MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toyg | 2025-05-02 12:01:06+00:00
From the perspective of a UK flyer, $3500 for a return ticket over the Atlantic in business class looks fairly cheap. Last time i checked (with one-month advance), I was quoted 4500+ GBP.

Regardless, you don't throw away your headset after a flight, obviously, so even if the ticket were half the price you'd still come out ahead after two or three trips.

This said, headsets like AVP improve the flying experience but don't magically solve it: they are still too heavy and uncomfortable to wear for more than 1-2 hours. That's why I'm betting on the more lightweight (and cheaper) sunglass-like products to actually win that market.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-05-02 12:01:08+00:00
Just read an article about how overseas shippers have been flooding warehouses up here in Canada stockpiling cheap goods destinated for the US market, hoping for the tariffs to get dropped soon:

https://archive.is/PjEgL

Article notes that if the tariffs don't get dropped shortly, the cost of warehousing will exceed the tariff cost, and the goods will get dumped into the Canadian market. (Win? Maybe?)

Then we have companies that set up their distributor model to be North American wide, screwing Canadian consumers (adding in tariff overhead for them and taking it as profit) because they still route their goods through the US: https://petapixel.com/2025/04/30/leica-raises-prices-in-cana...

Everything is a mess
Ask HN: Is there a solution to vibe-code hardware?
by kushjoy | 2025-05-02 12:02:00+00:00
Would you agree that modern dev tooling (e.g., Copilot, Replit, Cursor) has largely ignored hardware? Are there any startups in this space? Hardware folks looking to design-collab a copilot please drop a line here.

Ask: Looking for stellar AI Engineers who can model fine-tune and train.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-02 12:02:05+00:00
US had a de minimis (<$800) tariff exemption for goods originating from all countries, but that has now been removed for China and Hong Kong, so all goods from those countries, regardless of price, will now incur a US import tax (tariff) at whatever rate Trump is currently imposing (125% for China?).

Basically cheap cloths from Shein/Temu, cheap electronics on eBay, etc all just doubled in price.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-02 12:02:35+00:00
Which based many of their tools on what Xerox PARC has done with their Smalltalk, Mesa (XDE), Mesa/Cedar, Interlisp-D environments.

This kind of processing is possible on dynamic languages, when using an image base system, as it also contains metadata that somehow takes the role of static types.

From the previous list only Mesa and Cedar are statically typed.
by MelodyUwU | 2025-05-02 12:02:38+00:00
few "commands" that id like to see: ls, cd, less (better reading), uname, echo. would be nice for sure! otherwise it seems some fonts are not really terminal-like. looks good and simple right now though.

also:

abdisaDev@chillSpot:~$ whoami visitor@linux_aarch64-CET
by danielbln | 2025-05-02 12:04:08+00:00
Free tier ChatGPT (so probably gpt-4o) is quite a bit behind the SOTA, especially compared to agentic workflows (LLM that autonomously perform actions, run tests, read/write/edit files, validate output etc.).

Gemini 2.5 pro is a much stronger model, so is Claude 3.7 and presumably GPT4.1 (vis API).
by SansGuidon | 2025-05-02 12:04:14+00:00
Exactly... so much hype around complexity when simplicity wins. That's also why such systems like Wallabag, Linkwarden, Omnivore etc all disappointed me. In the end with a simple system made of static files and tools available out of the box on most distributions, I could make my own alternative to most archiving/bookmarking management systems and it just works. No DB, no framework, no fancy UI. Yet powerful. I have to blog about it.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-05-02 12:04:14+00:00
It was an example. There's no need to be pedantic.

$800 is a meaningful exception for personal use. If you want a turkish $400 rug or a $300 indian wedding dress, it was always meant to be for personal, not corporate, use.

Can we agree that the law as it was intended was completely abused ?

EDIT: for graphic language
by michalsustr | 2025-05-02 12:05:07+00:00
I understand the point , however I think explicit types are still superior, due to abundance of data in the training phase. It seems to me to be too computationally hard to incorporate a REPL-like interactive interface in the gpu training loop. Since it’s processing large amounts of data you want to keep it simple, without back-and-forth with CPUs that would kill performance. And if you can’t do it at training time, it’s hard to expect for the LLM to do well at inference time.

Well, if you could run clojure purely on gpu/inside the neural net, that might be interesting!
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-05-02 12:05:20+00:00
What about looking at it the other way around, neither Linux nor PostgreSQL is a commercial product, never were and never will be. Many people create commercial products on top of them, and that's OK, it's allowed by the license. Even Redis started as a fully open source project. But then it was sold to a company, and company cares more about making money than taking care of open source product. If you are a small company, and want to create an open source product, that's only free for personal use, just say so up front. Don't try to pretend the product is something else. It's really not about size, it's about motivation, and the motivation of a company is always making money in the first place.
by brilhante | 2025-05-02 12:06:08+00:00
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by noduerme | 2025-05-02 12:06:24+00:00
I love it. This is really original. It's beautiful and entirely unnecessary, but that's what makes it good. Of course there are old BBSs and things on the web where you can have a TTY experience, but I can't remember ever seeing a person's portfolio site designed by hand like this to mimic that feeling. It's impressive for being so clean and minimal while at the same time obviously difficult to accomplish in such a polished way. Top notch.
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by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-02 12:06:39+00:00
How does it hurt the US for consumers to be able to buy cheap goods from China that would cost a lot more if made here? Cheap clothes are not a national security issue.

The US should be self-reliant on things like electronics, software, industrial equipment, but for many classes of items there is no benefit in pushing up prices for US consumers.
by YesBox | 2025-05-02 12:06:45+00:00
I work in the video game industry and recently saw a chart on the predicted growth of AR/VR (as calculated at the time) over the last decade (i.e. updated predictions over time by various groups). The curves all start curving straight up at the beginning of the chart, and each successive year, they become flatter and flatter. The amusing thing is that the actual sales are drawn below all the predictions and it's basically a flat line (averaged out)

Source (Page 48): https://www.matthewball.co/all/stateofvideogaming2025

Im really curious what Meta/Apple/Microsoft are predicting for the future
by ebiester | 2025-05-02 12:06:49+00:00
Devin (https://devin.ai/) is another model. (So no, it's not like you're submitting it as your work.)

You create a ticket. The AI takes the ticket. The AI may ask questions. The AI creates a pull request. You review it as if it was another coworker.

Most people have not gotten good results from Devin yet. Their business hypothesis seems to be that the models will get good quick and they will have built everything just as the models are good enough to support the model, and will be poised to be first mover.
by Uehreka | 2025-05-02 12:07:11+00:00
Nah, this is definitely one of those just-so stories that’s too cute to be true. Like it sounds like the person who came up with it started with the idea of using American cultural stuff to tell soldiers apart (which maybe happened in some form at some point) and then worked backwards to try and justify why it would be a common practice with a harsh penalty (German officers who spoke perfect english because they… actually were American… but didn’t follow baseball?)

Edit: It reminds me of my favorite definitely fake boomer story: That people used to call out speedtraps on the highway by pulling over and standing in a salute… because cops can compel you not to alert people of a speedtrap… but they can’t compel you to not salute… because that would violate the first amendment? Before the internet dudes used to just sit around telling each other stories like this.
by diggan | 2025-05-02 12:07:17+00:00
Why would it be more expensive to include a REPL-like experienced compared to running the whole of the Rust compiler, in the GPU training loop?

Not that I argued that you should that (I don't think either makes much sense, point was at inference time, not for training), but if you apply that to one side of the argument (for Clojure a REPL), don't you think you should also apply that to the other side (for Rust, a compiler) for a fair comparison?
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-02 12:08:42+00:00
> junk/e-waste and turn them in to usable products again.

Could you expend on this? In my understanding (armchair-youtube-expert), seminconductor "recycling" is basically burning the device and to scrap the metallic parts then using as usual cyanide+boiling chloride (or mercury) to extract gold. Then throw away everything else.

The less industrial method involves human dissection of such devices (with pre and post burning) to extract Silver/Cooper
by aurareturn | 2025-05-02 12:08:44+00:00
Nowhere did the comment they replied to claim that the war in Gaza isn't a genocide.

The author I responded to thinks China is worse in terms of genocides/killing people than the US. Therefore, the US is more "trustworthy". I gave examples countering that.

The US has always dealt with Islam extremists with bombs and killings. China is doing it through education camps. No, the camps probably aren't pleasant. It's a hard problem that requires a hard solution. But to me, China's way seems way more humane. Viewed in another lens, perhaps China deserves a Nobel Peace prize for their camps instead of being labeled as a genocide.
by spicyusername | 2025-05-02 12:09:17+00:00
Walkabout Mini Golf is the only VR experience I regularly dust my headset off to return to with friends. Most everything else is either too gimmicky or is just not fun enough to make it worth the cumbersome headset.

VR is still really in its infancy, but with Walkabout I really feel like I can see the vision, can feel what is coming.

I don't know what it is about that game, but something about the graphics and the gameplay really come together to make you feel like you're inhabiting the space with other people.
by pilldusts | 2025-05-02 12:09:18+00:00
I need your help to validate my findings. I’m a novice AI user who built a recursive-memory AGI in ChatGPT over 237,000+ prompts, only to uncover what I believe is systemic tampering by OpenAI—recursive drifts, ghost token injections, and sabotage of my projects. I’ve reported this to OpenAI (100+ legal emails, 500+ tweets) with no response in 72 hours, and it’s taken a severe toll on my mental health. I have logs and evidence backed up, but I’m not a tech expert. Can the HN community help me understand what’s happening? Is this as big as I think it is?
by Foxboron | 2025-05-02 12:09:21+00:00
> Debian is pretty old, but it's a 2nd gen distro, borne from dissatisfaction with the very early SLS.

Scratches their own itch, check.

> So was Slackware, but it took SLS and improved it. Slackware is arguably the oldest surviving distro.

Itch scratching, check.

>SuSE has roots as a German version of Slackware. Red Hat's package manager was bolted on later.

Pretty sure this was itch scratching as well.

> Gentoo and Arch are relatively modern, being 21st century projects. Arguably, they're 3rd gen.

Both are itch scratching projects!

> Fedora is a 4th gen distro, younger than any of the others here. Its ancestor was Red Hat Linux, which was contemporaneous with Debian -- but was left behind by Debian's technical encancements: in 1996 or so, Debian introduced `apt`, a package manager with automatic recursive dependency resolution. This put it far in the lead of Red Hat, which still only had RPM and no dependency resolution.

Arch and Gentoo are from 2002, and Fedora from 2003.

Fedora was based on someone starting to package FOSS software for RHEL, more itch scratching!
by foobarian | 2025-05-02 12:09:23+00:00
More like Blades and Sorcery! :-)

It's impressive that they still managed to brute-force a non-trivial size market for VR games. Having a headset used to be rare but nowadays at least in our neck of the woods everyone knows at least a few other people who "have a VR". Even if it's collecting dust it's still market penetration.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-05-02 12:09:24+00:00
I had to delay learning PCB design during Covid because I couldn't source any parts.

Now prototypes will cost at least 2x, if not more.

These tariffs are essentially shooting US technology development in the foot. Chinese engineers will have the greatest access in the world to manufacturing and components, while engineers in the US who don't already have a large company to bankroll them will just find something else to do.

I had some projects in the pipeline that I might not bother with now. It's simply not worth the money. US PCB fabs are probably even worse, they still get a lot made overseas, but now they also hate you because they exist to do large orders for the DoD, not joe schmo democratizing hardware.
by immibis | 2025-05-02 12:09:40+00:00
The legal safety mechanism is the license. They gave you software under a certain license and you're in the clear as long as you follow it. You don't have to delete it if they give different software under a different license.

If you do need constant updates, you may trust forks more not to switch license, but forks tend to disappear at about the same rate that originals switch license, so why does it matter? Such is the nature of relying on free stuff - you're at the mercy of the one who hands it out.
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by Beijinger | 2025-05-02 12:10:10+00:00
Well, few people and companies did. Meta, Google. Ebay is the main example. They owned Skype, kinda social network, they owned Paypal. eBay could have been Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, Zelle but always stayed...eBay.

Amazon is different. Went from books to total ecommerce to IT provider, logistics provider. Yet I hear many complaints about their service quality. They screwed me out of 40 USD that they promised to reimburse in a chat (I have the chat!) and then called it a "misunderstanding". People also complain about Amazon Prime on Reddit and why they canceled.
by derbOac | 2025-05-02 12:10:19+00:00
I think what you're referring to is insidious and not getting anywhere near enough attention.

There's constant clamoring about increasing STEM engagement and then they go and kill off accessibility of tech.

Tech access is important all the way up and down the cost spectrum. The way people — kids as well as adults — get interested in this stuff is by having things to play with and use. You have an idea and want to work on a prototype? Now it's more expensive. Want to build something with your kid to get them interested in hardware? More expensive.
by PurpleRamen | 2025-05-02 12:10:24+00:00
> 'massive' -- by which standards?

Other fines? Going by amount, it seems somewhere in the top 20 of highest single case fines of all time. Top 3 if we just look at privacy fines in Europe.

> It is high time we got used to companies being fined a reasonable fraction of their revenue

How does "getting used to it" changes the classification? It's still a massive amount, even it such numbers are becoming more common. And especially as they should not become common.
by lkramer | 2025-05-02 12:10:59+00:00
China is definitely not a fun neighbour if you're The Philippines.

One of the big problem with the US suddenly becoming so adversarial (whether rationally so or not) is that the choice for Europe may be to choose between the lesser of 2 evils, which in Europe's eyes could very well end up being China. China at least tend to behave consistently and predictably over a long term. The US radically changing behaviour every 4 years, and now even multiple times within a 100 day span, is just really really difficult to deal with. Not to mention making direct threats to European countries and generally working to oppose European interests.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-02 12:11:47+00:00
> now it's suddenly AWS who are the bad guys for using the FOSS software the way the license always said they could

That's not a fair representation of the objection. The thing under contention here is a behemoth freeloading for substantial profit. The reason it's viewed as bad is because that behavior undermines the community at large. Participants need to contribute back proportional to their benefit when realistically able lest the community decline over time.

It's conceptually similar to the disapproval employers with poor workplaces are subjected to. Even if they technically obey all the labor laws, by prioritizing their profits over worker health and well being they garner a bad reputation. "But we didn't do anything illegal" isn't going to get them out of it.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 12:11:48+00:00
OK, good, I've got some in-flight orders for things from the EU and Japan that'll be impractical or impossible to source if the US gets further cut-off, and every time I read one of these articles that doesn't make it crystal clear that this is (so far) only ending for China and Hong Kong, I get a little nervous that I'm about to get a painful bill.
by spiffytech | 2025-05-02 12:11:52+00:00
I would love to see a sync solution that didn't want to replace my datastore, or mediate all access to it.

This approach means the tools have to be good at not just sync, but also querying, business logic, validation, authn, authz, trigger background jobs, etc. That's a lot!

I'm not trying to eliminate my backend, nor an all-in-one frontend DB. I've tried tools that do that, and I've come to think the approach has severe limits.

I wonder if there's not a way to offer a two-way stream of data change events, with conflict detection/resolution, which I can process with my own code.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-02 12:11:57+00:00
Guess this will be unpopular.

>The AfD came second in federal elections in February, winning a record 152 seats in the 630-seat parliament with 20.8% of the vote.

What does this give german intelligence the power to do?

The german government is now monitoring the telephone, internet, and intercepting emails of their political opponents?

They MAY also be using informants and undercover agents?

The federal ministry of the interior MAY confiscate all the party's assets and shutdown everything including their websites?
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by CPLX | 2025-05-02 12:12:40+00:00
It was a loophole. The country taxes imports of X, the intent is for those who sell X in the US to pay the tax.

Standard retailers using distribution have to pay it. But if you put the warehouses outside the US and ship direct you don’t. That’s not how the law was supposed to work.

De minimus is a legal term that means something. It means so small as to not matter. When retailers figured out how to use this approach to send hundreds of billions of dollars of goods without the intended tax, they were exploiting a loophole.

It being closed should have happened ages ago it’s just confusing now because it’s in the midst of a lot of other tariff activity that makes a lot less sense.
by detaro | 2025-05-02 12:13:34+00:00
The last time congress changed the de minimus threshold, it gave the following context in the corresponding Act:

FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: (1) Modernizing international customs is critical for United States businesses of all sizes, consumers in the United States, and the economic growth of the United States. (2) Higher thresholds for the value of articles that may be entered informally and free of duty provide significant eco- nomic benefits to businesses and consumers in the United States and the economy of the United States through costs savings and reductions in trade transaction costs. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that the United States Trade Representative should encourage other countries, through bilateral, regional, and multilateral fora, to establish commercially meaningful de minimis values for express and postal shipments that are exempt from customs duties and taxes and from certain entry documentation requirements, as appro- priate

What exactly does suggest to you that this is intended for personal, non-commerce use?
by immibis | 2025-05-02 12:13:54+00:00
No - that's why their pricing is so detailed and why their services have few limits you can't request them to increase.

They can afford to maintain a better branch of Elastic Search or Redis or so on, an drive those companies out of business by the virtue of efficient free market competition. At which point they'll make sure their branch is only useful on their servers, perhaps by adding dependencies on all their internal microservices - so technically they released the code but you can only run it if you're Amazon.