MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-21 12:53:50+00:00
I think you're on the right track there. Stock markets used to be a place for developers of Things (initially, railways) to acquire money for investments too large and/or too risky for a single bank, for companies to acquire money for growth, and for farmers / their customers to get reasonable pricing for their goods.

The problem is, once the gold standard fell and the rise of fiat money began, the financial markets became self-serving, with hordes of middlemen extracting the tiniest amounts of profits along the path, speculative trading driving up food prices, and people's care in old age no longer backed by the government in the form of a "societal contract" but by, essentially, betting on the economy ever growing and growing.

The gamble went on decent for a few decades, partially powered by ruthless exploitation of natural resources, but in the end the fundamental and long ignored issue of infinite growth being impossible (as anyone who ever played Paperclip should know) is now coming home to roost. The domestic resources of many countries are effectively exhausted (coal, gas and oil in Western Europe), leading to unhealthy dependencies on those countries that still do have these resources, and the consumer markets are either already saturated with cheap foreign-made goods or simply don't have enough money any more because rents are extracting too much money out of the people.
by xeviousr | 2025-08-21 12:54:00+00:00
We could benefit from a site that describes the best OS for any hardware and has scripts and instructions for how to mod them to be more efficient and up-to-date, with someone assigned to maintaining patches and tools for basic functionality you might need, but also having standalone, airgapped versions of each for longevity.

Right now, this info is dispersed everywhere and it’s not the primary intent of archival sites to provide this.
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-21 12:54:04+00:00
A few years back I decided to finally learn correct cursive so I was able to sign my name to documents correctly. When I discovered there were multiple types of cursive, I landed on Kurrent (the predecessor of Sütterlin) and now frequently sign my name with it to the general dissatisfaction of everyone in my life.

I'm sure there's some sort of point I'm making about the absurdity of a signature being used to verify anything (when the nice old lady volunteering at the polling station makes me sign again because it doesn't quite look like my signature even though I have photo ID and have arrived in person at the correct polling location I want to do a backflip, but I of course don't because I want to be nice to the old lady), but mostly it just makes me smile.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-08-21 12:54:08+00:00
It is not that the markets are tricky. Predicting what the Fed will do with interest rates is tricky. By lowering rates they feed more money into the market. Take a look at the last 15 years and you will realize the only thing that gave us a minor recession was COVID, adn that was becasue intrest rates were zero.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

But they can't do this for much longer, inflation is the first sign, which is why Trump is raising tariffs.

You can see Bond prices going up. Trumps tarrifs are aimed and lowering T Bill rates:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10
by nutjob2 | 2025-08-21 12:54:27+00:00
This is way I feel, but my last stop is 10.15 (Catalina) having started with 3.2. Modern macOS is just trash.

My goal over the longer term is to fully migrate to Android, especially desktop mode. There are several reasons for this but maybe the fact that given the typical hardware for Android means it's less likely suffer the terminal bloat of desktop systems.
by Anon_troll | 2025-08-21 12:54:54+00:00
I encountered similar trouble with both Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu.

Based on a quick Firefox performance report on the minified source code, most of the time seems to be spent in functionality looking like frame handling. There are some signs of time calculations.

One educated guess would be that something in frame time calculations goes off, possibly due to restricted time resolution to prevent timing related fingerprinting. This would cause next frame computation to start immediately instead of after the intended timeout.
by watwut | 2025-08-21 12:55:13+00:00
It kinda sounds like you made a lot of stuff or rather, eaten fox news entirely.

> They also would like the US to lend them military aid if they get into violent trouble with their neighbor.

Nah, USA promised millitary aid, but invariably just takes away while making the promis and then do not deliver.

>I think Trump should treat actual allies, like Japan or Canada, better.

Well, he does not. Actually, he treats them worst then he treats China, India, Vietnam, Russia.

> But India, Vietnam and China?

Note that the actual topic is 'graemep' thinking USA is better ally then China. And people telling him that nope, USA looks like worst less reliable ally then China or India.
by llm_nerd | 2025-08-21 12:55:22+00:00
A lot of discussions around open offices is induced compliance/conformance.

Years back I was one of the decision makers for an office move for a mid-sized engineering company. I'm a big believer in private spaces such as offices, but where that isn't possible at least sound and visual distraction blocking cubicle designs.

I was treated like an obsolete relic that wasn't onboard with the whole mega teamwork, super-social open office trend. Was I anti-social? Don't I understand collaboration?

Regardless, I made my case and have a lot of pull, so we compromised and made two separate classes of work spaces. An open concept "bullpen" type design, and then a cloistered section of high-walled cubicles (all areas had loads of light, windows, and all other amenities, awesome desks and shelving, etc). Everyone got to choose which area they wanted to work in.

100% of those not given private offices chose the private cubicles. Not 99%, but to a woman it was the universal choice, including among the moralizing, very outspoken "team work" open office advocates.

Because they didn't believe a word of what they were saying. It was just patter to convey their great team bonafides.
by jlokier | 2025-08-21 12:55:34+00:00
I've had that happen twice!

Recently I asked for my software developer colleage to be bought a 24 GB Macbook Air instead of 16 GB, and boss came back with "not everyone needs a super-big machine like yours Jamie!".

They seriously spent contractor time investigating whether 16 GB was "enough" to get by for our app development, for a price difference on one laptop (second hand) that was negligible compared with cost of my colleage's time.

When I was using 16 GB I regularly had to watch the spinning beachball waiting for tasks due to memory pressure. Between browsers and VMs, it was nowhere near enough for how I worked. So I knew why I was asking, and I knew the price difference was so small for the company, that it was a no-brainer. I gave justifications but it was seen as over-indulgent.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-08-21 12:55:40+00:00
>But I can't see any angle where one can credibly assert that a SOAP XML payload isn't equivalent to a REST JSON payload in terms of the operation of a receiving application.

I guess the angle is that there was a style of SOAP where the payload was interpreted as a remote procedure call conforming to an interface described in a WSDL document.

So there would be a SOAP library or server infrastructure (BizTalk) on the receiving end that would decode the message and turn it into a function call in some programming language.

In that sense, the payload would be "data" only for the infrastructure code but not on the application level.

And now I'm going to have to spend the rest of the day trying to forget this again :)
by rs186 | 2025-08-21 12:56:03+00:00
Parent comment says "aggressively cutting unsuccessful bets" and Oculus is nothing like that.

Oculus Quest are decent products, but a complete flop compared to their investment and Zuck's vision of the metaverse. Remember they even renamed the company? You could say they're on betting on the long run, but I just don't see that happening in 5 or even 10 years.

As an owner of Quest 2 and 3, I'd love to be proven wrong though. I just don't see any evidence of this would change any time soon.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-21 12:56:28+00:00
Data shows that retail participation has been near all-time highs, which does tend to correlate with bubbly market activity.

The market in general is fairly highly valued when looking at the standard valuation metrics, but corporate earnings have been strong as well. That said, the most obvious grey swan would be the market concentration in the top names, which market cap weighted index funds do not avoid and indeed contribute to on a mechanical level. That said, the names will eventually swap around within the index, and as long as capital flows to US financial markets don't reverse (see the back to back 7% down days for market cap weighted indexes during the tariff scare) these rotations won't ultimately be a problem.

Beyond that though, it's not as bad as it looks at first glance. Other areas of the market have pretty large pockets of value, or at least more average valuations. Some names in consumer discretionary are still at the bombed out post tariff scare valuations (ex: LULU which is a good example of a name that had optimism and now has extreme pessimism and low valuation, ANF which has good earnings despite tariffs and is cranking buybacks sub-10 PE) and sectors like healthcare (you have to be a real contrarian to get in here, but when Buffett is buying the value proposition is usually pretty extreme), and energy (quality energy names like FANG trading near single digit PE with management that is showing extreme capital restraint in the face of uncertainty, for once). Smallcaps in general aren't that expensive, since they are on the back-end of the huge, crowded long/short trade (that has been unwinding for a few days now).

Even in megacaps it isn't all bubbly. Google has a lot of pessimism and isn't that expensive, which may or may not be warranted but it is a counterexample. The ridiculous valuations are quite concentrated in the AI related space, specifically in specific names which retail is obsessed with (ex: PLTR( or hedge funds are obsessed with (ex: GEV).
by bgwalter | 2025-08-21 12:56:30+00:00
The Register calls them "fetchers". They still reproduce the content of the original website without the website gaining anything but additional high load.

I'm not sure how many websites are searched and discarded per query. Since it's the remote, proprietary LLM that initiates the search I would hesitate to call them agents. Maybe "fetcher" is the best term.
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-21 12:56:38+00:00
Even when not on VPN, if a site uses the CloudFlare interstitials, I will get it every single time - at least the "prove you're not a bot" checkbox. I get the full CAPTCHA if I'm on a VPN or I change browsers. It is certainly enough to annoy me. More than Anubis, though I do think Anubis is also annoying, mainly because of being nearly worthless.
by happymellon | 2025-08-21 12:56:42+00:00
> executive class are willing to stick with a counterproductive trend. RTO, open offices,

What makes you think they actually care about productivity? It's pure narcissistic traits, they want to be able to easily waltz in and watch their wage slaves.

> development methodologies that disempower the developers, devops without people who understand ops, databases without dbas, Business Intelligence in basically every flavor.

Again, it's control. Us, with our MBAs will make far more than you, even though we contribute less than an LLM

You, with your decades of learning that we've demanded, are expendable and honestly we don't need anyone with skill doing your job.

> It’s as if they would rather fail doing the conventional thing than risk failure by doing something different.

The business just wasn't ready for their radical idea. See Adam Neumann. The difference between you and them, is that you are looking at this as work. A way to make money.

For most of these folks, they already have money. This is a game, a gamble, a way to pass the time, and to gain influence. If the company fails it's not good, but it's not the end of the world. They don't have to work and when they are bored then they can always start a new business.
by boneitis | 2025-08-21 12:56:54+00:00
Hi there, thank you for chiming in.

Viewing the challenge screenshot again after reading your response definitely sheds light as to why I have no aggro toward Anubis (even if the branding supposedly wouldn't jive well with a super professional platform, but hey, I think having the alternate, commercial offering is super brilliant in turn).

On the other hand, I immediately see red when I get stopped in my tracks by all the widely used (and often infinitely-unpassable) Cloudflare/Google/etc. implementations with wordings that do nothing but add insult to injury.

Thank you for the thought you put into that. I think you guys hit it out of the park.
by mstade | 2025-08-21 12:56:57+00:00
I replaced my Docker usage entirely with OrbStack[1] a few months ago, and have had zero issues with it so far. Great product that I happily pay a license for.

My usage is fairly basic though and I'm sure mileage varies, but for my basic web dev setup it's been perfect.

[1]: https://orbstack.dev/
by bluGill | 2025-08-21 12:56:59+00:00
Many of those executives believe in the trend because they would like the noisy office environment. You can tell those executives because they are never in their office except for private meetings - if they are not in a private meeting they are wandering the halls looking for someone to talk to. These people don't need an office, they need a private meeting room that can be booked on demand.

There are also executives who hate open offices. You will find them in their office with the door closed, and they don't want you to knock on the door if it isn't urgent.

It is about personality. However few people are willing to admit that others are different and that it is okay.
by zvr | 2025-08-21 12:57:44+00:00
Eventually, someone must take source code and build and package the software.

When it's Debian maintainers, one at least knows the rules they are operating by. For random people on the internet, it's usually more difficult to evaluate, vet them, and trust what they are doing.

Of course, I don't know you personally nor any software package that you are releasing so this is not an observation directed to you.
by intotheabyss | 2025-08-21 12:57:59+00:00
I think you're missing part of the story with stocks like NVDA. The value of a stock is also based on expectations, so it could be that all of NVDA's growth for the next decade has already been frontrun by the market, and it's essentially partly a prediction market on how valuable the infrastructure will be for AI, given that the chip requirements will only increase as AI systems are implemented in more and more hardware (robots / appliances / transportation / medicine, etc.). While the growth potential of carbon fuels really remains as it is with modest growths aligned with demand/population, but tempered by alternate energy taking greater and greater marketshare.

So it could simultaneously be hype (very optimistic predictions) and yet still valued appropriatey by the market with future expectations priced in, just with some additional premium due to that demand/hype.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-21 12:58:07+00:00
Military manufacturers are a reasonably safe haven these days as Europe is desperately trying to re-arm itself following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Middle East is in flames once again and there's a ton of uncertainty and small scale hostilities around China/India/Pakistan.

Urban residential real estate is also a safe haven assuming you still are allowed to invest there. Demand is not going to shrink any time soon (as most Western governments are running rural areas to the ground for them being too expensive to bring on modern standards and expectations in infrastructure), and supply is so scarce that even large developments and re-zoning will hardly make a dent in demand.
by tim333 | 2025-08-21 12:58:13+00:00
Silent link esims are quite good for getting your phone to work on any country or network. I have one, not for privacy but more for better phone coverage and it works pretty well. No ID and you pay in crypto - btc/monero etc. (https://silent.link/)

For me the main use is that I'm on o2 in the UK, but if in some dead spot with no signal I can flip the sim settings and connect via EE or whatever.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-21 12:58:31+00:00
“ In any case, how's that going to work? Is everyone going to start wearing glasses? What happens if someone doesn't want to wear glasses?”

People probably said the same thing about “what if someone doesn’t want to carry a phone with them everywhere”. If it’s useful enough the culture will change (which, I unequivocally think they won’t be, but I digress)
by cesaref | 2025-08-21 12:58:32+00:00
>so how do you get a privately owned train car and get it to the tracks or etc?

I think you wait in a remote bit of Nevada for a train to pass, and trigger a rock fall which causes the driver to slam on the brakes and bring the train to a stop just short of the rockfall.

Then, you and your posse jump out from behind some rocks and fire your revolvers in the air, and the driver sticks his hands up. There's much celebration, and back slapping as you discover the train also happens to have a massive amount of gold bullion on board.

The rest is a bit blurry, can't remember seeing what you then do, but it probably involves filing down the serial numbers on the frame or something like that?
by vertnerd | 2025-08-21 12:58:49+00:00
I've found nowhere that any price is mentioned, so I have to assume that it's one of those "if you have to ask..." sort of things.

Edit: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...

Slightly less than $5 a mile with a minimum of $2296. The rate to park your car is around $4000 a month. Fun thing to do if you have the money.
by MayeulC | 2025-08-21 12:59:00+00:00
> Even better if they make it into a generic power bank design; 48V would be perfect for connecting to solar panel for charge, then use it on the bike, lawnmower, laptop, maybe a small 230V inverter add-on.

Great idea, I would love to see them offer solar chargers as well.

I was thinking of designing an open source UPS at some point, I guess I could architect it around this battery (though LiFePo would make more sense). I will have a look at the docs when they are out, I hope there's a communication/diagnosis bus, though Bluetooth would work as well.
by pbmonster | 2025-08-21 12:59:52+00:00
I still learned "standard Latin cursive" in school, which was more or less the direct successor to Sütterlin.

They are remarkably different. Especially the lower-case letters, where around half are completely unrecognizable. Cursive Latin is arguably closer to cursive Greek than to Sütterlin.

Some lower-case letters straight changed meaning during the Sütterlin->Latin transition. d->v, e->n, ect.
by fluoridation | 2025-08-21 13:00:15+00:00
I assumed you were talking about the frame, since you mentioned titanium and carbon fiber. Pedals out of those exist, but they're not exactly your run-of-the-mill materials, even on higher-end bikes. Honestly, carbon pedals sounds like a shitty idea. Controls pretty much stop at aluminum or even plastic in the case of shifters, since they don't take very big forces.
by mstade | 2025-08-21 13:00:47+00:00
I don't run that many plugins to be fair, but the ones I do run (of which at least a couple are no longer maintained) works fine.

The key plugins I use are some LSP servers, and they work wonders. The few languages I mainly use (yaml, json, TS/JS, python and Go) I get great language support for via the LSP servers and the editor is blissfully fast always.

I could live without even the LSP stuff, but the one feature I can't live without is Sublime's excellent recovery support. Every once in a while my system will crash, and even though I've had multiple unsaved buffers Sublime recovers them every single time. Saved my butt more times than I want to know!
by cdrini | 2025-08-21 13:00:55+00:00
I think I'd push back and say that nerd culture is no longer really a single thing. Back in the star trek days, the nerd "community" was small enough that star trek could be a defining quality shared by the majority. Now the nerd community has grown, and there are too many people to have defining parts of the culture that are loved by the majority.

Eg if the nerd community had $x$ people in the star trek days, now there are more than $x$ nerds who like anime and more than $x$ nerds who dislike it. And the total size is much bigger than both.
Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams
by Jonathanfishner | 2025-08-21 13:01:11+00:00
Me and Guy (@guyb3) built ChartDB to generate ER diagrams from your database without a need of any database access (via query/sql/dbml). We started with an open-source version, and after seeing a lot of use we decided to make a cloud version.

Our OSS launch (1y ago) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41339308

Now we’re launching ChartDB Cloud - built for teams:

- Embed ERDs into docs, dev portals, or Miro/Notion etc.

- Collaborate in real-time (with live cursors like Figma)

- Keep diagrams always in sync with your database

- Organize large, messy schemas without pain

- Export DDL in multiple SQL dialects (solved deterministically)

- AI assistant to brainstorm and generate new schema objects or schema changes

We designed it so working with databases feels less like a chore and more like a creative process.

Would love feedback - especially from teams dealing with messy schemas or outdated docs.

https://app.chartdb.io
by horenso | 2025-08-21 13:01:16+00:00
Try a few different languages to see what fits your style. I'm a fan of both Rust and Zig, but I've been really enjoying Zig lately.

Rust has a cool concept called ownership to prevent memory bugs. This means you have to learn new ideas like lifetimes. For instance, an array doesn't just hold objects; it has a lifetime of its own, so you can only store references that will last at least as long as the array. It's most useful IMHO for programs with many independent lifetimes because it makes writing memory-safe code much easier. It really leans into the concept RAII which comes from C++. You implement types and define what it means to create, copy, "move" and destroy them.

Zig on the other hand feels incredibly lightweight. It's like C, but with way fewer pitfalls and better tools. For instance, tts default DebugAllocator tracks memory leaks at runtime, which is good enough for many situations and makes the language less complex to work with. It is common in Zig to pass Allocators, which makes you think more about pooling allocations and simpler allocation strategies. I think learning low level concepts like memory management, pointers, memory layout, interfacing with the OS etc. is easier is fantastic in Zig.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2025-08-21 13:01:27+00:00
(I'm a big podman stan)

Last I tried using the .kube files I ran into issues with specifying container networks (https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12965).

This is sort of "fixed" by using a Quadlet ".kube" but IMO that's a pretty weak solution and removes the "here's your compose file, run it" aspect.

Recently (now that Deb13 is out with Podman 5) I have started transitioning to Podmans Quadlet files which have been quite smooth so far. As you say, its great to run things without all the overhead of kubernetes.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-08-21 13:01:28+00:00
Check in with the association of private railcar owners: https://www.aaprco.com/

There was some discussion on the process here a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19505897 written shortly after Amtrak complained "These operations caused significant operational distraction, failed to capture fully allocated profitable margins". It's not an easy process.