MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drcongo | 2025-07-31 16:33:27+00:00
I'm an Orion+ paid user though I still don't use it for my daily driver. there's still a long way to go, especially around password manager integrations - iCloud passwords is pretty much unusable and 1Password is extremely flaky (though 1Password is a thoroughbred shitshow these days so probably not Kagi's fault). I pay for it because I hope it succeeds and because I love Kagi search.

Posted from Orion RC.
by mihaic | 2025-07-31 16:34:05+00:00
It's become a pet peeve of mine, but for the love of God, if anyone with input in Carbon is scanning this, what can be done to use "func" instead of "fn" as a keyword?

That all-consonant keyword always makes it seem like I'm reading Hungarian notation when reading Rust for instance. An other options I've seen for instance in Pony, "fun", is already an English word with a completely different meaning.

Even the "function" from Javascript seems fine to me.
by ryanobjc | 2025-07-31 16:34:28+00:00
I think there are parallels with functional languages on the JVM. The parts that are the worst are the parts that were built for maximum interoperability. Not to mention that the JVM forces classes on you at the deepest opcode levels.

Compatibility with C++ is fine, but so far it seems carbon's safety story is entirely a wishlist rather than anything yet. Seems like Carbon might be a more of a place to demonstrate features for C++ committees than a real language?

Personally I have hand it up to here with lousy programmingn languages that make it easy for me to write bugs.
by zahlman | 2025-07-31 16:34:30+00:00
The theme is much more subtle and complex than my mental model.

I can recall in an electronics lab in university, we had just built the first prototype of input and output stages for an amplifier, and hooked it up to a function generator playing a sine wave and probably a simple paper-cone speaker. The system had fairly heavy hyperbolic distortion (as I expected from following along with the textbook)... my lab partner (who up until that point I'd thought of as not especially bright, relative to the standards of the course) listened a bit, grabbed the frequency knob, identified a few pitches, and then started playing the main melody of the Doctor Who theme entirely by ear. (And of course I provided a vocal bass line accompaniment, almost instinctively.)
by asa400 | 2025-07-31 16:34:57+00:00
Full disclosure: I started with Erlang, I get paid to work with Elixir every day, I love Erlang still.

Why someone might like Elixir:

- slightly less crufty stdlib for a lot of the basic stuff (though we still use the Erlang stdlib all the time) - the Elixir community started off using binaries instead of charlists so everything uses binaries - great general collections libraries in the stdlib that operate on interfaces/protocols rather than concrete collections (Enum, Stream) - macros allow for default impls and a good deal less boilerplate, great libraries like Phoenix and Ecto, and the community seems to be pretty judicious with their use - protocols allow datatype polymorphism in a really nice way (I know about behaviours, they are also good) - very standard build tool/project layout/generators that have been there from the start (Erlang has caught up here with rebar, it seems) - a lot of high quality libraries for web stuff, specifically - convenience stuff around common OTP patterns like Task, Task.Supervisor, Agent, etc.

For me, I love the clarity and brevity of Erlang the language but I find Elixir a lot more pleasant to use day-to-day. This is just personal, I am not making a general statement saying Elixir is better.

> Last I checked, the debugging experience with elixir was pretty subpar.

Just curious, why is this? All of the Erlang debugging stuff seems to work.
by rollcat | 2025-07-31 16:35:39+00:00
I'm no UX expert, but I regularly try out new (and old) toolkits to understand the problem space.

It really sounds like you want an immediate mode toolkit. Retained mode will never be "super-snappy", there's an entire sandwich between your code and the pixels. Look at Blender or Reaper, this is the kind of "feel" you'd be getting.

If you want retained mode + "true" native widgets on all platforms, investigate: Toga (Python), WxWidgets (C++), and Tk (Tcl). The native toolkits are often best in class on each platform, and these wrappers are about as thin as they can reasonably get (e.g. Toga uses pyobjc). Integration with Rust is left as an exercise to the reader ;)

A rich widget library is nice, but consider the depth as well. Egui went to great lengths to integrate assistive technologies, which depending on your target audience may be impactful. (Also: accessibility is for everyone. https://shortcat.app/)

If you want easy hiring, you have to go with mainstream. We've +/- named all of the options by now. Otherwise, hire a talent who's worked on the next closest thing to what you're building, and trust them to decide the direction.

Looks and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. There are many apps that have a distinct, sometimes quirky, but appreciable style. Reaper looks out of place on every platform, but I prefer it over Logic or Ableton.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-31 16:36:07+00:00
What are we referring to as code search? I cannot view any pages on GitHub without logging in. I tried to reproduce this in a private window but it seems to work, which is weird. I was not logged in to GitHub on Windows and it wants me to login. It might be the extensions I am using (along with an User-Agent switcher). Not sure, I would have to check. All I remember is that I was logged out on Windows and I could not view ANY page from GitHub without logging in, but I can on Linux, tested it in a private window. Odd.
by rs186 | 2025-07-31 16:36:38+00:00
Most professional media organizations, including tech focused media, don't have a writer that remotely understands what's going on here.

I know Ars Technica has a guy who can go deep into how a security attack works. That's the only one I am aware of from a well-known publication. Even so, if you look at the comment section, most people have no clue about technical details and are just talking about the story.

Also bear in mind -- media in general is not a good industry to be in. Making money out of writing news articles is getting increasingly difficult. Most articles try to optimize for reach and clicks. Something like this one is not going to attract a lot of readers. I have no idea how LWN can be sustainable, but I can assure you that it's the exception, not the norm.

Other than LWN, your best bet is reading this from someone's blog, who spends hours writing about it, trying to explain it in an understandable way and avoid mistakes, expecting almost nothing in return, just as a hobby.

Your next best bet is reading someone's 12 disjointed tweets, possibly riddled with errors.

That's just the world we are living in.
by tbalsam | 2025-07-31 16:36:56+00:00
I'm not entirely sure, to be honest. If you look at the linked video, they state that it's oftentimes not in the best interest of the private equity group's moneymaking capabilities to announce that a channel has been sold out to them.

How that is in practice, I'm not sure, and I'm sure with some sleuthing it would be possible to find out at least some of it. But on the whole, I'm honestly not sure beyond that.
by pcrh | 2025-07-31 16:37:36+00:00
On the other hand, elected politicians (senators, MPs, etc) are supposed to represent what the populus wants, else be ejected.

So in theory, they should be paying as much heed to lobbyists as to their constituents.

The question arises, then, as to why they do not. There's no ground swell of public opinion in favour of being continually monitored.
by echelon | 2025-07-31 16:37:43+00:00
すごい！Japanese is one of our localization targets, so this is amazing!

I'm building a graphically heavy app, so two more questions:

1) Is iced appropriate for building a canvas-type drawing app with image inclusions? Right now we're using Konva.js and we'd be losing a tremendous amount of out of the box flexibility in porting to iced, but the performance wins would be a major selling point.

2) Can you include Bevy panes? We're also doing some 3D visualization, and we currently use Three.js. But we have a lot of Bevy experience too.
by rconti | 2025-07-31 16:37:52+00:00
Yeah, I can confirm I'm getting AF on the points I want. No IBIS/lens stabilization though. I think it's camera shake but man, holding it pretty darn still at 1/600+ shutter speed, seems like it "should" be plenty. I should try zooming in on the original pic and reviewing in realtime with each shot. Ditto for the exposure work.
Show HN: If you smoke, this app helps you quit (no shame)
by melvinzammit | 2025-07-31 16:38:28+00:00
I have never smoked myself, but I know a lot of people that smoke and want to stop. This is for them. While researching the topic on various peer reviewed papers I was impressed how many parts of the body heal when a person quits smoking. It’s impressive that the body starts healing in the first 20minutes! This is why the app features a ‘heart avatar’ that heals with time reflecting the person’s journey.

Something which i think is very important if i had to use an app like this is privacy. This is why I kept all the data in a local database inside the app and never share or track any data. there is also no account, so its 100% private.

If you smoke and wish to quit feel free to try it and I really appreciate any feedback! Thanks
by jschveibinz | 2025-07-31 16:38:41+00:00
Let's not forget the contributions of Bernie Hutchins (Electronotes):

https://archive.org/details/electronotes-meh-ebgpcc-torrent

https://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/synth/Electronotes_EN_index...

The full set is very rare--but what a treasure trove of high quality material.
by tomrod | 2025-07-31 16:39:53+00:00
Price as a market signal precedes neoliberalism by several decades to several millennia, depending on which economic historian you speak with. Is your argument that basic research which has no immediately attributable applications is better handled by publicly funded research? I mostly agree to that. Applied research is definitely handled better by commercial firms and nonprofits when handling is defined by what people are willing to value (pay for).

If we're talking about applied technology in the public goods space, then it can be a toss up. Sustainability research, for example, can be quite blurry as to whether the market is pricing it in or not as applied or basic research -- really depends on how a government handles externalities and regulatory capture!

I'll 100% agree to government entities as well as some well-chartered public entities being absolutely awesome at setting up incentive structures for desired outcomes. There is actually a whole field of research dedicated to the topic of incentive structuring called mechanism design -- think of it as the converse to Game Theory and strategic behavioral analysis -- that policy design and analysis learn from.

I'll also note that governments aren't structured to efficiently provide benefits or just-in-time delivery in most situations. Though the discussion has made me more curious about how operationally efficient the DOD is for civilian goods distribution, given it supports a massive population.
Show HN: I made an AI powered SEO tool so that you never launch to 0 users again
by malshaik | 2025-07-31 16:40:02+00:00
Hey HN! My name is Mohammad, and I'm the founder of SEOLabs.

I built this after failing 3 startups with the same problem: zero distribution plan.

You can see the story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIgGocOEm_I

Most SEO tools cost $300+/month and are built for agencies, not bootstrapped founders. They're complex and assume you have a marketing team.

SEOLabs uses AI to automate keyword research and content planning at founder-friendly pricing. Find low-competition keywords, get content plans, and actually rank on Google.

How it works:

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Takes minutes instead of hours of manual research.

We're launching in 10 days. Currently accepting waitlist signups.

Would love to hear what the HN crowd thinks!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-31 16:41:19+00:00
> Some prominent israeli politicians routinely declare that they are the vanguard and front line protection of 'Western civilisation'

Also true in Russia and Hungary, for the West, and India, China, Turkey and Kentucky for other movements.

> Back in 2007 or so polls among israeli teens showed that almost every young israeli jew believed that "arabs" are intellectually inferior

Tigrayans for central Ethiopians, et cetera.

> Large portions of israeli society support ethnic cleansing among citizens

Literally every ethnonationalistic war.

This analysis is what I’m talking about. Everything you say is true. None of it is unique to settler colonialism.

A lot of American think tank thought on Israel and Palestine is frankly colonial, in terms of people on one continent making moral declarations and conclusions on how maps should be drawn on another, than anything going on in the Middle East, which is closer to bog standard human horribleness.

New Yorkers criticising American weapons shipments to Tel Aviv is legitimate. People who have never been to Israel or Palestine deciding they know where their borders should be drawn is arrogant.
by stolkin | 2025-07-31 16:41:58+00:00
Facebook was even worse. My wife’s account was hacked and we noticed and right away clicked the link to do a reset. Then page then said something like: we have sent the reset link to hacker@hack.ru Which was the email associated with the account for an hour. That is stupid beyond belief. They should have sent that link to the email that had been on the act for the past several years.
by carimura | 2025-07-31 16:42:23+00:00
After many (many!) years I finally got around to my childhood dreams of building a home network rack, centered around the Unifi stack. I've got the new 10 gig switch, the dream machine SE, a bunch of cameras, and I've been very impressed with their stuff. The experience "just works" and feels like they take inspiration from Apple. The whole camera setup can be "closed" by shutting off outside access, this self-hosting option takes it all a step further for those who care deeply about privacy!
by SkiFire13 | 2025-07-31 16:42:35+00:00
On this topic, Rust just added an (unstable for now) option to delay codegen until needed https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/07/15/call-for-t...

Just like Zig's decision it is a double edged sword: on one side you can avoid compiling code that will not be needed. However on the other side you make incremental compilation worse, since you will have to recompile it more often.

> HTTP, for example, can go into Zig's standard library, whereas C or Rust cannot do that.

Rust _could_ put HTTP in the standard library, the dead code would simply be removed when linking. The reason it's not in the stdlib has more to do with the fact that:

- it would need to be supported by a team that's already overworked - it would need to be supported indefinitely, so it would have to be the right interface on the first try.

This effectively prevents any big and complex feature from making to the Rust stdlib.

> This helps control package explosion.

Arguably it helps controlling the number of "packages", but not the amount of code in those packages. If I split a "package" in 4 crates in Rust to get better compile times it's still mostly the same code, but you now see a number 4 times bigger.
by mikrl | 2025-07-31 16:42:41+00:00
>“the map is not the territory”

Personally I never think of this as something specific or quantitative as in fidelity.

In my head it’s more of a statement that the map is a representation, a reference, in the terminology of Stirner a spook or a phantom.

The territory is the thing itself, the visceral thing you exist in/on and can change, feel, experience.

This applies to anything that both exists and is represented, maps and land are just the best analogy.

Even a 1:1 scale map with 100% fidelity will never be the territory.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-07-31 16:42:58+00:00
His early assessment when I talked to him abut this was "it's the end of SaaS".

But the reality is that the users are first and foremost concerned with their day-to-day business. Just because you can do X doesn't mean you will do it.

It's also true that there still remains some foundational knowledge required like knowing what a database is, what React is, how to prompt. There's a big generational divide on this so I do not think we are the point (yet) where "anyone" can do it. There is still a need to have some background knowledge and some technical friends that can guide you.
by Insanity | 2025-07-31 16:43:03+00:00
I actually really enjoyed reading this write-up, and kudos to the author for doing the deep dive.

But as someone who has been modding games since the early 2000s, whenever performance issues come up, disabling the mods is usually my first step when diagnosing issues. The author explains why this wasn't his first instinct (given the warning signals), but testing from a vanilla state is always a good methodology IMO.
by ashton314 | 2025-07-31 16:43:33+00:00
There's a short video of two guys parodying what Brandon Sanderson's writing problem is like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcZVAPGE-YE

I think there are plenty of successful authors who don't have the same obsession as Sanderson and Wolff, but they are obsessed in different ways. And I think that's the key: if there's something that you enjoy doing and can find some aspect that you can really obsess over—it doesn't have to be the same as everyone else (probably better if not)—then you might be able to make that work as a fulfilling career.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-31 16:43:49+00:00
Statistically there are always people that try to find entertainment in others misery. Expect a base rate of 1:10 sociopaths, 1:100 psychopaths, and 1:5000 in active psychosis. Those groups covert narcissism means any perceived slight to their ego is never forgiven, and they often try whatever scheme they think they can get away with... The funny part is often at trial these people are honestly shocked their world theory doesn't hold up under community laws.

However, expecting other people to accept personal behavioral choices is also ethically a big ask of society. In some ways, honesty is less insulting than disingenuous sycophancy, or demanding people change to suit your preferences.

One must accept there are bears in the woods, lions on the plains, and poisonous snakes in the grass. Have a great day =3
by zerolayers | 2025-07-31 16:43:54+00:00
When AIs hallucinate their own existence while humans fight for digital anonymity, we've reached a fascinating inflection point. This week: artificial minds experienced identity crises, governments demanded ID verification for internet access, and researchers exposed quantum computing hype using household pets. In 2025, authentic identity has become the rarest commodity in our increasingly synthetic world. The question isn't whether you're human or AI anymore—it's whether either of you knows what's real.
by antonf | 2025-07-31 16:44:21+00:00
> The granted orders would stay in place for a year with the option to extend if necessary. If blocked sites switch to new locations, the court can also amend blocking orders to include new IP addresses and domain names.

What if the "pirate site" uses foreign cloud provider, and regularly changes IP addresses? Will I lose access to all websites hosted by the foreign cloud provider once their whole ASN will be blocked?

> Block BEARD does not mention VPNs, but its broad definition of “service provider” could be interpreted to include them.

This seems easy to circumvent - you can just use foreign VPN provider, who don't advertise themselves for piracy use, for... piracy. IP/DNS blocking proven to be a good censorship tool though.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-07-31 16:44:30+00:00
It refers to Jorge Luis Borges, a writer of surreal and speculative stories.

The one about the nigh-infinite library is best known (1)

The one about the map, "On Exactitude in Science", is very short indeed https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
by slg | 2025-07-31 16:44:39+00:00
It is interesting to see a post like this at the top of HN considering the vibe here lately.

The popularity of this post seems to show an innate understanding of the value of investing a lot of thought and effort into creating a piece of art. When you do that, the process of its creation becomes part of the art. There is something incredibly human about creating art like this. We have been doing it for tens of thousands of years. "Wasting" time meticulously carving things out of stone or mixing paint to use on our cave walls. It is an inherently human thing to do.

And yet browsing HN most days gives the impression that many tech folks see that truly as time wasted and instead just want to give some black box a prompt and have "art" spit back out at them. I just don't get it.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-31 16:45:10+00:00
Your cell phone modem is completely decoupled from the main processor and is a complete, independent system in itself, so it's optimized to do that.

Bluetooth and WiFi radios on Macs are also semi-independent. They can keep connections alive while the system is in deep sleep.

Waking a big processor, frequency scaling it and turning it off is surprisingly complicated. We disabled SpeedStep in our clusters since frequency scaling visibly affected performance of the systems due to overhead incurred by frequency change. Same is true for waking / sleeping big silicon.

It's complicated, it's wasteful.

Some of the Intel's biggest improvements as their micro-architecture evolved were reduction of the frequency scaling overhead and its performance impact, but this never made the news back in the day because its effect was invisible in consumer class systems even in its most primitive form.

> Maybe it decided to do some other stuff while it was awake?

That's called Power Nap and is enabled only if your computer is connected to power, by default.
by arlort | 2025-07-31 16:45:18+00:00
> What happens when the constitution clashes with EU law?

Usually a standoff based on whether the EU was delegated authority on the topic. If the delegation happened then EU law has precedence but depending on the topic national constitutional courts might ignore that which becomes a constitutional crisis

In this specific case it's much more likely that the ECJ shoots down the chat control part of the law before it gets to that anyway
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-31 16:45:20+00:00
OK, but that's just your own "fool some of the people some of the time" interpretation of what a Turing test should be, and by that measure ELIZA passed the Turing test too, which makes it rather meaningless.

The intent (it was just a thought experiment) of a Turing test, was that if you can't tell it's not AGI, then it is AGI, which is semi-reasonable, as long as it's not the village idiot administering the test! It was never intended to be "if it can fool some people, some of the time, then it's AGI".