MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cpursley | 2025-08-17 13:40:32+00:00
They wouldn't, they work for someone else and are isolated from the revenue making part of the operation. And the largest anti marketing screamers are often high paid devs part of VC funded companies that don't actually make any money (this is a VC forum, after all). Outside of the valley bubble, for those of us running profitable business, we have to find sustainable channels that work and get the word out. That said, there's a reasonable middle ground between being sleazy and scammy and actually offering value.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-17 13:41:39+00:00
That’s the neat part, you can just ignore them. Any consequences for continuing to shutdown and decommission these generators would be cheaper than what ratepayers would be paying to continue to run them. “You can just do things.” By the time any legal actions are resolved, it’ll be years from now after this admin is over.

You cannot be forced to turn coal generators back on that cannot be turned back on, or no longer exist.
by akk0 | 2025-08-17 13:43:07+00:00
Its failures only make me appreciate the weird HN title changing bot more. A ton of labor must go into manually tweaking titles all the time to make it work for what I'm sure is a strongly felt but ultimately very immaterial benefit compared to just structurally leaving titles unchanged.

For historical purposes, the title is now "New Cloudflare Pirate Site May Involve Domains. Big if true!
by Aachen | 2025-08-17 13:43:29+00:00
Try opening a bug report? https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis?tab=readme-ov-file#suppo...

Compared to Cloudflare and Google, you can actually talk to a human here and they might (I have no reason to believe the opposite) actually care about niche browsers whereas Google seems to test their products on browsers other than their own engine only after release (presumably people will get annoyed about these breakages/outages eventually and switch to a their browser or a rebrand thereof). There's no such conflict of interest here. I'm not aware of a better thing to use than Anubis or a self-written equivalent (my understanding is that it's a simple sha2 PoW)
by drweevil | 2025-08-17 13:43:33+00:00
>Those who doubt it will be seismic at all are people like me, who are even-keeled to the point of complacency.

Complacency indeed. I guess that, despite years of worrying about climate change, nobody is going to talk about the significant increase in energy use (and thus, climate impact) caused by AI? There is money to be made! Nothing to see behind the curtain!
by froh | 2025-08-17 13:43:48+00:00
especially Germany is a very poor example for this claim as school performance (PISA) in this country correlates with the parents academic background more than anything. if your parents aren't educated you can be intelligent AF and still will fail the German school system while you can be dumb as a brick but still make Abitur if your parents drill you through. in Germany.

and Welt is a media source with a right conservative agenda pushing the genetics narrative.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-08-17 13:43:59+00:00
> 1. […] convert the original image to something closer to a matte rendered mesh […]

Sounds interesting. Do you have any example images like that you could share? I understand the part about making transparent surfaces not transparent. But I’m not sure how the whole image looks like after this step.

Also, would you be willing to share the prompt you type to achieve this?
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-17 13:44:09+00:00
If you're calling g-factor "that which remains after you have eliminated all environmental factors", then you're not using the common definition. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics). To challenge your other assertion, I'll quote the article:

> The measured value of this construct depends on the cognitive tasks that are used, and little is known about the underlying causes of the observed correlations.

(We've had a lot of discussions of IQ on Hacker News. My observations suggest that everyone who supports it in more than 3 comments in the same thread is a scientific racist with a poor understanding of the research on IQ.)
by cauch | 2025-08-17 13:44:13+00:00
Not sure I understand. My point is that "having devs being more creative" does not always mean it is a good thing. If the dev is creating more inventive code that solves what they incorrectly think is the problem while not solving the real problem, then it is a waste of time and money.

I'm sure that, obviously, the dev is convinced that their inventivity is genius and solves the problem. But we need someone else, impartial, to estimate if the amount of code is worth it.
by bgribble | 2025-08-17 13:45:33+00:00
How else are you going to liquidity-stalk that company you left with some options or even shares?

I take my first cup of coffee with a little tea-leaf reading based on the activity of the CEO and my former coworkers. If you ever see more than 5 connections reacting/liking the same thing you know that HR or marketing sent out an email about it.
by Klonoar | 2025-08-17 13:48:12+00:00
I remain amazed that Seattle doesn’t do this for the 99 tunnel that goes under the city. People routinely fly through there at like 40 miles over what the limit is - and due to a bus lane addition going northbound, they exit the tunnel at a high rate into some very varied traffic.

The tunnel is a toll road that’s photo enforced. Should be an easy ticket in the mail if your enter and exit time are way too close or something.

(I’m guessing it might be the age old “can’t prove it was you driving” defense?)
Show HN: LlamaPen – An open-source web-GUI for Ollama
by ImDarkTom | 2025-08-17 13:48:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been using Ollama recently and wanted a GUI that's both powerful and able to run across multiple devices. Existing solutions like OpenWebUI didn't grab me since I'd have to install either Python or Docker just to run a GUI.

So I made LlamaPen. LlamaPen is an open-source, web-GUI that lets you interface with your local instance of Ollama without needing to install anything extra. It supports the basics like chats, conversations, and model selection, and also has additional features, such as model management & downloading, mobile/PWA/offline support, formatting markdown and model think text, and more.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ImDarkTom/LlamaPen

Official instance: https://llamapen.app/
by kylegalbraith | 2025-08-17 13:48:30+00:00
You should try this with Depot [0]. I’m a founder of it and this is definitely one of the use cases we built it for. We persist your layer cache to a real NVMe device and reattach that automatically across builds. No more needing to save your layer cache via networks or resource constrained GitHub Actions cache.

[0] https://depot.dev
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-17 13:49:36+00:00
Sounds more like you live in a better area then he does. And by better I mean with less issues, not richer necessarily.

While I admit that I don't live in the UK, I suspect it's similar to my experience from over the sea in Hamburg. I've recently moved there into a district with >50% migrants for roughly 3 yrs - not really expecting anything as I was still positive about everything.

Finding apartment listings in the online portals explicitly saying they will only allow Muslims was surprising to me, but I ignored it thinking, whatever.

Well, after moving into another apartment in the same area was an eye opener for me.

Really, I'm frankly surprised there are people still in denial how bad it's gotten. Well, not really surprised. I mean I was one of them in 2021.
by Aeolos | 2025-08-17 13:50:03+00:00
> I very much think that AIs with minds are possible

The real question here is how would _we_ be able to recognize that? And would we even have the intellectual honesty to be able to recognize that, when at large we seem to be inclined to discard everything non-human as self-evidently non-intelligent and incapable of feeling emotion?

Let's take emotions as a thought experiment. We know that plants are able to transmit chemical and electrical signals in response to various stimuli and environmental conditions, triggering effects in themselves and other plants. Can we therefore say that plants feel emotions, just in a way that is unique to them and not necessarily identical to a human embodiment?

The answer to that question depends on one's worldview, rather than any objective definition of the concept of emotion. One could say plants cannot feel emotions because emotions are a human (or at least animal) construct; or one could say that plants can feel emotions, just not exactly identical to human emotions.

Now substitute plants with LLMs and try the thought experiment again.

In the end, where one draws the line between `human | animal | plant | computer` minds and emotions is primarily a subjective philosophical opinion rather than rooted in any sort of objective evidence. Not too long ago, Descartes was arguing that animals do not possess a mind and cannot feel emotions, they are merely mimicry machines.[1] More recently, doctors were saying similar things about babies and adults, leading to horrifying medical malpractice.[2][3]

Because in the most abstract sense, what is an emotion if not a set of electrochemical stimuli linking a certain input to a certain output? And how can we tell what does and what does not possess a mind if we are so undeniably bad at recognize those attributes even within our own species?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_machine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4843483/
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-08-17 13:50:20+00:00
Also the fact that seems to be frequently missed with these titles is the HN guidelines specifically state that, except in cases of the original source having an editoralized title, the original title should be left as is

Edit: while im sure the 'may contain thousands of domains' could be considered editoralized, they provide a rational in the article for having come to that conclusion
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-17 13:50:22+00:00
Anecdotally, all of my friends across multiple friend groups found their vets via word of mouth. The only vet that I’ve visited that wasn’t word of mouth was an emergency vet (googled), although I later discovered that office was the one my vet recommended for after hours anyway.

In my area, the non corporate vets are turning new customers away and recommending other offices.
Show HN: Predict when you'll be financially independent
by yeahgoodok | 2025-08-17 13:50:30+00:00
As a burnt-out software engineer, I occasionally fantasize about not needing to worry about holding on to my job. To this end, I've been working on a calculator to help me count down the date until I achieve financial independence. This past weekend I've improved upon the calculator such that it can more precisely predict the date, within tenths-of-a-year.

I know not everyone is a fan of forecasting, or may have concerns about the underlying methodology behind dynamic withdrawals. Fortunately for you, the underlying withdrawal strategy is available on ficalc.app, where you can run historical simulations to see how it would have performed in various scenarios throughout US history. Just select "Dynamic SWR" in the Withdrawal Strategy dropdown.
by tomhow | 2025-08-17 13:51:03+00:00
Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44903803 - Aug 2025 (602 comments)

Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44924581 - Aug 2025 (107 comments)
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-08-17 13:51:57+00:00
I’m pretty sure it is an alternate reality, fueled mostly by bot interaction. If you look at the comment history on a post, much of the time it appears to be flocks of bots posting “Very Insightful”, and often identically duplicated comments.

The posts themselves are usually strawmen meme-level content trying to fuel the attention economy.

I can only figure that there’s a lot of fake accounts trying to score remote jobs from North Korea or something.
by schlipity | 2025-08-17 13:52:03+00:00
The site is designed poorly and is stopping me from reading the article. I use NoScript, and it immediately redirects me to a "Hey you don't have javascript enabled, please enable it to read" page that is on a different domain from the website the article is on. I tried to visit notion.site to try and whitelist it temporarily, but it redirects back to notion.so and notion.com.

Rather than jump through more hoops, I'm just going to give up on reading this one.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-08-17 13:52:19+00:00
Tools that reduce the barrier to entry to creating things make it easier to solve problems with less scale to pay for the overhead. Generative AI is among these tools, but so are low code platforms, so is React, so is AWS, heck, so is the power grid. But in recent times generative AI is a big leap forward.

We’re at the start of another cycle of a lot of niche products followed by the rise of big Acme megacorps who conquer them all economies of scale that compete on margin. It comes just as we’re at the tail end of this cycle with tech as we knew it for the last 50 or so years.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-17 13:53:08+00:00
Exactly. It feels like with LLMs as soon as we achieved the at-the-time astounding breakthrough "LLMs can generate coherent stories" with GPT-2, people have constantly been like "yeah? Well it can't do <this thing that is really hard even for competent humans>.".

That breakthrough was only 6 years ago!

https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

> We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text...

That was big news. I guess this is because it's quite hard for the most people to distinguish the enormous difficulty gulf between "generate a coherent paragraph" and "create a novel funny joke".
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-17 13:53:18+00:00
That does just do CMake time. Sorry if my comment was confusing. I forgot that I used a wrapper or something myself to collect the compile times. Anyway, my point is, you aren't the first person to have this issue. I've definitely profiled compile times before and viewed a flame graph with some gadget made by Google. The easiest way you to do it may depend on your compiler and build system. You could attack the problem from Ninja or Make, or by substituting your compiler binary for a wrapper script.

I also want to point out that if you want Ninja, it is a very minimal binary to build with no dependencies that wouldn't already be installed.

This is one of the simpler ways to find out what's going on: https://alangrow.com/blog/profiling-every-command-in-a-makef... Instead of replacing the shell you can also replace CC or CXX variables (if I recall properly) either in CMake or the Makefile to replace your compiler with a wrapper script that logs stuff.

More generalized Makefile profiling: https://github.com/konturio/make-profiler

Profiling with Clang: https://aras-p.info/blog/2019/01/16/time-trace-timeline-flam... (Maybe what I used last time...)

I am pretty sure you can get shiny outputs from a free profiling tool, but I think you can search for that yourself. It should be easy to find something. Good luck!
by orwin | 2025-08-17 13:53:45+00:00
I worked with Brussels for one of the 'h2020' projects, that checks out. COVID didn't change anything.

And this high level of pay have _no_ impact on corruption. Zero. None. In my experience, it's the opposite even.

Bureaucrats keep saying 'i don't think that's a good idea, let's ask the experts we hired what they think' and the elected/appointed official say 'lets do it anyway, my friend as SAP/Atos say we're good'.

French are the worst also, but maybe because I feel like Atos is the worst company that ever existed and appointed officials call them for everything. You want some subvention? Use 85% of it to buy their bullion shit, as well as their service contract (which is them basically sending mails to redhat because they're incompetent fucks). They hire incompetent at all levels. The few who aren't probably leave early.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-08-17 13:53:52+00:00
Boomer is now used to refer to a mindset and not just a generation.

Gen X very much became the boomers they hated. Half of the millennials I've known for years have become identical to the boomers they complained about 10 years ago. The millennials I know complain about zoomers being lazy and not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and using strange lingo and being addicted to things their generation wouldn't have tolerated. And they things they like suck but the thing millennials liked were "good".

Basically, boomer is anyone older than you and acts like a grumpy or entitled old person. Zoomer is anyone younger than you who makes you uncomfortable with your age.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-17 13:53:53+00:00
Texas has been going blue now any day now for 30 years. A deeply red state still had blue districts that could turn the house blue. Are you suggesting that we just turn the other cheek?

Gerrymandering is easy for Republicans since Democrats cluster in cities while Republicans are in rural areas and the burbs.

Democrats and leftists are high on ideals not understanding that this country has never cared about ethics or ideals. Despite what Michelle Obama says, this exactly who we are. It’s who we have been since slavery, Jim Crow laws that my still living parents grew up in, the Willie Horton ads, and the “Hatishs are eating your pets”.

Social postering hasn’t gone anywhere. In 2025, my 6 foot 2 son is still going to be looked at with suspicion by the police for living in a neighborhood “he doesn’t belong”. Even though he’s lived in the upper class burbs all of his life.

It’s Democrats focus on ideals that keeps them in the wilderness. They lost every single swing state last year. Your solution is just to do more of the same.
by dangus | 2025-08-17 13:53:54+00:00
In the places where it’s like that, enforcement is lax and you’ll never need a radar detector.

In the other places, it’s very simple to sit in the right lane and you won’t be going wildly slower than the rest of traffic. There are always trucks and governed vehicles on the road that are going the speed limit that you can swim through the stream with.

I used to be in the camp of defending the legality of radar detectors, and really I don’t think they need to be legal, but at the same time the only people buying them are dangerous assholes who treat public roads like their personal race track.

It takes at least one ticket to pay off the investment which means radar detector owners intend to be repeat offenders.
by jerf | 2025-08-17 13:53:59+00:00
I played with LLM humor over a year ago, so, on much worse LLMs, and even then, while I wouldn't have fed LLM content directly into a standup routine, they were very useful for idea generation, if you wanted to be a comedian. They have a very interesting outlook on humor.

Professional-grade humor is, like a lot of creative exercizes, more about generating lots of ideas and filtering through them for the best than generating nothing but good ideas. Could probably be leveraged into quite the interesting blog or something.
by yusege | 2025-08-17 13:55:01+00:00
It's not my country. However, it's disheartening to see the citizens of the USA view this move as acceptable. It's a populist move taken without any communication or consultation with locals. This is Trump's way to authoritarianism. He can negotiate with his allies about tariffs because he thinks it hurts the USA. But he just chose to bully his allies. But he always backs down from tariffs to dictators. He hasn't talked about the crimes in red states. He talks about the blue states 7/24. He has not been behaving responsibly. You are losing your democracy. I hope you can understand this in the future elections, if it's not too late to understand. And please read about 1914-1939 Germany.
by hliyan | 2025-08-17 13:55:38+00:00
The way I look at this is that the Adam Smith-ian free market makes the implicit assumption that market information (pricing, quality) disseminates via neutral, unbiased channels. However, the fact that influencing those channels is itself a commodity that is available on the market, paradoxically affects the operation of the market adversely.

If supplier A has a product of quality Q at price P, and supplier B has a competing product of quality 1.2Q or 0.9P, all else being equal, we would expect B to prevail in the market, or at least gain a superior market share. However, if A's marketing budget is superior, a larger percentage of the market will hear about their product sooner, and will gain traction earlier. Since all businesses have finite viability, B may go out of business before the market has time to correct the distortion brought on by A's marketing.

There was no solution to this in Adam Smith's time, but we now have something that points to a solution: aggregated reviews/ratings from verified purchasers, indexed or curated in such a a way that is uniformley accessible and conveniently query-able to all market participants. In an environment where such a mechanism is universal, theoretically, there should be no benefit to marketing.
by josephg | 2025-08-17 13:56:07+00:00
It’s in the word. “Imperative” means something like “urgent demand to action”. Imperative code is code where each line is a command for the computer to do something. Like functions in C - which are made of a list of statements that get executed immediately when they get visited.

C++ and Java are imperative languages because functions are expressed as a list of imperative statements. But there’s nothing inherently imperative about structs and classes. Or any of the concepts of OO. You could have encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism in a functional language just fine if you wanted to. Haskell fits the bill already - well, depending on your definition of OO.
by xp84 | 2025-08-17 13:56:30+00:00
I think this is really insightful. I would add that modern Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok add another dimension in that they try as hard as possible to discourage interactions among friends, by focusing on algorithm-based curation (and push everyone to vertical-video-swipe-mode for all but Twitter). It seems obvious that someone did the math years ago and determined ad dollars are better when people see friend posts nearly 0% of the time, replaced by posts from random mysterious “Pages” you don’t follow, celebrities you don’t follow, and viral public posts by complete strangers. People’s posts are increasingly for nobody to see, because unless they are public and go viral, they’re invisible.

So it’s like most of these “social media” sites are no longer social. They’re more like “targeted media feeds.”
by simonask | 2025-08-17 13:56:59+00:00
“Has safety features in place”? I’m sorry, not gonna cut it.

I mean, Nim looks cool, but I’m not sure what it does that is substantially new. Niceties are generally not enough to foster adoption - something real has to be on the table that meaningfully opens up new avenues, unlocks new paths, enables new use cases.

I have the same criticism of Zig.
by jappgar | 2025-08-17 13:57:10+00:00
LLMs are language models. Meshes aren't language. Yes this can create python to create simple objects, but that's not how anyone actually creates beautiful 3d art. Just like no one is handwriting svg files to create vector art.

LLMs alone will never make visual art. They can provide you an interface to other models, but that's not what this is.
by usernamed7 | 2025-08-17 13:57:49+00:00
very often i have had much better results starting with a new prompt instead of trying to continue a thread and refining from there. It has a huge impact on the quality of the output. chatGPT likes to regenerate code that has been "summarized" or is "high level" after only a few prompts back and forth. No amount of continual prompting helps. But a new chat it is much more willing to return the complete code.