MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by angry_moose | 2025-05-19 16:59:10+00:00
Definitely working off an incomplete data set from wikidata.

According to the wikidata, there are no articles for the United States in whatever languages VEP, GUR, and UR are, but:

https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikan_%C3%9Chtenzoittud_Va...

https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA...

https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America

Ended up being fairly easy to look for - I compared the David Woodard list to the United States list and found instances where it claimed there was an article for the former but not the latter. Most David Woodard articles have a link to where he was born (United States), so an easy crosscheck.

Though VE seems to be an outlier where there is a Woodward but not United States article: https://ve.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Woodard
by Reubachi | 2025-05-19 16:59:27+00:00
some things in "Car-culture" that surprised me on my trips to india;

1. People do not as a matter of their daily complaints complain about bad traffic, bad drivers, dents, door dings etc. 2. There are less accidents per capita than US 3. Insurance is required, body shops work better than in US. 4. Electrification of tuk-tuk fleet is....impressive.

Waymo/Autonomos driving would drastically slow down most of transporation infrastructure in most of the world. I don't think waymo should spend billions figuirng out how to drive better than Indians.
by nozzlegear | 2025-05-19 17:00:05+00:00
> Well, Zod isn't just for validating JSON. It supports validating objects that can't be represented in JSON without transformation (dates, class instances, and so on).

Thanks, this was the missing piece for me. I'd been thinking about using Zod for an old client's Node codebase, but I'd only need it to validate the shape of json objects received by http endpoints. Zod was looking like overkill, but I know it's popular so I wasn't sure what I was missing.
by throwawayk7h | 2025-05-19 17:00:51+00:00
It comes down to identifying what I dislike about the anime I dislike.

I find I don't like "fanservice" (boob jokes etc.), or at least find it to be a signifier of poor quality. So I use animefeminist.com for recommendations, since it's pretty effective at filtering out (or at least warning of in advance) that kind of red flag, and also for their ranking of seasonal anime. (If you use this method, make sure to look for their "recommendation," "digest," and "three-episode check-in" articles specifically). This improves things from about 1% chance of enjoyment to probably 1-in-15 chance of enjoyment. On average, each season has an anime I find is not bad, but only every 2-3 years or so is there an anime I unabashedly love.

(Of course, there may be shows the site rules out which I really loved -- for instance, my all-time favourite anime is Attack on Titan, which is blacklisted on anifem because someone once wrote an article on polygon about how its overtly pro-jewish anti-fascist allegory is anti-semitic somehow. I think that's a load of bull, but probably not enough of a problem for me to stop using this method of finding anime.)
by bboygravity | 2025-05-19 17:00:54+00:00
Bad example.

The East India company era had WAY less regulation all around, way lower taxes, less types of taxes, a very attractive simple investment climate (the literal founding of the concept "stock market", in its simplest and most primitive form) and close to 0 (illegal) immigration. They also had no euro, no socialist EU and no self-imposed limitations on energy conversion (there was no electricity, but wind was huge and allowed for mass production of stuff).
by spwa4 | 2025-05-19 17:01:24+00:00
... and given the choice between war and 1000 usd/month/person help, or no war, but, let's say 250 usd/month/person in help, and the rest has to come from a job (and if you want 750 that will be a job in Israel, likely working for Jews, for less, let's say half, than Israeli make).

Not the "war or peace, with no further consequences" fake choice people like to pretend exists?

The Israel-Palestine conflict always was a proxy war. Maybe less so on Israel's side, but always on the muslim/Arab side, even before it started. Peace would mean support from the proxies stops and Israeli and Palestinians would have to care for themselves. Aid would drop to the level anyone else gets (which isn't even 1/4th of what they currently officially get, more like 1/20th, and probably even less if you count unofficial "aid")

Given that choice, the real choice, war or desperate poverty, what do Palestinians want? Frankly, if we look at history, I'd argue it historically took a lot less than what is bound to happen in Palestine to get people to start a war. For example, the French revolution was preceded and at least partly caused by a tax increase of 16%. This would be an effective 75% to 90% tax increase.

Oh and to add insult to injury, of course, stopping the war would mean economic disaster on the Palestinian side, but it would ALSO mean an immediate economic boom like nothing before on the Israeli side. Palestinians would be forced into desperate poverty ... and Israeli may see their wages double at the same time, for the same reason.

This conflict cannot end with this level of aid provided to the Palestinian side. It just can't.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-19 17:01:47+00:00
“The bank aims to process startup financing applications within six months, significantly improving from the current 18-month timespan.”

Oof.

The right way to do this would have been to match private financing so the EIB is providing capital but not gatekeeping. (That or commit to giving the first N companies to reach some milestone a bunch of cheap capital.)
by Boogie_Man | 2025-05-19 17:02:05+00:00
Here is some useful information about what percentage of credit card companies' issued cards are to subprime lendees. https://bpi.com/is-the-subprime-segment-of-the-credit-card-m...

It doesn't directly confirm or contradict your statement, but is relevant to the conversation.

I would also like to remind everyone to pay your credit card balance in full every month without fail, or you are giving your credit card issuer boatloads of money just for fun.
by StrauXX | 2025-05-19 17:02:19+00:00
You are using the word "socialist" as if it implied "bad". I find that to be a very unreflected point wothout further elaboration. Most of Europe is built on socialist-democracy. Wether it works "better" or "worse" than the USA way can be debated. But it is definetly not "bad" per se.
by dogleash | 2025-05-19 17:02:29+00:00
Everything can always be more complicated, of course. For example:

1. The AI will never know the user well enough to predict what will be best for them. It will resort to treating everybody like children. In fact, many of the crude ways LLMs currently steer and censor are already infantilizing.

2. The users' benefit vs. "for your own good" as defined by a product vendor's financial interest is a scam that vendors have perpetrated for ages. Even the unsubtle version of it has a bunch of stooges and chumps that defend it. Things will not improve in the users' favor when it's harder to notice, and easier to pretend they're not malicious.

3. A bunch of Californians using the next wave of tech to spread cultural imperialism is better than China doing it, I guess. But why are those my options?
by wesselbindt | 2025-05-19 17:02:36+00:00
At what point would AI necessitate UBI? I'm assuming your idea here is, roughly speaking, that at some point, AI will displace a large section of the work force, rendering them homeless and unable to feed themselves, and that to prevent this, UBI would become necessary. But don't we already have homeless folks? Haven't we already been through technological revolutions putting people out on the streets? If this historical precedent is anything to go by, the politically dominant class is perfectly content with people going homeless on account of not being able to find a job. Seems to me that the classical solutions of pumping drugs into the streets, immobilizing the downtrodden, and straight up slavery through the prison system, are much more likely to happen than UBI
by fho | 2025-05-19 17:02:53+00:00
I wonder if the alternative to wood is just... wood.

Anecdotal, but I've been to Finnland last year and I couldn't help but see a correlation between (a) big swaths of land are covered in trees and (b) a lot of housing is build with wood.

It's honestly somewhat impressive to see huge structural elements build from what is basically a single glue-up.

So I assume that it's not actually about "wood stronger than steel", but more about (local) availability and/or logistics.
by noitpmeder | 2025-05-19 17:02:54+00:00
Thanks for the link! As pessimistic as I am toward this company it sounds like something that could be quite neat if it actually exists.

However, I lost all hope (of the little I had) after their sales rep said they "densify" their wood. My dude, if you need to spin so hard you pull out a thesaurus for "compress" it's not a great look.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-19 17:02:54+00:00
I'm not using an LLM for programming (at least not yet), but I'm using it for business planning, estimating target audiences, summarizing research, etc. All stuff I could do myself, and that I have to verify, but it saves time. More importantly, it's making some work more interesting that was previously too tedious to ever get started on. Maybe that benefit will wear off for me once it's not novel anymore, I don't know.
by tuetuopay | 2025-05-19 17:03:17+00:00
It's a... VM? Like the Linux VMs running on Linux computers in the cloud?

Sorry but not sorry, it's not easier to run than on linux. It requires the Windows store to work, and to use Hyper-V (which breaks VMware workstation, among other things).

It's in a better package, to be sure, but it's not "easier to run multiple OS on the same computer". It's easier to use multiple OSes (no SSH, GUI forwarding, etc), as long as all those OSes are Linux flavors supported by WSL.

Want FreeBSD or Windows? Nope!
by swyx | 2025-05-19 17:03:24+00:00
not at all dumb, i had same qtn. i assume its a direct replacement, and there should be some pros and cons, so what i'd really want is a knowledgeable person doing comparisons along the 4-5 major axes that people should really care about

axes i care about

0. does betterauth have google/twitter/github oauth? (i assume yes but hey its basic) 2fa support? Activedirectory/Okta/Workos/other team management level auth?

1. does betterauth integrate with postgres RLS? is there a better way to do the same job?

2. (pls autocomplete)
by programmertote | 2025-05-19 17:03:26+00:00
> Fabric feels like a rebrand of existing Azure services, plus a few new beta services that Microsoft is aggressively selling to their customers as fully baked

Couldn't agree more. To me, Synapse and Data Factory (ADF) are somewhat overlapping services too (sure Synapse can do some stuff like running SQL against blob storage files). I wonder what would happen to Synapse and ADF when Fabric becomes fully functional. I hope they don't kill ADF though.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-19 17:03:38+00:00
> Imagine Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey Brinn back in the day, waiting for handouts form the US government instead of VCs.

The US hands out money extremely generously through federal grants, DARPA and orders which have to be made to American companies through things like the Buy American Act. Silicon Valley itself was spurred by the DoD spendings.
by cooper_ganglia | 2025-05-19 17:03:40+00:00
It's honestly one of the better ones I've tried for general questions. I saw it used in a blind competition against ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and amongst people who didn't use LLMs frequently, it was the most favored for 4/5 questions! It's very good at sounding much more natural and less robotic than the others, imo.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-19 17:03:52+00:00
Well, WSL is Linux. It's really just a VM of it (since WSL2, WSL1 was actually running on the windows kernel which was pretty cool).

The big drawback to WSL to me is the slow filesystem access because NTFS sucks. And having to deal with Windows in the first place.

Ps I wouldn't worry about your karma. It's just a number :P
by xitang | 2025-05-19 17:04:09+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. I was deciding between SWE and dev and went with SWE after consulting with ChatGPT as SWE fits the job setting better

> SWE (Software Engineer) vs. Dev (Developer)

> SWE: Typically more formal; often implies engineering discipline like system design, scalability, testing. Broader + deeper in scope

> Dev: Informal short form of “developer”; can refer to any kind of coder. More general or casual.

> "Software Engineer (SWE)" → Signals higher-quality, well-compensated roles, especially to experienced professionals. Many top-paying U.S. companies prefer this title.
by lxgr | 2025-05-19 17:04:41+00:00
Discover acceptance abroad is actually not as bad as it might seem at a first glance: Discover owns Diners Club International, and as a result Discover cards are accepted everywhere Diners Club cards are and vice versa.

They also have some mutual acceptance agreements with JCB and China UnionPay and others. Just because there's no explicit Discover logo on a terminal/restaurant window doesn't mean a Discover card will actually not work.

It's not quite the reach of Visa or Mastercard, but international acceptance seems to be trending up.
by sunshine-o | 2025-05-19 17:05:38+00:00
So insurance did not offer much before the CRA. They will probably develop this market but it is gonna cost a lot probably and will be complex and imperfect.

Of course an LLC ultimately protect you but you have just multiplied by 10 or 100 the risk of blowing up your livelihood and the one of your employees.

Those regulations are just a nightmare, with "no-fault" liability, a simplified the burden of proof for the claimant, and are just very difficult to decrypt or applied to real world situations in an evolving landscape.

So unless you are big and have legal resources to work on it people are probably not gonna bother or give up.

Anyway your costs and risks have exploded and you are still competing with let's say Microsoft Azure.
by brudgers | 2025-05-19 17:05:53+00:00
Unless you want working plumbing and leaky roofs taken care of.

A hungry landlord is a landlord who is in dire financial straights.

Good landlords can afford to wait because they are using real-estate to park wealth, not as a means of putting food on the table. Think insurance company reserves and House of Windsor. It is a long play.
by soneca | 2025-05-19 17:05:58+00:00
Tangentially related, but have you thought about a go to market strategy related to AI?

I started a new side project with Cursor to see how it goes, and it suggests a lot of packages for a lot of things (often not even suggests, assume you want it and ask you to install already).

I imagine there will be a “AIO” AI optimization field soon. Have you considered at all?

I mean. If I explicitly ask Cursor models to use Better Auth for authentication, will any of them be able to use it?

A possible thing for you to work on could be to prepare a prompt with links to your documentation that I can copy and paste in Cursor (or whatever) and will successfully implement it in my project.

EDIT: If you want to give it a try at one now and post as a reply here, I’ll gladly try it. It should say to substitute Auth0, as I am already using it, in a NextJS 15 web app that uses Neon serverless Postgres as DB. But I can tweak those myself later too
by twodave | 2025-05-19 17:06:06+00:00
I feel like I saw a quote recently that said 20-30% of MS code is generated in some way. [0]

In any case, I think this is the best use case for AI in programming—as a force multiplier for the developer. It’s for the best benefit of both AI and humanity for AI to avoid diminishing the creativity, agency and critical thinking skills of its human operators. AI should be task oriented, but high level decision-making and planning should always be a human task.

So I think our use of AI for programming should remain heavily human-driven for the long term. Ultimately, its use should involve enriching humans’ capabilities over churning out features for profit, though there are obvious limits to that.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...
by sillystu04 | 2025-05-19 17:06:15+00:00
When companies were operated by royal charter and owned by aristocrats there wasn’t much meaningful distinction between dividends and taxation.

> They also had no euro, no socialist EU and no self-imposed limitations on energy conversion (there was no electricity, but wind was huge and allowed for mass production of stuff).

These are the diseases of weak states, incapable of creating state ownership enterprises that could dominate the world.
Show HN: Never Do On-Call Again
by mike210 | 2025-05-19 17:06:38+00:00
I hated getting paged late at night when I was on-call. So around two months ago, I built an AI assistant to do on-call for me, and posted it to Reddit (https://redd.it/1jibmtc). Turns out everyone hates getting paged - 300+ devs messaged me about it!

After a ton of work, it’s now ready to use. It’s called… well… OnCall, and it’s your AI on-call assistant.

OnCall solves errors thrown from your app, using all the tools and resources you do. It looks at the stack trace and reads source code to understand the error. It sifts through logs, browses the internet, and executes shell commands. Then it codes, commits, and creates a pull request with a nice description.

The performance is surprisingly good. On my limited early testing, it solves most errors perfectly in one try, and makes progress on many it misses. Fixes are isolated on a branch, so if the fix isn’t great, just don’t merge!

It connects via SDK and is triggered automatically when your app throws an exception. When it works well, it’s a fix PR for the error that just lands in your lap around 90 seconds after the error occurs!

Here are different ways to check out OnCall, depending on how busy you are:

[15 seconds] - No login public preview dashboard: https://web.oncallapp.ai/public/demo

[2 minutes] - Video demo: https://youtu.be/OZIoCF2-Hlk

[7 minutes] - Sign up and try it: https://oncallapp.ai

Necessary disclaimers: You should definitely review the code it produces. OnCall connects to your Github and Slack at a minimum, and LLM providers (Google/Anthropic/OpenAI) process part of your code. If you can’t use ChatGPT or Cursor at your work, you probably shouldn’t use OnCall.

Looking forward to hear feedback and ideas!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-19 17:06:39+00:00
> All those factors of course vary throughout the EU but it would be nice if they took a more holistic approach to supporting tech ventures

All of those things can be bought. One of Europe’s strategic disadvantages vis-à-vis America and China is low availability of big, risk-taking cheque writers. Fixing that today is worth more than a working group to write a paper about a holistic solution in ten years.
by cometapi | 2025-05-19 17:06:39+00:00
Google is set to unveil its next-generation generative AI models—*Imagen 4*, *Imagen 4 Ultra*, and *Veo 3*—during its annual Google I/O developer conference on *May 20, 2025*. Early leaks of preview identifiers (e.g., `imagen-4.0-generate-preview-05-20`, `imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-exp-05-20`, `veo-3.0-generate-preview`) signal a staged rollout and multiple capability tiers across both image and video synthesis domains . Imagen 4 aims to deliver significant gains in photorealism, prompt fidelity, and stylistic consistency over Imagen 3, while the “Ultra” variant may offer even higher resolution or specialized performance modes . On the video side, Veo 3 promises more coherent clip-to-clip continuity and robust style adherence compared to Veo 2 . All three models are expected to integrate tightly with Google’s Gemini AI ecosystem, enabling seamless transitions from text prompts to images or videos within the same workflow .
by evanjrowley | 2025-05-19 17:06:44+00:00
When it comes to European tech funding, I'm a big fan of NL Net's Next Generation Internet (NGI) grants[0]. These grants the only kind of investment I care about and the only kind I want to see. My opinion towards this is influenced by the enshittification[1] that has unfortunately been embraced by large tech companies and financial powers in the United States. Overall I'm not confident this is actually good news, but the fact that the financing is also available to researchers seems like a possible silver lining.

[0] https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
by risho | 2025-05-19 17:06:44+00:00
I don't understand. Docker/podman/distrobox/lxc all allow you to do the exact same thing without the virtual machine overhead. I think the real win of WSL is that its a best of all worlds. You get to use Windows with access to every game ever made plus all of the proprietary apps everyone needs to use, with all of the upside of having a full and complete linux command line experience.
by huqedato | 2025-05-19 17:07:22+00:00
From a person who has dealt with the management of European research projects: these funds will go through the EU bureaucratic maze, don't even think they will be available directly to startups. There will probably be programs and sub-programs, projects and other craps like that to more difficult for people to access the money. It's how the EU works. That's why startups flee to US if they want serious financing.

So leave me be very skeptical about this news.
by ffo | 2025-05-19 17:07:22+00:00
Congrats on the launch of Better Auth! It's great to see a new framework aiming to make rolling your own auth in TypeScript easier. More well-thought-out options for developers in the authentication and authorization landscape are always welcome.

Best of luck with it!

(Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Zitadel, also building solutions in this space.)
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-19 17:07:23+00:00
Yeah this is what pisses me off the most about windows. Telemetry that can't be turned off normally. Ads everywhere. Microsoft deciding when I must restart for updates. Microsoft trying to manage my behaviour telling me to try new features. Screw that. My computer is my own and must do what I choose.

This feature thing is really one of their strategies. At work they send us "adoption managers" that run reports to check whether people use feature xyz enough and set up stupid comms campaigns to push them to do so.

I really hate that. I decide how I use my computer. Not a vendor.
by spwa4 | 2025-05-19 17:07:43+00:00
It is NOW. For obvious reasons. Other than that: bullshit. The border was controlled by Egypt and Hamas from 2005 to 2021. Incidentally it was Egypt that closed the border, not Israel (after hamas decided to murder Egyptian army officers "because they were Jews", I might add, the incidents (plural) that wikipedia euphemistically describes as "escalation of cross-border incidents between Israel and Hamas". Cross-border is correct, but somehow it is not relevant to point out that it was hamas attacks in Egypt, and that it was Egyptian security forces that died. Oh and they probably weren't even anti-Israel attacks but an attempt to sabotage one of the attempts of the Egyptians to hold an election. That attempt was succesfull I might add (of course it's still the middle east and "it's complicated")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing#2005:_Is...
by mistrial9 | 2025-05-19 17:07:47+00:00
the USA venture system has built the most addictive and invasive tech system yet -- ads + phones. Hot on their heels is an invasive and controlling behometh called China. None of these are clear winners, in fact it remains to be seen how long this is stable. Its not intellectually honest to claim victory for the USA based on VC practices IMO