MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oflannabhra | 2025-06-20 17:28:05+00:00
I would love some sunglasses for running that show some basic metrics (similar to my Apple Watch) for my workout, equivalent to the FORM Smart Swim 1 [0]. However, I would mostly prefer this to be a dumb screen, with all the smarts off loaded to a watch or phone. I'm not sure why companies keep insisting on building such smart glasses as independent products.

[0] - https://www.formswim.com/products/smart-swim-goggles
by cryptonector | 2025-06-20 17:28:32+00:00
I read GP's question really as: "did all Uranium on Earth come from the same source?" and your answer implies "yes". I think that's right.

The fact that everywhere we see the same U-235/U-238 ratio or very close (Oklo) strongly implies either a single source (supernova) or that if it was more than one source they were all at roughly the same time (6.5 billion years ago), with the latter seeming [to me] less likely, so a single source at 6.5 billion years ago is what makes sense. Unless there were many supernovae and their remnants mixed quite well in our corner of the galaxy where our sun was born.
by hedora | 2025-06-20 17:28:38+00:00
The metrics I have seen all look cherry picked.

Archaeology tells us that for ~ 4000 years, people have tolerated an average of a 30 minute commute.

The usefulness of a city goes up (superlinearly!) with the number of people that can work / shop / live there.

So, the universal metric for any city, and therefore transit system is: “How many people can regularly make use of the city?”

A simple proxy for that is: “How many people live within a 30 minute commute of the city center?”

So, at peak times, how many people can simultaneously get to their destination in NYC in under 30 minutes?

Second: How many of those people can do so during non peak hours?

If congestion pricing is a success on all metrics, then both those numbers will have increased. Those metrics have worked well for 4000 years of cities so they are as close to a natural law as exists for cities.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the numbers went up (or down) but the lack of reporting on “is NYC’s effective population increasing or decreasing as a result of congestion pricing?” makes me skeptical.
by _ks3e | 2025-06-20 17:28:50+00:00
It's possible to use Tailscale with just a passkey [0], but it's a weird process because they don't let you create a tailnet and a passkey account at the same time. Instead, you need to create an account with a throwaway FAANG credential and send yourself an invite to that account's tailnet, and then use that invite to create a passkey-linked Tailscale account. This account can then create its own tailnet, at which point the original tailnet (and the throwaway FAANG account) can be discarded.

It's a weird process and not particularly user friendly (passkey accounts are tied to a specific passkey and can't have additional ones added, so you need to create a new account if you, say, migrate from one hardware key to another). Hopefully they improve the process before passkey support goes out of beta.

[0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1269/passkeys
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 17:29:13+00:00
> The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs

Of course. That's been going on since the invention of the plow. That's why today we can do more interesting things than turn over the earth with a pointy stick all day every day.

> economic democracy, where average people regain control over their lives

History shows us that this inevitably means people lose all control over their lives, because the state will make your decisions for you and assign you your job.

For example, let's say the color of cars produce by car companies is determined by democracy. 59% vote for the cars to be green. And if you want a red car? Too bad. What if you want a 4 seat car? No dice, 53% voted for 2 seaters to be made. What if you didn't want a car stereo? You're stuck paying for it anyway, as 73% voted for it.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-20 17:29:52+00:00
> The "stats" you cite have shown improvements in things that I don't care about…

You implied you cared about pollution, then claimed that was whimsical when evidence became available.

What do you care about that has measurably worsened with the change? And can you demonstrate it with more than feefees? And will it become “whimsical” if debunked?
by mrcwinn | 2025-06-20 17:30:00+00:00
It's not the long tail. It's that the HEAD of packages in Elixir are also often poorly maintained or not maintained. The fundamental question for any developer: can I be productive quickly? Despite all that Elixir has going for it, the answer is often "no."

Want a first-party client library for the service you're using? Typically the answer is "too bad, Elixir developer." And writing your own Finch or Req wrapper for their REST endpoint simply isn't a valid answer.

>For its size, Elixir is doing quite well.

I'm actually arguing the opposite. Elixir is not doing well because of its size. So how can that be influenced and changed?
Show HN: Matle – A Chess Guessing Game Inspired by Wordle
by matle_io | 2025-06-20 17:30:31+00:00
Hi HN,

Matle is a daily chess puzzle inspired by Wordle. You're shown a checkmate position with 5 hidden squares, and your goal is to guess what’s on them to complete the mate.

Someone kindly shared it here a few months ago before I had the chance to post it myself. I’m the creator, and wanted to share a few new features based on feedback, and hear your thoughts.

You can now view the original game behind each puzzle, get explanations for why a guess isn’t checkmate, and see daily solving stats.

Would love to hear what you think: https://matle.io
by kevmo314 | 2025-06-20 17:30:56+00:00
> Actually, what are we going to do when everyone that cares about the craft of software ages out, burns out, or escapes the industry because of the ownership class setting unrealistic expectations on people?

Nothing, I guess? There's an implicit assumption that software written by humans is a necessity. If the future finds that software written by computers is more profitable then that's just what it is. The universe doesn't owe us value on human-written software.

Even food is not able to escape this hole: it's not profitable to manually cultivate food anymore if you wanted to do that as a career.
by EA-3167 | 2025-06-20 17:31:29+00:00
I suspect the advertisers are starting to realize that a non-trivial part of Reddit (and other social media) has become bots talking to bots, ads to ads, and people on their 80th account screwing around. It's also why Reddit has been a pretty lousy "place" for a while now, and getting worse every day.

I doubt this tech will fix it, but I can understand why Reddit is desperate to find a way to ensure that they have a product (people) to sell to customers (advertisers) that has some actual value. Meanwhile from the point of view of the average Redditor I suspect that ID validation is a deal breaker, and the population of real, non-ban-dodging, non-bot Redditors is actually a minority of the site's activity.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-20 17:31:54+00:00
You could do this out of the MCP protocol, just by making a SQL user account with restricted privileges. I'm assuming at some point you have to give the mcp orm credentials. I think it's easier and more maintainable to just add a doc page tutorial showing how to do it instead of making it part of the dependency. It also reduces the scope of the library.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-06-20 17:32:02+00:00
'Society' doesn't make people shoot up, turn tricks, or attempt to set up permanent shop in public toilets inside train stations. Also, they're great places to put bombs (in theory at least).

I admit I don't have an answer for this. San Francisco's experiments with nifty self-cleaning public toilets have been expensive failures for the most part. I'm not sure where we go from here, given that the problem seems to be cultural/user-based.
by norir | 2025-06-20 17:32:02+00:00
Yeah, I imagine they are often projecting their own frustration over parking onto their customers. Every time a customer comes in and grumbles about parking, it triggers their confirmation bias. Conversely, new customers who only popped in because they were on foot are probably less likely to express that fact.

Given how annoying parking is, I'll bet that there are also many business owners who would trade some profit for their own ease of parking. Especially given that they have the power to squeeze their employees rather than bear the full cost themselves.
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-20 17:32:06+00:00
I think it would've been good enough for the miners too, if not for the fact that nuclear arms control treaties require every gram of U-235 to be accounted for. When they were digging it out of the ground and found it was less enriched than it should've been, this needed to be explained. It has always fascinated me to think that this natural phenomenon could and probably would have remained unknown forever if not for these treaties and agreements.
by bko | 2025-06-20 17:32:39+00:00
Pretty much anything is better than sleeping on the street. Why would you choose to let your last money run out and then you're stuck somewhere where if you have no reasonable way to afford rent on a low paying job.

For instance, move to Cleveland Ohio. Median home price is $173k. Rent is also cheap.

I don't know, make it work. Whats the alternative? Stay in a city and sleep on the street because you don't want to figure out a bus schedule?
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-06-20 17:32:41+00:00
I know, right? I can't imagine wanting to receive any kind of alert from a news app. If there's a real emergency, like an earthquake or tsunami warning, I believe there are alternative systems in place that will send out a special alert to phones in the area (and ideally really loud sirens outside).

I'll read or listen to the news when it makes sense in my day to do so. I very much do not want to be interrupted because a national level politician did something. If it was important, it will still be important in a few hours when I go over the news.
Show HN: AI Everything App Store
by Jeff9James | 2025-06-20 17:32:57+00:00
I'm that one guy who wants to build solutions to literally all my problems.

And, I knew AI is the solution.

So..., I built an AI APP STORE with 16 AI tools I built myself.

Image analysis, text analysis, date, image generation, spreadsheets, infographics, problem solving—you name it.

No, literally—you name it! You can email me any AI App/Tool code files, and I'll add it to KLUTZ. Just a description of the idea is also enough.

Oh, I forgot to mention—KLUTZ is 100% FREE, Open-Source and (after months of torture) API-key-LESS (PUTER JS).
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 17:33:11+00:00
Do you really want a return to the days when "women's work" was spending every free moment spinning and weaving cloth by hand? When cloth was so valuable there was a profession called "rag pickers"? Where new clothes were rare, hand me downs were the usual, and people wore clothes until they disintegrated? And poor people made clothes out of flour sacks?
by 9rx | 2025-06-20 17:34:32+00:00
> Getting to the airport in most major cities takes an hour

Do you mean beginning in the same city? If so, that's downright hilarious. I live 50 miles clear of the city, out in the middle of nowhere, and can be to the airport in the city in less than an hour.

> If such a thing existed in the US I think it would be extremely popular.

I don't know, if people willingly spend an hour getting from one point to another in the same city, the aren't apt to be concerned about how they get from one city to another. I expect they don't put much thought into anything.
by danaris | 2025-06-20 17:34:36+00:00
> There's a huge gap between "I can't afford to buy a $700,000 house" and "I live on the streets" though.

Sure. But that's not what I was talking about. I'm saying if it is very difficult or impossible for an average grocery store clerk to find an apartment in LA where they can live what most people would consider a fairly normal life—ie, living alone or with a small number of roommates, each with their own bedroom or sharing one with an actual partner—then that's a systemic failure, not an individual one.

> I disagree - people generally go towards where the money is.

Right. That's part of the system that we're working within.

What I'm saying is that individual choices, like "LA is too expensive; I'll move somewhere else" do not solve the problem. As in, yes, that individual is no longer dealing with the unaffordability of housing in LA, but housing in LA is still unaffordable.

> I don't think the author is talking about the average starbucks employee here

I mean, the author is clearly satirizing the position of an upper-middle-class person, but the problem they're highlighting is absolutely one that Starbucks workers in high-cost-of-living areas face.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-20 17:34:50+00:00
Smartphones are not even that similar to laptops. Smartphones wiped out beepers, old cellphone, PDAs, and decimated MP3 players and cameras.

Laptops, of course, have the much bigger screen and keyboard, not really replicated by smartphones. They have use-cases that smartphone can’t cover well for hardware reasons. So they’ve stuck around (in a notably diminished form).

If good AR glasses become a thing… I dunno, they could easily replace monitors generally, right? Then a laptop just becomes a keyboard. That’s a hardware function that seems necessary.

What niche is left for the smartphone?
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-20 17:34:57+00:00
The theory is that the price signal helps people make their own arbitrage between time and money and it would maximize society utility, but the reality is since people have a very different amount of money, it just do what you say: the rich pay without second thoughts and enjoy the higher quality of life when the less rich see a degradation of their own: they will either pay with money they don't have in excess and have to stop other consumption, or take public transports which is less convenient for them (since it's cheaper than car commute, they would be doing it if they didn't like it better).
by leafmeal | 2025-06-20 17:35:05+00:00
Do you believe making things easier and more accessible is bad for workers? I don't think it inherently is or isn't, it just depends on who benefits from the increased efficiency. I think that's more of a problem with your economic system, or wealth distribution.

Overall I think we would all be happier if efficient machines take away the drudgery of our daily work and allow us to focus on things that really matter to us. . . as long as our basic needs are met.
by roryirvine | 2025-06-20 17:35:18+00:00
But that's nothing to do with Agile - after all, any of the big pre-Agile iterative methodologies from the 1990s like RUP or DSDM were just as often plagued with pointless meetings!

One of the most important aspects of following an Agile methodology is that teams are expected to be self-organising, so if the meetings you're participating in aren't working for you, you should absolutely be discussing that with your team. It could be that others do find them valuable, but you might well find that they feel the same as you and would be willing to consider how to make them more effective.
by lolinder | 2025-06-20 17:35:23+00:00
> turning ensuring a flat tax into a progressive tax is to spend the proceeds of the tax a way that benefits people equally.

How does the math on this work? If a regressive tax affects poor people disproportionately over rich people and you then turn around and spend the proceeds on something that benefits everyone equally, you've just done wealth redistribution from poor to rich, no?

In order to counterbalance the effect of a regressive tax you would need to spend the proceeds on something that benefits poor people more than rich people so the disproportionate negative impact is balanced by a disproportionate positive impact.

Arguably paying for the MTA may count as doing that, given that poorer folks are more likely to be using it than rich folks (especially now post-congestion tax). The congestion tax becomes a tax on what is now a luxury (driving a car in Manhattan) that is used to pay for a staple (public transit).
by Lammy | 2025-06-20 17:35:40+00:00
AOL still have active trademarks for “Netscape” which might trouble you here:

- https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76017078&caseSearchType=U...

> PROVIDING MULTIPLE-USER ACCESS TO A GLOBAL COMPUTER INFORMATION NETWORK FOR THE TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATION OF A WIDE RANGE OF INFORMATION; ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF DATA, IMAGES, AND DOCUMENTS VIA COMPUTER NETWORKS; [ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVICES; PROVIDING ON-LINE CHAT ROOMS FOR TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES AMONG COMPUTER USERS CONCERNING A WIDE VARIETY OF FIELDS]

- https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76017079&caseSearchType=U...

> PROVIDING INFORMATION IN THE FIELD OF COMPUTERS VIA A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK; PROVIDING A WIDE RANGE OF GENERAL INTEREST INFORMATION VIA COMPUTER NETWORKS

- https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74574057&caseSearchType=U...

> computer software for use in the transfer of information and the conduct of commercial transactions across local, national and world-wide information networks
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-06-20 17:35:57+00:00
You can express dang near anything you wish to express in assembly in a higher order programming language because it is designed to allow that level of clarity and specificity. In fact most have compile time checks to stop you if you have not properly specified certain behavior.

The English language is not comparable. It is a language designed to capture all the ambiguity of human thought, and as such is not appropriate for computation.

TLDR: There's a reason why programmers still exist after the dawn of 4GL / 'no code' frameworks. Otherwise we'd all be product managers typing specs into JIRA and getting fully formed applications out the other side.
by dontlaugh | 2025-06-20 17:36:56+00:00
That’s not what the Luddites wanted. They praised the technology itself and recognised it would save a lot of time. But they also recognised that they the workers wouldn’t reap any of those benefits, they’d just lose their jobs.

Do you really think capitalists would choose to shorten the working day with no loss of pay as productivity increases? If so, you are incredibly naive.
Ask HN: Why does devin.ai's website set my Mac's fan off?
by judahmeek | 2025-06-20 17:37:50+00:00
I just found it ironic that the website for an relatively expensive AI agent for software development makes my GPU Process CPU metric (according to Chrome's Task Manager) reach over 1000.

I forget the last website that was similarly strong in resource demand.

https://devin.ai/

Considering that it's making such a strong demand of the GPU process makes me suspect animation or graphics, but I'd love some clarification by someone with greater insight.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-20 17:38:10+00:00
Rich people pay more on flat taxes than poor people do. For the VAT, they buy more stuff. For the OP's example, they pay for a higher class of garbage disposal. For the congestion charge, they pay it more often.

But they're still regressive taxes. Poor people spend a higher percentage of their income on stuff than rich people do. It's less in absolute terms, but more in relative terms.
by ozim | 2025-06-20 17:38:54+00:00
It is a feature not a bug.

What author describes is about dominance.

Most OSS is fragmented because of different ideas and different people.

People nag about .NET not having much outside OSS because .NET devs (I am one of them) will not use stuff that doesn’t have MSFT badge.

You don’t want such power in general OSS. Lack of coordination is sign of no dominant entity and that is the feature.
by deadbabe | 2025-06-20 17:38:54+00:00
Vibe coding is not going to go away.

Just as alchemists always dreamed of turning lead into gold, there is a dream that people have had for decades of writing less and less code: Open source. Scaffolds. Code generators. No-code tools. Coding Agent LLMs.

If vibe coding goes away, it will be because it has been replaced with something even more hands off. Perhaps vibe prompting. Or even code farming: just have AI agents constantly build totally random shit and go through and see if any of it is useful for something. Maybe even take a genetic approach where you score the fitness of various software for a certain solution and AI will cross mutate the genes. This will be a change of that rivals our shift from hunter/gatherers to the agricultural revolution.
by mattigames | 2025-06-20 17:39:09+00:00
If this workflow starts getting any traction this will quickly turn into a cat and mouse game, where companies do their best to make sure those AIs don't work on their websites to make sure humans and humans only watch their websites' ads, their links, their banners and so on.

Google being a big one of those companies would soon side with those companies and not with the users, it's been their modus operandi, just recently some people got threats that if they don't stop using ad blockers in YouTube they will ban them from the platform.
by felarof | 2025-06-20 17:39:24+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. Honestly—we just reused the icon we had gotten professionally designed for the last idea we were working on (https://felafax.ai/).

But not gonna lie, as a tiny startup, we don’t have marketing budget of Perplexity or Dia, so we picked a name and icon that at least hinted at “browser” right away. Definitely not trying to mislead anyone -- just needed something recognizable out of the gate.
by vinceguidry | 2025-06-20 17:39:26+00:00
I'm a regular practitioner of magic, have written essays about it on Quora, and I can identify this mysterious third option as "the universe responding to your needs." You can use any number of religious terms to refer it to, like serendipity and the like, but none of them can capture the full texture of precisely how free will operates.

Approaching this subject from a rational perspective divorces you from subject and makes it impossible to perceive. You have to immerse yourself in it and one way to do that is magical practice. Having direct experience of the universe responding to your actions and mindset eventually makes it absurdly clear that the universe bears intelligence and it's in this intelligence that free will operates.

I'd never thought before now to connect magic this directly to free will. Thanks for the opportunity to think this through! If you're interested in a deeper discussion, happy to jump on a call.
by Zarathu | 2025-06-20 17:40:04+00:00
Out of curiosity, what would an "OTP-first" design look like?

ETS is built into OTP, so how is using ETS not "OTP-first"? What's wrong with using ETS? It's just an in-memory store.

I looked through the code and didn't find it to be anywhere close to procedural in style.
by anthonypasq | 2025-06-20 17:40:04+00:00
where i live (Boston) it is impossible to build anything new that is not qualified as "luxury" because its competing with a 150 year old tenement with 20year old appliances.

i dont even know what it would mean to build a new non-luxury apartment. No one has ever explained this to me. New housing is always lampooned as being shit quality yet luxury at the same time just because it has.... cabinets that arent falling off the walls and a floor that isnt slanted so badly that i roll away from my desk?

When the existing current housing stock is so old and bad you just need to build to bring up the average quality of an apartment. Rich people will go to the new stuff and it brings up the floor of housing quality.