MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 15:06:36+00:00
Good that it expands the registers.

I think the eZ80 was a great expansion of the Z80 but it has the problem that it has no real "protected mode" in the sense that a a Z80-mode program can flip a flag and go into the extended mode without an OS having any veto on it. Since we have so much Z80 software, being able to run it in a box would be great -- practically we can, because old Z80 software had no idea it could flip the flag, but it wouldn't have been had to have some mechanism that would force this transition to be done via a system call... The same is true for 6502 software on a successor architecture and could be true for 65C816 except there isn't so much of it.

The direct page is the gem of the 6502/65C816 addressing modes, extensions should make the most of it.

Also there is no MMU which is something you expect out of a 32-bit machine, but I do think something other than the usual, such as a table of offsets and limits, would be interesting to see.
by koiueo | 2025-07-14 15:07:09+00:00
> 2. Download and uncompress the LanguageTool release.

> Running a ready-made docker image replaces steps 1-4

We can go pretty low level in the docker option too.

1. Download a Linux installation image

2. Download a hypervisor

3. Install Linux on the virtual machine

4. Install docker in a virtual Linux machine

5. Launch LanguageTool container

6. Configure networking between the host and the container in the guest

7. Connect to the API, e.g. with the browser extension

Obviously I initially oversimplified by omitting the configuration step. But adding download step to inflate the complexity is not a fair play ;-)

I'd argue that running a platforn-native artifact is both simpler and easier than involving virtualization. Even if steps 1-4 are done by some magical tool like rancher or docker-desktop
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-14 15:07:27+00:00
Yes, because the problem isn't that Europeans are being abused, the problem is that they're being abused by Americans! Instead, let's develop a local system of abusing people, so Europeans can be abused by Europeans, as it should be.

Or maybe the issue is this whole notion of "tech" as a top-down thing where companies impose products on idiots? Maybe another Silicon Valley is precisely the opposite of what we need.

Maybe solutions would look more like - how can Europe end the exploitation of the (mostly American, sure) big tech companies dominating them, while simultaneously encouraging the growth of user-first tools.

Interoperability laws would be a good start, as Cory Doctorow has been insisting. NLnet and initiatives like it are a good step in this direction too, pump money into projects who want to upend these relations.

These movements will have a hard time really going far if the big tech companies' relationships with governments in European countries isn't addressed politically. Therein lies the real thorny issue, I think.
by throwaway229864 | 2025-07-14 15:08:09+00:00
This is an understandable concern, but it's not actually supported by the data.

On MacOS, where there has long been engine choice, Safari market share is >50%. Defaults are powerful and many users are happy with the real and perceived benefits of the first-party brand.

Safari has >90% market share on iOS today. If engine competition were permitted, they might lose a few percent initially, but would be highly motivated to close any gaps.

There's no world in which WebKit usage among the world's wealthiest consumers drops low enough that web developers can target a chromium monoculture. The purpose of engine choice is to create real competition in order to motivate Apple to do better.
Show HN: A reasoning model that infers over whole tasks in 1ms in latent space
by orderone_ai | 2025-07-14 15:08:43+00:00
I've spent the last few weeks working on a novel model architecture. It is not a transformer - it lacks attention, tokens, and softmax.

However: Batch Processing: Average batch size: 10 Time per batch: 13.03ms Time per example in batch: 1.30ms

TASK SUMMARY WITH TIMING

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Task Correct Total Accuracy Med Time (ms)

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Emotion Classification 10 10 100.0 % 1.30

Toxicity Classification 9 10 90.0 % 1.29

Sentiment Classification 10 10 100.0 % 1.34

Domain Classification 8 10 80.0 % 1.30

Sarcasm Detection 6 10 60.0 % 1.34

Scam Detection 7 10 70.0 % 1.31

Age Appropriateness Classification 4 10 40.0 % 1.28

Urgency Level Classification 4 10 40.0 % 1.25

Privacy Policy Classification 9 10 90.0 % 1.32

Dialogue Speaker Classification 8 10 80.0 % 1.29

Book Review Sentiment 10 10 100.0 % 1.25

Empathetic Direction Classification 10 10 100.0 % 1.29

Virtual Assistant Action Classification 6 10 60.0 % 1.37

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OVERALL 101 130 77.7 %

===================================================

It can do interesting things.

This has a lot of caveats and limitations. However, the model is available for download via a script in the repo, and the exact benchmarks I used are available. The white paper gets into theory and application, as well as reveals a lot of limitations and interesting differences from transformers in terms of training and prompting behavior. It also produces extensive appendices (over 100 pages) on training datasets used, and performance on the ~260 (I think?) NIV2 tasks in its validation dataset.

Running inference for the DSRU model + BGE embedding model together takes a bit shy of 10GB of VRAM, and the reference comparison model -- Zephyr 7B -- takes about 15GB of VRAM.
by tuukkah | 2025-07-14 15:08:44+00:00
It's true that depression and suicides peak in the spring (Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder), but that's the case all over the world. Finland is far from the worst in suicide statistics: within Europe, the unfortunate outliers are Slovenia and Lithuania, followed by Hungary. The situation is worse than in Finland also in Belgium, Croatia and Estonia (plus the US). France and Latvia have the same numbers as Finland. Only marginally better are Serbia, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Czechia and Switzerland.

Meanwhile, the fortunate outliers are more in the south: Cyprus, Greece, Liechtenstein, Türkiye, Italy and Luxembourg.
by mttspss | 2025-07-14 15:08:59+00:00
Hey HN, I'm a solo founder building 12 startups in 12 months.

I had a lot of problems with tracking my finances and store them all in one place. I kept noticing one thing: personal finance tools are either bloated or boring, nothing simple, fast, and actually useful.

So I built Easybudget, a simple budgeting app to actually track where your money goes.

Why I built it:

I wanted a way to manage spending without spreadsheets.

Most apps are overkill for 90% of people — I wanted fast, clean, focused.

I wanted to ship real products fast and learn in public.

Would love your feedback or ideas for what to improve next!

- Matteo (@creatorLLM)
by ghc | 2025-07-14 15:09:03+00:00
I sympathize with your feeling that there is a "gap", but I'm fairly certain that both my ideal workflow and your ideal workflow are unlikely to be anything more than evolutionary dead ends, like early automobiles that inherited the shape of horse-drawn carriages.

I don't know where the evolution of coding agents will take us in the next couple of years, but I would not be shocked if it looks more like a GitHub issue/PR tracker than a code+chat interface with autocomplete, etc. I'm already noticing the I'm starting to rely on tux + multiple CC instances with independent work trees instead of babysitting each proposed change.
by sulam | 2025-07-14 15:09:15+00:00
Probably the most interesting topic in this article is trunk stable, although it only got a few sentences. The rest could have been written by Gemini and we couldn’t tell. Trunk stable, though, is a very big deal in Android land and I don’t think many people outside of the Android team or the OEMs understand or even know about it. It is a very significant change in the Android release model and I’m very curious to see how it goes with new phones.
by thinkalone | 2025-07-14 15:09:28+00:00
The initial use of solar on the Prius was to power a ventilation fan while the car was parked, and the current version seems to specifically be designed to provide power to the air conditioner while driving. But, I also can't imagine the difference between cooling down the cabin is much different from parking in the sun or in the shade - you'd be running it continually to achieve "room temperature" during the entire drive either way.
by chris_va | 2025-07-14 15:09:44+00:00
One can now get (flexible-ish) multi-junction PV (say 29% efficiency) from the factory for under $1/W. Still a higher price than the $0.2/W, lower efficiency panels, but when I messed with panels I felt like we were living in the future.

Anyway, one could also set up the panel to output a much higher voltage by having the factory wire cells in series (though how well that trades off with partial shading for a car roof I have no idea, and I have no idea the minimum quantity required to get that).

... but I agree, even with all that, it seems like a stretch to make it work.
by duxup | 2025-07-14 15:10:00+00:00
I don't disagree that Apple's AI efforts have been disappointing.

But outside straight up LLM basic chat interfaces, I haven't seen much of anyone integrate AI well, anywhere. There seem to be some easy wins for it out there with simple tasks, maybe setting settings on a phone, but nobody seems to do it well in any kind of grand way, and often not even in small ways.

In the meantime the Apple AI panic news articles seem more like memes every day. You'd think we were back in the mid 1990s Apple days from these articles... I feel like there's some news site competition where nobody wants to get left out of the group panic.
by simonw | 2025-07-14 15:10:53+00:00
We had an in-person event in Lawrence, Kansas ten years ago for Django's 10th birthday. The videos of the talks from that event are here: https://pyvideo.org/events/django-birthday.html

I celebrated the 20th birthday yesterday by writing up an annotated transcript of my talk from the 10th - it tells Django's origin story: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/13/django-birthday/
by danbruc | 2025-07-14 15:11:12+00:00
We are not generally used to this in our field but just think about the amount of paperwork you have to go through in order to construct a bridge or an airplane. Browsers have become a critical component and it seem not really unexpected that there will eventually be legal requirements to help to ensure that browsers are safe given the amount of software that runs on top of browsers. And this is also not new, there have been legal requirements for all kinds of software for a long time, you will just not think about those unless you work in an affected area.
Ask HN: How to find mentors while working remote?
by basketbla | 2025-07-14 15:11:25+00:00
So far in every internship and job that I've had, there's been a more senior engineer whose brain I can pick. Just curious if anyone here has suggestions for finding similar opportunities outside of a job?

For context: I graduated college 2 years ago and have been working at a remote startup since. Now I'm going out on my own to focus a little more on some of the side projects I've been working on, but even a week in I'm starting to feel the strain of working on something solo.

Location has also been a little bit of an issue for me. I was in the bay area for college and found it much easier to find events / people to learn from. I moved to the the twin cities after graduating and haven't really been able to find the same community here.

Any advice is appreciated!
by ArtemZ | 2025-07-14 15:11:28+00:00
Burning fossil fuels is relatively simple and well understood by general public. Modern business strategies to squeeze every cent out of a customer that involves subscriptions, planned obsolescence, adding bizarre complexity for marginal gains are not helping. Buying a very expensive black box with questionable reliability, possible dependency on a manufacturer provided internet services (APIs for updating etc), questionable availability of parts and probably not really fixable by yourself or your local shop with rednecks with wrenches is not very appealing when you are living paycheck to paycheck.
by adrianberco93 | 2025-07-14 15:12:13+00:00
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by abirch | 2025-07-14 15:13:37+00:00
We can look at China that is focused on growth at all costs. If you look at rare earth metals, they're equally distributed but they are toxic to extract. The west has pretty much stopped extracting. China is still going full steam ahead. https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-wrestles-with-the-toxic...

China would bulldoze my hometown in 2 seconds if it meant an addition 0.1 GDP. I would say that the US is between Europe and China for balancing GDP vs protecting its citizens.
by droopyEyelids | 2025-07-14 15:13:42+00:00
First off I just wanna say awesome and I send positive energy to you and you’re gonna do great.

But then I just wanna talk about how long life is in terms of weight gain! Even two years is an “short” amount of time!

Last month, I looked over my doc where I keep track of my weight and I’ve been gaining about 1 pound a year since I started tracking it… 20 years ago. That’s a significant amount and I maybe have 30 years left to go! (this comment is not about you specifically, just musing on how long life is in terms of weight gain)
by nickff | 2025-07-14 15:13:58+00:00
Most pizza restaurants are built around the delivery cost-structure. They locate off main streets, they have a small front-of-house relative to kitchen size, and they have relatively low ingredients costs. They save money on both real estate and taxes, and use those savings to pay for drivers who deliver multiple orders per trip.

Other restaurants just aren’t optimized for the delivery business, so it’s more expensive per serving for the customer (no matter who is doing the delivery).
by account42 | 2025-07-14 15:13:58+00:00
> How about actual switch covers (and switches that are not located right in the same area as stuff you are using routinely) instead of a glorified detent? Though I suspect this would also succumb to muscle memory

The switches are already pretty distinct - but that only reduces failures, it can never eliminate them entirely.

> Or (at the cost of complexity) you could interlock with the throttle lever so that you can't flip the cutoff if the lever isn't at idle

More complexity also means more failure modes. You don't want it to be impossible to shut down the engines due to a broken throttle sensor.
by naikrovek | 2025-07-14 15:14:01+00:00
> I call bull on every part of this story when it talks about "power team looking at windows performance as a whole, environment etc."

I am sure that the Power team has the understanding that user-initiated activity isn’t really anything they can control.

Once the user takes over, all tricks for efficiency go out the window. The user could run anything.

I don’t work for MS but I’m sure the Power team cares about the automatic built-in stuff that runs on schedules and timers: the things they can control. The start button doesn’t click itself.

I agree that using web tech to render things in the OS is silly, but Microsoft has been doing it in every Explorer window since 2001 with Windows XP. I don’t remember anyone complaining about that at the time except me.
by ck2 | 2025-07-14 15:14:27+00:00
I've run for 40 years but not every day because of age/illness (covid will pretty much end your life)

I don't think you should be running through illness and stress fractures but I can't really criticize as I get the obsession

My personal joke is that I like to get my "10,000 steps a day" in all in the first hour

but this is actually the most amazing part to me:

COUNTRIES VISITED been lucky to run on all seven continents, including antarctica!
Ask HN: Google Ads suspended my account with no specifics – what now?
by gregsadetsky | 2025-07-14 15:14:49+00:00
I'm at my wit's end with Google Ads and hoping someone here has been through something similar.

A friend and I run a legitimate web hosting/infra startup incorporated in Quebec. Our offering is straightforward – we help companies migrate away from Heroku to their own managed stack on AWS using our software. Our SaaS business model is straightforward. Our ads are basic and honest: "we will help you migrate away from heroku to your own stack on aws."

Despite this being a real business with a clear value proposition, Google Ads suspended my whole (Ads) account for "violating" their policies. When I appeal, I get the same generic response saying the account "was found to be violating" but with zero specifics about what policy was actually violated.

I've tried everything I can think of: appealed multiple times with detailed explanations, CC'd a Google employee family member who can vouch for the business' legitimacy, and obviously requested specific information about the violation. Each time I get the exact same copy-paste response from "Patricia" saying the account violates policies but never explaining which ones or how.

I want to give Google money for legitimate advertising but I have no idea what I supposedly did wrong.

I'm also afraid to create a new account because maybe my domain/name/business are somehow "tainted" now..?

Is there any actual human appeal process, or am I stuck in an automated response loop forever? Should I just give up on Google Ads entirely?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. It's maddening to have a legitimate business and be unable to advertise it through the world's largest ad platform with no clear explanation why.
by sesm | 2025-07-14 15:14:52+00:00
> single threaded

The entire language is single thread. But I/O uses a separate thread pool.

> memory usage

Are you talking about extra 120 bytes per Promise?

> function coloring

How does it manifest in JS? You can `await` non-async function without any issues, anything potentially async is awaited, if it doesn't end up doing async inside there is no problem.
by SweetHour | 2025-07-14 15:15:05+00:00
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by latexr | 2025-07-14 15:15:09+00:00
> people can understand the analogy, and think that it fails to capture the entire situation, and so extend the analogy to make it obvious (although clearly not to everyone) that the analogy is lacking, and not very convincing.

Of course, that could definitely happen. My point is that I don’t think it did in this case, and that it stretched the analogy so far beyond its major points, that it made it clear to me a pattern that I have seen several times before but could never pinpoint clearly.

I am grateful to that comment for the insight. Understanding how people may distort analogies will force me to create better ones for more productive discussions.
by arp242 | 2025-07-14 15:15:18+00:00
For obese people: probably. The overall health benefits for overweight people are a lot less clear. Being merely overweight (rather than obese) is not that strongly associated with negative health effects.

Look, I hope you're right. If in 20 years time we look back at these comments and no negative effects have manifested then I'll happily buy you a beer to celebrate. Hell, I'll buy you an entire crate of beer. But I think this is one hell of a risk to take.
by evanjrowley | 2025-07-14 15:15:33+00:00
That sounds like bad news. Mistral has been the leading privacy-focused LLM company providing open source models. Apple prioritizes privacy, but their walled-garden strategy is comlpetely opposed to what Mistral has been doing. The acquisition of Mistral, potentially ending their open source innovations, would make the LLM marketplace worse-off overall.
Analytics tool but for landing pages. What do you think?
by coursecrumbs | 2025-07-14 15:15:35+00:00
Hi everyone!

I have one idea in mind. Honestly I already made MVP with my co-founder but wanted to ask what you think about it.

Most analytics tools tell you how your pages and website in total performs but they won’t tell you how every part of your page performs.

To fix this I decided to make an analytics tool that will measure everything based on sections on the page: leaves from sections, time spent in each section, clicks on CTA button in each section and many more.

The idea is to use this data with AI to suggest how to make landing pages perform better and how to improve them.

What do you think about it?

Would you try it?

MVP leaves here: https://landlift.io and right now it is completely free to use.
by mckravchyk | 2025-07-14 15:15:59+00:00
The same Europe that introduces Cyber Resilience Act? Good luck. Imagine how many businesses will not be created because no one wants to risk burdening themselves with obligatory by law, 5 years of security maintenance of the product. It does not just suffice that you risk failing, you risk having to maintain it for years after the potential business failure.
by runjake | 2025-07-14 15:16:01+00:00
+1! This was a relatively common thing to do at the Glamis[1] sand dunes in the 1970s-1980s. Glamis is a massive sets of sand dunes in California where bunches of people go to camp and ride offroad vehicles.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamis,_California
by djrj477dhsnv | 2025-07-14 15:16:05+00:00
That's not true in my experience. I've had friends who worked in or adjacent to the industry in several countries.

While there are obviously significant numbers of minors involved and some workers forced into it, the majority are not. Most are just struggling financially and trying to support themselves and/or families. Many are single moms. Many well over 18.