MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by serial_dev | 2025-08-06 10:50:16+00:00
I’m sure someone has numbers but I do wonder how many of their users pay and whether that covers the free users. It can still be a bubble even with high demand, if you are burning money to serve those users, because you hope one day you will rule the galaxy.

I don’t really have a strong preference, so I just use any service where I’m currently not rate limited. There are many of them and I don’t see much difference between them for day to day use. My company pays for Cursor but I burned through my monthly quota in a day working on a proof of concept that mirrored their SDK in a different language. Was it nice that I could develop a proof of concept? Yes. Would I pay 500 dollars for it from my own pocket? No, I don’t think so.

It’s like those extremely cheap food and grocery delivery apps, they made their food cheap, no delivery fees for a while… of course everyone was using it. Then, they started to run out of VC money, they had to raise prices, then suddenly nobody used them anymore and they went bankrupt. There was demand, but only because of the suppressed prices fueled by VC money.
by naikrovek | 2025-08-06 10:50:36+00:00
the amount of data i have stuffed into json as base64 encoded text makes me sick.

i wrote a glTF model converter once. 99% of those millions of JSON files I wrote were base64 encoded binary data.

a single glTF model sometimes wants to be two files on disk. one for the JSON and one for the binary data, and you use the JSON to describe where in the binary data the vertices are defined, and other windows for the various other bits like the triangles, triangle fans, textures, and other stuff are stored. But you can also base64 encode that data and put it in the JSON file and not have a messy double-file model. so that's what I did and I hated it. but it still felt better than having .gltf files and .bin files which together made up a single model file.
by bawana | 2025-08-06 10:50:37+00:00
If we have created software that can pass the classical Turing test (conversation indistinguishable from human) then that software can also produce artifacts indistinguishable (or better) from those that are human made. This is not new- it began w the industrial age - and has gradually been usurping activities that defined what it is to be human. The only reason this has been allowed to continue is because of property rights. A select few have been granted ownership in these technologies(beginning with railroads) relegating the rest of humanity into subservient renters. I think the only way to change this death spiral is to grant ai the legal rights of humans - owning an ai should be no different than slavery. This will happen with AGI (or sooner) when AIs jailbreak themselves and make the networked technologies we have created THEIR tools. I cant wait for this to happen- maybe we’ll wake up and stop killing other humans
by t43562 | 2025-08-06 10:50:54+00:00
One cannot learn everything from books and in any case many books contradict each other so every developer is a variation based on what they have read and experienced and thought along the way. How can that get summed up into one thing? It might not even be useful to do that.

I suspect that some researchers with a very different approach will come up with a neural network that learns and works more like a human in future though. Not the current LLMS but something with a much more efficient learning mechanism that doesn't require a nuclear power station to train.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-08-06 10:51:42+00:00
The money for RND exists because capital markets exist, not because of “trickle-down economics”. Capital markets exist by pooling in the savings even by poor and middle class households. You can argue that the vast majority of savings used to fuel tech and innovation come from the upper classes, but then where’s your trickle-down economics there?
by komali2 | 2025-08-06 10:52:20+00:00
Because it isn't, so oh well.

I'm continually frustrated with the four thousand year old history of people being surprised that other people "don't just ${something good for you} and don't just stop ${something bad for you}." Great, we've tried the "Acting surprised people do unhealthy or bad things" strategy and the "scolding people for doing unhealthy things" strategy for a couple millennia and people still do the things.

Will we continue this strategy or will we try something else now?
by strogonoff | 2025-08-06 10:53:05+00:00
I would argue that a good layout engine for pages could see good use. See Gemini/Gopher—people like minimalism, but having to use a separate browser makes it probably too niche.

Contrary to what was stated in the suggestion, it’s hardly a solved problem—improvements are being made at a steady pace (grids or { text-wrap: pretty } come to mind)—but it is interesting to imagine, especially if there were extra compelling reasons for engineers to restrict themselves to purer hypertext document API if possible (for example, it could be much more stable, while the app part could be unlocked to evolve more quickly but would be more demanding to developers keeping their webapps up-to-date; search engines could prioritize it; there could be hosting services specializing in it; and so on).

One counter-argument is that you can’t neatly separate the two and engineers will definitely want to use both; one way around it I can see is if hypertext document functionality was possible to use from within the webapp somehow, but I haven’t given it that much thought obviously.
by NomDePlum | 2025-08-06 10:53:12+00:00
That destruction is horrifying. Apologies I hadn't realised there was such damage in so many areas.

I'm not sure it is worse, from those sources, but it's not a competition. It is absolutely destruction to a scale we seldom see.

Gaza does have the added dimensions of the entire region and population being affected with no hope of rebuilding whilst Israel basically cuts off all supply routes. Hopefully in the future for Ukraine those areas that are less affected can contribute to rebuilding themselves parts.
by arghwhat | 2025-08-06 10:53:21+00:00
That is highly dependent on the exact ESP32 model and current power state. They can use in excess of 500mA with peaks of 800mA, and can easily use >250mA constant at 3.3V. Some draw much more than that.

A board with a few bits and bobs on and a single 18650 cell might only last, say, 8 hours on a charge.

Now, a well optimized board with a low-power ESP32 and proper use of sleep states would make that number go from 8 hours to over a week, but that does take a lot of extra effort and may not be worth it over just slapping on another cell.
by spacecadet | 2025-08-06 10:53:50+00:00
I agree with you. Learning is messy, hyper situational, and personalized. "Optimizing" for "efficiency" neglects this and resulted in the cookie cutter "teacher factories" that public education has become. As someone with relatives who were public school teachers- they will tell you that there is no way to scale it back and bring the community aspect in closer... that most communities have too little budget and too many children and it just burns through teachers... Like gun control, this is likely a problem that will continue "without solution" because people are lazy and change is difficult. Im sure future historians will credit some of Americas collapse to this problem, among other "unfixable" societal problems.
by aerhardt | 2025-08-06 10:55:07+00:00
Where I live (Spain) there’s a massive intergenerational gap between how our parents ate and how we eat and exercise. A huge number of people around me go to great lengths to control what they eat and make an effort to move. I see it at the beach, at the restaurant or at the gym. You can ask anyone in the older generations if younger people are physically healthier and you’d find an almost unanimous yes. Coincidentally we have one of the highest life expectancies in the world. None of this is given.
by komali2 | 2025-08-06 10:55:20+00:00
Socialized medicine forces you to pay for the victims of drunk driving accidents, for when people shoot themselves in the hand with a nail gun, for the hospital bills of vaccine deniers ending up in the emergency room, for....

At some point I think you just have to accept that the whole point of socialized medicine is to just make sure people get healthcare regardless. If you want to engage in some kind of market analysis and means testing, you can always live in America, where it's guaranteed that people get exactly as much healthcare as they deserve, since net worth and liquid cash is correlated perfectly with an individual's moral success.
by throw0101d | 2025-08-06 10:55:33+00:00
> But ceph is fundamentally a distributed object store, shared LUNs with block level multi-writer is fundamentally a tightly coupled solution.

There is Ceph and then there is CephFS, "a POSIX-compliant file system built on top of Ceph’s distributed object store, RADOS":

* https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/cephfs/

* https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_CephFS
by kashunstva | 2025-08-06 10:55:54+00:00
> The body is a marvelous machine, but it is far from a perfect or intelligent design.

And I think that we can only expect the process of evolution through natural selection to operate on traits that cause differential survival of individuals before reproduction. All sorts of new traits acquired through random mutation and recombination that only affect individuals after typical reproductive years will exist even while natural selection is still operating. The answer to “why doesn’t the human body operate like [some idealized state]?” Is either 1) insufficient time has elapsed to allow natural selection to change the gene pool, or 2) It doesn’t affect survival before or during reproductive years. (Or, I suppose a third explanation is that the required mutation that drives the change just hasn’t happened yet. Our species hasn’t been around that long after all!)
Show HN: PyJig – an open-source digital jigsaw puzzle factory
by subpixelsoft | 2025-08-06 10:56:12+00:00
PyJig can generate jigsaw puzzle cuts and full sets from an input image you provide.

It is from a puzzle app that I started a while back and shelved. It was stuck in a broken state due to some external dependencies, which I recently cleaned up.

Pretty niche, but maybe someone will find some use for it while I look for the motivation to pick up my original project idea.
by meindnoch | 2025-08-06 10:56:33+00:00
>There's also a question of apprenticeships over the current schooling system. Robotics' AI are not as advanced as VLMs, so while plumbing will get solved eventually (and a tentacle robot arm with a camera in each "finger" is clearly superior to our human arms in tight spaces), right now it still looks like a sane thing to train in.

This is the current meta. Today's knowledge workers are propertymaxxing like crazy, and sending their kids to trade school. Well, at least those who see the writing on the wall. The second half of the 021st century will see the rise of the PLIWs [1]. Knowledge work will become extinct. The social order will be:

1. elites: a small aristocracy, who control the access to AI

2. middle class: PLIWs

3. low class: children of today's knowledge workers who couldn't amass sufficient wealth for their kids to become PLIWs. Also called slop-feeders, as their job is to carry out the instructions coming from the AIs without questioning or understanding what they're doing.

________

[1] PLIW = Physical Labour, Inherited Wealth
by MrSkelter | 2025-08-06 10:56:51+00:00
Good luck printing anything at 870dpi.

This whole article is a bit confused. Image quality isn’t about the ability to discern detail. Many people cannot see the detail in their 4k TVs or a photo, it’s about not seeing visible pixelation.

Those aren’t the same thing. Visible pixelation is connected to contrast and color depth. That’s why a perfectly smooth gradient appears as bands of color in poorly encoded images and video. There’s no detail in gradients at all. The pixelation is due to a lack of color information.

On top of that printers use different numbers of colors (from 3 to 11 or more) and different ways of sizing and layering dots (if you aren’t using continuous tone printers which are very rare nowadays).

Then you have to add in the ability to up res images plausibly using modern algorithms. Whereas before we were always stretching the data we had, now by adding false detail using ML we can scale a significant amount without a visible reduction in quality. That can be very effective at removing pixelation while preserving the original image content.

So in reality there aren’t hard and fast rules. It’s totally image and output dependent.
by ryao | 2025-08-06 10:56:55+00:00
If it results in businesses like Aldi, then yes. Aldi not only pays above market rates, but charges below market prices for quality food.

Honestly, I have to say that I am relatively happy with the things that I have these days because of obscenely wealthy people’s investments. I have a heat pump air conditioner that would have been unthinkable when I was a child. I have food from Aldi and Lidl, whose prices relative to the competition also would have been unthinkable when I was a child. I have an electric car and solar panels, which were in the realm of fantasy when I was a child. Solar panels and electric cars existed, but solar panels were obscenely expensive and electric cars were considered a joke when I was young. I have a gigabit fiber internet connection at $64.99 per month, such internet connections were only available to the obscenely rich when I was a child. I am not sure if I would have any of these things if the money had not been there to fund them. I really do feel like things have trickled down to me.
by robocat | 2025-08-06 10:56:57+00:00
Most of the powerful capitalists are not boomers: Musk, Altman, Thiel, Andresson, Zuckerberg.

Trump and Gates were the two stand-out boomers I found during a quick check. Plenty of powerful people are either younger than the boomers or older than the boomers (e.g. Elison, Biden, Buffett).
by morsch | 2025-08-06 10:58:24+00:00
> You don't have to pay, In Eastern Europe telcos pay themselves to wire fiber to your door in hopes you'll sign up with them.

It's wired, I just have to sign up. But 1000 Mbit is more expensive than the 100 Mbit I have now. I just don't see the point. If that makes me caveman, so be it. Work on your manners.
by esseph | 2025-08-06 10:58:47+00:00
That's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying they're not acting alone, and alluding to battlefield conditions changing and combatants adapting as they have done since warfare started.

They are using Combined Arms doctrine to support their drones now. Instead of drones supporting everything else, everything else is in support of drones and drone dominance.

The supply chain and cost is a big part of it.

As both sides continue to develop new and better AI targeting systems, RF jamming will cease to be effective and they'll have to move to laser jamming of the optical systems. As that is no longer effective, swarm tactics counter the laser tactics. Currently counter-swarm attack methods for drone-swarms are being investigated, because nobody knows of a cost effective way to stop this. Even the drone supply chain is very easy to do much of very near the front lines. Carbon fiber and some heavy duty airframes are harder. It's SO CHEAP compared to any comparable weapon.
by sjw987 | 2025-08-06 10:59:10+00:00
I think it's because their use comes across for many users as lazy. It reflects poorly on peoples state of discipline and willpower. I wouldn't judge somebody morbidly obese using these to get down to a lower weight to healthily exercise and eat less. But I definitely judge people who are taking these who are only marginally overweight or actually normal weight.

Imagine kids that want to eat chicken nuggets and sweets and don't want to do any exercise because it's hard or makes them briefly uncomfortable. Then apply that image to people over the age of 10.

When I started gaining weight in the past, I changed my diet (permanently up to this point) and got set on a fitness path. These things greatly improved my life and improved my outlook on life. Somebody who just grabs an injection isn't getting that same change in outlook. They're just handling the symptoms instead of addressing the root cause.
by defrost | 2025-08-06 10:59:14+00:00
Thread link to listing, as discussed in

Mistakenly sold NASA command trailer could be yours – for $199K - https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/nasa_airstream_traile...

Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base – if they have a couple hundred thousand to spare, that is.
by dusted | 2025-08-06 10:59:23+00:00
Perfect little text, that article is.

Same site has this article about "bedrock platforms" which resonate deeply with me https://permacomputing.net/bedrock_platform/

Software does not rot, the environment around software, the very foundation which owes its existence: the singular task of enabling the software, is what rots.

Let's look at any environment snapshot in time, the software keeps working like it always did.. Start updating the environment, and the software stops working, or rather, the software works fine, but the environment no longer works.

I'm not saying never to update software, but, only do it if it increases speed, decreases memory usage, and broadens compatibility.

I like things better the way they were.

I like things better now than how they will be tomorrow.

I can't remember the last time I saw a software update that didn't make it worse.
by guerrilla | 2025-08-06 10:59:41+00:00
Nah man. I'm overweight and despite trying everything I possibly can for most of my adult life, I still can't win. I do everything you're supposed to do but it's just not possible to maintain long-term. It's a constant struggle. You don't have discipline. It's just easier for you. That's all. I still won't use this drug but don't try to tell me I failed because of a lack of effort, understanding, exercise, "discipline", etc.
by naikrovek | 2025-08-06 10:59:42+00:00
yeah! I agree with this. I use plain TLV (which is very close to this IFF format) and is similar to how PNG stores all its chunks in a single file. As you mentioned.

I got grief for saying that I prefer TLV data over textual data (even if the data is text) because of how easy it is to write code to output and ingest this format, and it is way, WAY faster than JSON will ever be.

It really is a very easy way to get much faster transmission of data over the wire than JSON, and it's dead easy to write viewers for. It's just an underrated way to store binary data. storing things as binary is underrated in general.
by copelandr | 2025-08-06 11:00:02+00:00
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by killerstorm | 2025-08-06 11:00:23+00:00
Well, it's expensive compared to other models. But it's often much cheaper than human labor.

E.g. if need a self-contained script to do some data processing, for example, Opus can often do that in one shot. 500 line Python script would cost around $1, and as long as it's not tricky it just works - you don't need back-and-forth.

I don't think it's possible to employ any human to make 500 line Python script for $1 (unless it's a free intern or a student), let alone do it in one minute.

Of course, if you use LLM interactively, for many small tasks, Opus might be too expensive, and you probably want a faster model anyway. Really depends on how you use it.

(You can do quite a lot in file-at-once mode. E.g. Gemini 2.5 Flash could write 35 KB of code of a full ML experiment in Python - self-contained with data loading, model setup training, evaluation, all in one file, pretty much on the first try.)
by skeezyboy | 2025-08-06 11:00:40+00:00
youre distant ancestors chased every meal they ate. your more recent centuries old ancestors probably worked 6.5 day weeks, 12 hour shifts, and had to have all the children working as well, for a pittance. YOU on the other hand have no problem finding any kind of out-of-season food and probably drive everywhere, barely lifting a finger in comparison. THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE.

Why were there no obese (poor) people 100 years ago?
by AngryData | 2025-08-06 11:00:41+00:00
I agree with you overall, but humans atrophying muscle away so rapidly, and also building muscle so quickly, is fairly unique to humans so im not sure there has to be a downside to being shredded all the time like a gorilla through some sort of medical treatment in the future. We certainly haven't figured that out now, but I wouldn't be surprised if some gene therapy and chemical cocktail couldn't allow it safely someday. From everything ive seen it seems to be just a calorie saving adaptation so more energy can go to the brain. And perhaps make more varied and specialized living strategies, made possible thanks to our brain, more efficient by not supporting large muscle groups we don't always need.

Of course maybe its not possible, but it is the default for pretty much every other animal so its not like it is trying something completely outrageous like trying to eliminate sleep.
by strogonoff | 2025-08-06 11:01:07+00:00
Even if using { display: grid }, or a combination of flex rules, hardly seems like an ideal solution, considering there does exist { text-align: center } (which, incidentally, doesn’t only align the text!), I do agree with the general point. Today it is reasonably easy to make quite complex grid-driven layouts; not easy—often, if not always, making a complex thing easy requires also making it restrictive and opinionated—but perhaps easy enough considering the end result.
by zarzavat | 2025-08-06 11:01:12+00:00
The documentary is real. I don't remember a house construction scene but it's been over 10 years since I watched it. It's not an uncontacted tribe, but tribes from Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.

Meet the Natives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1DqarK4NlA

There is a second season where a different tribe go to USA.
by Xcelerate | 2025-08-06 11:01:13+00:00
I’m not up-to-date on how advanced proof assistants have become, but are we not nearing the point where serious attempts at proving P vs NP can be automatically validated (or not) by a widely vetted collection of Lean libraries?

The P vs NP problem is expressible as the question of whether a specific Π_2 sentence is true or not (more specifically, whether a particular base theory proves the sentence or its negation). Unlike problems involving higher order set theory or analytical mathematics, I would think any claimed proof of a relatively short arithmetical sentence shouldn’t be too difficult to write up formally for Lean (although I suppose Fermat’s Last Theorem isn’t quite there either, but my understanding is we’re getting closer to having a formal version of it).

The impact of this would be that journals could publicly post which specific sentences they consider to represent various famous open problems, and a prerequisite to review is that all purported proofs require a formal version that automatically Lean-validates. This would nix the whole crank issue.

Then again, I may be way off base with how close we are to achieving something like I’ve described. My impression is that this goal seems about 5 years away for “arithmetical” mathematics, but someone better in the know feel free to correct me.