MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GianFabien | 2025-07-30 02:54:00+00:00
AI's capabilities are very unevenly distributed. If there is a wealth of quality information on the internet about something, then it usually comes up with a solid answer. But where information is scarce it often just bullshits its way. Two examples:

Trying to get some JS code to work for a GUI - mostly correct, but I did cross-check with MDN.

Tried to debug PXE booting Raspberry Pi from Haiku-OS as a server. A mixture of good information on PXE as per the standards, but sketchy when it comes to Raspberry Pi's non-standard implementation. Failed to solve problems arising from Haiku-OS beta5 state.

As career advice: skate to where the puck will be! Get proficient at solving domain specific and edge case scenarios. Fixing AI created monsters is going to be like tattoo removal clinics erasing regrets of past bad choices.
by robertlvaughn | 2025-07-30 02:54:40+00:00
I built this to solve a personal itch: I wanted a clean, continuous info dashboard I could leave running on a second screen — no clicking, no logging in, just always-on visibility into tech news, science, AI, and other areas I care about.

So I built [https://RogueScroll.com](https://RogueScroll.com)

It's a browser-based, real-time info stream with a retro terminal aesthetic. Feeds are categorized and scroll in columns. There's no login, no tracking, no ads — just a minimalist info flow.

Some things I focused on: - GPU-accelerated transform scrolling for smoothness - Clean UX, no interaction needed after load - Lightweight back-end with mixed Perl + Python stack

Would love feedback or ideas — or thoughts on where this could go next. It’s still early and I’m building this on weekends. Warning: Some people say is makes them sick.

Thanks!
by aurareturn | 2025-07-30 02:56:14+00:00
OpenRouter only captures a tiny fraction of the market. I think around 2-3 million users. But Claude has something like 10-30 million active users according to most estimates. And ChatGPT is already north of 300-400 million active users

In case it wasn't obvious, I implied the same thing. Anthropic models are more popular on OpenRouter, which I take it as it's more preferred for developers and their apps. However, ChatGPT is still better.
by MartDaYa | 2025-07-30 02:56:24+00:00
I’m building a social network that works like a search engine powered by artificial intelligence.

In addition to regular posts, users can write highly personalized articles, just like having their own website. These articles are automatically indexed on Google, giving them real visibility.

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by saurik | 2025-07-30 02:56:33+00:00
Well, if you are going to try to use an LLM--something that is a giant black box that has no hope any time soon of being proven anywhere near as reliable as a CPU, and which has been trained explicitly on input data that makes it remarkably similar with respect to its limitations to a human--then you need to get used to using it to replace the "average human" and start doing everything you can to convince yourself it is a human so that you don't forget to add all of those safeguards we have shown to be effective.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-07-30 02:57:53+00:00
Lemond got a suspicious injection once in the 1989 Giro d'Italia...so his team may have been doping him without his knowledge if one wants to hold him on a pedestal.

Lemond was beating a lot of superstars in the 1980s that were blood doping (Hinault was probably blood doping - that's where you freeze your blood in the offseason or between races and then superinfuse yourself for "big days" - it went to the wayside because EPO was so much more effective and convenient) which is suspicious as well.

Lemond was also not exactly the best trainer compared to people like Lance Armstrong. He was teased by magazines for starting some TdFs overweight with a slight potbelly.

Doping in cycling, heck doping in all sports has been around a long long time, well before Lemond. Stimulants and a wide array of other drugs have been used in top sports for a long time. So it gets very suspicious whenever someone is beating the top end performers at any point in the last 50 years.

That said, I think he was pretty clean, or at least cleaner than the EPO guys that knocked him from the peloton.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-07-30 02:59:15+00:00
I got interested in photography during my travels, and my wife is very interested in it.

I bought a decent camera. I really enjoyed playing with it, and spent some happy hours learning about it. I even took some decent photos (well, I liked them anyway).

But in the end, carrying it became a chore and trying to take off-the-cuff photos during adventures took too long. I found that we needed to go for specific "photography adventures" with the camera, with the intent of taking photographs with the camera, in order to use it. If we were going for a trip without the specific aim of taking photographs it was just easier to use the phone cameras.

Also the camera photos were stuck on the camera, while the phone photos were instantly usable in social media, and shareable from the Google/Apple Photos. I have a portable drive folder somewhere with all the camera photos, but I never see them. The phone photos are a search away.

I think it's the difference between "being a photographer" and "taking photos". I am not a photographer, I just want to take some photos and share them with my friends. They're going to look at the photo for approximately 5 seconds max, on their phone, and never again. All the comments in the article are accurate but meaningless in this context.

On the other had, if you're a photographer and want to take a photograph that someone will hang on their wall, all the comments in the article are accurate and relevant.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-30 02:59:35+00:00
A lot of us started out putting together some of the circuits in Forrest Mims Radio Shack books [1]. He does a good job of explaining how they work as well.

And then there is an amazing site with (thousands of ?) electronics hobbyist magazines archived [2]. If you want to start browsing, they often ran series in their issues along the lines of "getting started in electronics". Regardless, some awesome projects in there.

But if you want to go back pre-transistor (ha ha) the U.S. Navy had a great series on learning electronics [3]. Def. analog.

[1] https://archive.org/search?query=Forrest+Mims

[2] https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide....

[3] https://archive.org/details/basic-electronics-volumes-1-5-by...
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-30 02:59:59+00:00
Both can be true at the same time, I think. It’s true that the vulnerabilities exist regardless of whether anyone’s reporting them, and that it’s better to know about them than not. It’s also true that almost any course of action that makes a project effectively stop existing does it a disservice, and that includes vulnerability reporting.

I’ve not really made up my mind about what happened with libxml2, to be clear. Perhaps in this world some projects really are vulnerable enough that they deserve to die. But as we see, this can entail essentially punishing people who decide to take up e.g. parsers as a hobby. And not doing that is something I feel I value higher than even security of the software ecosystem as a whole.
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by YZF | 2025-07-30 03:02:04+00:00
I think the argument that the use of violence to defeat an enemy only serves to create more enemy doesn't hold water. There are plenty of historical examples where brute force was used to bring an enemy to submission and that was more or less the end. We can go WW-II or we can look at more recent examples like Al Qaeda or ISIS or Chechnya. There are many more.

No argument that the extreme right in Israel benefited from the Oct 7th attack. So far anyways. What exactly that means in terms of "expansion" remains to be seen. Isn't annexing the west bank and giving Palestinians Israeli citizenship the real solution anyways? Modulo trying to "convince" them to leave that's more or less the plan of the Israeli right.

There was plenty of hate towards Israel before Oct 7th. The hate that manifested in Oct 7th was more or less unprecedented. I can't say there is more hate now. Check out some Gaza school textbooks from before Oct 7th. They raise their kids on hate (in UN funded schools).

I also can't predict where things go from here. I think the shift that happened in Israel on Oct 7th is that Israel should not try to control or predict the intent of their enemies. Israel needs to take away the capacity of those opponents to attack Israel. You can see this in Lebanon where Israel is still hitting Hezbollah wherever they can. In the past Israel would worry about retaliation, now Israel is more worried about capabilities and is willing to deter retaliation through use of more force. Deterrence + removing capabilities.

In Lebanon you could argue Lebanese would object to Israel bombing their country but some are happy that Hezbollah is getting decimated. The Palestinian authority and some Palestinians are happy that Israel is going after Hamas and PIJ militants aggressively in the west bank.

Gaza is a very different story but they were also terrorized by Hamas. What things look like after the war - who knows. Hard to even say when this war ends and what that looks like. I would like to hope there is some better lives for everyone and peace but that seems very unrealistic. The western countries talking about a two state solution are smoking some good stuff.
by bane | 2025-07-30 03:02:44+00:00
DeX is perfect for certain business settings (mostly sales, but many management functions also) where you home-base out of a desk, then hit the road during the day.

When you home-base, you're producing more in terms of text, longer form emails, documents, spreadsheets, presentations etc. So having a keyboard+monitor+mouse is important.

When you are on the road, you really just need to make calls, text, get driving directions, send short emails, etc. Occasionally make a presentation, which is doable off of the phone without any external devices.

I've done this workflow in short spurts and it's frankly really fantastic, modern productivity tools usually have an Android app version that's fine, or a web-app version that's also fine. I was often also making calls from the same phone that was driving my KVM.

Pretty much the only thing preventing me doing it permanently is multi-monitor support at "homebase", and sometimes being able to print sanely on a corporate printer setup.
by wutwutwat | 2025-07-30 03:03:42+00:00
> By dropping the header, one maintains trust, but one loses the ability to geolocate.

Not dropping. Dropping what the client sent, and recreating it yourself, with the client connection's ip address. The IP can still be geolocated, as much as an ip address can be...

AS numbers have a very rough mapping to a very wide spot on a map, but they are not at all guaranteed to be accurate or up to date, and applied more so back when we had plenty of ipv4 space left and enormous blocks were held by giant companies.

Nowadays, ipv4 address are much more fragmented, globally, and an ASN might own a ip block that says the ip is in Utah, but it has since been leased out to some VPS provider who attached it to a load balancer running in a datacenter in Germany.

There are better headers (or better yet a combination of headers) that can be used to get the user's location, and their locale (yes, where you live or connect from doesn't at all mean you speak the native language in that region).
by eviks | 2025-07-30 03:04:08+00:00
> Should we trust the information at face value without verifying from other sources? Of course not, that's part of the learning process.

It mostly isn't, the point of the good learning process is to invest time into verifying "once" and then add verified facts to the learning material so that learners can spend that time learning the material instead of verifying everything again.

Learning to verify is also important, but it's a different skill that doesn't need to be practiced literally every time you learn something else.

Otherwise you significantly increase the costs of the learning process.
by kube-system | 2025-07-30 03:06:09+00:00
The distortion of faces near the edges of iPhone photos is, in my opinion, the biggest issue with iPhone photos. So much so that I avoid being at the edges of group photos specifically for this reason. And it gets worse as you approach the edge of the frame. If you are barely in-frame, you will look like you've gained 30lbs and you've just had a stroke.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-30 03:06:35+00:00
People probably don't think about a poor person enough or they would come up with more solutions that benefit everybody.

Some only conceptualize scenarios that include those that are quite wealthy, whether intentional or not.

Even if you are not poor, one of the most respectable things you can do is to re-use and recycle rather than consume new.

For minimal cash outlay, surplus PC's can easily be found at zero cost which is naturally an unmatched bargain, compared to used monitors even as low as $10 each, unless you can get the monitors free also, but that's much more uncommon. Surplus keyboards are stacked up everywhere and being thrown away all the time too.

So it's really the monitors (and physical desk space) that's the limiting factor for aspiring low-cost operators. By a long shot.

It's been that way for years so by now with every multi-monitor workspace I have a PC for each monitor, even if I only run one of the PC's at a time usually. Each monitor also has at least two separate inputs which can be chosen from at any time and all the wiring is in place whether it is being actively used or not.

So between my office or home or an employment site a laptop used to be carried with me but now mainly collects dust except for "outreach" or distant travel these days. Laptop chargers still in each location so I didn't have to carry that as often.

Now it's usually only a miniPC (or sometimes two) that I carry for "full-strength" mobile deployment between locations. Chose miniPC's that run on the laptop chargers that were already at each desk. Even more convenient to carry than laptops.

Soon for the PC's that I have appropriately configured at each familiar location, I will only need to be carrying a bootable USB stick instead of either a miniPC or laptop :)

Might as well use the PC's that are already there too, along with the full-size monitors and keyboards ;)

Environment on a stick.

Not much different than the way you could put Windows XP on a bootable FAT32 Memorystick, then put the Memorystick into the Sony phone to utilize its remaining storage space the regular way. The cellphone folders don't interfere with the Windows folders. Then plug in the USB cord from the phone to a PC, boot the PC to USB and the phone acts like a bootable USB stick and your C: drive is the Windows volume on the phone's internal Memorystick.

This still works with Android and SD cards too.

It's good to have but it just ties up the phone and a separate USB stick is the real functional model.
by jchw | 2025-07-30 03:07:05+00:00
I think it's only a non-starter for me in SQLx if not using query caching. Caching makes the situation workable.

For sqlc, it isn't really a big problem because you only need to run the code generation when you're actually modifying database things. Still, with that having been said, I think just passing a database URI and having analysis work based on that is unideal. Using an actual database isn't a huge problem, but having to manage the database instance out of band is the part that I think isn't great, because it allows for the schema in the code to trivially desync with the schema used in analysis. If I used SQLx I'd probably be compelled to try to wire up a solution that spawns the database and migrates it up hermetically for the caching part. Likewise if I used this mode of sqlc.

I guess it might be possible for sqlc to add first class support for that sort of concept, but I can see holes in it. For one thing, you have to figure out where to grab binaries from and what version. An approach using Docker/Podman works, and at least partly solves this problem because you could allow specifying any OCI image, but that has caveats too, like requiring Docker or Podman to be installed. The most heroic effort would be to use some kind of solution using WASM builds of database engines: pulling down and running something like PGlite in process seems like it would be an almost ideal solution, but it sticks you to whatever things can actually be made to work in WASM in terms of features, extensions and versions, at least unless/until database servers and extension vendors miraculously decide that supporting WASM as a target is a good idea. Still, if you want some crazy ideas for how to make the UX better, I think either the Docker approach or the WASM approach could be made to work to some degree.

Barring that, though, I'd be most likely to have some kind of Docker setup for running sqlc with an ephemeral database instance. It's not pretty, but it works...

I don't think it would be a non-starter, though. I only really think that connecting to the database from within rustc invocations is a non-starter.
by GabrielBianconi | 2025-07-30 03:07:14+00:00
[I'm his coworker.] We ran Unsloth ourselves on a GPU-by-the-hour server. We have a notebook in the repository showing how to query historical data and use it with Unsloth.

It's a WIP PR that we plan to merge soon: https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero/pull/2273
by gus_massa | 2025-07-30 03:07:40+00:00
25% is insane. Is is true? [Hi from Argentina!]

For vegetables I buy them every other day. The greengrocery is 100m away. A few apples/bananas/oranges/grapes/small-tomatoes for two days, kids eat a lot of fruit. And some potatoes/carrots/onions/whatever if needed, because they last like a week. Probably only 1% or 2% are wasted. (We tried a weekly purchase, but there is a lot of spoilage.)

Protip: Buy peepers or tomatoes, cut and put them in a air fryer for 25 minutes and freeze them. No spoilage risk. It can be done in as a background task with minimal oversight. And you can microwave and use as a side dish for meat.
by defrost | 2025-07-30 03:07:48+00:00
Submitted HN title trimmed from current web article title.

RSS title: Atlassian founder spruiks Australian data centre hub

Web article title (at present time): Atlassian co-founder says Australia could be major data centre hub for South-East Asia

Scott Farquhar has used a National Press Club address to call for government support to enable the rapid construction of more data centres and renewable energy to power them. Mr Farquhar said, with changes to copyright laws, Australia could provide much of South-East Asia's rapidly expanding data storage needs.

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Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar believes Australia can become one of the world's major data centre hubs, powered by renewable energy. While his Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes struggles to advance his planned Suncable project to generate vast amounts of solar energy in the Northern Territory and send it via an underwater cable to Singapore, Mr Farquhar has proposed a different way for Australia to export its green energy. "We should power the region," he said in a speech to the National Press Club. "We should export megawatts as megabytes for potentially megabucks. This could be a $10 billion-plus opportunity."

ABC Australia iView digital broadcast: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/national-press-club-address https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2511C026S00

(not yet published although broadcast in past hour, likely geolocked)
by msgodel | 2025-07-30 03:08:17+00:00
I ran Ubuntu Touch briefly on a Nexus 5 as well. IIRC the two issues I had were:

1) calls and MMS not working well.

2) Instead of a normal GNU/Linux OS Ubuntu Touch tried really hard to have an Android style immutable OS. Kind of the worst of both worlds since you have a difficult to work with OS but without the app ecosystem of Android that some people believe makes it worth using.

After that I kind of just gave up on the idea that I owned my phone at all and a few years later I gave up carrying smartphones entirely.
by acherion | 2025-07-30 03:08:52+00:00
Why can't you be both? I am an amateur photographer, but it doesn't mean that I carry my camera with me everywhere that I go. I see photography as a hobby, so when I feel like I want to do "hobby things" I bring a camera with me. I prepare myself to do so. It doesn't mean that I don't use my phone camera at all (in fact I upgraded my phone purely for the "better camera").

If you are just taking snapshots to share with friends, then it makes sense to not bring the camera. But if it's your hobby, where you sit down and take time and care to take a photo, then it's a different game altogether.

I don't often print my photos out and put them on a wall, but I do have my own photography blog where I post the photos I take (with a camera). I think the article is still relevant to that kind of scenario too.

I think the purpose of this kind of page is to outline differences between taking a snapshot and taking a photo. This is to argue back at people who think that taking a photo with an iPhone is just as good _in any situation_ and think that _anyone_ with a camera is wasting their time. It also attempts to combat the prevalent myth that more megapixels = better photos. Yes that myth still exists in 2025.
by amy_petrik | 2025-07-30 03:10:48+00:00
Just to go off of this, carpenter bees are closely related to mason bees and are another kind of solitary (non-hive bee). I think carpenter bees are the greatest and I can't stop thinking about carpenter bees. They are a bee, which is cool, but also a lone wolf, also cool. In my wooden house I have several carpenter bee nests. My neighbor Mr. Grubb hates all my carpenter bees because he says all the holes they are making in his walls will make his house collapse, but he doesn't see it, he doesn't see carpenter bee magic. 10/10 please consider adopting some carpenter bees!!