MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryankrage77 | 2025-08-12 03:48:38+00:00
I do wonder what these people's thought process is, to want to make gay marriage illegal. I grew up in a Christian household, and definitely used to be homophobic, as a sort of default. But once I was old enough to think for myself (I think around ~14 or so), I considered the issue and realised I was being stupid. My reasoning was, if people of the same gender want to be together, it doesn't affect me and is none of my business. I went from a vague, abstract dissaproval/discomfort to not caring, or a vague 'good for you' sentiment.

The entire thing has had me wondering ever since, when people who should be capable of learning better (i.e, not surrounded solely by bigots that prevent them re-considering/speaking up) are homophic, transphobic, racist, etc, what is going on inside their head? Have they just never given it thought? Like, what does a rational argument against homosexuality look like? I have always been forced to conclude that bigotry is irrational on the level of full-on delusion.
by monitron | 2025-08-12 03:48:40+00:00
> YouTube gaining an “ask a question about this video” button, this is a perfect example of how to sprinkle AI on an existing product.

lol if this is the perfect example, "AI" in general is in a sad place. I've tried to use it a handful of times and each time it confidently produced wrong results in a way that derailed my quest for an answer. In my experience it's an anti-feature in that it seems to make things worse.
by tomhow | 2025-08-12 03:48:43+00:00
> What a ridiculous argument.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by thisisthenewme | 2025-08-12 03:49:07+00:00
I find the belief that government is the only limit to wealth creation very intriguing. I also find it interesting that the talking points usually contrast "free markets", which I assume represents the best case, with just "government". Markets can be limited or impacted by forces outside of government (price fixing, monopolies, manipulation). Is there an equivalent best-case scenario for "governments" that we can use as a reference when discussing how they impact free markets?
by slig | 2025-08-12 03:49:11+00:00
First off, congrats on the launch! It looks really polished, and I'm definitely giving it a proper try tomorrow.

How do you plan to market this? From what I can tell, you're only left with about $3.50 (~$0.90 for Lob and ~$0.50 with Stripe), unless there's some kind of upsell after completing the flow that I missed.
by cmcaleer | 2025-08-12 03:49:25+00:00
“Wikipedia is one of the best resources humanity has ever produced” and “The Wikimedia Foundation spends money frivolously while soliciting donations with messages that make users think their money is going towards the project they actually care about” are not statements which are incompatible with each other.

Wikimedia does by and large an OK job (the endowment they set up in particular was a great move), but it’s incredibly bloated in ways that should be curtailed before it gets worse. It’s reasonable to want better for a resource as important as Wikipedia.

We don’t want another Mozilla.
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-12 03:49:26+00:00
The beauty about work is that you can always leave if you don’t like what you’re being asked to do. Being asked to lift heavy stuff and you don’t want to? Find a job where you don’t have to. Serving pork is against your religion? Work at a vegan restaurant. Don’t like dogs? Don’t work at an animal hospital. Feel squeamish about blood? Don’t work at a hospital.

It really is that simple.
by gottorf | 2025-08-12 03:49:28+00:00
26.6 murders per 100k in 2024 is neither empty nor idiotic. It's distressing. Why don't you compare that to peer cities around the world and see how it stacks up. You're right that I don't need dramatic effect; it's terrible on its own.

You seem to be very invested in the idea that cities like Baltimore, St. Louis, or New Orleans have it worse. You're right. What relevance does it have?
by treetalker | 2025-08-12 03:49:33+00:00
The First Amendment challenge is a sideshow; this case will be all about teeing up Obergefell for the conservative bloc's pot shots, if not complete overturning. The larger cultural theme, though, is to underscore who's in charge by flaunting the "in" group's imperviousness to normal legal rules: like Trump, the January 6 offenders, Justices Thomas and Alito themselves, et al., Kim Davis will be shown to be above the law.
by righthand | 2025-08-12 03:50:23+00:00
You honestly believe murder rate is higher in cities because the mayor is a Democrat? Or are cities with Democrat mayors much larger and diverse than Republic mayor cities? Do you think the people in Democrat cities vote in a Democrat mayor because they want more murder?

You can read a million different things from a list of items with similar attributes. Especially one compiled without sources or any context of the regions of the US.
by fangjunyu | 2025-08-12 03:51:04+00:00
ImageSlim is a free, open-source image compression tool for macOS. It supports a variety of image formats, including .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .heic, and .exr. The app uses native macOS compression and optionally enables the third-party open-source tool pngquant for efficient PNG compression, achieving compression rates of up to 99%.
by nradov | 2025-08-12 03:51:36+00:00
The "Boots theory" of economics is garbage, just utter nonsense. I don't understand why people keep mentioning it here without applying any critical thinking. It simply doesn't apply to the vast majority of actual consumer products. Some of most durable, longest-lasting footwear I ever bought was also among the cheapest. By contrast the expensive stuff tends to be fussy, fragile, and impossible to repair. This generally applies to apparel, electronics, automobiles, appliances, bicycles, firearms, etc.
by nostrademons | 2025-08-12 03:51:45+00:00
You don't have to pay $100 to find out, you can do that for ~$5-20 by directly buying API credits.

I don't know for sure whether it's worth it yet. Further experimentation is needed, as well as giving it an honest shot and trying to learn the nuances of the tool. But the way I look at it - if this actually is a future career path, the net present value of its payoff is measured in the millions of dollars. It's worth spending ~$20 and a few nights of my time to figure that out, because the odds can be pretty damn low and still have the expected value pencil out. It's sorta like spending $200 on 1/4 of a Bitcoin in 2013 because I was curious about the technology - I fully expected it to be throwing money down the toilet, but it ended up being quite worth it. (I wish I'd had the same mindset when I could've bought into the Ethereum ICO at a penny or so an ETH.)
by duxup | 2025-08-12 03:51:54+00:00
If there’s something I, in theory, would like about the GoP in America it’s their libertarian ideology… but it’s a lie.

They believe in freedom, for them to restrict everyone else’s freedom. Of course that’s not freedom or libertarian or anything of the sort.

Even the political nature of the religious right isn’t about helping god’s children, it’s more about hating them and revoking any help they can get…
by muzani | 2025-08-12 03:52:00+00:00
Sam Altman had been pushing hard for UBI back in his VC days [0] He also pushed hard for AI governance, which people probably just laughed off [1][2]. Shortly after those blogs on the dangers of AI, he decides to set up OpenAI.

Dude doesn't go to the trouble of convincing people of his political stances. He just sells the poison and waits for people to manufacture the antidote he's been preaching for all along.

[0] https://blog.samaltman.com/technology-and-wealth-inequality [1] https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1 [2] https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2
by paffdragon | 2025-08-12 03:52:49+00:00
We have also seen this about a year ago when hiring. But only a couple of them made it to the live interview and then it was evident. Most of them were quickly filtered out based on the coding submissions. We are soon about to hire again, with the uptick in LLM usage and newer more up to date models, I'm not looking forward too much having to deal with all of this.
by dinnison | 2025-08-12 03:53:06+00:00
Thanks! Yeah your margin calculations are roughly correct.

This is a fun side project built for myself, that I thought others might enjoy -- so maximizing revenue hasn't been a huge part of planning.

I plan to market this on traditional channels (Reddit, X, etc) and maybe test out some paid ads if the CAC is <$3.50 -- open to ideas!
by pfannkuchen | 2025-08-12 03:54:38+00:00
Thanks for the reply. I do have similar impedance mismatches with the social consensus in a lot of areas. In everyday life I basically do what you are suggesting, but internally I end up having thoughts like this that I typically only feel safe sharing non-anonymously with people who are close.

I do sometimes wonder whether mass education and extensive media exposure from childhood have essentially brainwashed all but the most stubborn-minded of us, who are then labeled “autistic”.

On the topic, if we did take a strict definition of sex, this seems like a fruitful angle of attack for traditionalists. Like, today gay men are regarded as having lots and lots of sex, which is awesome. But if you take this other perspective, most of them are virgins, which is lame. I wonder why the traditionalists/far right haven’t taken this propaganda approach…
by superkuh | 2025-08-12 03:56:45+00:00
Failing to load is not a problem. Failing to execute is.

Usually because the web dev have used some new Javascript feature only $latest JS engines support. HTML and CSS if they're there they're there. Sure, there's caniuse for HTML and CSS. But they only have to load. The text/images/etc will be there. JS both has to be loaded and executed. If the later doesn't happen just right then the text and other multi-media won't be there. It's a very big difference.
by presentation | 2025-08-12 03:56:52+00:00
Maxwell Tabarrok has a take on this, basically in his words:

> The confusion of intellectual property and property rights is fair enough given the name, but intellectual property is not a property right at all. Property rights are required because property is rivalrous and exclusive: When one person is using a pair of shoes or an acre of land, other people’s access is restricted. This central feature is not present for IP: an idea can spread to an infinite number of people and the original author’s access to it remains untouched.

> There is no inherent right to stop an idea from spreading in the same way that there is an inherent right to stop someone from stealing your wallet. But there are good reasons why we want original creators to be rewarded when others use their work: Ideas are positive externalities.

> When someone comes up with a valuable idea or piece of content, the welfare maximizing thing to do is to spread it as fast as possible, since ideas are essentially costless to copy and the benefits are large.

> But coming up with valuable ideas often takes valuable inputs: research time, equipment, production fixed costs etc. So if every new idea is immediately spread without much reward to the creator, people won’t invest these resources upfront, and we’ll get fewer new ideas than we want. A classic positive externalities problem.

> Thus, we have an interest in subsidizing the creation of new ideas and content.

And so you can reframe whether or not IP rights should be assigned in this case, based on whether you believe that the welfare generated by making AI better by providing it with content is more valuable for society than the welfare generated by subsidizing copyright holders.

[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/maximumprogress/p/ai-copyright...
by nirvdrum | 2025-08-12 03:56:54+00:00
> Because we remember the evil Microsoft. Many young people still follow advice from the elders.

I get the point you're making, but it really seems like we haven't remembered. We've worked ourselves back into one juggernaut owning most of the web browser space and then collectively acted surprised when they started flexing their muscles. I encounter sites that only run in Chrome the same way I had sites that only ran in IE 6. It seems to me we're doomed to repeat history as long as that path is easier or more profitable.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-12 03:56:54+00:00
IIRC, K-Mart sold a lot of bikes, but not helmets.

It had never yet crossed the minds of adults, helmets certainly were not a mainstream product when it comes to protecting kids.

Parents loved their kids just as much as ever back then and you could feel the full force of their protective nature, even if it doesn't always appear historically so.

Whether hardened by war or anything else, what really started the helmet "craze", whether it's kids wearing them or not, and regardless of increases in dangerous road traffic, helmets really started to fly off the shelf like never before, once the greatest threat of all started escalating risk through the roof.

And it was adults who needed to protect themselves like never before.

From lawsuits.
by beepbopboopp | 2025-08-12 03:57:01+00:00
I think the most interesting part about this is that this is first "out group" that theyre taking aim at that truly has money, power and extremely organized cultural weaponry.

It seems they think coming after this group with impunity like they have the poor and some other specific minorities is going to work out with little consequence or true backlash. Id bet this group serves more third rail than they are anticpating.
by nine_k | 2025-08-12 03:57:35+00:00
Funny enough, Unix already has user-settable priorities, aka "nice level". ACPI gives us an idea how plentiful the power is.

So, when powered by AC power, schedule everything on P cores when possible, schedule processes that eat a lot of CPU on P cores, same for any process with a negative nice value.

When powered by a battery, schedule anything with non-negative nice value on E cores, keep one P core up for real-time tasks, and for nice-below-zero tasks.

These are two extremes, but I suppose that the idea is understandable.
by alwillis | 2025-08-12 03:58:04+00:00
There are plenty of free models available; many that rival their paid counterparts.

A kid interested in trying stuff can use Qwen Coder for free [1].

If the kid's school has Apple Silicon Macs (or iPads), this fall, each one of them will have Apple's 3 billion parameter Foundation Models available to them for free [2].

Swift Playground [3] is a free download; Apple has an entire curriculum for schools. I would expect an upgrade to incorporate access to the on-board LLM

[1]: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder:free

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/286

[3]: https://developer.apple.com/swift-playground/
by perilunar | 2025-08-12 03:58:11+00:00
What most people think of as a hyphen (the key at the top-right of the keyboard) is actually a hyphen-minus (-, U+002D). Unicode has separate hyphen (‐, U+2010) and minus (−, U+2212) symbols, as well as a couple of others.

(If you want negative numbers to look right at small font sizes use a minus sign instead of hyphen-minus.)
Show HN: Physics from "I am": a recursive model that works?
by kristintynski | 2025-08-12 03:58:25+00:00
Over the past six weeks, I built FIRM (Fractal Identity & Recursive Mechanics)—a formal mathematical framework that starts from five axioms, including a “Recursive Identity” principle, to derive physical reality using category theory and recursion.

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by gottorf | 2025-08-12 03:58:56+00:00
> When you don't give the local authorities the money and autonomy to do so

DC spent over $26k per resident, well above the overall US federal budget of roughly $20k per person. And the DC budget doesn't even have to account for a globe-spanning military!

What autonomy is it lacking that it can't put repeat violent offenders behind bars?

> When you take a look at the trend of the data over time it doesn't tell a story of crime that isn't being managed. It may not be as quick or as thorough, but it has been downward trending.

Outside of six whole years, the homicide rate in DC hasn't been under 20/100k in 50 years. "Downward trending" from 80 in 1990 to 20s now is great in isolation, but terrible when you realize that places like Paris and London are in the low single digits.
Show HN: I built an AI tool that turns any content into carousel post
by john_davis_0122 | 2025-08-12 03:58:58+00:00
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by cruffle_duffle | 2025-08-12 03:59:13+00:00
Don’t forget that for most than one or two years they pushed “4% kill rate” for covid despite it being multiple orders of magnitude lower. The amount of people that went insane as a result of that blatant misinformation is incredibly high.

They have zero credibility as far as I’m concerned. They are just a front for goverment propaganda.
by glenngillen | 2025-08-12 03:59:15+00:00
A lot of places I've worked end up coming up with a prioritised list of who they think they want to hire as candidates are going through the pipeline. The first preference for various reasons might not be the first to finish the interview process. What typically happens is if a strong candidate finishes the process first they'll get a "our team need time to discuss their feedback, we'll get back to you in 10 days" type of answer. The X days is often less to do with the team getting together to compare notes and more to do with when another candidate is expected to finish their interview. At which point the two candidates can be compared to each other and a decision made. There's also the expectation that if _we_ rank someone highly in our pipeline they are probably high in someone else's and so we might just lose them to a better offer. So having a plan b to send an offer to is useful.

At Amazon there wasn't meant to be that kind of candidate comparisons/ranking. If you're first through and pass you get an offer. But... if a team felt strongly about a specific person it was entirely feasible to prioritise them by giving them first option on potential interview dates, and offering later dates to other people. Thereby increasing the chances the preferred candidate was the first one to successfully complete the process.
by tbrownaw | 2025-08-12 03:59:28+00:00
> In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month

A quick search says the court accepts approximately a percent of those.

And AIUI they usually prefer cases where the lower courts disagree with eachother, which I don't think this one is. And it sounds like every court she's been through on the way up has unanimously shot her down.

I rather suspect this should be taken about as seriously as your local sovereign citizen trying to have income taxes declared illegal.
by ehnto | 2025-08-12 04:00:03+00:00
Depends on your use case though. You don't always need the best. Even if you have a hypercar, you probably drive a regular car to work.

There's also a personal good enough point for everyone who's hoping to cut the cord and go local. If local models get as good as current moments Claude Sonnet, I would actually be totally fine using that locally and riding the local improvements from then on.

And for local stuff like home automation or general conversational tasks, local has been good enough for a while now. I don't need the hypercar of LLMs to help me with cooking a recipe for example.
by smcin | 2025-08-12 04:00:44+00:00
I simply stated as a fact that IE has not been dead and buried for ages. The official 2022 shutdown is recent.

Regardless of who we each might consider to be responsible (and in what proportion), that fact is a fact. Agreed?

(and I've seen lots of end-of-life cycles in software and hardware, and gone through them as both user, customer and vendor)
by wat10000 | 2025-08-12 04:01:03+00:00
They don’t even need control. It’s a version of the old saying that if you owe the bank a million dollars then you have a problem, but if you owe a billion dollars then the bank has a problem. If your company is important enough then it’s not possible (at least not politically) to punish it significantly. See also: 2008 and “too big to fail.”
by fzeroracer | 2025-08-12 04:03:19+00:00
I would say that this is going to go nowhere, but after the Supreme Court's absolutely disastrous reversal on Roe v. Wade it would not surprise me if they finally take it up here and say they're going to kick it back down to the states. It'll be an absolute shitshow as all the states that had bans and other restrictions kick in.

Good luck to all the tech companies that have offices in red states if it comes to pass.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-12 04:03:20+00:00
No offense, but I'm not particularly interested in helping wargame propaganda strategies for either side of culture war debates. I'm not particularly interested in seeing culture zealots succeed at dehumanizing people, regardless of alignment.

Edit: I understand you see the topic of discussion as an abstract strategic question. I don't, and I'm not particularly interested in embracing that framing. We seem to have different fundamental values and framing here and I'm unsure of whether it's productive for me to advocate my framing, when you may not be particularly interested in embracing my framing either. I certainly have no right to demand you must accept my framing, but if we've reached a values/framing-based impass here, then I sincerely wish you all the best in life, but I will respectfully decline to engage further - it doesn't seem productive for either of us to continue if we both come from frameworks that are mutually incompatible with one another.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-12 04:03:36+00:00
You should also look at the welfare generated by showing that all are equal under the law, versus showing that companies can get away with blatant lawbreaking if they can convince people that it’s for the greater good.

The proper way to decide this would be to pass a law in the legislature. But of course our system in general and tech companies in particular don’t work that way.