MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wiether | 2025-08-14 06:37:04+00:00
For those big corps, the large sum of money is mostly hiring consultants to fill the paperwork needed to pass the certification

But what I see here in France is mostly young companies getting certified as a proof of them being built better than the big ones that they are competing with

For instance, most of the new IT consultancoies are B Corp certified and promote it a lot, even though they work for the same customers as the big old ones

So now there are companies that are getting rid of their B Corp cert because they say it lost its meaning and being BCC is getting more and more a sign of being a bad company doing virtue signaling

Overall I think that business certifications can't work above a certain scale, because then they become just a hoop that needs to be addressed and not an actual engagement leading every business decisions.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-08-14 06:37:28+00:00
This is one of the best insights after reading 100+ posts here. You are talking about existing demand and existing relationships from their advert business. These customers are happy with Google results. The Google marketing team will be carefully defining new advert products that employ LLMs.

I would only offer one disagreement with your post: There will not be a single winner in LLMs. The landscape is so large that we will have multiple winners in different areas. Example: Google might fail in B2C LLM (chatbot that answers your questions), but will certainly be (wildly?) successful in B2B for adverts.
by irjustin | 2025-08-14 06:38:28+00:00
> Stack Overflow usage is in absolute free-fall.

I'm actually sad by this because it was such a place that was so foundational my development as an engineer. I visited it once in last month or so, when I had an AWS Lambda - Playwright issue that need specific settings to solve the problem but Claude, Gemini gave me a mash of the answers. I'm not complaining, but I "grew up" with Stack.

Our space no longer looks like a pyramid, I liken it to diamond-ish. New grads will simply not be able to find jobs[0] and I'm worried for anyone entering the E in STEAM (can't speak for others).

It's happening now and we're only at the tip of the iceberg. I have 2 young children and am uncertain about how to help them navigate the future.

The sword of efficiency doesn't care about my children. I mean that's my whole job right? to help people become efficient? It's just the speed and scale is insane.

More questions than answers...

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-14 06:39:42+00:00
>Who else would do something requiring so much work for so little reward but those who fundamentally think they aren't worth much, it's what unites us.

This seems like the most dystopian statement given that writers are taking pride in the unity / fact that they are under rewarded / basically exploited by the system and you are taking this exploitation as a sense of unity?

I understand that you didn't mean any harm with the statement but I feel like this statement is true and it just shows what a bloody dystopian nightmare we live in man.

Exploitation has become the norm.
by com2kid | 2025-08-14 06:40:12+00:00
Labor chargers alone are going to be higher than that in Seattle. Just to have someone come out on a call is going to be 150-200. If it is an independent electrician who owns their own business, maybe 100-150/hr, if they are part of a larger company, I'd expect even more than that.

Honestly I wouldn't expect to pay less than $1000 for the job w/o any markups.
by wojciii | 2025-08-14 06:40:30+00:00
True.

I got annoyed because Ikea has their app with all this info and all it takes is for someone to link it with their systems - they already do when you buy stuff there.

But the use case is quite common in physical shops when ordering something that you are going to pay for when it becomes available.

Same procedure when returning something to the shop. You have to give your personal info and this is what takes 1/3 of the time used by the employees.

I guess I thought that a protocol (wireless or not) to give your entrypted info for the shop to use when alllowed to would be an improvement..
by kolinko | 2025-08-14 06:40:40+00:00
With most tech we reach law of diminishing returns. That is sure, there is still a variation, but very little:

- the best laptop/phone/tv in the world doesn’t offer mich more than the most affordable

- you can get for free a pen novadays that is almost as good at writing as the most expensive pens in the world (before BIC, in 1920s, pens were a luxury good reserved for wall street)

- toilets, washing mashines, heating systems and beds in the poorest homes are not very far off from the expensive homes (in EU at least)

- flying/travel is similar

- computer games and entertainment, and software in general

The more we remove human work from the loop, the more democratised and scalable the technology becomes.
by usr1106 | 2025-08-14 06:41:11+00:00
Visited one of the biggest computer, electronics, and household appliance shop in the country (in Europe) last week. Was surprised that they actually had chemical films on the shelf. Not a big variety, and only limited numbers. Only one brand: Kodak.

Myself I shot slides from 1977 to 2001. Was not a big fan of Kodakchrome colors, preferred Fujichrome. And they were also cheaper, relevant for a student budget. After working with one of the first camera phones I have not bought any roll of film, even if in hindsight 100 KB VGA pictures were somewhat limiting... Now I mostly avoid taking photos because I won't have enough time in my life to keep them organized and watch them...
by perihelions | 2025-08-14 06:41:41+00:00
That was the original type of communication satellite—the passive metal balloon,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Echo ("Project Echo" (1960-69))

(Here's a historic irony: the field of radio astronomy was founded by people doing this stuff. The cosmic microwave background was discovered, by accident, with an RF horn built for this satellite relay experiment).

(Here's another weird one:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford ("Project West Ford" (1961-63)) ("The goal of the project was to place a ring of 480,000,000 copper dipole antennas in orbit to facilitate global radio communication")
by cloudbonsai | 2025-08-14 06:42:33+00:00
> I'd love to be corrected if I'm misreading this, but the reports of Kodak's death seem greatly exaggerated

The basic background here is that Kodak has been pivotting at least for last 40 years.

- 1980s: Kodak tried to become a Chemical magnate. This strategy was abandoned in 1990s.

- 1990s: Kodak tried to become a Digital Imaging company. While it saw a brief success, Kodak lost the competition.

- 2000s: Kodak tried to become an Inkjet Printer company, which was doomed and eventually pushed it into bankruptcy.

- 2010s: Kodak tried to become a Blockchain company, issuing KodakCoin. It was a flop.

- 2020s: Kodak tried to become a Pharmaceutical company amid Covid-19 pandemic.

As of today, Kodak is focusing on its chemical business (such as manifacturing KODALUX, a fabric coating material) and borrowed $477M (at 12% p.a.) in order to expand that business line.

That loan is due in 2026. Kodak is basically saying "I have no idea how to repay that money. In fact, I only have $155M in cash. Maybe it's time to talk with the creditors?".
by pjmlp | 2025-08-14 06:42:49+00:00
Yeah, except it exists since 2015, and while it is great that macOS is getting them, which I am perfectly aware of, it isn't what I meant as "Sadly it is still years away on ARM and x86, Linux and BSD systems.", because it isn't neither a Linux system, nor a regular BSD.

Apple OSes don't count for the BSD group I was talking about, because they only took whatever NeXT felt like back at the time, and there have been very few updates other than those required for UNIX certification.

While on Linux, you might be tempted to point out Android, however NDK alone hardly makes it a GNU/Linux system.
by kombine | 2025-08-14 06:42:51+00:00
I was taking an intercity coach to Glasgow recently and a teenage kid was on his phone browsing social media without headphones. I made a comment that he should use headphones or turn the volume off. He got defensive and angry. I did not to escalate, and put my earplugs on.

I do believe certain parcels of the society need to be restrained.
by low_tech_love | 2025-08-14 06:43:46+00:00
“I have hopes for a utopian future where AI does everything better than humans, which allows us to spend our time poorly doing the things we are most excited about.”

This thought is quite common and widespread, I’ve heard it multiple times, and it always baffles me. The very idea that human beings would stop exploiting each other and just live a peaceful, content life with their AI helpers is so hopelessly distant from the way I understand the world. I wish I was wrong, but human beings don’t exploit each other because we need to, as if it was an unfortunate thing; we exploit each other because we want and because we can. Even if AI robots solved most of our problems, we will never simply accept that and let others live in peace. Some human beings will always look for opportunities to rise above others, as long as they somehow can. I’d go even further as to say that, in case a future like that became actually feasible and predictable, lots of people currently in positions of power would fight very hard to keep that from happening.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-14 06:44:43+00:00
> A lot of shops, restaurants, and other establishments have stopped accepting cash, even if it's illegal to do so (legal tender etc).

No. This is a misunderstanding of legal tender.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

"There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise."

Legal tender only applies to debts. When you go to buy a t-shirt at Target or a burger at McDonalds, you don't owe a debt, and they aren't a creditor.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-14 06:45:04+00:00
But we know from comparative study of representative democracy that it does work, and it doesn't have to be "misrepresenting", and the reason certain representative democracies do a bad job of representation boils down to features o their electoral structures that produce results that are both poorly representative in the immediate term, and which also narrow the space of ideas and debate in the longer term.

> There isn't a one size fits all party.

Seems to be a non-sequitur, there isn't a one-size fits all policy, either.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-14 06:45:19+00:00
Frankly, it’s weird. You can find this business model all over the open-source world but for some reason Astral in particular is singled out for way more criticism on this than anything else I’ve seen, despite being unambiguously great contributors who have never put a foot wrong as far as I can tell.

Microsoft – who invented embrace, extend, and extinguish – own NPM, but I don’t see people wringing their hands over them in every thread that mentions NPM. But you mention Astral here or on Reddit and people line up to tell you it’s only a matter of time before they fuck people over. Why the disparity?
by TomWhitwell | 2025-08-14 06:46:20+00:00
Harold Cohen was a British painter in the ‘60s who ended up in the Stanford AI lab in 1971, using plotters (and initially turtle robots) to draw images created by a chunk of code he called AARON. There are some bits of that code - particularly the ‘freehand line algorithm’ and its collision detection allowing lines to meet without crossing - that I can’t really understand how they worked on such primitive hardware & software: https://www.katevassgalerie.com/blog/harold-cohen-aaron-comp...
by uecker | 2025-08-14 06:46:47+00:00
Virtual machines do not change memory behind your back without your permission.. The issue with jemalloc is very specific problem with a specific Linux API, i.e. MADV_FREE that has the problematic behavior, i.e. it reallocates pages when written-to but not already when accessed. When using this API, jemalloc is not conforming implementation of malloc. We can not weaken semantics of language semantics everytime someone implements something broken. Why MADV_FREE behaves like this is unclear to me, it was criticized the moment it was introduced into the kernel. But the main problem is using it for a memory allocator in C.
by rhdunn | 2025-08-14 06:46:52+00:00
You only need the ASR bits -- this is where I got to when I previously looked into running Parakeet:

# NeMo does not run on 3.13+ python3.12 -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo.git nemo cd nemo pip install torch torchaudio torchvision --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128 pip install .[asr] deactivate

Then run a transcribe.py script in that venv:

import os import sys import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr model_path = sys.argv[1] audio_path = sys.argv[2] # Load from a local path... asr_model = nemo_asr.models.EncDecRNNTBPEModel.restore_from(restore_path=model_path) # Or download from huggingface ('org/model')... asr_model = nemo_asr.models.EncDecRNNTBPEModel.from_pretrained(model_name=model_path) output = asr_moel.transcribe([audio_path]) print(output[0])

With that I was able to run the model, but I ran out of memory on my lower-spec laptop. I haven't yet got around to running it on my workstation.

You'll need to modify the python script to process the response and output it in a format you can use.
by nima999 | 2025-08-14 06:49:57+00:00
I totally disagree with “We proposed merchants "split the difference" in fee savings with their customer, giving customers ~1% in at-checkout "cashback". But this is just a worse version of credit card rewards.”

As a shopper, if I know that a SMB is saving 1% or even 2% on merchant fees, I would gladly choose that option, even if I miss out on rewards for that purchase.
by 11mariom | 2025-08-14 06:50:16+00:00
^ this.

"Open Banking" is just… not open at all. Misleading name.

Had similar idea - just to pull my own data, tag transactions, etc etc, and have a nice stats. Nope, it is so "open" that it's just impossible to pass for single-user idea. "Open Banking" just gives me opportunity to show in my Bank A part of data from Bank B.
by elliotto | 2025-08-14 06:51:52+00:00
I've found the opposite of this to be the case. I've spent some time recently debugging a chatbot - when it goes astray I say 'what part of your system prompt made you do that' and it responds with the line that drove this decision. Then I clarify my intent and ask for better phrasing, and fix it. This usually works.

This also often works with tool use and tool cause - just ask it what part of its prompt told it to do something and it can usually point there.

If you ask it why it thought something a priori was wrong, then the bot can't answer it, and neither can I. If you ask me to clarify why I wrote some code I can walk you through the steps I got there. But if you ask me to clarify why I believed a function exists, that upon runtime I learned doesn't actually exist, I can't provide justification there.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-14 06:52:44+00:00
>public and private holdings of its European allies + Japan to be part of an American sovereign wealth fund

That's like striking a deal with a mr.Beast and consider the public and private holdings of YouTube part of your own net worth.

I mean I would love EU to be in such a position to be able to do such deals even if I don't support such a deal but that's not the case. Maybe Poland can send money I don't know but in Europe overall there's no other consolidated pro-USA power.

Maybe Bessent talks to provoke a reaction or induce something in their electoral base?
by somenameforme | 2025-08-14 06:52:50+00:00
And I think what he is saying is that a person should be judged by their actions, and consequences, rather than their rhetoric. This is even more true in modern times when people generally have no clue what people who they don't like are actually saying. Because they are listening to media that also generally don't like the same people and who will regularly take things out of context, disingenuously interpret them, or even just plain lie. And since we're talking about people that are disliked by somebody, they'll never know any better - because it's not like they're ever going to actually go seek out what the person said; they want their biases confirmed.

This issue is most embodied by the various little social experiments on YouTube where people will ask college students what think about action [x], [y], and [z] that they invariably agree with, then they're told it was done by a politician they don't like, and you can see, in real time, the cognitive dissonance kick in where they suddenly try to figure out why they don't "actually" like these actions. Or vice versa for disliked actions by a politician they do like. This, more than anything, sums up the divides in America today.
by mavamaarten | 2025-08-14 06:53:40+00:00
The problem for me: a non-python developer, is that I just don't know what to do, ever, to run an existing script or program.

It seems every project out there uses a different package manager, a different version of python, a different config file to set all of that up.

Most of the time, I just have a random .py file somewhere. Sometimes it's a full project that I can look at and find out what package manager it's using. Sometimes it has instructions, most of the time not. _That's_ the situation I struggle with.

Do I just run ./script.py? python script.py? python3 script.py? python3.12 script.py? When inevitably I miss some dependencies, do I just pip install? python pip install? pipx install?

As a developer I'm sure that you just set it up and forget about it. And once things work, they probably keep working for you. But man, it really reflects negatively upon Python itself for me. I don't hate the language, but I sure hate the experience.
Show HN: Actionable AI for Founders: Turning Ideas into Shippable Plans
by macraft | 2025-08-14 06:53:59+00:00
Hello HN,

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by heavensteeth | 2025-08-14 06:54:08+00:00
> even if cash is legal tender and they, by law, _have_ to accept cash

this is not true as it is not what "legal tender" means. Legal tender is something that the government must accept as payment, not private enterprise.

> Businesses don’t have to accept cash.[0]

> There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services.[1]

[0]: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic...

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
by srhtftw | 2025-08-14 06:54:41+00:00
As for me I've seen LLM based AI produce bland summaries¹ for a few years. Occasionally they generate something funny². But they cannot yet write anything I would spend my time or money to read.

> I'm still needed here, annoyingly.

Indeed you are. Indeed you are.

¹- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34647947

²- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168595
by mrweasel | 2025-08-14 06:55:03+00:00
In older houses, made from brick and concrete, that can be tricky to do. The only reason I can have my computer on a separate circuit is because we could repurpose the old three phase wiring for a sauna we ripped out. If that had not been the case, getting the wires to the fuse board would have been tricky at best.

New homes are probably worse than old homes through. The wires a just chucked in the space been the outer and inner walls, there's basically no chance of replacing them of pulling new ones. Old houses at least frequently have piping in which the wires run.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-14 06:55:42+00:00
Yes, because Ant exists since 2000, Maven exists since 2004, and MSBuild since 2003.

Before it was a common procedure to have central package management, we used to store libraries (jars and dlls), on source control directly in some libs folder.

Afterwards, even with central package management, enterprise software when done right, is not calling the Internet in every build, rahter there are internal repositories that are curated by legal and IT, and only those packages are allowed to be used in projects.

So the tooling is naturally around after 20+ years, no one is doing YOLO project management when playing with customer's money.

As for the "...latest version of the SDKs..", that is moving the goal posts, there is no mention of it on,

> Go is the only language where I've come back to a nontrivial source code after 10 years of letting it sit and have had zero problems building and running. That alone, for me, more than makes up for its idiosyncrasies.
by nicbou | 2025-08-14 06:55:42+00:00
People didn't get paid, but they got rewarded in other ways: attribution, gratitude, community. If I tell an immigrant what I do, there's a pretty good chance that their face will light up because they've used my website. It makes me giddy with pride.

I don't think most people will bother writing anything without an audience, nor will they carefully choose their words if they're fed into a machine.

Yes, the internet had ads, but it had scores of excellent free content, a lot of it crafted with love. God forbid some people find a way to live from making free useful things.