MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by b112 | 2025-08-06 11:19:44+00:00
Yes just 150+ years ago most field work was done by hand, including moving rocks from fields, plowing with an animal (and a lot of human strength too). Just clearing new roads was mostly manual work.

(Sure, you could blow up things, but then you still had to clear the bits and level the road. Yes horses existed, but mostly it was just people.)

Every activity took more physical effort, everything was maintained manually. Even if you were a bookkeeper, it was all hand written, and any math was with a slide rule or on paper, or in your head. It takes more calories to move a slide rule than work a calculator, more to write than type.

And all the while, the muscles of the arm, and the upper body are being used as you press against that paper. Moving over a page meant arm and shoulder and back and more got a bit of workout. Every little bit added up.

Now we often type without moving our upper arms or shoulders. Without a change in back or upper torso movement.

It takes more calories to read than just sit still, more calories to think deeply than not.

Even going to the bathroom meant putting on boots and coat, and walking to the outhouse.

We're immensely lazy today as a peoples.
by prinny_ | 2025-08-06 11:19:53+00:00
I don’t get the comparison to building a house. Houses have a ton of maintenance. You can’t build a house on steady ground and leave it unattended for 20 years either. And sometimes what you need to do is not even construction type of maintenance, it’s bills, legal paperwork, replacing old furnitures just because you grew tired of that 15 year old sofa etc.
by ArcHound | 2025-08-06 11:21:06+00:00
And that's exactly what these companies can abuse.

If this wasn't available for free, they would gladly pay for a programmer to create it. But if it's already free, they can use it as a starting point. Maybe they'd need to internalize/extend it. But the option of paying for the work already done is gone.

Do this for each npm dependency and you're looking at huge savings.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-06 11:23:20+00:00
This is exactly what I am talking about. All these excuses, especially about vanity, are masking behaviors.

DOM access is not quite as fast now as it was 10 years ago. In Firefox I was getting just under a billion operations per second when perf testing on hardware with slow DDR3 memory. People with more modern hardware were getting closer to 5 billion ops/second. That isn’t slow.

Chrome has always been much slower. Back then I was getting closer to a max of 50 million ops/second perf testing the DOM. Now Chrome is about half that fast, but their string interpolation of query strings is about 10x faster.

The only real performance problem is the JS developer doing stupid shit.
by shusaku | 2025-08-06 11:23:47+00:00
“Frontiers” journals are crap, so it’s no surprise. But I don’t understand why editors let this happen. It’s similar to academic fraud: if you lie about results nobody cares about, you’ll never get caught; if you lie about big things, suddenly the hammer comes down. And for what benefit? It’s not like they walked away with a payday from splitting the open access fee. There’s nothing wrong with desk rejecting an author by saying “if your result is true, publish it somewhere better”
by everfrustrated | 2025-08-06 11:24:40+00:00
I find this hard to believe. Wegovy is authorised for sale in the EU for weight loss (IE not Ozempic which is for diabetes. Yes I know it's the same drug). If you can't find someone to prescribe it, that's on you. Find a better doctor or pharmacist. In all seriousness, please do - obesity is no joke and taking ownership of this by at the very least finding a doctor who will support you might be one of the most important and life changing decisions you make.
by Roark66 | 2025-08-06 11:24:40+00:00
People like myself that firmly believe there will come a time, possibly very soon that all these companies (OpenAI, Anthropic etc) will raise their prices substantially. By then no one will be able to do their work to the standard expected of them without AI, and by then maybe they charge $1k per month, maybe they charge $10k. If there is no viable alternative the sky is the limit.

Why do you think they continue to run at a loss? From the goodness of their heart? Their biggest goal is to discourage anyobe from running local models. The hardware is expensive... The way to run models is very difficult (for example I have dual rtx 3090 for vram and running large heavily quantized models is a real pain in the arse, no high quantisation library supports two GPUs for example, and there seems to be no interest in implementating it by the guys behind the best inference tools).

So this is welcome, but let's not forget why it is being done.
by Fluorescence | 2025-08-06 11:25:14+00:00
I tried it a few months ago to narrate an epub in Apple Books and it was very broken in a weird way. It starts out decent but after a few pages, it starts slurring, skipping words, trailing off not finishing sentences and then goes silent.

(I've just tried it again without seeing that issue within a few pages)

> Siri voice or some older voices

You can choose "Enhanced" and "Premium" versions of voices which are larger and sound nice and modern to me. The "Serena Premium" voice I was using is over 200Mb and far better that this Show HN. It's very natural but kind of ruined by diabolical pronunciation of anything slightly non-standard which sadly seems to cover everything I read e.g. people/place names, technical/scientific terms or any neologisms in scifi/fantasy.

It's so wildly incomprehensible for e.g. Tibetan names in a mountaineering book, that you have to check the text. If the word being butchered is frequently repeated e.g. main character’s name, then it's just too painful to use.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-08-06 11:25:40+00:00
I work at an e-waste recycling company. We're so small that we don't even have a Windows domain, and our certifications and lack of Windows licensing mean that we can't sell anything with Windows. (Fine by me, I've recently had a dislike of Windows.) Because of that, this is the first job I've had where I have the option of using Linux as a main driver. In fact, I have a mini desktop and a Microsoft Surface (of all things) that I run Linux on.

Edit: might as well plug the merch: https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling
by ben_w | 2025-08-06 11:25:54+00:00
> If people can't be arsed doing that and we give easy shortcuts for everything in life, what's the point in being alive?

Embrace the shortcuts. Life's too short not to.

What's that Plato quote about writing?

If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing.

And yet, here were are, conversing at all only because of writing.
by brunohaid | 2025-08-06 11:28:22+00:00
Even in the year 2025 of the great enshittocene, if you put something on the internet, it should be possible for people to consume it the way they want. Including the very simple question: what‘s new since I last checked?

This example is for plant/fungi/biodiversity nerds, but maybe also a template for others to build more bridges in and out of algorithmic monopoly silos. To, y‘know, make the world more open and connected.
Show HN: AutoForm – The AI data entry agent – stop copy-pasting
by zfeuers1 | 2025-08-06 11:29:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve built and sold startups in healthcare, edtech, and supply chain — and across all of them, the same problem kept coming up:

People wasting hours pulling messy data out of PDFs, spreadsheets, websites, emails, and even videos… just to clean it up and re-enter it into CRMs, ERPs, or web forms.

Most tools in this space are built for enterprise teams or a specific vertical — they assume fixed formats, API integrations, and engineering support.

AutoForm isn’t that.

It’s an AI data entry agent built for real-world chaos and individual users:

Extracts from unstructured sources (PDFs, spreadsheets, sites, video)

Lets you tag, clean, and reformat data using plain language

Auto-fills online forms, pushes to your existing apps, or outputs to CSV/Excel

No APIs. No templates. No setup. Just drop in messy inputs and get back usable output — even if every file looks different.

We’re opening up a waitlist now and would love feedback from the HN crowd:

What’s the worst data wrangling loop you’ve had to build?

Where have existing tools broken for you?

What kinds of sources or output targets do you deal with?

Happy to answer anything technical or edge-case-related in the comments.
by aysenurkpln1734 | 2025-08-06 11:29:34+00:00
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by Waterluvian | 2025-08-06 11:30:03+00:00
I’m looking at the pricing tiers and I think it’s fine. But what would probably make me adopt it instantly is if I could set a max tier and it would just ramp up the tier each month if I hit it. Ie. I set it to Professional and at 101 searches I’m upgraded to Starter and then at 301 upgraded to Professional. If I forget about it or stop using it or use it far less, I’m not just shoveling money into yet another subscription I have to manage.

This is because I don’t have consistent usage habits, and the price isn’t stopping me, the psychology of a monthly subscription I don’t use is.
by allanmacgregor | 2025-08-06 11:30:04+00:00
I'm skeptical of the 10x claims for different reasons than the author focuses on. The productivity gains might be real for individual tasks, but they're being measured wrong.

Most of the AI productivity stories I hear sound like they're optimizing for the wrong metric. Writing code faster doesn't necessarily mean shipping better products faster. In my experience, the bottleneck is rarely "how quickly can we type characters into an editor" - it's usually clarity around requirements, decision-making overhead, or technical debt from the last time someone optimized for speed over maintainability.

The author mentions that real 10x engineers prevent unnecessary work rather than just code faster. That rings true to me. I've seen more productivity gains from saying "no" to features or talking teams out of premature microservices(or adopting Kafka :D) than from any coding tool.

What worries me more is the team dynamic this creates. When half your engineers feel like they're supposed to be 10x more productive and aren't, that's a morale problem that compounds. The engineers who are getting solid 20-30% gains from AI (which seems realistic) start questioning if they're doing it wrong.

Has anyone actually measured this stuff properly in a production environment with consistent teams over 6+ months? Most of the data I see is either anecdotal or from artificial coding challenges.
by simion314 | 2025-08-06 11:30:43+00:00
>And yes, people being able to use your code for whatever they want is absolutely more open than having restrictions on how/who gets to use it.

Yes, this is why people should use free not open , and GPL is more free when you report to the entire community otherwise you are in the famous case from a story where an USAian was claiming "Amerika is the land of the free, we are free to own slaves"
by conartist6 | 2025-08-06 11:31:06+00:00
Well we'll keep scaling to meet the "demand".

Teachers are demanding not to do the work that is teaching. Lawyers are demanding not to do the work of lawyering. Engineers don't want to do coding and leaders don't want to steer the ship anymore unless it's towards AI.

Alllll the "value" is bullshit. Either AGI arrives and all jobs are over and it's eternal orgy time, or at some point the lazy ai-using losers will get fired and everyone else will go back to doing work like usual
by jltsiren | 2025-08-06 11:33:00+00:00
That sounds expensive and difficult. Science is not a single field with a single set of practices. Regulating it is more like trying to draft a single set of regulations for finance, agriculture, pharma, and software.

You can get a glimpse of that when applying for grants or publishing in more prestigious journals. There are often endless checklists and questions about regulatory and ethical compliance, data availability, reproducibility, and whatever else. And more often than not, many of the questions are category errors or otherwise make no sense in the context of your work. Even the people who are supposed to regulate science lack the ability to do so in a way applicable to the entire breadth of science.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-08-06 11:33:10+00:00
> CSS is at least two different things mashed together: a system for styling rich text based on inheritance... and a layout system for block and inline elements, nested recursively but without inheritance, only containment. They use the same syntax and APIs, but don't really cascade the same way. Combining this under one style-umbrella was a mistake.

This might in fact be a valuable insight, I never thought of it.
by orbital-decay | 2025-08-06 11:33:55+00:00
They used quantization-aware training, so the quality loss should be negligible. Doing anything with this model's weights would be a different story, though.

The model is clearly heavily finetuned towards coding and math, and is borderline unusable for creative writing and translation in particular. It's not general-purpose, excessively filtered (refusal training and dataset lobotomy is probably a major factor behind lower than expected performance), and shouldn't be compared with Qwen or o3 at all.
by keyKeeper | 2025-08-06 11:33:56+00:00
Tell me you don't know how to use LLMs properly without telling me.

You don't give the whole codebase to an LLM and expect it to have one shot output. Instead, you break it down and and write the code block by block. Then the size if the codebase doesn't matter. You use the LLM as a tool, it is not supposed to replace you. You don't try to become George from Jetsons who is just pressing a button and doesn't touch anything, instead you are on top of it as the LLM does the coding. You test the code on every step to see if the implementation behaves as expected. Do enough of this and you have proper, full "bespoke" software.
by Urahandystar | 2025-08-06 11:34:43+00:00
Surely you must see it's more nuanced than that? The old regime worked to say that if you kept your money abroad then we wouldn't tax it but we would tax it any money you generated in country. These people were often on high wages meaning we would still get some income from them but not money that we had nothing to do with.

It would probably have been a better idea to require periodic investments into UK businesses to increase the tax take rather than scrap it altogether. Thats said the UK requires a wider culture shift when it comes to money so it wouldn't have made much of a difference.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-06 11:34:45+00:00
In the long run I fear it does not matter.

The fossil fuel "won" by prioritizing profits over the environment. IMO, the world is heading straight to +3C and no way to stop it.

We could probably prevent 3.5C, but by then the world will probably be in a massive "war" footing due the 1 billion+ people migration north. Assuming civilization did not collapse.
by tosh | 2025-08-06 11:36:07+00:00
Reminds me of how facebook used to render html snippets on the backend and the frontend would just fetch that and update the DOM.

When you say it can replace htmx (which I’m using at the moment):

Isn’t this similar to htmx?

Like if I’m already using htmx, do I see benefits from switching?

Please correct me, but I’d rather frame HMPL, htmx and Alpine.js in the same camp?

So they are direct competitors and different flavors for the lightweight frontend approach.

But the main proposal of HMPL et al is to make people re-think if they need a huge and complex heavy frontend approach or if/when they should go for something lighter.
by aitchnyu | 2025-08-06 11:36:42+00:00
Amul in India has "milk" (unspecified cow and buffalo milk ratio) Mozz as well as buffalo, which is marketed as more premium. Didnt know the Italians set the precedent. IME both are untangy.

Their copy: "The cheese is made out of pure buffalo milk, which makes the melted cheese creamier and whiter in appearance.When heated the product develops stretching property and melts uniformly on the food surface."
by b112 | 2025-08-06 11:36:48+00:00
Just look at people with cancer. Many simply cannot eat. At all. They just cannot do it. It's not depression, loads of other diseases and conditions are depressing, yet people can still eat.

And while the person is clearly sick, every loved one tries to help by hoping to find food they can eat. Yet it just doesn't work. I've personally seen feeding tubes put in, to help in this regard.

There's some mechanism involved, and I've often wondered if the body knows food will also feed the tumor and is attempting to starve it. Regardless, the 'switch' is there.
by sjw987 | 2025-08-06 11:37:07+00:00
There's a time and place for shortcuts. Health and fitness shortcuts hold more to lose than they do to gain.

Sometimes the long way is better long term. A healthy attitude towards eating and fitness can, and usually does, elevate your life experience many times over. Taking a shortcut in these erases any personal development and learning experience you could get from finding a sport you love, changing your views on food.

A diatribe about Plato doesn't make the universal argument for taking shortcuts. Do you want the people building your home and infrastructure making shortcuts? Do you want doctors in training to shortcut their studies? Why work out and train longer when you can just take anabolic steroids? Why read (or watch films) if you can just skim the summaries on Wikipedia?
by rcxdude | 2025-08-06 11:37:46+00:00
There's a bit of that sometimes (and I think the general safety protocols in the submersable rating standards they ignored were kinda like that, though it wasn't impossible, it was just "If you're doing something nonstandard, you need to test the shit out of it", which involved needing to build multiple full-scale prototypes to do long and destructive tests on, which is hella expensive but also realistically the kind of thing I'd really like to see for something I'm going to put between me and the depths of the ocean). These rules were for the most part written by experts who knew what kinds of things can go wrong and how to build as much confidence in a new design as possible.

But on the other hand, you also get people making such rules who really don't know their stuff, and who have a reflexive tendancy to add rules 'just in case', without allowing for judgement or thought in the process. Because they don't know what's going on, they often produce rulesets that are both overconstraining and insufficient, sometimes in ways that are counterproductive to their goals. Areas where I've seen this: Medical device regulation (I've seen how the sausage is made, and it's shockingly easy to get absolute crap approved but a good design can get caught up in endless headaches by box-ticking), IT security processes (endless checklists of 'best practices', very little sensible risk assessment, threat modeling, or red-teaming, huge incentives for people to workaround the system as intended, creating more security holes). UL safety regs entered a bit of a spiral of this at one point as well: they started just playing whack-a-mole with rules and wound up with something that was really difficult to implement but didn't really improve safety. EU standards actually tend to be pretty sensible in this regard (at least outside medical areas). Company health and safety can easily fall into this trap as well, if run incompetently.
by diegocg | 2025-08-06 11:38:08+00:00
Yep, for me it confirms all the reasons why I think python is slow and not a good language for anything that goes beyond a script. I work with it everyday, and I have learned that I can't even trust tooling such as mypy because it's full of corner cases - turns out that not having a clear type design in a language is not something that can be fundamentally fixed by external tools. Tests are the only thing that can make me trust code written in this language
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-06 11:38:19+00:00
> The problem in Europe is that they've placed too much faith in supply chain diversification and almost completely abandoned independent capabilities.

Dubious.

The question could be asked if you narrow the topic to IT services but even then it's unclear. Cloud key components are there, same for telecom. There is a gap when it comes to productivity software but the need is unclear for me. You could easily switch from Microsoft to Zoho or WPS if trully required. It's not like there is anything critical here. Most core business processes are structure around the ERP where SAP, the European offering, is king and Odoo is a solid European competitor.

AI, you have key components open sourced due to the international competition and the small European ecosystem ensures some talents are there at company like Mistral. Search is the only sector where Europe has nothing and the alternative to the US (Yandex, Baidu) would be dubious.

I know it doesn't fit HN prefered narrative but the European situation is honestly not that bad. Actually, hitting the American service industry hard in retaliation to the tariff would probably have been the best thing Europe ever did. Really a shame Germany is spineless.
by nkmnz | 2025-08-06 11:38:28+00:00
Reducing the reproductive fitness of each individual after a certain life time might even increase the reproductive fitness of the species (or tribe) as a whole, because it might reduce competition between generations and foster cooperative behavior: if parents and their children compete for the same resources – from sexual partners to food needed to raise a new generation – you'd never develop the cultural norms of life long mutual support across multiple generations.