MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by basiliscos_2 | 2025-08-05 18:51:06+00:00
I'm glad to announce v0.4.1 release!

Syncspirit is independent BEP protocol implementation. Like syncthing /is continuous peer-to-peer file synchronization tool.

You can download ready-to-use binaries for Linux x86_64(AppImage), Windows (WindowsXP is supported) and Mac OS X(Apple silicon).

Notable changes:

- unified shared folders model, which allows to inspect on a local and remove devices - possibility to import files from local storage - performance improvements, up-to 5 times on a smaller files - fix compatibility with global discovery v3 protocol - support `folder_type` folder setting (send only, receive only, send & receive) - support `pull_older` folder setting (alphabetic, by size, by modification date) - support `disable_temp_indixes` (hardcoded to `1` for atm) - support `ignore_permissions` folder flag, `permissions` and `no_permissions` file flag - support `ignore_deletes` folder flag - support device `auto-accept` folder flag - support device `introducer` and `skip_introduction_removals` markers - support outgoing messages to be compressed using lz4

Syncspirit is a syncthing-compatible is written from the scratch software in C++ as classical desktop application.

Syncspirt source codeuses GPLv3 license.

Any feedback is welcome!

WBR, basiliscos.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-05 18:51:41+00:00
American exceptionalism is odd, in that sometimes it is "we are better than everyone else", but sometimes it is "we can't have the nice things that all other rich countries have, because [nonsense reason]".

A popular one is 'density', and, okay, maybe this is somewhat true if you're talking about, say, Wyoming (though I think not as true as people often think), but California, for instance, has an only slightly lower population density than _France_, and at that point "we can't have proper transport/telecoms/whatever because density" is just an excuse, and not a convincing one.
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-08-05 18:52:04+00:00
Download Claude Code

Create a new directory in your terminal

Open that directory, type in "Claude" to run Claude

Press Shit + Tab to go into planning mode

Tell Claude what you want to build - recommend something simple to start with. Specify the languages, environment, frameworks you want, etc.

Claude will come up with a plan. Modify the plan or break it into smaller chunks if necessary

Once plan is approved, ask it to start coding. It will ask you for permissions and give you the finished code

It really is something when you actually watch it go.
by aneutron | 2025-08-05 18:52:06+00:00
Assuming this does happen, I would genuienly like to read what a plausible follow-up would look like, for peace in Gaza.

Would they extend Israel to Gaza and give everyone there a special status ? Or if they choose to setup a state, who will handle the "legal violence" part of the social contract ? Israel ? Folks from Gaza ?

And what about currency and international trade ? Would Gaza be allowed access to international waters ?
by irthomasthomas | 2025-08-05 18:52:11+00:00
Prediction: GPT-5 will use a consortium of models for parallel reasoning, possibly including their oss versions. Each using different 'channels' from the harmony spec.

I have a branch of llm-consortium where I was noodling with giving each member model a role. Only problem is it's expensive to evaluate these ideas so I put it on hold. But maybe now with oss models being cheap I can try and it on those.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-05 18:52:55+00:00
Because I think that claude has gone beyond tech niche at this point..

Or maybe that's me, but still whether its through the likes of those vibe coding apps like lovable bolt etc.

at the end of the day, Most people are using the same tool which is claude since its mostly superior in coding (questionable now with oss models, but I still use it through kiro).

People expect this stuff to be simple when in reality its not and there is some frustation I suppose.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-05 18:53:08+00:00
I'm a musician

I haven't used the elevnlabs one, but I've checked out suno and udio, and to be honest the tech is amazing. But like with a lot of genai images, the current music models have the same smell to it.

These models can def be used to crank out commercially sounding music, but I have yet to hear any output that sounds fresh and exciting. If your goal is to create bro country, these models are a god-send.

With that said, I do believe that musicians will start to create music with these tools as aid. I've tried to use them for generating samples and ideas, and they do work well enough.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-05 18:53:14+00:00
> Intel is not profitable.

Did I say they were? Google gross versus net margin.

> If their R+D and Capex investments stopped, the sum total of the existing+legacy cash flows wouldn't nearly cover Intel's substantial liabilities.

You sure? https://www.intc.com/financial-info/balance-sheet

Current assets are $43 billion. Total assets are $192 billion. $30 billion yearly in gross profit. Debt is only $50 billion. They still hold 75% market share. Repeat, they still sell 3 times more chips than AMD.

Yes, their balance sheet isn't as good as some fabless competitors but if TSMC helps them with their 14a yield then it looks like a good investment.

Also, having TSMC on board will surely help with their fab business. Again, between the US government needing them to survive, TSMC on board, plus the fact they still do have a decent core business, I think Intel (and TSMC's investment) will be fine.
by os2warpman | 2025-08-05 18:53:31+00:00
>To this, this HN replies is evidence that banks should be able to discriminate capriciously,

No. Stop. Fuck off. Get fucked.

I didn't say, mean, imply, or insinuate that.

Someone said/meant/implied that banks were a monopoly, probably because they're a piece of shit libertarian or they heard the phrase "ReGuLaToRy CaPtUrE" on a shitty podcast somewhere, and that it is impossible to start one.

And I replied that it isn't, well, it is, but no more than any other capital-intensive project.

And credit unions are easier than banks.

Goooooooooooooooooo fuckyerself.
by smeeger | 2025-08-05 18:53:53+00:00
i think what people are talking about is that infomercial-level quackery and double-think and dishonesty has now breached the levy into mainstream science. now, instead of seeing papers claiming breakthroughs you will also see papers that are fraudulent but claim to prove or reinforce a hypothesis or model that everyone already agrees is true. obviously most fraudulent papers are like this because the point of fraudulent papers is to avoid detection and create an appearance of legitimacy. now we have a billions dollar drug for alzheimers that literally does nothing. thats what people are talking about. but you refuse to acknowledge it
by guywithahat | 2025-08-05 18:54:20+00:00
You do realize how much worse blackouts in CA are, right? TX never even experienced a full grid collapse like CA; CA has planned blackouts based on how dry the forests are, because power companies aren't allowed to trim nearby trees.

I don't mean to get personal but this is a really ill-informed opinion. Texas has to deal with hurricanes and legitimate weather events, CA has invented problems that cause blackouts at the expense of CA taxpayers; meanwhile CA pays 2-3x for the same power. It's really not a good comparison, CA has a famously mismanaged electric grid
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-05 18:54:29+00:00
> that ends up taking you 20 minutes to figure out

That 20 minutes, repeated over and over over the course of a career, is the difference between being a master versus being an amateur

You should value it, even if your employer doesn't.

Your employer would likely churn you into ground beef if there was a financial incentive to, never forget that
by furyofantares | 2025-08-05 18:54:41+00:00
In this case, they tried something and were told they were doing it wrong, and they know there's more than one way to do it wrong - wrong model, wrong tool using the model, wrong prompting, wrong task that you're trying to use it for.

And of course you could be doing it right but the people saying it works great could themselves be wrong about how good it is.

On top of that it costs both money and time/effort investment to figure out if you're doing it wrong. It's understandable to want some clarity. I think it's pretty different from buying shoes.
by sjs382 | 2025-08-05 18:54:45+00:00
One subtle (but important) way Kagi has improved my life is that I'm less "on guard" with search results.

It's not perfect but I know that I'm more likely to find a result that serves me, rather than a result that's optimizing for an algorithm. And if I do come across something spammy, I know that telling Kagi to adjust a site lower (or remove a site from results) is just 2 clicks away.

Even though it's a small thing, it's one I encountered with every Google search, manyamnymany times per day. Relieving that is worth more than $10/mo to me. I think that pricing is right, though—if it were more than $10/mo and I likely never would have tried it.

The only thing I use Google Search for now is hyperlocal stuff, mostly I expect to interact with Maps result. Kagi Maps isn't even close.
by pmarreck | 2025-08-05 18:55:00+00:00
No, that feature doesn't exist. My son is 4 and I looked. You can approve individual videos, but to my knowledge you can't whitelist channels for your kid. You can subscribe to a bunch of channels, and that will tend to make your kids' feed get steered in that direction, but random outliers are always a possibility.

Which as a parent of a toddler is absolutely mind-numbing.

Which means that every so often he will always end up encountering either some foreign-language content (borderline appropriate if I want him to learn his native tongue first) or something with violence, etc. that is not at all appropriate, or something like some kid playing some dumb but colorful game (non-mind-enriching, pure dopamine garbage) from some rando channel.

PLUS, they seem to be abandoning YouTube Kids in order to merge its functionality into the main YouTube app, and yet...

Like, does ANYONE at Google/Alphabet/whatever actually have fucking kids?!?!?!

I paid for family YouTube just so my kid (and myself) wouldn't be forced to watch ads.

All they'd have to do here is let me ban FUCKING shorts (don't get me started... note that they intentionally made this extremely difficult to impossible, good luck blocking it at the router level), and whitelist some channels, and they'd instantly make every parent 100% happier with YouTube!

And no, I'm sorry but this would NOT be hard to build/maintain. Hell, they can hire me to build it out, I'm LFW!
by encom | 2025-08-05 18:55:13+00:00
(2021)

In my opinion PNG doesn't need fixing. Being ancient is a feature. Everything supports it. As much as I appreciate the nerdy exercise, PNG is fine as it is. My only gripe is that some software writes needlessly bloated files (like adding a useless alpha channel, when it's not needed). I wish we didn't need tools like OptiPNG etc.
by notahacker | 2025-08-05 18:55:23+00:00
Absolutely. Everything the OP mentions as a reason to continue trading with the US is also a reason for Europe to trade more with China. Historically the argument for not doing that is "look at their very different values and how they bully and threaten their neighbours, and remember that if you do business there their government will happily crush you with its arbitrary power as soon as you step out of line and even at the import/export any trade deals they do make will be them openly trying to screw you" The US isn't exactly in a strong position to continue making those arguments about why the world's other superpower is different with a straight face.

The US doesn't need to be cut out of world trade altogether (it won't be obviously) to lose a lot at the margin, with the chief beneficiaries ironically being the country the current US administration most hate...
by roboboffin | 2025-08-05 18:55:30+00:00
If human need drives the creative process, then there will always be a human in the loop. Instead, each human becomes the “random seed” that initialises the process based on their own unique make-up. This is only different from how things work now, in that humans are also creating the artefact.

Similar to how synths meant we no longer need to play an instruments by plucking strings, it hasn’t affected the higher level creativity of creating music, only expanded it.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-05 18:55:31+00:00
There's a whole little online subculture of people in the US importing the precursors and making it themselves at home for dirt-cheap.

I gather it's extremely easy and basically fool-proof, as far as producing the desired drug and not producing some other, undesired drug. Much easier than, say, home-brewing beer. The risk is all in contamination, which presents a vector for infection.

[EDIT] I don't mean to downplay the risks or suggest people go do this, only to highlight that there's enough demand for this that we're well into "life, uh, finds a way" territory, and also just how lucky (assuming these hold up as no-brainers to take for a large proportion of the population) we are that these things are so incredibly cheap and simple to make, if you take the patents out of the picture.
by avemg | 2025-08-05 18:55:47+00:00
I think you should embrace a bit of ambiguity. Don't treat this like a stupid computer where you have to specify everything in minute detail. Certainly the more detail you give, the better to an extent. But really: Treat it like you're talking to a colleague and give it a shot. You don't have to get it right on the first prompt. You see what it did and you give it further instructions. Autocomplete is the least compelling feature of all of this.

Also, I don't remember what model Copilot uses by default, especially the free version, but the model absolutely makes a difference. That's why I say to spend the $20. That gives you access to Sonnet 4 which is where, imo, these models took a giant leap forward in terms of quality of output.
by d0odk | 2025-08-05 18:56:07+00:00
I directionally agree with you. But there are plenty of examples of scientists being extremely petty, political or egotistical further back in history. Newton and Leibniz. Gauss withholding publication of non-Euclidean geometry presumably due to fear of Kant.

I wonder if there is any empirical analysis of what has historically funded/supported scientific work (private funding vs. academic systems).

I also wonder whether a lone genius in it for the "love of the game" could make much progress in cutting edge science nowadays, given the cost of experiments and the specialization of fields.

Really interesting food for thought.
by ipaddr | 2025-08-05 18:56:16+00:00
"the most important decade in human history."

Lol. To be young and foolish again. This covid laced decade is more of a placeholder. The current decade is always the most meaningful until the next one. The personal computer era, the first cars or planes, ending slavery needs to take a backseat to the best search engine ever. We are at the point where everyone is planning on what they are going to do with their hoverboards.
by yonixw | 2025-08-05 18:56:29+00:00
My guess is the 2-level separation. You WILL need to make some part in your system LGPL by using "Sidequest.js" tightly, but then expose very simple APIs (like /start /status etc..) that will stop the LGPL from "infecting" other parts, as they can replace the "linking" with anything that will support those simple APIs.

Which is a good way to get improvements other are doing that relate to your source code through LGPL's source exposing, while not forcing it everywhere (GPL case). Especially, for backend libs.

And since AGPL will essentially make it non viable for SaaS (as network separation won't do), LGPL is what left.
by duskwuff | 2025-08-05 18:56:53+00:00
> Money was a big part of the problem.

Yep. There are a ton of incidents described in the report which all stink of penny-pinching. Probably one of the most obvious is reusing the titanium end cap components from the first submarine; this may have played a role in the failure of the Titan, as the mating surfaces may have been damaged or incompletely cleaned when rebonding them to the new hull.
by glenstein | 2025-08-05 18:56:58+00:00
If you're knowledgeable enough to know how to do the installing, you'll save the money that way too. I feel like it's the community solar that's probably the worst offenders, they build it, you effectively rent the generation capacity, but ideally the cost of the electricity you get back is more valuable than what it cost you to pay your rent.

I still think everyone should believe in it as a value proposition, and as as a way to balance risk from grid instability, but I would like better information about who is reliable and who the bad actors are.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-08-05 18:57:08+00:00
Zuckerberg explains a few of the reasons here:

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg#:~:text=As%20long...

The short version is that is you give a product to open source, they can and will donate time and money to improving your product, and the ecosystem around it, for free, and you get to reap those benefits. Llama has already basically won that space (the standard way of running open models is llama.cpp), so OpenAI have finally realized they're playing catch-up (and last quarter's SOTA isn't worth much revenue to them when there's a new SOTA, so they may as well give it away while it can still crack into the market)
by CharlieDigital | 2025-08-05 18:57:22+00:00
There was a video recently talking about this with a good visualization [0]

The root cause of the problem is very fundamental to React and the nature of how the team designed the reactivity model. The TL;DR: React has an inverted model of state management [1].

In Vanilla, Vue, Svelte, Solid, any signals-based reactivity model, you explicitly opt-in to state changes by moving code into your reactive callback. In fact, in almost all of the code that you write, you typically explicitly opt-in to changes in state.

In React, you explicitly opt-out of state changes by moving code out of the reactive callback because the entire component function is the reactive callback (so any state in the path of that function that should not trigger a re-render has to be moved out via a hook).

This fundamental difference is what makes React hard to do well at scale because one needs to be very cognizant of where to place state inside a component and how to optimize for performance with memoization [2] (something Vue and Svelte developers pretty much never think about). The React team spent 2 years building the compiler to automatically manage memoization, but from the benchmarks I've seen, it's hardly made a difference.

In that time frame, Vue has been working on "Vapor Mode" [3] which bypasses the VDOM and brings it to parity with Svelte, Solid, and very close to Vanilla while still retaining a very easy to grok model of reactivity.

[0] https://youtu.be/INLq9RPAYUw

[1] https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2025/01/the-inverted-reactivity-mo...

[2] https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-uphill-battle-of-memoization, https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-useless-use-callback

[3] https://www.vuemastery.com/blog/the-future-of-vue-vapor-mode...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-05 18:57:23+00:00
Not to worry, there is a whole lot of farm land that is going to free up soon for renewables as farmers go bankrupt from suboptimal agriculture trade policy.

https://www.uaex.uada.edu/media-resources/news/2025/july/07-...

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/07/farm-bankruptcie...

(soybean exports to China from the US are already down 96% this year; also, while most federal lands are west of the midwest great plains, there should be sufficient non federal land to meet the energy needs of West Coast load centers: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/pad-us-14-map-federal-land...)
by llm_nerd | 2025-08-05 18:57:29+00:00
> if you're an American think carefully about whom you want defining the economic & strategic reality your children will inherit.

This is such an astonishing statement. US tech and industry have been enormous, outrageously successful at bringing wealth to the US. They have been welcomed with open arms worldwide, and have funnelled trillions into the US coffers. While Intel become a company of middle managers and suits, companies like TSMC filled the void and allowed Apple and nvidia, Qualcomm and Broadcom to become goliaths. Boo hoo.

For someone to do this crybaby routine about how maligned it is...good god. The total and complete lack of self-awarenesss is extraordinary.

The US has a monumental amount to fall, and idiotic, Stalinist actions like this are precisely how it can be rapidly sped up.

> The USA competes against countries and companies that are state owned and/or state infiltrated

Not only do US intelligence do economic espionage on behalf of US companies, the US government's enormous debt spend is a collosal socialist regime for US corporations. The US military has a $1T budget largely to dump into US firms (see the laughable recent billion dollars handed over to AI companies, though it's just a tiny sliver of the spend).

Regardless, it's pretty astonishing seeing the same people who forever called everything socialist/communist suddenly the biggest advocates of a Stalinist/Maoist Trump and his central planned economy. Utterly bizarre. Almost like all of their words were just partisan rhetoric of zero substance or value.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-05 18:57:37+00:00
> Are you boycotting AI or something?

At this point I am close to deciding to fully boycott it yes

> If you try it yourself you'll soon find out that the answer is a very obvious yes

I have tried plenty over the years, every time a new model releases and the hype cycle fires up again I look in to see if it is any better

I try to use it a couple of weeks, decide it is overrated and stop. Yes it is improving. No it is not good enough for me to trust
by bpavuk | 2025-08-05 18:57:51+00:00
unlike Anthropic, iTunes and Starbucks are profitable.

suppose iTunes gets $1 from every $5 spent there. if Apple sold a $50 gift card, it can pocket $10 and not worry about it. Anthropic, OTOH, sells their API at loss, so unused credits mean losses that await to be materialized. it is unprofitable for them to let you keep the compute bucks forever.
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-08-05 18:58:06+00:00
>With that said, I do believe that musicians will start to create music with these tools as aid.

The more tech advances the cooler it is to bury your head in the sand. Studying by paper & candlelight has never been more of a flex.

Unless you're talking about EDM people and those adjacent. Not that they're not "real musicians" but they're much more about tech and gadgets so I can see them using it more.
by const_cast | 2025-08-05 18:58:06+00:00
KDE search is super good, if you're referring to krunner. It searches everything, bookmarks, open tabs, filenames, paths, and even file contents. And it's really fast.

You have to turn the file indexer on or install it if you don't have it. Try `baloo status` or `baloo6 status`. Poke around in setting too so you can index what you need and not temp files.
by echelon | 2025-08-05 18:58:08+00:00
Don't put the world state into the model. Use the model as a renderer of whatever objects the "engine" throws at it.

Use the CPU and RAM for world state, then pass it off to the model to render.

Regardless of how this is done, Unreal Engine with all of its bells and whistles is toast. That C++ pile of engineering won't outdo something this flexible.
by dclowd9901 | 2025-08-05 18:58:18+00:00
Didn't we _not_ let industries fail during that time? How about the Big 3 bailouts and the emergency infusions for banks? And these actions decidedly helped save our economy.

Whether it's good from a moral perspective or a long term perspective I guess is another matter, but I suspect if the government hadn't stepped in, we'd still be in the throes of the subprime crash even today. This is speaking as someone who is deeply anti-corporate.