MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bpt3 | 2025-06-25 13:50:58+00:00
You realize people can be aware of the negative consequences of their actions and still make a "stupid" choice, correct?

I would say that's true using a strict definition of the term, and is definitely true for common usage of the term.

In the future, you should just tell people up front when you're going to redefine terms to suit your needs (in your article and in your posts here, you apparently define "useful" as "providing immediate gratification with no consideration of any long term effects" and you seem to be define "stupid" only as "making decisions without full knowledge of the consequences" above) rather than confusing nearly everyone who reads your writing.
by ben_w | 2025-06-25 13:51:14+00:00
It might all be the same thing, or it might not.

Given that we have a policy of over-production, in good years we can easily afford to waste food like that — it's not like we were otherwise either going to eat it all (because developed nations already have an obesity problem in aggregate) or actually donate any significant part of it to good causes (though we could and I'd say we should, even if it's local rather than international e.g. the UK where there's a shockingly large number of people needing to use food banks while also having an overproduction policy).

Question is, what do we do in the bad years?
by dinfinity | 2025-06-25 13:51:15+00:00
MAGA is whatever the fuck Donald Trump tells them to be.

Hypocrisy or inconsistency have already never stopped the Republican party and they will most certainly not stop the most extreme version of it.

- https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-posts-bom...

- https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1147408825006...
by sidewndr46 | 2025-06-25 13:51:30+00:00
Have you ever been to Texas? 'one dam' doesn't even begin to describe the place. If you're at a body of water, look around. There's a dam. All lakes are artificial with the exception of Lake Caddo.

Lake Travis already has a power plant and is rarely every full for example. No one is going to start using pumped hydro there because there is no extra water to pump.
by meetpateltech | 2025-06-25 13:52:18+00:00
Key highlights from blog post and GitHub repo:

- Open-source (Apache 2.0, same as OpenAI Codex)

- 1M token context window

- Free tier: 60 requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day (requires Google account authentication)

- Higher limits via Gemini API or Vertex AI

- Google Search grounding support

- Plugin and script support (MCP servers)

- Gemini.md file for memory instruction

- VS Code integration (Gemini Code Assist)
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-25 13:54:09+00:00
"Pulverizes". I know that's what the actual headline says, but it is very misleading. No Starlink satellites were harmed in this experiment. What they actually did is, they moved data much faster than a Starlink satellite does, using a laser.

Well, that's an achievement. Really, it is. They got it to transmit data, through Earth's atmosphere and the turbulence that it contains, at 1 Gb/s. That's amazing.

I bet Starlink can handle more ground stations at once, though. And I bet Starlink does better on a cloudy day. So, while this is interesting, and a great achievement, I'm not sure it's a game changer yet. Others who know more can feel free to correct me...
by adamtaylor_13 | 2025-06-25 13:54:28+00:00
Disclaimar: I haven't used aider in probably a year. I found Aider to require much more understanding to use properly. Claude code _just works_, more or less out of the box. Assuming the Gemini team took cues from CC—I'm guessing it's more user-friendly than Aider.

Again, I haven't used aider in a while so perhaps that's not the case.
by elashri | 2025-06-25 13:54:34+00:00
Hi, Thanks for this work.

currently it seems these are the CLI tools available. Is it possible to extend or actually disable some of these tools (for various reasons)?

> Available Gemini CLI tools:

- ReadFolder - ReadFile - SearchText - FindFiles - Edit - WriteFile - WebFetch - ReadManyFiles - Shell - Save Memory - GoogleSearch
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-25 13:54:45+00:00
I turned 51 this month:

- married at 28 and divorced at 32

- stayed at my second job from the time that I was 25 until 34 and became an “expert beginner” and only made $7K more at 34 than I made at 25

- by the time I was 35 because of dumb decisions and the housing crash I had a negative net worth of around $300K and ended up walking away from 5 mortgages within the next two years

- didn’t get a job as a software developer making over six figures until 2014 at 40 years old.

The next ten years…

- well I got remarried at 36

- had a house built exactly three years after my last foreclosure (FHA minimum) at 42.

- got my first only and hopefully last job in BigTech (working remotely - no longer there) at 46

- we did the digital nomad thing for a year between late 2022 and late 2023

- sold my house for twice what I paid for it last year and moved to a smaller condo in (cheaper state tax free Florida)

- my wife and I still travel a lot and planning on spending 3-4 months next year away from home - 1 month in Costa Rica in the winter and the summer domestically.

I never won the startup lottery, spent my entire career until I was 46 in 2020 as a journeymen enterprise developer, 3.5 years in BigTech wasn’t get rich money. It was a pay off debt and pivot strategy.

My life until I was 40 was messy with a few bright spots - met my now wife at 36 and (step)kids, made a lot of great friends while teaching fitness classes part time, etc.

As far as “ageism”, I have found it easier to get a job post 40. Including in 2023 and last year.
Show HN: E2E testing is a chore. We taught an AI to do it instead
by ElasticBottle | 2025-06-25 13:54:59+00:00
Hey Hacker News,

For the last 2 months, I've been working on a testing agent to free developers from the endless maintenance of end-to-end tests.

You just push up a PR, and our agent analyzes the code changes and automatically visits the preview to test things out like a real human!

We also support describing tests in English (or even in the PR description), and we'll go through your site whenever you want via a GitHub action to test and make sure various core flows continue to work as expected.

We are looking for early testers and are giving out a generous free tier! Just sign up on the landing page.
by ensemblehq | 2025-06-25 13:55:20+00:00
This is really cool and I can see a ton of opportunities to leverage this in the enterprise. Using the scanner, does it scan what's on the marketplace as opposed to what's already installed?

I think someone had already mentioned that it would be useful to have this as an extension to scan existing installed extensions but would there be a way to scan just prior to extension installation?
by brookst | 2025-06-25 13:55:53+00:00
Do you think it’s possible that Fairphone did research and found that nobody used this feature, and it’s just highly opinionated people cosplaying as wizards who insist it’s incredibly important?

As a product manager, if I had a dime for every time someone insisted with stridency bordering on rudeness that some fringe feature was absolutely critical to my product’s success, despite data showing no market demand even from these overconfident “experts”… I would have a lot of dimes.
by diggan | 2025-06-25 13:55:56+00:00
> one should always consider is whether the consumer needs to pay more

That makes sense in the traditional/American viewpoint of aiming to maximize profits, or however it goes.

But Sourcehut seems to take a different viewpoint than that, with a big focus on 100% FOSS, then Europe obviously makes much more sense than the US, even if there is a non-zero amount of hours involved with the migration. And with the FOSS perspective, the move vice-versa wouldn't make much sense at all.
by purpleflame1257 | 2025-06-25 13:56:03+00:00
There's a lot more to cigarette toxicity than heavy metals. For example, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, one of the main contributors to DNA damage/carcinogenicity in smoking, are orders of magnitude higher in cigs than in vaping. While I support vape regulation, acting as if it can't be mechanistically justified harm reduction is silly.
by ghaff | 2025-06-25 13:56:32+00:00
I don't dispute that there may be a trend but a lot of Starbucks have long had pretty scanty seating--and certainly tables where you can reasonably meet and talk. And it can be fairly difficult to find a table at more traditional cafes/coffeeshops. So there's reasonable debate over whether a lot of coffeeshops are really third places.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-25 13:56:58+00:00
Hey hetzner. I am just a 16 year old boy (technically I am turning 17 on 2nd july haha but I want nothing from ya haha) who has heard great things about your service while being affordable but never have tried them because I guess I just don't have a credit card/I guess I am a really frugal person at this moment haha. I was just reading one of your own documents if I feel correct and it said that the support isn't the best(but I guess I was wrong)

I guess I will try out nix on hetzner for sure one day. This is really cool!!! Thanks! I didn't expect you to respond. This is really really cool. You made my day to whoever responded with this. THANKS A LOT KATIE. LOTS OF LOVE TO HETZNER. MAY YOU BE THE WAY YOU ARE, SINCE Y'ALL ARE PERFECT.
by latexr | 2025-06-25 13:57:21+00:00
> To your point, just flipping this around to “I’m a winner” doesn’t seem quite right either. But more importantly, reinforcing the idea that “I’m a loser” seems counterproductive either way.

Maybe the solution would be to have to shout something embarrassing but not deprecating towards your own self-worth. Like “I eat spaghetti through my nose” or “my poop comes out really soft”. You’d certainly avoid using social media in public.
by cometapi | 2025-06-25 13:58:20+00:00
As AI-generated music continues to evolve at breakneck speed, two platforms have risen to prominence in mid-2025: Suno 4.5 and Google’s Lyria 2. Whether you’re a solo creator looking to craft your next hit or part of a studio seeking enterprise-grade fidelity, these models promise to reshape how we make and experience music. In this friendly comparison, we’ll dive deep into what each platform offers, weigh their strengths and trade-offs, and help you figure out which one best fits your creative style and budget.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-25 13:59:15+00:00
>Do you think it’s possible that Fairphone did research and found that nobody used this feature

Like I said, I don't care what process they did to justify that decision internally, all I said is I'm not buying it since for me it's a deal breaker, but since their competitors ship this feature my money is ging to them. Simples. Free market baby.

If they think it's gonna sell well regardless, then power to them and I wish them well, but how do you know their decision is the right one and my opinion is the wrong one? I guess only time will tell.

But the majority of mainstream users who don't care about those features tend to buy Apple and Samsung anyway, not niche brands they never heard of. So then how do they expect to sway mainstream customers away as you suggest without differentiating features?

Now with the EU repairability laws and recent product developments, changing the display or battery on a Samsung or IPhone isn't the nightmare it once was, so repairability isn't such a huge differentiator feature for Fairphone as it was 5+ years ago, so they need to offer more to stand out, not less. The goalposts have moved, in favor of the consumer.

>As a product manager [...] that some fringe feature was absolutely critical to my product’s success

How niche or mass market was your product? If you have a niche product then fringe features could be important, otherwise your customers might prefer going with your tried and true IBMs since nobody ever got fired for that.
by epistasis | 2025-06-25 14:00:20+00:00
To my best understanding, and to the extent that you are making a testable claim, it is not borne out by any analysis I have seen. For example:

> Texas is the absolute best case scenario, and it isn't working

In Texas, it's private investors who shoulder the risk of whether or not an energy source is economical. And private investors are largely choosing solar, wind, and batteries, with a bit of gas.

When you say "energy brought on as required" you appear to be talking about dispatch; but that's what batteries do, right?

And solar/wind do not need to be dispatchable to be a good economic choice; as long as their are cheaper than the fuel and operating cost of a different dispatchable choice, then why run the more expensive energy source?
by andrewstuart | 2025-06-25 14:00:23+00:00
I really wish these AI companies would STOP innovating until they work out how to let us “download all files” on the chat page.

We are now three years into the AI revolution and they are still forcing us to copy and paste and click click crazy to get the damn files out.

STOP innovating. STOP the features.

Form a team of 500 of your best developers. Allocate a year and a billion dollar budget.

Get all those Ai super scientists into the job.

See if you can work out “download all files”. A problem on the scale of AGI or Dark Matter, but one day google or OpenAI will crack the problem.
Show HN: Firebolt Core – #1 in ClickBench – Free Scale-Out Analytical SQL Engine
by lorenzhs | 2025-06-25 14:00:34+00:00
Hi HN, there’s a distinct lack of modern self-hosted scale-out query engines. A lot of the innovation in the last 10 years has been in SaaS-only systems. That’s also been true for Firebolt until now. We’re now taking the radical step of offering our query engine as a Docker image that’s free for commercial use without any real restrictions on what you can use it for (basically everything except competing with our SaaS offering). There are helm charts and docker compose files in the repo as well to help you get started.

The focus of Firebolt is on low-latency, high-concurrency analytics like you might have them in user-facing workloads (dashboards, data-heavy apps, ...). To show just how fast it is, we submitted Core to ClickBench and instantly took the top spot: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/. But Firebolt isn’t just a query accelerator, it can also handle scale-out ETL/ELT and all the other things you might want to use a data warehouse for.

I’ve been working on Core for the last few months, and moshap (our CTO), wagjamin (VP Eng) and I are here for your questions. Mosha and Benjamin have written about our motivations to offer Core on the company blog: https://www.firebolt.io/blog/introducing-firebolt-core
by em-bee | 2025-06-25 14:00:34+00:00
in germany there is stiftung warentest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest

they have been doing this for decades. they fund themselves by selling a print magazine and paid online access. their reputation is so good that products that get good test results often use the result in their ads or print it on their packaging.
by zokier | 2025-06-25 14:00:49+00:00
The table in Wikipedia is good for clarifying matters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Leap_seconds

From there you can clearly see that e.g. Unix time 915148800 lasted two seconds

We can make an analogy to leap days:

- UTC is like Gregorian calendar, on leap years it goes Feb28-Feb29-Mar1 (23:59:59-23:59:60-00:00:00)

- TAI would be just always going from Feb28-Mar1 (23:59:59-00:00:00) and ignoring leap years

- Unix time would be like to go Feb28-Mar1-Mar1 (23:59:59-00:00:00-00:00:00) on leap years, repeating the date

From this it should be pretty obvious why I consider Unix time so bonkers.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-25 14:00:53+00:00
Thanks a lot friend, But one of the issues with this is that I need to know about requests and sometimes their names can be different and I actually had created a cli tool called uvman which actually wanted to automate that part too.

But my tool was really finnicky and I guess it was built by AI ,so um yea, I guess you all can try it, its on pypi. I think that it has a lot of niche cases where it doesn't work. Maybe someone can modify it to make it better as I had built it like 3-4 months ago if I remember correctly and I have completely forgotten how things worked in uv.
by chainingsolid | 2025-06-25 14:01:10+00:00
Pretty much every pixel rendered these days was generated by a shader so gpu side you probably already have way more translation options than just a 90° rotation (likely already being used for a rotation of 0°). You'd likely have to write more code cpu side to handle the case of tell the gpu to rotate this please and handle the UI layout diffrence. Honestly not a lot of code.
by kccqzy | 2025-06-25 14:01:21+00:00
I can only offer a hypothesis. Historically UI sizing was done in pixels, which means they are always integers. When developers support fractional scaling they can either update the app to do all calculations in floating point and store all intermediate results in floating point. That's hard. Or they could do calculations in floating point but round to integers eagerly. That results in inconsistent spacing and other layout bugs.

With 2x scaling there only needs to be points and pixels which are both integers. Developers' existing code dealing with pixels can usually be reinterpreted to mean points, with only small changes needed to convert to and from pixels.

With the 2x-and-scale-down approach the scaling is mostly done by the OS and using integer scaling makes this maximally transparent. The devs usually only need to supply higher resolution artwork for icons etc. This means developers only need to support 1x and 2x, not a continuum between 1.0 and 3.0.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-25 14:02:13+00:00
>No, many airlines operate in imperfect markets and reap excessive profits compared to other airlines.

Which ones? Practically all airlines are public companies with easily accessible financial data.

All of the one's I've looked at are barely scraping by with single digit profit margins. Delta is around 6% and Emirates is among the if not the best at around 9%.

Which airlines are "reaping excessive profits"?

I would like to invest in them.
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-06-25 14:02:30+00:00
You may be right, some text snippets are suspicious like this one:

"Some, if not all, of the Jumpers, are ticklish—exceedingly so—and are easily irritated by touching them in sensitive parts of the body. It would appear that in the evenings, in the woods, after the day's toil, in lieu of most other sources of amusement, the lumbermen have teased each other, by tickling, and playing, and startling timid ones, until there has developed this jumping"
by ebiester | 2025-06-25 14:02:40+00:00
So, as a member of an organization who pays for google workspace with gemini, I get the message `GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT environment variable not found. Add that to your .env and try again, no reload needed!`

At the very least, we need better documentation on how to get that environment variable, as we are not on GCP and this is not immediately obvious how to do so. At the worst, it means that your users paying for gemini don't have access to this where your general google users do.
by kccqzy | 2025-06-25 14:02:46+00:00
You can only search for complaints because those who enjoy it are the silent majority. You can however also search for pages and pages of discussions and tools to bring Mac style text rendering to Windows including the MacType tool. It is very much subjective.

"Great text rendering" is also highly subjective mind you. To me greatness means strong adherence to the type face's original shape. It doesn't mean crispness.
by troyvit | 2025-06-25 14:03:01+00:00
They need a better PR department. When I read "MCP is eating the world" I took it as, "this is a bad thing." Which, based on the last blog post I read from a knowledgeable person[0], it is.

And the more I read this article, I feel like it still is. "The models finally got good enough" is followed by:

> Of course, models and agents are still far from perfect—the better models are pretty slow, context sizes are still limited, and performance degrades when more and more context is present.

> What’s important is that the models are good enough—once models cross that threshold, the overhead of integrating tool use drops dramatically. MCP just showed up right on time.

That's like saying we invented worker ants just in time to help an insane queen.

I searched the article for the word "secure" or "security" and quit reading when I couldn't find it.

[0] https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/
by dev_l1x_be | 2025-06-25 14:03:18+00:00
The biggest driver of adoption are features.

"WebP is used by 16.7% of all websites. This means that while it's a popular image format, it's not yet the dominant format, with JPEG still holding the majority share at 73.0%, according to W3Techs. However, WebP offers significant advantages in terms of compression and file size, making it a preferred choice for many web developers. "
by alephnerd | 2025-06-25 14:03:41+00:00
The non-competes don't help either, but that's more of a symptom of the observations you have (and I +1 them). There are a couple promising Boston area tech startups I've been following, but it is definetly a much weaker ecosystem compared to even 15 years ago.

The decline of Dell+EMC, Akamai, and VMWare+CarbonBlack also seemed to have play a role.

That said, there are good Boston area VCs like General Catalyst, Unusual Ventures, and Fidelity Ventures, but at this point they've all basically moved to concentrate on identifying talent at Harvard+MIT who were already going to move West or to NYC.

I hoped Klaviyo would have had a significant impact, but it seemed fairly muted for the size of exit it was. Same with it's ancestor Hubspot.
by brookst | 2025-06-25 14:03:55+00:00
Plenty of companies choose different balances between profits and social impact. Compare Unilever and Nestle and tell me all companies are equally profit-focused. Look at Patagonia.

I agree with a live and let live view of purchasing decisions, and I agree that tribalism about companies is weird, but at the end of the day it’s far too reductive to say all companies prioritize profits equally.
by lazarie | 2025-06-25 14:04:09+00:00
"Failed to login. Ensure your Google account is not a Workspace account."

Is your vision with Gemini CLI to be geared only towards non-commercial users? I have had a workspace account since GSuite and have been constantly punished for it by Google offerings all I wanted was gmail with a custom domain and I've lost all my youtube data, all my fitbit data, I cant select different versions of some of your subscriptions (seemingly completely random across your services from a end-user perspective), and now as a Workspace account I cant use Gemini CLI for my work, which is software development. This approach strikes me as actively hostile towards your loyal paying users...
by t_mann | 2025-06-25 14:04:10+00:00
Almost 10 years ago, Uber was hailed for creating consumer surplus [0] in similar studies:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2837639

Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12478847

Who would have thought that they'd turn that research into algorithms that skim off surplus (from consumers and drivers)?

[0] Consumer surplus: roughly, the benefit of all those consumers who got a lower price than what they would have been willing to pay. Especially prevalent when there's one price for all. So the natural enemy of consumer surplus is price discrimination, where suppliers try to extract close to the maximum amount they're willing to pay from each consumer.