MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by physarum_salad | 2025-07-29 14:18:32+00:00
Norway seems to be doing fantastically well..if anything the reviewed book is guilty of a kind of rich-person luxurious complaining (over minor difficulties).

"Oystein Olsen, a former head of Norway’s central bank, said Bech Holte’s work is riddled with inaccuracies, including overstating the extent of the slowdown in productivity. Researchers at Norway’s Statistics Office said the book presents a deeply flawed version of economic history and pointed out that Norway is a small country, greatly influenced by external factors."
by geerlingguy | 2025-07-29 14:18:59+00:00
Additionally, for those integrating the chip into retrocomputing addons/mods, "RP2350 is now officially 5V tolerant".

One odd thing in the post is mention of a test A3 variant, of which 30,000 will be put on random Pico 2 and Pico 2W boards.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-29 14:19:13+00:00
This comment is ~3 years late. Every model since gpt3 has had the entirety of available code in their training data. That's not a gotcha anymore.

We went from chatgpt's "oh, look, it looks like python code but everything is wrong" to "here's a full stack boilerplate app that does what you asked and works in 0-shot" inside 2 years. That's the kicker. And the sauce isn't just in the training set, models now do post-training and RL and a bunch of other stuff to get to where we are. Not to mention the insane abilities with extended context (first models were 2/4k max), agentic stuff, and so on.

These kinds of comments are really missing the point.
by diggan | 2025-07-29 14:19:32+00:00
For what? It's really hard to say what model is "generally" better then another, as they're all better/worse at specific things.

My own benchmarks has a bunch of different tasks I use various local models for, and I run it when I wanna see if a new model is better than the existing ones I use. The output is basically a markdown table with a description of which model is best for what task.

They're being sold as general purpose things that are better/worse at everything but reality doesn't reflect this, they all have very specific tasks they're worse/better at, and the only way to find that out is by having a private benchmark you run yourself.
by lelandbatey | 2025-07-29 14:19:52+00:00
In short, "yes, because it's railroads". There's not much else that requires so much public resources (land) and capital; yet for that railroads deliver a broad capability (hyper thermodynamically efficient over land transport) that is not replicable via any other technology or practice. If we don't develop/improve that capability, we give up a tremendous amount of ability. If we let it consolidate and then atrophy, we regress to a huge degree.

It'd be like privatizing the roads and then allowing the closure of the small farm roads because they're "not profitable". It'd be massively short sighted and would cause problems for decades, maybe over a century as we sort things out and get back on track. It's what we're in the middle of with railroads.
Show HN: Faster local AWS EKS access
by moulick | 2025-07-29 14:20:03+00:00
Simple script to replace `aws` in your Kubeconfig for users of AWS EKS. Reduces the pain of using kubectl with AWS EKS a lot.

The default way is to use aws eks get-token command, but it is not cached and it is not very fast. It's slow because:

1. Every kubectl command will do an `aws eks get-token` which makes an API call to AWS

2. aws cli is python. When running kubectl in a loop, you can very clearly see how much performance is lost generating tokens for each kubectl invocation in Activity Monitor.
by edcapit | 2025-07-29 14:20:08+00:00
EDCAPIT, U.S.-Based EdTech Platform, Closes $120K Pre-Seed Round and Opens $800K Seed Raise to Support Global Expansion

New York / Miami — July 2025 — EDCAPIT, an online education platform founded by Ukrainian immigrant Oleh Podobied, has successfully closed a $120,000 pre-seed round and officially launched a $800,000 seed round to accelerate growth across North America, Europe, and Latin America.

With a mission to democratize access to education for immigrants and global learners, EDCAPIT delivers localized online courses in users’ native languages — starting with Russian and Ukrainian, and soon expanding to English, Spanish, and other high-demand communities in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Launched in late 2024, the platform operates as a global online course marketplace, connecting educators with students seeking practical, career-oriented knowledge. In just six months, over 40 instructors have joined EDCAPIT and published courses in IT, marketing, finance, entrepreneurship, real estate, personal development, and more. The content is adapted to the challenges and realities of immigrant life — helping users reskill, switch careers, or launch businesses in their new countries.

“Our mission is to build a multicultural online learning ecosystem where everyone — regardless of language or origin — can grow their educational and professional capital,” says Oleh Podobied, founder and CEO of EDCAPIT.

The platform offers: - A modern mobile app (iOS and Android) - Seamless payment system integrations - Free course publishing for instructors (EDCAPIT takes a commission from course sales) - Smart, AI-powered course navigation to personalize user learning paths - Instructors from around the world can monetize their knowledge, while learners gain practical, community-relevant skills for the real world.

As part of its expansion, EDCAPIT will soon launch versions in English and Spanish, host in-person educational events in the U.S., and enter European and Latin American markets. The long-term goal: unite 10,000+ creators and offer over 20,000 courses to learners globally.

Watch an interview with the founder Oleh Podobied on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uAxU4oSoCSU

Learn more or join the platform: https://www.edcapit.com

Media Contact: EDCAPIT Media Relations press@edcapit.com
by alias_neo | 2025-07-29 14:20:51+00:00
This has been my experience, and I've found the price seems to reasonably reflect the quality one can expect.

I've had a few Anker power related devices, those pushing £100+ seem to be of better quality, I recently bought a new GAN charger for ~£80 and it's decent, but I also bought a 20000 mAh power bank on sale for ~£15 and it was one of the recalled models.

Their cables generally seem to be pretty reliable too, but I draw the line at "accessories" and wouldn't buy anything "intelligent" from them, cameras, other IoT devices etc.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-29 14:21:13+00:00
This is what I’ve been using: https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-ball-Jetstream-RT-Ballpoint-Pen-...

Although lately I’ve been using this multipen: https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Jetstream-3-Color-Ballpoint-Mult...

It’s nice having 3 colors of ink available, and it’s not that chunky blue thing we had in elementary school.
by constantcrying | 2025-07-29 14:21:14+00:00
>Risk, as ever, is about likelihood, not just impact. How likely are you to find yourself hosting such content?

The fediverse is full of material which is illegal in many countries. Especially drawn CP and hosting a node means that you may start to host that material itself, that is part of the fediverse.

IMO the risk of a life ruining lawsuit is very substantial. Law is complex and you are not able to figure out yourself whether you are actually liable, especially when there is so little precedent.
by AndrewOMartin | 2025-07-29 14:21:28+00:00
> I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death.

> I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her.
by vel0city | 2025-07-29 14:21:41+00:00
I can't speak to the mop function, I've never had a robo mop.

I've had robot vacuums for about a decade now. Originally a Botvac, now a Shark. They're not a complete vacuum replacement, I've never had one always able to get every corner perfectly and get all the deeper dust and what not. What they do well is control all the animal hair in my home. There's a lot of shedding in my house, I'd have to spend time vacuuming every other day or there would be hair everywhere.

Plus two kids, lots of random crumbs and what not. Nice to be able to just open the app and say "clean this room" and then go back to spending time with the kids instead of taking the time to vacuum myself.

Having the robot run every other day means I can just do a deeper vacuum clean once a month or so but still have generally very clean floors day to day. Not a complete replacement in the end though.
by danans | 2025-07-29 14:21:59+00:00
> They're worth paying attention to, but not sounding the alarm bells over.

That's because there is a default bad assumption that because they are so wealthy that no problems should exist, similar to how very rich people are seen. Looking at other wealthy petro-states (and people) around the world, that's clearly not true.

But relatively speaking I don't think there's a country that wouldn't trade most of their problems for Norway's, with the possible exception of their aging population.
by atonse | 2025-07-29 14:22:01+00:00
It is not productive to call people numbskulls and make straw-man arguments just because you don't agree with their statements, or may not have observed the same benefits that they have.

There is absolutely something real here, whether you choose to believe it or not. I'd recommend taking a good faith and open minded look at the last few months of developments. See where it can benefit you (and where it still falls way short).

So even if you may have arrived at your conclusion years ago, I assure you that things continue to improve by the week. You will be pleasantly surprised. This is not all or nothing, nor does it have to be.
by subscribed | 2025-07-29 14:22:07+00:00
They mix up Google-vendor (pixels are absolutely the best and most unlocking-friendly hardware at this point), with Google Play Services services/limitations (ie dominant player in android ecosystem) AND Google, the dominant contributor to AOSP project.

And it's also partially false, as Gemini works just fine after unlocking/relocking, and all the advanced features (full performance of the cameras, NPU access, secure element) work even on non-Google OS. Things that do not work (mostly wallet) are valid issue, but then again, they work just fine after flashing OEM firmware And relocking The bootloader.

So I can only guess the quality of the contribution is similar with other phone brands.
by VikingMiner | 2025-07-29 14:22:16+00:00
The large tech companies benefited immensely from relative few regulations in the 2000-2010s. Once they are established, they are happy to comply with regulations which will make it more difficult for competitor to even exist since complying with regulations is often prohibitively expensive for new player.

It is known colloquially as "Pulling up the ladder behind you".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_alright,_Jack
Show HN: Debunking Election Fraud Claims – Interactive Data Viz and Simulations
by hannasanarion | 2025-07-29 14:22:18+00:00
Hi HN!

I built this after seeing several references to Election Truth Alliance on social media, and after reading their analysis, I just couldn't get the problems I saw in it out of my head.

So I downloaded the data, and rebuilt their full analysis from scratch.

Their critical error is a simple misunderstanding of the Law of Large Numbers: values collected in large samples converge to the true probability in the sample distribution.

(not to be confused with the Law of Very Large Numbers: which states that unlikely things happen given enough time. That confused me too)

Technical Details:

- No build system, this is entirely handmade HTML, CSS, and plain Javascript.

- Initial analysis done in Python with only standard libraries.

- Visualizations created in Observable Plot and D3.js

- Simulations run entirely client-side

- Web page built with Scrollama for animations and behavior controls

- Vote history visualizations process ~600k individual ballot records in real time, with a little bit of cacheing to keep your browser from chugging.

Interesting Challenges:

- Making the visualizations performant without a backend, which is accomplished with a bit of preloading as you scroll, and some amount of reusable cacheing so that the visualizations can share resources whenever possible.

- Windsurf does run wild sometimes. During the initial preprocessing stage, it at one point dumped an absolutely massive json blob to disk, it was so large it actually crashed my whole computer while writing. Then to read it, obviously it couldn't just be read in, but rather than storing in a more sane format, my Opus 4 powered coding agent decided to build a streaming JSON parser from scratch. It worked, and I got the data out that I needed so I didn't go back and make it more sensible, but man that was dumb.

This actually started with the simulation, which took only about a day of work, and then later grew to include the re-analysis and visualizations. The visualizations were all dnoe within 2-3 days after I got the data.

If I did it over again, I would've probably tried to find some kind of build system or static site generator to compose the final result. Once the page got very long it was quite unwieldy even for windsurf. Very short conversations could flood Sonnet 4's rate limit because there was just so much stuff in a single file.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-29 14:22:19+00:00
I haven't tried them (released yesterday I think?). The benchmarks look good (similar I'd say) but that's not saying much these days. The best test you can do is have a couple of cases that match your needs, and run them yourself w/ the cradle that you are using (aider, cline, roo, any of the CLI tools, etc). Openrouter usually has them up soon after launch, and you can run a quick test really cheap (and only deal with one provider for billing & stuff).
by skeeterbug | 2025-07-29 14:22:27+00:00
We have had the X10 Pro Omni for a bit over a year now and we have been enjoying it. A mix of hardwood/carpet. I have it mop 3 times a week and vacuum alternate days. The mopping has been good. I change out the mop pads and blow out the filter once a week. The vacuum is OK, nothing compared to an upright, but it keeps dog hair manageable. If we only wanted vacuuming, I would have probably chosen a different brand.

Just curious, what issues have you had?
by jraph | 2025-07-29 14:23:32+00:00
I can't comment on your well-scoped case. I can still see it backfire (in terms of maintenance) but it does seem you are precocious and are limiting the potential damages, with your unit tests you are increasing at least the level of confidence you can have on the LLM output and it's on a very specific part of your code.

I didn't have such cases in mind, was replying to the "navigate complexity at scales human cognition wasn't designed for" aspect.
by nluken | 2025-07-29 14:23:37+00:00
Physics and practical concerns are way, way different. You want to go as fast as possible down the descents in a bike race. You don't want to lose any kinetic energy and fall behind your opponents, so the only time you'd be using it is when you actually want to slow down. In a car, you might be braking/slowing down going downhill anyway, so that energy is better captured than used that moment.

There's also the matter of mass: lot more momentum/energy to be gained from a 1500kg car versus a 70kg bike + rider. That said, less energy needed for the motor so don't know how the math works out there.

Edit: all of this is moot anyway because of the point zettabomb made as well.
by spmurrayzzz | 2025-07-29 14:24:02+00:00
Do you have a citation for the paper on that? IME, that's not really something you see used in practice, at least not after 2022 or so. Without some form positional adjustment, transformer-based LLMs have no way to differentiate from "The dog bit the man." and "The man bit the dog." given the token ids are nearly identical. You just end up back in the bag-of-words problem space. The self-attention mechanism is permutation-invariant, so as long as it remains true that the attention scores are computed as an unordered set, you need some way to model the sequence.

Long context is almost always some form of RoPE in practice (often YaRN these days). We can't confirm this with the closed-source frontier models, but given that all the long context models in the open weight domain are absolutely encoding positional data, coupled with the fact that the majority of recent and past literature corroborates its use, we can be reasonably sure they're using some form of it there as well.

EDIT: there is a recent paper that addresses the sequence modeling problem in another way, but its somewhat orthogonal to the above as they're changing the tokenization method entirely https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07955
by throwaway314155 | 2025-07-29 14:24:22+00:00
I honestly can't see much of a difference that couldn't be explained by the photos not being taken simultaneously. I definitely can't tell enough of a difference that I wouldn't put the photo in a frame on the wall (which people almost certainly do, despite the author's assertion that "you never see a smartphone photo printed and framed")

Edit: Is this just a good bit of sarcasm/shitpost? If so, it's just a tad too subtle.
by neallindsay | 2025-07-29 14:24:27+00:00
I don't think that blueflow is being obtuse at all. If you assert that genes have an intended way of working, then the questions

> How do we know how things are intended to work? (Intended by whom?)

are very salient. Your reply talking about

> …a specific receptor in the body is not working properly.

just raises the same question again. What does it mean for something in our biology to be working "properly"? Who is deciding what is "proper"?
by reverendsteveii | 2025-07-29 14:24:30+00:00
This might not be the right way to highlight it but I personally am very interested in the ways in which the proscribed penalties for breaking the law greatly diverge from the actual penalties inflicted, with the variance being directly correlated to the offender's budget for legal defense. Doubly so because giving one appointed official the final say over actual community members kinda feels like an inversion of the way our government claims to work and a backdoor implementation of a different laws for different people.
by torginus | 2025-07-29 14:24:42+00:00
I dug around the internet, trying to find some sales stats. This list is for EVs: https://www.vehiclecontracts.co.uk/blog/best-selling-electri... This is for gas cars: https://www.parkers.co.uk/car-news/bestselling-cars/

Both lists have single MG vehicle, so they aren't doing terribly, but based on this, it's hard to conclude they're going to conquer the market. And this is with the UK, which has no tariffs on Chinese EVs.

My prediction is that MG is going to fall off the next couple years, considering their reliability has been terrible, according to stats. Even if they fix the issues, they're going to get a reputation and it's a long way back from that.
by alias_neo | 2025-07-29 14:24:45+00:00
As someone with Tripophobia I really, really didn't like the "depth" option, but otherwise like the idea; seems like it could do with showing more of the posters and titles though as at one point about 10 flipped by in a second before I could read more than one or two of the titles and saw nothing but a blur for the posters.
by natch | 2025-07-29 14:24:54+00:00
Early Elon talks about spreading consciousness to Mars.

Later he changed the wording and started talking about sending humans to Mars by the millions.

I think the plan all along has been that these “humans” will be human successor humans, in other words next generation humans, in other words sentient robots enough like us to be basically human in some sense in Elon’s mind. Enough that he can fudge the words. And sure some humans will go as well. A few.

But why? Why fudge the words?

The answer is pretty obvious. If most people realized what the real plan was, the level of alarm would make the whole thing unsellable. To government, to employees, to investors.. he has to play down the sentient robot part until the overton window shifts and people get used to the idea of AI humanoids being ok.

The alternative theory that everyone seems to believe, that Elon envisions millions of meatbags, adjusted to Earth by millions of years of evolution, flourishing on Mars, seems bonkers in comparison to what I’ve just said. Maybe I’m the bonkers one though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
by big_toast | 2025-07-29 14:24:57+00:00
"This stuff never seemed to catch on."

A little confused. In the US, Volvo EVs are pretty popular (80% owned by Geely). Tencent owns most of Riot Games and a large stake in Epic Games. The GE appliances division is I think fully owned by Haier. Hisense and TCL TVs sell pretty well.

There's roborock (vacuums), Insta360 (that and DJI crushed GoPro?), Hikvision cameras, Segway-Ninebot mobility and other odd ones, TP-Link networking, TerraMaster for storage, BeeLink computers seem to be taking off.

Nothing is wiping out local markets here, but to think it isn't catching on seems too strong a statement.
by wosined | 2025-07-29 14:25:03+00:00
This is not pushed by Christian Nationalists in the same manner that the Steam bans were not pushed by Collective Shout. They are just a good scapegoat. You find a group that preaches what you want to do, you do it, and then say that it was because of them, not because you wanted to do it. This way you can claim that you didn't want to do it, but do it anyways.
by more_corn | 2025-07-29 14:25:20+00:00
This presupposes that humans are incapable of behaving well. Most people operate in good faith. Some people are dicks. Don’t put the dicks in charge. Create processes and systems to screen for dicks.

Yelp is a great example of a beneficial review system run by dicks. A objective review platform would be a huge benefit. But they corrupted the intent. They solicit bribes from businesses to suppress negative reviews using their default “suggested sort”.

A review platform run honorably for the public good could entirely replace advertising, increase competition in areas of price and quality and create a far more pleasant society. Instead we get the endless bullshit machine aggressively selling you things you don’t want or need while burying true value in a mountain of mediocrity.

Advertising is where capitalism started to go wrong. The more our society resembles it the worse it will be for everyone.
by ahjetz4_1 | 2025-07-29 14:25:22+00:00
...ah... but...but xbox (2001) and you may do your programming in a virtual-machine, too? *Heck' there was a chip-mod to play own software, not? It seem to be the same, but (sry, non computer-anthropolgist here)...maybe useful and "eben anders" (german)? and it tooked me 25,- Bucks to get one of these (3D able) ~700MHz "Heavy-Weights" and sure there are still Games around... PS: I'd not know that there was a Amiga 5000 ^^

Quoting: "Applications are fun and fast!" Randomly attached (but viewable) stuff:

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/the-a-eon-amiga-x500...

[2]: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/neuro...
by kstrauser | 2025-07-29 14:25:52+00:00
The water safety is what nudged me off fountain pens and back to ballpoints. I use a bullet journal and don’t want water to wash it all away.

I know you can get fountain inks that are more resistant, but at that level of finickiness, I’d rather just carry a lower maintenance ballpoint, and the Jetstream is good enough that I don’t miss my other lovely pens.

PS: One time a reporter asked me what I thought of a particular food, and I described it as snacking on the wings of angels sent to earth for our dining pleasure, and they quoted me. My wife reminds me of this often.

Edit: Here’s the quote: https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://omaha.com/m...