MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-06-24 16:01:58+00:00
Rental prices are connected to costs, but not tightly.

If I'm a landlord and my costs are $X, but I can find renters for $2X, I'm probably going to charge closer to $2X.

If my costs are $X, but I can only charge $0.9X, I'll most likely rent it for that, because losing $0.1X is better than losing $X; unless I own a lot of units and it makes more sense to push the 'average rent' up, even if it means more vacancies. If the market conditions are like that for a while, I'll probably try to sell, but I'll take the loss for a while.

Additionally, if local market conditions include something like California Prop 13, a landlord that has been holding property since before I was born most likely has a much lower property tax bill than if I purchase a similar property. In that case, renting could supply them with a nice return and me with a nice discount.
Show HN: La Touche Musicale PianoConvert
by joris2120 | 2025-06-24 16:02:18+00:00
PianoConvert is a cutting-edge web application that transforms any piano audio file (MP3, WAV) or YouTube video into professional-quality sheet music, MIDI, and MusicXML files. Designed for pianists, composers, and music educators, it leverages advanced piano-specific AI models to analyze and transcribe musical nuances with an exceptional accuracy rate of up to 98%.

Whether you’re transcribing a classical piece, jazz improvisation, or original composition, PianoConvert delivers a fast and seamless transcription experience. It detects tempo, notes, time signatures, and key changes — all automatically. The resulting files are perfectly suited for printing, editing in digital audio workstations (DAWs), or use in professional scoring software.

Used by thousands of musicians around the world, PianoConvert accelerates music creation and learning by removing the barriers of manual transcription.

Try it now : https://latouchemusicale.com/en/apps/pianoconvert/
by bradtemp | 2025-06-24 16:03:16+00:00
Few believed it would be pulled off, except the most devoted of Tesla fans. However, the point is they did promise unsupervised, which is the biggest milestone in this technology, and they didn't get there. It's like promising a moon landing and delivering a New Shepard suborbital flight. Yes, it's a safety driver. A safety driver is, in spite of the vocabulary, not expected to drive. They supervise and intervene.
Show HN: La Touche Musicale GuitarConvert
by joris2120 | 2025-06-24 16:03:23+00:00
GuitarConvert is an advanced online tool that transcribes any guitar audio file (MP3, WAV) or YouTube video into accurate guitar tablatures and MIDI files in seconds. With its dedicated AI model trained specifically on guitar sounds, it extracts notes, rhythms, and string positions with unmatched precision.

You don’t need to install anything. Simply upload your recording, and GuitarConvert instantly delivers high-quality sheet music you can download in PDF, MIDI, or MusicXML format. Whether you’re a guitarist, teacher, composer or arranger, this tool saves hours of manual transcription work and enables you to focus on playing and creating music.

Thanks to its fully web-based interface, GuitarConvert is accessible on all devices and supports multi-language usage. It is part of the GalaxyConvert suite developed by La Touche Musicale, a leading French startup in AI music transcription.

Try it free: https://latouchemusicale.com/en/apps/guitarconvert/
by thomascountz | 2025-06-24 16:04:09+00:00
To be clear, credit reporting and tracking is not the only function of credit scores in the U.S. These functions do exist elsewhere and are often called "registries." They are not private companies, but instead public centralized institutions. Likewise, it is not possible for private companies to loan debt to citizens, even by proxy.

For bankruptcies and defaults, there are similarly court records from public institutions, which you give a bank access to. They cannot search these sources without your consent, though of course they will then not loan to you.
by dredmorbius | 2025-06-24 16:04:21+00:00
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9944753>

(Regardless of my agreement with either you or ajross. "Get off the Internet for a while" reads close to "touch grass", which dang's specifically addressed: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40851991>.)
Show HN: SingConvert – Transcribe your vocal recordings into sheet music
by joris2120 | 2025-06-24 16:04:28+00:00
SingConvert is an AI-powered web app that transforms any vocal recording – whether a cappella or accompanied – into professional sheet music and MIDI/MusicXML files. Designed specifically for singers, it provides fast, accurate, and synchronized vocal transcriptions for all types of voices and styles. Whether you’re a vocalist, composer, teacher, or content creator, SingConvert simplifies your workflow by turning voice into readable and editable music notation in seconds.

With advanced pitch detection and rhythm analysis optimized for human vocals, the app supports MP3, WAV, and YouTube links. The output includes lyrics placement (when provided), pitch contours, dynamics, and tempo – all exportable in PDF, MIDI, and MusicXML formats. Ideal for transcribing melodies, learning harmony, archiving vocal ideas, or preparing for performances.

No need for complex software or music theory skills. SingConvert runs directly in your browser – 100% online, cross-device, and beginner-friendly.

Try SingConvert now for free and start transcribing your voice into music: https://latouchemusicale.com/en/apps/singconvert/
by kbolino | 2025-06-24 16:04:35+00:00
"Services open to the Internet" is more of a 2000s problem than a modern problem. Operating systems default to being a lot less trusting of local networks today, and nearly every place you'd connect to WiFi already has a router with a "drop all unsolicited packets" policy. MITM is the big risk here, and the best way to address it is by using secure protocols (HTTPS, SSH, etc.) everywhere.

Mandatory code signing for web sites would go a long way to addressing some of the most common types of exploits we see today, and that doesn't require a TPM. I'd love to see it, but it is going to require some infrastructure and enforcement to work, and it too could become user-hostile (e.g., you can't block ads, because that would change the code).
by ilc | 2025-06-24 16:05:06+00:00
I've been using one for over a year now, and I really like it. Ended up finding out about it from the Glove80 discord.

Now, I help out with their firmware updates, as a volunteer, just keeping things somewhat sane and debugged. Adding features as needed, to support new pointers, etc etc.

Disclaimer: My views are my own, I get provided hardware to do firmware work, and that's it. I do not work for Svalboard, etc.
by nyrikki | 2025-06-24 16:05:19+00:00
"almost all" or "almost everywhere" is in italics because I mean it in the measure theory sense.

Meaning it holds for all elements of a set except for a subset that has measure zero.

Yes some normal numbers are in the constructable reals, but it is a measure zero subset.

You are putting your hand in the haystack and only finding needles, finding the hay in the haystack is the problem here.
by mlyle | 2025-06-24 16:06:18+00:00
> CF shouldn't be trusted in their assessment as it's inflated.

I think since we know CloudFlare has the biggest scale, we know that CloudFlare has the biggest capacity, with a higher baseline request rate and traffic exchanged than anyone else: definitely globally, and almost everywhere locally.

> And I've already addressed your last point, so alternatively: if the biggest attacks are 1 bps of traffic, it doesn't matter that you have a ton of infrastructure because anyone can handle a byte.

Which is why Cloudflare has an incentive to make DDoS attacks sound bigger.

Sure, we always know that everyone has an incentive to make their own capacity sound bigger, and parties with marginal ability to soak DDoS have an incentive to make the DDoS problem sound smaller.
by pieds | 2025-06-24 16:06:47+00:00
> Comparison data also showed that at every wealth level in the U.S., mortality rates were higher than those in the parts of Europe the researchers studied. The nation’s wealthiest Americans have shorter lifespans on average than the wealthiest Europeans; in some cases, the wealthiest Americans have survival rates on par with the poorest Europeans in western parts of Europe such as Germany, France and the Netherlands.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-04-02/wealth-mortality-gap

The US also have less healthy years.

> Just as in other countries, chronic conditions like heart disease are major factors in how many years Americans remain alive but in poor health. But, the authors add, a high burden of mental health and behavioral conditions — which the WHO groups together, and include depression, anxiety and addictions to alcohol and drugs — are also weighing heavily on our health span, as well as curtailing life expectancy in the U.S.

> Underpinning both chronic diseases and what are sometimes called deaths or diseases of “despair,” such as addiction, is the prevalence of loneliness, stress and inequality in the U.S., Gurven says. “It’s hard to avoid that living in a highly unequal society is stressful and that takes a toll on our health in so many ways,” he says. That inequality affects not only access to health care, but can also be seen in how little opportunity there is for Americans in many parts of the country to get physical activity or healthy meals in their busy days, helping to fuel the obesity epidemic, which, in turn, curtails health span.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/the-us-has-the-biggest-lifes...
Ask HN: Is there any point to re-skilling on ds/ algo as a sr.engineer?
by vcool07 | 2025-06-24 16:07:02+00:00
Hey everyone,

I'm a Senior Engineer at a large tech company with over 20 years of experience. For the last 5 years, my role has primarily revolved around devops, tech leadership (small teams), taking care of system architecture , feature design, security stuff, reviews etc, with much of the hands-on coding (mostly maintenance stuff) delegated to junior engineers. What's striking is that in my entire tenure here, I haven't encountered a single task that required implementing anything close to the Data Structures and Algorithms (DS/Algo) problems you'd find on LeetCode.

Now, with layoff rumors circulating in our organization, I'm actively exploring new opportunities. The challenge? Despite my extensive experience, it seems almost every company, even for senior roles, still kicks off the interview process with a DS/Algo screen.

This puts me at a crossroads. Should I dedicate valuable time to reskilling in DS/Algo, essentially studying just to pass an interview hurdle? Or is there a viable path to convince hiring managers to look past these skills and focus solely on my strengths in system design, architecture, and practical engineering leadership?

Honestly, it feels a bit absurd to spend time on "basic" DS/Algo questions after all these years, especially when current AI tools can make much of that work redundant.

Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated!

PS: If it helps, I'm based in India, not US !
by jethro_tell | 2025-06-24 16:07:30+00:00
I do know that though that assumes some things about os and shell.

Run a full screen term on my machine for a good chunk of my workflow and I just like to have time and battery in my term. I render it as ‘(15:35) [80} <hostname> $ ‘ and for boxes without batteries it’s just ‘(15:35) <hostname> $ ‘

Some times I’ll go back through my scroll back and look at the time when I’m trying to figure things out. Or when I run a command that generates a ton of output, I’ll note the time and run the command then later search back to the time in scroll back to start at the top of the log.

None of these are features I truly miss on a vanilla box, I can look at a clock or watch and will put a comment into the scroll back to find later.
by 9rx | 2025-06-24 16:07:45+00:00
> Urban in an academic context is a much lower bar than urban

I said city, not urban, trying to portray a high density, well populated area. I fully recognize that the US considers a community as small as 2,000 people to be urban. And, similarly, you need as few as 1,000 people in an area in my country to fall into what is considered urban. This is all well known and understood.

That said, the 3,000 people strong town I live in has everything you need in walking distance, so the point still stands even for small urban too. But it remains that average American lives in larger, more dense communities than that, so the idea of needing transportation is quite strange and defeats the purpose of the density.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-24 16:08:03+00:00
They sort of already exist, many emoji are turned "on" (colorful presentation or Emoji Presentation) with Variation Selector 16 [0] and many can be forced "off" (monochrome presentation) with Variation Selector 15 [1].

(Not all fonts handle all variations, though, in both directions.)

[0] https://codepoints.net/U+FE0F [1] https://codepoints.net/U+FE0E
by nberkman | 2025-06-24 16:08:12+00:00
Shannon: Fast local search for your Claude conversation history

Claude's web/desktop search is pretty lacking - no boolean operators, no date filtering, no advanced search syntax. So I built a fast local search tool for exported conversations (not API - this is for your regular Claude.ai chats). Supports AND/OR/NOT operators, wildcard search, date ranges, sender filtering, and more.

I think the TUI mode is particularly useful - you can navigate between conversations, jump back to Claude.ai, and copy/save artifacts directly.

I tried to make the whole process of generating exports and importing them incrementally as painless as possible. It auto-discovers export files and handles incremental updates.

https://github.com/neilberkman/shannon

brew install neilberkman/shannon/shannon

scoop bucket add shannon https://github.com/neilberkman/scoop-shannon && scoop install shannon
by jimt1234 | 2025-06-24 16:08:16+00:00
I'm really not sure what this means. Yeah, the U.S. is a multicultural society, but so what? Are we supposed to focus only on the certain cultures and ignore others when we talk about health and life expectancy?

I think I've heard this argument before in the context of gun violence in the US - as in, the US wouldn't have a gun violence problem if we excluded cities like Chicago and Baltimore from gun violence research. Is this the same basic argument?
by dredmorbius | 2025-06-24 16:09:20+00:00
I'd argue quite strongly the opposite, that the EFF do care very deeply about internet freedom, but:

1. Have come to realise that Big Tech (including many substantial backers of the organisation, in the past if not presently) is itself a major threat and ...

2. That the problem is far more nuanced than early views (Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", <https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence> and Gilmore's "The Net Interprets Censorship As Damage and Routes Around It", see <https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/> in particular) suggested. Absolute freedom turns out to not be freedom, for many, shades of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-24 16:09:30+00:00
> AI is threatening to replace us (or, at least, the most joyful aspects of our craft)

I don’t like this either but every time I use LLMs it feels like we’re talking about completely different things. It moves waaay to fast and makes bad decisions at every turn, if I accepted them all it would be complexity deadlock within a week tops. Pooping out boilerplate sure but then you’re generally holding it wrong anyway (or there’s an opportunity to automate things). Plus even if you don’t have the time to automate it, sure, but then are you enjoying the act of shitting out your own boilerplate?

Out of the things I consider fun the LLM is at best a good rubber duck. It needs constant hand-holding, sometimes polluting the context window (and physical space) with a barrage of poorly written code. Code is bad, we’re trying to minimize it. No? At least that’s how I think: what’s the minimum* amount of code that can solve this problem?

*: minimum in a brain complexity sense, not char count. They correlate strongly though
by ayushrodrigues | 2025-06-24 16:10:05+00:00
People compare us a lot because they're also another open source YC company that does billing. So definitely some similarities!

I think in practise though we serve a very different segment. Lago is great for high-throughput event metering and mainly target series B+ companies. They don't yet have an offering for feature permissions management (aka entitlements).

Autumn is built more for early stage companies that have payments in-app. Hence we're trying to invest more in the developer experience (eg React hooks), while also providing that abstraction layer for entitlements too.

We absolutely will be adding more payment providers soon. Our biggest requests are Polar and Razorpay for the indian market.
by m000 | 2025-06-24 16:10:31+00:00
I would be very curious to see an age demographic chart of people using e.g. Starship.

Personally, over time, I have stopped caring too much about prompt customization. I concluded that, no matter how carefully you curate your prompt, 90% of the information shown will be irrelevant 90% of the time*. After a while, your brain will start perceiving this as visual clutter and filter it out, to the point you may even forget the information is there, right in front of your eyes.

And for the things that matter, you probably need more details than any prompt can show you. E.g. are there changes in your git branch? Ok there are, good to know, but which files have changed? Just knowing that there are changes is not really actionable information. You need to run additional commands to get actionable details.

* the numbers are completely arbitrary, but you get the picture
by rahimnathwani | 2025-06-24 16:10:47+00:00
> Automation returns more power (abstract) to the owning class

This is a decent point, but you're describing the world we already live in, no? I mean, we already have significant automation, significant wealth inequality, significant ability for control of money to affect legislation and culture.

But we (in the US at least) generally have abundant access to food which is safe to eat.

> Corruption thrives off of wealth inequality. Without it, it cannot exist.

Corruption can exist without wealth inequality.

Consider a city where teachers and politicians earn the exact same salary (and the same ability to build wealth over time). You might think this eliminates the potential for corruption, but imagine a scenario where politicians heavily rely on teachers' unions for their election campaigns. In this case, politicians might make decisions that benefit the unions (e.g. no performance standards, lifetime tenure, long holidays, keeping underenrolled schools open) in exchange for their support, even if those decisions don't optimize for student achievement (or whatever else taxpayers want schools to promote).
by osigurdson | 2025-06-24 16:10:54+00:00
I mean sure, cut people that will slow you down. Keep people that will speed you up. I don't think saving an insignificant amount of money today is going to be the differentiating factor for future success. Yet, this is what lazy companies are doing today - laying people off and implementing token "we're doing AI" programs. All I can say to those companies is RIP.
by jonah-archive | 2025-06-24 16:11:54+00:00
> I once told my math prof (logician) who made a comment about transfinite cardinals: careful it's powerful but it's power from the devil. I half regret that comment in retrospect.

You're in good company -- from Penelope Maddy's "Believing the Axioms"[0]:

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Measurable cardinals were introduced by Ulam in [1930], where he proved that they are inaccessible. They are now known to be much larger than that, larger than all the hyperinaccessibles, Mahlos and weakly compacts. Indeed, because of their power, they are probably the best known large cardinals of all. The voice of caution reminds us that they were invented by the same fellow who invented the hydrogen bomb.

---

0: https://jwood.faculty.unlv.edu/unlv/Articles/Maddy1.pdf
by dansiemens | 2025-06-24 16:12:32+00:00
MCP is currently too difficult to setup and too complicated for consumers to understand. Once somebody big enough figures out distribution and integration a la the App Store, and the market starts to understand MCP integrations as extensions your AI client can orchestrate across (do one thing in App A, another in App B, etc all with a single prompt), it’ll be off to the races.
by time0ut | 2025-06-24 16:12:38+00:00
In some ways MCP is like the next evolution of API over HTTP.

We've exposed our APIs as SOAP endpoints. These were not well suited to web based clients, leading to the development of "RESTful" JSON endpoints. As web clients became more complex, GraphQL arose as a solution to some of the problems encountered. Maybe MCP is the next step.

I don't mean that MCP will supersede these protocols. My company exposes our endpoints as SOAP, REST, and GraphQL still as they fit different use cases and customer bases. We are piloting an MCP version to see how that goes now.

It is fun to work on something new and play with agents to see how they consume our endpoints in this form. I think there is a lot of potential.
by nradov | 2025-06-24 16:12:59+00:00
US home prices haven't increased by 100% in 7 years. On a national basis, the Case-Shiller index has only increased by 65% (nominal dollars, not inflation adjusted).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA

In the short term, the difference in mortgage interest rates between prime versus subprime loans can have a major impact on borrower cashflow and the type of property they can afford.
by austin-cheney | 2025-06-24 16:13:13+00:00
The US should isolate itself from nations that cannot play well with their neighbors and are constantly engaged in conflict both internally and externally. This is exactly what I mean by sociopaths.

One country in particular just expects the US to constantly feed them weapons, terrorize the people under their management, and never be held accountable for anything. When anyone does ask that country about their conduct they immediately play the race card and invent wild justifications far outside the conduct in question. How is that not sociopathic?
by BadCookie | 2025-06-24 16:13:19+00:00
I’m not sure if “difficulty accessing healthcare” captures the whole problem. Even if you live next door to a hospital, you still don’t know how much it will cost you if you check yourself in. Sure, there is some theoretical maximum out of pocket, but are you certain that the hospital is in network with your insurance? Are you sure that every provider you will see and every test or scan you have done will be treated as in network?

I once had a doctor order a test at a hospital that he assured me was in network. The hospital got pre-authorization from my insurance company for me to have the test done. I had the test done. My insurance company then denied me any benefit because they said afterward that I went out of network … and there are millions of stories like mine.

Not to mention that even if you manage to stay in network, lots of people cannot afford even the max out of pocket that creeps up faster than inflation every year.

I have had some family members decide that they will just accept that they are going to die in an emergency situation because “if it’s my time, it’s my time” and they don’t want their life savings to get vacuumed up by some hospital administrators. This is not merely theoretical… one person in my life is dead now who probably would have lived if he had felt comfortable seeking medical care.