MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dazzler5648 | 2025-07-04 04:52:47+00:00
Last night, only hours before he died, I chose to watch Thelma and Louise. I was really struck by his character this time around, particularly in the diner and motel scenes. He absolutely nailed a male archetype I’m familiar with as a woman: the un-self-aware douche, and he managed it with Susan Sarandon staring at him. Chef's kiss and RIP you gorgeous thing.
by dasil003 | 2025-07-04 04:52:54+00:00
What? No, caching means a specific thing: keeping a copy of data away from the source of truth, closer to where you want to read it. Caching always makes systems more complex, it never makes things simpler, and it damn sure doesn't serve as any kind of abstraction unless you're redefining what words mean to indulge your technical philosophizing.
by Thorrez | 2025-07-04 04:53:19+00:00
So can electricity.

The difference is that the tool "cheating daddy" was specifically created for the purpose of cheating. Electricity, the Internet, and Google were not created for that purpose.

Cheating daddy's tagline is "If you're gonna cheat, cheat better".

Not that I'm in any way defending Cluely/Glass. Cluely's X bio is "cheat (noun) – an advantage so good it's unfair; rewrites the balance between effort and outcome."

Disclosure: I work at Google by my thoughts are my own.
by seydor | 2025-07-04 04:54:54+00:00
Software didn't "change". It's mostly linkedin social signaling that dragged everyone to use the same tools as the "successful bros". Cargo culting technologists are everywhere today, from the newbie who can git but can't write 10 bug free lines of code, to the HR person uploading his daily breakfast to github because he s "a techie". Software is like fashion nowadays , built for mass appeal to twitter and teamblind.com users. The craftsmen, fewer-and-fewer every year don't even tell you what tools they use.
by lukax | 2025-07-04 04:55:07+00:00
Soniox also supports real-time speech-to-text translation with 60 languages. You can hook that to a TTS and you have Speech-to-Speech translation. That failed Google I/O real-time translation demo? With Soniox it just works.

You can try it out here (select translation instead of transcription) https://soniox.com/

Disclaimer: I work at Soniox.
Show HN: I built sinkedin – a LinkedIn but for flauting failures and screwups
by preetsojitra | 2025-07-04 04:57:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I saw joke online about wanting a version of Linkedin for failures. I thought it was a great idea, so I decided to build a simple version of it.

Sinkedin is a place to post (anonymously) stories about job rejections, interview screw-ups and other carrer failures.

Website: https://www.sinkedin.app/ Github: https://github.com/Preet-Sojitra/sinkedin

I am not a designer, so the UI is very minimalistic. If it triggers your OCD, PRs are very welcome.

The entire stack is running on free tiers, so please expect some latency if it gets any traffic. I wanted to ship it fast and see if the idea has legs before spending money.

Happy to answer any questions.
by lmm | 2025-07-04 04:57:23+00:00
> This significantly improved the issue of things working only in certain environments, because each environment was actually running exactly the same way.

It doesn't though, because it's still just running some random unmanaged commands. If you download a Dockerfile that's a couple of years old and hasn't been maintained, it probably won't work. If you download the built image then it might work for a bit longer, but you won't be able to make any changes to it, and it will still break sooner or later due to e.g. certificate expiry, or being built for the wrong CPU architecture.

> Then came k8s, which tried to solve the issue of deploying across clusters of machines, PaaS. That's not a trivial problem to solve, and consequently is still hard, even with it. But if you need to deploy countless services across hundreds of nodes... It's ultimately a great tool.

Declarative deployment definitely has a lot of value. But k8s shoots itself in the foot by being Docker based, even as the world gradually moves onto better models (language-specific serverless deployments).
by bdcravens | 2025-07-04 04:57:33+00:00
I used to spend way too much time, and money, playing the mobile game Tap Sports Baseball. A fairly simple take on a baseball simulator, but with an insanely set of team/club competitiveness and upgrade mechanics. After EA bought the company that owned it, it literally lasted a year before they decided to end it, as its tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year apparently didn't meet their goals.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-04 04:58:58+00:00
> once we've established that client-side grain makes sense, what are you going to do about people having preferences?

I already normalize audio (modern US produced media is often atrocious), modify gamma and brightness, and probably some other stuff. Oh and it's not as though I'm viewing on a color calibrated monitor in the first place.

The purists can purchase lossless physical copies. The rest of us would benefit from such improvements.
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by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-04 05:00:29+00:00
It should be made a crime to mention CO2 sequestration when sane avenues (short of geoengineering) like large scale (night activated) radiatively-cooled floating solar panels, or roads are more likely to help (& even be profitable)

However.. climate change is a chiefly a political problem, not a tech problem.
by saurik | 2025-07-04 05:03:38+00:00
I might be missing it, but, after going through that entire page, the only things I am seeing that are relevant are the following four sentences, and none of them provide a rationale?

> Currently the Debian armhf port requires at least an Armv7 CPU with Thumb-2 and VFP3D16.

> It might make sense for such a new port -- which would essentially target newer hardware -- to target newer CPUs. For instance, it could target Armv6 or Armv7 SoCs, and VFPv2, VFPv3-D16 or NEON.

> In practice armel will be used for older CPUs (armv4t, armv5, armv6), and armhf for newer CPUs (armv7+VFP).

> Some concern for fast-enough, pretty awesome (600MHz+) Armv6 + VFPv2 processors here - i.MX37 etc. - which will not be supported by armhf default flavour, but.. we will have to live with that
by joegibbs | 2025-07-04 05:03:38+00:00
I think the thing a lot of people don't realise when trying to make the next runaway hit game is that most of the games they're trying to emulate weren't produced with that intent, and didn't get their popularity with a running start as some massive AAA behemoth.

Fortnite itself was originally a base-building PVE zombie game that Epic cranked out a battle royale mode for in a couple of months after seeing that PUBG (which at the time was a janky, unpolished and presumably cheap-to-develop standalone version of an ARMA mod) was a huge success. Then after it's out, Epic restructures behind it as a cash cow, makes it into a modding platform, uses it to improve Unreal Engine, etc.

Minecraft was a little solo project in Java - now 350m copies sold. It didn't start off as a platform for other games, available on every console with cutting edge graphics and $100m in marketing spend behind it.

Ark sold 80 million copies. It was an Early Access game on Steam by a team of 35, then it took off and they ported it to everything.

Battle Royale's been done and been a huge hit for PUBG (2017), then Fortnite, then Warzone. I think it's about time that people would be getting sick of it, same as open world survival crafting games were the big thing (Minecraft, DayZ, Ark) and MMOs. Next Battlefield is $400m, all those other big hits were probably more in the $100k-$1m range. Maybe it would be better to make a bunch of $1m-$10m range games, see which one is a hit, then move resources behind it. I imagine changing the structure of a big business like EA to be able to make a move like that would be a very, very difficult undertaking though.
by youruncle509 | 2025-07-04 05:03:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a regular user who was banned from Telegram without any warning, explanation, or appeal process.

Instead of staying silent, I wrote this open letter to Pavel Durov. It explains what’s wrong with Telegram’s current moderation and support systems, and includes realistic solutions to improve them — even though I’m not a developer, just someone who was affected.

Full letter: https://write.as/a3dkn1mejjppc.md

This isn’t about revenge — it’s about building a platform that treats users fairly.

Would love your thoughts or any help spreading the message. Thank you!
by kragen | 2025-07-04 05:04:04+00:00
This is not correct.

Your reasoning would be correct if carbon sequestration involved reducing carbon dioxide back to elemental carbon, or hydrocarbons, or whatever form you burned it in. In fact, though, almost all proposed methods for carbon sequestration sequester the carbon dioxide, not just the carbon. Consequently, point-source carbon capture uses only a fraction of the energy released by burning the fuel.

It's a significant fraction, though, and atmospheric carbon capture uses more energy because it has to extract the carbon dioxide from air, which is 99.96% things that are not carbon dioxide. As I understand it, the energy dissipation thermodynamically required by that separation is quite small, but getting anywhere close to that thermodynamic limit is going to be a large engineering effort.
by karel-3d | 2025-07-04 05:04:26+00:00
We had a guy like that... the thing is you cannot really pass any responsibility on him because he will eventually be distracted with other stuff. You will never know when you have him 100%. You don't want to keep checking on your employees week by week day by day, if they deliver.

You need some degree of trust in your employees (you cannot "verify" all the time), and you cannot trust some guy you KNOW is cheating on you.
by lucyjojo | 2025-07-04 05:04:39+00:00
there is a relatively simple way to somewhat deal with AI in a sensible way.

stop using evaluations as filters. sharing marks or even reporting them.

simply give marks to the students for self-evaluations.

That until they can make something of real value towards the later years. And evaluate that. It could be of the form of they want, they could use AI at will for that, but it would be presented in person in front of a panel. You could even have a few of these walls but all of them should be toward the end, where AI does not trivialize the task.

Let students repeat if they want, pass if they want, go back a grade if they want, even skip a grade if they want. You will have to make them aware that there will be huge walls at the end though.

That would be my naive approach to that. Until something better gets established.
by alganet | 2025-07-04 05:05:10+00:00
This polyglot that work across many interpreters from within a single source, and create no temporary files:

https://gist.github.com/alganet/2c1c004d0580e8d92cc1c167fa4f...

It's quite small, simple and has no dependencies (mshta and zenity are just example calls).

There's a larger version that can do even more interpreters and even launch its own webview:

https://gist.github.com/alganet/9eec864a2caa44ef1f9ca2e188b8...

--

These are recreational in nature. Crafting a source code that runs in many interpreters and does something meaningful is a fun brain tease.
by danielpkl | 2025-07-04 05:06:12+00:00
Hi everyone, this is Daniel from the Pickle team. Glass is a new open source project from us that we plan to build on and improve. We built several original features for it like live summaries, real-time STT Transcript and one-click "Ask" from summary that we're very excited about. However in initially building it we included code from a GPL-licensed project that we incorrectly attributed as Apache. This was incorrect and sloppy work on our end. We made a quick fix and are working right now to do a proper fix that addresses the issues fully and cleanly. We are sorry to the original author of the project, Soham (CheatingDaddy), and thank him for pointing this out. We are also sorry to the open source community for messing up here. Thanks everyone for caring about this.
by kkfx | 2025-07-04 05:07:00+00:00
The cloud is someone else computer and the deploy solution alternatives are declarative systems like NixOS or Guix, finally adopted by a large community instead of wasting resources and enlarging attack surfaces by using container tech in general.

The underneath core problem is that OSes are not a single user-programmable application where any "program" is just a set of functions like original Smalltalk workstations or LispM. They are hard to evolve, but much quicker to experiment and gives ground for much quick innovation instead of wasting resources with giant boilerplate code and walled gardens.

Another underneath core problem is hardware where vendors in 2025 still do not care about light-out management on anything. These days an IP-KVM should and must be built-in in any computer.
by herf | 2025-07-04 05:07:22+00:00
Agree, I really prefer luminance noise when simulating film grain rather than treating RGB so independently - the RGB here looks wrong to me. If you are thinking about film, you wouldn't model it as pure photon/detector noise, because film has some crystalline structure and usually there is some correlation between the channels. (Some of the best grain is on B&W films though, which have wonderful structure and statistics.)
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-04 05:10:37+00:00
A one-liner script for shell output redirection that inserts instead of appends

Typically

cat file2 >> file1

If want to place file2 at the top of file1 instead of the bottom

cat file2 file1 > file3 mv file3 file1

Too much typing, margin for error

The script is called "ins"

ins file1 < file2

Can also use line number

ins file1 25 < file2

Inserts file2 at line 25 of file1

One of the most useful scripts I have ever written

Only uses sed or ed
by rawgabbit | 2025-07-04 05:10:49+00:00
I solved my email problem in a few ways. First I make my email subject line detailed so I can easily find it again when searching.

Second, I treat my emails as disposable. If something is really important I save the email as a PDF to Google Drive and/or OneDrive. Both can search the contents of a PDF. I also avoid attaching files but send links to the files. OneDrive fixed their links and now it is on par with Google.

Lastly I make use of functions like Gmail Snooze so the email reappears when I need to perform a task.
by _g0wg | 2025-07-04 05:11:04+00:00
[url-redacted]

I have a lot of (legally acquired) shows and movies. I like making playlists with many shows that fit a theme (e.g. a cozy sitcoms playlist with MASH, Sanford and Son, Seinfeld, etc.). Some playlists have over 5000 episodes. I calculated one and it was almost a year of playtime if I only let it play while I'm sleeping (my primary use-case).

I want to shuffle the shows I'm watching, but I can't stand standard shuffling in VLC because it puts, for example, S8E4 before S1E1. Total loss of plot. So I wrote a shuffler that shuffles shows but keeps the episodes in order.

It deploys symlinks numbered 0-n, as well as an index of what episode each number corresponds to. Then I just slap the whole folder in VLC and let it play until I get bored of that theme.

I just make a copy of the script for each playlist and put it in the playlist folder. It has to be run as administrator on Windows, which is unfortunately where it's run at the moment because my gaming PC is also my TV for now, although I did just migrate everything to a Debian NFS server so I'll need to address that probably.
by nativeit | 2025-07-04 05:11:42+00:00
Lower violent crime rates, lower property crime rates, lower drug addiction rates, lower homeless rates, literally any kind of standard mental healthcare, better retirement facilities, subsidized childcare, subsidized geriatric care, less expensive medication, fewer guns, more EV infrastructure, literally any kind of broadly complete passenger rail network, even partially functional immigration systems, better K-12 education outcomes, lower housing costs, more progressive tax systems, and last (for this list) but absolutely not the least for this context: even a vague whiff of the sort of dynamism that made the Bay Area such an exciting place to live in the 1970s-90s, that has since been eroded into a self-satirizing caricature of itself, currently grappling with the loss of 0% interest rates by reverting to creative accounting, layoffs, rent-seeking from users and customers, shameless AI feature-bloat, and increasingly astounding levels of brazen monopolizing, corruption, and fraud.

Why, indeed?
by defrost | 2025-07-04 05:11:46+00:00
LEGALLY:

the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Trump v. United States (2024) that all presidents have absolute criminal immunity for official acts under core constitutional powers, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_immunity_in_the_U...

PRACTICALLY:

the current and former POTUS has demonstrated he can ignore laws and that either no one will attempt to bell the cat or, if attempted, succeed in any meaningful way.
by bdcravens | 2025-07-04 05:12:52+00:00
> the dumbest American to ever live: Donald J Trump

While like many, I can't stand him, I'm not sure if that's an accurate statement. He (or his handlers) have done an amazing job of leveraging the anger and fear of tens of millions. He's built a "tribe" that those pitching all those podcasts and courses a few years ago could only dream about.
by diegof79 | 2025-07-04 05:13:05+00:00
What I'm saying is that "mere fashion" is not something minor.

If you consider the model proposed by Donald Norman in Emotional Design, the experience occurs on three levels: visceral, behavioral, and reflective.

The behavioral level is crucial. I'm not minimizing its importance. But all three levels contribute to the user experience.

Companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft redesign their UI because they want to maintain the perception that their products are modern, which justifies their UI updates.

> UI overhauls need a more substantial justification than mere fashion.

In the evolution of most UIs, many of the UI changes were driven by "fashion".

Most differences in behavior between Windows 3.1 and Windows 11 could have been achieved using the same visual elements of Windows 3.1. For example, Windows 95 moved the "Close" button outside the window control menu to make it easier to click; however, the same change could have been made while keeping the style of Windows 3.1. The switch from the "Program Manager" to the "Start" menu and taskbar could have been implemented with the Windows 3.1 style, without modifying its behavior.

When Apple launched OSX, its core was based on NeXT Step, and the goal was to replace Mac OS 9. They could have chosen to keep the Mac OS 9 style (which they initially did in the beta versions) to avoid disrupting the experience for existing users. The shift to Aqua was a fashion statement, conveying not only that Apple was modern but also highlighting the integration of their hardware and software, as the Aqua style matched the design of the iMac at the time.

I agree with you that disrupting the behavior and usability is not good. Many "fashion" changes could be incremental, allowing users to choose whether to retain their old version. But, you like it or not, the "visceral" perception in the user experience plays an important role.
by graeme | 2025-07-04 05:13:32+00:00
Ah, thanks, you're right. Though I was thinking mainly of direct air capture. Point source is great, but not actually net sequestration.

Need to look into this a bit more, but what would you say the theoretical efficiency is, could we reach a point where you can actually burn fossil fuel to net extract CO2 via direct air capture or another sequestration method that can be scaled?
by recursivecaveat | 2025-07-04 05:13:53+00:00
Apparently Fortnite peaked at 110 million monthly players. So I think a Battlefield title reaching that level is simply unachievable. The series definitely has a considerably smaller potential audience, and I think its unlikely they'll be able to release on 3 consoles, pc, and mobile devices in their launch window to match the platform reach.

As you say, at some point you can't cram more $ into the product in a way that meaningfully affects the experience. Every area eventually experiences diminishing returns, especially within the framework of a realistic-ish multiplayer shooter. There is a kind of winner-takes-all effect to digital media, but this takes it too far.

It is kindof crazy how lethargic the big publishers are. For EA: 7 years after Hollow Knight to release a metroidvania, 9 years since Stardew Valley to release a new 'cozy' title, at this rate it will be 5 more years before we see their proximity chat game in response to Lethal Company. The trends are literally rendered passé by multiple waves of indie and A/AA games before they react. You'd think having a ton of money, and a giant pool of experienced developers, they could be fast-followers at least. Seems they are content to just push money into slow, giant 'summer blockbuster' type titles though.

Edit: Totally forgot, this is all about a battle-royale title, so assuming it releases next year: 9 years after Fortnite and 6 after the CoD equivalent.
by mindslight | 2025-07-04 05:16:45+00:00
> I have zero tolerance for people turning our high trust societies into low trust ones.

> It is my understanding democrats rely on the votes of many illegals to have the representation they have but is this really what this has come to? Import as many illegals as possible to "beat the republicans"?

Bruh. Your uncritical consumption and repetition of Faceboot nonsense is exactly what is turning our society into a low trust society. Is a shred of self-awareness too much to ask for?
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-04 05:18:01+00:00
Wow, talk about a completely loaded and dishonest definition of cause and effect. I personally think that the U.S should fund these programs for health overseas, but saying that it no longer funding some of them is killing 88 people per hour is completely off base. The diseases these programs addressed are what kills 88 people per hour, not some U.S policy. Since the U.S doesn't have a legal obligation to fund such programs, you claiming them as responsible is like saying that because you don't donate X money per month to some anti-malaria charity (for example), you're killing some group of children that would have had their malaria treated in those months by your specific donation.