MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kazinator | 2025-04-09 14:15:33+00:00
I have a man page reader which remembers the position you were in the last time you read the same man page. There is nice syntax highlighting.

Also, you can jump to other man pages, because it's just using Vim.

In Vim, you can use K to open a man page for the word under the cursor. You can prefix that command with a section number. Something could be hacked to scrape that from the parentheses after the word.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/mnpgr/about/
by djfobbz | 2025-04-09 14:15:44+00:00
This is very cool! I have some feedback:

1. Allow for adjusting grid spacing and grid point size.

2. I can't seem to find a snap-to-grid option (e.g., a magnet icon).

3. Allow docking of the sidebar to the left or right of the screen.

4. When the sidebar is hidden, the popover does not include tabs for Relationships, Subject Areas, and Notes. It would be nice to have those available.

5. Allow sidebar width customization in pixel size or percentage
by rcarr | 2025-04-09 14:15:56+00:00
Surely all that is going to happen is that the Chinese exporters set up intermediary companies in countries within the US's 10% import tariff band and then just re-export their goods from there? And then just rotate countries if Trump slaps a bigger tariff on those countries? Feels like they could keep this going pretty easily until Trump leaves office. Or is there something in place to prevent this?
by cheptsov | 2025-04-09 14:16:52+00:00
I think it’s not misleading, but rather very clear that there are problems. v7 is compared to v5e. Also, notice that it’s not compared to competitors, and the price isn’t mentioned. Finally, I think the much bigger issue with TPU is the software and developer experience. Without improvements there, there’s close to zero chance that anyone besides a few companies will use TPU. It’s barely viable if the trend continues.
by ivansavz | 2025-04-09 14:17:11+00:00
One thing that has been working really well for me this year is the "internet Shabbat" rule: 24 hours of no TCP/IP every week. Friday night I pull the plug on the modem + turn off data on my phone, then enjoy all of Saturday in a disconnected mode. I can still be on the computer, just no internet.

It's amazing how much things I get done... it literally feels like I have two days instead of one. If I put a item like "outdoor exercise for 30 mins" in my TODO list, then I actually do it! Close friends and family can still reach me by phone/text, but all the chat groups and other messaging app distractions are silent.

I can still end up zoning out watching a movie in the evening, but it's more intentional: I had to pick the movie in advance and download it so I can view it offline.

The contrast with Sunday when I turn the internet back on is very notable. Suddenly the next day is disorganized and end up wasting hours on youtube recommendations, and following rabit holes, and hacker news of course.

My conclusion is that it's not the apps or the internet, it's the feeds (when information is being pushed down to you) that are the problem. It's just too convenient and we end up staying in it.

Highly recommended.
by rasz | 2025-04-09 14:18:10+00:00
>The Atari handheld computer in front of this Osborne Model 1 came out only six years later, in 1989. The world was passing Osborne by, and that led to its liquidation in 1986.

Six years is a long time. Try one year for a competitor making your product look like an antiquated ripoff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleram

1974 $14k P-1800 luggable (15kg) electronic typewriter with a CRT and modem for reporters to send stories from the field.

1981 $5.4K Portabubble/81 7kg model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elwZq9mwlBc

1983 $2.5K T-3000 4kg model https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1984-01/page/n...

Teleram files for IPO in early 1983.

Same year Kyocera drops Kyotronic 85 and licenses to Olivetti M-10 / NEC PC-8201 / Tandy TRS-80 Model 100, all models $1K 1kg.

Teleram reports loss.

1984 sharp drop in sales and even bigger loss.

1985 bankruptcy.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-09 14:18:26+00:00
> In the first society, the probability of the artist completing and selling that masterpiece is correspondingly lower, since money is a strong motivator and even artists have bills to pay.

I live near the (supposedly) largest art market in the USA, and I know a large number of artists here for whom two things are true:

1. they cannot make a living from just their art. 2. they will create art whether they make a living from or not.

Thus, the claim that taxes on their art income act as a disincentive to create just holds zero water for me. In fact, less than zero. It betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of why all the artists I admire actually do what they do.

This also applies to most of the people I admire in almost every field. I don't know of any example where the motivation was such that increased taxation would have acted as a disincentive. That's true even for Bezos @ amzn.
by n8cpdx | 2025-04-09 14:19:12+00:00
- Yes it is possible to live without using social media (except hacker news of course) on a daily basis. TikTok is the easiest to do without. Instagram and Snapchat can be deleted. Use the web app for those rare moments you need to check hours for a business that doesn’t have a website (sadly this happens)

- iOS Focus Modes is underrated in this article. When I arrive at work all my apps except teams and outlook disappear, my phone turns into a work dashboard. After work my phone shows my journal and the clock app. I never get notifications at work, they queue up until I leave. My watch is synchronized and does similar, showing exactly what I need and nothing else for different stages of my day. Focus Modes has sadly not been copied by Android so I can’t consider stitching until there’s a good answer (a well supported HealthKit alternative being the other deal breaker).

- iOS screen time is busted af, it is known. Might as well be a random number generator. I recommend avoiding. Apple workers reading this: pls fix
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-04-09 14:19:24+00:00
When I’m doom scrolling it’s almost exclusively news. I’m not all that interested in short videos, social media, or other scrollable things. News is my weakness. Last month I was pretty bad about reading news about the USA. I’ve mostly recovered. It’s easy to convince yourself it matters (especially compared to watching shorts) but the reality is that for me, it’s bordering irrelevant. I live in Canada. There’s nothing I can do about the USA. Just focus on what’s here and now.
by ericmay | 2025-04-09 14:19:28+00:00
> Also, the US engages in these practices as much as everyone else.

I don't know that this is factually true. I suspect it is. I also want to make it very clear that I'm not defending Donald Trump nor am I suggesting that the way he's going about things is the only or even an optimal way.

With those disclaimers aside:

> Nobody else is engaging in the punitive tariff rates the US is imposing, so the rest of the world is economically more attractive than the US on the score. I don't see how China will be more hurt by this than the US.

When you say nobody else is engaging in punitive tariff rates, well we just got started I think last week right? We're only seeing effects in the stock market today (and of course suppliers and importers are in nightmare mode as well). I've already linked an article discussing the EU telling China to turn shipments around or face tariffs. There's 0 chance that this doesn't continue to cause reactions.

I'm also not sure what the rest of the world being "more attractive on that score" means. Sure, prices may rise for American citizens on imported products, but if you postulate that Americans are the ones who "pay the tariff" as so many say then what's exactly the problem for exporters? Of course when we look at reality they will have to reduce their own costs to make their products more competitive to the US market to account for tariffs, or sell fewer products. But in this scenario the United States is still are far more attractive market to sell to than many other countries.
by lawlessone | 2025-04-09 14:19:51+00:00
Can these be repurposed for other things? Encoding/decoding video? Graphics processing etc?

edit: >It’s a move from responsive AI models that provide real-time information for people to interpret, to models that provide the proactive generation of insights and interpretation. This is what we call the “age of inference” where AI agents will proactively retrieve and generate data to collaboratively deliver insights and answers, not just data.

maybe i will sound like a luddite but im not sure i want this.

I'd rather AI/ML only do what i ask it to.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-09 14:20:21+00:00
It’s a legitimate argument to fly the person in for interviews.

I got my only remote BigTech job post Covid where the entire loop was remote. But it was customary before then to fly people into the office for the final interview.

Yes I realize “remote first” companies may not have an office. But even then, you could fly the interviewees to the location of the interviewer and use a hotel conference room.
Show HN: I Built Simple and Effective AI-Powered Audio to Text Converter
by Vgodie | 2025-04-09 14:20:26+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve developed a Chrome extension called Audio to Text Converter that leverages AI to transcribe audio and video content directly within your browser.

Why I Built It:

During my time as a student, I often needed to transcribe lectures and interviews. Existing tools were either cumbersome, lacked accuracy, or required uploading sensitive files to external servers. I wanted a solution that was seamless, accurate, and respected user privacy.

How It Works:

The extension captures audio from any browser tab and uses AI models to transcribe speech. This ensures quick processing and keeps your data private. Key features include:

Support for Multiple Formats: Works with various audio and video sources, including YouTube and other streaming platforms.

Multilingual Transcription: Capable of transcribing content in multiple languages.

Export Options: Easily copy transcriptions to the clipboard or download them as text files.

Challenges and Learnings:

Developing an efficient transcription system was challenging, especially balancing accuracy with performance. I experimented with several AI models and optimized them for browser environments to achieve a smooth user experience.

What’s Next:

I'm working on adding features like speaker identification and punctuation enhancements. Feedback from users will be invaluable in prioritizing these developments.

You can try the extension here: Audio to Text Converter

I’d love to hear your thoughts, experiences, or any suggestions for improvement!
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-09 14:20:28+00:00
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory has a better run

I don't think so: for example the Weimar Republic is a counterexample. Or a modern example is the current war between Ukraine and Russia (both are democracies even though in Russia some particular president and party has a lot of influence). Both of these examples show that even in a democratic country under specific circumstances it can happen that a particular group or party can gain lots of power.

--

If you want to see another interesting "peace theory", consider the madman theory:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

It basically says that if a country has access to atomic weapons, and the president or person in power radiates the image that he is sufficiently "mad" that in case of an aggression against the country they are willing to use them and escalate the conflict into a global nuclear holocaust, other stakeholders will strongly attempt not to upset this country, i.e. seek more peaceful and diplomatic solutions with this country.

This theory explains well why the USA have not yet invaded North Korea and are hesitant to invade Iran.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-09 14:20:29+00:00
Funny how you can be a CEO of 4 companies and nobody bats an eye. You can be a retail worker holding down 3 minimum wage jobs to make ends meet and they say you are a hard worker, busting your ass for your family. But if you’re a white collar knowledge worker juggling two jobs, and still meeting both jobs’ expected performance goals, they call you a fraud and a thief and if you are open about it, they will fire you.
by sevoves | 2025-04-09 14:20:31+00:00
Actually it's transpiling to C (but the other way around would make more sense so existing code can be ported to project oberon os). For example there's an X11 wrapper [1], or http library [2], a package manager [3], etc, and calling external C code is easy, e.g.

PROCEDURE -fstat(fd: LONGINT): INTEGER "fstat(fd, &s)";

Other libraries are mostly scattered all over the internet, and there are often compatibility issues between compilers, even though they target the same standards.

[1]:https://github.com/vishapoberon/compiler/tree/master/src/lib...

[2]:https://github.com/norayr/http/

[3]:https://github.com/vishapoberon/vipack

> very similar[1] for Dusk OS[2]

wow this is cool
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-09 14:20:31+00:00
Recently I learned that black and green tea contains not-insignificant levels of fluoride, because the tea plant concentrates the substance in its leaves as it grows.

This suddenly made amazing sense: Englishmen comprise an empire pacified by means of voluntarily drinking tea (as well as China/Japan, et. al.) and in fact making it a veritably religious ritual that is so ubiquitous that you name mealtimes after it.

So when other nations pondered how to introduce fluoride to non-tea-drinkers, they needed to be crafty about it.

Thanks mom, for dozens of gallons of wholly ineffective fluoridated water when we were growing up. Surely my perpetual stupidity and mental illness and Prozac prescriptions are unrelated.
by felideon | 2025-04-09 14:20:43+00:00
Good points. I think clue 3 is weird because what is a "pay one"? You can't take a "pay one", but I get how to read it now---it's like an anaphor for the word. But yes, for consistency a blank space would have worked: [taking a pay ____ is a bummer]

I think my confusion with clue 2 was that I had never heard of the idiom "[to] fish or cut bait" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_or_cut_bait
by bgirard | 2025-04-09 14:21:37+00:00
> If you have less than 100KB of JS and CSS (which almost every content site should be able to, most trivially, and almost all should aim to), there’s simply no question about it

Do you have data to back this up? What are you basing this statement on?

My intuition agrees with you for the reasons you state but when I tested this in production, my workplace found the breakeven point to be at around 1KB surprisingly. Unfortunately we never shared the experiment and data publicly.
by Arcorann | 2025-04-09 14:21:46+00:00
Have you looked at TGM4, which released on Steam last week? [0] I'd be interested to see your thoughts on it.

Also would like to note that, at least for TGM1, 2 and 3, the PRNG used is a 32-bit LCG (the common C one, in fact).

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3328480/TETRIS_THE_GRAND_...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-09 14:22:19+00:00
I think I have used it in good faith. A few months ago I was part of a small team at my company tasked to evaluate AI solutions like copilot to see if they are useful to us and could speed development and such

For a couple of week tryout period I tried to use it in my daily workflow pretty heavily. I came away with the impression that it is a neat toy, but not really ready to be a full time tool for me. The other evaluators agreed and our recommendation to our leadership was "This is not really ready for prime time and while it is impressive it probably isn't really worth the cost"

Anyways fast forward and we're getting AI usage OKRs now, being pushed down on us by non-technical leadership, and what I call "formerly technical" leadership. People who did tech 20 years ago but really don't know what working modern tech is like since they've been in management for too long

So yes. I'm definitely negatively biased, and I'm fine to admit that. I absolutely resent having this stuff forced down on me from leaders that are buying the hype despite being told it is probably not ready to be a daily driver

And I'm seeing the hype spreading through the company, being told by junior devs how amazing it is when I am still iffy on their abilities.

And the absolute worst is when I build a cool proof of concept in an afternoon and everyone is like "wow, AI let you do that so fast now!" and I'm like no, this is just what a good developer can build quickly

So yeah, I'm pretty negative on AI right now. I can still admit the tech itself is impressive, amazing even, and there is no doubt in my mind I could probably find some use for it daily

But I think it is going to be a disaster, because people cannot be trusted to use it responsibly

The social impact is going to be absolutely catastrophic. In some ways it already is

Edit: I am also not really sure why I am supposed to be enthusiastic about technology that business leaders are fairly transparently hoping will make my skillset redundant or at best will make me more productive but I will never realistically see a single extra dollar from the increased productivity
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-09 14:22:26+00:00
OK so it's firmly in the "not reasonable" territory for tourists. Just pay cash or credit card. Tourists aren't going to wait a while for a Brazilian tax id then use a Brazilian bank account before their trip. Just to select Pix as your payment method instead of card you already have in the Uber app.

This isnt a take down of Pix. Sounds excellent and should be replicated in other countries. Lets just not pretend its a viable solution for tourists.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-04-09 14:22:54+00:00
Ice never worked for me. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden is the only thing I could make on my Mac work for some reason. I think https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer didn't work either for me (well, it used to then it stopped after a Mac update or so).

Anyway, after 15.4 update yesterday a lot of things are misbehaving for me including miraculous battery drains.
by adastra22 | 2025-04-09 14:23:14+00:00
I guess that's a fine distinction I don't make. If the problem requires the AI to write a prolog program to solve, and it is capable of writing the necessary prolog code, then I don't see the practical or philosophical difference from taking the transitive step and saying the AI solved it. If I asked you to solve an air traffic control problem and you did so by writing prolog, no one would try to claim you weren't capable of solving it.

Agentic LLMs can solve complicated reasoning and scheduling problems, by writing special-purpose solutions (which might resemble the things we call GOFAI). It's the nature of AGI--which LLMs assuredly are--that they can solve problems by inventing specialized tools, just as we do.
by numpad0 | 2025-04-09 14:24:01+00:00
minor, OT, pet peeve: the top/top-left logo at docs.example.net and support.example.net virtual hosts should link to www.example.net/index.html, not docs.example.net/wiki/Main_Page. Or at least the //wiki/Main_Page should have a text link in giant letters to http://www.example.net/ if for any reasons it's not trivial to hotlink the logo to the landing page.

I often stumble upon docs for interesting things from searches and social media, and then sometimes have to Google by product name from very document page. It's just a small thing. I can't be alone here in that regard.
by neuroelectron | 2025-04-09 14:24:09+00:00
Gnu and its associated tech is basically shit. Its arcane, awkward, and sometimes self-defeating aspects is only matched by its ugly naming. Stallman’s obsession with purity over pragmatism has kept GNU projects stagnant. I don't think it's the terminal interface that is a problem. The entire smell is unapproachable and just plain weird for real-world users and devs.

Look at thus coreutils guide: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/#mailinglists

This is for general help. Mailing lists. Can you think of a less productive way to manage this type of information? Sending an email to the void and siloing it in a specific reader? No HTML allowed?

Yes, "man" pages are annoying to use and not helpful but that's been true for decades. Have you tried apropos? Does git really need to be so difficult?

I understand creating a barrier to entry but does that even work? Has it been effective in increasing the quality of Linux tooling? Is Linux even a good ecosystem? When you see modern projects like systemd, what do you think?
by nickpsecurity | 2025-04-09 14:24:48+00:00
I trust humans more than LLM's. They're like whatever was most popular mixed with hallucinations. I can gauge human credibility better.

I usually search for specific terms, often in quotes. My extra terms are variations on how people might word the question or answer.

Over time, I notice many sites are reliable for specific topics. I'll use site: operator to limit the search to them initially. If it's a research paper, adding "paper" and PDF usually links to it immediately. If government, it's often on a .gov page. And so on.

Search works well for me with these techniques for most of my needs. There has certainly even a drop in quality, with an increase in work, due to them optimizing for what generates ad clicks. That gives me a lot of sites that appear to be helpful but actually arent. I can usually spot and weed them out in one session for a given topic, though, since click farm sites are recognizable (intuitable) once you're used to them.

Finally, I try to follow the law since my Savior, Jesus Christ, requires it where possible. A.I.'s are usually trained with massive copyright infringement with outputs that may be copyright infringement. Search engines link me to the content creator to use directly. The creator also often says if they want it shared or how which I try to respect when I see it mentioned.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-09 14:24:54+00:00
This video is very good. https://youtu.be/EzDsrEvdgNQ?si=EWp3U1GMkwg1bMQQ

One thing i'd add is that generating the tokens at the target resolution from the start is no longer the only approach to autoregressive image generation.

Rather than predicting each patch at the target resolution right away, it starts with the image (as patches) at a very small resolution and increasingly scales up. Paper here - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02905
by olokobayusuf | 2025-04-09 14:25:06+00:00
I think us and Modular have incredibly similar visions of the end state of the world. The main difference is that they require devs to learn a new programming language (Mojo), whereas Function is designed to meet devs exactly where they are--not an inch away.

More fundamental than that is that Mojo has somewhat of a built-in assumption (I'm a bit more skeptical) that they can outperform silicon OEMs like Nvidia using MLIR (Mojo is designed as a front-end to MLIR). We have a much more conservative view: we'll rely on silicon OEMs to give us libraries we can use to accelerate things like inference; and we'll provide devs the ability to inspect and modify the generated code (C++ atm, Rust soon).

TL;DR: Devs don't have to learn anything with Function. Devs have to learn Mojo and MLIR to use Modular's offerings properly.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-04-09 14:25:46+00:00
Yes, the goal is for everyone to be doing the thing they can do most cheaply and then trading with everyone else. Karl Marx and Ludwig von Mises would agree on this point. The idea that the Westphalian state should get in the middle of this is the aberation. The only reason national security is a consideration is because of the nations. I don't care if my shoes are made in Asia, though I suspect they wouldn't be if we paid Asian shoemakers an honest, globally-clearing wage.