MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fleebee | 2025-08-03 20:54:46+00:00
Nice post! There's a lot of stuff here that I had no idea was in built-in already.

I tried making a standalone executable with the command provided, but it produced a .blob which I believe still requires the Node runtime to run. I was able to make a true executable with postject per the Node docs[1], but a simple Hello World resulted in a 110 MB binary. This is probably a drawback worth mentioning.

Also, seeing those arbitrary timeout limits I can't help but think of the guy in Antarctica who had major headaches about hardcoded timeouts.[2]

[1]: https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html

[2]: https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet
by kiitos | 2025-08-03 20:55:00+00:00
it's pretty interesting to see this discrepancy in response to this idea

some folks -- i guess like you? -- read this and think, "oh, great. a mandate that fixes a problem i don't have, and now might be something i'm forced to participate in against my will"

and other folks -- definitely me, and i believe the OP as well -- read this and think, "oh, great! an idea that might help me with a problem that i have, and might be something i can point-to as one possible solution to that problem"
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-08-03 20:55:05+00:00
I have been looking for the term to describe this kind of enterprise software. It has glossy dashboards that are sold to VPs with the flash, "Monitor the entire company from one screen!" The actual rank and file users hate the product because little attention is ever given to the day-to-day workflows. Things barely work, super convoluted, etc.

An accountant friend was just migrated to Workday(?) for their backend. Apparently whatever labyrinth configuration they have can only export 12,000 rows at a time. The official workaround they were given was to run reports in one week batches when a month of data is required. Previous solution could seemingly export unlimited amounts of data and time windows. A complete technical failure for which everyone should be ashamed.
by tonymet | 2025-08-03 20:55:34+00:00
I've done a few ipv6 migrations. The IPv6 fan community (e.g on reddit and other forums ) needs to accept a dual-stack world and the doubling of complexity required to operate that way. All effort should be about education and support for dual stack. That will be the only successful path to ipv6 adoption.

Sure ipv6 has some better features, but dual-stack means you are doubling all of your config (ACLs, naming, firewalls, routing) test cases and vulnerability surface. Moreover, ipv6 is not as intuitive.

Shaming people into ipv6 will never work. More effort should be invested into best practices, patterns, migration guides, support communities & more to assist in operating in a dual-stack environment for the foreseeable future.

Pure ipv6 will never happen because the weak link breaks the chain. How many people set up an ipv6 VPC with great excitement, and late in the project they deploy from github with "NS lookup failed".
by TacticalCoder | 2025-08-03 20:56:06+00:00
I don't understand why anyone would believe that. The euro does exist since only a quarter of a century and is already in very serious dire straits. It's the worse ever conceived currency (conceived by clueless bureaucrats): it makes no sense at all to have a common currency for countries with different fiscal policies. Nearly all the countries that have the euro are more indebted than the US (GDP wise). One country with the euro already partially defaulted on its public debt (Greece).
by 827a | 2025-08-03 20:56:09+00:00
People read FUD articles like this then start ignoring any common sense, including even their own senses, because apparently the world must be ending and we're all going to die. There's no pain. What pain is anyone (except a couple dictators under sanctions) feeling?

Almost every major currency has lost value relative to the US Dollar over the past 10 years. Not just, like, a little bit. Like, a lot a bit. The Indian Rupee has lost 53% since 2007. Yen, down. Pound, down. Canada, down. That's reality. There is no "switching to avoid devaluation of the USD" when the USD has devalued so much less than almost any other currency on the planet.

One major country that has managed to maintain the value of their currency relative to the USD is China. Who has by some estimates a ~300%+ debt to GDP load (if you think that number is too high, its because whatever estimates you've read before didn't take into account municipal debt, because that's where China hides it). And a 72 year old leader with zero politically-feasible line of succession. And a critically shrinking population. And literally zero global military force projection. Any faith that any country puts into China is going to be destroyed just a few short years after Xi's death; the main thing China has going for it isn't their manufacturing base, AI strategy, or whatever; its that Xi hopefully won't die in the next decade.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-03 20:56:14+00:00
Seconding OP with my own experiences:

The best companies I’ve worked for freely encouraged workers to leverage chat or forums for non-work stuff. Rooms for AV enthusiasts, for sharing music, for discussing photography, corporate gripes, new ideas, personal projects, meeting colleagues on holiday, you name it.

You can absolutely have the spontaneity of physical collaboration through solely online and remote means. The internet itself is proof positive of this, companies just need to encourage that behavior more (and only minimally police it to avoid HR incidents or lawsuits).
by morpheos137 | 2025-08-03 20:56:59+00:00
No offense but this is a sophomoric take. I'd be willing to bet that more native English words have irregular spelling than norman/Latin/other imports. The same thing happened in French too. Often orthographic changes lags pronouciation changes. The reason many English words have irregular spellig is because English has been a written language for a long time. That is why you have words like Knight, Knee, Enough, Eight, Cough, etc which are all native words. My understanding is the k in kn words used to be prounouced.
by Jaygles | 2025-08-03 20:57:00+00:00
I went from a 2016 intel MacBook Pro to an m1 and although the differences on paper looked like many other spec bumps, the actual experience felt like a paradigm shift.

It’s the first time I owned a laptop that lacked compromises. It was consistently snappy and fast at every task from a full to empty battery. And it did so without burning my lap or producing an incredibly annoying fan noise.
by ofalkaed | 2025-08-03 20:57:02+00:00
I suspect there will be at least two big ones on about the same level but I don't think this will be particularly near future, at least not near future in context of the global economy which is fairly young. It is the logical path for China with their role in the global economy and how much western business relies on them, but this will take decades, they have a lot of work ahead of them.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-08-03 20:57:11+00:00
Similarly, even research papers are not downloaded that many times. Most are produced to be potentially read by the few hundred, at most few thousand people in specific subfield. In the end, depending on the quality of the paper, probably only zero to few hundred people end up reading a particular paper.

I see no problem with this. When I write an email, typically I expect exactly one person to read it.
by cduzz | 2025-08-03 20:57:26+00:00
Right -- this is why I use the analogy of TSMC -- chip fabs are also extremely expensive, for similar reasons.

What are the relative costs of the making die set, the press, and setting up and doing a run of stampings, and the facility and employees to actually house the whole kit?

As of right now, if you need to make a car and you don't have a NUMI or similar retired automotive plant sitting around, it's going to be expensive.

What about the hydroforming process?

I guess smaller car makers from the 60s that did make low volume sheet metal cars didn't need to pass crash tests.

Probably The Telo people should just team up with ineos....
by nostromo | 2025-08-03 20:57:30+00:00
Europe has repeatedly tried to soak the rich, and the results are always the same: the rich move their wealth somewhere else and you end up breaking even or even reducing your tax revenue.

France: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/france-drops-7...

UK: https://obr.uk/box/effect-of-the-additional-rate-of-income-t...

Sweden: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/course/seimAEJ17wealth.pdf

It's interesting to note that even when these tax schemes were repealed, the damage had already been done and the wealth did not return.

Here's a real plan for America:

Step 1: have a tax rate that's a little less than our peers

Step 2: return spending to pre-Covid rates circa 2019
by kccqzy | 2025-08-03 20:57:32+00:00
A few more: you have trains where the shape of the bullet (circle or diamond like (7) or <7>) differs and has different stopping patterns. The train stops change between daytime and late nights, as well as weekends and weekdays. In case of signal malfunctions trains can be dispatched to go anywhere just to clear congestion, like F not entering Manhattan or A going to queens (both actual examples in the recent incident at W 4 St).
by efilife | 2025-08-03 20:58:00+00:00
> Toxicity is rampant.

> You may not speak your mind, including HN, you get censored and/or otherwise canceled.

This sounds contradicting to me. By the way, the internet was always toxic, way more than now. From my experience the toxicity is very toned down due to the censorship you mentioned. Now it's mostly snark.

> Pirate sites, the few are full of racists and other assholes.

So should we censor them or not? Choose what you are complaining about
by etempleton | 2025-08-03 20:58:43+00:00
If the PRC were to do it, I would imagine you would try to do it under the Trump administration as he is anti-interventionist and sees the world as a series of regional fiefdoms led by the strongest regional player--Asia, to him, is China's region. This is in sharp contrast to every prior US administration and with the Biden administration in particular coming out with the strongest rhetoric regarding any potential invasion.
by topato | 2025-08-03 20:58:52+00:00
I've fotgotten: Did Napster eventually open up to sharing videos and software after MP3s? I can't remember if I'm just conflating it with memories of Kazaa (I was only 10 or 11 years old at the time, my memory is fuzzy lol). I know I got addicted to pirating and filesharing after being introduced to Hotline at an even younger age.

I couldn't buy rated M games or R rated movies, but I could certainly download them... which led me to my first graphics card and RAM upgrade, installing a TV tuner card, and eventually to PC building. Doing all this while in grade school was the best tech education I could get, especially back in the 90s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications
by slibhb | 2025-08-03 20:58:54+00:00
You're making the same mistake as the researchers who invented "three cueing". They asked themselves "what do I do when I read?" and tried to reverse-engineer a teaching method. Well, turns out that approach doesn't work very well. Part of this may be that "how you think you read" isn't actually how you read. There's plenty of experimental evidence that adept adult readers do use letters as cues rather than "holistically recognizing the word". You could be an outlier but I doubt it.

Anyway, empirically, it's quite clear that phonics works and the "whole language" approach (which "three cueing" is an example of) doesn't. One of the main reasons teachers in the US continue to avoid phonics is that they don't like teaching it.
by LouisSayers | 2025-08-03 20:59:17+00:00
yeah, total buzzkill.

I get the need to call a peg a peg, but it's also good to allow a little fun as well or you end up with these dementors sucking the life out of a company.

For a slack group, I think it's relatively harmless if the focus is around casual shoot the shit convos.
Show HN: Daily logic puzzles based on Blue Prince Parlor room
by teemaw | 2025-08-03 20:59:18+00:00
Hey all, I posted this as link yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44769532) but in retrospective I should've used Show HN and written some context. Hope it's ok for me to post this one last time. Anyway, this is a daily puzzle "game" I've been working on: https://parlorbox.com/

I've been a big fan of the puzzle video game Blue Prince and its box logic puzzle. I wanted to do these outside of the game so I made a website that generates daily solvable puzzles based on the format.

Each round, there are three boxes with some number of statements written on each. There is at least one box which only tells the truth, and at least one box which only lies. From there, you want to figure out which box has the gems inside and to open that box.

Let me know what you think!
by cycomanic | 2025-08-03 20:59:21+00:00
> So they claim the majority of the water is ground water and also that it is due to climate change. But I thought I've seen other studies talking about how ground water is being depleted at a higher rate than it could be replaced, even using historical averages. This sounds more like a population/industrialization issue than a climate issue.

I'm not sure I understand where you see a contradiction. Land areas are using groundwater faster than it can be replenished, so land is getting drier. That's according to the article (just basing of the summary not the scientific one) is driven by both overuse and drier and warmer weather. The thing is, that's a feedback loop, if it gets drier we'll be using more groundwater for irrigation. So both processes are driven by climate change.
by farkin88 | 2025-08-03 21:00:16+00:00
Totally get that! I think it depends on your context. For Lambda where every KB and millisecond counts, native fetch wins, but for a full app where you need robust HTTP handling, the axios plugin ecosystem was honestly pretty nice. The fragmentation with fetch libraries is real. You end up evaluating 5 different retry packages instead of just grabbing axios-retry.
by birksherty | 2025-08-03 21:00:26+00:00
Wow, Americans will support anything for a company. The mental gymnastics is absurd for love of the corporates.

Palantir is doing in reality, not someone else. So come to reality and say who is evil in reality not in some hypothetical world.

If another company does it in future then say that company is evil when that actually happens.

It's very simple. But immoral people will think too hard to make things complex to support a immoral company.
by mulmen | 2025-08-03 21:01:02+00:00
How do you know I'm not a doctor?

HTML forms are a metaphor for literal paper forms. They don't have to be complex. One of the forms in the EHR system I am familiar with uses a stick figure layout. So if you are making notes on the left leg you just type it in next to the left leg. I don't see how this is difficult.

Meanwhile I can't figure out how to get my iPhone to show me what photos I took in the park by my house and every setting change involves consulting a web search or LLM.
by jpereira | 2025-08-03 21:01:45+00:00
Super early days, but we've been building a substack alternative on top of atproto, you can check out some publications people have made at leaflet.pub/discover.

I think atproto offers a pretty compelling way to get the benefits of substack, like discovery, native social features like comments, quotes etc, integration into a microblogging network; without locking into a closed network.

The extensibility story is also really good, opening interesting opportunities for individual publishers to augment their experiences.

Moderation, which is the main point of this article, is a bit of an open question, but diffusing responsibility the way bluesky does is a more promising direction imo than hoping a single trust and safety department can make everyone happy.
by pavlov | 2025-08-03 21:01:54+00:00
EU government debt to GDP ratio is 81.8% with a deficit of 2.9%.

US current debt to GDP is 124%, and Trump’s big beautiful bill is projected to increase the deficit to 7% next year.

America has long benefited from a more dynamic and attractive labor market than Europe, but the current administration is actively trying destroy that advantage by driving out the immigrants that were fueling it.
by daymanstep | 2025-08-03 21:02:05+00:00
Oh wow, yeah I see your point, that is indeed extremely misleading.

I had always thought that enterprise SSDs used higher quality flash than consumer SSDs because of the higher endurance guarantees - that was why I bought them. Now I feel like a big reason to buy enterprise SSD has been removed.

I am flabbergasted, to be honest. And I feel a bit cheated that I am paying much more for the same quality flash.

So would it be fair to say that the only reason to pay for the enterprise SSD premium is the power loss protection and more reliable firmware?
by bredren | 2025-08-03 21:02:07+00:00
I have experimented with instructing CC to doubt itself greatly and presume it is not validating anything properly.

It caused it to throw out good ideas for validation and working code.

I want to believe there is some sweet spot.

The constant “Aha!” type responses followed by self validating prose that the answer is at hand or within reach can be intoxicating and can not be trusted.

The product is also seemingly in constant flux of tuning, where some sessions result in great progress, others the AI seems as if it is deliberately trying to steer you into traffic.

Anthropic is alluded toward this being the result of load. They mentioned in their memo about new limits for Max users that abuse of the subscription levels resulted in ~subpar product experiences. It’s possible they meant response times and the overloaded 500 responses or lower than normal TPS, but there are many anecdotal accounts of CC suddenly having a bad day from “longtime” users, including myself.

I don’t understand how load would impact the actual model’s performance.

It seems like only load based impacts on individual session context would result in degraded outputs. But I know nothing of serving LLM at scale.

Can anyone explain how high load might result in an unchanged product performing objectively worse?
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-03 21:02:29+00:00
I've seen this written in centuries-old stone for all to see, so somebody must have wanted "everyone" to understand forever:

FRVGALITY is the Mother of all VIRTVES

Then there's some more things like that from previous centuries too, which can really stand the test of time, plus from a scientific point of view.

These may not be as many facts as they are "philosophies", but here the FACT is, these are some of the very most proven approaches that ACTUALLY DID make America great to begin with. Not many things come close.

Temperance

Silence

Order

Resolution

Frugality

Industry

Sincerity

Justice

Moderation

Cleanliness

Tranquillity

Chastity

Humility

https://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page38.htm

>By design, Mr. Franklin originally laid out the list of virtues in the order that we have them today.

“My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time, and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another… and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others.”

Anything less or in contradiction can do nothing other than stifle or reverse any greatness that remains.

No American president has ever been expected to be more advanced than the nation's top scientist was when it comes to building a great nation. And when you take a good look at what kind of shoes that takes to fill, the top advisors to the President better be able to demonstrate at least some accomplishment that would compare to 18th century progress.

If you're in a position of authority in government, or aspiring to that, and you can't bring yourself to build on the framework that people like Franklin laid down for you, you're just wasting space that would be better occupied by someone who is not so far out-of-the-league.
by Luker88 | 2025-08-03 21:03:12+00:00
I am reading the book from Ray Dalio, "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order".

This article seems a little reductive in its analysis, but this is actually a huge topic.

I have not finished the book yet, I don't claim to understand all its implications, but I really like it because it analyzes many empires over the centuries, and tries to track multiple determinants for all of them (also a lot of pretty graphs).

Very, very recommended book if you are interested in this topic.

Dalio analysis agrees that today China power is rising and the USA is weakening (duh). It is a slow progress, and the financial aspect is merely the last determinant to show this. Dalio however does not talk much about the future, aside from the obvious initial decline of the USA.

Many point to China as the next big empire, however it might not become it as China does not seem to be too interested in becoming the world money reserve (Dalio uses this as a necessary definition for an "empire"). Also while China has imported many ideas and culture from our world, the language and culture gap remains huge even today, and that inevitably limits influence and power.

These couple of things might allow for a longer time before the big change of power, and even let the west come up again.

What I love about the book is how clear the situation is even without pointing to specific, detailed situations, political or financial decisions.

The decline did not start yesterday, or just 4 or 5 years ago either. Education, competitiveness, inequality, even military paint a clear trajectory. It takes time. Dalio tentatively gives an average of 250 years between rise and fall of an empire, and we seem to have passed the peak decade or two ago.

I'm European, and it's also very clear how Europe will definitely not be the next power, either. Too fragmented, no cohesion, etc.

You can find a few graphs of the book on the web, it should give you a clear idea of the kind of analysis.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-08-03 21:03:12+00:00
The action on Iran proves otherwise, especially since his entire anti-interventionist wing was squealing that World War III would start if he did bomb the nuclear sites.

Those around the president have been pretty clear that the US will defend Taiwan until the US is capable of its own supply of leading edge semi conductors. Taiwan is very easy to defend with the harsh ocean separating them, especially since North Korea gives the US an excuse to plant massive amounts of long range missiles in SK.

There are no surprises when attacks start in the era of real time world video satellites.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-03 21:03:43+00:00
There's a sitting POTUS that wants to devalue the dollar, in order to stimulate domestic production, and exports.

"But what about the stuff that the factories import, to produce anything?" one might ask. Well, Trump wants no such imports - he wants the people selling stuff to the US, to relocate to the US.

Note: I'm not in favor for what Trump tries to do, but it explains why there's so little concern for the dropping dollar.
by tayzer | 2025-08-03 21:03:58+00:00
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