MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andriesm | 2025-08-06 09:36:47+00:00
The reason why companies cut jobs while increasing prices for the same or worse products...... is.... wait for it..... money printing. NOT some new found level of corporate greed, companies have ALWAYS been greedy. It's not a change in greed. It's the result of the covid shutdowns where money printing was increased at the same time as the production of goods and services declined. That economic imbalance is still being felt, and of course money printing has re-accelerated after the big inflation scare caused them to temporarily cool it down.
by lan321 | 2025-08-06 09:36:49+00:00
Not too often tbh. You either get dogshit LeetCode or, more often, just a general chat about what you've done and know. There, social skills play a massive role. Make simple projects sound like state-of-the-art, present everything cool that happened as something you were directly involved in, present the 2 most obscure bugs in the project as something you fixed every other Tuesday when you get bored...
by 0xpgm | 2025-08-06 09:36:51+00:00
I'm with Luke Smith [1] when it comes to non-copyleft licenses like MIT.

Andrew Tanenbaum of the MINIX fame was similarly surprised to find that Intel had quietly included the OS he wrote in Intel chips, making it perhaps the most widely used OS in the world. He seemed disappointed no one ever reached out to him to tell him about it [2]

[1]: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuc...

[2]: https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
by freefrog334433 | 2025-08-06 09:37:48+00:00
Problem is that munitions carried by drones are much weaker than artillery shells - more like grenades. On this page is a turtle tank that took 60 drone attacks to disable. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/western-analysts-find-li...

Russians are able to retrieve 80% of disabled armored vehicles to repair them.

A tank does not even notice cluster bombs - this type of bomb is effective against infantry and civilians.
by sweetjuly | 2025-08-06 09:38:02+00:00
Why can't it be? Of course, designing hardware is different from writing software, but it's important to realize that these new age HDLs aren't really HDLs in the strictest a sense but rather languages that let you cleanly write RTL generator programs.

It's exactly I love most about Chisel: it's like having a Verilog preprocessor which wasn't hacked together in twenty minutes as an afterthought.
by masklinn | 2025-08-06 09:38:05+00:00
> You set region-file-compression=lz4 and run --recreateRegionFiles and it turns into a 998.9 MiB world. Makes sense, worse compression ratios but less CPU is what mojang documented in the changelog. Neat, but I'm confused as to what the benefits are as I/O increasingly becomes the more constrained thing nowadays. This is just a brief detour from what I'm really trying to test

Might make sense if the region files are on a fast SSD and the server is more CPU-constrained? I assume the server reads from and writes to the region files during activity, a 3.5x increase in IO throughput at very little CPU cost (both ways) is pretty attractive. IIRC at lower compression levels deflate is about an order of magnitude more expensive than lz4.

zstd --fast is also quite attractive, but I'm always confused as to what the level of parallelism is in benchmarks, as zstd is multithreaded by default and benchmarks tend to show wallclock rather than CPU seconds.
by DanielHB | 2025-08-06 09:38:14+00:00
I have a friend using it and he said the worst thing (for him, he didn't have nausa/constipation/etc) is that food is not enjoyable anymore. He says he feels hungry, eats, doesn't feel full but doesn't want to eat anymore.

If he overeats he said he feels kinda bad (with heartburn the next day).
by oreally | 2025-08-06 09:38:20+00:00
Being 'Multicultural' means keeping the peace between cultures. As much as the government loves to tout that they are a 'melting pot' where innovation happens, there isn't much going on there that is particularly attributed to being multicultural. Generally in companies you're either in the chinese culture or the western one.

I think it also speaks to the fact that without forced integration people will naturally converge to whatever is familiar to them, eventually forming enclaves.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-06 09:39:02+00:00
Ya I also believe it this way, Mostly I like to build stuff for my own problems or something that I just find fascinating.

I am still in high school, so I was doing some question sheet that our teachers provided and there was an answer key but it had answers of everything. Now I don't know how other people approached it but I am really impatient and so I just open up answer key side by side but it reveals every answer.

So I firstly created an AI to ocr to card generator but it was an hit or miss and so I discussed it with my friend and he said that he used to use paint and somehow in his convuluted manner basically have a slider which would reveal answer...

I found it incredible and so I just created a single index.html that can do it. (Although vibe coded), Now I can't even think of monetizing such ideas when I realize that there are creators of some really incredible stuff and long convulated stuff and even they aren't sponsored so I have always felt that the scripts that I write or projects around such ~.5-3k loc. I just don't think of monetization.

I just don't know.. I like hacking stuff, I just feel more comfortable rebuilding stuff even if its mediocre if I feel like I can change it to suit my purpose better

I think that the only other industry that is gives as much completely free stuff might be research/science related, but maybe its due to the fact that computer are computer science too and thus related to academics.

I really just love tinkering with software and just the aspect of freedom that it can provide , but sadly, I find it just hard to really make money without being a job and such stories on which we are discussing, just makes me feel like I am kinda right.

On one hand we have 100 million payouts to researchers and on the other we have this, such disparity is kinda sad I suppose.
by Fargren | 2025-08-06 09:39:32+00:00
> if it would improve the evolutionary fitness of the majority of people

Evolution led to the intelligence that led to creating Ozempic. Maybe that's the mechanism by which evolution is improving evolutionary fitness. The idea that what was created by man is not part of evolution is part of the naturalism fallacy; it's the false belief that the domain of nature stops at the doors of the lab.
by LauraMedia | 2025-08-06 09:40:17+00:00
I think for a system that can basically do EVERYTHING, HTML is quite well designed. And I think keeping backwards compatibility for SO long is a big achievement and a good thing.

I also think that if we could roll back time and had the knowledge of today, instead of fixed elements with user-agent styling and hard-coded restrictions, I would've crafted a system of arbitrary nodes that can have modifiers stacked on them.

So instead of

<ul> you could use <Features list>. This would minimize the very different but basically same CSS properties as well and trim out A LOT of HTML tags. Think <Comment collapsible link> instead of wrapping a <details> in an <a>.

That's basically how React and Vue started out with the component system, but I'm thinking more of a GameObject & Component system like with Unity.
by digitcatphd | 2025-08-06 09:41:27+00:00
I have started to notice this as well over the past several months, in-fact, I would say it is orders of magnitude larger than the Crypto bubble and when it bursts will be significantly more impactful. Right now, everything is propped up on the premise the hyperscalers will grow EPS proportionately to their investment and that ROA is being priced in as a best case scenario (hope) in their share price. Maybe its not ROA at all, maybe its simply FOMO, we keep citing this 'AI Race' as if there is some end objective to 'win' drawing parallels to the nuclear arms race that only resulted in massive wasted CAPEX in decaying nukes sitting in unused bunkers since the cold war. (Not to mention it isn't even clear this arms race played a direct factor in the war beside depleting resources) Everyone is happy right now. Execs get stock bonuses, investors get returns, vendors get contracts. Once this is questioned, and history demonstrates it undoubtedly will be, it will cause a cascading collapse. History is a mathematical truth.
by KaiserPro | 2025-08-06 09:41:43+00:00
As someone whos a bit older, and remembers the latter wave of offshoring, I can tell you that quality doesn't matter.

Yes, fake news driving by AI slop is a big problem, but that is only enabled by social media personality fiefdoms.

The shit is going to hit the fan if 10% of the highest paid US working population is laid off for AI outsourcing. That kind of social change brings revolution. and thats before the fracture of US social fabric.
by RyanNew123 | 2025-08-06 09:41:55+00:00
Every week, someone I know forwards me a suspicious message: “Does this look legit?” “Can I click this link?” “Why is PayPal asking for my password?” So I built PhishProof — a lightweight, browser-based tool that helps anyone analyze whether something might be a scam. It supports:

Emails and SMS text

Links (shortened or long)

Copied message content

Screenshots of messages

PDF attachments

The AI analysis behaves like a scam analyst: it examines the input, flags common red flags (like urgency, impersonation, link manipulation, payment fraud), and provides a risk score along with a plain-language explanation of its reasoning.

Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is stored. PhishProof runs entirely in-browser. No accounts. No tracking. No hidden logic.

Why I built it: Most scam detection relies on email clients, spam filters, or user intuition. But people are still getting tricked — not just by emails, but by texts from fake delivery companies, social engineering over WhatsApp, and PDFs pretending to be invoices.

The idea was to build something simple, private, and immediate — a tool someone could open in their browser, paste in a message or link, and get a quick, explainable result.

Under the hood: Built with Base44 for deployment

Stateless, fully client-side

Detection logic uses rule-based signals and contextual analysis

No third-party services or network dependencies
by gtr | 2025-08-06 09:42:08+00:00
As someone who has been fat and not-fat throughout my life, I think literally everyone knows that it is simple to lose weight by eating fewer calories. That does not mean it is easy. If you are already fat, which can happen almost without you noticing by eating 200-300 calories too much a day over a year say, or as a result of some brain malfunction (both have happened to me), then eating the calorie deficit require to lose weight is mentally very hard to to.

As a thought experiment, imagine what you eat per day. Now halve it. Would you be having a good time?
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-06 09:43:37+00:00
>capitalism is the doctrine that is based on economic growth and profit.

These are not actually essential.

I'm not going to put down a better definition of capitalism, but if you're not handling Other Peoples' Money, and they're not handling yours, you are definitely not a capitalist.

No matter how financially successful you are as an entrepreneur with your own money, even when you out-compete capitalists in a pro-capitalist market.
by blensor | 2025-08-06 09:43:48+00:00
I don't understand your point then. The original product exists because someone used their own or their investors money and made a bet on an idea.

Then they hope they can sell it at a profit.

Products becoming cheaper is a result of the processes getting more optimized ( on the production side and the supply side ) which is a function of the desire to increase the profit on a product.

Without any other player in the market this means the profit a company makes on that product increases over time.

With other players in that market that underprice your product it means that you have to reinvest parts of your profit into making the product cheaper ( or better ) for the consumer.
by energy123 | 2025-08-06 09:44:02+00:00
Interceptors being more expensive is a big problem. The only solution I can think of is ground-based lasers, which cost a few dollars per shot. If they can be protected.

Other than that, you either need the X-factor of intelligence and air superiority, which bypasses the problem by taking out bottlenecks like TELs and supply chains. Or, have more industrial production. If you have neither, you're in trouble.

A mostly independent thing countries can do is have better home-front resiliency, which is a kind of defense in depth against suicide attacks. Taiwan needs this. Get everyone a bomb shelter.
Tell HN: Claude Code Baby Monitor
by polycaster | 2025-08-06 09:44:15+00:00
When I let Claude Code hammer away in the background while I work on something else, it regularly drifts into the weeds. By the time I notice, it may have spent many minutes pushing in the wrong direction. If I had just noticed earlier...

Luckily, you can install a baby monitor quite easily on macOS by adding the following instructions to CLAUDE.md (or AGENT.md for opencode, etc.):

Whenever you – make important progress – get stuck on the same issue repeatedly, or – finish the task use the `say` command to tell me what’s going on.

With those three checkpoints I get timely, audible status updates, so I can jump in, redirect, or sign off without babysitting a terminal window.
by landgenoot | 2025-08-06 09:44:25+00:00
Very cool. I love the sound you hear when the other party hangs up on a payphone. That sounds so weird but familiar.

I bought a Dutch coin operated phone a long time ago, mounted it to the wall in a student apartment complex and set up a cheap VoIP account.

The best feature was that it is possible to call to the phone as well. Very useful if you needed _someone_ who was at home.
by eadmund | 2025-08-06 09:44:31+00:00
> {"p2":{"x":141,"y":85},"mode":"line","p1":{"x":34,"y":44}}

Embracing ordered rather than named parameters can make this so much cleaner (that’s why most folks would prefer add(1, 2) to {"function":"add", "augend": 1, "addend": 2}). It’s strange that p2 comes before p1.

["line",{"x":34,"y":44},{"x":141,"y":85}]

The same argument applies to points — way name their components when they will always be the same?

["line",[34,44],[141,85]]

If you’re willing to abandon JSON, you can make it even cleaner. There’s no real need for quotes around the mode:

[line,[34,44],[141,85]]

And it’d be nice to have some whitespace:

[line, [34, 44], [141, 85]]

And come to think of it, those commas don’t really add anything:

[line [34 44] [141 85]]

Hmmm, if you switched from brackets to parentheses I bet you have a library which could handle this for you:

(line (34 44) (141 85))
by cyrillite | 2025-08-06 09:45:23+00:00
Not to mention that we really are much more similar to chimps than they’re giving us credit for. If we ate a relatively low calorie, high protein diet, and maintained an active lifestyle, we’d all be pretty damn muscular and lean. Not roided out muscular, but far more so than I think the average person expects. Our body composition is significantly determined by relatively near-zero fitness demands in modern life and an overabundance of the wrong kinds of calories
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-08-06 09:45:48+00:00
You know how you can "uv run" python code from a text file using just a URL?

No? Well, you can:

uv run https://pastebin.com/raw/RrEWSA5F

And since yesterday, you can even run a github gist:

uv run https://gist.github.com/charliermarsh/ea9eab7f56b1b3d41e5196...
by lm28469 | 2025-08-06 09:45:54+00:00
> I think the whole "school" thing is just a giant filtering mechanism to sort out who gets placed where in society.

I think you haven't picked up enough history books if that's the only positive thing you can come up about "schools". But I guess that's what we get after decades of "the economy is the only thing that matters" propaganda, what's the point of history, math, science, when the system just need good little consumerist wage slaves
by agent327 | 2025-08-06 09:46:07+00:00
>most new drugs come out of the public higher education in the form of studies and papers

Citation needed. Solvaldi, the drug we are talking about, was developed by Pharmasset. I see no evidence of university ties, and I find it hard to believe that a university would let such a money maker slip out of their hands if they had any kind of claim to it.

Even at a mere $300 per pill, you are still looking at $25K for a single treatment, which is well above what most people can afford. So would excluding millions of people from treatment be acceptable if the pills were priced at ingredient cost?

As for the bacteriophages, it perfectly supports my point: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9sxcko/was_t...

"However, just three years later Eliava and his wife were accused of fantastical crimes and murdered at the personal direction of Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the NKVD. After this d'Herelle was so terrified and disillusioned with the whole Soviet experiment that he never returned from a trip to France... ...Eliava had the misfortune to fall in love, and then sleep with, an opera singer that Beria was obsessed with. Though academic opinion suggests that Beria may have been simply demonstrating to the military and/or still influential Georgian Bolsheviks that even a Hero of Soviet Science was not safe from his machinations."

Communism at work, doing precisely what I told you it does. If the head of the CIA murders a random civilian, it is, thankfully, still a crime in your capitalist society.

And in opposition to your list of capitalist ills I will put the communist equivalents: no medicine, no food, and no products. And even then they managed ecological devastation, such as the lake Karachay area...
by pessimizer | 2025-08-06 09:46:15+00:00
Classrooms? Lol, it's going to be byod and wfh. You're only going to have to sit in front of the security guard and all of the electronic monitoring while doing standardized tests, and this remaining expense will aggravate the state so much that it will replace the exam rooms with omniscient, thinking rootkits on every school-aged person's computing devices. However, since children could use some adult's computing device to avoid monitoring, once well established those rootkits will be installed on everyone's computing device, at the hardware level.

If you object, it's because you hate children.

Eventually, there are no more misbehaving kids, there are misbehaving parents who children are reporting to the trusted phones who taught them about the world, the phones that aligned the values of your children with the values of the people who paid the people who designed the system.
by exe34 | 2025-08-06 09:46:23+00:00
No, if you can type in a prompt, just email me the prompt so I know what you intended. I don't need the slop the AI came up with, thank you.

I already feel disrespected in powerpoint presentations where they clearly haven't practiced it for a long time and seem to be discovering the slides and coming up with the argument they want to make on the spot. I usually get up and leave.
by pjc50 | 2025-08-06 09:47:02+00:00
That's what I'm wondering. Hasn't this loophole been closed yet, or is that just what's happened? I can't read the article or archive.is, but if you're not domiciled in the UK for tax purposes then haven't you already "left" the UK in some sense?

Now we just need to deal with all the overseas territories and their tax arrangements. Do those count as "in the UK"? I believe not. But they benefit from the UK defense umbrella.
by freefrog334433 | 2025-08-06 09:47:24+00:00
Soldiers adapt - deploying in groups of 3-4, moving along tree lines, and hiding in buildings/trenches. One of Patrick Lancaster's (an American journalist covering the war from the Donbas) videos has him hiding with a group of soldiers while a drone is overhead - the twigs and branches of the bushes and trees makes it impossible for a drone traveling at a moderate speed to see them, and would entangle the drone if it did attack.
by tecleandor | 2025-08-06 09:47:55+00:00
Not bad for the size (with my very limited knowledge of this field) !

In a couple tests, the "Male 2" voice sounds reasonable, but I've found it has problem with some groups of words, specially when played with little context. I think it's small sentences.

For example, if you try to do just "Hey gang!", it will sound something like "Chay yang". But if you add an additional sentence after that, it will sound a bit different (but still weird).
by riedel | 2025-08-06 09:48:10+00:00
I really like the copyleft idea, however, I think you did nothing wrong, IMHO, because if large corps like an idea, they will rather reimplement it rather than even bothering with ways to conform to AGPL or buy an alternative licence. Particular in the age of AI, all source available code has become pretty much public domain (value is still in maintenance, etc). License have mostly become a compliance/ideology game that alienates most people. However, changing the license on the main repo, with only a minor version bump, would be a nice asshole move to get their attention past HR (won't make a difference, but if you have nothing to lose).
Ask HN: I have 2 weeks to get SEO traffic or I'm fired. Here's what I've tried
by ahmedelalaoui | 2025-08-06 09:48:52+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm in a tough spot and could really use some advice from people who have been in the trenches.

I'm a recent grad from Morocco, and after a year of searching, I landed my first job three months ago as a junior SEO person for a small startup. Today, my boss told me my results have been nonexistent and gave me a two-week deadline to show a significant traffic spike, or I'm out.

I'm trying not to panic. I've spent the last three months trying to do everything right, but the traffic analytics are flat. I feel like I'm failing, and I'm hoping this community can point out what I'm missing.

Here's a breakdown of what I've done so far:

Technical Audit: I went through the entire site (lartist.ai), fixed all the 404s and broken internal links I could find, generated and submitted a clean XML sitemap, and made sure our robots.txt wasn't blocking anything important.

On-Page SEO: I rewrote the title tags and meta descriptions for all our core pages to be more descriptive and target what I thought were the right keywords. I've also been writing blog content – guides on how to make AI art, how to write better prompts, etc..

Off-Page SEO: This is where I've hit a wall. I've submitted our site to about 40 different AI and SaaS directories. I also sent over 50 personalized emails to design and marketing blogs to pitch guest posts, but I've had zero replies. I suspect my outreach is naive and getting ignored.

My theory is that three months is just too short for SEO in a competitive space, but I don't have the luxury of time. My boss needs to see a spike in the graph.

The product itself is an AI image generator called Lartist.ai. The whole idea is that it's built for creators and marketers, not engineers—you don't need complex, technical prompts to get good results.

I'm not looking for a magic bullet, but I'm at the point where any advice or feedback would be invaluable. My Hail Mary ask for this community is: could you take a look at the site? Maybe try generating an image (there are 20 free credits for new users).

The traffic would be a literal lifeline for me right now, and any candid feedback on the product or my failed strategy could give me something to work with to save my job.

Thank you for your time. This job means a lot to me.
by flir | 2025-08-06 09:49:17+00:00
> I tried to help a couple of friends with better copy for their websites, and quickly realized that they were using inventive phrases to explain their work, phrases that they would not want competitors to get wind of and benefit from; phrases that associate closely with their personal brand.

But... they're publishing a website. Which competitors will read. Which chatbots will scrape. I genuinely don't get it.