MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unscaled | 2025-08-11 04:17:38+00:00
It's an interesting coincidence, but I think there is a reason that the te-form in Japanese is much more fruitful than "and" in English in producing these constructs. Japanese verbs have too conjunctive forms: te-form and ren'youkei[1] (continuative form). Ren'youkei、 is more formal and has a different but overlapping range of conditions in which it can be used. The "te-form" itself was originally[2] just the ren'youkei conjugation of a special auxiliary verb "tsu", that is used to mark a completed action.

Neither of these forms is nearly as flexible as the conjunction "and" in English. For one, they can only connect verbs and one class of adjectives, but another important point is that the actions described by the verbs need to occur sequentially in time, with the action marked by '-te' occuring earlier. You cannot use either of these forms to say something like "The dog kept jumping and wagging its tail" or "It's important to both eat and drink".

If we compare this to how linguists define "pseudocoordination" in English and other Germanic languages, then every instance of the te-form or ren'youkei in Japanese is pseudocoordination and not real coordination: you cannot reorder the verbs freely, you cannot add "both", and you can use an interrogative pronoun. Since these limitations apply to every use of the te-form and ren'youkei, not just the "special case" ones, it makes these form more amenable for building special construct. Add the fact that Japanese does not have an infinitive form, and you end up with either of these forms as the most natural way to attach auxiliary verbs in Japanese.

Now you end up with a plethora of constructions (demonstrated with the verb 作る tsukuru "to make"):

作ってみる tsukutte miru (make and see) try to make 作ってみせる tsukutte miseru (make and show) prove that [I] can make it 作っていく tsukutte iku (make and go) gradually make (or make more and more) 作ってしまう tsukutte shimau (make and complete) finish making or "oh shit he really ended up making that" (the MORE common meaning in this case) 作ってください tsukutte kudasai (make and give (imperative)) Please make

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_conjugation#Conjuncti...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/v08pbp/brief...
Show HN: QuotationGenie – Create and Track Quotes, Invoices, and Contracts
by Samrat_Neupane | 2025-08-11 04:17:43+00:00
With QuotationGenie you can: Create customized quotations in minutes Generate invoices and track payment status (paid, unpaid, overdue) Draft, send, and sign contracts digitally

I built this after getting frustrated with juggling multiple tools for quotes, invoicing, and contracts — now it’s all streamlined in one dashboard.

Would love your feedback on usability, features, and what you’d want to see next.

Thanks for checking it out!
by toasterlovin | 2025-08-11 04:19:14+00:00
Until Apple forced other chip makers to respond, nobody else was making high end phone processors. And their A series processors are competitive with and have transistor counts comparable to most mobile and desktop PC processors (and have for years). So the alternate reality where Apple isn't a TSMC customer means that TSMC is no longer manufacturing several hundred million high transistor count processors per year. In my opinion, it’s pretty likely TSMC isn’t able to achieve or maintain process dominance without that.

Update: To give an idea of the scales involved here, Apple had iPhone revenue in 2024 of about $200B. At an average selling price of $1k, we get 200 million units. Thats a ballpark estimate, they don’t release unit volumes, AFAIK. This link from IDC[1] has the global PC market in 2024 at about 267 million units. Apple also has iPads and Macs, so their unit processor volume is roughly comparable to the entire PC market. But, and this is hugely important: every single processor that Apple ships is comparable in performance (and, thus, transistor counts) to high end PC processors. So their transistor volume probably exceeds the entire PC CPU market. And the majority of it is fabbed on TSMC’s leading process node in any given year.

[1]: https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS53061925
by kazinator | 2025-08-11 04:19:15+00:00
"try and <clause>" is syntactically correct.

That is to say,

> I'm going to try and change the course of Hip-Hop.

can be parsed as

> I'm going to try; I'm going to change the course of Hip-Hop.

which has been subject to a well-understood extraposition process to factor out the leading "I'm going to" from all the clauses, so that a single copy of it distributes into all of them.

It's essentially the same as what is going on in the following unassailably correct sentence:

> I'm going to turn on the TV, crack open a beer, and watch the game".

Also note that this "and" is not something which exclusively pairs with "try":

> Linguists, go ahead and fight me!
by somat | 2025-08-11 04:21:05+00:00
I am not much of a programmer so I was trying to figure out what generics are. And I am sure they are great, but my inner gremlin goes in sarcastic tone "we want these elaborate type systems, but we also want typeless because that is far more convenient to use, so we invented generics, a method to untype your type system"

But really while I was reading up on what generics are I went, isn't that just python, strongly typed but your functions don't have built in type checks.
Show HN: Clip- Chrome Extension for your clipboard history and your Copi Links
by yelston | 2025-08-11 04:22:58+00:00
Clip is a chrome extension that I built recently as add on to Copi.

Copi allows users to easily share secure content to their customers and track their engagement. With Clip, users no longer need to log into our platform to get the links.

They will be able to access any of their Starred Copi Links via the chrome extension, and share the content with their customers on the go~

Feel free to give it a go, and let me know your feedback. Thanks!
by hattmall | 2025-08-11 04:23:00+00:00
Yeah, that was covered, it was an entrepreneurship class so one of the first things we learned was how to start an LLC and pay ourselves at least enough to get the EIC and to make sure we had enough years to qualify for Medicare. I remember one of the examples was about how Donald Trump licenses his signature and pays himself a royalty everytime he uses it or something similar.
by famahar | 2025-08-11 04:23:29+00:00
I'm curious what you think of games at low frame rate for artistic intention. I'm making a game and locking it at 30fps not for technical limitations, but because I actually like feel of it compared to the overly smooth high FPS. The game I'm making isn't fast paced so it feels appropriate. I sometimes lock my games to even 14fps.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-11 04:24:28+00:00
Dude, nobody wants to read a book of AI slop. If you aren't a good enough writer (or enough of a subject matter expert) to write a book yourself, then work at it, don't fake it by handing it off to an LLM. As it is, this doesn't just provide zero value, it provides negative value because it might mislead people into trusting it.
by soybeansoy | 2025-08-11 04:25:57+00:00
Yeah, it's because I had to remake the video to show on my car and figured it wasn't worth my time to make it completely identical. In both my recreation and (I'm fairly certain) the original, everything on the cars screen except the black on the top with the gray line is a video, the video I made just doesn't perfectly match the one they made.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-11 04:27:03+00:00
I agree. If we have to have age verification laws I'd rather they be applied to social media networks over some size than to porn sites.

That said, I think requiring ID is generally a bad idea regardless. Much better would be some standardized way for websites to tag the type of content in a header coupled with third party filtering solutions that could be applied at the network (ie firewall) or device level.
by antod | 2025-08-11 04:27:49+00:00
Yeah, one house I lived at would get these random silent vibrations that would rattle plates on shelves for about 15 to 20 secs.

Turned out it was one particular ferry in the harbor. It was a smallish catarmaran fast ferry and when it was coming in a curved path it was like a narrow beam of infrasound funnelled between the hulls swept around and rattled our place 5km away. It took quite a while to notice the pattern, but was a great party trick to see it coming and predict the rattle to guests.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-11 04:27:53+00:00
They seem to be missing the incipient disappearance of the -en form of verbs, with people saying things like "I should have went" instead of "I should have gone".

It isn't clear why they feature the constructions they do. They are titled "Yale Grammatical Diversity Project", but the constructions are not necessarily examples of grammatical diversity:

> Have yet to is a construction that appears in most, if not all, varieties of English.

> this construction appears to be distributed across speakers in all regions and demographic groups.

> Repetition clefts are quite widespread in English and can be observed as early as the mid-17th century

> They are robustly attested in contemporary North American English and are also used in the UK. Related constructions have been observed in Australian English (McConvell 2004) and in a corpus of New Zealand English speech as well

> the usage of repetition clefts does not apparently correlate with any sociodemographic features.
by kqr | 2025-08-11 04:29:32+00:00
Suggestions for first commands:

>I

You are carrying nothing.

>X ME

As good-looking as ever.

>X DOOR

The door to the north is ancient, stained, knotted wood. It looks terribly out of place here. In fact, it is out of place here. The door is closed.

>OPEN DOOR

You push the door open. It doesn't creak at all.

>ENTER DOOR

White Room

This is a comfortably cluttered room. Cluttered with bookshelves, mostly. To one side is a large desk, on which a computer squats regally. A lumpy couch is the only other furniture of note.

Beside the computer is a small glass box.

Resting on the couch, and snoring in a manner which you suspect infringes copyrights owned by several local earthquakes, is a huge genie. Honest.

From there the world's your oyster. I recommend examining (abbreviated X) any noun mentioned (shelves, desk, computer, box, genie, toys, puzzles, keyboard) and otherwise interacting with things as you might expect. This cheat sheet may help: https://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/play-if-card.pdf

Maybe try PRESS GREEN to launch into a REPL. To get to learn the objective, BREAK BOX might be necessary.
by TruePath | 2025-08-11 04:29:36+00:00
I really enjoyed the video but I think it can be a bit misleading. It gives the impression that it is the universal approximation property that make neural nets so effective when, of course, the learning algorithm: memorize the training data and on input x return the output y which was associated with the input nearest x -- also has the universal approximation property. Given training data from a continuous function f sampled via a distribution with non-zero density on interval I it will a converge to f (uniformly if I is a finite, and hence compact, interval). Nor does the geometric explanation at the start have anything to do with why neural nets are so effective.

I'm honestly unsure of the theoretical reason neural nets are so effective at language processing. But it certainly requires some characterization of the problem space (e.g. problems where the function to be learned has such and such property) since there are plenty of mathematical techniques for approximating well-behaved continuous functions with certain features that way outperform neural nets at learning various classes of mathematically nice functions..
by rayiner | 2025-08-11 04:31:14+00:00
Illegal entry, by itself, is not even a misdemeanor. But illegal aliens typically break numerous other laws to obtain employment and evade detection: https://cis.org/Report/Myth-Otherwise-LawAbiding-Illegal-Ali....

E.g. using false identification to evade eVerify probably can be charged as a felony under 18 USC 1028 or 18 USC 1001. I’d you work with a smuggler or cartel to gain entry, you can be charged with felonies under conspiracy laws. And nobody complies with 8 USC 1302, which requires aliens to register. That’s punishable by up to six months in prison. Ordinary speeding can’t carry jail time at least here in Maryland.
by K0balt | 2025-08-11 04:31:24+00:00
If you install fully shielded resistors it can work, but shorting the antenna completely will have the added benefit of destroying the RF amplifier transistors. From then on the car will just think it’s out of cell range, and there’s not much chance of leaky signal. It’s not too hard to make shielded loads though.

I do prefer the option of removing the entire cellular module though.

Any non-disable-able connectivity will be an absolute deal breaker for me on any vehicle I own. I guess that probably means I’ll be buying used vehicles for the rest of my life, but it is what it is.
by Thorrez | 2025-08-11 04:32:17+00:00
Is a newborn conscious? Is a dog conscious? If we want to value a newborn's life more than a dog, I think we need to consider more than just consciousness, but another factor: humanity.

So now there are 2 factors: continuation of consciousness and humanity. Is it possible 1 factor is more important than the other? There are several things that to me weaken the strength of the continuation of consciousness factor:

* It's continuation of consciousness instead of consciousness. Consciousness is somewhat intuitive. Continuation of consciousness is less so. Since it's a level removed from what's intuitive, that weakens the factor for me.

* Consciousness throughout life takes many forms. A newborn, an adult, someone with dementia, people with various other types of mental illnesses. It makes it hard to define consciousness.

* The fact that continuation of consciousness cannot stand by itself, it needs the other factor: humanity.

These 3 reasons make me think that humanity is more important than continuation of consciousness. In fact, I think humanity is so important that continuation of consciousness isn't essential. I think a human life is valuable even if consciousness hasn't developed yet.

> If in some weird universe (Asimov story) our life cycle had us develop as three independent beings which merged together at a later age, my answer would be exactly the same.

I'm not familiar with the story, but I think that's quite a different scenario. Those 3 beings each have value on their own, not because they might later merge into another being. Whereas a sperm and an egg have no value on their own.

The reason I dismiss the value of a sperm and an egg isn't because they can merge. If 3 adult humans could merge into 1 superhuman, I wouldn't dismiss the value of the pre-merged adult humans.

I say a zygote has value because it's a young human. It's growing into an adult human.

A sperm isn't a young human; it isn't growing into an adult human. An egg isn't a young human; it isn't growing into an adult human. A sperm and an egg that are nearby each other aren't a young human. Those 2 things aren't growing into an adult human. They might join or might not join. Or maybe some other sperm might zoom in real fast and fertilize the egg instead.

If the 3 independent beings were sitting in a room, would we call them 1 merged being? No. They're still 3 independent beings. Same with the sperm and the egg. Just because they're nearby each other doesn't make them a human life.

96% of biologists say human life beings at fertilization. Not when the sperm and egg are nearby each other.
by sneak | 2025-08-11 04:37:26+00:00
People have been trading off sleep deprivation for productivity for all of human history.

It isn’t always about money, and it isn’t always a choice.

It is a personal decision to build or destroy one’s body, and while your advice is maybe sound in general, we should avoid generalizing for other people.

A little bit of sleep deprivation isn’t life threatening (such as being significantly overweight, or smoking, or consistently eating unhealthy foods). We should avoid over-moralizing to others about the engineering tradeoffs they make in their own lives.

Many a family has been enriched by mothers and fathers overworking themselves to build a better life for their children, for example.

> Never sacrifice health for money. Never. Every idea that needs to be worked on more than 50 hours a week is an idea not worth working on.

If I had taken this advice verbatim in my 20s, I wouldn’t be able to frequently be working 20 hour weeks in my 40s. I would argue that speaking in absolutes like this is actually bad advice.

It is frequently a good thing to work yourself to burnout for a year or three if it means you can work at 20% for the following 20 years.
by sargstuff | 2025-08-11 04:38:31+00:00
Note: reply bit snarky per limited reply space.

Applied application would need to take into account 'relativistic' forward progress of disk aka 'cone'.

Cone longitutinal, "cone normal", can then be used to deform cone into taurus & initiate a load/store through 'wall' from pressure change. (or blocked in 'flip flop' fashion). aka 'multi-dimenstional' inverted UNIX/C "0" result of "while 0" vs. unix 'while !0'. (multi-dimentional punch card / transdimentional malloc)
Show HN: I made an AI-powered habit coach for people chasing big goals
by Stevinn | 2025-08-11 04:39:14+00:00
I built JustGrind as a personal execution partner — an AI chatbot that adapts to your goals, keeps you accountable, and nudges you back on track when you lose momentum.

Unlike generic habit trackers, JustGrind uses context from your onboarding to personalize prompts, track your consistency, and help you push through plateaus. It’s designed for entrepreneurs, builders, and anyone chasing ambitious targets who can’t afford wasted days.

Right now it’s in early release, and I’m looking for feedback from people who want to test it and tell me what’s missing.

https://justgrinds.vercel.app/
by mradek | 2025-08-11 04:40:02+00:00
Cursor + Claude Code.

Take a couple hours to walk CC through your code and generate a CLAUDE.md. Note any architecture patterns you have already, or want to have, in your project.

This is probably the most important thing you can do to drive better results. As you work, try to ensure you're getting independently testable steps as you solve a problem. Take time planning, always have it reference your CLAUDE.md and existing code patterns. At the end of each step, I have CC determine whether or not to update the CLAUDE.md if there's any foundational updates.

The trick is to have a idea of what you're expecting out of these tools. If you can use the tool to break down the work into individual pieces you will find it is really fun and productive way to build software. You still have to think, but you are able to cover a lot more ground faster. I can't type out 4 files that are in my brain in 10 seconds.
by galaxy_gas | 2025-08-11 04:40:20+00:00
<$100-120 ATEL LTE on Amazon cheaper than that one. The adapters are such you can use a traditional legacy style oldphone.

DECT phone uses local RF (like cordless home phones, think of it as the "phone to headset via bluetooth" portion), a SIP phone uses the internet directly, and an LTE base station provides a fake bridge from POTS button presses to a mobile call dial.
by sneak | 2025-08-11 04:41:42+00:00
HN is available as RSS and you or I could vibe code up a filtering proxy in ten minutes, and you could use that in your feed reader. It’s easier to solve the problem than to complain about it.

Add another 2 minutes and you could have the list of keywords to filter as a configurable url parameter, so you can amend it easily when the next technology you want to hate comes along.
by NoPicklez | 2025-08-11 04:42:33+00:00
From a health perspective I think they find themselves in an odd spot, at least from my perspective. Absolutely there are other products on the market that are similar with similarly high amounts of salt.

I also see it as "highly processed" food which if you're not looking to eat meat you might also be looking for an alternative to meat that isn't any more processed than red meat, of which Beyond Meat is more processed.
by TheCowboy | 2025-08-11 04:42:40+00:00
Why isn't simply getting another Claude account an option that you've tried before damaging your brain with low quality sleep?

Or writing prompts that get fired off by a script once the usage resets when sleeping so that you at least get some free tokies?

I'm sympathetic to wanting to squeeze out what you can to control costs, but this is something that might only seem sustainable because you're too exhausted to fully appreciate the potential deleterious long-term health effects.
by kqr | 2025-08-11 04:43:22+00:00
Took me a while to realise it is based on Scheme and not the Lisps I have used in the past. Did not occur to me to try ~define~ to setq variables!

Also this appears to be more of a set of logic puzzles, right? Going off of the flavour of the second challenge, which is

Define values for cat and dog so that cat and dog are equal? but not eqv?. Furthermore, cdr(cat) and cdr(dog) must be eqv?.

One is assumed to know the difference between equal? and eqv? and the challenge is in coming up with data that satisfies the constraints given.
by stephbu | 2025-08-11 04:46:54+00:00
Yeah me too in 1982, using the Melbourne House Z80 reference, aged a young 10 years old. Working with POKE and no macro-assembler, I wrote mnemonics then translated them to machine-code by hand. A baptism of fire that to this day that I've not forgotten.

This book was the ignition that changed my life... https://archive.org/details/z-80-reference-guide-alan-tullya...
by nine_k | 2025-08-11 04:47:41+00:00
A microphone could work together with a radar; correlating the two signals may help tell the sound from the noise.

I suppose that at certain radio frequencies human bodies are mostly translucent, while the small metal membrane is still resolvable. When a head of a person covers well the acoustic signal (the phone is at the opposite ear), a microphone is helpless, but a radar us still fairly usable.
by justforfunhere | 2025-08-11 04:48:57+00:00
I know of some modern vehicles that will not start at all if you go about removing the telematics unit.

I am not sure how long will it take before you will not be able to buy a vehicle at all without having to consent to being monitored remotely 24x7, but it will happen sooner than later. And this coming from a developing country. Pretty sure it is much worse in the developed world.

I guess the market for second hand older vehicles might see an uptick because of this and might also see a boom in demand for expertise of maintaining and rejuvenating such vehicles.
by tibbar | 2025-08-11 04:49:26+00:00
As you say, generics really only apply to typed languages, and they help solve very legitimate annoyance in most of those languages -- you often have some library helper or algorithm that can apply to a wide range of things, but those things differ in some way that's irrelevant to the algorithm.

For example, a mergesort algorithm works on any kind of array, as long as you can compare the elements in the array to each other. There's no point in re-implementing the algorithm for each kind of array. Yet, without generics, you'd need to do just that. At the same time, the generated code for sorting each different kind of array might need to be a little different - comparing strings and floats isn't the same assembly, for instance. So the programming language and compiler work together: you specify the algorithm once in a certain way, and the compiler can generate the right version of algorithm for each way that you need to use it.

There are many, many good reasons why you might want to work in a typed language, even though specifying the types is a bit of extra book-keeping; generics are one way to keep the pointless work down. Of course, if you can get away with a python script, there's no need to bother with all this typing business just yet, either.