MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jll29 | 2025-06-23 14:14:10+00:00
Many people use LaTeX via Overleaf (a Website, cf. https://overleaf.com ) rather than installing it locally.

That also solves the problem of having to install locally vairous extension packages or fonts - all is already there, and after writing a paper you may submit it directly to some conferences or journals from that Web GUI instead of having to email it or upload to a third site.
by aristofun | 2025-06-23 14:14:38+00:00
Hi, chatgpt!

First, what's the point of this post? You mention few extremely generic areas of learning without any actual meat to it. What is the framework that you suggest?

Second, in my experience, learning depends heavily on both a learner and a skill being learned. Beyond some common sense observations (like learning by doing, having some plan, setting goals etc.) there is no point in generalizing and overthinking the learning process itself.

Because what works "on average" with hi probability wouldn't work for you (unless the skill being learned and you are both perfectly average in all relevant parameters).
by doodlebugging | 2025-06-23 14:14:49+00:00
Thanks. I'm also a tool person. Woodworking, metal fab, stone and tile, agricultural (hand or mechanically powered) tools, electrical and plumbing, automotive maintenance, garden and orchard tools, etc. I have a lot of tools and will definitely buy new ones if the functionality and efficiency is better than one I already own two versions of. I resisted the switch from corded to battery tools for a long time but after buying combo sets for my wife and Mom I borrowed theirs often enough that I found I can work within their limitations and break out the corded model if the job requires it. I love to use a well-designed tool.

I really whiffed on the angle grinder ID though which irritates me a bit since I first used one in the late 1970's working on a pipeline maintenance crew and I own at least two of them including one old Skil brand that I bought more than 40 years ago. It was late at night when I posted and my old brain couldn't find the right word after all the sun I had absorbed that afternoon.

Stay hydrated out there so the things you post make sense. LOL.
by em-bee | 2025-06-23 14:15:01+00:00
damn, that's rough. sorry you had to go through that.

how are you in finding friends? this sort of experience really ruins your trust in others. for you it's probably worse than for me.

i don't trust people to be supportive which limits most friendships to the level of friendly acquaintance. i always hope for the best but when they let me down then i just shrug it off as if i had expected it. that's the self defense mechanism i developed. (btw feel free to contact me at the email in my profile if you prefer to talk in private)
Show HN: IRC.com – A Scriptable Web IRC Client
by rasengan | 2025-06-23 14:15:07+00:00
Hi HN,

Long-time IRC obsessive here (some of you may remember me from the privacy wars and the freenode drama).

My commitment to the protocol never died, so I built IRC.com, a browser-based IRC client where everything lives in user-editable JavaScript.

The core ships with just a protocol shim and window manager; the rest is scriptable. Out of the box it feels like a normal IRC client, but if you want to automate channel ops, invent new commands, or redesign the UI, the power is yours.

I’d love your feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas... especially from fellow IRC lifers!

I'll be adding support for other networks soon once we are out of BETA and have I lines (or webirc auth) in place with other networks.

And above all, I hope you enjoy!

Cheers, Andrew
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 14:16:01+00:00
> I'm smart and paid close enough attention to see through the bullshit

> [relays bullshit]

There was never anything like a scientific consensus on a coming ice age.

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/89/9/2008bam...

> One way to determine what scientists think is to ask them. This was actually done in 1977 following the severe 1976/77 winter in the eastern United States. "Collectively," the 24 eminent climatologists responding to the survey "tended to anticipate a slight global warming rather than a cooling" (National Defense University Research Directorate 1978).

> we [also] conducted a rigorous literature review of the American Meteorological Society's electronic archives as well as those of Nature and the scholarly journal archive Journal Storage (JSTOR)... The survey identified only 7 articles indicating cooling compared to 44 indicating warming. Those seven cooling articles garnered just 12% of the citations.

Here's an alternative explanation: you were duped back then just like you've been duped today, but in the opposite direction than you thought.
by ilamont | 2025-06-23 14:16:16+00:00
Brand hijacking got to be so bad with so many sellers complaining that Amazon finally did something about it ... kind of. Quoting an Amazon employee in the Seller Central forum:

If you have experienced an incorrect change in the brand name of an ASIN, please exhaust these self-service options below first:

- Create a case to Seller Support

- Public Notice Form if you are not registered in Brand Registry

- Report Abuse

- Report a Violation (if you are registered in Brand Registry)

For a normal company, one would expect that a single report using any of these methods would be enough to launch an investigation and right the wrong. Nope.

I don't know if it's Amazon's poorly designed automated seller support, or overwhelmed support staff unable to deal with the problem, but regardless the burden is on sellers to "exhaust" all of these options before posting a semi-public plea for help on the Seller Central forums. This apparently will trigger an actual investigation (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t...).
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 14:17:16+00:00
The concrete benefit I see for the small LWR is this: it is possible to build a pressure vessel by welding segments together but most economical to build one in a superheavy forge that can pound one out of a single piece of steel. There are no superheavy forges in North America (although there are many in various Asian and European countries) although the BWRX300 is small enough that it can be made in Canada.

As for simpler construction it has to be proven. The AP1000 was a "modular reactor" in that they tried to make it out of large modules that could be built in a factory and stuck together on site. The factories struggled to make those modules and when they arrived they often needed major rework. The ACP100 was recently completed in China

https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/INPRO/df13/Presentations/011_...

and press releases boasted that it was one of the most complex construction projects of all time -- what I wanted to hear was "this is one of the most simple construction projects of all time!"
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-23 14:17:36+00:00
Science (FDA) is what has allowed all the hyper-processed foods and food additives that are so often criticized here. Seems a bit disingenuous to suddenly recast those concerns as the "whims" of an ignorant person just because of his political affiliation. Take wins where you can get them.

That said Kraft is just positioning itself to provide what it thinks the market will want. They haven't suddenly found some ethics and decided they are going to produce good healthy food for its own sake.
by beAbU | 2025-06-23 14:18:25+00:00
> Humans live long past the age of sexual fertility, which is somewhat unusual in the animal kingdom

Interesting take. Do you reckon this happened for long enough in human history that it's had an impact on the evolution on the male psyche?

I'm under the impression that it's only in the last 1000 years or so where life beyond 30-40 years started to become the norm.
by brown2000 | 2025-06-23 14:18:57+00:00
Honestly, this has got to be one of the gutsiest one-man AI stunts I’ve seen.

Like—going up against 10 big models at once, making it look like some kung fu battle, and then just dropping all the data out in the open? That’s kinda nuts (in a good way).

So, which model surprised you the most? Did any of them totally flip your prompt in a way you didn’t see coming?
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-06-23 14:19:24+00:00
There are multiple facets to this question. Would I want law enforcement to catch, for example, every murderer? Yes I would. On the other hand, we have in the US things like the fourth amendment prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure.

If these laws are used to sidestep prohibitions on what government is not allowed to do, i'd say they are a bad thing. If they are used to enforce bad laws, we need to get rid of the bad laws. If they are used to help enforce laws we all agree are good, that seems like a good thing.
by sharkbird2 | 2025-06-23 14:19:46+00:00
I think it's such a huge topic that it's really hard to summarize on an online message board, but in very broad terms I think you could say that the feeling I have is that there used to be a social contract between men and women where men were supposed to be A, B, and C, and women were supposed to be X, Y and Z. But now it seems that only men are still expected to be A, B and C - plus maybe D, while women are instead 'free' to be whatever they want. So you still have to be a 'real man', but she doesn't have to be a 'proper woman'.

The weird thing is that I'm not really pro gender roles, I'm much more pro individual freedom, so I hate being the one to make this argument. But I do think that there will always be some differences between men and women, and I think we are hurting ourselves a lot as a society by refusing to acknowledge that.
by inanutshellus | 2025-06-23 14:19:57+00:00
"Hot Death UNO" was a standout for me.

Its half-dozen or so robo-players made the game come to life.

They all bantered back and forth, made pop culture references, etc., got vindictive...

I printed physical cards, made a Geocities website for it (still zombie-mode on "oocities"!), learned Photoshop just so I could make my own higher-fidelity cards, and when I finally learned to program I started on a new version only to get a Cease and Desist from Mattel. Heh.

Meanwhile, I and a couple other fans tracked down the original authors via a Yahoo Groups channel and learned about the original game...

... good times.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-23 14:20:13+00:00
For New York State, right next door to the Hydro electricity abundant Quebec, and with access to trade winds in the Atlantic Ocean? Solar, Wind & Batteries for 97% of power, send the excess to Quebec so they can idle their Hydro while the sun is shining, and then use Quebec Hydro for the last 3%.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-e...
by nottorp | 2025-06-23 14:20:18+00:00
> there are a lot of games about strategy [..] and innumerable games about tactics [..], but very few about operations. Almost no games, as far as I’m aware, are interested in, say, the logistics of feeding an army, or communication structures between commanders in the field.

Allow me to whine about Ubisoft buying out Settlers, which was initially about (peace time) logistics, and somehow thinking they bought a RTS.
by ModernMech | 2025-06-23 14:20:37+00:00
This is true, but when you get something wrong related to the memory model in C, it just says "segfault". Whereas in Rust it will give you a whole explanation for what went wrong and helpful suggestions on how to fix it. Or at the very least it will tell you where the problem is. This is the difference between "simple" and "easy".
by gorbypark | 2025-06-23 14:20:45+00:00
I started a new project to test out CC and constantly find I have to ask it to fix ts errors…it’s nice I don’t have to tell it what error it is (ie “fix the ts errors in file.tsx”) but I’m surprised it doesn’t have a “check ts” step automatically (i even added something to CLAUDE.md, which seems to work sometimes, but not always). It’s especially bad when working with recently updated libraries. It keeps suggesting thing that don’t exist anymore even though ts clearly knows it’s wrong.

Otherwise CC has been stellar and I live it’s a CLI + optional vs code extension.
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-06-23 14:20:57+00:00
The article is paywalled, presumably the reactor they're referring to is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center

"New York City's greenhouse gas emissions from electricity have increased from approximately 500 to 900 tons of CO2 per MWh from 2019 to 2022 as a result of the closure."
by gruez | 2025-06-23 14:20:58+00:00
> You can see the sea change with Trump in office and socialist candidates like Bernie, who is getting huge crowds in Idaho and Oklahoma, or AOC and Zohran in New York.

I can see how Trump being in office is indisputable sign that populists are getting popular, but what does "huge crowds" cash out to? "crowds" should be as little as 1000 people. Combine that with to urban-rural and education polarization, and it doesn't seem too hard to get a 1000 college educated city dwellers to show up to a rally in Idaho.
by pedrocr | 2025-06-23 14:21:18+00:00
Why would you model Minnesota specifically when that state is part of a larger region that can tradeoff power over time? Canada's hydro is much more "here" than the hypothetical new nuclear plants Minnesota would have to build.

Splitting up the world in areas and then claiming you need to solve a different problem in each is throwing away probably the most cost effective way to get cheaper energy, more grid interconnection and more price mechanisms to shape supply and demand.
by mikojan | 2025-06-23 14:21:32+00:00
Rate limiting has not been a problem for me. I need time to review the proposals, the actual source code and to meddle with it in between

One must also always be aware that an LLM WILL ALWAYS DO what you ask it for. Often you ask for the wrong thing. And you need to rethink.

Maybe I am inefficient though I really only use at the most two additional work trees at the same time.
by notTooFarGone | 2025-06-23 14:21:40+00:00
>framing them as pro-russia is some sort of false flag.

They just take russian talking points and deliver them to their voters. It's just conveniently the same shit. And business trips to russia are just there to enjoy the scenery.

If they talk like russians, are present in russia, do interviews in russian media and don't condemn russian warcrimes...

Maybe it's just as easy?
by andy89 | 2025-06-23 14:22:41+00:00
We recently had to implement SSO for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. The usual names came up (Okta, Auth0, Ping, WorkOS, etc.), but the deeper we looked, the more complicated the tradeoffs became.

We created a comparison table across 15 SSO providers — focusing on protocols (SAML, OIDC, SCIM), admin UX, dev experience, pricing models (per user vs. per connection), and use-case fit (CIAM vs workforce IAM).

It’s here if useful: https://ssojet.com/blog/top-10-sso-providers-2024/

Curious how others here navigated this — especially around: - When SCIM or JIT provisioning became non-negotiable - How you handled multi-tenancy or tenant branding - If pricing or vendor lock-in became an issue

Happy to share our notes or answer questions.
by ericd | 2025-06-23 14:22:43+00:00
Yeah, it's pretty eye opening to see how much more power our home's solar array puts out during the summer vs. the winter. It's like 3-4x, on average, while our power demand is actually highest in winter, due to the higher deltas between outdoor temps and reasonable indoor temps. As we shift more and more heating to electric heat pump, base load power capability is going to become more and more important.

And yeah, we need to decarbonize ASAP.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-06-23 14:23:00+00:00
Got this splash page when logging in to the QBO app.

What are your thoughts about it ? Is it a gimmick, or did you find it useful at all ?

I've tried AI add-ons for a few core internal apps already and had to discontinue since they were gimmick for their cost, in particular a large, well known and successful task management app..
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-23 14:23:27+00:00
In a state the size of New York, the sun is always shining or the wind always blowing somewhere in the state. You then use battery back-up to fill the gaps and gas to fill the gaps of the filled gaps.

The latest nuclear plant in the US was the completion of the Vogtle plant in Georgia, which ran a staggering $22B over budget. Twenty Two Billion Dollars over budget!

$22B, is enough to build the largest solar plant in the US 10 times over (total 5GW). Or about 7 of the largest wind farm (total 10.5GW). Or 33 of the largest battery storage plant. With $2B left over for logistics.

And $14B left over for anything else because the total cost was $36B!

The current state of nuclear doesn't make sense anyway you cut it.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-23 14:23:37+00:00
I doubt there will be a letter... there's been an enthusiast-driven project to remake Lego Rock Raiders (Manic Miners if you're interested) for years now, and not only is Lego aware, they've actually provided some of the original assets for the game (the intro movie and some misc. graphics) to help the project along. As long as no one is monetizing it they don't seem to much care.

Which like... is the balanced view IMO? Like nobody is making money off this or the Manic Miners project, it's not detracting from any games Lego is actually releasing right now, and absent those factors, it's essentially free advertising and building community goodwill. I wish more companies would take this "it's not hurting us, just let it be" route for fan projects instead of guarding their IP like a dragon.
by thomastjeffery | 2025-06-23 14:24:03+00:00
Even if there isn't an underlying problem, the only real way to change a habit is to replace it with a new one.

I have noticed that usually people who make it their mission to stop doing a thing are replacing that thing with the mission itself. This strategy is always bound for failure, because the moment it starts to work for them is the moment they end the mission. This is when, instead of reevaluating their strategy, they punish themselves for the failure to not do. The cycle repeats, and the person spirals into rumination about their stress.

I didn't just stop biting my nails. I started trimming them instead.
by bicx | 2025-06-23 14:24:04+00:00
What I'd like:

- Top-tier `git worktree`-based context switching in the same IDE window.

- A framework for attaching terminal-based agents to each worktree branch. Eventually this should evolve into a better open protocol for integration, primarily for diffs, permission request notifications, and progress indicators.

- A sidebar that monitors agent status/notifications on each active worktree branch.

- A quick notification-style way of responding to agent prompts across all branches. This has been built in standalone agent manager tools, but I can't use those tools effectively when I need to quickly jump in and be an engineer.

- Branch-context-level association with browser test windows or mobile emulator/simulator instances.

- Strong code completion capabilities via other faster models, a great extension ecosystem with lots of language server support, and function as a high-quality IDE.

Right now, I'm managing multiple macOS desktops with different instances of Windsurf running Claude agents in-terminal, and web browser windows / mobile emulators/simulators are dragged into the respective desktops for each instance. It's clunky.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-23 14:24:09+00:00
If you need something to supply power when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing, you need it to supply peak power needs, not base power needs. And if nuclear can supply peak power needs, then you might as well just have a grid that is 100% nuclear.

If nuclear can't supply peak power needs, then you need batteries or something else to do that. And if you're using batteries, it's a lot cheaper to charge them with solar than with nuclear.
by WFGY | 2025-06-23 14:24:35+00:00
Thanks for the kind words! Honestly? Claude messed with my head the most. Instead of answering, it reflected the question back at me like some kind of AI Zen master

But Gemini pulled something even crazier — it rewrote my prompt into a corporate mission statement I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Each of them has their own “personality,” which is what made this challenge so wild. And yeah, dropping the data open-source was part courage, part madness, part… strategy

Still curious which one you think held up the best?
by kordlessagain | 2025-06-23 14:26:26+00:00
> A quick notification-style way of responding to agent prompts across all branches. This has been built in standalone agent manager tools, but I can't use those tools effectively when I need to quickly jump in and be an engineer.

I tried, unsuccessfully, to write a plugin for VSCode that would let Claude run a tool to jump me to the file and line it was editing. It sorta worked but kept hanging.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-23 14:26:50+00:00
> If AI winter comes, we at least get to keep the powerplants and receive clean power for decades.

When the AI winter comes, it’s not going to mean the energy devoted to AI applications decreases, it’ll mean the perception of rapid future expansion in profits fueling VC interest in AI goes away. It’s not like we cut back the aggregate energy cohsumption of systems running, say, rule-based expert systems during the last AI winter.
by somat | 2025-06-23 14:26:53+00:00
Think early 90's computers, and everything required to run a X server well. lots of memory, nice graphics, a nice cpu to move those graphics around. despite being technically thin clients, Dedicated X servers were not cheap.

It is sort of like the anecdote about an early sys-admin who traced down a problem with the new department laser printer locking up for hours to one engineer who had to be told to knock it off when he explained that he was printing nothing, But the printer had, by far, the most powerful CPU in the building so he ported all his simulation programs to postscript and was running them on the printer.
by aristofun | 2025-06-23 14:27:06+00:00
Brutal truth: most software engineers engineer for the sake of it. Experienced and not.

For the art (more complex system you create - more fun and challenges you will get) and for the money (more complex system you create - more work you create for yourself and colleagues, job security).

Playing with new shiny toys fulfills both desires.

That doesn't mean toys are not getting better. They do. Slowly. Because business keeps the pressure on shipping the results, not spending time fighting another js bundler configuration hell or SuperFancyNewAbstractFactoryBuilderSpringKillerWebFramework.

We don't think about business and don't like to think about it. We want to feel very important, we hate to realize that most of the time we are just tools to reach business goals.
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-23 14:28:06+00:00
Phrased like that, it's indeed problematic. But you should keep in mind that speeding is

1. A safety hazard

2. Causes high noise pollution

3. Measurably increases air pollution

Under these circumstances I feel like a citizen driven enforcement for the law is not quite bad as you are portraying it. I would even call it apploudable, because they increase the quantity of life for everyone in their neighborhood.