MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CorrectHorseBat | 2025-07-28 09:32:21+00:00
Cyclist aren't massive nor hot, on a hot summerday they will be cooler than the road surface. I think a camera with object recognition or something similar should be able to do it.

It's not the first time apps are being shoved where they shouldn't belong by the Flemish Government. They made a cooking app of half a million Euro [1] and there were trials where you could use an app to to get the deposit back on plastic bottles by scanning the bottle and your wastebag [2].

I'm not sure if it's incompetence, trying to look modern or just plain old corruption.

[1] https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/05/27/kookapp-van-vlaamse-...

[2] https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/05/23/cordacampus-proefpro...
by flub | 2025-07-28 09:33:03+00:00
As one of the iroh developers I must say thank you for creating ZeroTier! It absolutely was part of the inspiration and it's seamless functioning continues to amaze me daily. Something that continues to drive me to strive for as seamless an experience in iroh.

I love the fact we can make different tools learning from each other and approaching making p2p usable in different ways.
by taneq | 2025-07-28 09:33:45+00:00
Huh? We’re talking work chat, right, with technical content and project specific stuff etc.? I refer to that all the time. I moved work chat from ad-hoc social media onto an internal Mattermost server explicitly for this. And at the time it doesn’t seem that useful, but it’s the long tail of projects where it really saves you. Being able to quickly find that one thing you’re sure you discussed that one time three years ago on a project that was closed out two years ago? Priceless.
by bubblyworld | 2025-07-28 09:34:09+00:00
They don't really, as far as I can tell. There are lots of independent good and bad reasons to go down each of the roads in the article. Dependencies make a lot of sense in a lot of cases (e.g. the recent article on date parsing). So do build steps (static API doc generators anyone?). I think chalking it up to one thing is a bit too reductionist.
by dusted | 2025-07-28 09:34:43+00:00
Nothing really at the moment, job and family takes most my time and energy. Last thing I made was this semi-vibe-coded a local-storage-only site for helping myself plan stuff, I made so it works offline as a progressive web app too if you install it, but it's not suitable for phone at the moment, I don't know if I can be bothered to make it suitable for phone either..

https://dusted.dk/pages/ordeal/

Two features are missing, I might find some energy to make them at some point: 1. right now only the entire "ordeal" can be moved, so situations with multiple fix points are annoying, I'd like to be able to "anchor" multiple tasks and have the tasks between stretch and shrink as needed. 2. I want to add a red horizontal line that's moving and shows the current time.
by koehr | 2025-07-28 09:35:15+00:00
I started playing around with the idea of a new programming language that compiles to JavaScript. Despite syntactic improvements and type-checking, it's goal is to streamline promises, async/await and callbacks into one signal based system I call live variables. Additionally, those could be compiled via different, interchangeable compiler plugins to framework specific code, like React's useState or Vuejs' Refs, to make it more future prove. It's still in a concept stage and maybe the whole project is futile, but if it piqued your interest, check out https://github.com/nkoehring/Solace
by alt227 | 2025-07-28 09:35:27+00:00
His arguement is:

> There’s none of that awful heavy handed contrast. No crushed blacks. No randomly saturated whites in the sunset, and saturation overall stays where it belongs across the luminance range.

I disagree strongly with all of this. The blacks are crushed hard, they are just crushed to a light grey instead of a dark black. The saturation is washed out, to the point where all the colours are forced into a very limited colour range. It just looks terrible, and if someone painted this I would say the same thing about it.
by holowoodman | 2025-07-28 09:35:33+00:00
Btw, question to the wisdom of HN: Good meetings need minutes.

Is there a minutes taking tool that does automatically list the attendants and their join/leave times, allow me to create items like TODO, DECISION, POLL, DISCUSS_MORE, GET_INFO, BLOCKER that will then be tabulated and cross-referenced automatically across more than one meeting? And added to the TODO-lists of participants referenced?

Preferrably somewhat independently of the conference tool in use, because that varies a lot around here.
by geon | 2025-07-28 09:35:55+00:00
Sounds great.

I'd like to see more contextually meaningful refactoring tools. Like "Remove this dependency" or "Externalize this code with a callback".

And refactoring shouldn't be done by generatively rewriting the code, but as a series of guaranteed equivalent transformations of the AST, each of which should be committed separately.

The AI should be used to analyse the value of the transformation and filter out asinine suggestions, not to write code in itself.
by vb-8448 | 2025-07-28 09:36:37+00:00
A workflow engine, but not an "airflow like" (even if I hope it will become an airflow killer) but more similar to old job scheduling systems from mainframe era(OPC/TWS/CA7 ecc).

In my opinion, those mainframe-era dinosaurs are conceptually far more superior to what we have today on servers and cloud systems.
by jacquesm | 2025-07-28 09:37:33+00:00
In principle, yes. That's called inertial navigation and while it works, for a while, the errors involved are big enough that without a feedback loop you'll be happy if it lands anywhere near the target area. And with the size of the payloads of the day 'near' isn't nearly precise enough. So these were only usable as a terror weapon. Unfortunately, not much seems to have changed in 80 years in spite of our ability to target much more precisely.
by PeterStuer | 2025-07-28 09:37:49+00:00
Just in case you wonder, these are apps of commercial data-sharing/selling businesses, not some 'official' gov app for the benefit of the citizens.

They are the products of https://ndrive.com/ , https://www.flitsmeister.nl and https://be-mobile.com/ .

They also focus on toll collecting and parking fees, so "pay to play" is in a sense already in their DNA. Why do these commercial entities get to influence public traffic lights? And due to the inherent red-queen arms race in this, not installing any of these apps will explicitly disadvantage you as the 'smart' traffic lights (already 1 in 8 and growing rapidly) do favor the app users.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-28 09:38:06+00:00
Well first off, do you actually need all that? How formal are these meetings?

Ours are pretty informal, we (unfortunately) use MS Teams which has an agenda & notes section; people are asked to fill in the agenda if they have any points (which is frustrating because getting there isn't easy or obvious), people can write down notes and action points during the meeting (it's a shared and collaborative effort).

You can assign tasks to people's todo lists though, but of course the problem is fragmentation; everyone has their own todo lists, there's Jira for work items, etc.
by nxpnsv | 2025-07-28 09:40:05+00:00
Rant: I hate brainstorming meetings. A manager who wants to feel like they are doing something invite a mix of one or two experts, a clueless pm, engineers from an unrelated project, and handful of random ones hers. Next, with zero preparation we’re supposed to come up with groundbreaking new ideas. Then there is some voting and finally waiting for a summary or gameplay that’s postponed until the heat death of the universe. Perhaps I will bring cookies next time.
by endymion-light | 2025-07-28 09:40:30+00:00
I think there's room for a mixture of both use-cases. I think personally programming is far more like being a mixture of a pilot and an engineer. There are times, like in this article where it's far more useful to have a HUD, while i'm focused, i'd much rather have a better eye on things that are interesting to me. I often find things like cursor do the opposite - they slow down your processing time, you shift into an environment that often feels like i'm correcting a junior engineers work rather than expanding my knowledge of the codebase.

For example, if i'm working on authentication logic, i'd much rather see a smart heads up display, you look at a function and get advice on where this might mess other things up in the codebase, edge cases, etc. A smarter form of current IDES that doesn't mean you click through 50 different files to work out that this third party package doesn't work on specific code. A HUD in this case is ideal.

But I find there's a more detailed, slower development, I still really often use the chat function on claude mixed with Obsidian to hold bits of information i've found useful, this is more related to getting a deeper understanding of certain concepts. As a stupid developer, I often find I might need something explained 20 times in 20 different ways, and actually a predictive text model is perfect in so many circumstances to explain a massive algorithm step by step. It's ideal for things like shader code, where I might come back to it 6 months later and want to work out what was in my head at the time, a historic chat is perfect for those things.

There's definitely a balance to be struck, I think now that the hype cycle is peaking we can hopefully seperate the profit seeking AI tools from the useful day to day knowledge expansion. Currently it feels like the discovery of perspective in the reneissance - instead of using it to further advancements, we're attempting to sell perspective courses to people.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-28 09:41:03+00:00
Thanks a lot, well here are some practical applications I can think of personally:

Uncensored forum app (though would be insanely slow and I personally feel like it might lead to some nefarious activities and I was thinking of creating it but I didn't want to be linked to it)

Multi crypto payment while having the same address: we add all crypto addresses into nano chain itself and so then anybody can pay to anybody else in all the crypto address data of different blockchains like eth, polygon , (bitcoin?) , monero without requiring multiple addresses, a single address is enough.

Proving of data (nanotimestamps) could be useful to create a decentralized way of "seeding" other people's data while still knowing that its tamper free using bao (incremental streaming)

so this could theoretically be used for lets say download of archlinux iso without using bittorrent and without trusting any middle man or even hashing yourself. So it can sort of link download links into addresses too.

I was thinking of a social media where such thing could be used and so the underlying stack could be changed to whatever and you can move away just like in did but the did server would actually be a 60 node (nano has 60 nodes from various amount of people so more decentralized and anyone can host their own node too)

All while doing any of this, we can guarantee sort of something like nostr too in the sense that payments can be built in (not sure if its good or bad but its still a feature)

I must admit though, I am just in high school and honestly it made my day thinking that people think what I created to be innovative since I will admit, the code sucks really bad and AI slop but the idea is the one thing I am proud of. Truly an eureka moment I must admit.

I want to be honest, I may have created this idea but its hard for me to monetize it given the decentralized nature. If someone has some more ideas feel free to list it.

Should I create my own blog post about it?

I personally want to work on this project too, get some practical applications but just have no incentive really sadly. I also don't want to generate too much hype on it as if its something revolutionary since only time will tell.

I may sound cheesy but if someone interested in crypto is seriously impressed, please just mail me and I guess fund me for this project and give me ideas on monetization.

Honestly I don't know, I don't want a lot of money. I just want enough money to work on things I like without dreading about studies/college/job cycle.

https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/randomnano Not sure why I named it randomnano but naming has always been difficult for me..
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-28 09:41:22+00:00
We're already there if you live in places like Germany or the UK. Go on social media and criticize some politicians in the UK/DE about their open borders policies being directly responsible for some of the terror attacks there, and there's a high chance police will knock on your door for "being a right supremacist" and for committing the "speech of hate". I think France, Italy are also following the same path. You know you don't have free speech anymore, when saying facts gets you in trouble.

And this is only the beginning. It will be more and more difficult to speak against the actions of your government the more unpopular the politicians become and the more people hate the results of their policies. And instead of changing course and following the wishes of the voters, politicians instead will clamp down on free speech.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-07-28 09:41:26+00:00
>Slop Generator

Using that term through the article makes it hard to take seriously. I know nothing of this project but right off the bat it seems like a project that has little credibility just because of the tone used throughout.

There's no need to turn it into a full-on tirade against this set of technologies either. Is this an appropriate place to complain about Reddit comments?

Ironically, the author could well benefit from running this slop through an llm to make it more professional.
by Karliss | 2025-07-28 09:42:53+00:00
Naming is hard but if there really were 2 different AI IDEs with nearly identically name that's no accident.

But it seems like traeide.com is in the best case someones extremely misleading web design demo, worst case a scam.

One the traeide website:

> Educational demo only. Not affiliated with ByteDance's Trae AI. Is Trae IDE really free? What's the catch? Yes, Trae IDE is completely free with no hidden costs. As a ByteDance product, it is committed to making advanced AI coding tools accessible to all developers.

By the way TRAE isn't free anymore, they now provide a premium subscription.

If the later really is just a web design demo it has a bunch of red flags. Why the officially sounding domain? Download links for executables!!! If it is just a web design demo for portfolio -> why are there no contact information for the author whose work and skills it's supposed to advertise?
by Saline9515 | 2025-07-28 09:42:53+00:00
Ineffective against the US corporations.

The European commission, the top of the EU's unelected and mostly unchecked bureaucracy, is currently suing its data protection office after it declared that its use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection laws.

I mean, the EU wants to force browsers to recognize its own web certificates, while allowing Google to selectively deactivate your phone's capacity to conduct ID checks. It's the same with the "EU Cloud initiative", that at the end was full of non-EU companies.

The aim of the EU bureaucracy is not sovereignty, but extension of its power, nowadays called as "regulation". And when in place, it can't be removed, even if it's clearly self-harming.
by Thorrez | 2025-07-28 09:43:23+00:00
>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.

One way to define a human is any living entity that is either an adult human, or will/would grow into an adult human as long as no problem has happened or will happen to the entity.

> 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

The draft. And a lot of other military rules.

Another example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_captain_goes_down_with_the... . The captain has a duty to save passengers first before saving self.

>In the bodily autonomy argument, the personhood of the fetus is irrelevant.

I don't think that's right. Let's say there are 2 people: A and B. Both are innocent. Person A has some bodily suffering. The only way to solve it is to kill person B. So the options are to restore person A to full bodily health and completely destroy person B's bodily health (violating person B's bodily autonomy completely) or to leave the situation as-is, where person A has has only partial bodily health but person B has full bodily health (violating person A's bodily autonomy partially). I think the correct option is to leave the situation as-is, because that violates bodily autonomy the least.

Of course even better is for other people to give aid to person A to reduce the suffering as much as possible without hurting person B.
by fragmede | 2025-07-28 09:43:41+00:00
I don't know that this is a good argument for science. We should fund science because we want to discover new things, not because we can draw a dotted line to an ROI. Similarly, we should fund the department of giving poor people money for food. Not because there's an ROI somewhere down the line. There's never gonna be a return on that investment, but we should do that because we're humans and we want to lift our fellow human out of misery.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-28 09:43:45+00:00
Lurking in HN, this might be one of the highest compliments out there. So thanks, I appreciate it.

I have created a whole video about it actually too! it was part of some coding competition to explain software that I took part in.

I must admit, I was just babbling since I didn't knew too much of the code but just the higher basics so it would be a little tough watching a video so you might need to hold tight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChyJALOsSmY

Here's the repo https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/randomnano

I had created a blog post too iirc, I will create it again this time explaining it better since I think there is some reignited interest in it.
by malcontented | 2025-07-28 09:44:41+00:00
That's a fair argument to make. I should have, perhaps, written "are supposed to be able," or "have become famous for their apparent ability to solve loosely-specified arbitrary problems."

CoT _is,_ in my mind at least, a hack that is bolted to LLMs to create some sort of loose approximation of reasoning. When I read the paper I expected to see a better hack, but could not find anything on how you take this architecture, interesting though it is, and put it to use in a way similar to CoT. The whole paper seems to make a wild pivot between a fully general biomimetic grandeur of the first half, and the narrow effectiveness of the second half.
by holowoodman | 2025-07-28 09:45:07+00:00
It sounds more formal than it should be. In my mind, it's more about easier searching and retracing steps and decisions. The only really formal thing in there is the list of TODOs and the DECISIONS. The first ones because obviously you need people to do them, and it's easier if they are automatically on a list of theirs and not forgotten. The DECISIONS are important because in retrospect somebody always will want to know the when/how/who/why around them.

But you could be right, this might not be the unifying tool for everything but more like number 29 that has never replace the previous 28...
by alias_neo | 2025-07-28 09:45:22+00:00
I think many in the comments are misunderstanding how this works, perhaps because it's not clearly explained, but my understanding is that they want to integrate with your navigation software so that they can predict (based on the routes of drivers navigating with a supported app) when certain vehicles will reach certain lights and adjust the timing so as not to cause traffic to have to slow down.

The only way to do this effectively is with a planned route, and hence why they need to use an app (the one you're using to navigate/route plan with) and why having the main navigation apps people tend to use (e.g. Waze, GMaps) is desirable.
by dotancohen | 2025-07-28 09:46:03+00:00
One of the first sentences of the page clearly states:

> This blog post is recommended for desktop users.

That said, there is a lot of content here that could have been mobile-friendly with very little effort. The first image, of embeddings, is a prime example. It has been a very long time since I've seen any online content, let alone a blog post, that requires a desktop browser
by iudqnolq | 2025-07-28 09:46:32+00:00
The problem is that opinions are way cheaper.

Look at the article currently promoted at the top of Post opinion page: "Trump is off to a good start with an AI action plan" https://archive.is/ERCme

Regardless of what you think of the quality of that opinion, it took very little effort to make.

Compare the sources they used to the work it would take go out on the ground and do novel research:

- Their own news article about it (itself based on press releases and an off-the-record comment that obviously would have come from someone in the White House press office assigned to promote the press release)

- Their own past opinion pieces

- Reuters.com

- WhiteHouse.gov

- Online govt statistics

- CNN.com

- NeurIPS' blog

- Columbia Business School blog

- Matthew Yglesias' blog

- Greg Lukanioff's blog

I could have found those sources based on vague memories of tweets I've seen by following journalists on Bluesky and a few hours of googling. I suspect they did the same, except they used X instead.
by piva00 | 2025-07-28 09:49:11+00:00
> Cyclist aren't massive nor hot, on a hot summerday they will be cooler than the road surface. I think a camera with object recognition or something similar should be able to do it.

I don't know the technical details on how it's done here in Stockholm, even less in the suburbs where I've lived but it feels like magic that in some traffic lights in busier intersections they'll just trigger by themselves with enough distance that when I arrive with the bike at the intersection the lights are turning green for me.

I have looked for cameras but couldn't find them, it's even more puzzling in a specific intersection close to my house where I bike along a 4-lane road with only fields of wheat and grass, and the intersection I cross leads to an industrial area, there are only the posts for the pedestrian/bike lights and those still turn green, no cameras in sight, no detection trap on the pavement.
by 299exp | 2025-07-28 09:50:44+00:00
I don't quite see this as groundbreaking as some others do. Life, at its core, is about making choices. What wasn't selected through those choices has been effectively eliminated.

From the very beginning, when organisms first received sensory input and could act on it, life has been shaped by a process of selection through choices. It makes sense that choice is so fundamental to all living things.

What I think confuses some people is the debate about determinism. To me, it feels less of a dilemma when you consider the inherent randomness of reality. This randomness influences both the choices we make and the range of choices available to us. We always make choices, based on many factors, and because some of those factors are unpredictable, not all of our choices are entirely predictable.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-28 09:50:45+00:00
> It is not possible for “the owners to end the strike”. Owners do not possess the authority with which to force workers back to work. If an owner “ends the strike” it solely because they reached a mutual agreement with workers.

Perhaps not legally, but strikebreaking has a violently varied history in America, and that's just the country I'm most familiar with. Private detectives and off-duty police have been used to carry out the wishes of owners against unions for so long that one of the most famous times was a strike for an 8 hour workday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair