MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Slow_Hand | 2025-07-24 18:42:36+00:00
As a record producer, some of the best practice you can do by yourself is to recreate a record you like from scratch.

Remake it from the ground up: the drums, the instrument parts, the mixing, the sonics, the loudness. Everything. Match everything perfectly to the best of your abilities.

You will learn a tremendous amount as you listen deeper and deeper into the record, as it will force you to ask questions about intent and process and balance that a casual listen does not challenge you on.

It’s just like art students with an easel and paint in the museum recreating an existing painting. You will experience every brush stroke and interaction of color, and in doing so learn far more about the masters then you ever could otherwise.
by MinimalAction | 2025-07-24 18:42:59+00:00
To quote Paul Graham: "Writing is thinking. To write well you have to think clearly, and thinking clearly is hard. In fact there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing. You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did: If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking. So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots."

https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html
Show HN: Zodii – a developer-first astrology, numerology and tarot API platform
by alvaropaco | 2025-07-24 18:43:19+00:00
Hi HN! I’m Alex (co‑founder of Zodii), and I built Zodii, a comprehensive REST API suite that lets developers integrate astrology, numerology, and tarot capabilities—fast and free to start.

What it is A spiritual API platform offering zodiac data, birth-chart analysis, numerology, tarot readings, compatibility, and daily horoscopes Instagram Google Play +2 Zodii +2 Apple +2 .

One consistent REST API across all categories—easy for developers to plug in.

Why I built it Developers wanted reliable, accurate spiritual-wellness data without scraping or maintaining astrology libraries. Zodii provides an all-in-one solution, with real-time API responses and free tier access.

How it works under the hood Endpoints for zodiac signs, birth charts, compatibility, numerology, tarot spreads, etc.

Instant, real-time data powered by astronomical algorithms and curated interpretations Zodii .

Rate-limited free tier: enjoy 100 free monthly API calls, then scale up as needed Zodii .

Developer experience Clean REST interface: e.g.

nginx Copy Edit curl "https://www.zodiiapp.com/api/zodiac/aries?token=YOUR_TOKEN" returns structured JSON with strengths/weaknesses, compatibility, and personality profiles Zodii .

Easy onboarding: no credit card, instant token, full docs, demo available.

What’s different Covers astrology, numerology, tarot in one API—no juggling multiple services.

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Free developer tier is generous and supportive of exploration.

Try it out Sign up, get your free token, and start building at https://www.zodiiapp.com/ — fully documented and ready for integration.

What feedback would be amazing How seamless is the API onboarding and documentation?

Are there missing data points or features you'd expect (e.g. specific tarot spreads)?

Any hiccups around rate limits, error handling, or response formats?

I’m here to answer questions, dig into edge cases, or discuss features. Appreciate your feedback—thanks for checking it out!
by gishglish | 2025-07-24 18:44:02+00:00
Is it doing better than 5-6 years ago?

I lived there for a few years, and while the river walks were very pleasant, I don’t have much to say about it particularly otherwise.

The job market was pretty bad, basically limiting you to State gov or one of the handful of insurance companies around and state government work is rough (easily the most fulfilling job I’ve had, but the salary was just way too low.

Seems hard to justify with GA and NC markets nearby unless you’re staying solely for CoL or existing ties.
by avinassh | 2025-07-24 18:44:22+00:00
of all places, I did not expect to get personal attacks on HN :)

> yet makes fundamental mistakes in understanding what the WAL does and how it's possible not to "partly" apply a WAL.

Please provide citation on where I said that. You can't partly apply WAL always, but there are very valid cases where you can do that to recover. Recovery doesn't have to automatic. It can be done by SQLite, or some recovery tool or with manual intervention.

> - Said person maligns SQLite as being impossible to contribute; whereas the actual project only mentions that they may rewrite the proposed patch to avoid copyright implications.

Please provide citation on where I said that. Someone asked me to send a patch to SQLite, I linked them to the SQLite's page.
by cesarb | 2025-07-24 18:44:30+00:00
> It's at the microcode that the ISA lives and that's changeable.

No, it's not. In modern high-speed CPUs, many instructions are decoded directly, without going through the microcode engine. In fact, on several modern Intel CPUs, only one of the instruction decoders can run microcode ("complex") instructions, while all the other decoders can only run non-microcode ("simple") instructions.

It would be more precise to say that it's at the "front-end" part of the core (where the decoders are) that the ISA lives, but even that's not quite true; many ISAs have peculiarities which affect beyond that, like flags on x86.
by alshival | 2025-07-24 18:44:40+00:00
I am banned from the tech industry circles for picking fights with Elon Musk. Got kicked out of everyone's discord server. I just want you all to know that I have nothing against you or yhe tech industry. It's just that I have been working in machine-learning for the past decade and even I know a pure computer-vision approach is a bad idea. FSD is worse than OceanGate. There were kids in those cars and they never could drive themselves. Especially on older hardware.

I started keeping track of the cases of vehicles steering into trees and poles and other things and lost my temper and went on a rampage that lasted like 4 years, until the people woke up and started raging too. They set his cars on fire and stuff and I was like "OK, we can calm down now", but they keep going at it, and ok. I can stop fighting now.

My company published a report on complaints filed by customers that has been shared with universities, lawyers, and news outlets around the US.
Mineral exploration startups are the tech startups of the physical world
by unicorn_chaser | 2025-07-24 18:45:23+00:00
Most people think of mining as industrial and slow-moving: the opposite of a startup. But early-stage mineral exploration companies operate much more like tech or biotech startups than most realize.

They’re small, high-risk, high-upside teams searching for the metals that power AI, EVs, cloud infrastructure, and clean energy: copper, silver, rare earths... The business model is lean: raise capital, generate data, iterate through targets, and (ideally) make a discovery that creates massive leverage.

Now add modern tools:

- AI-assisted geological modeling - Remote sensing + satellite data - Predictive exploration algorithms - Carbon-aware permitting strategies These aren’t old-school miners, they’re critical path startups for the electrified world.

As mineral demand is exploding, the workforce isn’t keeping up. This space needs software engineers, data scientists, roboticists, mechanics — people who can help rebuild the infrastructure of discovery itself.

We need more bridges between tech and this domain. The future depends on what we can find — and whether we can build the teams to find it.

Inspiration: https://youtu.be/ib0fW1NfyLI
by scottlamb | 2025-07-24 18:45:27+00:00
> Reminded of that missile defense system that was designed to be software-reset once a day, except the design assumptions changed (a war started) and it was ordered to be left running nonstop, as an emergency measure

I'm sure you've simplified the story, but it seems like a bit of process failure for a missile defense system to assume peacetime. There's writing software that implements the requirements, and then there's making sure the requirements are right both up front and when you really rely on them in a critical way.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-07-24 18:45:27+00:00
It's a theoretical result. There was a problem believed to take exponential time on a classical computer but polynomial time on a quantum computer. It turns out to be solvable in polynomial time on both types of computer, removing the quantum exponential speedup. Whether one polynomial was bigger or smaller than the other wasn't of much interest, as I understand it. The surprise was just that both are polynomials.
by jorvi | 2025-07-24 18:45:50+00:00
That's the point of the study though.

If you workout harder than your baseline, you will burn more calories than your baseline.

But if you do that workout often enough, for various reasons you will return to baseline calorie expenditure.

This means that if you want to lose weight consistently, working out is useless in that sense. You might see benefits for 1 month or 3 months or 6 months, but eventually your body adjusts.

Working out is great for a plethora of reasons. And this calorie budget rebalancing is one of them, since it means inflammation or auto-immune responses get downregulated.

Losing weight is not one of those benefits. Whereas it is often held up as such which leads to intense disappointment and relapse with overweight people, because they think "oh, if I just go for six intense two-hour jogs a week, I can keep eating sumptuously."
Ask HN: Substack for Product People?
by jbarks73 | 2025-07-24 18:46:22+00:00
Hey everyone,

I'm a co-founder of Roundups.ai

Just wanted to gauge the temperature for a "Substack for Products." We initially launched as a content play for bloggers trying to stay relevant in the age of AI with high value content and easy monetization, but with Google killing SEO, unless you have an existing blog and audience, you would have a mountain to climb to realize value from Roundups.

-- What does it do now? What could it do? ---

AI analyzes products and generates guides that influence buying decisions. Creators generate revenue when an audience gains insight and makes purchases.

So, our thinking is that if creators are embracing platforms like Substack and Behiiv where they can own their subscribers and remove SEO as a dependency for growth and engagement, there is market opportunity for a Substack for Product People.

---Why?---

Platforms like Mailchimp and Kit are for marketing funnels, and Substack and Beehiiv are for monetizing "prose" (people who want to monetize writing). Roundups would just hyper focus on product insights and curated recommendations. While you can copy and paste a Roundup into those platforms for distribution right now, those platforms have no content API's. Roundups could facilitate email distribution directly.

It wouldn't have all of the bells and whistles that those other email platforms have, but it doesn't need to. It would serve "Tastemakers" rather than writers. Here are some example use-case scenarios:

1. B2B software influencer -> "Three CRM tools you need right now!" -> broadcast to an email list. 2. Food influencer on instagram -> "My Top 5 Fav BBQ tools for summer 2025" -> broadcast to an email list 3 YouTuber toy reviewer -> "The 5 best plush toys for Christmas" -> broadcast to an email list

Obviously, with our existing product and marketplace integrations, it would be easy to facilitate "Sponsored Roundups" from brands, opening up additional monetization for creators beyond affiliate integrations we already have.

Curious to hear thoughts from the community on direction. Thx in advance.
by th0ma5 | 2025-07-24 18:46:38+00:00
Maybe but anytime someone keeps doing mental gymnastics and theorizing that there are new forces at play, something comes out and says no, it was something very straightforward. Hammock Driven Development describes a zen internalized way an expert does exactly as you describe but it is nicer you don't have to pay per token. To be clear, I think this all falls again under the rubber duck umbrella which is fine, but seemingly impossible to design a controlled study for?
by joezydeco | 2025-07-24 18:46:46+00:00
I own TOI and it was interesting because Bruce was post-Apple and could tell some tales about certain things. And he was flush with Sun Microsystems cash to try some new stuff. My copy of the book came with a VHS copy of the Starfire concept video. Some interesting predictions that finally came true, 20-30 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9OKcKisUrY
by moehm | 2025-07-24 18:47:04+00:00
No, they didn't reduce production, they just stopped scaling it with the rising demand.

Chartreuse got very popular in the last few years, and the monks started to produce more, but now they are at a point where they feel they a) earn enough money for the monastery and b) they claim scaling further hurts the sustainability.

So instead of producing more, they allocate the existing stock mostly to the hospitality business instead of the private consumer.
by kube-system | 2025-07-24 18:47:12+00:00
The vast majority of hybrids use simulated atkinson cycle... while their cylinders might be the same size as N/A vehicles, they leave the intake valve open past the end of the stroke, so they effectively are displacing less, even though the cylinder dimensions might be the same size. The advantage is that atkinson cycle is more efficient. But it has too poor performance characteristics for an ICE-only car.
by zaarn | 2025-07-24 18:47:18+00:00
ZFS isn’t viable for SQLite unless you turn off fsync’s in ZFS, because otherwise you will have the same experience I had for years; SQLite may randomly hang for up to a few minutes with no visible cause, if there isn’t sufficient write txg’s to fill up in the background. If your app depends on SQLite, it’ll randomly die.

Btrfs is a better choice for sqlite, haven’t seen that issue there.
by rickydroll | 2025-07-24 18:47:25+00:00
Things are bad in the US for housing because we count on market forces to provide what's necessary. Market forces shut down development if housing prices drop. After all, why start a project if you have a chance of being underwater by the time you're done with it?

see: https://clmarohn.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-housing-pr...

If you want affordable housing, it will have to be government-funded, allowing developers to continue making a profit while the government bears the loss. Another way of expressing it is the government pays for housing to be built at cost plus and then charges rent according to what people can afford, i.e., income and expense-based rent.
by tonymet | 2025-07-24 18:47:51+00:00
For most people, a 1 hour moderate run is only about 1-2 cookies worth (and only half a Crumbl cookie). Even a marathon run might only burn 2000 calories . a chipotle burrito is 1600 .

In other words, for 95% of people doing activity, they shouldn't eat any surplus if their goal is to maintain or lose weight.

It's actually best to do most of your activity undernourished, as it helps develop true intuitive nutrition feedback sensation. You'll start to sense how every macro and salt feels when you ingest it. Loss of this sensation is a major obesity driver. A numbness for nutrients.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-24 18:48:23+00:00
They were not caught by corporate raiders (feel free to provide names of outside investors that caused them to stagnate).

Instead of investing in the future and paying top dollar for top employees, the Board paid the shareholders (even 20 years ago). They never even tried to compete for the best employees, and instead let them all go to Alphabet/Apple/Amazon/Meta/Microsoft/Nvidia/Netflix.

This includes the employees in management.
by jrockway | 2025-07-24 18:48:28+00:00
I think it's kind of possible to partially apply the WAL manually. Imagine your frames are:

1) Insert new subscription for "foobar @ 123 Fake St." 2) Insert new subscription for "�#�#�xD�{.��t��3Axu:!" 3) Insert new subscription for "barbaz @ 742 Evergreen Terrace"

A human could probably grab two subscriptions out of that data loss incident. I think that's what they're saying. If you're very lucky and want to do a lot of manual work, you could maybe restore some of the data. Obviously both of the "obviously correct" records could just be random bitflips that happen to look right to humans. There's no way of knowing.
by fragmede | 2025-07-24 18:48:48+00:00
Programmers are just as emotional as the next human, no matter how much they want to believe otherwise, so almost all of them (myself included) think they're better than average, which can't actually be true.

Skill is linked to prestige and loosely linked to pay, which gets linked back to prestige. Thus even without an actual measure of programming ability, if someone says "you couldn't program your way out of a paper bag", it's hard for most people not to feel insulted, linking back to prestige. Not everyone buys into that, or is impulsive enough to respond emotionally, of course, but it should at least make sense on a conceptual level.
by PeterStuer | 2025-07-24 18:49:31+00:00
For every 1 robots.txt that is genuinly configured, there's 9 that make absolutely no sense at all.

Worse. GETing the robots.txt automatically flags you as a 'bot'!

So as a crawler that wants to respect the spirit of the robots.txt, not the inane letter that your hired cheapest junior webadmin copy/pasted there from some reddit comment, we now have to jump through hoops such as geeting hhe robots.txt from a separate vpn etc.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-24 18:49:35+00:00
> For Harvard astronomer and study co-author Abraham Loeb

I can't see how anyone associated with Harvard isn't embarrassed to be connected to this guy. He's been making claims like this, without real evidence, for years now.

The most generous take I can muster is that he's discovered evidence of stupidity amongst the wealthy on this world and that they'll throw money at him if he says, "I'm saying it's aliens." The least generous is that he's become an outright crank.
by anonymoushn | 2025-07-24 18:49:41+00:00
I have asked for like the ability to apply a filter that maps real strings from real users to a very small number of character classes, so that I may run some codec on data that is equivalent to user data for the purposes of the codec. I have heard, this is not a good use of my time, and if I really care so much I should instead make various guesses about the production data distribution of user-created strings (that need to be json-escaped) and then we can deploy each of them and keep the best, if we can even tell the difference.
by Mlaiel | 2025-07-24 18:49:43+00:00
I’ve been building Dihya, an AI-driven No-Code platform to:

Turn natural language (even spoken) into full-stack apps in minutes

Process Big Data (4.7M+ files scanned in 134s)

Build AI pipelines for analytics, not just CRUD apps

I trusted GitHub Codespaces (Enterprise + Copilot Business) to develop it.

What happened?

Codespaces crashed twice in a short period

Recovery Mode locked my entire project – I still can’t commit or export

Support tickets delayed 4 days, then some disappeared

Lost 1,000+ hours of work

Weeks later, GitHub Spark launches:

Natural language → full-stack apps, minutes to deployment

Sounds almost exactly like Dihya’s core vision.

The Questions: Do we, as devs, have any guarantee that our code/ideas in Codespaces aren’t used internally?

Anyone else faced major Codespaces data loss or suspicious timing?

Which platforms are actually safe for AI/Big Data innovation?

Considering legal action under EU/BGB IP law, but first: I’d like to hear the community’s thoughts.

Because if platforms can fail to protect your work AND later ship a product suspiciously close to it… how do independent innovators survive?

#AI #NoCode #GitHub #Microsoft #IntellectualProperty #BigData #Legal Fahed Mlaiel
by godelski | 2025-07-24 18:50:11+00:00
This doesn't seem to be passing a sniff test

1) cherry picking the best case.

2) numbers seem off

> The sunniest US city, Las Vegas, could get 98% of its power from solar+storage at a price of $104/MWh, which is higher than gas but cheaper than new coal or nuclear. It could get to 60% solar+storage at $65/MWh — cheaper than gas.

But according to this[0], the US average cost of nuclear is ~$32/MWh (2023). I think the subtle keyword is "new", which could make for a very fuzzy argument.

Or maybe prices are different in LV but that's a big differential. It's also mentioning it's the best case scenario for solar. So even then, maybe that's the best option for Las Vegas, but is it elsewhere?

World Nuclear also gives us some global numbers to help us see the larger range of costs [1]

> LCOE figures assuming an 85% capacity factor ranged from $27/MWh in Russia to $61/MWh in Japan at a 3% discount rate, from $42/MWh (Russia) to $102/MWh (Slovakia) at a 7% discount rate, and from $57/MWh (Russia) to $146/MWh (Slovakia) at a 10% discount rate.

I don't think this means we shouldn't continue investing in solar and storage, but neither does it suggest taking nuclear off the table. This might be fine for LV or other areas in the Southwest, but unless those costs can be stable for the rest of the country I think we should keep nuclear as an option.

We shouldn't forget: it's not "nuclear vs solar" it's "zero carbon emitters vs carbon emitters". The former framing is something big oil and gas want you to argue, and that's why they've historically given funds to initiatives like the Sierra Nevada Club. If we care about the environment or zero emissions then the question isn't as simple as "nuclear vs solar" it is "what is the best zero carbon emitting producer given the constraints of the local region".

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184754/cost-of-nuclear-e...

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...
by Slow_Hand | 2025-07-24 18:50:50+00:00
It depends on your objective. The process you describe is excellent for achieving technical mastery. Less so for compositional mastery, but it can still be educational to see written parts up close.

What it wont prepare you for at all is impovisational mastery and just jamming over some chord changes.

Also, I don’t know many musicians who would completely ignore technical exercises like scales, chord voicings, and arpeggios.

So, it depends on what kind of musician you’re trying to be.
by jellyotsiro | 2025-07-24 18:50:50+00:00
In my experience, it lacks a lot things that Nia can do:

- nia can do deep research across any docs / codebase and then find any relevant links or repos to index. - it also supports both private and public repos :)

lmk about ur experience with context7 (if u used) it and what docs did u use?
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-07-24 18:51:00+00:00
> You can't partly apply WAL always, but there are very valid cases where you can do that to recover.

Without mentioning the exact set of cases where recovery is possible and it isn't, going "PSA: SQLite is unreliable!!1one" is highly irresponsible. I think there's quite a bit of criticism going around though, you could add them to your blog article :)

Please also consider the fact that SQLite being a transactional database, it is usually not possible to expose a WAL level error to the user. The correct way to address it is to probably come up with a list of cases where it is possible, and then send in a patch, or at least a proposal, of how to address it.

> Please provide citation on where I said that [SQLite is impossible to contribute].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672563