MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-08 15:23:00+00:00
This I think is going to be a great problem that humanity must solve to move forward. Currently, wealth can become overwhelming concentrated and that wealth has mobility across jurisdictions which makes it nearly impossible to implement a wealth tax. The only way I see this ever working is enough powerful nations agree on a uniform wealth tax (say 1%/year) and those nations use their economic strength to pressure other nations to adopt the wealth tax as well. If the USA and EU got on board with a wealth tax I believe they could get the majority of the world to come onboard by implementing high tariffs on any country that does not implement the wealth tax. Of course the problem here is that the US is probably one of the least likely countries to implement a wealth tax, so I think this change will only come with major upheaval or violence.
by naasking | 2025-08-08 15:23:45+00:00
> I'm not actually sure how horrifying this is. It sounds like it's just a better executive planner to achieve your goals. As long as they are still your goals, surely you'd want the best executive planner available.

The goals you form depend on your values, and your values are formed by learning from trial and error by what you like and what you regret. If the earring removes all chance of regret, then you also remove all chance of learning and all possibility of forming values or meaningful goals. You effectively erase yourself, hence why the brains were atrophied.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-08 15:24:05+00:00
As it stands currently, it's important to disambiguate the nuance that the Senate currently has enormous power while the House has very little real power.

In the current context, gerrymandering only serves to prevent impeachment at this point, but it could permit even more extreme executive-dictated, legislative rubber-stamping. In the long-term, it would stack the deck for partisan cheating.

Perhaps an amendment is needed to insist on independent, non-partisan district map commissions for every state at the federal level.

PS: I used to live in Greg Casar's ultra-salamander TX-35, but now it bypasses me down I-35 with an umbilical or tiny body from SATX to ATX. TX-15 ® an TX-28 (D) run through my ZIP Code now.
by psd1 | 2025-08-08 15:24:18+00:00
> The wealthy surely don't get better policing

_Surely not._

> rich people pay wayyyyyy more

Citation needed

> so they should get more government services

...such as corporate welfare, political influence, favourable prices on public land and institutions, regulatory capture?

The acid test for your frame is whether you would have made as much wealth on a desert island, with no market, no value-added inputs, no communication and no currency. If so, then great, you truly did not depend on society. I admire your self-reliance.

Otherwise, you have benefited from the sum effort of every human, living or dead, in the chain of causality leading up to the circumstances in which you made your pile. I'll leave natural resources aside.

I _love_ that a bunch of libertarians are seasteading. More should go. I am happy to write off tax debt for anybody who goes seasteading for, let's say, five years.

If your raft calls into port for trade, then you pay duty and sales tax, but at that point you've admitted defeat. It's not like they'll accept your raftcoin anyway.
by jnmandal | 2025-08-08 15:25:26+00:00
I think its likely that soon the "AI" aspect of the "models" get worse and worse with each iteration. This is because:

1. data pollution/dilution -- with each subsequent generation more and more LLM-produced content will make up the bulk of the web this means it either gets into get into the data set, which makes the model "spikey" or reduces the relevant knowledge available which dumbs the model down 2. LLMs were sort of a freak breakthrough in deep learning and while its remarkable, tuning them only makes them marginally better. Diminishing returns apply here. Its a new LLM but its still an LLM -- years old technology now

However, despite these two realities, the total utility/productivity/societal gain from a product (note I didn't say model) like ChatGPT can still increase by orders of magnitude. That is because companies like OpenAI, and many, many, other technology corporations and startups are figuring out how to leverage LLMs to do stuff much more powerful than just answer questions from the corpus (ie: perform quality research, reevaluate itself, computer controls, etc, etc).

Consider for example, flat screen displays were pioneered in like the 50's and arguably, they didn't become disruptively useful until the advent of smart phones. So yeah, the model may get sort of worse or maybe more brittle, but it almost doesn't matter if they are figuring out what to do with the model and making the model more useful for actual tasks. Sure its cute to talk to an AI persona and ask it questions but that is probably the least important aspect of these type of models. Microsoft word had Clippy, and yeah that was cool. But productivity gain came from word processing, the '.doc' filetype, filesharing, editing, etc. Clippy is just a meme now and that's a likely future scenario for the "chat" features in LLM products IMHO.
by self_awareness | 2025-08-08 15:25:52+00:00
Or we do communism, the right way this time.

Last time I've seen communism being implemented the right way was the CHOP/CHAZ in Seattle. It ended up with some actual warlord taking a gun and killing some people. In the middle of the city.

Also, who do you think would pay for the UBI. It's not like UBI is some solution that was even implemented anywhere.
by ahmedmalik1 | 2025-08-08 15:25:53+00:00
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by Jordan-117 | 2025-08-08 15:25:54+00:00
It's well-known at this point that LLMs don't handle spelling, syllables, rhythm, meter, or other word-form-based questions well due to tokenization -- sometimes sheer scale (or leaning on code) can get the right answer if they're lucky, but they're literally blind to the individual letters.

(Incidentally, go back in time even five years and this specific expectation of AI capability sounds comically overblown. "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy.")
by mdaniel | 2025-08-08 15:26:16+00:00
That's ok, modern nodejs apps are represented, too, so everyone can get in on the legacy train: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2... and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraPostgreSQ...

or, if the modern job postings are indicative, FastAPI to PG to PY https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/plpython-funcs.html
by pavlov | 2025-08-08 15:26:22+00:00
The best case is a company so terminally indecisive that the consultants can undo their own recommendations.

Merge with company N — terrific synergies!

Ten years later: spin out the N business — lots of value to be unlocked!

Or like HBO Max which became Max and now has become HBO Max again. Tremendous opportunity for brand consultants.
by mapt | 2025-08-08 15:26:31+00:00
"The card says moops"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMabpBvtXr4

The liberal can't argue with inauthentic memes. They must give the benefit of the doubt by their own rules. The conservative sees this as an exploit that they can use to win the game every time. Because they see it as a game, amoral, based on scoring symbolic points for their preexisting tribal identity ("This family has always rooted for Liverpool"). They see it as a Conflict, not even of competing interests, but an inherent conflict of identity. The liberal insists on seeing it as a disagreement between friends, or an opportunity for education. An earnest Mistake. All of their rhetorical tools are based on persuading someone reasoning in good faith.
by ahmedmalik1 | 2025-08-08 15:26:40+00:00
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by aosaigh | 2025-08-08 15:27:10+00:00
Yes certainly. I’m sure Cursor would do a good job.

That said, I think that the differing UIs of Cursor (in the IDE) and Claude (in the CLI) fundamentally change how you approach problems with them.

Cursor is “too available”. It’s right there and you can be lazy and just ask it anything.

Claude nudges you to think more deeply and construct longer prompts before engaging with it.

That my experience anyway
by cirrus3 | 2025-08-08 15:27:11+00:00
I did a lot of testing with Krea. The results were certainly very different than flux-dev, less "ai-like" in some ways and the details were way better, but very soft and bit washed out and more ai-like in other ways.

I did a 50% mix of flux-dev-krea and flux-dev and it is my new favorite base model.
Show HN: I built a tool that lets you summon AI in any app or website
by blaumaus | 2025-08-08 15:27:23+00:00
Hi! My name is Andrii and I build an app that's pretty much a "Cursor for everything".

I've started working on a similar project in November 2024, but the idea was to make it look more like an extension for macOS Terminal app. As I often forget some bash command, like resetting last Git commit, and end up Googling how to do it, which is annoying.

Then I thought why not to make it work with other apps too, like a standalone popup, so I build Inset :)

The popup itself is inspired by the one that's in Cursor. And it allows you to switch between models, save presents for prompts you use often.

It has different modes - quick question and insert. The quick question mode helps you answer any question about the current app (you can toggle Camera icon to send screenshots of it to AI provider), basically if you're in Photoshop, you can ask it for step by step instructions to do something and it just works.

The Insert mode is useful as it inserts the output texts directly in the input field of your app. So like you can select some text in Notion, ask Inset to reformat it and it will do it directly in the app.

It works on any application or website. I tried to make it fast, lightweight and privacy-first. At the moment the app is on macOS only.

I have a ton of ideas how to make this app even better. I'd love to add an Agent mode in there too so that it would be able to move mouse cursor, type something, switch apps, etc. for you!

You can find the app at https://useinset.com It costs $10/mo, and there is a free trial available!

Any feedback is much appreciated!
by libraryofbabel | 2025-08-08 15:27:37+00:00
I use Claude Code regularly and have been responsible for introducing colleagues to it. The consensus here seems to be that it’s the best coding agent out there. But since it’s the only coding agent I’ve used, when colleagues ask why it’s better than Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, etc., I sometimes struggle to articulate reasons.

Claude Code power users, what would you say makes it superior to other agents?
by 93po | 2025-08-08 15:27:44+00:00
its not difficult - it's that they very clearly HATE class consciousness. just look back at occupy wallstreet. it got coverage that was nearly universally mocking it and sneering at it, and the second they were able to ignore it and pretend it didnt exist anymore, corporate news moved on.

everything is framed as us-vs-them in corporate news, and its usually one political party against another, and it's usually for stuff that doesn't impact us nearly as much as wealth and income inequality, campaign finance reform, or general election methodology reform. this is why establishment hated bernie, it's one of his biggest talking points.

corporate news is garbage, its owned by billionaires literally to control the narrative. you think bezos bought WaPo to make money? of course not, it's a money pit.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-08 15:27:59+00:00
Despite tech and AI being pretty much the only lifeline Europe has to get itself out of the pit it dug (population collapse while simultaneously promising the world to retirees), they are still strangling the nascent tech scene.

In 30 years are we going to have a European economy that is entirely dependent on foreign AI and robots to prop up a society of old people?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-08 15:28:02+00:00
Why would stock market valuation be a good metric? If Walmart's valuation doubled in that period, does it mean they sold twice as many goods? How could salaries hope to double, if the things people buy with salaries didn't also double? Did Ford's vehicle sales double in that period?

If these things aren't happening, then what would be the point of salaries doubling? If they gave me a raise tomorrow of $150k, that'd be great. I'd be sitting pretty. But if they gave all of us an extra $150k starting tomorrow, none of us would be better off materially... the inflation would eat up any gain whatsoever.

The only reason the stock market valuations don't do this is because the vast majority of us aren't buying stocks. That money's illusory. So no, it's not "really as simple as that". For all this supposed productivity that you claim, there's not been any significant increase in product.
by yellowapple | 2025-08-08 15:29:37+00:00
> Your soul will not remain intact while you hoover up artists’ work to train theft-engines that poison the water of communities in need.

This sentence nose-dove the article's credibility.

Intellectual property and the enforcement thereof is in and of itself a Torment Nexus. The belief that thoughts and ideas and words and images and sounds can be "stolen", and that such "theft" is somehow a bad thing (instead of the sort of free exchange of ideas that has benefited humanity for its entire recorded history) is itself mutually exclusive with having an intact soul.

Yes, artists deserve to be able to earn a living making art (absent a universal basic income that renders the notion of "earning a living" moot). Yes, it's understandable that they choose to do so by wielding IP law, because that's the most straightforward option they have in a capitalist system that actively rewards Torment-Nexus-enforced rentseeking. No, that doesn't make them any less complicit in the perpetuation of that Torment Nexus. These are the same laws that enable Disney to sue the pants off of parents who dare to decorate their dead children's coffins after said children's favorite fictional characters. These are the same laws that rob other creatives of their creative autonomy lest their works "infringe" on the "rights" of richer creatives who can afford better lawyers. These are the same laws that normalized shipping rootkits with creative works for the sake of "digital 'rights' management". These are the same laws that actively hinder the preservation of creative works for historical posterity, causing those works to be at risk of being lost forever. Intellectual property has done vastly more harm than good, and AI throwing a wrench in the ability to meaningfully enforce it is one of the exceedingly few good outcomes of AI proliferation.

Your soul will not remain intact while you parrot MPAA/RIAA "yOu WoUlDn'T dOwNlOaD a CaR" talking points in defense of collecting royalties until 70 years after you die.
by pydry | 2025-08-08 15:29:39+00:00
The attraction of consumption taxes largely IS that they are regressive. That's certainly why people like Bob McNair pushed them.

A billionaire who spends 0.2% of their wealth every year, paying a 100% consumption tax on that would still have a vastly lower relative tax burden than somebody who spends their whole paycheck but only pays 50% consumption tax.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-08 15:29:50+00:00
Well, in this one tiny aspect, Trump may have a point. If we're determining voting districts, and non-citizens can't vote, then using only citizens to determine the size of the voting districts makes some sense.

But trying to do it now makes no rational sense, and neither does the Texas redistricting move. It's all about the 2026 election, and given how he's trying every possible angle, no matter how unprecedented, I think he knows he's in trouble.
by Herring | 2025-08-08 15:29:52+00:00
Whatever is worth doing is worth doing badly. Obamacare wasn't perfect, but it had tons of positive effects and could later be improved. Republicans seem to be the only ones with a 50-year plan and the discipline to see it through.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/americans-vi...

> 41% of Americans say the government should provide more assistance to people in need

> 30% say it's providing about the right amount

> 27% say it should provide *less*

41-57? If there are issues in America, it's because Americans want it that way.
by thoughtpeddler | 2025-08-08 15:30:10+00:00
> “As long as we’re on this very distinct curve of the model getting better and better, I think the rational thing to do is to just be willing to run the loss for quite a while,” Altman [said]

It’s not clear he can keep playing this card, as the GPT-5 announcement day this week marked a point where the reality is clear that the gap between frontier lab foundation models has shrank dramatically. OpenAI no longer has a significant lead, and more importantly, the tech itself might be starting to mature.
by kube-system | 2025-08-08 15:30:11+00:00
> Whether it was a fob start or push start isnt specified.

... It's literally in the title on the first slide.

It is only an attack on keyless entry. Keyless start systems all use a different short-range radio system.

An attack on keyless entry might let someone trigger a remote starter if supported, but this doesn't enable anyone to drive the vehicle, because you will need to authenticate with the keyless start system after entering the vehicle before you can put it in drive (and to keep the engine running for longer than the predetermined timeout).
by gruez | 2025-08-08 15:30:16+00:00
>Feel free to look at dividend yields, but I can pretty much guarantee that it has not halfed in the period the stock market doubled. Most likely it stayed relatively flat, somewhere between 1.5% and 2%.

Eyeballing this chart it looks like it dropped around a third since the pandemic.

https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/spx-div-yld....

https://ycharts.com/indicators/sp_500_dividend_yield
by j_kao | 2025-08-08 15:30:21+00:00
Author here! We were really motivated to turn a "distributed system" problem into a "monolithic system" from an operations perspective and felt this was achievable with current hardware, which is why we went with in-process, embedded storage systems like RocksDB and Tantivy.

Memory-mapping lets us get pretty far, even with global coverage. We are always able to add more RAM, especially since we're running in the cloud.

Backfills and data updates are also trivial and can be performed in an "immutable" way without having to reason about what's currently in ES/Mongo, we just re-index everything with the same binary in a separate node and ship the final assets to S3.
by ileonichwiesz | 2025-08-08 15:30:25+00:00
> We made approximately the same progress in the past 100 years as the prior 1000 as the prior 30,000

I hear this sort of argument all the time, but what is it even based on? There’s no clear definition of scientific and technological progress, much less something that’s measurable clearly enough to make claims like this.

As I understand it, the idea is simply “Ooo, look, it took ten thousand years to go from fire to wheel, but only a couple hundred to go from printing press to airplane!!!”, and I guess that’s true (at least if you have a very juvenile, Sid Meier’s Civilization-like understanding of what history even is) but it’s also nonsense to try and extrapolate actual numbers from it.
by FinnKuhn | 2025-08-08 15:30:41+00:00
I remember William Osman (who established Open Sauce) talking about how they manufactured the badges for the convention, which are mostly just one large pcb, and how they looked into having them made in the US but there were no companies even offering the same kind of service. So it is not just that the Asian suppliers are cheaper, it is also that there isn't really a competitive US made alternative even if you were willing to pay more for it.

Here is the link to the episode (without a timestamp): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78lYvjo2JQ

And this is how the badges looked/worked: https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/tutorials/2025/assembling-y...
Show HN: I built a (legit) AI mortgage document analyzer that saves you money
by matthew-morfi | 2025-08-08 15:30:51+00:00
Hi guys, ten months ago I left my investment banking, software engineering, job to build software products for mortgage originators (morfi.com). I mostly build white-label products that mortgage companies can deploy to their consumer-facing websites, or use in their back offices to improve operations.

I recently completed this AI Loan Estimate Analyzer product for a client. It uses AI to analyze a borrower's loan estimates or closing disclosures, and then uses an intelligent recommendation engine to suggest various ways you could improve your loan terms (saving you money).

Some months ago, another developer posted their version of an AI Loan Estimate Analyzer, but a lot of the comments were about privacy, security and fraud concerns. In part, it was concerning that they were collecting and analyzing consumers' loan estimates without being a licensed mortgage company.

In our case, we've partnered with reputable, licensed, mortgage companies (white-labeling our software), so borrowers can feel confident that their data isn't used in fraudulent ways. The analysis is done between the user and a licensed mortgage company, and the data is secure.

Can you guys try it out and offer feedback? If you happen to be currently a mortgage, it'll likely help you save money.

AI LE Analyzer: oxford.loan-estimate-analysis.morfi.com

In this case, I white-labeled the tool for my client "Oxford Home Lending" by using subdomains and a site configuration database, so Oxford's version of the AI LE Analyzer is styled to match their existing brand.

Oxford is a reputable mortgage lender based in Columbus, OH and they are a subsidiary of Lower.com which is an even larger digital mortgage lender that's based in Columbus, OH.

Thanks!

For context - this is the other AI LE Analyzer post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42149044
by aosaigh | 2025-08-08 15:30:58+00:00
I mentioned this is another comment, but for me one of the big positives is nothing to do with the model, it’s the UI of how it presents itself.

I hated at first that it wasn’t like Cursor, sitting in the IDE. Then I realised I was using Cursor completely differently, using it often for small tasks where it’s only moderately helpful (refactoring, adding small functions, autocompleting)

With Claude I have to stop, think and plan before engaging with it, meaning it delivers much more impactful changes.

Put another way, it demands more from me meaning I treat it with more respect and get more out of it
by nwallin | 2025-08-08 15:31:28+00:00
In 2020, China had 253GW of total solar capacity. In 2024, China installed 277GW of additional solar capacity. In June, they were up to 1,100GW of total solar capacity. In 2023, 60% of the global solar installation happened in China.

China is so far ahead of the world in green energy it's ridiculous. We can't pretend that it's still 1995 and China still gets most of its energy from coal anymore.