MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cryptonector | 2025-04-09 05:20:17+00:00
Because PG is a fantastic platform for doing everything you need in SQL and it performs real well. Add PostgREST and you've got a REST API almost for free (you have to design a schema of what to expose, so not entirely free, but still, pretty close). Also, PG moves _fast_ and has a very active developer and user community, which means you'll be getting more awesome functionality in the coming future. (E.g., I've been following the AIO thread and the performance improvements coming from that patch set will be hefty.)
by zer00eyz | 2025-04-09 05:20:31+00:00
My take is close to yours...

LLM's are great when you want AN answer, and not get side tracked.

Search is great when you want to know what answers are out there. The best example is Recipes... From what spices go into chai to the spice mix in any given version of chili (let's not start on beans).

The former is filling in missing knowledge the latter is learning.
by cyberax | 2025-04-09 05:20:38+00:00
I once looked at the requirements to be able to handle all the debit/credit transactions in the US, and you can do that on _one_ mid-range server easily. With regular PostgreSQL, no need for anything exotic.

Of course, the real deployment will need redundancy, failover, multiple levels of audit records, etc.

But still, modern computers are _powerful_.
by fakedang | 2025-04-09 05:20:52+00:00
Well there's the issue innit? You're not placing fault on the manufacturer of the shoddy goods, but on the stores, which I presume are the local distributors?

Sure, you're disincentivizing crappy goods, but then you'd also barr a strata of society who can only afford those crappy goods. While it's not as much of a problem in Norway I suppose, it is a problem in the majority of the world.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-04-09 05:22:28+00:00
Programming, at least, is much easier to shield in a loose IP regime than art. You can ship only binaries, or even keep your code running on a server and disclose only the API. And likely, the company that pays your salary would opt to do just that.

I can't imagine a similar way for an artist to distribute their work while protecting their interests.
by swframe2 | 2025-04-09 05:23:23+00:00
What do you think of the recent anthropic research on how LLMs reason? It is clear from their shallow analysis that LLMs have very serious reasoning weaknesses. I wonder if those weaknesses can be "addressed" if we build LLMs that can do deeper analysis and use RL to self-improve. LLMs improving LLMs would be a very impressive step towards AGI.
by paul7986 | 2025-04-09 05:24:01+00:00
Present day...

Google 55% as GPT is not a local search engine

GPT 45% but use it for more intelligent learning/conversations/knowledgebase.

If I had a GPT phone ... sorta like H.E.R. the movie I would rarely leave my phone's lockscreen. My AI device / super AI human friend would do everything for me including get me to the best lighting to take the best selfies...
by ashton314 | 2025-04-09 05:24:23+00:00
Hey! This guy is using the fancy new treelist [1] package which implements RRB trees. These are super cool data structures: a cache-friendly, multiway tree structure to store a sorted collection with O(log_{32} n) read, functional insert/update/append/prepend. Really a fantastic data structure for functional programming.

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/treelist.html
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-09 05:25:24+00:00
I am not sure why you are saying that I am not paying attention to how AI is impacting software development. I just pointed you to a chapter that shows that it's not a competitor at all. Moldable Development and GenAI are complementary :)

In GT, we have integration with LLMs as well, including programatic ways to create interfaces for it.

MCP is certainly interesting.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-09 05:26:05+00:00
I can't say that the things you're saying match what I've encountered from nontechnical folks lately. Most of them are entirely apathetic about the whole affair while a few are clearly dazzled by the results. The entire thing seems to be a black box that they hold various superstitions about but generally view as something of a parlor trick.

The ones that pay attention to the markets appear to believe some very questionable things and are primarily concerned with if they can figure out how to get rich off of the associated tech stocks.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-09 05:26:14+00:00
You can also build distributed DBs with PG. For example for a DB with multiple write nodes all you need to do is implement an event shipping model with logical replication where your servers publish their events and subscribe to others, and you need to implement conflict resolution rules, naturally. I think PG's type system can probably be leveraged to make a CRDT system on top (and I bet someone's already done it).
by milesrout | 2025-04-09 05:27:32+00:00
FPP doesn't cause less representation at the local level, it has more. Party list-based systems have no local representation at all. MMP has it, at least, but has the same kingmaker issue. They assume implicitly that democracy is about competition between unified ideological factions which is not inherent to the concept at all. There is more to life than ideology.

FPP prioritises local representation and majoritarian results: if constituencies are arranged properly, then swings in voter sentiment are amplified. Relatively small changes in voter satisfaction can produce hundred seat majorities at Westminster. That is on purpose. It is part of why governments are accountable.

If you compare it to Germany, where there is enormous dissatisfaction with the government, they held an election, and mostly the same parties will be in government again, because of coalition politics.

The alternative to Germany is the situation here in New Zealand. Culturally still two main parties, but instead of voter sentiment deciding which of them wins, instead it is the choice of a minor kingmaker party that can pick a winner based on who gives it the most concessions. That is arguably better, but still not a good situation compared to a simple majoritarian system. We had one of those. The country was better-run under FPP than under MMP.

Westminster proves quite wrong the common claim that the system encourages two parties, by the way. The main parties have a lesser percentage of votes between them than they have ever had. It is just not true that two parties inevitably dominate.
by ilirium | 2025-04-09 05:28:21+00:00
You have bizarre logic here. For example, in a topic discussed about GPUs, someone would say that it's not possible to run databases on GPUs, so GPUs don't have any chance of succeeding.

> How much do you trust your government with your money?

Do you trust crypto companies? Mt. Gox, FTX, Bybit…

Do you know that crypto companies must follow government rules, regulations, and laws? Russians were banned from using many crypto exchange platforms. China has strict rules for its citizens. You can buy and sell crypto in Brazil, but you must use only Brazilian reals.

Pix isn't global, but no one government person outside of Brazil can block this system.

MasterCard, Visa, Amex, and UnionPay work worldwide, but only a few countries regulate them, can block their usage, and can use data for tracking and statistics.

Pix is free to use, so no one needs to pay an additional "tax" to MasterCard and Visa (it's about 3%).

Google and Apple cannot say that if you want to pay, you must use only our devices.

> Now, try to use Pix outside of Brazil

Now, try to buy ice cream from street vendors using any crypto coins.
by re-thc | 2025-04-09 05:29:49+00:00
> Why should it? What problems would they solve?

We clearly do have a problem. No 1 learns from past mistakes. We keep reinventing the wheel e.g. the land of NodeJs, Javascript, etc. Even within companies there's no learnings passed down. Each new hire thinks they're the best and tries to redo it all.

> Are you so afraid of competing with those who might not get a certiciation?

I rather compete on certification than compete on leet code. Do you miss the point that the whole leet code system has nothing to do with any job? At least certification might be slightly be relevant.
by admiralrohan | 2025-04-09 05:30:23+00:00
Congratulations on releasing the product and its success.

You will likely have to compete with Supabase's diagram editor (there might be other competitors too), which has AI integrated. You can check it out and see if you can improve your system. Their product is open source as well, so you can review the code.

The simplest monetization path would be to keep it free and charge users for AI access. However, don’t hire a team, as it may not be viable against other big players in the long run.
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 05:32:59+00:00
> No country has any moral obligation to help any other country. It is anarchy between nations.

You just made that up. First, what defines morality? Second, by what morality are you not obligated to help others? That is amorality, greed, evil. And empirically, countries have long felt, talked explicitly about, and acted on, sometimes at great cost, the moral need to help other countries. Leaders have long made that argument to their fellow citizens (or subjects).

The parent claim is a transparent fiction of nationalists. You can do better!

> I have always found it interesting that if everybody focused on improving their own conditions first then helped others locally the world would be objectively better for everybody.

An even more obvious fabrication with not even an attempt basis. As is often the case with this stuff, the only 'basis' is saying it like it's a fact.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-09 05:33:17+00:00
> It may even age gracefully, as the author wants it to, provided that Xlib stays around. Or maybe it could eventually develop a thin abstraction layer to allow pluggable rectangle-drawing and text-rendering APIs, and start supporting Wayland, too.

For application software (which appears to be what the author cares about), xwayland (and the other one whose name escapes me at the moment[0]) should be a trivial way to support wayland perfectly well without actually having to expend any effort.

[0] EDIT: Found it; https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite ... which actually apparently is xwayland, just without needing compositor support. Not quite what I thought I remembered, still super cool and useful.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-09 05:34:45+00:00
For economics, I prefer history to academic theory. (But I have read Friedman's "Monetary History of the United States", and books by economist C. Northcote Parkinson, "Capitalism" by Reisman, etc. My dad also had a degree in economics from MIT and an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate in economicis and taught finance in college. We had many many long talks about economics. And yeah, I did take econ 101 at Caltech from a Marxist professor. My dad would have had him for lunch.)

> wealth absolutely concentrates in unregulated markets

The US had more or less unregulated markets for well over a century since its founding. The result? The most stupendous wealth creation, pushing scores of millions of people from poverty into the middle class and beyond.

There was no "transfer" of wealth from the poor people to the wealthy (there couldn't have been, because they, being poor, didn't have wealth).
by re-thc | 2025-04-09 05:35:14+00:00
> I'm curious, as a software engineer when was the last time you've seriously worked under pressure? Like, 'do this thing now or you're fired/the company goes under' and so forth?

All the time. Depends on where you work. It happens in startups, small companies and many others. Even in large organizations with stack ranking for example.

> The kind of snap pressure that interviews can push on you.

Not even close to the same. How do you equate pressure? Someone can fear spiders more than jumping off a cliff. Crunch time for them can be less than interviews. Point being?
by blckprl367 | 2025-04-09 05:36:05+00:00
Yes, you heard that right — I open-sourced a YC company.

It was mostly out of sheer desperation. Landing a job as a recent grad these days feels harder than escaping Alcatraz.

I came across a YC company called SpurTest on the Lightcone podcast. They were working on AI-driven QA testing using natural language, and I found it fascinating.

So, I decided to build an open-source version — Neutrino.

I created an AI web agent from scratch using step prompting in a Playwright browser. It simulates how a human would interact with a website to generate end-to-end tests, all driven by natural language.

It’s been a super fun project so far. This is just v1 — still rough in some areas, but fully working.

Right now, I'm experimenting with efficient step-mark prompting technique to make it smarter and faster. I'm also considering fine-tuning Qwen 2.5 VL 7B for reduced cost and better performance down the line.

Come on critize, roast or even suggest
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-09 05:36:28+00:00
Er, which part of their stack is "obscure"? Common Lisp, FFI, Cairo, OpenGL, X11; it would be hard to pick more well-trodden ground IMHO. (Well, okay, there are even more popular options than clisp, but it's still not obscure, just slightly less widely used than ex. C or Java.)
by mindslight | 2025-04-09 05:36:43+00:00
Oh boy. There have been tomes written on how Musk's companies are set up around capturing government subsidies. If you're earnestly interested, such analyses are not hard to find.

The stock market itself is a shining example of regulatory capture - a perma-bubble due to fake "fiscal responsibility" political marketing that causes massive streams of newly printed money to be handed out to banks to dump into the asset bubble (that newly printed money representing the gains from technology and offshoring that would have otherwise caused price deflation)

But sure, I'll also agree that some of Musk's riches are due to actual wealth creation - before the crippling social media addiction and subsequent spiral into lunacy, anyway.

But that's all focusing on the problematic ways wealth concentration can arise (the context it was originally brought up in). The other critique (likely what you're referencing about Sanders) is about the corrosive effects that concentrated wealth tends to have. And surely you can see how that applies pretty strongly to Musk...
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-09 05:38:02+00:00
That's a really decent discussion though, from both sides. The option was seriously considered.

It's a world of difference to Gnome devs that will just shut down everything.

PS I do think dolphin is the weakest link in the KDE experience though. But they have made some really good improvements with KDE 6. Like the typable crumb trail.

It's a bit of a contrast though with macOS where the finder is one of the least opinionated parts of the OS (and thus for me one of the best). I think that's more of a historical thing though, Apple's vision seems to be more centered around moving file management into the domain of different apps like on iOS. Another thing i don't like but I think ios has loosened that somewhat as they had to contend that it was necessary to make the iPad more of a productivity device (it still really isn't one though)
by ggm | 2025-04-09 05:38:11+00:00
longterm google charts user. This has attraction. Good eye candy feel, responsive.

There are some specific things google charts do, like mark out kashmir and other disputed territories differently depending on your origin IP/AS so you don't fall foul of Indian law.

There are some things google charts don't do, like re-center maps off the meridien they think is best. Scaling geo charts for the pacrim island nations is also very hard. No good choices there perhaps.

Is there a migration guide?
by baazaa | 2025-04-09 05:38:26+00:00
Or in other words dumb people are less impacted by social desirability bias when responding to the survey because they don't realise that 'impartiality' is something to be desired.

As for why impartial news does so poorly in practice, it's often because it's utterly uninformative. 'Car bomb goes off in Kabul' is worthless info to 100% of the population, whereas the moment you try to contextualise it 'Car bomb goes off in Kabul, which is becoming more frequent, which suggests administration is lying about how well the occupation is going' then you're no longer impartial.

Journalists and editors have spent the better part of a century stripping all useful information out of their articles in an effort to be impartial. It would be much better if they instead aimed for a diversity of opinions than a mythical objectivity devoid of ideological bias.
by tomlockwood | 2025-04-09 05:39:10+00:00
This idea of self-reliance has been tried, and probably the greatest example of it is an extremely funny one. North Korea.

Their primary ideology is "Juche": "Juche posits that a country will prosper once it has become self-reliant by achieving political, economic, and military independence." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche

Maybe America can do it better?
by HdS84 | 2025-04-09 05:41:44+00:00
You can also do that in Gh. Gizlab does that, too. But I hate it. When you do this, every build becomes cargo culting commands until it works. Ntm every build it's is own special snowflake from hell. I want standardized builds which output everything I need (artifact, warnings, security issues etc) without me feeling like a necromancer. Gh solves this okayish, but extending and debugging is a pain.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-09 05:41:57+00:00
/shrug Something to think about. Usually I'd say not to worry about it, but this particular point seems to be actively causing actual problems, so it might be worth looking at. Alternatively, if the pain points you've discovered really are all there are to find, then it might well be less trouble to just patch over them specifically and not worry about it. Ugly solutions that work well and don't take extra work are good solutions in my book;)
by eternityforest | 2025-04-09 05:42:02+00:00
That definitely describes me. I can use the Git CLI if needed, because the Git Book exists, but I almost never need to.

If I had to actually use git on the CLI every day, I would probably complain a lot, but it's a pretty good experience when you're using Git Cola and GitHub.

It would be nice if it had native discussions, issues, and wikis, like Fossil does, having that all, decentralized seems like a good idea though.
by natmaka | 2025-04-09 05:42:08+00:00
Simplification leads to automation, which is one of the main factor of efficiency. Means goal and end goal...

Efficiency is always at odds with robustness, and it may be the ultimate challenge.

Some Japanese firms may also have adopted ole' USDA approach as I remember reading during the 80's that some Japanese big motorbike brand team in charge of the design of a new model was composed of teams of engineers, each dedicated to a given aspect (even transversal ones, there even was a team dedicated to 'temperature').
by oceanplexian | 2025-04-09 05:42:10+00:00
I don’t see that happening since the US has historically been the least protectionist of nations.

The EU loves protectionism. The single market is totally dysfunctional with a recent study saying it was equivalent to a 45% tariff between member states for manufacturing, a 110% for services.

If this is the cohort you expect to save the world economy with free trade I certainly wouldn’t be betting real money on it.
by acje | 2025-04-09 05:43:22+00:00
I find it inspiring that we are getting to where we are dealing with models that classify vulnerabilities at a systems level. However I also think we are kind of barking up the wrong three. There is IMHO something wrong with the current strategy of scaling up the von Neumann architecture. It leads to fragile software partitioning, noisy neighbors and both slow and sometimes unintended communication through shared memory. I’ve tried to lay this out in detail here https://lnkd.in/dRNSYPWC
Show HN: My spreadsheet automation suite is making $5K without VC funding
by xohails | 2025-04-09 05:43:57+00:00
I built SmartSpreadsheets to solve a problem I kept encountering: businesses were paying for 10+ SaaS subscriptions when most of their tasks could be automated directly in Google Sheets.

The core is a collection of 15 Google Apps Script tools that add functionality to Google Sheets without requiring users to leave the familiar spreadsheet environment. Each tool is a standalone add-on focused on a specific workflow:

=> Content generation (OpenAI/Claude/Gemini integration) => WooCommerce/Shopify management => Web scraping + data extraction => WordPress site building without code => SEO tools (indexing, keyword clustering)

The technical approach: We use Google Apps Script as the foundation, with custom JavaScript to handle the various API integrations. For things like AI content generation, we direct API calls to OpenAI/Claude without marking up the costs.

What makes this approach interesting is that users maintain complete ownership of their data and automation workflows, rather than being locked into a proprietary system. When a SaaS product shuts down (which happens regularly), users lose access to both the tool and sometimes their data. With this approach, everything remains in their Google Drive.

Happy to answer any technical questions about the implementation or specific challenges we encountered.
by Slow_Hand | 2025-04-09 05:44:30+00:00
Beautiful website.

Their media player with the spectrogram is wonderful and does so much to enhance the appreciation of each birdsong. As a lifelong synthesizer programmer and composer I appreciate the ability to visualize each song.

They even offer a quick-start guide for recording birdsong as well as a paid course to learn in greater depth. My kind of people!

Birds are endlessly fascinating and I'm delighted to see such a well presented ode to their beauty.
by rrr_oh_man | 2025-04-09 05:45:16+00:00
Whenever you search for some advice (laptop with best battery life in 2025) or reviews (hubspot vs. salesforce) you are barraged with torrents of AI-generated slop. Now that it's also taking over the search engine itself (AI summaries) your whole experience will be dumbed down to the point of mindless automaton consuming pre-packaged tidbits of revenue-generating pre-approved sanitised elite-friendly information.

I've always found it curious how the level of technology in Children of Men seemed to have stalled at around the time of the outbreak. From where I see it, the maturation of LLMs is the zombie outbreak for human communication.