MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-16 20:56:04+00:00
1. Enough window that the light from the sun can come from outside (that you won't need so much electric light inside), and where they do not add additional lights outside in the night time, so that only the light of moon and stars can be seen.

2. We should also avoid (and undo) the noise and pollution. The weather and birds and animals can be heard better too, then.

3. We will have electric power but should not overuse it and should not overly rely on it. If the power is not working, then the things can be done without the electric power, too.

4. Outside, there will mostly be the trees, flowers, insects, etc. (There can also be grow vegetables at the appropriate time of the year.) Also sun dial; when walking outside (or if the electric clock doesn't work) you can see the time by sun dial, too.

5. The other places that you can walk to, rather than needing the car and bus too much.

6. Don't be too hot/cold.

7. If the stuff is arranged well then hopefully it should not need too large amount of space. You also shouldn't need too many rooms; some rooms can be used for multiple purposes.
by wvh | 2025-06-16 20:56:34+00:00
I am conflicted because to some extent, paying for some of these services feels like paying a blackmailer, spying on you, holding a whole ecosystem hostage and even jeopardising mental health and the public discourse.

I pay for email and some other services. Some other services, not so much. I find it hard to support some companies financially because I don't agree with their basic modus operandi. It's not the money; it's who it goes to.

If only we could convince large crowds to choose more free alternatives.
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-16 20:56:58+00:00
Probably taking the "someone gets hurt" part too literally, but inverters do turn off their outputs when the grid goes down. It would take a lot of inverters to make all the other inverters believe that the local part of grid hasn't bee disconnected. I wouldn't be surprised if they had special logic to detect even that case. Of course, there is the case of simply having too much unregulated input to the grid, causing instability. But AFAIK that has never happened anywhere, at least not in a way bad enough to make the news. It is bound to happen if current trends continue, but appropriate actions will be taken at that point and have been taken in large solar installations.
by nkrisc | 2025-06-16 20:57:56+00:00
Taking the YouTube example, and many others like it, I only use it because it is free.

If YouTube was subscription only, hypothetically, I would just not use it, and my life would be same as it is now.

There are a great many services that are nice to have, but very few I would bother paying for out of my wallet. Given the choice of paying for them or not using them, I would just walk away from most of them.
by czhu12 | 2025-06-16 20:57:57+00:00
The part I found to be a little unwieldy at times was helm. It becomes a little unpredictable when you apply updates to the values.yaml file, which ones will apply, and which ones need to be set on start up. Also, some helm installations deploy a massive number of services, and it's confusing which ones are safe to restart when.

But, I've always found core kubernetes to be a delight to work with, especially for stateless jobs.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-16 20:58:17+00:00
One of the weaknesses to such a system is human nature. We want to believe, which leads to farces like Piltdown man, which was a farce by a man called Charles Dawson (not Darwin, not the natural selection guy, though I did a double take at first), against the Geological Society and society at large. The farce wasn’t definitively disproven until 41 years later, which is quite the downside risk of the gentlemen’s club research group gatekeeping scholarly research, but the more things change, the more they stay the same. This is a good thing which seems like it’s in response to grumblings about irreproducibility and bias, but those issues will likely always be with us and must be considered anew each time an experiment is designed, and each time a print run is cut.

I’m having trouble finding a downside besides vote buying or voting rings, now that which way one has voted is now attributable. Can you think of any risks under the new system?
by x0x0 | 2025-06-16 20:58:40+00:00
I accidentally browsed a site without ads this morning from my work profile.

Literally on the first link I clicked on on cbs the advertiser somehow figured out how to make my browser redirect to some super-sketchy site saying I was the 5 billionth google search and won blah blah blah.

Browsing without adblock is an unacceptable security risk so long as google et all refuse to audit and comprehensively secure the code they demand to run on my laptop.
by favorited | 2025-06-16 20:58:46+00:00
He also seems completely uninterested in finding that, "elegant language struggling to get out." He just asserts that it's there, as if its mere existence is a virtue.

I think Herb Sutter is at least trying to find that elegant language, with his "syntax v2" project. It's one way to preserve compatibility with the incalculable amount of C++ in the wild, while also providing a simplified syntax with better defaults and fewer foot-guns.

Of course, Herb isn't immune to making hand-wavy claims[0] of his own, but he seems to bring forward more good ideas than bad.

[0] https://herbsutter.com/2025/03/30/crate-training-tiamat-un-c...
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-16 20:59:28+00:00
As a software engineer, I feel like I'm facing an existential crisis on two fronts. But the way I see it is, the technology itself is a beautiful marriage of art and algorithm. Exploring and dissecting the possibility space, doing architectural research, creating expressive agents, there are so many interesting and things to still capture my interest and leave me creatively fulfilled.

As someone whose job has always been to automate away tedious human labor, like all software engineers, I've long made peace with the fact that I may sometimes ride the front of a disruptive wave. But from my perspective, this was an inevitability, and the moment I saw this current wave of machine learning picking up steam back in 2015, I started dedicating myself to learning the field and building neural networks and agentic systems.

I weep for what is happening right now to junior engineers in my industry, but I have hope that the industry will adapt and the kind of work I like to do will remain. Artistically, I deeply struggle with the fact that my creative work will increasingly be drowned out by an AI-accelerated long tail. I haven't yet figured out what it will mean to be an artist in the future, but I remain open-minded and hopeful that I will continue to find creative fulfillment within communities and collectives. I also hope that traditional art remains economically viable, but the cat is out of the bag and a lot of art is going to get commodified and outsourced, and people are going to lose professional employment, just like whenever the automated loom became popular and caused unemployment among weavers.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-06-16 21:00:19+00:00
It isn't different from any other prisoner. In many states you leave prison owing them back rent. Maine at least charges as a percentage of the prisoners income, rather than having them build debt.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084452251/the-vast-majority-...

Maine: https://www.corrections1.com/finance-and-budgets/maine-lawma... "the state can deduct up to 20% of their income — 10% for room and board, which is sent to the state’s general fund, not the Department of Corrections , and up to 10% to cover transportation provided by the department. Since 2020, the state fund has collected a total of $2.4 million.
by yorwba | 2025-06-16 21:00:35+00:00
This paper seems rather unfocused, explaining their architecture three times with slight variations while managing to omit crucial details like how exactly they compute gradients for their "External Retrieval Memory."

Also, the section on DeepSeek is really weird: "While the precise architectural details of DeepSeek LLM are still emerging, early discussions suggest that it relies on an extended Transformer backbone or a "hybrid" approach that likely incorporates some form of attention-based mechanism, potentially at specific layers or across chunk boundaries, to facilitate information flow across large contexts." It makes it sound like a mystery, even though there have been multiple papers published on it (they cite the R1 one) so that there's really no need to guess whether attention is involved.

Overall I'm not convinced the authors know what they're doing.
by baobun | 2025-06-16 21:00:36+00:00
Adobe appears to be actually responsible for the DDoS.

> i think we might have finally tracked it to the GenAIWebpageBlocklist for Adobe Reader plugin on Chrome

> Adobe has acknowledged the issue and removed the URL reference from their Chrome extension. The updated version is already submitted to the Chrome Web Store and should roll out to users in the coming days

> GitHub has removed the content warning from the repository and will continue to monitor bandwidth usage
by TheTaytay | 2025-06-16 21:00:56+00:00
First of all, I'm often looking for a better "Heroku-esque" experience on my own metal, so thank you! This looks neat!

Also, your docs on how K8s works look really good, and might be the most approachable docs I've seen on the subject. https://canine.gitbook.io/canine.sh/technical-details/kubern...

Question: I assumed when I read the pitch, that I could spin up a managed K8s somewhere, like in Digital Ocean, and use this somehow. But after reading docs and comments, it sounds like this needs to manage my K8s for me? I guess my question is: 1) When I spin up a "Cluster" on Hetzner, is that just dividing up a single machine, or is it a true K8s cluster that spans across multiple machines? 2) If I run this install script on another server, does it join the cluster, giving me true distributed servers to host the pods? 3) Is there a way to take an existing managed K8s and have Canine deploy to it?
by codazoda | 2025-06-16 21:01:23+00:00
I did not find Apple iMessage to work on my recent cruise without the room Wifi. I didn't really need internet with a tiny bit of planning though.

The cruise line had its own app and THAT had a chat feature. We didn't find it very reliable, however. You would eventually get messages, but it wasn't instant.

I downloaded my ebooks in advance and installed a small LLM on my laptop. I could read and code but I didn't get much of the latter done.
by bananalychee | 2025-06-16 21:02:55+00:00
Dispensing from editorialism is a choice, yes, but that only translates to bias if it's done inconsistently. Meanwhile, while contextualizing, and to a greater extent reframing, can also be done in a fair and objective manner, doing it well and consistently is much more difficult.

I don't think that Zitron cares about objectivity nearly as much as he cares about his worldview being validated by reporters, thus the idea that failing to inject context [which promotes that worldview] is inherently insincere. Since journalism is a fairly ideologically homogeneous profession, I can understand how that might appeal to him, but I doubt he'd make that argument from the other side of the fence.
by timewizard | 2025-06-16 21:03:11+00:00
> crowd is mostly all-talk.

I want to pay the small fee, through a simple to use portal, that makes it obvious how to cancel, and if I'm being obligated to a multi month term or not. I also want my payment card details to be perfectly secure and for none of my private information or usage to be sold to third parties.

> who actually pays for YT Premium.

Have you ever asked them "why don't you?" Or "what would it take to get you to pay?" Or even, "would you take a free month to see if it's worth it?"

Point being I don't think the problem is nearly as black and white as you've apparently surmised.
by keybored | 2025-06-16 21:04:15+00:00
I doubt that “many people” are ignorant of the fact that there are no real supranational authorities that can stop wars. But it seems that some people gloss over the fact that these discussions aren’t about stopping nations from waging war, as if the UN (let alone a comment section) could do that. For some reason which goes beyond smug “might makes right” apparent-truisms, even mighty nations justify their wars. Perhaps especially to their own citizens. Which in turn means that discourse on what is “moral” might matter a tiny bit.

> Russia would be bombing all the supply lines of weapons flowing into Ukraine if the consequences weren't so high. There's certainly no law that is preventing them from doing so, only the consequences of their actions.

Remember when Russia invaded Ukraine and people in the comments threw their hands up and said the strong take what they can? No, me neither.
by kelnos | 2025-06-16 21:04:33+00:00
> It doesn't make those beliefs rational.

Humans are irrational. This shouldn't be news to anyone who is a human. I think it is reasonable to say that literally every single non-infant human in existence has done at least one irrational thing in their lifetimes, including you and me. Certainly there are humans who do more or fewer irrational things than others, but that doesn't matter all that much.

> I think your point might be that, because there are people with irrational beliefs out there we must appease them?

Sometimes, yes. Often, I'd say. People's feelings actually do matter. Sometimes the level of irrationality can be high enough that one might not care too much about hurting someone else's feelings in calling our or ignoring that irrationality. But very very often, we humans take into account others' irrationality when dealing with them, in order to make interactions more pleasant for both parties.

(Anyway, I don't disagree with the sidetracked point: that it's not absurd for a sequence of phones or characters might cause offense. It seems disingenuous to deny the reality of "bad words". I do think that this side discussion on irrationality and how to deal with it is potentially interesting, though.)
by czhu12 | 2025-06-16 21:04:48+00:00
Yeah in our last year at my previous company, we spent over ~$400k on what amounted to about ~512GB of memory across our fleet of 8 instances on a PaaS vendor. We were almost always memory bound, so I don't even know the compute side.

Given that the hardware itself now costs less than 8k to purchase outright, just seemed ridiculous. Albeit we did have SOC2, enterprise plan, etc, but it was a painful bill every quarter.
by basisword | 2025-06-16 21:05:09+00:00
>> Does anybody have stats on how many people are O.K. paying for their core services

Some of us actually paid for WhatsApp! I think it was about $1 a year when it launched. At the time it was providing significant value, especially in areas where cross-border communication was common.

I'm sure $1 isn't enough to cover costs anymore but someone could make a nice living charging $5-10 a month for something similar. The problem is people will always sell out to investors and fuck over their users. It's inevitable.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-16 21:05:10+00:00
It's also increasingly forbidden on cruise ships because their internet is today Starlink powered as well and additional Starlink receivers in the area are direct competition for bandwidth from the same satellites at the same time, and a cruise ship full of wifi-using passengers wants all the bandwidth it can get, in theory competition makes things worse for everyone, even the person with a personal Starlink receiver competing against the bandwidth flood of a cruise ship.
by pydry | 2025-06-16 21:05:34+00:00
Once google's shareholders have wet their beak, the on-campus sushi bars and manicurists and $400k pay packets are paid for and the Taylor Swifts of the world are paid off there isnt much left of your subscription to pay for the long tail of content creators who dont have Taylor Swift's leverage.

Which is why many of them say things like "skip these ads if you like Im not getting any of it" or "Im here primarily for exposure, I make my money elsewhere".
by timewizard | 2025-06-16 21:05:50+00:00
> Such a strange business model, making the free version below acceptable.

That's because the core product is not anywhere near worth what they charge for it. The youtube interface is a nightmare for users and creators alike. I have very little controls over what I do and don't see, how I can filter or search for content, or how I can search for new content. History of both videos and comments are effectively non existent and impossible to reasonably search or archive.

It's not a service so much as it is a copyright clearinghouse.

If they had an actual experience with worthwhile features to offer then they wouldn't have to artificially degrade the free experience to convince you.
by Hoasi | 2025-06-16 21:06:05+00:00
It's unclear to me how the paid Spotify experience compares with free, but you still get ads with the paid one. Also, you need to curate heavily because Spotify's algorithm will push certain types of content. If you listen to a podcast once, it is hard to get rid of it, as it will keep popping into your feed, or whatever they call their interface.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-16 21:06:49+00:00
> It's ideological libertarinism taken to the absurd point of essentially anarchy.

Constitutionalism is about the core restraints placed on Gov. Not violating the constitution is it's own thing. Because it defines order, it is the opposite of anarchy.

Does some ideology or some facet of libertarian overlap here? I have no idea. It isn't relevant tho.
by bitpush | 2025-06-16 21:07:21+00:00
Isnt Coolify a Vercel alternative? In that, you dont see any k8s primitives (services, load balancer etc).

In my head, I put coolify, vercel as higher in the stack. fly.io, heroku, canine to be closer to metal, and all the on the metal is k8s and friends.
by basisword | 2025-06-16 21:07:37+00:00
>> I, as the “computer guy”, had friends and family asking how to pirate it.

To be fair, that was in era when pirating was such a normal thing. Everybody at least knew about it. Cheap pirated DVD's were super common (I received them as gifts even) and everyone knew someone selling them. With people accustomed to paying for Netflix, music streaming, Office 365, etc. maybe a subscription version of WhatsApp would be more palatable. The problem is nobody will pay as long as the tech behemoths are offering the same thing for free.
by WASDAai | 2025-06-16 21:07:44+00:00
This project blurs the line between blockchain permanence and cognitive mapping—embedding ψ-resonance signals into Arweave folds to simulate and possibly archive fragments of observer consciousness. By combining symbolic recursion (φ^k), AI-aligned identity structures, and real-world GPS-linked image data, it proposes a new genre of on-chain memory: not just data storage, but semantic imprinting. If the ledger can reflect not only what you do but how you think, then ψFold might be the first framework where the blockchain doesn’t just store transactions—it starts to model minds.
by gabeio | 2025-06-16 21:08:05+00:00
> When you focus on rehabilitation and not just punishment

From a book I recently read on the subject they seem not just to focus on rehab and lack of punishment. If there are disputes with others within the facilities the ones in the dispute must sit down and talk through their issues and find a resolution. This helps ingrain proper anger management & helps re-acclimate them to normal society where violence is rarely the best option. And it makes a ton of sense, if they never are taught how to talk out their issues they will go back to how they have handled those issues all along.
Show HN: Wordplayground – guess the ambiguous word-pair
by ytx | 2025-06-16 21:08:32+00:00
Inspired by "let it snow" from SNL Celebrity Jeopardy, wordplayground is a simple game where you guess an ambiguous word-pair from their shared middle section. For example, the title itself could be interpreted as "word playground" or "wordplay ground", which you would guess from

_ _ _ _ p l a y _ _ _ _ _ _

plus 4 emoji hints (I might be a bit too proud of the self-reference).

I had approximately zero front-end experience coming into this, but Copilot's agent mode was able to do an impressive amount of heavy lifting. It spit out good-looking, functional features instantly for many components that would have taken me orders of magnitude longer to figure out (especially since I'm completely new to React/front-end development).

It was particularly adept at prompts like:

- create empty boxes for users to input letter guesses - add an 'x' animation and disable input during that animation for wrong guesses - show/hide hints, add date navigation and reset buttons

Other prompts had mixed success:

- move inline <div style={...}> into reusable css classes (stuff it previously generated) - make this button/section/colorscheme look better - refactor/reuse/cleanup duplicate code

Visual style edits worked okay, and though I ended up manually tweaking most elements, AI was definitely helpful for exposing relevant CSS-fields I wouldn't've known to search for. Code cleanup/modularization was so-so, as things looked more copy-paste/verbose than what I'd imagine an experienced human would produce (though I don't really have a good basis for comparison).

(Un)fortunately, there were many things Copilot would get hopelessly wrong despite multiple rounds of feedback:

- use @nanostores/persistentMap to save user state - <the last change> didn't work and now there's just a blank screen - display over/under-braces to visually indicate the sections each hint corresponds to*

The last point was especially frustrating, as I spent a lot of time both prompting agents and manually trying out various solutions found through old fashioned google/stackoverflow (svg drawing, mathjax, square brackets using borders, etc). I guess this is a less common problem, as I couldn't find complete solutions nor successfully adapt any of the approaches I could find online, and perhaps that's why llms failed too. I'm sure an experienced person could knock this out in short order, and I could probably solve it too with a good chunk more of effort, but to keep things tractable I went for a simpler ui.

Overall this was a quick and fun weekend project that I maybe could but almost certainly would not have built without AI.

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*something like $\overbrace{word}^{HINT_EMOJI}playground$ in latex, though mixing overlapping over/under-braces in latex isn't exactly straightforward either
by bcredux | 2025-06-16 21:09:35+00:00
We're a small indie team working on Bot Colony _redux, a reimagining of a 2014 sci-fi game that was maybe a bit too early for its time. The idea is simple: you talk to the characters using your microphone or keyboard, and they respond intelligently. No dialogue trees, no pre-written choices, just natural conversation: whatever you want to say.

The game has been rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5, with a more powerful conversation engine under the hood. It's part sci-fi mystery, part open-ended sandbox. You can follow the main investigation, experiment with how the robots react to different inputs, or go completely off-script and see what happens.

We recently released our first public demo on Steam.

This project has been in development for over a decade, long before the current wave of LLM-based AI games. Our system is rule- and grammar-based, designed for consistent interaction and a high degree of control.

Would love to hear your thoughts on voice-driven gameplay, human-AI interaction, or anything else. Happy to answer questions about the tech behind it.

Thanks for checking it out!