MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ensemblehq | 2025-07-24 11:32:26+00:00
I was actually going to comment on the same fact about professionalism growing into English football. Back when the Premier League era began compared to now is just a whole different level as what most players have been saying on SkySports. You see players playing in their mid and late 30s.

I was also going to hypothesize that players are significantly mentally equipped to cope with away pressures and their tactical shape stays more consistent regardless of being home or away.
by incomingpain | 2025-07-24 11:32:33+00:00
>What would make the EU choose one side—performance, subsidies, or ethics?

Why should the EU, a supernational bureaucracy, control what models people or countries can use? Shouldn't decisions about AI be made by individuals and enterprises based on what works best for them?

Instead of regulating others or forcing "neutrality," why not compete directly? Put up $10B for the first open-weight, locally-hosted European model that beats today’s best performers.

In reality, the EU has several acts that attack China and multiple models outright deny the EU access to their models; and the EU already bans the use of deepseek. The EU is legislating themselves out of being an AI player.
by anonymous_sorry | 2025-07-24 11:33:15+00:00
I meant when you're already on the vehicle mid-journey, and you just have to sit at a random stop for a while so you don't catch up to the one in front.

I get why, it just feels like your time is being wasted.

Of course, the trade-off is that next time you'll have a shorter wait to catch a bus or train because some other passengers had to sit and twiddle their thumbs for a bit
by microtonal | 2025-07-24 11:34:30+00:00
I hope it's something good. But in reality it's probably Samsung which is the only other vendor bothered enough to add a basic secure element. Maybe they will upgrade it?

I think it is unlikely that Samsung is interested in the relatively small market that GrapheneOS still is. I mean, if they cared, they would allow you to unlock the bootloader without blowing the Knox eFuse.

As far as I understand the next-generation Qualcomm CPU will have the required security CPU security features. There separate secure elements on the market, everyone outside Google/Apple/Samsung is either penny pinching or doesn't care about security. But it's perfectly possible to develop a phone with a secure element if you want to. So there is probably a smaller phone manufacturer that is willing to make a design with a secure element.
Show HN: Zettel – Quick Notes (iOS)
by surrTurr | 2025-07-24 11:35:06+00:00
Hi HN!

A month ago, I wanted an app that opens instantly, stays out of the way, and stores every note as plain text. Nothing fit, so I built 'Zettel'.

Zettel is nothing crazy; it's a digital piece of paper on your phone: type, swipe, done. Each note lands as a .md file in the iOS Files app, which you can use to sync to any of your other devices or applications.

I use Zettel daily to quickly get thoughts out of my head, into my favourite App Obsidian.

Zettel is free & open source, and 1MB in size - feel free to try it out if you like!

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/zettel-quick-notes/id674852524...
by jedimastert | 2025-07-24 11:35:30+00:00
> Anyway good engineering requires extensive testing over many hours of movements.

He actually discussed this in an earlier video for his initial tests on the capstan drive. He ended up testing the rope he used for around 358 hours (two weeks) on continuous use in the drive itself with very low backlash

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/capstandrive

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MwIBTbumd1Q&t=10m
by kragen | 2025-07-24 11:35:33+00:00
No, that's not why. The comment you're replying to gave a different reason that it was done that way. That comment explained, twice, that it's not merely, or even primarily, to improve the game's playability; it was to serve as an executable demonstration of the matchbox learning algorithm.

The blog post explained that the game derived from Martin Gardner's popularization of Donald Michie's work on the algorithm.

The output of the program also outlines the algorithm, using a series of PRINT statements.

Finally, the explanatory text in the book also explains the algorithm, in somewhat more depth.

Like many of the games in the book, it had a didactic purpose. It's not about improving playability.
by jedimastert | 2025-07-24 11:37:05+00:00
> Also, I wonder how resistant this mechanism is to wear and fatigue.

He actually discussed this in an earlier video for his initial tests on the capstan drive. He ended up testing the rope he used for around 358 hours (two weeks) on continuous use in the drive itself with very low backlash

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/capstandrive

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MwIBTbumd1Q&t=10m
by Fluorescence | 2025-07-24 11:37:25+00:00
Home advantage wasn't an accident for Jeff Beck, the Cambridge United manager in the '90s because he used groundsmanship as a weapon:

- plough the pitch to kneecap expensive teams with running/passing games

- narrow the pitch dimensions to minimise fancy wide plays

- grow the grass long and pour sand in the corners so long balls less likely to go out

He then recruited the tallest forwards he could and the strategy was simple, hoof it to the big fellas up front. None of this running/passing nonsense that requires money/talent.

I expect regulations might have improved since then...
by cjrp | 2025-07-24 11:37:40+00:00
The newer London black cabs do that

> The LEVC TX is powered by a full-electric hybrid drivetrain. It drives in full-electric mode all the time, but is recharged by an 81-horsepower (60 kW; 82 PS) Volvo-sourced 1.5-litre turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine.
by unraveller | 2025-07-24 11:37:50+00:00
The AI "voice-over clone" was more like default TTS David_British_1, the emotional video montage and text was what worked on people.

Ironically, the daughter's vlog [2] protesting the first fake "I'm dying" confession [1] helped the story gain traction, there was a second fake video of a random female voice claiming to be her [3] verifying the original story [1] which is probably what you saw.

The point is endless random autoplay is dupe central.

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@news.time26/video/752576413769616924... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Zrv3bxKxw&t=10s [3] https://www.tiktok.com/@fdsa32558/video/7525676062676749581
by MichaelZuo | 2025-07-24 11:38:32+00:00
If you really don’t believe the other half of the comment exists…

” Of course whether it’s human caused directly or human caused via 10 degrees of seperation matters little to future generations… but someone, somewhere, needs to actually do the work and provide credible rock solid proof for each and every step along the way. Otherwise the latter group will keep on growing in size and influence.”
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-24 11:39:03+00:00
Scary. Glad it turned out okay. The rule should be any standing water feature below 3' (1m) above grade should be enclosed by a fence to a height of 4' (1.3m) above grade if kids are anticipated to occupy the space.

And, for oceans, rivers, and flood water: remember that 1m³ of water weighs 1.1 ton/1 tonne.

Also dangerous: low head dams. https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/3/16/drowning-machin...

Finally, don't sleep in or build homes in flash flood areas: (US): https://msc.fema.gov/portal/home
by pjc50 | 2025-07-24 11:39:37+00:00
> This means that the overall structure of a protobuf parser is conceptually a while() loop surrounding a switch() statement, just like a VM interpreter.

This is a very insightful design. Encoding the parser in a table is an old technique, it's what YACC uses. There's a tradeoff between using the CPU's stack+registers versus having your own stack+state in this kind of work, and people have found situations where a small VM is faster because it gets to stay in the instruction cache and benefit from branch prediction, while the less-predictable data stays in the d-cache.
by mnmalst | 2025-07-24 11:40:03+00:00
Are you saying it's not ok to drive 90km/h in a zone where 120km/h is allowed?

80km/h is the usual maximum allowed speed for trucks, at least in Germany, so no idea how a car driving 90km/h is such a big problem. That's not a "stationary object" at all, far from it. You are even allowed to drive vehicles with a minimum speed of 60km/h on the Autobahn.

If a car driving 90km/h is the cause for a traffic jam there are definitely other factors at play. Not just in zones with a limit of 120km/h but everywhere even without limits.
by microtonal | 2025-07-24 11:40:08+00:00
Not sure what you are saying. In the Android space, only Pixels have a good secure element and Samsung has an acceptable secure element. Of those only Pixel allows unlocking the phone without blowing an eFuse. So, Pixel is currently the only phone that allows installing an alternative OS and provides a secure element.

Most phones without a separate secure element do not protect against brute-force PIN attacks, etc.

As is often said, the most secure phones are:

Pixel with GrapheneOS > iPhone >> Pixel with PixelOS >>>>>> anything else
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-24 11:40:23+00:00
So you are saying that they adapt to the local market but are perfectly capable of selling perfectly good vehicles abroad when they want to? This doesn't match what I know of the market. It also doesn't make much sense. Basically most of the BYD market is China but it's a hyper competitive market where there's a price war going on. I'd say there's very little room for chronic under performers in that market. As there are literally dozens of companies eager to step up and do better. From what I've seen if you want to get a glimpse of the future of road transport, you need to go to China.
by rubyn00bie | 2025-07-24 11:40:40+00:00
Lmao. This has to be the funniest comment I’ve ever read on here. I can assure you, the only copium being huffed is by you, mate. I have written Scala, Swift, Java, and more (including TypeScript). I have zero trouble with type systems, but I have wasted enough time fighting them for little real world benefit. In Elixir, and this is the best part, I don’t fight type bugs. You probably do because type erasure means you can still have them if someone has mistyped something or shit on something at runtime— the joys of JavaScript.

It sounds like you’re really trying to justify something and that’s great for you. I’m really happy for you. Keep it up. May you soar where no junior dev has dared to soar before. God speed.
by oaiey | 2025-07-24 11:40:41+00:00
You mean Apache httpd ... the thing which is called a-patchy-httpd server? (that is not a joke!).

Apache httpd existed many years before junit was invented in 1997. Long before TDD became a thing and our rigorous modern understanding set in. For a second, I even thought the Apache Foundation (founded because of httpd) later hosted junit, but I was wrong, is the Eclipse Foundation.
by ben_w | 2025-07-24 11:41:01+00:00
Agreed. I think this means the fair comparison is either:

"transistors vs. *synapses*"

or

"an entire integrated computer with all necessary cooling, including a modifier to account for the amortised training effort required to achieve human-quality output vs. the amortised energy requirements and output of a human over their lifetime".

Has to be human-quality output to be a fair comparison, a million lines of gibberish is worthless.

The human has to be educated up until 21 or so to be economically viable, retires in their late 60s, works 25% of the hours in a working week (but not at all on non-working week e.g. holiday, sickness, periods of unemployment, and while parental leave is work it isn't the specific work that people want to pay you for), and the brain itself is only ~20% of a human's calorific consumption.

In the (currently quite small number of) tasks where the AI we have is good enough to replace human labour, for some models it is already in the range where the marginal energy cost for inference is smaller than the energy cost (in food calories) to get a human to do the same thing.

But also, last I checked the peak performance of LLMs is not as high as a domain expert at anything, so even infinite cost into the AI isn't going to equal them. On the other hand, human intelligence is not equal for all of us, so I find it very easily believe that there's a significant fraction of the population who will always, over their lifetime, be behind today's SOTA AI, and therefore infinite time and energy for them isn't every going to equal the AI we already have.
by wbnns | 2025-07-24 11:41:58+00:00
Hey Anthony, nice work so far. Jackpot-style games are a tough space to build in, but there’s real upside. No one’s really cracked onchain versions yet, even though they’re everywhere offchain.

What you’re building reminds me a bit of lottery mechanics, so I wanted to share a couple examples that might offer inspiration. Both run on L2s to keep participation cheap.

Examples: https://basebillionslotto.eth.limo/ https://theinternettoken.com/

As for feedback, I’d suggest skipping Hacker News and instead narrowing in on the specific market you're targeting. Join focused crypto communities (if you haven’t already), especially ones where people are already playing onchain games. Invite them into your own space (Discord, Telegram, etc.) and start building in public -- share updates weekly, gather feedback, and increase engagement over time.

Use that to test key questions: how people experience onboarding, what they think of the odds, how sticky the game feels. For security, definitely find a way to get an audit from a reputable firm.

Hope that helps.
by apelapan | 2025-07-24 11:42:24+00:00
I want to glide at roughly constant speed for some distance. Some mild breaking is fine. I cant glide if I let off the accelerator, then I come to a fairly firm stop.

I want my right foot on the break pedal, ready to brake hard and fast in the rare case that something comes across the road.

I don't want to reduce speed any further than is necessary to have a safe breaking distance at fully ready state.

With any other car (that I have driven) than the Tesla, I can approach a situation like this at between 20kmh and 40kmh, depending on the specifics. In the Tesla I need to go at between 5 and 10kmh.
Show HN: Boreal.chat, an open AI chat platform, fast, and reliable
by polv | 2025-07-24 11:42:32+00:00
A modern, performant, and feature-rich AI chat platform built with reliability, speed, and user experience in mind.

Why Choose boreal.chat? boreal.chat stands out from other AI chat platforms with its unique combination of features and technical excellence:

Most flagship models available - Access to the latest and greatest AI models through reliable API providers Voice mode - Natural voice conversations with AI Offline syncing & stream resumability - Never lose your conversations, seamless experience across devices Pin & archive chats - Organize your conversations with intuitive management tools Performant and reliable - Built for speed with excellent uptime inherited from top-tier API providers Lightning fast UI - Built with Svelte and performance optimization in mind Responsive design - Works perfectly on phone, tablet, and desktop Self-hostable - Full control over your data and deployment
by nelblu | 2025-07-24 11:43:01+00:00
This is all nice while the AI overview has no ads in it. Wait until it gets enshittified, and I have a feeling AI overview would be so infested with ads that people would rather block it and proceed to reading the actual links.

All this said, I am guilty of using this a lot these days - while it is still ad-free. I just ask chatgpt.com to give me a recipe of "XYZ" and it gives it immediately without any annoying repetitive content.
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-24 11:45:25+00:00
This is the thing with good hybrids.

The "gas pedal" becomes a "I want to go faster/slower" pedal, its position has zero impact on the RPM.

As an anecdote: A security company I know only buys Toyota Hybrids for their guards just because of that. They have a habit of driving cars like they stole them and normal ICE cars break down from that kind of abuse. Hybrids won't let you abuse them, they pick the RPM and you deal with it.

(They also swap the passenger seat for a plastic box because the guards threw heavy crap like safety boxes on it, wearing down the seat in months)
by unixhero | 2025-07-24 11:45:56+00:00
They just don't produce very good tv shows anymore. There is nothing to watch.

In the 90s we had Seinfeld, X-Files, King Of Queens, Frasier, Star Trek TNG, Macguyver and so on.

Then onto 1990s movies, which by the time they reached TV syndication were still good! Will I watch Lethal Weapon or Die Hard even though I've seen it before? Heck yes!
by giantg2 | 2025-07-24 11:46:17+00:00
These are terrible. Then you have a very small in network option and get screwed when going anywhere else. This is basically what happens with CVS Caremark drug coverage - any recurring prescription must go through them or they won't cover it. They'll only cover one off prescriptions at competitors. It's really pretty terrible, especially if you need a compounded medication. I'm not sure how such an anticompetive racket is legally allowed to exist.
by ifwinterco | 2025-07-24 11:46:28+00:00
The entire DOM API is very coupled to JS, it's all designed with JS in mind, any new and future proposed changes are thought about solely through the lens of JS.

If they introduced a WASM API it would perpetually be a few months/years behind the JS one, any new features would have to be implemented in both etc.

I can see why it's not happened

(edit) And yes, I think the intention of WASM was either heavy processing, or UI elements more along the lines of what used to be done with Java applets etc. potentially using canvas and bypassing the DOM entirely, not as an alternative to JS for doing `document.createElement`
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-24 11:47:37+00:00
Diesel REX vans would be a MASSIVE hit if a company would just decide to start making them.

The #1 reason for (european) companies not buying full EV vans is range, they need to drive a LOT during the day.

REX would solve that with minimal emissions. And depending on the battery size, they could drive on full EV in city centres and only allow the REX to charge the battery during longer drives.

The BMW i3 REX is a fantastic car, if you can find one, buy it.
by antirez | 2025-07-24 11:47:40+00:00
Please note that the Redis supported there is not "Vector Sets" (the new Redis data type) but one of the indexes types of RedisSearch.

And, about such benchmarks: I tested another vector db benchmark, investigated it a bit, found that it was mostly measuring client implementation latencies and other internal inefficiencies...

In Redis with VSIM I can easily get 50k vSIM/seconds with 300 components vectors with redis-benchmark, yet when I tried to write a quick test for one of those engines I got a lot lower numbers because simply vectors are large (makes serialization in Python slow if not well coded), often these tests are written in high level languages, don't account for differences in client libraries speeds.

TLDR? Benchmarking is hard, for vector systems it is harder, and the results of most of such tests are totally irrelevant.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-24 11:48:19+00:00
This comment comes across a lot like the fanboys screeching about how their 1985 or 91 Toyota had a "nice" interior as if the most rattle prone 2009 GM work truck interior isn't better in every way just as a result of sheer cumulative progress. Like if you actually put A beside B and look at them without the rose tinted veneer of nostalgia it's not even a comparison.

Rusty rarely exercised drum brakes have a ton of failure modes that result in severely degraded or nonexistent performance that the average motorist probably wouldn't care about until they really need the brakes and they don't all work well enough.

The heat capacity of drums is pretty easily made noticeable, not "exceeded" to the point of substantially reduced capacity, but noticeable from the driver's seat in just a few good stops in high ambient temps (think like stop and go light to light in somewhere like DC or Miami) or one decent hill. Yeah you can polish the turd with fancy fins and materials and airflow, etc. but discs are just so much better per dollar and per pound.

Most of the problems discs have are NVH and rotor problems that are easily solved for intermittent/lesser use with the simple use of better alloys (Dexter even makes stainless for boat trailers, which are probably the ultimate example of extreme intermittent usage, so it's not like this is groundbreaking). Dominant slider pin designs these days are highly optimized for performance/NVH at the expense of longevity but there's an entire catalog of historical designs that one could easily conclude have better tradeoffs for less demanding usage.
by jansan | 2025-07-24 11:48:57+00:00
My first thought was that maybe fan culture and atmosphere has changed, which would have a more noticeable effect in the higher leagues, because lower leagues are still hilarious [1][2]. But the home advantage seems to affect all leagues the same, so I am probably wrong.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KXmv7VK_110

[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aTHc9Xinb6U (uncensored: https://www.tiktok.com/@bunch_amateurs/video/733659771889629... )