MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-29 10:08:14+00:00
> But it makes it less attractive as an investment.

For me that's a feature not a bug. The investor cryptobros have thoroughly killed the interest in BTC as a real payment method and made it just a vaporware pyramid scheme. They have accumulated a lot of influence.

Also they corrupted the whole idea behind bitcoin which was independence from the old centralised banking system where others control your money. To guarantee their investments they've rebuilt the whole old system in bitcoin with the exchanges and some regulators even demanding you use them to store your BTC.
by genewitch | 2025-05-29 10:09:23+00:00
for the record, i can't find any combination of those words in my transcriptions of loveline shows, although i don't have them all, and it is possible there are up to 50% transcription errors. there is 1 reference to "Stinky Linky" but it appears unrelated, "what's the linky?" "freckles" - i got excited that i found it but looking at the context it was in vain.

i have five clean references to "as a mason jar" so my collection is fairly complete ;-)

note: ripgrep 4.079s wall; ag (silversearcher) 5.916s wall; grep 6.940s wall
by glenstein | 2025-05-29 10:09:30+00:00
>but it misses the crucial thing that our minds do, which is that they conceptually represent and relate

You seem to be drawing a distinction between that and computation. But I would like to think that conceptualization is one of the things that computation is doing. The devil's in the details of course, because it hinges on like a specific forms and manner of informational representation, it's not simply a matter of there being computation there, but even so, I think it's within the capabilities of engines that do computations, and not something that's missing.
by bko | 2025-05-29 10:12:02+00:00
I’m reminded of the 1998 Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman quote:

> “The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants—becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

The internets impact on society and business didn’t happen overnight. Naive studies on how people are using it today miss the point. I remember a clip from David letterman where he was mocking bill gates about the internet. Gates said you can get baseball recaps, to which letterman replied “have you ever heard of a radio?”

But maybe I’m just more optimistic because these tools have made a huge impact on my life and productivity gain is more than low single digits. I’m not typical, but I imagine others will catch up.
by atoav | 2025-05-29 10:12:48+00:00
Yes and no, Rust is suitable to solve a certain set of problems in a certain way. Or you could say: Rust brings certain qualities to the table that may or may not suit your project.

A hacker blog I read regularly made a challenge about the fastest tokenizer in any language. I just had learned basic Rust and decided why the heck not. I spent 15 minutes with a naive/lazy approach and entered the result. It won second place, where the third place was a C implementation and the first place was highly optimized assembler.

This is not nothing and if I had written this in my main language (python) I wouldn't even have made the top 10.

So if you want a language where the result is comparably performant while giving you some confidence in how it is not behaving, Rust is a good choice. But that isn't the only metric. People understanding the language is also important and there other languages shine. Everything is about trade offs.
by chamomeal | 2025-05-29 10:14:09+00:00
Yep lots of modern (even IDE-like) flavors of emacs like that. Doom emacs (which includes vi key bindings and modes), spacemacs, etc.

I’ll also say for “commonly understood terms”: discoverability in emacs is amazing. You have dedicated commands just for checking what other commands do, searching docs, finding keybinds for existing commands or vice versa. It’s SO sick!!

Vscode is great too, for very different reasons
by glenstein | 2025-05-29 10:14:13+00:00
>I'm in no way an expert on this, but I feel that any approach which over-focuses on the brain - to the exclusion of the environment and physical form it finds itself in – is missing half or more of the equation.

I don't think that that changes anything. If it's the totality of cognition isn't just the brain but the brain's interaction with the body and the environment, then you can just say that it's the totality of those interactions that are computationally modeled.

There might be something to embodied cognition, but I've never understood people attempting to wield it as a counterpoint to the basic thesis of computational modeling.
Show HN: Zentab – Seamless Multi-Login for Any App on iOS, Android, and Chrome
by zennnmind | 2025-05-29 10:16:43+00:00
This is the app I always wished existed — so I built it.

A few months ago, I found myself constantly switching between different ChatGPT accounts. One had Pro, one was for testing prompts, another for personal notes. Then came Instagram, Notion, a few work logins... before I knew it, I was wasting time just logging in and out of apps all day.

It got annoying fast.

I looked for solutions, but all I found were clunky Android-only workarounds or tools that felt like afterthoughts. Nothing smooth, nothing stable, and definitely nothing built with iOS in mind.

So I made Zentab.

The idea is simple: you can create separate, fully independent instances of the same app. I call them App Instances. Want three Instagram accounts? Tap and go. Two ChatGPT Pro logins? Easy. Each one is isolated, and switching between them is instant.

Building it was the easy part. Making it feel good — fast, clean, reliable — that took weeks of polishing. I tested every flow, every edge case. I wanted it to be something you could trust to just work, every single time you opened it.

One of the coolest features? You can share an App Instance with someone else — without ever giving them your password. It’s a game-changer for tools like Notion or GPT when you need to collaborate temporarily.

Zentab works on both iOS and Android. And if you're on desktop, there's a Chrome Extension that syncs with the mobile app, so your instances follow you across devices. Super useful, especially for ChatGPT.
by codethief | 2025-05-29 10:16:45+00:00
> if you can't have one commit in production at any given time

That might be possible in a simple library + 1 consumer scenario if you follow the other commentors' recommendation to always update library + consumer at once. But in many cases you can't, anyway, because you're deploying several artifacts or services from your monorepo, not just one. So while "1 commit in production at any given time" is certainly neat, it wouldn't strike me as the primary goal of a monorepo. See also this discussion about atomicity of changes further up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44119585

> what advantages for the monorepo remain?

Many, in my opinion. Discoverability, being able to track & version all inter-project dependencies in git, homogeneity of tooling, …

See also my other comment further up on common pains associated with polyrepos, pains that you typically don't experience in monorepos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44121696

Of course, nothing's free. Monorepos have their costs, too. But as I mention in the above comment and also in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44121851, a polyrepo just distributes those costs and makes them less visible.
by debeast | 2025-05-29 10:16:52+00:00
Nice — that’s what I used to do too (Notion, Apple Notes, random files everywhere).

And yeah, you can create templates with parameters — for example, something like:

Write a {tone} product description for a {product_type} targeting {audience}

Then when you reuse it, you just fill in the values. Makes it super easy to adapt prompts without rewriting the whole thing.

Would love to know how you would use that — have any prompt templates you always reuse?
by yetihehe | 2025-05-29 10:16:57+00:00
> Finetuning isn't reverse engineering

Fully agree, it isn't. Reverse engineering isn't necessary for modifying compiled program behaviour, so comparing it to finetuning is not applicable. Finetuning applied to program domain would be more like adding plugins or patching in some compiled routines. Reverse-engineering applied to models would be like extracting source documents from weights.

> Finetuning is a standard supported workflow for these models.

Yes, so is adding mods for some games, just put your files in a designated folder and game automatically picks it up and does required modifications.

> Also, the "redistribute" part is key here.

It is not. Redistributability and being open source is orthogonal. You can have a source for a program and not be able to redistribute source or program, or you can redistribute a compiled program, but not have it's source (freeware).
by bluenose69 | 2025-05-29 10:16:59+00:00
The colour choices in the image with caption beginning "Jeffrey Zeldman's homepage, March 1997" are hard on my eyes. However, the point might have been to show folks how to exert control over colours and fonts, as opposed to actually communicating. The 90s were quite a different thing than whatever we call the present decade.

A big annoyance of the early web was all the stupid blinking text and pointless little animations. Luckily we've moved past them. Of course, today it's all about ads, which is the tip of a spear that is quite unpleasant.

Plus ça change.
by Nullabillity | 2025-05-29 10:18:06+00:00
This reminds me a lot of Sweden's SPAR.[0] Everyone has a personal ID number, the ministry of tax (Skatteverket) maintains a database of everyone's contact information (name, address, etc; Folkbokföringen), which "anyone" can query at a trivial price.[1]

A decent amount of stores do, though certainly not all.

[0]: https://www.statenspersonadressregister.se/master/start/engl...

[1]: https://www.statenspersonadressregister.se/master/start/vaar...
by debeast | 2025-05-29 10:19:03+00:00
Good question — it’s a generic prompt library, not tied to any one tool.

So whether you’re using GPT-4, Claude, Perplexity, or anything else, you can stash and reuse prompts across all of them. It’s meant to be your “prompt brain” — separate from the tools themselves.

Curious — what models or tools do you mostly use prompts with?
by sureglymop | 2025-05-29 10:19:50+00:00
I find it interesting because they probably unknowingly could already control emacs quite well. The gnu readline key bindings are pretty much the same as the emacs ones and are universally used in text editing environments and REPLs. For example in html text inputs or in all text editing contexts on macOS.

They were the first thing I missed when first trying out insert mode in vim. I also think the concept of major and minor modes is overall simpler and easier to understand than how this works in e.g. neovim.

However I still prefer neovim because I believe lua to be overall nicer to use. Nothing against lisp and I understand it is incredibly simple and powerful. But I feel most people just want to have an easy way to configure their editor and imo the developer ergonomics for lua are better. Especially also with formatting, typing and other tooling. Nested lua tables look almost exactly like json, while the same structure in elisp would probably confuse someone switching over from vs code.
by glenstein | 2025-05-29 10:20:06+00:00
>someone can't be smart (have large brain power) if they also don't understand the value of altruism and ethics for their own well-being

I would agree with this. And to borrow something that Daniel Dennett once said, no moral theory that exists seems to be computationally tractable. I wouldn't say I entirely agree, but I agree with like the vibe or the upshot of it, which is a certain amount of mapping out. The variables and consequences seems to be instrumental to moral insight, and the more capable of the brain, the more capable it would be of applying moral insight in increasingly complex situations.
by tcfhgj | 2025-05-29 10:20:17+00:00
> Please just let us bundle a modern chrome with our apps.

please, no.

I wish software companies had to pay the hardware they require for their users, then we would have devs using Rust instead of JS and optimizing using ASM just to save parts of cents per instance. And we wouldn't see companies like MS kill well designed and performed native apps for a electron app
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-29 10:20:20+00:00
For accurate predictions, or the lack thereof, it can be educational to look back in time. People in the late nineteenth century wrote down a lot of what in retrospect is a lot of hyperbole, nonsense, and rubbish. Some of it is pretty entertaining. The most outrageous ones actually got some of it right while completely missing the point at the same time. Jules Vernes for example had a pretty lively imagination. We went to the moon. But not by cannon ball. And there wasn't a whole lot there to see and do. And flying around the world takes a lot less than 80 days. Even in a balloon it can be done a lot quicker.

I was borne in the seventies. Much of what is science fact today was science fiction then. And much of that was pretty naive and enlightening at the same time.

My point is that nothing has changed when it comes to people's ability to predict the future. The louder people claim to know what it all means or rush to man-splain that to others, the more likely it is that they are completely and utterly missing the point. And probably in ways that will make them look pretty foolish in a few decades. Most people are just flailing around in the dark. And some of the crazier ones might actually be the ones to listen to. But you'd be well advised to filter out their interpretations and attempts to give meaning to it all.

Hal, the Paranoid Android, Kitt, C3PO, R2D2, Skynet, Data, and all the other science fiction AIs from my youth are now pretty much science fact. Some of those actually look a bit slow and retarded in comparison. Are we going to build better versions of these? I'd be very disappointed in the human race if we didn't. And I'd be also disappointed if that ends up resembling the original fantasies of those things. I don't think many people are capable of imagining anything more coherent than versions of themselves dressed up in some glossy exterior. Which is of course what C3PO is. Very relatable, a bit stupid, and clownish. But also, why would you want such a thing? And the angry Austrian body builder version of that of course isn't any better.

I think the raw facts are that we've invented some interesting software that passes the Turing test pretty much with flying colors. For much of my life that was the gold standard of testing AIs. I don't think anyone has bothered to actually deal with the formalities of letting AIs take that test and documenting the results in a scientific way. That test obviously became obsolete before people even thought of doing that. We now worry about abuse of AIs to deceive entire populations with AIs pretending to be humans manipulating people. You might actually have a hard time convincing people that have been abused in such a way that what they saw and heard was actually real. We imagined it would be hard to convince them it AIs are human. We failed to imagine the job of convincing them they are not is much harder.
by frereubu | 2025-05-29 10:22:21+00:00
I know that all names are essentially "made up". It's the implicit nature of the "sciency" bit that annoys me. I don't believe Danone did a stroke of real science to come up with a bacteria that had any material difference from any other live yoghurt. The astronomers who discovered 25924 Douglasadams did do the science. Do you think Danone did any randomised controlled trials to measure its effectiveness over any other kind of live yoghurt? Of course not.

The idea of the site and its domain name is to try to get to the top of search engine rankings - which it has done successfully - so anyone who searches for it gets a clear answer, rather than just marketing fluff. I noticed that the Pages widget on the right was missing, which I've now reinstated, but here's the background to why I did it: https://whatisbifidusregularis.org/about-this-site/
by whstl | 2025-05-29 10:22:49+00:00
> You will have to prove yourself a bit more to get hired there, of course.

What you're implying here is extremely disrespectful and uncalled for. This phrase alone says much more about you than it does about me.

The point of my story is that taking cheap shots at your interlocutor isn't the way to build software, or win discussions. Let's at least aim to be a bit more respectful towards each other here.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-05-29 10:23:07+00:00
Sounds interesting, although quite confusing. Then again, I find most thing Japanese confusing, so that’s likely cultural bias. I’m curious to hear how this develops and what we can learn from this experiment.

> Their digital addresses will not change even if their physical addresses change.

This is really weird. What happens when two roommates move to different addresses and a third stays behind?
by adwn | 2025-05-29 10:23:28+00:00
> Himal Gautam, the director of Nepal’s tourism department, which is responsible for regulating expeditions on the nation’s mountains, said in an interview that using the gas was “against climbing ethics,” […]

Okay, but then be consistent and also ban bottled oxygen and the services of Sherpas.

> […] and that it would hurt the country’s tourism industry and the Sherpas who help climbers by reducing their time on the mountain.

Ah, okay, there's the real reason. "Climbing ethics" my ass.
by natmaka | 2025-05-29 10:25:28+00:00
> plenty of anti-nuclear money floating about years ago

They had much more efficient targets than old waste dumped in the ocean, especially after Tchernobyl and Fukushima!

>> It would have been way more expensive.

> I was coming from the radiation protection perspective

It seems indeed less risky from this perspective, however my point was about the total cost for the nuclear industry: dumping from barges is a breeze, digging the ocean floor is way less easy (and therefore cheap).

Many in the nuclear industry maintain the (quite old and until now vain) hope of obtaining a model of industrial breeder reactor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor ), and therefore are opposed to any waste-disposal option which makes waste-recovery more difficult.

> Industrial accidents do happen

AFAIK in every industrialized nation each and every sector of the industry HAS buy an adequately insurance (civil liability). Nuclear power is the sole exception: it is insured mainly at the taxpayer's expense and the reimbursement limit is ridiculously low. In France a study published by the official nuclear institute (IRSN) showed that a major accident on a single reactor may cost more than 400 billions euros (French ahead: https://www.irsn.fr/savoir-comprendre/crise/cout-economique-... ) , and the limit is about 700 million €. 3 orders of magnitude... The local Cour of Audit periodically yells about this. In the USA the limit is set at 16.1 billion USD ( https://environmentamerica.org/media-center/statement-federa... ).
by quotemstr | 2025-05-29 10:25:47+00:00
That's the culture that's emerged in tech over the past few years: a rejection of technical rigor and an abuse of language to ape, poorly, the cachet of past accomplishments. This thing is a "time travel debugger" (it isn't). A program to bundle typescript into an executable is called a "compiler". They use cool-sounding words without the substance.
by jbverschoor | 2025-05-29 10:27:28+00:00
I’d say anything except long running processes or scripts that take 5+ second to complete.

Cli scripts/apps should simply be responsive, just like websites and apps shouldn’t be slow to open.

Slower scripts result in distraction, which ultimately leads to hackernews being in front of your nose again.

A few of my examples:

Resizing/positioning windows using shortcut keys. Unbearable if it’s not instantaneous.

Open a terminal based on some criteria. Annoying if I have to wait.
by 3abiton | 2025-05-29 10:28:02+00:00
The only way this would work is with "leaks". But even then as we saw with everything on the internet, it just added another guardrail on content. Now I can't watch youtube videos without logging in, and nearly every website I need to solve some weird ash captchas. It's becoming easier to interact with this chatbots rather than search for a solution online. And I wonder with Veo 4 copy cats, it might be even easier to prompt for a video rather than search for one.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-05-29 10:28:29+00:00
This sounds like cross-shipping, where you ship to a distribution centre which then ships to the final destination. My guess is that this is more expensive and slower for a lot of cases (this is typically cheaper for extremely high volumes or cross-continental shipping).

Shops with which I’ve worked will have several different carriers pick up packages during the week. Some pickups are for city-local packages, where others are cross-province packages. Finally, lots of packages are delivered from the shop directly by motorbike. The logistics are quite different for each, and they use different providers depending on situation.

Shipping everything to one location that redistributes would explode in both costs and complexity.
by acquisitionsilk | 2025-05-29 10:28:34+00:00
Step 1. Dev trusts Microsoft

Step 2. ...?

I don't mean to be facetious here. It's just that if GitHub doesn't end up going through the usual enshittification process, it'll be quite the anomaly.

Now, maybe it'll be an anomaly, exceptions to rules exist. But it just seems to be an endless cycle, trusting these companies, getting burnt, trusting again, getting burnt again. Is there no end to the cycle? Is there some new pressure on these companies to behave better that was not there before, and therefore we should all give them (yet) another chance?

I don't see why we would, personally. It even seems obvious to me that we shouldn't. Like in an abusive relationship, no matter the regret and the promises, eventually you've to say enough is enough, and ideally sooner rather than later. Nonetheless, it's very common practice for people who appear at least superficially like smart people to trust these companies a second, third, fourth time.

Either these apparently smart people know something I don't, or they like getting paid large amounts of money so much that they'll stay quiet and use the popular services and simply use their tech savvy to jump to a new thing quickly when the shit hits the fan. Or maybe I just prefer being cynical, and it's a personality thing. Someone, educate me here.
by ddingus | 2025-05-29 10:28:49+00:00
Well, after a bit of fiddling, Textual also worked on my Android running Termux.

Spiffy!

I like this one a bit less than I do the all text mode, though I will have to go through a bunch of widgets to see if that remains true.

Requiring Python seems a bit excessive, compared to the other one with works more lime the author intended, I believe.

Thanks for these. Interesting to look at.