MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by physicsguy | 2025-07-14 14:31:14+00:00
Well, most cars are bought on finance here, so that's not really surprising. Plus Martin Lewis, who is a sort of personal finance crusader has been shouting from the rooftops about this issue.

It's a really weird one, effectively, car dealerships can offer finance to customers. Generally many of these customers won't be able to get an unsecured loan for the value of the cars they're interested in, which is why they get finance through the dealerships. The dealerships make commission on the finance they sell. They had to disclose this for many years in the finance paperwork. The court case that was lost by a dealership was that the size of the "secret" commission wasn't disclosed to the car buyer who might have sought finance somewhere else had they known. This is all quite unlikely because if you were going to do that, you'd likely have taken out a loan prior to going to purchase the car, which is why this is so odd.

The government is halfheartedly signalling that they may seek to limit through legislation any compensation because it's likely to ruin the UK car lending market which will then kill off what vestiges of car manufacturing still remain in the UK.
Show HN: Clu3 – Team up with GPTs in a 2v2 game of codenames
by tdsone3 | 2025-07-14 14:31:27+00:00
We wanted to know how well LLMs can predict what you think and put them to the test in a game of codenmaes! Grab a friend and play in two teams, each consisting of one human and one LLM. Do you think LLMs can grok your clues?
by samuel | 2025-07-14 14:31:44+00:00
One of these obviously hasn't happened, but it might be, hence my excitement. I don't know how likely the experts think it is (~1%, ~10%,etc...) but I guess the odds aren't high.

With regards to the other one (AI), I did not claim anything else than a subjective assesment. I did not expect to see an AI capable of mantaining a conversation aloud, for example. May be I'm easy to impress.
by roywiggins | 2025-07-14 14:31:49+00:00
It's a $10 billion piece of hardware parked 930,000 miles away.

> Reid said STScI does not yet have a specific plan to deal with JWST’s budget shortfalls, but it will almost certainly involve reducing staff.

> “It’s fewer people, really,” Neill Reid, multi-mission project scientist at STScI, told Astronomy. “[JWST has] got 17 different modes. Each of those modes needs people to support it, to calibrate it, to keep it going. So, if you cut the funding, you have fewer people. And you can’t ask people to do twice as much work. So what will happen is that there will be potentially fewer modes available. There will be less user support.”
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-14 14:31:50+00:00
Part of it too is that unlike circa 2012 we are all far more aware that it's not simply an ad. An ad means you're basically under corporate surveillance, and they gleefully not only use that info to "better serve you ads" (i.e. better manipulate your purchasing), they gleefully sell that info to other parties 1) without your consent or 2) alerting you to who has it. Every ad you see is another pandora's box opening up and spreading your info to basically anyone who wants it, and you're not really aware of what exactly is happening under the hood. There's no transparency, and certainly no way to undo the damage. Even the services that purportedly help you with that get caught turning around and selling your data all over again.

Point being, it's not just an ad. It's not just some cereal commercial broadcast to everyone watching cable based on the viewing habits of large swaths of the population - relatively general stuff. It's decades of investment and research weaponized against us to extract as much info about us as possible to use it against us for maximum profit with no concern for how it impacts us or ability to ever opt out.
by acedTrex | 2025-07-14 14:32:52+00:00
A lot of the conversation about "simplicity" with kubernetes ignores that there are MANY different distributions of k8s.

I would argue that k3s on a vm is not too much harder to setup than a normal reverse proxy setup. And the configs are a bit easier to find on a whim when coming back after months.

Obviously a full self hosted setup of k8s is pretty large task but in other forms its a competitive option in the "simple" area.
by vunderba | 2025-07-14 14:33:02+00:00
Was just coming to say that there's definitely a genetic component. Even in my more sedentary periods of life, my resting HR never really peaked above ~55 BPM. Playing tennis and going for regular runs with my husky puts my resting HR at 38-40bpm. My father who also runs and plays sports has a similar heart rate.

Just so we're clear on definitions, resting HR is your heart-rate AT REST (meaning sitting or lying down quietly), it's not necessarily your HR while you are sleeping which may be potentially lower.
Show HN: "Who is hiring?" organized in a spreadsheet by AI agent
by pushpankar | 2025-07-14 14:33:06+00:00
Hi HN, I organized this month's Who is Hiring using an AI agent. I have been building agent-rover.com to do repetitive tasks like data entry, finding candidates, or doing the social media outreach. It took around 11 hours to organize this into a spreadsheet with 1 minor hiccup. Parsing and extracting information was relatively easy. I had most trouble getting LLMs to enter data at correct location. LLMs are capable of doing these tasks if you carefully extract and feed the data. Here is the link to 11hr video of agent-rover doing the data entry- https://youtu.be/oIzGsAH2qrU.

I'm also building an agent that will go through "who wants to be hired", gather their resume, LinkedIn profile, and github profile if providided. Then it will check if the prompt and JD and the candidate's profile matches up. Then it will shortlist the candidate for you in a spreadsheet. If this sounds useful to you please fill form here, https://forms.gle/J2UFQYNSYfSNW9uJ9, so that I can reach out to you when that is ready.
by watwut | 2025-07-14 14:33:17+00:00
I was definitely waiting for sales when I was younger when the games were too expensive for me. And when my earnings went up, I became more willing to buy them full price.

No, I would not buy those games for full price. And not just games. And not just me.

It is the same deal with black Friday sales, with people who buy used stuff etc.
by BSOhealth | 2025-07-14 14:33:51+00:00
Is there some probabilistic named theory for thinking there is greater chance for life to exist the closer to the center of a solar system? almost like sluice box or coin sorter, where as outer planets develop life, get blasted by asteroids, and the remains drift further inwards?

At least up to some distance where carbon vaporizes by whatever heat source exists.

In other words, what’s the mathematical principle for Goldilocks zones
by zeristor | 2025-07-14 14:33:54+00:00
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by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-14 14:34:10+00:00
I'm having trouble understanding what "your stuff" even is. You apparently believe that diplomats act independently of the brazilian administration and that the president's words and actions have no diplomatic consequences. Lula's words directly contradict what you said in your first post: he said he will retaliate with tariffs if negotations do not move forward.

I'll just do what you asked and refrain from replying to you in the future.
by oblio | 2025-07-14 14:34:14+00:00
You mention Django, but these days, are you using the full Django experience or are you mostly writing REST APIs?

In Java land a very nice and much lighter weight framework is Dropwizard: https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard

It's basically a sort of All-Stars collection of Java libraries, nicely packaged and with some nice conventions.

Towards the more servless route route there's Micronaut: https://micronaut.io/
by JustBreath | 2025-07-14 14:34:58+00:00
The elephant in the room here is how you ethically get people to onboard without an existing community / fomo / money.

The trick is getting the content creators there, but most of them are ultimately and fairly interested in making money, and your new platform wont have that for them.

Bluesky has done alright, but that was a black swan event Elon Musk inspired.
by bubblebeard | 2025-07-14 14:35:05+00:00
I can relate. I’ve been using CA:s/LLM:s for various projects for the past year. It started to take the enjoyment out of it for me too. It’s a tool like any other though, just gotta figure out how to use it correctly. For me at least, I only use CA:s now to write code I already know how it should work. So I just use it to write code I’ve already written in my head, if that makes sense. And you should always review code produced by an AI very carefully.
by vbezhenar | 2025-07-14 14:35:05+00:00
> No one in their right mind would say: just use the standard library but I've seen it online. That discourse is not helping.

I would say that.

The most important thing about standard library is its stability. You won't ever need to touch code that works with standard library. It's finished code. Other than bug fixes, of course.

Third-party libraries is a very different thing.

They gets abandoned all the time, so now you're left with burden. You either need to migrate to another library, maintain that abandoned library or live with huge chunk of code that might be vulnerable.

They gets changed often enough, as their developers probably not so careful about backwards compatibility, compared to core language developers.

Third-party library is a liability. Very rarely its source code is an ideal fit to your application. Often you'll use 10% of the library, and the rest is dead weight at best, vulnerability source at worst. Remember log4shell? Instead of using standard logging code in Java, some developer decides to pull log4j library which is very nice to use, has lots of features. It can even download and execute code behind your back, very featureful.

Of course I'm not advocating to rewrite the world. This is insane. Some problems are just too big to solve by yourself. I also should note, that different ecosystems have different approaches to the language library and overall library culture. JS is terrible, while Go is not that bad, but it's not ideal either.

But my absolutely 100% always approach is to use standard library first and foremost. I won't use third-party library just to save few lines of code or make code more "beautiful". I prefer dependency-free boring repetitive code any day.

And if I'm using third-party library, I'm very picky about its stability and transitive dependencies.

It also depends on kind of company. My experience has always been: you write some service, you throw it at production, it works for the next 20 years. So you want this code to be as self-contained as possible, to reduce "chore" time with dependency management. Perfect application is a dependency-free software which can be upgraded by changing "FROM" line in Dockerfile. It is stable enough that you can trust CI do that.
by Sanzig | 2025-07-14 14:35:43+00:00
Ah, whoops, you're right! Somehow my brain defaulted to Kelvin. So 740 K down to 290 K. Carnot COP alone is only around 65%, you'll be lucky to do half that, you need the stuff outside to survive heat and sulfuric acid, and you'll need to power it somehow. You could run it off a nuclear reactor, but your reactor will not be very efficient since it has to sink heat at over 700 K.

> Also it is one thing to get a person to 70 Bar in experimental conditions. It is another to actually stay at that pressure for prolonged periods and do anything useful.

Fully agreed - you'd have to test this long term in a hyperbaric habitat on Earth. You may end up needing some sort of medical or pharmaceutical intervention to make it possible. Very risky.

Even firmer in the realm of science fiction. It'd be a good hard sci-fi novel though.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-14 14:36:10+00:00
Basically, if you have any tracking on your site, you either

a) Show the cookie banners if somebody is coming from a GPDR or GDPR-compliant country, since it's required by EU law and these GPDR-compliant laws.

b) You geofence your site and prevent access.

So, in practice regardless you whether sell anything or not, if your site, proverbially, touches European soil, you have to show these choices.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-07-14 14:36:19+00:00
"I was there" too and somehow this is not my reaction at all.

Everyone knows the obvious reasons we don't use crts any more.

It's true but it's a most uninteresting observation that only cares about practical aspects. Practical aspects matter, none of my own desks has a crt, but they do not define life itself.

Those facts do not at all invalidate the point about the desirable aspects which have been lost, or the fact that the merely interesting and remarkable aspects are interesting and remarkable.

The desirable and/or interesting and remarkable features of a crt are still cool, impressive, fun, desirable, even though we all voluntarily choose to use something else basically everywhere we want a screen because of the practical reasons that just happen to overwhelm.
by anonymous_sorry | 2025-07-14 14:36:42+00:00
Pretty sure I had this corrected on more than one occasion when I was at school. Also licence/license. I remember one day figuring out the parallel with advice/advise as a way to remember which was which. So C for the noun and S for the verb.

Weirdly (to my brain), Americans always spell practice with a C, but always spell license with an S.
by throaway955 | 2025-07-14 14:36:52+00:00
Some people DO keep it off. Ive never been obese but ive been overweight, extremely unhealthy, pre diabetic, couch-potato for years at a time. For me, it's always a matter of getting into the mindset that these things are not just "not good," they are literally poison for me!

I've seen a few obese friends of mine lose weight and gain it back. And while I can't put words in their mouths, I have never noticed them have the attitude that "being obese will kill me."
by rootingforroots | 2025-07-14 14:37:03+00:00
> they are proper italians.

The unification of Italy happened in the 1860s, the concept of "proper italian" is quite new, as well the concept of a single language for the Italian land.

> Just because your grandparents came from italy doesn't make you italian.

Italian consitution says otherwise.

> the best meatballs and pasta I've ever had was in Phoenix

The inclusion of tomatoes in italian cuisine is quite recent, many italians emigrated to americas before mainland italians adopted tomatoes.

> I dislike the "my family has italian roots so I can claim that I'm italian" thing.

You dislike it, and you wish to spend your precious time focused on what you dislike and trying to convince other people to dislike it.
by titusjohnson | 2025-07-14 14:37:07+00:00
I had proper Flu this year, and almost exactly 4 weeks later caught COVID for the first time. Prior to these events I had a 5 year streak of being completely illness free, not a sniffle, not a head cold.

Both illnesses completely K.O.'d me. Literally 5 days straight of laying on the couch alternating between sleeping, sweating, or just groaning when I tried to move. So uncomfortable I couldn't even enjoy watching TV. I spent most of my awake time just kinda.... staring at the ceiling.

During the Flu on day 4 or 5 I was starting to feel a bit better, I was starting to care that my house was a bit of a wreck and the carpet in particular getting pretty gross (lots of dog treat crumbs). I did a half-assed job of vacuuming 2 bedrooms, the living room, and the den. Took maybe 15 minutes. That was the extent of my activity for the rest of the day, I was just wrecked. Had to sit down to catch my breath and get control of some violent shakes.

Next time I catch the flu I have to try going for a jog. It would probably put me into a coma long enough to sleep through the rest of the cold.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 14:37:08+00:00
True. But a lot of institutions in America had anti-black policies that they've changed.

Mormons have a reputation of being sexist, there is evidence for that, Salt Lake City has the highest rate of cosmetics consumption in the US. However...

I used to give blood and to make it more interesting I toured all the places where the Red Cross set up centers, and one place was the Mormon Temple. Usually you don't see a lot of women giving blood, not least because they don't make as many red blood cells as men. I saw at least as many women giving blood as men there and, I don't know anything about them, but they were not having the kind of "tradwife" conversations that "hippie mamas" have in Ithaca, but were talking about international travel, business, volunteering and all sorts of adventures. They may well have been tradwives but they were certainly not just tradwives.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-07-14 14:37:15+00:00
Well, if you have a fixed route you are not limited by space on the vehicle to put solar on, but can provide electricity via a rail or wire or something and then gather energy on some larger Solarstation or from wind turbines or what else comes to mind.

Then you can reduce rolling resistance by using steel tracks and steel wheels ...

... and oh, you have invented the tram/light rail ;)

(But even with solar you need to finance the construction and maintenance, even the slow vehicle need some ... thus either tax finance or charge fares or mix income)
by wunused | 2025-07-14 14:38:18+00:00
The software security community has a subsection that focuses on the security of compiled binaries, where understanding assembly has many uses. These uses include binary reverse engineering and proof-of-concept exploit development to demonstrate the severity of a vulnerability.

If these do sound interesting to you, I'd recommend looking into capture the flag (CTF) competitions, and trying reverse engineering or binary exploitation (pwn) challenges. PicoCTF [1] is an entry-level platform that hosts challenges and has references to learning resources - I believe there's a sequence on assembly in the learning resources.

Aside, I also find it useful to know assembly when debugging C/C++ code, as others have suggested.

[1] https://play.picoctf.org
by grishka | 2025-07-14 14:38:46+00:00
Reminds me of those "I updated your dependencies/build system version" and "I reformatted your code" kinds of PRs I got several times for my projects. Yeah, okay, you did this very trivial thing. But didn't you stop to think about the fact that if it's so trivial, there must be a reason I haven't done it myself? "It already works as is" is a valid reason too.
by purplesyringa | 2025-07-14 14:38:50+00:00
It's not hard to formulate why "AI" is bad, at least in its current form. It destroys the education system, is dangerous for environment, things like deepfakes drive us further towards post-truth, it decreases product quality, AI is replacing artists and similar professions rather than technical ones without creating new jobs in the same area, it increases inequality, and so on.

Of course, none of these are caused by the technology itself, but rather by people who drive this cultural shift. The framework difference comes from people believing in short-term gains (like revenue, abusing the novelty factor, etc.) vs those trying to reasonably minimize harm.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-14 14:38:58+00:00
Apt user name, at least.

Propose a business plan to meet the ATACM's capabilities for far less. The Pentagon will be at your door with flowers in a matter of minutes. Trademarks, patents, and copyrights are trivial niceties, when national defense is on the line.

Edit: what you don't see, and are assuming doesn't happen, is the vicious competition that goes on before a military contract is sealed. Grift and overspending happen, because: humans, but weapons are made by the lowest bidder who meets the advertised goals of the program, every time.
by zamadatix | 2025-07-14 14:39:16+00:00
It's a bit hard to call bullshit when even the summary of the discussion is still measured to the microwatt.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were some misalignments in goals though. E.g. if their team's goals are measured in results of typical battery life tests such as "how many hours the computer can sit idle playing a video" then they would be heavily weighted towards caring about these kinds of constantly recurring background draws instead of active usage draws.
by thephyber | 2025-07-14 14:39:19+00:00
Scams will always exist, so long as there are things of value and humans are involved. See different unofficial currencies used in prisons.

When it comes to scams, part of the scam is aiding the victim to making a transaction in a way that can’t be reversed. Cryptocurrencies, call cards, gift cards, even in-game currencies for online games. As long as it is liquid and carries a value, some entrepreneurial scammer will try to use it to increase their profit. Official currency transfer channels (banks, remittance centers) are usually the focus of laws and law enforcement, so scammers know to move to other forms of value. Cut-outs and fences are common in many forms of scams because these are tools that help them avoid the banking systems until the scammed value is laundered.
Show HN: I Built an AI PM So You Can Stop Updating Tickets
by thomask1995 | 2025-07-14 14:40:10+00:00
Hi HN,

When I was in FAANG, I despised ticketing. I was always the eng that refused to update. Then when I was a tech lead, I had the pain of pinging everyone for updates because they hated it too.

Things would go out of date, and then no one would really know if we were on track. We also had little visibility into what the team was doing outside of pinging/standups.

So I made an AI that looks at every commit you push and updates tickets for you. It can create tickets if there isn't one, update, leave comments, tag associated commits etc...

Basically, it's an "AI Board Babysitter" so you can just code and let it take care of the paperwork.

It's very much an MVP and I've got it integrated with a 10 person Startup.

Super quick 2 min set up, just integrates with Github + Linear and optionally Slack for action summaries.

I’d love feedback from fellow engineers, EMs, and PMs. Is this useful? What’s missing? What’s confusing? Would this slot into your workflow?

Give it a go: https://www.usevectra.com/
by rixed | 2025-07-14 14:40:27+00:00
I don't run as much, and never more than 1h, yet it happened several times to me that my phone battery died on me while running. (I'm obviously not carrying a powerbank with me, and my phone is many years old). It would also expect that Strava or the network would fail from time to time (no need to go as far as antarctica for that - I've been living in germany for less than a year and I have lost track already of how many times the 5G/4G network has been out of order for hours). I guess strava has a good networkless mode. Or maybe my experience with tech has been particularly bad and I'm an outlier?
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-14 14:40:30+00:00
I worry about gpu driver support and the like. I have a 2014 Macbook pro that I run linux on, and it's generally great, if you ignore some minor thermal issues. But x265 decoding happens only on the cpu and the gpu support in wayland is lackluster.

It think a modern under 400 laptop would not have all of the above issues.