MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-07-14 16:09:35+00:00
Definitely very fun...

But I think thats less generally applicable. There is alot of the online art community and market that is really circular; people who like art do art and buy/commission art from others they follow and know.

That market will likley never disappear even if AI fully surpass humans; because the specific humans were the point all along.

But I think my previous comment applies more broadly beyond that community.
by jfengel | 2025-07-14 16:09:37+00:00
I'm not sure I understand that.

In Russia and China, the scientists at least claim to be pro-government. In the US, the left wing is against the current government.

Are you saying that there are a lot of right-wing scientists, but that they're afraid of the government? That wouldn't make sense.

Maybe a lot of right-wing scientists exist but don't wish to speak out for some other reason, but it's certainly not the government.
by Leherenn | 2025-07-14 16:10:19+00:00
Keeping it in memory. After a few days, the memory usage reported by the Activity Monitor (so not the actual resident memory, but the one customers see and complain about) grows from maybe a few 10s MB to a few hundreds MBs.

But as far as I can tell, it's more an OS issue than really a Sqlite issue, simply doing malloc/free in a loop results in a similar behaviour. And Sqlite does a lot of allocations. We see a similar problem on Windows, but not as pronounced, and there we can force the OS to reclaim memory.

It's probably solvable by using a custom allocator, but at this point it's no longer plug and play the way the GP meant.
by BunsanSpace | 2025-07-14 16:10:53+00:00
> MacOS has it's rough-edges, but it has become a pleasure to code on

Except when Apple deprecates APIs but the replacement doesn't have close to the same functionality (looking at you screen capture kit).

Or when the documentation just doesn't explain anything and you have to reverse engineer the API to figure out what it does.

or how there's a bunch of hidden APIs only certain vendors are told about so you can't even compete on an even playing field.

And don't get me started on the C, C++, ObjectiveC and now Swift monstrosities. Having fun with your legacy project when the new APIs require swift, so you have to use the objectiveC bridge and the weird bugs that comes with it.
by simonw | 2025-07-14 16:10:56+00:00
Yeah, the template language was strongly influenced by NOT wanting to allow arbitrary logic like PHP does. I was already a fan of Smarty - https://www.smarty.net/ - which did a great job of separating out presentation logic in PHP.

I've been using Jinja for my own projects for a few years because I wanted more expressive Python code in my templates! I think we didn't quite get the balance right for that in Django.
by kevmo314 | 2025-07-14 16:11:58+00:00
You've missed the point of the article, which in fact agrees with your anecdote.

> It's equally common for developers to work in environments where little value is placed on understanding systems, but a lot of value is placed on quickly delivering changes that mostly work. In this context, I think that AI tools have more of an advantage. They can ingest the unfamiliar codebase faster than any human can, and can often generate changes that will essentially work.
by Eisenstein | 2025-07-14 16:12:10+00:00
Labor is absolutely the bottleneck. You can come up with as many billion dollar ideas as you like, but without people to pay for them, where does the income come from? Economies grown because money flows, it gets invested, and that investment creates income, which goes to the workers and owners, and gets spent again. With fewer people, it doesn't matter how rich some of them get, the entire economy will slow down, because there is nowhere to productively spend that money in that economy -- it flows out.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-14 16:12:26+00:00
No, what prompted me to say you don't understand LVT was the suggestion there needs to be some determination of what the "highest use" is.

Yes, if you hold land in a place where a lot of people around you (and/or the state) is investing in economic development, your carrying cost will increase and the ultimate goal is for you not to be able to extract uncapped gains from the appreciation that people around you are generating.

> you will raise taxes on their now-high value urban SFH because they aren't producing anything (aka "fully utilized")

This is the type of statement that makes me suspect again you do not understand LVT. You don't raise taxes because they aren't producing anything. The tax goes up as the value of the land goes up as already occurs with property taxes. The only difference is that if you decide to build a second house on your property, your taxes would not go up under LVT, whereas under the current property tax regime, it would go up dramatically. This has the net effect of incentivizing people to fully utilize their land, but does not require any determination of their utilization nor does it "raise taxes" on them for failing to utilize.

> like you said, it's a neutral shift. if the cost of the property goes down because of a higher tax, then it's a neutral shift

This is not what's described by "neutral." It's neutral because right now your property tax is already both an LVT and a tax on the improvements. LVT would increase the LVT component and decrease the improvement component.

If the introduction of LVT reduces the value of a property, then it would accordingly reduce the carrying cost of that property. Your two variables are mutually exclusive under a revenue-neutral scheme.
by thisislife2 | 2025-07-14 16:12:52+00:00
Check out Organic Maps - https://organicmaps.app/ - it runs on OpenStreetMaps, is privacy focused (no data collection, no ads, no tracking), is open source, runs offline, is multi-platform and even supports old ios versions (which none of the other popular Maps app do).

(Old HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347447 )
by horsawlarway | 2025-07-14 16:13:18+00:00
Just anecdotally - I think your reason for disagreeing is a valid statement, but not a valid counterpoint to the argument being made.

So

> Reason: you cannot evaluate the work accurately if you have no mental model. If there's a bug given the systems unwritten assumptions you may not catch it.

This is completely correct. It's a very fair statement. The problem is that a developer coming into a large legacy project is in this spot regardless of the existence of AI.

I've found that asking AI tools to generate a changeset in this case is actually a pretty solid way of starting to learn the mental model.

I want to see where it tries to make changes, what files it wants to touch, what libraries and patterns it uses, etc.

It's a poor man's proxy for having a subject matter expert in the code give you pointers. But it doesn't take anyone else's time, and as long as you're not just trying to dump output into a PR can actually be a pretty good resource.

The key is not letting it dump out a lot of code, in favor of directional signaling.

ex: Prompts like "Which files should I edit to implement a feature which does [detailed description of feature]?" Or "Where is [specific functionality] implemented in this codebase?" Have been real timesavers for me.

The actual code generation has probably been a net time loss.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-14 16:13:19+00:00
That this is generally a problem, and was established as such before software development existed (the big thing people usually point to is a RAND corp from the 1940s) and is the whole motivation for Wideband Delphi estimation methods invented shortly afterwards (of which agile "planning poker" is simply a particular more recent realization) for forward estimation, and why lean methods center on using a plan-do-check-act cycle for process improvements rather than seat of the pants and subjective feel.

But despite the popularity of some of this (planning poker, particularly; PDCA for process improvements is sadly less popular) as ritual, those elements have become part of a cargo cult where almost no one remembers why we do it.
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-14 16:13:29+00:00
13.6 kWh battery. 39mile EPA range. Equals 2.87 miles of range per kWh. Leaving it out for 8 hours straight, on a sunny day, in LA, netted 915 Wh. Or, 2.86 miles. [0] Not 3-6, 2.86.

2.86 miles of charge, but only if left outside, uncovered, in full sun, on a fully sunny day, for a full 8 hours, in a place that gets effectively the maximum amount of solar radiation per day out of anywhere in the entire country.

Now, do the same experiment anywhere else in the country, that doesn't get max solar radiation, or that can't get full sunlight for full 8 hours, or where it's cloudy at all, or rainy at all.

2.86 miles per day is the practical MAXIMUM, given perfect conditions. For the average scenario it'd be some fraction of that.

The 6 miles figure is what they said you'd get if, in addition to perfect conditions, "if the sun shifted its orbit" (?) and gave perfect sunlight for 12 hours straight. Which is a number which should obviously not be thrown around as if it's obtainable.

The fact that they're quoting numbers about what range you'd get if the solar system was constructed differently also makes me doubt the impartiality of their experiment and the numbers they provided.

[0] https://www.motortrend.com/features/the-2023-toyota-prius-pr...
by Leherenn | 2025-07-14 16:13:47+00:00
I think we might be using it in a slightly unusual way: collect data for a while, do one big query once in a while to aggregate/transform the data and clean everything. Rinse and repeat as it's a background app.

So lots of allocations/deallocations. If you're only storing a few key/value pairs long term, you won't have any issues.
by jimkleiber | 2025-07-14 16:14:13+00:00
i think a decades-long aggressive effort to dismantle the US government might also be from such a place of fear of knowledge or at least, fear of others having control over their right to make profit. I guess I'm just tired of us celebrating the ones who appear strong but really are just acting out of deep fear and wish they (and us) had the courage to see it as fear and express it as such.
by singlow | 2025-07-14 16:14:38+00:00
I was here about a year ago. Getting close to doing 5k 4 times a week, but the last 2k are more walk than run. I'm definitely more interested in getting endurance over speed, but both improve pretty steadily at this point. I guess once I'm doing 5k without walking I'll try to just increase pace. Pretty amazing how much better my quality of life is since exercising seriously for the first time in my late 40s.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 16:14:40+00:00
Kiro is created by an AWS team, and originates from AWS expertise. We are using Kiro internally as one of our recommended tools for development within AWS (and Amazon). So Kiro is an official AWS product, however, we are also keeping it slightly separated from the rest of core AWS.

For example, you can use Kiro without having any AWS account at all. Kiro has social login through Google and GitHub. Basically, Kiro is backed by AWS, but is it's own standalone product, and we hope to see it grow and appeal to a broader audience than just AWS customers.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-14 16:14:46+00:00
> when sodium ion production ramps up in the US and EU

The Ultium announcement isn't Li-S related but but number of battery plant announcements over the past 5 years in the US (as well as Japan) have been plants that can support both LFP and Li-S battery manufacturing.

Japanese, Korean, and American automotive and battery vendors have been aligned on this from a capital and IP perspective for a LONG time.
Show HN: NicheTrafficKit – a multi-platform traffic tool for Google-hit websites
by dod25 | 2025-07-14 16:14:48+00:00
If you’ve ever run a niche site, you probably know the pain of relying too heavily on Google — especially after yet another core update wipes out your traffic overnight.

I’ve been there too. After losing 3 niche sites to Google updates, I nearly gave up on content sites entirely. Instead, I built something I wish I had from the start: https://nichetraffickit.com

NicheTrafficKit is an AI-powered tool that helps niche site owners reduce their dependency on Google by generating and scheduling content for other high-traffic platforms — namely Pinterest, Facebook, and even Google’s own content surfaces (like Web Stories and News).

Key Features:

1. Pinterest Tool

- Generate SEO-optimized blog articles (with images) in any niche and auto-publish to WordPress

- Create and schedule high-quality pins from any blog post

- Research Pinterest keywords for smarter content planning

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- Generate post types like memes, quotes, facts, jokes, or riddles

- Create engagement-driven status updates (debates, questions, etc.)

- Ideal for building viral-style Facebook pages for niche monetization

3. Google Tool

- Research long-tail keywords with commercial intent

- Write optimized articles and submit URLs for indexing

- Useful for those still pursuing Google traffic, but in a more strategic way

There’s also a growing library of free utilities under each platform.

This started as a personal project, but after sharing it with a few other site owners and getting great feedback, I decided to open it up to more users. It’s still evolving, and I’d love your thoughts on the product, positioning, or anything else.

Thanks for reading!
by ch4s3 | 2025-07-14 16:15:04+00:00
The cool thing about running and lifting weights is that you see a lot of progress early on. The path to a sub 30 minute 5k is all about getting out the door and consistently running a little more. Pretty much everyone who starts weight lifting has a moment a few months in where they go to lift a random household object and are shocked by how light it feels.
by olejorgenb | 2025-07-14 16:15:06+00:00
I wonder the same.

My laptop now is a Dell Precision and I hate it. It is Ubuntu certified and yet suspend and the Webcam is broken. It's a work laptop which I don't use much, but I'm considering getting a new private laptop, and it's very disconcerting that even a "certified" laptop have issues with Linux..

All I want is decent battery, hardware which work, medium sized with ideally high resolution screen.
by RamblingCTO | 2025-07-14 16:15:07+00:00
I don't get your first paragraph, sorry.

But I disagree with your sentiment that the EU is going too far. Look at how healthy and happy the US is and how happy and healthy we are. The market, corporations and the economy are there to serve us, not to dominate us. Their existence is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Consumer and environmental protection are not a luxury, it's essential.

And surely, tariffs and trade wars have nothing to do with anything, right? It's just this damn overregulation and nothing else!!111
by nlarew | 2025-07-14 16:15:44+00:00
If you have the time I recommend working on distance first. Running farther is great for fat loss & cardio training and speed only really matters if you're trying to be competitive in races or have to squeeze your run into a confined time slot.

I also find that adding distance makes it easier to improve time. If I can only run 1 mile, it's pretty hard to run that same mile but faster. BUT if I can run 3 miles, it's a bit easier to run 1/3 of my normal distance but focusing on pushing the pace.
by zamadatix | 2025-07-14 16:15:58+00:00
I think it's more an example of a "why did I just cd ls cd ls cd ls that directory tree instead of leveraging tab completion" type thing than "man, I gotta get over my ls addiction or I won't be able to provide for my family".

I've found myself doing similar hints to nudge more efficient-but-less-exercised things into my day to day usage. E.g. making /etc/crontab a comment to get more used to creating systemd timers instead. Otherwise I'd just do it without thinking.
by htrp | 2025-07-14 16:16:05+00:00
All over 250 CAD

>Novo Nordisk’s lawyers requested a refund for the paid 2017 maintenance fee of $250 Canadian dollars ($185) because the company wanted more time to see if it wanted to pay it, according to letters included in the documents.

>Two years later, the office sent a letter saying the fee, which now included a late charge bringing the total to CA$450, was not received by the prescribed due date.

>Novo Nordisk had a one-year grace period to pay, but never did, and so its patent lapsed in Canada. It lapsed in 2020 when the fee was not received, but it doesn’t expire until January.
by sshine | 2025-07-14 16:16:12+00:00
putty.org has been owned by the same person for 25 years, and has functioned as an unofficial download page forwarder since at least 20 years ago.

He's forwarding to Simon Tatham's page and always have; he's not providing mirrored executables.

The domain owner knows what people are coming for, and has forwarded to the right page for more than two decades.

I see that it may be a cause for concern because of our consciousness about software supply chains we have today.

But the domain owner of putty.org provides his own unorthodox but reliable service to the online community.

On the other hand, putty.net is just for sale. Which application is more moral here?
by markstos | 2025-07-14 16:16:16+00:00
I had a similar experience with AI and open source. AI allowed me to implement features in a language and stack I didn't know well. I had wanted these features for months and no one else was volunteering to implement them. I had tried to study the stack directly myself, but found the total picture to be complex and under-documented for people getting started.

Using Warp terminal (which used Claude) I was get past those barriers and achieve results that weren't happening at all before.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-14 16:16:18+00:00
>Labor is absolutely the bottleneck.

Question: Europe has had an open door migration policy since at least 2015 and taken millions of migrants, especially Italy and Greece. Why haven't all those migrants turned EU's or Italy or Greece's economies into a powerhouse and built US big-tech competitors here? Same question for Canada. When is that magic economic growth from population growth coming?

Answer: Because US invests more money in high growth sectors than EU and Canada combined, and because people aren't fungible cogs in a machine, that you can swap in and out and get the same economic output it's agrarian labor. Attracting the handful of the smartest people in the world with money and resources like the US did, is more important and ads more value to their economy than attracting millions of desperate unskilled laborers like EU and Canada did.

>but without people to pay for them

Yes, people to pay for them, as in billionaire VCs pay for them, not millions of poor uneducated people, those can't even pay their rent without government support let alone boost economy. They aren't gonna boost anything except Amazon fulfillment center and Door dash delivery rates.

So NO, I don't agree with you at all. EU has enough local skilled college educated people since university is free here, but it has no VC money to amplify their labor into economic output as proven how many EU's top minds choose to work for US companies. Adding even more random people to a stagnating economy just means lower wages and bargaining power with higher rents, not more wealth growth per capita. Your comment does not disprove any of this.
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-14 16:16:29+00:00
> This is just M2 expansion and wealth concentration.

I just want to point that there's no scientific law that says those two must move together.

A government very often needs to print money, and it's important to keep in mind that there's no physical requirement that this money immediately must go to rich people. A government can decide to send it to poor people exactly just as easily as to rich. All the laws forbidding that are of the legal kind.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-14 16:16:47+00:00
A reminder that Donald Trump attempted to overthrow the US government after losing an election by rallying his supporters to the capital where they broke into an active session of Congress, attacking police officers and chanting that they would hang Mike Pence, his VP.

Donald Trump also coordinated to reduce the presence of law enforcement at the capital, proving premeditation. Mike Pence plain-face admitted that he had to refuse to comply with his Secret Service agent, who was attempting to prevent him from overseeing the certification of the election results.

And after everything, Donald Trump pardoned these people for this attempted insurrection.

He suffered zero reprecussions and now has full control of his party and the government and 4/9 of SCOTUS as lifetime appointments, who have decreed he is effectively immune from prosecution.

He is untouchable and we are utterly fucked. The US is a corpse of itself now, we're just waiting for the rot to set in.
by gr8beehive | 2025-07-14 16:17:10+00:00
Yeah it’s Soylent green all the way down; just people hiding behind allowed legal obfuscation.

Physics is inviolable. Human tech will never succeed in the fancy things we imagine. No evidence it allows such things naturally. We’ll conjure a bunch of artistic representations, but never harness enough energy to break things.

Hunter gathering is a bit far back. Since none of the geniuses can guarantee 100 generations from now will still care about rockets to Mars, listening to them today about the far future is asinine.

Keep enough food and hardware stores around and give people time back.

I’m anti story mode and that means Sam Altman’s or some notion of future human greatness. Fellow US readers; yeah that’s right I don’t care you exist. You keep me off the hook for your healthcare, good luck. Why would I care when you keep yourself off the hook for my healthcare? Fuck you.

I’m fucking sick of Americans clearly being low skilled useless to themselves exploiters of others for zero in return but a made up story. In all my study of physical science I never come across evidence any of this wanky web tech is a fundamental force. Occam’s razor applied, it’s all just the hallucinations of arbitrary meat people.
by jschveibinz | 2025-07-14 16:17:20+00:00
There are probably some extremely unhappy VC's, angels and employees over at Windsurf right about now.

Windsurf's Funding Rounds

Windsurf has raised a total of $243M over 2 funding rounds. One was Series C round of $150M from Investors like General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkins and the other was Series B round of $65M from Investors like Kleiner Perkins and General Catalyst. Here is the list of all funding rounds of Windsurf: Round Details Series C, $150M, Aug 29, 2024 Post money valuation - Revenue multiple - Investors General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks Round Details Series B, $65M, Jan 30, 2024 Post money valuation - Revenue multiple - Investors Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, Greenoaks
by baq | 2025-07-14 16:17:22+00:00
> MacOS has it's rough-edges, but it has become a pleasure to code on.

I don’t know what kind of projects are you working on, but it couldn’t be further from truth for me. WSL2 is so much better than docker on macOS it isn’t even funny. (Haven’t tried orbstack, heard good things; though fundamentally the problem of developing for linux on not-Linux can only be solved by actually running Linux.)
by danso | 2025-07-14 16:17:46+00:00
Try reading to the end of the paragraph.

> The OPD didn’t share information directly with the federal agencies. Rather, other California police departments searched Oakland’s system on behalf of federal counterparts more than 200 times — providing reasons such as “FBI investigation” for the searches — which appears to mirror a strategy first reported by 404 Media, in which federal agencies that don’t have contracts with Flock turn to local police for backdoor access.