MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunnycoder5 | 2025-08-12 04:29:42+00:00
for folks wrestling with Ollama, llama.cpp or local LLM versioning - did you guys check out Docker's new feature - Docker Model Runner?

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by johnvanommen | 2025-08-12 04:29:49+00:00
I listened to the podcast that the founder did about a week ago. It reminded me of how retired folks in the middle class open a restaurant when they don't know anything about running a restaurant. Except this dude isn't investing $1M on a McDonalds, he's investing hundreds of millions.

He seemed almost proud of his inexperience, and nearly said that it gave him an "advantage" because existing engineers weren't willing to "innovate."
by busterarm | 2025-08-12 04:29:49+00:00
I certainly understand your perspective and I've seen what you talk about it but I've just never run into problems with it personally...

and yeah, as others said, mutation is often the source of more problems.

Generally though I don't like hard "don't use X" rules. There's a time and place for everything -- it all comes down to what you're prioritizing at a given time. I try not to be dogmatic about anything.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-12 04:30:54+00:00
Even if someone reuploads it, it's usually just another Youtube purge away from being lost again, unless someone goes out of their way to reupload it somewhere else.

The datahoarders of the world probably have somewhat decent archives of quite a few youtube channels and such, but since it's not publically availible, and reuploading to youtube or IA isn't really viable, it's lost as far as any of the rest of us are concerned.

Doesn't help that video is really big and cumbersome to archive. Audio's a lot smaller and thus easier to keep around. Text is easiest, but there tends to be a lot of it, and archiving one page at a time is usually not worth it in the same way that a video or song might be, so blocking automation is usually a pretty good bet for anyone who really doesn't want their stuff to be archived.
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-12 04:31:39+00:00
It's not quite true that everything feels normal. If I am standing with my feet toward the singularity, my hand cannot move above my head, the best it can do is fall toward the singularity slower than my head does. Especially at very slow speeds this has some very weird physical effects, not the least of which is the immediate impossibility of all systems that make you 'you' continuing to function.
Show HN: Small businesses don't need ChatGPT they need this
by gokuan | 2025-08-12 04:31:40+00:00
After talking to dozens of small business owners, I realized something: They don’t need a “super chatbot” that can do everything. They need assistants that do just what’s needed — fast, and well.

So I built *Raveneo*, a suite of 5 specialized AI assistants: - Professional Email (prospecting, follow-ups, client replies) - LinkedIn Posts (relevant content in 1 click) - SEO Writing (clear, optimized texts without jargon) - Quotes & Invoices (professional formats in seconds) - Contracts / Terms (simple, readable, ready to send)

Why not just ChatGPT? Because most small businesses: - Don’t have time to explain the same context over and over - Want “ready-to-send” results, not drafts - Aren’t sure how to brief a general AI tool effectively

*Tech stack*: React + Next.js (frontend), Node.js (backend), OpenAI API with specialized prompts, secure storage for personalized templates.

Link: [https://raveneo.com](https://raveneo.com)

I’d love feedback on: 1. The idea of ultra-specialized assistants vs. a general-purpose chatbot 2. Use cases I might have missed 3. Speed and ease of use

Is this the future of AI tools for small businesses… or just another GPT wrapper?
by rayiner | 2025-08-12 04:31:59+00:00
It's not just a military response, but also federalizing the police force. He can go after both the homeless encampments and the gangs. This is appropriate because:

1) Americans deserve a capital city that's at least as safe and orderly as similarly affluent cities like Austin or San Diego, which have homicide rates one-third or one-quarter as high as D.C. over the last decade--even excluding the COVID-era spike in homicides.

2) The orderliness of a city is primarily an issue of policing and incarceration. You don't need to pass national gun control, or address "root causes"--just take gang members off the streets and put them in prison.

3) The problem isn't unique to D.C., but D.C. is an outlier because (a) the aesthetics of D.C. are important because it's the nation's capital; and (b) Trump has express statutory authority to federalize the D.C. police force under the DC Home Rule Act. DC thus can serve as a testbed for Republican policing in a major city, most of which won't elect Republican mayors.
by maxglute | 2025-08-12 04:33:20+00:00
> Free child-related services

Unless that gets extended to household level, i.e. maids/nannies at home, I don't think it's enough. Hence UBI + "slave" labour tier support. Can't UBI way to hiring fellow nationals to be economical due to price hikes, so need economic subclass willing to work labour roles for peanuts with different economic structure subservient to local UBI purchase power.
by sd_mikey | 2025-08-12 04:33:42+00:00
> "If there ever was a case of exceptional importance," Staver wrote, "the first individual in the Republic's history who was jailed for following her religious convictions regarding the historic definition of marriage, this should be it."

Kim Davis has been married four times to three men [1][2].

She had twins in 1994, five months after divorcing her first husband, with the biological father being the man who later became her third husband, which seems to point to an affair during the marriage [1][3][2].

If this is about upholding Christian convictions, her own history doesn’t exactly model them.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/01/kentucky-cle...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-clerk-same-sex-marriag...

[3] https://people.com/celebrity/kim-davis-married-four-times-re...
by illiac786 | 2025-08-12 04:33:49+00:00
again, to each its definition, but you should be aware your definition does not align with wikipedia’s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

The US have a very strange definition of the word “socialist”, which other english-speaking countries (and seemingly wikipedia) do not share.

As an example, the european socialist party does _not_ strive to put communism in place.

socialist != communist
by Telaneo | 2025-08-12 04:36:00+00:00
It's always funny to me how Reddit is one of the less garbage sources on random unexpected shit you one day want to find out. If you're really lucky, someone will have written a really good article on some niche topic on their personal website or similar, but that's annoyingly rare. You've also got review sites and such for common consumer products which are usually a decent bet after some filtering and cross checking. But the step down from that in terms of quality really is reddit of all places. You sill need to double check be sane about what you read, but the alternatives, like the ones you've listed, are actually worse than reddit's random internet strangers.
by jongjong | 2025-08-12 04:36:32+00:00
I guess it's possible that most people who turned out to be scammers had good intentions initially. Still, I had a real plan to drive adoption and create something positive in crypto. I did implement something positive on the tech side which largely fell on deaf ears but I sometimes think that it's precisely because I wasn't a scammer, that people sensed I wouldn't bend, that I wasn't 'allowed' to make it in that industry.

There is definitely a belief in this industry that its primary intent was to demoralise those fleeing the traditional system... Almost as a way to scare them back towards papa fiat.

Crypto, as it turned out, was likely a case of the fiat system playing good cop bad cop with the world's nerds. To push them around and demoralise them into apathy and compliance.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-08-12 04:36:39+00:00
>When your connection to the internet fails and that the software locks up, that skill that you thought was yours was actually entirely owned by someone, and can be taken away.

There's a middle ground between locally installed software that fails as soon as you don't have an internet connection for the phone home, and locally installed software that can be used totally unplugged. You can stick a countdown timer within the software that allows 7, 30, 90 etc days of consecutive offline interactivity before the user needs to phone home again. Heck, if you really wanted to, you could sell copies or subscriptions to that software at varying price points depending on how many days the user expects to need - if it's a feature people want, it's a feature you can price in.

Why isn't this model more common? Mm, plenty of reasons. You need to implement pretty sophisticated techniques under the hood to deter software crackers, for one, which aren't required when you make an API call every sixty seconds to an Azure Function. For two the modal human mind really hates middle grounds of this sort. I actually suspect that some "online-only" local software implements something like this under the hood, and just doesn't advertise it, or perhaps gates it being being an enterprise feature. (I have unfortunately learned firsthand that advertising my software as "works up to 30 days off-grid" gets considerably more ire than "ah, sorry, it does require an internet connection, everything's in the cloud these days, you know how it is".)

But probably the most common reason is simply that most people don't need it! Most regular people aren't using software at all when they go off grid.
by qsort | 2025-08-12 04:37:08+00:00
Python still doesn't have tail recursion, and uses a small stack by default.

I'll note that in modern imperative languages is harder than it looks to figure out if calls are really in tail position, things like exception handling, destructors etc. interfere with this, so even as a SICP fanboy I'll admit it's fair enough that some languages don't want to bother.
by devmor | 2025-08-12 04:38:22+00:00
I strongly encourage you to see a therapist or psychiatrist (a real, human professional) to determine if you have an unhealthy dependency on a computer program.

Reorganizing your sleep around an activity you refuse to stop is one of the most obvious warning signs of a dangerous addiction.

Please don’t destroy your mental and physical health because you’ve convinced yourself that you achieved impossible and fantastic sounding gains in productivity.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-12 04:40:17+00:00
I doubt that'll be a deal reddit will find palatable, given there's no obvious monetary incentive for them to allow archiving in the first place, but there are some to blocking others from being able to index their content, like funnelling those exact people trying to index them into licencing reddits content instead, and preventing the people who are already doing that from getting ideas.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-08-12 04:40:31+00:00
Well I don’t think any influential people from any political jostling group are reading all comments on hacker news, so I doubt we are helping to war game anything.

Your second paragraph seems like ad hominem? Or are you suggesting that homosexuality emerges from lived experience, and therefore I should relate? I am confused.

I don’t really have a dog in the gay fight. The longstanding cultural view in the west going back a very long time was that it is a choice. Some political people today retain that view. The modern view is that it isn’t a choice. Some political people today hold that view. I just look at the sides in a detached game theoretic way and it just seems like the red team has a move they haven’t played.

Is that bad? I do understand not wanting to go there mentally, since it is definitely hard to hold views apart from most of society, even if the view is “things are less clear than what everyone thinks they are”. I think humans generally seem to have some preprocessing that drops view candidates that would put them in that position.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-12 04:41:57+00:00
@adampwells It is continually beginning to dawn on me that the times we live in can be likened to past historic moments in the human collective history (the gold rush, industrial revolution, the dotcom bubble).

These phases/time, saw power shifts and wealth redistribution! An undisputed fact even.

Your brother's "brutal assessment" speaks to the zeitgeist and varied opportunities scattered about in the many forms of posts, videos, rants/applaud, ... AI this or that that AI.

Wild idea: Enter Vibaslopium:

Think a community tool that "vibas" can use to share their code, snippets, context.md/spec/schema/other-coined-term. Slopium miners slop-piles in sandboxes and debug the code with or without the use of AI and proffer solutions. Users pay slopium for slop-pile tasks; code review/fixing and slopium miners in the process mine slopium as they complete tasks. Similar to crypto blockchain miners and gas fees ha ha.

(I was laughing while typing)

Such times, such wonderful and nostalgic times.

│

└── Dey well; Be well
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-12 04:44:35+00:00
I assure you, your thoughts on this are not unique or something hardly anyone thinks about, they're just not well reasoned. People have sex for a lot of reasons, and having children is, proportionally, almost never the primary driver. Sex is not the act of fertilization of an ovum by a sperm. If it was, we would call IVR 'sex', which obviously nobody does.
by Forgret | 2025-08-12 04:44:47+00:00
Thanks for the idea, it sounds interesting, I'll try to simplify the syntax for better understanding.

1. Inline styling with @

@color#4c4,bg#aaa Text @

color#hex for text color

bg#hex for background color

Multiple props separated by commas

Ends with another @ (so you can nest easier without clashing with brackets)

Example:

@color#fff,bg#f00 Danger!@

2. Fonts with @font

@font10pt,mono Code sample@

10pt = font size

mono = monospace (could also be serif, sans)

3. Named styles

@style$danger=color#484,bg#cc8@ @danger I'm dangerous@

First line defines the style name

Second line uses it with just @name …@

jones1618 What do you think?
by eitland | 2025-08-12 04:45:15+00:00
I actively prefer Libre Office.

Yes, Excel is probably a lot better if you use English setup and advanced functions.

For me,

- not having to use Norwegian for formulas (my work machine has Norwegian setup and Excel insists on using Norwegian formulas)

and

- not having it trying to find something it can misinterpret as a date, preferably some random place in a list of thousands of items

makes it worth it.
by kqr | 2025-08-12 04:47:49+00:00
More exciting in my mind than the equivalence between tail recursion and while loops is the equivalence between left folds and for loops. A for loop in its most general shape is something like

<whatever state the application is in here serves as the starting state> foreach (i in range(n)) { <the state of the application is updated with each iteration> } <the desired state of the application has been applied when the loop is done>

An equivalent left fold is invoked like

<desired state> = foldl ( <state updating procedure>, <starting state>, range(n) )

The difference is that the starting state is given explicitly to the loop, and the desired state is returned as a composite value. This makes it easier to troubleshoot than the implicit state transitions, but it's essentially the same still.
by owisd | 2025-08-12 04:48:08+00:00
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli...

Page 64 defines a Large Service as "A service which has more than 7 million monthly active United Kingdom users".

The first two forums in your "in memoriam" list I tried looking at (Sinclair QL Forum & Red Passion Forum) are both still up.
by olup | 2025-08-12 04:48:47+00:00
I can't relate more. I am also prone to ophthalmic migraines and have the same tendency to not be thirsty, to the amazement of the people I usually trek or live with. Only recently (35 and a kidney stone) did I gather that I might actually be in need of water even without feelings of thirst. I have never made a connection with migraines, and that might not be it for me but reading you makes me want to pay attention.
by jwrallie | 2025-08-12 04:49:29+00:00
I don’t get your comment, do you mean superiority in what? Are you comparing operating systems or hardware? The combined experience?

If you asked me 2 years ago I would say something different about Linux than I would said today, because I’m running a different distribution with a different desktop environment and that changed my experience completely, even though I’m running on basically the same hardware.

I run Linux in Apple hardware too, how does that rank in your comparison?
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-12 04:52:51+00:00
> least as safe and orderly as similarly affluent cities like Austin or San Diego

Neither of those cities are very safe and orderly. Didn’t 3 people just get killed in Austin yesterday? DC is also tiny compared to the outlying cities that surround it. Baltimore anyone?

This is probably just more distraction to get the news stories away from those Epstein files.
by rayiner | 2025-08-12 04:53:03+00:00
> DC is safe, historically. Chicago is safe. Seattle is safe. Portland is safe. NYC is extremely safe.

DC is not safe. The homicide rate in DC in 2023 was about 40 per 100k. That's about the same as Haiti in 2023. Not even Haiti in a normal year, which is around 7-10 homicides per 100k. DC is as bad as Haiti during the recent unrest, where homicides quadrupled from 2020 to 2023. DC is only a little bit less bad than the civilian death rate in Iraq during ISIS, which peaked at 50 per 100k in 2014.

"Safe" is below 1 homicide per 100k annually, like most of western europe, which only a handful of cities in the U.S. match, like Boise, ID or Irvine, CA. "Relatively safe" are places like Massachusetts, Vermont, Utah, Oregon, or Iowa, which are similar to Canada at around 2 per 100k. San Diego and New York City, in the 3-4 per 100k range, are "safe-ish."
by dngray | 2025-08-12 04:53:53+00:00
I used to use caldav but then stopped because there was once a bug on the server side where I couldn't delete events. The main thing I also don't like is there's no encryption or privacy really from the provider unless you go with a more a less proprietary solution like from an encrypted email provider. The closest I saw was EteSync but it requires special apps, and can include special bugs :)

I also don't need my immediate todo list on a calendar. I organize my to-do list simply as "Immediate", "Future", "Distant future", and then put things under heading. Sometimes I add a due date if there is one.

I just had a few markdown documents in a "todo" folder, eg <work>.md <project1>.md etc. Recently I changed it to org-mode because that's a syntax designed for the purpose. https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ works excellently.

Never been an emacs user in my life. I spent about 5 minutes perusing https://orgmode.org/org.html and was able to do the same.

I use syncthing to sync it between my devices. https://www.orgzlyrevived.com/ works great on android.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-12 04:54:06+00:00
It’s 700mib because they’re likely redistributing the CUDA libraries so that users don’t need to separately run that installer. Llama.cpp is a bit more “you are expected to know what you’re doing” on that front. But yeah, you could plausibly ship multiple versions of the inference engine although from a maintenance perspective that sounds like hell for any number of reasons
by masklinn | 2025-08-12 04:54:22+00:00
> Did Python ever get tail recursion? There was a big controversy years ago. Guido didn't like it. But apparently something went in.

No. The only thing that went in is moving Python frames off of the C stack, but since afaik the recursion limit did not change it has essentially no impact on user code unless you play with said recursion limit.
by dngray | 2025-08-12 04:55:41+00:00
> Obviously one needs to be an Emacs user first

Not true I use the Neovim plugin https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/. It supports everything I tried from the official org manual. https://orgmode.org/org.html

I use syncthing to sync it between my devices. https://www.orgzlyrevived.com/ works great on android.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-08-12 04:55:42+00:00
Yeah. I'm skeptical that software made for 2 people on a boat in international waters is going to generalize to people living on land under the ongoing American situation

It's good for them, but the only person I know who owns a boat is richer than me, and I'm already richer than basically all my friends
by VirusNewbie | 2025-08-12 04:56:00+00:00
I started drinking bourbon because for the money, some of it was phenomenal whisky. In particular the higher end Jim Beam products were on par with extremely expensive scotch, imo, particularly Booker's.

I remember thinking that a $65 bottle of Booker's could easily go head to head with some of the $200 Scotch bottles I'd sip from.

However, now Bookers is over $100 and hard to find, Knob Creek doesn't have an age statement anymore, and generally the quality has gone down.
by toast0 | 2025-08-12 04:56:04+00:00
> I've never really understood the desire for tail-recursive versions of iterative algorithms, except for a prior commitment to functional programming.

Tail-recursion and iteration are broadly equivalent right? So picking one over the other is a matter of style and capability.

You can't use iteration if your language isn't capable of it, but no worries, you can use tail recursion.

Similarly, you can't use tail recursion if your language isn't capable of it, but no worries, you can use iteration, at least for iterative tail recursion. Otoh, there are uses of tail call elimination that aren't recursion (or aren't direct recursion) ... that can get akward if your language can't manage it.
by mindslight | 2025-08-12 04:56:38+00:00
So why does he sound like an incomprehensible moron? And why are all of his plains straight up broken, like tariffs that would have been appropriate to stop the destruction of American industry twenty years ago, but at this point are just closing the barn door long after the horse moved away? If he's really some wise leader and only rambled incoherent word salad to appeal to the "common man" and get elected, he has now been elected. Shouldn't he be revealing his wise persona, leading, and bringing the skeptical into the fold with some intelligent policies?

Most elderly people are capable of sitting around for hours rambling, especially on political topics. In fact, what's difficult is getting them not to. Occam's says that affirming the emperor is definitely wearing clothes is just the type of politically correct fluffing that happens in every autocracy. Lying to ingratiate yourself with flattery certainly costs less than paying larger bribes.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-12 04:57:03+00:00
> If the NG (or ideally another federal LE agency) demonstrably reduces crime in DC

Beijing is the safest city I've ever lived in. A heavily policed city with an authoritarian government will give you all the safety and low crime rates you desire.

It comes at a cost. Get on the wrong side of the authorities for any reason (or no reason), and you're in jail with the criminals.