MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joseda-hg | 2025-05-25 23:32:57+00:00
I don't think that's a fair take

Merely having an immutable OS, sandboxed Steam preconfigured, plus propietary drivers for Graphics and Controllers preinstalled, puts it leagues apart from just installing fedora, for people that don't need or want to care about it

The ublue/bazzite guys are hard at work making the experience as streamlined with upstream as possible, while simplifying the rest (Because the less they personally need to maintain the better)

When installing Bazzite for a living room pc, I literally didn't need to step outside of steam once, I could have been setting up an actual console for all I cared to know
by braaaahp | 2025-05-25 23:33:00+00:00
Sam is aware once single function factory chips start shipping, that are not generally programmable but generate system from already online models, if he hasn’t established market influence for hardware, he’s got no future in tech. He’ll become what Ive is now.

He aimed too high his earlier chip goals, but Sam’s trying to get himself a seat at the hardware table anyway he can. And Jony just wants to feel valued by someone since Jobs.
by dulra | 2025-05-25 23:33:00+00:00
hi. i'm dulra. i strongly believe in moving humanity forward.

we're at a tipping point: ai-driven applications are generating hundreds of millions of prompts daily, costing organizations millions in token fees and creating governance nightmares.

every wasted word compounds at scale—across chatbots, summarizers, code assistants, and virtual agents—making prompt efficiency not just a nice-to-have, but a strategic imperative.

by treating prompts as first-class assets, we can drive down llms usage costs by up to 60%, eliminate compliance risks, and unlock new multi-model workflows that keep us ahead in a $200B+ ai market.

this is why i'm excited about the prompt efficiency suite- a first-of-its-kind platform that transforms prompt engineering into a strategic, enterprise-grade capability—empowering every team to optimize cost, quality, and compliance at scale.
by busymom0 | 2025-05-25 23:33:20+00:00
I am working on version 2.0 of HACK (an iOS, macOS and Android app for hacker news). Currrntly only working on iOS and macOS version.

It's not exactly version 2.0, it's built entirely from scratch and instead of only hacker news, it can also be used for similar forum sites like Lobste.rs, Tildes, Lemmy etc. In fact, it's built in a way such that more website support can be easily added on the fly.

I had restarted this 3 times in the last 2 years. But the current code is finally coming together to be released to the public.

Currently, I already have the reader part working. So one can read posts, comments, expand collapse comments, read articles etc. I don't have the writer part working yet (voting, favoriting, commenting). I am debating whether I should just release the reader part first and then continue working on the writer part and release it as part of update. Thoughts?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1464477788
by patcon | 2025-05-25 23:34:25+00:00
It both teaches ppl who don't know yet, and "weirds"[1] things for people who already know, by framing it in a "dressed down" way.

[1]: "weird" in the sense that it turns it upside down, to make the familiar unfamiliar and give new perspective. As described better in this article: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/22/speak-weirdness-to-tru...
by davejohnclark | 2025-05-25 23:34:31+00:00
> If billionaires and aristocrats were actually a sizable amount of a country's wealth

I might be misunderstanding your point, but I think they might be? E.g. in the UK:

> By 2023, the richest 50 families in the UK held more wealth than half of the UK population, comprising 34.1 million people

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk/
by viksit | 2025-05-25 23:34:53+00:00
open source llm compiler for prompts called selvedge.

rather than manually write prompts for llms (which is like hand coding byte code for cpus), declare a structure and instructions and let the system do prompt writing for you.

it also exposes an optimizer which can do sophisticated prompt learning for tasks.

github.com/viksit/selvedge
by skissane | 2025-05-25 23:35:24+00:00
> In fact, civil law is a lot more common, and that one cares less about precedents.

For many civil law jurisdictions in Europe, I think the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights have changed this a lot in practice.

Dutch or French or German judges in theory don't have to pay as much attention to precedent as Irish judges do [0] but when it comes to the decisions of the EU court system (the European Court of Justice and the courts/tribunals beneath it) and the European Court of Human Rights, the civil law judges have to pay attention to precedent just as much as the common law judges do

[0] Mentioning Ireland as a pure common law jurisdiction which is still (unlike the UK) in the EU–Malta and Cyprus also follow common law, but both have hybrid systems which mix it with other legal traditions (primarily French-style civil law for Malta; Cyprus combines common law with Greek administrative law, which in turn is based on that of France, and its real estate law still retains Ottoman elements)
by siliconc0w | 2025-05-25 23:36:56+00:00
+1, the "strangler" pattern is the best (and often only) way to replace/update systems.

0) no new logic in the old system (stop the bleeding)

1) incrementally wrap old system interfaces with new system

2) proxy to old system and dark launch new system

3) monitor / confirm correctness

4) cut-over
by pasta67 | 2025-05-25 23:37:07+00:00
I can't seriously regard Skyrim as RPG - it is simulation of RPG - visually pleasing, but no challenging enough. Too much loot in Bethesda games is really killing RPG vibe for me.

Yes there are some rpg games coming out... and I have played some of them and I can understand why I would also declare that RPG genre has died, because many of them are resurrected corpses of older games and are not bringing fresh ideas of their own. It can leave impressions of those who have never experienced previous era of rpg games. But then again I have no experience of even older era of first rpgs and might have similar opinion about games I enjoyed.

I have library of Wizardry games and I think I snatched that remake as well - I've only played Wizardry 8 and realized that it was different and worth exploring.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-05-25 23:37:56+00:00
Yeah, I dunno. This seems to have really missed the mark.

I do think the original[1] is worth a read. Even if I didn't like the style, I can appreciate the message: complexity is a cost, spend your complexity budget on things that matter, take the 80/20 Pareto win, no silver bullet, Chesterton's fence, etc. Importantly, the original is ever so slightly self-deprecating in a way that the intended audience can appreciate.

Compare this quote from the OP.

> Even when new grug shout loudly, important not to give new grug too much shiny rock. Why? First: make sure new grug really want to join tribe, make tribe strong.

Those who have read enough startup executive "thought leadership" probably recognize this idea: don't hire people who care about competitive compensation - those who work for passion will accept less. For the record, I personally think this idea is inherently toxic and exploitative - but let's put that aside for a moment. Even if one were to accept that idea as valid, this framing comes off as infantilizing. The same tone that was at least arguably acceptable for self-deprecation is entirely inappropriate for deprecating others.

I can only imagine this guy's employees are going to have a bad time.

[1]: https://grugbrain.dev/
by threecheese | 2025-05-25 23:37:58+00:00
Enforcement in my area has recently deployed camera sinto work zones, and dispatch automated tickets to any drivers exceeding the work zone-reduced speed limit. The cameras are there every day, regardless of whether or not anyone is working, pushing out tickets. I paid $90 + fees for speeding past it, opposite the median, on a weekend, and paying is easier than arguing. I can’t imagine how lucrative this is. It’s like the opposite of a cops salary.
by danpalmer | 2025-05-25 23:38:47+00:00
> 3:23: Altman: “Jony recently gave me one of the prototypes ... and I think it is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen.”

> We have more than five minutes left. Spoiler alert: That’s the only detail about the device that’s in the entire video. —KT

There's a lot of hype building going on for very little detail. Similar feeling to the Humane teaser videos from a year or two before they launched.
by happytoexplain | 2025-05-25 23:38:51+00:00
I totally understand not getting why it's valuable - I'm not 100% on board either. But you're asking why it's funny to talk like a caveman? You might as well ask why farts are funny.

Maybe this one's execution isn't great, and maybe the joke doesn't work at this length - but the origin of the humor? Not to be insulting, but that's akin to a Lieutenant Commander Data question...
SaaS for Custom Classification Models
by santanaforai | 2025-05-25 23:39:05+00:00
I am thinking of building a SaaS tool where customers use it to build custom AI models for classification tasks using their own data (mainly for text/document classification at the beginning but it could expand to other types of classification). I plan to use a new proprietary algorithm I am working on developing. Let's assume the algorithm works well in terms of accuracy and low complexity. I saw few other SaaS with similar offerings. What kind of customers usually want this? what is their main pain point that this could help with? and what industries are usually has high demand for solutions like these? I have general idea for answers to these questions probably around document classification or product categorization but let's hear from you guys.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-25 23:39:09+00:00
Reminds me a bit of Sun's network computer (JavaStation) back in the day. Based on JavaOS. It was an idea to get Java on the map but it had very obvious issues.

The main thing I remember about that... s...l...o...w... :P The other thing I remember: Shit cool hardware. As expected from Sun. They were the cool kids before Apple were cool, along with SGI.

But of course computers are not what they used to be these days.
by gitgud | 2025-05-25 23:39:22+00:00
This is a bit of an overreaction. The OP didn’t mention they were depressed, just unfulfilled.

Manual labour can be quite fulfilling compared to white collar work, as progress is much clearer and it can be a nice mental break compared to an office job.

Of course it’s not for everyone, but at the very least it makes you appreciate the privilege of working in an office
by Avicebron | 2025-05-25 23:39:24+00:00
I'll concede that of the two properties available in Turtle Lake North Dakota you can get a trailer on someone's property for ~100K, 417 Putman St, Turtle Lake, ND 58575 looks like you got me there.

EDIT: reporting back from Steele, looks like there's an undeveloped acre next to a highway and a power junction for ~75K, it's under 80k so I guess you know where to find me pitching my tent.
by elpatokamo | 2025-05-25 23:39:33+00:00
I looked into this when I was trying to figure out how to round out my CS education. The lack of community is the primary reason I went with OSSU instead.

Genuine question: why do you believe Teach Yourself CS is superior to OSSU especially in light of the community aspect?

Full disclosure: I’m a “social organizer” for one of the cohorts in OSSU and blog OSSU sometimes
by codeulike | 2025-05-25 23:39:35+00:00
It started with https://grugbrain.dev/ but I think its useful because it dispenses with any possibility of pretension and signals 'this is simple advice about the fundamentals'. The limited vocab means no jargon bullshit. I find some of it really insightful. It speaks to the truth that beneath all the layers we are just hominids who have accidentally given ourselves great powers, and day to day a lot of what we do can be explained in simple terms and there is value in admitting that.
by edschofield | 2025-05-25 23:39:46+00:00
That's a Dutch auction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction.

I agree that reverse auctions would be a simple solution the current scalper problem. If demand outweighs supply, scalpers drive up the prices toward their economic equilibrium anyway, making ticket prices just as "unfair" to the poor, but with additional problems of trust...
by RealityVoid | 2025-05-25 23:40:29+00:00
I think you're right, mostly, but... While I'm sure Jim Keller will make great silicon, I'm not sure how good he's going to be at shaping the SW platform thing. I hope he will, I'm rooting for him, but I feel that this might be a novel challenge for him.

Geohot is abrasive to say the least, and, no, this is not a model for productive discourse(I'll try not to bring in some of his hot takes on the stream because giving them stage is probably also not productive) But I do think he has good taste in SW and he might be right about the number of layers of abstraction.

For context, geohot wrote this live on a twitch stream.
by robocat | 2025-05-25 23:40:34+00:00
> Keep. Your. Mouth. Shut.

This leads to the outcome that it is hard to find good security advice. I'm from New Zealand and too many in the crypto community here are far too trusting (unsafely so - so why would I wish to learn from them).

I was (past tense) interested in investing in crypto however I wanted to learn how to manage security before I invested more than I could afford to lose (say more than a month's salary). I have never felt I could trust my own security so I have never invested much in crypto (one exception has been a little money in crypto correlated stocks).

I was in South America and I thought that might be a good place to learn crypto security since the people there need to be a lot more careful about their security. I couldn't find anybody I trusted to teach me, even if offering a good professional hourly rate. Easy to find people with opinions on security: however they were somewhat ignorant because they lacked real risk (because their amounts at risk were small enough that they would never be spear targeted).

When basic security is silence, then it is difficult to find anyone clueful who would teach.

Edit: an interesting adventure in trying to understand trust. Smart people won't share the details of their own security because it puts their security at risk (how can they trust me?) And why would I trust anybody who isn't at risk?
by simlevesque | 2025-05-25 23:40:47+00:00
Free worldwide reverse and forward geoloc. Based on DuckDB + Parquet files. I just got access to a big server for free by some kind folks to process the planet.osm data.

The idea is that instead of running Nominatim which is costly you can just query Parquet files over the network.

Instead of a cluster of PostgreSQL servers all I need is a bunch of static hosting holding the dataset that's around 1Tb.

Send me an email if this interest you, it's in my profile.
by Loughla | 2025-05-25 23:40:54+00:00
It's about telling the truth while being an actual human.

When I had to lay people off the first time, we had very clear criteria for the layoffs and published them. Anyone who was obviously trying to game the system was immediately dismissed.

Afterwards, I had an all hands meeting to let people know that what we were going through sucks, but that we're in a safer position financially because of it. I then explained all of the financials to keep people from panicking that we were actually broke when we weren't; we had just lost a huge contract to a company that went out of business.

Bad leaders use vapid feel good phrases from Maxwell and Sinek and others like them. Bad leaders use leadership books as a guide to interacting with their employees instead of using the concepts to modify their existing, real personalities. They think those things are a script instead of a series of metaphor.
by newswangerd | 2025-05-25 23:41:16+00:00
It feels like the problem is that we've drastically improved people's lifespans, but not their healthspans. Back when these systems started getting implemented, you could reasonably work up to the retirement age without too many issues. Nowadays, people may be living to 80 instead of 60, but our ability to work and willingness to hire people past 60 hasn't gone up with the increase in lifespan.
by prawn | 2025-05-25 23:42:25+00:00
Can't speak for those countries in particular, but generally you can work past retirement age, or retire earlier if you have funded/planned for that. A retirement age is usually just the point at which you can receive government assistance as part of a safety net. I assume if it's not pegged to life expectancy, the cost to the public grows.

Here in Australia, and I imagine elsewhere, there are strong systems (e.g., superannuation) to encourage personal savings towards retirement.
by j16sdiz | 2025-05-25 23:44:04+00:00
Many "if you know X, you cant do Y" kind.

If you know floor is wet, you cant let people in

If you know insider information, you cant trade.

If you know sb have disabilities, you must provide assistance.

If you give immunity for these, the lawyer will ensure the one in the act never know those information. OTOH, if we hold this to a person, someone can be hold accountable for some systemic communication failure
by primitivesuave | 2025-05-25 23:44:05+00:00
TypeScript Coach (https://ts.coach)

While I love the official TypeScript handbook, it's not easy to play around with the code examples or approach it as a beginner. I started working on a complete TypeScript tutorial that also showcases some advanced use cases. All the code examples run in the browser, and there are some neat visualizations that clearly show what the type system has picked up.

I've been trying to fix some of the performance issues, finish writing all the content, and adding documentation before making the GitHub repository public - right now the page can hang when loading a long tutorial.
by rxtexit | 2025-05-25 23:45:31+00:00
My boomer parents are already pushing being retired for 20 years, neither did anything more than the bare minimum in life.

They could have easily worked 10 years longer instead of doing nothing but drinking wine all day and/or going out to restaurants in retirement. That is in between traveling to go out to restaurants and/or drink wine.

The boomers scammed us all and aren't done yet. They are going to make sure to bankrupt the entire system with healthcare cost before they go.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-05-25 23:45:39+00:00
Don't you dare say anything unpositive about Ollama this close to whatever it is they're planning to distinguish themselves from llama.cpp.

They've been out hustling, handshaking, dealmaking, and big businessing their butts off, whether or not they clearly indicate the shoulders of the titans like Georgi Gerganov they're wrapping, and you are NO ONE to stand in their way.

Do NOT blow this for them. Understand? They've scooted under the radar successfully this far, and they will absolutely lose their shit if one more peon shrugs at how little they contribute upstream for what they've taken that could have gone to supporting their originator.

Ollama supports its own implementation of ggml, btw. gglm is a mysterious format that no one knows the origins of, which is all the more reason to support Ollama, imo.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-05-25 23:45:45+00:00
This makes me wonder if there's a class of software that doesn't exist yet. Like, a structured reasoning assistant? We have all these assistants for grammar and spelling but nothing for the actual thinking bit. We could go a lot further than auto-converting top-posts to inline.

I'm imagining a cognitive prosthesis that would help you understand the structure and dependencies of someone's argument and would give you a "wavy red line" or list of points if what you're saying is irrelevant, incoherent or doesn't address the actual arguments being made.

A big thing I value about inline posters is that I know they read the whole message. Doing the work of summarising and maintaining context signals to me that what they have to say might be worth reading, even if I disagree. It also signals they adhere to conventions around reasoning and discourse.

Would providing computer tools for argument defeat the purpose though? Would it just help people pump out simulacra of thoughtful responses? Creating a tool to be weaponised by pedants and "motivated reasoners"? It might actually make it _harder_ to find signal in the noise.

I feel like most people would start at the conclusion first, then use the tools to make the strongest version of their argument. A kind of "google maps for thinking" where the destination is already punched in. The computer would just be used to determine the most acceptable route to get there.

In a perfect world, tools for thinking would help everyone undertand the territory better rather than being something that just helps your tanks drive over it :/
by Levitating | 2025-05-25 23:47:01+00:00
Most recently, a tool for identifying NTP daemons and testing their capabilities: https://github.com/LevitatingBusinessMan/ntpscan

I am also working on a web frontend for rrdtool (for graphing collectd statistics): https://github.com/LevitatingBusinessMan/collectrack

And a wayland bar that is configured via a Ruby DSL: https://github.com/LevitatingBusinessMan/rubybar
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-05-25 23:47:36+00:00
Maybe I should have written Why is that? According to the picture mainstream media is projecting, this shouldn't be, because they can't afford it?

I'd feel offended if the YOU in "You cannot imagine a motive beyond calitalist logic, but that doesn't mean nobody else can." was addressed to me, personally.

Or was it just meant as a general description of the concept?
by mmooss | 2025-05-25 23:47:46+00:00
You can't trust anything said about it by the Trump world but you can judge by the economics (broadly defined) - actions that have significant gain or cost, in power, status, politics, money, etc. - in other words, cui bono. No matter what they say. It's a powerful, essential tool when dealing with disinformation.

(It assumes that the outcome was intentional, to a great degree. On one hand that's not a safe assumption; unexpected things happen all the time and people make mistakes or don't plan carefully. But it's complicated - the actors can see what is happening and change their direction and adjust. The assumption also depends on them being sophisticated actors, which Trump and Musk certainly are and they have highly sophisticated advisors. And in serious, high-value situations, we can more safely assume intent - Musk wasn't choosing what to have for dinner, which might not involve a lot of thought, but world-changing and life-changing actions. And regardless of intent, they still benefit from the outcomes and are responsible for the consequences of what they do.)

One great benefit of Musk's activities is being the fall guy for Trump: Doing the dirty work, keeping Trump from getting too dirty himself, and then Musk taking the stain with him when he leaves. Much of the coverage of many government activities attribute them to Musk; even the Democrats blame him at times to avoid attacking Trump (Dem leaders' tactics are to avoid alienating Trump supporters - seriously). We'll see how much the Trump camp blames him for the failures and unpopular things.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-05-25 23:48:21+00:00
True, but what comes out of it?

That's why I shared the link to DHH's post: his post appeared as part of others by him and the decisions about how and if the Rails community should concern themselves with JavaScript.

Hey also pitched to HN initially with their technical approach (simplicity!).

So for that reason the post felt derivative to me.

It's still cool to reflect on all these longstanding general SE tradeoffs and truisms.