MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rectang | 2025-07-22 22:13:30+00:00
I was a bit surprised to see the the "software" criteria in your reply, as I'd always thought of enshittification's inevitability as a capitalist phenomenon whereby a quality brand is wrung out for near term gains by management incentivized to get their cut before riding off into the sunset.

But after reading up a bit, I've found that software platform lock-in was important in enshittification's original formulation — it's not just that quality goes to crap, but that users have nowhere else to go.
by 9rx | 2025-07-22 22:14:38+00:00
> Markets exacerbate wealth inequality

IP laws puts things into overdrive. It makes it impossible to compete. If you had a normally functioning environment, any time someone tried to capture excessive wealth, someone would just straight up copy them and that would be the end of it.

But since the law prevents copying others, contrary to the idea of capitalism, certain people are able to build moats. That's how you get the Bill Gates and Elon Musk's of the world. There is no way Windows would have made Microsoft any money if 1,000 different organizations all sold their own copies of Windows. But as the law gilded Gates to act exclusively...

Land eventually suffers a similar problem, to be fair. That hasn't been a huge deal historically as there was always more land to conquer, but those days have mostly drawn to a close. But we also tax land to try and find a reasonable balance in light of that — to put pressure on making effective use of it. IP, on the other hand, is generally not taxed at all.
by vel0city | 2025-07-22 22:14:44+00:00
You don't really have agency. You don't have agency over that person blasting down the road coming the other direction running the red light. You don't have agency over that drunk nodding off and crossing the yellow line. You don't have agency over someone not looking and merging into you causing you to go off the road and roll over. You don't have agency over that person looking at their phone and not realizing they're approaching you stopped at that red light ahead while they're going 20 over the speed limit.

You think everyone injured in a car accident caused the accident?
by hadrien01 | 2025-07-22 22:15:25+00:00
Jetbrains IDEs: Settings > Editor > Font > Enable ligatures

Sublime Text: Set "font_options" to "dlig". There are other settings to choose which character tables are allowed to use ligatures or not.

Visual Studio Code: Set "editor.fontLigatures" to "true". You can also put CSS font features to choose which ligatures you want to enable.
by jonplackett | 2025-07-22 22:15:49+00:00
I’m just happier and happier with my ‘dumb’ car.

It has physical buttons for the aircon.

No wifi = no speakers listening to me and selling my personal data (yep that’s a thing)

I have to press a button on the key fob to open it so it can’t be stolen by relaying the signal.

It’s pretty cheap to run because I hardly drive anywhere anyway.

But when I do I just buy this stuff called ‘petrol’ that’s all around the place and takes like 30 seconds.

I also still get to feel smug because the environmental cost of producing a new electric car is WAY greater than the petrol I’m burning.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-07-22 22:17:33+00:00
What sort of hardware will run Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct?

With the performance apparently comparable to Sonnet some of the heavy Claude Code users could be interested in running it locally. They have instructions for configuring it for use by Claude Code. Huge bills for usage are regularly shared on X, so maybe it could even be economical (like for a team of 6 or something sharing a local instance).
by Malakun | 2025-07-22 22:17:41+00:00
> Spanish cars are very different from German

The only spanish car maker is SEAT and it's part of VAG group. SEAT are more expensive than Skoda, but cheaper than Audi.

And using the country card with these automaker corporations is very tricky, because they have factories everywhere. You can buy an Audi made in Spain or a VW made in Slovakia.
by buttercraft | 2025-07-22 22:17:56+00:00
Yeah I don't trust their accuracy at all.

Last winter my gas heater was out of commission for about a month. I plugged in 3 oil filled electric radiant heaters. I had guests at the time so I kept the temperature up higher than usual in areas of the house which I normally keep cooler. It all worked out great.

The next power bill showed that most of my power usage was "lighting." Uh huh.
by skybrian | 2025-07-22 22:18:03+00:00
I don't know any details about what the Trump administration proposed. Is there more to it than a few tweets?

A US administration that was serious about this would propose a deal to take some refugees from Gaza as a sign of good will. Something like "we will take 25% if other countries agree to take 75%." To say that other countries should take all the refugees, when they've shown no interest in it, is deeply cynical. So I didn't bother to look further.

Of course we'd never see that from the Trump administration. Unfortunately the Biden administration wasn't imaginative enough to suggest such a thing.
by cebert | 2025-07-22 22:18:12+00:00
I bought a Bee and used it for two months. While the concept has potential, I didn’t find it particularly useful. It would present me with “facts” it believed it had learned about me from listening to my conversations, along with rough summaries of my entire day. Essentially, it was just telling me things I already knew and events I had experienced firsthand.

I can also see devices like this posing a significant security risk, as the Bee records all conversations without requiring consent. My employer doesn’t currently have any explicit policy about using AI devices like this, but I avoided bringing the Bee to work, assuming they wouldn’t be thrilled about it.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-07-22 22:18:19+00:00
> That said, air-gapped is a hefty requirement, so perhaps those customers are predominantly large?

There are lots of very small classified networks out there with only a few dozen users.

There are a lot more user communities course that aren’t necessarily airgapped, but where they have special compliance requirements that pretty much mandate self hosting (or at least bring-your-own cloud.)
by johnwalkr | 2025-07-22 22:18:45+00:00
By gear box do you mean the covered system between the bottom bracket/cranks and the rear wheel? Dutch commuter bikes are usually one speed and that system keeps grime out of the chain and keeps your pants clean. It is indeed a PITA to remove the rear wheel on these bikes (especially the first time), although you can often patch a tube in situ without removing it completely.

This product does not replace that system. It is for very high-end bikes with owners. These bikes still have a chain that runs front to rear, it only replaces the derailleurs. If it fails or the battery dies, you're stuck in one gear but you don't have to push your bike. And you can manually change gears if you really need to. Yes it has a battery, yes it's waterproof.
by chaosprint | 2025-07-22 22:19:59+00:00
Lovable is really good at this kind of use case and experience. Ironically it's also Swedish philosophy based, no much hardcore tech(the heavy lifting is claude ) but focus on the experience. Similar to Volvo not promoting speed and handling but emphasize safety. But we know now that speed and handling in many ways show the tech of that vehicle and it reflects on safety to a large scale Imho
by florianherrengt | 2025-07-22 22:20:46+00:00
I'll accept this criticism. I've only done it for a month or so. That said, I do feel confident that, after reading plenty of online articles, I have learnt 80% of AI coding skills. I configured Playwright and PostgreSQL MCP. Loads of unit and e2e tests for Claude to run after each change. Storybook for my components. I have multiple doc files in each folder. I'm happy to learn though and would welcome any suggestions.What am I missing?

Right now, I have a bug with my message queue. I didn't spend enough time thinking about the proper way to implement and test it. I guess I also didn't pay enough attention to the PR. But then, if I did, is it really vibe coding or classic software engineering while getting Claude to write for me with the added burden of reviewing it thoroughly?

The issue is that if a user sends a message to someone, quickly switches to someone else and sends a message, both messages get sent to the first person.

I'll have to figure out why it happens. My guess is that it's somewhere in the React app. Claude can't figure it out. What can I do to help it?
by tuatoru | 2025-07-22 22:20:56+00:00
In my trade economics textbook years ago it was stated that the cleared customs cost of an imported good is no more than 30% of its final consumer price, and more typically 10%. The rest is inland logistics, retail costs, and marketing.

Further to that, 80% of the economy is services or otherwise has nothing to do with imports. Tariffs are not affecting haircuts or yoga classes or bank fees.

Seems to me like tariffs are being used as a convenient excuse.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-22 22:21:00+00:00
I struggle to think why that would be any drama, unless the setup is trying to use "bare" gitlab (e.g. running the puppet commands manually versus $(docker save -o airgapped_gitlab.tar gitlab/gitlab-ce:18.2.0-ce && cp ./*.tar /dev/disk/usb-whatever/goodluck/))
by belval | 2025-07-22 22:21:42+00:00
Eh the author is coming from a place of emotion (considering the effort put into the website) so I would definitely cut them some slack on the fairness of their reporting. The owner is telling their story, not a journalist.

> But how is this an “override” of HVAC or a “total system breakdown”?

Complete failure of the throttle would fall within total system breakdown to me.

> Comms and decision making are prone to break down on the corporate ladder.

Businesses do not deserve the benefit of the doubt, they aren't human. If their support ladder broke down to this point that it is fair game to name and shame and up to them to do a PR push and fix their support.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-07-22 22:21:42+00:00
> It's an Electron app

The worst modern invention. HTML/CSS is so bloody awful at rendering user interfaces. We should if at least contained it, if not killed it outright. But instead it’s a contagion that has spread far and wide.

How the hell does the optimized version use 6% of CPU? It should render at roughly 5000 frames per second.

What a tragic state of affairs we live in.
by joaomeloplus | 2025-07-22 22:21:55+00:00
I see comments as a failure of my prose capacity at coding. I try to commit code that should be able to explain itself as if it were accompanied by any comments. But if something is too confusing to be maintained by someone else (like me 6 months from now), then I use a comment. But that is a sad moment because I also know that this future person can update the code and not update the comment, then the thing becomes even more confusing. TODOs should never be in committed code; they should live in your project/issue management system.
by asdff | 2025-07-22 22:22:37+00:00
Pollution was way worse in the past. Old pictures of american cities from 50 years ago look like Beijing. We hadn't yet offshored heavy industry by that point and like you said, a larger percent of the metro was living closer to it. And whatever you saw outside was actually better than your air quality inside where these pollutants would accumulate and mix with Dad's cigarette smoke.

This was the air you were breathing back then (1, 2, 3).

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

2. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/SKYSCRAP...

3. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satev...
by j-pb | 2025-07-22 22:22:41+00:00
people downvote your sarcasm, but if you do the calculations you're kinda right.

1Kg of Beef costs:

- The energy equivalent of 60.000 ChatGPT queries. - The water equivalent of 50.000.000 ChatGPT queries.

Applied to their metric Mistral Large 2 used:

- The water equivalent of 18.8 Tons of Beef. - The CO2 equivalent of 204 Tons of Beef.

France produces 3836 Tons of Beef per day,

and one large LLM per 6 months.

So yeah, maybe use ChatGPT to ask for vegan recipes.

People will try to blame everything else they can get a hold on before changing the stuff that really has an impact, if it means touching their lifestyle.

The LLMs are not the problem here.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-07-22 22:22:43+00:00
The first time I tried a community donation, they didn't do that. But a couple years later one of my brothers needed a kidney, so I got tested again. Again, my eGFR was low 70s, and so they did the Cystatin C test. I scored 1.00 (ref range 0.52-1.23mg/mL) which they mapped to an eGFR of 78, and I was rejected.

None of my other siblings were a good enough match, so one of my sisters donated hers (IIRC, her eGFR was low 90s) as part of a chain. That was more than two years ago and my sister is feeling fine. My brother is no longer on dialysis, though he didn't experience one of those feel-good stories where he got his kidney and he suddenly felt amazing, unfortunately.

[EDIT] I forgot to address the last part of your comment. A few years back an email acquaintance of many years mentioned that he is on dialysis. Although he is in Germany, I said if he can't find a donor, I'd be willing to fly there to donate directly if I matched or to be part of a chain. He is in Germany and his response surprised me: thank you very much, but he said living donations were not allowed (at least from non-relatives). Maybe things have changed, this was back in 2016.

"But there are some reasons that make this solution unlikely. At first I am very sure that this kind of donor isn't allowed in germany. We have strong ethic rules regarding donation by living people because of the bad experiences with commercial organ deals."

Still the idea sat with me. I have donated many gallons of blood and 25 years ago signed up for "be the match" marrow donation that never came to anything, though every few years they send a confirmation letter to make sure my address is still valid. It most charity donations I can write a check and there is a diffuse sense that maybe I incrementally did some good, but giving a kidney has a high probability to make one person's life dramatically better. So that was my motivation.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-22 22:23:07+00:00
> due to uneven load balancing, the parity drive is going to fail more often than in a configuration with distributed parity

Good, it can be the canary.

> thus you are going to need to recalculate parity for the array more often, which is a risky and taxing operation for all drives in the array

This is not worth worrying about.

First off, if the risk is linear then your increased parity failure is offset by decreased other-drive failure and I don't think you'll have more rebuilds.

And even if you do get more rebuilds, it's significantly less than one per year, and one extra full-drive read per year is a negligible amount of load. If you're worried about it all hitting at once then A) you should be scrubbing more often and B) throttle the rebuild.
by danielhanchen | 2025-07-22 22:23:15+00:00
I'm currently trying to make dynamic GGUF quants for them! It should use 24GB of VRAM + 128GB of RAM for dynamic 2bit or so - they should be up in an hour or so: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruc.... On running them locally, I do have docs as well: https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/qwen3-coder
by bcrl | 2025-07-22 22:23:30+00:00
I'm not so sure it was due to attitudes changing. At least here in Ontario funding for many long term facilities was scrapped in the 1990s as governments slashed budgets for non-essential services to cut costs while higher levels of government downloaded services to lower levels. Smaller municipalities simply cannot afford to fund social services when property taxes are their primary source of funding. The effect was the same as the higher level of governments canceling many of these programs, albeit without having to take as heavy a political hit.

The same thing happened to many low income housing programs in Canada as well. Few people remember that there were once federal programs to provide affordable housing which were also part of the 1990s cost cutting exercises.

Locally we have a few long term retirement homes that are municipally funded, but capacity is very limited with long wait times.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-22 22:23:48+00:00
>I liked your point about tribalism up until you said one tribe is rational and the other not. The distribution of rational behavior does not change much tribe to tribe, it's the values that change. As soon as you say one tribe is more rational than another you're just feeding into more tribalism by insulting a whole group's intelligence.

That was largely the case until these most recent electoral cycle, where the Great Crank Realignment, driven by the COVID response, pushed conspiracy theorists, health and wellness grifters, supplement hawkers, and many others to the right.
by 01100011 | 2025-07-22 22:24:29+00:00
Not so sure about Subaru. I love my Outback but it is also the only car I've ever owned which left me stranded twice due to two separate firmware issues. Both issues were known and Subaru failed to communicate them to me.

I will probably go with Toyota for our next car despite loving the handling and comfort of our Subaru.
by sourcecodeplz | 2025-07-22 22:24:45+00:00
Yes they are:

"Today, we're announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes, but we're excited to introduce its most powerful variant first: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct."

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
by handedness | 2025-07-22 22:25:07+00:00
Thanks. I'm aware of the policy but good policy always bears restating/reminding.

I also appreciate the additional background. Having said that, the author only posted the ToC and Intro, which meant it came off much more as trying to Show HN readership something to buy, rather than sharing any of his actual work with HN. Hence why I posted all of the prior attempts.
by miki123211 | 2025-07-22 22:25:31+00:00
See also: the Chinese robber fallacy.

Even if only 0.1% of Chinese people engaged in theft, and that would be a much lower rate than in any developed country, you'd still get a million Chinese thieves. You could show a new one every day, bombarding people with images and news reports of how untrustworthy Chinese people are. The news reports themselves wouldn't even be misinformation, as all the people shown would actually be guilty of the crimes they were accused of. Nevertheless, people would draw the wrong conclusion.
by visarga | 2025-07-22 22:25:54+00:00
> The ease of training AI to solve a task is proportional to how verifiable the task is. All tasks that are possible to solve and easy to verify will be solved by AI.

I've been saying this for years. Especially related to predictions like "AGI in N years".. no, it will come a different speeds per domain. All proportional to the scale of verification.

Verifiable domains are usually math and code. Games also fit the bill. But for real world tasks there is the 1B people using AI, we verify, the signal is there implicit in the chat logs.
by ardillamorris | 2025-07-22 22:25:57+00:00
I have an XC90 but the hybrid that is not plug in. I can say that the software is complete trash. The screen often goes black. I’ve had to replace twice parts that made the entertainment system dead. My second car is a model Y and now I dread driving the Volvo. It’s bigger so we use it to go to the cottage but other than that, I wish I had something different.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-07-22 22:26:23+00:00
> the environmental cost of producing a new electric car is WAY greater than the petrol I’m burning.

The environmental cost of producing an electric car happens once. But driving a car is an ongoing environmental insult. This is an apples/oranges comparison unless you integrate the driving damage over time.

This analysis suggests EVs are overall a win for the environment after 5 years of ownership, assuming your electricity comes from coal. If it comes from hydro or renewable sources, it's more like one year.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...
by unclad5968 | 2025-07-22 22:26:37+00:00
Ignoring the strawman at the end, you're making their point for them.

Anti-vax is actually a horrible example of this because it can never be proven that vaccines don't harm us. Any non-infinite evidence will never reduce the probability to zero. You even allude to this point. If there is a single case of a harmful vaccine, or even a reasonable probability of one, then it isn't irrational to be cautious of vaccines. Just because the evidence is enough for you doesnt make anyone who disagrees irrational. That line of thinking just makes you irrational.

I say this as a fully vaccinated (including COVID) vaccine enjoyer.
by paradox460 | 2025-07-22 22:27:37+00:00
We've got @scope back now, and, while it's not exactly the same as it was in the early part of the 2010s, it's still pretty good, as it let's you set both upper and lower bounds for a block of css. Being able to say "these selectors don't apply below this point" is immensely powerful, letting you build donut styles for components very easily

It wasn't quite ready when I wrote a sort of follow up article[1] about new CSS features largely eliminating the need for scss, but it's basically baseline now.

My personal new favorite feature is color mix and the other color compositional functions. You can do really neat tricks with them, current color, and variables, that are otherwise impossible, even with scss

[1] https://pdx.su/blog/2023-10-25-css-is-fun-again/
by ilaksh | 2025-07-22 22:28:09+00:00
To run the real version with the bench arks they give, it would be a nonquantized non distilled version. So I am guessing that is a cluster of 8 H200s if you want to be more or less up to date. They have B200s now which are much faster but also much more expensive. $300,000+

You will see people making quantized distilled versions but they never give benchmark results.
by jjk166 | 2025-07-22 22:28:41+00:00
All defenses are fallible, that doesn't mean they aren't useful. Yes building a tall wall to protect against invaders won't stop those who build siege towers, but many invaders can't build siege towers, those who can must expend considerable time and resources to do so, and those who both can and do will still have a more difficult time against the defenders on the walls than against defenders with no walls.

The reason ballistic missiles fly through space is because that is the fastest, easiest way to cross long distances. Every other option has significant drawbacks. Space based intercept won't address every potential vulnerability, but those vulnerabilities already exist, and are preferable to the current status quo.

Kessler syndrome wouldn't do anything to stop midcourse-phase interceptors. They aren't in space long enough to be affected. Even if we pretend for a second it would be possible to put so much mass in orbit to stop interceptors, you've also essentially intercepted every nuke, doing the job of those interceptors for you.
by duxup | 2025-07-22 22:28:44+00:00
Legalizing sports gambling in the US was a mistake.

On top of the social problems and etc, it's just such a bad vibe watching sports now. At least a truck commercial sells you a truck, maybe a bad choice to get a truck, but you get a truck. Sports gambling is all about selling you winning that over the long term is not happening and taking suckers for every penny they can get from them ...

Not just sporting events, sports discussion, almost every podcaster and streamer of every form is owned by some BS gambling org.