MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by halflife | 2025-08-11 18:22:19+00:00
Of course I acknowledge their right to exist. I only wish it would be reciprocated, however, time and time again we were shown that this is not the case. Gaza was left alone on 2006, look what happened. They could’ve made an example of a prosperous territory and enabling trust. Instead they chose war death and terror.

I wish what happened wouldn’t have. On oct 7 and in Gaza. But people keep forgetting that we still have living hostages in tunnels under Gaza, and we can’t accept a militarized Gaza anymore.

For the last 2 years there are 2 principles that have not changed. Hamas should return the hostages and surrender its arms. The moment that happens the war is over. It could’ve happened 2 years ago and this thousands of deaths could’ve been avoided. But until that happens, the war continues.

So I don’t believe there’s genocide, as it precludes explicit desire. There’s war. And it will end the moment Hamas want it to.
by jrowen | 2025-08-11 18:22:22+00:00
Managing the line between daily and long-term tracking is one of the toughest parts. I have a flat list of files in Notes analogous to yours, but I'm not working in every one every day, some will sit dormant for months. Do I maintain a "to buy" or "Home Depot" list in each one, or at the top level?

I like using paper for today's tasks and instant thoughts. I like to avoid cluttering with recurring unless I'm really having trouble (or keep it in calendar). I find that the "oh shit" part of my brain is largely a good enough reminder system as long as I capture the thought before it flies away.

side note: I do like the "Relationship" call-out. I had a past relationship suffer in part because I kept it a bit too much in the back pocket and not up on the proverbial board with the other projects. Workaholics take note - make your relationship part of your workflow.
by sixhobbits | 2025-08-11 18:23:21+00:00
Fine make me spill all my secrets then xD

system_instructions = """You will generate an image. The image will be used as the background of a poster, so keep it muted and not too detailed so text can still easily be seen on top. The actual poster elements like margin etc will be handled separately so just generate a normal image that works well in A4 ratio and that works well as a background.""" full_prompt = f"{system_instructions}\n\nGenerate a background image for an A4 poster with the following description: {prompt}" openai_request = { 'model': 'gpt-4.1-mini', 'input': full_prompt, 'tools': [{ 'type': 'image_generation', 'size': '1024x1536', 'quality': 'medium' }] } # Make request to OpenAI response_data = self.call_openai_api('/v1/responses', openai_request)
by _moof | 2025-08-11 18:23:36+00:00
I work in aerospace and I don't find this development strategy unusual prima facie. I don't know if Boom is explicitly doing rapid spiral development, but this is what it would look like from the outside - a development vehicle that doesn't resemble the final vehicle design in many ways, but does have strategically selected commonality to validate and buy down risk on specific subsystems and operational concepts. They may be retiring XB-1 simply because they got the data they needed.

That being said, I share your skepticism of Boom as a company. As far as I know, they still don't have an engine for their production aircraft design.
by maxglute | 2025-08-11 18:23:53+00:00
>really generous

IMO take so far data is showing no amount of generous policies will convince people to have more than 1-2 kids (hit replacement TFR) long term unless they're living life of leisure + ample subsidies AND help. At some point stress/obligation of child rearing is going to eat away at other commitments (i.e. work). Hence highlighting MENA countries where religion+resource coordinate but TFR still collapsing and trending below 2.1 TFR.

The statistic exception being being REALLY GENEROUS, Fully Automated Luxury Communism leisure tier support i.e. living in maids, nannies, drivers -> UAE Emiratis and Qataris where locals ex migrant worker pop still has declining TFR that _may_ settle beyond replacement (currently around 3.1, still down from 3.7 10 years ago). But that requires functionally UBI, optional work i.e. state setups 30hr per week "public sector" for locals while expat / cheap / slave labour handles everything else. The latter being key, need UBI tier to be able to cover hiring other humans to do domestic work, maid, nanny, cook, driver etc.

Maybe a do-able level of "abundance" if we look other way on exploitation, already lots of migrant labours in west, but we tend to keep them in factories or fields, not civic/domestic realm. PRC trying to build their army of care taking robots. But IMO that's the minimum, if you can't ensure that level of support (not just money but labour), positive policies won't get past replacement TFR. If Emrati/Qatari TFR stabilize below replacement in 10-20 years, then it's sign to ceiling on human willingness to have multiple kids, i.e. can't subsidize way for locals to reach replacement TFR.
by typs | 2025-08-11 18:23:59+00:00
This makes sense as long as people continue to value using the best models (which may or may not continue for lots of reasons).

I’m not entirely sure that AI companies like Cursor necessarily miscalculated though. It’s noted that the actual strategies the blog advertises are things used by tools like Cursor (via auto mode). The important thing for them is that they are able to successfully push users towards their auto mode and use more usage data to improve their routing and frontier models don’t continue to be so much better AND so expensive that users continue to demand them. I wouldn’t hate that bet if I were Cursor personally.
by ralferoo | 2025-08-11 18:24:19+00:00
If there's really a hyperlink I need, I might e-mail it to myself, add it to a text file in an appropriate place in the appropriate project, leave the tab open in my browser, or just do the task now.

But IMHO none of that is related to the todo list, which is stuff like "7 · Fred's birthday". It's about remembering things that I need/want to do, and in a way that's tactile and I can reflect on it whether I'm using the computer or not, not trying to maintain a knowledge base of everything.
by kube-system | 2025-08-11 18:24:46+00:00
Automakers didn't update the cassette decks in their cars when CDs came out. You could expect cassettes to be around in cars for a good solid ~20 years, but that was about it. At some point technology moves on.

> Number one vehicle sold in the US for a LONG time, and yet no incentive to keep it working apparently

Yeah, there's no incentive to fix problems when people buy the product anyway.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-11 18:25:12+00:00
> how the brain works, at least partially

With the difference, which have us go back to the original point, that the human mind has a crucial property of going beyond "pattern-based" intuition and check mental items lucidly and consciously.

> and it continually does so

It also persistently evaluates consciously and "store" and "learn" (which must be noted because it is the second main thing that LLMs don't do, after the problem of going past intuition).
by andrewsardone | 2025-08-11 18:25:17+00:00
Can you clarify the current state of the 'Speaker Identification' feature?

1. It does not appear to work at all for me.

2. 12 days ago you mentioned that you'll update the landing page to clarify the feature.

3. As of 2025-08-11, the website still states 'Speaker Identification' as a feature: http://bit.ly/4mvN3LS
Show HN: CleanCV – I was tired of ugly LaTeX CV templates, so I built my own
by gil2rok | 2025-08-11 18:25:22+00:00
Hi HN,

As a CS PhD student, I was tired of fighting with LaTeX to update my CV. I found most popular templates were ugly, missing features, or too complex to customize. I built CleanCV as an academic LaTeX template to fix these issues.

I designed it with three principles in mind:

- Modern: It's designed to look clean and readable from the start. You can focus on your content, knowing the aesthetics are already handled.

- Minimal: The syntax is simple and intuitive, so adding or changing content takes seconds. You don't have to re-learn complex structures every time you make an update.

- Modular: It's easy to customize. You can reconfigure sections or change colors without the whole document falling apart.

CleanCV has a few key features to solve common frustrations:

- Dual CV/Resume Mode: A single command flips your document between a comprehensive CV and a condensed resume, both from the same source.

- Contact Bar: A simple header with icons for your GitHub, LinkedIn, website, and more.

- Smart Publications: Creates a publication list from your .bib file that automatically bolds your name and supports joint-author notation.

- Automatic 'Last Updated' Date: Every compile automatically updates a timestamp in the footer, so everyone knows your CV is current.

I'm looking for feedback to make it better. Please check it out on GitHub, give it a star if you like it, and open an issue with any suggestions. It's still "in beta". Let me know what you think!

https://github.com/giladturok/CleanCV
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-11 18:26:27+00:00
This is relevant based on recent policy discussions in France of potentially slowing the pace of renewables deployments due to impairing the financials of EDF (who operates their nuclear fleet). Luckily, they did not come into force, but France is in desperate need of battery storage and more interconnect capacity to export it's excess power and better orchestrate nuclear vs renewables during climate events (where nuclear output requires curtailment due to operating limitations).

France Doubles Renewables Curtailment on Supply-Demand Mismatch - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/france-re... | https://archive.today/EAdTV - July 22nd, 2025

France’s Tally of Negative Power Prices Just Beat the 2024 Total - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/france-s-... | https://archive.today/iZiDm - June 30th, 2025

French Lawmakers Reject a Moratorium on Solar and Wind Projects - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/french-la... | https://archive.today/NrLPH - June 24th, 2025

France’s 2024 Power Grid Was 95% Fossil Free as Nuclear, Renewables Jumped - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-20/france-s-... | https://archive.today/Spmqf - January 20th, 2025
by anonnon | 2025-08-11 18:26:44+00:00
> I don't know yet what I think, but my latest side project I decided to create privately on github.

You're concerned about LLMs stealing your code, yet you're still using Github in any form? You should be careful even using VSCode at this point, regardless of whatever promises they make.

Putting everything on github (public or private) is corporate OSS brainrot, as is MIT-everything-by-default (rather than copylefting everything).

In fact, back in the SF era, GPL variants dwarfed MIT/BSD by a wide margin:

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/11/14/open-source-licenses/

http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2014/11/black...
by hx8 | 2025-08-11 18:26:53+00:00
How many parallel agents can one developer actively keep up with? Right now, my number seems to be about 3-5 tasks, if I review the output.

If we assume 5 tasks, each running $400/mo of tokens, we reach an annual bill of $24,000. We would have to see a 4x increase in token cost to reach the $100,000/yr mark. This seems possible with increased context sizes. Additionally, we might see additional context sizes lead to longer running more complicated tasks which would increase my number of parallel tasks.
by parpfish | 2025-08-11 18:27:05+00:00
not exactly what you asked, but i've tried out Junie[0] because I've already got JetBrainz IDEs set up and love them.

It's terrible. For comparison, I've only used cursor on greenfield toy projects, but cursor is way better at the agentic stuff (the actual code generation AND the "review these changes" workflow) AND the tab/auto-complete stuff.

I hope Junie can make some leaps because I really like JetBrainz and dont want to see them fall behind

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-08-11 18:27:22+00:00
The Wikimedia Foundation is not in charge of the Wikipedias per se (though as always, once you have a central organization, it starts stretching its tentacles) .

Wikipedias are not merely localized versions of each other, they're truly independent.

If you happen to know two languages and want to quickly rack up edits (if that's your sport), arbitraging knowledge between two Wikipedias is one way to go.

Wikipedia is not throwing their weight around. They are merely pointing out that the law happens to make their operating model illegal, and surely that can't be the intent. If they are illegal, they cannot operate. Is "very well, we disagree, but if you truly insist, we shall obey the law and leave" throwing your weight around?

And yes, I get the impression that the UK's letter of the law could lead to a categorization with rules that (a) Wikipedia simply cannot comply with, and still be a Wikipedia. So in that case Wikipedia would be effectively banned.

But we're not there yet. Hence the use of proper legal channels, including this court case. Ofcom is expected to make their first categorizations this summer, so this is timely.
by Warwolt | 2025-08-11 18:28:02+00:00
I mean, we can definitively talk about simplicity/complexity in a fairly easy way when it comes to mathematical structures or data structures in my opinion.

For instance, a binary tree that contains just a root node is clearly simpler than a binary tree with three nodes, if we take "simple" to mean "with less parts" and complex to mean "with more parts". Similarly, a "molecule" is more complex than an "atom".

This is a useful definition, I think, because when we write computer programs they always written in some programming language, with a syntax that yields some kind of abstract tree, so ultimately we'll always have _some_ kind of graph-like nature to the computer program, both syntactically and semantically, and surely graphs also permit the same kind of complexity metrics.

I'm not saying measuring the number of nodes is _the_ way of getting at complexity, I'm just pointing out that there's no real difficulty in defining it.

Complexity means more stuff, and we simply take it as a premise that we can only fit so much stuff in our head at the same time.
by Lerc | 2025-08-11 18:28:45+00:00
This is the kind of thing people should be doing with AI. Weird and interesting stuff that has a "Let's find out!" Attitude.

Often there's as much to be learned from why it doesn't work.

I see the AI hype to be limited to a few domains.

People choosing to spend lots of money on things speculatively hoping to get a slice of whatever is cooking, even if they don't really know if it's a pie or not.

Forward looking imagining of what would change if these things get massively better.

Hyperbolic media coverage of the above two.

There are companies taking about adding AI for no other reason than they feel like that's what they should be doing, I think that counts as a weak driver of hype, but only because cumulatively, lots of companies are doing it. If anything I would consider this an outcome of hype.

Of these the only one that really affects me is AI being shoehorned into places it shouldn't

The media coverage stokes fires for and against, but I think it only changes the tone of annoyance I have to endure. They would do the same on another topic in the absence of AI. It used to be crypto,

I'm ok with people spending money that is not mine on high risk, high potential reward. It's not for me to judge how they calculate the potential risk or potential reward. It's their opinion, let them have it.

The weird thing I find is the complaints about AI hype dominating. I have read so many pieces where the main thrust of their argument is about the dominance of fringe viewpoints that I very rarely encounter. Frequently they take the stance that anyone imagining how the world might change from any particular form of AI as a claim that that form is inevitable and usually imminent. I don't see people making those claims.

I see people talking about what they tried, what they can do, and what they can't do. Everything they can't do is then held up by others as if it were a trophy and proof of some catestrophic weakness.

Just try stuff, have fun, if that doesn't interest you, go do something else. Tell us about what you are doing. You don't need to tell us that you aren't doing this particular thing, and why. If you find something interesting tell us about that, maybe we will too.
by mr_mitm | 2025-08-11 18:28:47+00:00
First of all, black holes have an interior and an exterior. Our universe only has an interior. Next, black holes have a singularity into which everything vanishes, or at least moves towards. Im our universe, everything moves away from a singularity. So if anything, it resembles a white hole more than a black hole. Also, our universe is expanding, whereas black holes shrink (unless matter falls into them, which can't happen to our universe because it has no exterior).

It really looks nothing like a black hole.
by rayiner | 2025-08-11 18:28:56+00:00
By 2075, Medicare and Social Security will reach a over 14% of GDP combined, up from around 8% today. To pay that, we'll have to raise taxes by $1.75 trillion using today's GDP figures. That will require just about doubling payroll taxes from the present level.

That's probably an underestimate. As population shrinks, GDP will shrink as well, unless we have large gains in productivity, which have stalled. It's not clear to me that the projections about SS/Medicare as a percentage of GDP account for the effect of GDP shrinking due to population decline. CBO assumes a stable population through 2060, using quite arbitrary assumptions about immigration: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60875.
by duxup | 2025-08-11 18:29:05+00:00
>She could barely believe that Chinese officials would care about a teenager living thousands of miles away.

The weirdness of authoritarian regimes seems to produce to these absurd situations in spades. The incentive of of making some people into distracting scapegoats never ends. Government officials tasked with finding these people never goes away so they're pushed to keep "finding" more of these people. Accordingly the endless types of speech or acts that are considered a transgression grows.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2025-08-11 18:29:13+00:00
While I generally agree with this and am angry at "the elites" who seem to both want increased fertility but also don't really target it in their companies ... I think the bigger unspoken issue is really the TFR skew. Global fertility can go down for a while and it isn't disastrous. TFR skew results in large problems if the least progressive and poorest groups systematically have much higher TFR over extended periods.

None of the solutions I can think of are very appealing or even tolerable. It really feels like it's a matter of carrying on and having hope. But perhaps we could start by merely describing the data and the situation.
Snapchat open source cross-platform mobile framework. Looking for beta testers
by FactoryReboot | 2025-08-11 18:29:30+00:00
Hi HN,

We're thrilled to announce that Snapchat is open sourcing our in house cross platform mobile framework, and we're looking for beta testers to help shape it before we open-source it! With components written in TypeScript, it feels familiar to React Native but tackles common pain points with better performance and easier native integration.

Why Our Framework? For 6 years, we've used this framework internally at Snapchat to power features with native-like performance and easy code reuse. Here's what sets it apart: • Blazing Fast: Benchmarks show 2x faster time-to-first-render and 1/4 the memory usage compared to the other frameworks. • Native UI: Renders directly to platform-native components (no WebViews) for a truly native look and feel on iOS and Android. • TypeScript-Powered: Write your apps in TypeScript with a React-like component model and hot reload for fast iteration. • Flexible Integration: Start from scratch or adopt incrementally into existing codebases. Seamlessly integrate with Swift/Kotlin native modules. • Lightweight: Smaller app sizes and optimized resource usage. •

We've designed this to address frustrations like bridging overhead, UI inconsistencies, and complex native integrations—issues many of you have likely encountered with other frameworks. Join Our Beta Program! We're looking for developers to test the framework and provide feedback on: • Ease of Use: How intuitive is the API and workflow? • Documentation: Are our docs clear and comprehensive? • Developer tooling • Comparisons: How does it stack up against React Native, Flutter, or other tools?

To join, sign a lightweight NDA (to protect proprietary code during beta). You'll get: • Access to our private GitHub repo with the framework and sample projects. • An invite to our Discord server for direct support from our team. • A chance to shape a framework used by Snapchat and be credited in our open-source launch.

How to Get Started Email me at ccrawford@c.snap.com or drop a comment below. We'll send the NDA and onboarding details within 24 hours. The beta is open to all experience levels, whether you're a React Native veteran or new to cross-platform dev. Let's Chat!

What's your biggest pain point with cross-platform frameworks? Have you tried alternatives like Flutter or Ionic? We'd love to hear your thoughts to make this framework as developer-friendly as possible.
by throwanem | 2025-08-11 18:29:42+00:00
So, this gets to a fundamental or "death of the author" ie philosophical difference in how we define what an API is "for." Do I as its publisher have final say, to the extent of forbidding mechanically permissible uses? Or may I as the audience, whom the publisher exists to serve, exercise the machine to its not intentionally destructive limit, trusting its maker to prevent normal operation causing (even economic) harm?

The answer of course depends on the context and the circumstance, admitting no general answer for every case though the cognitively self-impoverishing will as ever seek to show otherwise. What is undeniable is that if you didn't specify your reservations API to reject impermissible or blackout dates, sooner or later whether via AI or otherwise you will certainly come to regret that. (Date pickers, after all, being famously among the least bug-prone of UI components...)
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-11 18:29:57+00:00
By historically you mean the one time. We went from a world where nearly everything was made by hand to one built on efficiency of scale, which turbocharged growth across the board. Moving from home made clothes to mass produced, etc. There isn't a new next level to take making clothes, nor everything else. There was a lot of low hanging fruit between 1880-today.

What happened in the past wasn't magic. It was logical progression from a very basic civilization to an optimized one. But AI advocates push the past as 'everything changed but magic made it work out so that will happen again'. The past’s transformation was a one-off fueled by obvious, unexploited gains. There is no “next level” waiting in clothes, shipping, energy, or most other mature systems.
by dodobirdy | 2025-08-11 18:29:58+00:00
We are moving up the abstraction hierarchy. Most programmers don't write low-level code in today's age. We kept moving up and now we have natural language programming. The programmers of tomorrow will mostly be using nl to program, that doesn't mean that there won't be "lower-level" programmers maintaining things.

As for the critical part, the way I see it is that AI will excel and readily be applied in low-stake environments (Frontend, Games, etc) where you can simply loop the AI agent until it clicks and gets the right output.

For high stake environments (healthcare, self-driving, etc) AI will reluctantly be used (for the foreseeable future) because the error cost is too high.

I could be completely wrong.