MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timonoko | 2025-05-29 15:27:08+00:00
Excellent.

I remember we learned to read and write in one month in Finnish school. If this did not happen, one was officially classified as retarded (in 1950s). How long it takes average american to achieve errorfree skills?

Grok:... In USA on average, achieving consistent error-free literacy might take 4-6 years of schooling (kindergarten through fourth grade), but this varies widely.
Show HN: Sales chatbot for SaaS inbound leads
by arieldeveloper | 2025-05-29 15:27:19+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Ariel from Dyle (https://dyle.ai), a sales chatbot for converting more inbound leads on your saas landing page.

When building my last saas, i noticed a lot of lost leads that wouldn't book a demo. I realized people have a hard time understanding your value prop and just wanted their problem solved right when they enter your site.

I went on to look for a sales chatbot and stumbled upon qualified, rep ai, and a bunch of others. all of them were thousands per month and really complicated to set up.

I just wanted something simple, worked well and was customizable. So I built Dyle and we're launching today.

Would love some feedback. if you want to chat feel free to email ariel@dyle.ai
Show HN: I built a trip planner with no login, no clutter – just plan and export
by TripCraft | 2025-05-29 15:27:34+00:00
Hey HN,

I recently built cheaptrip.online/planner.html — a minimal, no-login travel planner that helps you lay out a trip day-by-day, manage your budget, create a packing checklist, and export everything as a PDF.
by bradly | 2025-05-29 15:28:05+00:00
> For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part?

This is Journey Before Destination, the first ideal spoken by the Knights Radiant and a common trope across mythologies as seen with Job's suffering and Hercules' 12 steps to recovery.

Turns out they turned Hercules into a god to stop all the cool stuff he doing as a human :/ Don't let them take away your pain, don't let them take away your humanness. And if they do, just listen to some bird music instead.

https://birdymusic.com Either the best looking or worst looking site you'll see today.
by ftio | 2025-05-29 15:28:23+00:00
8pt Tahoma is the GOAT and I miss it desperately.

I remember vividly when Windows (XP I think?) introduced a new kind of font smoothing that messed with the look of those fonts. In hindsight, I feel like that moment was part of the catalyst toward Web 2.0-style designs. Screens started to get bigger, sites became higher resolution as bandwidth increased, and the tiny pixel font started to be both less relevant (you could fit more, larger text onscreen) and less beautiful (it rendered differently with font smoothing).

IIRC this shift also coincided with the shift toward Wordpress, including a more homogeneous set of pre-packaged "themes", and away from custom CMSes (or no CMS at all), the OG blogging "scripts" like Greymatter and b2.
by cjs_ac | 2025-05-29 15:28:38+00:00
As much as I agree with many of the biases of the Grauniad, I feel increasingly irritated by the blatant pandering to my sensibilities. The 'what happened' part of the article is so short on details it's barely there and the 'analysis' part is almost always just telling me who are the goodies and who are the baddies. If they quote experts, it's always an explanation of the most basic shit, because that's all the journalist understood. All of the non-elite media is like this: the analytics seem to have told them that ragebait is the only thing that gets ad revenue.

I just want to know what's going on in the world, and interesting analysis. I don't want analysis that tells me that I'm a good person, I want analysis that tells me something interesting about the world, even if I don't agree with it. If I have to pay a Bond villain to get that, so be it.
by helpfulContrib | 2025-05-29 15:29:20+00:00
"Religion" literally means, 'the device which binds people into one', and is not the only form of this very same device.

Latin religare ‘to bind’.

We are all bound "in legion" (literally, by the strong, cured ligaments of a foot) here on HN, for example. Ligament and Legion and Religion are all based on the same common root: a way to bind people together, strongly.

So forget about trying to make the human capability to become an egregore exclusive to those who organize around religion. We humans don't get anything done unless we are bound together, as one, around a common purpose.
by ptero | 2025-05-29 15:29:24+00:00
First, my apologies for answering your "because Trump" with "because Biden". It was a knee-jerk reaction to politicization of an argument that IMO has nothing to do with politics. If I had to pick "because something" I would say "because Iraq war / G.W. Bush" which started this fiscal debt spiral.

That said, I do not immediately agree with either of your points here. On changing the SLR, to the best of my knowledge it gives the bank an option, not places a requirement on them.

On the SVB collapse: that was a bank run, plain and simple. That particular one was caused by jumpy clients (startups) that reacted to the mark-to-market correction due to the raised rates. The bank's chief risk officer probably screwed up pretty badly, but bank runs can happen to ANY bank, large or small. If enough Citibank, BoA or Chase clients decided to move money out those large banks would be in the same boat (i.e., unable to fulfil those request, or insolvent).

The reason most banks are mostly safe from bank runs most of the time is that small clients believe they will be bailed out by the FDIC (which does not have enough money to bail everyone) and large companies believe they will be bailed out directly by the gov't, printing money as needed to save systemically important banks. But smaller banks do get insolvent regularly, with over 500 since my "because Bush" point of 2001. Nothing special.

The only way out I think is via financial repression, holding rates below inflation, partially inflating gov't debts and partially wiping out savers (and pensions that do not adjust for inflation and a ton of other things) and maybe partially growing the economy out of it. This is a long process, IMO likely to play out over the next 10 years or more and will be painful for those caught in front of this wreck. But it has nothing to do with <insert your evil president or party>" now. My 2c.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-29 15:29:48+00:00
> Search engines and hierarchical directories didn't take off until late 1994, and the first link aggregators like WebRing didn't come along along for at least another year after that.

> Before then, website discovery was almost entirely word of mouth

Yeah, but before that there were almost no websites to discover, and no one discovering them; even by the end of 1994—generally held out as the first year websites aimed at the general public were available at all, and, as you note, also the year search engines and directories took off, displacing any word of mouth as the main discovery route, there were still only a little over two thousand websites in total.
by TheMagicHorsey | 2025-05-29 15:30:35+00:00
After using Rust on a couple of projects, I understand the appeal of simpler languages like C3, Zig, and Odin. As one commenter very aptly put on the Zig subreddit ... "I used Zig for (internal tool) because I wanted to quickly write my tool and debug it, and not spend all my time debugging my knowledge of Rust."
by boshalfoshal | 2025-05-29 15:31:27+00:00
You are thinking about "hard" and "easy" in the wrong frame of mind. What Tesla does is not "easy" either. Their moat is manufacturing and the R&D they've spent on codesigning their HW and SW stack, and their insane supply chain.

Ford does not suddenly have several million cars with 8-9 cameras to tap into for training data, nor does it have the infrastructure/talent to train models with the data it may get. I think you are underselling the Tesla moat.

Its the same reason why there are only 3-4 "frontier" AI labs, and the rest are just playing catchup, despite a lot of LLM improvements being pretty well researched and open in papers.
by Xcelerate | 2025-05-29 15:31:38+00:00
He mentions it on the second page:

> any Martin-Lof random sequence that computes (i.e. allows computing from it) a consistent completion of PA also computes the Halting Problem H; and by deLeeuw et al. [1965], only a recursive sequence (which H is not) can be computed with a positive probability by randomized algorithms.

It's just the sequence of the solutions to the halting problem, i.e., the characteristic function of the halting set. Levin points out this sequence is not recursive/decidable.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-29 15:32:07+00:00
A lot of it was first-mover advantage. It was the first VS Code plugin to provide a lot of the in-place information that it did, and at first it was unobtrusive and just did the one job well. It only started becoming truly annoying when it became a GitKraken product designed to sell more GitKraken products.

Now that VS Code has more of those features built in and there are alternatives the first mover advantage keeps the extension sticky because people don't feel pressure to learn about the built-in features or because people don't want to learn about alternative extensions because "the tool I already know is annoying but is fine".
by csense | 2025-05-29 15:32:07+00:00
The problem I've had with MRNA vaccines is that we decided a lengthy multi-year trial protocol was necessary to ensure vaccines are safe and effective.

Then COVID hit, and suddenly we decided to rush MRNA [1] vaccines into mass production without those protocols. Moreover, at one point they wanted to force [2] them on the population.

The thing that bothered me most is the government passed a law to prevent people from suing for damages if they're hurt by COVID vaccines [3]. If the vaccine really is safe and effective, why was the waiver necessary?

[1] If the made the COVID vaccine the same way they've been making them since polio, I'd be less uneasy -- if you made 25 vaccines with the process and they all worked okay, saying "it should be fine" for the 26th one is backed by some evidence.

But given MRNA vaccines were brand-new with the COVID ones, until then they'd made 0 vaccines with the process; saying "it should be fine" for the 1st one seems to be rather irresponsible.

[2] In my opinion, "you're being forced to do X" is a fair description of the situation if you have to show proof you did X if you want to get a job, get an education, or get on an airplane. Around the time of the first vaccines getting rolled out, these policies were being discussed very seriously.

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...
by iib | 2025-05-29 15:32:20+00:00
I used to install this extension just so I could configure an extra saving option, "ctrl-shift-s", that would not only save the changes but also perform a `git add` on the current file.

It always felt a little clunky, because it would randomly stop working. Regardless, it was a huge time and context-switch saver. I also tried binding `git commit` through the extension somehow, but I couldn't figure it out.
by dont__panic | 2025-05-29 15:33:12+00:00
Agreed wholeheartedly about the error message. Death by a thousand cuts to indie devs.

I'm not sure it's such a terrible idea to disable quarantining if you know what you're doing -- I think of it as more of a safety net for the truly clueless. If it annoys you a lot, disabling it is totally fine. But of course users should be aware that it's better to leave it enabled!

I'm glad OP shared a way to permanently disable it for homebrew casks, though. I didn't know that env var existed, and this is a pretty common issue for smaller casks. Take a look at the GitHub issues for any small project and you'll see just how much this comes up.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-29 15:33:36+00:00
There is the potential for psychology, I think, where people who do not truly believe but that do want that religion (or something like it) to be true, and so perversely hope for "Christ's return" even if that means they will be damned. For them, they will have gotten to witness something non-boring, something truly important, even for the first time (and last) in their lives. I can't decide if this fits the definition of "believer" or not.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-05-29 15:34:08+00:00
> I used the AdamW optimizer and selected a learning rate of 5e-5. I’ve seen learning rates of 5e-6 for pretraining and 5e-5 for finetuning. I would consider this closer to the latter - I don’t want to totally destroy the knowledge Qwen already had, I just want to add to it a bit.

Is this a typo? Maybe 5e-4 for pretraining?

Otherwise this goes against all the intuition I have around learning rates and catastrophic forgetting. (a smaller learning rate causing knowledge degredation)
by pact_inference | 2025-05-29 15:34:45+00:00
> Are you going to rely on the LLM for pseudorandom numbers?

Definitely! I'm going to start with instruction tuning it for basic question answering, and then add tools to allow it to search the markdown source to cite answers to rules questions. I think adding some dice tooling for proper character sheet creation would be an awesome task to test as well. I'm actually thinking a lot about what tasks I could try that are "trivially" programmatically verifiable in their correctness for stuff like GRPO, so I'm definitely going to use that idea.

> You could combine the story telling from the LLM with the formalized character schema to create campaigns. I'm not an expert here, but I suspect you might try asking the model to translate an existing fantasy story dataset into a series of narration/dialogue blocks and character sheets.

I think probably late this year I'll be able to work on that sort of thing. There's a really interesting approach to story generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22828 here, but modifying ways to translate it into campaign relevant structured objects and "reward" that will take some experimentation.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-29 15:35:46+00:00
Can anyone help me find a specific HTML book? It was the first one I ever read, I've been looking for it on Amazon every few years and haven't found it yet.

It must have been released around 1995 or so. It used Mosaic browser throughout all the examples, which looked so different than the IE3 that I was using. There was a heavy focus on forms and controls. And it was hundreds of pages. Familiar to anyone?
by legitster | 2025-05-29 15:36:19+00:00
So, there are actual geopolitical ramifications of this metric.

A lot of US protestant theology is rooted in a concept called "dispensationalism" that was introduced in the mid 1800s. It's a heady concept to explain, but essentially it comes down to a few linked core concepts:

- The secret, sudden arrival of Jesus to "rapture" believers away

- The world is getting worse, not better. There is limited use in improving society.

- Strict literalist interpretation of all scripture (where convenient, obv)

- An individual's ability to discern scripture as well as the state of the world

- Obsession with Israel as a nation-state

https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/dispe...

By tracking this number, you have a good proxy for the current fervor of a lot of intertwined political concepts in the US.
by klempner | 2025-05-29 15:36:40+00:00
The somewhat moribund Foresight Exchange which is a ~30 year old play money idea futures market has discussed this idea a lot over the years, even to the point of having a number of "True" claims of exactly the form described in the article, such as http://www.ideosphere.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=T2015
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-29 15:37:02+00:00
If I could choose to have children again, I wouldn't. Not because of them; because of me, and the world. But they are here, so the only path is forward. Geopolitical turmoil, climate change, the future is high volatility imho. Growth and the "good times" are over because of demographics and populism, balkanization is highly probable.

We have living arrangements both in the US and Western Europe. I hope to be able to get my kids EU citizenship eventually with various visas and residency. If the US improves, they can come back. If it doesn't, they can remain in Europe as they approach adulthood. Nationalism is silly, you'll get dragged by the median electorate. We/they are not Americans, or Europeans; we are just humans looking for community with other good humans with some sense of community and collectivism.

After failing hard earlier in life, I became risk adverse, but also have had some success. I hope to have enough investments by the time I stop working that my kids can survive without working if needed. I also hope I have provided them enough resources and life skills to live a good life after I'm gone until they're gone. This is my apology to them for their existence in this macro, I hope they accept it, and failing that, at least understand it.

You can't change the winds, you can only adjust your sails. Optimize for optionality. Better to have a plan you don't need than to need a plan you don't have. No one is coming to save us.

> So, if you can put your hatred aside for a few minutes. What are your ideas on what the US, Europe and Latin America can do to survive what's in the horizon?

Build for capability and security, not profit. Build so you can build when you need to build, build and protect the machine that builds the machines. Not hopeful, but that is the advice. Everything else is people, politics, policy, and capital to make that happen. "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never sit in."
by victorbjorklund | 2025-05-29 15:37:07+00:00
"they haven't really understood the bible."

Pretty much every religious person believes that THEIR understanding is the correct one. You cant objectively say that "this is the correct understanding" from a religous perspective (you can however do it from a for example a historical or textual analysis perspective).

You cant objectively prove that only mormons or bapists have "understood" the bible correct and everyone else are false believers.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-05-29 15:37:42+00:00
> For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part?

To each their own. I wanted something functional. A stable platform which is organised. I also wanted to write more. Which I still haven't gotten to do. It's more of a functional project than an art project.

That doesn't mean the OP's website is bad. But that is not why I created my website. But I have thought about Writing HTML in HTML after being inspired from Writing HTML in HTML by John Ankarstrom [1]. But it will be a forever art project and not my real estate on the internet. It's OK to want different things from the indieweb. That's what makes it diverse.

1- http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/
by nasretdinov | 2025-05-29 15:37:50+00:00
It's quite easy to host your own instance, we've done it ~7 years ago and had a cluster of over 50 nodes without any major issues. What ClickHouse Cloud offers is "shared nothing" storage, via SharedMergeTree that has S3 as a backing store, and it allows to scale storage and compute separately. The implementation is closed source.
by diggan | 2025-05-29 15:38:01+00:00
This years survey seems to contain a lot more questions about AI and ML model usage in development.

Interestingly enough too, seems whatever team composed this survey doesn't quite understand the "vibe coding" definition, so the question ends up misleading, and unless they fix it, I'm sure we'll read a report in some months about a lot more developers doing "vibe coding" instead of pair programming with LLMs, because the question as-is is wrong. The question:

> In your own words, is "vibe coding" part of your professional development work? For this question, we define vibe coding according to the Wikipedia definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding), the process of generating software from LLM prompts.
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-05-29 15:38:17+00:00
> I wasn't trying to invent anything. Just describing what you would obviously have to do if you were to take a "scientific" or "objective" approach: Sound experiments, reproducible, free of financial incentives.

But how is it different from what arena or matharena does?

> That sort of thing is not showing broad intelligence anymore than a person both knowing a chess player and a poet is having broad intelligence.

The claim is that these problems require somewhat broad intelligence by themselves, as opposed to specialization into specific task while unable to do anything else.
by keeganpoppen | 2025-05-29 15:39:12+00:00
wow this is an absolutely fascinating angle, and one that is quite revelatory about markets in general: the price of an asset is affected by time value of money every bit as much about any other form of "value".

my intuition here would be that topics that are more "catnip"-y to "speculators" (which i'd lovingly more accurate call "degenerate gamblers") would be the one with the greatest "time value of money premium", such as it is... and also gets me wondering about how to model this topic preference because it seems like a very cool arbitrage opportunity...
by chipsa | 2025-05-29 15:39:27+00:00
If there was a zip code that was just virtual PO Boxes, it could use the existing change of address machinery to slap the actual delivery address on when addressed with a virtual box. Assuming they used an entire sectional center facility for it, you could have 100 zip codes, with 6 digits of unique delivery points, so 100 million virtual boxes.
by pengaru | 2025-05-29 15:39:33+00:00
> The vaccines were developed during the first Trump administration. Trump himself wanted credit for developing them.

No. They were produced at scale during his administration to combat the pandemic, but were developed well before that, with support from a government actually funding vaccine R&D:

> Moderna was also awarded a $25,000,000 grant by DARPA through a program > Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics: Prophylactic > Options to Environmental and Contagious Threats (ADEPT-PROTECT). Its stated goal > was to develop an mRNA vaccine with the capability to suppress a global pandemic > within 60 days. (2013)
by paulcole | 2025-05-29 15:39:33+00:00
I'm not concerned at all about the long-term future.

1. On the whole the world gets better over time not worse, despite what people like to believe. At some point this may cease to be true but I am unwilling and possibly unable to influence it in any meaningful way.

2. I'll be dead in 25-35 years. Perhaps 40-50 years if I am extraordinarily lucky or unlucky.

In the short-term, I do what I can to protect myself based on what I think is reasonable to do. In my case that's to live simply and save money. I might be wrong but I don't worry about it.
by texuf | 2025-05-29 15:40:08+00:00
Do you think it's weird that ethnic groups separated by thousands of years of evolution came up with completely different gods and forms of worship? If there was an omniscient being don't you think it would make itself known in a little more universal fashion? And isn't it strange that the institutions built around our current iteration of God are soft power structures that wield huge amounts of influence both financially and politically?
by immibis | 2025-05-29 15:40:10+00:00
It can be done by libraries, for example, which want their output to be valid in both HTML and XHTML.

Note that's it's not a syntax error in HTML - because HTML doesn't have syntax errors. The HTML5 spec tried to codify all the weird Postel's law quirks of existing HTML4 parsers, and in this case, tells you how to ignore the extra / if you're a parser. Nothing is a syntax error.