MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strcat | 2025-07-25 03:13:07+00:00
> If they are selling off their device business

Android and Chrome are potentially going to be split from Google:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/technology/google-search-... (https://archive.ph/egRL4)

Pixels are no longer the Android reference devices. An Android company ending up with the OS, Google Play and Google's OEM partners wouldn't need Pixels. That's a possible reason for the change. However, the simplest explanation is that they're continuing to take cost cutting to an extreme where it negatively impacts their long term revenue far more than the money it saves. A lot of Pixels were sold due to first class support for using other operating systems including it not voiding the warranty.
by truemotive | 2025-07-25 03:13:27+00:00
If you're trying to get back into full-stack javascript or python engineering, you get to practice writing your own authentication layers and self-managing any dependencies you use for edge cases that don't make sense when you're normally working on backend.

It's great! crazy eyes all seriousness though, it's a terrible solution for the "vibe" space in terms of how careless people are about it. There are thousands of "who-knows-who-made-this" servers for major integrations out there.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-25 03:13:27+00:00
If it's just for trying out, then go for the cheapest second hand Pixel that's still supported by GrapheneOS and still has a battery that can hold charge for as long as you need it to for testing.

I bought a second hand Pixel 7a for my recent migration. Battery isn't great, but it's good enough to get me through a day.
by amacneil | 2025-07-25 03:13:37+00:00
It’s a funny post because our team wanted to use Claude Code, but the team plan of Claude doesn’t include Claude Code (unlike the pro plan at a similar price point). Found this out after we purchased it :( We’re not going to ask every engineer to purchase it separately.

Maybe before boasting about how your internal teams use your product, add an option for external companies to pay for it!

Industry leading AI models but basic things like subscription management are unsolved…
Show HN: Add viral TikTok audio to work meetings
by saporito | 2025-07-25 03:14:36+00:00
as title says

i mostly did it because I had a free afternoon at work, built something fun and dumb and it ended up being more dumb and fun than i thought

submit your meeting link and the bot should join the call. users can send commands in-chat and the bot will play the audio

no sign-up required and i’m hosting it for free. hope you have as much fun as i did

cheers!
by godelski | 2025-07-25 03:14:51+00:00
Depends on your context and goals.

LayerNorm isn't going to bound you strictly into [-1,1] like this will. So that can have some advantages. A strict bounding can sometimes get you in trouble as it may not be as robust to novel inputs. For a basic example if you consider the "classic" normalization where you rescale your training data so that it is bound on [0,1] this does not mean that data from your test set will be in [0,1]. Does your model know how to generalize this?

A scheme like this has the potential to land you in similar trouble. Think about the domain and range. If your training data is all in [-100, 100] then you might get a pretty wide tanh to accommodate that. But will the resultant filter be able to differentiate the value 100 from 1000? Probably not. The filter is going to optimize to the data it saw through training. Will there be some filter that has that capacity? Maybe. But also there are ways to process your data where this bound really wouldn't matter.

We're getting into the weeds here but I'm just trying to illustrate why there are so many different normalization schemes. There's no one-size-fits all process and it is best to understand where certain methods have advantages and disadvantages (there's definitely advantages in that numbers closer to the origin have higher precision as the density of addressable values in fp{16,32,64} are not evenly distributed)
by ummonk | 2025-07-25 03:15:01+00:00
There is a lot of accidental discharge happening when people holster their pistol improperly and the trigger snags on something or they inadvertently press the trigger while grabbing it. However, I’ve seen at least one footage of a Sig 320 discharging while properly holstered (Sig tried to claim the retention hood wasn’t properly closed but it clearly was): https://youtube.com/watch?v=OSAI_HUZDI0
by Avicebron | 2025-07-25 03:15:08+00:00
> Which solutions are you writing about that have been tried? Were those solutions properly funded? Were those solutions watered down into broken systems moments before signing the bill?

Last time I parked in that garage that's right across the street from Berkeley, I saw a middle aged woman screaming in some kind of mental anguish in a dirty sleeping bag covered in her own shit. From what I remember the students having a coffee at the cafe 20 feet away just sort of dealt with it, I think I was around Fulton and Oxford. If you can't propose a solution to this, I don't see what you are adding to conversation.

And yes, we should give everyone healthcare, that's a foregone conclusion here. The question is, _what_ is the solution to the above scenario. Is it a checkup, a clean needle (is that van still parked at the BART downtown idk), a pat on the back, a pile of job applications, a warm sandwich and a pamphlet that says vote democrat. Man we are so far beyond stupidity, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, here's your prompt. The above situation is a microcosm of a broader issue, engineer your way out of it, or stay out of the conversation.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-25 03:15:16+00:00
> They're set at whatever the payment networks can get away with. There's nothing that says that's good for anyone else, although it is very good for Mastercard and Visa.

MasterCard and Visa are more like clearinghouses. The decision makers are their members having "access to the rails", issuers and processors, which are either banks, subsidiaries owned by banks, or companies sponsored by the aforementioned two (which very often includes one or more banks getting an ownership percentage).
by lotyrin | 2025-07-25 03:15:43+00:00
No. They want to believe that, but the reality is that even in this little bubble (with a median income multiple times that of general population's median), anyone that works for a living is far more likely to experience homelessness than they are to join economic elites. Sure, you're able to be comfortable because unlike most of the economy you are compensated well, but you should still have worker solidarity (and humility).

Let me put it another way by making it less personal to tech: Hollywood celebrities, wildly successful people that basically everyone knows their names and faces, are still workers. Million dollar contracts BUT only if they play ball with the system and don't get themselves blacklisted for being too political or being too inconvenient saying no too many times to staring in soulless Disney slop, or whatever. They can retire early on that kind of money, get to a kind of stable non-participant status, sure, they can place pressure on their industry and on society to change to some degree, but they'll never call the shots because they don't write the checks.
by bugsMarathon88 | 2025-07-25 03:16:19+00:00
Graphene is a fantastic operating system for Pixel devices. Simple, reliable and with plenty of security and privacy features to make you feel warm and fuzzy. System updates are automatic, actual phone functionality is flawless, perhaps the only complaint to be had is the quality of camera, which probably lacks proprietary drivers. Signal works fairly well - even without abusive Google Services installed, making this a perfect daily mobile driver. Much gratitude to the developers of this project.
Show HN: AI image generator with 6 artistic mentors for better prompts
by yestwind | 2025-07-25 03:16:23+00:00
Hi HN! I built CreateVision AI, an image generator that uses AI mentors to help write better prompts.

Link: https://createvision.ai

*What makes it different:* - 6 specialized AI mentors (Renaissance, Anime, 3D, Fashion, Abstract, Traditional Eastern) - Each mentor enhances prompts in their artistic style - Dual engines: Flux Dev + GPT-Image-1 - 2-4 second generation time - 8 language support

*Technical details:* - Built with Next.js 14, TypeScript, Supabase - Custom caching layer for speed - Global lock mechanism for request handling - Vercel Blob for optimized image delivery

*Why I built this:* After analyzing 50k+ generations, I found users averaged 3-4 attempts to get good results. The problem wasn't the AI model - it was prompt writing. Our AI mentors solve this by teaching artistic principles while enhancing prompts.

Free tier: 20 images/day with watermarks Premium: $9/month for 100 images + both engines Ultimate: $15/month unlimited

Would love feedback on the mentor system and any suggestions for improvement!
by vtbassmatt | 2025-07-25 03:17:38+00:00
If you never interacted with the residents there, how are you so sure it was so bad? Nevermind the people in the group home — on what basis did you acquire the belief that the neighbors were “relieved” not to interact with them?

Maybe you’re right and this situation was terrible for everyone. Is this arrangement required? Is it the best we can do?

I don’t think most people would choose to live a life with many common afflictions. I certainly wish my lower back didn’t hurt all the time. That doesn’t invalidate my existence, and neither does my son’s Down syndrome invalidate his.
by jrexilius | 2025-07-25 03:17:46+00:00
I just installed Graphene on a new pixel. I've only used it for two days, but I got that same feeling of "finding buried treasure in your backyard" I got when I first installed Linux in 1999. I can't believe this amazing software is free in all senses of the word. It is a TON of work and they got so much right. The security and usability settings give all the grainular control I've known was possible and wanted for a long time.

I see some core team on this thread, so just wanted to say THANK YOU! Awesome job! Keep fighting for the users!

I'm totally the wrong person to offer recommendations on mobile, but so far it works very well for me, but then, I use almost no third party apps, and none of them are Play store only. My only complaint is the hardware (outside of their control).
by skylissue | 2025-07-25 03:18:39+00:00
I will assume that you are genuine in your belief that Trump or city leaders have any intention of helping people experiencing homelessness. In practice, the only thing that matters to them is to remove homeless people from public spaces by any means necessary. Any rhetoric about doing so for their benefit will not be followed through with. Most people who are homeless are either addicted to drugs which precludes them from participating in programs which require immediate abstinence, or too mentally ill to be helped with the limited funding that will be supplied for their "treatment". It is much more likely that they will be imprisoned indefinitely in a for-profit prison owned by a Trump donor than "helped" in any meaningful capacity.
by derektank | 2025-07-25 03:18:41+00:00
To expand on what notimetorelax said, egg harvesting is a low risk but not a zero risk procedure which involves preparatory hormone injections, twilight sedation, and ultimately sticking a pretty fat needle into the ovaries. There's roughly a 1 in 1000 chance of serious complications for any woman that goes through it. If you're over 40 and your last round of harvesting only produced a handful of eggs cells and all of them with some kind of defect, repairing a damaged egg or zygote would be much less risky for the mother. What exactly the cost of a treatment based upon this discovery would be, I have no idea, but both processes are resource intensive.
by h4kunamata | 2025-07-25 03:19:04+00:00
I have gone full on cash-only mode, people would freak out with the amount of fees they pay without knowing it.

I only have debit card, no credit card at all, in many places AUD$0.30-$0.50c is added to the goods price on debit cards. With cash, many places are offering 5-15% off when buying with cash only which is awesome.

If you are a gamer, you most have heard within the last 3-4 days now that Steam, Itch.io and others removed +18 games from their store because of a psycho Australian activists group called Collective Shout, who used words like rpe, child prngrphy forcing Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and a Japanese payment system to force those games stores to remove the games or they wouldn't have a processing payment.

Thanks to Visa/MasterCard monopoly, everybody was forced to do it. Many players don't even have +18 games filter enabled, for us in general this isn't about the +18 games but about US payment systems telling us what we can buy or not. Visa is getting its ass busted in Japan already with a Japanese politician joining the fight with gamers.

Dedollarisation has never been this strong, countries are already doing international trades using their own currency over the US dollar. I am not even getting into BRICS.

It is not a surprise that the US isn't happy with PIX in Brazil, it is a huge country, imagine all the money Visa/MasterCard are no longer making. Based on market data, it suggest an ESTIMATE around USD2.5-USD4B in 2024-2025 revenue lost lmao

The US is encountering the perfect storm!
by voidhorse | 2025-07-25 03:19:15+00:00
Eh, idk.

I think the reasons are predominantly social, not theoretical.

For every engineer out there that gets excited when I say the words "refinement types" there are twenty that either give me a blank stare or scoff at the thought, since they a priori consider any idea that isn't already in their favorite (primitivistic) language either too complicated or too useless.

Then they go and reinvent it as a static analysis layer on top of the language and give it their own name and pat themselves on the back for "inventing" such a great check. They don't read computer science papers.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-25 03:19:45+00:00
Fine, let me be more specific - unintended acceleration due to mechanical design issues (sticking pedal, even without floor mats). The point is, Toyota was raised as an example of quality, yet here we have a design issue. This also shouldn't be a surprise since the floor mat issue can be solved by design changes sound on other vehicles. So yes, manufacturers can make good and bad products. There are no manufactures who make only perfect products - it's not a surprise the P320 could have issues when the poster holds the P365 in such high esteem. The only thing that statement really displays is the suppression of cognitive dissonance being suddenly unachievable.
by rgoulter | 2025-07-25 03:19:45+00:00
> men burn more calories than woman just right out of the gate

Sure, but parent's point is that the energy input from sugary snacks like chocolate roughly equates to a significant amount of exercise. (Over an hour of walking). -- Maybe the caloric equivalent amount of walking is a little longer or shorter for different bodies.

How might you take action from this understanding, though.

Gaining an extra 100 pounds of muscle is hardly an easy/tangible feat.

"Reducing intake of sugary snacks" is going to be easier than "walk for over an hour".
by onprema | 2025-07-25 03:19:53+00:00
> When Kubernetes clusters went down and weren't scheduling new pods, the team used Claude Code to diagnose the issue. They fed screenshots of dashboards into Claude Code, which guided them through Google Cloud's UI menu by menu until they found a warning indicating pod IP address exhaustion. Claude Code then provided the exact commands to create a new IP pool and add it to the cluster, bypassing the need to involve networking specialists.

This seems rather inefficient, and also surprising that Claude Code was even needed for this.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-07-25 03:20:25+00:00
Hypothetically what this means is that teams will now be able to design products that are designed for tomorrows markets, rather than continuing to design products that are fundamentally designed to be sold to existing customers in profitable segments. In other words, product teams don't have to satisfy existing requirements of existing customers. No more legacy consideration

In theory this this sounds great. Based on the descriptions I've heard of how Intel works internally, my confidence in this happening is about 0.12%.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-25 03:21:02+00:00
There are several ways to reduce costs underlying payments. One is better IT. Notice that IT infrastructure has improved and dropped in cost by immeasurable amounts since those 3% fees were first instituted. Another way is to reduce card fraud. Notice that we’ve had excellent solutions to many types of fraud for decades now, but online shopping still requires us to enter 16-digit easily-stolen numbers into websites, and so fraud is enormously higher than it needs to be. With biometrics and modern smartphones, in person fraud should be very low.

A better way to look at these networks is to understand two things: the first is that at one level, they’re an insurance business that makes a profit from insuring against fraud, and reducing fraud would reduce the profit margins they can make from that business. And a second way to understand them is as guardians of a hugely profitable network portal that’s very hard to compete with, and they’re charging as much as the market can bear for that service.
by optymizer | 2025-07-25 03:21:03+00:00
> businesses would control a lot more open source software

Only because individuals would presumably open LLCs

> But when there is money in it, the work tends to focus on quarterly revenue.

I don't think the choice is between "John works on this project 11pm - 1am on the days he feels like it" and "John wants to IPO his company". I'm advocating for "John works on this project 3 days of the week because people pay him a small fee for using his project".

> Surely the money you gave to Lenovo would cover that?

The money I gave to Lenovo went to Microsoft for an OEM license to the pre-installed Windows OS. When I download Ubuntu and install that on my laptop, Lenovo couldn't be bothered to see if closing the lid suspends the laptop or not.

Should Lenovo write drivers for my custom kernel as well? As a business, why should Lenovo bother to implement resume capabilities for an OS that is a rounding error for their consumer line of laptops?
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-07-25 03:21:33+00:00
Yep target practice. There's different types. There's obviously your, slow, precise target practice focusing on tight groupings and hitting the target where you want to hit it however there are a bunch of other more specialised drills for training reaction speed and ability to actually perform at a moments notice.

While your initial drills start out using relatively few rounds at a time, more complex/difficult drills involve far more rounds, often requiring multiple magazines and multiple targets. These types of drills are generally aren't done at your basic indoor shooting galley ranges but even there there are plenty of ways to burn through a substantial amount of ammunition.

And while part of it is that in general shooting as a hobby is fun, another part is that some types of drills just require a lot of ammunition. ex: malfunction clearing drills where there are non-functional rounds mixed in to your magazines and you need to perform your drills with as little time loss compared to normal as possible. i.e. knowing how to react when things go wrong under pressure.

And so a single range day can easily put someone through tens of magazines which quickly gets into the hundreds of rounds. Then assuming you are going to the range weekly, biweekly, or monthly, that puts you into thousands or even tens of thousands of rounds per year.
by vips7L | 2025-07-25 03:21:51+00:00
That’s the same conclusion I’ve come too. I’ve commented on it a little bit here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44551088

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432640

> Your code probably shouldn't be throwing IOExceptions. But Java makes converting exceptions unnecessarily verbose

The problem just compounds too. People start checking things that they can’t handle from the functions they’re calling. The callers upstream can’t possibly handle an error from the code you’re calling, they have no idea why it’s being called.

I also hate IOException. It’s so extremely unspecific. It’s the worst way to do exceptions. Did the entire disk die or was the file not just found or do I not have permissions to write to it? IOException has no meaning.

Part of me secretly hopes Swift takes over because I really like its error handling.
by lurk2 | 2025-07-25 03:22:22+00:00
> Yes, that is a legitimate argument to make in a cruel, uncaring (most of the time) world.

No, it isn’t. “I wish you didn’t exist because your existence inconveniences me,” is a step away from “I should be able to kill you because you inconvenience me.”

You will likely think that I am being hyperbolic (“We’re just talking about if it was a good idea for these people to exist, not saying we should be able to kill them now that they do exist.”), but I suspect that you would not feel the same way if it was your existence being discussed this way.