MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themanmaran | 2025-07-16 22:41:23+00:00
One big barrier I haven't seen mentioned is all the OEM competition they are going to face.

Caterpillar, John Deer, etc. already have remote operation vehicles. And a lot of provisions on what types of kits can be retrofitted onto their equipment without violating their terms/warranties.

I'm sure this is already something they've taken into consideration, but it seems like this will be more focused on partnerships with existing OEMs rather than selling add on kits to current fleets.
by jen729w | 2025-07-16 22:42:00+00:00
Please don’t use a vibe-coded app for anything important.

I use Claude. I like Claude. But I’ve backed away from having Claude actually write my code other than in the most limited circumstances.

I caught it copying one of my TS Interfaces, for example. And modifying, then using, the copy. So my type-checks pass, yay! But wait what?

It wrote a test for a tricky bit of code. The test wouldn’t pass. So it re-wrote it in a way that couldn’t possibly fail, mocking all elements inside the test itself.

I’m not anti-AI. But I wouldn’t trust anything vibe-coded above the importance of, say, Wordle.
Show HN: GitHub-style Markdown note app to test README content
by kukuhsain | 2025-07-16 22:42:02+00:00
Hello hackers,

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by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-16 22:44:09+00:00
If you're on here, there's a good chance you have more connections in the industry than you realize. The best way to avoid being AI-filtered is never have your resume get fed to the AI in the first place, which means applying through back channels.

Recommendations from trusted employees are valuable not out of nepotism or some other sinister force, they're valuable because it acts a pre-filter for the kinds of fuckups that no one would be willing to recommend.
by dmoy | 2025-07-16 22:44:10+00:00
> the days where degree=job were dying

To be fair, the previous iteration of "degree=job" that was dying 20 years ago was the older definition - broad enough to include "degree in literally anything", which was closer to how it operated say 50 years ago.

GP looks to have gone with the newer advice of "get a more useful degree = job". That wasn't really dying 20 years ago. Or even 10 years ago.

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Definitely agree about keeping costs low. Even if you do get a good job, if you keep costs low for long enough, it compounds like crazy.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-16 22:45:02+00:00
In past lives, I've clung to 3.5mm jacks and battery swaps (although I consider myself much reformed, yes I maybe would buy an updated LG v20 if one were released: that was an amazingly built metal slate of a phone with both. Just hot and slow, on that Snapdragon 820).

Today, bluetooth works quite well for me (I love not having cables... but it sucks that performance with a microphone is trashfire). 3.5mm adapters are cheap and easy when needed (rarely. I also have a $10 bluetooth->3.5mm in my travel kit that does get used once a year!). And with usb-c providing fast charging, I rarely feel like I'd benefit from battery swaps. I can give myself 50%+ in 30 minutes, with a portable battery that will power not just my phone, but any other device I run into. With Qi 2.2 releasing with 25W wireless charging, and magnetic coupling being standard now, you don't even need wires anymore. Carrying a bespoke phone-only battery seems like a massive downgrade today. (It also felt like a massive fire hazard!) Time to update your expectations!

Worth mentioning that battery swaps make water-resistance much much trickier to pull off. There' a real cost to battery-swappability.

I do wish we saw something like Ara, some phone modularity & extensibility. Fairphone has some modular parts, but it doesn't feel like an open ecosystem, and the parts dont seem super designed for expansion but more just replacement. I guess maybe Framework is doing the best work, albeit in a bigger form factor space, with their Expansion Cards, which are basically just a card form factor USB-C. Licensed CC-BY-4. https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
by hammyhavoc | 2025-07-16 22:45:06+00:00
I'm definitely open to the idea of foldables or even flip phones (perhaps even enthused!). I'm gutted that the Japanese "Galapagos syndrome" keitei are becoming extinct with fewer and fewer releases each year. The ones that are newly available tend to run Android 10 (yikes). The keitei were always very tasteful, ergonomic, and sensible. Sure, not always flashy in specs, but they didn't need to be when they prioritized the form above everything. Would love for the rest of the world to pick up this dropped ball and run with it.
by JohnMakin | 2025-07-16 22:45:12+00:00
Yea my year entered the job market from college in 2008 - pretty much the worst time ever at that time. It sounds very similar. I think, if I look at my more successful peers including myself, many of us hunkered down and took whatever jobs we could get, many of us went back to school and got second "useful" degrees such as CS/nursing/etc.

My career path is so bizarre I don't really ever talk about it in great detail because it is so unique I think it identifies me and me exactly. Lots of others I know with similar stories. I would not want to go through it again.
by rightbyte | 2025-07-16 22:45:25+00:00
> I've felt it first hand personally how my mind slowly warped itself into believing that ad-tech isn't so bad for the world when I worked for an ad-tech company, and only after leaving did I realize how wrong I was.

You should write a book about that. Did you start seeing adblockers as immoral? I've heard ad-dependent people literally claiming that.
by runxel | 2025-07-16 22:45:32+00:00
The current "conversation view" is misnomer. There really is nothing like that. Again, just think of Gmail and how it's handled there. This is how it would look like, e.g. you actually see your own response, too. Currently this is impossible because Thunderbird does not actually know what messages belong together. It just applies some ugly hacks to even find the ingoing emails. It's a trainwreck, but I believe it will get better and we will finally have some decent mail software out there.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-16 22:46:14+00:00
* A tsunami was generated by this event, but no longer poses a threat.

* This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message issued for this event.

I'm in danger of being "Warning-ed" out. Watches are different and will always get my attention. Especially after the recent overreaction to sending out way more flood warnings even when it is not any where near me is just getting me to not bother with them.

I know this is the danger the forecasters face. I can appreciate how they clearly stated the issue was now over in a very quick time though.
by subhro | 2025-07-16 22:46:19+00:00
Freeswitch is more complicated and has a steeper learning curve, but you can pair it with FusionPBX and it will make things a lot more palatable. Asterix is the grand daddy of this stuff. The community is stronger for Asterix. Freeswitch is pretty much infinitely customizable.

SignalWire is the primary sponsor of Freeswitch but is mainly geared towards HUGE installations. BulkVS is cheaper and better in my opinion. You can also look at AnveoDirect, which is more raw than BulkVS, but you can become really really fancy with it. Like, call center fancy.
by Mawr | 2025-07-16 22:46:20+00:00
> He's restating a complaint that's approximately as old as time.

Heh, reminds me of:

”Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching,” attributed to an Assyrian stone tablet of about 2800 B.C.
by echelon | 2025-07-16 22:48:55+00:00
> Caterpillar, John Deer, etc. already have remote operation vehicles. And a lot of provisions on what types of kits can be retrofitted onto their equipment without violating their terms/warranties.

Sounds ripe for disruption, then.

If a startup demonstrates promise, VC money will flood in. Then it's just a balancing of economics. Is the new VC-backed method cheaper? If so, the incumbents will lose market share relative to the value prop.
by chrisweekly | 2025-07-16 22:49:35+00:00
It's not about authority, it's about old-school payscales, created in an era || at traditional / vertical / hierarchical banking corporations when/where it was inconceivable that an IC could merit significantly higher compensation than a manager (let alone a manager of managers). Hence the "bank title" aspect assigned to senior or principal engineers with market rates higher than generic middle managers. An AVP (Associate Vice President) might be a not particularly senior developer.
by masfuerte | 2025-07-16 22:50:05+00:00
If you want to play these in VLC you need a SoundFont (.sf2) file. There's a good list of SoundFont files here [1]. This VLC wiki page [2] explains how to configure VLC to use the SoundFont.

[1]: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/wiki/SoundFont

[2]: https://wiki.videolan.org/Midi/

(I'm posting this because the vlc wiki is stale and sent me down a pointless rabbit hole on fluidsynth's old sourceforge site. I'd rather update the wiki. It tells me I need to create an account. When I try it tells me I don't have permission.)
by BillyTheMage | 2025-07-16 22:50:08+00:00
It's the economic equivalent of a biological parasite. The class of people who get a free ride on the worker's backs. Those include, but are not limited to: non-worker shareholders, landlords, and all types of scam artist.

Ya know, the people who have designed our entire society to benefit themselves. The people who have turned us into mindless machinery. Those are parasites. They infect our society and make it sick and weak. They take over our collective nervous system to place us in the optimal position for the parasite's benefit.
by godelski | 2025-07-16 22:50:58+00:00
You're right. You can publish into the void.

I was hoping what was said would be easily interpreted but I was incorrect. I'll revise to "putting on ArXiv doesn't mean peers haven't reviewed it."

For what constitutes "a peer", I describe more here[0]. The definition varies wildly, and it is not an easy problem to determine who is even qualified to review a work. Hell, it can be hard to determine if you yourself are qualified to review a work!

While I advocate for mostly abandoning the journals and conferences (or dramatic restructuring), I won't act like there's no problems with just publishing to ArXiv (or more preferably, OpenReview, since it allows commenting). But the truth is that there's no globally optimal solution to this problem. I just think the benefits outweigh the costs here. Frankly, most authors aren't publishing (posting on ArXiv or whatever) in bad faith. If anything, I think our current system incentivizes bad faith publishing, but that's a larger conversation (coupled with this one but requires talking about a few other factors).

Frankly, we just waste a lot of time and effort for little to no gain (possibly even for losses).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44587535
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-16 22:51:31+00:00
This is a massive business opportunity for whoever owns the market.

I have a friend who owns a small/medium sized marketing firm. They typically manage social media and advertising for local businesses (butchers, plumbers, NPOs, etc.). A major cost center for them is dev. They can generally handle developing assets (images, videos, text copy) and publishing them (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram) but if they need any kind of interactivity (even basic forms or CRM-like stuff) they used to hire programmers.

This friend is now "vibe coding" the simple interactivity that previously they had to outsource. In the last few months he has pitched, won and crucially delivered simple apps for a few clients. We're not talking complex web apps, it's mostly CRUD forms and basic workflows, the kind you see people go on about using n8n on Twitter. He's talking to me these days about React, Tailwind, DNS and all of that stuff.

His clients don't know, or care, how he delivers. The local butcher doesn't know about "best practices" or whatever. He just cares that if someone signs up for his newsletter that he gets a notification and that person gets his weekly meat deals email.

His firm is picking up more and more complex projects like these and saving a huge amount on costs. Turn-key services that enable guys like him are going to reap the rewards.
by chubs | 2025-07-16 22:51:40+00:00
Anecdata: Recently spoke with a friend's son who graduated compsci a year-ish ago, he reckons none of his year got jobs, now working in a kitchen. (in australia for context). Very sad. For comparison, I graduated just after the dot-com crash, and our year mostly found jobs, just not very good ones, so maybe they're doing worse than we did. Good luck convincing anyone to study compsci any more.
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-16 22:51:49+00:00
I think this is true, but even after a construction company works through all the approvals the sheer cost of construction is insurmountable. A big part of this is obviously (sometimes union) labor. This happened recently in NIMBY-HQ Berkeley as interest rates crept up [1]. Pre-approved construction sites are sitting empty.

I am off the (not so controversial) opinion that labor should be paid fair wages, but I think it's also fair to use tech like this to multiply labor productivity.

The last piece is the cost of raw materials, which has also ballooned.

[1]: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/04/berkeley-housing-dow...
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-16 22:51:51+00:00
My point is that these companies know that slavery is being used. Nestlé quite literally admitted to it!

If we're going to be a fascist dumpster, why does everyone pretend it's some inherent right that the corporate wigs get all this insulation and that there's simply nothing that can be done against quite literally the worst crimes against humanity that we could possible participate in?

The literal bare minimum someone can do is get a written affidavit from their supplier that the chain is clean. I'm a stupid individual man and somehow I can take the extra hours required for damn near every purchase to look up who I'm buying from and where it comes from. Sometimes I even go without! But companies worth quite literally tens of billions can't?
by CharlesXY | 2025-07-16 22:51:58+00:00
Definitely echo the concerns about bureaucratic red tape (looking at you, California high-speed rail fiasco) that kind of environment makes innovation in infrastructure extra hard. Still, there's something compelling about Bedrock’s approach if they can genuinely deliver a system that adapts in real-time to the complex nature of construction sites. The big question is whether they can win through retrofitting existing fleets or by locking in tight partnerships with OEMs, adding to that the competition is going to be pretty tough
by pclowes | 2025-07-16 22:52:31+00:00
My cynical take is that small phones don't exist because they are not the product. Similar to vape pens the product is the addictive substance the device loads. In this case its apps and ads. A smaller screen probably negatively impacts KPIs on many levels, at Google/Apple/Meta/X and on down through the ecosystem.

I understand that Apple did not make enough money to make it worth their while to continue the iphone mini line. However, it does seem like there is a profitable business for someone there given how beloved it was/is.

I only traded out my iphone 12 mini just recently for an iphone 16 pro (likely the last apple product I will ever buy but thats another story) and aside from the camera it is basically the same. Just heavier, awkward to hold and slightly worse designed.

No major player wants a smaller screen because it has downstream impacts on the pipeline of addictive material and ad pixels they can stuff into ocular nerves.
by robocat | 2025-07-16 22:52:45+00:00
> baby boomers, neglecting the role of grandparent ...

Two 30ish mums I know act really entitled about the Boomer (61 to 79 years old) grandparents not giving enough support. The mums are both working in full-time jobs, so I understand why they need more help. One is a solo mum (due to bad choice for a father, wasn't a surprise).

Both mums get massive support from the grandparents (some working fulltime themselves), but they complain they just don't get enough support.

The mums compare with the support they received as children from their own grandparents, but often their grandmother was a "housewife" and their grandparents were relatively younger.
by GregDavidson | 2025-07-16 22:53:17+00:00
I learned to read by being read to: typically on a relative's lap with the book in my lap. They were not trying to teach me how to read, but my language centers took care of the job, just like they did for spoken language, long before schools could muck it up. Reading has always been fast and effortless for me, requiring no conscious attention - again, just like spoken language. Much later I studied the linguistics of language, grammar, spelling systems, etc. which revealed the wonders of our natural language skills. I recommend the natural method for everyone. Be sure to check for eyesight problems, though.
by echelon | 2025-07-16 22:54:39+00:00
Do you know how much California High Speed Rail is over budget?

What if we could bring massive infrastructure projects down from the billions to the millions? Wouldn't that be a great thing for all of society?

What if we could build new power plants, connect all cities with HSR, rebuild all our old bridges, add thousands of new skyscrapers, and do it all under budget?

Think about what steel did for society. Automated construction is the next highest order step function change. It'll be insanely good for society.
Show HN: Phoaiart – Chat-Based AI Photo Editor Built with Flux Kontext
by incendies | 2025-07-16 22:54:54+00:00
Hey HN! I just launched PHOAIART, an AI-powered photo editor where users can edit their images simply by chatting—no buttons, no sliders, just natural language. You can say things like “change my hair to red” or “remove the background,” and the AI gets it done instantly.

I built it using Flux Kontext for natural language image transformation, along with Firebase (Firestore + Auth) and React Native for the core app logic. The goal was to make image editing feel as easy as texting a friend.

Would love your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement!

iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/app/phoaiart-ai-photo-editor/id674789...
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-16 22:55:47+00:00
> massive amounts of red tape (environmental studies, zoning, planning)

Well, we've seen what happened without the red tape, when people were free to do whatever the fuck they wanted, and the results often aren't pretty. Sometimes, they were deadly, and occasionally we are reminded of why it might not be a good idea to just let the "free market" do what it wants [1].

Red tape doesn't just appear out of thin air, it appears when politicians are so pissed off about the "free market" that they actually find it worthwhile to do their goddamn jobs for once.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palestine,_Ohio,_train_de...
by beau_g | 2025-07-16 22:56:22+00:00
To the parent posters point though, those manufacturers are holding outsized control over what can be retrofit to their machines, so to disrupt them, you have to make your own machines. Working on and owning heavy equipment myself, I of course have looked at it and thought there's a lot to improve, but at the the same time, I don't really see where the big brain Silicon Valley + venture bucks ethos can be applied to the space, it would be a long and slow grind of doing mostly straightforward mechanical engineering and supply chain/vendor agreements to build something like a bulldozer, just to enter a near impenetrable market due to many existing sunk costs and long relationships between buyers and the existing manufacturers.
by joebob42 | 2025-07-16 22:56:29+00:00
This is maybe kind of rude, and hopefully it doesn't come off this way, but where were you still getting the message that degree = job? Not that a degree doesn't help, but I graduated 10 years ago and the message was already pretty clear across the media I interacted with that that was no longer the lived experience / that you needed to be thinking about your major and the future it might offer because just having a degree was not a magic ticket.
by sleepytimetea | 2025-07-16 22:56:54+00:00
I agree - we need a large example not the toy examples of NeoPixels chained together. Also, in the Github module library, I found only ESP32-C3 modules but the hobbyists use ESP8266 and ESP32 and ESP12-E as well as STM dev modules...I suppose its one of those things where contributors will help populate the library but I don't see instructions on how to build all the artifacts I see in the library - there are atleast 12 artifacts for each module...
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-16 22:57:15+00:00
A couple jobs ago, all tickets had a "cost of delay" field that was usually required.

At first it felt absurd & silly, but over time, the spirit of it grew on me a lot & has stuck with me. Let the backlog grow! But have tools to see what actually matters in the backlog, to assess where to go next. And the Cost of Delay should really indicate what really must be moved on.

(I've seen more complex attempts, with a Weighted Shortest Job First (instead of Cost of Delay) that sometimes helps. But conceptually it feels more abstract and more overhead than just asking, how bad is it to put this off?)

Also, having different ticket types can help a lot. Teams can figure out what's high value, but sometimes your business should be focusing on defects. Sometimes it should be focusing on spikes. Sometimes it should be focusing on features. If everything is just a ticket, in the same pool, it's hard to assess & align.
by AI_beffr | 2025-07-16 22:57:22+00:00
gen z is not going to college like millennials did. and i do think it was a moral failure for everyone to jump on an unsustainable bandwagon... they paid too much for a degree in the humanities and when asked about it they would say "well... its just what everyone does." mindless behavior hurts people and the economy so how is this not a moral failing? people should have stuck up for what they knew was right. everybody knew that the ultimate destination of this bandwagon was a world where everyone has a degree regardless of merit (thereby making degrees pointless and worthless) and the degrees cost half a million dollars for no apparent reason. people were intellectually lazy and they got scraped. big fucking deal.
by Liftyee | 2025-07-16 22:57:37+00:00
Out of curiosity, why's it your last Apple product?

Watching lots of Louis Rossmann has put me almost ideologically against Apple (even though they design great hardware and smooth UX within their ecosystem), but I'm not good at forming coherent points to present to Apple loving friends.

For me so far, I think it's about control over what I buy - but the rebuttal is always "you're buying a product from them, if you don't like it then tough".