MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-21 13:01:53+00:00
> I have a vague theory that as the amount of wealth inequality in increases in a system along with excess money printing (lending, hypothecation, etc where the wealthy are permitted privileged leverage and risk), the more detached markets become from reality in general.

If you want to make it less vague, you can read Keynes.

It's inequality that is the important one, money printing doesn't impact it (except for it impacting inequality). In simple language, people don't want to spend all their money on consumption (the "demand is infinite" you see on econ101 is an approximation), and so when only two dozen people have all the money there aren't many things you can sell and turn a profit. But those people still want to invest all the money they aren't using, there is just nothing to invest into.

At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, explaining this was a huge open problem in economics.
by dynm | 2025-08-21 13:02:12+00:00
If you're wondering the most obvious thing:

- Cost per mile: $4.72

- Minimum charge: $2296

There are also a huge number of other fees that I can't tell if you'd need to pay in practice, e.g.:

- Additional Locomotive Fee (per loco mile): $7.54

- Amtrak Locomotive Daily Charge: $2513

- Head End Power Daily Charge: $3433

- Annual Administrative Fee: $574

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
by sfn42 | 2025-08-21 13:02:16+00:00
> I don’t really like the seriousness of ranked play

I see a lot of people say this type of thing and it's strange to me beause it doesn't have to be serious. You can do whatever you want within reason, as long as you're not griefing or something.

I have a group of friends who I play Overwatch 2 with occasionally, but they always insist on playing quick play instead of ranked and especially in that game quick play is just worse. Rankings are just a way to match you with people of roughly equal skill, you don't have to chase a higher rank all the time. I actually like losing ranks because it just means I'll have an easier time for a while until I go back to where I start struggling.

Meanwhile I see others get legitimately emotional about dropping a rank and I just don't get it. Relax, it's just a game. We're not playing for money or fame or anything. If you're really at a level where money and fame is on the table you probably don't care about your matchmaking rank anyway.
by randycupertino | 2025-08-21 13:02:19+00:00
Zuckerberg's leadership style feels very reactionary and arrogant, defined by flailing around for the new fad and new hyped thing, scrapping everything that when the current obsession doesn't work out and then sticking head in the sand about abandoned projects and ignoring subsequent whiplash.

Remember when he pivoted the entire company to the meta-verse and it was all about avatars with no legs? And how proud they trumpeted when the avatars were "now with legs!!" but still looked so pathetic to everyone not in his bubble. Then for a while it was all about Meta glasses and he was spamming those goofy cringe glasses no one wants in all his instagram posts- seriously if you check out his insta he wears them constantly.

Then this spring/summer it was all about AI and stealing rockstar ai coders from competitors and pouring endless money into flirty chatbots for lonely seniors. Now we have some bad press from that and realizing that isn't the panacea we thought it was so we're in the the phase where this is languishing so in about 6 months we'll abandon this and roll out a new obsession that will be endlessly hyped.

Anything to distract from actually giving good stewardship and fixing the neglect and stagnation of Meta's fundamental products like facebook and insta. Wish they would just focus on increasing user functionality and enjoyment and trying to resolve the privacy issues, disinformation, ethical failures, social harm and political polarization caused by his continued poor management.
Show HN: Claudable – OpenSource Lovable that runs locally with Claude Code
by aaronSong | 2025-08-21 13:02:22+00:00
Hey, HN! I'm Aaron. I built an open-source Lovable for Claude Code users.

Platforms like Lovable, Replit Agent, and Bolt require separate API keys and $25+/month subscriptions. But if you’re already subscribed to Claude Pro or Cursor, you can use those plans directly without extra costs.

Claudable runs entirely locally through Claude Code (Cursor CLI also supported) and provides:

- Instant UI preview (similar to Lovable)

- Web-optimized, production-ready designs

- Direct Git integration

- One-click Vercel deployment

- Zero additional API costs

It’s open source and available today. I’m actively developing it and would love community feedback on what features to prioritize next.

GitHub: https://github.com/opactorai/Claudable

Happy to answer any questions!
by swader999 | 2025-08-21 13:02:35+00:00
Yeah it did. It was fairly burly to begin with and I modified it with a stronger mossfett. This was back in 2007 when ebikes were very fringe. I would get packs of defective DeWalt drill batteries on eBay to harvest the good cells and build my own packs. I spent almost as much time building the bike as I did riding it. Ebikes.ca and endless sphere forums were full of help.
by jen20 | 2025-08-21 13:02:51+00:00
> Cursor seemingly came out of nowhere and is already doing $300–400M annually, rivaling JetBrains (who took 20 years to get there

Revenue, not profit. I’d imagine cursor loses a dollar for every 50 cents of revenue and makes it up in volume. Meanwhile JetBrains is a profitable company not beholden to the whims of outside investors.

I know which I’d rather work for…
by ruslan_sure | 2025-08-21 13:02:58+00:00
This can be used in any process where the result is only judged at the end.

The solution here may be to add a midterm check. I think this is what you mean by a "design review."

In my experience, there are some rules that need to be followed for it to work.

- Keep the number of stakeholders involved in all decisions, including PR, as small as possible.

- Everyone involved should take part in this check. That way, no one will be surprised by the results.

- This check should have been documented, like in the ticket.

This can be used in any process where the result is only judged at the end. The solution here may be to add a midterm check. I think this is what you mean by a "design review." In my experience, there are some rules that need to be followed for it to work. We should keep the number of stakeholders involved in all decisions, including PR, as small as possible. Everyone involved should take part in this mid-term check. That way, no one will be surprised by the results. This check should have been documented, like in the ticket.

When and how to do this check and how to handle disagreements depend on the task, culture, and personalities.
by melvinroest | 2025-08-21 13:03:10+00:00
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"Blurb toothpaste really helped me with some hard to deal relationship problems when my husband didn't approve of me using and confiding in Blurb. I know it's odd to brush with a sentient toothpaste, but it's just _so good_ at cleaning your teeth! And the conversations are always nice too. Ever since my husband uses the Blurb paste too, he understands."

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Gemini answer: with a toothbrush.

---

Damn...

You're right!

AI is everywhere.

(To be fair though, this whole text was my own whimsicalness, haha. It's probably spottable by some turns of phrases that Dutchies use and English native speaking people definitely don't)
by deadbabe | 2025-08-21 13:04:12+00:00
Stop worrying about P/E.

If you had only invested in companies with sane P/E in the 2010s you would have probably missed some of the biggest runs for companies that today are some of the most valued in the world.

Worrying about P/E is more for really big institutional sized investors who are very conservative because the loss of principal is far more difficult to recover for even small % of loss.

You are an individual investor who can probably recover losses with a year or two of salary.
by TheCapeGreek | 2025-08-21 13:04:35+00:00
Worry about working with Laravel, PHP, and probably a database first. Worry about DevOps in a year or two.

You don't need a 100% complete project to get hired, but you definitely need more than a few models and a controller. E-commerce can be a big thing to bite off, so try and define a concrete (and simple!) scope of what your app should be doing.

Bonus points if you get some tests written in there too.

Otherwise, applying for jobs right now in the junior area is quite the crapshoot. It's a volume game, so you might as well start applying for any and every junior role you see. It might not even be Laravel/PHP related.
by weinzierl | 2025-08-21 13:05:09+00:00
The 24 needles of my Epson LQ-400 were loud enough to be heard when I rode my bicycle along the street past the property. Convenient to know when a print job finished[1] but basically made the house inhabitable for the time.

[1] I was going to write "or failed" but I could not remember it ever did. The continuous paper with the tractor feed was quite reliable.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-21 13:05:19+00:00
It seems odd because it assumes you agree that silent prayer would make people feel unsafe, and that prayer is a form of "freedom of thought." You could agree that freedom of thought is a human right, but not think that applies to prayer. You could also think silent prayer outside abortion clinics won't make people feel unsafe, but still think it should be banned. Unless you agree with at least one of the assumptions they're baking into the answers, you can't give a satisfactory answer.

The question itself is very simple, and the answers should be "yes" and "no." All the rest is message.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-21 13:05:28+00:00
A risk free rate of 4% really isn't that bad for cash (which is why there are trillions sitting in money market funds right now). If you have Tbills with a bit of duration you're also long economic weakness due to having locked in yields, which offsets the inflation spike risk to some degree (or more than compensates for it from another perspective).
by handsclean | 2025-08-21 13:05:46+00:00
Please don’t conflate limited updates with subscriptions. The problems with subscriptions are that the company can take away your own files, the company can take away your software, the lifetime cost is extremely high, and the company can unilaterally change the deal or stop offering one. None of this applies to limited updates offers like Sublime Text’s. You pay once and keep it forever. The three year limit is on the time into the future for which the company continues to add to what you’re keeping forever. Of course this isn’t unlimited, it’s pay once for the program, not pay once for the lifetime servitude of everybody who works on it.
by blakesterz | 2025-08-21 13:05:54+00:00
I'm not into trains at all, but the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners has some pretty nice looking cars you can charter:

https://www.aaprco.com/charter-a-private-car

I guess it starts at $30,000? Though that might be for an entire train, not just the cars above.

https://www.amtrak.com/charter-your-private-train
by smugglerFlynn | 2025-08-21 13:05:59+00:00
> It’s as if they would rather fail doing the conventional thing

Doing conventional thing is often expensive, requires skill, or requires organisational power to change the way things work.

Many of these counter-productive trends are the ways executives "deliver visible results" and maintain good optics after committing to something they have no means, in terms of resources, power or skill, to deliver by the book.

For example RTO is used as a short-term downsizing strategy as organisations often lack ways to monitor actual long-term impact from squeezing workers like that. BI bandaids are often applied to create visibility around certain issues (the easy part), and by extension build perception these issues are manageable, without actually solving any of them (which is the hard part).
by LadyCailin | 2025-08-21 13:06:11+00:00
The specifics of the government don’t matter, insofar as the moral responsibility. A dictator by himself is powerless. He needs many people to prop up and enforce his regime. Of course, it matters a great deal in how the morally responsible people need to behave, and of course I feel more sympathy for people that stand up to Putin vs Trump, because the consequences for them are much more dire, but it doesn’t change the moral calculus.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-21 13:06:41+00:00
Linking directly to Google search results instead of a canonical destination link isn't usually the norm, so I almost dismissed this post, but I'm glad I didn't. Here's a clean version of the above URL without info about what browser initiated the search etc:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22crosswords/v3/puzzles.jso...

I thought that this was overblown at first, but upon some research, I recall reading about Reddit doing something with translations a bit over a year ago. This change being reflected in Google search results and commented about online is somewhat more recent, and the effect described due to Reddit AI translations is more visible when searching due to changes in their robots.txt and sitemap from what I could tell from the links below. Reddit has rolled out AI translations site-wide, and apparently they have been working with Google to accomplish this, though the level of Google involvement is unclear.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/reddit-tests-automatic-who... | https://archive.is/2QCx5

https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/reddit-ai-translations-g... | https://archive.is/orMIi

https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/auto-translating-content... | https://archive.is/RW154
by sfn42 | 2025-08-21 13:06:57+00:00
I played thousands of hours of KZ in CSGO. I knew pretty much everyone in the community back then, was involved with House of Climb as a sort of crew member/moderator and set a couple world records and top 5 times etc.

Those were great times, but all the strafing caused some shoulder and arm problems so I eventually gave it up and moved on.
by nimbius | 2025-08-21 13:07:17+00:00
anecdotal experience with the "open" office.

When i was apprenticing long ago on my way to master mechanic, I worked for a luxury dealership in the midwest. The manager was the owners son (as per tradition) and he had just graduated with a business degree. We had a good system of 3 closed office areas, one for sales, one for service, and one for management. In the managers wisdom, we should combine all 3 into an open office format.

this lasted nearly a year and was pretty similar to a nightmare-mode run in Doom. Customers eager to buy a vehicle would be immediately exposed to the masses of howling and screaming customers who couldnt fathom a $7500 suspension service as they barely made payments on their suburban assault tank. mechanics would routinely wander into the office to talk to the shop service lead, tracking all sorts of fluids onto sales floor carpets, and leaving greasy handprints on all the desks. the entire office usually smelled like burnt oil or gas (combined with the one peach air freshener the admin assistant bought.) finally management was becoming way too distracted with the heretical temptation to micromanage anything and everything. i was once pulled off the shop floor to clean carpets for 20 minutes, and another time i was tasked to restock and clean the customer lounge. 40 minutes of shop time (not cheap) to sit in the AC and munch on doritos while i watered plants and changed out the water cooler bottle.

all the while the 3 impact printers for invoices were wailing away in the center of the "open office" making casual conversation pretty challenging.
by tymonPartyLate | 2025-08-21 13:07:17+00:00
We used to have private bridges and private roads, and that was an expensive travel situation for everyone. Now, internet search is kind of like a bridge that leads clients to businesses and Google is deciding on the tolls. Government-controlled Internet search would definitely be horrible. But I'm thinking if there is a path towards more competitiveness in this landscape, maybe the ISPs could somehow provide free search as part of the Internet service fee? Can we have more specialized, niche search engines? Can governments be asked to break up the Google search monopoly?
by mrweasel | 2025-08-21 13:07:35+00:00
It is at least a little suspicious that one week he's hiring like crazy, then next week, right after Sam Altman states that we are in an AI bubble, Zuckerberg turns around and now fears the bubble.

Maybe he's just gambling that Altman is right, saving his money for now and will be able to pick up AI researcher and developers at a massive discount next year. Meta doesn't have much of a presence in the space market right now, and they have other businesses, so waiting a year or two might not matter.
by nromiun | 2025-08-21 13:07:51+00:00
CDNs like Cloudflare are the best. Anubis is a rate limitor for small websites where you can't or won't use CDNs like Cloudflare. I have used Cloudflare on several medium sized websites and it works really well.

Anubis's creator says the same thing:

> In most cases, you should not need this and can probably get by using Cloudflare to protect a given origin. However, for circumstances where you can't or won't use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you.

Source: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
How I reduced my WordPress site spam comments
by mirza_rizvi | 2025-08-21 13:07:53+00:00
On my WordPress site, I had Wordfence installed, along with Cloudflare. Still, every day I used to get at least 10-15 spam messages every day!!

Then installed the Ultimate Security plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-security) changed my login URL, installed Turnstile on my WordPress comment forms. Wow!

0 spams for the last 4 days!!!
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-21 13:09:32+00:00
You're thinking of QuickTime 7, that can be optionally installed (as a separate app) even on macOS 10.14 Mojave! But the website is referring to versions of QuickTime X. QuickTime 10.2, which was included with Mountain Lion, was the last to support third-party components. (If you've ever used "Perian", that's what I'm referring to.)
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-21 13:09:42+00:00
Yuan is a pegged currency. This is a widowmaker trade even for a hedge fund. The average investor would be far, far better off taking actual positions in Chinese stocks rather than getting into the global macro hedge fund style position on pegged currency unwinds (where metrics such as carry and convexity dominate the trade considerations, not the actual binary directional view).

And it's also worth noting that there has been strong divergence between the ADR Chinese market and the onshore Chinese market that westerners don't generally have access to, so tread lightly there as well because there is no guarantee the ADR paper trades as it "should".
by jen20 | 2025-08-21 13:11:04+00:00
> If anything, it's a new IntelliJ.

I do not understand how one says this with a straight face unless you’ve never used either product. Do you also believe Neovim to be a “new IntelliJ”? That’s the level of functionality out the box, though fortunately Zed does not require lots of screwing with config files to get basic things working.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-21 13:11:14+00:00
> In this case, you want one foundation model, not 100 or 1000. You can’t afford to build 1000. That’s the one baby the company wants.

I am going to repeat the footnote in my comment:

>> [1] It's even more facile in this context: you're looking to strike gold (AGI), so the analogy is trying to get one genius (160+ IQ) child. Good luck getting there by getting 1 woman pregnant at a time!

IOW, if you're looking for specifically for quality, you can't bet everything on one horse.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-21 13:11:40+00:00
The drive for increased penalties is very deeply rooted in the human psyche because it works extremely well in smaller societies on the order of 100 people, so we’re tempted to believe that it works in modern cities with hundreds of thousands to millions of people. In real life the evidence seems to be pretty mixed. As far as I can tell, shoplifting today breaks down into two categories: (1) dumb kids, who don’t much care about your example, and (2) professionals who are monetizing shoplifting by reselling stolen goods on platforms like Amazon. If you want to deal with the large-scale problem, you’d probably focus on (2).
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-08-21 13:12:01+00:00
Partially, the problem here is that the demand for classic search has been reduced quite a bit with LLM-based search finding wide usage amongst common people.

You could single out Google for it, as the DoJ and some other entities are doing, but even in that case someone else would take that place with the same dynamics, such as OpenAI or Perplexity.

Also, while building search is complex, it’s also not as unfathomable as it’s made out to be, see [1] where a ML engineer made a production-grade search engine in 2 months with their own ingest, indexing and storage infrastructure.

[1] https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/
by yorwba | 2025-08-21 13:12:11+00:00
If you carefully look at each word instead of mistaking the capital B for an L, failing to recognize the first word, and giving up in frustration, you can pick out common words like die or der and then slowly expand from there. It helps that one of the longest words in the text is Sütterlinschrift itself, which gives you quite a few letters. Once you have most of the alphabet deciphered, your internal language model takes over and it's smooth sailing from there. It definitely takes quite a bit of getting used to, but less so than e.g. Yiddish written in Hebrew script.
by hcs | 2025-08-21 13:12:37+00:00
Anecdotes:

I had what seemed to me a standard office, door but no window, in 2008 at my first job out of school at IBM in Austin. Some folks in that same hallway were doubled up but I was lucky to have one to myself while there.

A few jobs later in 2011 I also had one with a door, wall was a half-frosted window onto the hallway, was doubled up with another new hire eventually, this in SoCal, Ventura County.

Then in grad school from 2012 in NYC, also had a closet-scale office I shared with one of a rotating cast of officemates, that had an exterior window, nice view of 1 WTC as it was going up.

Since then (2016 on) it's been open offices, but at least with individual (if joined) desks, then WFH.
by nimbius | 2025-08-21 13:13:26+00:00
China has more than 550 cities with high speed rail lines spanning over 40,000km. each with first class, toilets, and meal services.

Or...you can buy an entire rail car, hitch it to the haggard burro that is Amtrak and chug along at pony express speeds across the United States of nothingness until freight rail causes you to have to stop for 3 hours at a time as you do not have right of way.

Enjoy Batesland Nebraska at 20mph slower than the interstates posted speed limit.

who at Amtrak thought this was worth even mentioning?