MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sethammons | 2025-06-26 10:53:18+00:00
My wife and I had our first at age 15. Then another at 22. And our last at 27. I've raised children while on welfare and while a software engineer.

I was more patient as a teen than I am now in my 40s. Now I am tired. All the time. I fear I would literally die of exhaustion if I had to maintain more irregular hours than I already do due to insomnia that I have developed over the last half decade.
by rklaehn | 2025-06-26 10:53:47+00:00
There might be a small misunderstanding here. Our relays do two things. They relay user data, and relay a small number of special packets to help with hole punching. Other than that they are very simple. They never see unencrypted data, so they don't know anything more about the nodes they serve than what they need to function.

Connections are TCP https websocket connections, because this is most likely to get through even the most restrictive firewalls.

Discovery is handled outside the relays, via either a special DNS server or via the bittorrent mainline DHT. You can even implement your own discovery.
by Hilift | 2025-06-26 10:55:06+00:00
Prisons are ancient history. The latest chapter is the tough on crime states have glorious high speed pursuits. All those Challengers blasting away at 140 mph in the breakdown lane, rollover 10-50 pits, suspects at gunpoint, now published in 1080 on YouTube for some state and county agencies. A single pursuit may result in two or three disabled police vehicles that need to be replaced. A prepped vehicle is over $100k. In 2024 Arkansas had 500+ high speed pursuits, resulting in three suspect deaths and three civilian deaths. Additionally, nine civilians, 14 troopers, and 83 suspects were injured. and easily over 1,000 vehicles trashed.

Each of these videos puts most film car chases to shame. There must be 20 channels dedicated to this. Participating states I've seen are mostly Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, and California. But any agency can publish a video, particularly if there is a shooting death and an official investigation.
by Fluorescence | 2025-06-26 10:55:13+00:00
It's interesting to see the most recent internet archive snapshot from last week. Just 4 tiers. Basic, Standard, Premium which don't include Gemini. There is a fourth tier called "AI Premium" that does.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250611035305/https://one.googl...

I wonder what it will be next week.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-26 10:57:49+00:00
> Apptainer and singularity ce are quite common in HPC. While both implementations fork the old singularity project, they are not really identical.

Apptainer is not a fork of the old Singularity project: Apptainer is the original project, but the community voted to change its name. It also came under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation:

* https://apptainer.org/news/community-announcement-20211130/

Sylabs (where the original Singularity author first worked) was the one that forked off the original project.
by api | 2025-06-26 11:00:23+00:00
What happens is the price difference gets huge. Quality furniture does beat shit at the high end of the market, but a real quality bed or sofa costs over a thousand dollars and up from there. The price difference between shit and quality starts at 5-10X.

Tangent but -- one furniture hack I've found is that if you don't want to pay a lot go for the simplest design you can find made of basic wood or metal. It'll be... a wood or metal kit that assembles into the basic form of what is needed. Wood is often unfinished or minimally finished. That stuff is pretty durable. Things that look "fancy" but are cheap tend to be utter trash, made of the worst materials with poor tolerances. A more elaborate or artistic design plus quality equals expensive.

When I say minimal I mean minimal. A cheap quality bed frame is a rack the mattress sits on. A cheap quality dresser is basically bins on tracks.

Ironically places like Amazon is where you find this cheap quality minimal stuff. Furniture stores are complete trash unless they are artisan, often local, like I live in Ohio and there are artisan Amish furniture sellers that sell good (but $$$) stuff that is literally hand made. But find one that is actually sourcing or even tied to an Amish community. You don't have to look into the store, just the stuff inside. It will be solid and build via obvious craft joinery, etc., and will weigh a ton. (and you're supporting a local community)

So I wonder if software will start to look like that. Pay a lot (like enterprise prices) for highly regarded pro software or find something minimal "hand made" by a 1-5 person shop. The world of quality native Mac apps comes to mind for the latter.
by isoprophlex | 2025-06-26 11:00:30+00:00
loving all the sounds, but especially that resonant drone is just fantastic. well done.

if you're hacking another iteration, i'm a 'wall of sound' type person... i was a bit sad that the 'listening radius' was so small / not changable. some of the sounds went out of focus too quickly for me even at the lowest autopilot speed, and this meant there were only a few sounds playing simultaneously at every moment.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-26 11:01:34+00:00
>This general line of thinking is just flawed. You don't fix global warming by reducing consumption (of any form), you do it by changing the root source of how consumption is performed while continuing to increase consumption. i.e. solar panels and wind, not coal. There is no such thing as an low per-capita energy consumption rich country. Energy efficiency begets more energy usage, not less.

This is one of those fundamental blindingly obvious points that persistently gets forgotten in debates about supposedly reducing greenhouse problems and perceived environmental waste. I've tried to explain similar in many debates and contexts, but a curiously irrational and very pervasive mentality of punitively people to go against essentially fundamental human acquisition instincts persists.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-26 11:02:05+00:00
People sometimes miss that copyleft is powered by copyright. Copyleft (which means Linux, Blender, and plenty of other goodness) needs the ability to impose some rules on what users do with your work, presumably in the interest of common good. Such ability implies IP ownership.

This does not mean that powerful interests abusing copyright with ever increasing terms and enforcement overreach is fair game. It harms common interest.

However, it does mean that abusing copyright from the other side and denouncing the core ideas of IP ownership—which is now sort of in the interest of certain companies (and capital heavily invested in certain fashionable but not yet profitable startups) based around IP expropriation—harms common interest just as well.
I built an AI-powered app that explains your dreams instantly
by alex_dreamer | 2025-06-26 11:02:42+00:00
Hi HN,

I built an app called Dream Meaning Interpretations (available on App Store and Play Store). It’s a simple tool that lets you write down your dreams and instantly get an AI-generated explanation of what they might mean.

Most dream apps out there are either filled with ads, rely on outdated symbol dictionaries, or just feel like clickbait. This app is different: you describe your dream in your own words, and the app gives you a clear, contextual interpretation — not just a generic keyword match.

Key features:

• Dream journal – quickly log your dreams and revisit them anytime

• Instant interpretations – get a full explanation in seconds, based on what you actually wrote

• Symbol lookup – search common dream elements (animals, places, emotions) in plain English

• Follow-up questions – ask deeper questions about a dream and get more insight instantly

• Simple UX – designed to be clean, fast, and private

The idea is to help people better understand recurring themes, emotions, or patterns in their dreams, without having to rely on sketchy websites or books.

Would love feedback. Let me know what’s confusing, missing, or unnecessary.

Happy to share the app if anyone’s curious.
by the_other | 2025-06-26 11:03:26+00:00
Off-topic...

I wish Apple would bring back the white menubar background and the coloured logo.

The white menubar makes the whole computer easier to use in a small but constant way. The coloured apple icon would suggest they no longer have their heads stuck up their assess and might bring back "fun" rather than "showing off" to their design process. And then maybe, maybe... with that "suggestion" symbolised in the UI, we can hope they might bring back the more rigorous user-centric design process they used to be famous for.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-06-26 11:03:48+00:00
>The future of the Democratic party will not be determined by its current leadership.

True. Not only are many of them starting to die, those they brought in as shore up support now want some say in how things work but the old guard doesn't seem to want a gradual change using powering sharing. The result is going to be a rapid change when the tipping point is reached. Are we there now? Probably not but certainly appears to be getting close.

>It will be decided by the working class of this country.

I'm far too cynical about the new guard to believe that will be the case. New faces, new red meat, same old process of making promises and then delivering a token amount. But maybe one of the things about fresh blood is that it's not yet too cynical to try for change they want.
by impostervt | 2025-06-26 11:04:27+00:00
About 1.5 years ago I inherited a project with ~ 250,000 lines of code - in just the web UI (not counting back end).

The developer who wrote it was a smart guy, but he had never worked on any other JS project. All state was stored in the DOM in custom attributes, .addEventListeners EVERYWHERE... I joke that it was as if you took a monk, gave him a book about javascript, and then locked him in a cell for 10 years.

I started refactoring pieces into web components, and after about 6 months had removed 50k lines of code. Now knowing enough about the app, I started a complete rewrite. The rewrite is about 80% feature parity, and is around 17k lines of code (not counting libraries like Vue/pinia/etc).

So, soon, I shall have removed over 200,000 loc from the project. I feel like then I should retire as I will never top that.
by account42 | 2025-06-26 11:06:59+00:00
The problem is when "HDR" images that would perfectly fit into the sRGB color space are not rendered correctly on non-HDR systems. This PNGv2 fails that which means it isn't really any more useful and one of the existing (and much better) HDR-supporting formats like JPEG-XL or the video codec based ones pushed by the big guys.
by yamakadi | 2025-06-26 11:08:08+00:00
It’s easy to say that if you aren’t living a normal life here. Grocery receipts are growing faster than they ever have. It’s all small and incremental but enough to nearly double what we spent half a decade ago.

Keep in mind this is a country where new graduate salaries have been unchanging for the past 30 years. Even small rates of inflation is relatively devastating to certain groups.
by biofox | 2025-06-26 11:08:44+00:00
I'm a neuroscientist by training, and that doesn't match my understanding (although the definitions might have changed).

Inflammation would be an instance of nociceptive pain, and an NSAID would alleviate it by reducing the inflammation; and most tissue damage will result in inflammation.

Neuropathic pain, on the other hand, would be due to damage of the nerves themselves, and NSAIDs are completely useless here (ask anyone with sciatica or other nerve entrapment)
by thristian | 2025-06-26 11:09:57+00:00
For some context about why a portable, user-friendly, hardware-level emulator for classic Mac systems is such a big deal, see this blog post from 2020: https://invisibleup.com/articles/30/

For game consoles, we've had emulators like Nestopia and bsnes and Dolphin and Duckstation for years.

For PCs, virtualisation systems like VMWare and VirtualBox have covered most people's needs, and recently there's been high-fidelity emulators like 86Box and MartyPC.

The C64 has VICE, the Amiga has WinUAE, even the Apple II has had high-quality emulators like KEGS and AppleWin, but the Mac has mostly been limited to high-level and approximate emulators like Basilisk II.
Show HN: I made a fast, offline-first developer toolkit with no ads or tracking
by lukaslukas | 2025-06-26 11:10:13+00:00
Hey HN,

I was fed up with using online converters and generators. They were slow. They used server encoding. They were full of ads. Or they required cookie confirmation for simple tasks.

Opening VS Code or Sublime with plugins was also slow.

So, I built a simple, web-based toolkit called Stringify that I thought some of you might find useful. It started as a personal project with no aspirations to make money from it. I remember a time when people used to create online projects and websites just for fun :)

It’s a single index.html file with vanilla JavaScript that handles common developer tasks such as:

URL, Base64 and JSON encoding and decoding. JSON formatting and minification; MD5 and SHA-1 hashing, UUIDv4 and Nano ID generation. It also contains a JavaScript object-to-JSON converter for handling unquoted keys and similar issues.

Everything is processed on the client side, so it’s completely private and can be used offline. There are no ads, trackers or cookies, and no server-side processing. It’s just a fast, functional tool inspired by the minimalist tools I admire.

I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for other useful features to add.

The site is here: https://stringify.cc/.
by philipallstar | 2025-06-26 11:11:57+00:00
Incarceration isn't the same thing as crime. If the most populous state by far (California, almost 40m people in 2025) passes a law[0] that stealing things under $950 is a misdemeanor rather than a felony, then crime can continue while incarceration rates drop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47
by tialaramex | 2025-06-26 11:12:46+00:00
Yup. The default from lawyers will be "No" because why help? The correct way to use lawyers, either in-house counsel or a paid lawyer if you have a specific project is to tell them what you want to happen and then they figure out what the best legal course of action is to closest achieve that. Mundanely this might mean e.g "Fill out form X1234 and then send letters to this politician suggesting they support your X1234 application" but at the extreme it could mean closer to the situation in the UK where a ferry company illegally fired crews with zero notice, and their legal advice had clearly been "Worst case they put one of your executives in prison, probably not even that, but either way you replace union workers with people on slave wages and that means $$$".
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-06-26 11:13:27+00:00
>there are legitimate reasons to think institutions are illegitimate but I think there’s something self-perpetuating about distrust, people find meaning in it.

The lack of institutional self-awareness is why it's not especially mental to find most humans more trustworthy than any institution. There's a bit of grandma's wisdom in not worrying about Kennedy or being a fan of Luigi.. then there are borderline cases like Shkreli or the CEO of UHC-- they seem to have the non-sentience of the upper-percentile institution (which btw includes almost every place of higher learning in the US, exceptions to be investigated for their unusual processes..)

I suspect the Ben Franklin thought of Congress as a bunch of his peers & not an institution (placeholder for one of PG's underworked cluster of ideas around informality)
by ben_w | 2025-06-26 11:14:04+00:00
While this is a generally true statement (and has echoes in other areas like sovereign citizens), GenAI may make copyright (and copyleft) economically redundant.

While the AI we have now is not good enough to make an entire operating system when asked*, if/when they can, the benefits of all the current licensing models evaporate, and it doesn't matter if that model is proprietary with no source, or GPL, or MIT, because by that point anyone else can reproduce your OS for whatever the cost of tokens is without ever touching your code.

But as we're not there yet, I agree with @benlivengood that (most**) OSS projects must treat GenAI code as if it's unusable.

* At least, not a modern OS. I've not tried getting any model to output a tiny OS that would fit in a C64, and while I doubt they can currently do this, it is a bet I might lose, whereas I am confident all models would currently fail at e.g. reproducing Windows XP.

** I think MIT licensed projects can probably use GenAI code, they're not trying to require derivatives to follow the same licence, but I'm not a lawyer and this is just my barely informed opinion from reading the licenses.
by benchly | 2025-06-26 11:16:06+00:00
Also a good point. I'm old enough to remember when a gathering for the purposes of networking was really about collecting business cards. It seems like they end up in the trash more than ever, these days (which makes it tough for me to show people what I do since I'm anti-social media and wear many hats, but that's another blog post).

In all honesty, though, I'm the type of person who would actually show up to knit. Networking tends to be an annoyance, to me, but I also forgive it since I understand that it can be important and lead to some great opportunities. When I meet people, I usually don't ask about what they do for work. That will come out in the natural course of conversation if the person enjoys what they do. If not, then I'd rather talk about something else anyway. Typically, I like to start with people's hobbies and interests. In my experience, you get a deeper connection that way.

Perhaps doing away with the "networking" mindset is the key? We have to find a way to make the focus on the experience, as opposed to forced meetings/relationship, which work mixers tend to feel like.

Using a real example from my own life, I went to a basket weaving class once. It was fun, but not something I wanted to pursue as a regular hobby. However, while there, I met the spouse of a practicing blacksmith and found out there is a network of "folk craft" people in my state doing really interesting things in terms of keeping the old traditional methods alive but incorporating modern materials. That saw me attending some blacksmithing classes and forging a few of my own knives.

It was all about the experience I was having with the people around me, through which relationships and talk of our careers naturally developed, leaving me to want to continue to keep in touch them.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-26 11:16:56+00:00
> By moving mining off planet to the moon and asteroids we eliminate the carbon emissions and environmental damage that occurs from these processes.

... but this won't happen unless it's economically advantageous, with all risk, transit, and upfront investment included

We already don't have the political will to force single-digit increases in cost of output to reduce environmental damage. Why would we then?
by upofadown | 2025-06-26 11:17:31+00:00
PGP has WKD[1] (Web Key Directory) now if you want to use the TLS web of trust for email. TLS certificates are much easier to get than S/MIME certificates. Having a third party do the identity management can be good, but many people do not work for a company where that makes sense. ... and if you do work for such a company, it is better to do the identity management within the company.

I am currently appalled at how little of a wakeup call Signalgate 1.0 was and is[2]. Signalgate was, yet again, a failure of identity management in end to end encryption. You know, the exact thing that S/MIME certificates (or WKD) could help solve in a government environment if the resulting system was actually usable.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-s...

[2] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:sg (my article)
by aqsalose | 2025-06-26 11:17:46+00:00
Many of the issues sound like issues coming from using improvised civilian hobbyist tech and doctrine being in its infancy.

If current FPV drones are bit lackluster, it doesn't preclude 'next generation' that are purposefully developed for military use won't be useful. Also it sounds like the designation of "FPV drone" is specific to particular family of drones specific in current day and time, which may be something quite else next year. Like, obviously the next stage is a FPV drone with some capabilities of "reusable" drone or loitering munition author complains of (capability to hover easily)? Or "reusable" drone with FPV camera?
by philipallstar | 2025-06-26 11:18:22+00:00
South Africa's problem is the ANC stopped Eskom building what it needed with foreseen growth when they came into power in the 90s. They wanted to introduce competition into the generation market.

They didn't introduce competition, as you might expect from a hyper-incompetent government, and just let the issue languish, and South Africa now just doesn't have enough power plants to serve its population when it takes one offline for scheduled maintenance.

But at least a lot more people got to buy Audis with the freed-up money sloshing around.
by myfonj | 2025-06-26 11:20:28+00:00
> what is back and forwards?

Sorry, I didn't realise that was unclear. By "back" and "forwards", I mean movement through the flow of text relative to the cursor position. Given any reference point in linear text, all surrounding content either precedes or follows that point. Moving through preceding content is "going back", and moving through following content is "going forwards". When we move to the preceding line (↑) or preceding character (←), we're going "back". When we move to the following line (↓) or following character (→), we're moving "forwards". My point was that ← ↓ ↑ → effectively represents "back one character — forward one line — back one line — forward one character", which feels counter-intuitive to me.

> strongest finger, the index finger.

Interesting. As far as I now, middle finger is usually considered stronger than the index finger. Index finger might be more dextrous, though (?). Personally, I also slightly prefer the middle finger for rapid pressing over the index finger, but cannot see strong definitive advantage of either one. (I guess most of us use the middle finger for regular ↑↓ keys, as well as W/S in WASD bindings in games/project just fine, and using index finger in that context instead would feel odd.)

> what is your neutral finger position?

Mostly index finger on "K". (So I guess I'd prefer having "down" (being the most frequently used when VIM binding is involved) on "L", where my middle finger usually dwells, and "K" for moving up, if I had to invent it from scratch.)
by ramraj07 | 2025-06-26 11:20:46+00:00
Im interested. This would be a nice side gig, getting a hundred active users is actually kinda sweet and difficult. I also have folks who are ready to help with marketing, product design and non tech work. Importantly this will be a great experiment for me to see how much I can leverage AI to develop a product. Check out my profile and reach out if you're interested! ramraj@gmail.com
Show HN: Taurin – Local First AI Email Client
by ashbrother | 2025-06-26 11:20:46+00:00
We built Taurin because we were tired of getting buried in email threads and struggling to find what mattered.

Taurin is a local-first email client (currently Gmail only) focused on speed and clarity. We’ve added a few AI features that actually help, like automatic labeling, thread summarization, and priority signals—nothing fancy, just things that save time.

It’s been about three months since we started. We’ve been shipping updates almost daily, based on user feedback. Still lots to improve, but it already feels different from traditional email clients.

- Local-first architecture (no lag) - CASA Tier 2 security certified - Clean, modern UI

Free 7-day trial, no card required. Feedback is very welcome.