MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-07-29 15:11:45+00:00
> Bashing 'poor people' aside

'Bashing' is a human trait. Software on the internet carries no such emotion.

> declining test scores are a warning sign that merits investigation.

Just as increasing test scores is a warning sign that merits investigation. But that doesn't suggest a problem, only change. What good is wealth if it is not used to user in change?

> there's no small amount of broken window fallacy there.

Not really. The broken window fallacy is based on the idea of breaking windows for the good of the economy. There is nothing to suggest that bridges are being built to nowhere for the good of the economy. Maybe when you are poor the economy is front and centre in your thoughts, but not everything has to be about the economy.

> government misuse of funds, and pointless infrastructure projects.

This can be a problem if you aren't wealthy enough to support it, but, again, this cannot be observed through a poor lens. If the people of Norway (which is a democracy — the people direct the government) want to spend their extensive wealth in a way a poor person would consider foolish, they can. That is benefit of being wealthy.

> There are at least three reasons why this is completely wrong

Looks more like zero reasons. Assuming three wasn't a number randomly pulled out of hat, perhaps something got truncated during preparation of this message?

> but what's more important is that you seem to have a weird bone to pick with "poor people".

Again, software doesn't have this emotion you are trying to personify.
Show HN: LocallyTools – A privacy-first free local toolbox, supports offline use
by sukechris | 2025-07-29 15:11:45+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm an indie developer, and this is my project: LocallyTools(https://locallytools.com).

I built this out of a personal need. I grew tired of uploading sensitive files to random online services for simple tasks like image compression or PDF merging. Especially in the age of AI, the lack of transparency about data usage is a serious concern for me.

LocallyTools is my solution: a suite of tools that runs 100% in your browser. All processing is done client-side using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your files never leave your machine.

Here are the core principles:

- 100% Local Processing: Your data's security is guaranteed by design. You can prove it yourself by watching the network tab in dev tools. Nothing is sent out.

- True Offline Support (PWA): Once you visit a tool's page and the cache indicator at the top turns green, the tool is fully cached. You can disconnect from the internet and it will continue to work flawlessly.

- Sustainably Free: People often ask "what's the catch?". There is none. Because all the heavy lifting is done on your device, my server costs are incredibly low—just basic static hosting. This lightweight model makes it sustainable to offer the service for free, long-term.

- No Registration, No Friction: Just a clean interface that gets the job done.

I've just launched and I'm committed to continuously adding more tools based on user feedback. The goal is to build a complete, trusted, local-first tool ecosystem.

I'd be grateful for any feedback from the HN community. What do you think? Any features you'd like to see next?

Thanks for your time.
by Almondsetat | 2025-07-29 15:11:53+00:00
All cameras imprint their own color signature to photos, so I really don't understand what you're talking about. Some people buy exclusively Canon cameras because their JPEG profiles give "good" skin tones straight out of the camera. Does that mean they are "accepting" Canon's opinion of what skin should look like?

Yes. Everyone does, with every manufacturer, and Apple evidently has determined their visual style. At least they also provide you with an optional semi-raw output you can freely edit if you so desire.
by recursivedoubts | 2025-07-29 15:11:54+00:00
techno/corpo-fuedalism is just another term for techno-oligarchy, which is what we are getting/have gotten anyway

billionares love mass democracy because it is dominated by media and turns into one-dollar-one-vote, centralizing the government in an easily controllable power center

the solution is to have many centers of power and to distribute the corruption, which remains constant
by oc1 | 2025-07-29 15:11:56+00:00
Thanks for clarifying. Actually Chinas democracy sounds really nice now. Would love to try it out where people are actually the masters of the country :)

(Btw this chinese ai-propaganda-bot parent is the best example why we need to keep china out of our digital infrastructure and ban apps like tiktok. They are already brainwashing western kids with shit like this fake user above. )
by Aurornis | 2025-07-29 15:12:17+00:00
> These kinds of comments are really missing the point.

I disagree. In my experience, asking coding tools to produce something similar to all of the tutorials and example code out there works amazingly well.

Asking them to produce novel output that doesn’t match the training set produces very different results.

When I tried multiple coding agents for a somewhat unique task recently they all struggled, continuously trying to pull the solution back to the standard examples. It felt like an endless loop of the models grinding through a solution and then spitting out something that matched common examples, after which I had to remind them of the unique properties of the task and they started all over again, eventually arriving back in the same spot.

It shows the reality of working with LLMs and it’s an important consideration.
by AlexeyBrin | 2025-07-29 15:12:18+00:00
A gaming PC with an NVIDIA 4090/5090 will be more than adequate for running local models.

Where a Mac may beat the above is on the memory side, if a model requires more than 24/32 GB of GPU memory you are usually better off with a Mac with 64/128 GB of RAM. On a Mac the memory is shared between CPU and GPU, so the GPU can load larger models.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-29 15:12:29+00:00
I actually agree with you that LLM assistance is inevitable. The fact that we can have small local models is what convinces me that the tech won't go away.

Even if things are going the direction you say, though, Kilo is still just a fork of VSCode. Lipstick on a pig, perhaps. I would bet that I know the strengths and weaknesses of your architecture quite a lot better than anyone on the Kilo team because the price of admission for you is not questioning any of VSCode's decisions, while I consider all of them worthy of questioning and have done so at great length in the process of building something from scratch that your team bypassed.
by JamesSwift | 2025-07-29 15:12:53+00:00
Im on the exact opposite side near cocoa beach and it really feels like the heat has been more and more oppressive. The heat indexes plus what feels like a constant whiplash between drought conditions and flooding conditions has been brutal.

Part of that might be that I'm over 40 now. I have to mow the lawn in shifts, its just too brutal otherwise.
by seec | 2025-07-29 15:12:58+00:00
It seems like it was an app made to enable the worst of women's behavior. In that way it seems like it was very successful to me.

Of course, in reality such behavior is rarely conductive to anything good; I guess they got what's coming.

The whole concept of dating apps is so toxic, shallow and just plain bad. It's like choosing people as if they were products on a shelf.
by mamonoleechi | 2025-07-29 15:13:09+00:00
If you're looking for a super cheap pen, check french BIC pens: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=bic+pen&ia=images&iax=image... ; it's less than €0.30 ($0.35)

and don't stop on the price ; this pen is amazing,

it's actually one of the recommended tool, used by the super talented and proefficient korean drawing artist Kim Jung Gi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmqFbgKWoao (not sure he uses it in this video) ; Kim is known to be able to draw anything from memory

you can see him drawing with the BIC pen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_IDH1TzFs&t=1231s (video: Kim Jung Gi - What Kind of Pen Do You Use?)
by nradov | 2025-07-29 15:13:52+00:00
If you think it doesn't pass the smell test then you obviously haven't done much road cycling. In a flat race without much climbing, aerodynamics matter far more than a bit of extra weight. Look at pro level triathlon: those bikes aren't even subject to UCI minimum weight rules and yet the winners usually choose to ride relatively heavy bikes in order to gain an aero advantage.
by mtalantikite | 2025-07-29 15:13:52+00:00
> You seem to be trying to integrate Eastern philosophy’s emphasis on acceptance with Western ideals of active engagement and personal agency.

Where is the contradiction here? Westerners too often think of acceptance and compassion as this soft deference in the face of adversity. It's not! Sometimes compassion is wrathful, as we're talking about waking someone up to the true nature of what a situation is. As long as it's done with wisdom and love, there is no contradiction. There is a whole pantheon of wrathful embodiments for this concept in Buddhism. [1] And look at the engagement of brother Thich Quang Duc, who lit himself on fire in the face of the political persecution of Buddhists. [2] [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrathful_deities

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%9...

[3] https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/in-sea...
by reilly3000 | 2025-07-29 15:14:28+00:00
The top 3 approaches I see a lot on r/localllama are:

1. 2-4x 3090+ nvidia cards. Some are getting Chinese 48GB cards. There is a ceiling to vRAM that prevents the biggest models from being able to load, most can run most quants at great speeds

2. Epyc servers running CPU inference with lots of RAM at as high of memory bandwidth as is available. With these setups people are getting like 5-10 t/s but are able to run 450B parameter models.

3. High RAM Macs with as much memory bandwidth as possible. They are the best balanced approach and surprisingly reasonable relative to other options.
by nadir_ishiguro | 2025-07-29 15:14:44+00:00
I get (and share some of) the frustration, but have yet to find anything better.

XMPP and IRC are not it, for me. Neither give me a better experience nor are they easier for non-techies than matrix.

I also empathize with the people behind the project, as monetization is much more difficult for non-scumbag companies, among which I definitely count Discord, Slack and to a lesser degree Telegram.

As a user though, the speed of improvement has been less than satisfying. It has felt like matrix was just shy of fulfilling its promises for years now.

I still enjoy using it though and am hopeful for its future.
by phkahler | 2025-07-29 15:15:23+00:00
>> Other than copy-pasting existing code (which is not what an LLM does)

I'd like to see someone try to prove this. How many space invaders projects exist on the internet? I'd be hard to compare model "generated" code to everything out there looking for plagiarism, but I bet there are lots of snippets pulled in. These things are NOT smart, they are huge and articulate information repositories.
Show HN: Xorq – open compute catalog for AI
by mousematrix | 2025-07-29 15:15:24+00:00
Hi HN, Hussain and Dan from Xorq here.

After years of struggling with scaling compute that worked in notebooks but failed in production, we decided to do something about it. Data has standards like Iceberg and Delta. But compute is still a mess—trapped in notebooks, duplicated effort across teams, or baked into custom Airflow DAGs. We think of Xorq as the missing analog to Apache Iceberg, but for compute.

We’ve spent the last year building Xorq, an *compute catalog* that helps teams *reuse, ship, and observe* transformations, features, models, and pipelines across engines.

Xorq is built on:

- *Arrow Flight* (`do_exchange`) for high-speed data transport - *Ibis* for cross-engine expression trees, serialized to YAML - A portable UDF engine that compiles pipelines to SQL or Python - `uv` to make Python environments fully reproducible

Xorq features:

- pandas-style declarative transformations, backed by Ibis - Multi-engine execution (e.g., DuckDB, Snowflake) - UDFs as portable Flight endpoints - Serveable transforms by way of flight_udxf operator - Built-in caching and lineage tracking - Diff-able YAML artifacts, great for CI/CD

Xorq use cases:

Since our last major release, it’s been exciting to see the first Xorq use-cases show up in the wild. All with *Python simplicity and SQL-scale performance*.

- Feature Stores (https://www.xorq.dev/blog/featurestore-to-featurehouse) - Semantic Layers (e.g. https://github.com/boringdata/boring-semantic-layer) - MCP + ML Integration (https://docs.xorq.dev/vignettes/mcp_flight_server)

We’re open source and learning fast. Would love feedback on what’s useful or missing. Thanks in advance for trying it out!

Check out the demo of the Xorq CLI tool in action: https://asciinema.org/a/730484

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Get Started

- Github: https://github.com/xorq-labs/xorq - Xorq docs: https://docs.xorq.dev/ ---

Sneak peak - Xorq Compute Catalog UI Console:

Check out this interactive Claude demo showing how the Xorq compute catalog can be visualized to accelerate composition, reuse, and troubleshooting of AI compute: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d2f00d2a-a3f9-4032-884e-d...
by LaffertyDev | 2025-07-29 15:15:37+00:00
Left handed person here. Writing is already a chore, tying up both hands just to use a fountain pen without smearing seems to cross an effort/reward boundary.

Maybe useful if you were really committed to the tool. I've been casually interested in fountain pens for a while but the downsides seem to stack up whenever I actually look into it.
by matsemann | 2025-07-29 15:15:50+00:00
This I disagree on. Unless the hook is to be reused, just chuck it in your component where it's actually used. Yeah, it's pretty if you can decompose it cleanly. But if you end up with calling useX, and passing a statement function from that to useY etc, it's just a mess figuring out what's going on. Just chuck it all in the component and skip the abstractions.
by wongarsu | 2025-07-29 15:16:03+00:00
Not just shy people, also people surrounded by yes-men. That's usually framed as an issue for people with power. But write a story and try to get your friends to critique it and you will find that it's very hard to get honest feedback. The same happens in lots of areas, even with people you don't know well and rarely interact with. Most people just value your feelings more than your results.

LLMs are also sycophants by default, but getting "honest" results from them is comparatively easy
by simonw | 2025-07-29 15:16:12+00:00
Go for it. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=github+... has a bunch of results. Here's the source code GLM-4.5 Air spat out for me on my laptop: https://github.com/simonw/tools/blob/main/space-invaders-GLM...

Based on my mental model of how these things work I'll be genuinely surprised if you can find even a few lines of code duplicated from one of those projects into the code that GLM-4.5 wrote for me.
by toast0 | 2025-07-29 15:16:13+00:00
I don't think it costs that much more to use a D or Q pattern for the inductive loop instead of a circle for new loops. But, if the loops are already there, it is a lot of expense to put in new ones.

Adding a loop to bike lanes might be reasonable, or maybe it forces a controller upgrade and that's not reasonable... but if you make the lowest speed through lane and at least one of each protected turn lanes bike accessible (while otherwise doing loop work), that's good. I think the loops are pretty shallow, so if the road has significant rebuild/repair, it's time to address the loop design.

The key word for ADA is reasonable accomodation. It does add expense, and not every feature is used often, but it's 35 years since the ADA passed and the US is a lot more accessible now than it was in 1990. The window of reasonable changes over time too, of course.
by seec | 2025-07-29 15:16:22+00:00
I'm glad, I'm not the only one feeling this way. My experience lately has been that if you are a man, you are just bad, regardless of if your behavior is actually condemnable or not.

Worse than that, if you speak against any of the nonsense coming to you, you are extra bad. And they are surprised that fertility has fallen all over the place, seems like intended objective to me.
by JamesSwift | 2025-07-29 15:16:24+00:00
You generally want to get a lower tolerance (so +/- 5% is better than +/- 6%). I assume the Amrad is a Turbo 200, but if not then I would recommend the Turbo 200 if you cant figure out a suitable replacement. Titan HD is a good "traditional" alternative though. I keep a Turbo 200 as a hotswap in case of emergency and then order the Titan HD as a long term replacement when needed.
by tim333 | 2025-07-29 15:16:26+00:00
Shrug mostly.

Tech savvy like me think maybe I'll have to click the vpn button on the browser one day - not that big a deal.

Non tech savvy probably haven't heard of it.

Semi-autocracy result? It's a democracy. The policy was fairly popular. The next election, quite likely Reform will win and scrap it.

The conversation seems to go something like: UKgovt: "kids are being hurt by porn and self harm stuff on mostly US and overseas sites - we'll stop it and fine them £18m if they do" US folk: - freak out - "how can they harm our precious websites? The UK is over. It's going 1984!" UK people - whateves.

Bear in mind we wrote 1984 and are familiar with that stuff and this bill isn't it. That agent Krasnov guy is more of a worry.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-07-29 15:16:56+00:00
The US is another good example of being “too rich.” For example, consider American infrastructure costs. The US spends >5x on infrastructure versus other developed countries [0]. NYC spent $2.6 billion dollars per mile to build the 1.2 mile Second Avenue Subway extension. Meanwhile, Paris spent $450M/mile [1]. A 500 mile high speed rail line connected LA and San Francisco is conservatively projected to cost $89-128 billion [2]; meanwhile, in Spain, it cost $60 billion to build 2500 miles of high speed rail [3]. It’s not just public spending that’s extreme relative to other industrialized countries; private construction is much more expensive in the US [4].

Wasteful spending on infrastructure is but one concrete example; we also see gross inefficiencies manifest in costs of American healthcare, education, defense, etc. While there are many complex factors contributing to such waste, a major underlying reason is that there’s simply so much money to go around that nobody bothered to optimize for costs, to the point that they’ve ballooned so unsustainably that the US is increasingly incapable of building anything at all.

[0] https://bettercities.substack.com/p/americas-infrastructure-...

[1] https://betweenhellandhighwater.com/2023/06/22/the-paris-met...

[2] https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Draft-Bus...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/spains...

[4] https://archive.is/pEDpn
by actionfromafar | 2025-07-29 15:17:01+00:00
What I wonder is, how do you get the video frames to be compressed from the video card into the encoder?

The only frame capture APIs I know, take the image from the GPU, to CPU RAM, then you can put it back into the GPU for encoding.

Are there APIs which can sidestep the "load to CPU RAM" part?

Or is it implied, that a game streaming codec has to be implemented with custom GPU drivers?
by Aurornis | 2025-07-29 15:17:06+00:00
From what I’ve observed, people are very good at getting LLMs to tell them what they want to hear.

Someone I know didn’t believe their doctor, so they spent hours with ChatGPT every day until they came up with an alternate explanation and treatment with an excessive number of supplements. The combination of numerous supplements ultimately damaged their body and it became a very dire situation. Yet they could always return to ChatGPT and prompt it enough different ways to get the answer they wanted to see.

I think LLMs are best used as typing accelerators by people who know what the correct output looks like.

When people start deferring to LLMs as sources of truth the results are not good.
by TZubiri | 2025-07-29 15:17:10+00:00
I liked the series, but that part seemed like they jumped on some kind of blockchain bandwagon and jumped the shark.

It's a shame, the previous seasons were kind of timeless, but it feels like they jumped onto a buzzword that backfired before it was well understood. Although I may have dropped it early and it would have backfired on them after their cryptochain is used by criminals or whatever, but IIRC it was very early Bitcoin era and the themes were something like a 51% attack by china, it was way too early to make a comment on Blockchain, they were able to do good satire on the dot com era precisely because it was already dead.
by parpfish | 2025-07-29 15:17:12+00:00
i'm a frequent em-dash user. it's great for little appositive clauses because it can make the sentence feel less cluttered than commas.

but i have no idea how to type an em-dash. you just put in a double-dash/hyphen (i.e. "--") and any modern word processors will know to convert it to an em-dash for you.

I suspect that lots of writers who use this trick are getting unfairly slammed with "omg, youre an AI! no human knows how to type that character!"
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-07-29 15:17:29+00:00
> Not a single country has reported a harmonious society without suffering and inequality.

What's wrong with inequality? Inequality is not the problem. If someone has a net worth of $500k and another person has a net worth of $10mil, is that bad? Of course not. That's inequality, but so what? Why this obsession with money? And a nation of poor people has high equality. Is that desirable? Equality is a red herring, and possibly an expression of envy.

Poverty is the problem. Oligarchic abuse of wealth for tyrannical purposes is. A society obsessed with money is. We should absolutely not be aiming for equality, as there is no reason for it or value in it.

But you are absolutely correct when you hint at the need to consider human nature. A sound philosophical anthropology is the basis for a sound society and a sound culture. The concepts of human nature our society and culture are built on are defective and emaciated, even deranged.

The economy exists for the benefit of society and its members. It is only a part of human life, but within that sphere, it should serve its participants. It absolutely should not be a means of exploiting others and extracting and concentrating wealth at the expense of others. This is what rapacious capitalism celebrates. Usury and financial speculation are perhaps the distillation of such state-sanctioned exploitation.
by Aperocky | 2025-07-29 15:17:29+00:00
That weight comes obvious in components. All teams are required to use widely available components and it's quite easy to spot one that's not normal. For the bike builds that are 4kg or even less, it's quite obvious that all components are non-standard.

You can save at max a bidon before rousing suspicion, and the whole operation is just not feasible in terms of cost vs. benefit.