MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frollogaston | 2025-05-23 02:34:14+00:00
"GNU/Linux" can still mean too many different things. Even ChromeOS qualifies as that. You want GNU/Linux help, you need to specify what DE and everything. Or as the other comment said, what Bluetooth stack. You can say you're using Manjaro Cinnamon and either that's not specific enough, or someone says it's your fault for not using KDE.

I'm comparing to Windows or Mac. There's only one Bluetooth audio stack in Windows. If you want help with it, whatever you find online will apply to you, unless of course you've gone out of your way to swap it for another. Unlike Windows, Linux is open and people can build their own flavors, but those can have their own names.

Don't even get me started with how Ubuntu changed its entire GUI like 3 times so that it's unrecognizable each time. Feel bad for whatever IT departments had to keep taking new screenshots of how to do stuff.
by johngai | 2025-05-23 02:34:14+00:00
Barawave is an all-in-one Cloud ERP platform that leverages artificial intelligence to help SMBs streamline operations — from CRM and project management to finance and supply chain. It provides AI-driven insights and automation to optimize workflows, reduce costs, and boost productivity. If you’re tired of juggling multiple disconnected tools and want a smarter, centralized system with real-time data, Barawave might be worth checking out.

Has anyone here used Barawave or similar AI-integrated ERP systems? Curious about real-world impact and adoption challenges.
by ToddLevin | 2025-05-23 02:34:16+00:00
No worries, always glad to be of service if I can! I've worked in the art world (I have a private art advisory) for about 45 years now, and worked at Sotheby's for five years in the 1990s as well, so I know this territory extraordinarily up-close-and-personal from the inside out... :-)
by tstrimple | 2025-05-23 02:34:21+00:00
> How did things get so bad, so quickly?

It didn't. Conservatives in this country have explicitly been headed this direction since they decided to never let another Nixon happen. Not that they would prevent another criminal Republican. But they would ensure that Republicans are never punished for behavior like this. It led to Fox News and Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson, etc. The writing has been on the wall in plain sight for everyone to see for literally decades. The people who have been pointing it out and stating this is exactly where the country has been headed are called radicals and casually dismissed. The only reason Romney lost is because he didn't lean into the hatred his base was demanding[1]. Trump delivered what they wanted.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/romney-...
by AdamJacobMuller | 2025-05-23 02:35:13+00:00
Diminishing returns at some point, but, I think the counterpoint to this is companies who are doing a single huge manual deployment every month (or less) which is scheduled into a 4-hour outage window where many if not all services will be down for this period.

I do agree there isn't a lot of delta between a company doing 2 or 10 deploys a day and a company doing 1,200, but, there's a huge engineering gap between companies who do approximately .03 deploys per day and those doing multiple.
by hamburga | 2025-05-23 02:35:17+00:00
> this is a call for more people to enter the space

Part of my argument in the post is that we are in this space, even those of us who aren’t ML researchers, just by virtue of being part of the selection process that evaluates different AIs and decides when and where to apply them.

A bit more on that: https://muldoon.cloud/2023/10/29/ai-commandments.html
by alwillis | 2025-05-23 02:35:49+00:00
> For all its flaws, Mozilla is actually the ONLY other company building a browser engine. When it's gone, there will basically be only one left.

Safari's iOS/iPadOS global marketshare is about 33%; it's on 2+ billion devices. Definitely not going anywhere [1].

[1]: https://mycodelesswebsite.com/safari-statistics/
by craigacp | 2025-05-23 02:36:58+00:00
The same operations in the same order is a tough constraint in an environment where core count is increasing and clock speeds/IPC are not. It's hard to rewrite some of these algorithms to use a parallel decomposition that's the same as the serial one.

I've done a lot of work on reproducibility in machine learning systems, and its really, really hard. Even the JVM got me by changing some functions in `java.lang.Math` between versions & platforms (while keeping to their documented 2ulp error bounds).
by curious_ralts | 2025-05-23 02:38:41+00:00
I daily drive an immutable Fedora spin and if I wanted to install Tailscale I would most likely add it to the base image via `rpm-ostree` instead of trying to reach for Flatpak - not because i'm aware of the issues but because it makes more sense to me to add a more system-wide networking layer to the base image. That being said there are many apps that are not packaged as Flatpaks that I end up adding to the base layer out of necessity which I would have liked to use as Flatpaks.
by neilv | 2025-05-23 02:39:57+00:00
IIRC, this was regarded as a failure, but looks like it's still operating: https://www.luxuryboston.com/Nouvelle-Natick

More recently, an early mall in Providence (within walking distance of the mall in the article) was converted to tiny apartments: https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-first-shopping-mall...
by defrost | 2025-05-23 02:41:12+00:00
> in response to identical initial conditions

precisely, mathematically identical to infinite precision .. "yes".

Meanwhile, in the real world we live in it's essentially physically impossible to stage two seperate systems to be identical to such a degree AND it's an important result that some systems, some very simple systems, will have quite different outcomes without that precise degree of impossibly infinitely detailed identical conditions.

See: Lorenz's Butterfly and Smale's Horseshoe Map.
by gchamonlive | 2025-05-23 02:41:42+00:00
That depends. If this hypothetical robot was in a hypothetical functional democracy, I'd blame the people that elected leaders whose agenda was to create laws that would allow these kinds of robots to operate. If not, then I'd blame the class that took the power and steered society into this direction of delegating use of force to AIs for preserving whatever distorted view of order those in power have.
by noduerme | 2025-05-23 02:41:45+00:00
Wouldn't that be the best thing possible for our industry? Watching the bandwagoners and "vibe coders" get destroyed and come begging for actual thinking talent would be delicious. I think the bets are equal on whether later LLMs can unfuck current LLM code to the degree that no one needs to be re-hired... but my bet is on your side, that bad code collapses under its own weight. As does bad management in thrall to trends whose repercussions they don't understand. The scenario you're describing is almost too good. It would be a renaissance for the kind of thinking coders you're talking about - those of us who spend 90% of our time considering how to fit a solution to a domain and a specific problem - and it would scare the hell out of the next crop of corner suite assholes, essentially enshrining the belief that only smart humans can write code that performs on the threat/performance model needed to deal with any given problem.

>> the vast majority of an engineer's time isn't spent writing -- it's spent reading and thinking.

Unfortunately, this is now an extremely minority understanding of how we need to do our job - both among hirees and the people who hire them. You're lucky if you can find an employer who understands the value of it. But this is what makes a "10x coder". The unpaid time spent lying awake in bed, sleepless until you can untangle the real logic problems you'll have to turn into code the next day.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-05-23 02:41:48+00:00
That is precisely why.

Though I would say for a lot of organizations, you aren't operating your builds at a scale where you need to be idling that many runners and bringing them down and up often enough to need this level of dynamic autoscaling. As the article indicates, there's a fair amount of configuration and tweaking to set something up like this. Of course, for the author it makes total sense to do that, because their entire product is based on being able to run other people's builds in a cost effective way.

If cost savings are a concern, write a 10 line cron script to scale your runners down to a single one when not in business hours or something. You'll spend way less time configuring that than trying to get dynamic autoscaling right. Heck, if your workloads are spiky and short enough, this kind of dynamic scaling isn't even that much better than just keeping them on all the time, because while this organization got their EC2 boot time down to 4 seconds, they are optimizing the heck out of it. I'll tell you in a vanilla configuration with the classic AMI's that they offer on AWS the cold boot time is closer to 40 seconds.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-05-23 02:42:55+00:00
I consider myself a nihilist in the sense of, don't worry about a "legacy", don't compare yourself to the rich and famous, because a blink in the timescale of the universe, it won't matter.

The only meaning an action has is in the smaller timescale then. The here and now, and a few years after.

Help the people around you, be curious, chase your interests, do cool things. Time is short and for you, it is the only time that matters.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-05-23 02:43:09+00:00
You mean, the CEO is only pretending to make the decisions, while secretly passing every decision through their LLM?

If so, the danger there would be... Companies plodding along similarly? Everyone knows CEOs are the least capable people in business, which is why they have the most underlings to do the actual work. Having an LLM there to decide for the CEO might mean the CEO causes less damage by ensuring consistent mediocrity at all times, in a smooth fashion, rather than mostly mediocre but with unpredictable fluctuations either way.

All hail our LLM CEOs, ensuring mediocrity.

Or you might mean that an LLM could have illicitly gained control of a corporation, pulling the strings without anyone's knowledge, acting on its own accord. If you find the idea of inscrutable yes-men with an endless capacity to spout drivel running the world unpalatable, I've good news and bad news for you.
by suraci | 2025-05-23 02:43:27+00:00
> But maybe just switch jobs if you are that upset about it?

That's the gentler way to strike.

As members of the working class, we technically have the freedom to choose which employer we sell our labor to - but we are forced to sell our labor an employer to survive

So, in reality, it's hard

It's like saying, "But maybe just don’t get sick if you can’t afford medical treatment"
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-05-23 02:43:31+00:00
I just checked a cheap set of dice in my 100-games-in-1 box, and the 1 dot is both wider and deeper than the 6 dots on the 6, the dots in the 2 also seem a bit deeper than the ones on the 6 side. I don't have any precise instrument to measure them, but it could be that the mold designer accounted for the removed (well.. not cast) material for the dice.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-05-23 02:43:31+00:00
Wikipedia says that the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima had a yield of about 16 kilotons of TNT. 600k of those would be 16*600 megatons, or 9600 megatons. That's 96 times more than the original target yield of 100 megatons for Tsar Bomba.

I don't know if that's possible, but it makes sense that it would "reduce a region the size of France to ashes." Maybe the design had a lot of stages.
by muzani | 2025-05-23 02:44:58+00:00
Quoting Paul Graham,

John McPhee wrote that Bill Bradley's success as a basketball player was due partly to his extraordinary peripheral vision. "Perfect" eyesight means about 47 degrees of vertical peripheral vision. Bill Bradley had 70; he could see the basket when he was looking at the floor. Maybe great hackers have some similar inborn ability. (I cheat by using a very dense language, which shrinks the court.)

https://paulgraham.com/gh.html

It's doubly so with LLMs. You don't need as much clean code. Larger files. Make it easier to structure files for LLMs to navigate. Linting and tests that tells AI when it's making mistakes. AI doesn't always run the code, but something like Dart with hot reload, gives it much faster feedback.
by elcritch | 2025-05-23 02:45:02+00:00
Sure in some ways it's just neurons firing in some pattern. Figuring out and replicating the correct sets of neuron patterns is another matter entirely.

Living creatures have fundamental impetus to grow and reproduce that LLMS and AIS simply do not have currently. Not only that but animals have a highly integrated neurology that has billions of years of being tune to that impetus. For example the ways that sex interacts with mammalian neurology is pervasive. Same with need for food, etc. That creates very different neural patterns than training LLMS does.

Eventually we may be able to re-create that balance of impetus, or will, or whatever we call it, to make sapience. I suspect we're fairly far from that, if only because the way LLMs we create LLMs are so fundamentally different.
by hamburga | 2025-05-23 02:46:52+00:00
Not totally following your last point, though I do totally agree that there is this historical drift from “AI alignment” referring to existential risk, to today, where any AI personality you don’t like is “unaligned.”

Still, “AI existential risk” is practically a different beast from “AI alignment,” and I’m trying to argue that the latter is not just for experts, but that it’s mostly a sociopolitical question of selection.
Show HN: KelpsGet – Modern download manager built in Rust
by Ghoulmf7221 | 2025-05-23 02:47:54+00:00
Hi HN!

I'm the creator of KelpsGet, a download manager I built in Rust.

Started as a learning project to understand Rust better, but it evolved into something I think others might find useful.

Key features: - GUI interface (built with egui) - Multiple protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, torrents - Parallel downloads with resume capability - Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows)

The interesting technical challenges were: - Handling different protocols in a unified interface - Building a responsive GUI in Rust - Managing concurrent downloads efficiently

Try it: `cargo install kelpsget` or download binaries from releases.

Would love feedback from the community, especially on the Rust implementation and any missing features you'd find useful!
by sgarland | 2025-05-23 02:48:11+00:00
Fun fact, I was a Nuclear Electronics Technician, and have a decent understanding – though admittedly not to the level of an EE – of how computers work at a very low level. I also worked for a chip fab for a couple of years, and literally made silicon wafers. I also rewrote the US Navy’s microprocessor training course for Nuke ETs, updating it from the Motorola 68000 to the Intel 386.

I make no claims that I fully understand anything, but I do have a decent understanding of how a CPU works from the level of doped silicon and up. Crucially, I read every doc I could find at every one of those jobs. You can learn enough to do the job, or you can learn more. That is a choice that everyone makes.

More generally, I’ve been playing with Linux and computers in general for over 20 years, and when I finally got a job in tech about five years ago, I was stunned at how little people knew about how computers work. I don’t expect (nor do I think it’s helpful) anyone to know how a bus arbitration cycle works, but I assumed that things like IOPS and throughput would be generally understood.
by MindSpunk | 2025-05-23 02:48:12+00:00
I have almost never had a good experience with Flatpaks as a user, outside of ease of installation. They almost never integrate with the system properly. Wrong theme, wrong cursors, wrong file picker, permission issues, drag-and-drop issues. You often need extra tools that broaden the permissions of apps post-install because some feature won't work (global push-to-talk in Discord is always fun, especially with Wayland).

I couldn't care less about sandboxing if the UX sucks as a result.

If binary portability wasn't such a complete joke on Linux we wouldn't need Flatpak, but here we are.
by rsedgwick | 2025-05-23 02:48:23+00:00
There's no real room for this particular "LLMs aren't really conscious" gesture, not in this situation. These systems are being used to perform actions. People across the world are running executable software connected (whether through MCP or something else) to whole other swiss army knives of executable software, and that software is controlled by the LLM's output tokens (no matter how much or little "mind" behind the tokens), so the tokens cause actions to be performed.

Sometimes those actions are "e-mail a customer back", other times they are "submit a new pull request on some github project" and "file a new Jira ticket." Other times the action might be "blackmail an engineer."

Not saying it's time to freak out over it (or that it's not time to do so). It's just weird to see people go "don't worry, token generators are not experiencing subjectivity or qualia or real thought when they make insane tokens", but then the tokens that come out of those token generators are hooked up to executable programs that do things in non-sandboxed environments.
Show HN: Cardog – AI car companion for transparent ownership
by samsullivan | 2025-05-23 02:48:38+00:00
Hi HN:

I'm Sam, a 22-year-old founder who spent the last 8 months building Cardog after a frustrating car buying experience where I felt completely outgunned by information asymmetry.

What it is: An AI platform that gives car buyers and owners the same data transparency that dealers have had for years.

Core features:

AI chat that answers vehicle questions by synthesizing multiple data sources Price analysis that shows if listings are fairly priced based on market comps Digital garage that tracks your car's value and maintenance needs over time

The problem I'm solving: Car buying requires 15+ hours of research across fragmented sources, yet consumers still lack access to comprehensive market data. Dealers know vehicle history, true market values, and maintenance patterns - buyers get marketing copy and hope for the best.

Technical approach: The platform combines structured automotive data (specs, pricing, reliability) with LLM-powered natural language processing. Users ask questions like "Should I buy a 2019 Honda Accord with 60k miles for $23,000?" and get data-backed analysis considering market pricing, maintenance costs, depreciation trends, and model-specific issues.

What I need: I'm looking for a small group of testers (aiming for ~50 people) to try the iOS TestFlight beta and provide honest feedback. The core user flows take about 2 minutes to test:

- Ask the AI a car question to see how it handles complex queries - Upload a vehicle listing (or use our sample ones) to test the price analysis - Add a vehicle to your garage to see the tracking interface

Feedback I'm looking for:

- Does the AI provide genuinely useful answers vs generic responses? - Is the price analysis accurate for vehicles you know well? - What features are missing that would make this valuable for you?

I built this solo while studying CS at University of Toronto. The goal isn't to replace car enthusiast knowledge, but to democratize access to market data and help people make better decisions. TestFlight waitlist: https://cardog.app I'll personally onboard everyone who signs up over the next 48 hours with a quick demo and will be around to answer questions here. A few technical notes for the curious:

- Backend handles real-time data from 15+ automotive sources - Custom ML models for price prediction trained on historical transaction data - iOS app built with Expo / React Native

Thanks for taking a look. Always excited to get feedback from the HN community.
by WD-42 | 2025-05-23 02:48:40+00:00
I'm not sure I'd install tailscale as a flatpak even if it were possible. I've always seen flatpak as a way to install large, potentially crappy desktop applications without polluting your system. OBS studio is a perfect example - it's a great app but it's the only one I use that uses QT, thanks to flatpak I don't even have the QT libraries installed on my system.

Tailscale is more like a system service that I'd prefer a distro package for (Arch Linux repos contain Tailscale, btw).
by m463 | 2025-05-23 02:49:06+00:00
Verizon has always been a bad company to get in bed with.

I remember before the iphone when they would prevent music/ringtones from being sideloaded onto phones, etc.

I also remember when they would add identifiers/cookies to all cellular web requests so your phone could be uniquely identified wherever you browsed.

Could your issue be when verizon sold off its towers?
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-23 02:50:48+00:00
Great snippet -

“The thing about Coke and Pepsi is that they are absolutely gorgeous,” Judy Heylmun, a vice-president of Sensory Spectrum, Inc., in Chatham, New Jersey, says. “They have beautiful notes—all flavors are in balance. It’s very hard to do that well. Usually, when you taste a store cola it’s”— and here she made a series of pik! pik! pik! sounds—“all the notes are kind of spiky, and usually the citrus is the first thing to spike out. And then the cinnamon. Citrus and brown spice notes are top notes and very volatile, as opposed to vanilla, which is very dark and deep. A really cheap store brand will have a big, fat cinnamon note sitting on top of everything.”
by webprofusion | 2025-05-23 02:51:16+00:00
It's right, AI does require giving up control and letting things be done differently, depends how much you really use it.

It's the same when you get a junior dev to work on things, it's just not how you would do it yourself and frequently wrong or naive. Sometime is brilliant and better than you would have done yourself.

That doesn't mean don't have junior devs, but having one doesn't mean you don't have to do corrective stuff and refinements to their work.

Most of us aren't changing the world with our code, we're contributing an incredibly small niche part of how it works. People (normal people, lol) only care what your system does for them, not how it works or how great the code is.
by m0zzie | 2025-05-23 02:51:27+00:00
Apologies if you already know this, but I noticed you’re getting flagged so thought I’d add some context: the author is the CEO of Obsidian and has a few successful projects, so bragging about your 500 stars and saying things like “when I was just starting out, I didn't tell people to feel free to help. I put the effort in” is probably rubbing people the wrong way.
by magicalist | 2025-05-23 02:54:41+00:00
> Harvard recently released a 311-page report detailing these issues[0].

Can you be more specific about what was detailed in the report and where? Because the things you mention aren't in your linked article at all.

There were protests that got way too heated, but calling them "pro-Hamas students" has me, uh, doubting your take on this a bit. The highlights called out in your article are wholly different, focused instead on campus behavior that seems drawing back from embracing diversity and is instead alienating whole cultures.

> It's for this reason that the federal government is withholding its funding

We aren't talking about funding, though? We're talking about denying attendance by any international student.
by latchkey | 2025-05-23 02:55:10+00:00
Clarified "starting out on that project". I've been doing this for 30 years and I'm also a CEO. I've had multiple successful projects, like starting Java@Apache and open sourcing Tomcat.

I made a lot of mistakes along the way and one of them was being flippant on my responses to people like that. Just sharing my insights.