MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ndiddy | 2025-05-29 16:41:08+00:00
If you're interested in this, someone on YouTube got a WeatherStar 4000 (device that sat at cable headends and generated the local weather report graphics) and wrote all new firmware to make 90's style weather reports on the real hardware. This was necessary because the original firmware was downloaded over satellite so it's now lost. It looks basically identical to the real Weather Channel from the 90s, except it doesn't have their logo in the corner (I guess for trademark reasons). Here's a stream of his WeatherStar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mSjXpfD2c
by jsheard | 2025-05-29 16:41:32+00:00
> However, Opera's development for the past few years has mostly been chasing trends and splitting resources across multiple web browsers. The first experiment after the company's purchase was Opera Neon, which was introduced in 2017 as a concept for new browser design. It was seemingly updated for a few months and then quietly dropped.

Speak of the devil, they just re-announced Opera Neon yesterday but now it's an "agenic AI browser". They're not beating the trend-chaser allegations.

https://blogs.opera.com/news/2025/05/opera-neon-first-ai-age...
Louis – Turn your idea into a cinematic demo video in minutes
by TakaJP | 2025-05-29 16:41:42+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Taka, co-founder of Louis (https://hirelouis.ai ). We built it for early-stage teams who want to communicate their product idea visually—without spending thousands of dollars or waiting weeks for a video.

With Louis, you can generate a clean, cinematic product demo in just a few minutes, very affordably.

What it does: - You describe your product (or paste a website link or pitch deck) - Louis scripts a short voiceover and assembles visuals from your UI - It automatically adds transitions, timing, and narration - You get a demo video ready to use for sales, validation, or promotion

We’d love feedback from the HN community: - If you’ve ever struggled to create a product demo video, what was the hardest part? - Would you use this for your startup? - What features or editing controls would you expect?

We just opened the waitlist today — feel free to sign up to get early updates!

You can check out a demo at https://hirelouis.ai

Thanks, Taka
by dangus | 2025-05-29 16:41:59+00:00
I chose the CT101 based on low price, you could get a Honeywell T5 which is much more aesthetically pleasing and still supports Z-Wave, which accomplishes the goal of having a thermostat that won't lose smart home cloud support (by integrating it with Home Assistant using the standard Z-Wave protocol).

Plenty of cheap thermostats have good aesthetics. The $30 round Honeywell analog thermostat is a timeless design. Their $30 non-programmable digital thermostat (RTH5160) is aesthetically pleasing enough, I certainly wouldn't call it ugly. I didn't interpret the stated goal of this project to be particularly relevant to aesthetics.
by gofreddygo | 2025-05-29 16:42:12+00:00
Not an old hat. in the dotnet world for 3 years, bash over a decade. Agree with bash not being easy to maintain.

Argument about bash being always there breaks down quickly. Even if you limit yourself to bash+awk+grep, they dont work consistently across different bash flavors or across platforms (mac/win/linuz).

My approach now is to have my programs, in the language most convenient to me, compiled to a bunch of archs and have that run across systems. One time pain, reduces over time.
by aapoalas | 2025-05-29 16:42:26+00:00
Of course, and thank you for taking the time to ask!

For the foreseeable future the aim will be rather on the QuickJS/DuckTape level than beating V8. But! That is only because they need to be beat before V8 can be beaten :)

I'm not rushing to build a JIT, and I don't even have exact plans for one right now but I'm not barring it out either.

If my life, capabilities, and external support enable it then I do want Nova to either supplant existing mainstream engines, or inspire them to rethink at least some of their heap data structures. But of course it is fairly unlikely I will get there; I will simply try.
by 542354234235 | 2025-05-29 16:42:32+00:00
Maintaining social relationships is very intellectually demanding task. Animals that maintain social societies have larger brains than individualistic cousin species, in general. It is called the social brain hypothesis. Hyper intelligent people might tend to be less able to maintain relationships because they are too far outside the norm, not because they are smarter, per se. I would say that people with intellects much lower than the norm also have that problem.

Or it could be that, with our current hardware, brains that are hyper intelligent are in some way cannibalizing brain power that is “normally” used for processing social dynamics. In that sense, if we increased the processing power, people could have sufficient equipment to run both.
by jolmg | 2025-05-29 16:42:36+00:00
Hey, some feedback on those 1/24 holes that fill through scrolling. They're not matched with the steps of the scrollwheel. It seems like a step fills 1.2 holes. It pauses the animation of your demonstration between your points. Checked both Chromium and Firefox. Also checked my mouse events, and a single step matches with a single event.
by uecker | 2025-05-29 16:43:23+00:00
There is also C23 and at some point C2Y.

C23 got typeof, constexpr constants, enums with underlying type, embed, auto, _BitInt, checked integers, new struct compatibility rules, bit constants, nullptr, initialization with {}, and various other improvements and cleanups. Modern C code - while still being simple - can look quite different than what people might be used to.

C2Y already already got named loops, countof, if with declarations, case range expressions, _Generic with type arguments, and quite a lot of UB removed from the core language. (our aim is also to have a memory safe subset)
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-29 16:43:43+00:00
Vaccine skepticism (and the broader medical skepticism) is a weird one though.

Because it's patently counterproductive -- modern medical science saves lives.

So what you really have is a bunch of people getting riled up about something because they don't currently need it, then making dumb choices at critical moments, then denying their actions caused consequences if they have bad luck.

A partner was a critical care nurse during COVID, and said she had people dying in beds who still denied COVID existed. Mind-boggling.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-05-29 16:44:35+00:00
The web isn't what it was 10 or 15 years ago. Back then, you could stumble across countless useful and unique websites on just about any topic—travel included.

Today, it's different. I do think Google played a major role in shrinking the visibility of the independent web. If Google only shows 300 links per search (30 pages x 10 results), anything beyond that effectively doesn't exist for most users.

Some might argue that only the top few results matter, but I disagree. For broad topics like "video games," "war," or "love," you'd expect there to be thousands of worthwhile links—not just the same recycled content from YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, or SEO-heavy content farms.

As a side project, I run a hobby web crawler to explore what's still out there. That's where my perspective comes from regarding the current state of the open web:

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
by josefresco | 2025-05-29 16:44:57+00:00
I don't think they were "assuming" but rather betting on a win by republicans.

"Morgan Stanley held the lenders together, betting on the relationship of one of its then top bankers — Michael Grimes — and his client Musk, people familiar with the matter said. The bank led weekly calls to update the other lenders on X’s performance. Working together as a bloc helped avoid one single bank abruptly selling the debt at a discount."

Sounds like... collusion.
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-05-29 16:45:11+00:00
If Jesus returned, people wouldn't believe it unanimously; it would be a scissor like everything else. (I don't even want to give examples.)

Conversely, if Jesus has not returned, some people can be convinced that he has.

Which brings me to the criteria. What are acceptable criteria? Maybe, "will a plurality of people believe that Jesus has returned in 2025?"

Eschatological cults routinely convince small numbers of followers that the end is coming. Hustlers do this all the time. I've been told personally, directly, that we know the date. It's coming. (The date in question came and went.)

Given the above, could 2025 be the year of Deep Fake Jesus?

Deep Fake Rapture?
by spencerflem | 2025-05-29 16:45:23+00:00
I love this !!

Only kinda related but I love having the opportunity to share this website, cataloging every possible fair die: http://www.aleakybos.ch/Shapes.htm

(ie: not the sort of die in the post, they must have identical faces. this thread gave me a new appreciation for the non equal faced dice tho)
by growlNark | 2025-05-29 16:45:25+00:00
This has the added complication that oral historians were/are a political institution in many parts of the continent (unlike, say, reproducers of folklore). So "official" history very clearly predates written history we have today—and certainly in European languages—but it's still the product of conscious maintenance of image. That said, written records (say, inscriptions on a victory stele) have this issue too.

It's also worth noting that there is strong indication that pre-colonial states in subsaharan africa well outside the horn of africa did keep written language for the purposes of managing bureaucracies. Hell, arabic was adopted in east africa many centuries before europeans ever set foot there. The technology was certainly not unknown. However, if indeed this was the case, it clearly did not spread far beyond the needs of centralized bureaucracy, nor was it likely used for what we would now call private commerce, and we have no surviving records showing the scripts.
by fidotron | 2025-05-29 16:45:28+00:00
Opera Mini appeared at a strange time. This is back around when Apple had done Webkit just for the Mac (derived from KHTML) and Nokia thought it would be cool on S60, and it was.

WAP/WML was a near total flop, although oddly had a second life on interactive TV in the UK where Sky funded creation of a WML browser in OpenTV to enable faster turnaround of new apps. (OpenTV was neither open nor particularly consistent between devices, and the normal mode of delivering content via satellite was difficult logistically).

As someone else mentioned imode was way more popular, at least in Japan. (I happen to have been slightly involved in the relative failure of a rollout in France). NTT went to massive lengths to get Japanese companies up and running on imode, such that by about 2002 huge amounts of ecommerce were being done on it, including B2B. I know of major electronics components vendors doing >70% of their sales (by value) via mobile Internet in Japan by 2005. imode didn't really do well in the 3G transition though, and the increased complexity of the phones led to a lot of bad software on them, which was the opportunity Apple ultimately exploited.

The result of all that is in 2005 J2ME was surprisingly capable, but virtually no one was using it, and so Opera Mini was kind of by itself for a while. The company that does a lot of transport ticketing in the UK had at one point a phenomenal mobile banking prototype (that worked) but was told by the banks they simply weren't ready for it, and the banks didn't think the customers were either, which was actually the truth, and so why they pivoted.
by hex4def6 | 2025-05-29 16:46:21+00:00
I think the "homogenization" is the keyword here. It's not that trends are bad, it's just that, in the 'old days' a trend might start as a community-wide phenomena that over time might spread into neighboring communities, finally becoming part of the local / regional zeitgeist.

These trends would spread slowly enough that other trends in other communities would have time and room to grow and develop. The result is you get a bunch of localized cultures, all unique in some way.

The best analogy I can think of is a plant mono-crop. Instead of different species of plant gradually finding their niche, we plant 50,000 acres with corn or soy.

I have to say, even over the last 20+ years or so, it really does feel like you can go anywhere in the world and get a very similar experience. You can go to the local 7-11, buy a coca-cola, hit up your local costco, listen to people arguing about American politics. It just feels like different countries have gradually been losing their unique culture, and we just have this global homogenized version with slight regional differences.
by klipt | 2025-05-29 16:46:23+00:00
Is that how the rich men are squeezing into heaven these days?

"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"

There's a theory that the eye of the needle was a narrow gate in Jerusalem's city wall that was notoriously hard for camels to squeeze through. But seems the hard evidence for that is limited.
by davorak | 2025-05-29 16:46:36+00:00
My understanding is that in 2024 that some power of congress to delegate to power to the executive was limited in "Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo" over turning(partial I assume, I am not well versed in this) the opinion called "Chevron deference" from "Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council".

So the Supreme Court at least puts limits on what/how congressional powers can be delegated.
by fredoralive | 2025-05-29 16:46:41+00:00
I suspect the potato choice from Walkers is just because they're a crisp / snack company so it keeps their ingredient pipeline simple.

I probably wouldn't really count these are "real" poppadoms, they're poppadom inspired mostly potato based snacks[1], sold in the crisps isle.

[1] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/264339339 for an example of the product at a shop.
by Dagonfly | 2025-05-29 16:46:44+00:00
Assume your cycle detection D(TM, i) always outputs 1 when TM(i) doesn't halt (TM is the encoding of a turing machine and i is the input to TM). Otherwise, if TM(i) halts, D does NOT halt. [1]

We can construct a new turing machine F(TM) = D(TM, TM). That is: We ask D to detect a cycle when a TM receives its own encoding as an input. What is the output of F(F)?

F(F) = D(F, F) = 1 can only happen if your cycle detector detected a cycle in F(F) which we just saw terminates with 1. If F(F) doesn't halt, then your cycle detector claims that F(F) terminated, which it doesn't.

Therefore no such cycle detection can exist. It either has to bound the size of the input system or be non-exhaustive in its detection. The intuition here is: Assume the encoding of D has size N and D can check all encodings up to size N, then D must be able to dectect its own cycles. But the input to D(F, F) is size 2N (cause F is roughly the same size as D).

[1] If your original cycle detection outputs 0 if no cycle is present, then just wrap it in a TM that calls the original cycle detection and either returns on 1 or infinite loops on 0.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-29 16:46:59+00:00
The name they've decided to give these, "emergency" chickens, knitting them for hurricane survivors. It's all a step up from just "we like these and they're nice" and into "these are Helpful with a capital H".

My point is exactly that that kind of thing reads like a joking exaggeration, but this sort of approach to things is really common now and I truly have trouble telling when people are joking or being serious about it. Most of it reads like joking to me, but I don't know. It's also been going on long enough that it's making me wonder even more, since, judged as a joke, it was played out and over-done years ago.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-29 16:47:01+00:00
The history of DARPA funding mRNA vaccine platforms should be more widely known, because it's exactly what the government should be doing.

DARPA identified novel pathogens with pandemic potential as a key threat to the US (and everyone else), identified mRNA vaccine platforms as something that would allow more rapid responses to novel pathogens, and invested in it.

And then when exactly that happened -- there were mRNA vaccine platforms ready.
by jerlam | 2025-05-29 16:47:05+00:00
Opera was amazing in the early days of the web, it was one of the few programs that I gladly paid money for.

I used to browse without images and CSS (but only one keyboard shortcut away) when bandwidth was low and web development was amateurish. Opera Mini took another leap forward to move rendering off slow smartphones.

Things have changed a lot in 20 years. My smartphone is probably faster than most computers of that era. And Opera is a zombie company trying to take advantage of its users.
by tdb7893 | 2025-05-29 16:47:13+00:00
'I don't believe their being or not being rich is part of the calculus for "getting into heaven" as you said' -> I think viewing that some rich people go to heaven as Jesus not explicitly condemning rich people (which he clearly does multiple times) and not him showing the unlimited power of God's grace is a misreading of the text.

The subsequent verses are much less quoted but very explicit about this: And looking at them, Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

This is supported by other text where Jesus says explicitly what people should do with money:

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me"

So anyway it's very clear that using money selfishly (which is what many Christians do) is clearly not what God wants from us, it's just that God can love us for our imperfections and sin, which in my view is sorta the main idea behind the New Testament. God wants us to love each other like he loves us, and he would certainly give up his money for us since he even gave up his own son, but accepts that we will be more selfish than that.
by FajitaNachos | 2025-05-29 16:47:50+00:00
The settlement criteria for most of these is pretty strict and clearly laid out in the terms.

> The resolution source for this market will be a consensus of credible sources.

That is pretty sparse, but I suspect Polymarket has a vested interest in making sure this resolves appropriately (as noted in the article). I do like the use of the guineapig with rizz anyway.
by yemi_cortez | 2025-05-29 16:47:56+00:00
Congrats on the first sale,that’s huge! Legacy industries are brutal because you’re not just selling tech; you’re selling a behavior change. A few things that worked for me in similar spaces:

Trade magazines & physical mailers (seriously). Decision-makers in these industries often ignore digital noise but read industry pubs. A well-placed ad or "How Similar Company Cut Costs by 30%" case study can land meetings.

Embed yourself in their language. One client doubled replies by swapping "AI agent" with "24/7 digital foreman" in outreach terms that resonate with their mental models.

Leverage your first customer. Film a 90-second testimonial (phone video is fine) of them saying "I was skeptical, but…"use it as your #1 outreach asset.

If you’d like, I’d be happy to audit your messaging for free. I’ve helped other hardware/AI hybrids reframe their pitch to cut through the skepticism (e.g., one company replaced their ‘dashboard’ with a ‘command center’ and saw a 40% bump in demos). No strings just hate seeing solid tech get stuck in positioning purgatory!
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-29 16:48:27+00:00
Surely I am exaggerating from memory. It looks like the base system for Minix could fit on one HD floppy (1.44MB).

My PS/2 HDD was only 20MB, and I recall having enough free space after the install. For Minix 1.5, there's another estimate here of 9 DD floppies -- 6.5MB compressed. That seems about right.

I definitely went for the compiler and all the accessories. The C compiler was far from ANSI-compliant and barely K&R. It made for some interesting times.

Minix 3 is BSD-licensed, and distributed on CD-ROM now, and can still be purchased from Pearson! https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/operating-sy...
by taylodl | 2025-05-29 16:48:29+00:00
If you've worked in manufacturing your whole life, then you likely know that U.S. manufacturing output is at or near all-time highs. While China is a major player, it's not true that it dominates “just about everything.” In fact, China is now offshoring some of its own manufacturing to lower-cost countries.

The reality is that long-term profitability comes from specialization and value-added production, not from trying to manufacture everything, especially low-margin goods. Even China recognizes this.

TL;DR: You don’t get rich making cheap junk. That’s why both China and the U.S. are evolving their manufacturing strategies.

Moving on to AI: right now, it's a powerful productivity tool, and that’s a good thing. Productivity growth has been sluggish since the PC boom of the 1980s, and AI could help reverse that trend.

With aging populations and rising retirement rates, many economies are facing labor shortages. AI can help fill those gaps by automating routine tasks and boosting efficiency.

HR departments have long struggled with the looming loss of 20-40% of their workforce over the next decade due to retirement. AI can help organizations adapt and stay competitive as their most experienced staff exits the workforce.

It could also ease wage pressure caused by labor shortages due to retirement, helping to keep inflation in check.

AI is how we’ll navigate the Boomer and late Gen X retirement wave.

As you can see, I don’t share the current wave of pessimism. The best approach remains the same: keep six months of cash on hand, and invest in high-quality equities from around the world. That’s always been sound advice-and it still is.
by lurk2 | 2025-05-29 16:49:06+00:00
No. Similarly, God cannot make a married bachelor, because this is nonsensical. The conversation then turns to questions about how we define God’s omnipotence: Doesn’t the existence of any sort of limitation placed upon God imply he is bound by higher principles and thus not omnipotent?

Possibly; but this may just be a lack of imagination on our part. For example, can God abanlqhgfznsjks? Probably not, because that particular string was just a random assortment of keys that I pressed; it conveys nothing meaningful, so to ask if God could abanlqhgfznsjks might not really be asking anything at all.
Ask HN: Is "Vibe Coding" a term people are using with pride?
by AbstractH24 | 2025-05-29 16:50:32+00:00
I thought it was a sarcastic term for people who have to rely on generative AI to build things and when it goes wrong can't do anything but write more prompts.

But I just saw a 20-something bragging about how he was using it with clay to create personalized apps.