MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-05-29 23:09:49+00:00
I'm a little bit sympathetic to the general idea of more restrictive licenses (not on this criteria), but one of the realities is that it's going to exclude more than just the people expressly excluded.

Reasons other people might also want to avoid the software include:

* Its lifecycle might be encumbered by this license (e.g., not included by some distros, and the general open source user base puts its contributions behind something more inclusive or accessible).

* For some purposes, a nonstandard license needs special vetting by lawyers for approval, and this one has what I'd guess are some legal and PR bombs in it.

* The author may be a reasonable and principled person, with their heart in the right place, who's exercised their rights in how they license their creations... But are they reacting from some crisis mode of concern about all the wrongs in the world, and could this mode deteriorate into unwelcome surprises from the much more limited perspective of third-party software users? (Will the project become abandoned? Will someone push out undesirable or even trojan software changes? Will the banned parties list be expanded in some way untenable for you?)
by mtlynch | 2025-05-29 23:11:21+00:00
Datastar doesn't seem like a good match for me. It requires unsafe-eval in CSP[0], which basically forfeits the benefit of CSP. I like htmx, as it's mostly compatible with CSP, though it does weaken it slightly.

I enjoy writing Zig but I don't think it's a good tool for web programming. For a basic CRUD web app, I'm willing to sacrifice performance for memory safety, as I don't want to risk malicious input gaining RCE on my server.

[0] https://data-star.dev/reference/security#content-security-po...
by jermaustin1 | 2025-05-29 23:11:37+00:00
> not many people will buy an extra plane ticket to save 30% off both.

That was kind of the premise of a movie I watched last night where a couples retreat offered a group discount for 4 couples or something.

So I could see it being "Bring your friends for 30% off!" being a cool summer promotion to beach destinations or something.
by slashdev | 2025-05-29 23:11:44+00:00
I came here to say this, but you explained it better than I could have. At 3% odds, it's not worth it to participate in this market because a money market fund gives a better return, even if you believe the odds of this happening are 0 (and they're never 0, there was a first coming of Jesus after all, you don't have to believe in the supernatural to see how it could happen.)
by max_on_hn | 2025-05-29 23:12:20+00:00
I 100% agree that documenting requirements will be the main human input to software development in the near future.

In fact, I built an entirely headless coding agent for that reason: you put tasks in, you get PRs out, and you get journals of each run for debugging but it discourages micro-management so you stay in planning/documenting/architecting.
by CoolCold | 2025-05-29 23:13:26+00:00
> Bash has a huge number of footguns, and a rather unusual syntax. It's not a language where you can safely let a junior developer tweak something in a script and expect it to go well.

I'd say as someone who started with shell/bash in ~ 2000 to cater Linux systems, it's quote usual syntax and I believe that's true for many sysadmins.

No way I'd like to deal with opaque .Net or even Go stuff - incapable of doing "bash -x script.sh" while debugging production systems at 3AM. And non production as well - just loosing my time (and team time) on unusual syntax, getting familiar with nuget and ensuring internet access for that repos and pinging ITSec guys to open access to that repos.

> let a junior developer tweak something in a script and expect it to go well

let developers do their job, writing bash scripts is something extraordinary for dev team to do, just because - where they expected to apply it? I can imagine "lonely dev startups" situations only, where it may be reasonably needed
by theandrewbailey | 2025-05-29 23:14:23+00:00
> On the other hand, if you want to extend the life of your Ubuntu 20.04 installation, then you can sign up for an Ubuntu Pro subscription that is free for personal use (up to 5 machines).

The nag messages in the SSH MOTD to upgrade to Ubuntu Pro (because I had the audacity to run 20.04 in 2023) was one of the reasons I moved away from Ubuntu.
by disposition2 | 2025-05-29 23:15:07+00:00
Is there anyone who could point me to a way to get this running and served up via a stream that is consumable via VLC?

I have an hdhomreun and watch my antenna via IPTV apps and would love to have a personal “weather channel” on my TV.

I’ve looked in to this in the past, using a node program to take screenshots of the page and try to splice things together with ffmpeg but it was quite awful and didn't work well.

I also wasn’t sure how to have this all ‘spin up’ when the stream is accessed, vs running all the time…but I suppose that is less important.

I'll take any advice! Thank you!
by rchaud | 2025-05-29 23:15:10+00:00
In the long run, Flash was a blip on the web. 2004-2010 tops.

NNGroup "best practices" have been obsolete for at least 15 years, because the purpose of a website is no longer about displaying free information. Websites have become a fully commercial enterprise focused on conversion, so every trick in the book is used:

- Infinite scroll and autoplaying video on social media and blogspam sites

- Layouts shifting after content load because of the Javascript ad delay

- "Other Articles you might like" blocks in the middle of an article

- "Subscribe to our email newsletter" popups/modals everywhere

- "You are reading 1 of x free articles" dickbars

and that's just scratching the surface.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-05-29 23:15:43+00:00
> They would've known about God 3,000 years ago. No, Chinese and Native Americans and etc did not ignore him. Abraham was of a pagan land when he first encountered God.

What do you mean? Did the non-Judeo-Christian faiths know about him or not? What was their relationship to it?

> But we in 2025 have the hindsight of seeing what happened globally after that and spread it did.

Sure, it only took thousands of years and a co-opting of the original message by an apocalyptic Galilean preacher changing the message and constant re-envisioning through history. And if the end game is half people in the world still not believing (if we generously assume that both Christianity and Islam are equal and valid in the eyes of the Hewbrew god), I guess mission accomplished.

> I don't think it is a coincidence that specific groups of people received revelation the way they did, when considering things like the quality of their oral and written history. Would you pick a region of people who don't know how to write and barely know how to talk, or a region of people who are highly skilled in both?

But in the case of a place like China, writing was definitely in the cards. Ancient Babylon had writing long before that as well, so that's not a good reason.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-29 23:16:39+00:00
Re off topic

The topic was about gambling on the return of Christ. I shared Biblical prophecy about the end times, including pre-conditions for Christ's return. That should establish whether such a wager would be correct or incorrect. Also, Christ commanded us to always share His Gospel and point people to Him when He is the topic.

Re my wager

Christ warned to have nothing to do with people who were making claims about His return before the Second Coming. That they're liars and schemers. See below in v26-27:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.%2024&vers...

So, no I didnt bet. I'll also have nothing to do with that. I also think the Bible leans against gambling. It also becomes a household-destroying addiction for many. So, no to other forms of gambling, too.
by sagiadinos | 2025-05-29 23:17:38+00:00
I've just published the first alpha release of Garlic-Hub, an open-source platform for managing digital signage networks, after 7 months of work.

It’s built around the open SMIL standard and aims to be self-hostable, scalable, and hardware-agnostic.

Key points:

- Open source (GPL): Community-driven, transparent.

- SMIL-based: Compatible with most SMIL media players (e.g. IAdea, QBic, garlic-player, and others).

- Self-hostable: Designed for full control over infrastructure and data. (Docker install)

Status: Core features are usable, but it’s still early and some rough edges remain.

Docker images available (x86 + ARM64): https://hub.docker.com/r/sagiadinos/garlic-hub

Source + setup instructions: https://github.com/sagiadinos/garlic-hub

Feedback, bug reports, and contributions are very welcome.
by echelon | 2025-05-29 23:18:24+00:00
Hey Ben, thanks for participating in this thread. And certainly also for all you and your team have built.

Totally frank and possibly awkward question, you don't have to answer: how do you feel about a16z investing in everyone in this space?

They invested in you.

They're investing in your direct competitors (Fal, et al.)

They're picking your downmarket and upmarket (Krea, et al.)

They're picking consumer (Viggle, et al.), which could lift away the value.

They're picking the foundation models you consume. (Black Forest Labs, Hedra, et al.)

They're even picking the actual consumers themselves. (Promise, et al.)

They're doing this at Series A and beyond.

Do you think they'll try to encourage dog-fooding or consolidation?

The reason I ask is because I'm building adjacent or at a tangent to some of this, and I wonder if a16z is "all full up" or competitive within the portfolio. (If you can answer in private, my email is [my username] at gmail, and I'd be incredibly grateful to hear your thoughts.)

Beyond that, how are you feeling? This is a whirlwind of a sector to be in. There's a new model every week it seems.

Kudos on keeping up the pace! Keep at it!
by inopinatus | 2025-05-29 23:18:32+00:00
The situation is more akin to a much earlier situation in chess, from 1997, in that Deep Blue could only beat Kasparov with a dedicated team of IBM engineers and GM consultants revising the code between matches, and it still needed a human to interact with the actual chessboard.

We remain a very long way from “ChatGPT will see you now”.

In the meantime, in the real world, I suspect the infamous "Dr Google" is being supplanted by "Dr LLM". It will be difficult to ethically study whether even this leads to generally better patient outcomes.

_________

edit: clarity
by puppycodes | 2025-05-29 23:21:02+00:00
Sure thing, but it would be great to be able to see examples of the app on a mobile device when visiting the site. Otherwise I have zero incentive to open it on my other device. My 2 cents is don't bank on being mysterious. Show us the goods without making us sign up, change devices, or work for it.

I personally loathe this trend of making us login after giving us a prompt box.

Just show us the app, your github does this well! Otherwise your lost in the sea of AI marketing pitches that overwhelm us daily.
by na4ma4 | 2025-05-29 23:21:33+00:00
I think they're just using hyperbole for the watershed moment when you start to understand your first programming language.

At first it's all mystical nonsense that does something, then you start to poke at it and the response changes, then you start adding in extra steps and they do things, you could probably describe it as more of a Eureka! moment.

At some point you "learn variables" and it's hard to imagine being in the shoes of someone who doesn't understand how their code does what it does.

(I've repeated a bit of what you said as well, I'm just trying to clarify by repeating)
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-05-29 23:22:02+00:00
I would hope that, in cases like this, a number of employees that have access to the source code bring it with them to allow the setup of a competitor.

I'm aware this probably crosses various copyright and other boundaries in law, but these kinds of acquisitions need to have something that pushes back against them. I believe they're a net negative for society and society is meant to be setup to have disincentives for behaviour that results in net negatives.

Ultimately, what appears to be Bending Spoons' strategy should be disallowed by law. At least some time frame like a vesting schedule whereby at least x% of employees must be retained for y amount of time.

Might seriously slow down acquisitions, but that won't cause me any sleepless nights.
by e_ameisen | 2025-05-29 23:22:12+00:00
Hi, paper author here.

This is a new tool which relies on existing introspection libraries like TransformerLens (which is similar in spirit to Garcon) to build an attribution graph. This graph displays intermediate computational steps the model took to sample a token.

For more details on the method, see this paper: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/met....

For examples of using it to study Gemma 2, check out the linked notebooks: https://github.com/safety-research/circuit-tracer/blob/main/...)

We also document some findings on Claude 3.5 Haiku here: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...)
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-29 23:22:38+00:00
PG&E is expensive even when compared to the entire Western grid. I went and added up the revenues for all the major utilities in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah. That's APS, NV Energy, Pacificorp, PSCo, PSCNM, and SRP.

All of their 2024 revenues combined are ~$22B vs PG&E's $24.4B, to cover an area 3x larger with just over half the population and even drier climates. All of those states have lower average rates as well.

PG&E is uniquely expensive for no legitimate reason that I've ever been able to discern.
by kevingadd | 2025-05-29 23:22:43+00:00
People have been operating on trust that search engine rankings are largely based on content quality/relevance/popularity, and that ads are marked as ads. And then the assumption was you would click through the top rankings to find something that actually met your needs, vs just buying one of the three results ChatGPT gives you.

It's true that there's nothing stopping Google Search from being a morally bankrupt operation though.
by sellmesoap | 2025-05-29 23:23:21+00:00
I don't know much about the contents and outcomes of twinkies, but a search for "soy endocrine" gave me this https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5646220/ a mixed bag, but higher reports of reproductive cancer, prolonged menstrual bleeding for young women stood out as reasons I might limit my intake, and the same for my children.

I've heard personal accounts of vegan friends turning to meat and dairy to keep up with their fitness demands (studying yoga in Astanga, and Olympic lifting.) I've been vegie for parts of my life, but it sure is a loaded topic!
by k__ | 2025-05-29 23:24:26+00:00
Fair.

At least with LLMs I had the impression there is a fairly strong open source movement, even from some of the big players.

Llama and DeepSeek aren't SOTA, but they get better at similar speed as the proprietary models, they are just a few steps behind.

There are even initiatives like Gemma, where they optimize the stuff of yesteryear for consumer hardware.

If that keeps going, everyone can have the models in the form they like. Maybe not the best ones that are currently on the market, but still.
by sleepyguy | 2025-05-29 23:25:57+00:00
Most people can't afford to buy a vehicle—new or used—without financing. When selling a used car privately, you're really targeting a specific type of buyer: someone with cash who can pay outright. That's one reason dealerships are so popular for used car purchases—they offer financing options.

Many people also prefer to avoid the hassle of selling privately and instead choose to sell their vehicles to a dealer.

It might sound odd, but buyers often trust dealers more because they believe they’ll have some recourse if something goes wrong with the vehicle. Most don’t have the knowledge or confidence to thoroughly inspect a car themselves.

Personally, I always buy and sell privately. I’m honest with every buyer and confident in my ability to assess a car’s condition. But I know I’m in the minority—probably just 1% of car buyers.

Can I ask what kind of vehicle you were selling? That will also dictate the kind of buyers you're going to get.
by disqard | 2025-05-29 23:26:23+00:00
(Totally sarcastic here)

Maybe it'll be a collar you wear around your neck.

You can "sub-vocalise" and talk to it.

Jony Ive can make sure it's styled and made out of shell cordovan leather or somesuch -- the fanbois are gonna go wild for it.

Soon, everywhere you look, people will look like they're into BDSM.

(and guess who will "Dominate" you?)
Show HN: I built a marketing agent to spy on your competitors
by jake-qwokka | 2025-05-29 23:26:49+00:00
Hi everyone!

My cofounder and I are great at building but suck at marketing. We couldn't afford to hire a marketing professional, so we ended up building an agent instead to review our competitor's ads, tell us what's working, and basically tell us how to run our marketing.

Check it out! https://trypeggy.ai

Cheers
by whatgoodisaroad | 2025-05-29 23:27:27+00:00
there's a really interesting book called "When Prophecy Fails" that documents a doomesday cult. the cult had predicted a huge flood sometime in the 1950s and some sociologists infiltrated the group posing as believers to document their psychological response to the calamity not occuring

one of the core theses of the book is that adherents to a prophecy paradoxically believe in it much more strongly AFTER it's been disproven
by skywhopper | 2025-05-29 23:27:33+00:00
Yes, what Google has become is exactly the lesson we should all be looking at. It used to be a great way to find resources online. Then ads crept in, then it started extracting the answers it claimed to think you wanted, now it jams AI in there too.

So, how will that go with LLM tools which start with you already entirely separated from the sources, with no real way to get to them?
by josephcsible | 2025-05-29 23:27:34+00:00
Indeed. This reminds me of the story about Osama bin Laden's death vs. Margaret Thatcher's death from https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin... (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37406719 and a few other times).
by burnt-resistor | 2025-05-29 23:27:56+00:00
Yep. That's pretty much what it used to look like on cable and satellite TV in the late 90's/early 00's. Just missing the scan lines. Pretty awesome that you can skip sections. It needs terrible elevator music (mellow jazz) and occasional announcers to voice over and unenthusiastically explain what's already obvious in front of a green screen.
by twoodfin | 2025-05-29 23:27:57+00:00
Why is anyone forced to reverse engineer the pricing scheme? Simply decide if the ticket is worth the money to you. You typically have other airlines to compare to, other fares on the same airline for different itineraries, and other modes of transit entirely.

Just because some people won’t buy anything that isn’t on a coupon doesn’t mean coupons are bad.
Dual Fuel Generator: need both?
by cranky908canuck | 2025-05-29 23:28:00+00:00
Please let me know if there is a better place to post this, looking for broad knowledge!

I am considering buying a generator for 'glamping' and and emergency preparedness (in a seismic zone). I already have a lithium PSU (since the glamping use case means I can't use the motor genset when I need the power). Absent the emergency prep, I'd live with the lithium unit (1.5kW/1.2kWh).

I would really like to avoid gasoline appliances, but generators seem to be either gas or dual (gas/propane). Agreed that for EP, handling both is a plus.

Looking for experience with this (and advice about "should I run it with gasoline every so often...?").
by galaxyLogic | 2025-05-29 23:28:35+00:00
Coding is not like multiplication. You can teach kids the multiplication table, or you can give them a calculator and both will work. With coding the problem is the "spec" is so much more complicated than just asking what is 5 * 7.

Maybe the way forward would be to invent better "specifiction languages" that are easy enough for humans to use, then let the AI implement the specifciation you come up with.
by bdbenton5255 | 2025-05-29 23:28:39+00:00
The human ability to design computer programs through abstractions and solve creative problems like these is arguably more important than being able to crank out lines of code that perform specific tasks.

The programmer is an architect of logic and computers translate human modes of thought into instructions. These tools can imitate humans and produce code given certain tasks, typically by scraping existing code, but they can't replace that abstract level of human thought to design and build in the same way.

When these models are given greater functionality to not only output code but to build out entire projects given specifications, then the role of the human programmer must evolve.
by b3ing | 2025-05-29 23:29:17+00:00
They own meet up, doubled the price and added features that do nothing to help groups like paying to see who attends a group, who cares, it was free to know before. Yet finding groups isn’t easy, they focus on events and hide the group info. But it’s all about the group not the event, people need to know what the group is about otherwise it’s just a damn calendar
by metalman | 2025-05-29 23:30:06+00:00
I hestitate, but ok, blunter then,Mr,umm, Mr ummmm, hmmmmmmm , ANYWAY, the only other datum I retain is that the informatiin was contained in a regular published article (from the internet), and not a blog or forum, and was not a "hype" piece, just strait across the plate journalism if I had the spit, and the time I would wade through trying out various search terms, but I cant quite face the internet trying to sell me whatever wild missinterpretation of "space x resonce engineering chief retires"(2024)......I am betting they run with "retires", but refuse to look
Show HN: UTTS – Python toolkit to compare any Text-to-Speech models
by arch1baald | 2025-05-29 23:30:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Dave, and I built UTTS—a universal text-to-speech interface that makes large-scale comparisons of TTS models as frictionless as running a single script. Instead of juggling multiple UIs, you can now spin up a Colab notebook or install via pip in seconds.

Why UTTS?

I needed to benchmark dozens of voices and settings across open-source models and commercial APIs, but switching UIs was a huge time sink.

It’s designed for extensibility—drop in new models by implementing a simple interface, then run unified evaluations.

It’s not focused on real-time inference or deep integration with a single model; it’s all about batch comparisons.

Get started

GitHub: https://github.com/arch1baald/utts?tab=readme-ov-file#utts

Colab demo: https://colab.research.google.com/github/arch1baald/utts/blo...

I’d love feedback on new model integrations, metric ideas, UX improvements, or any features you’d like to see. Feel free to comment here or open an issue on GitHub.

Enjoy,

– Dave
by tsegratis | 2025-05-29 23:32:37+00:00
;) i love critical questions

> As if anything else mattered but a clean moral behavior

this is actually a strongly non-Christian view point: 'all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God' i.e. no morals are clean enough unless it's 100% of God (why should he accept less?). yes, our harsh moral failures, or even successes could never be enough

hence 100% humanity and divinity of Christ -- he alone provides a 100% perfect bridge, paying 100% the cost for us, one that was infinitely beyond our ability to pay

this is 100% grace, joy, freedom and surety. thanks be to him