MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-05-05 11:48:14+00:00
The problem is the user-base and acceptance of latex vs Typst. I use latex and as aware as I am about its deficiencies, I can create a doc faster in it than any other tool that I have not ever used before. I also have a bunch of utilities I created for my specific use-cases automating data into tables, figures, etc, ready for latex import.

So its a mass and momentum problem. Typst not only has to be better/easier/faster than latex, but to a degree that it justifies all of the labor and time to learn it and change all that existing template and utility infrastructure built up over decades. A high bar.

If Typst (or some other new contender) could also read and compile latex code and packages alongside its own syntax then that would be a game-changer. Then I can use all my old stuff and gradually change things over to typst (or whatever).
by JanSchu | 2025-05-05 11:48:23+00:00
We’re solidly in a three‑horse race at the top: Gemini 2.5 Pro, OpenAI o‑series, Anthropic Claude 3.7+.

The gap between #1 and #2 is slim, so pricing, latency, and policy alignment should weigh more heavily than a couple of benchmark points.

Specialists matter: if your stack leans on long‑context RAG, o3‑high may edge out; for multilingual safety‑critical chat, Claude might still be your best pick.
by cgonzar3 | 2025-05-05 11:48:30+00:00
Hi HN, I’m a solo developer and I built SnapMyFive (https://www.snapmyfive.com) because I always found the existing Spotify stats tools either clunky or visually uninspired.

SnapMyFive lets you log in with Spotify and see your top tracks (up to 50) from the last 4 weeks, 6 months, or year. You can sort them by duration, popularity, and more — and generate a clean vertical image of your personal Top 5 for easy sharing.

It’s a side project I built mainly for fun, with a strong focus on aesthetic design — something that feels good to use, not just another stats page.

Would love any feedback, especially on the visuals and UX. Thanks for checking it out!
by throwaway290 | 2025-05-05 11:49:03+00:00
1) Using legally required minimum as floor is malicious, this is US we're talking about 2) CRB's ruling is very new and you want us to forget how Spotify was screwing everybody over all preceding years 3) the rates from CRB are based on total revenue of the streaming service which leaves a LOT up for manipulation if the company wants to pay less. Read what real bands and musicians say about how much they get paid from Spotify and others
by brookst | 2025-05-05 11:49:15+00:00
By “protect” you mean “roll back to the 1950’s”, righ? Because Hollywood today was doing quite well and I don’t think I’ve heard a single industry source asking for this.

IMO the other shoe here is stronger content restrictions and more government control of what gets made. Easier to do that with US productions, hence the attempt to make everything distributed in the US a US production.
by em-bee | 2025-05-05 11:49:16+00:00
when you make a list like this then it's always a challenge to deal with edge cases. fashion and tailor fit together as well as many other terms on that list. a swift taylor can be seen as producing fast fashion, even if not true in reality. fixing clothes is also the work of many tailors. with getting custom tailored clothes falling out of fashion (pun intended ;-) the bulk of the work of most tailors is making changes and fixing things. in germany it is even a recognized profession with a two year training (you can become a full tailor with an extra year). most of my visits to a tailor recently have literally been for a quick fix. stuff that i could probably have done myself if i had a sowing machine and time.

i am with you on the cat fusion however. i don't get that one either.
by rapind | 2025-05-05 11:49:40+00:00
While I'm certainly no where even adjacent to a Trump supporter, the idea of preventing studios (rich people) from sidestepping local unions (working people), plus the crazy tax incentives we give them by producing their movies up here in Canada isn't as polarizing an idea as you think.

If the sky is falling on everything he does, and you're wrong some of the time, then people will stop listening. There's plenty that this administration has done that is objectively horrible.
by Symbiote | 2025-05-05 11:49:45+00:00
Isn't this because Europe stepped up over the last 20 years and now has an industry making "American" films here?

Look at the list of films made at Pinewood Studios in England, there are plenty of films I'd consider American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_productions_filmed_at_...

(I'm sure there are other examples, this is just the studio I'm familiar with.)
by lm28469 | 2025-05-05 11:49:48+00:00
idk man last time France raised the gas price by like 10% people were in the streets every weekend for a year, often blocking highways, warehouses, at its peak ~3 million people were in the streets, they got so close to Macron's castle he had his helicopter prepared to flee the capital

It ended up with 11 deaths, thousands of injured, thousands of people were arrested hundreds went to jail. Look at Serbia, Greece, damn even Turkey seems to put a better fight lol

https://www.ledauphine.com/france-monde/2018/12/13/gilets-ja...
by madeofpalk | 2025-05-05 11:49:49+00:00
Marc added some extra flavor https://mastodon.social/@marcedwards/114454783708869207

> This article is the longest piece I’ve published on Bjango’s site, and it took a couple of years of research. I purchased around 25 pieces of music gear. I emailed Imogen Heap, and to my surprise, someone from her team got back to me and confirmed the exact harmonizer used on Hide and Seek.

> It’s been a huge effort, and I’m confident it contains a lot of information that is not widely known. For those of you who are into Daft Punk, I hope it’s interesting.
by throwanem | 2025-05-05 11:50:31+00:00
If you can talk Ken Shiriff (righto.com) into decapping one, they won't stay secret for long.

On such a question I suppose he might not take that much convincing, though I only know him by his work. But intuitively for the age of the watch I would expect MSI or LSI ASIC on some kind of mildly exotic film process for the epoxy blob die-on-board packaging they used to do before true surface mount packages made it to consumer products.
by saithound | 2025-05-05 11:50:36+00:00
CMU professors can't build AI agents, and decide to brag about it. That's the article.

"We tried something, and we couldn't make it work. Therefore it must be impossible to do."

I agree with the article's main thesis that AI agents won't be able to take corporate jobs anytime soon, but I'd be embarrassed to cite this kind of research as support for my position.
by jdiff | 2025-05-05 11:50:51+00:00
"For the few seconds people brush their teeth"? That's not how fluoridated drinking water works. Fluoridated water works all of the time, not just when brushing teeth, and it's not a vital chemical that the body craves.

You are missing something. If you're this confused about a topic, you should at a bare minimum read the Wikipedia page.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-05 11:51:35+00:00
The MAGA crowd is happy to throw out the ability to project useful stuff globally if it makes hollywood stop projecting what they consider divisive stuff domestically and are willing to throw out the foreign aspect if need be.

They're not stupid (well they might be, but that's beside the point), they're just in such fundamental disagreement with you that it's possible to squint and assess the situation as "yup, they're stupid" (and frankly that's a lot more comforting of an assessment).

Film production has been moving steadily overseas chasing cheap labor. By forcing some of it back or forcing it to stay put it makes that industry and the people in it a little more dependent upon government, a little more dependent upon isolationist economic policy, a little more inclined to stay in the government's good graces (i.e. less likely to create stuff the .gov doesn't like), etc, etc, even if it kneecaps the ability of the overall industry to perform globally.

Edit: I shouldn't have to say this but none of the above should be construed as an endorsement of a) high tariffs or b) increased government control of media)
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-05-05 11:51:54+00:00
It's the internet... people always only talk about the extremes. Look at concerts for example, you have two extremes:

1) don't take photos/videos at all, enjoy the concert!

2) hold your phone above your head for the whole concert and record and instagram everything, every song, every word said between songs, everything.

Both options suck, and most discussons just use the extremes like those above.

There is always a middle ground, where you take a few photos, maybe a short video, and as you said, in a few years, you'll be scrolling down your gallery and suddenly remember that (looking at metadata) on june 7th 2019 you were at a concert of ThatRandomBand, and it'll be a nice memory to keep and remember. Noone will watch an hour of video with distorted audio, and you'll forget a bunch of stuff not saved anywhere, but a photo here and there is always a nice thing to have.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-05 11:52:18+00:00
I complained about them no longer being added, not being removed (at least not yet). Look at CLion refactorings, compare this to IDEA and Rider that preceded the LLM enshittification.

For C++, there should be quite a few refactoring on the count of it being OOP like Java.

Even IDEA and Rider didn't add any new refactorings, despite Java advancing quite a bit.
by otherme123 | 2025-05-05 11:52:38+00:00
I avoid alcohol like the plague. I'm spaniard, and I can assure you that there are a lot of people that takes one glass of wine with each meal (something that qualifies you as an alcoholic in medical terms). In the summer, beer is king, and I would say half the population takes at least a bottle (33 cl / 12 fl.oz.) daily, as a substitute for water (luckily, zero-alcohol beer is also on the rise). Wouldn't be unheard that you drink wine or beer at lunch and then go to work until 6pm.

Alcohol consumption is totally normalized here. In fact, the only socially valid reason to not drink at a party or celebration is that you are driving later. That's my experience at least.
by creata | 2025-05-05 11:53:07+00:00
> That's not why people use LaTeX.

Many people say that they use LaTeX because it produces more beautiful output. Microtypography is one of the reasons for that. It's especially noticeable when microtype pushes hyphens or quotes at the end of a line slightly into the margin. (A nearby comment mentions that Typst has this feature, too.)
by dagw | 2025-05-05 11:53:21+00:00
I find GNOME to be a weirdly fascinating project from this perspective. On the one hand I agree with basically everything the article points out. They appear openly hostile to both their users and developers (outside of a very small core), seem completely uninterested in cooperating with the larger Open Source desktop ecosystem, and seem to want to push people away as much as possible. None of this is even new, people have been complaining loudly about all of this and more for what feels like 10+ years, without any of the core developers caring. Yet despite all the complaints and negativity from the community about both their process and product, GNOME is still very popular and used as the default desktop by many of the major distros, and certainly much more popular than 'superior' projects like KDE or XFCE.
by tecleandor | 2025-05-05 11:53:39+00:00
Ah, the Sennheiser VSM201. Just a $30K vocoder. Seems like it was $25K when it released in 1977, but also didn't get to sell even 50 units, so quite rare.

I guess you can get similar results with cheaper hardware, but if you have money and you have it around... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by cpursley | 2025-05-05 11:54:29+00:00
I've read it and am not convinced we need to be ingesting fluoride water. Nor is Europe or most other countries and their dental health is fine.

Said another way - brush yo teeth, brush yo GD teeth: https://youtu.be/GlKL_EpnSp8?si=NeKJWKNlcHxtDUYD&t=112
by rvz | 2025-05-05 11:54:31+00:00
This $9BN valuation is highly questionable. They can make a lot of money and also lose a lot of money very quickly if the momentum evaporates.

It only takes Microsoft to destroy them with VS Code + Copilot and to further lower prices for longer (and they can afford to do that for years).

This sort of hype happened with Clubhouse ($4B valuation until the users stopped signing up.), Hopin ($9BN until the pandemic ended) and Inflection AI ($4B and no-one uses it after the hype).

There really is no lock-in case for Cursor and users can easily cancel and switch back to VS Code.

I would sell at this point, before this bubble pops and the competitors begin to gain ground.
by 542354234235 | 2025-05-05 11:55:18+00:00
How so? If you want to have a discussion, you actually need to say something more substantial that two sentences saying "I disagree". What about what I said was superficial and crude? What about any of the modern things that would be called “conspiracies” doesn’t fit what I said? PizzaGate, the government did 9/11, Qanon, the government did Sandy Hook, etc.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-05-05 11:55:47+00:00
I agree with you but still not using it. The challenge when I first tried Apple was, the photos all disappeared into iTunes. I wanted to pull out a jpg to do some photo editing and it was difficult. So I gave up and never went back. It must have improved in 15 years, but they will now be training their AI on my photos. So not gonna use it now either. I'll look for an open source app after I retire.
by miniatureape | 2025-05-05 11:55:53+00:00
Reminds me of the account of the macrobians by Herodotus:

> and after this [the Persian spies] saw last of all their receptacles of dead bodies, which are said to be made of crystal in the following manner:—when they have dried the corpse, whether it be after the Egyptian fashion or in some other way, they cover it over completely with plaster 21 and then adorn it with painting, making the figure as far as possible like the living man. After this they put about it a block of crystal hollowed out; for this they dig up in great quantity and it is very easy to work: and the dead body being in the middle of the block is visible through it, but produces no unpleasant smell nor any other effect which is unseemly, and it has all its parts visible like the dead body itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobians
by genocidicbunny | 2025-05-05 11:56:06+00:00
Iirc, either Carter or Daniel Jackson pretty much said something along those lines in one of the later seasons. Not the BC part specifically, but about why stargates were usually on planets pretty comfortable for humans.

But the overarching point is that even shows where at least one of the actors (RDA) were given an award by the US Air Force for their depiction of the branch, were largely filmed outside the US.
by l33tman | 2025-05-05 11:57:01+00:00
The point of the Narrative Clip (https://getnarrative.com) was to let people both live in the moment AND capture it. It was launched at the height of the life-logger/wearable conjunction 10 years ago, but it's still an interesting idea and the thought of having a more thorough "log" of your life might get more and more relevant the closer we get to vivid AI-recreations and even brain augmentation.

Some customers also just had bad memory and loved sort of re-living their day every evening which made memories store more efficiently in the brain.

There are social "contracts" that the users need to consider when using stuff like this though, as you do take photos of those around you or who you interact with..
by jbreckmckye | 2025-05-05 11:57:10+00:00
I agree that Mermaid is kind of a bad language. I get the impression it was the creator's first real DSL project and this has lead to the jumbled syntax.

I've found D2 better. There's more control over the layout, the syntax makes more sense. But the web editor is limited.

Maybe what I should do is prototype some kind of bidirectional editing for Mermaid. So that you could add / remove / combine / group / reorient the graph items through a GUI. I have some ideas for how to do this
by vouwfietsman | 2025-05-05 11:57:33+00:00
> No. It makes sense to use LLMs to generate tests. Even if their output matches the worst output the average human can write by hand, having any coverage whatsoever already raises the bar from where the average human output is.

Although this is true, it disregards the fact that prompting for tests takes time which may also be spent writing tests, and its not clear if poor quality tests are free, in the sense that further development may cause these tests to fail for the wrong reasons, causing time spent debugging. This is why I used the word "augment": these tests are clearly not the same quality as manual tests, and should be considered separately from manual tests. In other words, they may serve to elevate below average code or augment manual tests, but not more than that. Again, I'm not saying it makes no sense to do this.

> That's not the LLM's responsibility. Humans specify what they want and LLMs fill in the blanks. If today's LLMs output bad results, that's a reflection of the prompts. Garbage in, garbage out.

This is unlikely to be true, for a couple reasons: 1. Ambiguity makes it impossible to define "garbage", see prompt engineering. In fact, all human natural language output is garbage in the context of programming. 2. As the LLM fills in blanks, it must do so respecting the intention of the code, otherwise the intention of the code erodes, and its design is lost. 3. This would imply that LLMs have reached their peak and only improve by requiring less prompting by a user, this is simply not true as it is trivial to currently find problems an LLM cannot solve, regardless of the amount of prompting.
by sholladay | 2025-05-05 11:58:07+00:00
I’ve been struggling to make a simple “door left open too long” alarm. The first problem I ran into was weird inconsistencies between personal shortcuts that run on your device vs home shortcuts that run on HomePod. For example, there is no Speak Text action on HomePod, so I can’t have the alarm say “front door open” unless it runs on my phone, which means it won’t work when I’m not home. Oh well, a generic alarm sound will have to do. Oh wait, it doesn’t have that, either. The alarm sound has to come from Apple Music. That means this alarm relies on the internet! Oh well. At least there are plenty of sound effects albums on there. Hey, why isn’t the alarm working today? Oh, that album was taken down, probably due to a copyright dispute. That’s annoying, but at least there are plenty more to choose from. WTF, it’s not working again, only a month later, same thing. Fine, more whack—a-mole…

Next problem: I had to set the alarm sound to play at high volume since the effect itself is relatively quiet. Woah! That volume is permanent and now after an alarm, everything plays loud. Ok, no problem. I’ll just have the shortcut get the current volume and save it to a variable at the beginning and then change the volume to that variable at the end. Oh, there’s no way to set the volume to the value of a variable? WTF? The HomePod has actions for resizing and rotating images, even though it doesn’t have a display, but it can’t do what I need it to as a speaker?! Alright, hardcoded 50% volume will have to do.

Final problem: My shortcut repeatedly waits a few seconds and then checks the state of a door sensor in a loop. It would be nice if I could have a condition to exit the loop early but keep running the rest of the shortcut. Oh, Apple made a whole scripting system for shortcuts but didn’t include a `break` keyword. Lovely.

I officially have a love/hate relationship with shortcuts, which leans towards hate most of the time.
by maeln | 2025-05-05 11:58:18+00:00
Ah yes, the 'slop, melodramatic vaudeville, or tear-jerking gut-punches' of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Wong Ching-Po, Stephen Chow, John Woo, Emin Alper, Win Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Sylvain Chomet, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jacques Demy, Lee Chang-dong, Shunji Iwai, Wai Keung Lau, Wong Kar-wai, Hirokazu Koreeda, Park Chan-wook, Tran Anh Hung, Nadine Labaki, Santiago Mitre, ...

Yes, the US is a wealthy country, with a big population, a healthy movie industries and a lot of consumer. It does mean that the US produce a lot of movies, from auteur movie to holywood blockbuster. Disproportionally more than any other country in the world. But dismissing every non-US movie industry just show your ignorance about cinema in general.
by znort_ | 2025-05-05 11:58:43+00:00
i don't think spamming boilerplate bullshit like "Over-Communicate Intentionally. I share status, context, and decisions proactively. In remote settings, what's unsaid is easily missed—so I err on the side of more clarity, not less." contributes to "information density".

then again recruiters might disagree, not that they tend to be very focused anyway.
by echelon | 2025-05-05 11:58:46+00:00
I was actually shocked by this tariff. It's a pro-union, pro-labor, classic progressive move.

If you haven't been following what's happening with film production, basically production has moved from LA, Atlanta, New York, etc. to cheap countries in Eastern Europe and Asia.

A vast majority of IATSE film crew productions have now vacated the US. It's decimated the local film crew workforce and forced many to leave the industry entirely.

I wrote more about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893915

The film crew folks post a lot about it on Reddit, especially in the /r/film industry(city) subreddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmIndustryLA/comments/1k39cod/the...
Show HN: GotAlt – Discover AI-Analyzed Website Alternatives and Competitors
by Cranot | 2025-05-05 11:59:02+00:00
Hey everyone on HN!

I'm excited to share something I've been working on: GotAlt.com. It's a tool that helps you find website competitors and alternatives, drawing from data pre-analyzed by AI. I built it because I was tired of struggling to find similar websites for my own projects—the existing options just didn't cut it, so I rolled up my sleeves and made this.

Here's the gist: GotAlt crawls the web and builds a directory. The AI then sorts potential alternatives into four neat categories, aiming to make discovery easier. A key feature I've added is language prioritization: if you search for alternatives to, say, a Greek e-shop, it will first show you results primarily in Greek, followed by relevant sites in other languages.

Full disclosure: This is very much a test launch. The database currently has around 5,000 websites, which means the results won't be as comprehensive or accurate as they will be when it's significantly larger (think 200k+ down the line). More data equals better, deeper results. Consider this an early preview – it works reasonably well for many sites already, but it's still rough around the edges and I've got a list of improvements and features I've discovered along the way that aren't implemented yet.

I'd love your take on it! Does this concept resonate? Could the language feature be useful for you? Any thoughts on how to make it better, keeping in mind its early stage? If you give it a spin, please let me know what you think—especially about the relevance of the results you get right now.

Thanks for taking a look—I'm genuinely looking forward to hearing your feedback!
by Gormo | 2025-05-05 11:59:03+00:00
> The filmmaking industry is constantly flying productions all over the world to avoid paying US labor.

Think of all the American jobs that are lost when a film studio chooses to shoot on-location in Paris instead of attempting to build a replica of Paris in Los Angeles. No one ever thinks about all of the construction workers who never get a chance to build a fake Eiffel Tower, or all of the struggling local actors whose attempts to fake French accents will never be heard by audiences, let alone the HVAC technicians who make sure the air conditioners work properly in the indoor studio sets that have to be used to film outdoor scenes in Paris so that the Champs-Élysées doesn't look like Wilshire Boulevard.