MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anitil | 2025-08-01 03:29:53+00:00
Links for the curious - DCCrimeFacts [0] and I assume the FAA case is Tracing Woodgrains [1], though I could be wrong

[0] https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/

[1] https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
Show HN: MitiFresh – A marketplace for homegrown backyard produce
by priyankaajsr | 2025-08-01 03:30:17+00:00
Hello HN,

I'm launching MitiFresh, a marketplace that connects people with excess homegrown produce to buyers in their community.

The Problem: Millions of households grow fruits and vegetables that often go to waste because they produce more than they can consume. Meanwhile, others are looking for fresh, local produce but lack access.

Our Solution: MitiFresh creates a simple way for backyard gardeners to list their excess produce and for local buyers to discover fresh food grown in their neighborhood. Sellers earn passive income while reducing food waste.

Try it out: https://www.mitifresh.com/

I built this after noticing how much produce went unharvested in my neighborhood during peak growing seasons. As a developer with an interest in sustainability and local food systems, I wanted to create something that could simultaneously reduce waste, build community connections, and help people earn from their gardens.

Would love feedback from the HN community for this neighborhood marketplace, and scaling strategies as we expand to more regions.
by metalrain | 2025-08-01 03:30:27+00:00
I've been dating recently and I think planning dates is mostly fantasizing.

I plan the time, place and activities, imagine things to discuss, how I feel, how other person might feel. Everything feels well thought out and detailed, unpacked.

But it never realizes quite like that, plans get cancelled, places are closed, feelings have changed, discussions are sidetracked or don't feel right. It's all revealed to be a fantasy.

I don't mean you shouldn't try to plan, but unpacking can also be fantasy as much as the packed thing is.
by tylerhou | 2025-08-01 03:31:45+00:00
This is a cool project, but it doesn’t address my original issue with Zig, which is that the language’s semantics is not even specified. That is, we cannot define what a “memory safe Zig program is” as we cannot even define what a Zig program is! (Unless you define the semantics of a Zig program in terms of the implementation/translation to IR, which is fragile / bad.)

Second, I would be surprised if the static analyses in the tool are precise enough for real-world Zig programs. For example, it is undecidable to determine whether a function “takes ownership” of an argument pointer. In particular, if you want to avoid false negatives, the “free after transfer” case needs to be conservative, but then you almost certainly will flag false positives.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-01 03:32:35+00:00
I also picked my profession because it’s what I always liked and wanted to do.

I dreamt of going to college just to learn the things I wanted to know, not to make money. Even imagined learning them and then finding a job don g something else.

Was just very fortunate that it ended up in a lucrative field.

One relative tried to persuade me to go into medicine or law to make more. Put it as “you’re going to work the same hours so might as well be better paid.”

So glad I didn’t take their advice…
by DazWilkin | 2025-08-01 03:32:44+00:00
Well done!

Having user-challenges with kubefor.ge.

Clicked "Deployment" and then tried "Create metadata node" but it errors:

Missing config in qA_PQ-QAe8tznselScKge Node qA_PQ-QAe8tznselScKge has no values configured.

And:

Overlapping Nodes Node "deployment" overlaps with "undefined".
by 3r7j6qzi9jvnve | 2025-08-01 03:33:28+00:00
Note to poster if they happen to see this: as pointed out there's alt text... But it's plain wrong, saying "Countries like Germany, Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and the Netherlands are in green, indicating opposition or neutrality" when only the Netherlands, Poland an Austria are opposed; it's probably just been copied from an older version and could use updating.
by tomhow | 2025-08-01 03:35:24+00:00
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751518 and marked it off topic.

We also detached https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751518 from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751285 to make it a root comment, given that the author agreed it didn't make sense to be a reply (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751620).
by pj_mukh | 2025-08-01 03:35:25+00:00
"I guarantee you all your Oak Park neighbors are the type who were With Hillary in 2016"

Its both. That's the problem. In my neighborhood, the construction of any market rate housing will be blocked by Hillary voting land-owners and single family home owners and card-carrying Bernie Bros mad that a private developer even gets to set foot in the city.

It's this alliance that has basically blocked housing in most metro cities.

When it comes to 100% affordable housing, yes the Hillary voters are on their own, but those are like 1-2 headline causing projects. For every affordable housing project there are 10 market rate housing projects that never even see the light of day.
by verandaguy | 2025-08-01 03:35:58+00:00
My issue with this comment is my issue with the original article -- what's the actual source for this information?

As far as I can tell, this article has no actual link back to any Unifi press release, git repo, or other project page about this, the closest the author does is link the downloads from Ubiquiti's site (as in, literally, links to the files, and nothing else).

This is janky, yes, and I'm not gonna shill for Ubiquiti, but for lack of a legitimate source, I don't think this is a fair representation of the actual install steps.
by averysmallbird | 2025-08-01 03:37:46+00:00
The pro-age verification folks have been talking about ZKPs for years now. Here’s one of the legal proponents of the Texas law, and now General Counsel at the FCC, referencing ZKPs[1]. More sophisticated folks have been pitching actual implementations for a while.

Setting aside whether age verification is desirable or a net benefit, some of the discourse is colored by folks that want to make it as painful and controversial as possible so they don’t have to do it.

[1] https://americarenewing.com/issues/identity-on-the-internet-...
by x-complexity | 2025-08-01 03:38:08+00:00
The parent comment is an ad hominem attack, plain & simple.

Nothing has been said by the parent about the message: Instead, the messenger is marked as the target in order to take down the message via association.

"Give me the man and I will give you the case against him"

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About the legislation itself:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/401...

It's mainly 3 semi-related parts stapled together. If the person/business/bank is complying with the law:

- 1a) Banks with > $10 billion are blocked from (i) the Fed's discount window lending program, & (ii) the Automated Clearing House Network, if they refuse to do business with them,

- 1b) Banks are required to accept deposits from them & law-complying member banks,

- 1c) The board of directors of banks/credit unions have to notify the state/fed if said access blocking happens,

- 2) (Section 5) Payment networks can't refuse service to them, &

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/401...

- 3) Banks & payment networks have to give them access to financial services

The middle part (2) is what's being focused on in the article.

I'm mostly in agreement that (1) the penalty's too low, & (2) restricting dispense of the law to only the Comptroller renders it ineffective.

(1) is easily solvable with regards to editing the text alone: raise the limit to 50% & $100k respectively.

(2) is also solvable, by striking out "by the Comptroller of the Currency".
by matthavener | 2025-08-01 03:39:10+00:00
It's absolutely a zoning issue. The Texas legislature is literally overriding large cities to force them to allow smaller lot sizes. Most of Dallas, for example, is R-7.5, which drives up cost because land is expensive and it requires you to dedicate a lot of it to your yard (max 45% coverage). Only a few areas, like some PDs in old east Dallas, have been rezoned to allow the smaller lots, though you seem to believe its all of Dallas city limits.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/01/texas-legislature-sm... https://developmentweb.dallascityhall.com/publiczoningweb/#d... https://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopmen...
by deathanatos | 2025-08-01 03:40:11+00:00
> Sometimes you get a stranger looking through a viewfinder

This happened the last time I gave my camera to someone and I was smacking myself, as I'd put the camera into "LCD screen is viewfinder mode", since then it is closer to a phone for most people. And I'd found someone who knew what a viewfinder was! Of course, it's just black. (The mirror being in the way.)
by Mtinie | 2025-08-01 03:40:19+00:00
I’m reasonably sure that most of the national-level news media companies have been owned by millionaires (and now billionaires) for the last century. William Randolph Hearst, E.W. Scripps, the Ochs-Sulzberger family, Raoul H. Fleischmann, Cyrus H. K. Curtis are a few of the prominent wealthy owners of nationally-distributed news outlets and publications in 1925. Back farther to the Civil War you find more “independent” publications but it’s a challenge to determine which of them were privately owned by individuals of considerable wealth vs. those owned by their publishers who may or may not have been wealthy.

For a current breakdown, see: Index of News Media Ownership: https://futureofmedia.hsites.harvard.edu/index-us-mainstream...
by ycombiredd | 2025-08-01 03:40:47+00:00
Thanks! TBH I hadn't thought about handling repeating segments yet - in either direction. Because the tab-to-midi direction is mostly a novelty I haven't done much of it except with tabs generated by gtrsnipe, and since it doesn't handle repeats specially, I haven't had to parse any "x2" type notation, but now that you mention it I should. Thanks again.
by dang | 2025-08-01 03:41:10+00:00
(tomhow and I were both replying at the same time)

I see what you mean and yeah it often happens that friends or users of a project try to "help out" in this way. It's fine on many other platforms, so it's more of a misunderstanding than anything. People don't realize that it runs against HN's culture.

I've moved those comments to a stub post now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752791).
by chem83 | 2025-08-01 03:42:13+00:00
Can confirm that Yubikey-like devices prevent the M1 MBP from fully sleeping, which eventually depletes the battery. My company's (big tech) IT department reached out to Apple's corp support and eventually got confirmation from Apple that they decided to close the issue w/o fix. Something to do with their USB controller's firmware, if memory serves.

Removing Yubikey before (or after) closing the lid completely prevents total battery drain for me.
by elliotto | 2025-08-01 03:42:30+00:00
Ah I understand.

My startup provides a vector search system as part of its offering. A user can upload a dataset of records and build a vector index on one of its columns and perform searches. It honestly works incredibly well on a whole bunch of different domains and I was shocked at how useful it was out of the box compared to a conventional BM25 style keyword search. Since we've got this working it's completely changed the way I think about navigating unstructured text data.

If I have a dataset of 100k company website scrapes and I was looking for gyms, and I did a search for 'gym' I would get a whole bunch of conventional gyms. But I would miss companies that described themselves at fitness centers, or aquatic centers or MMA dojos. Vector search picks all of these up, but usually ranks them slightly lower.

If I'm building a RAG bot that is helping me look up companies and I search for a gym, I want the bot to have these extra companies in its context. I can do a vector similarity cutoff, but I can also do a #records cutoff, so that it always has the X most relevant records in its context window.

We've found the fuzziness of the vector search to be a problem in general purpose search cases because people write searches optimizing for keyword match. We had this problem with a company using it for a dataset with highly technical product codes that the embedding search was missing. Our solution was a hybrid keyword / vector search system for these guys that prioritized keyword match but also considered vector similarity. But it's still a big issue to communicate to the user what to write in the embedding search box - whereas in RAG the bot handles all of this.

I think it's an unsolved problem and there continuous to be enormous development in this space.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-01 03:43:31+00:00
My reading of the EU proposal has licensed third parties doing the age verification step.

The gov't could threaten to revoke the license, but doing so would inconvenience all their users, not just the target. So the third party has leverage to dismiss the gov't.

Of course lots of factors in play, but should be at least a bit better than the gov't doing the age checks.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-08-01 03:43:53+00:00
This is only true for two reasons:

1. House prices have risen consistently for the past ~50 years. This is an anomaly (various theories why, my favourite is because women entered the workforce so the income per household increased and we spend as much as we can afford on housing). If/when house prices stop rising consistently then buying doesn't look much better than renting from a financial perspective.

2. Existing laws tend to favour the landlord over the tenant. In countries where this is not true (e.g. most of Europe) and the tenant is favoured, then renting is not so precarious and has lots of advantages.

I lived in rented accomodation in Berlin and it's a completely different experience from renting in the Anglosphere (UK or Australia for me, I don't know about the USA).
by cyberlurker | 2025-08-01 03:43:58+00:00
Prices would drop where homes are commonly rented. I suppose rent could turn into lease to own in the interim period. It’s an interesting idea, I wonder if any economists have played it out.

What about those people that have homes but rent out a room? Or a townhouse that has 3 units, but the landlord lives in one?

I guess they could sell the units or move to a smaller place, but I think there may be an adverse effect of potential housing staying locked up because there isn’t a legal way to preserve options of ownership. It may decrease housing in some instances. Which force is more powerful though, I am not sure.
by atlgator | 2025-08-01 03:44:46+00:00
I'm not sure this is my experience so far. What I'm noticing is that my awesome developers have embraced AI as an accelerator, particularly for research and system design, small targeted coding activities with guardrails. My below average developers are having difficulty integrating AI at all in their workflow. If this trend continues the chasm between great and mediocre devs will widen dramatically.
by StanislavPetrov | 2025-08-01 03:44:57+00:00
No skin in the game here either. I'd agree that smartphones and social media are also very damaging.

>I don't think porn consumption among teenage girls are high, yet their depression rates are high as well.

That isn't what the data says.

>Seventy-three percent of the respondents (75 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls) said they had watched online pornography. The average age they started was 12. Many began younger.

>Seven in 10 who admitted they had watched porn intentionally said they had done so in the past week.

>Four in 10 said they had watched pornography, including nudity and sexual acts, during the school day. Almost half said they had done so on school-owned devices.

>Of those who watched the past week, 80 percent said they had seen “what appears to be rape, choking, or someone in pain.”

>Fewer than half (43 percent) said they had discussed pornography with a trusted adult. (Robb and Mann, 2023).

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/raising-kind-kids/20...

I'm certainly no puritan, but it seems absurd to me to suggest that this early and mostly ubiquitous exposure to (often violent) pornography doesn't have a significant negative effect on the developing minds of children.

Edit: Just to be clear, my contention that children watching pornography is harmful to their development is in no way an endorsement of the crusade to force users to link their IDs to their online accounts under the fig leaf of "protecting children" (the universal trope used to deprive people of their rights).
by imgabe | 2025-08-01 03:47:05+00:00
Higher supply still means lower prices. Even if "the wealthy" buy it all and rent it, they are still competing with all the other wealthy who are doing the same thing and that will limit how much they can charge for rent, and will make it a less profitable investment than other things the wealthy could invest in.

Housing is not really a great investment. It's great for small investors because it's the only place where they can invest with leverage via a mortgage. If you have billions there's much better things you can invest in.
by deterministic | 2025-08-01 03:48:31+00:00
Don't use code generators to automate 90% of your code.

Hand code everything, including the protocol encoders/decoders, dialogs etc.

Use a framework that is brand new and full of shiny new bugs you can spend months of enjoyable time fixing, until the framework is dropped by the developer(s) and you can recode everything to the next new and full of shiny new bugs framework. Repeat infinitely.

Also pick a shiny new programming language FooBar, to write both the server and client, that "really soon now!" will have all the libraries and bug fixes you need to use it in production. Spend time writing all the missing libraries and contributed it to the 5 other developers using the language. Spend hours complaining on HN that other developers are too stupid to realise the obvious benefits of rewriting everything in FooBar.
by setopt | 2025-08-01 03:48:37+00:00
I love their writing, but I hate their subscriptions. The only way to cancel is to talk to customer service via chat or phone, who will keep begging and insisting that you not cancel and offering discounts to try to stop you. When I finally did manage to cancel, it required at least half an hour of insisting to some salesman.

I originally planned to just take a break, but after that distasteful cancellation procedure, I didn’t feel like resubscribing.
by Macha | 2025-08-01 03:48:38+00:00
Depends on the system, but usually no, a parliament cannot restrict future parliaments.

e.g. the law to make changing thing X require a supermajority could itself be repealed with a simple majority here, unless it was approved as an amendment to our constitution. Which _does_ happen more often than it does for the US here, but usually just for large nationally popular things.
by tomhow | 2025-08-01 03:48:59+00:00
Thanks, I've redacted and detached the comment.

You can email us (hn@ycombinator.com) if you want us to redact or take other action on other comments. We don't need to wipe anything from your HN history unless you really want us to. We just want you to make an effort to make an effort to observe the guidelines in the future.
by tptacek | 2025-08-01 03:49:00+00:00
I want to say something about Stoller bringing a knife to a gunfight but really this fight only required Thompson to have a telephone.

https://x.com/DKThomp/status/1951083395146231957

What did Stoller think was going to happen? Calling people up on the phone is Thompson's entire schtick at this point.
by DazWilkin | 2025-08-01 03:49:03+00:00
Same behavior when I run the container locally.

Issues with `get.kubefor.ge/latest`:

Manifest does not match provided manifest digest sha256:a4d6b4a9513289be1c1349afff46f7c87a5ac8513cbd8b66de350f26442d14bf

Works with:

ghcr.io/kubenote/kubeforge:latest

get.kubefor.ge@sha256:a4d6b4a9513289be1c1349afff46f7c87a5ac8513cbd8b66de350f26442d14bf
by ofrzeta | 2025-08-01 03:51:13+00:00
> We smashed the good ideas apart and are now trying to glue them back together over the network. But it is choice that creates many of the "challenges" and to what end?

This seems to be an example of what you say: "CIAM differs from IAM because customers behave differently than employees. They expect easy registration, social login options, and self-service capabilities."

There's really no reason to do this in two different systems.
by skybrian | 2025-08-01 03:51:31+00:00
The problem with comparing against humans is which humans? It's a skill issue. You can test a chess bot against grandmasters or random undergrads, but you'll get different results.

The original Turing test is a social game, like the Mafia party game. It's not a game people try to play very often. It's unclear if any bot could win competing against skilled human opponents who have actually practiced and know some tricks for detecting bots.
by majormajor | 2025-08-01 03:52:04+00:00
> Circumstantial as the evidence may be, it's logical to assume that they didn't because it was more profitable not to.

This willfully ignores evidence that community after community has actively passed laws to stop that industry from building more.

Chesterton's Fence: why do those laws exist? Because people thought they were necessary to stop housing construction (especially, but hardly exclusively, densification).

It's not a partisan thing - red states are full of NIMBYs and littered with HOAs too - but the largest cities in red states have happened to not be hit quite as hard yet because they are generally newer cities, with plenty of room to sprawl horizontally still, starting from a lower baseline.
by toofy | 2025-08-01 03:52:50+00:00
> … pushes out buggy software as production-ready and that we're all their beta testers is a pretty common …

this is such a pet peeve of mine lately. companies are doing this all over the map now, from cars (especially self-driving), games, network equipment, entire software suites… and on and on.

i absolutely did not opt in to be a beta tester as a random human on public ways. i did not opt in to be a beta tester for your search engine results. i did not opt in to be a beta tester for the games i spend $90+ on. i did not opt in to beta test your company’s network equipment which we paid full price for.

build and closed test your products with interested parties who explicitly opt-in and quit forcing and charging us to be experiments in your company’s r&d.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-08-01 03:52:59+00:00
If your idea of IoT is a rpi with 4Gb of RAM connected to a power supply running Linux, then yes, just import the library. But my of idea of IoT is something that runs runs on a battery for a year, and in that case it's unlikely to have enough hardware to support QUIC (or it's main user, http3). QUIC needs too much RAM (min 4KB), too much flash (min 64Kb for the code), and too much CPU. In reality it's a squeeze even on a nRF52840.
by davidw | 2025-08-01 03:53:46+00:00
I have been doing YIMBY stuff for around 8 years now, and it does not map nicely onto any kind of left-right narrative.

There was one conservative dude who ran for city council here who was all about 'private property' and 'get rid of government regulations', who also ran against the idea of liberalizing zoning.

I've met left wing people who I agree with on many issues who will do the most spectacular, Olympic level mental gymnastics to avoid the notion that 'supply and demand' apply to housing.

There are moderate Democrats who are big backers of various reforms. And some on the far left who get that if you want Vienna style social housing, you also need Vienna style zoning and building regulations.

A former mayor here is a moderate Republican - he totally got what we were about and said some really nice things about welcoming new neighbors in one speech a few weeks after he met up with our YIMBY group.

It's just not an issue that - so far - has been slotted into the trench warfare that other issues have been.