MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pixl97 | 2025-07-29 16:47:58+00:00
Your IP is a lot more static than you give it credit for. It's not like the dialup era where you get a new IP each time. For example I have a dynamic IP on my cable modem, but it might as well be static as it only changes after there is a long term power outage. Also, it's likely if you're on a home connection most often, then you only have a limited pool of 32k or so IPs, which dramatically lowers the bits of information needed to identify you.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-07-29 16:48:01+00:00
At least in the US, nursing does not require a 4 year degree. You can become an RN with an associates degree. A 2 year nursing degree has one of the highest returns on investment of any training program (especially if you go to community college). Ivy Tech CC in Indiana and WGU both have nursing programs with great returns. Keep in mind, nursing is not an easy path and has a super high burnout rate. It's a tough and demanding job.

Other professions with a great return on training are HVAC, electrician, plumber, robotics/logic systems (CAM, conveyors, etc.). These are especially high paying if you focus on commercial and industrial.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-29 16:48:11+00:00
Sorry, I see you mentioned it in your previous comment.

Short of hooking it to external hardware, there's probably only "authenticity" to be gained from a proper clone then? To be sure though, that authenticity is a big draw that an emulator/simulator can't provide.

At the same time, perhaps you just find vintage computers boring — and I get that.
by Mystery-Machine | 2025-07-29 16:48:16+00:00
Google already has page score for every website out there. What makes you think that their LLM can't be made to use it? That statement sounds a lot like "AI can't generate human fingers, it will never be able to generate realistic images with humans in them" or "it can't do X so it will never be able to code Y". Shortsighted.
by WASDAai | 2025-07-29 16:48:23+00:00
I would like it to be something everyone can use together. Think like one chatGPT account, all uses. I felt like everyone so isolated in this century so I decided to make it. About lightcap, it is my EUIPO registered property both brand name and brand logo in classifications related to AI. https://lightcap.ai is currently displaying several features. Currently, it can give better answers than even o3-pro as it is also used for high reasoning tasks. Think like deepsearch but i am okay to pay 5-10$ per API requests, with this money i can make my system think for an hour, and prepare what you want. In the end, it would be also public but using it would either require .edu email or costy as i want to treat there like encyclopedia
by jmclnx | 2025-07-29 16:48:32+00:00
I agree, I saw Xorq and with the font I have, it looked like Xorg.

No offense, but I avoid AI like a plague, so I saw this I thought "WHY?", thinking it was X11 (Xorg).

Now a bit of a rant. Why or why do people have to use X??? for their products, time to come up with something else. If I was the Xorg foundation I would have sued Twitter. And I would have sent a letter to the smaller tech people using X for their product :)
by sumo89 | 2025-07-29 16:48:47+00:00
Maybe read some of the stories of the cyclists like Pantani doing blood doping. They would have to wake up every few hours through the night and do some cycling on a stationary bike to get their heart rate up or their heart might stop while they're asleep due to their blood being too thick. Sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber to boost the mitochondria is childs play in comparison.
OpenSpot – Open-Source Cross-Platform Music Streaming App (Mobile + Desktop)
by jashgro | 2025-07-29 16:49:33+00:00
OpenSpot is an open-source music streaming application for mobile and desktop platforms. It supports high-quality music playback, offline downloads, and background listening — all without ads or login requirements.

Key features:

* High-quality streaming * Offline downloads * Background playback * No login required * Persistent state for liked and recent tracks * Ad-free and completely free * Clean and modern UI for both platforms

This repository includes two apps:

1. OpenSpot Mobile (React Native + Expo) - Platforms: Android, iOS - Features: Native experience with offline support and persistent playback

2. OpenSpot Desktop (Electron + React) - Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux - Features: Desktop-optimized UI with global audio controls and local storage

Tech stack: * Mobile: React Native, Expo, Expo Router, Expo AV * Desktop: Electron, React, Material-UI, electron-store

Downloads:

* Android APK: https://github.com/BlackHatDevX/openspot-music-app/releases/tag/v2.0.3 * macOS DMG: https://github.com/BlackHatDevX/openspot-music-app/releases/tag/v2.0.2

GitHub: https://github.com/BlackHatDevX/openspot-music-app

Open to contributors. Feedback welcome.
by jefflinwood | 2025-07-29 16:49:41+00:00
I'm building this over at https://zapcircle.com/ - it's still a work in progress, but it's all open source.

The idea behind it was that Behavior-Driven Development might be a great idea, but Gherkin was a pain to work with. LLMs bridge that gap now:

https://www.jefflinwood.com/2025/zapcircle-bdd-2025/
by threeducks | 2025-07-29 16:49:46+00:00
I think LLMs are adapting higher level concepts. For example, the following JavaScript code generated by GLM (https://github.com/simonw/tools/blob/9e04fd9895fae1aa9ac78b8...) is clearly inspired by this C++ code (https://github.com/portapack-mayhem/mayhem-firmware/blob/28e...), but it is not an exact copy.
by qcnguy | 2025-07-29 16:49:50+00:00
von der Leyen is neither experienced nor faceless. She's famous throughout Europe for her gross incompetence, especially having led the German military to ruin. Given that she failed at running a single department in a single state she has no identifiable characteristics that make her qualified for her current role.

She is however notable for being a terrible negotiator and constantly being at the center of corruption scandals. Wikipedia has a sample.

But that is how the EU rolls.

There's no similarity to the US. Congress is the supreme power and originates all law. They might take suggested drafts from the executive branch, but outside of carve-outs where Congress lets the executive branch pass its own regulations, the civil service can only make suggestions for legislation. The EU is backwards: only the civil service can change the law, and the so-called Parliament is reduced to suggesting changes.
by bix6 | 2025-07-29 16:50:06+00:00
Exit time has doubled in VC. It is a major problem. Hundreds or thousands of people at a single company might be taking lower salaries in exchange for equity that is unsellable until it goes public (or steeply discounted). Yes sometimes valuations are way too high in private markets but an IPO enables a reset and liquidity.

Saying people don’t deserve an exit is saying startups shouldn’t even exist? At some point every company provides liquidity whether it’s stock sales, dividends, merger, etc.
by bigmattystyles | 2025-07-29 16:50:27+00:00
I know it’s easy to say but you do hear stories of families going to extraordinary lengths for an elderly loved one to give them a couple months of low quality of life. Is it the family trying to feel better or hoping for a miracle, or the patient themselves; I’m sure it’s both, but I can’t help but think if we were more comfortable with death, these really costly situations would go away and suffering would actually be reduced. I know it’s easy say and it sounds like I’m advocating for death, and in a way I am, but we all have to go. If your quality of life is so terrible… I’m also a hypocrite because I think that when it will be my turn or my parents’ and I have to decide, I’ll tell them to do everything possible within their directives.
by bccdee | 2025-07-29 16:51:00+00:00
Here's a systematic review of the research as of 2022: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-022-00329-8. It's paywalled, but you can probably find the full text on sci-hub.

> [T]he last 5 years of pornography research is marked by increased attention to the impact of context and individual differences when assessing pornography use effects. Particularly, researchers have provided compelling evidence that differences in religious and moral values regarding sexual behavior can impact estimates of pornography use and perceptions regarding the problematic or addictive nature of pornography. Considering recent findings, a systematic review of recent research (within the past 5 years) on how religion and morality shape pornography use effects was conducted, with a particular focus on findings regarding pornography problems due to moral incongruence.

> Fifty-one articles were included in the present review. Findings demonstrate religiousness, moral disapproval, and moral incongruence as robust, strong predictors of various problems regarding pornography (e.g., psychological distress, relational problems, perceived addiction).

Like they say above, it's hot-button issue and this sort of result is fairly easy to replicate, so a lot of papers have been published along these lines in recent years.
by skydhash | 2025-07-29 16:51:09+00:00
> For decades, the way we’ve used browsers has remained linear: open a tab (or 20), search for something, read a page, repeat. It’s a model that’s worked well, but it hasn’t fundamentally changed.

Is it linear though? I think most people are using tabs the way everyone use documents. Open one, find the passage you need and keep it there. Lots of current web app makes that hard (lazy loading, memory leaks,...).

A better augmentation would be annotations. Create a new notetaking session which appears in a side bar, then either screenshot or highlight a section, then it is saved alongside the comment (and tags) and the context (link, date,..). No need for a lurking agent.

ADDENDUM

A somewhat simpler version can be found in Orgmode and Emacs. You can store link to almost anything and then the capture feature in Org mode can use them in templates.
by autoexec | 2025-07-29 16:51:55+00:00
I feel like Microsoft's attitude is that they can screw over their users, make money hand over fist by exploiting their private and personal data, and Windows users will be powerless because there's nowhere else for them to go. Anyone who was going to use an Apple computer is already doing it. They aren't afraid of linux either (although maybe they should be since it's been gaining ground). Why care about building loyalty or adding value when you're a monopoly?
by Keyframe | 2025-07-29 16:51:57+00:00
I went the other route with tetris clone the other day. It's definitely not a single prompt. It took me solid 15 hours until this stage to get here and most of that me thinking.. BUT, except one small trivial thing (space invader logo in pre tag) I haven't touched code - just looked at it. I made it mandatory for myself to see if I can first greenfield myself into this project and then brownfield features and fixes.. It's definitely a ton of work on my end, but it's also not something I'd be able to do in ~2 working days or less. As a cherry on top, even though it's still not done yet, I put in AI-generated music singing about the project itself. https://www.susmel.com/stacky/

Definitely a ton of things I learned about how to "develop" "with" AI along the way.
by username332211 | 2025-07-29 16:52:10+00:00
I'd really like to reconcile the different views expressed by this fascinating chain of comments.

First we hear that the people behind the push for online identity verification are Christian nationalists. Then, after being informed that the British Labour party is also pushing for the same measure, we hear that the common denominator between those factions is their crypto-fascism.

To call the Labour party fascist, you must be some sort of extreme Thatcherite. To call Christian nationalist fascists is somehow even less defensible, as fascism is strongly collectivist[1] and the American political Christian extremely individualistic.

This entire discussion points to a horrific crisis in civics education, which I believe can explain the increasingly authoritarian policies of modern western governments far better than some crypto-fascist plot.

[1] "Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State", The doctrine of Fascism by Mussolini
by MoreQARespect | 2025-07-29 16:53:01+00:00
I use executable specs quite a lot with stakeholders.

I'd never ask them to write them, but I will often write a spec/test based upon their two sentence jira and then screenshare and walk them through my interpretation to get feedback early (i.e. before ive wasted time building the wrong thing).

Cucumber/gherkin is awful at this of course, and the regex thing was a terrible idea but it's not the only tool.

The idea that tests should be split into a specification layer and execution layer is a good one that should have taken off by now.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-29 16:53:33+00:00
When Edge first released, I really liked it... even made it my default on Linux for a while. Then came the in-the-box features, like coupon offers, etc... and I just had more and more crap to disable to where I just went back to Brave.

I like nice browser syncing between devices. I don't even mind what that means in terms of some slack on privacy... What I don't like are in your face marketing efforts. I absolutely abhor commercials, and have been willing to pay for services that don't have them. I switched to Linux literally the first time I saw an ad in the start menu search results.

I don't need Microsoft products. I'm a computer user first, and a consumer a distant second. MS really needs to learn this lesson. Just saw that US Gov is reporting 6% Linux desktop usage, which is higher than the 5% StatsCounter recently posted. Linux has gained 20-30% in just this past year, even Gaming on Linux while less than perfect/ideal is still relatively smooth for most games thanks to Valve/Steam, they definitely use their 30% cut well and while expensive seem to be at least a good steward of their ecosystem.

I feel like Microsoft has completely lost he plot in a lot of ways. Azure and .Net have had every opportunity to become darlings in the developer community... the tooling and options are pretty good. VS Code has become just about the most popular developer editor (not to mention forks). Why they choose to abuse their common users is beyond me... if they just stuck to the great parts without trying to wrench every penny of value from every user they would be much more well regarded.

As it stands, any company selling commercial software should seriously be working on packaging for Linux... at least appImage/Flatpak. There's especially good opportunity for competing software vendors to Adobe in this space. It's one of the few gaps, and the tide of software for Linux is definitely growing and there's plenty of room for commercial software here.
by ben_w | 2025-07-29 16:53:50+00:00
> At that point, companies might rediscover the ROI of good old meat based AI.

I doubt this will look good for any party.

The global electricity supply is 375 W/capita, and there's a lot of direct evidence in the form of "building new power plants" that the companies are electricity-limited. I have long observed the trends of renewable energy, but even assuming their rapid exponential growth continues, they can only roughly double this by 2032.

If we just simplify the discussion about the quality of LLMs output as "about as good as a junior graduate", then the electricity bill can increase until the price curve of {the cost of supplying that inference} matches the price curve of {the cost of hiring a junior graduate}. If the electricity price is fixed, graduates can't earn enough to feed themselves. If the graduates earn the smallest possible amount of money needed to feed and house themselves in G7 nations, then normal people are priced out of using heating/AC, the street lights get turned off because municipalities won't be able to cover the bill. If the electricity for inference becomes as expensive as hiring Silicon Valley software engineering graduates, then normal people won't even be able to keep their phones charged.

That said:

> A human brain runs on under 20 W

Only if you ignore the body it's attached to, which we cannot currently live without. And we do also need a lot of time off, as we start working at 21 and stop at just under 70 (so 5/8ths of our lives), and the working week is 40 hours out of 168, and we need more time beyond that away from paid work for sickness and reproduction, and many of us also like holidays.

Between all the capacity factors, for every hour (@20W = 20 Wh) of the average American worker's brain being on a job, there's a corresponding average of about 1 kWh used by the bodies of various Americans.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-29 16:54:24+00:00
But, as a software engineer, writing tests is probably the primary place AI gives me value. I can simply write tests much faster than writing them manually, and as a consequence, I'm a lot more likely to write tests that cover more cases. I still review all the code output, but the consequence of me missing a bug is much less than missing a bug in production code.
by constantcrying | 2025-07-29 16:54:35+00:00
>Make that a discussion with the local politics.

There is nothing more irrelevant than addressing large scale social issues in local politics. Besides not once in my life have I seen politics improve anything, politics seems to attract the dumbest and most self righteous types of people, who care about nothing but their self image. My time on earth is limited and much too precious to spent it in the company of politicians or just people invested in politics. No Thanks!
by Proofread0592 | 2025-07-29 16:54:40+00:00
1. Dwarf Date Palm

2. Boston Fern

3. Kimberly Queen Fern

4. Spider Plant

5. Chinese Evergreen

6. Bamboo Palm

7. Weeping Fig

8. Devil's Ivy

9. Flamingo Lily

10. Lilyturf

11. Broadleaf Lady Palm

12. Barberton Daisy

13. Cornstalk Dracena

14. English Ivy

15. Varigated Snake Plant

16. Red-Edged Dracaena

17. Peace Lily

18. Florist's Chrysanthemum
by 9rx | 2025-07-29 16:54:55+00:00
> If you look at actual deportations, he lags behind previous administrations.

Isn't that what is expected? I'm not there, but the way the story is making it to us outside of the US is that Trump has directed immigration authorities to turn their attention away from real problem cases to go on a witch hunt instead. If true, of course deportations are going to go down. But right now nobody wants to expose themselves to getting wrapped up in the hunt.
by nottorp | 2025-07-29 16:55:32+00:00
Can't help because I haven't tried those bots that edit the code for you.

I just use "AI" instead of Google/SO when I need to find something out.

So far it mostly answers correctly, until the truthful answer comes close to "you can't do that". Then it goes off the rails and makes up shit. As a bonus, it seems to confuse related but less popular topics and mixes them up. Specific example, it mixes couchdb and couchbase when I ask about features.

The worst part is 'correctly' means 'it will work but it will be tutorial level crap'. Sometimes that's okay, sometimes it isn't.

So it's not that it doesn't work for my flow, it's that I can't trust it without verifying everything so what flow?

Edit: there's a codebase that i would love to try an "AI" on... if i wouldn't have to send my customer's code to $random_server with $random_security with $untrustable_promises_of_privacy. Considering how these "AI"s have been trained, I'm sure any promise that my code stays private is worth less than used toilet paper.

Gut feeling is the "AI" would be useless because it's a not-invented-here codebase with no discussion on StackOverflow.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-29 16:55:38+00:00
I mean, I think you probably have a range of motivations. In the UK, a lot of it will be control-freak-ery, always fairly popular across the political spectrum there. In the US, some part of it will be the lunatic-fringe Christians (a group who don't _really_ exist in meaningful force in most developed countries, but who are quite politically powerful in the US).
by bigbadfeline | 2025-07-29 16:55:44+00:00
> "People who disagree with me about a railway company merger cannot possibly be reasonable,

So according to you, I somehow stated that disagreement with me makes somebody unreasonable, and in support of that you provided... a fictional quote. Your strawman isn't simply unreasonable, it's aggressively dishonest.

> "and instead must be mustache-twirling villains" is certainly an interesting take.

Now you offer hallucinations about "mustache-twirling villains"... Do you have something, anything, reasonable to say? Like address the topic? $85 Billion with a B? Did you forget about it?

Peaceful disagreement DOES NOT make an argument reasonable. Are you going to argue about that too?
by mrinterweb | 2025-07-29 16:55:47+00:00
I don't know about that. I've had my RTX 4090 for nearly 3 years now. If I had a script that provisioned and deprovisioned a rented 4090 at $0.70/hr for an 8 hour work day for 20 work days per month. Assuming I get 2 paid weeks off per year + normal holidays over 3 years.

0.7 * 8 * ((20 * 12) - 8 - 14) * 3 = $3662

I bought my RTX 4090 for about $2200. I also had the pleasure of being able to use it for gaming when I wasn't working. To be fair, the VRAM requirements for local models keeps climbing and my 4090 isn't able to run many of the latest LLMs. Also, I omitted cost of electricity for my local LLM server cost. I have not been measuring total watts consumed by just that machine.

One nice thing about renting is that it give you flexibility in terms of what you want to try.

If you're really looking for the best deals look at 3rd party hosts serving open models for the API-based pricing, or honestly a Claude subscription can easily be worth it if you use LLMs a fair bit.
by theodorewiles | 2025-07-29 16:56:27+00:00
Looks really cool - I noticed Enterprise has smart consent management?

The thing I think some enterprise customers are worried about in this space is that in many jurisdictions you legally need to disclose recording - having a bot join the call can do that disclosure - but users hate the bot and it takes up too much visibility on many of these calls.

Would love to learn more about your approach there
by babypuncher | 2025-07-29 16:56:36+00:00
The client GPU still needs all those assets in its own VRAM in order to render any scene that uses them. You would need to stream all of those assets in real time to the client, and last I checked consumer network interfaces are checks notes slower than 16 PCI Express lanes.

I'm still unsure what computational resources are being saved for the client here, the actual rasterization is where the bulk of the work is done.
by hellojesus | 2025-07-29 16:56:40+00:00
> The only people the left doesn't want freedom for is those who are actively trying to take it away.

My experience is that most progressive causes want to redistribute income from high earners to low earners. Policies such as government supported housing, daycare, support this.

These policies actively restrict freedoms by removing the freedom of choice from consumers. They introduce deadweight loss and moral hazard.

Imo this is the folly of the left.
by tetromino_ | 2025-07-29 16:56:58+00:00
One of the other 3 was Didarul Islam, an NYPD officer, born in Bangladesh, living in a working class neighborhood in the Bronx, who had 2 children and a pregnant wife. His death has received extensive press coverage, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/nyc-shooting-pol...