MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-01 10:14:39+00:00
The funny thing is that I remember the exact moment I fell in love with computers at 4. My grandmother cleaned houses and was often very late to pick me up from Headstart. So I would spend hours waiting, unsupervised, in a room with computer that had a giant note attached to the screen saying DO NOT TOUCH.

>:)

By 5, all I wanted was a computer. To me they represented and unending well of knowledge.
by jwrallie | 2025-04-01 10:15:27+00:00
Same experience on a PaperWhite 2, been using it for a long time.

It is a good reason to look into rooting, PDF reflow and the function to remove margins make it possible (at least tolerable) to read PDFs when an .epub / .mobi is not available.

You can also run Alpine Linux on a rooted Kindle with graphical interface, I found it amazing but ultimately not that useful with the limited system memory.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-01 10:16:21+00:00
I'm using the (more expensive) Gemini 2.5 pro and it's like talking to an adult again after claud went all RFK Jr. Brain Worm on me.

People have mentioned on hacker news that there seems to kind of "weather patterns" with how hard the various llms think, like during business hours they get stupid. But of course there is some disagreement about what "business hours" are. It's one of those "vibes".

Imagine scheduling your life around the moods of AIs.

That's the business model. If you don't want a surly and moody AI with a hangover and bad attitude, you gotta pay more!

Like isitdownrightnow.com for crowd sourcing web site availability, there should be a isitdumbrightnow.ai site!
by SethMurphy | 2025-04-01 10:16:43+00:00
You have a place to live and avocados now, that could be considered a win win. "Win" is such a subjective term as used here. The equation is not as simple as jobs lost equals bad, jobs gained equals good. I too have the gut reaction that a farm subdivided is a bad thing, but logically I can't really convince myself it's really as simple as that.
by yourmatenate | 2025-04-01 10:16:54+00:00
Tim Maughan's award-winning dystopian / utopian sci-fi novel, Infinite Detail is set in Stokes Croft. It's not hard to imagine it one day it becoming the small anarchist post-collapse refuge of the novel. - http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/infinite-de...

There are a hundred things to do in this little Bristol microcosm, starting with breakfast at Cafe Kino, The Bristolian or the Craft Egg and ending the evening at The People's Republic, The Canteen or The Cube. - https://secretbristol.com/things-to-do-stokes-croft/

Note: I realise this is an April Fools joke, but I'd make a case for its raw charm and unique cultural heritage being preserved.
by lwkl | 2025-04-01 10:17:04+00:00
I read part of a reddit AMA with a cofounder of Honey who no longer works there. According to him honey and services like it increase the likelihood that people will complete a instead of going to a competitor.

Lknk to the AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/lEGdq1Sx9d
by lordnacho | 2025-04-01 10:17:46+00:00
I think a big part of it is that the internet made the existing leaders into massive winners, a bit like how the teams at the top if the first division managed to cement themselves in the premiership when that happened.

If you were to name some important newspapers in 1995, you'd probably also have the Guardian, NYT, WaPo, on your list. They just pulled away from the pack due to the was reputation works in the internet age.
Show HN: Alarm where you need to find the correct snooze button
by pankajtanwar | 2025-04-01 10:18:57+00:00
I built Alarmy for people like me who struggle to wake up in the morning. You know how it is - you set 5 alarms, sleep through all of them, and still wake up late. Regular alarms just don't work for heavy sleepers. Alarmy forces you to fully wake up by making you complete challenges before you can turn off the alarm:

Find the real snooze button hidden among fake ones or solve math problems while half-asleep

It's annoying, but that's the point! By the time you complete the challenge, your brain is actually awake enough to stay up. I made this app with React Native/Expo and decided to make it open source. If you're interested in how it works or want to contribute, check out the code: https://github.com/pankajtanwarbanna/alarmy
by nathell | 2025-04-01 10:19:29+00:00
I’ve been learning Spanish on Duolingo. It has brought me from zero to scoring 96% on this test – I didn’t realise I was so advanced!

I love the concept and the execution. This is a rare instance of a Show HN that I not just admire, but can easily see myself using regularly and paying for.

Please, please monetise this in such a way as to avoid enshittification.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-01 10:19:32+00:00
Here's one possible way it went down: His wife kills him and hides the body. The university then fires him because he doesn't show up and won't respond to any messages. Eventually the university gets suspicious and calls the FBI. The FBI raids the apartment because they think it might be a crime scene. The reason its the FBI and not local cops is because the university mentioned that he was Chinese and working on sensitive research so the feds step in, due to them perceiving some possible espionage angle.

I am not saying that definitely happened, but it's a narrative which more or less fits the facts.
by rowanG077 | 2025-04-01 10:20:26+00:00
> Yes, it has. By "history" you actually mean "production software that is expected to not break just because someone upgrades a compiler". Yes, C++ does have a lot of that.

I disagree. Disproportionately in my career random C and C++ code bases failed to build because some new warning was introduced. And this is precisely because compiler options are so bad in that a lot of projects do Wall, Wextra and Werror.

Also the way undefined behavior is exploited means that you don't really know of your software that worked fine 10 years ago will actually work fine today, unless you have exhaustive tests.
by hansmayer | 2025-04-01 10:22:06+00:00
No, it's just the intuitively perfect that comes to mind in this context, i.e. reliable and guaranteed to produce a safe outcome. Much like Amazon checkout process. I am fine giving my credit card details to near-perfect automatons like that. I will never give it to a statistical model, which may or may not hallucinate the sum it is supposed to enter into an interface built for humans, not computers.
by dathinab | 2025-04-01 10:22:10+00:00
> way of getting

you mean with arbitrarily claiming they have "no way to get them back" to spread more fear and suppression in ways mirroring the evil methods of authoritarian governments through history

let's be real the only way in which they could have "no way to get them back" is if they didn't imprison them in El Salvador but instead murdered them (and I don't think the US is at that level today)

the only one who has no way to get them back is the court/legislative, i.e. the US isn't anymore a state of law
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-01 10:22:19+00:00
Yeah, this and I think even weapons control, happened on the show. But the scenario for these cases is when the bridge is understaffed for episode-specific plot reasons, and the protagonist has to simultaneously operate systems usually handled by distinct stations. That's when you get an officer e.g. piloting the shuttle/runabout while barking out commands to manage power flow, or voice-ordering evasions while manually operating weapons, etc.

(Also worth noting is that "pre-programmed evasion patterns" are used in normal circumstances, too. "Evasive maneuver JohnDoe Alpha Three" works just as well when spoken to the helm officer as to a computer. I still don't know whether such preprogrammed maneuvers make sense in real-life setting, though.)
by hk__2 | 2025-04-01 10:22:28+00:00
"Reality" is subjective and not always so easy to observe. What about political debates, economy, social issues? I don’t want to read a journal that tell me "this politician said that", but one that tells me _why_ they said it, in which context, if this is "right" or wrong, why, what does the other side says, etc.

(all of this thread resonates well with my last HN submission btw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538847 )
by ottaborra | 2025-04-01 10:23:46+00:00
Agentic frameworks are nothing but somewhat impressive glue engineering and hundred percent will be passed over when models with bigger context lengths and better reasoning come about

Rule of thumb: if business folks drop a AI term that becomes the vogue lingo to use, be assured it is a fad that will meet it's doom in days to come

I don't think the bitter lesson is an absolute, but the current investment in agents is what you get when you ignore the bitter lesson
by crabbone | 2025-04-01 10:23:49+00:00
There was a very similar discussion when photography was made easily accessible. Baudelaire thought that photography was the killer of art by allowing non-artists to crate something that was very much like art, mechanistically, without having a good insight into what they were doing.

And, in some ways he was right... but also not. What eventually happened is that art education that would be required for any aristocrat or an aspiring aristocrat became optional. Most intellectual elite today would be unable to draw much beyond a stick figure diagram. Art, at least where it concerns drawing or painting became a narrowly specialized field. And so, most people today don't understand and don't appreciate art.

But, art didn't die. Instead, artists started asking themselves more questions about the nature and philosophy of art, figuring out which aspects are essential, experimenting more. In retrospect, it's sad that fewer people today have decent access or understanding of art, but while more common before, the understanding was often very superficial anyways.
Show HN: We designed a brutally difficult puzzle series for the curious
by cryptic_bro | 2025-04-01 10:23:54+00:00
We are a group that has got together to build a web-based puzzle challenge. Think murder mystery meets digital treasure hunt meets logic rabbit hole — nothing straightforward, and everything meant to stretch how you think. It’s intentionally anonymous, logic-heavy, and very hard. No hints, no credits — just a long sequence of puzzles to test how far you can go. There will be a winner — and something waiting at the end. Email is only used for login via passcode and progress announcements.
by robocat | 2025-04-01 10:25:21+00:00
Update:

Apparently China is developing its own EUV source.

It would be ironic if ASML licenced new tech from China eh?

Of course it's quite possible that any new Chinese techniques have some relevant patents - the video says that other EUV generation techniques were investigated in Japan and Europe.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rIR3wfZ-EV0
by ph4evers | 2025-04-01 10:25:23+00:00
I agree that channels should be checked more carefully. I initially added two news channels per language. But some of those are pretty horrible (like Skynews). I'll put some more time in adjusting the channels. For example, TF1 is really great for French. It can be colored but it has many non-political or more local items.

I picked news channels because they often have short well spoken videos.
by robertlagrant | 2025-04-01 10:25:29+00:00
> The issue is that these huge frameworks have made the web a horrible slow mess. I deal as DevOps/SRE daily with these services, and finding one that will do a first load under 10s is close to impossible.

If you make a React page you will see that it is absolutely instant to do things. React isn't a huge framework. It's a very fast library. Even if you add in all the extras such as routing, it's all instant. It's almost jarring how instant it is.

A dashboard taking ages to load isn't going to be React.
by la_oveja | 2025-04-01 10:25:51+00:00
> Even in a car, being able to control the windscreen wipers, radio, ask how much fuel is left are all tasks it would be useful to do conversationally.

are you REALLY sure you want that?

how much fuel there is is a quick glance into the dash, and you can control precisely the radio volume without even looking.

'turn up the volume', 'turn down the volume a little bit', 'a bit more',...

and then a radio ad going 'get yourself a 3 pack of the new magic wipers...' and car wipers going off.

id hate conversational ui on my car.
by dathinab | 2025-04-01 10:26:56+00:00
> Vance has him "accidentally extradited" to an El Salvadorian prison.

why I don't agree on the prison part, yeah, IMHO the people "behind" trump see him as a manipulable but also volatile (i.e. problematic/bothersome/annoying/dangerous for them) tool to get and stay in power
by JetSetIlly | 2025-04-01 10:28:06+00:00
It's a good idea and something I will be interested in using

However, I was very confused by the interface at first. I started a with a 3 gap exercise. I dragged what I thought was the correct word into the gap. Listened again, changed my mind but I couldn't drag in my new choice. It was a while before I realised that the correct word had been inserted for me. This was despite me not completing the other gaps.

It would be better if the answers weren't given until the user submits the answer.
by aktau | 2025-04-01 10:29:08+00:00
Comparing with a fairly optimized malloc at $COMPANY, the Go allocator is (both in terms of relative cycles and fraction of cycles of all Go programs) significantly more expensive than the C/C++ counterpart (3-4x IIRC). For one, it has to do more work, like setting up GC metadata, and zeroing.

There have recently been some optimizations to `runtime.mallocgc`, which may have decrease that 3-4x estimate a bit.
by lordnacho | 2025-04-01 10:30:16+00:00
With all due respect, this strikes me as a middle school opinion on how media should work.

> Good reporting is not skewed by ideology.

You can't not have a perspective. You can be upfront about what your perspective is, while giving reasonable time to other perspectives.

> Good reporting is presenting facts about all sides.

Here I think the school-age lessons about what is fact and what is opinion does us all a massive disservice.

> Good reporting is not about demonizing your perceived enemies while excessively praising your idols.

If you can make a good argument supporting your demonization or praise, why not?
by johnbronnan | 2025-04-01 10:30:28+00:00
You are again comparing the flawed US "democratic" system to a real democracy. Trump should not be able to gain those tools because a functioning democracy protects the rule of law and holds justice to be above all other concepts. In the US, the legal system is a sham and the levers of power are easily taken for abuse (not to mention corporate capture of the two political parties which control all political life). So while Trump should not be able to capture those tools, it is only possible because the US does not have a real functioning democracy. In places like France, the state ensures that it is not possible to easily take complete power as Trump has in the US.

In short, no, Trump should not be able to take these tools. But in actual democracies they have checks to ensure that this is not possible while in the US no such checks exist.
by lharries | 2025-04-01 10:30:49+00:00
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But we're not stopping there.

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We built it by fine tuning Llama to work with dogs, not just llamas
by phaylon | 2025-04-01 10:30:58+00:00
Not only Trump. Without the rules, Musk or Putin could run as well, the latter even work-from-home style. Also, if justice being blind is so bad before an election, why not after? Figuring out who won shouldn't involve any courts either. The public will just need to figure out who really won for themselves!

(/s just in case)
by dspillett | 2025-04-01 10:32:11+00:00
LTT did eventually vet what was going on and spot the problem, but didn't have the morals to let anyone else know about the scam. And has since played the victim card (“Mommy, they are saying a nasty thing about us!” and “Other people had the same lack of morals too, why are you picking on us?”) having been called out for not warning others out there that they were being scammed.
by iswiftdev | 2025-04-01 10:32:17+00:00
There's plenty of AI tools that spit out React Native (or random cross-platform stuff) when I actually want real SwiftUI.

So I’m building iSwift.dev, an AI tool that generates proper SwiftUI code for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS.

It neatly organizes your .swift files, and lets you export the whole project to Xcode. Just open it and it's ready.

More features planned, I’d love to hear any thoughts or feature ideas you have that would be actually helpful for your workflow. Thanks!
by danpalmer | 2025-04-01 10:32:28+00:00
Yeah sure. The problem we had was that we had some "facts" to base the game on, but when the LLM generated multiple choice choose-you-own-adventure style options, they would end up being leading questions towards the facts, i.e. the LLM knows what's behind the door, so an option might have been "check for the thing behind the door", and the user now knows it's there because why else would it have asked.

Instead we put all the facts in a RAG database. Now when we ask the LLM to generate options it does so not knowing the actual answer, so they can't really be leading questions. We then take the user input, use RAG to get relevant facts, and then "reveal" those facts to the LLM in subsequent prompts.

Honestly we still didn't nail gameplay or anything, it was pretty janky but it was 2 days, a bunch of learning, and probably only 300 lines of Python in the end, so I don't want to overstate what we did. However this one detail was one that stuck with me.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-01 10:32:31+00:00
People could equally argue that it is unfair that some children are born with all the advantages while others have none. I don't think "fairness" is a strong argument here because it is entirely subjective. What seems fair to you looks like a huge injustice to somebody else.

My parents are upper-middle class, and I've profited from their wealth all my life. My inheritance will be taxed, and I don't find that unfair at all. I was born on second base and had an advantage over others at every stage of my life; it would be fatuous to complain about an inheritance tax.
by brulard | 2025-04-01 10:32:39+00:00
Not every page or app needs framework. But building complex app without one would be very hard and time consuming, and your team would need to come up with ways to solve problems like architecture, code structure, routing, data management, state management, etc. So you would basically reinvent all the wheels on your own cost, and you will have a non standard solution, that would not be compatible with libraries out there (for example UI components) and neither with new devs. Before Angular and React came I was building apps with plain JS with jQuery (not a framework, just a lib) and I would never go back there.
by Ekaros | 2025-04-01 10:33:01+00:00
What he is criticising here is not AI or AI art. But instead of rather old machine learning trying to achieve some type of ambulation or human like gait. Which I think is some level cool. But also artistically is clearly grotesque and not something that should be widely presented.

Just think of using this type of movement or actions in media specially a film. That would be entirely unworkable and doomed idea. Disgust from most viewers would be similar.
by rspoerri | 2025-04-01 10:33:17+00:00
IIrc the discussion about this (tattoo) topic made it apparent that, that artist was likely working in the USA before (without permit) and planned to do so again, and had posted so in the web.

But myself I wouldn't go to the USA right now as well. In the case that anything goes wrong, there is likely so much chaos in all the agencies right now, the danger of error is just very high and impact could be catastrophic.
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-04-01 10:33:20+00:00
> The little people without access to great lawyers and accountants got absolutely hammered when it got applied to them.

In the tax year 2021 to 2022, 4.39% of UK deaths resulted in an Inheritance Tax

Inheritance tax only kicks in above £325K of assets. If inheriting your parents home the threshold increases to £500K (and increases again to £1M if both parents die).

That's hardly hammering the little people.

https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-lia...
by DebtDeflation | 2025-04-01 10:33:40+00:00
Shortly after ChatGPT hit the scene, everyone said "Google invented this technology, how could they fall so far behind in commercializing it, haha they're IBM now".

Maybe they didn't fall behind in anything, maybe they just did an analysis of what it would cost to train transformer models with hundreds of billions of parameters, to run inferencing on them, and then decided that there was no way to actually be profitable doing this.
by Lutger | 2025-04-01 10:34:10+00:00
It is very good example of political framing. It evokes the thought of tax as a punishment for dying, and its collection as a kind of harassment of the bereaved. So tax bad, case closed, no discussion.

But of course, it is not death and loss that it taxed, it is rather the accumulated wealth being redistributed over both society at large and the heirs, in some kind of ratio. In favor of inheritance tax: the wealth somebody amassed has also been thanks to its participation in society, so it is only fair some portion of it goes back to society. The heirs played no part in it, so why should they get any, let alone all of it? Furthermore, inheriting wealth goes against the idea of meritocracy, and maintains inequality in an unfair way in modern societies. Why should inheritance tax not be 100%?

Children often grow attached to the 'stuff' their parents have collected, be it things or land, houses or money. It seems unfair to take it all away from them, as they feel they already 'own it' merely by being their children. So inheritance tax is some kind of compromise.

However, as each generation these days tend to fully 'break' with their parents, in a way (economically, spiritually), inheritance itself seems more and more like a thing of our tribal pasts. I imagine a future where there is no inheritance tax anymore, because the whole concept of inheritance will go away.
by timonoko | 2025-04-01 10:34:30+00:00
Tax breaks are considered useless, because one has to pay some considerable amount taxes to get the breaks.

In this case you are entitled to https://www.kela.fi/child-home-care-allowance

In addition to: https://www.kela.fi/child-benefit

And maybe this too: https://www.kela.fi/disability-allowance-for-children