MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by avallach | 2025-08-05 16:29:16+00:00
I can totally see your point. It's a bit like that fight of news agencies against the free snippets and aggregations on 3rd party websites. The Internet is supposed to be open after all.

But it also feels like essentially "pirating" the webpages while erasing their brand. Maybe it's even a tolerable transitive situation, but you can't even argue it's beneficial in the same way as game piracy could be according to some. In the long term, we need an incentive for the content creators to willingly allow such processing. Otherwise, a lot of high quality content will eventually become members-only with DRM-like anti agent protections.

The incentive doesn't have to be monetary. I could for example imagine some website owners allow AI agents that commit to upfront verbatim repeating some sort of mandatory headers/messages/acknowledgements from the content authors, before copying or summarizing, and are known to stick to this commitment.

You can also bypass the problem already now by accessing and copying the content manually, and then putting it in the context of a tool like NotebookLM. Nobody's hurt, because you have actually seen the source by yourself, and that's all the website owners can reasonably demand.

TL;DR: why even post quality content in open if the audience won't see your ads, your donation button, or even your name. What do you think?
by throwanem | 2025-08-05 16:29:18+00:00
If the business is going downhill then that's one thing. I wouldn't know; I am not in the habit of asking retailers to price-match a 33% discount and it was an impulse buy in any case, so it's been a couple years since I ordered a pen from Brian. If his company disappoints me, of course I will say so.

Beliefs in public are another matter in the United States, where I have spent my life a citizen. It is for like cause my privilege to take this rather childish campaign of character assassination exactly as seriously as it deserves.

Oh sure, the SBC has been industriously covering a Catholic-grade child sex abuse scandal since some time early last year. But the SBC also by design, being effectively a 501(c) something-or-other front and to my view encompassed by RICO, isn't really capable of responding; the appropriately equipped organizations would be the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Absent their involvement, and even in light of their present and ongoing compromise, am I meant to imagine Reddit is better in this regard? Good grief, that place has been as bad as the worst you hear of Discord now, and nothing out of Reddit's ownership or the regulatory environment suggests meaningful intent to do better.

But what do I know? I'm just a dumb old redneck homo who came out of Mississippi, 'trade' being one term I have heard along the way. Of course it's the just role of the fancy folk with leisure for literacy, like you, to instruct my brute if decent kind of our proper role in things. You know, like your intellectual forebears, the antebellum Southern planters who so cozened my own poor ancestors and maintained them in their useful ignorance. I like to hope we're a little more clever this generation. Or more continent in where we place our trust, at least.
by alphazard | 2025-08-05 16:29:31+00:00
Most content is promoting a product or someone's personal brand, or trying to get you the reader to do something. Even if the information in the post is true, it is much less likely that you should take the action that is implied (buy the thing, subscribe to the blog, join the cause). In a way almost everything is metaphorically wrong because our time is a scarce resource. People like to point out things that are wrong.
by cyber_kinetist | 2025-08-05 16:29:33+00:00
You've nailed it: this is exactly why Soviet socialism failed in the past, and also paradoxically the reason why neoliberal capitalism is failing today.

Although I am a Marxist, I reject the idea that Communism is going to be the "final" form of human society. We may be able to get there someday, but only constant care and effort towards maintaining the system will be able to sustain it, and there is no "deterministic" answer to what the ultimate form of human society is.
by ThibautdeVos | 2025-08-05 16:29:43+00:00
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by myrmidon | 2025-08-05 16:30:03+00:00
Do you honestly believe that human minds won't be overtaken within the century?

I'll concede that it might take even longer to get full artificial human capabilities (robust, selfrepairing, selfreplicating, adaptable), but the writing is on the wall.

Even in the very best case that I see (non-malicious AI with a soft practical ceiling not too far beyond human capabilities) poses giant challenges for our whole society, just in ressource allocation alone (because people, as workers, become practically worthless, undermining our whole system completely).
by johnboiles | 2025-08-05 16:30:04+00:00
Be warned, there are fraudulent sellers on Amazon that sell used drives from this list as new. For example, I ordered two of these drives https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KPL474H. They were both sold as new and arrived in sealed anti-static bags. First one was DOA and the second one's SMART data showed power-on hours of ~3 years!

I reported to Amazon and wrote a review but they took my review down for calling it fraud.
by RHSeeger | 2025-08-05 16:30:15+00:00
When we got our first (10M) hard drive for our IBM PC (the original IBM PC), we had to buy a second case for it; because the power supply in the first one couldn't power it. On the positive side, it meant we had somewhere to put the TV we were using as a graphics monitor (since the main monitor was a green monochrome monitor).
by Bjorkbat | 2025-08-05 16:30:22+00:00
Genuinely technically impressive, but I have a weird issue with calling these world simulator models. To me, they're video game simulator models.

I've only ever seen demos of these models where things happen from a first-person or 3rd-person perspective, often in the sort of context where you are controlling some sort of playable avatar. I've never seen a demo where they prompted a model to simulate a forest ecology and it simulated the complex interplay of life.

Hence, it feels like a video game simulator, or put another way, a simulator of a simulator of a world model.
by zebomon | 2025-08-05 16:30:27+00:00
I think this attitude is here to stay: people don't like reading something only to realize that it's been written by an LLM. That's only partially because of what the author describes here (low value to word count ratio). More fundamentally, if a human couldn't be bothered to write it, then there better be a very good reason that I as a human am being bothered to read it.

This attitude provides a clue as to 1) the ways we're using LLMs now that will soon seem absurd (an LLM should never make writing longer, only shorter) and 2) the ways LLMs will be used after the novelty wears off, like interpreting loosely specified requests into computable programs and distilling overly long writing to maximize relevance.
by nialse | 2025-08-05 16:30:34+00:00
Well, maybe we should not trust authors that make vauge unsubstantiated claims?

The ingress: "Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities..."

The article: nothing

The ingress overreaches, oversimplifies and mixes hypotheses with results. Is this a test?

EDIT: Refers to the paper referenced by the article.
by johnmaguire | 2025-08-05 16:30:36+00:00
Github was originally written in Ruby on Rails back in 2008. React was released to the public in 2013 (though it was in use at Facebook prior to that.)

If we inspect the source for Github back in 2010 on the Wayback Machine[0], we can see that they were using jQuery like most sites of that time period.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100115102310/http://github.com... (interestingly, elan/plex shows up as a recently updated repo!)
by accrual | 2025-08-05 16:30:39+00:00
> I intentionally doesn't keep detailed analytics on my homepage server and my digital garden, because I respect my users and don't want to push unnecessary Javascript on them.

Absolutely, I'm in agreement here. I want to run a JS-free blog, just plain old static HTML. I plan to use GoAccess to parse the access logs but that's it. I think I would find it encouraging to see real human traffic.

> I don't write these for others, first. Both my blog (more meta) and digital garden (more technical) are written for myself primarily, and left open.

That is a great way to view it, thank you.
by alextingle | 2025-08-05 16:30:41+00:00
> A roof mounted solar array easily adds $20,000 - 25,000 to reroofing a house just in labor (assuming two electricians for one week on either side of the reroofing with labor priced at $150/hr)

Why do you need two electricians for a week? My rooftop solar array went up in an afternoon. They had three labourers. The (singular) electrician came in separately and worked for under and hour.
by EcommerceFlow | 2025-08-05 16:30:57+00:00
I'm disappointed with both parties in regards to Solar, especially considering the sheer importance for the future.

The problem I had with the Biden subsidies (as far as I'm aware) was that it didn't really foster hyper competition in the solar manufacturing industry.

Furthermore, the best solution here is to create giant solar farms in the American SouthWest, then funnel energy across the country, is it not? Energy loss is minor, even along thousands of KM in distance.

My dream here is Trump comes out with some new subsidies, focusing on manufacturing, which would drive the price down substantially and hopefully negate the need for consumer subsidies.

We need the new tech-right guys in his admin to speak up on this!
Show HN: Cartoony AI Voices on ESP32 with Pitch Shifting
by akadeb | 2025-08-05 16:30:59+00:00
I show how to use Pitch shifting supported by the arduino-audio-tools[1] and ElatoAI[2] library on ESP32 to get OpenAI Realtime and Gemini Live Voices to sound like cartoons like Alvin and the Chipmunks or Hulk.

[1] https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools [2] https://github.com/akdeb/ElatoAI
Show HN: Rotel – Fast and Efficient OpenTelemetry Collection in Rust
by rjenkins | 2025-08-05 16:31:23+00:00
Project Page: https://rotel.dev Github: https://github.com/streamfold/rotel

Hi HN, Ray and Mike here! We’re building Rotel, a new high performance, resource efficient approach to OpenTelemetry collection. Rotel is open source (Apache License 2.0) and runs as a standalone process and collects telemetry from external processes or other collection agents. It consumes 75% less memory and 50% less CPU in benchmarks https://streamfold.github.io/rotel-otel-loadtests/benchmarks, so it is particularly well-suited for environments where resource optimization is paramount.

Mike and I love working on Observability solutions. We’ve built and optimized telemetry data planes for products such as Librato, Papertrail and AppOptics. As we’ve scaled high volume data processing systems over the years, we’ve often found ourselves under pressure to improve SaaS margins or the resilience of complex distributed systems. This has led us to the same question again and again: How can we do this more reliably and efficiently?

We believe telemetry collection demands high levels of efficiency, and Rotel is our first step toward addressing that need. Rotel’s Lambda extension https://github.com/streamfold/rotel-lambda-extension has already unlocked the promise of OpenTelemetry in production serverless environments, where resource constraints previously made this nearly impossible.

With Rotel we’re also rethinking DX for OpenTelemetry collection. Its lightweight footprint allows for packaging directly in runtimes like Python and Node.js, eliminating the need for additional configuration and deployment of sidecars. Rotel’s Python Processor SDK enables you to build telemetry processors right from your favorite IDE with the ease and expressiveness of Python and the performance of Rust.

Getting started with Rotel is easy using prebuilt Docker containers, just run…

`docker run -ti -p 4317-4318:4317-4318 streamfold/rotel --debug-log traces --exporter blackhole`

to start Rotel listening for OTLP traffic on ports 4317 & 4318.

Check out the Getting Started guide for more install and config instructions: https://rotel.dev/docs/setup/getting-started.

We’re super excited to share Rotel with you and would love to hear what you think!
by nashashmi | 2025-08-05 16:31:39+00:00
I was making a VB script for excel for merging individual workbooks to single workbook . Normally I would design the script myself. But this time I used copilot to do it. It would take me 30-min to 1 hour normally. But with copilot it took 15 minutes and a lot less brain cells. And less skill.

It is not making us 10x productive. It is making it 10x easier.
by Vegenoid | 2025-08-05 16:31:44+00:00
I’m glad to see my feelings validated. I’m always grumpy about some good, functional software being made worse because there is a big engineering org who has to work on something so they change things and it results in degradation of the software.

I’ve been noticing GitHub’s UI getting sluggish and thought that maybe I’m off my rocker or it was a “my machine” problem, because Github wouldn’t do that… but I guess it’s pretty damn hard to prevent a bunch of devs, managers, and PMs from making changes to prove they should still be employed.
by JanisErdmanis | 2025-08-05 16:32:04+00:00
I have a cheap 25 euro PoE cameras from aliexpress that gives decent video quality. The night vision though is lacking in comparison to one Brillcam that I have. The cameras are connected to a cheap 20 euro PoE switches that advertise being able to put out 60W of power.

For NVR I am using raspberry pi5 4gb model with a dedicated 2.5 inch hard drive that is only used for recording where micro SD card is used for everything else. All the pieces fit in a dedicated case:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007391354252.html?spm=a2...

I also plan to install Corall M.2 card within the unused M.2 SSD card slot.
by CalChris | 2025-08-05 16:32:05+00:00
Search (Google) is dead.

Sure, it will live on as a zombie of sorts. AM radio still exists. OTA television still exists. But their key demographics have long left (and in the case of CBS, are being forced to leave even faster). They won't be back. Yahoo still exists but it's so dead that its last act of relevance was to have an ex-Google exec execute what was essentially a pump-and-dump for the board. Similarly, few people say Xerox any more and just say copy instead. I don't even know how to call a taxi. Uber/Lyft is orders of magnitude better than taxis ever were.

The author is just a key demographic leaving Google. I left for Perplexity. My brother sent me a ChatGPT conversation which I asked some follow up questions to. AI is really good, now.

So I rarely search anymore. Search was always just a component in me trying to find an answer. Today, it's just a noisy inaccurate distraction.

The author won't be going back. I won't be going back. But Google has plenty of money. Like AM, OTA and Yahoo, it will continue to exist and you shouldn't feel too sorry for their ex-McKinsey CEO.
by p4coder | 2025-08-05 16:32:14+00:00
Today physical world is largely mechanized, we rarely walk, run lift heavy things for survival. So we grow fat and weak unless we exercise. Tomorrow vast majority of us will never think, create, investigate for earning a living. So we will get dumb and dumber over time. A small minority of us will keep polishing their intellect but will never be smarter than machines just like the best athletes of today can't outrun machines.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-05 16:32:21+00:00
> The point is that you can’t catch up

That's not the point at all. You cannot catch up with anyone who is ahead of you and you follow the same investment protocol.

> What did Jeff Bezos’ children do that would warrant their wealth?

Allow me to reframe. Why should anyone else get it? It's Bezos' money and he can distribute it as he sees fit.
by dartharva | 2025-08-05 16:32:22+00:00
I look at it as the pendulum swinging back.

For too long has humanity been collectively submerged into this hyper-consumption of the arts. We, our parents and our grandparents have been getting bombarded by some or the other form of artificial dopamine sweets - from videos to reels to xeets to "news" to ads to tunes to mainstream media - every second of the day, every single day. The kind of media consumption we have every day is something our forefathers would have been overwhelmed by within an hour. It is not natural.

This complete cheapening of the arts is finally giving us a chance to shed off this load for good.
by stronglikedan | 2025-08-05 16:32:35+00:00
> Disagree with that...they have not really solved any problems that outweight the negatives

And I disagree with that. They are marvels of engineering and they have solved thorny problems. Just because they problems they've solved in the very short time they've been solving problems don't yet outweigh the negatives, doesn't mean they won't soon, and doesn't make either statement false.

Great things take time, and great omelets are made from broken eggs. Nothing new under the sun, except AI.
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-05 16:32:48+00:00
Solar is fine, but what we need grants for is storage and transmission. There are already areas of the country that we have way too much solar, i.e. southern California. If you have too much generation and not enough storage and transmission you get strange artifacts like the price of power rapidly going from negative to extremely high values. That's not a mark of a healthy, balanced system.

The problem is that getting political support for storage and transmission is much more difficult because everyone knows what a solar panel is. They don't always understand the intricacies of a net-zero electrical system.
by esaym | 2025-08-05 16:33:13+00:00
With satellite internet from starlink (and I think amazon is attempting their own version?) I don't see how running internet over wires to rural housing could ever be seen as a good expenditure of money. That said, I've always felt satellite internet to be yucky but I'm used to "satellite internet" adding 1000ms to your latency and uploads that actually run over your telephone line.

I am curious if good satellite internet will lead to an exodus of people from cities and subdivisions. I actually live in my current house because the place I wanted to build on didn't have any form of internet access.

Also, I'm not really aware of anyone that is truly without "internet access" as cell phones have basically filled that area in years ago.
by naikrovek | 2025-08-05 16:33:19+00:00
if GitHub Enterprise Server is anything to go by, they build (almost) everything for containers, and the entire site is hosted by containers managed by Nomad. So there are probably lots of older images around that they can fall back on if the latest image of any container causes problems.

How they would deploy the older container, I don't know.

A lot of this is guesswork, I don't work for them or anything. And I know that GHES in the way that my employer manages it is very unlike the way that GitHub host github.com, so everything i've assumed could be wrong.
by pushcx | 2025-08-05 16:33:21+00:00
It's also getting a lot flakier. Around October or November of last year I realized that every week I see another bit of SPA jankiness. I lose my scroll position because some component has appeared or disappeared above view. The issues list shows hours-old state and does not refresh. A button doesn't work. A page loads but everything below the header is unstyled. I expand the build details but it collapses closed every time a stage finishes. A filename header appears twice. New comments don't appear. On and on.

It's very frustrating to have a tool that has spent 15 years fading into the background of reliable infrastructure become an intrusive, distracting mess.

After a couple months with jujutsu it's almost completely replaced my use of git. It’s a lot to hope for, but just as jujutsu surveyed a couple decades of VCS to syncretize a huge improvement, I do hope someone will do the same for collaborating with jujutsu. GitHub PRs feel very unfortunately frozen in amber because their popularity makes it very hard to fix the core UI design problems it has with multiple tabs, incoherent timeline, edited commits, missing "8 more comments", and now a steady drip of SPA jank.

The big remaining feature of GitHub is the network effect of coworkers and potential contributors already being logged in, and there could be a race between a competitor neutralizing that with bidirectional sync (see git-bug) and GitHub getting their usability problems sorted. Microsoft's legendary resistance to breaking changes means there's a very big window available.
by glenstein | 2025-08-05 16:33:23+00:00
I don't mind it necessarily, as I use it all the time in place of Googling, so you would think that folding it into search would work well.

But it doesn't, at least not for me. But I think that's tied to poor implementation, design, and being a solution looking for a problem rather than a philosophical issue with using AI to improve search experience.
by ninininino | 2025-08-05 16:33:33+00:00
This is a simplistic understanding. Competing industries: solar, oil & natural gas, wind, nuclear, hydro etc.

Cancel tax rebates, subsidies, grants, etc. for one of your competing industries and your own benefits because your costs and supply is relative to the others. Your own price is never evaluated in a vacuum where those other energy options are not relevant.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-05 16:33:38+00:00
US battery storage tax incentives remain intact. Standalone energy storage projects are excluded from the provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill and will continue to qualify for the federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC). We'll return to ramp on the low carbon generation after regime change.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64705

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64586
by normalaccess | 2025-08-05 16:33:55+00:00
Or the fact that Microsoft believes they have cracked *fusion* power. Sun in a bottle.

Microsoft is breaking ground in WA state building a new fusion reactor.

https://kpq.com/helion-fusion-plant-chelan-pud/

EDIT: Adding description to video link

Video from Real Engineering showing Helion's Pulsed Compression Fusion reactor prototype (2022). The same kind of reactor Helion is building in WA state for Microsoft.

https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38
by 1-more | 2025-08-05 16:34:23+00:00
Yeah I asked when we went camping together and I remember them saying that it's a bit better than half the normal miles/kWh. The site we went to was about 22 miles and 3,600 feet of climbing from their driveway, so they were not at all worried about range. If you really want to make sure you make it home, load up your camper with rocks at the campsite so you are charging more on your way home, then dump them when you reach the lowest point on your drive home.

The camper is a cabin with cedar shingles on top of a 5'x10' Harbor Freight trailer. Heavy and not at all aero haha.