MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yogorenapan | 2025-08-26 16:58:20+00:00
I have an early batch framework (i7 11th gen) still in use (I have no other laptops or a PC). A few benefits I've gotten out of it: - I spilled almost a liter of milk on my keyboard, really gummed it up. Keys stopped working. Got it replaced for pretty cheap. - Linux just works. No weird driver issues But... - Battery life is horrible. I pretty much just have it plugged in whenever I can. When off battery, I use the cpupower frequency set command to limit to 1000MHz which is fast enough for vim anyways. Compiling stuff becomes a bit slower but since I write Go, it's not too bad. - Fan noise is loud - My specific laptop had a weird sensor bug where it would sometimes randomly get throttled to 200 MHz. Framework didn't really help or replace it.

Honestly it'll probably last me another 5 years before I need to switch out the mainboard. I don't do anything intense like gaming.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 16:58:27+00:00
Combine a very-high necessary floor of funding for a wasteful Red Queen's Race opened up by Citizens United, and a bad system of elections that guarantees only two stably-viable parties, and you've got a system where money may not determine the winner, but it very much determines who even makes it on the ballot and the positions they are allowed to take on various issues, in a big way.
by csours | 2025-08-26 16:58:31+00:00
I firmly believe, more and more each day, that the human mind does not seek truth or correctness, it primarily seeks satisfaction.

The context for satisfaction is different for every individual human. Some parts of the context are shared (to various degrees). These 'shared contexts' we might call rationality, or science, or society, or religion.

Another part of the problem is that satisfaction is recursive.

We may evaluate something based on:

1. Correctness 2. Completeness 3. Satisfaction

This is obviously self-referential because if something is incorrect or incomplete, then it is also unsatisfying.

For instance, if you are only aware of Electromagnetism, then Maxwell's equations are correct, complete, and satisfying. And then some jerk discovers neutrons.

Anyway, this whole comment may fit into your first three points; or it may help someone understand a failure to communicate.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-26 16:58:32+00:00
Citation:

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245229292... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100612

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465127 - March 2025 (26 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529256 - December 2024 (10 comments)

(You're right, it is a suboptimal socioeconomic system)
Show HN: Pantheon-CLI – Open-Source Python Claude Code and Smart Notebook
by steorra | 2025-08-26 16:58:33+00:00
Hi, We’ve built Pantheon-CLI, an fully open-source project that aims to be the “Python Claude Code + Notebook” — but designed for data analysis instead of just coding.

Unlike most AI coding assistants, Pantheon-CLI runs entirely on your machine (or server). No data upload required. It blends natural language and code in a single workflow, keeping variables in memory and letting you switch seamlessly between typing code and asking in plain English.

What it does: 1. Chat with your data: Directly process CSV, Excel, AnnData, Pickle, Torch tensors, or any format supported by Python/R/Julia. 2. Mixed programming: Variables persist across natural language and code; the CLI auto-generates and runs code for you. 3. MCP-like agent integration: Read/create files, run commands, fetch web pages, generate/revise code. 4. Human-like learning: Feed it a PDF paper or tutorial—Pantheon-CLI reads it, plans steps, and replicates methods before analysis. 5. Task planning: Builds scientific agents by learning from papers/tutorials (not just fixed, human-predefined steps). 6. Multi-model support: Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc. + offline local LLMs (ollama, deepseek, gpt-oss). 7. Multi-RAG support: Pre-learns from docs/web into a local “brain” for more credible outputs without massive token costs. 8. Built-in biology toolsets: For omics analysis (alignment, annotation, differential expression, full paper reproduction). 9. Notebook mode: Brings the same agentic workflow into Jupyter—automatically runs and revises code, operates on files, and learns from tutorials/papers.

Pantheon-CLI is our attempt to push beyond “AI writes code for you.” Instead, it’s an agentic operating system for data analysis, spanning both terminal and notebook.

Repo: https://github.com/aristoteleo/pantheon-cli

Tutorial: https://pantheonos.stanford.edu/cli/docs/intro/getting-start...

Home page: https://pantheonos.stanford.edu/

Would love to hear feedback from the HN community—what use cases would you try this for, and what features would make it more useful to you?
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-26 16:59:14+00:00
You are incorrect. This isn’t good will measures, these are required by law. The EFTA, for example, requires banks to make you whole against fraudulent ATM transactions. The CC recommendation is more about you having more time and flexibility to dispute the charge without risking access to cash; most Americans don’t even have a few thousand dollars in cash so a fraudulent ATM withdrawal is a major problem. But if you have a good chunk of cash the fraudulent ATM transaction will not really be felt by you provided you follow the requirements about notification (you have 2 days after noticing to report it to the bank).

The losses due to fraudulent CC activity are governed by the FCBA.

It’s shocking how people think companies do this kind of stuff out of good will rather than being forced by law.
by bhouston | 2025-08-26 16:59:22+00:00
> I'd also bet that the vast, vast majority of voters are already going to vote for their chosen candidate, independently of whether they see $1 billion worth of ads or $5.

This is true of elections in two party systems. Most people have parties they align with and don't switch often. But there are persuadables.

The billions spent on political ads was spent for a reason. Similar to why billions are spent on marketing in general. There is the old adage that sure half of the marketing budget is wasted, but it is never clear which half ahead of time.

https://www.b2bmarketing.net/half-the-money-i-spend-on-adver...
by chao- | 2025-08-26 16:59:34+00:00
They were referencing a time, in the middle of the 2010's, when "amdgpu" was released. It is a completely rewritten, different driver, and is mostly open source [0]. Before that, the driver was named "radeon" and it was very shaky. I can speak to this personally. I had desktop Linux systems with both AMD/ATI and Nvidia GPUs, and while there were some issues with Nvidia, the AMD/ATI drivers gave me nightmares.

Once the rewritten "amdgpu" driver came out, things got much better. The first few cards created after that (IIRC the Polaris GPUs, RX 400's), the situation reversed. I still have had occasional issues with various Nvidia cards (normally driver updates breaking things), but for almost a decade now, I have not had issues with AMD GPUs under Linux.

[0] Except for pro features while using workstation cards. You need to use a proprietary driver for those, but even those share a lot of code with the open source driver.
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-26 16:59:44+00:00
Interesting! I feel like that's maybe similar to the business of being able to correctly generate images of text— it looks like the idea of a keyboard to a non-musician, but is immediately wrong to someone who is actually familiar with it at all.

I wonder if the bot is forced to generate something new— certainly for a prompt like that it would be acceptable to just pick the first result off a google image search and be like "there, there's your picture of a piano keyboard".
by baseballdork | 2025-08-26 16:59:52+00:00
> It could be great, but am I going to use it on my elementary aged child’s devices.

This is nonsensical. Fundamentally this is a file made to be uploaded to gmail or fastmail named `<provider>Filters.xml`. In what universe would you "use" this on your elementary aged child's devices?

> I see this as an extension of tshirt and jeans to work at an office job. The unforeseen consequence being the elimination of decorum everywhere. It’s not really about vulgarity, but a general lack of respect for others, standards for ourselves, and dissolving social culture.

I think we'll be okay with dispensing of the "social culture" that is slacks and a polo.
by jjk166 | 2025-08-26 17:00:09+00:00
Even if global population continued to increase forever, that doesn't mean a particular nation would be able to get those immigrants to come fix their demographic woes. It doesn't matter how easy Moldova makes it for people to immigrate, who is choosing to go there over other destinations just as in need of fresh blood? Countries like the US and western Europe maybe can solve their demographic problems with immigration for the next few decades, that doesn't mean that its a generally viable strategy or that it will keep working in a future world when these nations are well past their prime.
by IIAOPSW | 2025-08-26 17:00:12+00:00
Adding to this, I think people naturally confuse / extrapolate a universe that appears to have discritized / computational laws with the discritized simulations and computations we use to approximate our (previously assumed continuous) reality.

As I put it, the older understanding of the universe working in mechanical ways does not imply the universe is actually a machine nor that it was built by someone or for some purpose similar to the way we build machines. Likewise, the newer understanding of the universe working in computational ways does not imply the universe is actually running on some computer nor that its code was written by someone or for some purpose similar to the way we run simulations.
by RichardCA | 2025-08-26 17:00:28+00:00
Thanks but no, everyone who came up in that era knew about K&P (K&R was the C book). The main publishers back then were O'Reilly, SAMS, QUE and a few others. I think it was a SAMS book but I'm not sure.

A more likely candidate is the Kochan book but the original 1985 first edition. It had the scrappy sense of humor that characterized the Unix culture in the 80's.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293206.UNIX_Shell_Progra...
by dfxm12 | 2025-08-26 17:00:33+00:00
It is clear that the government and wall street are generally of one mind on this. One recent specific way the government contributed to this is via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, which increased tax burden of R&D. They've also cut a lot of their own research funding (NIH, NSF).

I can't make the argument that the government is "hands off, small government" because I simply don't see the evidence of that. To the contrary, I have seen things like TARP, stimulus checks, oh, and the government buying 10% of Intel.
by hecanjog | 2025-08-26 17:00:45+00:00
I have a first generation framework 13, I upgraded the mainboard last year to the 12th gen intel i7-1280P mainboard. My original mainboard was from the first batch with the bios battery issues but still works, though I haven't had success getting it to run standalone in the coolmaster case yet.

I'm happy with my framework 13 four years later. I might switch to the stiffer hinge and/or a matte screen in the future. Might try one of the AMD mainboards in a few generations when they're cheaper and put my current mainboard into another case...

Edit: FWIW I bought a macbook air M1 a year after getting the framework 13, and ended up selling it. The battery life on the macbook air was significantly better, but I can still spend an entire workday in the park with the glossy framework 13 without needing to recharge so the extra battery life from the M1 didn't really have a ton of value for me.
by techjamie | 2025-08-26 17:00:46+00:00
And the sentiment that I own the things I've bought and paid for and should be able to do what I want with it. That a company shouldn't be able to come in and take away features, that I purchased with the device, away from me for absolutely any reason.

I can't go to Google HQ and reinstall their locks because I think their locks are insecure, and I certainly can't declare myself the arbiter of who should be allowed to open their locks. I'd be charged and put in jail. But they can do the digital equivalent to my device and that's valid business.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-26 17:01:16+00:00
I mean I don't watch traditional news and more youtube from genuine indpendent journalists who are transparent about their reporting and even their company in general. (Tldr news) etc. and I am way more focused on the economy side of things.

I do watch a lot of atrioc and I think that he's a decent enough source to be trusted compared to journalists in the sense that I get both fun and news at the same time but yeah.

Like I said (I think) I am way more interested on things financially and so plain bagel who I consider to be an excellent finance youtuber who isn't a grifter and literally has no incentives to sell you a course or something. ( crazy that I feel like I have to mention it, that's how scummy most finance youtubers are)

Even then, even such amount of news which I consider to be a signal makes me depressed. I may have a left leaning bias but that's because of the incompetence of the govt. and I am not even an american but its interesting to watch american politics because it impacts us all and my countries politics is a shit hole that its not worth watching, both parties suck, (tbh america is same, bernie is the only person that I trust for the most part imo)

My point that I was trying to make is that maybe mass scale of people depress me with what is happening in the world. I wish to be ignorant but I wish to know if that makes sense.

Regarding 3rd point, to me 3) is also my favourite as I love finding technical solutions to organize/build etc., yet I find it that I am not an effective oranizer for stuff, maybe I am better off just helping non profits in their mission that might align with my political beliefs, but I wonder if I can do it without it being my full job or taking full time efforts. Like, decentralizing the communications by moving to matrix or helping them in self hosting their stuff comes to my mind. Does this make sense? Do non profits need this?
Show HN: 2,500 free AWS certification flashcards (built on AWS)
by PJVNS | 2025-08-26 17:01:35+00:00
I built a free study tool for AWS certifications: [AWSomecards](https://awsomecards.com).

It’s a static-first app: pure HTML/CSS/vanilla JS on the frontend, with flip animations via CSS transforms and study modes (core concepts, comparisons, quick facts). Flashcard data lives in S3 as JSON, served through Lambda (Node.js 20) + API Gateway, cached globally at CloudFront. All infrastructure is managed via CloudFormation.

The cards are immutable and cached aggressively at the edge. Rate limiting is enforced at both Lambda (30 req/min/IP) and API Gateway (50 rps, burst 100). Monitoring is wired up through CloudWatch alarms and SNS notifications.

The learning model is simple: tiered flashcards mapped to AWS exam objectives, with a progressive mode that steps learners through increasing difficulty. The goal is to make high-quality certification prep available for free, without gatekeeping. There are currently 2,500+ cards across Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate, Advanced Networking, and more.

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*Questions for HN:* - Which AWS certifications should be prioritized next? - Would there be interest in open-sourcing the flashcard data or the CloudFormation templates? - What sustainable monetization approaches have you seen work for free learning tools, without ads or paywalls?

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Feedback is welcome — both on the approach and on how to keep it sustainable long-term.
by hajile | 2025-08-26 17:01:48+00:00
Intel has proposed APX to address this. It does away with some of the 32-bit garbage that complicates design for no good payoff. Most importantly, it increases from 16 to 32 registers and allows 3-register instructions (almost all x86 instructions are 1-register or 2-register instructions). This would strip out tons of MOV instructions which was proven with AMD64 to have a decent impact on performance.

Reduced I-Cache, uop cache, and decoder pressure would also have a beneficial impact. On the flip side, APX instructions would all be an entire byte longer than their AMD64 counterparts, so some of the benefits would be more muted than they might first appear and optimizing between 16 registers and shorter instructions vs 32 registers with longer instructions is yet another tradeoff for compilers to make (and takes another step down the path of being completely unoptimizable by humans).
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 17:01:48+00:00
Get Out the Vote is where it's at. "True swing" (not self-reported swing, most people lie because they think being a swing voter is more socially desirable, I suppose) is indeed a tiny sliver.

It's about convincing your people they need to show up or the other side will make your grandkids shit in litter boxes, or whatever lies it takes.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-26 17:01:49+00:00
As total fertility rate continues to rapidly decline due to educated, empowered women having less kids or no kids, wages will rise globally due to reduced labor supply as prime working labor force cohort compresses. To get to that point, domestic economies with surplus labor need to be stoked with investment (Africa and India) to maximize economic potential until the labor supply constraint is reached.

The Great Demographic Reversal Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42657-6 | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42657-6

https://www.suerf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/f_fa99ccdbe...

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-dep...

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/spring/summer-2018/demogra...

https://www.bis.org/events/conf160624/goodhart_presentation....
by rawgabbit | 2025-08-26 17:01:51+00:00
Below is the entire paragraph. The first part of the paragraph summarized their research that declining populations do not decline in wealth or productivity; instead their Figure 8 shows increases in Wealth, Research & Development, Human Capital etc. The second part of the paragraph is obtuse and ambiguous wording where they advocate for increased immigration and as far as I could tell had no basis on their actual research.

Our results provide a strong evidence-based counter to the politically motivated claim that declining/slow-growing and ageing populations in any way compromise national economic performance, income distribution, productivity, political stability, well-being, or health of its citizens. In fact, such populations generally have the highest socio-economic performance indicators in the world. This result supports the mounting evidence that smaller populations are in fact beneficial to most of society37, in sharp contrast to the unsubstantiated political rhetoric of ‘baby busts’ and an ensuing economic Armageddon1-5. This is because investing in the health, training, and education of workers — especially older, more experienced workers — increases human capital, making the workforce more productive29. Neither is there a basis for an expected penury of working-age people for countries experiencing low population growth or even decline. Labour shortages do not arise because of a lack of suitable workers, they occur instead because of inadequate immigration policies that limit or deny the movement of capable, working-age people from elsewhere to fill local demand70. Indeed, none of the existing credible population projections predicts a decline in the global population30,37,71-73.
by linsomniac | 2025-08-26 17:02:06+00:00
The case for it is where it's not easy to plop a file in a .well-known path on port 80/443. If you have a reverse proxy that is easy to set up to publish that, that makes it easier. I guess I could have used different wording, I do consider making the .well-known available a subset of hijacking the port, but can see why it would be confusing. ACME setup can still be trickier to set up, but is definitely a good solution if it fits in your environment.
by __rito__ | 2025-08-26 17:02:35+00:00
I am glad that I never decided to become a photoshop pro. I always contemplated about it, seemed attractive for a while, but glad that I decided against it. RIP r/photoshopbattles.

It was in the endless list of new shiny 'skills' that feels good to have. Now I can use nano-banana instead. Other models will soon follow, I am sure.
by liuliu | 2025-08-26 17:02:38+00:00
It depends on if there will be holes and whether you communicate "externally". If none of these are concerns (for WAL and using SQLite locally, none of these are), it is OK.

To elaborate, for a local app that using WAL, if a transaction committed locally, then reverted *along* with everything afterwards, the app restarts, and it will continue to function as expected, no ill-defined states.

If you use WAL within a quorum, sure, durability is a concern and I think you would be better off to have ways above SQLite to maintain that durability rather than relying on fsync solely (your SSD can break).

Also, to add, WAL mode uses checksum to make sure there is no holes, so even your SSD re-orders writes, I think no hole for your writes is a pretty safe assumption.
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-26 17:02:49+00:00
I suspect a large contingent here will really hate this suggestion but here it goes:

The McPhee method sounds like a great framework for making writing prompts. That is, prompts for LLMs to write things.

>in stage one he accumulates notes; in stage two he selects them; in stage three he structures them; and in stage four he writes. By the time he is crafting sentences the structure of the piece as a whole, and of each section, even paragraph, and the logic connecting them all, is already determined, thanks to the mechanical work done in the first three stages. McPhee is on rails the whole time he writes his first draft. From there it’s all downhill and the standard thing that everybody does: revision, revision again, then refinement—a sculptor with ax, then knife, then scalpel.

I know hackernews kinda hates LLMs but I don think this idea has to be so offensive. Much of the work and value from the author is in collecting these fragments and structuring them. Purely from a communication standpoint, I have no issues whatsoever with an LLM stitching them together and choosing the vocab and grammar.
by etler | 2025-08-26 17:02:52+00:00
No and yes.

MDX parses JSX so it's compatible with any JSX runtime, not just react.

You're right that MDX executes arbitrary code because it supports the `import` and string interpolation of MDX and performs unsafe evals.

Because those evals aren't safe to use at runtime, I actually created a library that uses the MDX parser to support the static subset of JSX (which is very similar to HTML making it static and secure): https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-markdown-with-mdx
by rurp | 2025-08-26 17:02:53+00:00
Relying on well developed tech from a reliable long term ally makes sense, it's hard to deploy enough resources to compete when the resulting products will likely be worse. But that calculus has completely changed, the US is no longer a reliable long term ally. The EU's reliance on US tech is an utterly massive security and economic liability. Maybe their own products would be worse, but that'd still be better than alternatives that can get sabotaged or yanked away at a moment's notice.

A decade ago I would have expected EU alternatives to be much worse but I'm less sure these days. Most US tech companies have moved past the innovator stage and spend most of their efforts on rent seeking and marketing.

All that said, I don't actually expect the EU to handle this well. They've been fumbling long term threats with regularity, and I don't they'll suddenly start doing better. They'll probably muddle along with most of their US dependencies until a massive disaster hits them in the face.