MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abap_rocky | 2025-04-02 13:48:20+00:00
I'm glad you mentioned Genesis because they're the subject of one of my favorite samples. OutKast's famous track "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" contains a sample from Genesis's "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" and upon learning this, I just thought it was so cool that OutKast listened to Peter-Gabriel-era Genesis when Genesis was very much a progressive rock band rather than the pop powerhouse most know them as today.
by zokier | 2025-04-02 13:48:57+00:00
multimedia content vs articles. It's easy to see how bad scraping of videos and images pushes bandwidth up more than just scraping articles.

The resource consuming traffic is clearly explained in the linked post:

> This means these types of requests are more likely to get forwarded to the core datacenter, which makes it much more expensive in terms of consumption of our resources.

I.e. difference between cached content at cdn edge vs hits to core services.
by dstroot | 2025-04-02 13:49:14+00:00
I was charging at a supercharger in Las Vegas on my way to California on Monday. While sitting in my vehicle a police car rolled up and asked me to roll down my window. The officer then asked if there was anything suspicious or concerning that I noticed. I said no and he said good we are trying to stay ahead of it. Until that moment I hadn’t really worried about Tesla protests and vandalism.
Show HN: Tambo – React toolkit for AI-powered UIs
by grouchy | 2025-04-02 13:49:16+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Michael. We created tambo-ai after hitting the same wall:

LLMs are great at generating text, but awkward at driving interactive UI with state.

Tambo is a React package that lets AI generate components that: * Persist state via context + hooks * Stream responses * Preserve history * Suggest next actions * Component library

You import components directly — no black boxes. Everything’s inspectable and customizable.

This is our first release. We’d love feedback on the dev experience, architecture, or anything that’s unclear.

* Site: [https://tambo.co](https://tambo.co) * GitHub: [https://github.com/tambo-ai/tambo](https://github.com/tambo-ai/tambo) * UI Library: [https://ui.tambo.co](https://ui.tambo.co)

— Michael
by ubermonkey | 2025-04-02 13:49:36+00:00
That movie was such a foundational document for me, and (obviously) for many other nerdy GenX kids.

I found this site years (decades!) ago, and was happy to discover it's still there:

https://monkeybagel.com/culture/movies.html

The blurb there for _Real Genius_:

"The most accurate portrayal of geeks in the wild I've ever seen. The geeks in Real Genius LOOK, ACT and TALK like geeks. And Jordan gave me hope that I'd someday -- just maybe -- kiss a girl on the lips."

I remember a discussion of this film on a long-running private listserv back in the late 90s or early 00s about possible real-world antecedents for some of the characters, including and especially Jordan. A proto-web site existed for this person where she elaborated on her connection to the writers of the film, and more or less confirmed that she was "Jordan", or at least the inspo for it, but of course I can find no trace of this now.

Anyway, between TOP SECRET, REAL GENIUS, WILLOW, TOMBSTONE, HEAT, and TOP GUN, he's about as inconic as an actor can get. For a dose of maybe less blockbustery work, seek out 2002's THE SALTON SEA where Kilmer is joined by Adam Goldberg, Luis Guzman, Anthony LaPaglia, Peter Sarsgaarad, BD Wong, R. Lee Ermey (!) and in a spectacular turn Vincent D'Onofrio.
by eatonphil | 2025-04-02 13:49:38+00:00
> [rqlite and dqlite] are focused on increasing SQLite’s durability and availability through consensus and traditional replication. They are designed to scale across a set of stateful nodes that maintain connectivity to one another.

Little nitpick there, consensus anti-scales. You add more nodes and it gets slower. The rest of the section on rqlite and dqlite makes sense though, just not about "scale".
by jcranmer | 2025-04-02 13:49:53+00:00
I don't have specific stats in front of me, but:

* Q1 tends to be a weak quarter for automotive sales in general

* EV sales in the US have been slowing

* AFAIK, basically every other EV vendor has shown better numbers for 2025Q1 in interim results.

In other words, while not all of the problems can be laid at Elon's feet, it's pretty clear that he is damaging Tesla's brand.
by bluGill | 2025-04-02 13:50:10+00:00
Such swaps happen all the time in construction. We call them "change orders" or "remodeling" depending on when in the building lifecycle they happen. In software we have not be good about figuring out which change orders are expensive.

I've been in construction, most of them are actually really cheap because the common/likely change orders are built in - want to add a fireplace: until the drywall is installed the cost doesn't change. Want to make a doorway bigger, no problem, it will cost you $20 + the bigger door. Want to switch the tub for a shower after the pumping is roughed in - $50 to move the drain and water pipes, but once the tub is installed you need to pay for the tub you don't use as well (it has to be broken to get it out). As you say moving the bathroom to a different location will be costly.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-02 13:50:27+00:00
His trans daughter Vivian is what flipped him. "Woke mind virus." For someone trying to have as many kids as possible (allegedly boys prioritized) and the controlling personality type, he takes great offense, as if this is a mortal sin against him. He also does not act in a healthy way when his attempts to exert control over others fails. Haven't heard much from him since his $25M in Wisconsin didn't buy him the election.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/08/13/e... | https://archive.today/LsqF9

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-quest-to-make-men-great-... | https://archive.today/BgTwJ
by cratermoon | 2025-04-02 13:50:27+00:00
This is correct. There are two main biological activities involving creatine, a combination of amino acids: 1. it facilitates recycling of ADP back to ATP, obviously more ATP means more energy, meaning ability to do more reps 2. it acts as a pH buffer, countering the fatigue effects of lactic acid buildup.

So no, taking creatine without doing the work probably won't make a difference (except to your wallet), but use in conjunction with consistent and effective exercise, the effect is real.

One thing though: don't bother with the creatine loading phase, it's a marketing scheme to sell more product.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-02 13:50:44+00:00
I do not understand why would anyone believe that creatine can influence muscle gains.

Muscle gains require an adequate protein intake, but creatine has no relationship with that.

Creatine, as phosphocreatine, provides energy storage for short-time anaerobic effort. After the available phosphocreatine is exhausted, only a lower power can be sustained, at the level that can be supported by the conversion of glucose into lactic acid. For even longer times, the power that can be sustained must drop to the level supported by aerobic metabolism.

It is known that the daily capacity of creatine synthesis in humans is usually limited to less than the optimal requirement for intense exercise, so some creatine must be provided by food, for the best results.

I take a little creatine, because I eat vegan food, which does not contain creatine. For someone who eats meat, it is very unlikely that a creatine supplement can be useful, because meat should contain enough additional creatine, besides the creatine that is synthesized internally.

However, I am grateful to the sport fans who may have taken creatine without any good reasons, because that has ensured the widespread availability at modest prices of creatine supplements, which are useful for vegans like myself.

I agree with another poster, who says that while creatine cannot have a direct effect on muscle gains, it can have an indirect effect on someone who trains regularly, by allowing more exercise repetitions, which may stimulate muscle gains.

Obviously, such an indirect effect is conditioned by actually training regularly and really doing more intense trainings than when not taking the supplement.
by waynenilsen | 2025-04-02 13:51:24+00:00
> Apparently healthy individuals (18 to 50 years), with a body mass index of ≤30 kg/m2 and *not meeting current physical activity guidelines* of at least 150 min of moderate-intensity exercise were included.

I'm curious what the same study would say about athletes of various disciplines. It makes sense to me that creatine does not make a difference for these folks.
by reedf1 | 2025-04-02 13:52:58+00:00
Participants were instructed to maintain their current dietary habits and physical activity levels for the duration of the study.

My understanding is that creatine increases the amount of available energy for muscles to use (hence increases sports performance, training performance, and recovery) - not increase muscle growth alone. That said - it is an interesting study which helps decompose the effect, this shows that creatine likely provides no other additional benefits.
by perrygeo | 2025-04-02 13:52:59+00:00
Great point, this maps to my experience. Almost every "fix this existing code" problem posed to LLMs is a failure. The approach of simply spitting out the next probable token doesn't work if any complexity or design aesthetics is involved. We wouldn't trust a human that approached problems by stream of consciousness either.

But vibe coding does work reasonably well for solo greenfield/demo projects. When there is no external complexity, no inferred requirements, no consequences to getting it wrong, nothing to integrate with, nobody to collaborate with ... just you and a blank editor - vibe coding works.

While it can be nice living in a little self-contained fantasy world, on existing projects you'll find absolutely none of the same conditions. And a whole slew of other engineering challenges that aren't solved by throwing generated code at it. As the value of code trends to zero, the value of those other engineering skills increases.
by ksec | 2025-04-02 13:53:04+00:00
I am excited. Switch's graphics was OK, I dont need the constant Unreal 5 shinny lightning PS5 Pro crazy graphics. But I often wish Switch GFX was just a little bit better. Now Switch 2, still no official SoC Spec yet but according to rumours it should be enough for 4K plus a little bit better texture.

Edit: $449 was higher than what I expected of $399. Especially with the hardware involves. PS5 and Xbox are selling hardware at loss, Nintendo has to be making profits on these.
by srvmshr | 2025-04-02 13:53:19+00:00
I have seen and enjoyed quite a few Val Kilmer movies, but his special appearance in 'Top Gun:Maverick' was heartwarming (the scene where he jovially asks Maverick, "who was the better pilot between the two of us").

Tombstone and Saint were such nice movies too. Underrated, with a distinct comedic touch. A talent gone before his time.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-02 13:53:33+00:00
Firstly a strong desire to self-host: write the build system in the language itself.

Secondly, often very differently shaped requirements. The dotnet SDK tries to keep its build specification (.csproj) files editable by Visual Studio, which is why most of the stuff in them is just XML properties.

You probably could build C#/F# with Bazel but that's not what Microsoft chose, and you kind of need to stay aligned with them and the large amount of MSBuild files in the SDK.
by chamomeal | 2025-04-02 13:53:44+00:00
That’s a reassuring thing to hear as a new clojure learner who has little interest in java.

What bits of java have you ended up needing? Like do you often use java libraries that don’t have clojure wrappers?

I feel like I’m often running up against little things. I’ll google “how to do xyz in clojure” and the top SO answer is to use a java library that apparently everybody already knows about, cause so many clojurists came from java first!
by mfro | 2025-04-02 13:54:02+00:00
I ended up purchasing a Lasko Air Flex[1]. It fits standard HVAC filters. It doubles as a white noise machine for me, it is quite loud. This review[2] indicates it works well but a bit power hungry, and it definitely gathered a visible amount of dust over a 1 year period.

[1] https://lasko.com/products/lasko-air-flex-2-in-1-20-inch-box...

[2] https://youtu.be/daayXtlpg_o
by bluGill | 2025-04-02 13:54:11+00:00
Most software is NOT first time! You have competition doing it as well. One website is just like another - sure there are lots of differences, but they are as alike as any two houses with different blueprints are the same. Most software is updates to the existing software of a similar type to last years update. Even ground up software is typically a rewrite of your existing software.
by colinrozzi | 2025-04-02 13:54:31+00:00
LLMs present incredible opportunities for software, but they also present significant challenges. It is realistic to assume that in the very near future significantly more software will be written, and much of it may have never seen human review. Because of this, many of the assumptions we have made in building the software ecosystem are no longer valid.

Traditional software distribution and running systems put a significant amount of trust on the programmer. Theater is attempting to build guarantees into the structure of the software system that hosts client applications. First, it uses WebAssembly Components to provide sandboxing and determinism. Then, we use the actor model with an erlang-style supervision system to provide isolation and fault-tolerance. Finally, for each of the actors that run in the system, we completely track any information that enters or leaves the wasm sandbox. If something in the system goes wrong, we should be able to trace it back through each actor, fixing whatever is needed along the way.
by tyushk | 2025-04-02 13:54:31+00:00
The 2006-engine version of Half-Life 2: Episode 1 runs on Windows 10/11 with no configuration [1], outside of getting Steam to download it. I recall installing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on a Windows 11 machine, which just needed Directx 9c to run.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=28643...
by diggan | 2025-04-02 13:54:46+00:00
I'm not sure this is what is currently affecting them the most, the article mentions this:

> Since AI crawlers tend to bulk read pages, they access obscure pages that have to be served from the core data center.

So it doesn't seem to be driven by "Search the web for keywords, follow links, slurp content" but trying to read a bulk of pages all together, then move on to another set of bulk pages, suggesting mass-ingestion, not just acting as a user-agent for an actual user.

But maybe I'm reading too much into the specifics of the article, I don't have any particular internal insights to the problem they're facing I'll confess.
by simonsarris | 2025-04-02 13:55:02+00:00
Note that Rivian deliveries (numbers came out today also) fell much more, percentagewise. Also worth pondering the scale.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/rivian-reports-fall-in-first...

> Rivian reported a 36% decline in first-quarter deliveries on Wednesday, as the electric-vehicle maker grapples with weak demand, sending its shares down more than 2% at the open.

> The company delivered 8,640 vehicles in the quarter ended March 31, down from 13,588 a year earlier. The deliveries, however, exceeded analysts’ average estimate of 8,200, according to Visible Alpha.
by dartos | 2025-04-02 13:55:19+00:00
Either you're not relying as much on the AI as you think you are, or you're not really sure what "production quality" means.

It seems like you should know, so I'm going to bet that you're not entirely letting the AI drive.

Having the AI draft some code which you refine is a fine workflow. I didn't think it was before, but i've come around on that. I think it's also nice to have an LLM do a onceover to point out areas where I may have missed catching an error (like with JSON.parse in javascript or something.)

It's just not my cup of tea, personally. I've found that I'm faster writing code myself and treating an LLM as an assistant or rubber duck, but to each their own.

I'm referring to wholly AI generated code with no human input besides a prompt or "vibe coding." You literally can't put enough context into a prompt to have it write the exact code you'd need in every case. Your prompt would end up just being code at that point.

That's the whole point of writing code. Precise and exact instructions for a machine. You're not going to get that by adding a statistical natural language layer in the mix.
by palmotea | 2025-04-02 13:55:30+00:00
> That's what happens when a CEO associates themselves tightly with their brand and then publicly takes extremely polarizing political action that half the voter base considers antithetical to their values.

More generally: this is what happens when someone in power gets so arrogant they totally lose sight about what they can and can't do, and what the consequences of their actions will be.

I'm reminded of this (about Musk), which is probably the root cause of his arrogance: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...:

> He has people around him who are just enablers. All these Silicon Valley people do. All his minions. And they are minions — they’re all lesser than he is in some fashion, and they all look up to him. They’re typically younger. They laugh at his jokes. Sometimes when he apologizes for a joke, which is not very often, he’ll say that the people around him thought it was funny.
by jvanderbot | 2025-04-02 13:55:55+00:00
Software probably isn't the ticket to life changing riches it once was, but it's still a good enough career with good working conditions regular demand and broad appeal. Importantly I feel that general software dev is just levelling out around the career options for other similarly educated career tracks. Why we expected this track to always be a millionaire maker is beyond me.

Go into surveying? You can fly drones around, be outside, use cool software, do real work, and have a decent middle class lifestyle.
by Damogran6 | 2025-04-02 13:55:58+00:00
I think Denver's status as a hub for IT, Telco, Aviation/Aerospace may skew things a bit, but the town is _lousy_ with Tesla products. Cybertruck included.

And I think this period of time is going to be underscored by the guilt of good products helmed by questionable people. Musk, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, all have either produced or led thousands of people to produce good things. And then they got rich enough to let their filter drop? I dunno how to exactly phrase it.
by spiderfarmer | 2025-04-02 13:56:10+00:00
Listen up, because this needs to be crystal clear: there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with revoking someone’s platform when they violate terms and conditions that are no stricter than the rules you’d set for your own kids.

On the flip side, there is something profoundly, undeniably wrong — practically evil — when a government detains peaceful people not for breaking laws but for virally posting about their wish for an immediate cease-fire in the midst of violent conflict. Which is the exact inverse of having sensible limits.

You can rattle off half-baked “maybe” and “perhaps” scenarios all day long and keep twisting definitions beyond recognition. You can continue to argue that governmental abuse of power is an inevitable consequence simply because the world contains some ugly, petty sociopaths that will hold grudges until they die. But by that logic there shouldn't be norms, limits, rules, terms, conditions or laws at all, because it will only inconvenience sociopaths on their rise to power and they'll eventually come after you.

Welcome to the paradox of tolerance. We need rules because it keeps our imperfect society civil.
by joonas-blip | 2025-04-02 13:56:21+00:00
I am a webdeveloper with 5 years experience writing code, 2 years python and last three 3 years working in Ruby on Rails. Interested in new opportunities and very open to learning new technologies and languages.

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, RoR, Javascript, REST Api, Pyhton, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: email me :)

Email: in profile
by glenstein | 2025-04-02 13:56:50+00:00
>What I’m saying is that we don’t know that consciousness is just an algorithm.

I caught that, I think(?). I would flag that the upshot or implication can be (1) something outside of physics altogether which I think, while romantic, is at the extreme end of extreme in terms of tenuous and inviting bad metaphysics, bad notions of emergentism etc, but there's also (2) something about the difference between how something is "embodied" which, as you note, still is about billiard ball style simulation at the end of the day, but can raise interesting questions about what kinds of simulations work.

I also do wonder of there's some kind of physicalist essentialism working its way in there. If there's something different about electrons that's importantly different, something about it (hopefully) is a physical property and as such able to be modeled. If consciousness is intrinsically and preferentially tied to a certain kind of matter, e.g. atoms, or brain-stuff, that starts to sound a little woo-ey.
by diggan | 2025-04-02 13:57:01+00:00
The graph you linked seems to be about article viewing ("page views", like a GET request to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy for example), while the article mentions multimedia content, so fetching the actual bytes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy#/media/File:Economis... for example, which would consume more content than just loading article pages, as far as I understand.
by dasil003 | 2025-04-02 13:57:15+00:00
How old was this guy in 2016, because it kinda reads like advice from a 25 year old. Not terrible advice by any means but definitely reflective of a specific influencer type of mindset that may or may not apply to other young people. Not everyone is cut out to build online businesses, and while it’s never been more accessible to young people, it’s never been more competitive and hard to get attention.
by palmaec | 2025-04-02 13:57:50+00:00
Location: Brazil. Remote: Yes (ok to work in US and Western Europe timezones).

Willing to relocate: Not yet.

Recently used technologies: Kotlin, Javascript, Typescript, Python, SQL (Postgres, Sqlite); Android app dev; NodeJS, Ktor; Apache Spark, Jupyter; Terraform, Kubernetes; GCP, Azure.

Other: application architecture, solutions architecture, testing (TDD, legacy systems), integration, software development process, business/technical problem solving.

Résumé/CV/Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/palmaec/ (Resumé kind of outdated/incomplete)
by perihelions | 2025-04-02 13:58:07+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/teslas-global-vehicle-del... ("Tesla’s Global Vehicle Deliveries Sank 13% in First Quarter")

┕ https://archive.is/BQosk

https://www.ft.com/content/0ebcec51-2a5a-4820-99e8-1e500370f... ("Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble")

┕ https://archive.is/oeBUY
by chews | 2025-04-02 13:58:24+00:00
It did wonders for me as well, the side effects after some prolonged use were less than stellar. The good news was I was in a much better headspace, doc put me on Wellbutrin in addition to the and I was able to taper off the lexapro over 3 months. Now, I am only taking a generic form of bupropion and generic dextromethorphan(cold medicine) together and it is a total game changer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan/bupropion
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-04-02 13:58:33+00:00
> EV sales in the US have been slowing

Predominantly because Tesla is slowing, and that's where most EV sales were - see: https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q4-2024-ev-sales/

> Most major auto manufacturers ended 2024 with record EV sales, with Tesla being a notable exception.

> General Motors increased its sales by 50% to become the second largest EV seller in the US, Ford's EV sales increased 35%,

> and Kia and Hyundai expanded by 74% and 77% respectively.

EV sales excluding Tesla in the US are expected to be up >20% across the board.