MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fnordpiglet | 2025-07-06 12:50:45+00:00
Yes CHESS starts to get pretty close to mechanical and with a few breakthroughs that are roadmapped it’ll meet and in some situations exceed mechanical cooling.

I find it odd that people respond with knowledge gained in the past to a new research article without reading it and doing some investigation first as to the roadmap behind the research and what the expected endpoints are. It’s like using the first release of BERT and declaring LLMs a dead end.
by surgical_fire | 2025-07-06 12:50:51+00:00
If the licensing agreement does not differentiate in between "customers purchasing new copies" and "previously purchasing copies being available" then therein lies the problem.

Looks like the possibility of regulations will fix that. That in the Year of our Lord 2025, when online channels are many times the only possibility of purchasing a game, licensing agreements do not cover that, it seems that proper regulation is very much necessary.
by docsuser3 | 2025-07-06 12:50:54+00:00
Here in Germany we have open maps like the following that were created by the government to inform of potential flood areas: https://umweltatlas.bayern.de/mapapps/resources/apps/umwelta...

Everyone that buys a house or land knows these maps and checks them since the last deadly flood happened a few years ago. I cannot believe that the US decided to defund the offices that help to gather these kind of information.
by t_hozumi | 2025-07-06 12:51:25+00:00
That's a really important point, and I completely agree. This perspective reminds me of an excellent book I recently read, How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner.

This book focuses on extremely high-cost "megaprojects" and emphasizes the critical importance of thorough "planning" before execution. This stands in stark contrast to the low-risk creative activities discussed in the article, which makes the point about cost even more compelling.

However, rather than being a complete counter-argument, I see a significant overlap. The book advocates *for low-risk, low-cost experimentation and creative exploration during the planning phase* through methods like miniature prototyping and CAD simulations. In this sense, both the article and the book highlight the value of iterative approaches, whether it's through frequent, small-scale actions or through meticulous, low-cost trials before committing to high-cost endeavors.
by Xss3 | 2025-07-06 12:52:33+00:00
Nobody goes to jail for a meme.

Just like in the USA however there are laws about inciting violence and riots and people have been prosecuted for that.

The bs you're referring to is likely about the guy that went to jail for tweeting that a hotel of migrants should be burned down...during a race riot near the hotel.

Fires were set and people, including those calling for it, were prosecuted.
by enragedcacti | 2025-07-06 12:52:39+00:00
Predictable does not necessarily follow from deterministic. Hash algorithms, for instance, are valuable specifically because they are both deterministic and unpredictable.

Relying on model, seed, and hardware to get "repeatable" prompts essentially reduces an LLM to a very lossy natural language decompression algorithm. What other reason would someone have for asking the same question over and over and over again with the same input? If that's a problem you need solve then you need a database, not a deterministic LLM.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-06 12:52:59+00:00
Yeah Dropbox Apple etc. provide enough free or paid storage that shows you the true cost. Circa $10 for 2Tb. Cloudflare let's you host static files pretty much for free. Or cost is rounding error.

So you can run 1000 local first app that syncs to a Dropbox for that 10/m in storage. And that storage is full B2C level ready to go not some low level s3 like primitive. Has auth, has supported has programs to sync.

Really most of the cloud cost is not needed.
by danaris | 2025-07-06 12:53:06+00:00
I've seen this bad take over and over again in the last few years, as a response to the public reaction to cryptocurrency, NFTs, and now generative AI.

It's bullshit.

I mean, sure: there were people who hated the Internet. There still are! They were very clearly a minority, and almost exclusively older people who didn't like change. Most of them were also unhappy about personal computers in general.

But the Internet caught on very fast, and was very, very popular. It was completely obvious how positive it was, and people were making businesses based on it left and right that didn't rely on grifting, artificial scarcity, or convincing people that replacing their own critical thinking skills with a glorified autocomplete engine was the solution to all their problems. (Yes, there were also plenty of scams and unsuccessful businesses. They did not in any way outweigh the legitimate successes.)

By contrast, generative AI, while it has a contingent of supporters that range from reasonable to rabid, is broadly disliked by the public. And a huge reason for that is how much it is being pushed on them against their will, replacing human interaction with companies and attempting to replace other things like search.
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Show HN: Best AI Tool Finder
by ShinMatsura | 2025-07-06 12:53:55+00:00
I work at a consulting firm and continuously research AI tools, running a site called Best AI Tool Finder (https://bestaitoolfinder.com/).

With advancements like Vibe Coding, the number of new AI tools being released each day has exploded—so much so that following influencers on social media alone is no longer enough to keep up. That’s why I started aggregating and curating over 10,000 products from Product Hunt and other top sources worldwide, rigorously filtering only the top-rated tools using a multi-layered process of AI screening and manual review. The site now features 1,600+ in-depth trend and review articles, including 100 deeply analyzed reports on the most promising or practical tools.

What sets this site apart is its commitment to accuracy: 95% of fact-checking and copyright/hallucination filtering is automated by AI, then everything is edited and published by me personally. Unlike many popular SEO-heavy “AI tool roundups” plagued by misinformation, I uphold strict quality standards and will promptly and freely correct any errors if pointed out.

Both the AI community and end users need reliable information they can trust. My ongoing goal is to provide a critical, independent guide everyone can use to navigate and compare the ever-growing AI landscape—especially as AI-driven search becomes the norm.

If you spot a top-rated Product Hunt (or other) tool that's missing, or notice anything inaccurate—please let me know and I’ll fix it for free.

Thanks!
by analog31 | 2025-07-06 12:54:23+00:00
As it stands, I have a hunch that the people at the top of governments tend to be among the more highly intelligent. I'll even give that to our leaders, but also to the leader of Iran, etc. If nothing else, the intelligence required to reach that level and stay there without getting killed or purged is impressive.

By and large, the countries that are run by a single, centralized intelligence, are worse off than the countries that are run by the distributed intelligence of the people, even if the average intelligence is lower.

My prediction is that the liberal democracies will fare better.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-07-06 12:54:52+00:00
I have the same feeling with Vim after using it for like the past 10 years professionally. Granted, it is much smaller, but for instance editing multiple files using just stock config is surprisingly undiscoverable. It comes with the whole buffer mechanism, which is certainly powerful, but I guess that 99% of newcomers just want to open tabs and go left/right, not to learn set of byzantine commands like :rewind or :last.

At this point, I believe that newcomers should jump straight to Neovim and file manager plugins, than deal with the stock stuff. That's just one thing out of many.
by meheleventyone | 2025-07-06 12:55:29+00:00
If you’re saying that a change like SKG would lead to developers needing to take a perpetual license then you should say that rather than alluding to it with a non-sequitur like this.

If that’s what you mean then I’d say maybe but doing so would definitely increase the cost and complexity in using licensed content. Which is likely to be passed on.

Interestingly though reading the EU petition and the petition authors views it would be fine to remove the content once the licence expired.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-06 12:55:32+00:00
Yeah, too much of the vibe around autocracies is that people don't like 'em because they're big ol' meanie heads. No. They're bad because they're literally bad at governing. They make bad decisions.

Democracy isn't good because it makes people feel good, but because in the long run democracies make far more adaptive decisions, and just hobbling along imperfectly over long periods is how you actually achieve growth.
by Shorel | 2025-07-06 12:56:40+00:00
The view exposed in the article is all wrong. It is MBA-analyst levels of wrong.

Valve didn't conquer anything. Valve defended PC gaming when everybody else including Microsoft, had abandoned it, and focused on consoles.

Windows XP had amazing gaming APIs, like DirectInput: still superior to XInput after all these years, because of more axis and better FFB support; and DirectSound3D, which enabled hardware accelerated 3D positional audio.

These APIs were declared obsolete by Microsoft, in favour of XBox-compatible inferior APIs, which were feature equivalent to the APIs in the inferior hardware of the first XBox console. Inferior not in absolute terms, but inferior to what a PC was capable of.

And that was just the beginning. Microsoft focused and pushed for their console, and most AAA game studios followed suit. Consoles have been incredibly profitable, so their gambit has paid off.

PC Gaming was for old nerds, old game mechanics like FPS (Counter Strike) and RTS (Starcraft) and indie gaming. Valve kept the dream alive. Valve kept open computing alive, in a sense, as consoles are closed computing, and in some cases you need expensive proprietary licenses just to produce a game for one of the consoles, like Nintendo.

So no, it was not that Valve released Steam in the right moment. Valve is a big reason PC gaming is alive and thriving. They believed in PC gaming when all the big companies went the console way.

Valve saved PC gaming.

Then Microsoft and the AAA game studios took notice and we have the XBox store on Windows, and many game launchers, but they are opportunistic companies, who would destroy PC gaming if they could, to get their console profits up.
by soraminazuki | 2025-07-06 12:57:07+00:00
It's not a choice between legalization of all drugs or violence and corruption. Sure, the way the US cracked down on drugs did more harm than good. But that doesn't mean there should be no regulation for drugs whatsoever.

Take the opioid epidemic for example. It claimed the lives of hundreds of people per day. Do you think "humane and sensible" people were responsible for that?
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-06 12:57:24+00:00
Thanks for this. I think you make good points, and I apologize if I came off as hostile toward you directly or indirectly in that other thread. The closest I have come to scripted submissions is using the HN provided bookmarklet, and even that felt like scripting to me. I'm not a purist about this, but the inconsistency feels strange to me too, and I would rather not have scripts be the primary posting or comment method, but please keep the faith with me here on HN.

If we don't make an effort and intention to care and stay here despite bad calls by refs, we'll just have to take our ball and go home, but for many, they don't have another home like HN, so that would be a net loss for them. We owe it to ourselves and each other to show up where we want to effect change that wouldn't happen without our presence and involvement. That's what user generated content is all about!
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-07-06 12:57:42+00:00
Brilliant! This is both clever and educational. I immediately wondered if it would be possible to do something similar for JWST.

Unfortunately LOC DNS records top out at ~42 million meters (42,000 km altitude) and JWST is 38x further out (~1.5 million km away). So you can’t represent its location with a LOC altitude field. Maybe Hubble?
by mattkevan | 2025-07-06 12:57:44+00:00
After years of working in public companies, where nothing mattered beyond the next quarterly results, I’m lucky to be working for a company that’s both a B Corp and an Employee Owned Trust. Instead of exiting to a buyout or IPO the founder basically sold the company to itself.

Makes a huge difference when a company can just remain comfortably profitable and doesn’t have to chase double digit growth.
by tossandthrow | 2025-07-06 12:58:07+00:00
A class of people would have a larger spending power.

Naturally, implementing UBI would require the entire financial sector to adjust. We would likely need to significantly raise interest rates (Which, IMHO would be great) and have a period to manage inflation.

But beside the initial recalibration phase, I have not seen any convincing arguments for why prices on non-positional goods would increase. Even with the increase interest rates, we would likely see that prices on positional goods / assets would stabilize as dead-cheap capital is not available.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-06 12:58:37+00:00
> Now some rando (or group of randos) that you didn't even know existed gets power based on pure luck.

Being chosen at random could be better than being chosen by elites who are actively trying to oppress you. You get the median thing instead of the below-median thing.

> At least elections have a veneer of consent since people are asked which of the available options they prefer. Can you imagine anyone going to war because people chosen by a lottery wheel asked for it?

Exactly. It would remove the false veneer of consent. That's a feature, not a cost.

> The Greeks back then lived in small city-states where random selection meant that every able bodied male had a good shot at holding an important office at least once in their lifetime.

Re-apply the intended principles of federalism so that only decisions of insurmountable national relevance are made at the national level and the large majority of decision are made at the local level.
by strogonoff | 2025-07-06 12:58:48+00:00
I imagined that at some point someone would come up with the idea “let’s remove more noise to compress things better and then add it back on the client”. Turns out, it is Netflix (I mean, who else wins so much from saving bandwidth).

Personally I rejected the idea after thinking about it for a couple of minutes, and I’m not yet sure I was wrong.

The challenge with noise is that it is actually cannot be perfectly automatically distinguished and removed from what could be finer details and textures even in a still photo, not to mention high-resolution footage. If removing noise was as simple as that, digital photography would be completely different. If you have removed noise, you can’t just add back missing detail later—if you could, you would not have removed it in the first place (alas, no algorithm is good enough, and even human eye can be faulty).
by lupusreal | 2025-07-06 12:59:08+00:00
I do think Adderall should be available OTC to everybody. It's an open secret that rich kids with no legitimate mental issues buy prescriptions for adderall to boost their school and job performance. The popular talk of "ADHD brains" for which Adderall works differently is pseudoscience tacitly endorsed by the medical community to make people feel okay about using these drugs. They don't just boost the school performance of people who have ADHD, they do that for everybody. It's a relatively harmless drug in the vein of caffeine, almost everybody would benifit from using it, not just the people with diagnosed attention disorders. Broad legalization would level the playing field.

Meth is different, even though it's basically the same if you look at it reductively. Meth hits you fast, it's not slow release. It gives you mind melting sex and gives you psychosis if you use it a lot. In a world where Adderall is easily and legally accessible to everybody, meth will remain desirable and ruinous.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-07-06 12:59:34+00:00
There’s money to be made alright, but I don’t think most retail traders are in the position to do that.

Technical analysis might as well be astrology. It treats tickers as isolated when in reality ETFs and growth of any individual stock in an ETF affects the flow in and out of other ETFs. When ETFs purchase stock due to an increase in value, they seek most liquid constituents first, and eventually rebalance. All these create feedback loops. The flow across the ETFs drives 80% of volume.

People would have higher performance if they learned about any particular sector, its movement and long term trends.

Retail has a lot of flexibility but people focus on trading over days instead of understanding trends and events of tomorrow, next year and the next decade.

Retail options “traders” barely understand the mechanics of at all, let alone the disadvantage they are in. They buy overpriced options with absurd premium that tanks during the chop induced by MMs. They don’t understand how MMs move/manipulate(not in the illegal sense)/shape the market to avoid losing money — they wouldn’t be in this position if they lost money. They just copy trades from traders on discord and hope to make some money.

ETFs are a great way to make money in terms of risk exactly of their rebalancing mechanics.

Everyone doesn’t have to beat the market, just beating inflation and leaving it in the bank is an improvement for the average person. Yes it won’t make people rich tomorrow, but they will be in a better situation next year or the one after than today.
by dradra67 | 2025-07-06 12:59:37+00:00
Apple Aperture.

Never liked Lightroom and it is subscription-only now.

I use DarkTable here and there but never recreated all the albums and metadata I had in Aperture.

Apple pulling the plug was a major punch in the gut and I'll never invest so much effort again in curating a digital collection with proprietary software.
by vallassy | 2025-07-06 12:59:41+00:00
If you're willing to make the jump before GabeN makes it easy for all of us, I can recommend CachyOS with KDE Plasma.

I've recently made the jump and it seems to have stuck. This is at least the fifth time I've tried to switch over the last 20 years and it's the first time it even moderately feels like most things have just worked.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-06 13:00:09+00:00
After a while, the article admits that its headline is bogus. For a wide variety of reasons. Though it definitely underplays this one:

> The partition of the Arabian peninsula from the Indian empire began in 1937 with the separation of Yemen.

> That same year it was also decided that India would "not be allowed to run the Persian Gulf" if it became independent.

The British Empire, drawing lines through other peoples' lands and lives in distant London, was sure-as-hell not going to gift its "own" critical strategic oil supply to the Indian nationalists.
Show HN: A Thermodynamic Model of System Health (Entropy and Adaptability)
by projectvitalis | 2025-07-06 13:00:14+00:00
We’ve developed a new open model for measuring system health using thermodynamics and information theory. It’s called QIH (Quantified Inference of Health), and it defines health not as a static state, but as the adaptive capacity to export entropy.

This applies to biological systems (sleep, disease), ecosystems (Amazon collapse), markets (COVID crash), and even AI.

It’s testable, cross-domain, and designed to bridge theory with real-world simulation. We’d love feedback from systems thinkers, biologists, physicists, and curious generalists.

We’re releasing this under open protocol and will iterate based on feedback. AMA!
by iambateman | 2025-07-06 13:00:41+00:00
Just a quick quibble…the subtitle of the article calls this problem tyranny.

Tyranny is a real thing which exists in the world and is not exemplified by “product manager adding text expansion to word processor.”

The natural state of capitalism is trying things which get voted on by money. It’s always subject to boom-bust cycles and we are in a big boom. This will eventually correct itself once the public makes its position clear and the features which truly suck will get fixed or removed.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-07-06 13:00:46+00:00
> aerodynamic improvements can save quite a bit of money

If there were any significant amount of a saved money then a 'brick style' tractors like Peterbilt 389 [0] would be long gone purely by economical factors. It's still a brick on wheels which pushes a multi-ton load.

It's more a combination of a lack of a meaningful train system, an overall spareness of the cities and the roads and a male appendage measuring cont^W^W^W^W history and customs around the trucks[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peterbilt_Semi-Tractor.jp... It was introduced in 2007.

EDIT:

[1] heh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479293
by blamestross | 2025-07-06 13:01:37+00:00
You live in a world with MANY AGIs.

Collective and Swarm Superintelligence isn't a new thing at all. We call them companies, governments, organizations and churches. They just (mostly) run on meat and memes.

The only recent change is that a lot of them are dangerously powerful and paperclip optimized to produce "shareholder value".

I know "capitalism is a runaway swarm superintelligence" isn't the scifi future you want, but what criteria is it missing? The curve isn't the exponential kurzweil dreamed of, but that has only ever been a marketing pitch, all growth curves are punctuated sigmoids.

As to who does well? Who has aligned the optimization criteria for thier Super-AGI with their actual well-being? Who hasn't?
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-06 13:01:51+00:00
People are automatons.

They need to be programmed.

Whenever you are in leadership position my opinion is that one should adopt a public and private persona. You can do cheery whatever BS to keep people feeling like they “psychologically belong” and whatever woke lingo is hip in HR.

Behind the scenes, you need to ensure single responsibility principle applies to everyone. They need to do one or only a few things, but each thing they do should be what they’re good and capable at. Just fire or kick out people who are annoying. If you think they’re a huge stinker on social media who might ruin things more, adapt and put them doing something else. If they are really hopeless then hopefully they fuck up in that role and you can fire them, or you can just let them organically drop off.

You can’t let feels get in the way when you’re in charge. A follower operates on feelings.