MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by petralithic | 2025-08-27 22:00:26+00:00
Have you actually used image generators today? It can produce things it's never seen if only you describe the constituent pieces. Prompts are a compressed version of the image one wants to create, and these days you don't even need "prompts" per se, you can say, make a woman looking towards the viewer, now add a pearl earing, now adjust this and that etc.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-27 22:01:02+00:00
I've gone down the Sonora grade in a Silverado with 22 year old brake fluid. I wasn't towing, but it was very hot out and in general yes the brakes were hot when I checked at around 4000 feet.

I wonder if some YouTuber has done some experiment to see just how bad fluid had to get before a typical driver could notice.
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-27 22:01:11+00:00
I don't think this is just taste. The painting was made in a specific historic context and commemorates the bombing of Guernica. Without knowing that context, it may be appreciated as a disembodied visual artifact, but that's not how art really works or ever worked. An influential artpiece usually states something relevant to the historic moment and intellectual Zeitgeist of the time.

You may like the music of Zombie by The Cranberries, but I'd say it belongs to the complete appreciation of it to know that it's about the Irish Troubles, and for that you need some background knowledge.

You may like to smoke weed to Bob Marley songs, but without knowing something about the African slave trade, you won't get the significance of tracks like 400 years.

For Guernica you also have to understand Picasso's fascination with primitive art, prehistoric cave art, children's drawings and abstraction, the historic moment when photography took over the role of realistic depiction, freeing painters to express themselves more in terms of emotional impressions and abstractions.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-27 22:01:56+00:00
This was called the TLM role at google. Technical Lead/Manager. You were expected to code and manage a couple of more junior engineers.

It’s part of an effort to have dedicated managers and dedicated engineers instead of hybrid roles.

This is being sold as an efficiency win for the sake of the stock price but it’s really just moved a few people around with the TLMs now 100% focused on programming.
by reorder9695 | 2025-08-27 22:02:30+00:00
I was coming from the perspective more of I can't use alternative operating systems on it due to these issues. For example, my laptop came with Windows, I got fed up with one drive and the tracking etc so I put linux on it, which was fine. I cannot do the same with my phone due to especially the banks, I know at least some of mine are unusable if I unlock my bootloader, so something like Lineage is off the table. This is what I mean by I have no choice in it, I have to use IOS or Android.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-27 22:02:54+00:00
It's probably to do with vape companies still needing nicotine, and so the tobacco companies still control the primary source, so they can gain the advantages of vertical integration from buying up the downstream offshoots. Non-fossil fuel sources of energy by definition have different primary sources of energy than those controlled by fossil fuel companies, so they can't capitalize in the same way.

Btw, I looked up Juul from your other comment and saw they're 35% owned by Altria (formerly Philip Morris) who are "one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes, and medical products in the treatment of illnesses caused by tobacco." [1]

You couldn't hope for a more tragically hilarious summation of the cynicism in this industry than that combination of businesses to be in

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria
by petralithic | 2025-08-27 22:02:58+00:00
By this same logic, AI will also become accepted as art in 50 years. And by the way, no one who's serious about AI "art" uses commercial generators, they use local AI with workflow managers like ComfyUI. They are not just typing into a box like Midjourney. Therefore these are the hackers who're showing the middle finger to Disney, they dislike copyright as much as anyone.
by dminik | 2025-08-27 22:03:05+00:00
Ok, while it's cool that the TigerBeetle link now shows no matches (down from two) the comment now feels wrong. Anyways, you guys left in the `!= error.` checks, so here's some snapshots that hopefully won't be invalidated :P

https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/b173fdc82700...

https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/b173fdc82700... (different file, same check.)
Show HN: DeepShot – an open-source NBA predictor with ML, EWMA, and live UI
by f_sacco | 2025-08-27 22:03:28+00:00
Hey everyone, I’m an NBA fan and Python dev, and I recently built DeepShot — a machine learning model that predicts NBA game outcomes with about 71% accuracy based on historical stats and rolling performance metrics (EWMA). It features: Real NBA data from Basketball Reference Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages to track momentum Interactive NiceGUI interface with team comparison and predictions Full Python stack and open-source (MIT license) Here’s the GitHub repo: https://github.com/saccofrancesco/deepshot And if you like it, here’s my Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/saccofrancesco Would love any feedback — especially from folks who’ve built sports models or worked on real-time stat tools. Also open to ideas on where to take this next (player-level modeling? betting advice dashboard?).
by milancurcic | 2025-08-27 22:03:55+00:00
"Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduction of LLMs with a chat function, like ChatGPT, that overuses those buzzwords."

OK, but please don't do what pg did a year or so ago and dismiss anyone who wrote "delve" as AI writing. I've been using "delve" in speech for 15+ years. It's just a question where and how one learns their English.
by no_internet | 2025-08-27 22:04:11+00:00
Local-first: offline by default; zero telemetry. Optional LLM API calls can be disabled; API keys stored locally.

Stack: Python 3.10, FastAPI (async), WebSockets UI.

Storage: SQLite for persistence + sqlite-vec (384-d cosine) for vector search; ChromaDB used as an in-memory hot cache.

Embeddings: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (384-d), CPU ~50ms/query.

LLM options (Ollama/local): TinyLlama 1.1B / Phi-2 2.7B / Gemma 2B (4GB); Mistral 7B Q4 / Llama-2 7B Q4 (8GB); Llama-3 8B / Mixtral 8×7B (16GB+). GPU optional for 5–10× speedup.

Memory tiers:

Hot: in-memory (Chroma), LRU ~5k items with score decay.

Warm: SQLite + sqlite-vec persistent store; promotes on read.

Cold: archived to disk; periodically compacted.

Graph/Why: NetworkX graph for explainability; basic activation spreading + auto-linking on similarity threshold.

Security: data lives under ~/kai/ with user-only perms; no encryption at rest yet. Export (/memory/export) and full delete scripts included.

Roadmap (short): VS Code ext (MCP), Obsidian bridge via local REST, encryption-at-rest, and open-sourcing the graph/algorithms component. Pricing: free for personal use during early access; long-term pricing TBD.

Happy to go deeper on any of the above.
by marshray | 2025-08-27 22:04:45+00:00
From the perspective of the software vendor, it may be a semi-regular occurrence that they learn that users are being actively harmed by a software vulnerability exploited in-the-wild. So that's an argument that developers have a moral obligation to maintain the ability to push updates their users without delay.

Waiting for the user to click "Check for updates..." is effectively pushing this responsibility onto the users, the vast majority of whom lack the information and expertise needed to make an informed choice about the risk.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-27 22:05:40+00:00
One of the core problems of contemporary news media is that you only ever get exposed to the straw man arguments of the other side. It's just so lucrative to perpetually paint the other side as obviously idiotic, so people can jerk off their ago about how smart they are. Then after years of this they have built a solid immutable mental model of their opponent that is mostly incorrect, but the thing they hold dearest. All so they can keep you tuning in to watch fucking advertisements...
by EarlKing | 2025-08-27 22:05:42+00:00
4chan and Kiwi Farms have obtained common counsel and are suing the UK's Ofcom over their attempts to enforce the Online Safety Act against them, two American companies without minimum ties necessary to establish general personal jurisdiction in the United Kingdom.

The censors who want everyone to show ID to be on social media, or anywhere on the Internet, will get their way however they can. If they can't get the states to pass laws to do it, they'll use other countries to do it. If you believe in a free internet, whatever you may think of 4chan or Kiwi Farms, this is something you should support.

Remember: Today it's someone you don't care about. How long until it's your turn? Who will defend you when you won't defend others?

Copy of their complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26076733-govuscourts...

Courtlistener page for those who want to follow along: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71209929/4chan-communit...

Media coverage from 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over...
by tibbar | 2025-08-27 22:06:02+00:00
Not OP, but I think TLM works best when it's a transitional role. You have someone you want to groom into a full-time manager, and you have a team that you plan to grow over time. TLM itself is not that efficient, but can lead to strong full-time managers who understand the team really well and had time to grow into the role.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-27 22:06:11+00:00
>but it feels… cringe?

are people nowadays unable to be enthusiastic about anything without someone chiming in from the peanut gallery and calling it "cringe"?

Typefaces have always had a pretty passionate community, it can be surprisingly deep. A lot of people love and invest a lot of time in fonts and frankly paying some attention to design even if it isn't necessarily apparent is by no means a bad thing.
by systemswizard | 2025-08-27 22:06:51+00:00
So Apple should reinvent the wheel because you have a lack in trust your third party vendor app working or not through upgrades?

Create a new user and delete the old one. This functionality already exists and doesn’t reinvent the wheel. Likewise Apple shouldn’t be trying to help fix these issues in any sort of way as it will make troubleshooting issues with macOS and app updates harder to diagnose.
by superfrank | 2025-08-27 22:06:53+00:00
NAL, but yes, I believe that it would still be a violation of the law. That said, laws aren't applied by robots and it's likely they would be given leniency if they could show they actually tried to respect the law.

If they make an honest attempt to comply and a small number of people using VPNs slip through the cracks, if they're ever reported, they'll likely be given a slap on the wrist at most. If they ignore the law or do some obvious half assed attempt to comply and thousands of Mississippi users are still using their site and they get reported, it's far less likely that a judge will be lenient.
by adamrezich | 2025-08-27 22:08:08+00:00
I don't know about anyone else, but for me at least, in 2025, it's hard to view a company not only making a bespoke typeface but going out of their way to write a press release about said bespoke typeface as anything other than a signal that said company's designers are high off their ass from huffing their own farts, to the point where users should be concerned about the longevity of said company.

Doubly so when said company's product is a website rather than an app such that users must redownload said typeface every time they clear their cache.

Quadruply so when said typeface is self-admittedly practically indistinguishable from Arial.
by robofunk | 2025-08-27 22:09:02+00:00
What's interesting is that if the batteries are being sourced from JDM cars the batteries are probably relatively young due to the average age of Japanese cars being relatively low (8.7 years) and the amount of yearly mileage is also half for JDM cars when compared to the US. So if you tried the same in the US it may not be as viable.
by didibus | 2025-08-27 22:09:18+00:00
> so I won't address the 20% figure

Ok, but that's the figure that would be alarming, AI is projected to consume 20% of the global energy production by 2030... That's not like the mining industry...

> I find that in general energy doesn't tend to get spent unless there's something to be gained from it

Yes, you'd fall in the #2 conclusion bucket. This is a value judgement, not a factual or logical contradiction. You accept the trade off and find it worth it. That's totally fair, but in no way does it remove or mitigate the environmental impact argument, it just judges it an acceptable cost.
by perihelions | 2025-08-27 22:09:39+00:00
Neat! And it's politely CC-licensed[0].

Boranes have long been known as a high-energy aerospace fuel (e.g. [1]). But this isn't about the general category: it's a specific transition metal one, MnB₂, that has almost twice the volumetric energy density of all the other metal diboranes (fig. 5). (I.e., goes towards density impulse—*not* specific impulse). They're proposing it as a solid rocket fuel, where it might (on paper) replace the aluminum that's used today, that's about 20% of SRB fuel mixtures by mass.

[0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c04066

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_fuel
by TeMPOraL | 2025-08-27 22:10:30+00:00
You do understand what "exponential" in the "exponential growth" means?

Yes, it means that "suddenly" we need to do more of everything than we did for entirety of human history until ~few years ago. Same was true ~few years ago. And ~few years before that. And so on.

That's what exponential growth means. Correct for that, and suddenly we're not really doing things that much faster "because AI" than we'd be doing them otherwise.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-27 22:11:28+00:00
> I still don't get why you don't see it as a tool and not the creator itself.

If after 33 comments in this thread and countless people trying to explain a part of it you don't get it that may be because you either don't want to get it or are unable to get it. Restating it one more time is not going to make a difference and I'm perfectly ok with you not 'getting it', so don't worry about it.

AI without real art as input is noise. It doesn't get any more concrete than that. Humans without any education at all and just mud and sticks for tools will spontaneously create art.
by lotharcable | 2025-08-27 22:11:33+00:00
Generally speaking the cells that are welded on are designed to be welded on in the areas were you do the welding. Doing something other then welding on them properly is going to be more unsafe then welding.

The proper tools to do this are not that expensive anymore in the greater scheme of things. It is just a question of whether or not it is worth to do it at the scale you are doing it or pay somebody else to do it.

Of course if you buy cells that are designed to be bolted together then bolt them together.

Of course the bolts, or whatever else provides the threads, on those cells are welded on.
by strken | 2025-08-27 22:11:33+00:00
In my experience, the reason people don't scrape them off is the rumour that they leave their mouthparts behind.

Removing the terrestrial leeches that live near me in Australia is easy. Put the edge of a credit card a few cm away, resting against your skin at a slight angle, and then quickly scrape the leech away like you're scraping paint.
by jajuuka | 2025-08-27 22:11:40+00:00
Only in part. Apple can still require apps to be approved for distribution in the EU. The process is meant to be less restrictive and only flag apps that are malicious in nature. However Apple has put their thumb on the scale a couple times now trying to see how much control they can claw back.

Don't forget that Apple is the same company that decided to ignore a judges order in the US until the judge threatened to start arresting people. They are not happy about this arrangement in the EU and it has been called noncompliant with the DMA since the start.
by etra0 | 2025-08-27 22:11:59+00:00
> As long as they don't start with Apple.

I guess it's just as good as any other of the vendors you mentioned. I don't see why we shouldn't start with Apple but at the same time I don't think anyone opposes to the other companies being forced too.

At least I know I would like to run personalized software on my Switch without having to rooting it by other 'ways'.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-27 22:14:03+00:00
As a self taught PHP/jQuery guy with an existing saas that pays the bills, it somewhat took the motivation out of my second project.

Alone I'm just good enough to do things well enough and secure enough when I really try. It wasn't easy but I was proud I was able to do it. I was one of the few blue collar guys (although with MechE degree from Cal) that could actually make things and sell them.

Now I feel like AI vibe coding has taken all my advantage away. So really all I have is a bit of experience.
by nayajunimesh | 2025-08-27 22:14:14+00:00
Hey, I did some benchmarks if you're interested - benchmarks results are in the README.md.

https://github.com/nimeshnayaju/zod (Fork of Zod's repo which already included benchmarks comparing Zod 4 against Zod 3, so I simply integrated my validation library)

https://github.com/nimeshnayaju/valibot-benchmarks (An unofficial benchmark suggested in another comment comparing Valibot against Zod)
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-27 22:14:55+00:00
I used to follow pcwalton on Twitter back then (before it became a nazi bar) and that's a complete mischaracterization.

While he can get petty when talking about memory safety, he was never obsessed by Zig in any way, his tweet that ended up with Loris calling him “Coomer” among other names was a response to someone mentioning that Zig wasn't memory safe. I've never seen him mentioning Zig first on Twitter.

And on the other hand you have Loris, obsessed so much by Rust he can't help spawning in Rust threads or write dumb anti-rust rants on his blog…

(In fairness, I must say that Loris isn't even the worst offender, that title goes to M. Presler, who keeps spawning every Rust thread telling everyone who want to hear it that Zig is much better, despite having seemingly no stakes in the game (being a Java guy and having no public Zig contribution or even documented use of the langage). Sounds like the “Rust evangelical strike force” emotionally hurt a bunch of people so much they became lifetime haters).
by rpdillon | 2025-08-27 22:14:59+00:00
I'm saying that if we want to address the bulk of gun deaths, even entirely eliminating school shootings and mass shootings won't move the statistics more than by about 1%. I don't think most adults understand this, because they base their perception on what's reported, rather than reality.

> What is the specific change you want to see in the media coverage?

Editing to answer this, since it's a good question. I'm interested in massively reducing deaths from guns in the US. I think voters turn to the news to understand these issues. I'm worried that politicians will claim to be tackling gun violence through measures that try to reduce the number of high-profile events, while ignoring the larger societal problem that underpins the violence. So what I would like to see in media coverage is using school shootings, which get clicks, to devote time and attention in the article to the larger trends of gun violence in the US to help citizens better evaluate what sorts of measures would be most effective in reducing the bulk of the deaths.

I'm basically trying to push for a setup where we can more effectively tackle gun violence by understanding it well.
by danans | 2025-08-27 22:15:07+00:00
> Why don’t they invest in other sectors though vs doubling down?

Control and relevance. These things matter to them as much as profit.

The barrier to entry to produce renewables is lower than fossil fuels - there is no natural oligopoly.

If you own your house, you can put solar on your roof and a battery on your house, and dramatically cut back on your fossil fuel derived energy needs. Communities can do the same, as can utilities and independent businesses.

That's a future where fossil fuel companies are far less relevant. Not irrelevant, but nothing like what they were. That future may be unavoidable, but they are trying to delay its arrival as much as they can. While that may seem like an anathema to many (including me), put yourself in the shoes of a major investor in or executive at a fossil-fuel company, and you might do the same.
by trhway | 2025-08-27 22:15:23+00:00
>True, but the next thing, will VPNs be forced to age verify eventually ?

it is like age verifying current generic access to the Internet. Sure, we'll come to this too (the anti-utopias aren't fiction, it is future :), yet we still don't verify such a generic access because it isn't the time yet, the society isn't yet totalitarian enough.

As a preview - in Russia (i'm less familiar with China to comment on it) they do already attack VPN by making it illegal to advertise it, something like this.
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-08-27 22:15:27+00:00
I think the issue is both-sides-ism here. This article is about the Fed illegally losing it's political independence, something that could trigger terrible inflation and a recession. That's quite a bit different than Biden falling off his bicycle. I would like to humbly suggest that the US slip-sliding into fascism is something hackers should be concerned about, worthy of discussion and debate. Pushing it down the memory hole seems unworthy of this site.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-27 22:15:50+00:00
> Have you actually used image generators today?

Why would you ask this? It sounds like a lead-up to some kind of put down.

> It can produce things it's never seen if only you describe the constituent pieces.

It can produce things it's never seen based on lots of things that it has seen.

> Prompts are a compressed version of the image one wants to create

They emphatically are not. They are instructions to a tool on what relative importance to assign to all of the templates that it was trained on. But it doesn't understand the output image any more than it understood any of the input images. There is no context available to it in the purest sense of the word. It has no emotion to express because it doesn't have emotions in the first place.

> and these days you don't even need "prompts" per se, you can say, make a woman looking towards the viewer, now add a pearl earing, now adjust this and that etc.

That's just a different path to building up the same prompt. It doesn't suddenly cause the AI to use red for a dress because it thinks it is a nice counterpoint to a flower in a different part of the image because it does not think at all.
by vkou | 2025-08-27 22:16:53+00:00
The value of that kind of role is that the person interfacing with the bureaucracy and the business hierarchy and its many demands also actually does the technical work and knows things about what they are working on.

Without it, nobody on the management side of things actually writes any code, or has first-hand experience with working on the product. The line managers just end up as a go-between between the workers and their directors, because they only know what their reports tell them. They don't know much for themselves.

You can't quantify this sort of loss on an earnings report, but among many other things, it does a great job of diluting ownership of the product away from the teams working on it.