MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-26 15:05:40+00:00
"Most nations don’t have flat open fields where signals can reach far away drones unimpeded by line of sight for tx/rx."

This is true, but flat open fields are precisely the places where major mechanized battles usually took place. For the very reason that manoeuvering other equipment in complicated terrain is hard.

Ofc there are significant exceptions, like the Alpine front in WWI, where Austrians and Italians faced each other in mountainous terrain for years, or the Hürtgen Forest in WWII. But a remarkable share of all major mechanized battles of history took place in flat open fields, or something at least resembling that sort of terrain (gently sloping hills with good visibility etc. etc.)
by cooper_ganglia | 2025-06-26 15:05:42+00:00
Sure, a quick search unfortunately gives you result after result!

https://www.wsmv.com/2025/06/23/family-woman-murdered-nashvi...

https://nypost.com/2025/02/28/us-news/career-criminal-free-w...

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/the-judge-did-her-job-defe...

https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/us-news/nyc-career-criminal-ty...

https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/us-news/plucky-nyc-victim-94-v...

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-judges-violent-perps-report

https://nypost.com/2025/03/22/us-news/meet-wanda-licitra-nyc...

https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/us-news/hooligan-whose-alleged...

https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/serial-perv-who-tried-...

https://nypost.com/2025/01/07/us-news/nyc-sees-staggering-14...

https://nypost.com/2025/03/07/us-news/maniac-busted-for-slug...

https://nypost.com/2024/08/11/us-news/brute-charged-in-attac...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-states-bail-laws-panned-poli...
by desireco42 | 2025-06-26 15:05:43+00:00
Overall it looks and feels good. I gave it a problem, like, what was it... to update website pages to use single layout, it wasn't trivial but it wasn't that hard. It burned through 7M tokens and like 20-25mins didn't accomplished it. I stopped it because I didn't want to waste more resources.

I think with better prompting on my end, as I have good experience with Gemini, this will be awesome. You probably could tweak a lot on your end as well, don't let it get stuck in cycles.
by brightUiso | 2025-06-26 15:06:03+00:00
I’ve been building https://inov-ai.tech, a tool for SaaS teams to make sense of customer feedback centralizing it, tagging it, and turning it into something teams can actually use to make product decisions.

The product works, and recently I’ve started getting users and even paying ones. But I’ll be honest the journey is lumpy.

One day you get a great DM from a founder who loves it. The next, it's like shouting into the void. Product Hunt didn't go viral. Twitter posts get traction randomly. Some Reddit threads sparked interest. Others got ignored.

To keep myself grounded, I added a Telegram bot to alert me when a new user signs up or the server crashes (yes, that still happens). As a solo founder with limited resources, this stuff matters.

I’m trying to get better at the marketing side reaching the right people, telling the right story, figuring out what resonates without burning out.

If you’ve been through this, I’d genuinely love to hear how you learned to market what you built. What worked? What didn’t? And if you’re curious to try InovAI and give feedback, it’s open to testers.

Thanks for reading I appreciate all the stories I’ve read here that helped along the way.

Link to the product: https://inov-ai.tech
by CapricornNoble | 2025-06-26 15:07:31+00:00
There's a really good interview with a Russian drone manufacturer where he talks about how you need to use both.

The fiber-optic drones have small warheads/payloads. They are used to hunt the enemy's EW transmitters. Once the jammers have been suppressed, then the radio-controlled drones with bigger payloads go to work and do the bulk of the damage.
by aftbit | 2025-06-26 15:07:41+00:00
The big thing that FPV drones have going for them is that they're ludicrously cheap and easily constructed from relatively basic parts by moderately skilled people.

It's literally cheaper to strap a grenade to an FPV drone and fly it into a tank hatch than it is to fire a single non-precision artillery round, let alone tens or hundreds of them.

Plus, you can deploy your drones remotely from the top of a trunk deep behind enemy lines and fly them into irreplaceable strategic aviation assets with a shot exchange factor better than 1000x.
by tsunamifury | 2025-06-26 15:07:50+00:00
You have far too much of an obsession with sex here and really need to stop and take a breath.

Dating culture is evolved to help you find a mate based on YOUR choices and capability not your parents or class level. This allows you to “trial” compatibility over shorter time and find better fits.

What you seem to be talking about is 'Online Hookup Culture' which is more of a hobby if we are being honest than a way of finding a mate. And ultimately probably STILL better when faced with a society increasingly not finding mates or having kids at all. So basically all of your thoughts are self-contradictory due to a bit of self righteousness here.

Please don’t let your hangups around sex (correct or not) become a world view. It’s not a healthy obsession.
by david-gpu | 2025-06-26 15:08:16+00:00
Energy, ultimately, requires real estate --and thus property taxes-- even at the logical extreme of automation.

> As for taxes, why does the government even want the money? What are they going to do with it?

There are websites that break down how e.g. different national/federal budgets are divvied up in the real world. Alternatively, I suggest a good book on macroeconomics; I am partial to Steve Keen's "Debunking Economics", but there are many others.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-26 15:08:24+00:00
I'm aware that PKIX deprecated use of CN for this purpose at the turn of the century, but when browsers began ignoring CN about a decade ago (which is the first half of the adoption curve) I know Google had to ship an enterprise override for people whose corporate systems could not cope. If it's true that all or almost all systems now work properly that's great news.
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-26 15:08:34+00:00
I think we should not discount the psychological effect.

From what I have read from Ukraine vets, ubiquitous drones make you crazy in a way that tank attacks don't. The difference is in their ubiquity. You are likely to encounter a tank relatively infrequently, and have enough time to recuperate between those encounters. But with a sky full of drones 24/7, or close to that, your nerves will give way sooner or later.

This alone may cripple the forward units.
by 2000UltraDeluxe | 2025-06-26 15:09:29+00:00
Based on my personal experience providing support for s/mime setups, you'd need: 1) A centralised solution for managing keys and certificates, connected to a login that the customer will be able to recover in pretty much any situation. 2) Email client support for fetching keys/certificates from the centralised solution. 3) A massive focus on usability and end-user support, because most email users have no idea what a certificate is, or how to use it.

Denmark actually has something similar to this (Sikker mail) but it's mainly aimed at businesses. Based on what I've seen, this resulted in a market for services that bypass the E2E aspect of it because business users can't figure out how to use it. It is also noteworthy that despite this s/mime being available for everyone, Denmark has a public digital mailbox for all citizens and businesses in order to ensure availability.

S/mime is great. It is also not suited for people who barelly know what it is.
by esperent | 2025-06-26 15:09:35+00:00
Yeah, we were just starting out and really needing to keep every possible cost down when I chose MS. Looking back I definitely wish I'd paid a bit extra for Google Workspace though, it does look much better suited for a business at our size. Plus, I just cannot get people to use MS Office, they're constantly sharing Google sheets and docs around. Habits are hard to break!

Teams is much better suited for a company with 1000 staff and a tech department. Admin is massively overcomplicated. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 I guess.

> That being said, the price you got seems unreal.

We're in Vietnam, and like I said, regional pricing. It is a good deal, but doesn't look quite as unreal from over here. Really wish more companies would do regional pricing, $8 a month for slack, $10 for notion and so on is basically a no go for a small business here.
by gavmor | 2025-06-26 15:09:49+00:00
I will refer all those interested to my favorite astrobiologist, Dr. Michael L. Wong[0].

A common model defines "life" as an autocatalytic network of organometallic chemicals in aqueous solution that processes information and dissipates specific disequilibria, but Dr. Wong invites us to consider as "lyfe" any hypothetical phenomenon that 1) maintains a low-entropy state via dissipation, 2) uses autocatalytic networks for growth, 3) employs homeostatic mechanisms for stability, and 4) acquires and processes functional information about its environment.

Likewise, while the traditional definition of planetary habitability focuses on liquid water, free energy, and basic chemical ingredients (CHNOPS), "lyfe" may flourish wherever there are sufficient free energy gradients, and a threshold level of environmental complexity that drives information processing and learning behaviors.

As OP suggests as well, if "lyfe" exists in environments far beyond Earth's physicochemical boundaries, it would almost certainly use different biochemistry from Earthly life.

Wong et al. even imagine novel forms of "lyfe" such as a "mechanotroph," which would transduce mechanical work from fluid flow into its metabolism, or "thermotrophs" that might harness energy from thermal gradients. Truly alien!

0. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Michael+L.+Wong
by vikingmute | 2025-06-26 15:10:02+00:00
I launched TailwindResume.co on ProductHunt and spent days prepping, only to get 17 upvotes, a day rank of 34, 5 new users, and some spam emails. It was a letdown. ProductHunt used to be great for indie devs, but here’s why it’s not anymore,

1 Big companies with flashy products and big budgets dominate ProductHunt. My project, TailwindResume, got lost in the noise, landing just 17 upvotes and rank 34. The algorithm favors established names, so indie projects struggle to get seen.

2 Rankings depend on upvotes, which come from your network, not your product’s quality. I don’t have a big following, so TailwindResume got 17 upvotes. Anything below the top 30 gets almost no traffic.

3 I spent days on videos, screenshots, and a description for TailwindResume’s launch. Result? Just 5 new users and some spam emails. The effort rarely matches the payoff for indie devs.

4 I hoped for useful feedback on ProductHunt, but got generic “Nice job!” comments. Meaningful, actionable advice is rare, leaving devs with little to work with.

5 A five-minute Show HN post on HackerNews or Reddit can get similar (or better) traffic than ProductHunt, with less prep. Plus, HN’s technical feedback is often more helpful for improving your product.

Launching TailwindResume on ProductHunt showed me it’s not ideal for indie devs. Big players, upvote games, weak feedback, and low returns make it tough. I’d rather post on HackerNews next time for better results with less hassle.
by lproven | 2025-06-26 15:10:30+00:00
> tell a non-technical user to set two monitors (e.g. laptop and external) to display text/windows at the same size

Tell me, do you not ever use Macs?

This is not even a solved problem on macOS: there is no solution because the problem doesn't happen in the first place. The OS knows the size and the capabilities of the devices and you tell it with a slider what size of text you find comfortable. The end.

It works out the resolutions and the scaling factors. If the users needs to set that individually per device, if they can even see it, then the UI has failed: it's exposing unnecessary implementation details to users who do not need to know and should not have to care.

_Every_ user of macOS can solve this challenge because the problem is never visible. It's a question of stupidly simple arithmetic that I could do with a pocket calculator in less than a minute, so it should just happen and never show up to the user.
by Akranazon | 2025-06-26 15:10:31+00:00
The repository is open source, so you can contribute if you feel inclined.

https://github.com/SeanHollen/1300-2000

I like how your project has such a long time horizon, I'm glad you're showing it.

Another project in a similar vein that might influence you is the historical tech tree. https://www.historicaltechtree.com/ It has literally thousands of technologies all mapped together. I was curious so I calculated the most "influential" technologies: https://github.com/etiennefd/hhr-tech-tree/issues/12
by naasking | 2025-06-26 15:10:52+00:00
> Is there a part of the US’s 250 year history where we weren’t bringing in immigrants from poorer countries to provide cheap labor?

Pretty sure they're referring to a de facto open border policy, where you basically permit all sorts of illegal immigration and don't really enforce the laws. Accepting immigrants at Ellis island was not illegal immigration, for instance, but crossings at the southern border often have been.
by mushishi | 2025-06-26 15:11:23+00:00
Do the APIs support simultaneous voice transcription in a way that different voices are tagged? (either in text or as metadata)

If so: could you split the audiofile and process the latter half by pitch shifting, say an octave, and then merging them together to get shorter audiofile — then transcribe and join them back to a linear form, tagging removed. (You could insert some prerecorded voice to know at which point the second voice starts.). If pitch change is not enough, maybe manipulate it further by formants.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-26 15:11:28+00:00
Some of it is economics but some of it is the structure of relationship choice. Feminist scholar Eva Illouz in Why Love Hurts talks about the reasons why women find it hard to get into committed relationships where they feel safe having children:

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Love-Hurts-Sociological-Explanati...

Not least the idea that if you keep dating you can find somebody better than you've found so far -- a problem that's worse in large cosmopolitan cities where the dating pool is large and perceived to be large.
by inglor_cz | 2025-06-26 15:12:10+00:00
I would say that the events of Russo-Ukrainian war have shown that even a lot of tanks (and NATO does not have anywhere near as many as Russia did, the former Soviet stockpile was absolutely massive) aren't the crushing force that they used to be in Manstein's and Guderian's time. Of course Putin is a bit old and may think in old patterns...

On the other hand, I believe Russia made itself very vulnerable by letting its cosmic sector drown in corruption. Nowadays they have fallen so behind the US in launch capabilities that it isn't even funny. Try hiding anything from the fleet of satellites that the US has, or can have if it wishes to.

Starlink may be the single most dangerous technologic development of the 21st century to Russia.
by agent281 | 2025-06-26 15:12:28+00:00
Have you heard of the War of the Currents?

> As the use of AC spread rapidly with other companies deploying their own systems, the Edison Electric Light Company claimed in early 1888 that high voltages used in an alternating current system were hazardous, and that the design was inferior to, and infringed on the patents behind, their direct current system.

> In the spring of 1888, a media furor arose over electrical fatalities caused by pole-mounted high-voltage AC lines, attributed to the greed and callousness of the arc lighting companies that operated them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-26 15:13:11+00:00
Every place I've worked at in my 30 year career has had product managers in practice. They rarely had that as their title. The most common title for that role has been "CEO", since I've mostly worked in small companies. Some have had extensive engineering experience, some didn't. Some were actually working on the product, some weren't.

The best had a good rapport with both customers and engineers. Engineering experience helped gain this, but I've seen good ones without a lot of engineering experience. But I've never seen a good one without any engineering experience.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-06-26 15:13:25+00:00
>We didn’t want to focus too much on gamification.

Thank you so much for this. Duolingo is literally unbearable because it's so gamified. I'll try it out later. I've seen a few of these apps, can I seamlessly go between my native language and the language I'm trying to learn? If I am trying to learn Hindi, can I ask a question in English in the middle of a conversation?
by lproven | 2025-06-26 15:13:40+00:00
This is true, but there are a few things which just happen to be measured in this obsolete and arbitrary unit around most of the world, and pizzas and computer screens are two of the ones that can be mentioned in polite society. :-)

I speak very bad Norwegian. I use metric for everything. But once I ordered a pizza late at night in Bergen after a few beers, and they asked me how big I wanted in centimetres and it broke my decision-making process badly. I can handle Norwegian numbers and I can handle cm but not pizzas in cm.

I ended up with a vast pizza that was a ridiculous size for one, but what the hell, I was very hungry. I just left the crusts.
by kasajian | 2025-06-26 15:13:57+00:00
I'm just waiting for this thing to turn into an IDE like Turbo C 2.0 ( https://imgur.com/5vyPZdO ) I don't see why this shouldn't turn into a sophisticated code editor. I get that that's not the goal, but there's nothing else like it available -- all other text based editors do their own thing, completely ignoring the common-user interface as if it's a thing they've never heard of ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access )
by chipsrafferty | 2025-06-26 15:14:06+00:00
Very cool project. Kudos for making it mobile friendly too.

The world appears to be infinite, why not make the trees also infinitely procedurally generated? Then you could get the experience of "do I stay here where the sound is good, or do I explore in search of something new, and perhaps better?"

With a few more instrument types, and variable density, you could in theory create an auditory "Library of Babel", where any song or sound is in theory possible to discover... If you only find the right combination of plants.

Also you should add animals, like turtles and rabbits - the sound would change because instead of being stationary, they move towards/away from you. Different types of animals could have different movement patterns, producing a variety of effects.
by tomjen3 | 2025-06-26 15:14:12+00:00
You are just not listening to the right places.

fly.pieter.com made a fortune while he live vide coded it on Twitter. One made making a modern multiplayer game.

Or Michael Luo, who got a legal notice after making a much cheaper app that did the same as docusign https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/vibe-coder-get...

There are others, but if you have found a gold mine, why would you inform the world?
by breuleux | 2025-06-26 15:14:44+00:00
I don't know about that. Cutting corners will never die.

Ultimately I don't think the heuristics would change all that much, though. If every time you review a person's PR, almost everything is great, they are either not using AI or they are vetting what the AI writes themselves, so you can trust them as you did before. It may just take some more PRs until that's apparent. Those who submit unvetted slop will have to fix a lot of things, and you can crank up the heat on them until they do better, if they can. (The "if they can" is what I'm most worried about.)
by mousethatroared | 2025-06-26 15:14:56+00:00
I think the medical community needs to take more seriously that different people have different pain tolerances.

My wife, daughter and I are very pain tolerant. Out of curiosity, I've turned down freezing for fillings and I even turned down some of pain meds before abdominal surgery. I've never taken the post op opioids, including when I had my impacted wisdom teeth removed.

My other kid, on the other hand, is a whimp. She gets anxious simply if I replace her earrings.

My use case for anesthesia is very different from my kid. I struggle to appreciate why anesthesia is even necessary beyond the need to restrain the patient.

My kid could go into a full blown panic attack from pain.

Yet I don't see anesthesiologists ever asking "how good are you with pain?"
by energywut | 2025-06-26 15:15:29+00:00
> Prisons make people less likely to become criminals.

Here is a study supporting the assertion that prisons increase (or do not reduce) the likelihood of someone reoffending in the future. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/715100

Your claim that prisons reduce the likelihood of the population at large is not obvious on its face, as the US has very high rate of incarceration, but still has moderately high crime rates. Can you supply some data?
by Hugsun | 2025-06-26 15:15:54+00:00
I gave up after it didn't let me see the prompt that went into the LLM, without using their proprietary service. I'd recommend just using the API directly. They're very simple. There might be some simpler wrapper library if you want all the providers and can't be bothered to implement the support for each. Vercel's ai-sdk seems decent for JS.
by BlackFly | 2025-06-26 15:16:25+00:00
Well apparently 43% of American inmates are incarcerated for drug related offenses. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

This article claims that about 32k people in 2021 were for cannabis related offense, and simply carrying that to today would be 23% of the prison population: the largest offense type. https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/cannabis-prisoner-scale
by reify | 2025-06-26 15:16:30+00:00
typical meaningless CEO drivel.

apparently, lots and lots of fragmented data.

Customer data is fragmented, order data is fragmented, and financial data is fragmented.

And if you can bring it all together through a, through software... and the connected data layer,

Told you it was meaningless CEO drivel.

If you turned him upside down he would be talking out of his mouth.

currently he is not the right way up.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-26 15:16:49+00:00
When using Claude for production code in my core code base, I'm much more picky about _how_ it's written (as opposed to one-off or peripheral code that just needs to work). I find much of my work involves deleting Claude's code and simplifying its logic. (I'm still not sure I'm saving any time in the end vs writing such code from scratch.)
by dhx | 2025-06-26 15:16:51+00:00
This sounds off by an order of magnitude? Firefox's local translation models are only 20-70MB per language pair direction (e.g. en-to-fr or fr-to-en).[1] These models are also only released when they reach at least -5% of Google Translate's COMET score.[1] Currently Firefox ships with support for 32 xx-to-en language pairs and 29 en-to-xx language pairs.[1] As the number of language pairs increases, it probably isn't unreasonable for browsers to stop bundling every language pair and instead prompt users to download uncommon models the first time the user wants to use them.

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/translations/firefox-models/
by diggan | 2025-06-26 15:17:47+00:00
> Am I the only person that gives aider instructions and leaves it alone for a few hours?

Probably not, but in my experience, if it takes longer than 10-15 minutes it's either stuck in a loop or down the wrong rabbit hole. But I don't use it for vibe coding or anything "big scope" like that, but more focused changes/refactors so YMMV