MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WalterBright | 2025-06-25 01:53:46+00:00
Real estate prices swing around, wax and wane, just like the stock market does. It's just that there is no real estate price ticker.

Investing in the S&P 500 is even less effort. The last time I bought a house, I had to carefully read and sign about 50 pages of legal papers. Buying stocks is just pushing a button.
by thequietmind | 2025-06-25 01:53:50+00:00
I built this simple little React + Vite app that displays MDX documents. My goal was to create a simple way to document my design system with MDX files. I am a big fan of Markdown for documenting things. I like the low barrier to entry in terms of there being no real learning curve. If you can type, you can pretty much write markdown. This is geared towards React developers who want to document their components in MDX with no fuss. Posting here in case anyone else finds it useful.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-06-25 01:55:01+00:00
I use Debian stable. I'm utterly unafraid Debian's security patches, in fact I just accept them on my home server boxes without inspection. The same can not be said for Windows - I'm seen Windows security upgrades render boxes unbootable.

Moving between between versions is a different matter. Yes, Windows does it better, but not reliably enough for me to trust it. So for both Debian and Windows it's a case of replace the drive, and do a fresh install. In Debian's case, zstd < /dev/sda >/mnt/usb/sda-backup.zstd also works, if you have time to kill. Copying everything to a squashfs image also works well.

If your using Ubunt then your experience will be different. People who choosing Ubuntu over Debian is as perplexing to me as people voluntarily using Windows.
Ask HN: Is anyone using AMD GPUs for their AI workloads?
by technoabsurdist | 2025-06-25 01:55:07+00:00
^ title. I've been renting MI300Xs coz they are cheaper than H100s and my experience has been generally OK (smoother than i expected based on people shitting on AMD so much online). ROCm 6.x seems decent out of the box now, and I'll happily spend 30 more minutes setting up my GPU if it means 20% cheaper. that being said, it's still annoying to run inference for LLMs on AMD's hardware (e.g. You have to install vLLM from source). And there are some other small details which still suck. As a small example, nvidia-smi gives you a nice clear interface while rocm-smi dumps 3 pages of context that's hard to navigate.

would be curious to hear experiences from other folks experimenting with AI workloads.
by wraptile | 2025-06-25 01:56:02+00:00
I live in Thailand as an expat and I have the inverse of your experience and more a kin to this article.

There just so many examples like the ones mentioned in the article. When I lived in Chiang Mai I'd just take my bike to any direction and always find something - be it a small noodle cart or a cafe someone opened up in their back yard or a small bar right under an abandoned hotel.

It's incredible how many invisible effects viability of small businesses have on a society.
by sandworm101 | 2025-06-25 01:56:13+00:00
>> Third-Degree Price Discrimination: The seller charges different prices to different groups of consumers based on identifiable traits or segments, often tied to different demand elasticities. Common examples in airlines include offering discounts to seniors, students, or military, or more broadly, the use of market segmentation by travel purpose.

Military discounts are not a marketing trick. Some companies actually want to be nice to those who serve. Many a corporate leaders are themselves vets.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-25 01:56:50+00:00
I did the same thing for several iterations and all of the responses were equally helpful.

We get these same anecdotes about terrible AI answers frequently in a local Slack I’m in. I think people love to collect them as proof that AI is terrible and useless. Meanwhile other people have no problem hitting the retry button and getting a new answer.

Some of the common causes of bad or weird responses that I’ve learned from having this exact same conversation over and over again:

- Some people use one never-ending singular session with Copilot chat, unaware that past context is influencing the answer to their next question. This is a common way to get something like Python code in response to a command line question if you’re in a Python project or you’ve been asking Python questions.

- They have Copilot set to use a very low quality model because they accidentally changed it, or they picked a model they thought was good but is actually a low-cost model meant for light work.

- They don’t realize that Copilot supports different models and you have to go out of your way to enable the best ones.

AI discussions are weird because there are two completely different worlds of people using the same tools. Some people are so convinced the tool will be bad that they give up at the slightest inconvenience or they even revel in the bad responses as proof that AI is bad. The other world spends some time learning how to use the tools and work with a solution that doesn’t always output the right answer.

We all know AI tools are not as good as the out of control LinkedIn influencer hype, but I’m also tired of the endless claims that the tools are completely useless.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-06-25 01:58:09+00:00
The installers are coming from random people on the Internet. Most software repositories have trusted contributors and a policy of requiring a piece of software be arguably worthy of inclusion. Perhaps because Microsoft is afraid to pick winners, every piece of garbage is allowed on winget, and there's no way to restrict who can make changes to what packages.

There are ISVs that would like to lock down their software so they can maintain it but a trillion dollar company couldn't spare a dollar to figure out a "business process" to do this. As far as I know, Microsoft has a single employee involved who has laughed off any security concerns with "well the automated malware scanner would find it".

The "community contributors" were just... people active on GitHub when they launched it. Was anyone vetted in any way? No.

The Microsoft Store has actual app reviewers, winget has... "eh, lgtm".
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-25 01:59:06+00:00
It seems to be an unpopular opinion here. But the last thing I want to do when I get off of work is touch a computer. I haven’t desired to be a hobbyist developer nor have I written a single line of code that I haven’t gotten paid for since the day I walked across the stage with my CS degree in 1996. I was hobbyist for 10 years before then.

Life is too short to spend in front of computer.

Writing software funds my joy.
by csoups14 | 2025-06-25 02:01:59+00:00
A realistic fair share is probably some colloquial measure of people and corporations being equally angry about their taxes and equally angry about others not paying their fair share. It's my personal opinion that corporations have it way too good in the current system, specifically because they've spent millions to find ways to save billions, which people cannot reasonably do, and because they've also spent millions buying our political processes off to ensure tax laws don't meaningfully change.
by shams93 | 2025-06-25 02:03:17+00:00
There's no point because there's few things as human as writing a novel. Also I think these models work great for technical generation of things like code, but it doesn't take imagination to do engineering work. Also look at the way these data centers compete with humans for resources like power and clean water, and the surveillance nightmare we're looking at with the dovetailing of authoritarian rule and total information awareness.
Show HN: MyCashCube – A Free Budgeting App That Respects Your Privacy
by AmirNajari | 2025-06-25 02:03:52+00:00
Hey HN,

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After years of using over-complicated or data-hungry tools, I wanted something simple, fast, and respectful of user privacy. So I built MyCashCube with these goals:

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Visual dashboards for clear insights

Recurring transactions & undoable changes

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It’s built using Next.js + AWS Amplify and works well on both desktop and mobile. I’d love your feedback on UX, performance, and features you'd expect from a privacy-first finance app.

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Happy to answer any questions or chat about the tech stack and design choices!
by dawnofdusk | 2025-06-25 02:03:54+00:00
In the diagonalization you don't need to assume the existence of any real numbers. Just on the left hand side you write down, formally, any sort of numbers that have decimal expansions that may be infinite. Rational numbers have infinite decimal expansions too, it's just that they will eventually repeat, but at this stage it's not necessary to think about what the properties of these infinite decimal expansions actually mean. Then the diagonalization argument shows that this set of numbers with infinite decimal expansions are uncountable and also contain the rationals. This still doesn't define the real numbers yet: to do so one needs to think about the Euclidean metric on the rationals and how to complete it.
by paulfharrison | 2025-06-25 02:06:55+00:00
Here's a scenario. You're running a cluster, and your users are biologists producing large datasets. They need to run some very specific command line software to assemble genomes. They need to edit SLURM scripts over SSH. This is all far outside their comfort zone. You need to point them at a text editor, which one do you choose?

I've met biologists who enjoy the challenge of vim, but they are rare. nano does the job, but it's fugly. micro is a bit better, and my current recommendation. They are not perfect experiences out of the box. If Microsoft can make that out of the box experience better, something they are very good at, then more power to them. If you don't like Microsoft, make something similar.
by martinrue | 2025-06-25 02:07:17+00:00
Reading this I totally feel the hacker vibes that carried me through my teens. Just sitting down and building something cool for the fun of it. Nice work! I once did something similar in C to create a 2d isometric training campus where I could teach others C on a whiteboard. I made the walls in Paint, just like you mentioned! One of the most fun things I ever made.
by jjkaczor | 2025-06-25 02:07:54+00:00
Places are filled with people... 70 million of whom wanted this nonsense and another 90 million too apathetic to vote, so willing to accept whatever the incoming administration would be.

Sure - America is a beautiful country, and people that I had met while on vacations and business trips were all very nice - I have driven thousands of miles (to/from Las Vegas from AB, Florida from ON) and never had a bad experience. But - unfortunately, the current political and cultural climate down there is just a little too "hot" - I hope it works out for the average person, but I don't have high hopes.
by XYZ_Entropy | 2025-06-25 02:08:17+00:00
Welcome to TC-Light! This is a repo used to manipulate the illumination of high-dynamic videos such as motion-rich actions and frequent switching of foreground and background objects. It is distinguished by:

Outstanding Temporal Consistency on Highly Dynamic Scenarios. Superior Computational Efficiency that Enables Long Video Processing (can process 300 frames with resolution of 1280x720 on 40G A100).

These features make it particularly suitable for sim2real and real2real augmentation for Embodied Agents or preparing video pairs to train stronger video relighting models. Don't hesitate to visit our project page and paper to learn more details.

arXiv Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18904 Project Page: https://dekuliutesla.github.io/tclight/ HuggingFace Daily Paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2506.18904
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-06-25 02:08:47+00:00
Caveat, this is a blog post for a science comedy podcast.

The actual science is much simpler than that comedic explanation: recent experiments suggest time emerges from quantum entanglement between particles/systems. When quantum systems interact and become correlated, observers inside those systems experience what we call "time." External observers see the whole system as static and timeless.

But that's about measurement and observation in physics experiments - not about consciousness being special or rocks having "experiences" or the universe being some kind of cosmic computer.
by billforsternz | 2025-06-25 02:09:11+00:00
> Throughout the product lifecycle, continuous software upgrades strengthen the security, performance, power consumption, and functionality of products in the field.

This doesn't feel right to me. Back in the day when I started in embedded systems you would have to get it right before you shipped it. That had it's own problems of course, but at least you knew where you stood and if something worked well it would continue to work well until the hardware died.

Also I think the right word grammatically is continual not continuous. I suspect they changed it because continual software upgrades sounds terrifying.
by rayiner | 2025-06-25 02:09:46+00:00
Patents are both overprotective and underprotective. Out of a desire to screen out patent litigation that lacks merit, we have made the system unbelievably expensive for all but the most well funded litigants. That, in turn, has helped the biggest companies. Their freedom to infringe with impunity becomes part of the moat that helps preserve their market position.
by jumploops | 2025-06-25 02:09:57+00:00
I’ve long suspected that there’s an inverse correlation between novelty and population density (to a point).

I remember reading a story about the early days of transistors (Walter Brattain, is described as being a "farm boy and a born tinkerer”), and first having this thought.

My (probably wrong) tl;dr is that cities are great for spreading/growing products and technology, but that the monotony of suburbs is better suited for the exploration of unknown territory.

I’d love to be wrong about this (building in SF atm), but it’s been a nagging thought in the back of my brain (move to Silicon Valley proper).

What am I missing?
by 12345hn6789 | 2025-06-25 02:11:15+00:00
It's been increasingly more obvious people on hacker news literally do not run these supposed prompts through LLMs. I bet you could run that prompt 10 times and it would never give up without producing a (probably fine) sh command.

Read the replies. Many folks have called gpt-4.1 through copilot and get (seemingly) valid responses.
by smurpy | 2025-06-25 02:13:00+00:00
We don’t have much trouble yet with relativistic temporal distortions, but Earth’s motion causes us to lose about 0.152 seconds per year relative to the Solar system. Likewise we lose about 8.5 seconds per year relative to the Milky Way. I wonder when we’re going to start to care. Presumably there would be consideration of such issues while dealing with interplanetary spacecraft, timing burns and such.
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-06-25 02:13:46+00:00
Entropy definitely gives time a clear arrow/direction (why we remember past but not future), but entropy itself is statistical/emergent from many particles.

So we might have time's flow emerging from quantum correlations while time's direction remains real due to thermodynamic entropy. It's like asking if "up" exists, gravity creates real directional asymmetry even though "up" emerges from mass distributions.

Maybe time's arrow is real even if time's existence is emergent? Though honestly this is where my physics knowledge hits its limits!
by zahlman | 2025-06-25 02:14:57+00:00
Breaking changes don't break everyone. For many projects, only a small fraction of users are broken any given time. Firefox is on version 139 (similarly Chrome and other web browsers); how many times have you had to reinstall your plugins and extensions?

For that matter, have you seen any Python unit tests written before the Pytest 8 release that were broken by it? I think even ones that I wrote in the 6.x era would still run.

For that matter, the Python 3.x bytecode changes with every minor revision and things get removed from the standard library following a deprecation schedule, etc., and there's a tendency in the ecosystem to drop support for EOL Python versions, just to not have to think about it - but tons of (non-async) new code would likely work as far back as 3.6. It's not hard to avoid the := operator or the match statement (f-strings are definitely more endemic than that).

On the flip side, you can never really be sure what will break someone. Semver is an ideal, not reality (https://hynek.me/articles/semver-will-not-save-you).

And lots of projects are on calver anyway.
by resonious | 2025-06-25 02:15:02+00:00
As someone who just uses Linux but doesn't write compositor code or really know how they work: Wayland supports fractional scaling way better than X11. At least I was unable to get X11 to do 1.5x scale at all. The advice was always "just increase font size in every app you use".

Then when you're on Wayland using fractional scaling, XWayland apps look very blurry all the time while Wayland-native apps look great.
by kristopolous | 2025-06-25 02:15:46+00:00
The authors of the Roth IRA, which initially had a $2,000 annual contribution cap were not intending it to be used by someone with $21,800,000,000 to avoid taxes on $5,000,000,000.

I really don't know how this is difficult unless you're trying to be a troll or somehow miraculously don't comprehend how numbers work.
by nisa | 2025-06-25 02:16:01+00:00
It's not only public facing websites - Azure is also pretty inconsistent and lately any offer to preview a new UI was a downgrade and I happily reverted back - it's like they have a mandatory font and whitespace randomizer for any product. Also while far from a power user I've hit glitches that caused support tickets and are avoidable with clearer UX. Copilot in Azure - if it works at all - has been pretty useless.
by jodrellblank | 2025-06-25 02:19:26+00:00
Traditionally grinding things with stone ended up with people eating stone which ground their teeth down[1]:

> "A. When soft stone like sandstone was used for milling grain, as the ancient Egyptians often did, residue from millstones could cause a serious problem over a lifetime, said Dr. Robert K. Ritner, associate professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Egyptian teeth have been well studied in mummies, and only the rare mummy had good teeth, said Dr. Ritner, who lectures on Egyptian medicine. ''They usually had heavy abrasion, and were sometimes so worn down at the crown that the pulp or even the root was exposed, which must have been horribly painful,'' he said. The Egyptians were obsessive about cleanliness, using a natural soda compound called natron for cleaning the mouth and sometimes a chewing reed to massage the teeth. They had few cavities, and the damage seen in studies pioneered by the English researcher F. Filce Leek almost certainly resulted from the residue of disintegrating millstones."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/06/science/q-a-teeth-and-mil...

[2] https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-whole-grains-damage-you...
by shadow-ninja | 2025-06-25 02:20:27+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. I am constantly trying to refine the scoring metrics to make sure that these popular extensions that often need high permissions aren't flagged as a lower score than they should receive. It is a bit difficult though as higher permissions do indicate a higher potential for abuse so its a balancing act. As for showcasing the vulnerabilities that's a good idea I'll definitely implement.
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-25 02:20:36+00:00
This country was founded on the idea that rights transcend government and that a government cannot grant rights because rights do not come from law, but from human dignity intrinsic to all of us. If rights are derived from human dignity, then a government cannot grant them, it can only protect them. If a government were to grant rights, then they would be privileges and not rights. You can read the American founder's document's which are steeped in this exact and specific language.

What we are seeing now is an assault on the idea of rights. This border control action is a salami slicing tactic against the idea of rights itself. To rob others of their dignity... their freedom to express themselves and form their own beliefs and convictions without consequences from the government means that it is no longer a right to have your own opinions and assessments, but instead that is a privilege reserved only for "the protected."

Rights exist as a counter-force to tyranny and the entire idea, language, and history of rights exists in the context of when it is justified to break the rules of authoritarian governments and fight tyranny. To call something a right is to say it is worth breaking the law to protect because it exists above law. The declaration of independence is absolutely crystal clear that rights supersede law which is why the founders of America were justified in violating British law and forming a government that protects rights rather than violates them.

When you do not protect the rights of others, it is a prelude to losing your own rights because once a right is turned into a privilege for anybody, structurally it has been turned into a privilege for everybody because the "right" is no longer derived from human dignity, but from law. Eventually you will disagree with those in power, and you will come to discover the same techniques used to weaken others rights will weaken your own. There is always a pretext or game to be played. Slavery was made illegal, but prisoners are allowed to be enslaved. Drug law turned people into criminals, which gave the government permission to take away their rights and force them into slave labor, which is a clear moral hazard. Denaturalization is something that can happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturalization#Human_rights

If freedom of speech can only be denied to those who are not protected by state, then the state will figure out how to put you in the class of unprotected people, whether that is foreigner or criminal.

By the time you feel at risk of your own rights being violated, you will find yourself and everyone else have been habituated to ask if that specific person's rights should be protected rather than if a right has been violated or if you would feel robbed of your own dignity in that same situation, and the answer will be no, because the cost of answering yes will be too unbearable to acknowledge because doing so both creates a sense of personal responsibility and puts you at mortal risk while simultaneously making you feel alone, since nobody else seems to be provoked enough to act.
by soueuls | 2025-06-25 02:21:04+00:00
I have traveled extensively to both the US and China (where I did a master degree) several years ago.

I did not keep the count of many times I crossed each borders, but I can assure you it was pretty much always easier to get into China than it was to get into the US (and that was before Trump).

Chinese authorities are no jokes, but the amount of non sense you need to put up to get into the free land, is very high.