MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by N2yhWNXQN3k9 | 2025-08-18 07:34:32+00:00
> It makes you wonder what obvious thing is being ignored right now

Not really, 40% of the US believes they were created (or are descendant of) by a divine being (creationism), in spite of all evidence, so pass that hurdle first

> I would not be 100% surprised if people in the future accepted things like 'ghost experiences' as normal things.

Like 20%-66% of the US believes this today? No one is experiencing the reality you are, ever, something to keep in mind, IMO.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-08-18 07:35:01+00:00
Economics doesn't measure wealth, it measures money, which is a proxy for political power and social status. In economics those are primary, and everything else is labelled an externality.

Wealth in an anthropological sense means the extent to which a culture is increasing its collective intelligence - its ability to understand itself and the world, and to invent and create more interesting and open possibilities for humans to live in and explore.

It's assumed technology is the only way to do that, but that might not be true. Technology is a harsh medicine with spectacular benefits but terrible costs and side effects.

There might be other processes which get to the same ends in more subtle ways.

This culture certainly likes to believe it's the only possible game in town. But cultures tend to do that - until something changes and they discover it's not true.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-18 07:35:57+00:00
Electrification of transport and home heating already required a 2-3x increase in electricity supply. If your grid isn't planning for that until AI and still makes no mention of it in future plans then you should be asking questions.

Check out the graph of China's electrification.

https://preview.redd.it/china-is-electrifying-far-faster-tha...
by leokennis | 2025-08-18 07:37:02+00:00
Same here...NextDNS randomly started intermittently breaking all connections to Apple (iCloud file sync, Apple Music etc.) and basically nothing was done about it.

Moved to AdGuard DNS, very happy with it. They have random sales throughout the year where you can buy a few years of discounted service in advance, so the cost is next to nothing...
How Will AI-Driven Learning Platforms Reshape Enterprise Upskilling?
by thiruarasu | 2025-08-18 07:38:53+00:00
Enterprises are struggling to keep pace with fast-evolving tools, frameworks, and platforms. Tekstac has been experimenting with AI-based adaptive learning for tech teams. Curious how others here see AI’s role in reskilling at enterprise scale: Will it actually improve retention and talent pipelines, or just add noise?
by PaulRobinson | 2025-08-18 07:39:33+00:00
Complacency - particularly a sense of you being on top in the natural order of things - will kill you, one way or another. No empire has ever survived it from the Romans to, the British empire to, well, I guess Boeing. Business textbooks are rammed with stories of complacency gutting market-dominating corporates (IBM, Kodak, Xerox), and the big reckoning seems to be coming for the likes of Boeing, GM, Ford, and many more. In tech, the assumption that the new hot like OpenAI is going to win all seems far-fetched as the complacency is already there.

The interesting thing for me about this particular tale is the commercial genesis of Airbus and the incentives of the management team have led it to catch up despite Boeing have a 20-year head start.

When you're not totally absorbed by the share price, and instead you're trying to build a sustainable long-term business that can pay off decades (or generations), later, you get to make decisions that lead to a more sustainable and trusted business.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-18 07:42:02+00:00
I'm unconvinced the syntax makes a genuine difference. But always interesting to see what folks come up with!

Some notable others:

PreQL/Trilogy - https://github.com/trilogy-data/pytrilogy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40728938

Malloy -https://www.malloydata.dev/ https://github.com/malloydata/malloy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053860

PRQL - https://prql-lang.org/ https://github.com/PRQL/prql https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866861
by dns_snek | 2025-08-18 07:42:57+00:00
> will we also change our behavior

Yes, absolutely, we're shaped by everything we do, every interaction we have and every behavioral pattern we repeat over time. I don't think that's a controversial idea in the slightest. The extent of this is going to vary from person to person and probably depend on what proportion of time you spend interacting with bots vs well-adjusted humans and the younger people are, the stronger the effect will be, generally speaking.
Show HN: Founderly – an AI cofounder to take you from idea to launch
by arunbhatia | 2025-08-18 07:42:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been building www.founderly.xyz — a tool to help founders turn ideas into actual products.

The problem: a lot of people have startup ideas but get stuck because they don’t have a technical cofounder or the resources to hire one.

The approach: Founderly acts like an AI cofounder. Instead of being just one “assistant,” it spins up domain-specific agents (tech, design, marketing, legal) to guide you at different stages: • From rough idea → actionable plan • Plan → MVP • MVP → launch and early traction

We are opening early access soon. If you’re curious, you can join the waitlist here: www.founderly.xyz

I would love feedback from this community — especially around whether you see this as actually useful, and what would make it genuinely valuable to someone starting from scratch.
by LocalH | 2025-08-18 07:44:32+00:00
I think being in debt is too normalized. I know there are specific financial instruments, that if one is savvy, can use to be in debt but come out ahead. But for the average person, I do not think mortgages and loans should be so widespread. Schools don't teach the upper level of financial suave, and neither do most parents who aren't already wealthy.

We should normalize buying a home and owning it outright, even if it takes more up-front capital. It's something that should have been done when housing was cheaper, if you ask me. Me and my girlfriend watch a lot of House Hunters on HGTV and almost every episode concerns someone buying a house with the expectation of mortgaging, so that they can get a house beyond their immediate means.
by weinzierl | 2025-08-18 07:44:58+00:00
To add to that the W3C maintained the Amaya "browser", or web editor how they liked to call it, for like a decade and a half, as their vision for the web.

I think it was not just an appealing idea but Amaya itself was a solid implementation for a "testbed" (again, their words).

I can see why it died but I still think it is a bit of a shame it did.
by karamanolev | 2025-08-18 07:45:12+00:00
I have an interesting story with non-scientific medicine. Normally, I'm a very science-oriented person—"read the paper or it didn't happen." I will even avoid reading a news article about the paper; I'll just go and read the paper itself. The way I treat my illnesses and injuries is the same. That being said, I suffer a lot from sore throats—I will get some flu, get better in 3–4 days, and then my throat will hurt for weeks. In a particularly bad bout, I tried waiting for 2 weeks with no improvement. I almost couldn't swallow. I went to the doctor and was prescribed antibiotics. That resolved it in about 24 hours, and I completed the full course. Three weeks later, the same thing happened. I waited 2 weeks to see if it would resolve on its own, and when it didn’t—antibiotics again. Of course, the problem came back only weeks later.

So I thought—I'm going to try homeopathy. What's the worst that can happen? I'm in pain anyway. I decided to try a scientific approach (not very, given N=1), so again I waited 2 weeks to see if it was going to resolve itself. It didn’t. I went to a homeopathic doctor and got a bottle with some "magic." It took 3–4 days for the symptoms to improve, but they didn’t come back for months. When they did, I jumped straight to the homeopathic medicine, and it helped in the same way it did the first time around. I haven’t used antibiotics for my throat since.

I have no explanation for this. There have been hundreds or thousands of studies on homeopathy, and my reading is that the consensus is that it's "quack medicine." Yet it clearly worked for me, and it worked better than antibiotics for that particular issue. What gives?
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-18 07:47:12+00:00
> Economics doesn't measure wealth

Economics measures a lot of things, including wealth. It often uses monetary units as as the units of measure for both stocks like wealth and the numerator of flows like income, but even then its not actually measuring money, its using various techniques to convert things into money-equivalents to have common units.

> which is a proxy for political power and social status.

“Wealth”, “political power”, and “social status” are different ways of saying “the ability to get other people to do things you want them to do”. They are different lenses on the same thing.

> In economics those are primary, and everything else is labelled an externality.

No, in economics “externality” is the label given to a cost or benefit accruing as a result of a transaction to a party other than a direct participant in the rransaction. These are important because they explain one reason why even if rational choice theory did hold (which it doesn’t), markets could produce non-ideal results, because market decisions are based on (and optimize in aggregate, if the assumptions of rational choice theory hold), only those costs and benefits that are internal to the transactions (that is, accruing to direct, voluntary participants in the transaction.)
by cik | 2025-08-18 07:47:27+00:00
The best person I ever worked with, understood that their soft skills were infinitely more important then their technical skills. They brought brilliant coding, architectural, and system design skills to the table. They were an amazing mentor - none of that was important.

This individual, inherently understood that the method with which they communicate, could be different for different individuals. As a result they changed their messaging, their body language, their wording, depending on with whom they communicated. They still said the same thing(s), but it was how.
by darthrupert | 2025-08-18 07:47:40+00:00
> You are going to indent your code anyway, so you might as well give the indentation some meaning.

Autoformatters came and fixed that problem. Nobody (except python, haskell and nim coders probably) wastes time indenting code anymore, you save and your code is indented. Nowadays, code that relies on whitespace and has no ending delimiters (like nim and python) gets awkward because the formatters have less information to go on. If your rust or typescript code formats to bad indent or none at all, you have an error.
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-18 07:47:50+00:00
>I see a lot of people use GPT the same way.

Some people do, but not everyone, because LLMs are capable of being more than that. The problem with the fictional setting is that this transactional use is often all you see, because that's the way the author has chosen to frame the story.

In real life, even a person who primarily uses an LLM as a tool may conclude it's intelligent after a particular conversation. Because if the LLM is capable of more than being an advanced Alexa, then at least you can discover that through your own personal use.

In fiction? You're stuck with whatever the author wants to focus on. How do you know if the Enterprise computer can be more than an advanced Alexa? It's not like you can use it yourself. You only know what the author shows you.

Your point about Voyager and The Doctor doesn't detract from mine; it's a good example of it. The computer like entity isn't something that's we are supposed to treat with potential sentience, until the Author decides that it is.

>But also, I disagree. People do ask "How are you feeling today?" to the holo programs. Hell, Paris makes a joke to Kim about how everyone falls in love with a holo character at some point. That it is the fantasy.

I was talking about the main computer, but regardless, don't you see how the framing is still there even with the holograms? As you said, Paris makes a joke about it. It's treated as a silly phase, something unserious that people grow out of. The narrative is telling the audience not to take it too seriously.

>> Or Star Wars droids could easily be given more of this kind of weight than they are currently given. I disagree. Some feel very alive.

And that's exactly the point. They feel very alive, yet how many people (in the audience or in the story) are concerned that these seemingly sentient beings are treated as slaves and second-class citizens? Very few. Why? Because 'The Author' is not interested in telling that story. Characters only have as much fidelity as the Author wants.

>You can't just say that people have no free interpretation and "the author" fooled everyone.

It's not about lacking interpretation or being "fooled." It's the simple fact that a story is biased at its core by the author's focus and intent. You are seeing the world through the Authors lense. You can only form an interpretation on what the author has provided.

Very different from being able to spin up ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever and form your own conclusions from your own personal usage.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-18 07:50:31+00:00
True, although both of those are hard roads in a way. Finding one of the small number of tech or tech-adjacent jobs at non-tech companies can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, since you have to comb through so many companies looking for something they don't foreground. And turning a non-dev job into a tech job is even harder since you have to first get (and probably do a decent job at) the non-dev job.

It may be that this is inevitable. In fact it may be why these jobs have the advantages they do, because they're hard enough to get to that they're ignored by the people rushing for the "10x ultra high performing engineer" jobs.
by justanotherjoe | 2025-08-18 07:52:12+00:00
I think advocating is impossible to be done by managers effectively. There're just so many dimensions involved and it's genuinely non-trivial. The best workplace is where the employees advocate for each other. Because everyone notices different things about others, but they often just keep it to themselves. They assume just because it is revealed to them it must be obvious to others as well. Not so.

And advocating for yourself is just doomed to fail. But that doesn't mean you don't have a voice. You do, for others; due to the nature of how advocating works.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-18 07:52:48+00:00
Much better article with very real tips about what options to try than yesterday's (weirdly flagged/dead?) post on the topic. Which while I really enjoyed lacked substance; I was in the comments trying to provide a more useful basis with some real examples, but this is an exemplary list of awesome ways systemd can easily quickly readily provide aassive boost to isolation & security. Great write up!

Yesterday's, just in case: https://us.jlcarveth.dev/post/hardening-systemd.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44928504
by xyzzy3000 | 2025-08-18 07:52:57+00:00
The various Sun 'JavaStation' NC models retain the SPARC CPUs of their workstation line - they definitely do not use ARM.

JavaOS was in ROM, on a module that can be removed (SIMM-style form factor). At one point people started to use BOOTP to run Linux compiled for SPARC as a replacement, as JavaOS was unpleasantly slow on JavaStation hardware.
by kev009 | 2025-08-18 07:54:23+00:00
I grew up on 68k Macs so DOS was never something I thought much about aside from the occasional boot disk to run some firmware procedure later on when later Windows was well established.

Then later from a retrocomputing standpoint, I've come to see it is pretty fascinating:

1) The sheer volume of commercial software.. which is readily available on winworld, vetusware, and archive.org. A lot of it with sometimes awesome character-mode UIs (Borland's early IDEs are really spectacular, Lotus 1-2-3, and WordPerfect are still taken seriously by some users).

2) The memory model is quixotic and an interesting homage to the chaotic evolution of x86 that most later operating systems elide by requiring a 386. The 286 and 386 have drastically different protection schemes. EMS and XMS. The eventual DOS extenders and standards like VCPI, DPMI. It's honestly a mess but somehow interesting to see how people solved difficult problems.
by account42 | 2025-08-18 07:55:35+00:00
Ugh no thanks, AI upscales are exactly what I don't want and not something that should be mentioned in the context of fan projects like the 1977 star wars restoration which take great care to restore the original content instead of hallucinating higher resolutions.

My main problem is that the publicly available non-streaming releases are NOT 480p but 480i (actually even worse than that, partially interlaced and partially telecined) with horrible compression artifacts. With access to the production masters you could surely produce a better release than that.

Your "never" is also a needlessly strong word - people would also have said TOS and TNG remasters would "never" happen before they did. Also keep in mind that just because a company says something is not profitable it doesn't mean that they wouldn't make the money back - it could also mean that they just wouldn't make as much profit as they would doing something else. That means that even small changes to the equation or just someone pushing for it hard enough can sometimes tip the scales. Blu-ray sales declining are also not really an argument as streaming services didn't kill production of new series either. But we were also lucky that the trek remasters we got were faithful to the originals which is not guaranteed to be the case so maybe we are better off without more remasters in the current climate.
by lukan | 2025-08-18 07:55:46+00:00
No one ever said homeophaty has no effect. But there is no evidence it works beyond being a placebo.. which is what I suspect happened also in your case, whether your consciouss mind believes in homeopathy or not. You gave it a chance, so some parts of your mind decided it will magically work, so it did.

Oh and unlike homeopathy, leeches have a real effect besides placebo.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-18 07:57:05+00:00
Seems a bit obsessed with open source when abandonware like Borland C++ 3.1 and Pascal 7.0 are amazing.

Also, missing the very important, closer to primary sources, physical dead tree resources that are needed as reference to program things.

- Black Book of Graphics Programming (Special Edition) (now FOSS)

- Programmer's Guide To The EGA, VGA, And Super VGA Cards (3rd Edition)

- PC-Intern (where I learned how Central Point, Norton, and later FreeBSD made "GUI" with sub-character graphical pointers in text mode through custom fonts)

- Undocumented PC

- Undocumented DOS

- PC Interrupts (and) Uninterrupted Interrupts (Ralf Brown)

- Microsoft MS-DOS Programmer's Reference

- The Programmer's PC Sourcebook: Reference Tables for IBM PCs and Compatibles, PS/2 Systems, EISA-based Systems, MS-DOS Operating System Through Version 5

- (various hardware books by MindShare)

- Also useful would be real BIOS dumps and (dis)assembly, and MS-DOS source

- Emulators are no substitute for the real thing because the problem is that no emulator (commercial or otherwise) is faithful to the quirks, capabilities, and limitations of real hardware (in system, protected mode debuggers/profilers sure are nice though compared to triggering lockup, spontaneous reboot, or a beeping deadlock). If anyone remembers Bochs, its floppy behavior definitely doesn't act or look anything like a real FDC. (I submitted some patches for it many moons ago in college.)

(Yep, I own a "braindead" 286, 386DX, 486DX-100, Am5, and P5, P2, P Pro, and P4.)

Because if something can't work on real hardware and original OSes, then it's probably make believe. Prefer to make honest, real things wherever feasible.
by zvr | 2025-08-18 07:57:15+00:00
Wonderful project; loved the speed and responsiveness.

But a humble request: please make sure that the planned "AI integration" is completely optional, not compiled-in, or, even better, a sister project ("aidoxx"?).

Having the functionality of sending the contents of a Word document to any external service will be a red flag and block adoption of this tool in many environments.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-08-18 07:58:20+00:00
A320 and the 737 were designed in entirely different worlds.

The 737 was designed using light tables and slide rules, to use low-bypass turbofans and direct controls with avionics only on board to optionally aid the pilots.

The A320 was designed in CAD and using CFD, with full digital fly-by-wire, and designed from the start for high-bypass turbofans.

Both designs have been updated plenty since, but because the basic design is much more modern, the A320 is much more amenable to being updated. There are elements of the 737 design that still exist on every new MAX coming off the line that would completely doom the certification chances of any new design, but are still there because they got grandfathered in for 737.

The wonder is not that the A320 finally caught up in sales, it's that the 737 can still be legally sold.
by bflesch | 2025-08-18 07:58:42+00:00
I appreciate the storytelling and the nice graphics, but after reading 10 screen lengths of this story I still don't understand what technology they are using to achieve this.

Is it a lot of words to talk about localstorage? How exactly are the changes persisted to the HTML file? Is it using FileSystemAPI to overwrite the previous HTML file? How can they implement it seamless for the user without them having to choose the proper file in the "Save As.." dialog?
Show HN: We made a local-first LLM assisted journaling tool
by rakag | 2025-08-18 07:58:55+00:00
Unsatisfied with the AI journaling tools out there and scared of data leaks, a friend and I made re:memo during a 30 hour hackathon: an LLM assisted journaling app that is designed to run offline!

There's still a lot of work to be done, but I've been using it for myself and I'm glad I don't have to send my entire life story to an LLM inference API :)
by achenet | 2025-08-18 07:58:55+00:00
Thanks for your reply.

Doesn't saying that "professional arm candy" is sexist imply that it is a term limited to only one gender?

Also, fyi, I'm 32, I was born in Paris, moved to Houston when I was 6, to London when I was 18, to Paris when I was 19, then Marseille, Grasse, and Lyon.

I'm currently writing this from the Stockholm airport, waiting for my flight home to France, and I've never read Ayn Rand, because her work seems to completely ignore the importance of cooperation, which I believe is the key to a happy and successful life :)