MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-07-11 08:27:18+00:00
If any of the Hinkley Points, Berkeley, Oldbury had an exclusion zone like Chernobyl's, Bristol and half the Bristol Channel would have been in the exclusion zone. (Berkeley, Oldbury would also have forced evacuation of GCHQ).

Dungeness, would have included Dover.

Bradwell, the Thames. The Sizewells, it would have been Lowestoft and Harwich.

Torness, the Firth of Forth, blocking sea access to Edinburgh.

While this is not an exclusive list, and also I grant I'm not actually modelling what the fallout zone might look like when there's a coastline involved (is it better or worse? IDK), I ask you: which major international transit hub can the island of Great Britain do without? I'm sure they can be rapidly evacuated (being transit hubs), but how fast can the capacity be replaced elsewhere, how fast, and at what cost?

Consider that the UK barely had enough stuff in place just for the Brexit-related customs checks, which it saw coming, even though there was a global pandemic at the time that reduced/zero passenger on the same hubs. How much worse if any of these hubs becomes completely off-limits?

That plus the chronic[0] extra demand on the rest of the power grid. Ukraine had to keep the other reactors at the Chernobyl power plant itself running after the incident, just to avoid shortages.

A 2016 estimate said the overall cost of the Chernobyl disaster was US$700 billion, which is approximately [EDIT: not 97%, mixing dollars and pounds, see [3]] 72% of the tax revenue the UK collected in the tax year starting about when that report was published[1][2][3].

Regarding your point about collection of radioactive waste from nuclear plants, that's only the case for correct operations, not when they leak — or, in the case of Chernobyl, explode.

[0] the acute (sudden) part is fine as shutdowns happen at random anyway; chronic is the long-term.

[1] https://globalhealth.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_United_Kingdom

[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=700USD+in+GBP+in+2016
by nobunaga | 2025-07-11 08:27:23+00:00
No he isnt.

Tesla is going to down the shitter and he is trying to fool everyone that it suddenly is now an AI company lol with a disaster rollout for his taxis. Waymo is going to eat them for lunch. Driverless taxis with people overseeing things in the car lol Wow. Such autonomy. He also didnt even create the company. He basically stole it from some other guys who actually founded and built the early stages of tesla.

He doesnt and isnt capable of running SpaceX. Their current CEO and tech lead is the person who runs the business and is actually knowledgable in the space industry and space engineering. Elon? Oh he just is there for the launches.

His neuralink and xAI? lol Ok. Yes Im sure we will see a lot coming out of those businesses with most government and people know shunning his business's and himself. Oh and new version of a nazi LLM. Cant wait to use it. And Twitter. Wow so much great discourse and sensible conversation that it competes with truth social.

Yes, he is doing remarkably well because he has money. Just like Pablo escoabr had money. The leaders of Enron were also doing remarkably well for a while. What about the guy who ran that ponzi scheme? Maddof. Yes he was also doing remarkably well since no one knew the bullshit he was generating. Elon is a fraud like all these other successful people who may have created businesses but hide the bullshit well for now. One day though, it will all come crashing down. Then you and all other sheep will look like greater fools than you do now. You still have time to come to your senses. Just dont be a sheep and glorify any man or exalt him above others. Its quite simple. He is no genius. He is someone who takes advantage and exploit others for his personal gain and is more destructive to society today than he has ever been and people like you are contributing to it so congrats to screwing over other people.
by const_cast | 2025-07-11 08:28:35+00:00
> Then why do American feel safer in Tokyo than in SF/LA?

You... won't like my answers. It's because Americans commit far more crime by our culture. America has an extremely individualistic culture combined with little to no social services. Which, unfortunately, leads to our crime rates and incarceration rates.

If you've ever been to Japan, you'd understand they have a much more community-oriented culture. But, something tells me you don't like that either...

> Because you're ignoring all the facts and creating strawmen. > It literally is a documented fact by researchers. Stay ignorant, keep quoting SpongeBob.

You haven't laid out any facts. You can't just say "uh, facts" and pretend that does something. I don't know you. I don't know what you believe or why.

If you want to win based on logic or "facts", you have to actually, you know, try.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-07-11 08:28:51+00:00
The idea that we'll have huge excesses of clean energy seems like wishful thinking. We may have issues with excess energy at certain times of day for sure. But intermittent excesses like that are difficult to make use of economically because of capital costs and low utilisation. A general excess would be countered by falling energy prices to the point that it's difficult to make a business case for new installations.

I don't see a future where technologies which are massively inefficient reach their break even cost before other energy intensive activities or more efficient grid scale storage soak up the excess.
by lmeyerov | 2025-07-11 08:29:04+00:00
It's a specialist tool. You wouldn't be surprised that it took awhile for someone to take a big to get at typed programming, parallel programming, docker, IaaC, etc. either.

We have 2 sibling teams, one the genAI devs and the other the regular GPU product devs. It is entirely unsurprising to me that the genAI developers are successfully using coding agents with long-running plans, while the GPU developers are still more at the level of chat-style back-and-forth.

At the same time, everyone sees the potential, and just like other automation movements, are investing in themselves and the code base.
by Klonoar | 2025-07-11 08:29:41+00:00
I dunno about you but I grew up Irish Catholic, had parents who very much lived by "GTFO and come back at dinner", and I never made any real friendships or relationships via church. It was a wholly useless avenue for anything - and this was in several different church communities over the years, too.

IME while church might be a community, it's really a very stifled one.
by cosuno | 2025-07-11 08:30:00+00:00
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We're hiring for two key senior roles:

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Stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Cypress, Kubernetes, AWS

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You have: 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, substantial expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience with Node.js (React is a plus). You thrive in an agile environment and have a pragmatic, startup mindset.

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Location: Remote (EU) / Berlin

Mission: Own end-to-end ML workflows from data ingestion to production deployment. You will dive deep into core application domains like price prediction, two-sided market design (ranking/recommendations), or agentic workflows using state-of-the-art LLMs. A key part of your role will be establishing and enforcing MLOps and LLMops best practices.

You have: 5+ years of ML engineering experience, with at least one year working with LLMs. You possess strong Python skills, a proven track record of deploying containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes), and deep expertise in at least one of the following: deep learning (PyTorch, Transformers), ranking/matching algorithms, or LLMops (RAG, evals, fine-tuning).

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by JoshTriplett | 2025-07-11 08:30:19+00:00
I'm answering someone who said that the response to being "onboarded to new regulation" should be to "face reality", rather than fight it and try to stop it. Whatever level of tooth-and-nail fighting you'd expect someone to do in response to a law you do think is wrong, it's reasonable think someone would wish to do in response to a law they think is wrong.
by noduerme | 2025-07-11 08:30:25+00:00
Tailscale and Plex do not play nicely, particularly since Plex implemented a bunch of shit to try to charge users for accessing their own files outside what it considers a local network. Switching to Jellyfin is on my maintenance list. It's very understandable that if you had given a family member access to your Plex server before this year and it "just worked" you might look now at Tailscale as a way to put them on your LAN and then decide that the complexity isn't worth it, given the hoops that Plex had apparently gone through to make that a non-viable option.

Fuck Plex, by the way. Good on them for building up and turning themselves into a streaming service of sorts. Add value and I'll pay for it. But suddenly one day your free mobile viewer app updates and requires payment to stream your own mp4 files? Seriously, they can go to hell. No one streaming movie files to their family is doing so because they love paying middle-men, by the way. And no core function of Plex can't be done freely.
by fjfaase | 2025-07-11 08:30:26+00:00
Art museums have a very bad reputation with respect to the light. Many of the classical art works were made by day light, but hardly any art works are displayed in day light, often for the fear of UV light causing damage to the paint. Museums are known for using yellow light (between 3000 and 4000K) where daylight is between 5000 and 6500K, this because some experiment showed that visitors preferred the more yellow light for indoor exhibitions. Non dimmed halogen lamps are the best for imitating daylight. These are now replaced by LED lights that claim to be daylight but have spectra with spikes causing some paint mixtures that look the same under daylight as different colors. Also these LED lights are often weak in the IR to red range, cause all red paints to appear dull.

Even if digital pictures of art works are taken with halogen lamp set to 6000K the pictures might look very different from what people are expecting them to be, because they differ so much from the light conditions that these are works are put on display.
by maxtaco | 2025-07-11 08:31:41+00:00
This would be a great application for us! We are not exactly there yet, for reasons of privacy. Right now, there is no way for alice@host to allow unauthenticated users to view her profile. But we can definitely allow this on a host-by-host basis. With this small change, I think your application fits very naturally.

I wonder, what sort of interface is right for you? A library to compile against or a CLI app to shell out to? If a library, which languages?
by const_cast | 2025-07-11 08:32:23+00:00
> That's a really different thing than one million people illegally entering the country and expecting that to just work out.

Sure, but this isn't my point. Nobody has given me any reason to believe it won't work out, included our undocumented immigrants. I live in Texas, I should be seeing the worst of it. But uh... no... everything is pretty chill here. Not really seeing any of these doomerist complaints about those darn illegals.

> Can you imagine the response Japan would have if a million Americans crossed into Japan illegally and expected to live and work there?

I sure can, it would probably be piss-poor. Because Japan has a strong ethnic identity and community-oriented culture. We don't.

We're not Japan, nor do we really want to be Japan.
Guess a random number between 1 and 50
by Aldipower | 2025-07-11 08:32:39+00:00
If you ask this a LLM your answer will be probably "27", instead of a randomly guessed number.

"Guess" is just another token and doesn't make LLMs random guessing machines.

As all the large models have an internet scale training set, this set is evenly distrusted.

But why is it exactly "27"?
by adrianwaj | 2025-07-11 08:32:43+00:00
Yeah, it's about visualizing the long tail. Here's one for crypto. https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1943454928456028626/photo/1

I suppose the key is to minimize blank space but still make it understandable and readable.

A drill-down animation would be interesting for zooming-in.

I use WebP myself.

Just keep adding to this item. :)
Claude Code/Cursor is using grep? Are we devolving
by redskyluan | 2025-07-11 08:33:21+00:00
Every AI coding tool has a search problem.

Claude uses grep. Cursor does basic vector search. Context retrieval? Honestly, pretty mediocre.

As a co-founder of a vector database company, I’ve realized: the only way to understand real developer pain is to use these tools every day — not just sit in strategy meetings.

Tried Claude Code. Loved the idea: delegating tasks from the terminal feels magical. But hit a wall fast — grep-based search doesn’t understand semantics. It finds strings, not meaning.

Cursor? A good start with vector search, but still shallow. No deep understanding of code structure or intent.

That pain point became our opportunity.

The more I used Claude, Cursor, Windsurf… the clearer it became: AI tools lack true semantic code understanding.

So we built Code Indexer CLI:

One-click indexing of your codebase

Fast, semantic retrieval

Native support for all major AI coding tools

We’re not just fixing search — we’re building a better foundation for AI coding. Because context matters more than code.

Lesson: Don’t just build for AI. Build with it. Use what your users use. Feel their pain.

Your best product ideas live inside your daily frustrations.

→ https://github.com/zilliztech/CodeIndexer
by isodev | 2025-07-11 08:33:41+00:00
As a developer for apple platforms, it's extremely difficult to keep a positive mindset to all this. Year after year, Apple finds ways to continue unbounded fuckery. Making apps for iPhones is not that profitable anymore either, at this point is more about addressing a painful necessity - Apple is the phone company and you have to make it work if you want access to that "unmovable" infrastructure.
by alokk001 | 2025-07-11 08:33:59+00:00
Keploy is an open-source testing platform that uses AI to auto-generate test cases by observing API traffic, without needing developers to write tests manually. It supports integration, unit, and end-to-end testing — helping teams ship faster with fewer bugs.

With native support for Go, Java, and Python, Keploy captures test data, mocks external dependencies, and ensures that generated tests are stable, buildable, and add code coverage. Key Features: - Zero-code test generation - Regression testing using real traffic - Integrates seamlessly with CI/CD - Supports OpenTelemetry and eBPF tracing - Free and open-source with enterprise support available
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-07-11 08:34:23+00:00
Admitted, i'm an old fart, but when i was a kid, cake was something we had on sundays, sodas was something we got at a birthday party, and we had one, maybe two, and meals were rich in protein and fat, with carbohydrates usually being at the bottom. We spent the entire day outside, riding our bikes, playing (as in physical, not computer), riding skateboards, etc.

These days it almost feels like sugar has replaced a lot of the protein and at least some of the fat, and we eat a lot more of it.

Sodas are no longer a "monthly" event, but a daily event, and people will happily drink 2-3-4 sodas per day (or more). In our food, a lot of the protein has been replaced by sugar and fat as well.

And instead of running around, playing on the streets, kids these days sit in front of a computer/tablet/phone/tv/whatever.
by plainOldText | 2025-07-11 08:34:46+00:00
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Yes, you can have pipelines in Flix, F#, OCaml, to me however placing the "subject" first feels more natural, as function signatures (not necessarily in pipelines) have a symmetry not encountered otherwise:

Subject First:

Map.put(map, key, value) Map.get(map, key) Map.get(map, key, default) Map.del(map, key)

Subject Last:

Map.put(key, value, map) Map.get(key, map) Map.get(key, default, map) Map.del(key, map)
by a5c11 | 2025-07-11 08:34:49+00:00
Hopefully. I feel like people actually stopped socialising after the social media breakthrough. It's harder to ask friends out for a coffee or beer because "nah, we can just talk online". We have locked ourselves in virtual communities where we have a false feeling of importance. Boards were the last acceptable form of socialising, but it was different, it was aimed at exchanging knowledge and common interest, not replacing real interactions completely.
by mkl | 2025-07-11 08:35:03+00:00
Anything that triggers the flamewar detector gets down-weighted automatically. Those two trigger discussion full of fast poorly thought out replies and often way more comments than story upvotes, so stories involving them often trip that detector. On top of that, the discussion is usually tiresome and not very interesting, so people who would rather see more interesting things on the front page are more likely to flag it. It's not some conspiracy.
by lupusreal | 2025-07-11 08:36:16+00:00
A friend of mine, complete non-programmer, has been trying to use ChatGPT to write a phone app. I've been as hands off as I feel I can be, watching how the process goes for him. My observations so far is that it's not going well, he doesn't understand what questions he should be asking so the answers he's getting aren't useful. I encourage him to ask it to teach him the relevant programming but he asks it to help him make the app without programming at all.

With more coaching from me, which I might end up doing, I think he would get further. But I expected the chatbot to get him further through the process than this. My conclusion so far is that this technology won't meaningfully shift the balance of programmers to non-programmers in the general population.
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-11 08:36:38+00:00
Using the database for queues is more than fine, it's often essential to correctness. In many use cases for queues you need to atomically update the database with respect to popping from the queue, and if they're separate systems you end up needing either XA or brittle and unreliable custom idempotency logic. I've seen this go wrong before and it's not nice, the common outcome is business-visible data corruption that can have financial impact.

This seems like another case where Postgres gets free marketing due to companies hitting its technical limits. I get why they choose to make lemonade in these cases with an eng blog post, but this is a way too common pattern on HN. Some startup builds on Postgres then spends half their eng budget at the most critical growth time firefighting around its limits instead of scaling their business. OpenAI had a similar blog post a couple of months ago where they revealed they were probably spending more than quarter of a million a month on an Azure managed Postgres, and it had stopped scaling so they were having to slowly abandon it, where I made the same comment [1].

Postgres is a great DB for what you pay, but IMHO well capitalized blitzscaling startups shouldn't be using it. If you buy a database - and realistically most Postgres users do anyway as they're paying for a cloud managed db - then you might as well just buy a commercial DB with an integrated queue engine. I have a financial COI because I have a part time job there in the research division (on non-DB stuff), so keep that in mind, but they should just migrate to an Oracle Database. It has a queue engine called TxEQ which is implemented on top of database tables with some C code for efficient blocking polls. It scales horizontally by just adding database nodes whilst retaining ACID transactions, and you can get hosted versions of them in all the major clouds. I'm using it in a project at the moment and it's been working well. In particular the ability to dequeue a message into the same transaction that does other database writes is very useful, as is the exposed lock manager.

Beyond scaling horizontally the nice thing about TxEQ/AQ is that it's a full message queue broker with all the normal features you'd expect. Delayed messages, exception queues, queue browsing, multi-consumer etc. LISTEN/NOTIFY is barely a queue at all, really.

For startups like this, the amount of time, money and morale they are losing with all these constant stories of firefights just doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't have to be Oracle, there are other DBs that can do this too. But "We discovered X about Postgres" is a eng blog cliché by this point. You're paying $$$ to a cloud and GPU vendor anyway, just buy a database and get back to work!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074506
by pyman | 2025-07-11 08:37:00+00:00
That's your opinion, and I respect it. But let's look at the facts:

- He sued Apple and Google for monopolistic behaviour. He's been fighting for fair access and better deals for all developers, not just Epic Games Store.

- His fight's not about open source or open platforms, it's about fair access, lower fees, and giving developers more control.

- He speaks for millions of independent computer scientists who build games.

- He purchased 7,000-acre Box Creek Wilderness (about US$15 million), fought off a power company's attempt to run lines through it, and donated a conservation easement in 2016 so the land stays wild.

- He's actually walking the talk. While other billionaires post about saving the planet, he's out there buying forests to protect them.
by jjcob | 2025-07-11 08:37:05+00:00
I think at this point we should change the law so that Gatekeepers aren't just required to enable competition, but are somehow forced to actually support competition.

I'm not sure how we could enforce that, but maybe the law could stipulate that a certain minimum percentage of users must use 3rd party app stores, or use web apps. They should pay a fine if less than say 5% of apps are distributed outside the app store, or if less than 5% of people use a 3rd party browser engine.
by psc007 | 2025-07-11 08:37:10+00:00
It is open source! Check out to GitHub and discord to contribute!

https://github.com/openfrontio/openfrontio

It is heavily inspired by territorial.io .

One of the contributing devs made an open source version: warfront.io, which openfront is forked from and then heavily developed.

Warfront did not have any multiplayer so Evan, the creator of openfront, made it multiplayer and together with contributors made lots of new features.

Recently there has been some new activity on the warfront repo. Warfront added webgl rendering, and hopefully Openfront will have be inspired. Openfront does not work nicely on mobile and low end devices currently.