MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nmstoker | 2025-05-06 17:56:15+00:00
Yes, although I believe this is a speaker embedding model here, so not LLM related.

This kind of speech clustering has been possible for years - the exciting point with their model here is how it's highly focused on accents alone. Here's a video of mine from 2020 that demonstrated this kind of voice clustering in the Mozilla TTS repo (sadly the code got broken + dropped after a refactoring). Bokeh made it possible to directly click on points in a cluster and have them play

https://youtu.be/KW3oO7JVa7Q?si=1w-4pU5488WxYL3l

note: take care when listening as the audio level varies a bit (sorry!)
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-06 17:56:56+00:00
Like most things in life, there's a balance to be struck. If you always accept "good enough" and move on, things will be low-key crappy forever and never get to the point where they are actually good. If you never accept "good enough" and move on, you will never get anything useful done because you're going to always find some "one last thing" to polish. The best path is to pursue excellence when you can, but accept that sometimes you have to let things go.
by eitally | 2025-05-06 17:57:07+00:00
Is there an opportunity to partner with (or sell to) one of the big digital sheet music vendors (like Musescore or Music Notes, etc)? I've never come upon a compelling personal use case for smart glasses, but as a pianist this could be it. I would HAPPILY purchase both glasses and a subscription from one of the big music vendors if this worked seamlessly and I could do things like embed a metronome or link it to my DAW so I could control things like tempo, rewind, even key transposition.
by haiku2077 | 2025-05-06 17:57:14+00:00
ArgoCD for relatively simple stuff.

For complex stuff I write Python or Go programs to build manifests, then shell out to kubectl apply. An old example - deploying a multi-instance modded Arma 3 server on k3s: https://github.com/dharmab/homelab-k3s/tree/main/lab
by ejp | 2025-05-06 17:57:29+00:00
Judging from a recent thing I watched[1] ... ~1.5 mins per nail (as of the 8.5 hr + 352 nail mark), while streaming and talking.

That would bring it down to only ~7 years of labor if we call it 1 min per nail, assuming that you're already working from prepared bar stock. Still a significant expenditure of skilled labor!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jAFLG8Y1XY
by BandButcher | 2025-05-06 17:57:46+00:00
Could be anything from network to plain marketing and SEO.

I'm assuming the lack of new users is due more towards the marketing and search engine optimization of the new international site.

If a forum has very little posts to begin with or active users it may scare away new registrations. That could be the problem.

Another (personally) more glaring issue is the major differences in domain names. I would be afraid that they are not associated with one another and may distrust the international site altogether.

I'd recommend putting the English site under a "subdomain", such as:

en.administrator.de

That change should also improve your SEO I'd assume.

Cheers
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-06 17:59:57+00:00
Depends on the family member. My parents? They fed and clothed me for a couple of decades (not to mention literally wiped my ass for years). I owe them big time and I'll do basically anything that isn't immoral for them. My cousins? I like them and will try to help them, but I'm not going to bend over backwards either.
by kunzhi | 2025-05-06 18:00:22+00:00
Sorry, 20 years experience of actually doing things here. I've spent 10 of those years now doing consulting with everyone from 3-person pre-series-A startups all the way up to the Fortune 50.

Let me unequivocal: you can spend 30-40 years at a company doing absolutely nothing while getting paid for it.

Do not let anyone try to convince you otherwise. I've seen such much unethical bloodsucking in my career that at this point I wouldn't mind seeing a few companies collapse under the weight of their own karma.
by twodave | 2025-05-06 18:00:33+00:00
Well you’re right (especially wrt things like security scanning), but you sort of have to include Azure DevOps in the conversation nowadays. I think the end goal for Microsoft is to get the larger organizations into ADO, either cross-pollinate pipelines and actions or just replace actions with pipelines at some point, and leave GitHub for simpler project structures and public codebases.

That’s why you won’t see a ton of work go into e.g. issues/projects on GitHub. Those features all already exist and are very robust in ADO, so if you need those kinds of things (and the reporting an enterprise would want to be able to run on that data), then you belong on ADO.
by vel0city | 2025-05-06 18:00:41+00:00
> providing global public good

> At the peak of the British Empire

Global public goods and peak British Empire don't belong in the same thought IMO. Might as well go in about how great a public good the Belgians and French brought to Africa in their heyday.

I definitely agree the US shouldn't insert itself as much directly like the Iraq wars. But thinking that means we should walk away from controlling global naval shipping and near immediate air presence is missing out the enormous soft power we can project. Align with us on trade and we'll make sure your ships can leave, your planes can take off. Disagree, and we'll see who answers the call when those Houthis start shooting at your boats.

Losing those air fields and making the Navy considerably smaller massively reduces the ability for the US to project security on a global state.

Meanwhile the Trump administration cuts programs while ballooning the military budget to $1T...
by Projectiboga | 2025-05-06 18:01:17+00:00
I think I saw her around 1999 or 2000 w an electronic group Arling & Cameron w a wind player. Lots of sound from a four piece. There is a different player on the album but they billed her as a world champion theremin player.

The albums from that time were Arling & Cameron Music For Imaginary Films https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP5E3f0kgIG2riT_HOfOYwoMr... Others were All In & Voulez Vous an EP.
by indigodaddy | 2025-05-06 18:01:23+00:00
Reminds me of when some LLM (might have been Deepseek) told me I could add wasm_mode=True in my FastHTML python code which would allow me to compile it to WebAssembly, when of course there is no such feature in FastHTML. This was even when I had provided it full llms-ctx.txt
by xp84 | 2025-05-06 18:01:35+00:00
This is super cool! It took a while, but did a great job of evaluating the results, and the airtable-like results UI feels great.

Congrats on your launch. With the natural way this lends itself to comparison shopping this is an amazing tool for people trying to find "the best X for me" whether that's a TV, a school, etc. So much content that you find on Google when trying to answer that type of query, is designed to trick, bamboozle, and to hide the facts that you might use to answer this question (but most of all to get you to click affiliate links).
by jpadkins | 2025-05-06 18:02:12+00:00
Good time to remind people that right next to the town of Lyme CT is Plum Island Animal Disease Center, who happened to be researching tick based disease transmission when Lyme disease was first discovered (named after the town that had the first case). Crazy coincidence.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/07/did-us-invent-lym...
by megamike | 2025-05-06 18:02:28+00:00
Middle class culture, any culture, can only stand if it is rewarded. In prior times middle class culture was fundamentally supported by the upper classes, who invested in America, creating vast wealth. They modeled sobriety, hard-work, risk and reward. The working classes modeled the behavior through church and labor guilds, standing together for each other and the nation. The wealthy have abandoned America, and the working classes have abandoned religion, guilds, and each other. Into that void steps cultural anarchy. Society requires hard-work, and discipline. It requires accountability, primarily of the wealthy. I tire of prose that lament the loss of culture without holding those accountable who have abandoned their responsibilities
by saltcured | 2025-05-06 18:02:37+00:00
I can remember similar from public elementary school in the early 80s in the suburban SF Bay Area.

In kindergarten, we had a rotating chore to take the collective milk money for the class, exchange it for a crate of milk at the cafeteria, and return it to the kindergarten room. I can imagine social norms have changed since then about this de facto mandatory financial exercise.

In later grades, we had some rotating lunch duties including, at least, rinsing the lunch trays and loading the big dishwasher. I can't remember if we ever helped serve food, but I do remember being told to be careful with the very hot water spray nozzle in the washing basin. I can imagine this having changed due to shifting safety and liability norms.
by sanderjd | 2025-05-06 18:03:19+00:00
The way I see this is that it's just another skill differentiator that you can take advantage of if you can get it right.

That is, if it's true that abstraction and architecture are useful for a given product, then people who know how to do those things will succeed in creating that product, and those who don't will fail. I think this is true for essentially all production software, but a lot of software never reaches production.

Transitioning or entirely recreating "vibecoded" proofs of concept to production software is another skill that will be valuable.

Having a good sense for when to do that transition, or when to start building production software from the start, and especially the ability to influence decision makers to agree with you, is another valuable skill.

I do worry about what the careers of entry level people will look like. It isn't obvious to me how they'll naturally develop any of these skills.
Show HN: Feedsmith — Fast parser & generator for RSS, Atom, OPML feed namespaces
by macieklamberski | 2025-05-06 18:03:43+00:00
Hi HN! While working on a project that involves frequently parsing a lot of feeds, I needed a fast JavaScript-based parser to extract specific fields from feed namespaces. Existing Node packages were either too slow or merged all feed formats, losing namespace information. So I decided to write it myself and created this NPM package with a simple API.

Feedsmith supports all feed formats and many popular namespaces, including: Podcast, Media, iTunes, Dublin Core, and more. It can also parse and generate OPML files.

I am currently adding support for more namespaces and feed generation for RSS, Atom and RDF. The library grew into something bigger than I initially anticipated, so I also started creating a dedicated documentation website to describe all the features.
by tillinghast | 2025-05-06 18:04:52+00:00
> Astronauts would never be as stupid as they're depicted in that film, things like "oh gee I think I'll take my helmet off around all this potential biohazard."

My head-canon explanation for this is that a good portion of the crew specifically were not astronauts -- they were experts in their field (geology, anthropology, etc.). And true-to-form, they were dismissive of other experts telling them NO, NO DO NOT REMOVE YOUR HELMET. And once the first few were exposed the others decided well, if there's a problem with it we're already screwed anyway.
by vessenes | 2025-05-06 18:05:02+00:00
Reading the straw that broke the camel's back commit illustrates the problem really well: https://hackerone.com/reports/3125832 . This shit must be infuriating to dig through.

I wonder if reputation systems might work here - you could give anyone who id's with an AML/KYC provider some reputation, enough for two or three reports, let people earn reputation digging through zero rep submissions and give someone like 10,000 reputation for each accurate vulnerability found, and 100s for any accurate promoted vulnerabilities. This would let people interact anonymously if they want to edit, quickly if they found something important and are willing to AML/KYC, and privilege quality people.

Either way, AI is definitely changing economics of this stuff, in this case enshittifying first.
by jpc0 | 2025-05-06 18:05:19+00:00
I don’t know about tickets but my org definitely happily pays for Gemini Advanced and encourages it’s use and would be considered a small org.

The latest SOTA models are definitely at the point where they can absolutely improve workflows and not get in your way too much.

I treat it a lot like an intern, “Here’s an api doc and spec, write me the boilerplate and a general idea about implementation”

Then I go in, review, rip put crud and add what I need.

It almost always gets architecture wrong, don’t expect that from it. However small functions and such is great.

When it comes to refactoring ask it for suggestions, eat the meat leave the bones.
by alganet | 2025-05-06 18:05:36+00:00
A more verbose description of the practice known as "yak shaving" or "letting the perfect get in the way of good". More storytelly, emotional.

It's popular. It appeals to some profiles: The leader who doesn't understand why the worker is taking so long. The worker who doesn't understand why the coworker is redoing his stuff.

If you let a popular saying guide your life, then why live at all? You got to experience those things first hand to understand.

If you never went through the process of trying to make something better, you will never understand the cost.

That's why managers who say this kind of stuff are often despised. They demonstrate to know the sayings but not the experience of living through it. When they do, they are respected.

That is also why the product manager and the technical lead are often two distinct roles. The product manager can't make those calls, it only cares about whether the final product matches expectations. The technical lead can make those calls about technical investment cost, but no calls about the project direction. It keeps a good social dynamic that prevents automatic popular sayings and "I heard that..." stuff to override human behavior.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-05-06 18:06:01+00:00
this is part of the mindset had by doctors that makes some people want to “do their own research” rather than trust their physician. A medical intervention has to have positive expected value for it to be a good idea, and figuring out the expected value has to involve some quantification of risks. If doctors don’t want to do that because they could get sued if they don’t give a maximally accurate estimate and producing a maximally correct estimate would be too much work, then fine, it’s a free country and I don’t want to make doctors do anything they don’t feel like doing, but they are creating a situation where parents who want to figure out if something is a good idea have no choice but to start googling things themselves.

I’ve undergone some surgeries that were not without risks and every time, i’ve been stonewalled by doctors when asking for basic information like “in your personal practice, what is the success rate for this surgery?”. Always something like “Oh, everyone is different, so there’s no way to give any estimates.” The only options are, either they have some estimate they think is accurate enough that they’re comfortable recommending the surgery but they won’t tell me (in which case they’re denying me useful information for their own benefit), or they have no idea and are recommending the surgery for some other reason (a very concerning possibility lol). Either way, it instantly makes our relationship adversarial to some extent, and means I need to do my own research if I want to be able to make an informed decision.
Show HN: VizDiff – Visual diff testing for Storybook via GitHub
by adapixel | 2025-05-06 18:06:03+00:00
Hey HN,

I built VizDiff, a streamlined visual regression testing tool specifically designed for Storybook components. I found existing services like Chromatic powerful, but often too feature-heavy or costly for smaller teams and bootstrapped startups.

VizDiff simplifies automated screenshot testing—capturing component snapshots in CI, clearly highlighting pixel-level visual changes, and helping teams catch UI regressions before they reach production.

My main goal was accessibility and ease of integration for small teams or solo devs who need effective visual testing without the overhead.

I'd love feedback from anyone who has worked with Storybook or screenshot based regression testing. Any key features or integrations you feel are missing?

Check it out here: https://vizdiff.io

Thanks!
by 3D30497420 | 2025-05-06 18:06:07+00:00
I think it is even broader than that. It is removing any potential opposition. That opposition is independent institutions, such as universities, but also the truth itself. If there's no one to research things, then how will you know if something is "true" or not? If there's no one to communicate those findings, how will anyone find out? Etc.
by kragen | 2025-05-06 18:06:33+00:00
None of my argument depends on the AI being sentient.

You are surely correct that there are weaker imaginable AIs than the strongly superhuman AI that OpenAI and I are talking about which would still be more powerful than nuclear weapons, but they are more debatable. For example, whether discovering new physics would permit the construction of new, more powerful weapons is debatable; it didn't help Archimedes or Tipu Sultan. So discussing such weak claims is likely to end up off in the weeds of logistics and speculation about exactly what kind of undiscovered physics and math would come to light. Instead, I focused on the most obviously correct ways that strongly superhuman AI would be more powerful than nuclear weapons.

These may not be the most practically important ways. Maybe any strongly superhuman AI would immediately discover a way to explode the sun, or to control people's minds, or to build diamondoid molecular nanotechnology, or to genetically engineer super-plagues, or to collapse the false vacuum. Any of those would make nuclear weapons seem insignificant. But claims like those are much more uncertain than the very simple question before us: whether what OpenAI is trying to develop would be more powerful than nuclear weapons. Obviously it would be, by my reasoning in the grandparent comment, even if this isn't a false vacuum, if the sticky fingers problem makes diamondoid nanotechnology impossible, if people's minds are inherently uncontrollable, etc. So we don't need to resolve those other, more difficult questions in order to do the much easier task of ranking OpenAI's objective relative to nuclear weapons.
by boplicity | 2025-05-06 18:07:02+00:00
How strange that scientific research just like this has become extremely political.

Case in point: The Trump administration has cut Northwestern off from over a quarter billion dollars in funding because of "anti-semitism." Note, that the vast majority of this money is for research just like the one linked in this article.

Of course, people seem to be arguing about anti-semitism more than cutting off funding for research. But make no mistake: cutting off research funding is exactly what is happening. And that has practically nothing to do with antisemitism.
by hx8 | 2025-05-06 18:07:03+00:00
It depends on if they are just repeating things without understanding, or if they have understanding. My issue is that people that say "I asked gpt" is that they often do not have any understanding themselves.

Copy and pasting from ChatGPT has the same consequences as copying and pasting from StackOverflow, which is to say you're now on the hook supporting code in production that you don't understand.
by liam-hinzman | 2025-05-06 18:07:31+00:00
Without signing in you’re only able to view the preview table, which is just Exa’s regular search.

If you sign in each result will be graded by an LLM, supporting references will be found, you can get agents to add arbitrary data to each result, and the table UI is much better.

Understand if you don’t want to sign up, I’d just look at the examples linked in the OP in that case
by 6510 | 2025-05-06 18:07:32+00:00
It can still be annoying; I feel it is part of his personality.

It looks like you are writing a comment on Hacker News.

Would you like help with:

- Commas? There shouldn't be one behind "responds to text"

- Capitalization? You've missed a D in "did you know..."

- Punctuation? You've missed a question mark behind "what you’re doing". It goes inside the quotes, of course!

[] Don't ever suggest anything like this ever again.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-05-06 18:09:17+00:00
> I hate working with teammates like this.

> They'll spin their wheels solving some insane problem no one asked them to do because it's "better" while ignoring the larger scope and goals of the project.

> But why? This is "good enough," and IME, if you sit on things like this long enough, eventually someone else comes along and does it.

Can't think of a bigger reason to avoid volunteer work on free and open source software than what you just said. Being a "wheel spinner" who cares too much about stuff is foolishness. People hate you and simultaneously take you for granted.
by Qem | 2025-05-06 18:10:17+00:00
> Brown argues that this object is not likely to be Planet Nine because its orbit would be far more tilted than what is predicted for the undiscovered world. In other words, a planet in this position would not have the observed effects on the Solar System. In fact, a planet in this orbit would make the calculated Planet Nine orbit itself unstable, which would eliminate Planet Nine altogether. Is there an entirely different planet out there? Future observations will have to sort this out.

There's also an alternative lesser known proposal for an undetected massive object in the outer solar system, by Lykawka and Mukai[1], ofter confounded with the planet nine hypothesis, but it is actually an independent proposal from the object predicted by Batygin and Brown. I wonder if despite not being compatible with the more known planet nine proposal, the recent finding may be compatible with the one from Lykawka et al, or it may even be the case that the former acts in tandem with the later, and we actually have two real objects making the work of the virtual single planet proposed by B&B.

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/135/4/1...
by no_wizard | 2025-05-06 18:10:25+00:00
I would contend that JetBrains has only grown even with VS Code around. They're still more than viable, support things on a near similar cadence (and even in some cases, faster and/or better) than VS Code gets support for it.

I agree with the rest, they've all mostly lost market share or completely no longer exist due to VS Code, but not IntelliJ, that platform is going really strong.

Though no doubt, VS Code has pushed JetBrains to rethink some things, and be better in general.
by supertimor | 2025-05-06 18:10:29+00:00
This is a bit reductionist. While I agree that there are some out of touch and terrible people in powerful positions in Hollywood, a ton of average working class people rely on Hollywood to make a living (i.e. catering, film crews, manufacturers, retail, etc).

It’s like saying that the entire tech industry should be destroyed and screw all the tech workers, they should all lose their jobs because Zuckerberg is an awful person.

I agree with you that Scientology is a criminal organization though.
by Suppafly | 2025-05-06 18:10:43+00:00
>Once upon a time I thought either GNOME or KDE would win, and we could all enjoy the one Linux distribution, I was proven wrong.

Linux users don't want one to win. As soon as one gained any traction, the users would switch just for the sake of it. It's also crazy how neither ever actually improves because they are so focused on copying whatever windows and mac are doing instead of continuously improving. The linux desktop experience isn't any better now than it was 20 years ago.