MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jhickok | 2025-08-21 12:19:14+00:00
not OP, but the only way for me and my 3 kids (2 high school, 1 junior high) to keep everything straight between appointments, sporting events and practice, work schedules (2 kids have jobs) is to use a shared calendar. We learned early a few things, like 1. don't get cute and put padding because you are worried about being late, it messes with other people 2) don't put reminders, they confuse people 3. if it isnt in the calendar, it isnt happening

We used our calendar for a recent road trip to keep everything sorted. Even on vacations, if you are doing more than chilling at a campsite, it can be very useful for the same reasons.
by tete | 2025-08-21 12:19:16+00:00
> That is a weird take, to install SmartOS inside a VM for anything else than a PoC. SmartOS is meant to run on bare metal and host its own VMs / zones. It works either way of course but it's funny for an "Illumos cafe" to not go full on Illumos on the setup.

And yet we live in a world of cloud computing running OSs in VMs.
by juanviera23 | 2025-08-21 12:19:46+00:00
hey man, I get it, we're using fancy words

But we're real people working on a real protocol that we feel improves on the status quo, and calling it 'trash' because it doesn't fit your vernacular is unnecessary, and dare I say hurtful

So pls, if you have feedback, happy to improve on it, but don't just dismiss it
by colanderman | 2025-08-21 12:19:50+00:00
From your own link:

> The trapsleds implemented in this diff convert NOP sleds longer than 2 bytes from a series of 0x66666690 instructions to a 2 byte short JMP over a series of INT3 instructions that fill the rest of the gap.

The BMI instructions in the article are not jumping over breakpoint (INT3) instructions. They're conditionally jumping backwards by some amount.

Why in your belief is this? Please use your own words or a relevant direct quote to state your understanding of how a trapsled works.
by bko | 2025-08-21 12:20:40+00:00
I think another framework is blank slatism.

For instance, you can look at two countries and if one country has a higher prison population, that country over polices because every country and its people should have the same criminality level because all cultures and people are identical.

I remember feeling great shame that the US had such a high imprisonment rate. This led to a big decrease in state prison population and things like cashless bail and letting people go to basically like the stats. We need to get back to basics and remove people that are destructive and stop overanalyzing things
by adidoit | 2025-08-21 12:21:38+00:00
I'm sure someone will say this, but of course, having a plan is useless, but planning itself is priceless.

The reality you must accept is that life will just happen to you, and not just unexpected events, but transitions in your own needs, desires, and wants. Your plans will change.

One part of the planning fallacy that is perhaps understated is how much your internal locus will change over time. There are periods in your life where you chase money, status, impact, etc. And then there are other periods in your life where you chase knowledge, understanding, stillness.

Just know the tradeoff you make with any approach and structure.

The biggest challenge with the approach the OP explains is that you tend to have a very instrumentalist way of looking at the world. Every day, every interaction is in service of these goals. Obsession isn't healthy forever but it is useful in periods
by jjice | 2025-08-21 12:21:46+00:00
I'm sure trading on margin is for some reason actually a positive concept for the economy at large for reasons I can't understand, but god damn does it feel like a bad idea to see huge spikes of debt to prop up what already feels like an absurdly out of balance market.

I don't know how to actually tell if the market is overvalued, but man when I see Palantir has a PE of like 500, Tesla almost 200, and Apple is like 35, I can't help but think there too much hype.

But I have literally no idea. Macroeconomics is way out of my wheelhouse, and I'm usually wrong.

Here's to an index fund...
by eitland | 2025-08-21 12:22:18+00:00
I switched to DuckDuckGo about seven years ago, added Marginalia when it became available, and then moved over to Kagi three years back. I made the change because I was utterly fed up with Google trying to be cleverer than me.

Looking back, I’m increasingly glad I became an early adopter - Kagi has proven to be as much of an improvement over Google as Google once was over its older rivals.
by jack_newmann | 2025-08-21 12:23:46+00:00
Humor me -- different how?

India should ignore US support of a nation that sends terrorists to target their civilans... but should proactively care about a war happening thousands of miles from them?

That too, to the extent that the entire country shifts to a much more expensive source of fuel, burning bridges with their longtime ally... I don't really see why they should do that.

Edit: Rephrased my point to be argumentative instead of accusatory
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-21 12:24:06+00:00
I can’t tell if you’re being tongue in cheek or not, so I’ll respond as if you mean this.

It’s easy to cherry pick a few bets that flopped for every mega tech company: Amazon has them, Google has them, remember Windows Phone? etc.

I see the failures as a feature, not a bug - the guy is one of the only founder CEOs to have ever built a $2T company (trillion with a T). I imagine part of that is being willing to make big bets.

And it also seems like no individual product failure has endangered their company’s footing at all.

While I’m not a Meta or Zuck fan myself, using a relatively small product flop as an indication a $2T tech mega corp isn’t well run seems… either myopic or disingenuous.
Show HN: A prompt directory directly integrated into your LLM
by jacobhm98 | 2025-08-21 12:24:20+00:00
I built Minnas: a prompt and resource directory directly integrated into your local LLM.

With it you can discover popular prompt/resource collections on our [directory](https://minnas.io/directory), add them to your account, and connect it to your LLM using the MCP protocol so that they instantly become available in your workflow.

You can also publish your own prompt collections, or share them directly with your team to give your teammates instant access to your handcrafted prompts.

I hope you find value in it! Also, please don't hesitate in letting me know if you spot any bugs or areas for improvement.

Feel free to let me know if you're missing any prompt collections from the directory, and I'll do my best to add them.
by Llamamoe | 2025-08-21 12:24:49+00:00
I just wonder what the cost of the enshittification of the web to humanity is.

There was a time where I could type a loose query about anything I didn't know, and get its Wikipedia page, forums and blogs full of knowledgeable people, scientific articles and academia pages, where all knowledge was a few seconds of typing away.

Now... I don't even bother to Google things anymore. It's all SEO spam, AI slop, and ghostwritten articles whose content is secondary to the business they advertise.
by oulipo2 | 2025-08-21 12:25:00+00:00
(Gouach co-founder here) We're happy to be on the front-page, here to reply to any of your (many) questions!

We've been testing our batteries for 3+ years on an existing free-floating mobility fleet with our friends from Pony in France, they've been sustaining heat, cold, rain, snow, shocks, people throwing them in rivers, etc, and we've been able to improve them incrementally!

Today we're very proud of our product: it matches the performances of the best brands, it offers connectivity, and we plan to open-source the protocol and make it hackable, so you anyone can use it on any bike!

For now we've reverse-engineered and reimplemented major protocols (Bosch, Bafang, Brose, etc)

Happy to take any question you might have, and if you're interested, you can order a battery here :) https://gouach.com/products/infinite-battery-complete-kit?va...

(BTW: we've been trying to reach out to Louis Rossman to talk about what we do on his Right to Repair podcast, but couldn't reach him, perhaps he's here, or someone could ping him to know if he'd be interested? we love what he does and he was a source of inspiration for us!)

Oh: and of course, since this is HN, I have to mention that we coded our firmware in Rust!
by hmry | 2025-08-21 12:25:14+00:00
In terms of format string syntax, Rust is extremely similar to Python (and C++'s new std::format is also similar). So in that sense it seems Python-style "{name:fmt}" has won. Though the others don't support arbitrary expressions inside of the string.

On the other hand, you have formatting as an expression that evaluates to a string like f"..." in Python, vs formatting as a set of functions that take the same input format but do various things like printf/snprintf/write!/format!/std::print/std::format... Here it seems Python's approach had too many drawbacks, considering they just added formatted templates t"..." that don't evaluate to a string.

If I were to design a new language, I would use a Python-like "{expr:fmt}" syntax for formatting, but I would make it evaluate to some sort of FormatTemplate object that code can inspect.
by oulipo2 | 2025-08-21 12:25:22+00:00
(Gouach co-founder here) A lot of people would prefer to not have to care, but many of them do care because they know it's the major "consumable" part of their $3000+ e-bike investment, and they want to know if it will last long, if it's robust, and if it can be repaired in case it's needed

Additionally, we've seen more and more customers wary of the environmental and social cost (children mines, etc) linked to lithium batteries, and who are looking for more durable solutions
by kube-system | 2025-08-21 12:25:28+00:00
I bet it works better for Costco because they don't stock any items with weights low enough not to be registered by the scale.

Also, the last time I went to my local Costco, you were no longer permitted to check yourself out at the self-checkouts. They didn't remove them, but they had started using them as cashier-staffed checkouts.
by troupo | 2025-08-21 12:25:42+00:00
> It will very confidently "answer" your question in a way that is convincing but if you actually try to click through you may find that the answer is straight up wrong.

It's the "it's wrong about the area I'm an expert in, but I feel it's correct in areas I'm not familiar with", but on Google's scale.

It's worse be cause it can be very subtly wrong.
by oulipo2 | 2025-08-21 12:26:38+00:00
(Gouach co-founder here) Thanks for your question! You can see the exact specs on the Gouach website here https://gouach.com/products/infinite-battery-complete-kit?va...

The battery itself is 3.3kg, so quite comparable to other models, keep in mind it comes with a sturdy aluminum casing.

What we mean by "replacing" is that you can change the cells of the battery yourself (or by asking at your local bike shop), so you don't need to trade-in the whole battery! This makes you gain time and a lot of money!
by Gareth321 | 2025-08-21 12:26:58+00:00
I rarely get angry about bad content but RoP felt like a personal affront. I love Tolkien's world and the people who put RoP together did so with not just ignorance and incompetence, but some kind of malice. They intentionally butchered Tolkien's writing and world. This stands in such stark contrast with Peter Jackson's position that it is not his right to inject his personal values and narcissistic hubris into the movies. He chose to honour the material as best he could while adapting it. It is, without any shadow of a doubt, the better approach.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-08-21 12:27:00+00:00
Yes.

Perhaps it was this: Lets hit the market fast, scoop up all the talent we can before anybody can react, then stop.

I don't think there is anybody that would expect they would 'continue' offering 250million packages. They would need to stop eventually. They just did it fast, all at once, and now stopped.
Show HN: Slitherlinks.com – Play Slitherlink Puzzles Online
by sagasu007 | 2025-08-21 12:27:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Slitherlinks.com — a site to play Slitherlink puzzles (also known as “Loops” or 数回) in the browser.

Some features: • Daily puzzles with varying difficulty (easy → hard). • Multiple grid sizes: 5×5 up to 15×15. • Accounts, trophies, and leaderboards if you like competition. • Simple interactions: click to draw/erase a line, right-click (or Ctrl+click) to mark an edge with ×. • Tech stack: Next.js + TypeScript + PostgreSQL + Phaser.js, responsive design (desktop & mobile).

I enjoy logic puzzles a lot, so I wanted to create a smoother, more accessible Slitherlink experience. This is my first time sharing it here, and I’d really appreciate your feedback: • Is the UI/UX intuitive? • How is the mobile experience? • Any features you think are missing?

Try it here: https://slitherlinks.com

Thanks!
by Timwi | 2025-08-21 12:27:54+00:00
> Why abuse .class files for data storage

The only alternative is to have the data in a separate file, which needs to be available, read in, and parsed. .NET/CLR provides a mechanism to bake large objects into the assembly and I don't see that as abusive. It's way more convenient when you can treat the object as being “just there”.
by ehnto | 2025-08-21 12:27:56+00:00
That doesn't really challenge what I said, there's not much "different this time" except the scale is commensurate to the era. Search engine crawlers used to take down websites as well.

I understand and agree with what you are saying though, the cat and mouse is not necessarily technical. Part of solving the searchbot issue was also social, with things like robots.txt being a social contract between companies and websites, not a technical one.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-21 12:28:11+00:00
I assume you mean an S&P500 tied index fund?

I asked "a friend":

• Meta (META) ~3.1 %

• Alphabet (GOOGL + GOOG) ~3.8 %

• Tesla (TSLA) ~1.6 %

So just under 9%. Significant, I suppose, for just 3 of 500 stocks.

EDIT: since "etc." was mentioned, I thought I'd toss in some of the other top stocks in the S&P500:

• Apple Inc. (AAPL) ~6.7 %

• Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). ~6.6 %

• NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) ~6.0 %

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) ~3.8 %

Another 20% or so. So the above seven stocks comprise about 30% of the S&P500 (Apple, Microsoft and NVIDIA are the "Big 3" at about 20% when combined).
by dsign | 2025-08-21 12:28:20+00:00
Dishonest strawman? I sincerely understood the post implied China produces only junk, which I thought was an unfair statement. My apologies.

In a second read, now I understand that the post implies that China produces lots of junk that then they magically teleport to the doorstep of unwilling Americans, who then snare on the junk and fall when they are trying to leave their houses to buy American-made high quality goods, thus thwarting the good business and good intentions of that economy /s.

Look, I'm okay if people want to have their government impose on them what they should buy and they should not, on the principle that national capital should get a bigger slice of the pie. But if you are going to allow the government to decide that for everybody, you may as well not stop there and let the government decide on other matters, like healthcare, education, and economic incentives for society.
by vendiddy | 2025-08-21 12:28:31+00:00
The vision sounds interesting but I think if they have two challenges they will need to overcome to compete in the IDE space

1) Their LLM integration needs to be at the quality of Cursor and VSCode to pull people away from those

2) Reduced friction to move over (keyboard shortcuts, common plugins, etc)

I think the Zed team is perfectly capable of winning. The bigger risk would be them trying to tackle fancy stuff before making sure the basics are good enough to get developers to switch.

They need to build up a deep understanding of why folks are sticking to Cursor/VSCode and not swapping over.

P.S. I would love for Zed to win in the market because I'm sick of slow software and it's refreshing to finally see an intense focus on performance.
by oulipo2 | 2025-08-21 12:28:48+00:00
(Gouach cofounder) There's an app which shows you the voltage level of each cell, and the battery will auto-rebalance them!

For second-life cells, you indeed have to match the cells, we don't necessarily expect people to do that themselves, but we will partner with battery recyclers to get second-life cells, test and match them, and sell back those packs at a lower price as an additional revenue stream for the recycling industry!

Our battery would be perfect for this kind of use-case

For the shaking of contacts, rest assured that: our batteries get tested by third-party authorities like any other batteries, and go through intense stress-test (check https://www.instagram.com/p/C-c_NEbtE4N/ for an example)

And as a second proof, our batteries have been in use in a free-floating mobility startup, Pony, for around 3+ years, they have been subjected to all kind of heat, cold, rain, snow, people kicking bikes, people throwing bikes in the river, etc, and they are working great!
by wsc981 | 2025-08-21 12:28:59+00:00
I noticed the app section included VPN.

Recently I've been looking for some VPN solution and found that many are quite expensive, though often you get a decent enough discount if you subscribe for like a year or longer. Also, I believe many services are probably not trustworthy (regardless of their claims).

A very affordable alternative is a DigitalOcean droplet with PiHole. You can connect with this VPN with Wireguard, which will probably work just fine on Mavericks. Been using this now for a couple of months and no issues. My costs are probably around 3-4 USD per month, but I don't use VPN all the time.
by _heimdall | 2025-08-21 12:29:30+00:00
> The difference I see is that, conversely to websites like pets.com, AI gave the masses something tangible and transformative with the promise it could get even better.

The promise is being offered, that's for sure. The product will never get there, LLMs by design will simply never be intelligent.

They seem to have been banking on the assumption that human intelligence truly is nothing more than predicting the next word based on what was just said/thought. That assumption sounds wrong on the face of it and they seem to be proving it wrong with LLMs.
by wjnc | 2025-08-21 12:29:43+00:00
Question for the Deutsch HN-ers: Is this readable to your modern eye? Letter for letter I can see the relation to the handwriting I was taught in Dutch in the 80s, but as a text it looks like sanskrit to me. Obviously learnable, like learning greek or other foreign ciphers. But I would not imagine a neighbouring language written down less than a century ago to seem so foreign.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-21 12:29:43+00:00
Books are already zero-rated in Ireland and a few other countries. (For a long time, _e-books_ were subject to full VAT in Ireland even though books were zero-rated, but this eventually got fixed.)

In general, sellers are obligated to use the VAT rate of the buyer's country, though there's a lot of messiness around the edges there.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-21 12:29:51+00:00
Taken to its extreme, any system of government is bad. The people you list there have one thing in common and it's not socialism: they were all malignant narcissists. A malignant narcissist in charge of any government -- left or right wing, communist or capitalist -- will create chaos, death, and destruction. Witness now, the American government falling into fascism under the leadership of yet another malignant narcissist. If things keep going this way, the US will suffer the same fate as the USSR. Not because the US fell to socialism, but because it fell to narcissistic authoritarianism.

Mamandi, for his part, is not a malignant narcissist, so New York should probably not turn out like Soviet Russia. The US as a whole on the other hand may not be so lucky.
by earthnail | 2025-08-21 12:30:20+00:00
The analogy is a good analogy. It is used to demonstrate that a larger workforce doesn’t always automatically give you better results, and that there is a set of problems that are clear to identify a priori where that applies. For some problems, quality is more important than quantity, and you structure your org respectively. See sports teams, for example.

In this case, you want one foundation model, not 100 or 1000. You can’t afford to build 1000. That’s the one baby the company wants.
by crote | 2025-08-21 12:30:40+00:00
It starts to make a lot more sense when you realise there is a huge group in the US actively trying to make the government fail. It's pretty hard to make a good and user-friendly website when every few years some high-level people try to kneecap you.

These aren't unsolvable problems. The UK, for example, had invested a lot of time and effort into making their websites user-friendly. In most countries filing taxes online is something you can do during your lunch break - without paying the Turbotax maffia. Driver's license? You can order that online, and make an appointment for a 15-minute window to pick it up.

If interacting with the government is painful, it is almost always because someone benefits from it being painful.
by cubefox | 2025-08-21 12:31:06+00:00
Indeed, Google makes most of its money from ads embedded in its search results. As people are increasingly moving from Google Search to ChatGPT, this creates a huge revenue shortfall.

It is probably the main reason why the Alphabet stock isn't performing particularly well despite the general AI gold rush and Gemini 2.5 being close to ChatGPT in performance.
Show HN: I built a tool to help you quickly understand MBTI personality types
by olivefu | 2025-08-21 12:32:57+00:00
I'm excited to share a small project I built: easymbti.org. It's a simple tool designed to help you quickly understand the 16 MBTI personality types in the clearest, most straightforward way possible.

I noticed that many existing MBTI resources are often full of jargon and lengthy descriptions, which can make it hard to grasp the core concepts. easymbti.org aims to solve that problem.

What makes it different: Minimalist Design: I stripped away all unnecessary clutter to focus only on the essential information. You can find any type in seconds and see its key traits.

Neutral Descriptions: The site offers objective, non-judgmental descriptions. I believe every personality type has unique strengths and challenges, and the tool reflects that.

Focus on Key Points: Each type is summarized with a few core keywords, so you can immediately get a sense of its main characteristics.

This was a fun, simple project to build, and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Whether you have feedback on the design, the content, or suggestions for new features, please share them in the comments below.
by oulipo2 | 2025-08-21 12:33:43+00:00
We're going to produce larger batteries for vespas, golf carts and scooters too!

Our repairable battery is actually quite convenient even for recyclers: many studies have shown that if you can get pristine cells, without all the casing / electronics / plastic parts as you're recycling the cells, you get back a much more pure recycled lithium at the end of the process!
by lewiscollard | 2025-08-21 12:34:14+00:00
> What about the alternating green bars?

body { background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, white 0%, white 1em, #7cb8a6 1em, #7cb8a6 calc(1em + 1px), #dbfcf5 calc(1em + 1px), #dbfcf5 calc(2em + 1px), #7cb8a6 calc(2em + 1px), #7cb8a6 calc(2em + 2px)); background-size: 100% calc(2em + 2px); }

adjust colours to taste :) extra credit if you implement dark mode!
by sevensor | 2025-08-21 12:34:45+00:00
What amazes me about this phenomenon and so many others is just how long the executive class are willing to stick with a counterproductive trend. RTO, open offices, development methodologies that disempower the developers, devops without people who understand ops, databases without dbas, Business Intelligence in basically every flavor. The unoriginality and lack of independent thought are striking. It’s as if they would rather fail doing the conventional thing than risk failure by doing something different.