MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ConfusedDog | 2025-07-07 11:21:19+00:00
I bought Whirlpool washer/dryer combo, washer is top load, both non-smart, I think it was like $600ish for both from HomeDepot. "Smart" really isn't as innovative as like improving product longevity, reducing lint clog, safety, etc. I used a smart fridge once, it won't dispense water without updating to the latest firmware. I was just glad it wasn't in my house.
by ho_schi | 2025-07-07 11:21:34+00:00
A kind of epiphany for me were automatic wristwatches :)

Compared to smartwatches they aren't expensive, look classy and show time and/or date. The quality of Swiss, German and Japanese is reliable. No batteries, no electronics and they wind up by wearing.

Recommendation: Look for the models from the 50ies/60ies which are smaller and still in production, the less known manufacturers have reasonable prices. I love the original Mido Commander.
by whizzter | 2025-07-07 11:22:04+00:00
For a lowlevel runtime (ie V8 itself) I can accept certain lag since there might be some low-level differences in how signals,etc behave.

However for more generic code Linux'isms often signals a certain "works-on-my-machine" mentality that might even hinder cross-distro compatibility, let alone getting things to work on Windows and/or osX development machines.

I guess a Rust binding for V8 is a tad borderline, not necessarily low-level but still an indicator that there's a lack of care for getting things to work on other machines.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-07 11:22:07+00:00
> I've found in my life cool people generally have something to offer, be it inspiration, insight, other otherwise,

Great mathematicians have an insane amount of deep insights to offer, but the typical person simply does not have the capacity to absorb these insights. Oh yes, these people are typically introverted "nerds", not the "cool kids".
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-07 11:22:29+00:00
Yes - the usual comment with these things is that you're not learning notes, you're learning movements.

Scales have specific fingerings and hand movements, including thumb over/under movements at specific locations.

They're not optional extras. They're essential for fluid playing.

More subtly there's also basic finger/hand positioning, which has to be a difficult combination of as-relaxed-as-possible but also firm and precise, so you get fine control over dynamics and timing.

If you don't learn the vocabulary of physical movements, you won't have the physical foundation you need to play notated music properly beyond the very basics.
by cdrini | 2025-07-07 11:22:48+00:00
Very cool anecdote! And agreed, I think we're being a bit "handwavy" about what we mean when we say "language"; it seems like more of a spectrum. I'm not sure where we draw the line between, say, language that animals use which, to the best of our knowledge, do not show complex/abstract communication, and human languages. And who knows where Neanderthal language/communication would fall on that spectrum!
by TheDong | 2025-07-07 11:22:57+00:00
> I believe the reason Deno is not more widely used in production environments is the lack of a standardized vulnerability database

If this were a real blocker, then C/C++ wouldn't be used in production either, since both just lean on the language-agnostic CVE/GHSA/etc databases for any relevant vulnerabilities there... and C also heavily encourages just vendoring in entire files from the internet with no way to track down versions.

Anyway, doesn't "deno.lock" exist, and anyone who cares can opt-in to that, and use the versions in there to check vulnerability databases?
by danaris | 2025-07-07 11:23:20+00:00
> > The real economy

> It's possible it stopped existing decades ago.

This is one of those things that sounds profound, but if you actually think about it, is obviously bullshit.

Of course there's a real economy. By definition, any time you have a bunch of people buying and selling things to earn a living—and we've got over 300 million of them doing just that in the US—you have a real economy.

That doesn't mean it's the same as the economy that's being paid attention to by the media or the government, but the idea that "the real economy stopped existing," let alone "decades ago", is....well, it's not even wrong. It's a complete category error.

The only way you can possibly assert that in the face of obvious reality is to start redefining terms until they are effectively meaningless.
by gugagore | 2025-07-07 11:23:34+00:00
I'll also point out what is most important part from your original message:

> LLMs have hidden state not necessarily directly reflected in the tokens being produced, and it is possible for LLMs to output tokens in opposition to this hidden state to achieve longer-term outcomes (or predictions, if you prefer).

But what does it mean for an LLM to output a token in opposition to its hidden state? If there's a longer-term goal, it either needs to be verbalized in the output stream, or somehow reconstructed from the prompt on each token.

There’s some work (a link would be great) that disentangles whether chain-of-thought helps because it gives the model more FLOPs to process, or because it makes its subgoals explicit—e.g., by outputting “Okay, let’s reason through this step by step...” versus just "...." What they find is that even placeholder tokens like "..." can help.

That seems to imply some notion of evolving hidden state! I see how that comes in!

But crucially, in autoregressive models, this state isn’t persisted across time. Each token is generated afresh, based only on the visible history. The model’s internal (hidden) layers are certainly rich and structured and "non verbal".

But any nefarious intention or conclusion has to be arrived at on every forward pass.
by raverbashing | 2025-07-07 11:24:03+00:00
> If you already write about yourself (e.g. with Obsidian or such), you may copy-and-paste what matters for a particular problem.

Wrong, because identifying what's part of the context is part of the problem. If you could just pick up what is relevant then the problem would be much easier

> Prompt GPT 4.5 to "nudge and push me to change, in a way that works the best for me" and see it how it works.

Cool you try that and you see how it goes. And remember that when it fails you'll only have yourself to blame then
by queenkjuul | 2025-07-07 11:24:16+00:00
Yeah the argument breaks down for me -- this project is so stable and mainstream, it's being used by a huge community of technically lay Linux users who can't boot a home built kernel temporarily to run a data recovery?

And yet simultaneously, it's a bleeding edge experimental system that needs a license to break the Linux rules on account of its experimental nature?

I just don't see how there's a critical mass of casual users that can't handle a complicated data recovery (as in, i won't generally believe this to be true, and if it is, those users should probably stick with something more mature), AND the system is still so experimental and developing so quickly that introducing features outside the merge window should be considered uncontroversial (or even necessary, as Kent seems to sometimes argue)
by nottorp | 2025-07-07 11:24:41+00:00
Smart also comes with bugs!

I have a washing machine without wifi fortunately. It has this steam function where you can set it to steam your clothing regularly at the end of the wash cycle, in case you forget to take them out in time.

Half the time if i turn that on it takes the button press to stop but does not unlock the door :)

I have to run an extra dry cycle manually to get at my laundry. Which kind of defeats the point of the 'fire and forget' option.
by lproven | 2025-07-07 11:25:24+00:00
I am not a big fan of web apps, but this looks like it fits the org-mode use pattern of to-do lists and so on.

But there's no integration with formatting, stylesheets, or anything, right?

In 2017 or so I wrote the maintenance manual for an earlier version of this educational 3D printer:

https://www.ysoft.com/be3d

It was about 350 pages with lots of illustrations and diagrams.

The entire manual was a single giant Word outline. That meant all the headings, subheadings, sub-sub-headings etc. were automatically formatted for me, plus automatic generation of table of contents and index, all automatically linked to the structure of the steps in each chapter.

The first edition took me about 6-8 weeks, the second edition under a month.

Later on I spent 4 years working with DocBook XML and a professional documentation production system -- but I can state from personal experience that for a solo project, me and 1 engineer, Word in Outline Mode was vastly more productive and efficient.

To the client's amazement, the final stage of print-ready layout took part of one morning at the end. I took one of their leaflets, laid out in Word, removed all the text leaving only styles, and then merged that stylesheet with the manual.

Bingo, fully-formatted document, in corporate colours and fonts, with headers and footers and so on. Just a little layout tweaking, adding some page breaks and things.

The ability to collapse all the levels down to just headings is an amazing navigation tool: it's like zooming out to an overview, then zooming back in somewhere else, while the text remains readable throughout.
by yawboakye | 2025-07-07 11:25:59+00:00
it remains true to this day. gascon[0] is still spoken in south of france, by both young and old. i know because i've heard it spoken. the idea that the french speak french, italians italian, is very modern. european nations weren't as properly integrated as modern history will have us believe. iirc the integration sped up post-ww2. cf seeing like a state[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gascon_dialect

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
by rvnx | 2025-07-07 11:26:14+00:00
In the US, a dishwasher costs ~$900 with install and lasts ~10 years (not even considering electricity costs). Hiring a disabled person legally at $1.75 for half an hour per week costs the same $910 over 10 years. Same price, but one supports a machine; the other supports a human being. Why fund metal and smart Wi-Fi appliances when you can empower someone’s life?
by IgorPartola | 2025-07-07 11:26:55+00:00
A Bloom filter would be a way more fun solution. But I think the quiet part of this is that people conducting interviews just like to feel clever in knowing some puzzle and its answer. Make them feel good about their puzzle and they like you that much more as a candidate.

My favorite way to interview people is to ask them about their work and personal projects and about what parts of those were tricky, why, and how they solved those challenges. This gets candidates to talk much more openly about what experience they have and we can discuss real world practical problems down to having them show pseudo code (or showing off their GitHub repos of specific projects) that can very efficiently tell you how they think. It’s the equivalent of “tell me about bridges you have designed” vs “here are popsicle sticks, design a toy bridge” approach.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-07-07 11:26:58+00:00
They won't be needed anymore, once singularity is reached. This might be their thought process. This also exemplifies that the loathed caste system found in India is indeed in place in western societies.

There is no equality, and seemingly there are worker bees who can be exploited, and there are privileged ones, and of course there are the queens.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-07 11:27:00+00:00
I really feel as if Youtube is the best sort of convenience for music videos where most people watch ads whereas some people can use an ad blocker.

I use an adblocker and tbh I think so many people on HN are okay with ad blocking and not piracy when basically both just block the end user from earning money.

I kind of believe that if you really like a software, you really like something. Just ask them what their favourite charity is and donate their or join their patreon/a direct way to support them.
by geysersam | 2025-07-07 11:27:02+00:00
> much more secure `npm install -g deno`. Here at least some file integrity checks and basic malware scanning are done by npm when downloading and installing the package.

It boils down to the question "is it more likely the attacker can impersonate or control `npm` servers or our own servers. If the answer to that question is "No" then curl pipe sh is not less secure than `npm install`.

This is security theater. If you're assuming an attacker can impersonate anyone in the internet your only secure option is to cut the cable.
I got my first SaaS Beta Signup
by WarcrimeActual | 2025-07-07 11:27:10+00:00
This is so dumb, and honestly not worth posting, but for me this is a huge milestone. I've never been a programmer but I've always wanted to make useful tools. I've finally found a problem I suffer from, and using modern tools I was able to whip up a solution that has it's first random beta sign-up from on of the 2 places I've posted it. Random meaning that I didn't know the person signing up. That doesn't mean it's a winner, but it means someone was interested enough to try it, and to me that's huge.
by YPPH | 2025-07-07 11:27:55+00:00
"Stealing" isn't an apt term here. Stealing a thing permanently deprives the owner of the thing. What you're describing is copyright infringement, not stealing.

In this context, stealing is often used as a pejorative term to make piracy sound worse than it is. Except for mass distribution, piracy is often regarded as a civil wrong, and not a crime.
by psychoslave | 2025-07-07 11:27:55+00:00
LLM are as far away from your description as ASM is from the underlying architecture. The anthropomorohic abstraction is as nice as any metaphore which fall apart the very moment you put a foot outside what it allows to shallowoly grab. But some people will put far more amount to push force a confortable analogy rather than admit it has some limits and to use the new tool in a more relevant way you have to move away from this confort zone.
by ben_w | 2025-07-07 11:28:16+00:00
16.48 MW each: https://www.shelbytnhealth.com/DocumentCenter/View/7174/0115...

They're big, by the standard of a domestic source such as a car, but they're not what I'd call "massive" in an economic dominance sense. About the size of a large shipping container, give or take, eyeballing from other photos that tell me which objects the turbines even are: https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/musks-xai-data-centre-...
by pvisilias | 2025-07-07 11:28:36+00:00
It’s officially been a month since I launched my side project, and I’ve hit $118/m in revenue with 306 users.

All organic, zero ads, no videos with my face.

Here’s what I learned in the first month:

1. Launching without an audience is tough. I accidentally launched on Product Hunt with no audience and got zero users.

2. Consistency on X-Threads works. I started posting and replying daily on X and in threads. About 5-10 replies a day and 3-5 posts. Engaging with others really helped get my project noticed.

3. SEO Pages that cursor builds are 100% essential. I made 500+ SEO pages, which helped LLM models and search engines recommend my app. In 2 days after publishing these pages, my app got 80 clicks. (yes it’s mind blowing)

4. Launch before your app has all the features you want. I have the same problem as most. I can’t ship my apps if they aren’t perfect. At least that’s what I thought before launching this small project. I didn’t add all the features and just said fck it, I will publish it and keep adding. It worked.

5. Some days will be tooooo slow (like saturdays) There will be good days where your app will skyrocket and other days where traffic is so low you’ll want to quit. don’t do it believe me.

If you’re thinking about launching your own project, don’t get discouraged by a slow start. Try building in public it works.
Doregaku now study with Doraemon Anime.. Science and Technology studies made fun
by Kunal_Aher | 2025-07-07 11:29:16+00:00
World has seen the Pokémon Go.. Now they will see something totally game changing and different.. I have built the exciting platform Doregaku where one will study • • • - with our childhood's favorite anime Doraemon characters with funny explanations... Learning made fun and interactive.. https://doregaku.carrd.co/
by ReptileMan | 2025-07-07 11:29:51+00:00
The problem is not that you have more functionality in the app. It's that all the evil people that have designed (not implemented, the drones that write the code rarely have the right to express opinion or provide common sense in big corporate) this idiocy require you to have online account with them, for reasons unknown. This functionality should be local. Bluetooth works fine.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-07 11:30:12+00:00
You'd be surprised how many famous pop piano players didn't just have lessons, they had advanced training.

Elton John studied at the Royal Academy of Music. Alicia Keys is classically trained. Lady Gaga had lessons from the age of 4.

Even someone like Vangelis - nominally self-taught, and not a reader or writer - had lessons when he was starting out.
by theothertimcook | 2025-07-07 11:30:22+00:00
That was a very interesting read, it's funny because I have done and experienced (both sides) of what the LLM did here.

Don't get me wrong there are many phenomenal mental health workers, but it's a taxing role, and the ones that are exceptional posses skills that are far more valuable not dealing with broken people, not to mention the exposure to vicarious trauma.

I think maybe "therapy" is the problem and that open source, local models developed to walk people through therapeutic tools and exercises might be the scalable help that people need.

You only need to look at some of the wild stories on the chatgpt subreddit to start to wonder at it's potential, recently read two stories of posters who self treated ongoing physical conditions using llms (back pin and jaw clicking) only to have several commenters come out and explain it helped them too.
by _heimdall | 2025-07-07 11:31:23+00:00
The amount if UBI paid to people must be based on some determination of the estimated cost of a list of basic goods though, right?

Surely it wouldn't just be food, but regardless the government would be coming up with a list of items and basing the UBI on that. If those items are deemed necessary enough that everyone should have access, why not make them freely available rather than abstracting through money first?
by IgorPartola | 2025-07-07 11:32:17+00:00
For some things, yes. For a lot of things, not really. Think of it like this: if product designers could just treat human software developers as idea -> code translators then we wouldn’t have developers making quite so many crucial decisions. Just translate the spec to code. But in reality engineers end up making the bulk of the decisions and often drive the product’s direction because of what is possible. Engineers also think up base tech that enables new products. An AI cannot stand in front of a radar dish with a sandwich in its pocket to discover microwave ovens.
by x187463 | 2025-07-07 11:32:20+00:00
There has been reporting about this for months. I realize I'm just a pleb, but I really don't understand why a company with, essentially, limitless money, won't simply install the emissions reducing hardware and properly permit the turbines. Like a lot of what's going on around Elon/US politics, it seems like a meaningless fight and is only further torching reputations. Just do the obvious right thing and move on.
Show HN: Instant Steam ID Lookup, Profile Comparison, and AI Game Suggestions
by alexcolewrites | 2025-07-07 11:33:44+00:00
Hey everyone!

So I've been gaming on Steam for years, and I'm sure you've all been there - trying to find someone's Steam ID or compare profiles with friends, only to end up on these sketchy sites loaded with ads that take forever to load. I got so fed up with it that I just decided to build my own tool.

Meet steamid.one - basically everything I wished existed but couldn't find anywhere else.

Here's what bugged me enough to build this: You know how you're trying to set up a game server and need to convert a bunch of Steam IDs? Or you want to see what games you and your friends have in common? You'd have to bounce between like 3 different websites, half of which are trying to install sketchy browser extensions. Not fun.

What I ended up building: * ID conversion that actually works fast - throw any Steam ID format at it and get back all the others instantly * Profile comparison - compare up to 3 friends at once to see shared games, who's been playing what, ban status, all that good stuff * AI game suggestions (this one I'm pretty proud of!) - when you're comparing profiles, you can sign in through Steam and it'll actually analyze what you've all been playing and suggest new multiplayer games you might enjoy together. It gives you three picks: something everyone will probably like, an indie gem you might have missed, and a wildcard option. * Bulk converter for the server admin folks who need to convert lists of IDs

The nerdy bits: Built it with Python/FastAPI on the backend, kept the frontend simple with server-side rendering, and used Redis for caching so everything loads super fast. The AI suggestions run on Google's Gemini API. Whole thing's hosted on Vercel.

Honestly, this started as just scratching my own itch, but it turned into a pretty good learning experience with Python and FastAPI.

I'd love to know what you think! Have you run into similar frustrations with Steam tools? What other features would actually be useful and not just bloat?

Thanks for checking it out!
by seethedeaduu | 2025-07-07 11:33:50+00:00
> Generations identifying as trans:

Is this surprising? 20 years ago in many parts of the world the only way to survive as a trans person was through prostitution. You would be forced to live as an outcast, far away from "normal people". There were barely any legal protections, you could often not change your legal sex, finding any information about what this is or its treatments (not a fetish, something that millions experience, can't be "converted away", hormones exist, etc) was nearly impossible. Most people would see you as a freak.

> A lot of it has to do not with the label itself but with the industry. Where someone in the past would be called a “tomboy” or “femboy” today they would have a different diagnosis, the DSM-5 would be consulted, etc.

This is not true. Trans people don't go to a doctor and ask them if they are trans. Rather trans people generally arrive at the realization of what they are by themselves, usually before seeking any professional help about it. The DSM is not consulted (and if it is, it's done post-facto by someone acting as a gatekeeper and trying to fill boxes).

Many people who called themselves femboys in the past ended up transitioning after becoming more informed about the whole topic and realizing that transitioning their sex and living as their true self is an option rather than something they had to do in secret.
by 0rzech | 2025-07-07 11:34:08+00:00
Great initiative!

A quick web search revealed at least 4 other agent orchestration frameworks written in Rust [1][2][3][4]. Just being curious: did you decide against contributing to existing ones for some reason?

[1] https://github.com/kevin-rs/autogpt

[2] https://github.com/The-Swarm-Corporation/swarms-rs

[3] https://github.com/M4n5ter/rigs

[4] https://crates.io/crates/kowalski (for some reason GitHub link gives 404 and seems to be Ollama-only anyways)
by motorest | 2025-07-07 11:34:18+00:00
> Benchmarks? I hope you mean detailed writeups on robustness, because performance is not a consideration yet.

I don't think there is ambiguity. Either you have some way to objectively corroborate your personal claims, or you don't. Those are called Benchmarks. Performance is a specific type of benchmark test, but it's not the only one.

Either you have those or you don't. Making assertions and claims without benchmarks is not a confidence- or reputation-builder.