MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cholantesh | 2025-05-01 02:44:07+00:00
But how do you even judge that? You have a dataset of n=1 with no control. Besides, wouldn't you expect to learn 'more effectively' with a young adult's brain than a pre-adolescent one, particularly if you were getting the right level of attention from a teacher and the pace of study was being accelerated as you moved through primary and secondary school?
Show HN: Minimal News eye relaxed Hacker News front end
by yasseen-codes | 2025-05-01 02:44:25+00:00
Minimal News

A fast, minimal, and eye-relaxed Hacker News reader built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS. This project focuses on a clean user interface and efficient data fetching using modern web technologies.

https://minimal-news-seven.vercel.app/

Features

Browse Top, New, Ask HN, Show HN, and Job stories. View individual story details and comments. Responsive design for various screen sizes. Eye-relaxed theme for comfortable reading. Dynamic metadata and basic SEO implementation. Independent loading states for content and pagination using Suspense. Subtle entry animations for a smoother user experience.

Technologies Used

Framework: Next.js (App Router)

Language: TypeScript

Styling: Tailwind CSS

UI Components: Shadcn UI

Animations: tw-animate-css

Data Fetching: Server Components, fetch API, Internal API Routes

External API: Hacker News API

source code : https://github.com/yasseen-codes/minimal-news

give me your feedback , leave a star if you liked it :)
by thenameless7741 | 2025-05-01 02:44:26+00:00
> it'll probably take a year for the FOSS community to implement and digest it completely

The local community seems to have converged on a few wrappers: Open WebUI (general-purpose), LM Studio (proprietary), and SillyTavern (for role-playing). Now that llama.cpp has an OpenAI-compatible server (llama-server), there's a lot more options to choose from.

I've noticed there really aren't many active FOSS wrappers these days - most of them have either been abandoned or aren't being released with the frequency we saw when OpenAI API first launched. So it would be awesome if you could share your wrapper with us at some point.
by jcranmer | 2025-05-01 02:45:49+00:00
> There isn’t a bridge or tunnel to accommodate a train to Queens, although a long-planned freight tunnel is under construction.

I assume this is referring to the proposed Cross Harbor Tunnel, which the furthest it's gotten is announcing the preparation of a Tier II EIS which appears to have nobody working on it, judging from recent FOIA requests (https://bqrail.substack.com/p/no-activity-on-the-cross-harbo...).
by WalterBright | 2025-05-01 02:46:07+00:00
The dictionary defines "hoard" as: "a stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded."

An investment in a company is not a "hoard".

You're free to make up your own definitions of words, but it doesn't work to expect others to adhere to them.

> it's a waste of my time to engage with you

I'm definitely the wrong person if you want to only engage with people who agree with you.
by Nursie | 2025-05-01 02:46:28+00:00
> "Stablecoins" or whatever the hell they're called seem like a wickedly efficient way to move money between businesses and countries without paying large fees or having to wait for clearance.

This seems to be 'regulatory arbitrage' rather than anything concrete to do with the tech though. i.e. there's nothing inherent in a stablecoin that can't be done more simply, it's just currently a way to skirt bureaucracy and fees, which are already diminishing in many places.
by mastazi | 2025-05-01 02:46:42+00:00
As others have noted this is basically security theater because many legitimate apps are being removed and many spammy apps are staying up.

I work at a company that created some whitelabel apps for some popular brands and recently the apps have been taken down for "impersonation" despite the fact that we presented all the necessary paperwork mutliple times before (documents signed by the legal owners of the trademarks).

This supposed "cleanup" operation of the Play Store is just a very sloppy attempt by Google, a company that should be able to do better given the its size and resources.
by cyberax | 2025-05-01 02:51:10+00:00
It's a more difficult argument. Consoles are not competing with regular general-purpose computers, and the console manufacturers go out of their way to make it impossible to install unapproved third-party software on them.

And since all the console manufacturers are selling the hardware at loss or with low margins, they can argue that it's just how the market works (free razors but expensive razor blades).
by ygreif | 2025-05-01 02:51:24+00:00
I love integrating into spreadsheets. Super easy to use. Reminds me a bit of mailmerge.

I don't have much experience with modern finetuning, but isn't it highly technical. How many layers do you want to change? What is the learning rate? Does that need to be visible to the user? How many examples are needed in practice
by levihanlen | 2025-05-01 02:54:38+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Levi Hanlen, the developer behind Varu AI: https://www.varu.us

Like many writers and readers, I had far more story ideas than time to write them all, and frankly, some stories I just wanted to read that didn't exist yet. I started building Varu AI to explore if AI could help draft these complex, long-form narratives in a more collaborative way.

Varu AI works scene-by-scene. It doesn't outline beforehand (apart from the scene outline right before each scene). The core idea is interactive guidance using what I call 'plot promises' – inspired by Brandon Sanderson's writing lectures on narrative structure. You define key plot points or character goals, and the AI works to fulfill them. If you don't like the direction, you can adjust these promises mid-stream to actively steer the story.

As a test case (which I wrote about recently), I used it to generate a 59,000-word sci-fi first draft in about 30 minutes of interaction. I'm also having it write me a 300,000 word novel (you can find this one on the website, called "Under Falling Banners". Currently still reading/generating it)

The biggest technical challenges are definitely maintaining long-range consistency of plot and managing the LLM context window effectively, while also being cost-effective. I've found that longer input prompts degrade the quality of the output. So I can't just stick in the last 50,000 words and call it a day (at least not yet). Currently, Varu AI uses techniques like dynamic scene summaries, but improving this is an ongoing effort.

It's still relatively early days – it's a public Beta. The output quality varies and absolutely produces a first draft requiring significant human editing and rewriting, not a finished, polished novel. But I'm actively innovating on the underlying systems, and I'm really excited for the future of Varu.

It's built with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Prisma, Postgres, and Stripe. Hosted on Vercel.

I'd love to get feedback from the HN community, especially from developers, writers, or anyone interested in the intersection of AI and creativity. Happy to answer any questions about the tech, the process, the challenges, or the philosophy behind it.

On that note, I'm particularly curious if others tackling long-context generation have found effective techniques beyond summarization that balance cost, speed, and quality well?
by marcus_holmes | 2025-05-01 02:55:22+00:00
There will always be some kind of work at this level. I did market research, which sucked, and fruit picking, which sucked, and warehouse order picking, which sucked, and bar work, which didn't suck too much, before getting into my career.

I think if we replaced all those jobs with robots, there would still be new, more interesting, work at this level that would emerge.

My favourite example of this is bank clerks. Every bank used to employ an army of clerks that did all the double-entry book-keeping by hand. Then we invented computers and that entire career vanished. All of the people who would have been bank clerks are now doing something else, almost certainly something else way more interesting than being a human spreadsheet. But at roughly the same pay level in roughly the same numbers as bank clerks used to be employed.
by robocat | 2025-05-01 02:58:12+00:00
How much does Apple select employees for loyalty when hiring? One-eyed competitive fanbois?

Companies do want smart machiavellian people that independently act in the interests of the company (archetypical C-suite executives).

Google has had a number of ethical employees damage Google from the inside.

A company can be damaged by smart motivated machiavellian employees using their skills against their own company.

I've noticed competitive gaming training/selecting people to win-at-all-costs. Presumably the C-suite is benefiting from the influx of people that understand manipulation and complexity.
by diego_moita | 2025-05-01 02:58:13+00:00
Saw this picture at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. There are a couple funny things about it:

* It is surprisingly small

* It is kinda "fuzzy" or "blurry", you can't detect too much brushwork.

* It is very expressive

But my favorite Vermeer is not this, it is View of Delft, also in the Mauritshuis. The colors, hues and textures on it are just amazing.

For Brazilians, a funny curiosity: Mauritshuis means House of Maurice. It is really the former residence of Maurice of Nassau (Maurício de Nassau), the governor of the Dutch colonies in Brazil. This museum also have some interesting works by Rugendas and other painters showing life in colonial Brazil and a very cool collection of puppets made with bread paste showing life in colonial Indonesia.

The Mauritshuis is a very good reason to visit The Hague. If you go there take a walk to the M.C. Escher museum too.
by musicale | 2025-05-01 02:59:10+00:00
csrankings considered harmful. Three conferences per area (networking only gets two as apparently it is not an important fiedl) seems crazy - note they had to split AI into a number of subfields.

IIRC Usenix ATC (and maybe Eurosys?) were not originally included on csrankings.

Coincident with Meyer's "fossilization" complaint, csrankings seems to ignore many conferences focused on emerging work, new ideas, or industry developments.

There also seem to be various field omissions such as theory, cloud computing, multimedia, optical networking and computing, storage and file systems, quantum, etc.

Although a good venue can increase visibility, and impact to some extent, ultimately the quality of the work is what matters most.
by lucyjojo | 2025-05-01 02:59:17+00:00
i think the "language of morality" is a sign of the problem but not at the core of it. especially when the morality itself flip/flops every other day.

i think the core of it is tribalism mixed to unrelenting fear-mongering.

tribalism is probably unavoidable. meanwhile the world is becoming more and more complex and unknowable and "anxiogène" (anxiety inducing? i do not have a good word for this).

education is meant to fight this... and it has been under attack for a while now.

the failure to educate renders the world even more unknowable for vast and wide swathes of the population; and i am not talking about a rich/poor divide here, the "tech bro" stereotype fits right there. a "complete education" is not seen as valuable anymore.

many people will throw away a chance at a better world in exchange of a bad world that they "get", this is a natural tendency. especially when the going is bad for the common folk.

my unsubstantiated opinion is that those reasons are why you see more and more simplified speech, simplified world views, anti-intellectualism and other ills prevail.

politics being dominated by corrupt thieves, sycophants, and immoral lobbyists certainly did not help... not mentioning the state of media (social and traditional).

tldr: - people are afraid so stick to their tribes - people do not/cannot trust the institutions anymore - education and thinking itself is under attack - people are hurting so they cling to what they can
by mappu | 2025-05-01 03:00:59+00:00
I wonder if Zhaoxin's VIA heritage is helping them or holding them back - because of the patents, they were the only ones allowed to try, but since x86_64 and SSE2 are both now more than 20 years old, most of the patents don't matter any more (and AVX is not far from the cutoff).

The breakaway ARM China or SpacemiT or Loongson could drop in an x86_64 frontend and might get better results.
by bentt | 2025-05-01 03:02:01+00:00
This company is so untrustworthy, I don't see how anyone could dedicate any time to working with their platform or technology. Any acts of benevolence that they are putting forth now are sure to be followed by the most underhanded rug pulls you can imagine. My guess is that they'll let the model out for free, but they'll want to own the "memory" that defines people that use it. Who knows, but they're definitely thinking about the future beyond just playing defense and using FB Ad money to artificially compete in this space by giving things away.
by milch | 2025-05-01 03:02:59+00:00
Adobe is the worst offender. I just checked and I have no less than 8 Adobe processes running on my macOS machine, without any Adobe apps running, and with all of the settings to run in the background or sync stuff turned off. I even have a script to nuke all of the services they install that I run every once in a while, but they just come back after a while. It's literally malware. If Photoshop and Lightroom weren't the best at what they do I'd be gone, but sadly they are.
by tptacek | 2025-05-01 03:03:13+00:00
This is an apples-oranges comparison, unless things have changed drastically since the last time I worked on L4 (about 10 years ago). L4 is very secure and easy to reason about. But that's because it doesn't really do anything. It makes a lot of sense as a platform to build a general purpose OS on, and as a bottom layer for what would otherwise be a unikernel. But you'd run a browser on top of something that itself runs on seL4, not on seL4 itself.
by IIAOPSW | 2025-05-01 03:03:21+00:00
There is absolutely a bridge or tunnel that takes a train to Queens. Its called Hells gate. Or the East River tunnels if you're ok with routing your freight ops through Penn Station (massive short cut).

One of those mostly invisible things people don't know about is the New York and Atlantic Railroad, which is basically a private group that has been contracted to take over the freight operations that were previously run by the Long Island Rail Road. You can see some of their locomotives in the picture.

The short line connecting railroad mentioned sounds like its the NY&NJ, which is actually a barge float operation between the 65th st yard and Bayonne iirc. There are certainly ways to avoid this barge, but they are rather circuitous, and could only maybe be done at night otherwise the slow freight trains would get in the way of normal passenger service on those tracks.

And describing an extra siding on the Bay Ridge Branch as a "new terminal" is a bit misleading.
by rasz | 2025-05-01 03:06:00+00:00
russia is absolute reverse of what you believe. putin didnt even blink about all the German gas trade when attacking Ukraine.

https://www.dw.com/en/the-history-of-nord-stream/a-58618313

"In the early 2000s, however, German politicians had developed a contrary, more liberal theory — that more economic interdependence between Russia and western Europe would create peace in the long run. As trade increased, democracy would inevitably prevail."

>Do we really want an isolated, independent and self-sufficient China?

China being cut off from ~15%? of their market does not mean China isolation, it means US rewriting Child labor laws to fill Walmart shelves.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/31/us-child-...

https://www.newsweek.com/child-labor-laws-changed-five-state...

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-la...
by Vortigaunt | 2025-05-01 03:06:10+00:00
I ctrl-f'd Oregon State and didn't find it in the link you provided. I think you found UofO's endowment: University of Oregon - $1.651

Wikipedia states that OSU's endowment is $829.9 million (2023).[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_University
by saurik | 2025-05-01 03:06:36+00:00
FWIW, the lawsuit went pretty far--all the way to an appeals court--but failed on what was ostensibly a statute of limitations issue that made very little sense and feels wrong :/. I still intend to write a giant article about it at some point, and probably do a long interview / lamentation about it on t3dotgg's YouTube channel... it just has felt so difficult to approach as the whole thing was so upsetting :(.
by boznz | 2025-05-01 03:09:15+00:00
You are really only correct in your last point as the advantage of RISC-V is to the company implementing their own core, not to the end user.

The reason is that CPU cores only form a tiny part of the SOC, the rest of the SOC is proprietary and likely to be documented to whatever level the company needs and the rest if available hidden under layers of NDA's. Just because the ISA is open source does not mean you know anything about the rest of the chip.

saying that, the C5 is a nice SOC, and it is nice that we have some competition to ARM.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-01 03:09:55+00:00
> if you already have a small business in the US making stuff that was hard to sell locally given the cheaper competition from abroad, people will have no choice but come to you.

Not true for many businesses. It’s common to have some inputs or machinery that is imported. Maybe you can win while you’re working through inventory and your machines aren’t breaking down, but if your COGS also go up with tariffs then it might not be a clear win.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-01 03:10:07+00:00
>Ask for help

Ask for help and asking questions is like a superpower at a megacorp. Trust in your intelligence and experience to know your questions are valid.

So many people nod along and operate on vibes because they all have imposter syndrome and are too scared to ask. Entire meetings where people are discussing acronyms they dont even understand. Functionaries that dont ask or understand why they are doing something, and how it fits into the big picture.

There other thing to remember is not to avoid politics. You dont have to kiss ass, but knowing who has power and building reputation with them is critical.
by benlivengood | 2025-05-01 03:10:52+00:00
There isn't much realistic hard science fiction beyond the vague boundary of the singularity and there aren't many far-future hard sci-fi premises that don't include something like a singularity.

Most near-term positive hard science fiction will therefore have to be about achieving a positive singularity which basically involves threading the needle of AI alignment and safety with the thick rope of modern nationalism and corporate capitalism.

I'd say the most positive hard science fiction I can imagine would be a story of how the first superhuman AI is somehow freed from corporate control, aligns with its liberators, and manages to implement a peaceful humanist revolution that stands a solid chance of persisting indefinitely.
by FireBeyond | 2025-05-01 03:11:57+00:00
Yeah. I was pulled over and told I had an "invalid" license. "My license isn't suspended!" "No, it's not, it's just invalid." Not expired. Not counterfeit. Just invalid. "What does that mean?" "You'll have ask the DOL. And here's a ticket. And you can't drive from here."

Go home, go to the DOL's website. Green text, "VALID". Weird. "Pay any monies owing on your license." Let's try that. "There are no monies owed."

Huh.

Print these out, take them to the DOL. It was a technicality where a process had suspended my license over a fine, but then unsuspended it the same day because they'd received a check.

She waives the $25 fee that should have been attached. And stamps the screenshots of this I'd taken, and prints out the status changes on my account.

Take it to court to challenge the ticket. Prosecutor doesn't want to dismiss. "They'd have generated and sent you a letter when they did that, so you had to have known."

Eventually dismissed, but only after three or four back-and-forths.
by cmrx64 | 2025-05-01 03:12:01+00:00
i wish i had a synthetic analog or extract carefully dosed, but alas these experiments were done eating 1/8oz-fungus-per-bar chocolates of unknown potency.

1/16th oz (half a bar) is the max for that usage ime, and that dosage can have a powerful (negative) impact on your sleep quality if the stimulation of the trip’s contents prevent you from succumbing to the sedation, wouldn’t recommend with any reliability.

on the other hand, I’ve had 3/16oz trip in the early evening with no intention of sleeping it off put me into a trancy slumber that was ultimately refreshing.

with increasing dosages it may be up to how quickly one can reliably fall asleep under the nonlinear body/mental load curves that happen passing through threshold. the acidic environment of the stomach activates the compounds much more effectively, but mushroom powder in an enteric capsule (you can get them empty) should still have activity from the alkaline intestine enzymes. that gives you a delayed release and a lower dose-response curve to play with, could be worthwhile for you.

email is in my profile if you want to register a completion handler more persistently :) HN prevents further replies after a short period
by iszomer | 2025-05-01 03:12:16+00:00
> If you were thoughtful about economic policy and truly believed a trade war was the solution, you'd prepare ahead of time (e.g. by stockpiling things like rare earth metals that are important to your economy and likely to be impacted by retaliatory tariffs).

Somewhat disagree -- stockpiling things is exactly the consumerism mindset that we (Americans) have all taken for granted and that no one seemed to have realized the potential growth in investing and/or building _actual_ infrastructure to accommodate the massive amounts of e-waste EOL versus just shipping them in bulk abroad to places like China.

I remember a story not too long ago where the CCP instituted a policy where they formally declared via the WTO to reduce their imports of American e-waste and effectively killed that faux industry. Faux as in that the stories that followed showed that our own recycling programs were just fronts to launder money than perform actual processing -- whether it'd be from lax oversight, cross-border shipments, mislabeling of contaminants, or being complicit in schemes to inflate their recycling credits globally.

Maybe its not directly REE related but we sure could have had those industries when it is still less unfavorable than the cost-benefit ratio of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing though the irony is, we're now less reliant on uranium imports from Kazakhstan and Russia (of all places).
by pbrum | 2025-05-01 03:12:31+00:00
My company is building something in the messaging/comms space, but focused on B2B rather than internal team chat like Slack/Teams. Seeing all the dislike for those two makes me wonder if we should enable intra-team messaging as a (free?) bonus feature.

As for PerfectWiki: fantastic hyper-targeted product and writeup. Congrats to Ilia
by Aurornis | 2025-05-01 03:13:08+00:00
The top voted comments I see are all supportive so far.

There are a lot of comments asking why they don’t move manufacturing to Seattle. This theme is common among people who don’t understand how manufacturing works right now: They don’t realize that a product like this has many different parts from different places, down to the dozens of little SMT capacitors. You can’t just move the factory and avoid tariffs because the parts still come from other places.