MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jongjong | 2025-06-09 20:52:24+00:00
Quadratic funding is a terrible idea. It doesn't make sense to separate things into quadrants. From the linked article:

> So how about non-excludable goods that are rivalrous in nature? This intersection represents common goods such as fish, timber or coal. Everyone has access to these resources but there is an inherent competition when it comes to collecting them due to potential overuse or congestion.

These are excludable in many countries. There are often regulations which prevent you from making a living selling fish or timber. There is a significant financial and time hurdle which needs to be cleared to obtain a boat + license to fish commercially. In terms or logging and coal mining, you are excluded based on lack of access to land + equipment + license. Not everyone legally has access to these in all countries. Also, it's not even possible to obtain a loan to do these in most countries. It's literally impossible to get started if you do not have the financial means.

I would also question the 'non-excludable and non-rivalous' quadrant. Not everyone has access to clean air. Many people are trapped in urban centres with low air quality and cannot afford to leave. Some literally cannot leave because they may be in prison, on probation or it's a condition of bankruptcy. Clean air is rivalous since there are a limited number of jobs available in places where the air is clean. Privacy is certainly excludale; e.g. prison and clearly it is rivalous as we have to fight to protect it constantly.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-06-09 20:52:36+00:00
In your story, your driveway was designed to be shoveled like the body is designed to deal with small amounts of sugar.

Let's say we had a particularly bad winter that required the use of power tools, which had the effect of damaging the driveway. Your body on diabetes is like a damaged driveway.

At some point you'll need to fix the damaged driveway. It will require a change in lifestyle while the driveway is being fixed, and perhaps even a change SOP's to reduce the risk of future damage.

Most people never give up on the power tools (supplemental insulin). Most doctors don't know any better.
by MKK | 2025-06-09 20:52:52+00:00
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by soulofmischief | 2025-06-09 20:53:13+00:00
Of course they would. Have you used Sequoia? It's a hot dumpster fire that's caused me unending frustration with how they've broken the bluetooth and networking stack, introduced unprecedented instability (anyone else's macbooks suddenly crashing and restarting while the lid is closed and it's in sleep mode?) and a host of other issues. Apples has been taking one step forward and two steps back with their software and design for a long time, and they have increasingly preferred form over function, and hidden, obtuse UX.

If their hardware wasn't so damn good for my professional work, I wouldn't go near this child slavery enabling shitshow of a corporation. I don't know if I've ever felt as trivialized or patronized as watching someone in formal dress talk to me about how many new ways I can express myself to my friends via emoji or whatever else as I have when watching Apple keynotes. It feels like they've tried to commoditize interaction even more than Meta. It all feels so hollow. You can tell Steve is gone.
by laisrast | 2025-06-09 20:53:35+00:00
I saw a couple playing a triangle-drawing game in a video and thought it would be fun to code. With a few hours and some AI help, I made Triangulate Game, a 2-4 player turn-based game where you draw edges to form triangles and score.

No accounts, no tracking, just open and play. Feedback welcome

Source code: https://github.com/LaisRast/triangulate-game
by sh34r | 2025-06-09 20:53:43+00:00
I’m used to embellishing things a bit, telling a more favorable story of the truth. That is categorically different from what hiring panels crave now. People used to be able to smell flagrant bullshit. Now, they don’t just fall for it. They reject everything but bullshit.

They want you to pretend like you were a cowboy coder in a regulated environment where redundancy is a requirement, not a dirty word.

I dunno if they’ve just spent too much time chatting to stochastic parrots, if we desperately need to bring back onsite interviews, or if HR is deliberately sabotaging anyone with integrity. God knows only a psychopath could work in HR and still sleep at night. But you’re right. Let them eat slop.
by ultimafan | 2025-06-09 20:54:10+00:00
Guns (and really most forms of progress in warfare and violence) undoubtedly fall under a similar conundrum.

Funny to note that at least one inventor who contributed greatly to modern warfare (the creator of the gatling gun) did seem to reflect on his future impact but figured it'd go in the opposite direction- that a weapon that could replace a hundred soldiers with one would make wars smaller and less devastating, not more!
Show HN: RenderDay: A GPU-only render farm for Blender
by sascha_ | 2025-06-09 20:54:11+00:00
Hey HN!

I recently had to render my first longer Blender animation, and I found myself pretty frustrated with the existing render farms out there. Everything I tried was either buggy, overly complicated (I really don’t want to pick from a huge list of hardware options), or just *really* expensive. So, I did what anyone would do.. I built my own solution: https://renderday.com - a GPU-only render farm for Blender that’s super fast and dead simple to use. You just:

1. Upload your `.blend` file

2. Pick your settings

3. Get a price, pay, and render - done

No subscriptions, no upfront costs, no contracts - just pay as you go. I pull in daily GPU prices from multiple providers (with a tiny margin to keep the lights on), so the pricing is transparent and competitive. Under the hood it's running on NVIDIA L40S GPUs (48GB RAM), with access to over 1,000 GPUs globally.

Currently supports:

* Blender 4.3 and 4.4 (can add more if needed)

* Cycles and EEVEE

* Real-time progress tracking with live preview frames

* Full file encryption, auto-deletion after 30 days, no access/sharing

---

But more importantly: I'd really appreciate your feedback.

This started as a personal itch, but I want to build something genuinely useful for the Blender community - especially indie creators and small studios who can't afford big monthly plans or don't want to deal with complicated setup.

- What do you wish render farms did better?

- What features are missing for you right now?

- Would you use something like this - and if not, why not?

Would love to hear your thoughts - good or bad - so I can keep improving it.

Thanks for reading! Sascha
by norswap | 2025-06-09 20:54:31+00:00
Wasn't there a better technical way to block the scraper? Like blocking IPs/domains at ingress instead of serving requests? Probably you do still pay for request traffic though...

Isn't there a market for anti-DDOS third-party services for API endpoints (Cloudflare etc) — through probably for "Free Speech Extremist" that wouldn't be suitable solution, and there are charges too (though presumably when facing a situation like this you actually save money).
by landl0rd | 2025-06-09 20:54:40+00:00
If it's a controlled substance, no. It's illegal to say "I'm selling you a drug" that's not an approved, appropriately-produced drug that's either OTC or dispensed with a prescription.

Because these are usually ordered from overseas companies that aren't governed by U.S. regulations, they're in the clear. Because it's not actually illegal for you to buy it, you're in the clear.

N.B. some "nootropics" are still controlled substances. For example, modafinil is I believe schedule IV so you technically could be prosecuted though it's unlikely.
by arthurcolle | 2025-06-09 20:54:53+00:00
Erlang is a way better fit for a distributed agent orchestration layer. You have a ton of dependencies, over network and maybe in userspace, you have a lot of inter-operability and reliability constraints, you want to hotswap code and capabilities at runtime, without degrading the overall system performance. And you get networking/distribution/async message passing for free

https://github.com/arthurcolle/agents.erl

I consider myself an expert in this relatively niche domain and welcome follow up, critiques, and even your most challenging problems. I love this area and I think distributed systems are coming back in a big way in this new era!
by 12_throw_away | 2025-06-09 20:55:11+00:00
FWIW, here are the repos for the CLI tool [1] and backend [2]. Looks like it is indeed VM-based container support (as opposed to WSLv1-style syscall translation or whatever):

Containerization provides APIs to: [...] - Create an optimized Linux kernel for fast boot times. - Spawn lightweight virtual machines. - Manage the runtime environment of virtual machines.

[1] https://github.com/apple/container [2] https://github.com/apple/containerization
by kmfrk | 2025-06-09 20:55:13+00:00
Ever since we didn't use bolder text for bright text on dark backgrounds (dark mode) to keep with typographical principles, it looks like we're doubling down on the readability sins.

Surely anyone who's fiddled with the caption background opacity on their TV or video player knows this is a mess?

Would have been nice for someone to explain why we're getting Windows Aero[1] for main content and not just bezels.

I don't think this design language is mutually exclusive with readability, it actually looks really cool in many ways; I just can't fathom why the examples in the presentation seemed good enough to show.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero
by ajb | 2025-06-09 20:55:13+00:00
That's addressed in their paper -they cover slightly different use cases.

- secure drop uses TOR. That's observable at a network level or via access to a users device. In many contexts being a TOR user is sufficient to out the leaker. Having a news app installed is less suspicious

- provides an easy way for a naive source to avoid exposing themselves on the initial contact. That's because their network traffic looks like every other user, and the app storage is deniable (takes up space even if not in use).

Coverdrop doesn't actually provide a way to send large files like secure drop. The paper suggests that the journalists would talk the source through how to safely use securedrop over coverdrop messaging.

So if you have enough opsec awareness and tech savvy to use securedrop safely it may be simpler to go straight there.
by Animats | 2025-06-09 20:55:20+00:00
The Tesla robo-taxi launch date in Austin was supposed to be June 12th.[1] Today is June 9th. Real Soon Now.

The launch date has become more vague recently.[2] That article is amusing. It mentions the Texas' weak regulation of self-driving as a big advantage for Tesla. This is opposed to California's supposedly "heavy-handed" regulation. Yet all the real self-driving companies operate in California. Only Tesla complains and goes elsewhere.

There's a prediction market, if you want to bet against Tesla.[3]

[1] https://teslanorth.com/2025/05/28/tesla-robotaxi-launch-date...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/tesla-robotaxi-launch-in-aus...

[3] https://kalshi.com/markets/kxrobotaxiout/robotaxi-release
by tptacek | 2025-06-09 20:55:46+00:00
People will disagree but I think this is a category error. If you're looking for a shining example of sharp, crystallized code to stack up against Fabrice Bellard, you're not going to find it, because that's not what LLM agents do.

'kentonv said this best on another thread:

It's not the typing itself that constrains, it's the detailed but non-essential decision-making. Every line of code requires making several decisions, like naming variables, deciding basic structure, etc. Many of these fine-grained decisions are obvious or don't matter, but it's still mentally taxing" [... they go on from here].

(Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209249).

What does that look like on a scoreboard? I guess you'll have to wait a while. Most things that most people write, even when they're successful, aren't notable as code artifacts. A small fraction of successful projects do get that kind of notability; at some point in the next couple years, a couple of them will likely be significantly LLM-assisted, just because it's a really effective way of working. But the sparkliest bits of code in those projects are still likely to be mostly human.
by code_biologist | 2025-06-09 20:55:56+00:00
It's been interesting to watch this play out in microcosm in different spaces. Danbooru and Gelbooru are two anime image boards that banned AI image content, largely to their benefit in my opinion. Rule34 is a similar image board that has allowed AI images and they've need to make tagging and searching adaptations to add to handle the high volume of AI images versus human artists. I'm glad there's an ecosystem of different options, but I find myself gravitating to the ones that have banned AI content.
by Gazoche | 2025-06-09 20:56:02+00:00
I think I was a bit spooked by the examples (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/tree/main/examp...), and the need to implement platform dependencies in C code (which would have complicated the build process). Makes sense since it's a more complex and mature project, but Wasmi on the other hand was just a pure Rust dependency that only required a single line in the Cargo.toml. So in short I went the lazy route :)
by squillion | 2025-06-09 20:56:09+00:00
Well, I simplified.

I said "no calorie counting", not "eat as much as you please". And by "right proportions" in those books they mean something specific: roughly 50% fat, 25% proteins, 25% carbs, plus a balanced mix of different fats, slow carbs, etc.

The laws of thermodynamics obviously hold for nutrition as for any other phenomena. In order to lose wait you have to eat less, no question about that. But the idea is that it's much easier to directly control what you eat than how much you eat. And by following those diets it's allegedly easier to eat the right amount.

I absolutely believe your method works. As for me, I've experienced that since I changed my diet as per the above recommendations, I'm not hungry two hours after each meal anymore.

tayo42 asked for something less tedious than counting calories, so I suggested they take a look at an alternative approach which has benefited me, and in my opinion is well argued.
by madars | 2025-06-09 20:56:17+00:00
A bit more context: BuyVM is a legitimate business, popular with hobbyists, and has features that are hard to get elsewhere (e.g., BGP sessions). They do take a pro-free speech stance but they are a far cry from bulletproof hosting ("shady operators"). An imperfect comparison at a massively bigger scale would be Cloudflare's prominence in certain contexts.
by jldugger | 2025-06-09 20:56:30+00:00
> That's trying to put a material value on software, and doing it based on the salaries of developers is as crazy as valuing it in lines of code.

We all do this at the conclusion of every successful job interview. And performance review. And budget review. IMO it's a reasonable floor on the value engineers produce: if you produced an asset worth less than your salary you should be concerned for your career.
by Sunspark | 2025-06-09 20:56:49+00:00
I'm still stunned by that.. definitely a Joker lighting the money on fire scene.

So many products, printed packaging, websites, business cards, games, etc. had the Twitter logo and link on them. It was even integrated into iOS at one point.

This wasn't the first time either.. he tried it with PayPal as well, but they said no, we aren't doing X as the name for PayPal.

The boss can do what they want like all bosses, but this wasn't a decision based on fiduciary value for the shareholders.
by rikroots | 2025-06-09 20:56:55+00:00
> Would love to hear if you’ve faced similar problems, and if this feels like something that would’ve helped in your own projects.

Maybe people could combine this reporting solution with a bug capture solution I built a few weeks ago? It's a web-based screen recorder which allows a user to gather together several different areas of the screen into one place, add a talking head of themselves and demonstrate/explain the problem they've encountered. The resulting video could be added to the bug report. I built the tool because showing the problem is always better than trying to explain it in words.

Tool: https://kaliedarik.github.io/sc-screen-recorder/ GitHub repo (it can be forked, self-hosted, etc): https://github.com/KaliedaRik/sc-screen-recorder
by jonmil | 2025-06-09 20:57:06+00:00
I spent about 3 weeks in Portugal and loved everything about it; that would be my first choice. I also would love France, due to having extended relatives living there, but is significantly harder to immigrate to from what I've read.

I took some French classes a long time ago but recognize that I'll need to learn a new language anywhere I go (which is fine, since it is part of integrating into the new culture).

Either way, shaking the stereotype of an American will be a difficult part.

I'll keep looking to see what I can find and what options exist. Thanks again! I appreciate your insights!
by sh34r | 2025-06-09 20:57:28+00:00
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...” - Carl Sagan
by 9d | 2025-06-09 20:57:40+00:00
I started on a Rust app that uses SDL3 and lets you script it via embedded V8[1]. But I'm very seriously tempted to fork it and embed wasmtime or wasmi and let you script it in anything, and include a few wasm compilers into the app for convenience so you just give it a file and it does the rest. Mainly because of the speed of wasmtime and wasmi compared to alternatives[2]. But my biggest concern is that this isn't adding any real convenience. You still have to set up whole code environments, which defeats the purpose of scripting it. Still, it's such a neat idea that I don't want to not do it, and I just might.

[1] https://sdegutis.github.io/blog/dear-everyone-hire-me-to-mak...

[2] https://github.com/khvzak/script-bench-rs
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-09 20:58:27+00:00
We can definitely regulate people's and especially organizations' actions. But a lot of the emotional responses to AI that I encounter are having a different conversation, and many just blindly hate "AI" without even understanding what it is, and want to infringe on the freedoms of individuals to use this groundbreaking technology. They're like the antivaxxers of the digital world, and I encountered many of the same people whenever I worked in the decentralized web space, using the same vague arguments about electricity usage and such.
Show HN: I made a mobile app that turns your step count into a race
by zipvoila | 2025-06-09 20:58:28+00:00
I just launched my first-ever mobile app.

It’s called STEPRACERS, a game where you compete with friends by tracking your steps.

The idea came from someone close to me who completely changed their life by focusing on their health.

Every night, they’d send me their step count - a small, daily ritual that became a powerful reminder of progress.

So I turned it into a game.

It’s fun. It’s simple. And it might just push you to hit your 10k steps a day.
by handfuloflight | 2025-06-09 20:58:41+00:00
You: "Hey; I need a flight to London tomorrow; leaving at noon! Can you book it for me!"

AI: "Here are all available flights, economy class: 6am (£250), 12pm (£350), (Sponsored) 3pm (£300). The 12pm flight best matches your preference.

Sponsor offer: Save £50 by booking the 3pm flight through TravelDeals and get a free upgrade to business class.

Which would you prefer?"

In any case this is disingenuous, we're discussing LLM results augmented with advertising, not a fully sponsored agent which deliberately hides information. Today's LLMs pull comprehensive data anyway. You've strawmanned contextual advertising into outright fraud.
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-09 20:58:55+00:00
>Forget about burning to death or falling down pitch-black stairs and breaking your neck, it is apparently more important that electrical circuits are not energized or a valve is not opened on a saturday!

This is literally bogus. Nothing in Judaism prevents automated systems! That's the entire point of "sabbath mode" in elevators for example, and it's perfectly normal and usual to set electrical things to work on a timer on the sabbath.

Whoever told you this was utterly wrong and ignorant. There is no rabbi who would have agreed with this, WITHOUT the "you can ignore mitzvot to not die" corollary that others point out.

A fire alarm is a perfectly normal part of a kosher home. Maybe reconsider how much you trust the person who said this to you.
by sarreph | 2025-06-09 20:59:03+00:00
Perhaps contrarian (here anyway) but I think Liquid Glass looks neat, and represents the next evolution of the "backdrop-filter: blur;" effect that we've been seeing on the web a _lot_ as of late... Which, funnily enough also gained adoption in a large part IMO due to Apple's usage of it in macOS for the past few years now.

I think the new design approach here is a clever nudge towards "Neo Skeuomorphism". Interface design is clearly heading in a much more skeuomorphic direction (see: AirBnB redesign) lately with the rise of AI. Liquid Glass is an apt way to provide more material-realism without devolving back to the objective realism that the old Skeuomorphic style pre-2013 represented.

Time and time again I see people bemoan Apple's UI direction and then sure enough within a year or two it becomes ubiquitous as web designers adopt the patterns for their own work.

The funny part is that the lede is getting buried here. The big story is of course the universal design _across platforms_. We're now ultra-ultra close to a unified OS, something that has been in materializing extremely slowly over the past decade and a half.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-06-09 20:59:16+00:00
Because devs lack the will to build native apps. Even on HN, native app dev is seen as somewhat esoteric because it isn't cross-platform by default.

There's plenty of pragmatic reasons not to build a native app. The concerning thing IMO is the hegemony of opinion here. After all, nothing says "hacker" quite like following all the rules properly and always doing the sensible thing. :)