MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strken | 2025-08-15 04:44:44+00:00
Maybe I'm missing the point, but all that stuff is personal spending on luxury goods, which is probably the least useful thing money can do. If your goal is something like "solve supply-side housing in my city" then you might need to build hundreds of high-rise apartment blocks, at which point you'll be able to burn through $1bn pretty quickly. And yeah, you'll eventually make your money back, but that's a side benefit.
by saagarjha | 2025-08-15 04:45:21+00:00
I've done something similar by running Instruments during the build, which not only tells me which processes are running when but also what they're doing. Unfortunately Instruments gets upset if your build takes a long time, and it doesn't really allow filtering by process tree, but it helped shipped several major wins for our builds when I was working on Twitter's iOS codebase. Alas trying to this these days will not work because Instrument's "All Processes" tracing has been broken for a while (FB14533747).
One weird trick to making Claude Code palatable to use
by JSR_FDED | 2025-08-15 04:49:05+00:00
I'm in awe of Claude Code, but I also curse it many times a day. One thing that I've recently started doing that has made a big difference to my mental health and made me enjoy using it more is this dumb trick... simply ignore what it says at the end of a task.

The self-congratulatory backslapping or glazing of the programmer, e.g. "Perfect! The thingamajig now frobbles before it frazzles, making this a much better experience for the user and improving the versatility of the system" (and of course accompanied by several lines with green checkmarks)...this drives me nuts. Why? Because it told me it's done all these things, so I adjust my mental model of the code accordingly. But then it turns out it actually hasn't done all those things at all.

If this was a junior dev you'd given a task to, and they came back full of praise for themselves for the stellar job they'd done - and then it turned out they'd botched it badly, after a few times you'd be having an HR discussion.

So instead, let all that stuff at the end of the task scroll by, train your eyes to ignore it, and just test whether it's working as intended. Claude Code is no longer my buddy, it's now a tool. Sanity is restored.
by smacke | 2025-08-15 04:49:57+00:00
I developed a tool (https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync) which can sync subtitles against each other (or even against an audio track), and this can be used in conjunction with other tools such as https://pypi.org/project/srt/ to combine multiple subtitle streams into a single stream. I've used this strategy to good effect to get both English and Chinese subtitles up at once.
by sovietswag | 2025-08-15 04:50:09+00:00
Oh wow thanks for writing out that summary of Sockwell's talk. I had a sort of similar line of thought a few years ago which I haven't followed since, but this just brought me back. https://josh8.com/blog/personal_computing.html I was musing about the point on which technologies one ought to use for writing personal (or FOSS) software vs. corporate software like in the talk, but also whether the ethos we bring to the table between the two should differ -- i.e. 'software as a soap bubble' rather than only allowing yourself to write scalable and maintainable programs that are generalized for re-use. It's as if a whole class of programs which would help us Personally Compute never come into existence because of this mindset. I think the AI vibe coding thingy majingies are not too bad of an antidote to this actually
by vunderba | 2025-08-15 04:51:54+00:00
From the article:

> On the surface, this atypical trait seems to explain quite well why I can draw a blank when asked to write the kanji for "plant" (植) from memory. I don't see the character in my mind, so it makes sense that I can't reproduce it on paper.

While the author's aphantasia may have posed some recall issues - it wouldn't explain why they had ever been able to reproduce 植. Kanji has the concept of radicals AND stroke order. One could make the case that perhaps the author's motor cortex is simply storing the equivalent of LOGO programming language instructions for reproducing the logograph.

Take away your mind's ability to find and chunk (木, 十, 具) by showing them "radical"-less characters and I'm sure it would be even more difficult.
by plastic3169 | 2025-08-15 04:52:39+00:00
True but it is also like saying that some office building came out better than other because the workers put more effort into it. There is skill to to the craft but also it’s a game of constraints and how the project is planned and budgeted is large part of how it will look in the end. I believe what has changed is that producers know that cg looking cg is just a stylistic choice among many others and doesn’t hurt the box office in some genres almost at all.
by talldan | 2025-08-15 04:53:08+00:00
I guess that's true, though I don't think you have to launch games through the steam app, but they try to make it convenient to do so.

You can also right-click the game and 'Browse local files' and the game's regular executable is usually right there.

I'm currently playing the Oblivion remake, and launch that through a mod manager rather than Steam (though on Windows), even though the game was installed via Steam.
by themafia | 2025-08-15 04:53:10+00:00
> It’s by firing people, hiring less, and making less investments in the business all else being equal.

This is farcical. The universal response to higher taxes is to create less revenue? Exactly how does this benefit the CEOs salary? Or improve outcomes for shareholders?

> who will pay out profits as salary to themselves rather than reinvesting the money in the company so as to avoid paying taxes on profits twice

The IRS keeps an eye on this. The business owner does not have unlimited runway and the salary selected must be reasonable. It's also not the only tax vehicle available to the owner to reduce or eliminate the "double taxation" that can occur on profit distributions. There's like half a dozen ways to solve this problem from an ownership perspective.

It should also be noted that the personal income tax rate and the capital gains tax rate are likely to offer very different outcomes for the owner. It's hardly as cut and dry as you project.

> A better solution is to slash corporate taxes and raise income taxes on high earners.

So the corporations engage in practices like buybacks and overfund the business and workers wages end up artificially depressed?

A better solution is to examine the problem and respond with appropriately designed policies that are outcome oriented. These "quick fix" and "slash and burn" policies are _precisely_ how we ended up here. Swinging the pendulum all the way to the other extreme creates the same amount of misery just in a different direction.
by cess11 | 2025-08-15 04:53:30+00:00
I'm not going to name any names but depending on your budget and jurisdiction you can probably figure out a setup where you either torrent, possibly through a reputable VPN, from an invite based tracker, or you pay to play with one or two Usenet accounts.

If you are willing to spend a bit of money you can get what's called a seedbox in a suitable jurisdiction and do rather innocous seeming tunneling between your home network and there.

Torrenting is a bit messy, usually it's not 'one tracker fits all', instead you'd likely want one for movies and one for music or something like that. Perhaps Limewire is a good fit for your needs, or perhaps you're more of a power user willing to endure weeks or months of research and interviews with tracker admins.

Usenet is a bit more involved, and you pay for access and bandwidth. The network traffic doesn't look as suspicious as torrenting, however, and if something turns up in a search it's yours, you don't have to beg for people to seed and so on.

With a bit of effort and technical savvy you can automate a lot of piracy these days, with tools like Sonarr and Radarr tracking releases and automatically pushing them into your self-hosted streaming service.
by schiffern | 2025-08-15 04:54:27+00:00
VLC, mpv, and SMPlayer all support dual subtitles, with varying amounts of fiddling.

https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/hnle2o/dual_subtitles/

https://superuser.com/questions/1255487/how-to-get-vlc-to-di...
by robotnikman | 2025-08-15 04:54:49+00:00
I wonder if we are at the point right now where AI needs a large bright disclaimer while using it saying "This person is not real and is an AI" (kind of like the big warning on cigarettes and nicotine products). Many of us here would think such a thing is common sense, but there are plenty of people out there who could be convinced by an AI chatbot that they are real
by Incipient | 2025-08-15 04:55:09+00:00
To continue the analogy, if the US lost a rook, everyone would take notice "damn that was a big blow".

I think it's more like losing a pawn. Except now others have taken 3 unanswered pawns and everyone said "eh we've still got our queen" but now the queens are looking shaky and you're staring down a 3 pawn short endgame and no one believes you can turn it around.
by hedgehog | 2025-08-15 04:57:29+00:00
Transmitting messages between users is a functional property of Mastodon that is of course visible and valuable to the users. Transmitting protected health data from Flo users to anyone with a dollar to buy some ads is not a functional property of Flo itself or a mobile ad product, and likely surprising to both Flo and Flo's users. Facebook has discretion on how they use that data. If this is a rare and unavoidable consequence of their business model Facebook should be comfortable paying the settlements as judgements occur.
by lovich | 2025-08-15 04:58:04+00:00
They’ve functionally done a fuck ton while not knee capping the economy at the same time. The IRA injected a massive amount of funds into environmentally friendly technology and infrastructure. Half my street put up solar in the past 2 years because of these subsidies.

The state of California passed the 2/3rds powered by renewables mark https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/14/in-historic-first-californ...

The Republicans are looking at bringing back coal mining. You’re just completely incorrect in your classification of both parties being as bad on the environment unless your bucket is so broad as to be meaningless for use in comparing two organizations
by mlyle | 2025-08-15 04:58:29+00:00
I love the old HP app note linked: https://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/time_interval_measurements.p...

The fact that we have this discussed in the open, in such a transparent way, is great. HP was confident they could maintain their lead while talking about methodology and design. The marketing value of open communication to showcase their leadership (and to enable engineers using their products to learn to do similar things outside of the test space) was evident.
by the_af | 2025-08-15 04:58:40+00:00
That's a big if.

More importantly, Gabe is fundamentally right. I'm subscribed to most available streaming services in my country, and when I still cannot find what I want due to obscure reasons (e.g. region locked, or Disney decided to not make it available anywhere for who knows which reason), you can be pretty sure I'll be sailing the seas of the corsair.

It is a service problem.
by simianwords | 2025-08-15 04:59:22+00:00
>And now, everyone is working on the Starship. While its cool, its absolutely impractical. It would take 8 -20 launches to refuel it in orbit for an actual mission, and the engines are basically on the verge of blowing up when operating due to how precise the system has to be for that high of a pressure ratio.

When he does achieve it I imagine you will create a new post saying something like "he didn't achieved Starship because of the smart people working on it, but because he had the money to throw at test over and over again".
by rodneyg_ | 2025-08-15 04:59:52+00:00
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin, React Native, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, GCP, GraphQL, Postgres, Docker, Jenkins, Firebase, Objective-C, JavaScript

Résumé: https://www.rodneygainous.com/resume.pdf Email: rodney.gainous@gmail.com Website: https://www.rodneygainous.com

Summary: Ex-founder and founding principal engineer shipping products with 100k+ users and millions in funding. I bridge engineering and product to solve real problems. Hands-on technical leader with product sense and a track record of driving measurable business results.

Highlights: * Led engineering for SafeDose, an AI-powered dosing assistant using computer vision to eliminate syringe and vial measurement errors in clinical and home use.

* Built a public-key-encrypted Chrome extension protecting users from phishing.

* Founded Safe from Upfront Ventures’ residency, securing $1.5M seed.

* Shipped mobile features at Bird that supported rapid scaling from 3 cities to 100+ in under a year.

* Pushed OTA firmware upgrades to a 100k-scooter fleet with zero downtime.

* Reduced firmware update time from 6 min to 2 min via delta patching at Nima Labs.

* Built rider-experience modules at Bird touched by 3M+ trips per month.
by alisonatwork | 2025-08-15 05:00:08+00:00
Yeah I made the same decision learning Chinese. It's just not worth the extra time and effort relative to the utility.

Occasionally I still have to sign my name, so I specifically picked a name that a) was written the same in both simplified and traditional and b) had a low number of strokes. Like you, the only time this has bitten me is in hospitals and banks where occasionally they ask you to do stuff like write out your address. I sometimes exercise my dumb foreigner privilege and ask the clerk to help, but since addresses have a formal romanization method it's often fine to write that, and I've seen enough locals struggle I don't feel too bad about it.
by the_af | 2025-08-15 05:01:29+00:00
This is absolutely not true.

I pay an ungodly combined amount of money to various streaming services, but must still occasionally resort to TPB. Which "just works", unlike said streaming services.

Within reason, it's not a money problem (within reason; media conglomerates would love for me to sell my kidney in order to watch their premium shows, but that's not going to happen).I would rather just pay for the problem to go away, but Netflix, Disney et al just disagree.
by mrandish | 2025-08-15 05:01:51+00:00
Wow, that would be monumentally stupid. The usual "government business aid" of loans, tax breaks and incentives isn't nearly enough to solve Intel's real problems. Intel needs cold, hard cash injected over a sustained period. Certainly more than $25B, probably more than $50B and, over time, maybe $100B. The executive branch on its own doesn't have enough extra cash available to do anything close to that and the chances such an unprecedented bill would pass a narrowly divided congress are basically nil.

People tend to get confused thinking "but the government has all the money and if they need to, they'll just print more." But it doesn't really work like that - and there are consequences. The U.S. government is deeply in debt and getting deeper by the day. Finding (or creating) that much extra actual CASH, that's not currently in the budget will likely have pretty serious negative consequences on the rest of the economy like even worse inflation or downgraded U.S. debt (making the entire national debt more expensive to service).

But even worse, private investors and public markets think of government bailout money as "dumb money", so they value it far lower than "smart money" deciding to come in and shore up a company, which can double a distressed stock before the check even clears. A government bailout will only provide a small, temporary lift in the stock price along with relatively little increased investor and employee confidence. And any serious chunk of government cash would certainly come with governance strings likely to make Intel even less nimble (assuming that's even possible).
by femto113 | 2025-08-15 05:02:10+00:00
Unless you know all the terms the valuation is pretty meaningless. For example if I invest $500 for 1 share of your startup with an extra clause saying that I get the first $500 if you ever sell the company at any price then you could claim I valued you at $500 a share but since I make a profit if you sell the entire company for over $500 you could also I valued you at $0
by lucideer | 2025-08-15 05:02:33+00:00
Not specifically talking about multiband.

Normal compressors do effectively do gain adjustment - it's not really the same as a typical amp since their core function only reduces gain, then makeup is applied to the entirety to compensate - but yes the result is effectively gain adjustment.

As for doing it "without regard for the frequencies present", if you compress a mix with a base guitar & high vocals, the impact of the compression on the base will be different than on the higher notes. This is aside from (/in addition to?) attack & release applied on a per-track basis & more just about the natural effect of dynamics within frequency ranges.
by zdragnar | 2025-08-15 05:02:55+00:00
On the one hand, a lot of those are feature requests, not necessarily bugs. They also have more users, so they catch more edge case bugs like "Hebrew is rendered backwards" and so on.

On the other hand, PDF.js has been around for more than a decade. As it is a core component of Firefox, and viewing PDFs is an important part of name business applications, you'd think they'd have not nearly so many issues.

I know PostScript and PDFs are a nightmare, but no small part of me feels like this is yet another case of Mozilla underfunding development.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-15 05:04:23+00:00
> You can and should build more homes

Yes. The entry point to ownership lies within a state of affordability.

> but the end goal is to improve utility of land

For who? If it's anyone other than typical wage earners, this goal competes with home ownership by pressuring ownership costs upward and away from affordability.

For context, home purchases are mostly (if not fully) impossible for typical wage earners.
by the_af | 2025-08-15 05:05:39+00:00
Piracy is not theft.

We already had this debate decades ago, and your side of the debate lost. It's not "theft" by any reasonable interpretation of the word.

It may not be legal, and it may be many other things, but it's not theft.

As to why "people justify it", what's the point of even asking when the article and many comments here explain the reasons? You may disagree with the reasons, but they exist and they are coherent.
by MisterMower | 2025-08-15 05:05:59+00:00
In the video he shows actual footage of him observing ballot counts by hand. In the 2020 election several precincts in urban areas actively prevented observers from viewing the counting, in violation of state law.

During the hand count they discovered series of ballots that all were marked identically for the United Russia party. Hundreds of them. In the US, tens of thousands of ballots get run through tabulation machines and the result is accepted as accurate simply because the machine counted a known batch of ballots accurately. You can’t see patterns like this with electronic tabulation machines.

He also discusses voter turnout numbers in precincts that broke for Putin’s United Russia party being 80% or greater whereas most other precincts had turnout of 30-40%. He just as easily could have been describing some Detroit precincts that had 90%+ turnout in 2020.

He spends a lot of time discussing security features on ballot bags that reveal evidence they have been tampered with. He discusses chain of custody at length and describes how and when he suspects ballot bags were tampered with. In 2020, mail-in ballots were accepted without any evidence they were actually returned by the voter named on them.

This video is interesting because it describes a lot of the same issues that plagued the 2020 election but for some reason we all expect Russian elections to be rigged, but can’t conceive of ours being anything but squeaky clean.
by ColonelPhantom | 2025-08-15 05:06:08+00:00
But that just raises more questions; why would Cognition be better positioned for B2B? Wouldn't Cursor have an advantage as they already have a foothold in the B2C market? Expanding from there seems a lot easier than coming for B2B directly: Cursor already has mindshare among developers.

The B2B dominance of Microsoft Office can, after all, not exist without B2C Microsoft Office.
by fulafel | 2025-08-15 05:07:10+00:00
Thanks!

In the transcript I found more talk about porting C++ and Go to Rust, without Python rewrite references... still interesting tidbits, like

"when we've rewritten systems from go into rust we've found that it takes about the same size team about the same amount of time to build it that is there's no loss in productivity when moving from go to rust "
by plasticbugs | 2025-08-15 05:07:17+00:00
Not giveaways, but it was instead a "name your own price" discount that allowed you to pay as little as $1399 and as much as $9999 (your choice) for an OP-1. What's bizarre is throughout the month of July, the OP-1 Field was completely SOLD OUT. And it felt pretty galling to their customers they would have this "name your price" promotion continue into July with the same device as the previous month - most people expected them to switch up which item would get the discount. No one was able to purchase an OP-1 from July 1 - July 31 at any price on their site.
by carobbinschris | 2025-08-15 05:07:56+00:00
They acquired windsurf customers, that would be my immediate thought of real value they gained. I haven’t used Devin, so I can’t talk to much on their platform. Windsurf was great for new people that wanted more vs using online builders. Some people could draw a direct comparison as windsurf and cursor being neck and neck on comparison a few months ago, not so much today.
by siva7 | 2025-08-15 05:12:29+00:00
See, the "SaaS is dead" falls in a similar trope like "I can build facebook/uber/twitter/instagram/blabla in a weekend". They make this assumption because they usually lack experience. Sure you can, and soon you will learn what 80/20 means in software development and why most people prefer to rather pay for a known working product than to wrangle the 80/20 prompt after prompt.
by disillusioned | 2025-08-15 05:13:55+00:00
In my humble opinion, some "good content":

Netflix:

* Dark

* Fisk

* Adolescence

* Ripley

* The Queen's Gambit

* Ozark

* Baby Reindeer

* Easy

Apple TV:

* Black Bird

* The Studio

* Severance

* Shrinking

* Ted Lasso

HBO:

* The Wire

* Oz

* True Detective (S1 at least)

* The Sopranos

* Big Love

* Rome

* In Treatment

* Succession

* Deadwood

* Insecure

Misc:

* Colin From Accounts

* Black Sails

* Mad Men

* Breaking Bad

* Better Call Saul

I don't know, there's plenty. It just absolutely gets washed out with a lot of chaff.
by sevg | 2025-08-15 05:15:39+00:00
> Kovid was able to quickly implement

Is this new account actually Kovid?

Context: “aumerle” had posted only about Kitty for years as though impartial. And talked about Kovid as if they were a different person. Turns out “aumerle” is Kovid and got banned. He was trash-talking ghostty and advertising Kitty in every ghostty thread. (He does the same using “aumerlex” on reddit, but nobody has called him out on there yet.)

I’m suspicious here because Kovid spent hours trying to force me to admit that he writes code faster than Mitchell XD https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567224 (you’ll need “showdead” enabled, all of Kovid’s comments got flagged to death).