MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: An iOS TTS app with unlimited hours that can read Kindle books
by stevenhp | 2025-07-30 18:44:41+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

I'm the developer of an iOS app I built to solve my own frustrations with existing text-to-speech tools. I wanted something that had modern, realistic AI voices but didn't make me count characters or watch a clock.

My goal was to create a "set it and forget it" listening experience. The core features are:

Truly Unlimited Listening: No character credits or hourly limits. My goal is for you to listen to a 10-hour audiobook without worrying about a meter running.

High-Quality AI Voices: It uses premium, new-generation AI voices that sound natural and engaging, not robotic.

Reads Almost Anything: You can import content from multiple sources:

PDFs, Epubs, and other documents,Web articles, Kindle books (this was a key feature for me)

The Android version is already in development and is coming soon.

Thanks for checking it out!
Show HN: Tool that backtests your strategy only from a plain English description
by AmineBl | 2025-07-30 18:44:44+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a tool that lets traders backtest strategies by simply describing them in plain English.

Why? Because manual backtesting takes hours (sometimes days) and TONS of effort, especially when you spot new filters or changes you want to test. Most traders either waste tons of time doing it manually or don’t have the coding skills to automate it. I wanted to fix that.

You write:

“Buy when price breaks the previous day high with volume above 1M, stop loss below the low, TP 2R” …and it runs a backtest over historical data and returns the trade results, metrics, entry screenshots, and even AI suggestions to improve your strategy.

It’s still early and needs polish, but the core is working. I'd love feedback on the product, usability, or anything you think could make it better.

You can try the MVP here: https://www.BacktestAI.com/ Happy to answer any questions!
by JdeBP | 2025-07-30 18:44:56+00:00
I've encountered SAUCE, long since; but the page is right. I've personally never directly encountered XBIN, and it does seem that it did not take off as predicted.

* https://acid.org/images/0896/XBIN.TXT

The world does not seem to have managed to do for text (art image) files what TIFF did for graphics files. Although https://16colo.rs/ , recently on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665816) seems to be getting by on just SAUCE plus FILE_ID.DIZ.

See https://github.com/ansilove/ansilove#features , for one example of what we have instead. (-:

I would have quipped that someone has yet to have the idea of using JSON instead of these directly-machine-readable binary formats. But the DurDraw developers have indeed done that very thing.

* https://github.com/cmang/durdraw/blob/master/durformat.md
by EnergyAmy | 2025-07-30 18:45:37+00:00
If you're talking about trans women competing against women, then no. That's men competing against women. I suspect you're quite aware of that and intentionally confusing the two for rhetorical effect, but that's a great example of why protecting the plain-sense definition of words matters. "Woman" means adult female human, which categorically excludes men regardless of their gender identity.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-30 18:45:41+00:00
I'm not really into golang, but if I read this [1] correctly, they seem to append the LSP stuff to every prompt, and automatically after each tool that supports it? It seems a bit more "integrated" than just an MCP.

[1] - https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/blob/317c5dbfafc0ebda...
by 9rx | 2025-07-30 18:46:02+00:00
> fast is easily left behind when looking for frameworks.

Nah. React, for example, only garnered attention because it said "Look how much faster the virtual DOM is!". We could go on all day.

> People want features, people want compatibility

Yes, but under the assumption that it is already built to be as "fast" as possible. "Fast" is assumed. That's why "faster" is such a great marketing trick, as it tunes people into "Hold up. What I'm currently using actually sucks. I'd better reconsider."

"Fast" is deemed important, but it isn't asked for as it is considered inconceivable that you wouldn't always make things "fast". But with that said, keep in mind that the outside user doesn't know what "fast" is until there is something to compare it with. That is how some products can get away with not being "fast" — until something else comes along to show that it needn't be that way.
by rmosolgo | 2025-07-30 18:46:59+00:00
My house! But seriously, I'd say that "raw" makes less of a difference than freshness and the cow's diet. (After all, milk is made out of what the cows eat, and several notable compounds can only be synthesized with a grass-based diet.) Herd health, breed, cleanliness, and milking frequency all make a difference too.

If you can find a local-ish place that rotationally grazes the cows and milks once per day, I'd say go for it.
by apothegm | 2025-07-30 18:47:10+00:00
For me it’s because I enjoy building useful things more than I enjoy futzing with the details of code. I could build something useful in C. Or I could spend the same amount of time building a dozen useful things in Python. With the added benefit that they’re less likely to segfault.

WHY does it matter to you to be that close to the machine? For many of us, we value different things. What you perceive as control, we perceive as fussiness.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-07-30 18:47:10+00:00
Does this analogy really apply? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems like all of this data was publicly available already, and scraped from the web.

In that case, its not a 'hidden camera'...users uploaded this data and made it public, right? I'm sure some were due to misconfiguration or whatever (like we see with Tea), but it seems like most of this was uploaded by the user to the clear web. I'm all for "Dont blame the victims", but if you upload your CC to Imgur I think you deserve to have to get a new card.

Per the article "CommonPool ... draws on the same data source: web scraping done by the nonprofit Common Crawl between 2014 and 2022."
by latchkey | 2025-07-30 18:48:05+00:00
Crazy that I get downvoted for a perfectly valid question, go HN!

I'm not saying that tests are perfect, but if you do find a bug, you write a new test and fix it. You don't add print statements that you expect to keep around any longer than the amount of effort there is to write the test and fix the code.

Maybe this product is for people who don't write tests, but even in this codebase, there is a pretty well done set of tests and zero dogfood usage that I noticed.
by jackcosgrove | 2025-07-30 18:48:06+00:00
The headline is provocative, as some amount of corporate-owned farmland is owned by corporations that are in turn owned by farmers and their families.

I would also push back on the notion that owner-operators are in a better position. It's more accurate to say that farmers who have assets of any kind are better off than those who don't have assets. As an example, generations back in my family we owned a lot of farmland. There were some bad investments made in the farming operation and we almost lost it all. This was in the early 1980s for those who are familiar.

If my grandfather had sold all of his land and equipment in the late 1970s and invested it in the recently-started Vanguard group, rather than re-investing in the farming operation, then my family would be wealthy. Now expecting a farmer to know about index investing and to bet on it when it was just starting is unreasonable. But it's a good lesson in diversification.

When people lionize farming owner-operators, they discount the risk that owner is taking by having so many assets concentrated in one operation. Now farmers do know about investing and diversification, and some do make the rational decision to cash out. Many also don't, for various reasons.

But it's not totally fair to expect farmers to behave differently than other asset owners because farming is seen romantically or in terms of national security.

This is a different argument than one which would decry the position of tenant farmers. Obviously being a tenant farmer owning nothing but equipment is harder than being a farmer who has $5 million invested somewhere else and rents the land he farms.
by ImJamal | 2025-07-30 18:48:19+00:00
I haven't confirmed the numbers, but I saw an estimate of 75% of Israeli military funding came from foreign aid (primarily the US) and those numbers did not include the US sitting in the Mediterranean with ships intercepting rockets.

If they had to cut down their military to 25% they would collapse from outside attacks. Israel would probably figure out the funding so it wouldn't drop by that much though.
by silentpuck | 2025-07-30 18:48:42+00:00
I’m really glad to hear that. It’s easy to feel alone in that view these days — but the more I talk to people who build things close to the metal, the more I realize we’re not as rare as it seems.

I remember trying Python once — it didn’t click. Then C++ — and when I hit memory management, I didn’t turn away… I got curious.

So I looked deeper — into C. And somehow… I stayed.

Thanks for sharing that.
by ubermonkey | 2025-07-30 18:48:54+00:00
Aero matters a lot, even for enthusiastic amateurs. You're spot on about wheel shape being more flexible with disc brakes vs. rim. Materials matter here, too -- early carbon wheels were crap at stopping vs alloy because the rim brake tracks were iffy on the carbon, and if you let them get too hot on a descent you'd ruin the wheel. But carbon wheels are an ENORMOUS upgrade over alloy in terms of weight, and in terms of aerodynamics, so the desire for carbon helped fuel the shift to disc braking.

Discs are also absolutely better at stopping the bike, especially if it's hilly and SUPER especially if it's wet (or muddy, which is why off road bikes took to disc first).

Even in a flat place like Houston where we never would've gone to disc in the absence of market forces, we all realized quickly how much nicer they were. It's a definite upgrade.

You're also right about the cassette. More cogs mean we can have a wider range AND preserve the small steps between them, which is great for finding the right cadence in a paceline just as it is for accelerating.
by cmilton | 2025-07-30 18:48:54+00:00
Its interesting that you did not quote any of my reply while accusing me of "willfully misrepresenting or twisting what others are saying into something slightly different". The goal was for me to make sure I understood what you are communicating.

It seems we agree. The internet was much more available 15 years again in 2010 than it was prior. Since then, unlimited opportunity has opened to research each perspective, and even share those with people across the world.

At no point in this thread have a resorted to name calling, I hope your day is better.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-30 18:49:16+00:00
Questionable (at best) benefits and yes generally viewed as too risky by most people to consume.

It seems like most people pushing "benefits" of raw milk use the same conspiracy theories to try to say that the many studies are false. And then judging by this particular farm, also downplay the risk and their impact (but not quite 100% since everyone knows there is a risk, it just now much).

If a healty adult wants to make the (questionable) decision to drink raw milk themselves that is one thing. But the parents giving this to their kids should be investigated for child endangerment. There is zero reason that should be acceptable.
by johndhi | 2025-07-30 18:49:59+00:00
I liked this analysis quite a bit. A few reactions:

(1) I don't think a tech company having a monopoly is necessary for a tech company to stop caring about their customers and focus on hype instead. Plenty of public tech companies do this, just to chase stock price and investors.

(2) It's weirdly the opposite mindset that Bezos talked about in that famous old video where he talks about "creating the best experience for the customer" is his business strategy. Interesting. I think ultimately companies may be misguided -- because, in fact, ChatGPT is succeeding because they created a better search experience. And hype bandwagoners may fail because, long-term, customers don't like their products. In other words, this is a bad strategy.

(3) what's weird about AI -- and I guess all hype trains -- is how part of me feels like it's hype, but part of me also sees the value in investing in it and its potential. The hype train itself and the crazy amount of money being spent on it almost defacto means it IS important and WILL be important. It's like a market and consumer interest has been created by the hype machine itself.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-07-30 18:50:30+00:00
Selling the land that had been in the family for generations is what happened recently in my family. My dad (wealthy retired 80 year old engineer) unfortunately decided he wanted the money, instead of keeping it in the family. It has been in our family 150 years. None of us are farmers in the current family, but we had relatives who were still renting the land in the area. They couldn't afford to buy the land either. So no farmers in the family today doesn't make it obviously something that we can keep - still I was disappointed with the outcome.

We sold it to some outside group. Apparently the best way to sell land today is an online action. You announce it ahead of time, there is a minimal amount to start bidding, and then like an ad auction, there is a minimal increment to go up by, fixed time limit of like a week to bid.

I was really sad that it left the family. The sale price of the midwest farm land ended up about $10k an acre for cropland. The amount of money that renting brought in didn't seem like it would be enough for any young person to actually buy land at current prices. I am sure they'd have a lot of tax deductions but can they get a million dollar loan? I expect there will be houses put on the land eventually. I had an idea for how to keep it suitable for future farmland, which was to put solar power on it with a 20 year contract with a local power company (with everything removed after).
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-30 18:50:30+00:00
"The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which 'passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity'." [0]

I read The Society of the Spectacle too young and it broke me forever :(

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
by dttze | 2025-07-30 18:50:33+00:00
Explain the logic of disarming when facing an enemy that will still kill you if you do. The right of return? Really? Israel will never support that. It’s empty rhetoric.

> The plan would culminate with an independent, demilitarized Palestine living side by side peacefully with Israel

Contrast that idea with the rhetoric of people like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. Utter delusion.
by shkkmo | 2025-07-30 18:50:44+00:00
You are correct that the mention of the new law doesn't really make sense in the context of the article.

The currently state of affairs is that "e-bikes" with more than 750W didn't have a legal classification. They couldn't be treated as motorized bicycles or motorcycles under state law so were it seems they were probably legally limited to private property in Connecticut.

This law seems to expand access as to where these kinds of devices can be legally used, so it doesn't make immediate sense in the context of the article. My best guess for actual relevancy is that it also effectively expands the penalties for using them illegally (i.e. in bike paths or without the appropriate license or insurance) since they now qualify legally as a motor vehicle.

Not a lawyer, just an enthusiast who tries to understand the changing regulatory landscape for my hobby.
by olavgg | 2025-07-30 18:51:08+00:00
I disagree, the wealth tax is the issue. The reason the wealth tax is an issue, is that making investments becomes a burden. Norwegian owners have to pay 2.1% of the company value every year as a tax, and when you invest, it can take 5-10 years before you see profits. The calculation is like this: your company is worth 100 million. Your result this year was 0. No gains nor any loss. You still have to pay the wealth tax, and you need to take that money from somewhere. The wealth tax is 1.1% on personal assets. Which means you need to pay 1.1 million. You have to sell a share of your company assets to someone else. You will not get market rate, as you are the initiator for the transaction. We assume you sell assets worth 3 million for just 2.1 million. Now your company has a positive result of 2.1 million. Next is the company tax, 22% which means you have 1.638 million left to pay dividend. The dividend tax is 37.84% which means you as a person now get 1 million to pay the wealth tax.

The exit tax closed a loophole, I do agree that the exit tax needs some adjustments though.
by jackero | 2025-07-30 18:51:17+00:00
Less obvious things that I’ve found over the years are:

- Some people just don’t like to eat that much. They don’t actually have a faster metabolism. Eating is just a chore to them so they rarely do it.

- Some people like eating more and may eat when bored.

- If I’m busy working on something, I will go 12 hours without eating on accident. If I’m doing nothing at all, I may overeat.

- Some people eat much faster than others. It doesn’t matter if you’re eating protein or fat if you inhale two steaks in 10 minutes. You already consumed too many calories. And because you ate double the amount of calories doesn’t mean that you will be full for double the time.

- Some people who eat too fast do something called low-calorie volume eating so they eat fewer calories and this works better for them than eating protein and fat.

- It’s true that exercise doesn’t make up for a bad diet. It’s easier to eat less.

- There are days when I’m out playing sports for like 10 hours. I burn a ton of calories that does need to be made up by eating.

- A lot of people did sports or were outside for hours growing up but don’t anymore due to lifestyle changes (kids for example). That’s an extremely major loss of a calorie sink that isn’t obvious.

- Water weight is a thing but it really doesn’t matter in the long term. It’s more like an offset from your “real weight” but it can only get so far from it. Trends are better for tracking your real weight.
by chamomeal | 2025-07-30 18:51:26+00:00
Only sorta related, but it’s crazy that to me how much our standards have dropped for speed/responsiveness in some areas.

I used to play games on N64 with three friends. I didn’t even have a concept of input lag back then. Control inputs were just instantly respected by the game.

Meanwhile today, if I want to play rocket league with three friends on my Xbox series S (the latest gen, but the less powerful version), I have to deal with VERY noticeable input lag. Like maybe a quarter of a second. It’s pretty much unplayable.
by bdz | 2025-07-30 18:51:40+00:00
I’m on liraglutide (Saxenda) for more than a year now. I lost 68kg (150lbs) and incredibly easy to maintain my weight. I’m doing OMAD (1/23 intermittent fasting) and for me it’s pretty much the perfect meal plan. Not even a diet because I eat whatever I want, just roughly counting calories. My daily exercise is 1 hour walking in the morning and the evening too (~20k steps combined)
by isaacdl | 2025-07-30 18:51:45+00:00
It's actually an FAA regulation. If you are not a licensed commercial pilot, there are extremely strict rules on how and when you can accept ANY money for flying, use of an airplane, etc.

Actually, even if you are a licensed commercial pilot, there are still strict rules around payment. You can be paid for your skill as a pilot, but you cannot, e.g. charge for giving rides in your personal airplane.
by hackinthebochs | 2025-07-30 18:51:57+00:00
Nope. The goal of biology is to understand, which means understanding functions, purpose, goal directedness of organisms. These are teleological, i.e. normative concepts. Since we can understand when biology goes wrong, we can understand what it means for it to go right. Biology as a science is infused with normativity. This is why we say the human species has 10 fingers and 10 toes, not 9.99999. Classification is normative. See teleology in biology for more on this[1]

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleology-biology/
by dpoloncsak | 2025-07-30 18:52:04+00:00
FWIW...I really don't think so. If you say, posted your photo on a bulletin board in your local City Hall, can you prevent it from being defaced? Can you choose who gets to look at it? Maybe they take a picture of it and trace it...do you have any legal ground there? (Genuine Question). And even if so...It's illegal to draw angry eyebrows on every face on a billboard but people still do it...

IMO, it being posted online to a publicly accessible site is the same. Don't post anything you don't want right-click-saved.
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-30 18:52:06+00:00
I had written a program which can convert between XBIN, ANSI, MZM, and other formats, including support for doorway mode in ANSI files (most ANSI art programs do not support doorway mode). This could be used together with MoebiusXBIN or other programs in order to convert them to/from the formats that you will use with other programs. (I had also considered to add a DER-based format later, in case of other features wanted to be included as well, such as animations, character set mapping (including mapping to TRON code and to other character codes), etc; however, this might or might not actually be made.)
by prepend | 2025-07-30 18:52:06+00:00
> what will ever give Israel confidence that Oct 7 will never happen again?

No Hamas in power? Seems like that would give pretty good confidence.

This reminds me of alternate history stories where Japan refused to surrender. The US demanded unconditional surrender in WW2. What would have happened if the axis refused. What would have made the allies confident that the war was over without German and Japanese unconditional surrender.

It seems like Hamas is not surrendering and Israel is demanding that. If Hamas surrendered and left power, would that appease Israel?
by zigzag312 | 2025-07-30 18:52:08+00:00
https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame (runs even on consoles, which is rare for open source game frameworks and engines)

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

https://github.com/bitwarden/server

https://github.com/unoplatform/uno

https://github.com/files-community/Files

https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif

https://github.com/DevToys-app/DevToys

https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass

https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX

https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati

https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryujinx

https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/

https://github.com/orchardcms

https://github.com/piranhacms/piranha.core

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS