MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blacklion | 2025-06-30 10:05:44+00:00
I cannot reply to each comment which mention "EU" or "Europe", so I write this one.

Why do you speak about EU/Europe as a whole? There is no such thing. I thought it is, but, now, when I moved to "Europe", I see that ti was illusion.

Prices are different across countries. Do you think Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands have same prices? HA! Compare prices in the Netherlands and its neighbor Belgium. I didn't compare prices for (new) cars, but I did for new motorcycles. Difference can be up to 20%. And it is two of three countries which are known as "Benelux", not two countries on different edges of EU.

Choice is difference between countries too, there are models which are present in one country and not in the orthers. Heck, even selection of a food is drastically different in two Lidls (two supermarkets of same chain) on different sides of Netherlands/Germany border in 10km vicinity!

Many people say that they see that almost all new cars they see are BYD & others — there is no BYD in Netherlands, for example. There is Lynk & Co (which is Volvo / Geely / Zeekr), and it's all of Chinese brands.

There is no such single entity as "Europe" or "EU". Different countries are very different in available goods, prices, taxes and regulations. Yes, there are global things, like GDPR or emission regulations (Euro 5/Euro 6), but still there are a plenty room for difference.

And even "single economic area" is illusion: you cannot simply register car or motorcycle bought in Portugal or Belgium in the Netherlands, you need to pay local VAT, local ecological taxes, etc. So no, there is no "lifehack to buy car or motorcycle in Belgium and save 20%.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-06-30 10:06:01+00:00
100% agree but with private enterprise this is a problem that can never be solved; everyone wants their lock-in and slice of the cake.

I would say for all the technology we have in 2025, this has certainly been one of the core issues for decades & decades. Nothing talks to each other properly, nothing works with another thing properly. Immense effort has to be expended for each thing to talk to or work with the other thing.

I got a Macbook Air for light dev as a personal laptop. It can't access Android filesystem with a phone plugged in. Windows can do it. I know Apple's corporate reasoning, but just an example of purposeful incompatibility.

As you say, all these companies use standards like TCP/HTTP/Wifi/Bluetooth/USB/etc and they would be nowhere without them - but literally every chance they get they try to shaft us on it. Perhaps AI will assist in the future - tell it you want x to work with y and the model will hack on it until the fucking thing works.
by nusl | 2025-06-30 10:06:29+00:00
I've found that more and more customer support things are being automated to prevent you from actually talking to a human at all, and quite often these tools don't work in any meaningful way. They'll misunderstand, redirect, ignore, or otherwise tell you that it can't help you. Couple this with anything outside of the straight-forward flow of common issues and you're stuck in a loop of insanity.

Dealing with Uber Eats' support is fine when it works and your case is typical - missing food item? Okay, they refund you. Your driver hasn't arrived in over two hours and you don't want to eat cold and potentially mishandled food? Tough shit, you can't cancel that order because it's in progress and will have to pay for the order if you try.

This sort of thing has become more and more prevalent to the point where I actively avoid using companies' products that I know are user-hostile. Unfortunately, Uber/Uber Eats are the safest choice where I live, so you can only really do so when there is the luxury of choice.

Similar to the Walmart example in the article; if Walmart is the cheapest, closest, or otherwise most-convenient, you'll complain about Walmart inside Walmart but still keep going back because the effort required to switch is greater than dealing with random frustrations.

I sort of end up becoming more persistent and escalatory when confronted with these sorts of walls. I've noticed that Uber Eats support is magically better when you use very negative language because I assume their systems detect the sentiment in your language and perhaps escalate better to avoid losing a customer. It's stupid but it works, and feels bad to use, but fortunately doesn't happen often.

If a company only escalates when customers are frustrated to the point of borderline-abuse of a representative, they're pretty much enforcing the abuse and negatively affecting the health of their employees on purpose. It's very difficult to remain completely calm and level-headed after weeks of dead ends and absurdity.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-30 10:06:35+00:00
That works too, of course. You don't even need a specific certificate or even an open port by leveraging Cloudflare tunnels, which means you can host your website on a local server behind three layers of NAT if you had to.

And it's not just Cloudflare; there are plenty of other redirect-everything-through-a-CDN hosts available. If you don't mind giving Cloudflare control of your website (and barring visitors from countries like India where CGNAT makes everyone fill out CAPTCHAs every page load), this approach will take care of just about everything.
by LightBug1 | 2025-06-30 10:07:22+00:00
Same ... I'm still running an early 2000's Toyota and got myself a VW Beetle 1969 just for the fun of it ... love maintaining them as they're so simple and rewarding and parts are cheap! ... And I can in no way be called a mechanic.

I've been lusting over the ioniq 5 for a couple of years but I'm just thinking, in 10 years time I'll be knee deep in your last paragraph ... I like long lasting cars
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-06-30 10:07:25+00:00
On Android:

1. your profile icon (bottom right) > hamburger menu (top right) > Notifications > Posts, stories, and comments > turn off ‘Posts suggested for you’ and ‘Notes’

2. on the same screen, set ‘First posts and stories’ to ‘From people I follow’

3. back out to Notifications > Live and reels > turn off ‘Recently uploaded reels’ and ‘Reels suggested for you’

This works for me, but if you’re still getting notifications you don’t want, you’ll have to figure out what category/type they fall under and turn that off.
by dpkrjb | 2025-06-30 10:08:25+00:00
> I was confused at first when I ended up in a situation with ambiguity and realized the puzzle just had multiple solutions

You're right, Kingly is the newest out of the bunch and the least satisfying to solve because of that. It's getting a big rewrite under the hood this week, so should be much more fun to play to make it more deducable and less random
by tonyonodi | 2025-06-30 10:08:42+00:00
Numpad: https://numpad.io/

It's a web-based notepad calculator, which means it's a notes app but it can evaluate inline calculations like

``` £300 in USD + 20%

09:00 to 18:30 - 45 minutes ```

I wrote the core of the calculator a few years ago, and I've just launched a big rewrite that supports

* document syncing * offline editing * markdown formatting * PDF and HTML exports * autocomplete * vim mode

Happy to hear feedback :)
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-06-30 10:09:32+00:00
He didn't change his mind, he was defeated by other (better socialized) technocrats

https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/03/16/leo-szilards-failed-...

Technocracies tend to be more accountable than cults of personality and even nontechnical intellects (Kissingers) there's that
by djtango | 2025-06-30 10:10:14+00:00
This reminds me of some tech journo who lost all his iCloud photos including all his photos and videos of his newborn because some scriptkiddles wanted to pwn him and steal his Twitter handle.

They basically used a series of escalation of seemingly innocuous personal data to eventually take over everything.

IIRC they somehow got his last 4 credit card details from Amazon then used that to get through the Apple account recovery flow from there they then had his entire key chain.

So "what is a passport number really used for" is like that but on steroids.

I also recall someone's daily life turned into a nightmare because someone successfully socially engineered their power company and maybe phone company to generally harass them. So while I also have no intuition for why or how a passport number is sensitive I rationally know better and am very careful about even how I discard old boarding passes etc

EDIT also worth adding that as a foreigner/non native my passport number is also often used in place for a social security number
by adrian_b | 2025-06-30 10:10:45+00:00
Armv8.6-A is almost the same as Armv9.1-A, except that a few features are not mandatory.

There have been no consumer chips with Armv9.1-A, but only with Armv9.0-A and with Armv9.2-A. The only CPU with Armv8.6-A that has ever been announced publicly was the now obsolete Neoverse N2. Neoverse N2 has been skipped by Amazon and I do not know if any other major cloud vendor has used it.

So what you really search for are CPUs with Armv9.2-A (i.e. a superset of Armv8.6-A), i.e. with Cortex-A520 or Cortex-A720 or Cortex-X4 or Cortex-A725 or Cortex-X925.

There are many smartphones launched last year or this year with these CPU cores, but except for them the list of choices is short, i.e. either the very cheap Radxa Orion O6 (Cortex-A720 based), which is fine, but its software is immature, or a very expensive NVIDIA DGX development system (Cortex-X925 based; $4000 from NVIDIA or $3000 from ASUS), or one of the latest Apple computers, which support Armv8.7-A (which do not have SVE, but which have SME).

For the latest Qualcomm CPUs, I have no idea what ISA is supported by them, because Qualcomm always hides very deeply any technical information about their products.

If all you care about is the CPU, then a mid-range Android smartphone in the $400-$500 price range could be a better development system, especially if its USB Type C connector supports USB 3.0 and DisplayPort, like some Motorola Edge models, allowing you to use an external monitor and a docking station.

If you also care about testing together with some standard desktop/server peripherals, the mini-ITX motherboard of Radxa Orion O6 is more appropriate, but encountering bugs in some of its Linux device drivers is likely, which may slow down the development until they are handled.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-06-30 10:10:51+00:00
Standards are very important, especially extensible ones where proposals are adopted when they make sense - this means companies can still innovate but users get the benefit of everything just working.

But browsers/web ecosystem are still a bad example as we had decades of browsers supporting their own particular features/extensions. This has converged slightly pretty much because everything now uses Chrome underneath (bar Safari and Firefox).

But even so...if I write an extension while using Firefox, why can't I install that extension in Chrome? And vice-versa? Even bookmarks are stored in slightly different formats.

It is a massive pain to align technology like this but the benefits are huge. Like boxing developers in with a good library (to stop them from doing arbitrary custom per-project BS) I think all software needs to be boxed into standards with provisions for extension/innovation. Rather than this pick & choose BS because muh lock-in.
by benjiro | 2025-06-30 10:11:12+00:00
> so 20k-equivalent from 2015-2019 is already above 25k just by inflation.

Its not inflation alone ... The same brand/car type, tends to have seen a 75% price increase over the mentioned periode.

Something that used to cost 20k euro in the 2015 periode, is now around 35k euro. That is not "inflation". An we are talking same trim, same electronics, same gasoline engines.

Cars beyond a few items (as long as we do not talk about jump from gas to electric) have really not changed that much. There was a big jump from the 90's to the 2000, in terms of electronics (and sensors that are the bane for most car mechanics).

Prices have gone up so much, that it resulted in my 15 year old second hand car, being sold now for more, then when i bought it (and that inc the increased km's driven and age). That is not a normal market and is not explained by simple "inflation".

Its part inflation, a large part greed, and do not forget the consolidation / lack of competition over the year. People overlook how many car brands are now part of the same group. This resulted in less competition because multiple "brands" increased prices over the same period, when its really the same company, using parts in between each other, and your mostly paying for a different shell and "brand name / past reputation".

That is why Chinese car makers are able to enter the EU market so easily, despite the market protection with import taxations.

If you can offer a true hybrid with all the trims like solar roof, full electronics, the works at 36k, and the next EU competitor for the same options is 48k (and a less efficient hybrid aka, electronic boost only)... And that included the import taxation.

Its ironic that we need to do market protection because our own brands got caught sleeping at the wheel.
by jstummbillig | 2025-06-30 10:11:19+00:00
> Real-world systems are more robust than you give them credit for. Otherwise they wouldn't exist in the first place.

There is nothing robust about them. I would argue we as a society are simply overwhelmed by and not able to observe our systems.

Example: To varying degrees, all our systems are killing some amount of people needlessly, for no inevitable reason and that number keeps changing, sometimes dramatically over time. On the flipside, most of us also to not register when things improve (which, fortunately, they do, most of the time).

What I am arguing is: It's not the system that is robust. It's us. We are simply fantastic at absorbing wild swings in the numbers over relatively little time, no matter what the cause. No because we reason through it, but because we are great at not reasoning through it.

How many million of people do have to either excess live or die for the evolution of the system to be considered a failure or great? How much good would it have to do to be a success? The answer, in reality, most of the time seems to be: There is no number. The system bends and there is a new reality we already got accustomed to. We are shit at system evaluation.

> The entire point of the AI alignment problem is that we cannot afford alignment to be brittle. Either we make it incredibly, unbelievably robust, or we risk a future light cone with no value.

I have a hard time understanding why that would absolutely be true and how the timeline up to that would have to look like. Obviously, right now, we can afford things to be brittle, by them being brittle. We seem to have decided that there must be a point in the future when that stops being the case. What is it, exactly?
by cornholio | 2025-06-30 10:11:59+00:00
The main point here is that it sounds a lot like a zero sum game, people are struggling to catch a bigger share of a limited "safety" pie while manufacturers instigating the mass war are watching their profits increase.

It's not clear at all to me how a crash involving two SUVs is much safer than, say, a 2 bike crash, and in fact there is a particular type of accident (front-overs of children) than trucks are strongly susceptible to and would never happen with lower mass / shorter vehicles. This all points towards a runaway tragedy of the commons that can be solved by limiting vehicle mass.
by mmdclx | 2025-06-30 10:12:27+00:00
I've built a cli tool to help extract content from webpages into markdown. This was an experiment to get used to a new workflow using claude-code and task-master.

It doesn't require an LLM or api keys to run so you can install and go. Hope it helps somebody:

npm install -g url-to-markdown-cli-tool

repo: https://github.com/mmdclx/url-to-markdown-cli-tool
by account42 | 2025-06-30 10:13:06+00:00
The notion that Germany specifically needs to have learned something from WWII is completely absurd to me and as far as I am concerned anyone that holds it has themself not learned the correct lesson - that is that normal mundane humans, that is all of us, are capable of committing atrocities. Instead the lesson the world seems to have learned is "German nationalism (and by extension western nationalism) bad, Jews must be protected at all cost", which leads us to where we are now. That Germans are brainwashed with this nonsense more than others is true but not exactly something the German people chose for themselves.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-30 10:13:41+00:00
The cables tend to cost the same, way more than the cost of manufacture.

If you're buying them in bulk on amazon, usb-c is still more expensive than lightning, but the vast majority of people tend to buy cables when they have either lost, forgotten, or broken their existing cables. Go to a shop at an airport or train station and they'll charge you £20 for a cable, and people but them.

The "apple tax" is irrelevant to the actual amount paid.
by hibikir | 2025-06-30 10:14:20+00:00
The density issue isn't country wide, but about metro areas. See Spain: If you look at the entire country and divide by population, it looks like the one of the least dense countries in Europe. But what if instead we look at where people live? Get the population density of the square kilometer where each person lives, and divide by number of people, so completely empty space doesn't count for anything. Then you see Spaniards live in areas denser than Liechtenstein. And guess what? Spain has top notch public transport, including high speed rail, because every endpoint is dense. I am right now sitting in a town, population around 100k, with higher population density than New York's Upper East side. We don't even have that much public transport, because only the elderly and the disabled need it, given that I can be on any given edge of town by walking 2 kms. In your typical US suburb, that gets you nowhere.

So it's not country density, but population center density. Single family homes with yards and individual garages make public transport pretty bad, as the catchment rates of each stop just don't have enough people. Just put the people closer together, and have more farmland/forest around the town.
by lan321 | 2025-06-30 10:14:45+00:00
10% isn't covering rent and food for most people, though. Unless we assume that universal income would send the artists into deserted villages to live on bread and salt. I'm quite stingy, and my rent is 15% of my monthly salary, which is above average for a software engineer. Probably another 5% on that for food, and I practically never eat out and usually buy what's on sale. The only way 10% will work is if I move to the sticks or live in someone's closet. And that's not even including smaller costs such as medical, clothing, tech and misc purchases, transportation, etc. At the same time I'm now earning above average and shoving all of it into shares to secure myself a small "universal income" of my own. Give me universal income guaranteed not to get removed over the next 40-50 years, and I'm becoming a NEET.
by zozbot234 | 2025-06-30 10:17:05+00:00
Asahi Linux might support 64k pages on Apple Silicon hardware. Might require patching some of the software though, if it's built assuming a default page size.

It should also be possible to patch Linux itself to support different page sizes in different processes/address spaces, which it currently doesn't. It would be quite fiddly (which is why it hasn't happened so far) but it should be technically feasible.

IIRC ARM64 hardware also has some special support (compared to x86 and x86-64) for handling multiple-page "blocks" - that kind of bridges the gap between a smaller and larger page size, opening up further scenarios for better support on the OS side.
by vmayoral | 2025-06-30 10:17:10+00:00
Actually, those humans (XBOW's) were already top rankers. Just look it up.

What's being critized here is the hype, which can be misleading and confusing. On this topic, wrote a small essay: “Cybersecurity AI: The Dangerous Gap Between Automation and Autonomy,” to sort fact from fiction -> https://shorturl.at/1ytz7
by johncole | 2025-06-30 10:18:06+00:00
PFAS Free Life: https://pfasfreelife.com

I’m trying to build a consolidated database of PFAS free products that make it easier for shoppers to find safe foods, cleaners, clothes, and other products families commonly use. The database shows not only the product, but the reason it’s considered pfas free; sometimes all you have to go on is the brands word, sometimes there is third party testing for pfas, sometimes there is a material issue justifying it. We tried to present it all for the consumer to easily decide. Users can search, or browse for products using categories.

The database is here: https://database.pfasfreelife.com/
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-30 10:18:14+00:00
The main failure points in electronics are by far power supply and batteries.

Non-polymer electrolytic capacitors can dry out, but just about all decent modern motherboards use polymer-based since years ago.

My current NAS is my previous desktop, which I bought in 2015. I tended to keep my desktop on 24/7 due to services, and my NAS as well, so it's been running more or less continuously since then. It's on its second PSU but apart from that chugging along.

I've been using older computer parts like this for a long time, and reliability increased markedly after they switched to non-polymer caps.

Modern higher-end GPUs due to their immense power requirements can have components fail, typically in the voltage regulation. Often this can be fixed relatively cheaply.

If buying a desktop I'd check that it works, it looks good inside (no dust bunnies etc), seller seems legit, and I'd throw a new PSU in there once I bought it.
Show HN: Wasmrun – A WASM runtime with plugin support (formerly Chakra)
by anistark | 2025-06-30 10:18:17+00:00
We’ve recently renamed our WebAssembly runtime project from Chakra to wasmrun to avoid naming confusion and to better align with our goals of modularity and extensibility.

We just shipped version v0.10.2 which introduces a plugin architecture

The first plugin is wasmgo – a simple TinyGo-based Wasm compiler plugin. You can install it with:

``` wasmrun plugin install wasmgo ```

Main crate: https://crates.io/crates/wasmrun GitHub repo: https://github.com/anistark/wasmrun

It’s still early days, and we’re actively building. Would love your feedback, thoughts, and contributions. Right now, all discussions are happening on GitHub.

Happy to answer questions here too!
by janjones | 2025-06-30 10:19:55+00:00
C# playground (compiler explorer) which runs entirely in a browser (via WebAssembly). Started as an alternative to SharpLab which is not maintained anymore. But it can also do some other stuff that I wanted like downloading any compiler version, and compiling Razor. Recently I've added some "IntelliSense" features to improve the editing experience.

https://lab.razor.fyi/

GitHub: https://github.com/jjonescz/DotNetLab
by mynameisash | 2025-06-30 10:20:12+00:00
Among many other things, I'm formatting many of my recipes and working on generating LaTeX to make a physical recipe book.

My son has inherited my love of cooking and baking, so we'll refine the book, add comments and photos, and eventually print and bind copies for our family and friends.

I also am hoping to laser engrave some old cookie sheets with one of my grandma's hand-written recipes. The problem I have is that it's rather faded, and I don't know yet how to make it pop for a good contrast.