MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spivak | 2025-06-01 03:36:09+00:00
> For example, annual jobs can be represented as a infinite looping program that sleeps for a year

Does your system actually implement true durable compute? Like I can restart my mac or stop the daemon and it's (apparently) not only smart enough to resume this process where it left off but also account for the time delay and reschedule the wakeup? Astounding if true— if you do what's your strategy for achieving it?
by necovek | 2025-06-01 03:36:21+00:00
Incidentally, this works for someone close to the UTC time (3h off for Moscow) for the reasons you mention.

It likely does not generalize at all.

They also haven't faced an issue where an event is booked by someone else at a DST-affecting time: as that time changes between two days, you now need an extra "if" in your brain (is it DST there? Europe and US are on different cycles there too).

I've tried booking all the cross-timezone meetings in UTC, but didn't get far with it: it was more work for everyone compared to somewhat reduced confusion and suddenly overlapping meetings.
by daryllxd | 2025-06-01 03:37:09+00:00
> And then run an Ansible script which installs a series of Brew items (ansible has a brew module) along with other stuff not on brew.

Yes, this is what I have right now. I have it set up to install some non-Brew stuff as well (Chrome, Firefox, Whatsapp, etc.). I intend on using this even for my non-tech family's machines, ideally should just be 1 script to install `homebrew`, `pip` (or `uv` like the other fellow said) + Ansible, and then 1 script to install everything else via the brew module.
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-01 03:38:08+00:00
Really appreciate that — and totally agree.

We’re working on bringing the rental and community features to the forefront so it’s clear from the start what Patio is about. In a world flooded with AI content, we get that leading with articles can feel impersonal without context.

The goal is to build trust through people and tools first — then let the content support that experience. Thanks for the kind words and thoughtful feedback!
by monkeyelite | 2025-06-01 03:39:52+00:00
I don’t remember that. How do you explain the total collapse of public trust in science and medical institutions?

Try revisiting their content from spring of 2020 (flatten the curve, wild death predictions, etc).

> I guess the key is to not even have a political angle

It’s a fantasy to imagine technical knowledge allows you to transcend the political and 2020 only reinforced that.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-01 03:39:53+00:00
Well, if Google does it then I guess I stand corrected about it being a weirdo way to deliver patches. They went so far as to .gz theirs, too, for extra non-browsing by mere mortals.

I find it curious that <https://github.com/google/mysql-tools/blob/02d18542735a528c4...> and yet <https://github.com/google/mysql-tools/blob/02d18542735a528c4...> says "diff -ruN base/client/mysqldump.c mysql40gpl/client/mysqldump.c"

I had no idea one could release patches of GPL software under an Apache license. That makes my head hurt.
by Quantamind | 2025-06-01 03:42:11+00:00
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If you're building smart devices, working in regulated environments, or just tired of cloud latency and cost — we'd love your feedback.

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by onecommentman | 2025-06-01 03:42:36+00:00
Because most COVID-19 deaths occurred in the elderly (average age was around 77 in my State in America), analyses should report projected QALY (quality-adjusted life years, how many quality years of life were preserved by preventing a COVID death) in addition to mortality. Colin Powell died from COVID at age 84, but he was suffering from multiple myeloma and Parkinson’s disease at the time. That death counts the same in mortality statistics as a healthy 8 year old dying in a bicycle accident. They are not the same and should be accounted as such.
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-01 03:42:50+00:00
Totally valid concern — and one we take seriously.

In a world where things can go wrong and legal issues can arise, it’s important to have safeguards. We're currently working on adding optional insurance, ID verification, and deposits to reduce the risk on both sides. The goal is to make sure there’s a clear process if something gets damaged or if someone gets hurt — without immediately resorting to legal action.

Ultimately, we want to support a trusted community, but we also know that trust needs real protections behind it, especially in a culture where liability matters.
by nextaccountic | 2025-06-01 03:45:34+00:00
Does it stores a model of the world (like, some memory of the 3d structure) that goes beyond the pixels that are shown?

Or is the next frame a function of just the previous frame and the user input? Like (previous frame, input) -> next frame

I'm asking because, if some world has two distinct locations that look exactly the same, will the AI distinguish them, or will they get coalesced into one location?
by everybodyknows | 2025-06-01 03:46:18+00:00
Not with the one I bought at Home Depot. Two valves: one with a longish lever at the bottom of the tank, one in the sprayer, one at the wand. Use the first lever as high-precision pressure control, the one at the wand as a quick cutoff or not at all.

Adjust pressure to a 3-4 inch high fountain. No overspray.

Angle the flow forward, to minimize drip-back onto the sprayer head.
by tzs | 2025-06-01 03:46:24+00:00
Timezones, or something equivalent, are here to stay for the foreseeable future because we live on an approximately spherical world, its rotation is not tidal locked to its star, its rotational axis is not perpendicular to its orbital plane, we evolved to synchronize our biological rhythms including our sleep/wake cycle to local sunrise and sunset, we occupy a wide range of latitudes and longitudes, and we need to coordinate activities with people who are far away from us.
by saghm | 2025-06-01 03:46:59+00:00
There are plenty of plants that aren't safe to eat though, right? I don't think anyone would advocate going out and eat random grass or wood from trees. Given that, it seems like you'd have to extend the definition to be something that's both edible and grows. At least in my experience, most people equate the idea of being edible with being food, which seems to me like what the parent comment way up the thread was talking about with redefining what "food" means being wacky; from a purely linguistic perspective, it's kind of wild to redefine a term to be a subset of the former usage but still require the old definition in order to state the new one. Essentially, you're trying to argue that what a lot of people have considered to be synonyms their entire lives should be distinct terms, with one of them remaining the same but redefining the other, and I don't think that will make sense to a lot of people. It would be like telling people that the word "quick" should only refer to speedy things that existed before 100 years ago, and anything else is "speedy" but not "quick". Even if you had a compelling argument for why this was better, it would still be kind of wacky.
by RedShift1 | 2025-06-01 03:49:07+00:00
> book a flight on Wednesday 1:20am, head to the airport on Wednesday evening because they think “well the flight is on Wednesday right”, and find out that it is actually Thursday after midnight.

This bit here, I don't understand what Thursday is supposed to do here. If my flight leaves Wednesday at 1:20 AM, I'm leaving for the airport Tuesday evening.

But if I'm interpreting OP correctly, people are booking flights for Wednesday 1:20 AM but leaving for the airport Wednesday evening? Why would you be confused about that?
by SamBam | 2025-06-01 03:49:54+00:00
Many years ago there was NeighborGoods, a site that facilitated free loans of tools from neighbors. (Possibly they had paid options, but I only remember the free part myself.)

I loved it. I put all my own tools up on it for anyone to use. A few people borrowed my drill once it twice. I borrowed a ladder from someone. Some people even had their kayaks on there, as they lived near the river.

I loved the free aspect because that just made sense. We're in a dense urban neighborhood, why do we really need an impact driver for ever single house, or a wheelbarrow, or an oscillating saw? If I know my neighbor wants one, I'm glad to lend it. The world needs less consumption and more sharing.
by tayo42 | 2025-06-01 03:50:44+00:00
> I think DIY is growing, it’s a great way to save money and it’s only becoming easier with YouTube to help you through most any job.

Tangent on DIY... I keep trying and keep needing to call in a professional eventually when I get out of my depth or break something worse. Or youtube isn't quite right.

Youtube seems to only have stuff that's recent. If your model isn't in the last 5-10 years or built that recently. Like I was trying swap out some light switches, on youtube it looked easy, the actual box in the wall I have looked different i guess because it was wired almost 40 years ago now.

What would be an amazing resource is someway to ask a pro for like 10 min so I can go do it my self with some clear personalized instructions. That would probably be expensive since labor is the expensive part of almost every job though.
by kbolino | 2025-06-01 03:52:32+00:00
You can round to the nearest .0078125 (1/128) but not to the nearest .01 (1/100) because that number cannot be represented in float64.

To round to the nearest cent, you would need to make cents your units (i.e. the quantity "1 dollar" would be represented as 100 instead of 1.0).
by smcameron | 2025-06-01 03:52:33+00:00
Because the codebase you're working on is on github?

And I think you may underestimate the power of stgit. You can manage thousands of patches concurrently, no problem. If you're a maintainer getting patches from loads of people all the time, this is valuable. stgit has it's origins in quilt, which in turn has its origins in Andrew Morton's patch scripts[1], and I know for a fact that Andrew Morton actually managed thousands of patches at a time for years in his work on the linux kernel, because I once sent him a patch against those scripts, and he complained it was slow because I used an O(n^2) algorithm, which worked fine with a handful of patches, and I asked him how many patches he had, and he told me a number that was multiple thousands, so this isn't a hypothetical example.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/13518/
by john_the_writer | 2025-06-01 03:52:34+00:00
That delineation is all but gone in some apps. Elixir liveview for instance, has not concept of front or backend. It's all socket, so there's no break.

I agreed it makes it harder in places. Like when I (as a be dev) have to write JS hooks, or the JS dev's on the team have to interact with the database.

I find I'd rather code in a RESTfull code base than a socket system. I miss the lines.
by maxbond | 2025-06-01 03:52:40+00:00
Different parts of the world are at different times of day, that complexity doesn't disappear if you ignore it. The more distributed your team is, the more important this becomes. People keep saying timezones only exist because of inertia, but I do not buy it. There's definitely complexity caused by political boundaries that isn't inherent to the problem, but the primary reason timezones exist isn't inertia, it's that they continue to be relevant and useful. Because people continue to keep hours based on their local conditions. I'm skeptical that the juice is worth the squeeze as far as eliminating the small overhead caused by political boundaries.

3 hours is one thing, 12 hours is another (and "So you want to abolish timezones" notes that people in China commonly use lookup tables, creating implicit timezones).

When I coordinate across timezones, I say, "Hey does 9amPT/11amET work?" (Assuming those are the relevant timezones). I don't see the problem with that approach?

Let's say you abolish timezones. Okay. How do I know whether it's rude to call Uncle Steve in Melbourne? I'm going to consult some kind of table and implicitly reintroduce timezones, right?
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-01 03:52:45+00:00
Totally get that — and it’s a big reason why platforms like this haven’t taken off sooner.

We’ve heard the same concern from a lot of people, and we’re working on solutions like optional insurance, ID verification, and clear guidelines to help reduce that risk for everyone involved. The goal is to make borrowing tools feel as natural and safe as borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor — but with real protections in place when it matters.

And yes — your example is exactly the kind of use case we’re building for. Tools like planers and jointers are expensive, bulky, and rarely used often enough to justify owning.
by chiwilliams | 2025-06-01 03:54:21+00:00
Cool project! I have a couple of questions that would be nice in the writeup: * How did you generate your example problems? Did you take an existing benchmark? Or did you have LLMs generate the problems? * Do you have any thought to adding a second "base programming language" to alter? I'm not sure that there's enough variation as there is. (Another thought would be to generate 4 or 5 different new languages, each quite different, and then run the benchmark on each of those languages? I'm not sure how much the fact that it is randomly generated each time matters that much?)

But overall, a clever idea!
by GouacheApp | 2025-06-01 03:55:20+00:00
Absolutely — couldn’t agree more.

In most neighborhoods, there’s really no need for everyone to own the same tools, especially for things you use once or twice a year. That mindset of sharing over consuming is exactly what we’re trying to support with Patio — whether it's lending for free, renting, or just making it easier to know who has what nearby.

The more we can encourage that kind of local connection, the less we all need to buy — and the better it is for everyone.
by onecommentman | 2025-06-01 03:55:47+00:00
I’m guessing it’s a high-frequency trading sort of situation, trying to predict when a phase shift occurs in either the acceptance or rejection of AI coding by continuous pulsing of the collective consciousness of HN. Then correlating that with events such as the roll-out of AI releases, general hype, etc. to see what made a difference to cause a bit-flip. I think the questions are too ill-specified to gain much insight from, but asking is free.

Or “they” have so little general visibility into what’s actually happening at a grass roots level, that “they” are desperate for any news from the front. Again, asking is free. Let’s hope they don’t start using other HFT techniques.
Show HN: Weaved – Voice recordings become tasks and notes via AI
by danmc | 2025-06-01 03:57:00+00:00
I built Weaved to solve a problem I kept having: quickly recording things I had to do, and understanding what I'd done all week.

Weaved lets you make quick voice recordings (think post-meeting summaries), and AI automatically extracts:

Specific tasks with deadlines and assignments Key decisions and business notes Everything organized and delivered via email

What makes it different: Designed for business context, not general transcription Quick 1-5 minute recordings, not hour-long meetings Focuses on actionable output (tasks, decisions) rather than just transcripts Works as a PWA so you can record immediately after meetings

Tech stack: HTML/Tailwind/Alpine.js frontend, Azure Functions backend (C#), Azure Table Storage. I went with a simple, fast approach rather than heavy frameworks.

The free tier gives you 10 recordings/month to try it out. I'm particularly interested in feedback on the AI extraction quality and whether the voice-first approach feels natural for business use.

Try it: https://weaved.app

Would love to hear your thoughts, especially if you've struggled with similar "things get lost after meetings" problems.
by tobias2014 | 2025-06-01 03:57:10+00:00
Oniux seems like an "officially" supported tool similar to orjail (which hasn't received a commit in four years, but still works great as a shell script with iptables/iproute tools [1]). Orjail has also an option to run with firejail for further isolation, which seems to be still a feature that Oniux doesn't have.

[1] https://github.com/orjail/orjail/blob/master/usr/sbin/orjail
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-01 03:59:03+00:00
Good time to remind ourselves to always log in UTC. Yes, always, no exceptions.

Thinking about the future, if humans as a species become interplanetary, keeping up with lunar time, asteroid belt time, martian time,etc.. is going to be a mess. UTC is the only way to go.

timezones are artifacts of olden days where people didn't communicate across great distances and worked fixed daylight hours. Much like being able to speak the same language, being able to use the same time across vast distances is a huge boost to productivity and progress. This is kind of like using the metric system, vs using local/traditional measurements (like the US does).
by dangus | 2025-06-01 03:59:42+00:00
This to me has some parallels with the original pitch for Soylent where it was like “why bother with human emotions that surround cooking and eating food when you can exclusively eat this grey tasteless slop for every meal of the day?”

Why deal with this stupid human construct of your day starting when the sun comes up when the sun isn’t relevant to your local data center?

Heck why not just count up milliseconds since 1970?
by dangus | 2025-06-01 04:01:17+00:00
An opinion becomes something a little more deserving of criticism when it’s saying things like “it should be abolished and everyone should do what I say.”

This wasn’t phrased like “I prefer to use UTC time and here’s why I like it,” it’s more like if this guy becomes king of the world we’ll literally be forced to used UTC time.

This is why the person you replied to said:

> it would be great if we could figure out a way to prevent it, and teach that in schools. Too many people like this in the world today.

Too many people think that constructively sharing a personal opinion and sharing a desire to impose restrictions on others are of equal merit.
by fatchan | 2025-06-01 04:01:59+00:00
No. First of all, just check for `navigator.brave`. If it exists, it's Brave. When I ran a .onion site I added a JavaScript check and if navigator.brave was present, it redirected users to a specific page saying:

> Hey, there's something funny about your Tor Browser. When browsing Tor hidden services (.onion), you should be using Tor Browser. Are you using an outdated version, or perhaps something else entirely?

Brave is chrome. Tor browser is firefox, has a bunch of tweaks, different default settings, and a different fingerprint. Also when browsing on Tor, you should disable JavaScript as it's a source of many vulnerabilities.
by clipsy | 2025-06-01 04:03:50+00:00
I'm curious why you chose to leave out additional context that clarifies exactly why this is an issue:

> Still, walking away does take work. You must file a disclaimer of interest with the probate court saying you reject the timeshare. And you only have nine months after the death of your loved one to file it.

I doubt most people expect that they need to proactively reject something they might potentially inherit, and it's doubly alarming in that I've personally witnessed probate last longer than 9 months. As I read it, you could find out after the nine month period that you're "inheriting" a liability -- if you don't take issue with that I'd love to hear why.
by 131hn | 2025-06-01 04:04:43+00:00
Using continious letters for addititives values is a good idea (F+3) can be predicted easily. Yet i agree that confusing « symbols » should be avoided. Forcing UPPERCASE formeront plus using a prefix (Z might be a good one)

ZA:03 ZB:23 ZL:55 ZI:12 ZO:08

would work greatly for me
by a_vanderbilt | 2025-06-01 04:08:36+00:00
As someone working in the mental health field, friends constantly ask me "Do I have this?" because someone on TikTok or Insta has intentionally lied or provided misinformation about an illness to further their agenda.

Sometimes that agenda is clout or attention, which is alarming and points to a larger societal issue. The platforms have been ineffective in addressing this. It makes actual mental health awareness more difficult and contributes to the surrounding stymies.
Show HN: Search Queue – Save searches for later so you can stay focused
by pyrodrive | 2025-06-01 04:09:39+00:00
Hey HN!

I made a very simple Chrome extension to deal with a problem I've faced for a while. When I'm trying to focus on work, I often get the urge to look up random ideas and end up getting distracted, sometimes wasting hours.

This extension lets me quickly type in whatever I feel like searching for, so I don't lose the idea—but I also don't get distracted in the moment. I can revisit the list later when I'm ready.
by Quixotica1 | 2025-06-01 04:10:04+00:00
I think OP meant AGI, defined as

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to the hypothetical intelligence of a machine that possesses the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a type of artificial intelligence that aims to mimic the cognitive abilities of the human brain

-copy pasted shamelessly from Google
Show HN: Glyde – Open-source AI landing page builder that doesn't feel templated
by AdewoleJasper | 2025-06-01 04:10:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm building Glyde — an AI-native, open-source landing page builder that creates visually rich, unique pages without relying on cookie-cutter templates or complex prompt engineering.

Most AI website builders I’ve tried (like Lovable or v0) either:

Require overly specific prompts to get good results

Produce output that feels the same (often based on the same UI kits under the hood)

Still force you to tweak the code manually to make anything production-worthy

Glyde is different. It uses 21st.dev’s MCP engine to generate landing pages that support complex animations, flexible layouts, and more expressive designs — all in a single pass, with minimal hand-holding.

It's built for founders, indie hackers, and small teams who want to move fast without sacrificing craft.

We’re also building it in public and keeping it fully open-source (MIT) — because the future of devtools should be transparent and community-driven.

You can check out what it built here: https://www.loom.com/share/c3b223821dbe4c26babe8f328d78843d?...

Live: https://glyde.world

Would love your feedback or ideas!
by proc0 | 2025-06-01 04:11:10+00:00
I think assistants is a good descriptions. There are several sci-fi universes where there exists these two kinds of AI, one is like what we have now (which is already incredible really) and the other is AI that has sentience and doesn't even consider itself to be artificial but just consciousness in a different substrate. I think the game Mass Effect has this, Warhammer 40K as well, and some others, but I think that's the distinction that we need. Assistant smart algorithms vs. human-like artificial minds.