MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by libertine | 2025-04-29 09:46:24+00:00
I don't think messaging has improved - maybe on avg. but it's still clearly AI-generated.

The number of companies that "Elevate" services/quality/experiences... It's getting so sloppy.

But a lot of these points are recurring ones over the years, it's just like a rubber band that stretches.

At some point, CEOs will go on LinkedIn ...

"We loved the AI boom and it helped us improve a lot of our processes! But we need human connection, and that's irreplaceable - but now our differentiator is that we have humans reaching out to humans. AI will still be here as a sidekick."
by yorwba | 2025-04-29 09:46:39+00:00
It's funny that you bring up cars as a point of comparison, because constantly releasing new models while dropping prices is exactly what made a bunch of Chinese EV companies go bankrupt in recent years.

It's not that they were stupid and priced their cars badly, it's that they didn't have much choice. Developing a new car model has significant upfront costs that require a correspondingly large number of cars to be sold for the company as a whole to turn a profit, each individual sale being profitable is not enough. But in an environment with lots of competitors constantly releasing new models for cheaper, any single company had little choice but to also release a new model and lower their prices in order to sell any cars at all, eating a loss on the previous model. And eventually some companies couldn't take those losses any more and folded.

OpenAI is definitely losing money overall, presumably because training new large language models is expensive. But can they stop doing that to turn a profit? If OpenAI announced that the funding for their next frontier training run fell through and they're laying off research staff to focus on inference, and then competitors come out with better, cheaper models, how long will OpenAI be able to stay relevant? I guess they hope everyone else gives up first and they won't have to find out.
by dcminter | 2025-04-29 09:46:45+00:00
Without feedback you don't know that the bug was fixed in reaction to your bug report. It might have been - but unless they explicitly invited bug reports in return for something then it's at worst bad manners not to acknowledge in that case. Debatably poor self-interest on their part as well.

As you note, the field has been damaged by bounty hunters. When the SNR drops low enough there's no point even reading the damn things and high-quality reports will be discarded along with the dross.
by axelMI | 2025-04-29 09:48:02+00:00
You are right thanks for the heads up!! It currently works in linear color space. I wasn't familiar with the issue.

I need to figure out if it's enough in Webgl to add gl.SRGB8_ALPHA8 when loading/ copying textures or I should gamma correct in all the color handling shaders. Will do some testing to figure it out.
by devoutsalsa | 2025-04-29 09:48:05+00:00
Maybe. One thing I've found is the LLMs give me a lot of short term leverage. I can (get an LLM to) program in a language I know almost nothing about. Then I hit a wall where I don't know enough to get the LLM to fix something I don't know how to ask for, and then I'm stuck. When vibe coding, I'm not learning how to solve problems myself so much, and that means anything the LLM can't do, I also can't do. When I'm coding on my own, I'm picking up lessons along the way the help me build a foundation for incrementally harder projects.
Show HN: Carrot Clicker – an idle game for lazy farmers (coded with AI tools)
by vincenzor | 2025-04-29 09:48:27+00:00
I built a small idle game called Carrot Clicker — you click, grow carrots, and build your farm… or just let it run while you chill.

I “vibe coded” most of it using Cursor, and generated the visuals with Stability AI.

It’s super simple, but I had a lot of fun making it. Would love your feedback — especially on gameplay ideas, balancing, or just general vibes!
by Tor3 | 2025-04-29 09:48:30+00:00
My learning finally picked up speed again when I started using CCI (Compelling Comprehensive Input). How easy it is to find material differs a lot between languages. Way way back in time I learned English that way, though I didn't think of it as "learning" back then - I was so focused on what is now called "compelling input".

However, you'll need some kind of foundation, otherwise it'll be hard to find anything to start with. Though at the language school my wife attended the teachers had methods for that too, when there weren't any common language to "teach" in. Show and tell, basically. Point down and say "This is a table". Point away and say "That is a window". And so on. The Krashen initial method basically, though the one teacher I talked to had never heard about the guy.

When I started Japanese I didn't use textbooks or classes, I used an app called "Human Japanese", which teaches structure and a little grammar, but mostly through show and tell. No conjugation tables or other boring stuff. It quickly gives you enough to start acquiring other material. My own huge mistake was to switch to Duolingo.
by diggan | 2025-04-29 09:48:46+00:00
We're outside Mataro, had to make a trip into Barcelona yesterday. I'd say most gas stations north of Barcelona/Maresme area were 100% offline, some (we found only two, from 6 visited) gas stations still had operational pumps but huge queues and cash only. None of the TPVs seemed to work anywhere in the afternoon yesterday here, even the battery powered/mobile network ones.
by gnfargbl | 2025-04-29 09:49:23+00:00
Dear System Owners,

I'm sorry that the security industry is a cesspool. We all know it's a cesspool. We can't pump it out.

However, please do not let the absolute state of things cause you to give up on security. Don't stop patching, don't go back to writing your passwords on post-it notes, don't just expose everything to the open internet and don't let an LLM perform your only code security review. Keep doing the boring, basic things, and you'll have the best chance at keeping the attackers out.

Ultimately security is a chore, like showering or visiting the dentist. And there are always going to be people telling you that you absolutely must apply deodorant to your groin or that you can avoid the dentist by rinsing with apple cider vinegar. Ignore them, and just keep doing the basics as well as you can.
by metadata | 2025-04-29 09:49:24+00:00
Postgres is a better choice for 99% of the companies out there. But there are cases where you need ability to massively scale AND control your database cluster perfectly.

Postgres won't even let your force an execution plan and ignores hints (yes, there is an extension for that) so your optimized query can at some point just 10x in execution time and increase load in production when the plan changes.

In Oracle, I am told you can prioritize certain queries at certain time of day - it's crazy what it can do. Yes, it's slow and expensive. If you have money to throw at the problem, it's fast and it solves your problem, whatever the scale. Their Exadata cluster, for example, is wicked fast storage layer pre-filtering the data it sends to the database.

Of course, I despise their business practices - especially the abuse of customers via audits. As a database, it absolutely has its place regardless of lobbying, corruption, and whatever else they are doing.
by williamstein | 2025-04-29 09:50:19+00:00
I evaluated a range of options and selected NATS for a project in Jan 2025, then spent every waking moment developing and launching this project over the last four months. Absolutely central to my choice of NATS was that it is a CNCF project. You see, I was badly burned a few years ago but what happened with RethinkDB, which I used for a similar purpose!

I read substantial chunks of the NATS source code and contributed many small PR’s and suggestions back. Sometimes the devs were very welcoming and sometimes not. In fact, a few weeks ago I started this repo to document some contributions frustrations: https://github.com/williamstein/nats-bugs

Anyway this rug pull is extremely disappointing to me. It is especially sad because NATS is excellent technology, and no matter what their just shot themselves in the foot, and I had really really had hope for them to grow a lot in the next few years.
by arrowsmith | 2025-04-29 09:50:28+00:00
Idk about Canada, but what you usually see in the UK is that tens of millions of pounds get spend before a single brick is laid.

Money disappears into consultations, reviews, studies and reports of dubious value, the paperwork keeps piling up and it takes years before the public sees anything tangible, if the project ever gets built at all.

Someone somewhere is getting very rich off this, but it ain't the taxpayer.
Ask HN: What do you think of this to help you understand Meditations / Aurelius?
by huttiepant | 2025-04-29 09:51:49+00:00
I'm obsessed with understanding the books I read more deeply, so I studied reading comprehension books to learn the best methods.

As a result, I built a free tool to challenge myself, but I'm wondering whether I'm strange for wanting this, or if others would actually find it useful? It's www.synto-app.com if anyone wants to look.

If it is useful, what do you think of the questions?
by diggan | 2025-04-29 09:52:51+00:00
Most people around here seemed to be balanced. Yes, a lot of people outside at bars/cafes enjoying a spare Sunday, but also preparing quietly and slowly in case it takes longer time. All the stores ran out of batteries, radios and such, at least the ones we visited, and I only managed to make one card payment around 13:30 sometime, after that internet stopped working 100% until the night. Almost no super markets were open around here, maybe one or two who had generators it seems.
by tobias5 | 2025-04-29 09:52:58+00:00
Hey thanks for the feedback. The secret? I'm not sure? You had issues with the speed or getting the data and updating the view?

What I did is adding a loading indicator and fetching data onChange, so if I change e.g. bow heart rates are calculated it starts to fetch instantly after the change not only on the view with the bars.

And I'm currently just fetching 30 days. I think this will be interesting if I try to extend it.

Onboarding flow, Home screen widget is on my list. Thanks.

The filtering would also be interesting. Haven't though about hat because I usually myself do always the same workouts
by moralestapia | 2025-04-29 09:53:04+00:00
For about 2-3 years the default for people here has been to downvote everything rather than driving discussion; much more reddit-esque than what it used to be. There are no other sites like this one to jump to, unfortunately.

On-topic: Wind power brings in about 20% of Spain's electricity, and that one fluctuates a lot indeed. I hope they put out a detailed post-mortem, I'd be an enjoyable read.
by Ezhik | 2025-04-29 09:53:09+00:00
The best incantation I've got to force English Google results is https://www.google.com/search?q=hedgehog&lr=lang_en&hl=en&ud...

For Kagi, I've got it set to give me international results, so technical documentation is in English, but I have to manually change the region to my country for local results - thankfully that's just a dropdown on the same page that remembers your recent country choices.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-29 09:54:20+00:00
Then better be quite picky of what libraries one choses, because that is the thing, while we may not use them, the libraries migth impose them on us.

Same applies having to deal with old features, replaced by modern ways, old codebases don't get magically rewritten, and someone has to understand modern and old ways.

Likewise I am not a big fan of C and Go, as visible by my comment history, yet I know them well enough, because in theory I am not forced to use them, in practice, there are business contexts where I do have to use them.
by xoa | 2025-04-29 09:54:57+00:00
>however, you would immediately have a civil case against the person and/or their representative for their false claim. That's not spelled out in the bill but it should be obvious.

Wow. Not sure if this is ludicrously bad faith or just ludicrously naive/ignorant/unthinking but it's ludicrous either way. Plenty enough to nullify every other thing you attempt to say on the topic.
by agent281 | 2025-04-29 09:56:15+00:00
I live in America. I have all my life. I've ridden on nice trains in Europe and Japan. The culture in the last 80-100 years has revolved around cars, but before that relied heavily on trains.

I much prefer riding a spacious train to riding in a cramped airplane. I like to be able to get up and walk around while the train is traveling. I prefer the minimal security processes on a train to an airplane.

Driving 6-10 hours is pretty miserable. I would much rather take a train or fly unless there are specific reasons why I need to drive.

It may be like comparing apples and oranges, but some people prefer apples. The good thing is that you can still eat oranges if you like.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-29 09:56:45+00:00
>The term 'people mover' was used by Walt Disney, when he and his Imagineers were working on the new 1967 Tomorrowland at Disneyland. The name was used as a working title for a new attraction, the PeopleMover. According to Imagineer Bob Gurr, "the name got stuck," and it was no longer a working title.

Huh. Thinking about it does sound like a very "Disney" term. Interesting to think it spread from a resort park to professional transportation. Never would have guessed.

The reasoning is all too relatable as well. "working names" no one works on and suddenly it's your final product name. Such anti-bikeshedding would be very rare these days.
by nexo-v1 | 2025-04-29 09:57:22+00:00
I switched to DuckDuckGo recently too. It's good enough for most things, but for deeper or niche info, I still bounce back to Google (with uBlock).

Haven't tried Kagi yet — not sure the difference is big enough to pay for.

Honestly, I'm still stuck using some Google stuff anyway, like Maps. I'd like to de-Google a bit more, but in practice it's hard.
by buzzmerchant | 2025-04-29 09:59:04+00:00
When i was younger, i had intense bouts of what psychologists call intrinsic motivation.

As i get older, this happens less and less – which is a massive shame.

I wanted to understand whether there was any good evidence as to what intrinsic motivation is and how i might be able to cultivate it in my adult life. To do this, i did a massive deep dive of the scientific literature surrounding intrinsic motivation. This is the outcome of that research.
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-04-29 09:59:13+00:00
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by egorfine | 2025-04-29 09:59:36+00:00
Generators are not in sync with the grid though. And that's the hardest part.

Here's why generators were running here despite the grid being available. A generator has a very short lifetime and in order to prolong it, some owners learned to run those in the very optimal schedule. Which sometimes requires a minimum amount of time to run in a single cycle. Thus if you started it you are committed to run for X hours.
by traceroute66 | 2025-04-29 09:59:42+00:00
> NATS could never graduate

Regarding the lack of graduation, I would invite people to read the full comment by user raghu999 on the nats-server discussion[1].

I will quote two paragraphs from it here, but I really encourage people to read the whole thing:

During that lengthy graduation process, the CNCF TOC explicitly and repeatedly raised concerns about the lack of core server maintainer diversity and the risks of single-vendor (Synadia) dominance. Your [Synadia] team's responses at the time consistently deflected these concerns, arguing that client diversity was sufficient, the server was stable/uninteresting for external contributors, and that demanding core diversity was misguided. Now, the narrative has flipped entirely. The very fact that Synadia employees contributed the vast majority (~97%) of the server code – the exact scenario the TOC warned about – is being presented as the reason Synadia must now implement a restrictive BUSL license to recoup investment. This is a stunning reversal. It appears Synadia actively resisted diversifying core control when it was a prerequisite for graduation, only to later weaponize the resulting lack of external contribution as justification for this license change.

[1] https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/issues/6832#issuecomm...
by animal531 | 2025-04-29 09:59:53+00:00
They all are using these tests to determine their worth, but to be honest they don't convert well to real world tests.

For example I tried Deepseek for code daily over a period of about two months (vs having used ChatGPT before), and its output was terrible. It would produce code with bugs, break existing code when making additions, totally fail at understanding what you're asking etc.
by tfourb | 2025-04-29 10:00:32+00:00
The entire argument for private gun ownership to guard against tyranny is that it is effective and more so than other approaches. If private gun ownership is not more effective against tyranny than other approaches, why accept its considerable and provable downsides (gun crime, gun-assisted suicides, domestic violence, accidents, etc. etc.)?

But peaceful resistance (which goes beyond protests and can – depending on situation and definition – encompass everything from sabotage to strikes, espionage, boycotts and "Work to Rule") has been demonstrated to be more effective to both establish long-term democratic rule, as well as safeguard it against authoritarian rollback, when compared to violent means.

There simply is no actual argument based on historical facts that widespread civilian gun ownership is particularly effective at establishing democratic rule or deterring authoritarian tendencies. Which makes sense, because (again) guns are only good at projecting or threatening violence and authoritarian actors (in contrast to democratic ones) are quite comfortable with violence.
by arkh | 2025-04-29 10:00:50+00:00
The result of Agile (and DDD, TDD etc.) comes back to The Mythical Man Month: you're gonna throw one away. So plan the system for change.

And due to Conway's law: plan the organization for change.

From those ideas you derive Agile (make an organization easily changeable) and the tactical part of DDD (all the code architecture meant to be often and easily refactored).
by cheema33 | 2025-04-29 10:00:55+00:00
Oracle has a horrible reputation among devs. But I think they bypass devs for purchase decisions and straight up wine and dine and bamboozle the low information execs.

When I worked at a megacorp as a dev, I had near zero say in such purchase decisions. I had to work with what I was given. Thankfully I work for a much smaller shop now. Better pay and much better decision autonomy.
by theshrike79 | 2025-04-29 10:01:13+00:00
It's gamified Anki with social pressure.

If finding proper Anki decks for languages wasn't such a massive pain in the ass (Along with navigating the weird 30€ mobile apps for it, are they official, are they not? Can a free alternative do the same?), people would use Anki a lot more.

With Duolingo you can just install, launch, pick a language and get going.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-29 10:01:20+00:00
> on the one hand the New York Post is "a rag" as nicbou said, but on the other hand its reporters' judgments are reliable

I know a handful of Post reporters. The short answer is their bar for publishing is lower. That means they catch stories earlier than the majors. (Same way specialist blogs do.) But they also post stuff that later needs to, or should have been, retracted. (Again, like a blog.)

Put another way, it's an entertaining paper that's not really comparable to the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or New York Times in terms of quality or intent. But it does bring a more conservative angle to the mix in the same way those papers' journalists (or more accurately, e.g. Jon Stewart) bring a liberal/leftist perspective to the fore.
by tobias5 | 2025-04-29 10:01:22+00:00
I do an estimation of max HR, with different methods. This is really just an estimation. For resting HR, which can also be used to get the Zones if you select Karvonen method, I use an export from Apples HealthKit. I currently do the average of the last 7 days. Not sure if Apple does an estimate for this value, too?
by Tade0 | 2025-04-29 10:01:53+00:00
Why would you need a spinning mass when you have an inverter which can produce a range of frequencies and outputs and it all boils down to coordination?

Looking at power generation reports it's the plants relying on inertia (like nuclear) which were disconnected and haven't been reconnected since:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/ES/72h/hourly
by psychoslave | 2025-04-29 10:02:22+00:00
How do we rate biases, and what’s the rank of Wikipedia along the diverse methodologies to do so?

Also note that the issue is biases in there whole generality. Most data produced by the universe will just not attract interest of most human beings. Or at least, as finite beings, we have to pounder where we put our attention and can’t afford to study every single topic with the same level of scrutiny.
by ljm | 2025-04-29 10:02:50+00:00
I've used Pimsleur on and off for a while and it's great, because even with sporadic usage I can still more or less remember what I learned and most of the time I just need a bit of a refresher in terms of using the right case or conjugation so I don't get I/you/they/it mixed up.

Hours into Duolingo I'm repeating total nonsense like "the man is a boy" and "the turtle has green pants," but with Pimsleur, after the same amount of time, it's right into practical stuff like "I would like something to eat" or "I don't understand X but I do speak Y."

Having an extensive vocabulary of random words isn't particulary helpful except to extrapolate meaning out of conversations you don't fully understand, and almost certainly cannot contribute to.
by krapp | 2025-04-29 10:02:59+00:00
Seems more likely to me. Reddit has a far broader userbase, whereas HN is primarily made up of the sort of people who would post with AI. And HN has a non rate-limited API (even though most people here probably use Algolia.)

And people already do paste comments from AI, it's becoming more and more common. At least they have the courtesy of pointing it out but I expect that will stop before the AI comments do.