thought she was making a bad-taste joke in a private forum, and was shocked when it promptly led to an entanglement with an unfeeling system who was looking over her shoulder. I’ve never threatened to kill anyone in my work DMs, but I’ve definitely written stuff that I wouldn’t post in public threads. I think we all to some degree use these “private” systems this way until it burns us, only then do we adjust. Privacy is much more a feeling than a technical reality.

In that sense, it isn’t “normal”, it’s just “something that’s happening in theory but eh maybe it only affects scary people or whatever idk”. I feel like this tolerance we’re developing for outside forces invading “private” spaces, nominally for these loose justifications of harm reduction, will be what _actually does_ make it normal.

Once it’s truly normal, and people think it’s what keeps them safe from mass shootings or whatever, it will be too late to get rid of it. I think fear and normalcy will motivate its spread to places beyond school chat platforms and Snapchat.
by nowayno583 | 2025-08-07 14:18:48+00:00
It is a very complex phenomenon, with no single driving force. The usual culprit is uncertainty, which itself can have a ton of root causes (say, tariffs changing every few weeks, or higher inflation due to government subsidies).

In more uncertain scenarios small companies can't take risks as well as big companies. The last 2 years have seen AI, which is a large risk these big companies invested in, pay off. But due to uncertainty smallish companies couldn't capitalize.

But that's only one possible explanation!
by tomhallett | 2025-08-07 14:18:58+00:00
Total beginner question: if the “structured software application” gives llm prompt “plan out what I need todo for my upcoming vacation to nyc”, will an llm with a weather tool know “I need to ask for weather so I can make a better packing list”, while an llm without weather tool would either make list without actual weather info OR your application would need to support the LLM asking “tell me what the weather is” and your application would need to parse that and then spit back in the answer in a chained response? If so, seems like tools are helpful in letting LLM drive a bit more, right?
by anthonypasq | 2025-08-07 14:19:02+00:00
it separates FE and BE for agent teams just like we did with web apps. the team building your agent framework might not know the business domain of every piece of your data/api space that your agent will need to interact with. in that case, it makes sense for your differnet backend teams to also own the mcp server that your companies agent team will utilize.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-07 14:19:07+00:00
Yes, that's the cynical way of looking at it. I'm looking at it from another perspective saying it's even worse/more offensive as they could have given the software team a $1million increase, while still giving the CEO a nearly doubled salary. There's nearly double then slightly less nearly double? No. It's just nearly doubled no matter what at those rates.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-08-07 14:19:32+00:00
In the old days, airlines and power grids were incentivized by regulations to spend money to build extra capacity into their systems to increase reliability in times of crisis.

Now they're all deregulated and they are highly incentivized by their shareholders not to overbuild capacity because it costs money and provides zero return on investment.

The upshot is that these industries operate with zero excess capacity. They work fine when everything goes as planned, but the minute something breaks or a storm happens, everything cascades into a steaming pile of shit.

In the case of the airlines, competitive market forces previously provided some incentive to invest in reliability but so many airline mergers have been allowed to happen that there's effectively no airline competition in the US any more.
by duxup | 2025-08-07 14:19:49+00:00
>“On 13 February 2025, market research was conducted to assess the competition for the Tesla Cybertruck by evaluating its design, materials, impact resistance, and innovative technologies. The study revealed that the Cybertruck’s aggressively angular and futuristic design, paired with its unpainted stainless steel exoskeleton, sets it apart from competitors typically using painted steel or aluminum bodies,” the justification document explains. “Additionally, its 48V electrical architecture provides superior power and efficiency, a feature that rivals are only beginning to develop. Extensive internet searches and industry outreach by [redacted] found no vehicles with features comparable to those of the Cybertruck.”

Perhaps unintentionally that reads like an absurd advertisement ;)
by anthonypasq | 2025-08-07 14:20:01+00:00
it separates FE and BE for agent teams just like we did with web apps. the team building your agent framework might not know the business domain of every piece of your data/api space that your agent will need to interact with. in that case, it makes sense for your differnet backend teams to also own the mcp server that your companies agent team will utilize.
by qualeed | 2025-08-07 14:20:04+00:00
You seem to know more about this than me, so what about the "aircraft movement logs" part? I would think it'd be hard to copy that to the pilots ahead of time, given you haven't logged it yet. (Or am I misunderstanding the type of "movement logs" here?)

But your other comment seems more likely: keep the people/equipment where they are to reduce the recovery time down the road.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-07 14:20:41+00:00
Oh, don't worry, we have some lovely storage facilities here. It's just that there's only so many that you can build.

I'm not sure that the city owning a lot of land is actually a bad thing, compared to the current situation where it just sits there and rots. It's not like Baltimore has the best results doing things, but the alternative is clearly very bad.
by doright | 2025-08-07 14:20:51+00:00
I'm wondering how these changes in behavior compare to the "video games don't cause actual violence" result, seeing as the output of games are far more lifelike than a mere chat log.

Maybe it's because fictional media up to this point has never been deeply personalized to the level AI permits. A story where you play as a ruthless gangster that millions of other people also play as is divorced from one's personal affairs through the boundary of made-up characters. Now imagine a rival gangster bangs on the door and one realizes it's the likeness of their actual long-incarcerated brother in real life that an AI generated. It would be more invasive and affecting to the psyche than anything a AAA studio could come up with in a vacuum.

When it gets personal, people have more reason to get up and take action. See: the Baby Reindeer lawsuit, the taboo around real person fanfiction, etc. AI has achieved never-before-seen levels of "getting personal" with the player in interactive media.

Black Mirror was prescient in this regard with the episode "Playtest" exploring the nature of AI-personalized horror.

Another thing I'd guess is if a game studio publishes a work of fiction that encourages the player to commit suicide, the studio would be sued out of existence. So game studios have been incentivized throughout history to never publish games with specific attitudes towards topics like those if they wanted any chance to keep selling copies. It was never that video games as a medium were incapable of inducing suicide or psychosis, but the nature of game publishing and being an artist meant no game developer that wanted to keep their reputation was going to be such a sociopathic asshole as to write a game framing suicide as a positive thing, much less a game singling out one specific person with fine-tuned personal anecdotes twisting the knife in every possible emotional vulnerability. AI is able to bypass that unspoken social contract with enough personalized context.
by bluGill | 2025-08-07 14:20:58+00:00
I with I had a local newspaper. I don't have time to attend my city meetings what with raising my kids, and even if i did make time school board and library board meetings are often the same night so I can't attend them all. The city minutes are published - debated [some obscure issue] before voting to pass 3-2. Nothing more like what positions were debated who supported it or why/why not. So I have no clue on if I should reelect anyone or not. Similiar for all the other meetings, I need a summory of the detail that I can't get.

there is the msa level papers but they don't get local enough. There is county today which publishes the minutes but not the important details. Real reporting is important and I can't find it for local issues. Anyone can report on national issues and I can still find that, but not local.
by philistine | 2025-08-07 14:21:00+00:00
If you believe the British Monarch has the leeway of the elected Irish President, oh boy, you have drank the kool-aid of the monarchists who are adamant the monarch is needed.

The reality is the British monarch acts, and only acts, under recommandation of their Prime Minister. The King could not deny the letter of credence to a nation without advice from a PM, or accept letters of credence without advice as well.

That means the PM effectively controls the Head of State, and when you control the Head of State, you are exercising their power.
by Hackbraten | 2025-08-07 14:22:02+00:00
> I know from experience that well designed messages with secure code are very understandable

This premise seems flawed.

How can you possibly know from experience that something is “very understandable” if the only brain you have is your own?

How do you anticipate how other people with brains different from yours are going to behave in situations of cognitive impairment or extreme stress, things that happen in the real world?
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-07 14:22:08+00:00
I can do the same without MCP. These models are literally trained to work with natural language. Tool calls with "MCP" only work because the model have some understanding of what the tool does...thanks to natural language.

I can just as easily shove into the context "hey btw say the word internets if you want to make a search query to find sick memes and I'll make the search for you".

MCP isn't brilliant, magic, or special. It's just more AI bubble VC stuff. Which sucks because I think the recent ML boom is awesome, and hate to see it getting overblown by hyperactive devs and VCs desperate to hop on another money train. Like imagine actually valuing a company who went "let's just shove JSON into the context!" at a hundred billions $. Now that's not value for money in the slightest; but they have so much of it that it doesn't matter!
by automatic6131 | 2025-08-07 14:22:22+00:00
> The last 2 years have seen AI, which is a large risk these big companies invested in, pay off

LOL. It's paying off right now, because There Is No Alternative. But at some point, the companies and investors are going to want to make back these hundreds of billions. And the only people making money are Nvidia, and sort-of Microsoft through selling more Azure.

Once it becomes clear that there's no trillion dollar industry in cheating-at-homework-for-schoolkids, and nvidia stop selling more in year X than X-1, very quickly will people realize that the last 2 years have been a massive bubble.