MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lm28469 | 2025-08-14 08:21:23+00:00
Not never, but never in recent history. I'd say the cut off point was when we moved most of our factories to cheaper countries and made our economies reliant on services instead of goods.

I'm sure a worker in the peak of the industrial revolution had a much worse time than I do now. But I'm also equally sure my parents and grandparents had it much easier in term of purchasing power, work/life balance, job stability, being able to afford a home on a single income, being able to afford kids, being able to retire at a somewhat reasonable time, &c.

Basically everything after the digital revolution disproportionately benefited a very small percentage of people, while previous advances benefitted the masses (agriculture, train/cars, factory automation, &c.). We got a lot of new shiny bells and whistle to regularly pump up the dopamine but we lost a lot of basics
by asimovDev | 2025-08-14 08:21:26+00:00
Oh those exist, true. I have a PoE switch where I am not using any of the PoE ports so I have a fantasy of having multiple RPi's or other single board computers being powered by PoE running various stuff for my home.

Also I had to spit take when I noticed the username. Absolutely love your YouTube channels, thank you for taking so much time creating high quality videos.
by yazaddaruvala | 2025-08-14 08:22:53+00:00
What you’ve described is the foundation of Lucene and as such the foundation of Elastic Search.

FSTs are “expensive” to re-optimize and so it’s typically done “without writes”. So the database would need some workaround for that low write throughput.

To save you the time thinking about it: The only extra parts you’re missing are what Lucene calls segments and merge operations. Those decisions obviously have some tradeoffs (in Lucene’s case the tradeoff is CRUD).

There are easily another 100 ways to be creative in these tradeoffs depending on your specific need. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if the super majority of databases’ indexing implementations are roughly similar.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-08-14 08:23:59+00:00
One trick I do to avoid this: When it's doing something wrong, and I see some pattern based on which I'd do it differently, I tell it the observation rather than my conclusion. If I tell it stuff like what about X, it will just agree that X is a good idea. But if I say, I see that Y, it might come to the same conclusion that it needs to do X, or something completely different. It will still say I'm absolutely right, but at least it's to something where I am absolutely right. I mostly use Claude Code to fill the blanks in my thinking, so this works better for me.
by menaerus | 2025-08-14 08:24:05+00:00
Well, we don't really know if they aren't doing exactly that for their internal code repos, right?

Conceptually, there is no difference between fine-tuning the LLM for being a law expert of specific country and fine-tuning the LLM for being an expert for given codebase. Former is already happening and is public. Latter is not yet public but I believe it is happening.

Reason why big co are pursuing generic LLMs is because they serve as a foundation for basically any other derivative and domain-specific work.
by rmonvfer | 2025-08-14 08:24:19+00:00
To be honest, this was just a matter of time. As a long time Python developer, I just can’t wrap my head around the lack of something like this. GitHub was going to get hosted packages for Python but never did because it “didn’t align with their strategy objectives and a reallocation of resources” [1] (or some other similar corpospeak) Astral is a great company and I think we can’t question what they’ve achieved and provided to the Python community. uv is a game changer and solves one of the core issues with Python by providing a unified tool that’s also fast, reliable and easy to use. In fact, after using uv for the first time (coming from a combination of pyenv + poetry) I never wanted to go back and this is something all of my peers have experienced too. I’m glad it’s Astral who is doing this, and of course they will have to make money one way or another (which is perfectly fine and I don’t think anyone on this forum can be against that, as long as they are actually providing real value) but I was honestly tired of the paralysis on this matter. I did try to build a registry (pyhub.net) but being just one person with almost no resources and having another full time business made it impossible. Anyway, congrats to the team for the effort! [1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/8542
by stellar678 | 2025-08-14 08:24:28+00:00
I kinda wondered about this forever as well. Then one day I was chilling in my local worker-owned cooperative bakery when the Brinks truck came by to do the bakery's cash pickup. Armed driver. Guard waiting next to the truck holding a long gun. Two guys (presumably armed) going into the business to get the cash and take it out to the truck. That's all pretty expensive!

Smaller family-owned businesses will just take cash to the bank - but it's super common for somebody to eventually surveil them long enough to rob them one day as they're transporting the cash to the bank.

It's pricey to handle cash!
by bux93 | 2025-08-14 08:24:51+00:00
The regulatory requirement is there for a reason. Whenever you see a statement like that it means that the accountant they hired is covering their ass so they don't get sued if the company DOES go bankrupt.

Even though the company is paying them, the accountant is saying "whelp, doesn't look like a sure thing to me!"

Their pension fund has assets outstripping its liabilities and they can essentially wind up the fund. Great! Except if the fund's assets suddenly drop in value (e.g. when interest rates go up, and their bonds mark to market value drops, or if the stock market crashes) or if the price of those annuities to be bought goes up (e.g. when interest rates go down, and you need to reserve more money now for payments later). Interest rates dropping is perhaps not inconceivable, with a president tweeting every week about firing the chairman of the Fed if rates aren't dropped? A stock market crash, however short term, is also not inconceivable, especially with so much of the index concentrated in a few tech stocks.

A "going concern" statement like this is worth more that the company's press release disagreeing with it.
by flohofwoe | 2025-08-14 08:26:17+00:00
Does dropping 32-bit support just mean that there are no supported x86-32 OS images, or that 32-bit applications are generally not supported?

If it means that no 32-bit apps are supported, how does Steam handle this? Does it run 32-bit games in a VM? Is the Steam client itself a 64-bit application these days or still stuck on 32-bits?
Local AI Data Tool: No Coding, Privacy, Big Data Friendly
by olllo | 2025-08-14 08:27:35+00:00
Over the last year, I’ve talked to hundreds of analysts, researchers, and business folks who all hit the same pain points: 1. “I’m not a programmer, and writing formulas or scripts slows me down.” Most data tools assume you’re comfortable writing formulas or Python scripts. We wanted something that could interpret plain language (“Show me all rows where revenue > 1M and region = APAC”) and just do it, without syntax errors. → https://olllo.top/no-coding-needed 2. “I can’t upload my sensitive data to cloud AI tools because of compliance and privacy concerns.” Many AI analysis tools run entirely in the cloud — which is a deal-breaker if you work in finance, healthcare, government, or just care about privacy. Our approach: everything runs locally. No data leaves your machine. → https://olllo.top/privacy-compliance 3. “I’m constantly frustrated by Excel crashing or freezing on large datasets.” Excel is great until you throw a few million rows at it. We’ve built a GPU-accelerated, memory-optimized backend so you can open multi-GB CSVs in seconds and work without freezes. → https://olllo.top/excel-crash-solution

The result is Data.olllo — a no-code, privacy-first, high-performance desktop app for data analysis and visualization. It runs on Windows & macOS, supports big data formats, and can generate charts/reports with AI — without ever sending your data to the cloud.

Would love feedback from the HN crowd — especially on: - What’s missing for you to trust an AI data tool? - Which integrations/formats are must-have for adoption?
Show HN: Transactional State Management for JavaScript
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-14 08:29:37+00:00
I built a small library for handling state in a transactional way, which gives you automatic conflict resolution and rollback of optimistic updates. It solves some issues I had implementing client-server sync and optimistic updates - so much manual tracking is involved making sure old requests that finish after newer requests aren't overwriting fresh state, and making sure rolling back optimistic updates of older requests isn't destroying the optimistic updates of newer requests. Especially when two different requests touch the same part of your state.
by cyphar | 2025-08-14 08:29:52+00:00
That's barely 3 years...? I just released an update for a project I maintain that had had a 4 year gap between releases, but is still heavily used by a lot of people. I dread to think that we live in a world where software has arbitrary expiry dates...?

Some software just needs fewer updates. The actual repo had a few commits last year and even more the year before that.
by godelski | 2025-08-14 08:31:20+00:00
I googled YOUR terms. And if you read my messages you'd notice that I'm not a novice when it comes to math. Hell, you should have gotten that from my very first comment. I was never questioning if I had a stroke, I was questioning your literacy.

> I was not referring to any scientific definitions.

Yet, you confidently argued against ones that were stated.

If you're going to speak out your ass, at least have the decency to let everyone know first.
by xbjamilnz | 2025-08-14 08:31:21+00:00
10 Best Free Web Scrapers for Every Need Desktop Apps (Windows/Mac) ParseHub – No-code tool for dynamic sites (JavaScript/AJAX). Exports to JSON/Excel, offers IP rotation and scheduling.

ScraperAPI – API-based solution handling proxies/CAPTCHAs automatically. Ideal for developers.

Octoparse – AI-powered with templates for beginners. Free plan + paid scaling.

ScrapingBot – Developer-focused, 100 free credits/month for product data.

Browser Extensions Web Scraper (Chrome) – Point-and-click interface, cloud scheduling, exports to CSV/JSON. Free local use.

Scraper (Chrome) – Extracts tables to Google Docs. Supports XPath/jQuery.

Outwit Hub (Firefox) – “Fast Scrape” for non-tech users. Processes URL lists quickly.

Data Scraper (Chrome) – Simple table/list extraction. Paid plans add API/proxy support.

Cloud-Based Tools Dexi.io – Advanced customizable robots with proxy/IP rotation. Exports to CSV/JSON.

Webz.io – Real-time data (including dark web). Free: 1,000 requests/month.

Verdict

No-code users: ParseHub, Octoparse, Web Scraper.

Developers: ScraperAPI, ScrapingBot, Dexi.io.

Quick tasks: Browser extensions (Outwit Hub, Data Scraper).

All tools offer free tiers—ideal for testing before scaling.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-14 08:31:31+00:00
For this exact reason I enable Timeshift on every computer I run. If an upgrade fails spectacularly like that, recovering and reverting to the old edition is as simple as picking a pre-upgrade snapshot from the boot menu.

If you're not on btrfs, I'm sure there are similar tools for your favorite file system. For me, it's been a life saver.
by adrai | 2025-08-14 08:31:41+00:00
Yes — that’s exactly the kind of thing Vaultrice is designed for.

Think of it like localStorage, but instead of being tied to one browser on one device, the data lives in a globally-available, real-time object. Any change one player makes (like moving their character or firing a shot) can be sent instantly to the other player’s browser — without having to set up your own server or WebSocket layer.

For your son’s zombie shooter: • Each game session could be one Vaultrice “object” (with an id like game-123). • Each player writes their position, health, actions to that object. • The other player’s browser listens for changes and updates the game state instantly. • Presence tracking is built-in, so you can show “who’s in the game” without extra code.

The nice part is that the SDK’s API feels familiar — setItem, getItem, and on() for events — so you can get a working multiplayer prototype with just a few lines. If you want even less boilerplate, the SyncObject API lets you just set properties on a shared object and Vaultrice syncs it behind the scenes.

It won’t handle game physics for you, but it’s a fast, simple way to make a turn-based or moderately real-time multiplayer experience without hosting your own backend.
by haritha-j | 2025-08-14 08:32:51+00:00
Living in the UK, I didn't realise rewards were such a big deal in the US. I'm shocked at the resistance though, to me,, its a no brainer to just be charged less in the first place rather than have to keep track of some silly reward system to get back the extra money that they charged me. It's the same reason I prefer Aldi to all the other supermarkets, that make me keep track of some silly reward scheme, plus use my data to sell me more stuff to boot.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-14 08:33:11+00:00
> The most concerning menace, perhaps, stems from a well-intentioned effort by the European Commission to introduce, as part of the forthcoming European Digital Identity Wallet (EUID), an age verification tool

If it was well-intentioned, it would have been open-source, installed-and-enabled-by-default parental control software, that the owner of the device can disable, alter, or remove entirely as they wish. That they instead chose to expand surveillance and censorship (before trying any other approach!) proves that they are either hostile to their citizens, or indistinguishable from such hostility.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-14 08:33:37+00:00
Elon Musk's claim to fame is that he "helped create" (although the actual stories are more along the lines of "stopped sabotaging") paypal, which is a bank. An internet bank focusing on enabling payment to first Ebay, then merchants in general. And you can tell by his later takeovers. He took over Tesla, and absurdly financialized it. He took over SpaceX, and absurdly overleveraged it. That is what he does, any technical chops are for show.

He's an accidental banker with a gimmick: ketamine can make you believe anything!

Politico.eu collected Musk's latest results [1]. Out of what Musk and Trump promised [2], Musk first lowered his promises himself (after getting the money, sorry, the election) from 2000 billion (2 trillion) to 180 billion, a 91% reduction. He didn't make anywhere close to those savings, his organisation then made a further reduction in his promise to 52.8 billion, missing the promised target by 97.36%. But those appear to be inflated claims and actually verified savings only amount to 1.4 billion, 99.93% less than Musk initially promised. BUT ...

Then Trump was going to NOT spend this money. How's that going? Well, in order to NOT spend 1.4 billion dollars, Musk and Trump have spent 7.4 trillion taxpayer dollars. Hey, you missed "saving" by a tiny bit there, Elon.

So Musk, who promised to save the us government 2000 billion dollars, has in fact "saved" the government MINUS 7400 billion dollars. As always, Musk's direct contribution is barely a rounding error.

This number is not counting, of course, what he personally received from the US government which will comfortably put the cost of doing business with Musk for the US government over 8000 billion dollars. I guess that's one way to become "the richest man in the world" (even though I wouldn't trade $1000 of my money for all Tesla shares in existence, so is he really? I mean, maybe $100 for bragging rights, but they don't even come with a certificate anymore)

Let's just say that anyone expecting investments with Mr. Musk to pay off is not just crazy, that is WAY past dangerous insanity. Even his supposed "high-tech" achievements ... well, here's a summary [3].

TLDR: 99.97% miss in performance for Musk's latest project. Total cost to taxpayers of Mr. Musk: over 8000 billion dollars.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4j33klz33o

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B71PNEwhyXc
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-08-14 08:34:32+00:00
Discount on cash IME is because they're not putting transactions through the till (POS) so they can commit [tax] fraud.

Ran a micro business in UK for 15 years, cash cost as much to deposit as card did - employee time (counting, reconciling, making deposit) and bank charges for cash deposits. It also slowed down transaction time (which was almost all IRL).
by cladopa | 2025-08-14 08:35:04+00:00
Agreed.

Something like this tool is ridiculous against companies like Google or Meta. Just with their phone apps and OS control with a video like the displayed those companies could know exactly who each person in the video is, what are they doing, who they are with, and record that information forever.

In the video I see three young women, another woman near the zebra crossing. A young woman with a young man, a woman walking with two men on the sides, and another young couple. I know their heights, if they are fat or slim, the type of their hair and so an AI could know that and with that information and a little more like someone of one group having location activated it is enough for a computer to automatically decode the remaining information.

If enough people wear those stupid glasses it means in a city everyone is surveilled on real time with second and centimetre accuracy, included indoors in places like restaurants or malls.

This is too much power that no company or institution should have. If Meta or google have the ability to do that, they will be required by the US government to give that info automatically with some excuse like "national security".
by anileated | 2025-08-14 08:35:16+00:00
I think it is safe to assume that more generous (for them) interpretation is the one that will be used by any big company. My link:

> You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time.

> parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers

This is an “AI” platform now. “Improving the service” means that. “With your consent” means you have accepted the ToS (which by the way can be changed at any point and your continued use of the service means you consent to it).
by glaarinee | 2025-08-14 08:35:53+00:00
I have at some point noped out of a selection process after carefully reading the contracts and terms of service involved.

The company in question asked us new hires on the first day to "apply again" through this "matching platform". The person beside me happily agreed to everything and started. I said I need to go through everything and went home.

It was only after a couple of hours and several red flags that I found the trap: the terms of service for the "matching platform" mentioned abuse and described the exact thing the company did in detail as an example: recruiting and selecting off platform then offering a contract through the platform to use their 'temp agency' contract. It also said that candidates that failed to report this abuse would be liable to pay a fine of several thousand plus possible damages. In retrospect I can see some of the things they did onboarding the person beside me while I was spooked and reading everything that could later be pointed as cause for damages.

I was also shocked to share this with people close to me and get a lot of glazed over eyes and people not understanding it and focusing on the "weirdness" of wanting to read everything because apparently it's just normal to sign documents without reading them.

I can see now why this sort of thing happens. People really do just sign documents and go along with things without asking very basic questions. Luckily I have worked as an independent contractor long enough to never accept terms I do not thoroughly understand.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-14 08:36:08+00:00
> Tough problem. You need a Jony Ive on your team to help solve it.

I don't think so. A Jony Ive will not be in a position to solve the actual problem - what use is a non-universal payment mechanism to consumers and to retailers?

I read the linked page and don't see answers to the main adoption problem: how is the purchaser supposed to pay?

1. Purchaser has to download the app? Okay, but purchaser already has a few equivalents on their phone (Pix, etc) - added friction!

2. How does the App get money to make payment? Purchaser has to fund a new account? Okay, but that is more friction!

3. How does merchant accept the payment? Do they need a new payment terminal? Must their payment terminal be updated with new software? Even more friction!

I've worked in the EMV space, even quite recently, and merchants do not want to update and will only do so when forced to. Any new payment system (QR codes, etc) needs around 5 years (maybe more) before it is universally accepted.

The best way, where I am, to rollout a new payment terminal is to pitch it to the banks, who then offer it to the merchants who have accounts with them.

Adding new functionality to EMV terminals is a lot easier these days, since most of the new terminals are Android, and the vendors have app stores for third parties to write software for these terminals (Pax has Maxstore, etc).

Now, maybe I missed it, but I did not see this application on Maxstore, or some of the other stores. I could have missed it, because these stores have literally thousands of payment applications.

The long and short of it is, you came up with a non-universal payment method, and predictably it did not take off.
by ben_w | 2025-08-14 08:37:05+00:00
I can definitely sympathise with that. This whole forum — well, the whole internet, but also this forum — must be an Eternal September* for you.

Given the differences between US and UK education, my A-level in philosophy (and not even a very good grade) would be equivalent to fresher, not even sophomore, though looking up the word (we don't use it conventionally in the UK) I imagine you meant it in the other, worse, sense?

Hmm. While you're here, a question: As a software developer, when using LLMs I've observed that they're better than many humans (all students and most recent graduates) but still not good. How would you rate them for philosophy? Are they simultaneously quite mediocre and also miles above conversations like this?

* On the off-chance this is new to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
by graemep | 2025-08-14 08:37:25+00:00
It can also depend on where you are and who you know. The groups are not evenly spread through society. In the UK and one side in politics dominates all my social circles - colleagues, people I went to school with, people I meet locally (to be fair, that does depend on what you do and who you meet - but I tend to "cultural" activities), people who share stuff on FB that I know (as opposed to the stuff in the feed - is which often ridiculously extreme both ways).

it might not be true, and surveys and voting patterns say otherwise, but it can definitely feel like one side is dominant. It can definitely be true that a particular place/activity/group is dominated by one side, which is what GP seems to be claiming, rather than that the US in general has shifted to the left?