MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdhb | 2025-07-17 17:52:18+00:00
This whole argument is just so disjointed I don’t know where to start other than to once again say that I very much understand that in your opinion things are going exactly as you think they should be but if you’re trying to make the argument that that is the same thing as the rules are written I would disagree.

But in this same post you’ve said:

1. HN needs to be interesting to the MAJORITY of users.

2. HN is not designed to serve MAJORITY opinion.

3. There is no MINORITY of people flagging stories for disingenuous reasons

4. There is however a MINORITY of people complaining about things being flagged despite repeated and almost daily evidence of the opposite happening.

You won’t even admit that there is a potential problem here that there exists a group of people who flag things entirely on ideological grounds with zero bearing on the rules as they are written.

I understand that you’re a moderator here and I’m not but I think you’re doing a bad job and being either dishonest or intentionally obtuse here. At no point did I ever get the impression there was even the slightest sense of curiosity from the moderation team no matter how many times it was mentioned. It’s always the same reply, things are going exactly as we want them to and you’re crazy to suggest otherwise.
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-07-17 17:52:19+00:00
"In fact", yes. But does Element still have an outsized influence over the foundation? Just last month the foundation posted a bit of a defensive blog about how "open source" they are to clear the air, but as far as I can tell, it appears that a majority of the foundation "Spec Core Team" are Element employees. I can't strongly back that up since the page that lists the members doesn't say who they're employed by, so I'm guessing based on what their linked GitHub profiles show.

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/dispelling-myths/
by vlovich123 | 2025-07-17 17:52:23+00:00
3D XPoint wasn't based on magnetic storage and was intentionally targeting a point between NVRAM and DRAM both in terms of price and performance.

BTW, I'm assuming you know but spinning disks are magnetic storage and even today are cheaper than flash memory on a unit cost basis. Generally there's a pretty clear tradeoff you make on all of these primarily around price vs performance (durability tends to be secondary until you get to tape storage).

> Actually I guess data retention when unpowered was one year or less but still, is that factor ultimately what led to its discontinuation?

I am unable to find any actual specific numbers for flash or XPoint. There's just a bunch of unsubstantiated rumors ranging from 3 months, to 1 year, to 5 years, to 10 years. The factors that led to discontinuation is the same as for any product - the market for it never materialized and the cost of continued investment wasn't worth it. Even if it was profitable (not sure), there is always still the opportunity cost of investing that money in a higher ROI venture. Of course, this is Intel who continually failed to sustain long-term payoffs and strategic investments.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-07-17 17:52:40+00:00
I agree this has been a problem for years and it's very frustrating.

The fix I found that works for me (at least if you're using Unified Push like ntfy) is to go into ntfy and delete all the Element subscriptions in there. Force close and reopen Element, which will automatically remake them.

That fixes the issue, at least for a long time. About once a year I need to redo the ritual.

Hopefully this helps you.
by Nezteb | 2025-07-17 17:53:05+00:00
Depending on the definition of "nicely", FWIW I currently run Ollama sever [1] + Qwen Coder models [2] with decent success compared to the big hosted models. Granted, I don't utilize most "agentic" features and still mostly use chat-based interactions.

The server is basically just my Windows gaming PC, and the client is my editor on a macOS laptop.

Most of this effort is so that I can prepare for the arrival of that mythical second half of 2026!

[1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/faq.md#how-d...

[2] https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen25-coder-66eaa22...
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-17 17:53:07+00:00
Yeah that's fair. It's also I think too easy to imagine this as an RTS when real life has additional complications (for example, your attack jet can't hover indefinitely just outside of range of AA guns and wait for infantry to leave their protection).

I expect air superiority still has uses and advantages, but I will admit to not being excessively knowledgeable about how war is best waged in 2025.
by Reason077 | 2025-07-17 17:54:03+00:00
It wasn't that the batteries were "substandard". I'm sure they were the same technology and quality as the standard iPhone 12 and 13 batteries. It's just that they were compressing the same hardware into a smaller form factor and, therefore, a smaller battery.

The only thing that used less power on the mini was the smaller screen, but that doesn't save enough power to make up for a physically smaller battery.
by gorkish | 2025-07-17 17:54:08+00:00
> What's the use case for the 10GbE? Is ~200MB/sec not enough?

Yes; its far from close enough. My litmus test for consumers is, can they put their video files on network storage and work with them? And with modern cellphone video, the answer is no it is not convenient to do that. Consumer networking is in a tarpit. Business grade systems have networking that is three orders of magnitude faster; there is no other component between systems that are that dissimilar in performance, not even GPUs.
by benjaminclauss | 2025-07-17 17:54:11+00:00
This problem particularly interests me.

One of my favorite use cases for these tools is travel where I can get recommendations for what to do and see without SEO content.

This workflow is nice because you can ask specific questions about a destination (e.g., historical significance, benchmark against other places).

ChatGPT struggles with: - my current location - the current time - the weather - booking attractions and excursions (payments, scheduling, etc.)

There is probably friction here but I think it would be really cool for an agent to serve as a personalized (or group) travel agent.
by Phil_Latio | 2025-07-17 17:54:42+00:00
> Otherwise people can get drafted by a government they didn't have a say in electing.

This kind of thinking is not rooted in reality. When you were born, you were forced to accept the conditions you were born into. The same is true with laws. I understand that going to war is something else than going to school, but that's life.

> No taxation without representation.

"Representation" in the original slogans context does not really apply here (since it was about voting rights for a taxed population as a whole).

But for the idea of "anyone who has to pay taxes, must also have a say!", I can only say that it comes right back to the previous point: You could just as well argue the individual income tax rate must be zero, until a person had the opportunity to vote at least once. The world doesn't work this way.
by Gormo | 2025-07-17 17:55:05+00:00
> I'm going to take a guess and say you don't use linux as your daily desktop.

I've only been using Linux as my personal daily-driver for 14 years, and in that time, have only used three different distros as my desktop OS. My overall experience with Linux is limited to the past 32 years, having used about 20 or so different distros for servers, embedded applications, VMs, and other specific purposes during that timeframe.

So perhaps I don't have the breadth of experience you have, but what limited experience I have gained over that time does confirm the conclusions I expressed in my previous comment.

> If you prefer you could do 'time in terminal + time fixing things with GUI' and the result would be the same. Fedora just works. Ubuntu and family require fixing.

Time spent fixing usage-blocking issues for me has been minimal across all all distros I currently use in various capacities (Debian, Alpine, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Arch) for at least the past 7-8 years. The last major issue I encountered that required non-trivial effort to correct was the result of the Infinality font rendering package being deprecated and preventing the DE from launching. Since then, most issues have been minor inconveniences, mostly at an application or DE level, that are easily adjusted away.

I'm also responsible for a large number of Windows desktops, and I can say their trajectories in terms of usability and supportability crossed over each other about 10 years ago -- since the launch of Windows 10, the administrative burden and overall issue rate has become much larger than that of equivalent Linux systems, whereas the Linux ecosystem as a whole, regardless of distro, has improved continuously, to the point that all of the distros I mentioned above do indeed 'just work' without incompatibilities or breakage in ordinary usage scenarios.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-17 17:55:10+00:00
Ideas are like technology - you can only take one step at a time and advance to the next "adjacent possible", which is exploiting previously seen ideas. However, over many iterations of this you may end up with something that would be silly not to recognize as novel.

For example, say you appeared out of the future into the stone age and tried to explain to them general relativity or modern semiconductor fabrication .. there are just too many levels of abstraction and discovery from the ideas they would have had for it to be meaningful to say that these are just building upon their ideas, and certainly not just combinations of their ideas.
by _alternator_ | 2025-07-17 17:55:17+00:00
An upper bound U for BB(6) implies that any program that runs longer than U never terminates. Thus the specific Collatz-type problems that can be encoded in 6 instructions can be run U+1 steps and if they don’t halt, they won’t halt.

The proof that BB(6) is relevant is that you can encode it in a 6 instruction program, which is what the link does.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-17 17:55:17+00:00
>Pixel Android phone in Firefox, one-finger double tap on text does the fit to viewport.

I'm very confused, can you clarify what makes this different from the gesture that highlights text?

Edit: it appears that "request desktop site" makes it fit the viewport, whereas using the mobile view it's I guess already fitting the viewport so it highlights the text. The strange thing is in the desktop view, if I pinch zoom after fitting the viewport and do it again, it zooms out, whereas the mobile view still highlights the text. Which kinda makes sense, since mobile view it's fairly likely that you zoomed in to highlight the text more accurately, though it's weird that it's so inconsistent.
by mejutoco | 2025-07-17 17:55:18+00:00
Not trying to convince you, although I disagree completely. I only want to share how I think about it in case it resonates. I am over simplifying but bear with me.

It is impossible how to know if a program will halt without running it, in general terms (Halting problem).

One way to think about the type system is as a less expressive language that is guaranteed to halt. So, it has the pro that we can check properties of the system without running it (IMHO, that is amazing), but it also has the con that it is less expressive (I know, or think I know sometimes, some property holds but you need to express it using the the system) which can be frustrating.
by ricardobayes | 2025-07-17 17:55:19+00:00
Of course, Pareto principle is at work here. In an adjacent field, self-driving, they are working on the last "20%" for almost a decade now. It feels kind of odd that almost no one is talking about self-driving now, compared to how hot of a topic it used to be, with a lot of deep, moral, almost philosophical discussions.
by cloverich | 2025-07-17 17:55:20+00:00
> All of those workers will move. There aren't any jobs in the Portland area. Downtown is vacant and still expensive and the startup scene has dwindled.

I am curious about this, moving out of Portland -> Seattle myself. For software I see it, but for hardware, it feels like there's a kind of inertia / concentration that still benefits staying and fixing. It seems like shedding a large chunk of their workforce is on the path to righting the ship. It also feels like chips are too important an asset to discard. I'm skeptical they'll merely bleed out, even if the current phase is quite chaotic. Also frankly Portland area doesn't have enough high tech careers to replace them (and the income tax that goes with it), I feel the state would likely incentivize them staying / growing almost whatever it takes.

This is all a hot take with little insight, other than being a tech person currently living in the Portland area.
by nomad_horse | 2025-07-17 17:55:25+00:00
> brought back competitive open source audio transcription

Bear in mind that there are a lot of very strong _open_ STT models that Mistral's press-release didn't bother to compare to, making impression they are the best new open thing since Whisper. Here is an open benchmark: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard . The strongest model Mistral compared to is Scribe, ranked 10 here.

This benchmark is for English, but many of those models are multilingual (eg https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-1b-flash )
by JimDabell | 2025-07-17 17:55:34+00:00
> The clause is if you're substantially using n8n for your solution. As long as it's partial (which it almost always is)... it's another thing.

That’s not true at all. This is the relevant part of the license:

> You may use or modify the software only for your own internal business purposes or for non-commercial or personal use. You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

It has absolutely nothing to do with substantial vs partial, it has to do with commercial vs non-commercial and internal vs external.

> In the beginning using it for personal or small workloads helps keep costs down.

If you use it for small workloads and charge money for users to do that, you will be in breach of the license. Do not do this. It doesn’t matter how big or small the workload is.

> Self hosting traditionally has been for enterprise, but I think startups doing it could be reflected in licenses in the future too.

They explicitly switched to this license because they wanted to restrict commercial use. We were a startup and they quoted us $50k for a commercial license. There’s no need to speculate about this. This is not an oversight. This is what they deliberately chose.
Show HN: Claude‑CMD – A CLI for managing Claude Code commands and workflows
by kilic | 2025-07-17 17:55:50+00:00
I built Claude‑CMD, an open-source command-line interface for working with Claude Code commands, configurations, and AI-driven workflows. It’s designed to help developers and PMs streamline how they interact with Claude Code in coding tasks, automation, and prompt management.

Website: claudecmd.com

Happy to answer questions or hear suggestions. You can also contribute your own commands to help improve the project. Contributions welcome!
by adewba | 2025-07-17 17:56:00+00:00
What are the actual pain points you want to solve? Is this deployment part or is this agentic framework agnostic? Like my theory is if and only if you guys can pull this off just like mcp server as you told in the description, {for example I am a rust developer}. Cool to see this in here. So suppose I am building something where I need an agent. Suppose I got that agent (build by open source community) with your agent file structure, then i can use it and deploy it and then can use with rust sdk. Now this is something. Otherwise it wont create that value. But I guess it is a interesting concept.
by pkaye | 2025-07-17 17:56:02+00:00
You could look for specific studies on clinialtrials.gov. Its a database of trials in the US and also around the world. In the US I'm not sure of the status of such studies about budget cuts to NIH.

I myself was on 1 year study post organ transplant for impact of whole grain plant based diet. They educate you initially on the diet and then monitor your weight and blood tests over the year.
by buu700 | 2025-07-17 17:56:14+00:00
You're appealing to an implicit counterfactual in which America was built in a more egalitarian way. I'd love to live in that timeline, but unfortunately we can only evaluate history as it actually exists, and in this timeline American industrialization and abolition are inseparable because the latter doesn't happen without the former. For all its faults, industrialization provided both the economic luxury of pursuing abolition and the practical means to fight and win.

For Europe's part, the continent was physically developed over millennia on the backs of imperial slaves and feudal serfs, while its wealth was the product of atrocities comparable to those of the US. They certainly don't get a pass here.

If we're looking to the past for guidance, the historical precedent is clear: greater efficiency increases prosperity, and greater prosperity increases liberty. The first industrial revolution heralded the end of actual slavery; the AI industrial revolution could herald the end of "wage slavery". If some rich people happen to get richer at the same time, I say good for them. Rather than cutting off our nose to spite our face, we should look at concepts like UBI or universal educational stipends as an ultimate offramp from mandatory employment.
by etruong42 | 2025-07-17 17:57:22+00:00
I've had Influenza A before in my mid-30s. To be honest, I couldn't even tell I had it. I had the sniffles, went to get a COVID check, and came back Influenza A-positive.

I did my usual, ran a few miles on the treadmill, did family walks all over, etc. I just felt lethargic - like I didn't sleep well at all, but I powered through it.

I know people who were absolutely bedridden with the flu. I can 100% believe some people can almost entirely brush it off too.
by esseph | 2025-07-17 17:57:48+00:00
I think you're taking away a different message from what I did, I watch 1462 and 1463 looking for this section.

The message I got was not "don't learn this stuff before school", the message I took away was that, for a lot of kids watching that show on PBS, especially around the air date of 1979, you were looking at "latchkey kids" plus the incredible struggles of poverty and access to information.

It wasn't "don't learn this", it was "you are not less of a human being because you were born into a family that didn't or couldn't take the time to help teach you these things before you started school". That was the takeaway, for me, and for a lot of the kids I grew up around that weren't privileged.
by nashashmi | 2025-07-17 17:58:00+00:00
What is notion?

I have been pulling my hair trying to learn these new no code db tools. And I think I have come to a simple explainer.

It is a list of documents built with (something called) block-editors. Each document can be given properties. The properties get listed into columns. The columns are fields. The documents are rows. And that makes a database table.

In reverse, it is a database table of records. One record can be can be configured with various fields, plus a document "canvas" made by a block-editor.

The block editors can import and display views (aka queries) of database tables. And that is what makes it a full circle spaghetti. A document (listed in a database) can display a database table.
by Jach | 2025-07-17 17:58:44+00:00
> do you also complain that the 2D illustration of gravity wells is inaccurate?

Sometimes: https://xkcd.com/895/ Poor analogies usually cheat the learner.

Though at least with gravity well diagrams, it's often (though not always, or explicitly enough) marked up as just a conceptual aid in grasping how the trajectories and orbits we can see arise without Newtonian forces. It's not passed off as the whole thing. Nor, importantly, is it used to justify policies about what people can do or should be allowed to do, or can be seen as responsible for. This bad article isn't just oversimplification, it's a gross misrepresentation of actual developmental science and the name of the site it's on just lends it fake scientific authority that will only further encourage people to use it to justify real decisions based on the false claims. That's not harmless. It's somewhat contained, being an article aimed at clueless parents of teens, until it's spread around more reinforcing the "brains don't mature until 25" meme. I hope you'll at least reconsider if you think of spreading it again.
by johnmaguire | 2025-07-17 17:58:57+00:00
Your question doesn't seem to be made in good faith - you seem to be implying that there is no way OP sanctions "all countries that commit atrocities," because of course they don't - that would be impractical. And furthermore, "committing atrocities" leaves a lot of wiggle room.

For most people there is a tradeoff that happens between being informed, the value provided by a service, and the ethical or moral cost.

For something like internet search, which is a commodity, it's quite easy to eschew one service for another.
by renewiltord | 2025-07-17 17:59:05+00:00
Lol Chase always calls me.

"We'd like to confirm this wire. We just need some details."

"Okay, I am me, that's true. But I should probably call Chase back for this right? This is textbook scam stuff. What do I tell them to get to you as fast as possible."

"All right, sir. That's fine. Let me just make a note on the account. You should be able to find the phone number on the website"

And then I usually just find my way. It's funny, but you kind of have to be disciplined.
by lumbroso | 2025-07-17 17:59:30+00:00
It's good idea. I didn't think of it because this project came about a "let's try to write a remote MCP server now that the standard has stabilized."

But there are some issues:

1. Cheaper + Deterministic: It is much more costly, both in terms of tokens and context window. (Generating the code takes many more tokens than making a tool call.) And there can be variability in the query, like issues with timezones.

2. Portability: It is not portable, not all LLM or LM environments have access to a code interpreter. This is a much lower resource requirement.

3. Extensibility: This approach is extensible, and it allows us to expand the toolkit with additional cognitive scaffolds that help contextualize how we experience time for the model. (This is a fancy way of saying: The code only gives the timestamp, but building an MCP allows us to contextualize this information — "this is time I'm sleeping, this is the time I'm eating or commuting, etc.")

4. Security: Ops teams are happier approving a read-only REST call than arbitrary code running.
by samtp | 2025-07-17 17:59:43+00:00
This is the exact same issue that I've had trying to use LLMs for anything that needs to be precise such as multi-step data pipelines. The code it produces will look correct and produce a result that seems correct. But when you do quality checks on the end data, you'll notice that things are not adding up.

So then you have to dig into all this overly verbose code to identify the 3-4 subtle flaws with how it transformed/joined the data. And these flaws take as much time to identify and correct as just writing the whole pipeline yourself.
by miles_matthias | 2025-07-17 18:00:09+00:00
I think what's interesting here is that it's a super cheap version of what many busy people already do -- hire a person to help do this. Why? Because the interface is easier and often less disruptive to our life. Instead of hopping from website to website, I'm just responding to a targeted imessage question from my human assistant "I think you should go with this <sitter,restaurant>, that work?" The next time I need to plan a date night, my assistant already knows what I like.

Replying "yes, book it" is way easier than clicking through a ton of UIs on disparate websites.

My opinion is that agents looking to "one-shot" tasks is the wrong UX. It's the async, single simple interface that is way easier to integrate into your life that's attractive IMO.