MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stonlyb | 2025-06-30 03:07:58+00:00
https://inlovingmem.com/ - is a tribute to my recently deceased mom that I vibe coded over the last week. I felt her life deserved to be celebrated widely but wanted to be sensitive to her privacy. I've also built in a number of interactive features for participation in funeral services etc, before, during, and after.

Folks have reached out about having an 'In Loving Memory Of' site for their loved ones, so I'm turning this into a side business to help out more with my (now widowed) father's retirement and care.
by scottbez1 | 2025-06-30 03:09:26+00:00
This is such an odd statement. Just because it's electric doesn't mean there's no concept of efficiency.

Large EVs are pretty silly for exactly that efficiency reason - they may have "400" miles of range, but they do so by packing the biggest possible battery which weighs a ton, wasting even more range per kilowatt-hour beyond the worse aerodynamics.

And then because the battery is so massive, it takes way longer to charge for the same range, so now you need a higher current charger at home and maybe even need to upgrade your home electric service instead of just using a standard 15A circuit to top up a small EV every night enough for a typical day's commute.
by tehlike | 2025-06-30 03:09:45+00:00
It's pedantic - it's what's known as a homelab.

I have one at home, too, running pricetracker.wtf, among other things.

It has a 56G network switch i will never be able to saturate, more compute than i'll probably need.

Looking to add 24 disk JBOD - i will never probably saturate or fill either.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-30 03:10:43+00:00
I try not to be too picky about this sort of stuff, but “decimals” is really bad, haha! It is like wrong in a way that is specific, which somehow makes it even more wrong than just saying “approximately reals.”

IEEE actually has a decimal float format defined. I don’t know if any system uses it, though (my suspicion is it must be pretty niche).
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-30 03:11:01+00:00
> Other people use macros and scripts to make automated posts and because they don’t trip the flamewar detector, they are allowed. This isn’t necessary bad or wrong,

That said, bots and generated comments are against HN guidelines. I don’t mean to say or imply in the above that simply because others get away with bad behavior that it justifies my own shortcomings. I only mean to say that using the site doesn’t come naturally to me, and the language used to direct user actions on the site re: posting too fast is lacking in actionable information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-30 03:11:22+00:00
> From TrueNAS/harddrive perspective, bits physical medium, bytes 'data as used by end user

Appreciate the response. Not sure I follow this last bit. My Q is about the inconsistency of how network data is measured.

TrueNAS measures it's network thruput in bytes. Users have asked for a toggle but he devs are resistant. I was hoping to learn why they really want bytes.
by comex | 2025-06-30 03:11:26+00:00
Well, sort of. The specific point Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was making is pretty much the same as how it’s used today: some speech is so obviously harmful that it can’t be protected by freedom of speech. The problem is that Holmes was using it as an example of what even “the most stringent protection of free speech” would leave unprotected, and he went on to interpret the First Amendment rather less stringently, ruling that it didn’t protect anti-draft flyers.
by Swizec | 2025-06-30 03:12:32+00:00
Hopefully if you’re doing something that actually needs that much RAM you’re also making 6-figures per hour in revenue.

I’ve heard that some companies spend hundreds of millions per year on cloud hosting and it’s still worth it. I can’t even imagine that level of scale.

PS: The context in which I bring this up is a design exercise that would deal with maybe 5gb of data per month. People really over-complicate it :)
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-30 03:13:38+00:00
Many people have dealt with the law, with copyright infringement, even with gross amounts of it, and had the book thrown at them, and survived the experience.

Swartz was ill. It is a tragedy he did not survive the experience, and indeed, trial is very stressful. But he was no more hounded than any defendant who comes under federal scrutiny and has to defend themselves in a court of law via the trial system. Kevin Mitnick spent a year in prison (first incarceration) and survived it. Swartz was offered six months and committed suicide.

I don't know how much we should change of the system to protect the Aaron Swartzs of the world; that's the mother of all Chesterton's Fences.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-30 03:14:09+00:00
My reptilian-brain logic prevents me from even considering getting a loan for car. Houses increase in value, therefore it makes a certain amount of sense to get a loan / mortgage for the purchase of a house (but mainly because no-one - in the world in which I live - can afford to buy one cash).

Cars decrease in value, very quickly. Getting a loan for a car is throwing more money away than buying a car in the first place.

Having said that, I'm immune to a lot of 'social norms' so I've been fine driving my tired-looking 20-year old Outlander soccer mum car or our 10+ year old grannymobile Nissan Leaf.

There are situations in which a loan for a car may be necessary, but I'd have to be a really tight spot to consider it, and I'd be absolutely minimising the size / length of it.
by sakopov | 2025-06-30 03:15:05+00:00
I was in the market looking for a used SUV for my wife to haul around our kids last year. Dealing with dealers who wouldn't budge even a few hundred off the inflated listing prices, the interest rates on financing and then the insane insurance costs was not pleasant. I have an old Subaru beater that I was also thinking about upgrading but after this whole fiasco I decided to spend some money to fix body and small mechanical issues myself and drive this thing another 10 years hopefully. It's just not worth it.
by Perenti | 2025-06-30 03:15:19+00:00
In my experience as a medically complicated person, generics generally work, but may have different side effects, both in scale and style. One of the worst was a duloxetine generic that came on so hard and strong that I felt serontoninised.

My friend the John the Pharmacist explained that the binders etc can accelerate absorption. His advice was be careful the first two days of a new generic formulation.

I would assume the NHS (like the TGA here in Oz) looks _very_ carefully at the side-affect profile before they buy any particular generic. Government agencies tend to try not to poison voters.
by breput | 2025-06-30 03:15:57+00:00
Has it? How many PiHole, ESPHome, and other random Raspberry Pi Home Assistant "servers" are out there? I suspect it has never been more popular.

On a related note, I'm enjoying the Self-Host Weekly newsletter[0], which is full of random open source self-hosting products.

[0] https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-06-27/
by Tsarp | 2025-06-30 03:16:56+00:00
https://github.com/srv1n/kurpod

Lets you create encrypted containers disguised as normal files. 1000s of images, pdfs, videos, secrets, keys all stuffed into an innocent look "Vacation_Summer_2024.mp4".

I've almost got true steganography working i.e to get the carrier file to actually open in any file system(currently with mp4, pdf, png and jpeg).

Things like this have existed in the past, but nothing with a simple UI,recent encryption standards.
by dcre | 2025-06-30 03:17:09+00:00
> Consider the tech industry’s recent layoff trends. In 2024, 551 tech companies laid off nearly 152,922 employees, according to data from Layoff.fyi. The pace has accelerated dramatically this year. In just the first six months of 2025, 151 tech companies have already laid off over 63,823 people.

Am I missing something here? Don’t these numbers indicate fewer layoffs in 2025 than in 2024? You can see the lack of an upward trend in the chart on https://layoffs.fyi/.
by bilbo0s | 2025-06-30 03:19:49+00:00
More accurate to say they should get access to drugs that contain the actual molecules they are advertised to have across markets.

You shouldn't be able to sell what is basically sugar water in Somalia and call it cyclophosphamide. That's fraud if I do it as a private citizen.

In fact it's even fraud for me if I buy actual cyclophosphamide, and cut it with a bio compatible totally non reactive filler compound. How are these people getting away with it without the president and senators being on the take? When they'd run you or I down in less than a month for effectively the same act?

To be clear, I don't believe you or I should be able to do this. But I know what happens to private citizens who try to do things of this nature. So there is no question that this is a crime. The only question is why is it not prosecuted for larger corporations.
by Sylamore | 2025-06-30 03:20:08+00:00
Resido - the app for honeywell smart thermostats - requires notifications to be enabled to view or manage your thermostat settings or run time history. This is relatively recent because I had disabled notifications over a year ago due to it pushing ads to me.

The good news is you can limit it to only showing badges, but you have to at least have that enabled or it just freezes on a blank screen after telling you to edit your settings.
by cornfieldlabs | 2025-06-30 03:20:36+00:00
(edited) Thanks!

We’re doing this just as an experiment — it doesn’t have to turn into anything big, so no rabbit hole problem.

English isn’t my first language, so it’s sometimes hard for me to infer things from just text.

Really appreciate your thoughts, especially since you’ve done a lot of work in this space.

We don’t think our idea is “revolutionary” or anything like that, and we’re not trying to spin it as one. At best, it might take off; at worst, it’s just a way to practice our programming skills.
by calchris42 | 2025-06-30 03:20:51+00:00
https://selectube.app/ Working on curated YouTube for kids. Trying to make a place where my kids can watch the good stuff without getting sucked into all the mindless junk.

Also it’s been a fun excuse to try out Cursor and other AI tools I don’t normally use in my day job.

I have 1 user - my 8 yr old son.
by nikcub | 2025-06-30 03:21:01+00:00
It is. From Australia's largest Toyota dealer I know that ~70% of new car sales are financed. A proportion of the rest would be funded by home equity but that is harder to measure.

An interesting trend that I've heard from multiple dealership (friends and family) - the number of people being rejected for financing has dramatically increased in the past 12 months. There are some dealership areas now where a third of applicants are being turned down.
by cellular | 2025-06-30 03:21:44+00:00
Great to get experience in CNC! I've been working on how to market my GatorCAM for CNC. So I'll give you a copy! 2 birds!

It is easy to select multiple holes/pockets at once so if you iterate, you don't spend time redoing CAM! It does traveling salesman to solve for efficient paths which even the expensive packages don't get right. Calculates v-bit paths too.

On me: https://sites.google.com/view/gatorcam/home
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 03:21:48+00:00
I grew up with physical media, but do I miss it?

Nah, not really. I get collecting and have some vintage stuff I enjoy, but physical media isn't one of them that hits me. When Vinyl was super hot, we tried it... it was great until you wanted to listen to something that was 1 voice command away on the TV

I find that modern stuff takes up less space, is easier to find when I want or need it, and can be backed up and restored without needing to spend money or make another "thing" in the world.
by Tsarp | 2025-06-30 03:22:10+00:00
https://carelesswhisper.app

Locally running wispr flow equivalent without any tracking, signup, analytics or subscriptions.

Dictate into any text window on your Mac. Works really well with technical language specifically when using with claude code, cursor, windsurf.

Very fast since the underlying whisper.cpp lib is very well optimized for Metal and CoreML usage on Apple Silicon machines.
by petesergeant | 2025-06-30 03:22:21+00:00
> that the concept of an always-on home computer has basically died out

I just don't see where it would fit into my life. I used to have an old desktop computer that I'd co-opted into an OpenBSD switch living on top of a cupboard when I was 19 or so, and it was a fun experiment for about a year, when the tiny amount of extra hassle it provided with the almost zero amount of extra benefit meant one day it was switched off and was never turned back on again.

Hosting anything seems like a good way to attract attention from my broadband provider who I'd rather just thought of me as a faceless number, Apple has turned my two Apple TVs into home-automation devices I never think about, and I can spin up a $5 VPS whenever.

The remaining utility is the lab, though. A set of computers I can break without worrying I've lost my email or my lights no longer work properly.
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-06-30 03:22:57+00:00
Building https://www.typequicker.com

Long-term, passion project of mine - I'm hoping to make this the best typing platform. Just launched the MVP last month.

The core idea of the app is focusing on using natural text. I don't think typing random words (like what some other apps do) is the most effective way to improve typing.

We offer many text topics to type (trivia, literature, etc) where you type text snippets. We offer drills (to help you nail down certain key sequences). We also offer:

- Real-time visual hand/keyboard guides (helps you to not look down at keyboard) - Extremely detailed stats on bigrams, trigrams, per-finger performance, etc. - SmartPractice mode using LLMs to create personalized exercises - Topic-based practice (coding, literature, etc.)

I started this out of passion for typing. I went from 40wpm to ~120wpm (wrote about it here if you're interested: https://www.typequicker.com/blog/learn-touch-typing) and it completely changed my perspective and career trajectory. I became a better programmer and writer because I no longer had to think about the keyboard, nor look down at it.

Currently, we're doing a lot of analysis work on character frequencies and using that to constantly improve the SmartPractice feature. Also, exploring various LLM output testing/observability tools to improve the text generation features.

Approaching this project with a freemium model (have paid AI powered features; using AI to generate text that targets user weakpoints) while everything else in the app is completely free. No ads, no trackers, etc. (Hoping to have sufficient paid users so that we can run the site and never have to even think about running ads).

I've received a lot of feedback and am always looking for ways to improve the site.
by jffaufwwasd | 2025-06-30 03:24:22+00:00
This is where you should be combining them.

Ok' and Err' as nominal type constructors which are unioned:

struct Ok<T>(T); struct Err<E>(E); fn parse_error(input_string: &str) -> Ok Error | Err (ErrorA | ErrorB | ErrorC...)

Or make a sum type

enum Result<T, E> { Ok(T), Err(E), } fn parse_error(input_string: &str) -> Result<Error, (ErrorA | ErrorB | ErrorC...)>

The error types are unioned for easy composition but you have a top level sum type to differentiate between success and failure.
by nulld3v | 2025-06-30 03:24:57+00:00
Very nice walk-through on the reverse engineering process.

Also, they linked this post that made my jaw drop: https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/667333-...

Apparantly BattleEye anti-cheat had an exploit where hackers could permanently ban any player they wanted. BattleEye allowed anybody to log in as a "game server" so hackers simply booted up a fake server, told BattleEye that "player X has logged in and is doing a bunch of suspicious stuff" and then player X's account was no more...

I'm sorry, why do we trust these guys again?
by dimatura | 2025-06-30 03:25:32+00:00
"why didn't we think of this sooner?", asks the article. Not sure who the "we" is supposed to be, but the robotics community has definitely thought of this before. https://robo-affordances.github.io/ from 2023 is one pretty relevant example that comes to mind, but I have recollections of similar ideas going back to at least 2016 or so (many of which are cited in the V-JEPA2 paper). If you think data-driven approaches are a good idea for manipulation, then the idea of trying to use Youtube as a source of data (an extremely popular data source in computer vision for the past decade) isn't exactly a huge leap. Of course, the "how" is the hard part, for all sorts of reasons. And the "how" is what makes this paper (and prior research in the area) interesting.
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-30 03:25:45+00:00
It wasn't for you, it was for everyone else who feels the same way I do about what is quite clear. There's at least 3 other prominent republicans who also Sieg Heiled, including Bannon, once Trump's chief strategist, in front of CPAC (the tea party/the GOP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E9pXCuJnbc
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 03:26:22+00:00
I usually love this source, but this article seems like mostly fluff to me.

Dating Apps lead to ... dates. AI can't help you there. And just like I can tell when the person responding to buy a car on Craigslist is a scammer or not within a few messages, you aren't going to have a deep click with an AI message that overpowers what you see on a date/in person.
by phuff | 2025-06-30 03:26:44+00:00
I present an alternate etymology for homelab. Instead of "lab" as experimentation space, think of it as lab: place for doing work. Away back in the day we didn't have laptops to work on university CS classes.

So you had to go to the lab to find a computer beefy enough to do your work on.

It's not a home "lab for experimentation.".

It's a home "lab for getting work done."
by EvanAnderson | 2025-06-30 03:27:30+00:00
> But you either need to setup a secure tunnel on each one, or lose access anytime you are away from home.

Mostly isn't a problem for me. On the off chance I'd need the banking remotely I'd just take it with me. Mostly I don't do the sensitive stuff remotely and I rarely travel anymore.

Like I said in the parent post, I should be using Qubes. I'm just lazy.
by canyp | 2025-06-30 03:29:21+00:00
I don't know. I'm not the expert, but if you've ever tried to a backflip or anything where your toes are above your head, then you'll know that spatial awareness goes well beyond vision. Or if you throw a frisbee for the dog to catch, they don't actually look at it while running; they look, predict position, then move in. Veni, vidi, vici. So any model that "learns physics" just through vision seems flawed from the start. What's your thought there?
by viraptor | 2025-06-30 03:29:22+00:00
"fully" is a stretch. His $230M island is contributing minimally to any economy. His $600M boats will add a few jobs, but it's a joke compared to what that wealth could create instead. His planes and helicopters contribute close to nothing. Those are assets that may as well be sitting in a vault and we're almost at $1B of them just in this list.

And that's while completely skipping the issue of whether his wealth growth actually helps anything or inhibits the growth of other companies at this point.

> There isn't a finite amount of wealth

That's a weird way to phrase it and ignores how complex the world economy is. If you wanna prove this wrong, feel free to provide me $1T from the infinite wealth source.
by squidsoup | 2025-06-30 03:29:29+00:00
The recent David Attenborough documentary Ocean suggested that the Papahānaumokuākea Marine conservation area off the coast of Hawaii had contributed to abundant fishing stock outside the reserve. It was suggested that if we reserved 30% of the ocean, we would see a huge increase in fisheries the world over.

Another recent discovery is that although we've damaged our fisheries significantly, oceanic ecosystems apparently recover much faster than terrestrial ecosystems if left untouched, within several years.
Show HN: Natural Language Sprite Animator
by gametorch | 2025-06-30 03:30:57+00:00
I made a huge breakthrough in sprite animation today.

I originally asked image models to generate all the frames of a spritesheet corresponding to an animation (e.g., "running to the left" or "jumping") in one image. It didn't really work. Only about 10% of the time would it give me a satisfactory result.

Then, I tried to generate all the frames with separate requests to the model in a loop, passing in all the other frames for reference. This significantly improved the likelihood of the model getting the animation correct on a conceptual level. But the subject in each frame was perceptibly different from the others --- over the course of the animation, hair would grow longer and shorter; muscles and skin tone would change; etc.

I finally landed on this approach. I am very, very satisfied with the results. It's not perfect. But it works well enough that I can actually use it in the games that I make.

Let me know what you think!
by lastofthemojito | 2025-06-30 03:30:57+00:00
Electric vehicles eliminated the need for manufacturers to sell (usually small and cheap) efficient ICE cars in the US.

For years, CAFE regulations have meant that manufacturers must meet minimum fleet fuel economy averages or else pay fines. In order to sell more profitable but less fuel-efficient F-150s, Ford also needed to sell little Fiestas or Focuses. In order to sell Suburbans, Chevy also needed to sell Cavaliers or Sonics. But now that Ford can sell Mustang Mach-Es and Chevy can sell Blazer EVs for 50 or 60 grand AND get credit for something like 100 MPG equivalent, there's no longer any incentive for them to spend huge sums developing cheap cars that will net tiny profits (if any).
by rmunn | 2025-06-30 03:31:11+00:00
To expand on that last sentence for anyone who doesn't know, a well-shaped hunting boomerang is meant to fly in a straight line, faster and farther than throwing a similarly-heavy stick that you just picked up off the ground. Which lets you hit targets (such as the animals that you're hunting) from farther away with more accuracy. If it's designed to return to you, it must necessarily fly in a curve, which makes it a lot harder to hit a target than a stick designed to fly in a straight line (and if you do hit a target, it's not going to return to you as it expends its kinetic energy on the target).
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 03:32:14+00:00
> For over ten years, ticagrelor (sold as Brilinta in the US and Brilique in Europe) has been recommended for patients with acute coronary syndrome, a group of conditions involving a sudden reduction in blood flow to the heart

I've never heard of this drug in the US. The title seems to be clickbait to make you think it's the thing your mom takes.
by albert_e | 2025-06-30 03:32:44+00:00
Android apps blatantly misuse notifications to push inane ads and promotions

Android provides a "notification categories" setting where user can trun some type of notifications on and other off.

Most apps I use fall into two or three buckets --

1. There is just one "default" notifications category ... so it is all or nothing.

2. There are a few categories named very vaguely with no way to actually discern what is useful and what is junk, and they also use them inconsistency.

3. There are tons and tons of notifications categories - list keeps changing frequently - so There is no way you can set and forget. So whatever you may do, ads still sneak through.

Where/how can we start pushing back on this irresponsible behaviour and shame these billion dollar brands for abusing customers and treating us like fools.

If someone has already given this form of abuse a name and a prominent online post -- maybe we could make it more popular and raise awareness.