MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by omoikane | 2025-08-01 02:39:54+00:00
> I think this page describes "what" but not "why" of Carbon.

Maybe the page was updated recently, but there is a "why" link near the top:

https://docs.carbon-lang.dev/#why-build-carbon

What I would like to see is more documentation on the "why not" that summarizes why other languages and proposals are not sufficient. For example, Safe C++ proposal[1] appears to satisfy all requirements, but I can't find any reference to it.

[1] https://safecpp.org/draft.html
Has any YC founder ever gone to jail for startup-related crimes?
by TeslaK20 | 2025-08-01 02:40:33+00:00
Forbes 30 under 30 has become infamous for it's press-to-prison pipeline.

But YC has selected literally thousands of founders, maybe tens of thousands, and I haven't heard of any of them getting arrested for fraud.

Are there any exceptions? And why is YC so good at screening out impressive-seeming but fraudulent founders?
by razzmatazmania | 2025-08-01 02:41:23+00:00
I don't think "quality" has anything like a universal definition, and when people say that they probably mean an alignment with personal taste.

Does it solve the problem? As long as it isn't prohibitively costly in terms of time or resources, then the rest is really just taste. As a user I have no interest whatsoever if your code is "idiomatic" or "modular" or "functional". In other industries "quality" usually means free of defects, but software is unique in that we just expect products to be defective. Your surgeon operates on the wrong knee? The board could revoke the license, and you are getting a windfall settlement. A bridge design fails? Someone is getting sued or even prosecuted. SharePoint gets breached? Well, that's just one of those things, I guess. I'm not really bothered that AI is peeing in the pool that has been a sewer as long as I can remember. At least the AI doesn't bill at an attorney's rate to write a mess that barely works.
by jongjong | 2025-08-01 02:42:05+00:00
Not to mention the fact that someone would want to cover their entire body and face with tatoos... It points to an underlying social issue; people aren't happy with the body they were born in and/or not getting the attention/validation they need as individuals. Extreme body modification is a symptom of that. I think this struggle to accept one's self has systemic roots. People shouldn't have to go to such lengths to feel special. I suspect related to inequality dynamics and hyper-centralization of attention.

You shouldn't have to be an extreme world-class outlier in any area in order to feel valued. It's ridiculous how everything has become an all-or-nothing deal. This is not healthy.
by sysmax | 2025-08-01 02:44:08+00:00
Cool. The part that is released already is described here [0]. You can point at some code and give brief instructions, and it will ask the model to expand them, giving several options.

E.g. if you point at a vector class and just "Distance()" for prompt, it will make assumptions like "you want to add a function calculating distance from (0,0)", "function calculating distance between 2 vectors", etc. It runs pretty fast with models like LLaMA, so you can get small routine edits done much faster than by hand.

The part I am currently experimenting with are one-click commands like "expand" or "I don't like the selected part. Give me other options for it". I think, I'll get it to a mostly usable state around Monday. Feel free to shoot an email to the address in the contact page and I'll send you a link to the experimental build.

[0] https://sysprogs.com/CodeVROOM/documentation/concepts/planni...
by syntaxing | 2025-08-01 02:44:19+00:00
Not much to it! Buy any Wifi 7 Pro stuff. Don't get the lite, its just not worth it. Especially confusing with Lite because Wifi 7 still works on Wifi 6 stuff but they call it Wifi 7?

Hardwire the one closest to your gateway, remotely adopt the others, and youre good to go. Also, double check your frequencies. 1, 6, 11 for 2.4 Ghz. No DFS for 5 Ghz. Scan the environment and try your best. Wifi 7/ 6 Ghz must be same frequency though which is another plus since no ones really has it yet.
by peab | 2025-08-01 02:44:43+00:00
I had to break a lease on an apartment recently. The apartment was built in 2023 or 2024, marketed as a luxury apartment. We had no hot water for a month because they used a couple centralized tankless water heaters, and we happened to be the furthest away from the heaters - if they turned it too hot, it was burning hot for the apartments closer to it.

Not only that, but the walls/floors were paper thin. We could hear the floor creak when our upstairs neighbors so much as shifted their weight.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-01 02:46:15+00:00
Jobs that need retries, atomicity, monitoring, rescheduling, ad hoc scheduling, and flexibility probably aren't suited to most cron servers.

Beanstalkd, cronicle, agenda, sidekiq, faktory, celery, etc. are the usual suspects.

What is often missing is HA of the controller service process.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-01 02:46:40+00:00
But, the convention in the US is that people see their houses as a form of savings. Realistically, we should account for that.

Also, if continuing the building ends up requiring some policy change (supported by changing laws and regulations)… it seems reasonable to protect normal people, doing normal things, from massive financial chaos that is explicitly caused by the government changing policies on them. At least for people actually using the houses as intended, that is, living in them.
by SamBam | 2025-08-01 02:48:46+00:00
I found that example weird, probably because it's the one I had the most experience with, having been a grad student at two different universities. (I don't have enough familiarity with the other examples to know if they're weird or not.)

I don't know any grad student (outside perhaps a first-semester master's student) who has delusions about what a professor does. First off, they know academia is publish-or-perish, they've been told it every day, and they're prepping for it right from the get-go, with qualifying papers that are going to turn into their dissertation which is going to turn into their first academic book -- the first of many they know they're going to need to write. And they know that it also involves a lot of face time with the students, since as grad students they spend a lot of face time with the professor. And they know about the teaching because they're having to do it too now, as barely-paid lecturers.

> "Then I’d send ‘em to my advisor Dan"

Did those students not have advisors?

Sorry, I got the point of the article, and it was fine, but this whole anecdote felt off.
by jongjong | 2025-08-01 02:53:11+00:00
There needs to be a push for private moneys and more digital cryptocurrencies. Especially as wealth concentration and automation are pushing people out of jobs. People cannot be forced to use the same currency system and compete on a playing field which systematically values their labor as approaching $0. They must be allowed to form parallel economies which work for them.

Currently, it feels like it's illegal to be poor. You can't do anything without a license due to regulations. Not to mention the media conditioning you have to overcome to achieve the simple goal of living sustainably.

I'm becoming jealous of cavemen because a caveman did not have to convince his wife to live in a cave without tap water and electricity, it was a given. They just made the most of what they had knowing that there was no alternative. They would just hunt and wash their clothes in the river. The inconvenience came with some benefits of having lots of time to be out in nature, enjoying the sights and sounds, never knowing what they're going to encounter. Also, they didn't know about bacteria or parasites so they didn't have to worry about anything.

The most difficult part of being alive today is convincing your loved ones to cut on expenses. Even if you can have a comfortable life without all the consumable junk, it's impossible to convince most people that this is the case. Life is a constant struggle against media conditioning.

The media creates this narrative that you need to have a lot of things just to be alive. For some people, it's possible for them to have all these things without too much struggle but for others it's basically impossible for them to have... so these people have to spend a ton of their energy just fighting these media narratives because that's all they can do.

It's like being a salesman except your customers are your loved ones, your product is 'cutting expenses' and your biggest competitor, 'consumerism' has an unlimited advertising budget and its product is totally incompatible with your product... And your competitor runs its ads on repeat 24/7.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-08-01 02:53:27+00:00
There's a better version of this sort of story that I first heard also set at Oxford.

The stone steps in front of one of the college buildings have been worn down by centuries of people walking up them. The college decides to replace it, but it turns out that the stone used comes from a specific quarry in Wales that in the hundreds of year that have elapsed has been finished when it comes to this sort of rock.

Nobody is sure what to do. They want matching stone but the only other source is in South Africa and it would cost a fortune to ship the stone from there.

A young architect suddenly has a brilliant idea. "We could just extract the stone, turn it over and get a brand new edge". Everyone is very excited, and contractors and tools arrive to carry out the simultaneously tricky yet simple procedure.

It was at that point they discovered this had already been done.
by m463 | 2025-08-01 02:53:50+00:00
Sounds to me that your dad would have been interested by the question and engaged with the interview.

The article was about "I hate my job people" and finding the difference between someone with enough interest to really change his life.

As an analogy, I'm sure car salesman know from experimental evidence that there's a difference between an interested buyer and a tire-kicker. ... that a few questions can discern with high probability.
by tptacek | 2025-08-01 02:54:18+00:00
There really is an internal struggle in the Democratic party (totally natural after a major election loss!) and people are just inclined to read everything as taking one side or the other in it. Ironically, Klein and Thompson really tried to go out of their way not to take either side; in fact, most of the oxen that get gored in the book are establishment Democrats!
by brailsafe | 2025-08-01 02:54:21+00:00
> That's a factor, but the bigger deal is that eligible homeowners ar 50% more likely to vote than eligible renters, and that doesn't even count that many renters are not event eligible to vote!

Even if the data seems to indicate that's true, I do see this statement thrown around a lot without much granularity into the groups counted.

In your link, it's broken down into a few different groups, but in terms of renters vs owners I'm kind of less interested in proportion of people eligible to vote who fit into each broad category, and more interested in normalized categories. How many more people who didn't vote and are renters share a rental unit with someone they're not tied to long-term, or rent alone, compared to people who own alone or own in a long-term committed relationship where both people would be owners and likely to physically vote together, for example.

As in, is there as significant of difference between households of the same structure, income level, age bracket, in terms of voter turnout (a couple sharing the status of renting or sharing the status of owning). I feel like you'd be much more likely to vote if your spouse that you split expenses and responsibilities with also votes, whereas your roommate might not give a damn and it has nothing much to do with you.

Likewise if you own a 1 bedroom condo alone, does that show up as different than someone who rents a 1 bedroom condo alone?
by didibus | 2025-08-01 02:54:35+00:00
I just couldn't keep reading with the constant "antitrust left" being refered to on every sentence.

The issue, is that for me, the reader, it framed the piece as the author seemingly positioning themselves as the "the other side", the one that knows best and isn't those "antitrust left". It felt like it was creating a strawman and was engaging in tribal signaling.

And when you consider the rest of the piece was them claiming they called the sources, and that the sources said that the "antitrust left" had misquoted them and misrepresented their findings, but the author somehow is this unbiased truth, and definitely really for real called the the sources and didn't at all misconstrue or anything, no they wouldn't do that, unlike the "antitrust left".
by jordanb | 2025-08-01 02:54:49+00:00
> Many leftists have a problem with zoning deregulation.

I've been in leftist housing advocacy circles. I studied urban planning.

1) Every leftist I know who cares about housing hates euclidean zoning

2) Every leftist I know who cares about housing hates down-zoning

3) Every urban planning class I took said that euclidean zoning is bad

Euclidean zoning is the principle land use regulation in the United States because it is supported by powerful people, landowners and yes property developers (who are also almost always land speculators.)

Thompson and Klein misrepresent euclidean zoning as a leftist project and then set it up as a wicker man to stuff with all the environmental and labor protections they want to torch.
Show HN: Dingo 1.9.0 released: With enhanced hallucination detection
by e06084 | 2025-08-01 02:55:54+00:00
Just released *Dingo 1.9.0* with major upgrades for RAG-era data quality assessment.

### Key Updates:

* Enhanced Hallucination Detection* Dingo 1.9.0 integrates two powerful hallucination detection approaches: - *HHEM-2.1-Open local model* (recommended) - runs locally without API costs - *GPT-based cloud detection* - leverages OpenAI models for detailed analysis

Both evaluate LLM-generated answers against provided context using consistency scoring (0.0-1.0 range, configurable thresholds).

* Configuration System Overhaul* Complete rebuild with modern DevOps practices: - Hierarchical inheritance (project → user → system levels) - Hot-reload capabilities for instant config changes - Schema validation with clear error messages - Template system for common scenarios

* DeepWiki Document Q&A* Transform static documentation into interactive knowledge bases: - Multi-language support (EN/CN/JP) - Context-aware multi-turn conversations - Visual document structure parsing - Semantic navigation and cross-references

### Why It Matters: Traditional hallucination detection relies on static rules. Our approach provides context-aware validation essential for production RAG systems, SFT data quality assessment, and real-time LLM output verification.

Perfect for: - RAG system quality monitoring - Training data preprocessing - Enterprise knowledge management - Multi-modal data evaluation

*GitHub*: https://github.com/MigoXLab/dingo *Docs*: https://deepwiki.com/MigoXLab/dingo

What hallucination detection approaches are you currently using? Interested in your RAG quality challenges.
by tptacek | 2025-08-01 02:56:14+00:00
I never understand why people think Uber is some kind of mic drop. I don't like Uber as a company, but Uber is vastly better than the system it replaced. It this a generational thing? Are the people casting Uber as archvillains just too young to remember not being able to get a cab at 9PM, or having their cabs kick them out halfway to their destination because they decided to go on a break?
by y2236li | 2025-08-01 02:56:51+00:00
Hey simantel! Thanks for these great questions. I just revisited my stats:

- LTV is around $23 - I haven't tried ads, so this really not sure

Looks like I need to aim for $1 per click.

Also I calculated my website visit to download conversion is around 13%, then download to paying is around 12% in the last month...Are these good stats?
by wraptile | 2025-08-01 02:57:30+00:00
I recently wrote my own very similar static site generator in Python to migrate away from Ghost CMS and Python today has everything you need:

- pathlib is brilliant for managing filesystem

- jinja2 still best templating engine out there

- mistune very good markdown -> html renderer and it's quite easy to extend

- lxml is quite fast when it comes to HTML modification for dynamic content injection (CTAs etc.)

- livereload is great for live development and you can get around Python's slowness with smart reloading rather than having to rebuild the entire site

- tailwindcss works brilliantly with static generators as dropping in some html in markdown makes content creation really flexible

Making your own generator has never been this easy!

My only gripe is having to tune livereload to avoid rebuilding everything with each modification as building all 400+ articles on Python currently takes around 4 seconds which when doing theme development is a bit annoying but a small price to pay for staying in the Python ecosystem. For content creation you can just rebuild the effected graph of objects which is just some miliseconds, even in Python.
by general1726 | 2025-08-01 02:57:43+00:00
Also probably the most unrealistic. Why would not people in ghetto create their own version of internet? They would have all the resources in a nearest scrapyard you just need gear what works. Then use few stolen IDs to copy the controlled internet and they could have it public just for themselves. Next step would be to connect other ghettos and what is the real internet at this point? The controlled one or this ghetto one where people can create freely without being hindered by the government?
by mulmen | 2025-08-01 02:57:47+00:00
Yes, absolutely. Journalism is fundamentally a fact or truth seeking exercise. I do still think there is room for presenting factually incorrect opinions so they can then be challenged and disproved. So I will meet you in the middle and say that journalism is the factual presentation of a topic. One of those facts could be that an influential person believes or says things that are incorrect.

Wikipedia's definition seems excellent to me:

> Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.

That "some degree" is an important concession. Nobody will be right all the time but the objective of journalism is to discover and present the truth of a topic.
by SR2Z | 2025-08-01 02:58:30+00:00
Basically everyone considers housing as a hedge - homes are expected to grow steadily in value or at the very least not depreciate.

This is not a good policy goal, but the fact is that the wealth of the American middle class is mostly stored in property, and tanking property values would be a disaster for a broad swath of society which otherwise only has long-term retirement accounts to rely on.

They will vote to protect their interests, no matter how badly it screws their kids or contributes to homelessness.
by evil-olive | 2025-08-01 02:59:05+00:00
> It's not on him to rebut every single argument Stoller has ever made.

yeah, I never said it was.

Thompson himself says:

> Still, I wanted to spend more time engaging with the arguments of the antitrust housing folks.

he says he wanted to engage with the arguments made by the antitrust left.

which means he chose which of those arguments he was going to engage with.

and he chose to make this a 2-part post about why he thinks the antitrust left is wrong about homebuilding monopolies:

> Thanks for reading. Come back tomorrow for Part 2 of my analysis, where I’ll explain what really happened in Dallas and why I think unaffordability became a national phenomenon if the cause isn’t oligopolies.

now, if there's a part 3 where he talks about RealPage and antitrust as it applies to rentals rather than single-family homebuilding, I'll gladly eat crow.

but until that happens, I'm going to call Thompson intellectually dishonest, because there's a cute little sleight-of-hand trick he's doing here. his opening paragraph:

> The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business.

he's saying some of the best criticisms of his book come from the antitrust left.

and that he's evaluated some of the arguments made by the antitrust left and thinks they're wrong.

if you miss the sleight-of-hand, you might come away thinking that he's responding to the best arguments made about housing by the antitrust left.

but he's pretty clearly not doing that. because the "antitrust left" argument against RealPage doing algorithmic rent-fixing (detailed in a 115-page federal lawsuit [0]) is much stronger than the "antitrust left" argument about homebuilding monopolies in Dallas (detailed in a Substack post by some guy)

0: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1364976/dl?inline
by andrewstuart2 | 2025-08-01 02:59:29+00:00
As far as I can tell, from using the internal browser on one of my TVs, there is a certificate store issue. Either they nuked local CAs accidentally or they've always been doing some MITM shenanigans and had an expired certificate in the chain or some downtime somewhere in the stack.

My money's a lot more on the former and I will be interested to see how they get themselves out of this conundrum.
by viksit | 2025-08-01 03:00:42+00:00
mostly aligned on this. couple of thoughts:

- raw accuracy is now a "vanity" metric. so the benchmarks need to get more sophisticated, and i think they're going to have to be far more task specific than hotpot or hover. they've become like the mnist of multi hop.

- in my use of MIPROv2 and SIMBA, I see a fair amount of improvements for multi hop tasks (published some of these on hn before). I'm going to try GEPA and see how it performs. so I think we're at the start of what I would call "meta learning".. tuning across a huge search surface rather than tweaking one prompt. hyper param search for higher dim spaces.

- tokens burned should be a reported result
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-01 03:00:46+00:00
Works when/where archive.is is blocked

No Javascript required

echo url=https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/07/29/a-fresh-retail-trading-frenzy-is-reshaping-financial-markets \ |curl -K/dev/stdin -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.6533.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 Lamarr" > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm
by brailsafe | 2025-08-01 03:01:09+00:00
That's an interesting bit of history I didn't know about, but my point wasn't that Shazam was a new thing exclusively for the iPhone, but it was among the novelties that helped market it along with the other attributes we agree on. I think the most compelling reason was fashion, not so much technical, because really I didn't know anyone with the very first versions anyway.
Show HN: Kali Linux-like environment written in Windows Batch
by benja2998 | 2025-08-01 03:01:48+00:00
Hello HN, i am the creator of Kali in Batch. This is a project i have been actively working on for months, and i want to show it here.

Kali in Batch creates a Unix-like environment on Windows. It uses subst to assign a drive letter to the root file system located at "%USERPROFILE%\kali", it even has some POSIX functions reimplemented (see https://github.com/Kali-in-Batch/kali-in-batch/blob/master/s...).

I hope anyone reading this can test it and find as many bugs to report as they can so i can improve the software. Please also consider making critiques and suggest improvement and feedback.