MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bamboozled | 2025-08-03 15:18:20+00:00
The more I use it the more I realise my first two weeks and the amazement I felt were an illusion.

I’m not going to tell you it’s not useful, it is. But then shine wears off pretty fast and when it does, you’re basically left with a faster way to type. At least in my experience.

It’s amazing , but it’s dumb.
by rexpop | 2025-08-03 15:18:37+00:00
If you eliminate formal regulators (rules, laws, authoritative bodies), you haven't eliminated regulation or governance. Instead, informal forms of power take over—those who are most forceful, persuasive, or socially connected regulate what happens. This is the "tyranny of structurelessness": when no open, accountable structures exist, structure remains—it just becomes invisible, unaccountable, and often dominated by the "sharkest shark."

So, "no regulator" doesn't mean freedom from regulation; it means the emergence of undemocratic, unchecked power by whoever can grab and wield it.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-03 15:18:48+00:00
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. I rented EVs multiple times. You don't worry about charging as often as 12 out of 48 hours. If there happens to be a convenient L2 charger you plug in. Otherwise you visit a fast charger.

Superchargers have excellent availability and uptime.

EVs depreciate quickly entirely because of technology advances. In the span of a few years we have seen 800V architectures, LFP batteries becoming commonplace. And semi-solid-state batteries are on the horizon.
by dhawalhs | 2025-08-03 15:19:13+00:00
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How we work: full-time, remote-first, async, very few meetings; we’re profitable and independent so you can ship fast and have real impact.

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by theideaofcoffee | 2025-08-03 15:19:46+00:00
This is true because it has happened to me. I was at a place where there was a very ingrained hierarchy in the culture where people were afraid to ask questions in public (slack), to discuss problems and solutions, because the "leaders" were so thin-skinned, doing anything outside of being ticket-solving machines was seen as wholly objectionable.

I got tired of the abject fear that some of those idiots were stoking so I took it upon myself to set the example for the more junior people and started rambling and asking questions and doing the things that the "leaders" obviously didn't like. You can imagine how that went as I got a bit more bold week after week... I've never been more relieved, and proud, to be canned.
by trendinghotai | 2025-08-03 15:19:51+00:00
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed response — I read it all the way through and really appreciate how clearly you laid out your position. Your perspective feels grounded in real-world tech experience and the cycles you've seen play out — and I can see how that leads to a healthy skepticism of overblown narratives.

What I’ve been turning over in my mind is this: you mentioned “I could have it all wrong” — and that struck me as honest and fair. So I’m curious: what kinds of things would make you start to think you were wrong? What would a system have to do (or become) for you to go, “Okay, maybe this is heading somewhere different”?

Are there certain signals or trends you personally monitor — either to confirm your view that this is mostly hype, or to check if something deeper is emerging?

And one last thought — you referenced the Wikipedia definition of AGI earlier, but I’m not sure that one fully captures what people are actually worried (or hopeful) about. Curious if you think AGI is even a useful concept as defined, or if it’s too mushy to be meaningful? I keep wondering whether the whole “AGI” label helps or hurts the conversation.

Appreciate your reply either way. And I still don’t totally trust my microwave, for the record
by zahlman | 2025-08-03 15:20:15+00:00
From the main page of the site:

> The 3-5-20 Pattern: Reality’s Sacred Geometry

> Our breakthrough revealed that consciousness itself operates through elegant angular momentum patterns:

> Pattern 3 (Focus): Sharp, precise attention - like a laser beam of awareness

> Pattern 5 (Emotion): Flowing, connecting energy - the heart’s graceful rhythms

> Pattern 20 (Creativity): Complex, innovative thinking - where breakthrough insights emerge

> These same patterns govern memory storage: experiences get encoded as 3-pattern details, 5-pattern emotional flows, and 20-pattern creative associations - explaining why we remember what moves us most deeply.

> DNA: The Universe’s Musical Water Park

> The 3-5-20 patterns reveal DNA as a spiral water park where proteins learn to dance. Genetic code creates trampolines of different shapes - some with 3 sides (sharp structural beats), some with 5 sides (flowing melodic phrases), others with 20 sides (complex creative harmonies).

This is blatantly and obviously pseudoscientific nonsense, and probably in large part AI-generated.
Show HN: I made a minimalist AI-powered product image generator
by jumagrande | 2025-08-03 15:20:52+00:00
I know several friends who are selling online through Instagram using photos they take themselves.

So, I thought I could create an ultra-minimalist tool to generate professional product images with AI using a photo they upload with their mobile phone.

The tool is in the testing phase for them, but I'm looking for more feedback, so I've put up a test of three images for anyone who registers.

It currently has three different types of backgrounds, and the goal is to improve it as I receive feedback.

I appreciate anyone who wants to try it out.

https://ezshot.pro/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=post&ut...

Best regards!
by kmeisthax | 2025-08-03 15:21:07+00:00
Any time private equity does something stupid or short-sighted, remember this:

Private equity firms - or, at least, the ones that people complain about - don't own their own capital. They have to rent it from somewhere else, and those people get paid first.

The PE firm only really gets paid for their expertise when they make their hurdle. Ergo, PE is incentivized to make terribly short-sighted business decisions, because those are the ones that will bring in the money to make their hurdle. They get caught in a loop of buying and gutting otherwise productive businesses.

This capital structure made sense back when PE was a tiny part of the economy that bought and modernized small businesses, but now PE is more akin to a failing empire; with an entitled aristocratic class that will shiv any leader that tries to change the structure to be more sustainable. They are spending $2000 on candles and the candles have knives.
by rramadass | 2025-08-03 15:21:19+00:00
You have to rethink your view and understanding of UML - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language

It is not just drawing boxes but a visual modeling language providing both static/structural and dynamic/behavioural views of a complete system. You will only understand its value when you actually deal with large systems consisting of many interconnected modules with dependencies. In such large codebases it is almost impossible to understand all structural/behavioural aspects by browsing code whereas a tool like Doxygen generating UML diagrams from code becomes a godsend. You can map from UML to Code or Code to UML. As with any language you don't have to know all of it but can focus only on what you need eg. Class diagram/Activity diagram/Statemachine diagram are the ones i have found most useful.

Finally, UML is now being used as a modeling/specification language frontend to Formal Methods which is the ultimate proof of its usefulness.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-08-03 15:21:24+00:00
We buy our ticket from the airline but they don't get service guarantees from the airport so all the risk is passed onto their customers who can miss their flight and be held responsible for it, despite it being the airports fault.

The incentives for the airport are to be as cheap as possible, which they do by not having enough staff manning bagging/security et el for the peaks. Airports are a natural monopoly within an area so there isn't competition to loose out to, there is no where else for the planes and travellers to go and cities wont be putting down space for multiple airports to compete.

Because of the monopoly aspect it requires legal requirements for service guarantees to be laid out on the airports to fix this, without which the situation wont change and the risk will continue to lay with the customer for airport failures and they have little choice but to turn up early to mitigate the risk of the airport not having enough capacity. Its a system where all the companies are acting in their own best interest.
by zhengiszen | 2025-08-03 15:21:29+00:00
The youth reaction to the current genocide in Gaza is a demonstration of the failure of the old world media and politics (propaganda) to manipulate the way people think or behave. The reaction is only starting to emerge with restrictions and use of mass surveillance software like Palantir & Co, violating privacy and profiling every aspect of our lives to categorize and discriminate with ease.
by YSummary | 2025-08-03 15:22:00+00:00
Thanks for your suggestion, but I am a retired person and am too old for such a big dream. I posted this for those who are in their 20s, 30s, thinking to drop out from Harvard or Stanford and seeking some adventure. On the eve of AI taking over billions of jobs by 2030. This idea might be worthwhile a try for them. And one day such platform may just appear before us.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-03 15:22:59+00:00
I’m also an old guy at 51. I have been in cloud consulting for the last five+ years and I’m perfectly capable of leading large projects remotely.

I can do it in person. But I find diagramming with collaborative tools, shared Google docs, etc to be much better than in person drawing on a whiteboard. There are remote collaborative tools for everything.

With the tools available now, you can record all of the meetings and don’t have to take notes, have transcripts automatically generated and summarized with AI. I can then take all of the transcripts and other artifacts, throw them in Google’s NotebookLM and ask questions and get answers about the project (with citations).

I do the same for transcripts of meetings I am not in - mostly pre-sales.

Yes these are all approved tools.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-03 15:23:27+00:00
That will last until the first person shares a link to their rambling channel or the first time a pair of team members discuss something at standup that only appeared in someone’s ramblings channel.

Every time a company has said “you should mute and ignore this channel” but also encourages relevant project discussion in that channel, it becomes something people realize they need to unmute and monitor.

The only people who have the luxury of completely ignoring channels are managers and leads, because they can dictate how people need to bring information to them.
by azuanrb | 2025-08-03 15:24:10+00:00
Thanks, I’ll check out Perplexity. We seem to be using a similar stack. I’m also on Rails 8 with Stimulus, Hotwire, esbuild, and Tailwind.

Playwright MCP has been a big help for frontend work. It gives the agent faster feedback when debugging UI issues. It handles responsive design too, so you can test both desktop and mobile views. Not sure if you know this, but Claude Code also works with screenshots. In some cases, I provide a few screenshots and the agent uses Playwright to verify that the output is nearly pixel perfect. It has been invaluable for me and is definitely worth a try if you have not already.
by rexpop | 2025-08-03 15:24:14+00:00
Here’s a simple summary of the main lobbying and campaign spending numbers discussed:

- AIPAC: Gave $17 million to 365 candidates in one recent year.

- Teachers Unions (NEA and AFT): Campaign donations grew from $4.3 million (2004) to over $32 million (2016).

- NRA: Spent ~$10 million/yr on candidates since 2010; $30 million for Trump in 2016.

- United Auto Workers (UAW): Spent ~$8/yr million on politics and lobbying since 2010.

- Planned Parenthood: About $1 million on federal lobbying in 2024.

- Corporate/Industry Lobbyists: Often spend many millions each quarter—generally exceeding any of the above groups.

Corporate and industry groups lead in total money spent, followed by the NRA, teachers unions, AIPAC, UAW, and then Planned Parenthood.
by esco27 | 2025-08-03 15:24:15+00:00
There are certain things in life that are meant to be unstructured and spontaneous. The moment you try to sandbox them they tend to devolve into noise which then calls for more structure or "rules", it's a slippery slope. If you're remote, you can always start a huddle and talk while you work, or if talking is not your thing, a good old DM can work. If you're worried about noise or things getting lost, you can always move the work related things into their own channel as they come up. Just 2 cents.
by api | 2025-08-03 15:24:33+00:00
Maybe they thought an IPO wasn’t going to happen because the market would be in bad shape or there would be too much regulation there.

Maybe they were seeing the AI boom on the horizon and wanted the capital out now to deploy there. They wanted to chase AI not hodl some “old” pre-AI thing. A lot of people think AI is going to render the entire process of which Figma has become a key part obsolete. (I don’t.)

Those are two things I can think of to explain this behavior.

Also some people like to get out when they’re ahead. “The world is full of rich people who sold too soon, not rich people who sold too late.” This makes sense if you are generally pessimistic, which many are for various reasons.
by mjevans | 2025-08-03 15:25:08+00:00
Ref: Office Space (Movie) Flare at the restaurant (I believe it's a spoof on TGI Fridays / Chillis etc)

If you have not seen Office Space ... It has a couple raunchy things and it's general political correctness calibration is circa ~2000 USA so go in with about that level of culture expectations.

Having said that, it's a GREAT movie which is practically a comedic documentary of US office politics and tropes. Though some of the standards have shifted a tiny bit, the general culture is still relevant today in many if not most offices. The movie showcases culture and human nature more than any particular era.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-03 15:25:18+00:00
Like all US institutions that support higher education and diversity, the Trump administration is attacking it:

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-boa...

Education Dept. Cancels Fulbright-Hays Applications, at Least for Now: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/study-abroad/2025...

Association of International Educators warns students won’t want to come to the US https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/association-international-ed...
by mlyle | 2025-08-03 15:25:34+00:00
Hmm. I don't know very much about Lean, and it definitely feels smaller in scope and coordination risk than the kinds of things that would generally benefit from this.

(OTOH, within the community they're effectively trying to build a massive, modern Principia Mathematica, so maybe they would...)

> Whereas broader research is full of risk and requires funders be enormously patient and willing to fund crazy ideas that don’t make sense.

Yah. I'm not a researcher, but I keep ending up tangentially involved in research communities. I've seen university labs, loose research networks, loose consortia funding research centers, FFRDC, etc.

What I’ve noticed is that a lot of these consortia or networks struggle to deliver anything cohesive. There's too many stakeholders, limited bandwidth, and nobody quite empowered to say “we’re building this.”

In the cases where there’s a clearly scoped, tractable problem that’s bigger than what a single lab can handle, and a group of stakeholders agrees it’s worth a visionary push, something like an FRO might make a lot of sense.
by asoneth | 2025-08-03 15:25:38+00:00
I suppose there's no accounting for taste.

Personally I find the increasingly large bulbous noses tacked on to the front of US trucks ridiculous. The fact that these "codpieces" are empty on EVs is such a wild metaphor that it seems like an intentional parody.

I'll grant that the Telo may have gone a little too far in the other direction given that they have issues with the aerodynamic drag of the front wheelwells, but it still looks slightly more sensible than a normal truck.
by Voultapher | 2025-08-03 15:25:42+00:00
On the receiving side sure, if the contract is written such that you are actually allowed to sell the shares easily, which often you are not.

My main point is that $250M sounds like a huge number, and that it shows how extreme the value of AI is seen. But that's exactly the point. They want to be perceived as thinking AI is worth extreme amounts of capital, suggesting it will ROI even more. Otherwise they wouldn't be spending $250M on one guy right? But here comes the catch, they don't think that one person is worth $250M, they can print money for free and claim this guy is worth this much without having to pay for it. Effectively diluting existing shareholder value. This whole thing works because Meta is seen by investors as a growth stock, they have 10-100x larger earnings to share values than mature stocks like Ford. They are printing money to be able to print more money in the future. Follow up reading [1]

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/
by muzani | 2025-08-03 15:26:02+00:00
Where I live, gig riders will run red lights because it ends up increasing their pay for the day by about 30%. They're not being 'exploited' into starvation level pay; some make twice the salary of a factory worker. The ones working 13 hrs/day make the equivalent of a marketing director or bank manager.

Most of the accidents I've been in have been people rushing to work or rushing to pick up relatives from the airport. One time a motorbike hit me square in the rear, flew over my car, hit the ground, and his leg was run over by a another motorbike. The car wasn't even moving; it was a traffic jam.

The cars here make some noise when driver seat belts are not fastened. To get around this, some people buy some of these "alarm stopper clips" for a dollar so they don't have to wear their safety belts.

I'm always frustrated at how exceptionally stupid some of these accidents are. I'm surprised some cities are getting to zero fatalities just by making laws; most of the fatalities here are from people finding ways to break the laws they disagree with, or people who care more about being late to work than arrested.
by dwroberts | 2025-08-03 15:26:57+00:00
> It is rare to read something more moronic than that

It's not actually wrong though is it - real codebases have been implementing reflection and introspection through macro magic etc. for decades at this point.

I guess it's cool they want to fix it in the language, but as always, the approach is to make the language even more complex than it already is - e.g. two new operators (!) in the linked article
by UltraSane | 2025-08-03 15:27:06+00:00
Are you talking about Lean 4? Lean 4 is usually pretty fast at verifying proofs and most proofs are created in interactive mode so are checked as they are typed.

A "two-page document" (perhaps 200-300 lines of code) would typically check in a matter of seconds to, at most, a few minutes. If it took hours, it would mean the file contains a pathological case that a developer would be expected to identify and fix. It is absolutely not a normal or "not unusual" occurrence.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-03 15:27:07+00:00
The Lisa product - a business-focussed follow on to the Apple II, was initiated before Jobs visited Xerox, but nonetheless copied Xerox's Alto GUI.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-lisa-apples-most-influe...

Lisa attracted a lot of interest, but was outrageously expensive (~$50K in 2025 dollars) as well as being slow. The Mac in its final form is best regarded as a cheaper performant Lisa.
by api | 2025-08-03 15:27:11+00:00
There’s a lot of people I’ve talked to who didn’t like Lina Khan not because of the Figma thing but because they thought she was having a chilling effect on acquisitions broadly.

The vast majority of startups will never IPO. Acquisition is the only viable exit. That’s because the bar for IPO has risen so high that only massive already incumbent unicorns can reach it. IPO isn’t a way to raise capital to compete. It’s a victory lap if you’ve won already.

Don’t know if this is actually true, that she was having this chilling effect. I am relaying a sentiment I’ve encountered.

Of course the other reason is tech-right echo chamber brain rot. People need to get off Xhitter. (Not a fan of doomer left anti tech brain rot either. There’s more than one kind of brain rot around.)
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-08-03 15:27:17+00:00
Right now we have grifters who have taken over the official channels. In the case of vaccines, they are deploying weaponized propaganda at scientists. Right now we need our skepticism, and we need to find a way to inoculate the public against these people who are 'asking questions' and making recommendations while citing fake studies. If anything, we very quickly need a resurgence of skepticism.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-03 15:27:56+00:00
I would hate this. More than the commute, the reason I hated in office work are the constant interruptions. Now when I need to do “deep work”, I turn off Slack, email etc and block off my calendar.

We are all busy, when we want to talk about something or get sanity checks, we schedule time on each others calendar. I go to work for one reason - to exchange labor for money. I’m not anti social and I can carry on small talk with the best of them. But there is a strict separation between church (home) and state (work). Well I did meet my now wife at work in 2009…
by wtallis | 2025-08-03 15:28:14+00:00
> Does this serialise the disk io or does it use multiple lanes of the pci bus?

That's not how PCIe lanes work. Regardless of how many PCIe lanes are used to connect the CPU to the HBA, only one packet will be traversing that link at a time (striped across the lanes), but that imposes no direct constraints on what the other side of the HBA is doing with its several SATA links simultaneously. With 16Gb/s of PCIe bandwidth, that HBA should have no trouble keeping more than one 6Gb/s SATA link busy.