MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-08-20 07:58:17+00:00
Good question! You might check local facebook fish/pond groups rather than marketplace. There are many out there, and us fish nerds tend to be glad to take in some fish who need a new home. Some people have enormous ponds that can handle that kind of biomass without much trouble.

Another avenue could be talking to local fish stores. They will take them as a donation and sell them for you, or in some cases even buy them from you. Since they're common goldfish it's more likely they'd take them as a donation. But yeah, many pet stores are cool with taking on fish you can't home properly anymore.

If you had a few months to move, I'm pretty sure you could find takers before you moved. I sell aquarium plants as a side business and I actually hear from people starting ponds quite frequently (they're hoping they can grow tropical plants), so it's not uncommon. I suspect these kinds of people would love to take at least some of your fish.
by thewisenerd | 2025-08-20 07:58:36+00:00
ah; understood. assuming PEM leakage aside

the scope of the exchanged token is the scope of the installation (org / repo); thereby limiting exposure already

to further reduce the scope of exposure, the jwt would've needed to be exchanged with the specific `repositories` (given most installations are org scoped) and `permissions`

https://docs.github.com/en/apps/creating-github-apps/authent...
Show HN: BlipCut – AI Tool for Fast Video Translation and Localization
by Blake_Keeley | 2025-08-20 07:58:41+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been working on BlipCut, an AI-powered video localization tool that helps creators and businesses translate and adapt video content quickly and at scale.

The problem we’re tackling is that traditional video localization is slow, expensive, and manual-heavy. It often requires separate tools for subtitles, dubbing, transcription, and editing. With BlipCut, we’re trying to make the whole workflow simpler and faster in one platform.

What BlipCut does:

Video & Audio Translation: Translate into 130+ languages instantly

Subtitles: Auto-generate and translate captions, then customize them

Voice Cloning & AI Voiceover: Reproduce speakers' voices (29 languages) or use 1300+ AI voices in 90+ languages

Lip Sync: Sync translated audio with speakers' lip movements for natural dubbing

Batch Translation: Process multiple videos at once

AI Transcription & Clip Maker: Transcribe videos, create short clips with auto titles/summaries, and translate them too

Why it matters:

Speed: Up to 10x faster than traditional workflows

Scale: Batch process many videos at once

Quality: Natural voices, accurate translations, seamless lip-sync

Who it's for: Content creators, educators, businesses, and film teams who need to share video content across multiple languages without a big localization budget.

I’d love feedback from the HN community—especially around what features would make this more useful in your workflows.

Demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzPhtWFHYH8
by baxterinsti | 2025-08-20 07:59:17+00:00
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by taikahessu | 2025-08-20 07:59:46+00:00
This. When doing Stable Diffusion, I have noticed this as well. Adding negatives can sometimes lead to the opposite results.

From what I can tell, if you say "no computers" for example (ie adding computer as negative), you are setting the scene for something like "where there should be computer, there is not".

I can't better describe this phenomenom, only that it can completely change the output in unexpected unwanted ways.

AB - B = AC
by globular-toast | 2025-08-20 07:59:51+00:00
Call it whatever you like. I don't care and that clearly wasn't the point of my comment.

One thing I've learnt, though, is unless you have a very good reason to try to change language you should just talk the same language as everyone else. I don't like the American short billion. It makes no sense and it's less useful. But that's what I use because I speak English and that's what we use now. If I see a src/ directory I know exactly what it is. If I see source/ it will give me pause. Get over it IMO.
by mettamage | 2025-08-20 08:00:08+00:00
The most charitable viewpoint I can give is: that can be true or that can be false. Time will tell.

If it's true, then we are exceptional but how can we truly know at this point? I mean, Michael the Gorilla told us about what poachers did [1].

If it isn't true, then it shows how in the prevailing consensus we are still too arrogant. In that case, we don't understand that well what sets us apart and what doesn't.

It will probably be a nuanced discussion either way regardless of what the truth is probably due to the definition of language. But in this particular case I'd want to characterize it: some way of communicating that is about as effective as whatever it is that humans do, when they speak out loud.

Also, when you look nowadays at some of the dog/cat videos and they press those buttons, they clearly are capable of communicating something. I remember one dog inventing a word for ambulance given the words he/she knew. Ah, found it! [2]

There's clearly a lot more research to be done here. I hope AI can accelerate it. I know AI is a tricky business, but one can hope.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXKsPqQ0Ycc&ab_channel=kokof...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a93PWudceKk
by creer | 2025-08-20 08:00:47+00:00
Some of these used simulation?

At any rate, physics and statistics always run into limits as the experiment might be seriously difficult to implement (complex, unstable or costly), or at the limit of the data available. That's the day to day normal of these fields. Even some very basic physics or electronics lab setups are the bane of students - getting all kinds of results except the ones expected. But more seriously, often an experimental scheme is proposed (and that author gets credit for that) and it takes a few years before a team takes it on (and gets credit for that if successful). It's a commitment of time, money and judgment on whether the team can achieve it and thus claim the credit - or will never manage to pull it off.
Show HN: File-Fabric – Generate Files (docs, media, archives) for Testing
by freakynit | 2025-08-20 08:01:10+00:00
https://github.com/freakynit/file-fabric

I just released File-Fabric, a tiny TypeScript toolkit to generate various files for demos, CI fixtures, prototypes, and seeding workflows.

It can produce documents (PDF, DOCX, TXT, JSON), spreadsheets/slides (XLSX, CSV, PPTX), media (JPG/PNG, WAV/MP3, MP4), and archives (ZIP, optional RAR). Everything has sensible defaults, with options to control size, duration, text, etc.

Supports both direct API usage and YAML-driven batch generation. Great for quickly spinning up sample data without hunting for random files.

Repo: https://github.com/freakynit/file-fabric

Would love feedback from folks who’ve struggled with needing realistic files for tests or demos!
by troupo | 2025-08-20 08:02:08+00:00
> Of course someone would have to make that change.

Of course. And yet none of the people from Google even seem to be aware of

> The congress one appears to be the first legit example i have seen.

There are more. E.g. podcast RSS feeds are often presented on the web with XSLT: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/231452.rss

Again, none of the people from Google even seem to be aware of these use cases, and just power through regardless of any concerns.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-20 08:02:46+00:00
Here's a prompt I wrote a few days ago for codex:

Analyze the repository and add a suitable agents.md

It did a decent job. I didn't really have much to add to that. I guess, having this file is a nice optimization but obviously it doesn't contain anything it wasn't able to figure out by itself. What's really needed is a per repository learning base that gets populated with facts the agents discovers during it's many experiments with the repository over the course of many conversations. It's a performance optimization.

The core problem is that every conversation is like ground hog day. You always start from scratch. Agents.md is a stop gap solution for that problem. Chatgpt actually has some notional memory that works across conversations. But it's a bit flaky, slow, and limited. It doesn't really learn across conversations.

That btw. is a big missing piece on the path to AGIs. There are some imperfect workarounds but a lot of knowledge is lost in between conversations. And the trick of just growing the amount of context we give to our prompts doesn't seem like it's the solution.
by alerighi | 2025-08-20 08:02:59+00:00
Honestly, the fact that to install software you have to go on a site, download an installer, and run it, is one of the reasons why I don't like Windows.

Not only that thing is time consuming and cannot be easily automated, but it's error prone, you are likely to find in the first Google results not the official website of the software but some other site like Softonic that with the software also installs bloatware/malware/toolbars/etc. Of course an expert user can distinguish the official site from a scam, but usually the average computer user can't.

What I like about Linux is just that you type in a terminal (or you use one of the many GUI that exist) `sudo apt install <software name>` and a version of that software, along with its dependencies, it is installed. And not only installed, but packaged, if needed patched, and tested to work along with other software in the distribution. When I install Windows I spend at least 1 hours going to every website of software that I need, download the installer, run the installer, click next, next, next, and repeat. With Linux I can just type in a single command every software that I need, let it run and install it, while I do other things.

And when you need to uninstall a software? On Windows you need the uninstaller, that if it was not created correctly, or created at all, will leave a lot of stuff on the system, files, registry keys, broken links, cache files, etc that you need to remove either manually or with some "cleaner" programs that do more harm than good, for that reason an installation of Windows needs to be formatted every X years cause of the accumulated crap.

From a developer point of view, and I've done many times, writing an installer for Windows, even using open source frameworks like NSIS, is a manual operation that is time consuming, can induce in errors, you need to learn a specific scripting language, etc, while making a package for Ubuntu/Debian (for example) is a simple operation, as simple as put the files of your software in a directory, put in a metadata file, and launch a command to produce the package. Most build systems (automake, cmake) already can create deb packages automatically with commonly used plugins.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-08-20 08:03:52+00:00
What you sound like is a self-indulgent fanatic, overall. Either way, you're wrong about human exceptionalism in that it's evident in most aspects of our existence vs. that of all other species. It's also something that (with better use of our capabilities) could let us not only protect the other species of the earth against disasters that previously would have led to mass extinctions, but also possibly even revive species that have already gone extinct, including many that we ourselves have extinguished.

Worth noting your hypocrisy too here. As a member of the human species who obviously participates in it and its complex technlogical sphere (you are after all using digital tools and the hardware they run on to comment about how terrible we are on HN), you're a direct beneficiery of background industrial processes that themselves kill all kinds of animals and plants every year, while you lecture people on things like slaughtering cows.
by anonyfox | 2025-08-20 08:04:54+00:00
Currently I am building a new JS web toolkit on the side with AI assistance for faster progress, and I came to have some prompts folder in the project root that I just drop into the agents (like cursor CMD+I) and point it to a direction (file/folder).

https://github.com/Anonyfox/raven-js/tree/main/prompts

I think we should not split README and AGENT into different documents - the way its heading is that the coding agents are optimized to "act as" humans and use tools like them more and more - and understanding how something works or how to do something should be aimed for humans and expecting AI tools to pick it up like a human would... if they don't currently then probably they will in the the future.
by daly | 2025-08-20 08:05:11+00:00
Simple. If Democrats take the House then they will impeach Trump. Therefore Republicans need to falsify the premise. Texas hopes to add 5 Republican seats which will swing House to a safe majority. They tried a special session to vote on changing voting maps. Democrats left the state so there could be no quorum and thus no vote. Special session ends so the Democrats have returned to the state. Another special session will be called. There needs to be a guarantee that Democrats have to show up to vote. Each Democrat had to agree to be paired with police escort 24/7. One Democrat said she wouldn't agree to that so she can't leave the building. A modern-day Rosa Parks moment.

It won't matter. Might makes right.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-08-20 08:05:35+00:00
No, it's about putting things into perspective.

We are accustomed to seeing our lives and the power of dictators and the influence of tiktok content creators etc as these enormous, reality-defining things. And then we look up at the sky — with extreme rarity thanks to light pollution — and often perceive little more than a tableau as if looking at an aesthetically pleasing poster in a waiting room.

Pale blue dot flips that on its head as it should, clarifying that everything we normally view as so important does not have to be confused with the fundamental nature of reality. If there is something wrong with our environment, the fact that it is small in a grander scheme means that we have a better chance of changing it than we might have otherwise supposed.

Tolkien offers a similar quote I'd like to offer to compare and contrast with Sagan:

``` Frodo sighed and was asleep almost before the words were spoken. Sam struggled with his own weariness, and he took Frodo’s hand; and there he sat silent till deep night fell. Then at last, to keep himself awake, he crawled from the hiding-place and looked out. The land seemed full of creaking and cracking and sly noises, but there was no sound of voice or of foot. Far above the Ephel Dúath in the West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master’s, ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself by Frodo’s side, and putting away all fear he cast himself into a deep untroubled sleep. ```
by sudhirkhanger | 2025-08-20 08:06:15+00:00
How do you guys save Slack messages which you want to either read or follow up at a later stage?

1. I was manually dumping the the link and manually adding the title. 2. Slack lists seems to be okayish but doesn't let me tag easily. Message is not highlighted as much as Later feature does. 3. Trying out Notion but it doesn't show message upfront.
by troupo | 2025-08-20 08:06:18+00:00
> [The congress example is legit]

So let me get this straight. The Congress example is legit. Multiple other cases discussed here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 are legit

And yet it's not the Googlers and other browser implementers who didn't do even a modicum or research who are arrogant, but me, because I made a potential mistake quickly searching for something on my phone at night?
by M95D | 2025-08-20 08:06:22+00:00
> Take away the mitochondria and bacteria… can cells live on their own?

We can live without bateria if we add with some food supplements.

mitochondria isn't considered alive, as a separate organism, AFAIK. It doesn't even have a species name. It's just a component of the host cell.

As I understand it, these new microorganisms are parasites. They're not essential for the functioning of the host cell like mitochondria are.
by Frieren | 2025-08-20 08:07:05+00:00
Any capability that we lose as a society is going to be hard to get back.

I understand that AI companies want to embed AI in everything and make society dependent on it. Like cigarette brands AI companies want a world addicted to their technology.

But as a society we should be more careful before throwing well known methods for fancy new tech. Even more important is to take a step back and think when AI companies are pushing for "not lose the AI race", "speed up adoption", and the rest of FOMO scaremongering.

Stop and think is what I expect from professionals even when CEOs push for AI as fast as possible.
by yurishimo | 2025-08-20 08:07:49+00:00
I can say as someone who moved from Texas to Western Europe almost 3 years ago, the health insurance situation is certainly an upgrade in many regards. The monthly premium is reasonable and the yearly out of pocket max is also reasonable if you have a good salary. I also have the option to pay the annual deductible as a part of my monthly premium so all care is “free” for the year. If you live on a fixed income or have a chronic condition, I can see how that would be a plus.

My only complaint would have to be the insistence that everything can be solved with a couple of aspirin and bed rest. While they’re probably right on the whole, nothing feels worse than finally mustering up the energy to make the appointment and travel to the office only to be told to go back home and do nothing. I came to the office specifically because I tried the home remedies and they didn’t seem to be working! I’ve also heard stories from others about twisting an ankle and being told the same thing. No xray or sonogram to double check, just “go home and relax”. I see quite a few people walking around with a limp which is probably just some form of bias on my part, but I can’t help but wonder how many people were let down by the system because a GP somewhere decided it wasn’t worth putting more resources into unless you follow their playbook first to a T. IMO it goes to show how systems can work for general populations but often fall apart when applied to individuals.
by zonghao | 2025-08-20 08:08:10+00:00
Yes, this goes back to that fundamental and long-debated question: How do we eliminate poverty?

I've studied some sociological and economic theories, and I generally understand that this problem is very difficult to solve.

From my perspective, China's biggest problem right now is actually unequal distribution (especially between different regions), and it's sad to see such a problem in a socialist country.

I really hope our government can truly commit to solving such inter-regional distribution problems, instead of just shouting slogans and doing nothing (which they often do).

I have many classmates from underdeveloped regions who come to Beijing for university and then never return to their hometowns because there are simply no opportunities there. Major resources are concentrated in a few large cities.

I don't know if this is a common characteristic of East Asian countries (Tokyo is also very large, and small cities in Japan are also declining). However, Japan's Gini coefficient is very low, and I think we should learn from Japan in this regard.
by Treegarden | 2025-08-20 08:08:41+00:00
I agree with you on several levels, what we call “exceptional” is entirely dependent on the metric we choose. Every species excels in its niche, and human exceptionalism is just our own preferred framing. It's fair to say it often functions like supremacism: a belief in our moral or functional superiority over other life forms.

That said, in a world of scarce resources and competition, tribalism and “team-thinking” are not bugs, but features, evolutionary tools for survival. From that lens, human supremacism isn’t a moral claim, but a pragmatic stance: of course we prioritize our own species. We are team human.

As for whether we're destroying the planet, it's a complex picture. I'd recommend False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg, it pushes back against overly apocalyptic assumptions and argues that while climate change is real and serious, we're not necessarily headed for collapse. Doesn't excuse inaction, but does complicate the narrative.
by gethly | 2025-08-20 08:08:59+00:00
Just a little side note - in this context, it makes sense if the website tries to connect to a local port because you might be running a card reader(ie. terminal). This is how it works with some(all?) EU countries that have a chip in their ID cards, or even vehicle registration cards, which you can use to access sensitive information or perform certain administrative tasks on government websites.

Although, from personal experience, it used to require java and it worked only on internet explorer and since it has been retired and replaced with chromium, i am not sure what is the way to make it work nowadays, as i have not been able to figure out to use it when i needed the last time.
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-08-20 08:09:22+00:00
They were expecting to be cash flow positive in Jan 2025, according to [0]. That said, it is hard to tell if they actually became cash flow positive since with them still being a private company, they aren't required to release that information.

[0]: https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/d...
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-08-20 08:10:30+00:00
It should smell more like philosophy class 101 to you. "Either X or not X. If X, either Y or not Y."

I can point you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table if you need empirical evidence that people sometimes actually think claims through sometimes for a few minutes. Otherwise I'm not sure what you're asking for.
by xg15 | 2025-08-20 08:12:40+00:00
True, but that raises the question, why don't the browsers do that? I think no one would object if they removed XSLT from the browser's core and instead loaded up some WASM/JavaScript implementation when some XSLT is actually encountered. Sort of like a "built-in extension".

Then browser devs could treat it like an extension (plus some small shims in the core) while the public API wouldn't have to change.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-20 08:13:40+00:00
> The purpose of Standard Thermal is to make energy from solar PV available 24/7/365 at a price that is competitive with US natural gas.

They compare to natural gas. Not the cheapest alternative.

>Pipes run through the pile, and fluid flowing through them removes heat to supply the customer

Just basic district level geothermal heat pumps do the same. You don't need to heat the soil. Just drill down and install pipes. Earth generates heat. What is the cost difference now?