MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jlev | 2025-06-30 20:06:43+00:00
A modest proposal to turn Alameda's former naval station into an AI and robotics hub.

"All it would take" is

- Exercising the Endangered Species Act 7(j) exemption to reactivate this plot of land, a former US Naval base that closed in 1997

- Invoking the National Emergencies Act to maximally accelerate federal permitting across all domains, and

- Transferring ownership of the land from the VA to the Department of Defense.
by const_cast | 2025-06-30 20:07:47+00:00
Grades are how we try to measure knowledge, because knowledge is abstract and hard to measure. Obviously, the measurement of X runs the risk of being optimized as opposed to X - I see this in my job all the time, and we're all professionals.

Point is, it's not a problem with academia and it's not easy to solve. If we could just magically peer into people's minds and figure out what they know definitively then we'd solve a lot of world issues. Alas, we must settle for numbers and papers instead.
by thejazzman | 2025-06-30 20:08:28+00:00
> Siri, open the east door

< do you want to open - the east door - the west door - all the doors

> Siri, open the east door < opening the east door

They kinda really super suck. Siri used to work better than it does today. It's often a bigger chore than opening the app and tapping the button.

These quirks hit me on a daily basis when all I want to do is control my lights and locks
by snark_sr | 2025-06-30 20:08:29+00:00
Hey HN – I'm working on OneBliq https://onebliq.com, a lightweight tool to help teams plan and track Azure costs collaboratively, without the usual enterprise overhead.

We built it because managing cloud budgets often turns into a spreadsheet mess, or worse, a never-ending consulting engagement. OneBliq lets you:

* Split and allocate Azure costs by cost centers, teams, or projects

* Visualize current spend and attention areas at a glance

* Experiment with plans and projections without complex tooling

* Skip sales calls and long onboarding – just install and kick the tires

It's still early, but we're seeing traction with teams who want clarity without complexity. Happy to answer questions, share more, or get feedback.

Would love your thoughts – what would make a tool like this useful (or useless) for you?
by drivingmenuts | 2025-06-30 20:08:50+00:00
Living in the US, I trust Apple with securing my communications (I don't have high security needs). I don't exactly trust third party developers. So, three no need for me to use something outside of Apple's apps, unless its something that don't provide. If these apps could prove they were better, id consider them, but all these lawsuits just sound like inferior products trying to force themselves onto a platform they should be on.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-30 20:09:07+00:00
I don't think any big tech company has ever done anything as evil and predatory as Apple walling off iMessage, giving the impression that Apple phones were high technology, and interacting with peasant androids is what made group chats fragment and pictures and videos look like trash.

Few things are more enraging than people being left out of chats with friends and family because they didn't bend over for Apple. Even worse being a teenager and having to endure social shaming for it. It wasn't until the EU signaled it was going to bring down then axe that Apple capitulated to RCS.

- Yes, I know you are part of the domestic US long tail that use signal/telegram with all your friends.

- Yes, I know no one outside the US uses iMessage.

ETA: A note because people are pretty incredulous about "most evil". Tech companies do a lot of evil stuff, no doubt.

But there is something special about putting social connection behind an expensive hardware purchase and walled garden lock in. Every other messaging app I know of is open to anyone on most platforms for little or no cost. Apple on the other hand purposely leveraged social connections in your life to force you into their garden and keep you there. Lets not pretend that Apple couldn't open up iMessage or even charge a nominal fee for outsiders. Instead you get an iphone and just seemlessly slide into iMessage. So seemless that most users don't even know that it is a separate service than sms/mms/rcs. Apple muddies that too.

But they would never do that, because using people's closest social connections to force them into the ecosystem and lock them there is just too juicy. "Oh you don't want an iPhone anymore? Well looks like you have to leave your social circles main discussion hub to do so..."

It's just evil on another level.
by nico | 2025-06-30 20:09:24+00:00
I don't know about the photo-management aspects. However, I've had very good experiences running gemma3 (4b and 12b) locally via ollama

I've used gemma to process pictures and get descriptions and also to respond questions about the pictures (eg. is there a bicycle in the picture?). Haven't tried it for face recognition, but if you already have identified someone in one photo, it can probably tell you if the person in that photo is also in another photo

Just one caveat, if you are processing thousands of pictures, it will take a while to process them all (depending on your hardware and picture size). You could also try creating a processing pipeline, first extracting faces or bounding boxes of the faces with something like opencv, and then passing those to gemma3

Please post repo link if you ever decide to open source
by Nextgrid | 2025-06-30 20:09:38+00:00
> but do you really need a Cadillac Escalade (New Relic/Datadog/etc) to go to the grocery store

Depends if your objective is to go to the grocery store or merely showing off going to the grocery store.

During the ZIRP era there was a financial incentive for everyone to over-engineer things to justify VC funding rounds and appear "cool". Business profitability/cost-efficiency was never a concern (a lot of those business were never viable and their only purpose was to grift VC money and enjoy the "startup founder" lifestyle).

Now ZIRP is over, but the people who started their career back then are still here and a lot of them still didn't get the memo.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-30 20:10:03+00:00
Choose one month in the calendar to abstain from all alcohol, every year. If you can do it, I think you are not an alcoholic. If you can't do it, you are.

One month is long enough time so that if you are addicted, it will feel like forever. One month a year still leave you more than 90% days to enjoy a nice drink.
by Nasrudith | 2025-06-30 20:10:05+00:00
There is a punchline to the one child policy and all of the problems and suffering it caused. They could have just encouraged having kids later in life like at 25 instead of ar 18 and reduced it with fae fewer side effects. With exponentials compounding over time, delay is as good as reducing the count and far less invasive - scientests and engineers should have known that! Not a funny punchline but one all the same. But China chose a path of maximum violence and minimal personal choice.

Really the biggest problem with a technocracy is that power corrupts, and that people already refuse to admit when they were wrong because it would be detrimental to themselves. Make the metrics of what is right the key to power, especially with no objective arbiter and you'll see shit pretty much indistinguishable from Lysenkoism. As seen with the Great Leap Forward and its 'immovations' in agriculture, it is a road towards madness, not an accelerated path to progress.

Might makes right and war in general have many, many, many things wrong with them and should not be looked towards as some sort of ideal. But such conflicts forces objective verification of the technologies, tactics, and strategies and force science to be real to succeed. You cannot rely upon Lysenkoism to feed your armies because it is not real. If you insist that bullets cannot harm you because of your breathing techniques even if you convinced others of your bullshit it won't save you from a gun. But conversely if you insist you are protected from bullets by the right ceramics and kevlar even those who sneer at you for "using pottery for armor" if it blocks bullets and absorbs kinetic force it is right and thus "scientific" in a way.
by skydhash | 2025-06-30 20:10:07+00:00
Pretty much and if we take programming languages, where inputs and RNG are not specified by the formal grammar of that language, the programmer needs to split them between good values and bad values. And ideally, halt the program when it detects the latter as the result would be nonsense.

So a program is a more restrictive version of the programming languages, which itself is a more restrictive version of a computer. But the tools to specify those restrictions are not perfect as speed and intuitiveness would suffer greatly (haskell vs python).
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-30 20:10:12+00:00
If you want to use "often don't work properly" as an argument, then people are allowed to challenge that argument.

I guess they shouldn't have assumed you were speaking from experience, but I don't think that's a big deal. That's not forcing you to accept any conclusion. If it happens "often" you should have examples and/or data. If you don't then maybe you should reconsider if it actually is "often".

And they directly asked for data that it doesn't increase safety.

That's not unwillingness to see your point of view. If you provide quality evidence, you can win them over.
by leptons | 2025-06-30 20:10:34+00:00
Apple also blocks any web browser on their mobile devices except their web browser. Chrome, Firefox, and any other browser on IOS is using Safari under the hood.

Now why would Apple do this? Because they have hobbled Safari so that it does not have modern web APIs which would allow web developers to create web-apps that use APIs that are only allowed on App-store apps on IOS devices.

This forces developers to either make an app for the App-store, or don't have any IOS users.

This is one of many reasons Apple is being sued by the DOJ - because they won't allow any other browser engines on IOS, at least not in the US, the EU slapped them on the wrist and now it's allowed there.

Safari is the current worst web browser in terms of features and bugs, and Apple wants to keep it this way for no better reason but greed. They want to push people to make App-store apps, which they can extract 30% revenue from.

That is anti-competitive, and monopolistic behavior.
by chamomeal | 2025-06-30 20:10:48+00:00
No I think that’s accurate! But maybe instead of “devs who think about product stuff vs devs who don’t”, it depends on what hat you’re wearing.

When I’m working on something that I just want it to work, I love using LLMs. Shell functions for me to stuff into my config and use without ever understanding, UI for side projects that I don’t particularly care about, boilerplate nestjs config crap. Anything where all I care about is the result, not the process or the extensibility of the code: I love LLMs for that stuff.

When it’s something that I’m going to continue working on for a while, or the whole point is the extensibility/cleanliness of the program, I don’t like to use LLMs nearly as much.

I think it might be because most codebases are built with two purposes: 1) to be used as a product 2) to be extended and turned into something else

LLMs are super good at the first purpose, but not so good at the second.

I heard an interesting interview on the playdate dev podcast by the guy who made Obra Dinn. He said something along the lines of “making a game is awesome because the code can be horrible. All that matters is that the game works and is fun, and then you are done. It can just be finished, and then the code quality doesn’t matter anymore.”

So maybe LLMs are just really good for when you need something specific to work, and the internals don’t matter too much. Which are more the values of a product manager than a developer.

So it makes sense that when you are thinking more product-oriented, LLMs are more appealing!
by innocentoldguy | 2025-06-30 20:10:57+00:00
One of the things I love most about Elixir is that it makes asynchronous error handling easier than any other language I've used. Asynchronous code used to be the source of many difficult bugs in the teams I've worked with, but Elixir's (or, more accurately, Erlang's) "let it crash" architecture helps eliminate many of these issues.
by delichon | 2025-06-30 20:11:20+00:00
> For observability, Coinbase spun up a dedicated team with the goal of moving off of Datadog, and onto a Grafana/Prometheus/Clickhouse stack.

We recently did the same, and our Datadog bill was only five figures. We're finding the new stack to not be a poor man's anything, but more flexible, complete and manageable than yet another SaaS. With just a little extra learning curve observability is a domain where open source trounces proprietary, and not just if you don't have money to set on fire.
by lyjackal | 2025-06-30 20:12:00+00:00
I notice that the python versions and typescript versions are pretty different. Python is sort of class based, with python magic decorators

class MyWorkflow(Workflow): @step async def start(self, ctx: Context, ev: StartEvent) -> MyEvent: num_runs = await ctx.get("num_runs", default=0)

whereas TS is sort of builder/function based

import { createWorkflow } from "@llamaindex/workflow-core"; const convertEvent = workflowEvent(); const workflow = createWorkflow(); workflow.handle([startEvent], (start) => { return convertEvent.with(Number.parseInt(start.data, 10));

Is there reason for this? });
by bbrwx | 2025-06-30 20:12:12+00:00
https://readworks.app/ is an app to do research within PDF collections mainly for scientists or in the legal field. It’s an oss project I’ve worked on the last two years.

I’ve figured out that I lack in terms of marketing / sales and to develop successful strategies to gain visibility. So actually enjoining the summer rather than coding at night / weekends but still having plenty ideas how develop it further and assist analytical reading.
by godelski | 2025-06-30 20:12:20+00:00
> if you are fluent in the jargon surrounding state of the art LLMs and deep learning

It is definitely not following that jargon. Maybe it follows the tech influencer blog post jargon but I can definitively say it doesn't follow jargon used in research. Which, they are summarizing a research paper. Consequently they misinterpret things and use weird phrases like "actionable physics," which is self referential. "A" physics model is necessarily actionable. It is required to be a counterfactual model. While I can understand the rephrasing to clarify to a more general audience that's a completely different thing than "being fluent in SOTA work." It's literally the opposite...

Also, it definitely doesn't help that they remove all capitalization except in nouns.
Show HN: Transform handwritten chess notation to Lichess or chess.com instantly
by coolwulf | 2025-06-30 20:12:26+00:00
Over the past few days, my child has been participating in several chess tournaments, which inspired me to make a major update to https://chess-notation.com. The key improvements include:

HTTPS & SSL Encryption: Now using HTTPS with SSL to ensure user data is securely protected.

Google Sign-In & Cloud Storage: Users can now sign in with Google. Uploaded notation data is securely stored on the server, and users have the option to delete their data at any time.

Side-by-Side Comparison Tool: Added a feature to compare uploaded notation images with the notation results generated by the vLLM large language model.

AI-Powered Auto-Correction:

The first correction mode uses a step-by-step validation process with a chess engine. It helps users quickly fix the first invalid move and automatically validates the rest of the game based on the fix.

The second mode is fully AI-driven. It attempts to repair the entire game in one click by minimizing the number of changes and invalid moves using a custom cost function. In our experience so far, the step-by-step interactive mode performs best, but both correction options are available on the platform.

Major UI and UX Improvements: The user interface and interaction flow have been significantly enhanced for a better experience, especially optimized for mobile devices.
by lillecarl | 2025-06-30 20:13:23+00:00
When your platform becomes a dominant market it becomes a market and markets are regulated to prevent market abuse, this is what's happening now.

And while Facebook and Google would still be hoarding data, there are a huge amount of games and apps I'd rather pay 5 for that are now ad-fueled invasive crapps and "pay to remove ads" costs 15 instead of 5.

When a significant percentage of the population uses your products and services, expect regulators to prevent you from abusing that significant group.

The capitalism idea that "markets solve all issues" only works when it's regulated so market players play on even-ish odds and the players don't have control of the market. (And even then it doesn't seem to work for public utilities really).

The naive idea that "Apple makes the product let them decide" would fly well for a device with millions of units, but billions is 1000x more and it comes with responsibility, sometimes the responsibility comes late because regulators are slow bureaucrats.

"With power comes responsibility" used to be a thing, now it's "With power responsibility might knock on your doorstep eventually if you abuse it to an extreme level like imposing a third of all REVENUE transacted through their forced store"
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-30 20:14:26+00:00
Well, around Chicago some of the smaller suburbs have a nice little downtown and are on a train line into the city. If you lived near that you might get by just using online shopping and uber if you occasionally needed to go somewhere. There is bus service too but it's not that good.

But in general, and in the larger suburbs yes you would be pretty inconvenienced without a car. But that is true of suburbs everywhere.
by _benton | 2025-06-30 20:14:45+00:00
> Huh, the __user__ paid for the product, so they own it. After the user handed over their money, Apple has nothing to say about who I do business with on that product, or what the conditions are.

But this is already the case. You own the device, you can do whatever you want with it (legally ofc). If I buy a fridge without a freezer, the fact that I can't freeze food with it doesn't mean I don't own the fridge.

Furthermore I don't appreciate other companies using the legal system to profit by forcing Apple to design their products in a specific way.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-30 20:14:57+00:00
I think it’s a troll, but it could be a special kind of activist that is posing as a troll or otherwise indistinguishable from a troll. A lot of trolls lean in to hyperbole. Part of me wonders if it is some kind of false flag to make right wing people look bad, but I know enough unhinged folks of all political stripes to safely assume it could go either way, earnest or engaging.
by tdeck | 2025-06-30 20:15:00+00:00
This reminds me a bit of Multiwire, a somewhat unusual circuit manufacturing technique from the 1980s. A machine laid down wires and then encased them in resin. The best info I can find is this slide deck:

https://www.swtest.org/swtw_library/2013proc/PDF/SWTW13-22.p...

I believe this technique was used in the Three Rivers PERQ computers. Here is an image of one of their PCBs https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...
by hylaride | 2025-06-30 20:15:03+00:00
The problem with Apple is that their corporate culture doesn't vibe well with a lot of new tech. Their culture of secrecy held them back with the original "smart assistants" as all the best talent were PhDs who wanted to publish, but apple wouldn't allow that; on top of that, they didn't pay top dollar like Google or Amazon did at the time, either (whom also let their employees publish on top of that!).

Apple is being far too conservative with a far too fast a developing piece of technology to possibly keep up unless they loosen up. But they're being run by a bunch of 50+ year old white guys trying to still be cool, but not understanding what's really going on. I'm not saying they need to publish a roadmap or anything, but they need to tell their marketing dept. to piss off and that not everything needs to be a "delightful surprise" on stage.
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-06-30 20:15:30+00:00
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by energywut | 2025-06-30 20:15:37+00:00
> the claim that the internet descended into surveillance capitalism because of the walled garden approach of the App Store

I did not read this claim. I read the claim that Apple's approach unevenly benefits companies that engage in surveillance capitalism. No one's ad revenue, for instance, must pay a 30% cut of their revenue.

You are making an argument (and then arguing against it) that Proton did not make, as far as I can read.

> if you make the platform that others run on and which creates entirely new economies and allows businesses to thrive, don’t you get to define the constraints that you want since it’s _your_ platform?

I don't think you do. We constrain what companies are permitted to do all the time. Apple must abide by regulatory constraints first, and then they can add the additional constraints they like.

A simple test -- could Apple say, "Everyone is allowed to use Messages, except Hindus"? It's their platform, don't you get to define the constraints because it's your platform? No, we've collectively decided that kicking some people out based on certain characteristics is generally bad.
by jamesxv7 | 2025-06-30 20:16:22+00:00
Thanks nico for sharing your experience! That's really helpful. The idea of using OpenCV to create a processing pipeline for face detection before passing it to Gemma is brilliant I hadn't thought of that. I'll definitely look into using gemma with ollama.

And for sure, if I get this to a point where it's open-source, I'll post the link here!
by kayodelycaon | 2025-06-30 20:16:35+00:00
> Allergies and fear of dogs are not valid reasons for denying access or refusing service to people using service animals. When a person who is allergic to dog dander and a person who uses a service animal must spend time in the same room or facility, for example, in a school classroom or at a homeless shelter, they both should be accommodated by assigning them, if possible, to different locations within the room or different rooms in the facility.

https://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-2010-requireme...

There is far more to it than this. I did extensive research on service dogs and emotional support animals in 2015 when I was on staff of a convention.

I’m also very familiar with ADA due to my own disability. For example, off-hours support is not a considered an essential part of writing software, so you can’t enforce “you broke it, you support it” policies on people with work hour restrictions. Some people get really worked up about that.
by cheesyFish | 2025-06-30 20:16:46+00:00
yea good callout -- python workflows came first, and while we could have directly translated these, the ergonomics around classes in python are not exactly what JS/TS devs expect.

So instead, the goal was to capture the spirit of event-driven workflows, and implement them in a more TS-native way and improve the dev-ux for those developers. This means it might be harder to jump between the two, but I'd argue most people are not doing that anyways.