MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JonathanRaines | 2025-07-27 11:18:31+00:00
I advise scepticism.

This work does have some very interesting ideas, specifically avoiding the costs of backpropagation through time.

However, it does not appear to have been peer reviewed.

The results section is odd. It does not include include details of how they performed the assesments, and the only numerical values are in the figure on the front page. The results for ARC2 are (contrary to that figure) not top of the leaderboard (currently 19% compared to HRMs 5% https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2025/leaderboa...)
by perching_aix | 2025-07-27 11:19:48+00:00
When I watch conference recordings from CCC, Defcon, Black Hat, GDC, etc., "powerpoints" (slidedecks) work just fine for me, I'm highly engaged for hours on end. Maybe it's not the format that's the issue but the content, and PPT is just being scapegoated?

In a way, even most high quality YouTube content is little more than a presentation.

FYI, site is down, so this is only in reaction to the title. Likely the only valid excuse for ever doing so.
by greatgib | 2025-07-27 11:20:11+00:00
I think that it is just the case of a Windows power user that is so used too it's ecosystem that he did not yet aquire the ease of use of linux native things.

PowerShell give the impression of being simple for basic users but it's a cluster shell of complexity. With a mess of everything being subtly different and broken. Just look at the case of Microsoft that hijacked the curl command in PowerShell with different arguments.

It's even worse if you are an intense user of vscode because they will obviously go hand to hand.

The whole article has proof of my opinion.

For example: still have not bothered to add tab completion to my shell scripts because of the extra steps involved. I am lazy.

PowerShell gives you this for free when you write a “cmdlet”

He says that PowerShell gives the completion for free but for that he has to create a cmdlet and fill the prototype and typing info going with it. And that will just give you basic argument completion but not logical one like a lot of tools do.

So it is not at all "free", just it is used to do it with PowerShell so doesn't notice the cost anymore. Like people saying that they never encounter bugs and annoying issues with Windows when they have some every few hours but they are totally used to it anymore.
by bobek | 2025-07-27 11:20:17+00:00
The site appears to be down. HM hug of death, maybe?

Writing isn't just communication—it's a thinking tool that forces clarity and precision. Yet I still get pushback when advocating for written narratives over slide decks in technical decision-making. Writing is frequently considered "extra work" :(

I was even so frustrated that I've put together https://www.bobek.cz/written-narratives/
by bremon | 2025-07-27 11:20:54+00:00
As a warning: every time I’ve pushed hard, then had to rein it in and do less, I’ve gotten fired.

There’s nothing you can do that makes you irreplaceable, even if you’re the only one in the world that can do it.

It’s fine if you want to stay in your happy place as the only one that can do X and then keep selling them on the value you provide and how you’re doing big things. But, nothing lasts.

Don’t burn out, but sitting on your ass is a bad strategy.
by ben_w | 2025-07-27 11:22:11+00:00
Given how short the proposal's tethers are, I'd suggest one can very easily reduce the peak G-force for any given linear speed by making the tethers longer. Once they get to the physical extremes (especially the bit at the end about enhancing tensile strength with an electric charge, which I suspect will involve surface voltages sufficient for pair production from any stray electrons accelerated from one to the other*), it stops being easy.

It's SpinLaunch from solar orbit rather than the surface of the Earth (in fact, they themselves say so at the end of 11.1). Even for the current tech demo of SpinLaunch, that was getting 10k G and the company found it wasn't too difficult to make payloads survive that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-DjBHroA1I

Yes, that's 10x-100x less than what you're asking (I've only skim-read the paper, your 100k-1M is certainly plausible given what they're focusing on is the "can it be done at all" and not a detailed launch proposal), but in practice if we were limited to 10k (we're probably not) that only means making the tether 10x-100x the length in this paper.

* My citation here is just "gut feeling" as I play around with ideas like this from time to time, and this particular thing, using electric forces for a non-gravitational orbit, was something I came up with and then rejected on this basis as part a hard-science tractor beam in the novel I've still not finished writing, and the accidental antimatter problem happened with relatively small accelerations for a plausible mass probe.
Show HN: Book2Speech – books to near-human quality AI‑narrated audiobooks
by orencoda | 2025-07-27 11:22:43+00:00
I’m building Book2Speech (book2speech.com), an app to turn your own ebooks (PDF/EPUB) into high‑quality AI‑narrated audiobooks.

Goal: highest quality voices for long‑form listening, with prosody, pacing and pronunciation that don’t fatigue.

Fill in the feedback on the demo page and sign up for beta!

Does it sound better than existing TTS apps on the market? Does it replace purchasing human narrated audiobooks for you?
by xandrius | 2025-07-27 11:22:55+00:00
Blaming the tool for poor/lazy use of it is a cheap and easy attack.

At the end of the day PowerPoint is nothing special, it's just that many people start preparing a topic/subject by making bullet lists. If you're lazy, your job is done: you copy 1to1 that list into a sequence of slides and call it a day.

If you're slightly less lazy, you might look for images/graphs/content from somewhere else to support your presentation.

Everything changes when you regard the slides as being 100% for the audience and not for you, the speaker. That's when you start thinking about the UX of that, putting yourself into the shoe of who's forced to sit through what you're trying to deliver.

But again, blaming the tool is easy and doesn't address the root cause: many people who give presentations, either don't want to give them (someone might have told them that they must) or they do it purely for themselves (or don't really care about the audience).
by microtonal | 2025-07-27 11:24:54+00:00
paying for service for years

Isn't this the main point of the article? The community feeds such a service with knowledge and in the users and up paying a lot for the all the knowledge they contributed themselves (possibly after an acquisition, leaving the original philosophy behind). The article mentions https://wanderer.to/, which leads to a community-owned data set.

Of course, some new federated service is most likely going to have a subpar user experience, but we will never get there if we are only feeding into semi-closed ecosystems.
Show HN: Thread4.eu – Platform to deploy a Python function to the web in seconds
by joexbayer | 2025-07-27 11:25:01+00:00
Hi! I’ve always wanted a simple way to throw my Python projects online. Just to try things out, share them, or test a webhook with a real endpoint. But every time I hit the same wall: Buy a server, Set up HTTPS, Configure DNS, Get a domain. Write boilerplate to glue it together.

It always felt like too much for something so small that I wanted to test.

So Ive been hacking on Thread4 (currently in alpha): a tiny platform where you can write a Python function and go live instantly at yourname.thread4.eu. It’s not for production use, just quick testing, experimenting, or sharing your idea without setting anything up. Everything runs in Docker, hosted in the EU

Some example sites ive built using it: https://bookshelf.thread4.eu/ https://mealby.thread4.eu/ https://mock.thread4.eu/

Would love some feedback or any ideas!
by malthaus | 2025-07-27 11:25:33+00:00
nothing grinds my gears more than "management wisdom" like this and people who then attribute success to small details like that.

amazon could have thrived the same way had they used powerpoint, maybe even more. we will never know. also, different people communicate differently. dictating 6-pagers makes you select for people who prefer that, therefore having less diversity in thinking.
Ask HN: Open source projects make money？
by neocanable | 2025-07-27 11:27:46+00:00
I launched a open source project of decompile Android/Java(https://github.com/neocanable/garlic) two years ago, It is very small and super fast, and it can be easily integrated with other projects, such as modifying the bytecode of jvm/dalvik.

What confuses me now is that I want to make money from this project, but I can only think of providing customized services. Can anyone give me some advice? Or should I give up the idea of making money on this project?
by ricardo81 | 2025-07-27 11:28:19+00:00
I don't know the finer details of that, but weren't they already travelling towards obscurity by the time she arrived?

Yahoo was a defacto entry point into the wider web and as Google gained popularity I think the average web savviness of people meant people had less reasons to arrive at Yahoo. Having a search deal with Google at least guaranteed their relevance for a while.
by dostick | 2025-07-27 11:28:36+00:00
Until capitalism is fixed or replaced with a better system (not communism) it will happen. This is a very popular area of interest for general public, with millions using it. Such service should be run by government. And everyone laughs. But that’s the idea behind government and society. Not just collect taxes and provide basic services. the ineffective and outdated democratic system that needs update for modern times.
by _heimdall | 2025-07-27 11:28:39+00:00
Not sure why the GP got down voted, you two are saying effectively the same thing.

Liberalism used to be about the individual and individual rights/freedoms. The term has been redefined (at least in the US) to focus on social and collective issues. When you focus on collective issues you inevitably ban things deemed worse for the collective and enforce those bans on anyone who doesn't conform.
by fcpk | 2025-07-27 11:28:51+00:00
I use both for complex cooking. I find myself using induction 90% of the time. It heats faster, it heats more consistently and it's much easier to clean. The only time I find gas useful is when doing things that require a lot of moving the pan work(sauteeing food in the air, flambée, and similar). Induction hobs with a temperature sensor are absolutely amazing to use for exact temperature cook. Also it is a lot safer with toddlers and children around.

I haven't found it to be rough on pans, but I only use thick stainless steel pans with aluminium/copper core.

PS: yes, gas is enjoyable as it gives you this primal heat feeling:)
by drysine | 2025-07-27 11:29:08+00:00
>basically only became anti-Russia when he tried negotiating the end of the conflict in Donbass/Luhansk and then of course, when Russia fully invaded

Here are "NGO"s threatening Zelensky with another Maidan right after his election [0]:

As civil society activists, we present a list of “red lines not to be crossed”. Should the President cross these red lines, such actions will inevitably lead to political instability in our country and the deterioration of international relations:

Security Issues:

- holding a referendum on the negotiations format to be used with the Russian Federation and on the principles for a peaceful settlement

- conducting separate negotiations – without the participation of Ukraine’s Western partners – with the Russian Federation, members of the occupation authorities and their armed groups and gangs in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, Crimea and Sevastopol

- fulfilling the ultimatum requirements demanded by the aggressor state or achieving compromise with the Kremlin at the cost of making concessions to the detriment of national interests, national sovereignty, territorial integrity and order, and independent domestic and foreign policies of Ukraine

[0] https://uacrisis.org/en/71966-joint-appeal-of-civil-society-...
by microtonal | 2025-07-27 11:30:48+00:00
In some European countries protection is even stronger. If a position becomes unnecessary, you first have to try to find another position within a company that requires a comparable level of education. You can only fire people for grave negligence or for violating rules, or lay them off e.g. if your company has to in order to survive.

From what I have heard (but IANAL), Germany has weaker protections (which is relevant here). Also, typically people sign away their rights, trading them for a good payout + a good recommendation for a next job.
by sh_tomer | 2025-07-27 11:30:57+00:00
I think Jeff Bezos is not blaming the tool, but rather the concept of Powerpoint/slides and how people usually communicate when they are using that tool. As an example, Powerpoint is really a tool for selling, and internally in the company the last thing you want is to sell, as you want to hear opinions, open a discussion, encourage questions, and wonder your way as a team to a solution.
by corimaith | 2025-07-27 11:31:20+00:00
A political system is how you resolve political heterogenity; Indeed it is because there are different groups with conflicting interests that it is precisely we have politics. There is no homogenous blob known as the "people". There are farmers associations, homeowners associations, capitalists, religious groups, ethnic groups, intelligista, etc, all with their own aims that may or may not align. "Results" and "Meritocracy" in that sense is just a childish understanding of governance while fully ignoring the realities of politics.

Competence is in high supply at group level, most interest groups are quite competent at pursuing their interests when they have the agency to do so. When they can't, it's because they're getting shafted by another group with more power. Thus then they need to convince other groups to help them or destroy the opposing group.

A democratic system is when they choose to resolve their differences peacefully via voting systems. But that is also means that deadlock can often occur if they cannot actually resolve things at discrete level and nothing happens. Not to mention some groups may choose create to externalities anyways if others won't hound them for it.

A dictatorship/oligarchic system is when one group instead just dominates the other groups by force and declares their own interest as sovereign. And that does work, but can you win the civil war that ensues? Or will you just lead the country to ruin like in so many states in Africa or the Middle East? And there are many groups like Capitalists that you will never fully have control, for they have the support of the larger global capitalist system at their back. Even dicators hesitate to nationalize foreign coporations or cancel their debts.
by Xylakant | 2025-07-27 11:31:43+00:00
That depends on what you consider noticeable. A lot of things are noticeable (and noticed) on the local level. The folks that organise reading sessions with the kids a my sons school. The people managing the local hockey club. People doing local education in IT. Organizing the neighborhood meetup. The people that do hack and tell. Blog about what they’re doing by as fun projects.

They may not be known beyond their local communities, but they have impact on society. Most of them are contend with that. If you’re looking to change the world, then that’s likely not good enough, but then again, if you’re looking to do that it’s unlikely that you will achieve that as a rank and file employee in a corporation.
by _heimdall | 2025-07-27 11:31:56+00:00
> Are there other things to change if you care about the planet? Sure, but that's not the point and doing only one of them isn't going to make a dent on the upcoming climate catastrophes.

It's really interesting to me that this argument comes up often in environmental issues but is treated like the plague in other areas.

There was a thread a few days ago about the potential defunding of federal weather reporting services. I raised this same basic point, that we must do something about our deficit and even small cuts will help relative to doing nothing.

That landed like a lead balloon, the pain caused by any spending cuts just aren't acceptable to most people, unlike the pains caused by any regulations intended to help the environment.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-07-27 11:32:17+00:00
so much this. even late 2000s had an upstream problem.

impossible to serve anything with ISP blocking common ports to save their precious upstream bandwidth in a cable network, which is mostly downstream.

i couldn't believe when i moved to a place that had newer DSL tech (one block from the ATT brick building holding the city repeaters, so zero latency baby!) and while cable was giving everyone way over 100mbps connections i was only on 3mbps, but zero latency and 3mbps up too against who knows what that best-case-100mps-down cable really had for up... i could setup servers, had all open ports etc. it was mind blowing and at the same time it's so stupid that it highlights how bad it was then. we still had T1s at work in 2005 iirc.
by zzzeek | 2025-07-27 11:32:56+00:00
Yup, when headhunters reach out with all these idiotic startups that I know full well are just playing the game of "see if you can bullshit long enough for someone to buy your useless company" I don't even laugh anymore, just shake my head. If you have real life obligations and can't afford to hop jobs every year, never work for a startup.
by wbnns | 2025-07-27 11:33:16+00:00
Nice work; this is super interesting and clearly reflects a lot of thoughtful planning.

At this stage, I’d suggest actively joining a range of communities to gather feedback on how they might leverage this in their apps. A good starting point is the Base ecosystem[1], which lists projects with active Discords and Telegrams. You’ll find similar directories for Solana[2], Ethereum L2s, and other networks.

My main critique is around the compliance claims. Many jurisdictions, US included, lack clear guidance, and the landscape is changing quickly. There is a lot of gray area.

From a builder’s perspective, the key question is: What exactly does integrating this tool achieve in terms of regulatory compliance? Can they confidently rely on it as compliant? If so, where and how?

You might consider partnering with legal firms or compliance leaders who work directly with foundations and top-tier apps. Their input could help align your product with real-world needs and create a feedback loop that keeps the tool aligned with evolving guidance.

Finally, this seems like a massive lift to maintain. Curious how you plan to manage costs to keep it in sync over the next 3, 6, or 9 months—and how it sustains itself long-term.

Hope that helps!

[1] https://base.org/ecosystem [2] https://solapps.dev/
by ookdatnog | 2025-07-27 11:33:23+00:00
> If we were to survey those biologists, what would they say? Same regarding an infertile person, and cancer. I think scientists have already resolved the questions you're posing.

If a definition exists that avoids all these edge cases, please provide it. I am not aware of a definition of "organism" that would resolve all the problems in your stance.

> Most pro choice people won't use it, because it means abortions would have to be very restricted.

The most common pro-choice argument is based on bodily autonomy, for which the personhood of the fetus is irrelevant. It suffices to observe that there is no other situation where the law prioritizes one's duty to care for another over one's bodily autonomy, so even if the fetus is a person, the state cannot force you to carry them to term.

So you are technically correct in stating that it is rarely used as a defense for the pro-choice position, but not "because it means abortions would have to be very restricted". In the bodily autonomy argument, the personhood of the fetus is irrelevant.

I agree with the bodily autonomy argument and the broader pro-choice position, but in this case I'm not really making a political argument, but a philosophical one, which is: it's a mistake to strongly identify personhood with the property of "being an organism" / "being alive".
by vouwfietsman | 2025-07-27 11:33:55+00:00
> Rust is a system language, so you should have the control you need

I don't think this argument is promising. Its not about the power of the language, but the power of the abstractions you provide over the various GPU APIs.

In fact, I could argue one of the main selling points of Rust (memory safety) has limited applicability in GPU land, because lifetimes are not a thing like they are in CPU land.

I'm sure there's other benefits here, not least the tooling, but certainly the language is not the main selling point...
by fcpk | 2025-07-27 11:34:03+00:00
Try a keto or even better a carnivore diet. It has been transformative for quite a few people. It doesn't work for all but it is a form of elimination diet, and at least for me, most plants cause me substantial gut & inflammation issues. There's a lot of dogma around "eat plants to feel better", but for some it's the opposite. My guts have completly healed from heavy issues after switching to 99% animal sourced diet(mostly fish, but also clean simple meat)
by nicoburns | 2025-07-27 11:34:21+00:00
You could either use Dioxus-Native which combines Blitz with Dioxus (a React-like framework but in Rust).

Or you could implement the EventHandler trait https://docs.rs/blitz-dom/latest/blitz_dom/trait.EventHandle...

In either case you will recieve the event as a Rust struct passed to a Rust function. So you could call Rust depdencies directly, and C dependencies would just require Rust bindings.
by jamesholden | 2025-07-27 11:35:01+00:00
He did note that in the article. It's under 1). at the bottom as well.

> "I realize PowerShell is cross-platform (I wrote this on macOS) but good luck evangelizing it to teams used to Linux."

Well, this is about his _own_ use no? So why not just use powershell in Linux? If it's good, tell us why. I actually am in the same boat. I spent a lot of time learning it, and I do know bash, but not as well. If there is a happy medium here, it's nice to hear your experience about that. Not just say 'well good luck convincing others'.
by yahoozoo | 2025-07-27 11:35:07+00:00
Seems like maybe this is over complicating it. The service provider shouldn’t care who or _what_ is making the requests to their APIs. 10 agents should just be billed as if it were 10 people. I don’t see a reason for the service to “be nice” and charge less because the client’s agents are shitty and need 10 requests to do something that should have only taken a fraction of that.