MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nathanba | 2025-08-19 02:18:12+00:00
> nice UI to edit a collection of markdown files

wow okay, I kept thinking that there must be more to it, why does it only list my files that I can already see in my filetree on the left, like what's the point? I was expecting to see something like what Atlassian has in Confluence (which was also far more intuitive to create btw) https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/create-a...
by pabs3 | 2025-08-19 02:18:19+00:00
> Open Source

The CC-NC-SA-4.0 license isn't an Open Source Definition compliant license, since it discriminates against a field of use (commercial applications).

https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower/blob/main/LICENS... https://opensourcedefinition.org/

A reminder, open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation:

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...
by inkyoto | 2025-08-19 02:19:33+00:00
No snark required. Whatever the reason for discontinuing QLDB was, it has been replaced with the pgAudit[0] Postgres extension in AWS. I did look into using QLDB for a project involving the management of financial records about 4 years ago and found it to be a somewhat unwieldy to use document database.

Demand for ledger databases is strong in the government and elsewhere where compliance is a non-negotiable. Microsoft have their own on the offer[1] as well.

[0] https://www.pgaudit.org/

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s...
by walterbell | 2025-08-19 02:21:50+00:00
Recent HN comment on "Beyond Meat headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44935141#44935280

About 10 years ago I became more aware that reducing my consumption of meat was good for the world. This was good for Beyond Meat’s prospects. About 5 years ago I became more aware that reducing my consumption of ultra processed food was good for me. This was very bad for Beyond Meat’s prospects.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-19 02:22:19+00:00
> Stick to 2D, Since 3D is More Complicated

This isn't necessarily the case if you are looking at total cost of ownership.

3D provides things like perspective projection, which enables intuitive experiences and notions of "world space" that are fundamentally meaningful and map well with our physical reality. You can do a lot of damage with 3d primitives, an FPS camera, a skybox and some clever lighting.
Ask HN: Has there been an increase in online censorship due to AI search's rise?
by thisislife2 | 2025-08-19 02:22:23+00:00
In the last 2-3 years, I have noticed an aggressive increase in censorship on western platforms like Reddit, StackExchange (History, Politics, Skeptics etc.), 9gag etc. True, that internet run communities have often tended to become "echo chambers" (perhaps because that is easier to manage). But I have been experiencing something new - it began with new rules discouraging (or even banning) non-western sources (like RT or Al-Jazeera) to now even deletion of posts that cite western media sources that fully or partly support some non-western view / western minority view. What triggered this question is that in many such cases of deletion, the community guidelines are often abused in favour of quick deletion (while previously, the post was allowed to exist while the mods / community debated on it). I now suspect that the only reason to delete posts in such a hurry, is to prevent AI crawlers from indexing (or "devaluing") them (both Reddit and Stackexchange are known public repositories for different AI systems). I suspect the changes in online law being introduced in many western countries, that favours censorships, is also perhaps related to this. Am I mistaken here?
by bcrl | 2025-08-19 02:22:24+00:00
There are a bunch of interesting accounts which basically boil down to the following: you can do in Shenzhen in a few days that which would take weeks to months in the US or EU (well, most of western civilization). Take "Ten Days in Shenzhen" at https://www.karimyaghmour.com/blog/2018/01/ten-days-in-shenz... or Bunnie Huang's blog at https://www.bunniestudios.com/ . It stems from the fact that everything is local. You don't have to wait for product to get shipped across the country for each individual step in manufacturing when you can just walk / taxi / bus it between the manufacturers in a day or two. Iterating is fast.

TSMC has a similar work ethic. They have process engineers running experiments 24/7 that each build on the results of the previous shift. When's the last time Intel could hire folks with that kind of dedication in Oregon?

Netflix has a documentary called The Factory which touches on the kind of cultural differences between workers in the US vs China that is rather enlightening.
by AlexandrB | 2025-08-19 02:23:22+00:00
To play devil's advocate: China. Not only does China profit because it's a key supplier of renewable technologies, but increasing the cost of energy in other countries while continuing to heavily rely on coal themselves[1] makes them more competitive for manufacturing.

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-china-is-still-bu...
by yalogin | 2025-08-19 02:23:32+00:00
Shamelessness is the guiding mantra in politics too, I guess the author wanted to stay away from the most obvious and egregious example. I don’t think we will be able to turn the tide here though. The hustle culture of Silicon Valley tried to draw a fine line for a while but it was never going to last. As a society we are an attention economy and that only values shamelessness, not ethics and morals.
by balfirevic | 2025-08-19 02:23:32+00:00
> It's written that way because it stems from relational algebra, in which the projection is typically (always?) written first.

It's inspired by a mish-mash of both relational algebra and relational calculus, but the reason why SELECT comes first is because authors wanted it to read like English (it was originally called Structured English Query Language).

You can write the relational algebra operators in any order you want to get the result you want.
by cossatot | 2025-08-19 02:23:52+00:00
Don't quote me on this but I think a lot of the change has to do with fire and flood suppression. Certainly on the Konza prairie and similar areas, small trees (post oaks and eastern red cedar) grew in natural fire breaks like bluffs, and individual trees would live for several hundred years. Floodplains would have large cottonwoods which can withstand seasonal inundation but wouldn't necessarily be thick forest otherwise. And the prodigious lightning storms and (throughout the Holocene) burning by native tribes for hunting kept trees off of the uplands.
by johnecheck | 2025-08-19 02:24:32+00:00
Sure, blockchain development has always been deeply tied to ideas of open membership and participation. I like those ideas too.

But that's a poor definition of a blockchain. A blockchain is merely a distributed ledger with certain properties from cryptography.

If you spin up a private bitcoin network, it's a blockchain even if nobody else knows or cares about it. Now, are non-open blockchains at all useful? I suspect so, but I don't know of any great examples.

The wide space between 'membership is determined in advance' and 'literally anyone can make a million identities at a whim' is worth exploring, IMO.
by XorNot | 2025-08-19 02:26:08+00:00
Living animals with immune systems are the only types of organisms which can effectively host pathogens such that they can be communicated. Even your example belies the problem: pus is produced by the immune system destroying bacteria, it isn't a bacterial colony itself.

In an a bioreactor where no immune system exists, there can't be a latent infection: there's no immune system! If it can infect and destroy what's growing, then it'll infect and destroy all of it. It isn't going to look like tuna meat after that.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-19 02:28:17+00:00
>It is the most played game on Steam at basically every hour of the day

It is currently at 185th place. You are probably thinking of Counter Strike 2 which is a different game full of microtransactions and gambling which is what the grandparent comment was saying Counter Strike didn't have. Gacha is the strategy in the gaming industry that makes the most money.
by gmuslera | 2025-08-19 02:29:12+00:00
It had never stopped accelerating. This shithole planet have plenty of positive feedback loops, so you warm up, then you have less reflective ice, less albedo and more heat absorption, permafrost thaws and that is more greenhouse gases emissions, increase forest fires so more greenhouse emissions and so on. And the we keep getting surprised at new positive feedback loops.

And, over that, we kept increasing each year how much greenhouse gases we emit. And not only we emit more, but also the main greenhouse gas (CO2) stays in the atmosphere for 100-200 years. So it is practically been accumulating since the industrial revolution, in increasing amounts each year.

What happened is that part of that latent warming was masked by pollution, and cleaning that pollution (that had its own problems) took out that mask.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-19 02:31:10+00:00
> I'm a little lost on the whole story here, article is short.

I submitted to HN and discussed all the major episodes of this saga. Here are the links if you'd like to know more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152909

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44188337

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256169

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613114

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736860

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793777

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869353

Some of these have been flagged and my comments are almost always downvoted to oblivion but I don't care, I will continue speaking out because these are my honest opinions on the subject.

Under the pretext of protecting denocracy, the unelected, supposedly impartial brazilian supreme court waged an all out legal and political war against our "Trump equivalent". They have engaged in unconstitutional censorship and politically motivated arrests.

They have usurped the functions of the legislative and executive branches of government. They are essentially judge-kings and have transformed my country into a dictatorship of the judiciary.

One of these judges has been sanctioned by the USA under the Magnitsky Act, an unprecedented consequence that nobody thought would ever happen. I mean that literally: these judges publicly mocked the idea that they would ever be sanctioned for their actions.

Now they are apparently moving to defy the sanctions by ordering banks to continue providing services to the sanctioned judge despite the sanctions.

This will get our banks banned from the international banking system, isolating our country. The economic damage this will cause simply cannot be calculated.

Brazil is essentially the world's soy farm and we import like 70% of our fertilizer. They're going to sacrifice everything to protect these judges and display their non-existent "sovereignty", like a defiant child trying to stand up to its parent. Brazil is pretty much done for if this continues.
by stronglikedan | 2025-08-19 02:32:20+00:00
I got barely any spam calls on Tmo, but I recently switched away and am crying for mercy. They have an opt-in service that prevents 90% of them from reaching your phone, and it's free. ATT has a similar one. I wish Consumer Cellular did, and I'm almost thinking about going back to big carrier prices for big carrier features like that.
by etrautmann | 2025-08-19 02:32:37+00:00
While I agree in principle, someone has to make decisions about resource allocation and decide that some ideas are better than others. This takes a finely tuned sense of BS detector and technical feasibility estimation, which I would argue is a real skill. It thus becomes subtly different to be an accurate predictor of success vs default cynic if 95% of ideas aren’t going to work.
by SupatMod | 2025-08-19 02:34:08+00:00
I think Big Tech is trying hard to make super intelligent AI soon. It’s hard to avoid the questions Anthropic brings up. At some point, we’ll have to talk about whether AI should have moral rights, even if it’s not really 'conscious' like humans. We need to figure out what AI consciousness should be. If AI can understand meaning deeply in its digital way (not like human) and starts to know itself or even know that it knows itself, not just copying like today’s AI models, isn’t that kind of like human self-awareness "รู้ตัว" and meta-awareness "สติ", even if it’s different physically?
by XorNot | 2025-08-19 02:34:19+00:00
I've costed it and it doesn't work out. But you can realize why without doing the calculations: unlike solar, batteries aren't surface area limited. So better capitalized producer can achieve better economies of scale and just build warehouses of the things to do exactly that. Which is what they do - and thus off peak power trends towards a tiny margin over the warranted kWh cost of a battery.
by nis0s | 2025-08-19 02:34:46+00:00
I often think what happens in organizations where groups validate their bad decisions. Is it one influential leader who makes it happen, or is it a series of meetings between well-meaning people who stack one bad decision over another, and all of a sudden you have the justification for something like the Tuskegee experiments. I mean, they too were just people in a room.
by ramesh31 | 2025-08-19 02:35:18+00:00
>However, as opposed to using an engine like Unity, Godot, Unreal, using a frameworks still allows to you architect your codebase with a greater degree of freedom and prevents you from spending too much time learning how specific game engine workflows and UIs work.

If your goal is to make a game, these are exactly the things you should be learning, not reinventing your own architecture. If you just want to learn about engine internals, then sure go for it. But games (even very simple ones) are an incredible amount of effort that has nothing to do with programming. If you actually want to make one you should be working at the absolute highest level of abstraction possible so that you can start doing the real work; building the mechanics, creating the art, designing levels, writing the story, music, sound effects, etc. etc. Many of the succesful indie games these days are made almost completely via "no-code" visual tooling. It's basically a meme at this point for programmers to want to make a game and just end up wasting their time writing a naive engine.
by lovich | 2025-08-19 02:35:18+00:00
If you want everyone to be able to do what they want without limit, and enough people are choosing a route to destruction, then yes we are doomed.

I have no idea how to convince anyone anymore. Even people who claim to care about things beyond themself immediately round up the wagons the second they have a limitation imposed. Already in this thread there’s someone mocking government regulation with a strawman argument. I’d just find some people you can make a community with and hole up.

The Curtis Yavins, Thiels, and Musks of the world appear to have willed their post democracy state into existence without how much anti democratic sentiment they pull. Gonna have to figure out what their “post constitutional” world is going to look like before anyone has any idea what a good oath forward will be
by stetrain | 2025-08-19 02:35:49+00:00
I don’t think it’s the battery specs holding back most buyers. For one thing transitions take time even when new tech could cover most of the market’s needs. But the main thing currently is purchase cost and charging infrastructure availability, both of which are improving at a fairly steady rate.

Most of the work going into scaling up EV production currently is about producing higher volumes of the batteries we have to bring costs down. A second prong is working on higher energy density and faster charging, but these solid-state batteries are going to be expensive and start in high-end vehicles, not economy cars for the masses.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-19 02:35:56+00:00
Seems a bit drastic? You can ban using images built by others, but self-built images are mostly fine. Auditing and making rules on where dependencies come from is necessary, but banning the tool itself seems drastic.

And I'm not sure there's any dichotomy between long lived VMs and Docker. For small scale use cases, just provision long lived VMs and then pull new images every time your developers decide to release. The images can then be run as systemd units.
by andreareina | 2025-08-19 02:36:08+00:00
I'm an average-sized male using correct for me 40 cm (center-to-center) bars and I have my brake/shift levers marginally turned in for comfort, they're already 28 cm inside-to-inside, and so not permitted by the UCI. Smaller men and average women are completely left behind by this rule, and I (and many others) question the efficacy of it—the crashes I've seen and been in I didn't think that steering authority was the limiting factor. At best it won't do much, at worst it will encourage riders to find other ways to get narrower which involve getting their hands off the brakes; there's a cyclist who's well-known for riding with her hands on the fork.
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-19 02:36:20+00:00
Don't need a citation, as it's my personal experience. I'm not going to do a market research project for fskcing light bulbs. I buy them at Target, or wherever. They maybe last a year, like incandescents. Occasionally they last much less, like a week. And when they die, they are e-waste (at least better than CFLs, which are straight up hazmat waste). An incandescent bulb is a bit of glass and metal.

I used to find incandescent bulbs 4 for a dollar on sale. An LED bulb is typically at least a couple of bucks, that's why I say 10x the price.

I will grant they use less electricity, but my electric bill hasn't noticably changed. The amount of electricity I use for lights in my home isn't even noise in my monthly budget. But what is annoying is having to get out a stepladder once a month to change a bulb, when the huge selling point on these bulbs is that they were worth the price because they would last 10x as long.
by merelysounds | 2025-08-19 02:37:10+00:00
Wikipedia says:

> the human developer avoids micromanaging the code, accepts AI-suggested completions liberally, and focuses more on iterative experimentation than code correctness or structure.

> A key part of the definition of vibe coding is that the user accepts code without full understanding.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
by jader201 | 2025-08-19 02:37:34+00:00
I won’t argue with the fact that these systems are designed to defeat your ability to control your habits.

But it is possible, without having to install tech to defeat these systems for you.

I think, as with most bad habits, the easiest way to defeat them is to never start them to begin with.

If you haven’t ever smoked, don’t start. If you haven’t ever gotten hooked on Shorts/Reels, don’t start.

I watch YouTube quite often, but only long form content. I even watch some content that takes me multiple nights to finish (e.g. a 5-hour stream of a great board game). I think the only time I’ve watched a Short was accidentally, or if someone shared one with me (fewer than a handful of times).

It also helps if your friends/family don’t do those things too (e.g. so they don’t keep sharing them with you).

But 100% agree that ideally, platforms would give us control over the types of content that show up.

The best I can do on YouTube is to subscribe to channels that don’t do Shorts, and only use Subscriptions as my feed. This has been quite effective.

I don’t even use Instagram (and definitely not TikTok).

My biggest vices are HN and Board Game Geek, but I feel that’s relatively tame (but I could still have healthier habits even with those).
by Sn0wCoder | 2025-08-19 02:38:06+00:00
Here ya go https://kaplayjs.com/ https://kaplayjs.com/docs/guides/starting/ https://www.mapeditor.org/docs/scripting/ https://phaser.io/ https://phaser.io/tutorials/making-your-first-phaser-3-game/... https://www.aseprite.org/
by alex1138 | 2025-08-19 02:38:37+00:00
I think (especially with regard to Cambridge Analytica, where even if you disregard the political thrust of the narrative, it shows Facebook is careless with data; the general principle of privilege escalation where some subset of accounts unlock all the other ones) it's one thing to dismiss the hatred of Zuckerberg as a left wing vs right wing thing (except that the newsfeed is a filter bubble, it's not organically showing you friends' posts) when the reality might be more sinister, that he'll bow to anybody

Exhibit A: A general history of theft and backstabbing (which continues to today - see: Snapchat)

Exhibit B: "If you need info on anyone at Harvard just ask, they 'trust me', dumb fucks"

It's about treating EVERYONE across the political spectrum like subhuman garbage, being infinitely adaptable to whoever's in power at the time

(I say this as someone who thinks Google does far too much censorship, that the Twitter Files were a real and serious thing and that coercion during covid was real)
by westurner | 2025-08-19 02:39:14+00:00
Spiking transistors model non-linear change in state. Would spiking transistors be useful for physically realizing the "explosive" behavior modeled in "Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds" (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02326

"Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08742-4

Are spiking transistors useful for this too?
by aaron695 | 2025-08-19 02:39:19+00:00
Here's what robotic mowers blades look like to understand how they work - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/676d76e61268a4...

We just got a Sunseeker X7 to do ~4 acres of grassed area but probably ~2 acres will be garden beds and roads etc

The hardware is there, it's all software now.

People talk about updates and the robot improved amazingly, comments like - "these scuffs are from pre-update"

These are Elon's updateable cars, they will get better with time. (Sunseeker is also camera not yet LiDAR)

Robotic mowers are better than humans, there are a few if's and buts, grass nerds compare the cuts on a grass blade on YouTube for instance.

With a robot you can set blade lengths for areas and be seasonal/weather orientated. The constant cuttings mean the nutrients get shredded back in.

The Chinese seem to be the best... but that might have been my price bracket.

Obviously since you can run them at night at 3am you quickly see other uses like security/wildlife auditing. Exciting times to live in.
by ronwg | 2025-08-19 02:40:00+00:00
Been a user since day 1, the workflow is neat and how AI dev should look like IMO. Clearly the pricing has killed the vibe, but it does hint to where the market is predictably headed for it to be a sustainable business for non-model companies. Until Amazon address the developers' feedback, I made these Claude Code commands to easily replicate the spec-driven development flow in CC: https://github.com/ronwg/spec-driven-dev