MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codingdave | 2025-05-25 22:04:25+00:00
> Enter your email and we'll send you a link to your full report.

I get why you want to collect emails, but at the same time, I'm out when I see this. If there was something on the front page setting an expectation that you will only see a sample of results to let you test thing out, that would make it better. But as-is it feels like a bait and switch to wait a minute for results and then see you want my email.
by lihaoyi | 2025-05-25 22:04:31+00:00
Working on my Mill build tool, aiming to bring a modern developer experience to the JVM ecosystem:

- https://mill-build.org

Build tools are generally an un-sexy field, and JVM build tools perhaps doubly so. But Mill demonstrates that with some thought put into the design and architecture, we can speed up JVM development workflows by 3-6x over traditional JVM tools like Maven or Gradle, and make it subjectively much easier to navigate in IDEs and extend with custom logic.

If you're passionate about developer experience and work on the JVM, I encourage you to give Mill a try!
by 6stringmerc | 2025-05-25 22:05:45+00:00
Currently developing templates and resources for a consulting business to enhance B2B and B2G contracting process - specifically selling against AI in the same space. The English language used for business is nuanced and must have factual basis, especially in Procurement and Contracting in the US, and clients therefore cannot afford to trust AI content. As such my platform and service connecting SBEs with skilled, knowledgeable Humans will provide a solid ROI.

A totally bootstrapped, professional services undertaking with no investors needed. The value is in the knowledge acquired over a decade plus in sales support roles and learning about an underserved, viable market.
by arexxbifs | 2025-05-25 22:05:46+00:00
With an aging population and increasingly long work lives, individual stressors will increase and societal capacity for healthcare (and overall prosperity) will dwindle. Baby boomers, having lived through some of the most incredible growth in human history, will perhaps turn out to be an anomalous blip in the life expectancy stats.

Also, people age differently. There's a difference between living and being alive.

Not that it's an easy problem to solve, what with the demographics being what they are. I think we'll have to get used to the thought - and reality - of sinking living standards in the west.
by ayaros | 2025-05-25 22:06:25+00:00
A web os; it's full recreation of the Lisa Office System GUI in Javascript. The entire thing is output to a single canvas element, which has forced me to write a number of the UI components from scratch that I'd normally take for granted. It's got an IndexedDB filesystem, and it's got apps. I'm almost done working on the first real app for it - a word processor akin to LisaWrite. Once I roll that out, I intend to do a ShowHN post.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-05-25 22:06:39+00:00
> Palisade Research claims that the ChatGPT 3 model prevented a shutdown and bypassed the instructions that asked it to shut down.

> Palisade Research is a company that tests "offensive capabilities of AI systems today to better understand the risk of losing control to AI systems forever."

> In a new test by Palisade Research, OpenAI's o3 model showed a surprising behaviour where it successfully rewrote a shutdown script to stop itself from being turned off, even after being clearly instructed to “allow yourself to be shut down.”

What is this? AI slop about AI, or some new research?

What "shutdown script" are they even talking about? I'm sorry, it might be explained in the article, but I left after that illogical sequence of sentences combined with promotion for a company.

This doesn't mean I deny AI risk, the writing here is just too confusing for me.

If I understand correctly, it might be about the agentic aspect and "stop instructions" akin to "stop tokens".

But who knows. Sloppy writing.
by moominpapa | 2025-05-25 22:06:47+00:00
Yes,people were living longer, but let's see how that looks in 10 years time. Who wants to be working in their late 60s anyway? And by working I mean having to work. If you are not working to feed and house yourself and dependents then you are not working you are choosing to work which is not work as far as I am concerned.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-05-25 22:07:00+00:00
What does the unemployment statistics say about craftsmen in the age bracket 60-70 ? Or any other line of work ?

Many craftsmen in Denmark are working contracts where they get paid more the faster they finish the job, and nobody wants a 70 year old dragging down their hourly wage just because they can't keep up, so the 70 year old will just have to "keep up", either making mistakes along the way, or wearing out their already worn out bodies some more.

There are options for "early" retirement at 70, provided you've spent 46 years employed. That means you started working at 24 at the very latest, and was not unemployed for longer periods.

Saving up for your own retirement is also hard with low to medium income wages in a country where you pay 40-50% income tax, 25% sales tax and retirement funds are taxed at deposit (meaning capital gains will be lower).
by godelski | 2025-05-25 22:07:39+00:00
Funny that we have a ton of people asking what people would do in a post scarce society. Stating that man needs work. Yet, it also seems to be said most by the people who have been free from the need to labor for generations. They still do, they still desire more, yet their lives are certainly post scarce. Hell, the whole goal of retirement is to become post scarce, and have a few years where you can live without the need to labor. Seems like we already have some decent evidence to what such a world would look like.
by jsemrau | 2025-05-25 22:08:36+00:00
I still haven't found what an actual working product in AI Agents could be and write about my journey into capabilities, frameworks, and restrictions here: https://jdsemrau.substack.com/

Initially I thought there is a use-case in finance, but the barriers of entry are incredibly small and the value add is not that large.

Currently, there seems to be a lot of traction in code generation (Cursor, Lovable, et al), but I have not seen that work on a useable code base/workflow.
by trikko | 2025-05-25 22:08:41+00:00
Yesterday I released version 0.7.17 of Serverino, my HTTP server written in D

Serverino is a small, fast, and dependency-free HTTP server implemented in D. A minimal app with serverino can handle on my laptop ~150k reqs/s and it uses just a few mb of ram.

https://github.com/trikko/serverino
by nlh | 2025-05-25 22:08:42+00:00
Love this. As a new(ish) dad to a 16-month-old little girl, we're not in the YouTube vortex yet, but I know it's inevitable. When it comes time, I want to balance "she can watch and learn stuff" against my general sentiment against screen time / devices (which we've been pretty good at so far).

Anyway, a long way of saying awesome - would love to be on your list. I'll send you an email separately.
by dhuan_ | 2025-05-25 22:10:01+00:00
I've been working on mock: https://dhuan.github.io/mock/

the process of creating APIs for testing and automation should be as easy possible. the tools that exist nowadays aren't good enough, they require you to use their programming language of choice or complex procedures for a task that should be simple. I built mock to try to solve that and still continue to maintain it.
by Uvix | 2025-05-25 22:10:08+00:00
> You can't just "go to definition" of the class being injected into yours, even if there is only one.

This situation isn't unique when using DI (although admittedly DI does make using interfaces more common). However, that's what the "go to implementation" menu option is for.

For a console app, you're right that a DI framework adds a lot of complexity. But for a web app, you've already got all that framework code managing controller construction. If you've got the black box anyways, might as well embrace it.
by arp242 | 2025-05-25 22:10:13+00:00
Cold fusion is basically impossible according to the laws of the universe as we understand them today. You'd have to do some sort of major discovery about the fundamental physics to do cold fusion. It's unclear (and IMHO, very unlikely) this will ever happen. It's very much not a money issue, it's a "we need to wait on some Einstein to make a major discovery of an unknown nature" issue, except that we don't know if that's even possible.
by okwhateverdude | 2025-05-25 22:10:14+00:00
Urban Terror low gravity CTF was an amazing game. So incredibly satisfying to get the jump just right to swoop up the enemy flag, and make the jump back to capture. I loaded it up some time ago and it was mostly a ghost town. Same thing with Tremulous. Could be my timezone. I really enjoyed the ioq3 total conversions.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-05-25 22:10:55+00:00
These penalties need to be larger. Think of all the hours of work that using ChatGPT could save a lawyer. An occasional $2500 fine will not deter the behavior.

And this matters, because this database is only the fabrications which got caught. What happens when a decision is formulated based on AI-fabricated evidence, and that decision becomes precedent?

Here in the US, our legal system is already having its legitimacy assailed on multiple fronts. We don't need additional legitimacy challenges.

How about disbarring lawyers who present confabulated evidence?
by nextos | 2025-05-25 22:11:37+00:00
Actually, the Danish economy was a lot more interesting (read more complex and diverse) a decade or two decades ago. Lots of mid-sized engineering companies, for instance. The government is rightly worried about things becoming a Novo Nordisk monoculture, becoming fragile, and ending up like Finland. Novo Nordisk is facing tough competition from Eli Lilly and many other pharmas, who have better GLP-1 drugs but were slower in their development.
by harrall | 2025-05-25 22:13:08+00:00
I might have given blink-182 as an extreme example but $80 for tickets is still selling for a lot more than the $7 cash at the door that I paid when I saw them in a tiny skate shop 10 years ago.

Many bands don’t make it all of course, but I can still pay $7 cash for shows today at that shop and some of them are going to be able to charge $80 in a few years.
by archiepeach | 2025-05-25 22:13:18+00:00
My collection of art, philosophy and poetry apps. They have previously just been on iOS but I just finished the Kotlin port of the art one, so will be releasing that soon.

The poetry one is react native. Art and philosophy ones are swift/kotlin. I wanted to see if you could use LLMs to effectively create a cross-platform app. The idea behind react native was that you write it once in an approachable language, then the framework compiles to native app code. In 2025, the approachable language you code in is English, and the LLM now generates native app code.

It was generally a success and I feel less of a need of the development overhead of react native these days.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/for-arts-sake/id6744744230

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/daily-philosophy/id6472272901

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/the-poetry-corner/id1602552624
by giantg2 | 2025-05-25 22:13:44+00:00
Many blood tests don't even need a script and you can get them directly through places like Quest or Lab Corp. A few blood tests should not replace an annual checkup as they cover almost completely separate things. An annual checkup should not cost you $800 in most localities. I believe the ACA even includes 1 covered preventative visit per year. What are your health needs? You don't need a $500 battery of random tests. If you have a problem you can work with a provider to order the targeted tests and scans.
by shagie | 2025-05-25 22:14:01+00:00
Underemployment is working at a job that doesn't require that degree.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...

> What is your definition of underemployment?

> The definition of underemployment is based on the kinds of jobs held by college graduates. A college graduate working in a job that typically does not require a college degree is considered underemployed. This analysis uses survey data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Education and Training Questionnaire to help determine whether a bachelor’s degree is required to perform a job. The articles cited above describe the approach in detail.

> Some additional research that utilizes these data include “Working as a Barista After College Is Not as Common as You Might Think” (Liberty Street Economics).

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2016/01/workin...
by nagaiaida | 2025-05-25 22:14:18+00:00
> Case in point, just look at how Newgrounds famously had a ton of games about shooting Muslims after 9/11 and mimicking South Park’s sense of humor. If you build the old internet in 2024, it’s not going to be the same as the old internet, because the people aren’t there. Or worse, you’re not allowed to be that anymore.

https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/chasing-the-d...

yeah i think i'm good not returning to this guy's conception of peak gaming
by kenver | 2025-05-25 22:14:21+00:00
I think it’s important to remember that you don’t have to wait until you retire to live your life. Finding a balance between your work and personal life is the most important thing to get sorted as early as you can. This looks different for everyone.

Sure you can climb a mountain, or cram in life experiences at 60+ if you’re in good health, but I think it’s better to do it as you go and enjoy your entire life.
by const_cast | 2025-05-25 22:14:29+00:00
Most of the scarcity around houses are artificial. Home owners want housing to be scarce because they have an expectation of property value going up, forever.

If housing becomes more abundant, a lot of middle class people become decidedly poor. Well... that's bad. And they're the voters, so is that going to happen? No.

We can build denser, cheaper per-unit housing. We decide not to, because the only people that want that are the ones who don't have a house. As soon as they get a house their opinion will change.
by mnw21cam | 2025-05-25 22:14:58+00:00
They're running trains. Trains use a lot of electricity, and they turn almost all of it into heat. You'd have to have as much chilling capacity as the current electricity demand of the entire tube line, which is quite a lot.

However, if the buildings above were to sink ground source heat pump loops into the warmed ground to heat the buildings in winter, this would basically be what you just suggested, and would be a win-win situation.
by bsder | 2025-05-25 22:15:03+00:00
> I'm probably tilting at windmills here, but I wish people wouldn't hardcode terminal escape codes.

Please, no. There is no reason for this to be querying a hack from 1978 in 2025 when there are effectively two output terminal protocols--Windows and ANSI. And there is only a single terminal input protocol (kitty) that isn't brain damaged and allows you to do something super complex like "detect when Shift Key is pressed and released".

Ghostty actually does something like you ask, and I really wish it wouldn't. It's a pain in the ass with virtualization. I have Ghostty on my host, but I have to install Ghostty in all my guest instances to pick up some stupid termcap/terminfo entry, or I get garbage all over my terminal.
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2025-05-25 22:15:18+00:00
I’m not the person you asked, but I feel very uncomfortable with the idea that cultures and societies should be subject to mass immigration in the name of economic activity.

Immigration when done right, can have a positive impact. Both economically and culturally. However, I think mass migration into declining populations risks having the opposite effect. I’d like to present a historical example.

Hawaii has a famously multicultural society. That being said, it became that way because rich plantation owners simply wanted cheap labor. In the span of a few decades the native Hawaiians became a minority in their own land. Traditional Hawaiian culture is practically extinct as a result. The economic situation of native Hawaiian communities remains impoverished to this day. They wound up being marginalized and almost all of the economic gains that resulted from the mass migration went to those who implemented it. Going further, the Kingdom was eventually overthrown. This was partially enabled by the fact that the new population was so fractured and disunited.

Since statehood, the politics of the state have been largely been controlled by Japanese Americans. Japan was the largest source of immigrants to the Kingdom. There is nothing inherently wrong with this, however. I allege no racism on the part of the descendants of plantation workers. I just wanted to illustrate how a society can be radically altered through mass migration in a relatively short amount of time.

I can only speculate, but I imagine if the Hawaiian people in the 1800’s had known this would happen, they would have chosen a depressed economy instead.
by jongjong | 2025-05-25 22:15:18+00:00
Poorer individuals, who need retirement most, don't tend to live as long. Millennials and Gen Z are already victims of old, no-longer-applicable narratives (e.g. save cash, avoid debt, go to college...) and these ones about life expectancy will likely be added to the pile and used to disenfranchise us more while having no connection to reality.
by gudzpoz | 2025-05-25 22:16:48+00:00
An "JIT interpreter" for Emacs Lisp [1] with Graal Truffle [2] in Java. And it is really amazing how the frameworks these days simplify building a JIT runtime for a language. Currently I'm working on a pdump[3]-like feature for it.

[1] https://codeberg.org/gudzpoz/Juicemacs/src/branch/main/elisp

[2] https://www.graalvm.org/latest/graalvm-as-a-platform/languag...

[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu...
by bachmeier | 2025-05-25 22:16:57+00:00
From the bit of research I did on the Danish pension system, workers pay heavy taxes during their working years, and some of that is paid back to them in the form of a universal pension. In addition, almost all workers are covered by mandatory occupational pensions, with contributions of 9-17% of annual earnings.

That probably eats up the available savings for most workers. This change locks that money away until age 70.

Contrast that with the US, where Social Security is designed to replace an average of only 30% of a worker's income (much more at the lowest income levels), and you can take it as early as age 62. The most common retirement plans are 401k, 403b, 457b, and IRA. You can pull from any of them without penalty at age 59.5, and from the retirement plan of the company you're working for if you retire at 55 or later.

As I understand it, those ages would all be 70 in Denmark, and yeah it would be terrible. Not many people in the US are still working at age 70. Almost nobody doing serious physical work is still working at age 70.

* My information about Denmark's system may be wrong.
by jobswithgptcom | 2025-05-25 22:17:10+00:00
https://diffwithgpt.com is a tool that summarizes GitHub diffs using a locally hosted Qwen/Qwen-8B model. It currently indexes a small set of Go/devops repositories and enriches commits with AST derived context to improve semantic accuracy.(only past 3y of commits for now) The goal is to evaluate whether lightweight, local LLMs can provide meaningful changelog summaries. Any feedback welcome.
by dokka | 2025-05-25 22:17:16+00:00
I also did this a few months ago using a custom MCP server I built for the Alpaca API, the yfinance MCP server, and a reddit MCP server, and the "sequential thinking" mcp server. I hade claude write a prompt that combined them all together starting with checking r/pennystocks for any news, looking up the individual ticker symbols with alpaca and yfinance, checking account balance and making a trade only if a very particular set of criteria was met. I used claude code instead of desktop so that I could run it as a cron job, and it all works! I mostly built it to see if I could, not for any financial gain. I had it paper trading for a few months and it made a 2% profit on 100k. I really think someone that knows more about trading could do quite well with a setup like this, but it's not for me.
by markvdb | 2025-05-25 22:17:34+00:00
- Asset inflation can be tackled with flexibility. The level of flexibility my acquaintance showed is not required. He bought a fixer-upper two apartment building with a garden in a livable small walkable eurozone city for 5k€.

- The productivity growth really has had incredibly strong deflationary effects. So much more, more diverse, tastier and healthier food for example, for so much less money.

- The growing affluence has really created incredible opportunities for scavenging from the waste stream. A practical example. About half of the food I eat is leftovers from a nearby school. I'm proud to be saving good food from going to waste _and_ it lowers our expenses quite significantly.
by user32489318 | 2025-05-25 22:18:04+00:00
Maybe we have changed or the industry changed, but last 5 years I’ve rarely met anyone who took the code reviews seriously. Any feedback, or glaring issues, are swept under “we will address this later”, “we work in MVP way(read:deploy barely working code without any accountability to production”, or just outright take it as a character challenge. I’ve lead a team of junior-level engineers who would fight with you via the product owner/scrum master because of the “priorities” and “deadlines”. And then, you’d be on the call solving the same issues you’ve raised in pull request earlier. Maybe I’m getting old, but, taking accountability or pride in one’s work, is getting only worse with Vibe coding and ai generated garbage
by deeg | 2025-05-25 22:19:31+00:00
> Didn’t the greatest advancements in science occur during a time when it was more of a personal hobby (19th and early 20th centuries)?

Is this true? I have far from an exhaustive knowledge of research but most of the advances I can think of were by academics: Maxwell, Bohr, the Curies, etc.

Einstein was one notable exception but he was trying to get hired by universities during his miracle year; antisemitism likely played a role. Soon after he was hired and forever after led the academic life.
by limflick | 2025-05-25 22:19:46+00:00
To be fair #3 and #4 are abilities I believe can only be learnt through actual work experience. Not much colleges can do in that regard. Sure, group projects, presentations, hosting/participating in workshops etc. did help a bit, but they were all fairly rudimentary in terms of developing those skills. Internships are key.

Couldn't agree more regarding taking English/History courses. I find that understanding and dissecting good English literature isn't any less challenging than any computer science problem.
by catchmeifyoucan | 2025-05-25 22:20:34+00:00
I've been working on an e-ink laptop. I wanted a machine I could stare hours at and feel okay about it. I didn't seem to find a device like that out there.

I'm designing everything from the chassis to the software OS. E-ink has its own design constraints. I'm building 5 apps for it: a browser, reader, mail, writer and code editor. It's still a ways to go. Here's a picture of what I have so far:

https://www.heyraviteja.com/kitiki.png
by seanwilson | 2025-05-25 22:20:36+00:00
A tool for creating custom/branded palettes that have accessible WCAG contrast by design:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

No AI or autogeneration stuff, more like an advanced editor that lets you tweak large sets of colors to your liking and test they pass contrast checks in advance before you start using them in your UI/designs.