MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devinprater | 2025-08-02 21:17:33+00:00
Oh good, maybe we'll get LLM-based image descriptions in VoiceOver (Apple screen reader) next year. Meanwhile Google has had them for a year in TalkBack now. So when my mom sends me a picture of our cat, on Android I can simply tap and hold with three fingers (that's the gesture I've set for describe focused item), and in about 5 seconds, a description appears. I don't have to share to another app and wait for that or anything.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-02 21:17:45+00:00
Ehh, vehicle affordability rapidly accelerating away as the middle class evaporates solves the problem if people can’t make financially rational choices themselves. As of this comment, the average price of a new full-size pickup truck is around $64,000, while the average price of a new mid-size pickup truck is about $42,690. This is before tariff impacts are baked in. Doesn’t include operating costs (fuel, insurance, maintenance), putting monthly payments around $1k/month (at least). Let them drive studio apartments around I suppose, if they can get financed and not repo’d in the near term.

Would you cry for me if I wanted a Lambo but couldn’t afford it? You would not. This is different? Everyone is entitled to wildly conspicuous consumption? I argue no.
by fumar | 2025-08-02 21:17:49+00:00
The argument Telo makes is that you can have high utility in a smaller vehicle designed well. I was my own GC for a site-built home and sub contracted out many parts of it. I did it while owning a 2 door Mini SE. Only twice did I need to rent truck from my local Home Depot to haul some unwieldy and heavy debris. Most stores will deliver what you need (lumber, large pipes, insulation, etc) because consumer trucks are rarely large enough. I would not have been able to load any significant amount of lumber into an F250. That leaves large vehicles for recreation or family space. I hope car manufacturers rethink vehicle packaging now that EV motors and batteries allow for different confirmations like putting the motor in the wheel hub.

And, the sub contractors - the ones doing the work (immigrants) - they had a wide variety of vehicles. I took note that some had Camrys, Prius, old Golfs, small picks ups like Rangers, and some older mid size trucks that were visually heavily used. Else, they used commercial trucks or vans. When did I see the prestigious full cab F150s or Silverado RTs? When I originally interviewed GCs which is when I noticed they drove their clean and new trucks.
by Modified3019 | 2025-08-02 21:18:00+00:00
That’s an interesting point. I would also add that having a pretext can be important as well.

I’ve had 24 hour instant access via phone/text to my siblings for almost 2 decades, but we really didn’t talk much until we started doing gaming stuff with voice chat on weekends. I think part of it is it really helps if there’s something, anything, that can fill the gaps in conversation and provide a pretext to getting together (even just virtually). We’ve since talked about so much that we likely would have never otherwise brought up or picked up a phone to talk about.

Hell, one of my favorite games as a kid (wyvern: https://web.archive.org/web/20040102095422/http://www.caboch...) was basically just a chat box with an adequate mmorpg attached. Sometimes I even just skipped the game and connected via telnet, since that was an option, so I’d be available when someone I knew popped on.
by nkrisc | 2025-08-02 21:18:08+00:00
You are not “jamming” up your kid by reading to them. Reading to them is probably one of the most important things you can do to begin their journey towards literacy, and during it.

Connecting the words they hear as you read to what they see on the page is an important early step. You don’t need any academic training - just read to them.

> Many other parents would prefer to teach their kids different things about how to live a life.

Reading and writing are probably among the most important skills you can teach your child in order for them to fully participate in modern societies.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-02 21:18:08+00:00
Some areas such as Amsterdam though are just naturally more ammenable to walking, cycling, and transit. Cycling in 90+ (F) temperatures with high humidity (very common in the summer in the US midwest or south), or even just walking very far or waiting very long for a bus is pretty miserable. I'd arrive at my destination literally dripping with sweat and really unpresentable.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-02 21:18:10+00:00
Observational: watch kids, come up with correlations in behavior, then with controls identify causation.

Cognitive: watch kids, but pay attention to details and pair them with models of relevant psychological/cognitive models. Ideally, the models help explain the details, or the details help update the models.

Cognitive models have much more explanatory and prediction power. But are not much help, no help, or misleading, wherever there are no good models yet.

Given cognition is nowhere near a complete model, more a (not entirely consistent) patchwork of a great variety of models, both approaches remain important.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-02 21:18:11+00:00
I wish I got this level of productivity. I think every article should list exactly what they asked the LLM to do because I'm not getting as much use from it and I don't know if it's because what I work on is rare compared to say website front and backend code and/or if I just suck at prompts/context or I'm using the wrong services or don't have the correct MCPs etc....
by gdudeman | 2025-08-02 21:18:26+00:00
The vast majority of dirt roads are fine. I put hundreds of miles on my 1996 Honda Civic hatchback in the Cascades with no problems many years ago.

If the road existed in the 1990s, it's quite likely accessible by a mid-size SUV. Similarly, if families of 4 could go camping with cars from 1950-2000, you can today as well. In fact, you can get more compact tents, etc. today.

Trucks and huge SUVs come in handy if you want to bring lots of modern toys like gigantic prestige coolers and 4x4s.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-02 21:18:26+00:00
It depends what you want NAT for.

If it’s for security then most of the actual security provided by NAT routing is actually just the routers firewall itself. So a good ipv6 firewall provides the same level of security.

If it’s just because you’re a bit of a control freak and like to manage the assignment of IP addresses (and I fall into that category too) then my understanding is that you can also do this with ipv6 as ISPs typically hand you a wider subnet range (unlike ipv4 where you get just 1 IP). However I’ve tried a couple of times to adopt ipv6 into my stupidly bespoke home networking stack and failed each time.

I really do want to adopt IPv6, if only because I like fiddling with tech, but, like yourself, I keep getting stuck on the “how do I integrate IPv6 into the infrastructure I already have” problem.

Edit: if anyone has any recommended guides to configuring IPv6 using ISC dhcpd and unknown addresses supplied by your ISP, then I’d be interested to read them.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 21:18:43+00:00
> They are often touted as off road capable with high utility, and I see them in pristine condition on city streets

When I was off-roading and traveling a lot of dirt trails with my truck I would also wash it, wax it, and keep it in pristine condition when I got back home.

What did you expect? That we’d leave the mud on it forever, never wash it, and all of the side panels would be bashed in? If you’d climb under the truck (as I do for oil changes) you could see a lot of scrapes and dings from rocks, but I avoid damaging the side and front because that’s very expensive to repair.

Anyway, most of the trucks sold today aren’t sold in the off-road trim. They’re sold with features like lower clearance air dams up front for better fuel economy, on-road tires for better road noise and fuel economy, and commonly in 2WD trims. A new F150 can get 25mpg on the freeway even without the hybrid option.

I work remote so my truck isn’t used for commutes. I frequently haul things in the bed. I off road with friends.

Yet that doesn’t stop some people from making snide remarks about driving a truck. Some people love being angry at truck drivers and imagining they’re all just making irrational choices. They won’t be happy until we’re driving to Home Depot or UHaul every other weekend to rent a truck or trailer instead of parking one in our driveways.

It doesn’t stop them from calling me up and asking for help moving furniture when they need it, though. :)
Show HN: NameFast – Generate names for your SaaS idea in seconds
by skyzouw | 2025-08-02 21:19:15+00:00
Hey HN

I built Namefast, a tiny tool that helps you find creative and available names for your next SaaS, startup, or side project.

You just describe your idea in one sentence, and it instantly returns a list of name ideas that are short, brandable, and (most of the time) domain-available.

Why I built it: I’m always struggling with naming my own projects. GPT-based suggestions often feel too generic or unrealistic (“UltraSyncify Pro Max™”). So I made something focused, fast, and a little more opinionated.

Features: • Fast input (no login required) • Suggestions based on your concept • Tries to balance creativity + clarity • Built with indie hackers in mind

Tech stack: • Next.js + GPT-4 • Deployed on Vercel • Clean UI, no fluff

Would love to hear your feedback: • Do the names feel useful / usable? • Should I include filters (e.g. “funny”, “short”, “serious”, etc.)? • What would make this a go-to tool for you?

Thanks!

you can try it here : https://www.namefast.me/
by bArray | 2025-08-02 21:19:48+00:00
> However, Hill said, he thought about putting a butterfly keyboard on a netbook when they were a viable product category in the late aughts.

I really want to see sub-11" notebooks again. They were super cool travel laptops.

> The dual lights would have eliminated shadows and provided even better illumination, but unfortunately, this effort proved too costly to make it into the final product.

Ridiculous. Function must be allowed to win sometimes.
by jononor | 2025-08-02 21:19:53+00:00
We know that learning and building mental capabilities require effort over time. We know that when people have not been applying/practicing programming for years, their skills have atrophied. I think a good default expectation is that unused skills will go away over time. Of course the questions are, is the engagement we have with LLMs enough to sustain the majority of the skills? Or is there new skills one builds that can compensate foe those lost (even when the LLM is no longer used)? How quickly do the changes happen? Are there wider effects, positive and/or negative?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-02 21:19:54+00:00
A logical fallacy is a form of argument where the conclusion doesn't follow even if the premises are satisfied.

The premises of the slippery slope argument are that a) doing X makes Y more likely, and b) Y is bad. The conclusion to be drawn is that doing X has a negative consequence, namely making the bad thing more likely, which actually follows whenever the premises are satisfied.
by cowcity | 2025-08-02 21:20:40+00:00
Landlords have much more power. Usually more money too, but always more power.

Source: I am a landlord and I could temporarily destroy either of my roommates' livelihoods at the drop of a dime whenever I please. As a result, they are basically my permanent friends until they save up enough to move out. The difference between me and others in my position is I understand these are material relationships more than social relationships, and the only way to change that is not being the landlord.

When Marxists want to get rid of landlords, this is what they mean. They simply want more social relationships rather than material relationships. That's why it's called socialism.
by UncleEntity | 2025-08-02 21:20:52+00:00
I've been working on the design of a fairly complicated system using the daffy robots to iterate over a bunch of different ideas. Trying things out (conceptually) to explore the pros and cons of each decision before even writing a single line of code. The code is really a formality at this point as each and every piece is laid out and documented.

Contrast this with the peg parser VM it basically one-shotted but needed a bunch of debug work. A fuzzy spec (basically just the lpeg paper) and a few iterations and it produced a fully tested VM. After that the AST -> Opcode compiler was super easy as it just had to do some simple (fully defined by this point) transforms and Bob's your uncle. Not the best code ever but a working and tested system.

Then my predilection for yak shaving took over as the AST needed to be rewritten to make integration as a python C extension module viable (and generated). And why have separate AST and opcode optimization passes when they can be integrated? Oh, and why even have opcodes in the first place when you can rewrite the VM to use Continuation Passing Style and make the entire machine AST-> CPS Transform -> Optimizer -> Execute with a minimum of fuss?

So, yeah, I think it's fair to say the daffy robots are a little more than a StackOverflow chatbot. Plus, what I'm really working on is a lot more complicated than this, needing to redo the AST was just the gateway drug.
by reactordev | 2025-08-02 21:21:03+00:00
It’s as if it’s taught in business school or something, how to throw colleagues under the bus. I’ve seen it at every large corporation except for one.

My take on why not ui? though is because they are so busy trying to justify saving their own skins. How could they possibly look outward into the future when they’re busy recreating lord of the flies?
by phatfish | 2025-08-02 21:21:17+00:00
It's the end result of outsourcing and "zero trust".

No one really trusts the Indian outsourcer with their internal systems. But they sure are cheaper, so the risks get mitigated by micromanaging and recording access to everything.

This then spreads to all employees, even those with skin in the game, and then nobody is productive any more. Not just the contractors.
by grosun | 2025-08-02 21:21:41+00:00
You can drive through London for an hour in mostly 20mph (~30km/h) zones. Thing is, you're unlikely to be averaging anything even like 20. Even when the limit used to be 30 you weren't either. My old car averaged 16mph, & that included trips out of town at motorway speeds.

When the 20 limits were first introduced, lots of people would speed & overtake, but then you'd catch them up at the next traffic light & the one after etc.

I know London's quite an extreme case, but all a 20 limit means in a lot of stop/start urban areas is that you travel to the next stop at a speed which is less hazardous should you hit something/someone, with far more time to react to all the unpredictable things which happen in busy urban areas, thus decreasing the chances of hitting anything in the first place.

Yeah, it's mildly boring, but driving in cities pretty much always is. Just put on some music or a podcast and take it easy.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-02 21:22:06+00:00
When I bought a new gaming PC recently it default configured on my home network with IPv6 but not IPv4. It was interesting which features Microsoft considers crucial (and so worked on IPv6) and which were not important (and so they just didn't function, claiming that there's no Internet even though of course there is and e.g Google works)

Advertising for example, was essential. Spewing garbage I don't want, absolutely critical to Microsoft's bottom line apparently. But registration so that I can turn off that advertising? Not important, so that was not available until I gave the machine IPv4.
by herczegzsolt | 2025-08-02 21:22:31+00:00
My networks are IPv6 only for a couple of years, but I do have to run NAT64 (jool) and use a DNS64 resolver (i use a google-provided, but you could run your own)

It had very little benefits at the beginning, but having dedicated publicly routed addresses started to become really conevinent.

IPv6 with a regulary changing dynamic prefix still sucks though to this day ... :-(
by throw123xz | 2025-08-02 21:22:35+00:00
If you're referring to what happen to companies like Hertz, then according to them the problem wasn't reliability.

The cars had more accidents, probably because some were not used to the speed or would get an EV just to test the speed. Why buy Tesla in that case then, when their repairs are known to be super expensive and slow? Then you had people who are not used to EVs and charging trying to use EVs and the companies themselves didn't build the charging infrastructure so customers left with a full battery, but that has nothing to do with reliability. Vehicle depreciation? Again, a Tesla problem because they sold them the cars at a high price before dropping prices (the covid years were very weird).

So again, what makes EVs unreliable? It's a simple question.
by daneel_w | 2025-08-02 21:22:41+00:00
>I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged..

Because they share the same roots, the same general "scene". The demo groups and the crack groups always mingled. We were all "sceners". Tons of groups had a presence in both areas. Most of the graphic artists and musicians were mainly part of the demo scene but lent their talent here and there.

(Computer-wise I grew up in the C64 and the Amiga demo scenes during the early-to-late 90s.)
by stn8188 | 2025-08-02 21:22:46+00:00
The other day, I was just remarking how my minivan makes a better pickup than most pickups for most tasks. For years I've wanted to get another truck (had an old Dakota that I had to sell when kid #3 was on the way). Practicality reigns, though, and I'm extremely satisfied with the usability of the van.
by spankibalt | 2025-08-02 21:22:52+00:00
Turn the ThinkPad X12 into a modernized and more maintainable HP ZBook x2 G4, complete with EMR stylus. Keep the size or make it even smaller. Offer a bunch of first-rate keyboard options. For both machine's got the best form factor in that size-class there is: the detachable, the evolution of the convertible of yesteryear. It's really not hard to figure out.

Whatcha get instead? Garbage like silly rolling-display laptops. Or even worse, The Homer of the laptop world: these bizarre contraptions with two or three foldout displays. It's just missing a cup holder.

Framework borked it here as well. I just don't understand why you waste time, energy and money on developing and building a substandard machine (Framework 12) in an outdated form factor.
by silvestrov | 2025-08-02 21:22:55+00:00
How people in Helsinki get to work: Car: 23% ; PublicTransport: 47% ; Walk: 12% ; Bike: 15%

How pupils in Helsinki get to school: Car: 7% ; PublicTransport: 32% ; Walk: 45% ; Bike: 14%

source: https://www.hel.fi/static/liitteet/kaupunkiymparisto/julkais...
by ako | 2025-08-02 21:23:32+00:00
Completely agree. You really have to learn how to use it.

For example, heard many say that doing big refactorings is causing problems. Found a way that is working for SwiftUI projects. I did a refactoring, moving files, restructuring large files into smaller components, and standardizing component setup of different views.

The pattern that works for me: 1) ask it to document the architecture and coding standards, 2) ask it to create a plan for refactoring, 3) ask it to do a low-risk refactoring first, 4) ask it to update the refacting plan, and then 5) go through all the remaining refactorings.

The refactoring plan comes with timeline estimates in days, but that is completely rubbish with claude code. Instead i asked it to estimate in 1) number of chat messages, 2) number of tokens, 3) cost based on number of tokens, 4) number of files impacted.

Another approach that works well is to first generate a throw away application. Then ask it to create documentation how to do it right, incorporate all the learning and where it got stuck. Finally, redo the application with these guidelines and rules.

Another tip, sometimes when it gets stuck, i open the project in windsurf, and ask another LLM (e.g., Gemini 2.5 pro, or qwen coder) to review the project and problem and then I will ask windsurf to provide me with a prompt to instruct claude code to fix it. Works well in some cases.

Also, biggest insight so far: don't expect it to be perfect first time. It needs a feedback loop: generate code, test the code, inspect the results and then improve the code.

Works well for SQL, especially if it can access real data: inspect the database, try some queries, try to understand the schema from your data and then work towards a SQL query that works. And then often as a final step it will simplify the working query.

I use an MCP tool with full access to a test database, so you can tell it to run explain plan and look at the statistics (pg_stat_statements). It will draw a mermaid diagram of your query, with performance numbers included (nr records retrieved, cache hit, etc), and will come back with optimized query and index suggestions.

Tried it also on csv and parquet files with duckdb, it will run the explain plan, compare both query, explain why parquet is better, will see that the query is doing predicate push down, etc.

Also when it gets things wrong, instead of inspecting the code, i ask it to create a design document with mermaid diagrams describing what it has built. Quite often that quickly shows some design mistake that you can ask it to fix.

Also with multiple tools on the same project, you have the problem of each using it's own way of keeping track of the plan. I asked claude code to come up with rules for itself and windsurf to collaborate on a project. It came back with a set of rules for CLAUDE.md and .windsurfrules on which files to have, and how to use them (PLAN.md, TODO.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, DECISION.md, COLLABORATION.md)
by Aurornis | 2025-08-02 21:23:38+00:00
> If this were the case, you’d see more trucks with wear and tear on them and fewer with five years in and pristine paint jobs.

You can tell how few people in this thread have any idea how light off roading or hauling works.

Driving your truck down a dirt road or putting something in the back of it doesn’t destroy the paint job. You can have a work truck and keep it nice.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-02 21:23:45+00:00
Even Tacomas are larger than they used to be. One day not too long ago when I was running errands I came across an early 2000s Tacoma (before they got bumped up to midsize trucks) and was almost dumbfounded, because it’d been so long since I’d seen a truck that size. It’s a great size, but nobody makes them like that any more.

I’d like a small truck for DIY house projects in a suburb, but even the “small” Ford Maverick is nearly a foot longer than a 2000 Tacoma and the 2025 Tacoma is about two feet longer, both of which would be awkward to park and maneuver on the tight streets around here. Their increased height is dangeorus with all the kids running around, too. So, well, I don’t have a truck.

The Telo and maybe Slate are the first two modern trucks that I could realistically consider. Hoping for an R3T that’s sized similarly to Rivian’s upcoming R3 (which is comparable in size to a VW Golf) but that’s probably not going to happen.