MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-15 12:51:38+00:00
>There are no adults in the room saying you know what, the value to life and society and the good that could be done with £100M of public money is worth more than the unproven possibility of a bat being injured.

Everyone knows it's stupid but they're doing it anyway.

The problem is that legislation and rules and official policy and precedents have added up and added up over the years to the point where nobody can say "screw this, we're not studying your stupid bats, we're building the tunnel, come back if you think the bats have been negatively affected".

And the whole thing top to bottom in every area is like this and it forces out or kills the ambition of and subjugates anyone who tries to to better. And even if those people did magically appear they would be facing a system that has spent generations getting stacked with people who are opposed to doing things and taking responsibility (because everyone else washes out or converts). It's a bad system and it naturally fills itself with bad people.

And this isn't news to anyone who's had to interface with government in a capacity other than the low common denominator consumer stuff (permits for basic stuff, licenses of various types) that is generally polished less those people start questioning the utility of these organizations knows this.
by sokoloff | 2025-08-15 12:51:50+00:00
> Because instead of writing code, they’re spending - wasting? - a ton of time fixing AI coding blunders. This is not a productive use of mid-level, never mind senior, programmers.

It’s amazing to think that humans have been writing blunder-free code all this time and only AI is making mistakes.

Humans coders, including good ones, make errors all the time and I don’t fully trust the code written by even my strongest team members (including myself; I’m far from the strongest programmer).
by grafmax | 2025-08-15 12:52:11+00:00
> wealth does get redistributed for those who have less income

Wealth inequality continues to increase. These measures are insufficient.

The best effect that YIMBY can have on housing is to put a slight downward pressure on prices. Prices can still go up, and often do, in locations where YIMBY is adopted. That’s because it’s a superficial measure that does not address the structural cause. Slightly lower prices cannot house the growing homeless population for example - slightly lower prices can never house people without money.

“Abundance” makes a gesture toward the housing crisis without addressing the structural cause - wealth inequality. It’s appealing to its billionaire supporters for exactly this reason. We need effective public housing that the wealthy finance through their taxes.
by watwut | 2025-08-15 12:52:18+00:00
> In a book having a story and then some pages about the historic context, I would expect the context to be somewhat accurate?

Why would you expect that if written by random writer?

> It's also about common sense economy and human behaviour. I don't think humans change all that much.

Your common sense is massively dependent on your values, your religion (or lack of it) and our technology. Humans with different values, different religion and massively different technology function differently.

> Wars and rivalities between cities and between the nobility-dominated land are part of history classes in school.

What you did NOT learned in high school history is how cities, towns and peasants operated in their day to day life. What you did NOT learned was anything about periods in between wars - and most cities were not in constant war with each other.

> Can you bring actual arguments why my reasoning is wrong, instead of simply claiming it just didn't happened this way?

Just about any actual specialized historical book about medieval time, frankly. And frankly, you are the one who made confident claims, you should be able to support them with evidence first.
by promiseofbeans | 2025-08-15 12:52:20+00:00
Every 2D projection of a 3D surface will be wrong in some way. It's just a matter of which attributes you want yo compromise on and which you want to be accurate.

As I understand it, Mercator mostly preserves relative distances between continents, at the expense of distorting continent shape & size. This is useful for ocean-based trade route calculation, which was a major concern when Mercator was introduced.

Most regions these days have a standard projection they use that best represents their country and modern GIS software can trivially reproject data in whatever format your project is using.

For example, in NZ, New Zealand Transverse Mercator is normally used. We used to use New Zealand Map Grid, which better represents our country, but the govt decided to switch the official one to better integrate with overseas data & software. Modern software allows you to trivially use either though.

Tl;Dr: map projections matter, but different ones are better for different purposes in different places. The African Union can use whatever they want, and everyone else can use what is most useful for their maps. No need for everyone to use the same system when we can use both.
by razemio | 2025-08-15 12:52:45+00:00
A genuine Question. Is open hardware even possible at some point? The advances in quality and speed are nothing short but impressive. I started 3d printing stuff in my basement one year ago (Ender V3 Plus). With the quality and speed improvements, comes technology which gets more complex every year. Companies spend millions to archive this. Why would they share it? I remember building drones in my basement (still on my wall) with open source software on the flight controllers. Now I can get a drone from DJI for less money with more features, in a smaller from factor, longer flight time, pre build and under 249g. Ofc this comes at the cost of repairability, control and trust. However I can still buy the hardware I used years ago. If I wanted to, I can build a drone by myself. I guess the same will happen to 3d printers.
by reactordev | 2025-08-15 12:52:48+00:00
You can overcome a hungry body by asking for food, cooking food you find, hunting for food, or fishing for it. There's no such thing as an empty soul - just bad people. Do good and good things will follow. Happiness is a choice, a state of being, not an end-game.

I've been rich, I've been poor, I've been in mansions, I've been on the streets. Your life is a rollercoaster, the more risks you take, the more extreme the ride. I happen to like going upside down so I'm a risk taker.
by alanbernstein | 2025-08-15 12:52:48+00:00
The colors and the sliders are both a bit extraneous to the point of the visualization, they're supposed to help but they kind of obscure the point.

For the northern landmasses, Greenland for example, the smaller outline is the equal-earth-projection, and the larger outline is the conventional Mercator projection. That's all there is to it.
by high_byte | 2025-08-15 12:52:50+00:00
was working with mediapipe BlazePose, which gives 33 pose points in world space, but wanted "the pose to always point forward" (virtually this prompt exactly)

it one-shotted 600 lines of code which did the job perfectly. it understood from context the center of body, how to calculate the body normal, to rotate each point around that, all while handling edge cases to avoid errors. would've takens me hours if not days to tweak it manually to work.
by eviks | 2025-08-15 12:52:54+00:00
Had the same idea about repurposing a single key for both copy/paste, but then if it's done for the inexperienced users, this modality/overloading is also not great.

I myself sometimes press Ctrl+C twice because there is no other indication (and even with a led, I wouldn't see it since I'd look at the screen), and this misfires my other double Ctrl+C functionality, which at least isn't "destructive" like paste. For the passwords I think it's better to have dedicated clearing API (which I think already exists, if not used everywhere) rather than having a triggering expiring time on anything, that to mee is needlessly hostile, I don't want to ever worry about my copy of a paragraph expiring.

> while you have something selected, it copies

so no replace then?

Maybe use the right middle modifier for the paste? (it's an apps/menu key, is that used frequently enough? though again, some laptops only have 2 modifier on the right...)
by tombert | 2025-08-15 12:53:01+00:00
I have been reading through the Discworld books in publication order, and they have been downright delightful.

I have only finished the first eleven, but thus far all of them have been fun and most of them have little nuggets of wisdom that really do invite thought into a deeper theme. Thus far my favorite has been Mort, but I also ended up really liking Sourcery as well.

I hadn’t read any Pratchett while he was still alive, I hadn’t even heard of him in fact, but given how prolific he was and the level of cleverness in his stories, I wish he was still alive.
by Duhan | 2025-08-15 12:53:02+00:00
I built this tool for my mom because she needed it.

At first, it blew up tons of traffic, people using it everywhere… and then it crashed. I rebuilt it, made it better, and then, yep… got hacked.

Now it’s back and somehow doing 10× the revenue from before. People in France, Switzerland, India, and Italy are already using it to make property sales faster and easier.

If you’re in real estate, development, or just know the right people, I’d love to team up. There’s even a white-label version if you want to make it yours.

Save this post and look back in a year it might feel like finding an old Bitcoin thread.

Email me: duhan@styly.io

No fluffs.
by torium | 2025-08-15 12:53:05+00:00
> If you download software packages from the internet, you may have noticed that some of them are signed with a GPG key. This is done to ensure that the software package has not been tampered with during the download process.

I wonder if someone could clarify this mystery to me: Supposedly the download process is protected by HTTPS, so it can't be tampered with. If we assume that it could be, then the signature that I read off their website also could've been tampered with.

Question: What am I missing?
by ta1243 | 2025-08-15 12:53:24+00:00
When I click "subscribe" on my TV it gives me three options, all with adverts

Maybe I could subscribe and take a risk that I could then buy something again, but it tells me they don't want people paying money, they want people watching adverts.

As such the rare amazon exclusives (mainly clarkson's farm) I will get elsewhere.

Compared to say Paramount, which I once again subscribed to through apple-tv a couple of months ago. I watch new Star Trek and South Park episodes, then unsubscribe, suits me fine, far cheaper than how I used to watch Star Trek in the 1990s.

Likewise I'll subscribe to Apple when for all mankind and morning show come back.

If they want me permamently subscribed, they should go back to making 26 episodes a year.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-15 12:53:37+00:00
Why mess with Texas when it's so good at messing with itself?

There are at least 120 people, including more than 35 children, who just drowned because Texas is so unjustifiably arrogant about being messed with by experts and scientists and educators and government regulations.

I wish the modern Texas secession movements the best of luck, and hope they get exactly what they deserve, including my thoughts and prayers!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements
by robinhouston | 2025-08-15 12:53:50+00:00
This sort of strident campaigning language is such an unhelpful framing in which to discuss the relative merits of different map projections.

Every world map must trade off between different types of distortion. There's no principled reason to demand a map perfectly respect relative area at the expense of other characteristics.

Personally for general world maps I typically prefer so-called ‘compromise’ pseudocylindrical projections such as Robinson, which try to minimise all types of distortion as much as possible, but even the much-maligned Mercator has its place.
Show HN: Reimagining keyboard to be Voice first [video]
by raxrb | 2025-08-15 12:54:19+00:00
I'm tired of using the keyboard that is there on the Android.

The voice part is not very good, so I am thinking from scratch what should be the voice native keyboard looks like.

I just launched the app. It is in beta. Anyone interested to try it out? Let me know or reach out to me on rahul[@]dictationdaddy.com
by zveyaeyv3sfye | 2025-08-15 12:54:27+00:00
I like the idea of questioning status quo, but not so sure this makes a whole lot of sense in 2025.

Meerkartor was developed to project a 3D GLOBE onto a flat surface.

We already have non-meerkartor projections such as the classic globe that should be found in every class-room, and modern digital variations such as Google Earth.

And the meerkartor projections we do use:

In USA, the meerkartor projection centers on the USA.

In europe, the meerkartor projection centers on Europe.

And in asia, guess where the center is?

Why can't Africa just start using their own projection too, with their preferences?
by extraisland | 2025-08-15 12:55:08+00:00
What is fake about them?

I can find two of the agencies on Companies House:

- Dreams Agency - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

- Envisage Promotions- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

The other one might be a trading name and I can't find anything that matches directly.

Can I have an apology please?
by jcorco | 2025-08-15 12:55:17+00:00
Sure! STAC Research has been building and running benchmarks in finance for ~18 years. We’ve had to solve many of the same problems I think you’re highlighting here.. e.g. tech & model providers tuning specifically for the benchmark, results that get published but can’t be reproduced outside the provider’s lab, etc.

The approach is to use workloads defined by developers and end users (not providers) that reflect their real-world tasks. E.g. in finance, delivering market snapshots to trading engines. We test full stacks, holding some layers constant so you can isolate the effect of hardware, software, or models. Every run goes through an independent third-party audit to ensure consistent conditions, no cherry-picking of results, and full disclosure of config and tuning, so that the results are reproducible and the comparisons are fair.

In finance, the benchmarks are trusted enough to drive major infrastructure decisions by the leading banks and hedge funds, and in some cases to inform regulatory discussions, e.g. around how the industry handles time synchronization.

Now starting to apply the same principles to the AI benchmarking space. Would love to talk to anyone who wants to be involved?
by Razengan | 2025-08-15 12:56:00+00:00
Most of the complains in TFA and the bandwagon here just seem to be lazy/stubborn developers not bothering to understand the platform they're porting to.

There's a kind of entitlement among developers coming from PC/Windows expecting Apple to give them everything on a silver plate, yet they gladly bend over when porting to consoles without a peep.

I mean yeah Apple documentation sucks ass sometimes but sheesh you know the notch is fucking there, you have to account for it. You gotta do some specific shit for PS/XBox/Switch too, can't always just expect a one-click port (yet). Hell, there isn't even any public/3rd-party documentation or articles or YouTube tutorials for consoles but you don't see anyone bitching about that.
by sgt101 | 2025-08-15 12:56:17+00:00
>I’m bringing this up because, in the workplace, AI models have the potential to deliver both things. And that should terrify you.

Calm down!

Things that should terrify you:

- bioweapons

- nuclear war

- the collapse of society

- a civilization ending solar flare

- a comet striking earth

- a mega volcano

Gyrations in the job market are worrying, especially for young people, but they should not terrify you.
by tw04 | 2025-08-15 12:56:27+00:00
>You are missing the forest for the trees.

I'm really not.

>Winterization is a fix for last time’s failure, not a strategy for the future. A market like Texas can work if it values resilience alongside price efficiency, meaning capacity planning, diversified generation, and yes, some enforced standards. Otherwise you’re just running a lean system that collapses the moment reality strays from the model.

What are you even trying to say? A private company isn't going to magically "value resilience" if there's no incentive to do so. They make MORE money when they have outages, why would they prevent that? The solution to the issue, which has worked literally everywhere else, is government regulation.

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. "If only capitalism didn't work the way it works it would be perfect".

>That storm was an issue for other markets as well but they were mostly able to get away with rolling blackouts due to interconnects. Those same markets and similar winterization issues but were under FERC guidelines. Folks love to anchor onto to winterization issue like it did not impact other FERC regions.

Citation of which other markets had blackouts due to not winterizing pumps that had been called out repeatedly after identical outages prior in 2010 and 1989? You conveniently left that out, I'm sure it was just an oversight.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Tex...

Because if I had to bet money, you're talking about the power companies in other states who WERE prepared for the freeze asking homeowners to drop their thermostats a couple degrees because the cold snap was driving demand significantly higher than normal. NOT because of power plant outages due to lack of preparation and component failure - due to lack of regulation.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-08-15 12:57:19+00:00
English is written using an alphabet. Alphabets are by and large phonetic so you do not need to remember how to pronounce every word, you learn to read the alphabet and specific spelling (e.g. 'th' in English) and you are mostly done.

Chinese is written using ideograms ('kanji' in Japanese), which convey a meaning but not a pronounciation. So when you encounter a new character you cannot pronounce it.
by getnormality | 2025-08-15 12:57:20+00:00
> Companies deny they're doing this, of course. Take Microsoft, for example. CEO Satya Nadella claims AI tools like GitHub Copilot now write up to 30 percent of Microsoft’s software code. Simultaneously, Microsoft has laid off over 15,000 people, nearly 7% of its workforce. Coincidence? I think not.

This is why we need the discipline of history. People's memories are nonexistent.

The world hasn't stood still during the past few years! During the pandemic, the tech companies went on a hiring binge for demand that didn't materialize. Then interest rates skyrocketed as the Fed buckled down to fight inflation. Then Elon Musk bought Twitter and laid off 80% of the staff without the service collapsing, showing twitchy tech executives that their companies could get by with less. There were also massive tax code changes, only very recently reversed, that further encouraged less headcount.

We've had so many headwinds against tech employment completely unrelated to AI. Big companies have been responding, but they don't move fast, so they likely still haven't done everything they want to do.

AI is just a convenient excuse, and it's amazing how well it's worked on so many people!
by bluGill | 2025-08-15 12:57:54+00:00
For most people this is just fine - your goals were not to build a 3d printer it was to build something that just happens to be build able on a 3d printer. That is the something you are building is the goal, not building a 3d printer. If the goal isn't building a 3d printer then buying a 3d printer that someone else has already debugged and made to work is the better way to get to what you really want to do in the first place.

In a way this is good. 3d printing is neat, but it got too much hype which was taken away from other useful things makers should also have experience in. More makers should think of injection molding when doing plastic parts. Many plastic parts makers are making would be better as metal done on lathes and milling machines (or if you want to have fun shapers and planers - both obsolete but still a lot of fun if time/money isn't important). Wood working has never really lost popularity, but it should be mentioned as a good option for makers. There are also cloth options - sew, knit, spin, tat (my favorite). There are plenty of other ways to build something other than 3d print.

Finally along those lines, for some just drawing something up in CAD and sending it off to someone else to make is a good option. FreeCAD has come a long way finally has reached 1.0, or you can pay for one of the commercial options - some of them are reasonable for makers though read the fine print.
by bitbasher | 2025-08-15 12:58:10+00:00
The author is a co-founder of an AI platform that reviews code. Kinda ironic when they say SaaS is dead.

Their other blog post talks about how writing code is a thing of the past. They also have a gem where they say:

> Think garbage collection versus free(): once the platform got smarter, we happily stopped counting pointers.

No.. no we didn't.
by bubblyworld | 2025-08-15 12:59:07+00:00
I think that focusing on systems of truth (like formal logics) might be missing the forest for the trees a bit. There are lots of other things we use reasoning for, like decision making and navigating uncertainty, that are arguably just as valuable as establishing truthiness. Mathematicians are very careful to use words like "implication" and "satisfaction" (as opposed to words like "reasoning") to describe their logics, because the philosophers may otherwise lay siege to their department.

A model that is mathematically incorrect (i.e. has some shaky assumptions and inference issues) but nevertheless makes good decisions (like "which part of this codebase do I need to change?") would still be very valuable, no? I think this is part of the value proposition of tools like Claude Code or Codex. Of course, current agentic tools seem to struggle with both unless you provide a lot of guidance, but a man can dream =P
by ben_w | 2025-08-15 12:59:17+00:00
Says "medium" is 1,000-token. If I assume that takes 50 seconds, 40 Wh / 50 s = 2880 watts

Seems a bit much? Even if I assume 1/3rd is the amortised result of the training runs and 1/6th is the cooling system, that only takes me down to the power draw of 2.4 times the H200s' 600W maximum TDP* on the mean inference run.

Semi-related to main theme: why are the links so weird? For me at least, "the published findings" links to chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09598v2 — and I opened this with Safari.

Going to the corresponding arxiv.org page manually, that's not even "the published findings" for the 40 Wh claim, it pre-dates GPT-5.

And the dashboard they link to doesn't even seem to make the claim of 40 Wh for a "medium" length response for GPT-5, unless I'm misreading this somehow, it's claiming 19.7 Wh for a "medium" length query?: https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZjVmOTI0MmMtY2U2Mi00Z...

And I can believe 19.7 Wh. Same maths as above, if that takes 50 seconds to get an answer then it's 1.2 x (H200 TDP).

* https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/h200-nvl.c4254
by redwood | 2025-08-15 12:59:32+00:00
Seeing a comment like this framed with authority but with significant conceptual errors is concerning.

First of all Elastic/OpenSearch is not a database in the traditional sense of the word... it's not built for durability, consistency, or transactional capabilities. To hear it even described as a database is a little bit concerning.

Meanwhile MongoDB has integrated lucene into the product's distributed system to bring search on top of the ACID capabilities it offers out of the box.