MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2025-08-01 01:14:27+00:00
This "Abundance" nonsense is simply liberal repackaging of Reagan's trickle down economics and deregulation. That's all it is. Reagan's policies were designed to transfer wealth from the young and the poor to the old and the wealthy. Abundance will do (more of) exactly the same.

The very best case fo housing deregulation as per this Abundance nonsense is Houston. And that's only if you have essentially unlimited land.

Private industry simply will not lower house prices long term. We need to stop with this nonsense of looking for market-based solutions and public-private partnerships.

The only solution to housing is for the government to maintain a sufficient stock of quality housing such that the private sector simply cannot corner the market to drive up prices.

The example I always come back to is Vienna where ~60% of the housing stock is owned by the government. Residents essentially have permanent leases. It's affordable and accessible. Vienna has some of the lowest rents in a European city.

The purpose of the modern Democratic Party in the US is support American imperialism and to not upset their corporate donors. "Abundance" only exists so Ezra Klein can get invited to all the cool parties, get speaking engagements and generally curry the favor of the billionaire class and the Democratic establishment. It's just a liberal face on Reaganism.
by miguel_martin | 2025-08-01 01:15:40+00:00
I don’t think this is the only reason.

You could do this with Nim, Nim 2’s ARC model is compatible with c++’s RAII. Nim supports moves, destructors, copies, etc. see https://nim-lang.org/docs/destructors.html

You can import C++ classes, member functions, free functions, etc. easily with importcpp

importcpp for the code you are incrementally porting over. You could write a libclang script to do this for you. Exportcpp for what you any code that have been ported but have dependencies in C++ land.

My best guess is they want C++ compatibility and a new language due to preferences, more control over the compiler, etc. which are all valid reasons
by miguelboka | 2025-08-01 01:16:43+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a solo founder from Quebec building MemoCall — a platform that listens to work-related calls (logistics, rental, delivery…), transcribes them, and turns them into structured, ready-to-send work orders (like purchase orders).

Back when I worked as the only dev in a large logistics company, I saw how often important info got lost. People relied on memory, old systems, or paper notes. Drivers would take service calls while driving, then try to repeat the info later. Mistakes happened. Nothing was tracked properly.

So I built something from scratch:

- Twilio-powered number (calls are routed through your business line) - Transcription + summary (with emotion & intent detection) - Extraction of key fields (equipment, address, client, etc.) - Auto-filled structured document (PDF or API-ready) - Optional approval step before sending - Dashboard with call history, to-dos, and follow-ups

I’m testing it now with a pilot logistics team (ex-colleague). If it proves useful, they’re signing.

It’s all bootstrapped, built solo. I’m still freelancing to fund it, but pushing hard. Would love any feedback — either on the product or the broader “AI that acts, not just listens” direction.

Demo (mock version, no signup): https://memocall.ai

Thanks for reading
by david_li | 2025-08-01 01:16:57+00:00
I totally understand how the author feels. I'm currently working on a project myself, and most of my spare time has been devoted to it. Honestly, there were times when I wanted to give up, but I just couldn’t — maybe it's the sunk cost, or maybe it's just stubbornness. The deeper I got, the harder it was to let go. But in the end, I stuck with it and finally launched it recently on Product Hunt. If you have a moment, feel free to check it out — I hope it can offer you some motivation to keep going too.

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/icorner-2/icorner-2/lau...

Welcomet to https://icorner.net/
by bane | 2025-08-01 01:17:15+00:00
Oh man, I get that as an author you have to choose a path to introduce the new learner to...but it bums me out to see that the material completely avoids tracking as one of the preeminent ways to make music on computers.

Instead it goes down the midi path, which of course ultimately is the dominant commercial technology today. But I've always thought that the complexity and expense of a good midi setup is more of a prosumer-type thing.

Tracking gets you quick entry from chiptunes through extraordinarily expressive sampling to VSTs and even into midi at the edges, and there's trackers for pretty much every kind of computer that can make music.

You can very cheap/free/easily explore the main musical concepts presented here from synthesis to digital audio.

Bonus, most classical tracker files are a kind of "open source" music in that you can see all the note data, the techniques the composers used, and have access to all of their instruments. You get to "see" both composition and performance details down to the note.

I really wish that the academic computer arts educators would catch on to these core pieces of the demoscene -- which is now UNESCO recognized by now six countries as intangible cultural heritage for all of humanity -- and were developed to both challenge and wow the audience and make production by literally penniless children possible.
by joe_the_user | 2025-08-01 01:17:41+00:00
Yeah, Neither you nor the parent have worked the forces out to describe what's happening now.

What's happening now is the wealth and the middle are buying houses and apartments not for rental income but for appreciation. This motive is what stands in the way of new home building in any given area. This is why rents rise beyond an area can sustain at all - rents are set to maintain the ostensible value of a property - selling an empty property is fine, even encouraged.

The situation is visible everywhere.
by protocolture | 2025-08-01 01:17:55+00:00
It used to be the case that you could rely on netizens to support the internet. You read about the old clipper chip stuff in yankistan and they had NSA Cryptographers risking their jobs speaking out publicly against the policy. We were lucky enough to have Bevan Slattery run a massive campaign against the (godawful) NBN economics for the LNP to silently correct half of the issues with no fanfare, when other people were getting silently cancelled over speaking out by their employers fearing NBN retribution. iiNet stood up to Conroy repeatedly.

I need you to understand that you have put at severe risk a lot of good honest people for a false sense of security that is more likely to push kids into worse places than actually prevent harm. With the inclusion of Youtube, its likely the government is going to ramp this up to apply to any website with a comment section. Civil Liberties are easy to destroy in this manner, but oh so difficult to restore. We fought, hard, against internet filtering in this country. We shouldn't have to re-litigate it every 5 years or so while getting white anted by our own.

If there's something worse than ashamed, its where you should be right now.
by lukeschlather | 2025-08-01 01:18:03+00:00
No, it's about imitation, not simulation. The point is defining how large of a computer you would need to achieve similar performance to the human brain on "intelligence" tasks. The comparison to the human brain is because we know human brains can do these kinds of reasoning and motor tasks, so that helps us set a lower bound on how much computing power is necessary, but it doesn't presume we're going to simulate a human brain, that's just stated because it might be one way we could do it.

But still I think you're not engaging with the article properly - it doesn't say we will, it just talks about how much computing power you might need. And I think within the paper it suggests we don't have enough computing power yet, but it doesn't seem like you read deeply enough to engage with that conversation.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-08-01 01:18:04+00:00
I think about this from time to time. Personally I would pay per article if it's convenient. I don't want to shell out $20/mo for, say, the Economist right now but if there was a particular article I wanted to read I'd probably pay a few bucks.

The papers wouldn't go for it, but these days I can subscribe to individual writers I like on Substack rather than paying for a newspaper subscription and subsidizing content I don't care about. More bang for buck. People have to be met halfway.
by jjk166 | 2025-08-01 01:19:09+00:00
> So, Dallas doesn’t meet Quintero’s oligopoly threshold. Now let’s consider the rest of the country. I tracked down a complete listing of the country’s 50 largest homebuilding markets, from #1 Dallas to #50 Cincinnati. How many meet Quintero’s first oligopoly threshold (two companies = 90 percent of the market)? Zero out of 50. And how many meet his second threshold (six companies = 90 percent of the market)? One: Cincinnati. It turns out that the largest homebuilding markets just aren’t that concentrated

> I wanted to know how a careful monopoly-hunter like Roberts would answer the question: If six firms account for 90 percent of a local industry, is that automatic proof of a monopoly? “No, it’s not,” Roberts said. “The statistic isn’t totally vacuous, but there’s basically no useful information about market power in that statistic alone.”

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> the number of new single-family houses permitted per capita in the Dallas metro area rose steadily between 2010 and 2022. (This is illustrated in the graph below[1].) I mentioned to Quintero that steadily rising construction per capita in a fast-growing city seemed like a weird example of monopolistic abuse.

> First, he uses 2006 as his baseline. This was a highly atypical year in housing. Just before the housing crash that triggered the Great Recession, May 2006 was the peak of 21st century construction employment. That very month was construction's single highest share of total employment since the postwar era. Using a bubble year as a baseline could easily throw off the overall findings of any economic analysis.

[1] graph clearly shows long term downward trend, with growth from 2010 to 2022 being entirely recovery post 2008 crash and still being below late 90s levels.

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> The whole thing looks like a lawyer who arrived in Dallas with a conviction in hand and shaped the evidence to fit the indictment.

*spends entire article cherry picking evidence in an attempt to discredit one article specifically to advance a competing narrative.
by more_corn | 2025-08-01 01:19:16+00:00
I actually don’t know if my deadbolt would survive a good kicking. Either way it’d make a hell of a racket and bring me running. If I come running to my door I‘ll pick up my shotgun on the way. I had planned to load it with rock salt, but I haven’t gotten around to that yet, so you’d get slugs. If the door survived I probably wouldn’t shoot you. Probably.
by Spunkie | 2025-08-01 01:19:17+00:00
I've been a big fan of KDE these past few years so super excited to see this develop further.

> Vendor-specific VPNs that require custom out-of-tree kernel modules that cannot be redistributed with the kernel due to license incompatibility

God I hope this isn't another immutable os that mullvad won't work on. The lack of mullvad vpn on my steamdeck is a constant pain in my side.

Other noticeable hiccups right now are giant updates aka no delta updates, no secure boot, no swap space.

> Doesn't break, or at least easy to recover... KDE Linux leans on Systemd for a great deal of functionality. > Updates are atomic and A/B image-based, with automatic Btrfs snapshots for the last 5 OS images...

I've been wanting to get automatic snapshot restore/boot shortcuts through the systemd-boot menu ever since I lost the feature when I switched from GRUB! Super excited to hear someone finally got it working with btrfs and systemd-boot.

Can anyone point me to any hints/resources on how I can get this added to my current arch+kde+btrfs+systemd-boot
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-01 01:19:20+00:00
My gut feeling is that wealthy people buying up the housing stock to rent out is not actually as common just supply restrictions not meeting the demands of individuals.

I used to live in Vancouver, and on my street almost all occupants were owners. But guess what, the number of houses on that street has not changes in 100 years, and the number of people who want to live in Vancouver has probably increased tenfold.

The issue wasnt that all the housing stock was bought up, the issue is that housing stock did not increase to satisfy demands.

Additionally, a place like Vancouver is really a global real estate destination. People with money who are not from Canada come to Vancouver and drop a few mil on a single family home and outprice all the locals. If you are buying a house in Vancouver you are competing with wealthy people local, but also the top wealth from across the globe.

BC did pass legislation to make all single family homes qualified for quadplexes, but I think it is too little too late.

Anything short of taxing every residence which is not a primary residence AND banning foreign ownership AND reducing permitting toil AND raising interest rates, is going to fall short.

I gave up a few years ago and moved somewhere else. Vancouver is no longer for Canadians.
by bane | 2025-08-01 01:19:43+00:00
Of course AI increases inequality. It's automated ladder pulling technology.

To become good at something you have to work through the lower rungs and acquire skill. AI does all those lower level jobs, puts the people who need those jobs for experience on the street, and robs us of future experts.

The people who benefit the most are those who are already up on top of the ladder investing billions to make the ladder raise faster and faster.
by Lerc | 2025-08-01 01:20:46+00:00
I could see how you might need a multi channel classifier so that one exists on a range (A) of -1 = "This looks like AI" to 1="This does not look like AI" and another(R) where 1="The above factor is relevant to this image" to 0="The AI-ness of this image is not a meaningful concept

Then optimise for max (Quality + A*R)

Arguably amplitude of A should do R but I think the AI-ness and the AI-ness-relevance are distinct concepts (It could be highly relevant but it can't tell what it should be).
by jmye | 2025-08-01 01:20:48+00:00
> NPs are not subject to oversight.

Sorry, this is fundamentally incorrect. To the point I can only assume you’ve made up every other thing you’ve said. Though I’m fascinated by a paramedic having opinions on someone else’s medical training.

The world would be better if we had less strident opinions on things we know we don’t know anything about.
by tamimio | 2025-08-01 01:20:54+00:00
Rents are high because landlords are greedy and are paying already inflated house prices.

Owning is expensive because banks are greedy, pumping out the created credit for mortgages, which is an imaginary number based on no actual value, because somehow banks are allowed to create money!

Here's the plot twist: you spend 30 years or even more (in Canada that has reached 70 years!) to pay the mortgage only to find out that you actually don't own the house and you're on a perpetual rent called property taxes.

And unless the root issue is resolved by banning banks' Ponzi fraudulent schemes, and implementing a policy to change housing into a depreciated asset just like Japan did, nothing will change substantially and will only change marginally to prevent people from going out rioting in the streets.
by dmix | 2025-08-01 01:21:14+00:00
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." - CS Lewis
by yunwal | 2025-08-01 01:21:53+00:00
Zizzed and jazzed if spelled in scrabble would be worth less than 32, since only one of the zs would be worth 10 points, the rest being blank tiles which are worth zero.

Of course most good players will create more than 1 word per turn, and will lay down over multiplier tiles.

You can probably do fairly well with just single syllable words, although at a certain level not being able to get a lay down bonus will prevent you from winning.
by joe_the_user | 2025-08-01 01:22:14+00:00
The investor profits from the appreciation of the property - they may Airbnb in the meantime also. Especially, often the speculator will fix-up the property for a sale - and then the next buyer fixes it up as well. Eventually it be a vacation home or someone might even buy it but the entire process keep a lot of property off the rental market and that increases rents.
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-01 01:22:37+00:00
It's really sad to see the old internet hurting and dying out from the crossfire in the war against parental autonomy and privacy.

Kudos to Tom for being transparent about his feelings toward these Think of the Children laws, providing resources for initiatives such as Stop Killing Games, and doing the bare minimum needed.

It's incredible that all of the classic newgrounds content will soon effectively be under a paywall for US visitors. Grab Flashpoint now and make a full archive before projects like that are in the crosshairs next.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-08-01 01:22:38+00:00
How about for fun, instead of rhetorical devices and snarky projection, just look at the facts. The data on effects of zoning reform in places like Minneapolis and others, about where housing is cheaper wherever it's easier to build, about rent dropping ( https://denverite.com/2025/07/25/denver-rent-prices-drop-q2/) when you build way more units, etc.
by pembrook | 2025-08-01 01:22:56+00:00
While we’re debunking that can we debunk the weird leftist conspiracy theories around index fund companies like Blackrock “buying up all the residential homes.”

Yes, the largest index fund company that sells investment products that allow people to invest in indexes (entire markets) is going to defacto be a custodian on holdings across the entire economy, including homes. Operating the funds offered in your 401k doesn’t mean they own the companies that invest in residential real estate. It means you actually do.

If you have a 401k it’s actually you who is in this “secret evil cabal.”
by godelski | 2025-08-01 01:22:59+00:00
I think a good way to see it is "AI is good for prototyping. AI is not good for engineering"

To clarify, I mean that the AI tools can help you get things done really fast but they lack both breadth and depth. You can move fast with them to generate proofs of concept (even around subproblems to large problems), but without breadth they lack the big picture context and without depth they lack the insights that any greybeard (master) has. On the other hand, the "engineering" side is so much more than "things work". It is about everything working in the right way, handling edge cases, being cognizant of context, creating failure modes, and all these other things. You could be the best programmer in the world, but that wouldn't mean you're even a good engineer (in real world these are coupled as skills learned simultaneously. You could be a perfect leetcoder and not helpful on an actual team, but these skills correlate).

The thing is, there will never be a magic button that a manager can press to engineer a product. The thing is, for a graybeard most of the time isn't spent around implementation, but design. The thing is, to get to mastery you need experience, and that experience requires understanding of nuanced things. Things that are non-obvious. There may be a magic button that allows an engineer to generate all the code for codebase, but that doesn't replace engineers. (I think this is also a problem in how we've been designing AI code generators. It's as if they're designed for management to magically generate features. The same thing they wish they could do with their engineers. But I think the better tool would be to focus on making a code generator that would generate based on an engineer's description.

I think Dijkstra's comments apply today just as much as they did then[0]

[0] On the foolishness of "natural language programming" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
by inferiorhuman | 2025-08-01 01:23:20+00:00
Maybe if one doesn't actually understand networking nomenclature or interop, sure.

After owning a few EdgeRouter X models I can safely say that the whole lineup a was half baked proof of concept at best. Ubiquiti used two different chipsets in the EdgeRouter lineup, both had data corruption issues with hardware acceleration that Ubiquiti couldn't fix… because they simply cobbled together some open source projects and called it a product. One ran so hot that they'd reliably cook themselves. Because EdgeOS was Vyatta based, it used an end-of-lifed version of Debian (maybe this was eventually remedied?). The PoE models provide non-standard passive PoE, if memory serves the initial batch had PoE enabled by default on some ports = fries unsuspecting devices.

They're cheap and nasty, but they mostly worked.
by lioeters | 2025-08-01 01:24:12+00:00
I can't believe how this is common knowledge, this arrangement between Google and Mozilla as a weak and incompetent "competitor" propped up to avoid being accused of monopoly and anti-competitive practice. Why isn't it considered a form of fraud, not even with extra steps - a direct relationship. Maybe there's enough plausible deniability that it's hard to prove criminal intent.

In the browser space, what Apple is doing is awfully manipulative of the market too. It's almost like this situation is being willfully ignored and effectively encouraged by regulators.
Show HN: A JSON MCP that doesn't clutter your LLM context
by Kehvinbehvin | 2025-08-01 01:24:48+00:00
I love drawing out my ideas in Excalidraw and wanted to get my drawings into Claude Code context. Excalidraw's JSON exports are huge and full of metadata, so I created this tool to extract only the relevant information without poisoning my context.

This turned out to be useful for any relatively large JSON file where you only need specific fields - API responses, config files, data exports, etc.

Give it a try, any feedback is appreciated!