MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Havoc | 2025-05-25 22:53:37+00:00
To what end?

Surely a community college level education is more conducive to getting a job. And if aim is to make money I'd probably attempt something closer to neal.fun or levels.io not this. If you're not getting the piece of paper then you maybe as well yolo it

What does that leave? Straight interest only learning for the sake of it?
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-25 22:53:43+00:00
I agree. I actually named my submission "Finally releasing 90s.dev" but the HN mods changed it to the current "Show HN: ..." title. They based it on the second section of my blog, which I changed to "New game making platform that runs on the web" and added a tl;dr section essentially clarifying that the HN title is not accurate (without blaming the HN mods; it was my fault). But yes I agree with the rest of what you said. What I should have done is added some kind of waitlist. Oh well. I'll keep that in mind for the next release I guess.
by pasta67 | 2025-05-25 22:53:52+00:00
I was so looking for this type of comment.

There is no survivor bias, you [insert insult]!

So many of those games were really bad even at their time. BUT YOU CAN STILL PLAY THEM. I've tossed many games out of my catalogue and for some I wished they vanish from existence and they all have survived!

While article is recycling narrative - it has a reason, but your recycled opinion is not only wrong but has no reason other than lowkey nitpick article.
by kassner | 2025-05-25 22:54:01+00:00
I can’t claim I’m the first one to think about this, but every time Ticketmaster shows up on HN I keep coming back to this idea:

Sell the tickets with regressive price based on time. Sales starts say 2 months before event, initial price is truly exorbitant, say one million dollars. Price decreases linearly down to zero (or true cost price). At any point, people can see current price and the seats left.

Now every potential spectator is playing a game of chicken: the more you wait, the lower the price, but also lower are the chances that you’ll have a ticket. That would capture precisely the maximum amount of dollars that each person is willing to pay for it.

This idea sounds extremely greedy, because it is, so I can’t fathom that no one ever pitched this in a Ticketmaster board meeting.

My idea, however, was a bit less greedy. Once you sold the last ticket, that would be your actual (and fair) price-per-ticket for the concert, and everyone would be refunded the difference. You’ll never know how low it will go, so you shouldn’t overpay and hope it will lower later. I’m pretty sure Ticketmaster will skip this last part if they decide to implement this.

There are multiple issues with my idea, it’s elitist, promotes financial risks on cohorts poorly capable to bear them, etc etc, but it will definitely fix the scalpers problem. Pick your poison.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-25 22:54:08+00:00
I'm currently beating around the bush on building a GitHub clone minus react, copilot, etc.

There's no reason I should have my browser tabs crash when I view a pull request involving more than 100 files. The page should already have been generated on the server before I requested it. The information is available. All that remains are excuses and wasted CPU cycles.
by manofmanysmiles | 2025-05-25 22:54:20+00:00
So what would happen if you placed a giant dice rolling machine to control a weapon systems based on the outcome of rolling dice?

Seems like it's unknown, and anyone doing so with the expectation that it is anything but a gamble is missing the whole point.

If you don't want your weapons influenced by randomness, don't connect them to systems that rely on randomness for decision making.
by antihipocrat | 2025-05-25 22:54:22+00:00
You raise great points here. It's very interesting how the term racist (from the post you're responding to) gets thrown around by people to shut down every side of the discussion depending on what their objectives are.

It's racist for people born in or who are citizens of a country - today - to resist the governing class allowing foreigners to immigrate to benefit the economy AND it's racist policy - historically - for a governing class to push immigration on a natively born population for economic reasons.
by greentec | 2025-05-25 22:55:16+00:00
https://sublevelgames.github.io/blogs/2025-05-24-armor-games...

I analyzed 7 years of Armorgames.com data (999 games) to understand web gaming market trends.

Key findings that might interest fellow developers:

User standards are rising: Average ratings dropped from 7.02 (2018) to 6.45 (2025), but the percentage of high-quality games (8.5+ rating) actually increased from 12.3% to 14.7%. This suggests quality polarization rather than overall decline.

Genre trends: Rising: Idle games, Strategy, RPGs (deeper gameplay mechanics) Declining: Traditional arcade/action games Stable: Puzzle and Adventure (web gaming staples)

Innovation wins: The highest-rated "hidden gems" all had one thing in common - innovative mechanics rather than genre variations. Games like "Detective Bass: Fish Out of Water" (9.3 rating) and "SYNTAXIA" (9.1 rating) show originality still pays off.

Market maturation: The correlation between rating and popularity is surprisingly weak (0.126), suggesting quality ≠ virality. However, play count strongly correlates with favorites (0.712).
by wtf242 | 2025-05-25 22:55:22+00:00
recently launched book recommendations feature for my books side project that I put a LOT of work into. I might be biased but I think it works well as long as you give it your favorite books.

https://thegreatestbooks.org/recommendations?demo=tgb2025

warning: account required, and the full featured version where you can specify book length, include/exclude genres/subjects, etc requires a membership. if you would like to test it though just e-mail me at contact@thegreatestbooks.org and I'll mark your account as paid.
by heliographe | 2025-05-25 22:55:54+00:00
I just shipped a camera app for iPhone dedicated to Bayer RAW capture (that's the true, unprocessed sensor output of your device - not Apple's ProRAW which is already demosaic'd and has noise reduction, etc).

https://bayercam.app

I had fun with the interface - it's themeable, and inspired by classic cameras: lets you quickly switch between full auto/half auto/full manual modes with dedicated dials.

Going to add more features in the coming months, but the #1 focus is keeping it super simple and blazing fast.

Given that virtually all processing pipelines these days stack multiple shots to create a photo, as far as I'm aware this is the only way of getting a "traditional" single-exposure photo on iPhone, where the shutter speed is actually meaningful.

There are other camera apps that support Bayer RAW capture, but those support a bunch of other formats, and you probably don't want Bayer RAW for most of your shots anyways, so for my own workflow it's better to have a dedicated app that I can launch really quickly rather than tap around in menus.
by avianlyric | 2025-05-25 22:56:01+00:00
Where there’s space, this has already been done. Unfortunately for many lines there simply isn’t space.

Just about every abandoned station, elevator shaft, and maintenance tunnel on the network is already fitted out with huge fans where possible.

TfL also runs a semi-continuous works project that looks a custom and novel one-off cooling solutions that can be retrofitted into whatever space is left. Including complicated hydronic systems that pump around huge quantities of water where the infrastructure allows for it.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-05-25 22:56:17+00:00
Because there is a perverse incentive for performers to lean into scalping: selling out quickly is a mark of success. NPR's "Planet Money" had an episode a while back that covered exactly this.

Not all artists lean into it of course, and it's usually not the actual artists anyway but labels, producers, etc.

In that same episode they covered how LiveNation owns both TicketMaster and many venues themselves, and leverage access to the venues for power in the ticketing market.

It may have been this one but I'm not 100%: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/25/195641030/epis...
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-25 22:56:37+00:00
After searching Bing Images and asking Copilot and refining my search to exclude men’s hairstyles, I am still mystified about the difference between cuts, and I can only conclude that either I’ve never been served a top-cut, or I am completely indifferent and I eat too fast to notice.

Oh, I think I get it: the “top” refers to the rising side of the bread and not the narrow end. Because the end is the “top” when I’m putting it in my mouth.

Signed,

A guy who doesn’t bake bread
by zeroCalories | 2025-05-25 22:57:05+00:00
Young people are an investment. Old people are purley a liability. This is true regardless of how they're cared for, when looking at it from a macro perspective. How the pie is split matters when talking about the sustainability of the system. Could you survive if 90% of your value is in investments? Maybe. 90% in liabilities? Probably not.

Having people fund their own retirement would be ideal from a economic standpoint, but given the histories and complexities of existing systems, it is probably not acceptable politically, or morally, in any country. Honestly it's a distraction.

At the end of the day, a country cannot tolerate too many freeloaders. It doesn't matter if they're pensioners or retired at 50, living to 100 hedge fund managers. Productivity is really the only thing that matters for a countrie's economic destiny.
by oliwary | 2025-05-25 22:57:23+00:00
My favorite sideprojects are daily games. One I am currently enjoying building is VideoPuzzle: https://videopuzzle.org/ where you have to unscramble a video split into 4x4 tiles.

We are up to almost 200 puzzles, with around 700 players per day. I've become much better at finding videos that work well as puzzles and am working on adding small quality of life updates.
by adityapurwa | 2025-05-25 22:57:43+00:00
I am currently working on AnythingSticker - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anything-sticker/id6745157608

An app that can turn anything into adorable stickers. In my region, people uses WhatsApp a lot, and there's this ability to create custom stickers. So we uses a lot of stickers on a conversation.
by dralley | 2025-05-25 22:57:59+00:00
It's difficult to understand your point given how this was written. However, it's worth pointing out that the Cuban doctor export scheme is, in fact, very profitable to the Cuban government.

Much less so to the doctors themselves, which frequently have to work in what amounts to conditions of indentured servitude. And they have no other option, as working as a domestic doctor in Cuba typically pays less than being a taxi driver.
by thephyber | 2025-05-25 22:58:59+00:00
A few months into creating iOS apps after working on large distributed web apps for decades. Just released the first called _My Conversation Curator_ (voice to text dictation + AI summary) with Halo West[1]. The next app may be an interactive assistant to help craft OKRs and KPIs.

Separately, working on building an app to assist with cipher analysis of things like Kryptos and Bitcoin/crypto puzzles. Loosely modeled after CyberChef, but a native app that is capable of far more detailed frequency analysis and brute forcing with the GPU.

Also, experimenting with LLM workflows for both work and the rest of life. Prompt engineering seems like an incredibly valuable skillset for the next decade.

[1] https://halo-west.com/
by LightBug1 | 2025-05-25 22:59:13+00:00
"frequently" ... about as useful as my "in my experience", lol

Sorry, I don't buy that argument re: second generation. I've lived and seen it. Perhaps my lived experience isn't representative but I don't see second generation citizens turning to crime or radicalisation in huge numbers. I see them at work, and looking after their families. I fear the brush you are using is so broad as to, sorry, be useless.
by Foreignborn | 2025-05-25 22:59:30+00:00
way too many people get hung up on the idea OP led with.

what OP has is a fully self hosted, private video feed that can alert for more sophisticated events like:

- is anything happening that shouldn’t be? - are things not where they’re supposed to be? - has anything fallen? (plants, things into the pool)

good job OP. i’m going to take a look at this in the next couple months.
by ChicagoDave | 2025-05-25 22:59:35+00:00
Remove the idea of "car" and think of auto-driven cubes with their own pathways within a city. Similar to subways, but can be above ground with covering. You don't need parking, streets, traffic signals, and a whole host of infrastructure is eradicated.

You go by behavior:

- I need to go to library, store (walk or bike) - I need to go a business or house (cube it) - I need to leave the city for long-distance travel (now we connect to mass-transit)
by ggm | 2025-05-25 22:59:50+00:00
Tying it to life expectency wasn't that novel, British statistians had been working on actuarial tables for two centuries before Bismark because a derivatives market had been created in them for annuities.

I think it's also not that stupid. The big revolution was making pension funding outside of the state so advantageous in tax terms, that people now park multiples beyond their life expectancies into them. I may struggle to empty mine, meanwhile many in the current workforce feel they may never get to retire.

It's badly out of whack.
by zeristor | 2025-05-25 22:59:55+00:00
Not if it was kept separate a metal box with fins could absorb the heat without leaking any humidity.

Besides at that temperature, more water can be absorbed in the air, so not just latent heat of melting, but heat absorbed in evaporation too.

Of course that would have to be wafted out, and not pumped were it just water.
by gosub100 | 2025-05-25 23:00:10+00:00
An interim solution would be to force carriers to upsize their jets to reduce total flights per day. Force any carrier who has wide-body aircraft to use them on domestic routes. heavily limit or ban the use of smaller commuter jets (replace them with 737s with fewer total flights). I'm sure they won't be happy about it, but it's a solution that could be implemented overnight and the larger carriers would have no problem adjusting. smaller ones could sell their slots or lease larger aircraft.
by cladopa | 2025-05-25 23:00:12+00:00
>I'd bet good money on at least 50% going for one or another form of violence), place their execs behind bars for a decade.

Why not send them to the firing squad? Or torturing them?

Some people have sociopathic tendencies. If your problem is scrappers making money the solution could not be creating a bigger problem like sending people to jail for a decade.

Comming recently from visiting Ukraine I can't help thinking how insignificant those pet problems are, while real crimes like kids being killed go impune every day... If the price of something is too high, just don't go there. It is not the end of the world.
by gruez | 2025-05-25 23:00:27+00:00
>You can speed up software development dramatically by simply copying the code that someone else was foolish/idealistic enough to store on GitHub, stripping out the copyright and licensing notices, and adapting it to your needs

That's not what people who are using AI for though? The typical use case is "write a program that does [insert business problem]". I highly doubt there's a codebase that solves that exact business problem.
by mrbungie | 2025-05-25 23:01:12+00:00
I'm not sure what to tell you, dismissing the article as posturing or superiority, without reading it, is at the very least ironic.

That being said, I'd just add (and perhaps the article fails to acknowledge this, maybe contributing to the perceived tone of superiority) that no one is completely safe from falling into these traps. We're more human than engineer, after all. It's easy to slip into complexity, for all sorts of reasons: ego, incentives, time pressure, misguided intellectual curiosity, or simply chasing what's familiar, even when familiar isn't the right fit for the context.

In my context, one funny pattern always shows up. I think of it as a data-related 'rite of passage': junior data engineers and data scientists often dismiss SQL as an old language, assuming it can be easily replaced by something shinier. But over time, they hit a wall: they can't match the speed, performance, or clarity of more experienced peers. Eventually, they come back to SQL and recognize its strengths (especially when paired with an imperative language for tasks like ML, plotting, or report generation). I was that junior once too, stubbornly trying to do everything in Python, only to learn the hard way that joins in pandas are not only slower but also far more painful to write than in good old SQL. It turns out that writing code which outperforms a mature SQL engine is extremely difficult, and realizing that takes a bit of humility and experience (which younger engineers usually haven't developed yet, and honestly, it's not expected from them either).
by satisfice | 2025-05-25 23:01:24+00:00
I am working on a critical thinking class based around the use of LLMs.

This involves exploring the ethics of using magic to accomplish tasks. The problem then boils down to a matter of epistemology— a testing problem. But testing is something you only do in the absence of trust. So critical thinking begins with the rejection of trust.

It’s been interesting to read about “Anomalistic Psychology” which is the study of magical thinking. Malinowsky commented that not a single canoe was built by Melanesian islanders without the use of magic, yet none of them would say that they could be built without craftsmanship.

Magic is the belief in the infallibility of hope, to paraphrase Malinowski. Which may explain why too many smart people are uncritical about LLMs.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-25 23:01:42+00:00
While I have little interest in humouring the idea that all of this boil down to an optimisation problem (it doesn’t - fiscal policies and social policies scarily live at the intersection of economy and politics - plus even from a pure economic point of view it is much more complicated than a simple optimisation problem and I do have an economic degree by the way), on top of you being frankly condescending while bringing little to the table which would somehow explain if not justify the attitude, you can certainly get away with far heavier inheritance taxes without actually hurting your economy in any meaningful way. You can also tax the rich a lot more heavily without hurting your economy in any meaningful way.

And I don’t ask you to believe me from the goodness of your heart. I think Piketty must have had something like half a dozen best sellers on this topic alone at this point.
by pengaru | 2025-05-25 23:01:56+00:00
Housing in the US isn't anywhere near as cost prohibitive as a vocal minority of people like to make it sound like it is.

You just have to give up on the Santa Monicas, San Franciscos, and Manhattans of the nation. There's plenty of affordable housing outside the top tier cities, and modern tech has made it easier than ever to work from practically anywhere on the planet.

The only people in their 40s I know of who are still renting that I would consider "forever renters" are being extraordinarily undisciplined with their finances and spend what they could be saving towards a down payment on credit card debt they self-inflicted.
by thejazzman | 2025-05-25 23:03:09+00:00
If that's how engineers used it, sure, but instead many pretend they're brilliant by committing 10k lines they don't understand.

I quit my last very good job because I became so fed up with this situation. It was bad enough before the CTO started using LLMs. It was ABSURD after.

(This was a YC company that sold quickly after I quit, at a loss, presumably because they didn't know what else to do)
by TrackerFF | 2025-05-25 23:03:55+00:00
I mean, makes sense? I live in Norway, so quite similar socioeconomics. People become older, so makes sense they have to work longer.

Imagine 50 years down the road, and the life expectancy is 90+ years. If people retired at age 65, that would mean you'd spend almost one third of your life as a retiree, living off a system which you paid into for 40-45 years.

But with that said, you can't expect a plumber, roofer, kindergarten teacher, etc. to work until they're 70. Your body will likely be shot years before that.

Chill office work, though? A senior colleague of mine just recently retired. He's 68, and wanted to work even longer - but had promised his wife that he'd retire for the past 5 years.
by pizzly | 2025-05-25 23:04:08+00:00
https://negativestarinnovators.com We been working on Thieves which monitors websites using AI agents. Users set natural language conditions for websites and get a email, Telegram, Discord, Webhook once their conditions has been met. We also have a REST API replicating the full functionality of Thieves.

Currently working on making it even more reliable, navigate pages and understand website images not just the text of the webpage. Also getting ready for a Product Hunt launch.
by avianlyric | 2025-05-25 23:04:32+00:00
> Should regenerative braking be disabled in aboveground trains when heat impacts reach uncomfortable levels in belowground tunnels?

It’s not that simple. You can’t just treat the entire line as some kind of perfect conductor that allows to you move unlimited amounts of energy around. In reality there’s issues with both the conductive capabilities of the lines themselves, but there’s also the simple problem that train lines aren’t generally electrically connected end-to-end for a few reasons.

1. You don’t want trains pulling power down more of the line than necessary, when it’s more efficient to draw power from other parts of the high voltage grid.

2. You don’t want a single track fault to cause your entire line to be forced to disconnect completely.

3. You don’t want your line to accidentally become a power carrier for electrical grid, just because the two ends of your line a physically located far enough apart that they experience different grid conditions.

As a result most train lines are broken up into electrically isolated segments, each with its own distinct power supply. So you could turn of regen on overground trains, but unless they happen to be sharing a section of track with underground trains, it doesn’t create any additional capacity to dump breaking energy into.
by pineaux | 2025-05-25 23:04:36+00:00
No this is incorrect. The VAT is paid by all the steps in the line and reclaimed until it hits the final seller. That seller collects the VAT and pays it to the taxman. If you import something into a European country, you pay VAT but the VAT is reclaimable basically immediately. Many European countries allow you to postpone the payment of vat as long as you are VAT-registered in that country. You can then declare it to your VAT tax return and basically deducted in the same return. So although the vat might give some cashflow problems, you cannot put it in the same ballpark as a tariff or import tax.
by jmalicki | 2025-05-25 23:04:41+00:00
This is a similar idea to a second price auction, but in reverse.

Everyone puts in their maximum price they're willing to pay, and the lowest price that fills the seats is what people pay.

The advantage to this model is that there is no financial risk to overpaying.

Of course with an open bid continuous auction there are problems with bid shading (manipulating the auction by posting prices mostly meant to influence other bidders), but it's overall economically very close to your idea.