MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SlimBold | 2025-08-28 16:57:10+00:00
Browse by country or region. See ingredients. Filter by diet. Android is live today; iOS arrives in a few days.

Since it's version 1.0, there are still bugs to fix and images to improve, but I'm working on it.

Ever sat down in a new place and stared at the menu thinking, "What is that?" I kept googling dish names while traveling, so I built DishDex.

What it does • Browse by place: pick a country or region and see its dishes. • Know what's in it: clear descriptions, ingredients, and origins. • Filter fast: vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian, halal/kosher, and more. • Pick your style: main meals, street food, BBQ, desserts. • Personalize: choose favorite ingredients, avoid allergens, set your spice level.

Why it's nice • No account required. No ads. No trackers. • Images and background info come from trusted sources. • Free plan with daily searches; Pro unlocks unlimited.

Coming soon iOS release in a few days.

New features coming soon Save favorites and multilingual support.

Get it • Android (live): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marco.dish... • iOS: coming in a few days • Website: https://dishdex.io

Thanks for checking it out! I would love feedback on what you want me to add next.
by noboostforyou | 2025-08-28 16:57:35+00:00
> It’s one of the reasons people keep toying with partitioning cells and putting controllers onto individual cells or small groups of them.

I have been out of the battery tech game for a while now but decades ago we were balancing individual NiCd and NiMH cells for optimal performance, is this basically the same thing?

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/463591/nicke...
by jimmaswell | 2025-08-28 16:58:30+00:00
https://www.online-python.com/Q5leTWuvb6

https://www.online-python.com/RueVd2514m

No matter how I frame or interpret this question, the birthdays and birth order appear completely irrelevant - the results are still ~0.50 as expected. Whatever the author was trying to say, they didn't communicate it well. I'm really curious exactly what word or phrase the author thought I was supposed to take to mean something else. If someone could edit one of these simulations to show what the author intended then that would probably be the clearest way.
by bpt3 | 2025-08-28 16:58:40+00:00
Presumably it was flagged due to the inflammatory nature of the article and the inevitable political posts (like this one I'm now responding to!) that would result.

For the record, the Fed did raise interest rates before COVID-era financial policy kicked inflation into high gear (this is the origins of Trump's ire for the Fed, because he generally wants to keep rates as low as possible while he's in office to juice economic growth), but backed off somewhat because the economy was not doing well and inflation was not the primary concern.

Your doctor analogy does not seem to show much understanding of how the stock and bond markets work or the insurance sector works.
by manoDev | 2025-08-28 16:58:42+00:00
China's population is 4.2x larger than the US. If they concentrate in developing their own country and creating an internal market, they'll do well.

Meanwhile, US development strategy post-WW has been 100% based on projecting military [1], political [2] and economic [3] power on a global scale.

So war isn't just "spending", but trading off investment on your own country vs. extracting value from somewhere else. That's how you get large defense funding but not public health care.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-every-known-u-s-mili...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
Trading Bot on Bybit Exchange: Greedy Recursive Arbitrage
by vladimir_spirin | 2025-08-28 16:58:48+00:00
Strategy: Rebalance investment allocation between tokens through complex arbitrage directions. What is an arbitrage direction? Complex arbitrage occurs within a circle of tokens. By the nature of a circle, money can return to the initial token after a sequence of transactions, where the starting token can be any token in the circle. There are two directions to return to the initial token: forward and backward. If one direction is profitable, then the other is definitely not profitable. Let's define an arbitrage circle as a sequence of vectors, where each vector has its profitable direction. Technically, a vector is a trading pair with a direction/side and circle ROI%. A set of profitable circles can be broken down into profitable vectors. Some vectors repeat across different profitable circles. Let's find the best vectors! What does "best" mean? It is a combination of the frequency of appearing in different profitable circles and the ROI% of the circle to which it belongs. I found that a weighted-mean metric is effective for measuring both criteria: - Risk - Profit Executing only the best vector trades provides guarantees based on complex arbitrage analysis. There are different strategies for using the best profitable vectors in the market. My bot executes vectors on pairs where I have money allocated. An interesting aspect is that money allocation is managed by executing vectors from the first token I deposit to the exchange. Money splitting and joining happen automatically according to market price differences. This strategy is also good for holding investments. There were some days when I didn't find profitable vectors from ETH. I made 0 trades, and it was the right approach because, due to market conditions, the best approach was to hold ETH.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-08-28 16:59:28+00:00
Invitee age group: - kids need less food than adults

- adults don't need nerf guns

- kids and adults have different drink preferences.

Ability to group invitees into families:

- whichever parent is 'in charge' of plans for that weekend can respond

- whichever parent realises there's a change of plans can edit one or more of the RSVPs

- often a family will accept/decline differently for different members, e.g. older sibling isn't interested, or one parent will run errands whilst the other is at the party
Why tf aren't there voice RPGs yet when LLMs are dirt cheap now?
by jhongodto | 2025-08-28 16:59:45+00:00
ok this has been bugging me for weeks. was grinding some gacha trash on my phone (don't judge) and realized... with all the AI hype and voice stuff getting super cheap, where are the actual voice-based RPGs??

like seriously, we have:

voice synthesis that doesn't suck anymore (elevenLabs and co) LLMs that can sorta keep characters consistent for more than 5 minutes webrtc works fine now phones can handle voice processing and i'm STILL clicking through dialogue trees like some caveman. closest thing is probably people jerry-rigging chatgpt voice mode but that's not really a game is it.

i get why AAA can't do this - you can't ship a 70b model with your game lmao. but web devs?? mobile?? just hit an API and call it a day.

is it just that game devs and AI people don't talk to each other? are the costs still too high even with cheaper inference? everyone waiting for apple/google to solve it first?

honestly shocked there isn't even a basic "AI dungeon but you talk to it" thing. the AI character chat apps blew up so there's obviously demand.

maybe i'm missing something obvious here but this feels like such a gimme. am i crazy or is this just sitting there waiting for someone to build it?

anyone actually working on something like this? or know what the blocker is? starting to think i should just prototype something myself but my game design skills are... questionable at best
by ls612 | 2025-08-28 17:00:31+00:00
The Ukraine War has already proven that Starlink as it exists today in civilian form is already a game changer. If sensor satellites could make a constellation that was over target 100% of the time and could track a ship to support a missile lock (not sure if this is possible with the constellations being built today but it sure isn’t possible with a old style system like the yaogan) then that would be transformative for a Pacific War scenario.
by hluska | 2025-08-28 17:00:43+00:00
Geez, foraged mushrooms and Winamp make me think we’re of the same generation. Those were good times…

This isn’t well known because his name was (deservedly) mud at the time, but Timothy Leary did a lot of work with sound and lights. He did his light shows when he was a pop guru, but he was even doing this work before he got fired from Harvard.

At the time, he considered it following the history of altered states. In the nineties when he had mellowed out, Leary started talking about lights, sound and technology. Here’s one example:

https://www.sidjacobson.com/Portals/23/articles/Tim%20Leary%...

I’ve had a few experiences with non chemically induced altered states. They’re psychedelic-ish, but not really comparable to a substance like psilocybin. They’re definitely altered states, just while I could draw a picture to describe mild effects of psilocybin to a non user, I couldn’t with music and light.

They’re both altered but very different.
by asa400 | 2025-08-28 17:00:50+00:00
Ever spent any time in Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, San Jose, Casper, Traverse City, Nashville, New York, Buffalo, New Orleans, Cortez, Lubbock, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Jackson, Boston, Seattle?

In your mind, are these all filled with people who look the same, sound the same, practice the same religion, immigrated from the same place?
by DaveZale | 2025-08-28 17:00:54+00:00
yeah Davis is agriculturally oriented. Because this microbe grows in cows stomachs it is added to silage (feed) - so dairy products have this metabolite.

Amazing finding. The statistics on liver damage from aflatoxins said to affect potentially 5 billion people. And of course in the US, with its high incidence of obesity has liver issues due to NAFLD. Then of course the heavy drinkers are all at risk.
by jwarren92 | 2025-08-28 17:01:32+00:00
There's not enough information on creating commercially-viable datasets for LLMs. So here you go. It's the exact e2e pipeline I used for my last production model. It outputs LinkedIn posts that captures unique writing style.

You could just as easily copy its approach to build a dataset for generating SVGs, kubernetes deployment files, etc.

What's valuable is this example guides you through:

1. Generating the “golden dataset” from raw data

2. Labeling obvious categorical features (tone, bullets, etc.)

3. Extracting non-deterministic features (topic, opinions)

4. Encoding tacit human style features (pacing, vocabulary richness, punctuation patterns, narrative flow, topic transitions)

5. Assemble a prompt-completion template an LLM can actually learn from

6. Run ablation studies, permutation/correlation analyses to validate feature impact

7. Train with SFT and GRPO, using custom reward functions that mirror the original features so the model learns why a feature matters, not just that it exists

This approach has been used in a few VC-backed AI-first startups I've consulted with. Have fun.
by foxyv | 2025-08-28 17:01:35+00:00
Yeah, in the Su-27 Flanker that is exactly what it is. You change the flight controls to direct control so you can do things that will put the airplane in an unsafe condition. I think it's a switch in the Flanker as well.

In jets like the F-22 Raptor it will just "cobra" with stick input. They will dump the wing controls automatically to unload the wings, and use thrust vectoring to reach absurd angles of attack. The F-18 Hornet uses a paddle switch which will increase the G-limiter and allow spin recovery.
by nickserv | 2025-08-28 17:02:10+00:00
This is true as well, and in fact not uncommon for a dictatorship to have decent support as long as the economy is good. See: China (although unlike Brazil I have no direct experience there).

It's also a well worn play book at this point to have people vote against their interests when given some enemy: religious or ethnic minorities, atheists, immigrants, a foreign power, etc...

In any case I completely agree with all your points. Just that the situation is even more dangerous when the society has no experience dealing with dictators.
by serbuvlad | 2025-08-28 17:02:19+00:00
I think the whole AI vs non. AI debate is a bit besides the point. Engineers are stuck in the old paradigm of "perfect" algorithms.

I think the image you post at the beginning basically sums it up for me: ChatGPT o3/5 Thinking can one-shot 75% of most reasonably sized tasks I give it without breaking a sweat, but struggles with tweaks to get it to 100%. So I make those tweaks myself and I have cut my code writing task in half or one third of the time.

ChatGPT also knows more idioms and useful libraries than I do so I generally end up with cleaner code this way.

Ferrari's are still hand assembled but Ford's assembly line and machines help save up human labor even if the quality of a mass-produced item is less than a hand-crafted one. But if everything was hand-crafted, we would have no computers at all to program.

Programming and writing will become niche and humans will still be used where a quality higher than what AI can produce is needed. But most code will be done by minotaur human-ai teams, where the human has a minimal but necessary contribution to keep the AI on track... I mean, it already is.
by porphyra | 2025-08-28 17:02:24+00:00
Once Deng Xiaoping did his reforms and opening up, it removed much of the impediments that Mao's CCP caused, and China was able to develop super fast. But recently I am a little concerned that Xi Jinping's rule is a bit of a return to some Mao-style authoritarian principles that are likely to hamper growth.

* Economic growth slowed down significantly under Xi Jinping compared to his predecessor Hu Jintao. Also, while Xi handled the start of the Covid pandemic well, he sort of fumbled the recovery afterwards with too heavy-handed quarantine/daily testing policies.

* China has demonstrated that it's super good at AI stuff, publishing lots of papers, having extremely talented engineers at Deepseek, etc, but after Deepseek stunned the world with the R1 model, subsequent models got heavily censored and languished in relative obscurity.

* China continues to have a brain drain of talented scientists and engineers to the US and other parts of the world. A large proportion of the top talent at Google, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, etc, are Chinese-American.

* From my anecdotal experience, many young people in China feel helpless and unmotivated due to the hyper-competitive environment and lack of opportunities. It is common to find healthy young adults who would rather "lie flat" than work. Together with an extremely aging population due to the one-child policy, this does not bode well for the future.

Anyway, I just wish China would just continue opening up, namely to get rid of the great firewall. In the age of information it is lame that information flow in and out of the country is so restricted. On one hand, as this article points out, the rest of the world is ignorant of the advances in China. On the other hand, the Chinese people are also ignorant of many things outside.
by lithocarpus | 2025-08-28 17:02:30+00:00
The Internet and other technology has already come for and destroyed much of what I'd call culture, particularly in the west but also all over the world.

Tech replaces almost every human-to-human dependency with a human-to-machine dependency, many voluntary human-to-human interactions with human-to-machine interactions and most of the remaining human-to-human interactions with human-through-machine-to-human interactions.

AI as an advancement in tech is accelerating this.

I fight for culture by making music and food with other people at every opportunity.
by vladms | 2025-08-28 17:02:43+00:00
Generally true, although population ratio seem a bit off (EU population is 75% of USA population and USA GDP is 1.5 of GDP EU).

But GDP is not the only thing that matters. I personally (as European) care also about how the average people lives and in that matter I prefer the European style if that implies some difference in GDP.

Also, worth mentioning EU has a lot of countries that grew a lot because there were so far behind (the ex-communist ones) which means it was playing "catch-up". There are advantages to not having lately a war on your territory (USA)...
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-28 17:02:56+00:00
Fracturing a population is a time honored way to maintain oppression.

For example, let’s say you want to prevent wealth redistribution, but there is lots of popular support for it. Then you give it to some, for example old people, and it removes wealth redistribution as a priority for them.

Now, you can more easily withhold the benefit from the remaining population. Or give them all various tiers, such as white collar and government workers with more employer subsidies, and lower paid workers with few or no subsidies.

At the end, the opposition group will waste a ton of energy trying to make their cause a priority, and will probably never achieve the full goal. The more politically important will get theirs, and the less politically important will suffer without. That stepping stone becomes a barrier.

In the example, you can change age to skin tone, gender, religious tribe, military status, and even arbitrary geographic boundary. See the recent tax benefits Alaskans received in exchange for their Senator’s vote.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-28 17:03:25+00:00
> The Americans impeached this president once and nothing happened,

Twice; there have been four impeachments of US Presidents, two of which were of Donald Trump during his previous term.

> Do Americans have optimism that Trump won't be their first dictator for life and will actually face consequences for his crimes?

I'm pretty confident that he WILL be a somewhat [0] dictatorial leader for life, but I think there are pretty good odds that this does not involve exceeding the maximum term limit set by the 22nd Amendment.

[0] somewhat only in that I don't think the total destruction of institutions that would make it an absolute dictatorship rather than an aspirational one that still struggles against things like courts that, while mostly tame, still give some effect to Constitutional rights and limits is likely to be completed before Trump is, though not for lack of trying.
by magicalhippo | 2025-08-28 17:03:52+00:00
> If you try to do any kind of agentic coding locally, where contexts are 7k+, local hardware completely falls over.

With my 5070 Ti + 2080 Ti I have Qwen 3 Coder 30B Q4_K_M running entirely on the GPUs with 16k context. Not great for larger code bases, but not nothing either.

Asking it to summarize llama-model-loader.cpp, which is about ~12k tokens, the TTFT is ~13 seconds and generation speed is about 55 tok/sec.

So yeah, for local stuff it's pick any two of large models, long contexts and decent speed.
by Humorist2290 | 2025-08-28 17:04:29+00:00
- Tor. Pros: Reasonably user friendly and easy to get online, strong anonymity, free. Cons: a common target for censorship, not very fast, exit nodes are basically universally distrusted by websites.

- Tailscale with Mullvad exit nodes. Pros: little setup but not more than installing and configuring a program, faster than Got, very versatile. Cons: deep packet inspection can probably identify your traffic is using Mullvad, costs some money.

- Your own VPSs with Wireguard/Tailscale. Pros: max control, you control how fast you want it, you can share with people you care about (and are willing to support). Cons: the admin effort isn't huge but requires some skill, cost is flexible but probably 20-30$ per month minimum in hosting.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-08-28 17:04:54+00:00
It just feels smooth, like if you were in a modern vim. In most other editors that attempt implementing a vim mode, something constantly breaks the illusion. There are some some little annoyances in zed, but they are mostly behavior differences you can get used to. And they are still working on it, so I really see it as a new imagination of vim with many useful features built-in, like TS-based motions, or the way AI edit predictions work doesn't break the vim editing flow.
by jedberg | 2025-08-28 17:05:03+00:00
The killer use case was roaming IPs, but I'd say the killer use case today is battling latency. A lot more people are computing remotely now, even on their phones. Even with 5Guw, I still get bursts of crappy latency. And now some people are using 5G as their home internet.

It definitely solves problems when traveling and dealing with crappy airport/hotel/AirBnB/conference wifi that is slow or overloaded.
by erikerikson | 2025-08-28 17:05:17+00:00
> Businesses are competitive entities, not machines for inclusion.

I think this is less true than you're stating. It has been a drum beat of the business schools though. The rich, influential, and socially active people I know are far more free and diverse than any of the working people I know. A sizable contingent of them believe society should be run to maximize everyone's ability to be productive. It's part of why there are many laws mandating so.
by logicchains | 2025-08-28 17:05:26+00:00
The article is misleading. What matters when comparing economic systems is relative standards of living _per person_, and America's GDP per capita of around $60k is 4x larger than China's GDP per capita of around $15k.

The reason China's total GDP is high is because the population is so high, over a billion people. That's something the Chinese government deserves zero credit for because without the one child policy the population would be even higher; the Chinese government actively tried to suppress population growth.

As another point of reference, Taiwan's GDP per capita is around $34k. I.e. if you look past the propaganda, in empirical terms the average Taiwanese person's material quality of life is twice as good as the average mainlander's.
by socksy | 2025-08-28 17:05:59+00:00
Plenty of Clojure projects are "done" (the only community I'm aware of that actually believes in this) that presumably specified the vulnerable log4j versions. In reality, it's not an issue, because you can deal with it in your own deps.edn/project.clj/maven.xml, by excluding the dependency, or overriding it with a newer one.
by RandomBacon | 2025-08-28 17:06:24+00:00
Where I live, they build a four-lane highway, then immediately after completing it, they start renovations on the same highway to expand it into a six-lane highway.

While the U.S. has Eminent Domain, although China's version seems to be more impactful (displacing 1.3 million people for the Three Gorges Dam).
by lenkite | 2025-08-28 17:06:34+00:00
China's national unemployment rate was reported at 5.0% in June 2025 and 5.1% in July 2025.

Unemployment rate for youth (16- to 24-year-olds) in China ticked up to 17.8% in July . The US youth unemployment rate in the U.S. was 10.8 percent in July 2025.

So a difference of 7%.
Ask HN: Windows 11 Update Fail – Linux Distro Suggestions?
by giardini | 2025-08-28 17:07:15+00:00
Friend bought a Windows 11 refurbished at GoodWill and after a year of working OK a Windows 11 updates bricked the PC.

1. Could you suggest Linux distros easy for a Windows users to move to?

2. Is there a Linux distro that would allow me to regain access to the Windows 11 files/filesystem in-place?
by superkuh | 2025-08-28 17:07:42+00:00
Nah, not cloudflare. Just their upstream network provider (or so they say in support emails) and Dreamwidth's well established and long running practice of not caring that huge ranges of IPv4 are blocked from viewing any sites hosted on them. They do control the blocks but they have their tech support lie about it; as evidenced by this fine grain and specific blocking they're doing now re: Mississippi.