MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2025-06-30 06:45:54+00:00
There's a rural mindset some have that looks outside at the world not inside at the house.

A dumpy trailer where you sleep is fine as long as you have .. a good horse, freedom to roam, a powerful truck to tow horses, .. etc.

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHJFfSmnCnY prefer the sky and land to a good house in the city.
by EngineeringStuf | 2025-06-30 06:45:59+00:00
Yes, absolutely. Although that would require care and forethought regarding unintended consequences.

Most roads will lead back to consultancies stepping-in because the government org will likely lack the skills. And it's very easy for a consultancy to claim they're experts, but throw an army of graduates at it.

Interoperability between rules based systems (and legacy) software need to be considered too. It's a massive problem that will grow with time... Most government departments have some form of every generation of technology.
by muzani | 2025-06-30 06:46:01+00:00
Bars usually have a whole funnel around getting more women in. Whether it's free drinks, quiz nights hosted by cute girls, the bouncer thing where they filter out some people.

We once had a guest lecturer who broke down the ROI of making the ladies bathrooms beautiful (but not the men's). Presumably it leads to more alcohol consumption, which is where the margins are. I think restaurants in the UK make almost no money on the food itself.
by icsrutil | 2025-06-30 06:46:08+00:00
* I'm working on the Mnyify(https://mnyify.com), a AI expense tracker app. * I would ship another Sass web application that will minimize the notification this year. * I'm working on the CJK message display on the Meshtastic device, it's pretty much done, but still has a some refinement need to do.

Meshtastic is fun!
by jpc0 | 2025-06-30 06:46:55+00:00
I think you vastly underestimate how difficult the task you are proposing would be without depth or pressure indication, even for a super intelligence like humans.

Simple concept, pick up a glass and pour its content into a vertical hole the approximate size of your mouth. Think of all the failure modes that can be triggered in the trivial example you do multiple times a day, to do the same from a single camera feed with no other indicators would take you hours to master and you already are a super intelligent being.
by bgarbiak | 2025-06-30 06:46:56+00:00
I once shouted into the phone while on a call with a helpline person. They screwed me over with an invoice that looked like a contract extension (domain, hosting), but turned out was an invoice for a separate, second contract for services I don’t need, nor I didn’t order (antivirus for an e-mail, a paid SSL certificate). A pretty blatant phishing-alike fraud. Later I found it’s their MO.

When the person told me that he understands my disappointment but he can’t do anything, and I need to call another number within the company and, ideally, send them a letter via snail mail - I snapped. I shouted that I’m not calling anyone else and it that is their job to fix it, not mine, and I don’t care which department does what in their company, it’s the helpline person to know this and do all the steps necessary to help me get the money back. The guy asked me to calm down and I hung up.

Not my proudest moment, but you know what? The same day I got mail from them with apologies. They nullified the new contract and moved the money to the correct account.

Shame that the corporate greed degrades people to these levels of pity, and it’s not a lesson I’d like to teach my kids, but sadly: in many cases being the nice guy gets you nowhere.
by iamthemonster | 2025-06-30 06:46:59+00:00
In Australia you start with a birth certificate and photo, and that leads to passport and driving licence. The three of those are the holy trinity of ID (though you'd very rarely be asked for your birth certificate).

With passport and driving licence, you can do anything you want, but at least they are photo ID with some anti-forgery features.

The time to steal someone's identity is before they get their first driver's licence and passport!
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-30 06:47:14+00:00
>> I could pay off my car tomorrow. But I'll have more money in the end keeping that cash in the bank. Why would I pay it off early?

> Your logic works out fine if you don't mind a dash of risk (e.g. from a job loss).

I notice that no part of your comment actually describes this risk. What is it? Assuming you have the cash in hand, and it's earning more interest than the interest on your car financing, how would losing your job affect the situation?

The only effect I see is that it will dramatically increase the amount of that extra interest you actually collect, by lowering your tax rate.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-06-30 06:47:15+00:00
It's not merely an issue of obtaining materially desirable consumer goods though; lots of folks get car loans because they can't afford to buy a car, even a cheap car, without one. So it's either, don't get a car and give up a lot of opportunities or hope you live in a place with decent public transit (which is not a given in many places in the US)
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 06:47:51+00:00
I hope it is reliable. The main reason I came back to iPhone from Android was that the 3 Android phones I bought from different manufacturers all had time and clock and time-zone related issues that made them unreliable, especially when traveling.

The iPhone has been rock solid with Alarms. Hopefully AlarmKit is also rock solid, but my first-hand experience with new Apple "Kits" has been very poor.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-30 06:48:09+00:00
If we're considering Node-Red, it would not be amiss to also mention N8N - which, mirroring the IFTTT/Zapier split, is basically the opposite of Node-Red on the "let's turn this into an enterprise product" scale.

> Do we really not having anything coming close to the usefulness of Yahoo Pipes yet?

I don't know of anything. There's some new products I saw heavily promoted on LinkedIn, but at first glance they feel like IFTTT with a shiny coat of paint.

> What would a modern alternative look like and how would it work?

At this point I think ComfyUI or the node editor in Blender would be the best; they're oriented for different kinds of workflows, but UIs of both are excellent in their own ways, and the rest is a matter of implementing the right blocks.
Show HN: AGI-SaaS v1.0.0 – Modular Python RAG Framework for LLM Pipelines
by diamajax | 2025-06-30 06:48:21+00:00
I’m excited to share AGI-SaaS v1.0.0, an open-source Python framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): • Plugin-based LLM pipelines • Async, concurrent API calls • Supports OpenRouter, OpenAI & llama.cpp

Get started: pip install agi-saas==1.0.0

Feedback & ideas welcome!
by NetOpWibby | 2025-06-30 06:48:58+00:00
About a year after the Apple Store opened on Boylston Street in Boston, a Microsoft Store popped up across the street in the Prudential Center. I only ever went in to get a replacement for my Microsoft Arc Mouse that I used with my MacBook (LOL). It was a funny store because the employees felt like it was their moral duty to be the antithesis to Apple...which didn't make sense because the Apple Store had bigger crowds than they did, and that's even after Microsoft added an Xbox play area.

Anyhoo, they shuttered pretty quickly (Apple Store is still there, of course).
by adev_ | 2025-06-30 06:49:03+00:00
> A lot of software is built and optimized for x86 and EPYC processors are really good so it is hard to get into arm, don’t think that many companies use it.

That is just not true.

Nowadays, most OSS software and most server side software will run without any hinch on armv8.

A tremendous amount of work has been done to speed up common software on armv8, partially due to popularity of mobile as a platform but also and to the emergence of ARM servers (Graviton / Neoverses) in the major Cloud providers infrastructure.
by Expurple | 2025-06-30 06:49:19+00:00
> Overuse of macros is a symptom of missing language capabilities.

Agree.

> I think non-local flow control (i.e. exceptions) with automated causal chaining (like Python) is a good language design point

Stronly disagree: https://home.expurple.me/posts/rust-solves-the-issues-with-e...

> There should also have been an enforced "does not panic" annotation like noexcept in C++.

noexcept DOES NOT mean that the function can't throw an exception! It just means that, when it does, it aborts the program instead of unwinding into the calling function. Quoting cppreference [1]:

> Non-throwing functions are permitted to call potentially-throwing functions. Whenever an exception is thrown and the search for a handler encounters the outermost block of a non-throwing function, the function std::terminate is called

> And Drop implementations should not be allowed to panic. Ever.

Should `panic=abort` panics be allowed in Drop? They are effectively the same as std::process::exit. Do you want to mark and ban that too?

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/noexcept_spec.htm...
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-30 06:49:22+00:00
> that would make using your APIs very annoying

For Objective C, using named parameters is the only way to call methods. I don't think I read many critique about this particular aspect. IMO it's actually a good thing and increases readability quite a bit.

For JavaScript/TypeScript React codebase, using objects as a poor man's named parameters also very popular approach.

Also I'd like to add, that it seems a recent trend to add feature to IDEs, where it'll add hint for every parameter, somewhat simulating named parameters. So when you write `mymethod(value)`, it'll display it as `mymethod(param:value)`.

So may be not very annoying.

The only little thing I'd like to borrow from JavaScript is using "shortcut", so you could replace `x=x` with `x`, if your local variable happened to have the same name, as parameter name (which happens often enough).
by dudeinjapan | 2025-06-30 06:49:24+00:00
Zero-Trust, secretless, ZTNA, BeyondCorp, A2A, AI gateway, next gen --> buzzwords

API gateway, MCP, Oauth, VPN --> not buzzwords

The defining characteristics of buzzword are that is very broad, promises "pie-in-the-sky", and almost universally under-delivered by every vendor while incurring very steep costs. In other words, the reason "zero-trust" scares people is because they have probably been burned N times but Oracle, Okta, etc. etc. incurring large costs to achieve underwhelming/non-functioning results, often times paying $$$ to solve imagined infinity-scale problems that don't even apply to the current org size, or even 10x the size.

API gateways, MCP, VPNs are tangible things that fill fairly mundane roles, it is not hard to envision how they can be used to solve real-world properties. I can easily envision dropping an "API gateway" in front of "MCP" in my stack. ZTNA however I cannot just sprinkle on my stack as if it were magic pixie dust...

It doesn't mean that ZTNA should be outright banned everywhere, but when you do use it, you need very careful to define an exact meaning expressed in terms of non-buzzword components.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-06-30 06:50:53+00:00
An old colleague of mine went through the process of doing gridfinity. One of his main struggles was getting boxes that fit his power tools perfectly. He was looking for a way to easily get a shape of the tool into CAD. What’s the most straightforward and effective way to get a CAD representation of a solid these days? Of course there are expensive solutions but is there anything reasonably achievable in the DIY space?
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 06:51:05+00:00
My second job was somehow a cool job for a remote Microsoft office.

The people I worked with REALLY tried and cared to deliver what the bigger MS office asked for, but the distributed nature of the organization combined with a lack of unifying vision made delivering something great almost impossible.

Even with dedication, the result would be half-baked Wizards and ASP "solutions" that met the punch list requirements
by LouDNL | 2025-06-30 06:51:19+00:00
This month I released USBSID-Pico v1.3 pcb via PCBWay and Retro8BitStore and yesterday firmware version v0.5.0-BETA. The new pcb now supports mixed MOS6581 / MOS8580 chips (voltage) at the same time and new firmware brings a lot of tweaks and improvements making Commodore64 digitunes play better on Windows.

USBSID-Pico is a RPi Pico (RP2040/W RP2350/W) based board for interfacing one or two MOS SID chips and/or hardware SID emulators over (WEB)USB with your computer, phone, ASID supporting player or USB midi controller.

More info at https://github.com/LouDnl/USBSID-Pico
by EngineeringStuf | 2025-06-30 06:51:29+00:00
I used to work in Spend Controls in Cabinet Office, so I got to see this across about 20 UK Government departments.

It's a bit of a race to the bottom regarding outsourcing, there are good companies and there are good technologist's but they never last more than a few years due to poor contracts, poor decision-making and poor pay.

I've actually seen some very good companies deliver on time and under budget, but then the company fails because they did the job too well and follow-up work wasn't needed.

I think that for outsourcing companies "wage theft" and doing just enough to meet the contract are core components of their business. That is, they need to optimise for high fees, low pay and the bare-minimum in quality.
by chmod775 | 2025-06-30 06:51:38+00:00
This article communicates what this is about very poorly, so I'm not surprised a lot of people are asking "what is so special about this train?".

The answer is: Nothing. Many ICE trains have the capability to go that fast* - and some already surpassed these speeds on test tracks decades ago. It's really nothing special to make a train go these speeds.

What this test was supposed to show is that the real track (not a test track) between Erfurt and Leipzig/Halle can now support trains going that fast. Having compatible tracks is the real challenge (and cost sink) for high speed transport, not the trains themselves. Creating high speed track that is safe and usable in year-round conditions while being affordable to build and maintain is surprisingly hard.

* ICE-3s reached up to 368 km/h in tests, though ICE-4s are designed for more economical speeds in the 200-300 range and currently limited to 265km/h in software for safe operation.
by lloydjones | 2025-06-30 06:52:09+00:00
I’m the technical co-founder of Visibil (https://visibil.ai), an LLMO and SEO automation platform. It’s unique in that (unlike similar solutions) it doesn’t have a brittle JS-based content “hijacker” (which normally pulls the content changes from the SaaS’ database and therefore stops if you stop paying), but rather it updates the user’s CMS.
by blululu | 2025-06-30 06:52:28+00:00
On principle no it is not surprising given the points you mention. But there are some results recently that suggest that an ai can become misaligned in unrelated area when it is misaligned in others: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424

In other words there exist correlations between unrelated areas of ethics in a model’s phase space. Agreed that we don’t really understand llm’s that well.
by carlnewton | 2025-06-30 06:52:36+00:00
I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted platform for communities to discover their local area. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet. I've made some good progress recently. I've added the ability to temporarily freeze user accounts, custom WYSIWYG editing for sidebar content and functionality that allows the administrator to set site-wide announcements to appear and disappear at specific dates/times. I also got some great feedback from users of my instance of it for my local town and so fixed some bugs.

- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...

- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
by globular-toast | 2025-06-30 06:52:59+00:00
And it's even more ridiculous because we don't even have the space for these things. People driving round in these monstrosities, struggling down narrow lanes or into parking spaces. Is nobody able to see further than their nose? What are you going to do when everyone has one? I suppose demand bigger roads, more parking etc. And who's going to pay for that? A classic tragedy of the commons.
by goku12 | 2025-06-30 06:53:37+00:00
Does anybody feel sympathy for a terrorist? If your answer is yes, then you're unsympathetic towards numerous innocent others who have or may fall prey to them. Your sympathy becomes selective and meaningless.

This might sound like a hyperbole, but the comparison to terrorism is relevant here. The DOGE cuts have a cost in terms of human lives. I have no conclusive sources to show for it, but some estimates put it at 300K till date. Even Bill Gates criticized it. And Elon laughed and scoffed at it when he was asked about it. Drugs are not an excuse for any of it, since it was his choice and nobody's addiction should cause the deaths of thousands. Frankly, the greed of billionaires seem to have a bigger cost in terms of suffering and lives than even terrorists do. So please stop giving these humans devoid of any empathy, the benefit of your humanity.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-06-30 06:54:46+00:00
Car manufacturers that cannot build affordable cars are going extinct. 12000$ for a new electric car in China. That is the real competition.

I don't care about the prestige of owning a car, it is a utility for me that will never be worth 60000$. You can pay me 500000$ yearly and I would reconsider.
by unwind | 2025-06-30 06:55:14+00:00
The smallest members of the family are 8-pin devices with 14 KB flash memory and 1 KB of RAM. They cost around $0.60 in quantities of one. That is typically not a platform where you would need/be able to se a specialized SERDES, since it's not powerful enough to deal with a lot of data.

I think the CLB is intended to "eat" some basic latches and/or gates that might en up on boards in industrial/control environments, i.e. push very simple logic stuff with perhaps high demands on timing and reliability into the already-programmable part.

Sounds kind of nice, but (as an actual embedded software developer) I would hesitate to commit to a platform that requires using a remote server to generate parts of my code. :|
by vineyardmike | 2025-06-30 06:55:17+00:00
> it doesn't seem like the BOM is the main factor in the price of existing CGMs anyway

No. A huge reason for the cost is (1) costs in R&D but also (2) the customer service/replacement requirements/etc required for medical devices.

If you were diabetic, and had a prescription for these devices, you'd be able to call Abott/Dexcom and get a replacement to a failed device shipped to you overnight. If the device didn't last the fully spec'd lifespan, you'd be eligible for replacements... etc
by Hojojo | 2025-06-30 06:55:41+00:00
Even Germany has this figured out. Getting a new passport just required me to make an appointment, fill out an online form and go to the appointment with a single person. The only document I needed was my personal ID. Took like 15 minutes, not including the wait before I was called up. I feel like if Germany can get its shit together, any other country can too.

If you're applying for your very first personal ID, then you need to bring a birth certificate and another adult who already has an ID, but it's also something that's been trivial to do for years now.
by greyface- | 2025-06-30 06:56:19+00:00
> sustain current miner revenue

Why should this be the goal?

I'm sure miners would love to see their revenue never decrease, but this isn't a problem for users or for the security of the network. Block reward does not need to remain at or above current levels forever; it just needs to remain predictable from block to block. Difficulty adjustment works both up and down, even if we've only seen it go up so far. The 51% risk is overblown - the network is significantly overprotected right now, and we could stand to lose a few orders of magnitude without jeopardizing security/availability. Plus, it might even placate the energy consumption doomsayers.

As GP notes, empty blocks are now common, which is in fact a bigger risk in a low-subsidy environment. Maybe we should instead reduce minrelaytxfee to 0.1 sat/vB to incentivize full blocks.
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 06:57:44+00:00
The Cayenne is one of the only SUVs I looked at where the sales experience made me more interested in the brand & left me with a good impression of the dealer.

I hadn't seriously considered a Porsche until I learned they make niche parts for cars for decades - like interior bits and trim that most brands stop making/carrying after about 10 years. You can get parts for a 2002-2016 Cayenne at the dealer, but even though it shares a TON of components with the 2002-2016 Touareg you won't be able to get the parts from VW that you can still source from Porsche for those same years.
by ttctciyf | 2025-06-30 06:57:56+00:00
Despite the clickbaity title (in the original it EVEN has tabloid caps), actually a very interesting long form interview with Karen Hao, an MIT alumnus acquainted with several OpenAI execs since university, whose recently published Empire of AI[0] offers an informed, critical look at the AI explosion in Big Tech.

For example, I think this has the best exposition of OpenAI corporate history and Altman's part in it that I've encountered.

The interviewer, while annoyingly keen to inject his own political slant, at least asks some decent questions and knows how to sit quiet listening to the answers.

0: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai...
by pjmlp | 2025-06-30 06:58:37+00:00
They follow a similar system like plane tickets.

Depending on the train you get, either you get a really nice travel, or some experience that doesn't reflect the plane like price ticket, and might leave you with some bad taste regarding train traveling.

Having canceled trains, crowded ICEs, either due to missing reservations as they are optional and anyone can get into one provided valid ticket, or because passagers from a canceled ICE needed to jump into an already crowded one, missign connections by 5m, being stuck in the middle of nowhere, only some WC work across the whole train, they decided to not have a wagon bar on a hot summer day,.....

The fun of train traveling, all great when stars align.
by Someone | 2025-06-30 06:58:59+00:00
If you use AWS, lots of software can easily be run on Graviton, and lots of companies do that.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/:

“Bernstein's report estimates that Graviton represented about 20 percent of AWS CPU instances by mid-2022“

And that’s three years ago. Graviton instances are cheaper than (more or less) equivalent x86 ones on AWS, so I think it’s a safe bet that number has gone up since.
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 06:59:01+00:00
What are you comparing this to? I have a slew of phones near me and when I pick up an Android device it usually feels like a stuttery mess multiple times in regular use, even compared to a basic prepaid iPhone SE from 2022 which might only be 60Hz but doesn't randomly jerk around and freeze like every 120Hz Android seems to do
by Wurdan | 2025-06-30 06:59:14+00:00
Isn't it also true that that area around Leipzig has been a thorn in the side of DB since the fall of the wall? I think I remember reading somewhere that the infrastructure in that area isn't ideal for high volume and speed of trains (due to stretches that only have a single track and a lack of guarded/signaled level crossings IIRC)