MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-30 12:37:17+00:00
I don;t think so — it's just that if you have 100-ish years to choose from, this doesn't seem like a very even spread. To be sure, I would feather off anything too early — the silent era seems only interesting to film historians that want to see where the modern ideas of film began (example: "Battleship Potemkin" (1925)).

But at the same time, Hollywood does seem to have fallen into the trap of mediocrity for some time now — probably since the 1980's to be honest (having only gotten worse over the ensuing decades). "La La Land" was popular in large part because it was something of a throwback to 1930's Hollywood. Tarantino's success seems to stem from his mining of gritty 1970's Hollywood.

So why not go back and watch "Gold Diggers of 1937" for the "La La Land" stuff, or "Straw Dogs" (1971) to see what Tarantino is making homage to.
by zeagle | 2025-07-30 12:37:18+00:00
This cherrypicks a high billing specialty, doesn't appreciate an overhead of 25-40% for most physicians, and also overestimates the proportion of physician salaries in healthcare budgets (~15%). You could literally pay physicians half and not save that much.

Also is that too high? I know a guy in his early 40s still finishing his 2nd radiology fellowship (4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 5 years radiology, 1-2 years each fellowship = cost of his 20s/30s) to get a job...

I find HN comments on healthcare compensation when it comes up funny because on the other hand compensation expectations in the tech gold mine here are justified. E.g. I take home less in CDN dollars than an L3 SE at google without benefits. I'm happy with what I do/get but there is a mismatch in rationalizing high compensation, markedly more years of university and training, and from my point providing a societal benefit.
Show HN: Podly – From podcast listening to podcast learning (Obsidian for audio)
by becominghim | 2025-07-30 12:37:20+00:00
I built Podly because I was listening to tons of podcasts and realizing I wasn’t retaining any of it.

Podly is a podcast companion that helps you turn passive listening into active learning. It builds you a personal memory graph from the episodes you’ve heard. You can search for ideas, trace connections across shows, and explore your podcast history like a second brain.

Think of it as Obsidian for audio - searchable, connected, and personalized.

Most of it is already built (you can see this in the demo), but I’m still refining the experience. I launched a landing page and waitlist to gauge interest and learn from early users before opening it up fully.

https://trypodly.com

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Do you treat podcasts as learning tools, or just background noise? What would make something like this genuinely useful in your workflow?
by Georgii007 | 2025-07-30 12:37:33+00:00
I often take freelance orders, and every time I have to prove to clients over and over again that I didn't "start yesterday."

Portfolios, cases, reviews, product links, tech stack — all this is already there somewhere, but scattered.

That's why I made a ProofPage, a simple trust page. You collect everything in one place: - in short, who are you - examples of works - reviews - links to GitHub, Dribbble, projects - and add the “I want to work with you” button

Here is the demo: [link] And here's the survey: [link] — I want to understand if it really helps others.

The product is super raw, now I'm just checking the demand. I will be grateful for any criticism.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-07-30 12:38:15+00:00
Im grateful I can still shoot raw on my pixel 8 and edit myself from there. But at that point I will just grab the dslr. A used canon eos 100d is like, startlingly cheap on eBay, I think I picked mine up for $150 a few years ago with a decent lens and it still demolishes any smartphone without much effort.
by jedimastert | 2025-07-30 12:38:23+00:00
> I thought it used to be that parents were responsible for their kids - that's not even a thing now?

When was this? Before or after child labor laws? Before or after we started making it illegal to beat children? Before or after child marriage laws? Age of consent laws? Standards around education, health, abuse and neglect?

Whether or not this is a step too far, it's hard to say that society and or governments stepping into protect children is a recent thing.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-07-30 12:38:56+00:00
YouTube is such an invaluable learning resource that I would have serious qualms about denying a school-age child access to it. You're right that I wish it was possible to turn off the predatory features, though.

But ultimately I can't see how a blanket law banning kids makes sense instead of a law banning the platform from targeting kids.
by Peteragain | 2025-07-30 12:39:01+00:00
As a leftie - admittedly one who thinks - I thought the article was actually quite positive and didn't bring politics into it: "What would that look like for something as simple as EV charging stations? Standardized approval processes. Pre-approved vendor lists. Streamlined permitting for routine infrastructure. Clear timelines with accountability mechanisms." A clear and sensible suggestion. Cool.
by jsattler | 2025-07-30 12:39:15+00:00
I would like to understand how he creates the transparent/blurry terminal overlays in front of the video. My hypothesis is that he creates two videos. First, the screen recording with alpha channels. Second, the video of him coding. He then layers them on top of each other. Any other ideas? Which screen recording software supports this kind of recording?

Hint: I think that he is not streaming the video as a wallpaper, because in some videos you can see his screen with the regular wallpaper.
by miroljub | 2025-07-30 12:39:23+00:00
Let's be honest here, it was never about social media, children's rights, porn, drugs, crime, or similar. It was always about introducing government issued digital ID and enforcing it on the internet to tighten the control and, as a side effect, let people censor themselves.

It is no coincidence that multiple Western countries are pushing for the same thing at the same time. The UK is another example, with EU-level discussions about the same and chat control.

If I were younger, I'd think that's a coincidence and has nothing to do with WEF and similar totalitarian globalist organizations pushing their agendas. But now, as a grown-up cynic, I realize that it's just a plain old conspiracy in practice, not a theory anymore.

It's a sad thing that once free societies are rapidly deteriorating and approaching China's level of freedoms. I'm afraid there's not much time left to prevent a dystopian Orwellian (or Zamyatinesque) future of see-through citizen slaves.
Show HN: Doxyde – Built an MCP-enabled CMS with Rust (tech preview)
by jhiver | 2025-07-30 12:39:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Doxyde as a bit of an experiment. After 25 years of programming (started on Apple II with BASIC back in '87-'88), I wanted to see what an experienced developer could build using modern development tools - especially AI-assisted development.

Back in the 2000s, in another life, I had built a CMS in Perl, and so I took the good bits I remembered from that era, rewrote the whole thing in Rust using Claude Code, and incorporated SSE / OAuth MCP so it works directly with Claude Desktop.

What came out is a simple, nifty CMS that's fast, clean, memory-safe, and works with modern tools like Claude Desktop. But most importantly, I had a blast building it :-)

Sample interaction: You: "Create a blog post about our launch, add some screenshots, publish it". AI: Creates page, uploads images, publishes in seconds!

Right now it's a pre-release / technology preview stage - rough around the edges but the core concept works well.

Check it out at https://doxyde.com (the site itself was built from Claude using Doxyde, naturally).

Code is on GitHub: https://github.com/jhiver/doxyde

Please let me know what you think, if the project interests you, my email is jhiver ~at~ gmail.com
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-07-30 12:39:56+00:00
Or the algorithm focusing on engagement over everything else, instead of actual good, related videos. I've said this here before, I'm a huge Phish fan and I listen to old concerts on youtube. I will literally get far right-wing videos as a recommendation after a Phish concert video. I have watch history off. I don't watch political videos on youtube, right or left. And Phish's fan base would lean hard left. Why am I seeing Candace Owens after a 94 Phish show? With actions like that, I understand the ban.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-30 12:40:07+00:00
That's almost exactly what people said about the appetite -- about the biochemical pathways which govern hunger, which are known to be massively redundant and overlapping.

But then Ozempic was released and it turned out there was a shortcut after all.

Which is not to say that such things are necessarily "healthy" or desirable, just that you can't rule out that biochemically-modifiable characteristics, however complex, have "one simple trick!" you can use to attain a desired end.
by treetalker | 2025-07-30 12:40:14+00:00
Ah yes, vibe legal planning!

We lawyers have a saying: pay me now or pay me later.

Trying to handle your own legal affairs without a lawyer is a recipe for disaster. (Analogizing for the HN crowd: it's a bit like thinking you can invent your own cryptography library for essential software.) Even lawyers need lawyers! ("A lawyer who represents himself has an idiot for a client.")

I will look forward to the prospect of handling the inevitable litigation that arises from those of you drafting your own agreements — and, better yet, your appeals after you still don't learn your lesson and then try to represent yourselves in court too.

If it's important enough to put in writing, it's important enough to rely on competent legal counsel.
by lm28469 | 2025-07-30 12:40:26+00:00
Most kids would be better off being educated by orangutans at that point

The problem is that we have to live with these kids eventually and you can't build a nation on kids watching brain rot from the age of 6 months because their parents were too dumb to know better.

Some of the people on that forum would call the switch to compulsory education tyrannic and an abuse of governmental power lmao.
by squigz | 2025-07-30 12:41:03+00:00
> But now that's the price I am having to pay because no one wants to be responsible. Especially the companies making money off of children.

> But what are we supposed to do instead when everything has been shot down previously?

What would "being responsible" have looked like, prior to these pushes?

> If we see a child bullied in school, we don't say the parents of the victim are not doing enough parenting. If an adult flashes or cat calls a child in the street, we don't blame the child's parents for not doing enough parenting.

Perhaps not, but we also don't abolish schools or ban kids from going outside, do we?

> The amount of children being groomed is probably the highest it has ever been, but because it's done in their own bedrooms over the internet everyone ignores it.

What does this mean, exactly? And what sort of source do you have?

> I'm surprised at the lack of care for children in commentary around social media bans

I think you're misunderstanding the pushback. I think most people are perfectly agreed that yeah, children shouldn't be exposed to some things until a certain age. The problem is the question of how we do that without utterly destroying privacy for everyone else too? If the answer is "we can't", then it might be we have to look at ways to deal with our children being exposed to those things - either, you know, don't let your kids on the parts of the Internet you don't agree with, or teach them the right morals and ethics so they learn to recognize and avoid those areas themselves.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-30 12:41:11+00:00
I fully agree with your observations, and would add the irony of such a pursuit by phone makers is that serious hobbyist/amateur/professional photographers and videographers understand that cameras are inherently inaccurate, and that what we’re really capturing is an interpretation of what we’re seeing through imperfect glass, coatings, and sensor media to form an artistic creation. Sure, cameras can be used for accuracy, but those models and lenses are often expensive and aimed at specific industries.

We enjoy the imperfections of cameras because they let us create art. Smartphone makers take advantage of that by, as you put it, cranking things to eleven to manipulate psychology rather than invest in more accurate platforms that require skill. The ease is the point, but ease rarely creates lasting art the creator is genuinely proud of or that others appreciate the merit behind.
by derbOac | 2025-07-30 12:42:48+00:00
The paper is here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09261-y

Not an expert in this area, but the essay feels a bit like an oversimplification. Not only is this in flies, but I wasn't entirely convinced this isn't about rest rather than sleep per se. It's a cool paper, interesting to read and read about, but my hunch is there's more steps in the chain, and am not sure it will replicate in humans or even mammals. But maybe I'll be wrong.
by chamomeal | 2025-07-30 12:43:11+00:00
I watched a super interesting talk about a testing library that was inspired but the foundationDB testing story.

It uses test.check (clojure version of quickcheck) to help you create valid mocks of stateful services to test against. I just love the idea and I hope to implement a small version of it in TS at work soon

https://youtu.be/dvHASrrQSzg?si=jF_sTFWL-wCwFNHA

For indexing purposes, the name of the talk is “Breaking the bank with test contract”, given by Allen Rohner.
Show HN: An AI playground to practice the timeless art of simplification
by rriley | 2025-07-30 12:43:16+00:00
I built https://howto.unrav.io because I was overwhelmed, not by lack of information, but by too much of it.

We’re surrounded by content, advice, opinions, noise. But clarity? That’s rare. So I asked: What if simplification was a muscle we could actually train?

howto.unrav.io is a strange little playground for that idea. It’s part:

- Pattern library (mental models, heuristics, quotes)

- AI mentor simulator (talk to Plato, Confucius, Da Vinci,...)

- Retro-punk-futuristic museum (because it should feel fun too)

The goal is to help you think more clearly, not by giving you more data, but better ways to shape it.

Thanks for checking it out. Hope it sparks something.
by hopelite | 2025-07-30 12:43:31+00:00
Many people are being naive when they assume any of these “protecting the children” efforts happening all around the western world effectively simultaneously are actually about the children.

The question is how do you implement “Chinese style censorship and social credit score” without overtly doing it, you do it the same way that all infringements on freedoms and rights have always been implemented all across the West for 100+ years, you invert, reframe it, and implement amidst cheers, and jeers towards anyone who is not also being virtuous through conformance.

Some believe the COVID prison-term lockdowns were a test to gauge the reaction and conformity of the actions taken. Maybe it was or maybe it wasn’t, but it may as well have been, because the warriors apparatchiks and wardens of conformity operated nicely to deprive their own human rights as well as those of others.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” It may as well end with “…tolerate atrocities.”
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-30 12:43:35+00:00
I said you sleep more the less oxygen you get, not the converse (ie, because you get less oxygen, you sleep more). And it is a factual statement that obese people are likelier to have sleep apnea, it is not a "stigma" and there is nothing wrong in suggesting that people who aren't in that category get tested too, don't try to find things to get offended by.
by echelon_musk | 2025-07-30 12:44:07+00:00
> I thought it used to be that parents were responsible for their kids - that's not even a thing now?

Parents have been blaming books, music and video games for decades.

Raising children with reading comprehension and critical thinking skills is hard.

Equally, from a governments point of view, creating citizens with critical thinking skills is hard. There is probably more chance they will frustrate the regime if they're capable of understanding its corruption.

Giving into desires and having children is the easy part. The bodies do all the work for you but after that the 2 decades of work really starts.

I'd say it's just an example of "never waste a good crisis". Parents want to complain at someone that essentially the society is too free and their children made mistakes they didn't prepare them for. The government feels pressured and uses the opportunity available to increase control.
by barkerja | 2025-07-30 12:44:14+00:00
But that is unfortunately a nuclear option that should not need to be taken to perform such a thing. Like the op, I have no interest in Shorts, especially considering the type of content that seems to proliferate that format.

However, I feel like YouTube does a genuinely good job — at least for me personally — of curating my feed with videos I have genuine interest in; mostly being tech talks and home DIY.

I'd hate to lose the discoverability I currently have for the sake of having to disable a feature like Shorts.
by anton-c | 2025-07-30 12:44:30+00:00
During the tide pods craze I saw that they were less than 20% of the market. Just a heads up. Most use liquid detergent.

Original posters autotune example was off too - 99% of commercial records use pitch correction. The other 1% are the ones they write stories about "nO AuToTuNe" cuz the reality is its on everything. I mix records. Easy to find autotune errors in live performances on youtube. It's not that they can't sing, the audience has been trained for perfection(they believe).
by amiga386 | 2025-07-30 12:44:50+00:00
A bug matching the details of the vaguepost was found by a third party with no help from Rachel: https://blog.bismuth.sh/blog/bismuth-found-the-atop-bug

> Given the vagueness, we were curious if Bismuth's bug scanning capabilities could find the bug so we let it rip on the code base. 10 minutes later, we had it. Or at least we had a bug which looked and behaved exactly like Rachel described.

> As soon as we figured this out and had something reproducible we moved to responsibly disclose the issue and we emailed Gerlof at 8pm on the 26th.

> Seeing this bug and how it's triggered, I understand Rachel's initial reaction to write a vague "get rid of it" post without going into detail. [...] That said, the internet loves to run wild with speculation and there's a reason we have the responsible disclosure process. For something that's installed as often as Nvidia GPU drivers, it would be prudent to spend the extra few days and have a controlled disclosure. Posting something like that can start off an arms race to find the bug, and if someone malicious were to reproduce and exploit it first, they get free reign to take over affected systems until it's patched. Yes, sounding the alarm might cause people to uninstall it, but there's plenty of places where it will remain, giving malicious actors incentive to go for it. But with a coordinated disclosure, the arms race never starts, and systems are patched before anyone realizes there was an issue.

The atop maintainer fixed the bug on March 29th, and also changed the behaviour of atop to _not_ connect to its helper daemons by default: https://github.com/Atoptool/atop/commit/542b7f7ac52926ca2721... ... and released it as atop v2.11.1 on April 5th: https://github.com/Atoptool/atop/releases/tag/v2.11.1

There has been nothing on Rachel's blog about this topic since the vaguepost and vaguepost followup.

The CVE (https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-31160) is still incorrect, and there's no indication who requested it. It says that versions "0 - 2.11.0" are affected, this is untrue, because the atopgpud (and support in atop for reading from it) was introduced in version 2.4.0 ("The vulnerability is present since the introduction of 'atopgpud' in atop 2.4.0." per https://www.atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php)
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-30 12:45:15+00:00
In all fairness most developers are equally impacted by this.

This comes up frequently in a variety of discussions most notably execution speed and security. Developers will frequently reason upon things to which they have no evidence, no expertise, and no prior practice and come up with invented bullshit that doesn't even remotely apply. This should be expected, because there is not standard qualification to become a software developer, and most developers cannot measure things or follow a discussion containing 3 or more unresolved variables.
by Quarrel | 2025-07-30 12:45:33+00:00
I'm excited by the idea of pgfdb*. I think it could be a great. postgres, with foundation replacing the transaction system to provide all the benefits that brings, horizontal scalability, automatic sharding, replication, and fault tolerance, and performance. foundationdb is 20+ years ahead of postgres in terms of distributed transaction theory.

* https://github.com/fabianlindfors/pgfdb
by simonw | 2025-07-30 12:45:40+00:00
You can try it here: https://chat.qwen.ai/?model=Qwen3-30B-A3B-2507

I got a cute pelican out of it (with a smile!) https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct...

I ran a version of it on my Mac using https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Inst... - it uses 30GB of RAM so probably needs 48GB for comfort.
by fzwang | 2025-07-30 12:45:42+00:00
In some ways, it's not better. I agree that the shift is now going towards more real-world experience rather than academics. Part of the motivation for me to create the program was to introduce more self-direction and real-world problems[1].

In addition, I think it's useful to separate education from schooling. What we often confound is the actual acquisition of useful knowledge (fundamental meaning of education) and our institutions (education systems). Learning on your own is very much education!

However, I think employment etc are more complex than just education. There are other factors, like social acceptability, political risk, etc. I've talked to managers who are just risk-averse when it comes to non-degreed students. They'll privately accept that this person has all the skills, maybe even more so than other candidates, but they can't accept them because if this candidate messes up, they will get blamed for hiring them. The political risk is too much, and would be much less if the candidate has more degrees. The systems of accountability is messed up but that's the reality young people have to navigate. They have to understand the markedness of not having a degree. It's sorta like the social version of "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

Depending on what they want to do, the degree won't matter. If you start your own company, obviously no one will care if you have a degree. Some investors see it as a plus. You can argue that putting a 4-yr university tuition as startup capital will teach more useful skills than a degree, even if they don't pursue entrepreneurship later. But most people are not willing or can't take those risks.

[1]https://www.divepod.to
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-30 12:45:46+00:00
There is a source block for your mic and or audio in. That was one of the first things I played with to understand sdr. I remember seeing a strong tone on a waterfall plot that I could not hear, thinking it was an articfact, then looking at the frequency and realizing I wouldn't be able to hear it. Turned out it was a crt TV. That kind of dates the story. Fun to be had.
by EdSchouten | 2025-07-30 12:47:16+00:00
That's not entirely true: with CBOR you can add custom data types through custom tags. A central registry of them is here:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/cbor-tags/cbor-tags.xhtml

This is, for example, used by IPLD (https://ipld.io) to express references between objects through native types (https://github.com/ipld/cid-cbor/).