MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thefaux | 2025-08-02 17:55:02+00:00
Counterpoint: I am personally skeptical about the long term value of arch supports. The reason is that while they can undoubtably help with short term pain, they also inhibit strength development and introduce an unnecessary dependency (kind of like a software library). I am not disagreeing with your experience or discouraging people from using supports to deal with injuries. I am just questioning making yourself reliant upon them.

About 20 years ago, I was riding my bike everywhere and hardly walking. I went on a trip to NYC and was walking 10+ miles a day. I developed severe shooting pains in my feet. Getting some supports helped dramatically and so I started wearing them whenever I wore shoes.

I did this for about 15 years and completely swore by arch supporting shoes. Then, one day I was playing basketball and landed on someone's foot going for a layup. My foot basically folded in half in the opposite direction of the arch. This was a major injury and I could not walk at all for a week and it took multiple years before I stopped feeling pain regularly in that foot.

After the injury, I completely stopped wearing arch supports. I had a theory that my feet had been weakened by using them and that this weakness was the underlying reason for the severity of my injury. For the last few years, I have averaged about eight miles of walking a day and mostly wear zero drop minimal shoes. I have developed the ability to run on concrete with them, though I do not particularly enjoy this (primarily because my running efficiency is poor).

If I were running a marathon, I would certainly wear shoes with padding, but I don't find much padding or support necessary or even desirable for brisk walking for hours at a time. And for almost 15 years, I never left the house without bulky supports.
World's First Mental Gym – No AI Allowed
by Belalmostafa | 2025-08-02 17:55:27+00:00
World's First Mental Gym - NO AI ALLOWED

Many people are already noticing the impact of relying on AI, whether in writing, thinking, brainstorming, and sometimes even direct life-related decision making. The Impact of AI on our brain and our ability to think independently will be similar to the impact of transportation and easy life on our muscles. That is exactly why we need to go to the GYM, because otherwise, our muscles will get weaker and weaker, until eventually, we become even sick. If you don't want the same to happen to your brains, then Join the world's first mental GYM, and invite your friends, at least the ones you don't want their brain to get fat.

Join from the link below, the gym will be hosted on BrainsMingle Link: https://brainsmingle.com/event-details/e0df1e2d-dcf0-44ca-b253-cdd873a446b7

our first session is in exactly 1 month, drop your comments below about what activities you think we should do Here are my main workouts so far: 1- Cognitive Sprints] - Solve logic puzzles - reverse-engineer patterns - Memory recall - Verbal pushups - explain complex ideas in 60 sec

2-Survive the Meeting (Roleplay Simulation) Format: One person is “on the spot” explaining a concept, handling tough questions, or making decisions live — no prep, no AI, real pressure. Examples: "Your product just failed — explain it to investors." "Your client wants a decision now — go." "You forgot your slides. Present anyway."

3. Zero-Tool Strategy Sessions Format: You’re given a situation and must plan it with no Google, Notion, or whiteboards. Just verbal thinking. Examples: “Build a go-to-market strategy for X in 2 mins.” “Outline a new feature without writing it down.” “Pitch your product without slides.” Great for: Business builders, marketers, creators.

4. Cognitive Duel (1v1 Fast Debate) Format: Two participants debate on opposite sides of a hot topic. Fast-paced, with timers. Example Topics: “AI will replace 80% of knowledge jobs.” “Bootcamps > degrees.” “Remote work is making us dumber.” Great for: Thought leaders, critical thinkers, verbal processors.

5. Blind Spot Blitz (Group Drill) Format: One person presents an idea. The rest try to poke holes in it — respectfully, fast, with no Google help. Example Use Case: “You’re launching a product in X market. Where will it fail?” “Here’s your plan. Where’s the flaw?” Great for: Strategists, engineers, founders.
by gyulai | 2025-08-02 17:55:29+00:00
> Qt and VCL/FireMonkey are pretty much alive, as 3rd party .NET like Avalonia and Uno.

Last time I looked into Uno, it seemed to me more like a mobile-first play (similar to Flutter), but maybe I missed something there.

Qt is still joined at the hips with C++, and I'm finding it hard to imagine that the next generation of developers will go in for C++ over alternatives like Rust. There is a QML/JavaScript story. But why, on earth, would you go there, if history hasn't forced your hand, as it did with the Web.

I hear good things about Avalonia, but: Why throw out the baby with the bathwater and build something "open" within a monopolist's walled garden.

> Apple is also doing just fine.

But "lack of investment" is still not entirely improper as a characterization of how they prioritize desktop versus mobile.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-02 17:55:29+00:00
> 152 in Length 73 in Width 66 in Height

This is 3860 x 1854 x 1676mm, or 14% x 25% x -16% bigger than Japanese Kei car specifications(3400 x 1480 x 2000mm max.) Closest match in features among Kei cars would be Daihatsu Hijet Deck Van, except that one is 465mm / 18" shorter that this having an awkwardly short 880mm / 35" long bed.
by laurencerowe | 2025-08-02 17:55:39+00:00
I was responding to someone worried about the practicality of carrying mountain bikes to the Santa Cruz mountains 50 miles from San Francisco.

I don't think it's possible to buy a new 6 passenger vehicle rated for towing 5000lb in the US for under $30K.

Europe allows towing with much smaller vehicles. There you can do 4400lb in a Golf and 4850lb in Passat though you might still struggle for 6 passengers for $30k new.
by assword | 2025-08-02 17:55:44+00:00
> These editorials all have a common fault which is that they fail the sniff test of “would you actually do this”. I don’t know if you would call it classism, or an attempt at manipulation, or what, it’s just weird

They know this as well as you do. They don’t have to worry about trying to hide it any, because they know it’s too late for you to do anything about it. The quiet part is often said out loud now.
by achierius | 2025-08-02 17:56:37+00:00
But in the end, the chickens always come home to roost. Dogs cannot support you in your old age; they cannot give you the pride of seeing a child go off to college; they cannot captivate you with conversations as they grow into full adults; and of course, they die far, far earlier than you.

Similarly, the AI companions we create will be simulacra of the real thing. It's hard to say what exactly the differences will be, but whatever they are, people will find them, and once discovered, those gaps will pain them.
by dang | 2025-08-02 17:56:45+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by Nathanba | 2025-08-02 17:57:30+00:00
This is a great example of what I'm talking about in regards to humans vs AI. First you misunderstand my comment, barely even responding to it, then you paint me as defensive even though I've been very open and the absolute opposite of defensive. It's actually you who is being defensive now, starting on a clear attack and painting me into some kind of scared recluse corner, somebody who supposedly can't even understand why socialising is important and telling me to go talk to my AI friends to figure it out. I mean you gave a great example of a toxic, hurt human ego here, showing the incredible value of AI friends in the future. Because who would choose such a type of conversation over an empathetic, kind AI that cares and understands what I typed? For example an AI would understand that I'm not just talking about a chatbox on a phone, I've clearly mentioned full robots and this is all a forward looking conversation about future AI which will have bodies and can interact like humans. There is going to be real competition for humans soon and I think people are overestimating the value of humans a lot.
by leptons | 2025-08-02 17:57:35+00:00
A broken clock is right twice a day. If you're spending more time writing instructions for the AI, and then rewriting those instructions several times before you get usable code, then you're absolutely wasting your time. At least this is my experience with "AI". Even the fancy autocomplete portion of "AI" gets in my way more than it helps. Of course, YMMV, but I seriously doubt you're doing any better with "AI" than anyone else actually is, and a lot of people using it just don't realize all the time it's wasting, if they paid attention and added it all up.
by abeppu | 2025-08-02 17:58:05+00:00
I do also think that any such summary statistic can only show a small part of the picture. Of the time _not_ spent alone, how much is with a single other person as you look at different screens? Of time spent not alone and outside of the home, how many people are we with at any one time? How many different people do we have social interactions with per month? I.e. is the quality of our social interaction getting worse, are we with smaller groups, do we have sparser social graphs?

I could believe that you're right that the variance has increased, but is that driven by a growing share of shutins who only interact online and who are shifting to LLM friends?
by wpm | 2025-08-02 17:58:11+00:00
> It's ugly as hell.

So is a Ford Transit van? Who cares. This is a work truck.

> The bed looks too short to be practically useful.

The bed is 5 ft long. From TF website: "Same truck bed length as the Toyota Tacoma. Larger than a Rivian R1T."

> The wheels look comically small.

They look fine? How big should they be?

> The ground clearance doesn't seem to make it useful for more than suburban and urban road environments.

Oh, so they designed it for the environments it was...designed to be used in? And the same environments most macho big boy trucks spend 99% of their life in? What's the problem here?

Honestly, what's your problem? Why is your comment so harshly negative? You can't fathom a target market for this because you don't seem to be in it?
by danielfetz | 2025-08-02 17:58:14+00:00
It's quite extraordinary that so many people have come before us, and it gets quite sad when one understands that half of those died before they turned 15 years old. The human graveyard is full of children, and we shall never forget where we came from and how much progress we have since made.

Source for this: https://ourworldindata.org/the-future-is-vast
by LoneGeek | 2025-08-02 17:58:16+00:00
If you can read Russian, there is a Python app for morphological analysis called pymorphy3. Documentation: https://pymorphy2.readthedocs.io/en/stable/.

It is based on an OpenCorpora dictionary: https://opencorpora.org/dict.php

This dictionary is based on a Zaliznyak dictionary, which is always referenced in Wiktionary's articles.
by BurningFrog | 2025-08-02 17:58:35+00:00
You can trim it down by counting in quarter moves.

That is, count a 180° move as two 90° moves. Which it is, though we usually don't think of it that way.

Assuming a random move length distribution, that would only leave a (2/3)^20 fraction of them, which is about 147000 positions.
by tekdude | 2025-08-02 17:59:03+00:00
I kind of wish Microsoft would just continue development of WPF. I've used it for years for various projects, and there is a learning curve but I've since enjoyed working with it. XAML, data bindings, ViewModels... all of it I actually like. But, WPF needs a few improvements to really make it perfect. I tried several of Microsoft's newer frameworks and the open source ones (Avalonia, Uno), but I either couldn't get the sample projects to even build successfully on my machine, or I never got comfortable with development workflow, and went back to what I know.

My big idea to fix WPF is to rebuild the data binding system to use the .NET compile-time code generation feature instead of run-time reflection. I think that would solve a lot of problems. For one, projects could do an actual AOT build of their applications (right now, you either need to rely on an installed .NET runtime or "publish" the project with a lot of .NET libraries included for self-extract, bloating the final file size). Code generation would probably improve performance quite a bit too, maybe open up the possibility to compile for cross-platform, introduce type safety for XAML bindings (rather than getting vague runtime binding errors), remove the need for so much class scaffolding, etc... I've thought about starting an open source project to do it myself, but seems like a pretty big task and I would essentially be starting a project to help with my other project which I already don't have enough time to work on...
by broof | 2025-08-02 17:59:06+00:00
When I got laid off from my first job, I used the extra time to start going to the gym. Years later the habit has still stuck, and I actually think I was so incredibly lucky to get laid off. Working out has been such a massive improvement in all areas of life. Health problems went away, mental health got better, sleep quality got better, it truly is a miracle drug. It’s a shame that the habit is hard to form.
by apgwoz | 2025-08-02 17:59:22+00:00
“Compilation”, I think, is exactly right. This feature is less about interpolation than it is about compilation of a single regexp to be used many times. It’s just shrouded in confusing documentation that should say: “/o tells ruby to rewrite this code such that it refers to a new statically allocated regexp object.” And when you write it that way, you see how insane it is for a function call to be hoisted automatically like this, without an explicit, obvious, syntactic annotation.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-02 17:59:23+00:00
Oh, I was actually talking about a phone from that era, which is my daily driver. Most functionality can be reached by ~3 button presses, which is from the finger movement equivalent to a single swipe. Also I can type and call without looking.

My perspective is that there aren't really any new apps, just new companies in place of the old apps, so that my phone doesn't really have less features besides performance due to Moore's law.
by brudgers | 2025-08-02 17:59:41+00:00
It is kind of why I believe in commercial software. [1]

Because it is ok to get paid so you can buy beans, shoes, and even nice things.

And it is ok not to give away the fruits of your labor. [2]

[1] I also believe in free software. GNU is one of the two most important philosophical ideas of the second half of the 20th century. Animal rights is the other.

[2] It is also ok to give away the fruits of your labor. The world is complex and the right thing depends on all the known facts.
by numitus | 2025-08-02 18:00:37+00:00
AI system manufacturers want to sell their products by advertising their superhuman reliability, but they don't want to take responsibility for any mistakes. I should mention that I don't have any Tesla cars in my environment, but a friend of mine claimed in 2017 that the car was capable of fully autonomous and safe driving without human intervention. It's interesting how advertising can distort the essence of technology in people's eyes.
by tbirdny | 2025-08-02 18:01:04+00:00
Yes, money is a huge factor. So is time. You need both. I see these major factors: housing costs, health insurance costs, and the two-income trap. The fact that both people in almost every couple must have a job just to survive and pay for housing makes it so that no one has any time. If couples could survive on a single income, there would be a lot more time to manage the home, support the family, friends, neighbors, and community. Those are social activities that few have time for anymore.
by hyghjiyhu | 2025-08-02 18:02:03+00:00
Does it? I think is worse in that respect. Instagram users meet up irl. Reddit has chats for connecting with people online. Hacker news has no way at all to make friends. The only worse place might be image boards that lack even a stable identifier.

It's all about the topic. "How are doing today johnecheck" "want to get shoot the shit over a beer?" said no one ever.
by Teever | 2025-08-02 18:02:31+00:00
The fine for a first time offence at a massive chain restaurant should be proportional to whatever a mom and pop restaurant would pay.

The first one should be a slap in the face wake up call for the entity receiving it and the sequential should quickly grow to create an uneconomical situation for the offender such that they are forced to change their practices or go bankrupt.

This goes for all fines given out to private individuals, businesses, big and small, rich and poor.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-08-02 18:02:41+00:00
Yes, the default when it does anything is to try and create. It will read my CLAUDE.md file, it will read the code that is already there, and then it will try to write it again. I have had this happen many times (today, I had to prompt 5/6 times to read the file as a feature had already been implemented).

...and if something is genuinely complex, it will (imo) generally do a bad job. It will produce something that looks like it works superficially, but as you examine it will either not work in a non-obvious way or be poorly designed.

Still very useful but to really improve your productivity you have to understand when not to use it.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-08-02 18:04:15+00:00
We've done that to some extent via the legal enablement of nurse practitioner and physician assistant led care. Of course, largely speaking all they do is supervise the recording of patient metrics and prescribe drugs in label-consistent ways, but that often works out reasonably well for the patient. When the patient needs specialty care then the NP or PA simply punts them into the winds of referrals and insurance justifications.

I'm not sure there's any realistic way to enhance the availability of specialists. You can't 'stub' your way through providing the care of a skilled gastroenterologist by substitution with a NP, though PAs in specialty care are becoming common.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-08-02 18:04:46+00:00
You're not setting good enough boundaries or reviewing what it's doing closely enough.

Police it, and give it explicit instructions.

Then after it's done its work prompt it with something like "You're the staff engineer or team lead on this project, and I want you to go over your own git diff like it's a contribution from a junior team member. Think critically and apply judgement based on the architecture of the project describes @HERE.md and @THERE.md."
by benhancock-dev | 2025-08-02 18:05:02+00:00
Location: Lexington, Kentucky

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, Kubernetes/Docker, Kafka, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://flowcv.com/resume/pjfwseesgs

Email: benhancock.dev@gmail.com
by charcircuit | 2025-08-02 18:05:12+00:00
The existence of products in competitive markets is not a counter example to what my point was. I recommend looking at the terms bottom up pricing and top down pricing. The former is about creating a price based off of how much it costs to do business and then adding a profit margin. The latter is creating price in line with how much value it offers customers. The existence of products using bottom up pricing doesn't mean top down pricing does not exist.
by zahlman | 2025-08-02 18:05:18+00:00
No slight was intended. I've learned a lot of techniques; I don't consider this a matter of elitism. I have generally been fortunate to have control over the architecture of my projects; when I encounter something like this in someone else's code, I can at least raise my concern. Sometimes the code is that way because doing it the other obvious way would lead to some other inconvenience. Hence "a sign", not proof. It's worth investigating signs.
by scrlk | 2025-08-02 18:05:32+00:00
> When designing the 25th anniversary ThinkPad, which came out in 2017, Hill brought back the ThinkLight, but he actually wanted to have – for the first time – two LEDs instead of one. The dual lights would have eliminated shadows and provided even better illumination, but unfortunately, this effort proved too costly to make it into the final product.

Dual ThinkLights appeared on two models - W700 & W701: https://youtu.be/LSHP7VRs0bI?t=658

There was also a dual screen variant, which had a secondary screen that popped out to the right of the primary screen: https://youtu.be/mzhZH9LK1ac?t=26
by Eawrig05 | 2025-08-02 18:05:32+00:00
This is an example of a listing removed and relisted

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/825-E-Washington-St-Louis...

this is an example of a price cut https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1435-Mellwood-Ave-Louisvi...

Although both listings display full price history, there’s a key difference in how the information is presented. For the Mellwood Avenue example, a “Price cut: $16K (8/1)” notice appears directly above the listed price, making it immediately visible to users. In contrast, the East Washington listing does not show any price reduction at the top. Instead, users must scroll down to the Price History section to find that detail, easy enough to do but it is an attempt by realtors to obscure the market.

Also when the listing is removed and added, it resets the Days on Market count. This can obscure how long the property has truly been listed, which is a critical indicator of whether the current price is sustainable or if the buyer should negotiate down.
by geor9e | 2025-08-02 18:05:48+00:00
If "displaying a certain lifestyle" means the person gets to visit a much larger home (as there's more incomes), get surrounded with lots of friends (since it's a vibrant community in the house), who all have stock portfolios to retire early on because of it (since they're saving an extra $1k+ a month by sharing the better living situation), then you'll probably be be able to find someone who finds that more appealing than the alternative (a loner who's spare money gets burned up going to a landlord or mortgage bank interest payments). Alternatively, if you look at folks attracted to the "drowning in credit card debt, but leasing a brand new BMW, and downtown apartment" version of "displaying a certain lifestyle" then no, those people probably will be repelled. The dating pool is full of unique people of varying philosophy, intelligence, and wisdom.
by d3vr | 2025-08-02 18:05:49+00:00
> no one on the Claude subreddit has yet to report being hit by this despite many going way over that

Because it hasn't gone into effect yet: "From August 28, we’ll introduce new weekly limits that’ll mitigate these problems while impacting as few customers as possible." [0]

[0] https://xcancel.com/AnthropicAI/status/1949898514844307953#m
Show HN: Personalized insights from your bookmarks delivered every Sunday
by quinto_quarto | 2025-08-02 18:06:33+00:00
Sharing something that I’ve been working on:

I made a save-later app for all my bookmarks. I save links throughout the week and, every Sunday morning, the app sends me a personalized recap with: -patterns and themes that connect my week to my broader interests -a nudge toward links I saved but never revisited -one reflective question to help me decide what else might be worth exploring

I was inspired by older read-later apps like Instapaper. I wanted to make something minimalist, so it’s just a simple feed of your links (with tags and annotations linked to each link) and it is set up to ingest all kinds of content, not just text. I also did want it to be bloated as the full-fat AI stuff you see recently. So this is a simpler and more proactive take on the concept of a bookmarking app.

Happy to answer any questions. (I’m not technical.)