MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MrMcCall | 2025-04-01 16:20:33+00:00
I don't doubt it, but I don't run Microsoft software any more. I've seen enough embrace, extend, and extinguish in my lifetime to not depend on them for my code's execution environment.

My current work needs nothing the .NET environment provides that I can't use python's standard libraries to get done, or bash and C if I need to.

But I'm lucky to no longer be in a corporate environment, so I don't need to consume commercial services, which was much easier using WCF within .NET. Back in my previous life, constructing n-tiered services on top of SqlServer using WCF was slick, indeed.

To any who are interested in how to construct such n-tiered applications simply but securely and precisely, I highly suggest Juval Lowy's IDesign system. He had three specific videos that I watched three or four times each until I understood his distillation of his vast expertise. Of course, Mr. Lowy is one of the co-designers of WCF, which was an excellent bit of tech.
by notahacker | 2025-04-01 16:20:35+00:00
Isar is working towards reusability, albeit not as a priority. Even Arianespace has reusability in its roadmap. The UK alone has three small launch startups with reusability in their roadmap, from Skyrora (first stage with parachute only) to the more speculative Space Engine Systems spaceplane. The economics of reusability favour large rockets with regular launch cadences though, and that takes a lot of capital, which is why European newspace companies tend to focus on components, satellites and tugs...
by docmars | 2025-04-01 16:21:07+00:00
Anything that forces React off its boring throne of forced ubiquity is a good thing in my book, not only for its lack of optimization, but its unwillingness to move past its outdated APIs and state management patterns. The amount of limitations I've faced using it compared to other libraries / ecosystem is enough to drive anyone mad.

I will say these claims about 10-second load times are highly exaggerated though. I've built several large applications with Vue and React, and once compiled, load within 2-3 seconds, with any remaining time spent requesting data at the mercy of your servers, which is going to happen in any client-side application, including native apps; so this isn't browser technology's fault.

Once cached, loads instantly -- and anyone complaining about cold starts can take their criticism to native app makers for phones, or motherboard manufacturers for long boot times. It's hardly an issue because of caching, and I tend to think the complainers about the modern web are forgetting how much more complex our applications are these days. Raw speed for lack of features? Or a little bloat for more capabilities? Pick one, and accept the tradeoffs. Maybe one day browser tech won't force us to choose.

While there is a case to be made for slow internet connections (this is where Svelte and other compiled runtimes come in with SSR), for the average enterprise using a private SaaS, or home internet customers using public SaaS apps on the web, by-and-large the experience is going to be just fine, unless the team who built the app didn't optimize.

All that aside, it's refreshing to see more ground being broken in the area of speed — I'm all for it.
by qwytw | 2025-04-01 16:21:10+00:00
> it's reasonable to discount EU as stagnated

In this case it is. It peaked in the 1990s with resurgency after Ariane 5 came out but it hasn't been competitive for many years now.

Arianespace was kind of the SpaceX of the 80s and 90s and IIRC they had the majority of the market for a few years.

Unfortunately Europe got permanently got stuck in the early 2000s in quite a few ways.
by Const-me | 2025-04-01 16:21:30+00:00
I don’t know answer to your question, but I recalled something relevant. Some time ago, Microsoft had a tech which compiled almost normal looking C++ into Direct3D 11 compute shaders: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/parallel/amp/cpp-amp-o... The compute kernels are integrated into CPU-running C++ in the similar fashion CUDA does.

As you see, the technology deprecated in Visual Studio 2022. I don’t know why but I would guess people just didn’t care. Maybe because it only run on Windows.
by tasuki | 2025-04-01 16:21:55+00:00
These days there's Gleam[0], as a strongly typed alternative for the BEAM virtual machine. Of all the languages I haven't used yet, it seems to hit the safe + minimalistic + productive sweet spot the best. (Yes the C-inspired syntax is slightly off-putting, but syntax is the least important aspect of a language.)

[0]: https://gleam.run/
by grishka | 2025-04-01 16:22:42+00:00
In my university we had a more precise setup for that. It was some sort of weight on a rail at a known incline, and a digital timer with two sensors known distance apart that start and stop it.

Yet in my class we still had results as low as 7 and as high as 12. We all got passing grades. But the protocol for these lab assignments was always such that you had to have your "measurements sheet" signed by the professor, and you turned it in with your report later.
by hamburga | 2025-04-01 16:23:09+00:00
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Blue Origin develops reusable rockets and engines (including the now-orbital New Glenn: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/01/after-the-success-o...). We're also working on a human-rated lunar lander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_(spacecraft)), a space station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Reef), and some other neat projects; with goal of improving life on Earth.

My team is in supply chain and manufacturing technology. We're ramping up like crazy and have a super ambitious roadmap.

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by HALtheWise | 2025-04-01 16:23:21+00:00
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We’re building novel robots for case picking in warehouses, a huge unsolved automation opportunity for a very labor-intensive, critically important and sh*tty human job in the thin-margin industry of logistics. Our software is all Rust/Pytorch, embedded dev through research-frontier applied algorithms and an integrated development iteration time measured on a watch, not a calendar.

There’s more than enough fun problems to go around, and we’re looking to grow the team with a couple more great-to-work-with folks, including generalists or job descriptions we haven’t realized we should be hiring for. We’re also specifically looking for a summer applied ML intern for robotic perception and controls. There’s a lot more cool stuff we can’t share publicly just yet. To apply, email a resume to <the-two-letters-of-this-site>@autopallet.bot, and include the role you’re looking for in the subject line, and we’ll take it from there. Bonus points if you include a link or photo of something cool you’ve made.
by Mockapapella | 2025-04-01 16:23:34+00:00
Location: Wisconsin Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, FastAPI, ONNX, MLOps Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qO8XdisNTFq_wmrQGDKnu6eWDi2g33Me/view GitHub: https://github.com/Mockapapella Email: In profile or on resume

AI/ML Engineer specializing in high-performance deployments. Built distributed systems handling 30K QPS, developed a neural network for Rocket League gameplay, and created platforms that cut model deployment time from 6 months to 6 hours. Saved $500K/yr in infrastructure costs through optimization at previous role. Former technical founder with experience in humanoid robotics and AI writing assistance. I write about my projects and musings on my blog: https://thelisowe.substack.com/

Seeking roles focusing on ML infrastructure, model optimization, post-training, or full-stack AI engineering.
Show HN: Generate beautiful documentation from any GitHub repository using AI
by nisowa | 2025-04-01 16:24:06+00:00
GitSummarize is an open-source devtool that I made this weekend.

Given any public GitHub repository it generates high-quality documentation from the codebase using Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Pro Tip: You can replace "hub" with "summarize" in any repository URL to access its documentation.

I created this because there was a steep learning curve to understanding some of the open-source codebases out there while getting started with contributing. Having detailed documentation would be immensely helpful in those situations.

This project was heavily inspired by GitIngest and GitDiagram so make sure to check those out as well!

Hopefully this tool can help you and feedback is always welcome!
by docmars | 2025-04-01 16:24:08+00:00
The thing is, enterprise web applications are not built for phones. This would be like telling someone to run the latest Ubisoft game on a PC from 2-3 generations ago, and expecting it to perform well.

Today's applications are more complex than ever, bloated perhaps, but the demand for features, complex visualizations, etc. rise with the patterns of seeing them more in other applications.
by martinpw | 2025-04-01 16:24:12+00:00
> But I think more importantly, what is often missed in this analysis is that most programmers doing ML work aren't writing their own custom kernels. They're just using pytorch (or maybe something even more abstracted/multi-backend like keras 3.x) and let the library deal with implementation details related to their GPU.

That would imply that AMD could just focus on implementing good PyTorch support on their hardware and they would be able to start taking market share. Which doesn't sound like much work compared with writing a full CUDA competitor. But that does not seem to be the strategy, which implies it is not so simple?

I am not an ML engineer so don't have first hand experience, but those I have talked to say they depend on a lot more than just one or two key libraries. But my sample size is small. Interested in other perspectives...
by ignoramous | 2025-04-01 16:24:13+00:00
It was a blueprint. Embedding and typedefs are ways to implement these guarantees. And of course, writing a generic pool library is not what I was after.

> but are not correct.

I don't follow what you're saying. You asserted, "And, unfortunately, doesn't even get the generic constraints right, as demonstrated with the int and bool examples." What does it even mean? I guess, this bikeshed has been so thoroughly built that the discussion points aren't even getting through.
by lores | 2025-04-01 16:24:16+00:00
There is, unfortunately, in every large and small organisation. I can't say I've noticed any particular qualitative difference between the efficiencies of government departments and corps of equivalent size when I was working for them; if anything, the government employees were always conscious of the fact they were spending taxpayers' money that was not theirs, although I can't talk of the practical results.

If these organisations were private, waste would be equivalent, but they would lose the mentality of acting in the public interest, and there would be a profit margin taken off. I'm pretty sure it would not be an improvement overall, purely from a viewpoint of efficiency.
by indus | 2025-04-01 16:24:19+00:00
Forget Model Context Protocol — we’re talking Meme Creation Platform. :-)

Because sometimes the only way to explain AI complexity… is with a Drake meme.

We built a natural language meme generator using Claude AI + Imgflip.

Type your idea, get a meme. That simple.

Perfect for dev rel, product launches, or just roasting your team’s JIRA board.

Happy April 1st — but this one’s actually real.
by bigmattystyles | 2025-04-01 16:24:19+00:00
I just had a massive flashback, I thought it might have been this game, but the timing wasn't right, I'm too old. Turns out I played a ton of `The Games: Winter Challenge` - googling it and seeing those ski jump screenshots just induced that unlocked memory feeling. Love this stuff.

https://freebie.games/games/the-games-winter-challenge/
by floxy | 2025-04-01 16:24:32+00:00
Wasn't it just last week that the Financial Times had to walk back the breathless $1.4 billion story about Tesla accounting fraud?

https://www.ft.com/content/d2711678-af23-4b71-852b-1ef2e932e...

This is like a textbook case outlined in E.T. Jaynes, "Probability Theory -- The Logic of Science", section 5.3:

https://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussi...

...from my life experience with accounting departments and auditors at largish publicly traded companies, my priors for financial fraud of a company like Tesla at the corporate level is something like a probability of 0.001 (1 in a thousand companies). At the branch office level, something higher, say 0.01. Maybe double or triple that with Musk in charge. Someone reporting on an emotionally-charged topic in an effort to collect clicks? Especially when relying on second or third hand reported information? My prior for them misunderstanding or misrepresenting the numbers (like the time frames involved, etc.) is closer to 0.50. Other people's mileage may vary.
by foxyv | 2025-04-01 16:24:40+00:00
Sorry I mixed up BRC with BRS.

STOL = Short Take Off Or Landing (Usually involving downward thrust)

BRS = Brand of parachutes for light aircraft like this

https://youtu.be/jz9NoMPrH-I?t=2220

https://brsaerospace.com/

IMC = Instrument meteorological conditions (Fog/Clouds prevent you from seeing anything)
by yarapavan | 2025-04-01 16:24:52+00:00
If you are wondering "why do formal methods at all?" or "how is AWS using P to gain confidence in correctness of their services?", the following re:Invent 2023 talk answers this question, provides an overview of P, and its impact inside AWS: (Re:Invent 2023 Talk) Gain confidence in system correctness & resilience with Formal Methods (Finding Critical Bugs Early!!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXZXnkMDxs

Github: https://github.com/p-org/P
by exmadscientist | 2025-04-01 16:24:59+00:00
One of the critical differences about "this time" that is completely glossed over in this piece is that previous advances in "art technology" changed how one connects with an artist, but not the fact of connecting to an actual human artist. Art, for me, is about someone else sharing a piece of their soul with you through what they choose to express in their art. AI is a pile of linear algebra. I do not have any particular interest in communicating with matrices; I don't really feel they have much to add to my world. Perhaps you differ.

I do believe AI is a legitimate tool in a human artist's toolbox. I think it's one that's rather difficult to use well, but that isn't disqualifying per se.
Show HN: Souschef – AI demo video from a prompt(v0 + Screen Studio + ElevenLabs)
by TakaJP | 2025-04-01 16:25:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building Souschef, an AI tool that creates realistic product demo videos from just a written prompt—no UI, design tools, or code required.

The idea came from a common problem we faced as founders: it's hard to pitch or test a product idea before it's built. Most tools assume you already have a UI or prototype. We wanted to go one step earlier — when you just have an idea.

With a single prompt, Souschef can:

Generate realistic UI screens

Animate user flows and transitions

Add voiceover narration

Export a polished, ready-to-share demo video

Use cases include:

Validating early product ideas

Running go-to-market experiments

Exploring product ideas before committing design/dev resources

We’re opening a closed beta for 100 testers in May, and gradually expanding access. If this sounds useful, join the waitlist here: https://souschef.framer.website

We’re building in public and would love your thoughts or feedback. Thanks for reading!
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-04-01 16:25:52+00:00
Propranolol is such an underrated drug, or at-least it was when I first started using it twenty years ago (initially for hand tremors but I found it did more than settle just my hands). Glad others have been discovering its usefulness over the years.

I think they've even recently found use in cancer therapy [1].

Sir James Black the pharmacologist who developed it is an absolute legend [2].

1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2162402X.2023.2...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPe0sLghRBQ&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
by basisword | 2025-04-01 16:26:01+00:00
If you think the Guardian panders to those on the right you need your head examined. I would love nothing more than a left leaning socialist government and even I shake my head at some of the nonsense the Guardian publishes, especially in their opinion section. It's an effort to get clicks and cause outrage and some of it is no better than the tabloids.

I also disagree that there has been a "fairly organic process where the world had otherwise become more naturally more accepting of immigrants and LGBTQ+ minorities". That's a rewriting of history. Equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community were incredibly hard fought for over many years. It's been anything but organic. It's important not to forget how recently most of the civil rights we take for granted in many areas of life were rights that were denied by a majority.
by wglb | 2025-04-01 16:27:00+00:00
"Decane, undecane, and dodecane were detected in a Martian sample" from the paper at PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420580122.

A NASA article: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-detects-...

Science article: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alkanes-mars: So why didn't these newly announced larger molecules show up then?

That's because this time the samples got a different treatment (two cycles of strong heating) before the mass spec analysis.
by wholinator2 | 2025-04-01 16:27:11+00:00
You seem very angry yourself, and willing to let that anger guide you to harming someone. Are you so different from that teacher? In fact, you might be worse, while he only gave a grade (one of many surely, likely to have no long term impact on life prospects or survival), you would have this man made homeless? Don't be so quick to assume a teacher (at least in the us) has been able to accrue sufficient savings to endure a ruined livelihood. Sounds very, very extreme to me. Might there be a more charitable interpretation of the words, might there be information that we don't have that would, say, humanize the human being you'd like to ruin? Maybe we could take the time to understand these impulses in ourselves and be the example we want rather than reflecting the pain we hate to ever increasing magnitudes.
by ogurechny | 2025-04-01 16:27:26+00:00
Supposedly, you have a working internet connection. In no time, you can check the name of Hayao Miyazaki. You can see how he draws his manga, in a style which would be really hard to animate. You can see how he designs his characters. Well, maybe the colour palette can be attributed to “his style” in some works. Still, you can learn that Ghibli had famous background artists and art directors like Nizo Yamamoto and Kazuo Oga. You can compare characters drawn by Yoshifumi Kondou and Katsuya Kondou with Miyazaki's, and guess who was responsible for what in different works. You can learn how in the era when everyone waited for computers to make economical marvel of “three dee” real, Isao Takahata used computers to transfer pen and brush strokes to animation in “The Yamadas” and “Princess Mononoke”.

But you don't want any of that. You want to have a familiar pop cultural label (“Miyazaki”) that produces a familiar reaction (“Oooh!”). Purely decorative, symbolic objects. Stories, ideas, hard work? Eh, don't bother me with that nonsense.

There is nothing new or “cutting edge” in ignorance. And AI companies know perfectly well that they work for exactly that audience. Despite all the talk, they don't create the next genius artist, they want to be a next “enhancement filter” in TVs, something that no one uses, but everyone has to add to impress the public. That's just parasitism on lack of ability to discern.
by innocentoldguy | 2025-04-01 16:27:30+00:00
Gleam lacks lisp-style macros, and its implementations of BEAM and OTP are not exhaustive. For example, Gleam does not support:

- Hot updates.

- Full distributed system support.

– Low-level process manipulation.

- Named processes.

- Advanced supervision strategies.

- Behaviours other than GenServer.

- Type-safe distributed messaging.

- And several other things that I value in BEAM and OTP.

I can't justify trading the full power of BEAM and OTP for static typing. To be fair, though, I've written a lot of code in both statically and dynamically typed languages, and static typing isn't something I value much (to the point that you might say I don't care about it at all :D).
by trentellingsen | 2025-04-01 16:27:56+00:00
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Storepass builds SaaS for Trading Card Game and Board Game ecommerce stores. Currently we're a team of two and growing fast with over $70k MRR. This is a great time to jump in and have a major impact.

Our current platform utilizes Node.js, MongoDB, and React.

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by CaioFer | 2025-04-01 16:27:59+00:00
Email: c410.f3r (at) gmail.com Location: Brazil Remote: Yes Résumé/CV: https://c410-f3r.github.io/curriculum.pdf Technologies: AngularJS, Assembly (x84_64), C, C++, Cryptography, Docker, Docker Compose, Ember.js, GCP, Golang, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Linux, MongoDB, MySQL, NodeJS, PHP, Polkadot, PostgreSQL, Python, ReactJS, Rust, SQL Server, Smart Contracts, Solana, Solidity, Substrate, TypeScript, Vue.js Willing to relocate: No

Hello! I am a software engineer with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, more than 10 years of experience and 10 professional certifications earned after a lot of study and hard work.

While I'm familiar with various technologies, my passion lies in programming with Rust. Whether it's backend development, blockchain, compilers, DevOps, embedded systems or mobile applications, I am totally onboard as long as there is a little bit of Rust involved.

For more information, take a look at my CV (https://c410-f3r.github.io/curriculum.pdf) or my GitHub account (https://github.com/c410-f3r).