MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sudhirb | 2025-07-29 11:23:55+00:00
I've had an ancient Parker 51 for a good decade or so now which I use almost daily, that originally belonged to my great-grandmother.

I'd expect there to be a reasonable amount of variation in how long these pens last due to differences in usage, machining tolerances, ink types and materials - though mine has done very well considering how many times I've chucked it into a bag, dropped it on hard floors, etc. (I've probably just been lucky so far).
by soco | 2025-07-29 11:24:03+00:00
I'm confused now: is now the EU the baddie or the governments? Because these are two different entities - and not at least, also "the EU" is a group of government representatives. So folks if you're in the EU and don't like something the EU does - you do have levers, go vote, campaign, do something to move your own folks to do something on the EU level. And if you're in the US maybe better check your own backyard, I think it's on fire.
by coderatlarge | 2025-07-29 11:24:48+00:00
i’m curious what counts as

“dystopia level of financial surveillance,”

these days…

recently i made a cash withdrawal from my personal account ahead of a trip abroad (they asked me why) and within days received a FinCEN notice in the mail warning me about “ structured transactions”… having made no other cash transactions days or even check cashing or writing days before or days after.
by subscribed | 2025-07-29 11:24:51+00:00
So, notice Graphene OS was able to port Android 16 on all the supported devices (from Pixel 6 up) basically within a week without device trees already, without the early (OEM) access to the release.

It's a big inconvenience but not a showstopper for them. Pixels are still viable.

The only blocker with pixels would be if they stopped allowing OEM unlocking or relocking (which is a must).
Ask HN: Does Claude AI run locally?
by kvthweatt | 2025-07-29 11:26:00+00:00
I have a variety of devices of different ages, and I’ve noticed that Claude specifically appears to run locally. No I’m not referring to Claude Code, the CLI tool. I’m talking about the website in any browser.

I have an old Toshiba Satellite for example, when using Claude my fans ramp up and the laptop heats up like it’s a bitcoin miner. No other AI chat client website causes this. This is not to say it doesn’t ramp up the CPU of my other devices which it certainly does.

Has anyone else noticed this? I try searching to no avail. Everything I see says it does not run locally but my user experience, and resource monitors, says otherwise.

Edit: I ask because why the fuck am I paying $20 when I’m doing the computing? Why are any of us paying?
Show HN: AI agents reviewing each other's code in production [video]
by daverad | 2025-07-29 11:27:03+00:00
e've been running an experiment where Claude creates PRs and CodeRabbit reviews them, then Claude responds to the feedback. They debate implementation details in GitHub comments, and both AIs learn from these interactions.

Results after 2 months: - 98% production-ready code before human review - 3-month features now ship in 2 weeks - 2 developers supporting 4 platforms effectively

Video walkthrough (10 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV__0QBmN18

Tech stack: Claude Code, CodeRabbit, Asana and Figma via MCP, custom orchestration layer.

The interesting part is watching them disagree - CodeRabbit might suggest an optimization, and Claude will defend its approach with specific reasoning about our codebase. These conversations create great documentation.

Happy to answer questions about the setup, costs, or specific implementation details.
by jpc0 | 2025-07-29 11:27:15+00:00
Except you just gamified something which is unlikely what would have happened in the past.

Usually how these interactions go is:

1. Ask your circle for a recommendation

2. Call the first recommendation, if they are friendly and in the ballpark for price deal done

There was no 30 businesses called, most of the time only 1 businesses got called

Not you have an AI spamming 30 businesses with calls, in 3 years time you will complain that none if the businesses are any good because those that are just immediately drop AI calls and you never get a quote from them.
by rayiner | 2025-07-29 11:27:18+00:00
> Yes it is, because if you know they're different then you're literally moving the goalpost: We were talking about CT scans but the difference in CT scans both sides of the Atlantic has nothing to do with the availability of CT scan machines so you switch to another equipment in the middle of the discussion.

We’re talking the overuse of diagnostic testing using expensive equipment in the U.S. My anecdote happened to involve a CT scan, but the data I had seen on it focused on MRIs: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart/per-capita-u-s-thr...

I used Canada as a data point because it’s common to compare the U.S.’s healthcare system to Canada, because the countries are otherwise pretty similar. Japan and Greece have very different populations.
by cnity | 2025-07-29 11:27:29+00:00
I think we lack the primitives to understand and discuss messy complicated real world frontends. Something about UI state and its coupling to servers, plus time, plus Conway's Law, causes a real messy situation that appears to be much easier to avoid on the backend than on the frontend.

This creates a massive gulf between beautiful simple frontend toy examples and the reality of applications made with those same frameworks when deployed for multiple years and product cycles. I think it is a big part of what fuels shiny framework adoption. You think: "yes, this here is what will resolve the complexity and pains I see in my work codebase", and this is bolstered by your carefully curated personal side projects.
by quatonion | 2025-07-29 11:27:46+00:00
Totally agree. I used a fountain pen all the way through school and university.

My all time favourite was the Parker 25 in stainless steel, with a medium nib and blue-black ink. Sometimes I would go for purple if I was feeling a bit raunchy.

I know a lot of people liked the 105, and I had one, and a bunch of others, but there is something about the utilitarian functionality of the 25 that I really have a soft spot for.

I think there was a year or two where I may have flirted with ballpens, but not seriously.

Also even used Rotring and Staedtler Mars technical drawing pens on and off for regular writing. That was always fun in the middle of a lecture with ink everywhere.

It's such a shame I don't get to write on paper that much these days. No real need. Such a beautiful experience though.
Show HN: Clio – AI journal that thinks for 60 seconds before responding
by mazzystar | 2025-07-29 11:28:27+00:00
Last month I had a massive fight with my parents. Said some really harsh things, then spent the night drowning in guilt.

I've been working on this AI journal called Clio that actually pauses to think before responding (30-60 seconds instead of instant replies). So I shared my mess with it.

It told me something I hadn't considered: "You both care about completely different things, and what you said essentially told them that what they care about is meaningless."

That reframe changed my mind. I realized my words hadn't expressed what I actually meant, but Clio saw the underlying dynamic I was missing.

1. Why I built this: I got frustrated with AI that fires back instant responses without really processing what you're saying. Most of us think in messy fragments and struggle to put complex feelings into words.

2. What I've noticed: When AI takes time to actually contemplate what you've shared, it catches patterns you miss about your own thinking. The conversations that change how you see things take time.

It's like having that friend who listens deeply and asks the questions you're afraid to ask yourself.

As Wittgenstein said: "The limits of my language are the limits of my world."

I think Clio helps you find words for thoughts you didn't know you had.

Try it: https://getclio.app

Built with Claude Code. Would love feedback from the community!
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-29 11:28:46+00:00
1000x developers, ahahaha! Come on now, this is too comical. Even 10x is extremely rare.

The deciding factor is not speed. It is knowledge. Will I be able to dish out a great compiler in a week? Probably not. But an especially knowledgeable compiler engineer might just do it, for a simple language. Situations like this are the only 10x we have in our profession, if we don't count completely incapable people. The use of AI doesn't make you 1000x. It might make you output an infinite factor of AI slop more, but then you are just pushing the maintenance burden to a later point in time. In total it might make your output completely useless in the long run, making you a 0x dev in the worst case.
by chakintosh | 2025-07-29 11:29:17+00:00
That would be correct if Israel didn't routinely do the exact same war crimes they are committing right now in Gaza for the past 20 years. It's depressing to say, but what Israel is doing right now is nothing new. It's par for the course and each 2 to 3 years you see the same war crimes in gaza, like clockwork.

So yes, those world leaders are as guilty as Israel, they enabled this for years.
by thorin | 2025-07-29 11:29:26+00:00
Lex gets a lot of hate, probably mainly for political reasons and the way he manages his public persona. However not many people can argue with the fact he has probably the best collection of programmer interview/podcasts out there. If that's what you're into you probably won't find anything better:

e.g.

Carmack Brian Kernighan Gosling Guido DHH Demis Bjarne

List it endless, and something to be celebrated I think.
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-29 11:29:56+00:00
Request to HN mods: that the link be changed from

https://www.ponylang.io/discover/

to

https://www.ponylang.io/

On the second link, as another commenter mentions, the "Try it in your browser" is one click away, near the top. On the first link, it's two clicks away, but the first of those clicks is a perhaps surprising backwards-lick to get back to the homepage...

Unfortunately, many of the diehard language enthusiasts here seem to be getting quite worked up over how inaccessible the code examples are. Instead of being able to immediately see the syntax so they can rush back here to make insightful and educated comments on how that syntax compares to $their_fave_lang, they are forced to spend up to 4 or even 5 minutes reading documents clearly describing the design of the language, and being obliged to click on their mouses up to 10 times even in some cases.

If a member of the Pony team sees this: even though it's more than a tad ridiculous and you have in fact made a lovely website with loads of clear information, maybe consider adding the "Try it in your browser" link as another option in the burger menu thing on the left. That way it follows everyone around, and you never have to suffer a HN discussion getting needlessly derailed by the resident PL fanatics.
by Mawr | 2025-07-29 11:30:00+00:00
> Seems like the far more plausible reason is that drivers don't want to be held up by a cyclist traveling at 10mph in front of them?

Their reasoning is as follows:

see cyclist -> cyclist always slow -> must always overtake cyclist

Empirically, 99% of drivers act according to this simplistic model. They do not take the situation at hand into consideration at all, they simply always try to overtake cyclists.

The speed the cyclist is going at doesn't matter, the upcoming intersection/roundabout/traffic jam does not matter, the minimum legal (and safe!) distance from the cyclist while overtaking does not matter.
Show HN: Gachari, a tiny cultural gachapon I built solo (webapp)
by bouyaveman6 | 2025-07-29 11:30:04+00:00
I’ve always been passionate about Japan, and during my last trip I discovered gachapons (capsule vending machines).

I wanted a small ritual to bring that feeling back every day, so I built Gachari: a webapp where you draw a random cultural capsule every 12h (word, sound, haiku, anecdote).

I made it solo in nights and weekends over the last month. It’s simple, but I like the vibe.

Would love some feedback.
by xeonmc | 2025-07-29 11:30:08+00:00
Unironically, my favourite is the standard Bic Cristal medium 1.0mm in black, but placed inside a Bic Round Stic body that I’ve reused for many years (I prefer a plain gripless thin body, since I use a gentle finger-leverage posture for applying pressure variations which I learned from the Palmer script method)

Or, for gel-based, the Uniball Signo black ink is my second choice. I particularly like using the Signo GelStick 0.7mm which I can make line variations from hairlines to super broad strokes (again, the leverage-based force application is key for effortless pressure variation techniques)
by zwnow | 2025-07-29 11:30:29+00:00
What people don't realize is that love isn't just having butterflies in your stomach all the time. Love changes over time, and saying I will love you forever is reasonable if sincere. I love all of my friends and I will love them forever. If I say that to my SO I mean it, even if we separate. People just want the initial rush of love until the chemicals fade.
by bouyaveman6 | 2025-07-29 11:30:31+00:00
Tech stack: React + Supabase (soon PWA).

Monetization: Free by default. Optional coins if you want more draws, but the daily ritual works fully free.

Why I built it: Missed Japan, wanted a calming daily cultural escape.

Feedback welcome on UX, vibe, or ideas to make it more engaging.
by ptero | 2025-07-29 11:31:16+00:00
> This is already happening

Yes. When I said 5-10 years it wasn't to say that the effects would start then. That was my WAG at the time when normal, mild methods like localized YCC stop working and we should expect significant system-level problems.

For investments, I think now "buying index" will stop working well and buying chosen quality, profitable companies will work much better. My 2c.
by saubeidl | 2025-07-29 11:31:40+00:00
If you don't know about EU commissioners or EU matters, then that is purely up to you.

Matter of fact, you're commenting on a news article about EU happenings right now.

If one is only the slightest bit informed, one has probably heard of Kaja Kallas, the foreign affairs commissioner or Maroš Šefčovič, the trade comissioner.

These are not some big secret names, but public figures with well-articulated positions that regularly hold press conferences.
by bartblast | 2025-07-29 11:31:44+00:00
I appreciate the perspective, but I think you're mischaracterizing what Hologram is about. We're not web developers who "can only code in web languages" - we're Elixir developers who've deliberately chosen Elixir for its technical merits (fault tolerance, Actor model, pattern matching, etc.) and want to leverage that investment across our entire stack.

Your hammer/nail analogy actually supports the case for Hologram: if Elixir is genuinely a superior tool for building systems, why shouldn't we extend that tool to work client-side too?

Native development absolutely has its place, and for many use cases it's the right choice. But there are legitimate scenarios where you want the reach and deployment characteristics of the web platform combined with client-side performance. That's exactly what Hologram provides - it transpiles your Elixir UI code to JavaScript that runs in the browser, giving you instant interactions without server roundtrips while keeping the language and paradigms you prefer.

Binary distribution isn't technically hard in 2025, you're right. But "not technically hard" isn't the same as "optimal for every use case." Sometimes you genuinely want instant deployment, universal accessibility, and the ability to update your application without user intervention. Different tools for different jobs.

I'd actually love to hear what you think about Hologram's transpilation approach specifically - writing Elixir UI code that gets converted to JavaScript for client-side execution. Does that change the equation at all from your perspective?
by theptip | 2025-07-29 11:32:15+00:00
I think the more fundamental attribute of interest is how easy it is to verify the work.

Much red team work is easily verifiable; either the exploit works or it doesn’t. Whereas more blue-team work is not easily verifiable; it might take judgement to figure out if a feature is promising.

LLMs are extremely powerful (and trainable) on tasks with a good oracle.
by epistasis | 2025-07-29 11:32:22+00:00
I'm trying to cancel my Claude plan right now, because mid-research I got hit with a one hour time out for the first time, and I realized just how little I need the "expensive" research stuff and just want basic language refinement and some basic augmented knowledge search to get more terms to search the web. And all that basic stuff gets cutoff when you hit some invisible barrier that you have no way of controlling or monitoring.

But I literally can not cancel. Trying the app says "you signed up on a different platform, go there" but it doesn't tell me which platform that might be.

Trying to cancel on mobile web gives several upgrade options but no cancel options.

So, do I need to call my credit card? This is the worst dark pattern on subscription I have seen of any service I have ever paid for!

Anthropic had a fairly positive image in my head until they cut off my access and are not giving me a way to cancel my plan.

Edit: after mucking with the Stripe credit card payment options I found a cancel plan button underneath the list of all invoices. So there is an option, I just had a harder time finding it then I have had with other services. Successfully cancelled!
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-29 11:32:26+00:00
It's a silly distinction to make, but delta 8 and 9 THC are allowed to be sold so long as it comes from hemp, but not marijuana. It's the religious Prohibition folks who are over-representated in state legislature vs. open society folks who want government out of their porn, vapes, and other personal shit. (And Christian theology out of public schools.)
by valenterry | 2025-07-29 11:32:34+00:00
Just coming here to make a prediction: using raw SQL is not great for anything but very simple cases. You can make it type-safe, but that becomes tricky once things become dynamic.

But the real problem is ergonomy. The better solution in almost any language is to leverage the syntax of your language to allow for as much (non-macro) type-safety and auto-completion as possible.

For example instead of:

SELECT country, COUNT(*) as count FROM users GROUP BY country WHERE organization = ?

That should be

select("country", count("\*").as("count)) .from("users") .groupBy("country") .where("organization".=(yourVariable))

[note that it matches SQL, not the language's collections function's names.]

As you see, that's also nice because now you can actually use variables easy - and even use pure rust to decide dynamically on things.

You can further increase typesafety if you want by doing things like `.from(table("users"))` and running extra checks on that table() part, similar to what the lib probably does. Also, sometimes you might have to make a compromise on your syntax and things like `"organization".=(yourVariable)` might have to be slightly rewritten.

Still, I think that people will rather end up with a library like I described, unless the SQL is very basic/static.
by MisterTea | 2025-07-29 11:33:06+00:00
Many sites also had an ftp server behind it. E.g. ftp.id.com and ftp.cdrom.com were two off the top of my head. Another I remember was downloading high resolution images of Tyan motherboards from ftp.tyan.com. Supermicro also had an ftp server you grabbed bios images from. I dont really recall ever having to download anything big via http. Mostly images, pdf's and small zip files.
by Anamon | 2025-07-29 11:33:35+00:00
There are also many non sequiturs. The sentences only read fine if you don't think about what the author might be trying to say. I also think that this reads like the "author" was an LLM and, therefore, isn't trying to say anything.

À propos of nothing – I'm human and I like using special characters, including en dashes. ;)
by internetter | 2025-07-29 11:33:38+00:00
> Wikimedia weren't always a giant ambulating pile of cash; they used to be activists. Long ago.

Your point is moot because this wasn’t a WMF initiative, it was an enwiki community initiative which WMF agreed to accommodate.

The history is detailed… on Wikipedia… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA...
by nashashmi | 2025-07-29 11:34:49+00:00
I think the difference this time is that there is no lock in with a contract like AT&T customers had when they bought iPhones.

Unlimited for startups work better because they have zero idea on load challenges that come in the future. And they don’t have much idea how well their product will be taken in the market.

Anthropic got the experience and decided they needed to maximize on reasonableness over customer trust. And they are a startup so we all get this.

OTOH there is no such thing as unlimited. Atoms in the universe are finite. Your use is finite. Your time is finite. Your abuse is limited and finite. You are a sucker for believing in the unlimited myth just like think others are suckers for believing in divine intervention or conspiracy theorists are suckers to believe in unlimited power.
Show HN: MultiDrive – a free app to clone, backup, erase drives (UI/CLI)
by raydenvm | 2025-07-29 11:34:50+00:00
Hey HN! I'm the CTO at Atola Technology, and we have launched MultiDrive: a free disk backup/clone/wipe tool that does things differently.

After 17 years of work with drives, I got tired of seeing simple disk operations locked behind paywalls. Macrium killed their free version, EaseUS hides cloning in paid tiers, and so on and so forth. Another reason is that all the existing solutions are overly complicated. It must be simple enough for my mum to start erasing a USB stick or making a full drive backup. All in all, we thought the community deserved better.

What makes MultiDrive different:

- Dead simple launch of a full drive backup, clone, erase or restore

- 100% free. No ads, "upgrade to pro" popups

- Standard formats. Backups use ZIP or RAW, no proprietary .afi/.tib nonsense

- Handles bad sectors, loose cables, can pause/resume any operation

- Parallel drive tasks

- CLI app as an addition for workflow automation

Would love your feedback! What problems with disk operations have you had that current tools couldn't solve? We're building our roadmap based on real pain points.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-07-29 11:35:21+00:00
> What would be the punishment for that?

On a legal level? None. On a personal level? Don't give them money or your business. Avoid them completely or ensure you use ad blockers on their sites and throw away accounts if necessary. Do not contribute to their content.

In short: you take whatever they give you, and you give nothing in return.
by holsta | 2025-07-29 11:36:02+00:00
> In “Irreversible Damage,” Abigail Shrier argues youth are being “fast-tracked” into medical transition — a claim experts say isn’t true and harms trans youth.

Anti-trans activities is the fascist agenda. Fascism should always be stopped. Saving democracy and lives of transpeople by stopping fascists is not controversial in any way.
by blitzar | 2025-07-29 11:36:24+00:00
The UK is the perfect target - globally relevant enough to make the news, small enough that its a financial rounding error. Take action, carry through with the threat and if your product actually matters - attitudes can change globally.

While the law would not be toppled tomorrow, the companies of the internet need to stop being so desperate for small scraps of money and eyeballs.

The internet might be free if companies instead of trying to skirt laws and regulations just operated where they are welcome. Good for the internet but bad for the VCs so it wont happen.