MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teodosin | 2025-08-18 08:51:43+00:00
A few years ago I got frustrated while organising my project files and notes. I was a student of visual communications (now graduated) and I also dabble in a lot of different types of creative projects. Animation, comics, board games, video games, worldbuilding, that sort of stuff. So I had a lot of material that I felt was tucked away in a labyrinth of folders and files, invisible unless you knew what you were looking for. You couldn't put files in multiple places in a cross-platform way, which would have made sense since a file can belong to multiple projects. I felt that this had an adverse effect on me actually finishing a lot of projects as well.

At the same time I enjoyed working with digital whiteboarding tools such as Miro to structure projects and organise ideas, but they too were missing something, in my view. If I had a massive canvas and wanted to place an image in several sections, those would all be independent copies with no relation to each other. I couldn't find all instances of an image easily, and they were all separate also from the image in my file system. Everything on the canvas felt throwaway because it had no connection to my actual store of files.

So I'm here to ask for thoughts and feedback on the first alpha release of Karta, the canvas file browser.

Disclaimer, it's not been tested on Windows, seems slow on Linux, but works well on MacOS. Images aren't optimised yet so expect it to slow down if you open a folder with many large images. Let me know if you have issues.

How it works is you select a folder for Karta to access, and then it opens it as a graph on a canvas. You can move and resize any folder or file, and you can connect any of them together. Connected nodes always appear together, so you can start making associations and then explore your files in a more freeform and intuitive way. There are also text nodes you can create to add notes and headings, which won't exist in your file system.

The app has gone through many iterations and took this long because I wasn't sure about what I was making, and had to learn most of the required skills as I went. Now after being in a bubble for too long I finally have something that works, so I'm looking for honest feedback about whether this project is useful or at least interesting. I oscillate between thinking this has a lot of potential and this is pointless, so some contact with the real world would be nice :)
Show HN: FirstUser trying to give 4 guaranteed reviews for each product
by sgraphics8 | 2025-08-18 08:52:22+00:00
Hei,

I launched FirstUser app: the idea is that if you want to get feedback (reviews, constructive criticism) for your app, then you first must give feedback on other products. You then earn Karma and can spend it to receive feedback.

Since last week there have been 20 launches and 80 reviews. That’s 4 reviews for each launch on average!

Let me know what you think!
by N2yhWNXQN3k9 | 2025-08-18 08:52:25+00:00
> or we would not be having this discussion.

Or those who aren't students of philosophy, just never read everything they said, seems more likely, no?

> Keep in mind the philosophers who came before had great contributions to the big thought-experiment we call existence, but many of them argued from emotionally or socioeconomically tainted positions and nobody has gotten it 100% right yet, or we would not be having this discussion.

Okay? What does that mean? We have 300 years of society embracing this perspective of Hume and the (at least) tens of thousands of scholars that followed him. I think it is well established that we believe this, even if you have some special knowledge or something enqueued.

Are you going to debunk all philosophy of the 18th century because they were arguing from an "emotionally or socioeconomically" stance (whatever that means)? It seems like an argument from an extremely weak position rhetorically, and I am being generous.
by h4kunamata | 2025-08-18 08:52:45+00:00
It isn't just okay but mandatory! 2015, 10 years later things got so much worse, only know some minority are realising all the problems behind an AD.

With the rise of privacy being breached by American companies and now AI, the way we deal with technology should change altogether.

Basics first, if you only use your PC to access the internet, YouTube, office/excel(LibreOffice) and alike, Mint Cinnamon Linux to replace Windows. No money wasted with licensing and its AI flooding you with ADs

Android and iPhone are such major issue with targeted ADs, GrapheneOS running on Pixel phones are the only way to have a phone and life without having all your personal life leaked, plus ADs.

At home, I run Pihole + Unbound as recursive DNS, OPNSense to force all the DNS traffic to them, and WireGuard to connect to home when I am out. Pihole blocked traffic goes brrrrrrrrrrr

If people knew how much crappy their phones, Windows/Mac PCs are sending out to Microsof, Apple, Meta, Google, etc, to be exchanged into targeted ADs, people would lose their mind lmao
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-18 08:55:56+00:00
Blows my mind someone actually unironically makes this argument.

4chan is showing ads on their site, but if your idea had any grounds, the issue would be with the ad network, not 4chan.

While that'd be a pretty bad legal precedent too, it'd at least be coherent.

More realistically, 4chan will likely be banned by UK ISPs after a court ruling.

The previous mail was likely just to move the process forward to show they have no interest in following the UK law.
by bytefactory | 2025-08-18 08:56:24+00:00
I had long been of the opinion that local models were a long way away from being useful, and that they were toys at best. I'm a heavy user of o3/GPT5, Claude Opus/Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro, so my expectations were sky high.

I tried out Gemma 27B on LM Studio a few days ago, and I was completely blown away! It has a warmth and character (and smarts!) that I was not expecting in a tiny model. It just doesn't have tool use (although there are hacky workarounds), which would have made it even better. Qwen 3 with 30B parameters (3B active) seems to be nearly as capable, but also supports tool use.

I'm currently in the process of vibe coding an agent network with LangGraph orchestration, Gemma 27B/Qwen 3 30B-A3B with memory, context management and tool management. The Qwen model even uses a tiny 1.7B "draft" model for speculative decoding improving performance. In my 7800x3D, RTX 4090 with 64GB RAM, I have latency of ~200-400ms, and 20-30 tokens/s which is plenty fast.

My thought process is that this local stack will let me use agents to their fullest in administering my machine. I always felt uneasy letting Claude Code, Gemini CLI or Codex operate outside my code folders. Yet, their utility in helping me troubleshoot problems (I'm a recent Linux convert) was too attractive to ignore. Now I have the best of both worlds. Privacy, and AI models helping with sysadmin. They're also great for quick "what options does kopia backup use?" type questions I've assigned a global hotkeyed helper for.

Additionally, if one has a NAS with the *arr stack for downloading, say perfectly legal Linux ISOs, such a private model would be far more suitable.

It's early days, but I'm excited about other use cases i might discover over time! It's a good time to be an AI enthusiast.
by imatrix | 2025-08-18 08:56:36+00:00
it's not about the punchline, it's about the fact that jokes are an extremely complicated thing. The reason? It's a highly abstract structure of information, not unlike low-level speech (how words are supposed to be put together in different languages), code (different programming languages have different rules for commands and sequences).

Even the best LLm's are still at the level of children in this abstraction, so they can't make "quality" jokes. They also suffer from not having a unique personality and being the average of everything. Until this is addressed, don't expect great jokes to come out of AI. It's almost the most challenging discipline. I wouldn't be afraid to make the comparison that the "joke" is the real Turing test.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-18 08:56:50+00:00
Yeah, I think the hard part would be graphics libraries for anything 3D.

I've always had a bucket-list item along the lines of "constructing basic game playing graphics primitives from scratch using the SVGA address offset for output".

MS-DOS (and games for it) ran on 486s, at the end. Writing MS-DOS games for a computer running many hundreds/thousands of times faster would probably allow for many more different types of approaches that could not be done on slow machines.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-18 08:57:01+00:00
Yes, as you can see for what is possible to express with Pyright.

Just because Python is dynamic, doesn't mean it lacks the notion of a type system, or the whole set of concepts that Go has no way to express, like meta-classes, multiple inheritance, comprehensions (eager or lazy),....

Many folks going from Python to Go, would never done it if Python had a modern JIT on CPython, or the package management wasn't the way it is, hardly anything to do with the language itself.
by shellmayr | 2025-08-18 08:57:57+00:00
Very true - decision quality is super important! My point here is that trust erodes in the absence of good communication, and when that happens, your decisions matter less because you won‘t be able to deliver on them as effectively.

In your other point though, I‘ve seen highly effective managers who didn‘t understand much of what the team was doing technically, because the were able to build trust among everyone involved in major processes.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-18 08:58:21+00:00
The Free Pascal software distribution includes a FLOSS look-alike of Borland's character-mode IDE for Pascal. If you can track down RHIDE, that's a similar look-alike IDE that runs in MS-DOS (it does require 386+ since it uses a DOS extender) and compiles C/C++ using gcc. (One version of it is distributed as part of the FreeDOS "development" packages.) It would be nice to recreate a broadly similar look and featureset starting from a modern text-mode editor such as the newly released MS-EDIT, aiming for modern IDE infrastructure like LSP and DAP. Such a project may find quite some use for, e.g. remote system administration tasks using ssh.
by graemep | 2025-08-18 08:58:34+00:00
I think this is the most probable explanation.

Homeopathic medicine is based on the same principles as sympathetic magic. You might as well ask someone to cast a spell.

https://pietersz.co.uk/2013/07/homeopathy-magic

There have been similar problems with dilution of herbal medicines, but of course herbs do often have medicinal properties.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-08-18 08:58:53+00:00
> I'd argue this is also down to the debug memory allocators in Zig which run a bunch of checks for things like use-after-free. Again, one of the nice things about Zig is that debug mode isn't dramatically slower than release so you're not inclined to turn it off too soon.

Ah another good point -- also excited for what opens up with regards to this approach with managed/explicit I/O. Pretty obvious that permutation testing of async behavior gets unlocked which is nice. The equivalent in Rust would be loom.

> However, one thing that does shock me is that no "reference to stack allocated thing escapes" errors existed. Zig does not help you very much on this front, and I'm stunned that none existed.

TIL -- is everyone just bolting on asan here and sticking to the clang backend for now?

Hopefully the zig strike force will drop by.
by godelski | 2025-08-18 08:59:27+00:00
I still think you're cherry-picking and ignoring any of the depth here. You're being so quick to find an answer you are missing all complexity. Your argument is that people are only subjected to what the author says, leading them to have no ability to think or form conclusions themselves. Star Trek was given as the most familiar example (one which people would likely debate these aspects) but there is far more complexity in stories like The Positronic Man or even A.I., where the author is specifically asking you to think about these things (just like in those aforementioned Trek episodes where clearly the author is making people think about those things). I'm just trying to say, don't let an answer get in the way of understanding. Don't just trivialize everything, and don't try to explain to someone what they already acknowledged.
by defrost | 2025-08-18 08:59:44+00:00
Weird.

I guess I'm glad I don't live in the US, I've built, bought, sold, renovated, and helped out others renovating a number of times in the past four decades and never run into such restrictions.

> In Arizona where a house could easily reach unsafe temperatures without working A/C there's almost certainly a safety aspect to requiring a grid connection.

Odd, given one doesn't follow from the other; you can have working A/C without a grid connection .. and it's better to build to the environment than waste power in any case .. the Pilbara easily matches Arizona temperatures and people have lived there for millennia w/out A/C - in more recent times rammed earth walls and high roofs with wide verandahs work to beat the heat w/out draining power.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-18 09:01:49+00:00
> I claimed three years ago that AI would totally disrupt the porn and film industries and we're practically on the cusp of it.

Meh. We were on the cusp 5 years ago. Five years later, we're still on the cusp?

Maybe I'm working with a different meaning of "cusp", but to me "On the cusp of $FOO" means that there is no intervening step between now and $FOO.

The reality is that there are uncountable intervening steps between now and "film industry disrupted".
by discordance | 2025-08-18 09:02:03+00:00
5 x SigEnergy SigenStor Bat 8.0 (8kWh/battery) + 12kW inverter (Sigenstor EC) on single phase. The SRES battery rebate (https://cer.gov.au/batteries) was ~30%. Total was a bit under $15k. I already have 16.6kW of panels on the roof from 5 years ago.

There are two providers (Globird and Ovo) I have been researching that provide 2-3 free hours of electricity per day between 11-2pm. That + solar would easily fill the batteries, so that power bill might drop even more.

You should get some quotes from battery/solar installers (no doubt you have heard of solarquotes.com.au). Prices have dropped a lot this year.
by unsupp0rted | 2025-08-18 09:02:13+00:00
> If any airline ever proposes something like that, the backlash will be swift and massive.

This is true. But it's not a condemnation of my position: if anything, it supports my level of frustration with the status quo.

Children are necessary and must be loved. At the same time, they (usually) don't need to be on airplanes if they can't be stopped from wailing for 9 straight hours (not an exaggeration- that's what happened on my Frankfurt flight).

There are medical flights and dying relatives and migrations and so on that are unavoidable. I was the wailing child on such a flight once, the pressure killing my ears. But that flight was entirely unavoidable.

And here's what you don't seem to get: people like me accept all of it if the parent is making any effort to stop it or console/distract the child, which is what my parents spent the flight doing.

Instead, we look at the parent sitting on their phone with earphones in while the kid is wailing next to them and curse society for normalizing this.
by serf | 2025-08-18 09:02:55+00:00
counterpoint:

i've been on my phone/social/media/etc through the entire trend and this is the only time i've ever read the word 'delulu'; I had to look it up.

Might I suggest that tribe matters a lot in this context?

I don't listen to k-pop, I don't watch machinima, and I only knew 'tradwife' from the bullshit politics associated with the concept..

I think Cambridge called these too early. Maybe i'm old, and maybe i'm sheltered, but I never hear these words used in real life aside from a young nephew who was into the toilet thing, and he didn't so much use the word as just scream SKIBIDI while dancing around the room.

I'm fine with being old. Some trends you prefer to see sail away from you.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-18 09:03:00+00:00
He also said this:

Altman also said that he expects OpenAI to spend trillions of dollars on its data center buildout in the “not very distant future,” and signaled that the company would be interested in buying Chrome if the U.S. government were to force Google to sell it.

We are in a bubble but he's saying OpenAI will spend trillions in AI data centers.
by hackingonempty | 2025-08-18 09:03:26+00:00
> I have no explanation for this.

One possibility that RCTs are designed to eliminate is "regression to the mean." If the natural course of disease is to wax and wane and you intervene whenever the disease is waxing it can seem like your intervention is effective even when it has no specific effect.

In addition, placebos produce a small effect even when you know you are taking a placebo.
by weatherlite | 2025-08-18 09:03:44+00:00
> One out of every 40 searches worldwide being made using your product is, in your opinion, a very small share?

I meant in terms of Google's dominance in search. Currently, not even ChatGPT / LLM search are shrinking Google's dominance - Google keeps growing search traffic and revenue. It does seem though that the whole search market has grown with LLMs , people now query for stuff they've never queried before.

> In a thread about a monopoly abusing its power, the least you can do is to stop measuring success by how monopolistic a company is.

How do you measure success then? All companies want to dominate their industries why are we picking on Google? This is capitalism.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-18 09:03:56+00:00
Indeed, JVM and .NET are the only two major ecosystems out the whole Xerox PARC ideas[0], and the reason that to this day they are my two main workhorses, plus JS runtimes, because Web.

[0] - Technincally Objective-C and Swift could also be considered, but they lack the industry wide adoption, as many cool tools only exist in Apple land.
Ask HN: Which way is the AI hocky curve going?
by pkdpic | 2025-08-18 09:04:37+00:00
Just finding myself wondering if there's still any possibility we cure cancer or global warming or get robot butlers to learn how to fold laundry etc... Or if at this point we're just conclusively bumping up against a ceiling of being a massively superior google search and pretty solid code assistant (totally good with that too)...
by DanielHB | 2025-08-18 09:05:23+00:00
I actually use a full blown desktop computer as media center specifically because it can run adblock (and games). I got one of those "fly-mouses" (like a wii-remote pointer to control the mouse cursor), works really well and it is nice to be able to pull a wireless mouse+keyboard when you want to do more complex things.

We often use our TV to plan trips using google maps or do some planning using excel sheets with this setup.
by rednafi | 2025-08-18 09:05:58+00:00
The SoA and the team structure often worsen this. If your service consists of AWS S3, SQS, MSK, and Kinesis, then you'd have to invest quite heavily in the local setup to make sure everything still works and that the majority of the tests can be run in a reasonable amount of time.

Of course, it's impossible to run the full fleet locally if it's a substantially large system, but investing in the local workflow for a particular domain is absolutely paramount. Otherwise, the context switch required to integrate and work with a system like this is absolutely massive, and the lead time for a new feature will take a major hit.
by Pavilion2095 | 2025-08-18 09:07:42+00:00
> The interesting thing for me about this particular tale is the commercial genesis of Airbus and the incentives of the management team have led it to catch up despite Boeing have a 20-year head start.

But Boeing introduced several new planes during these 20 years. If anything, they abandoned the idea of a new design and introduced 737 MAX as a response to the competition - A320neo.
by avallach | 2025-08-18 09:08:18+00:00
It's even weirder than that: mention of the shell GUI is just the intro, later they proceed with implementing a facsimile of the Windows NT kernel in... TypeScript. Even for purely self-educational purposes, this pairing seems to be very counterproductive.

I agree that the title is misleading and should be changed. I also expected LG webOS.
by Panoramix | 2025-08-18 09:08:22+00:00
What a stunning interactive visualization. I wonder what tool was used here?

Edit: Here's their template https://github.com/distillpub/template/tree/master

As I feared, they seem to be using D3.js "by hand", which is the only way to achieve such high quality but needs IMO an enormous amount of work and dedication. No wonder they are offline, that's hard to sustain. I hope a technology comes that makes it significantly easier to make such interactive charts. I know there are many out there, but there's always a "but".
by hdgvhicv | 2025-08-18 09:09:27+00:00
My second major project at $ENTERPRIsE was 15 years ago and incorporated the first 4 (well multiple servers on different continents, why would I care about AWS)

It was internal shadow IT at its finest. It’s still used today, despite the people at the top not liking it the users think it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
by aa-jv | 2025-08-18 09:11:05+00:00
I can buy a small Eurorack module box for 25eu, including power supply and handles.

So .. I dunno .. just seems like with a bit of extra design work, Ashet could become Eurorack compatible at least, for those of us who want to hack it into that environment.

But anyway, I see you are quite busy with other issues, I'll pipe down about it.
Show HN: Can 48 hours be enough to form a real connection?
by abilafredkb | 2025-08-18 09:12:14+00:00
I built something because I felt lost in the way social media works today. Most platforms reward likes, followers, and numbers. I have over 3,000 connections on LinkedIn, but when I really needed help, I realized I did not know who to turn to. The numbers looked impressive, but the connections felt empty.

That led me to a question: what if connection had a time limit, and it forced us to be more intentional?

So I created Eintercon. Here’s how it works:

You are very unlikely to be paired with someone from your own country.

Instead, you are matched with someone abroad who shares your interests.

You have 48 hours together. After that, the connection expires and you meet someone new.

There are no likes, no follower counts, no endless feeds. Just people, talking to people. My hope is that this time-bound window encourages more genuine exchanges and helps us see the world through each other’s eyes.

I just launched it on the App Store, and I would love your feedback. And here’s something I am especially curious about: if you were to try this, which countries would you be most excited to connect with, and why?

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eintercon/id6749785496

Thanks for reading, and happy to answer questions.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-08-18 09:12:47+00:00
>4chan is showing ads on their site, but if your idea had any grounds, the issue would be with the ad network, not 4chan.

It's hard to understand the logic of this statement. Why the ad network? 4chan business is to show ads to users while offering them a platform for conversations. What 3rd party service do they use is irrelevant unless that is by coincidence an UK company.

>More realistically, 4chan will likely be banned by UK ISPs after a court ruling.

This is exactly what my comment above means.