MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kenanfyi | 2025-08-12 13:42:13+00:00
I tried plain-text task management too since I use plain-text formats for various things in my life anyway, but I could not get it working as good as a to-do app. My final outcomes are: - capturing tasks/todos on the go is a huge problem with plain-text. - never syncs properly. - proprietary apps (unfortunately) works out of the box and without a hassle or personal infrastructure concerns. - being able to capture using a web browser makes things very easy because sometimes you are not even allowed to install some kind of syncing solution to company PCs.

Maybe I'm dumb but another thing I never understand is how the hell you think org-mode is the best way to do this? An org document is one of the worst things I have seen in my life in terms of readability. How do you read this and properly interact with that mess? I am really eager to understand...
by moduspol | 2025-08-12 13:42:14+00:00
I looked into somehow hedging against the Mag 7 in my portfolio (which is otherwise almost entirely in an S&P 500 index fund), but it seemed surprisingly difficult for something that is probably quite widely desired.

Though maybe I'm just unsophisticated. And it feels a little hopeless because there's no telling how long the smoke and mirrors will continue working, and whenever it stops, undoubtedly the rest of the economy is going to suffer, too. Bleh.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-08-12 13:42:15+00:00
> You cannot simply add gates to airports with even an infinite pile of money.

I was once on a short internal US flight. We recognised an "elder statesman" politician, a Senator who owned property in the area of the city that we were going to.

He was seated at the front, and was given the opportunity to leave the aircraft a minute before anyone else - no luggage beyond a briefcase. Of course, by the time we deplaned he was nowhere to be seen, by then he was likely in the back his car already. Who needs a separate gate when the VIP can be guided through ahead of the rest, through some usually-closed door?
by zwnow | 2025-08-12 13:43:00+00:00
Because LLMs 100% work correct everytime. They would never lie to you or make stuff up (Replit).

Im so tired of LLM enthusiasts not seeing the issues with them and trying to make them solve everything. We need another todo app, this time with LLMs though!!! Fuck the energy consumption of this technology. Private companies want to build nuclear power plants? What could go wrong? Yall need a reality check.
by yogaxpto | 2025-08-12 13:43:11+00:00
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by nicoburns | 2025-08-12 13:43:41+00:00
The MacBook Pro with M4 Max will give you 16 cores (12 of which run at 4.5Ghz) and 128GB of RAM, and will likely pretty closely match the speed of the desktop processor for compiling C++ (at least we've done benchmarking of rustc in /r/rust the top-spec Apple chips somehow match top-spec x86 chips).

It certainly won't be cheap though!
by jfengel | 2025-08-12 13:44:13+00:00
What's going on inside their head is disgust. They have been told that some people are dirty, and the revulsion comes from a place deeper than rational thought. Once you believe that, you'll believe anything about your opponents: that they want to kill you, that they want to molest children, that they hate decency and want to destroy your country.

Steven Pinker does a good demonstration: he takes a brand new comb out of a package and stirs a glass of water with it, then offers it to you to drink. You know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is nothing wrong with the water. And yet a fair number of people won't do it, and those who do will still feel just a little weird about it.

That's extremely low stakes. The higher the stakes, the harder it will be to overcome it.

Clearly, you did, and others have as well. But for many others, the constant reinforcement of their prejudices means that they simply won't reconsider their premises. As far as they're concerned, these are basic facts that are confirmed for them every day. The only people who tell you otherwise are disgusting and dirty.
by abustamam | 2025-08-12 13:44:42+00:00
I agree in a sense but I'm primarily a front end dev. Our backend devs (whose SQL skills are probably on par with mine) maintain the DB tables and such using our ORM but I would still need to use the ORM to query the DB. I'll hop in and make a DB update on the backend if I need to, but my point is that many front end devs are probably just using the ORM to query and run mutations. Such queries could certainly be optimized a bit by knowing a bit of SQL (adding indices to commonly queried cols for example) but I'd still consider solid knowledge in SQL to be a solely backend thing.

That said, I do know enough basic SQL to understand what ORMs are doing at a high level, but because I almost never write SQL I wouldn't consider myself proficient in it.
by cnst | 2025-08-12 13:44:45+00:00
It's not the issue of share ownership, it's the issue of size and lack of process ownership, about everyone passing the buck and noone being personally responsible for these failures.

It's about the employees having an inverse incentive, to take actions just for the sake of it.

It's actually exactly about this attitude that somehow noone has the right to be on the platform, which, in turn, makes it easy to justify these forms of deplatforming and censorship, and the resulting self-censorship, too.
by squiffsquiff | 2025-08-12 13:44:57+00:00
Wearing American football style helmets does not reduce the risk of concussion which is primarily the result of sudden acceleration or deceleration causing the brain to move around inside the skull https://ideas.ted.com/football-helmets-dont-protect-against-... This is why they have 'soft' helmets in Rugby. American football likes the macho look of its helmets and body armour but for concussion it's essentially safety theatre.
by sokka_h2otribe | 2025-08-12 13:45:12+00:00
You can look into the reclassification fear of yours. Typically murders are used to compare. Meaning, 1 murder and 10 robberies. Next year 3 murders and 1 robbery. Some of pattern like this with the murder rate up or flat, but the crime down otherwise. Generally the point is that people will do a good job reporting murders (hard not to) and in the short term variance in the other crimes may have more to do with reporting characteristics.

One big divide is that people aren't talking about the same thing. Person A says they're less likely to die in location B. Great! Stats say violent crime is down! But there are a million pick pockets and I get robbed without a weapon every time I go downtown. ^alt SF version; every Tesla gets a window smashed.

Point being is two people can observe that and person 1 celebrate the lack of murders and person 2 flummoxed how come no one cares about the kids running out of Target with a T.V or the petty crime.
by dragontamer | 2025-08-12 13:45:19+00:00
I'm not completely divested but I'm buying some VFVA as my non-tech fund.

Top holdings are CVS, Verizon and FedEx all at 0.8%. Basically normal companies.

It's amazing how traditional companies have done in comparison to the top of the S&P500 (or really the top S&P10). So I feel the need to buy the other stuff in case the top S&P10 is a bubble.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-08-12 13:45:24+00:00
Dunkey has a great overview of how Microsoft handles studios/IP: https://youtu.be/GWrcUh2GuPQ

For the last decade they acquire studios/IP’s, let them languish, then without warning strip them for parts. Make a successful game? Doesn’t matter, you’re all fired. Y’all want to make a game? Sure! We can even promote it! 12-18mo of no news after an announcement ah dang guys we were so hyped but we’re pulling the plug.

It is baffling how many studios they own and yet they have almost no exclusives/big cross platform hits developed for the Xbox this generation.
by Kuyawa | 2025-08-12 13:45:29+00:00
I'll share with the world my own txt todo list:

! important thing to do ~ something already started but not finished - thing to do - another thing to do x something done x already done ? needs more thought

Been using it for the past 35 years, once I start a project I create a todo.txt file and start adding items, create logo, create database, etc

* Don't forget to add your todo.txt to .gitignore
by MrSandingMan | 2025-08-12 13:45:37+00:00
I can't verify the claim "The feed conversion ratio for chickens, the amount of grain you put in to get meat out, is 2x. That grain is incredibly cheap.".

Instead I found: "2.51 kg of dietary protein is required to generate 1.00 kg of protein in a chicken carcass or saleable end product." [1]

If we're talking about efficiency, let's directly eat grain, then, leave the chicken alone.

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8388418/
by gottorf | 2025-08-12 13:45:48+00:00
> Debt and poverty are absolutely correlated to crime rates.

Correlation is not causation. In this case, the same factors that make one more prone to criminal activity also make them more prone to poverty; therefore, you cannot solve criminality by solving poverty, because the confounding factor is still present afterwards.

A man was released from prison after his murder conviction was overturned to great fanfare by the Innocence Project. He received $4.1m for his troubles. A few years later, he killed another man over a $1200 drug deal gone bad[0].

Do you really believe that people are committing crimes in order to make money to pay medical bills? Breaking Bad is a work of fiction.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/06/philadelphia...
by EdwardCoffin | 2025-08-12 13:45:56+00:00
This reminded me of Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011) [1] which has been most recently discussed here, here [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20111228105122/http://wrttn.in/0...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42235452
by cycomanic | 2025-08-12 13:45:57+00:00
I don't have any beef in this game, but the previous posters message does not require that the 51% attack is confirmed.

The claim seems plausible enough that people are debating if it actually happened or not, and if it is sustainable to keep it up. That's a big difference to 51% attacks being merely theoretical (which implies that they are unrealistic in practice).
by lookdangerous | 2025-08-12 13:46:25+00:00
Hey, cool! I'd simplify the page a lot. Right now it (impressively) feels like a full product, but I want to see it as more of a tool/fun thing. I'd cut back a lot and focus on the images. For example, right now, when you load the home page, there is not a single picture in sight.

I think the pricing is a bit odd because I imagine using this for one or two cars, not 3 or more. Maybe some would be willing to pay a couple bucks per car, so you could raise the prices, and make 3 focused tiers instead of 5.

There's something odd about the pictures too. The thumbnails don't look like toy cars, they look like (photographically) sharpened images. It's only when I open the full picture that I see the toy-car-ness. Not sure what you can do about that.

The backgrounds, too, don't scream 'toy-car'. I think it might feel more like a toy if you render it on a desk, on a hot wheels track, etc.

That is what I noticed, critically. Way to build something.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-12 13:46:39+00:00
I'm not going to fault you for that, but no, you really can not sign away your right-to-life even with assisted death. The process is explicitly tooled around this to ensure that people's rights are not violated. I am not saying that there will never be a mistake made here or even that that has not possibly already happened but in principle your right-to-life is not violated by this procedure, and I realize that I will not be able to convince you otherwise.

That requires a complete re-thinking of your moral framework if you are not familiar with the concept.

Just like for some people gay marriage is inconceivable and results in them being ready to man the barricades and for others it doesn't even move the needle. And then there is abortion and bodily autonomy. Large swathes of humanity are not going to be able to understand the remainder when it comes to those subjects, they all arrive at their own conclusions through a mixture of tradition, religion, philosophy and cultural exposure (media, mostly) as well as peer pressure.

I've long ago decided that the only party that will hopefully be able to get all of those right using an objective frame of reference will be born a few thousand years from now, assuming humanity will make it that far.
Show HN: NoCV – a job platform helping students find part-time work without CVS
by shilohm | 2025-08-12 13:46:51+00:00
Hi all!

I’m Shiloh, a 17-year-old founder building NoCV - a new job platform designed to make it much easier for students and young people to find part-time and flexible work.

NoCV removes the usual hurdles like complicated applications and CVs. Instead, users create a simple skills-first profile, then swipe through local part-time jobs that fit their availability and preferences. Employers can connect directly with candidates without the typical paperwork, making hiring faster and fairer.

Why NoCV?

16–25-year-olds often struggle with traditional job applications because they lack formal experience or CVs.

Many jobs require rigid application processes that discourage young workers or those seeking flexible gigs.

Our app provides a straightforward way to match skills to jobs and get hired quickly.

I built NoCV to help people like me - students and young people facing challenges in finding flexible, part-time work.

We're planning to launch around Christmas 2025 and currently building the waitlist.

Would love to hear any feedback, questions, or suggestions from the community!

Check it out and join the waitlist here: https://nocv.uk

Thanks for your time!

- Shiloh
by brookst | 2025-08-12 13:47:26+00:00
This is what the kids call gatekeeping, not a whole lot different from the old “if the proles are allowed to read the religious texts they will get it wrong, better limit such things to priests.”

Yes, during the transition phase where information becomes available, some people will handle it badly, misinterpret, and generally be worse off.

But that’s a terrible reason to withhold knowledge, especially about peoples’ own bodies.
by jbjbjbjb | 2025-08-12 13:47:46+00:00
I think you misunderstood how the digital credentials api works. It keeps it in your phone’s secure element and lets you share just a “yes/no” proof like “over 18” without revealing anything else. It’s basically the cryptographically secure version of the isAdult bit you’re describing. It also has trust by cryptographically signing the proof and it can handle different jurisdictions.
by hibikir | 2025-08-12 13:47:56+00:00
A lot of the concentration comes from companies just gobbling others, and therefore being more large conglomerates than anything else. Alphabet could easily be 5 separate stock tickers if they felt like it, and most would probably be big enough to be in the index. You could say the same thing of Meta and Microsoft. Splitting AWS from Amazon would also give us two very real, top of the line companies.

So the concentration might be a lot less than it seems, just because a lot of the AI play might be as low risk as, say, when Meta sank so much money into VR, or Amazon decided that smart speakers were the future. A lot of profits are spent if it all fails, but the engine of the company is still sitting there, being the same money fountain it's been for the last decade. It's just that they are, in practice, investing on what would be a new company with the proceeds, instead of doing stock buybacks, providing massive dividends, or reinvest in the existing verticals.
by xscott | 2025-08-12 13:48:01+00:00
Did you edit your post above? Even slightly? Because I was replying specifically to the idea that artists have a right to a livelihood, and I think you changed a few words to add the copying bit. I should be more consistent about pasting in the text I'm replying to.

Regardless, you really should learn the difference between "theft", "copyright violation", and "training", because they are different things.

If I read a bunch of books, learn from the authors' use of word phrasing, then pick one of Vonnegut's 8 Story Shapes, and make a book in some author's style, it's not illegal. I don't see why I can't have a computer do that for me.

None of this really matters. If you feel strongly about it, you should go bribe congress to make a law. Because the existing laws about theft and copyright don't cover "learning from billions of examples and interpolating or extrapolating from them".
by abustamam | 2025-08-12 13:48:38+00:00
Interesting. The reason I like ORMs is because of type generation in TypeScript. I've never worked in a company that didn't use an ORM which is likely why I prefer it. But if I ever did work in a company that used raw SQL I'd probably just suck it up and learn better SQL. Maybe then I'd be able to make a more informed opinion.

With regards to SQL being low level, I primarily work with TypeScript so a language that talks directly with the DB (SQL) seems pretty low level compared to TS. I'm not sure what you mean by an ordinary programming language though (obviously not machine code).
by myrmidon | 2025-08-12 13:49:46+00:00
"The government" is not actually accruing wealth in pretty much any western democracy-- in fact the exact opposite is happening everywhere.

To me it seems clear why government budgets have increase so much. Since the emergence of modern nation states, government responsibilities have grown tremendously, and mostly for good reason:

- Infrastructure basically went from dirt roads to highways/railways/airports

- Tremendously higher benchmarks for services/regulation (education, pensions, food safety, crime prevention, drinking/groundwater quality, lead pollution, mining/heavy industry regulation, healthcare/-regulation)

A lot of those things are new enough that I would argue we are still stabilizing on their total costs, and current government budgets (high AND red literally everywhere) are basically humanity finding out that all those things are not free.

But I would also argue that for a big majority of people, this is still a rather decent deal; I would rather pay current (or even higher) levels of taxes than to suffer from lead poisoning, have children crippled from quackery/insufficiently tested medication or needing to pay protection money to the mob.

But I'm quite curious: What do you think is the problematic part of government growth? Do you think that Doge, specifically, is successful in identifying and quelling it?
Show HN: Zig-DbC – A design by contract library for Zig
by habedi0 | 2025-08-12 13:49:57+00:00
Hi everyone,

I've made an open-source library for using design by contract (DbC) principles in the Zig programming language.

It's called Zig-DbC, and it currently provides the following features:

- A simple API to define preconditions, postconditions, and invariants.

- Contracts are active in `Debug`, `ReleaseSafe`, and `ReleaseSmall` modes to catch bugs early.

- All checks are removed at compile time in `ReleaseFast` mode for zero performance cost.

- An optional mode to handle partial state changes in functions that return errors.

- Transparent error handling that propagates errors from your code to the caller.

Project's GitHub repo: https://github.com/habedi/zig-dbc
Show HN: An MLS for the Automotive sector (used cars)
by forgetbook | 2025-08-12 13:51:14+00:00
I'm in compliance with CraigsList's robots.txt, I promise! (They specifically disallow posting and replying, which makes sense. I'm just reading the pages and saving to SQL)

Hi HN, I made an MLS (multiple listing service) for used cars by scraping craigslist and rechecking posts to save the update when they're removed by the seller, flagged as a scam, or expire, which CL conviently labels right there in HTML.

You can try out queries for your make/model/range of years with the form in the sidebar using the passcode 'fuckKBB', and read some more details about what I'm showing you in 'about'

Is it appropriate to advertise myself for hire here?
by tzs | 2025-08-12 13:51:28+00:00
Doesn't zero configuration just shift the bikeshedding from how to configure the formatting tool to which zero configuration formatting tool to use?

I'd go for the opposite. Find a highly configurable formatting tool and standardize on a particular configuration for code in your repo, and enforce this format when code is checked in.

Provide some scripts or wrappers or hooks (whatever is best for the source code control system you are using) that can on checkout automatically run that formatting tool but with a configuration supplied by the user instead of company standard configuration.
by ChrisGermano | 2025-08-12 13:51:41+00:00
Being the resident JavaScript/Node expert on my last team put me in a great position for quasi-leadership and opened up some doors later on. The greatest skillset in my tech career has been developing soft skills, especially communication with non-technical audiences. Yes, metaphors and analogies are easy and overused, but using the right ones with the right people can go a long way.