MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by specialist | 2025-07-23 13:48:25+00:00
This is an uncharitable reading of the article.

Investors & developers are motivated by profit, lower prices reduces (expectation of future) profit, so less housing will be built.

Right?

Yes, article is too wordy and lacks focus. Typical for us progressives.

OC prescribes "bottom-up" something something. I haven't read Housing Trap, so can't comment.

My prescription would be for policy makers to work with investors & developers, figure out how to make profits more stable and predictable, figure out how to institute those reforms.

I'd also consider restructuring the housing industry. eg IIRC in Germany, developers are often also landowners. So they have longer horizons for considering profitability. Seems like an obvious reform, especially considering climate crisis. Like design & build wrt total lifetime cost of ownership, so adopting passivhaus and activhaus innovations is a no brainer. (Just trying to say when landowner is also developer, they can capture more profit by incorporating better tech.)
by natch | 2025-07-23 13:49:00+00:00
This trope of "I have nothing to hide" is really tired.

People, it's fine to have things to hide. You can write a blog post and admit you have things to hide. Everyone has things to hide.

For one thing, you can care about hiding the private information that friends have shared with you. Nobody should assume that all their friends and contacts will be super happy about having some stranger at a border paw through their private emails, chats, and photos. Yes, you do have things to hide. It's called basic human privacy.

Please stop saying "I have nothing to hide" unless you're some sort of sociopath who is willing to give up the private addresses, emails, phone numbers, and details of all your friends, family members, and contacts.
by UltraLutra | 2025-07-23 13:49:08+00:00
> Claude is simply too good at coding in well-represented languages like Python and Typescript to not pay hundreds of dollars a month for (if not thousands, subsidized by employers).

I think the cost is more in thousands to cover inference. And, no, I don’t think it’s been proven out that an engineer is so much more productive to justify thousands of dollars a month cost. The models are great for greenfield projects. But a lot of engineering is iterating and maintaining an existing code base——a code base that the engineer is fluent in. So the time savings is writing code specific enough to implement a new feature vs writing a prompt specific enough that the AI can write code specific enough to implement a new feature. The difference between those two tasks is the time savings.

Say that difference is like 10%. You save 10% of your time by using AI, meaning you have 4 more hours a week than you did before. Are you going to spend 4 more hours writing code? No. Some will be spent in meetings. Some will be spent reading Hacker News. Maybe you’ll get two hours a week of additional coding time. So you’re really only increasing your output by 5%.

The so the employer gets 5% more from you if you have AI. If your salary is 10k per month, they wouldn’t pay more than $500. Per month. And you’re probably costing Anthropic >$10k in inference costs per _week_. The economics just don’t make sense.

You can sub out the numbers here and play around with the scenario. I think the cost of inference needs to drastically fall. And I don’t think that happens soon. What might happen 10 years from now is developers are given a laptop with a built-in GPU for AI inference that does much better code auto-complete using AI. That’s something an employer can pay 3k-5k for _once_ as a hardware investment. But the future of AI coding won’t be agents. It won’t be prompt-engineering. The models aren’t going to get much better. It will be simple and standard and useful but unimpressive. It’s going to feel boring. It’s going to feel boring. When it’s working, when it’s mature, when it becomes economical, it always feels boring. And that’s a good thing.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-23 13:49:39+00:00
I agree with the argument but not with the channel bundling analogy:

> But this is like one group of people enjoying just the history channel, and the other group of people enjoying just the sports channel. They start wondering, “Maybe I could specifically pay for the sports channel?”

TFA and the linked older article from cdixon [0] present paying $11.70 for the bundle as better for the consumer, but the consumer has limited time/focus and would often prefer paying $9 just for the channel they want.

So with the analogy breaking, I'm wondering, if perhaps there is a new unbundled model to be had here for startup acquisitions too. We've seen some interesting arguments in the past few years for hiring teams instead of individuals (e.g. [1][2][3]), so maybe there's an argument to be made that if a company can be sold-off piecemeal, then we'll see more acquisitions with more overall utility to the individuals involved. Note that I'm not necessarily advocating for it, but just suggesting that we don't outright reject it.

[0] https://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-...

[1] https://faculty.tuck.dartmouth.edu/images/uploads/faculty/sy...

[2] https://www.expx.nl/news/hire-innovation-teams-not-freelance...

[3] https://harri-thomas.medium.com/better-together-lets-hire-te...
by justinl1996 | 2025-07-23 13:49:49+00:00
I was recently in the market for a cheapish well spec'ed openwrt compatible router. I decided to use the available online marketplace APIs from AliExpress, Amazon, Ebay and Newegg to aggregate all the results into a spreadsheet along with the specifications. Following in the footsteps of diskprices.com, I decided to put together a crappy looking website to list the results with as many filters as possible (RAM, CPU, WLAN chipset, ethernet ports, USB ports, openwrt support etc.) which would be of interest for the prospectus buyer.

Please let me know if you have any feedback / suggestions.

Thanks!
Deep Film Inc. Back End/AI Engineer and UI/UX Engineer
by CharlesRP | 2025-07-23 13:50:25+00:00
You’re here to reshape the film industry with AI. At Deep Film Inc., you’ll transform multimodal diffusion and transformer models into production ready systems, mastering quantization and pruning to make them leaner and faster. Your CI/CD pipelines and MLflow integrations won’t just keep us running, they’ll redefine storytelling. You’ll scale training with GPU clusters using Horovod and Optuna and build robust data pipelines with Kafka, tf.data, or whatever it takes.

UI/UX Engineer You’re here to build interfaces that make AI video tools feel like an extension of a filmmaker’s vision. At Deep Film Inc., you’ll wield WebGL, React, and Flutter to craft intuitive, 4k/HD experiences across web, iOS, and Android, partnering closely with our AI engineers to integrate cutting edge models. You’ll design in Figma, prototype with users, and iterate fast, driven by user feedback, to create platforms that redefine storytelling.

This is no ordinary role, expect complex challenges, daily white boarding, and rapid prototyping in a collaborative, dynamic team. Based in Berlin until Launch Q1 2026 (with remote options for the right fit), you’ll join a collaborative, fast paced team with founding level equity, competitive salaries, and SOA hardware. Optional relocation opportunities to California will be available post launch.

Why You? You’re driven by complex challenges, passionate about deep learning, and excited by its potential to redefine the art of storytelling. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or emerging talent, we want to see your impact: a GitHub repo showcasing production grade systems, optimized ML models, or a demo that leaves us speechless. For UI/UX candidates, share a portfolio of shipped apps or interfaces with stunning design.

How To Apply Email a 3-sentence pitch explaining your passion for AI and storytelling, your standout achievements, and how you’ll shape our platform, along with proof of work (GitHub, live demo, Figma prototype, or App Store link)

No resumes or cover letter fluff. Start today. We’ll respond within 12 hours because the future moves fast, and so do we. Link up hello@deepfilm.ai
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-23 13:50:39+00:00
I installed GrapheneOS just recently and I'm in the process of migrating all my various apps to it.

I like my privacy and I'm also incredibly boring if anyone cares to track my interests and activities. I choose privacy to save the authorities wasting any more of their precious time and resources on little ol' me. And to minimise the value any vampiric tech company may be able to squeeze out of me.

In my limited, but specific, experience, the police will latch on to anything that makes an individual stand out from the vanilla drones as "evidence enough". So be warned. If you're feeling rebellious though, GrapheneOS will scratch a certain itch.
by CursedSilicon | 2025-07-23 13:51:03+00:00
I'm glad someone understands where I was coming from with my uh. "rant" (for lack of a better descriptor)

Something that's worth adding is that we've moved to such a much more predatory "crab bucket" mentality around it all. You can't genuinely enjoy something anymore. That's "cringe" (or something). You have to wrap anything you like in fifty layers of irony as a protective shield so that your peers don't tear you down about it

Not to mention if you're any kind of deviation from the norm (queer, PoC etc) you will be challenged for the simple reality of...existing

These spaces still exist (Fediverse is a big one) but even then it feels less like a place that one can be ones authentic self 100% of the time and more a place to "be weird, but be ready to defend your homeland at any time" from the nigh infinite hordes of awful people who want to tear it all down
by AngryData | 2025-07-23 13:51:11+00:00
If too much air can leak in from too many places your exhaust fan won't be able to keep up and maintain a pressure differential across the whole area and fully cycle through the air volume. Instead of the air mass as a whole flowing towards the exhaust you will instead get mixing of inside and outside air and then pulling of a fraction of that. Ultimately failing to properly cycle the contaminated air and also spending a lot of energy on exhausting what was previously clean exterior air.

With it more sealed so you can get a decent static pressure it is like flushing a clean fluid through a pipe and only really needs a little more than the pipe's volume of fluid to clear it, with it poorly sealed it is more like scooping one cup of water out of a contaminated bucket, then pouring a clean cup of water back in and letting it mix before repeating the process, with the hopeful goal of eventually having an uncontaminated bucket of clean water. It would eventually be clean enough sure, but you might have to go through 1000x the fluid volume to get to a clean enough point.

Technically you could just increase your exhaust fan's power until it creates decent static pressure in even a leaky home, but you would also be exhausting a lot of the energy you put into your climate control system.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-23 13:52:10+00:00
We have a bunch of liberal first world children screaming online about it*, but that's not going to do much. They were unaware of the conflict 5 years ago when they were 15. The people who move things know the story going way further back than Oct 8 2023. The adults are sick of the conflict and hold no more respect for Israel than they do for Palestine. Both sides have egregious violations, and tallying them is a futile and time wasting ordeal.

So the adults are ready for this to end. There is no choice winner, so the winner will just be the one who is stronger. The same way every other war has been decided.

*Granted, the Muslim world obviously has huge support for Palestine. But it's in word only. Palestine's "allies" pretty much said "Good luck bro" and then closed their doors. Probably because Palestine has the diplomatic skills of a toddler. Don't be fooled, Israel won this with diplomacy. Making friends with the right people and being a good friend to them will carry you far.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-23 13:52:22+00:00
The fragmented Linux desktop is not really a problem IMO.

People want to customize their desktops. One way that could happen is through having some sort of grand super-flexible window manager than can do anything, and then customize their behavior in some configuration language. Another way is for interested folks to write their window managers in C or whatever language they want. The latter is usually more performant, and has less social coordination overhead, so it was the way things worked out.

I mean, we have Windows and Apple, with all the programmer-hours spent on their window managers, and they aren’t anywhere near as flexible as the open source ecosystem.
by voxleone | 2025-07-23 13:52:42+00:00
>>When you say "which nodes are rotationally reachable", what does that imply for formations?

Here, position is essential, while SpinStep is orientational. Each node (e.g., drone) is assigned a target slot in space. Movement is needed — so SpinStep alone wouldn’t currently manage this. It might help decide orientation steps, but not positional navigation or collision avoidance.

Possibilities Going Forward:

We could extend SpinStep toward SE(3) traversal, or write a complementary module. That would involve:

-Pairing quaternions with positional vectors -- which is an awesome upgrade to the SpSt library.

-Defining a traversal condition based on both angular distance and spatial proximity.

-Possibly adding constraints (like occupied/available slots) and collision checks.

Such an approach could lead to a formation coordinator, where:

-Each drone is a node.

-Target positions + orientations define “goal nodes.”

-You route through “pose-space” rather than just physical space.

I'm a little swamped right now. In the days ahead i will be taking a closer look at how to integrate SpinStep with Ketu. It's gonna be fun.

All the best!
by troupo | 2025-07-23 13:52:54+00:00
> We've seen apple move toward unifying their various OS interfaces for a long time

1. They claimed they would never do that. But we know how much words corporate bullshit carries

2. You cannot unify interfaces that are operated in completely different ways.

There's no "unified interface" that works well on a single-app-at-a-time smartphone with touch and on a 5k screen with multiple apps, a keyboard, and a mouse.

> As the article says, liquid glass works best for spatial computing. That's apple's next big bet and the whole ecosystem is going to cater to it

No, it doesn't work best for spatial computing. This idiotic statement started as a way to justify Liquid Glass on Twitter.

On top of that, if it "works best for spatial" means that literally every other device will work worse because of the unification no one asked for.

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However, the answer is simple: it's a vanity project by a person with next to zero design experience thrust into a position of power
by HelloUsername | 2025-07-23 13:53:11+00:00
Lumo is powered by open-source large language models (LLMs) which have been optimized by Proton to give you the best answer based on the model most capable of dealing with your request. The models we’re using currently are Nemo, OpenHands 32B, OLMO 2 32B, and Mistral Small 3. These run exclusively on servers Proton controls so your data is never stored on a third-party platform. Lumo’s code is open source, meaning anyone can see it’s secure and does what it claims to. We’re constantly improving Lumo with the latest models that give the best user experience.
by gruez | 2025-07-23 13:53:17+00:00
>For just $19.99 per month, customers can protect up to three products in one plan

>[...]

>With AppleCare One, customers can now add products they already own that are up to four years old1 if they are in good condition.3

>3 To verify “good condition,” products may be required to undergo a diagnostic check using a customer’s iPhone or iPad, or at an Apple Store, prior to being added to the plan.

Applecare's page also says you can get a battery replacement if it's under 80%.

>AppleCare covers battery replacements at no extra charge if the capacity drops below 80 percent.

Does that mean you can enroll in apple care one when your battery is at 81%, wear down the battery life within a month (eg. fast charging/heating it), invoke the battery replacement benefit, and end up with a battery replacement for $20? The normal price for a battery replacement is $99, so this is a significant savings.
by lrvick | 2025-07-23 13:53:35+00:00
That is exactly what we do in StageX on which ReprOS is based.

Given all builds start from hex0 you can build from an Arch Linux host and I can build from a Debian host and we are still guaranteed identical results every time.

Every altered package is reproduced bit-for-bit identically by multiple different maintainers and signed every release.

Our entire distro and release process is built around addressing trusting trust attacks which is why we must be 100% deterministic or we cannot ship a release.
by thfuran | 2025-07-23 13:53:45+00:00
Functionality is either needed or it isn't, but it doesn't need to come from an external dependency. When it does, it probably comes with functionality you didn't need too. And as soon as you have a compile/runtime dependency on external code, your compile/execution environment needs to always have access to third party code. So that's bloat and complexity. You also give up control. Hopefully it ends up saving a bunch of time over developing it internally.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-23 13:54:38+00:00
> The project is what spawned the thought process. Because it has me interacting with a generation of internet users

You keep referring to a “generation of internet users” but that thread is about a very hyper-niche bubble. Most young people aren’t in the Fediverse, aren’t interested in retro compute projects, aren’t contributing to open source. The list goes on and on.

You’re talking about experience with a few young people who self-selected into this very tiny bubble but you’re presenting it as a generalization across young people.
by mateusfreira | 2025-07-23 13:54:39+00:00
Pix has become virtually liquid cash here in Brazil. We use it for everything from tipping a waiter to buying an apartment or house in seconds.

Before the release, when I read about the system, I was skeptical, but after its release (approximately 5 years ago), it has worked seamlessly, and adoption is now nearly 100% across the economy.
by panick21_ | 2025-07-23 13:55:04+00:00
Do you not understand anything about aerospace engineering? These concepts are not some independent variables that are unconnected with each other.

Maybe I have to spell it out for the slow ones.

it would have added time and complexity --> because proving the safety of additional system takes TIME.

it would have been expensive --> TIME is money

it wasn’t necessary --> The parachutes system was mandatory anyway.
Show HN: A Practical Website Redesign Checklist
by olivierkaisin | 2025-07-23 13:55:08+00:00
Hey HN,

We recently rebranded and had to rebuild our website - with the usual forgotten redirects, missing assets, metadata gaps... etc.

I started a checklist to keep track of everything, then reached out to other web ops teams and agencies to make it better.

This is the result! A list of all stuff you wish you'd remember for the next project.

Would love feedback—is this helpful? What's missing?
by senfiaj | 2025-07-23 13:55:36+00:00
Probably it will still have problems. Gnome 3 is part of a bigger problem. Here is the most complete explanation on why Linux is not popular on desktop. https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...

Recently the list shrank, but many problems still exist. https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...
by npteljes | 2025-07-23 13:56:16+00:00
Insult aside, consider the following. Are almost all companies doing this much effort just because of some rouge elements within the company, or are they doing it because they see a direct benefit from it with regarding to sales?

What people tell, and how people act are two very different things. For multiple reasons too, I'm not meaning this in a malicious way at all. Feedback is very useful, but needs careful interpretation. Tangential, but this is why telemetry works very well: it paints a more realistic picture compared to what people report.
by fsflover | 2025-07-23 13:57:02+00:00
Recent discussions:

Part 1, 5 points, 4 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44593958

Part 2, 36 points, 9 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42435282

Part 3, 35 points, 12 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320364
by tgmatt | 2025-07-23 13:57:23+00:00
SAML was just an example - I didn't see the PR before I made that post. That said, it feels fundamentally incompatible to a business strategy where your community edition is able to offer all of the features of the premium offering. I just can't see how that business would be able to survive if they allow that to happen.

I'm always dubious of freemium software, because the free version is always gimped in some way, be it SSO compatibility (OK, yours supports OIDC it seems so that's not _terrible_), role-based access controls, high availability, etc.

I will concede that businesses probably _should_ be paying for good software that is critical to their business to help support the vendors, but given how important cost savings are to companies these days, one can hardly blame engineers looking for cheaper offerings.
by mort96 | 2025-07-23 13:57:26+00:00
I think Apple has had aspirations to become a car company. There were all those years of rumours about the Apple car project, and they've done a lot of work with car companies for Car Play. Their latest iteration of Car Play aims to completely take over things everything including the instrument panel, if I understood correctly. I don't think Sony has similar ties to the car industry?
by jrvarela56 | 2025-07-23 13:57:34+00:00
At first your comment rubbed me the wrong way, too cynical.

But it is completely true. No one would ‘learn’ the way college courses are structured. The only reason these courses get completed is the pace/cadence, GPA requirements to get jobs and the degree.

In the ‘real world’ you just learn enough to solve the problem in front of you and as you face more and more your knowledge tree expands.

No one in their right mind would go through a syllabus-like sequence - it is just boring, dull as hell.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-23 13:57:47+00:00
Off topic: Lacks... personal touch. That's exactly what I find wrong with AI writing. Good writing has the author's voice. Corporate writing has no personal voice; that's why everybody hates reading it.

AIs train on all the text of all the web (that they can get, at least). A lot of that text is "corporate voice" (that is, written by nobody). But even the rest, the AI blends it all together. As a result, in the output, there's no voice - or rather, all the voices all blended together, which doesn't sound like anybody.
by mpalmer | 2025-07-23 13:57:58+00:00
When Apple is dropping press releases trumpeting their "meticulously crafted" design that "makes even the simplest of interactions more fun and magical", it is not persuasive to cry "beta!"

Even the screenshots in the press release - Apple's best foot forward - were criticized more or less immediately; it's not like the problems with the design are rare edge cases.

Apple clearly owns the decision to go this route. No one forced them to announce it before refining it internally. It remains to be seen how drastically they will have to walk it back. Whether or not they rework it enough to reduce complaints, I can't see how they can call it a win in the end. They will anyway.