MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Consultancy-as-a-Service
by vinserello | 2025-09-10 08:49:10+00:00
Consultancy-as-a-Service (CaaS) will flip how Consultancy will be made. You tell the system your goals, KPIs, or metrics, and it gives you actionable insights immediately trends, forecasts, recommendations that are ready to use.

Companies like Datastripes are building tools that put consultancy-level thinking at your fingertips. It is quite simple: tell me your goals and I'll be your consultant for one night...

For startups and SMEs, this isn't just convenience, cause it's a smarter way to make decisions fast and keep your business moving
by nickdothutton | 2025-09-10 08:49:59+00:00
I see emojis as purely semiotic. I don't expect to find personalisation or see myself reflected in them at all. Perhaps this is because of my age and use of emoticons in the BBS days of the late 1980s. Perhaps it's also because when i press for one on a screen, I still conceptualise that action as pressing a mechanical/physical button, where no customisation would be possible.
by jFriedensreich | 2025-09-10 08:50:22+00:00
That post fails to address the main issue, its not that we don't have time to vet dependencies, its that nodejs s security and default package model is absurd and how we use it even more. Even most deno posts i see use “allow all” for laziness which i assume will be copy pasted by everyone because its a major pain of UX to get to the right minimal permissions. The only programming model i am aware if that makes it painful enough to use a dependency, encourages hard pinning and vetted dependency distribution and forces explicit minimal capability based permission setup is cloudflares workerd. You can even set it up to have workers (without changing their code) run fully isolated from network and only communicate via a policy evaluator for ingress and egress. It is apache licensed so it is beyond me why this is not the default for use-cases it fits.
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-10 08:50:30+00:00
Anything that can return a sample. Notice that Curiosity collects samples, but omits the sample return rocket.

A good enough microscope can easily tell the difference between life and non-life, especially in the presence of water. If it moves on its own, it is almost certainly alive!

Certain kinds of chromatographs can conclusively determine that no complex chemicals are present, the kind essential to life. I.e.: if only simple metal oxides and the like are present, then you have only a rock.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-09-10 08:50:33+00:00
If you somehow want to display, say, both Japanese and Chinese texts at the same time, there is no technical obstacle that prevents you to do so. Pan-Unicode fonts come with differently named files for CJKV characters so that is not even difficult. Yes, your assets will have multiple multi-megabyte font files. Is that a problem for modern games? I don't think so.

There is a single circumstance where this is not generally doable: a user name in globally serviced online games. (Guess why I know of this case...) Unless there is a hint that a particular user prefers one's user name to be displayed in a certain way, it is difficult to decide which font to use (or even which set of fonts to use). But it's a very niche problem and otherwise you know which language of the text you are showing and can pick the correct font from your assets.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-10 08:50:36+00:00
Fwiw, the only content on youtube I see as both interesting and irreplaceable are music videos. News clips, recipes, sharing of opinions, etc are all on tiktok and don't waste my time. Virtually all long-form content is better presented in prose. Documentaries with critical clips can be purchased without having to watch ads or found on archive.org. Interviews and monologuing work just fine with podcasts and without having to be subjected to the most obnoxious ads known to man. The incentive to make videos long makes 95% of the clips shared with me unbearably boring, and I can't exactly search or scan the video for the interesting parts like I can text. Plus, did I mention how the ads make me want to rip my eyes and ears out?

Maybe if I had children, it would seem more attractive, but I just don't get the appeal outside of that.
by etothepii | 2025-09-10 08:51:05+00:00
Yes I'm talking Python. The namespaces are long, dare I say ugly, urls. Even though the xml file itself uses `<w:t` you can't unless you provide a dictionary as an argument that contains `{"w":"https://...."}` which means that you need to do a bunch of reading and understanding before you can start playing with the files.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-10 08:51:28+00:00
> There are also lot of experts (obviously its the internet so anyone could be anyone) who post educational content on their field of expertise in the 20min - 1 hour length video format. I don't see that type of content anywhere else.

Exactly. This is the kind of content that I love to watch (in particular also lecture recordings from top experts).

In my observation, this kind of content is hard to monetize by showing ads: I notice that the ads shown at such videos (for me and friends - which may be a biased sample) simply neither fits my interests nor the subject area of such videos.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-10 08:51:29+00:00
>The economics of American farming fail because 70% of profit is retained by the processor

The above sounds like a very Marxian criticism though, essentially Marx's exploitation thing, only instead of considering a proletariat and capital owners, small capital owners and big capital owners who are middlemen and able to lock down the ability of the small capital owners to sell their goods.
by ponector | 2025-09-10 08:53:23+00:00
>>> Offshoring always ends in disaster,

Is it? If it is a disaster , why there are millions of IT folks employed in offshoring locations?

Only the cheapest offshoring ends in disaster. Cheap contractors from TCS will fail you. Open your own dev center, hire few thousands engineer there - a road to success. And yes, no one will actively complain about RTO policies there.
by willvarfar | 2025-09-10 08:53:45+00:00
The article explains why you'd want this floating point monster at the bottom.

Here's the technical reason:

"The AI boom has left a bit of a blind spot for applications where high precision and result accuracy are paramount. In simulations for example, floating point error can compound over multiple iterations. Higher precision data types like FP64 can help reduce that error, and PEZY’s SC4S targets those applications."

And here's a summary of sovereignty reasons:

"At a higher level, efforts like PEZY-SC4s and Fujitsu’s A64FX show a curious pattern where Japan maintains domestic hardware architecture development capabilities. It’s contrasts with many other countries that still build their own supercomputers, but rely on chips designed in the US by companies like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. From the perspective of those countries, it’s undoubtedly cheaper and less risky to rely on the US’s technological base to create the chips they need. But Japan’s approach has merits too. They can design chips tightly targeted to their needs, like energy efficient FP64 compute. It also leads to more unique designs"

Related discussion which was really interesting:

Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators? (nextplatform.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45141907

232 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 88 comments
by ggm | 2025-09-10 08:54:46+00:00
You're right to be concerned about spam. You will have to moderate. Immigration invites bad actors, state actors and racists into the room. It's happening worldwide.

But having said that moderated feedback and comments would be valuable. They help build community.

Your website, your rules. Don't be put off by free speech minimalism, and be thick skinned as you become a target.
by maxbond | 2025-09-10 08:55:58+00:00
Individual bacteria are also generally not visible in optical microscopes without staining. If there was life on the surface of mars, you probably wouldn't need a microscope to see it. Just like you don't need a microscope to observe your bread it's moldy.

Water isn't an abstract possibility on Mars. It's a reality. They've found minerals that only form in water, they've found ice, they've observed erosion. We don't understand the hydrology of Mars but it isn't some kind of conspiracy. It's a laborious process, which they continue to chug away at.

Looking for life isn't the primary mission of Mars rovers. They're remote controlled geologists. The search for life really has nothing to do with funding for Mars missions. No one expects to find it.
by stavros | 2025-09-10 08:56:12+00:00
How can you tell? Either you're saying that LLMs have no "thoughts", and just regurgitate everything, which doesn't explain how they can reason in novel problems, or you're saying you can tell what's original thought and what's regurgitation, in which case I'll ask "how do we know your comment isn't you regurgitating an HN opinion"?
by freehorse | 2025-09-10 08:56:21+00:00
Like this guy who burnt down a forest when this exact thing happened (while he should have prepared better, don't burn down forests if you find yourself in this situation, it is inexcusable)

https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/a-hiker-star...

Was discussed here some time ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34894299
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-10 08:57:06+00:00
I find the progress is much faster at the office because me and my coworkers can more easily consult with each other on both major and minor stuff. On chat wfh they might answer immediately or 4 hrs from now. so, I can’t get in a semi flow because of long interruptions waiting for answers. also chat is slow and annoying.

I know someone is going to chime in a claim those conversations break flow. That might be true for some particular deep problems but I’ve never seen it affect any team I’ve been on and I have 40 years of work experience. Not saying my experience fits everyone else but I’ve seen no real evidence of it being an actual problem.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-10 08:58:01+00:00
I think the same can be argued for global investment banks. All of their important offices are in six cities globally: New York (Manhattan), London, Tokyo, Hongkong, Singapore, and Sydney. All other locations pale in comparison. Probably 1% of headcount (sales, trading, i-bankers) is responsible for 99% of revenues. There is a reason why investment banks are all crowded into very tall buildings in the same six cities: They are trying to access those "1% people". I see the same for tech clusters around the world. (For tech, I guess that less than 5% of staff generate most of your important intellectual property.) There is a reason why Oracle stays in Silicon Valley instead of moving to Montana or Oklahoma were real estate and salaries would be much cheaper!
by safety1st | 2025-09-10 08:58:57+00:00
I don't think that disproves the culture argument. American culture is segmented. (Modern marketing and politics have leaned heavily into this segmentation by the way.) For example, if you grow up exposed to ghetto culture you will probably not value education. The PISA assessment doesn't tell us that white kids who grew up in the ghetto are magically competing with Singapore's best. And we know that the ghetto is less white than the rest of America. Ergo in aggregate, US whites outperform. There are of course a million exceptions to this i.e. grow up in a certain type of Asian immigrant household and you will probably do great on these tests and maybe learn piano, violin etc. as well.

Now whether ghetto culture or ghetto economics is the main contributor to poor academic performance... I will leave that finer point up for debate, but my point here is the US has big differences in educational outcomes based on NEIGHBORHOOD, if your neighborhood is high crime and the schools are broke, your educational outcomes tend to be bad.

If there is a culture related problem, I think it's that the people pushing this trashy culture, for example music that glorifies rape, drugs and gangs, code it as black culture and use that as a way to deflect criticism. You're a racist if you don't like hip hop! It would be an understatement to say that many black Americans want nothing to do with that lifestyle or image and have evolved well beyond it, yet it still gets called black culture. It is a cultural weakness that we don't see rape, drugs and gangs as bad stuff to promote and reward, full stop, and not a thing we should be educating the next generation with, regardless of the skin color of the performer, or its roots.

BTW for whatever it's worth I'm white and I grew up in the ghetto. My parents forced me to take a public bus for an hour each morning to a magnet school in the rich part of town. Years later I met up with my white childhood friend from down the road who had gone to our local high school. I had a bunch of academic achievements and a college scholarship, he had a gunshot wound in his stomach. He was a smart guy when I knew him but the ghetto had its own plans for him.
Ask HN: Vertical and Horizontal Microinstruction Format?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-09-10 08:59:28+00:00
The below answer has been provided with claude.ai. I am just trying to verify whether this is correct or not.

The exact difference between horizontal and vertical microinstructions lies in how the control signals are encoded within the microinstruction word:

*Horizontal Microinstructions:* - Each bit in the microinstruction directly corresponds to a specific control signal - If you have 20 control signals, you need 20 bits in the microinstruction - Each bit position has a dedicated meaning (e.g., bit 0 = ALU enable, bit 1 = register write, bit 2 = memory read, etc.) - The microinstruction is essentially a bit vector where each bit directly controls one hardware component - Example: `101001010...` where each position directly turns on/off a specific control line

*Vertical Microinstructions:* - Control signals are encoded using fewer bits through encoding schemes - Multiple control signals are grouped together and represented by encoded fields - Uses decoders to convert the encoded fields back to individual control signals - Each field in the microinstruction represents a group of mutually exclusive or related operations - Example: Instead of having 8 separate bits for 8 different ALU operations, you use 3 bits to encode which of the 8 operations to perform

*Formation Example:* Say you need to control: ALU operation (8 possibilities), Register selection (4 registers), Memory operation (read/write/none)

- *Horizontal*: Need 8 + 4 + 2 = 14 bits minimum (one bit per control signal) - *Vertical*: Need 3 + 2 + 2 = 7 bits (encoded fields: 3 bits for ALU ops, 2 bits for register, 2 bits for memory)

The key formation difference is: horizontal uses direct bit-to-control mapping, while vertical uses encoded fields that require decoding hardware.
by nlitened | 2025-09-10 09:00:18+00:00
With WFH the following things become very difficult and/or ineffective:

1. Onboarding and growing junior employees.

2. Managing/coordinating people

3. Doing/coming up with something innovative

4. Making sure an employee is not working another job in parallel

With RTO, companies try go get back the ability to do these things, at the expense of employees’ commute time
by bell-cot | 2025-09-10 09:00:54+00:00
> No, you chose to share the experience of a top 10 high school in a state and then proceed to say you don't understand how other people can say any of the other 25,000 public high schools in the country are bad.

While that might be your cultural understanding of, or personal reaction to, what he said - he actually did not say that.

If this subject is sensitive for you, or useful communication just isn't happening, then it might be better to drop it and move on.
by mb2100 | 2025-09-10 09:01:08+00:00
To be fair, the advantage of Deno here is really the standard library that includes way more functionality than Node.

But in the end, we should all rely on fewer dependencies. It's certainly the philosophy I'm trying to follow with https://mastrojs.github.io – see e.g. https://jsr.io/@mastrojs/mastro/dependencies
by simianparrot | 2025-09-10 09:01:30+00:00
I just want them to release a new iteration of 13 Mini at some point. I don't want a larger phone, I don't care about how thin it is with a massive extruding camera bump; give me an actual handheld phone.

For now my 13 Mini works perfectly fine so I'm in no rush, but when the time comes, I'm going going to buy a massive device that I can't comfortable use with a single hand.
by notahacker | 2025-09-10 09:01:53+00:00
> The fact that you argue for daycare workers to be paid but not parents is honestly astonishing.

I think it's even more astonishing that you are arguing that it's normal for parents to have so little love for their own child they should bill the government for time spent with them.

If my stay-at-home mum was like that, I'd definitely have preferred the full time daycare. It was even possible for her to send me to daycare some of the time without breaking the family up!
by alkonaut | 2025-09-10 09:03:04+00:00
I'm going to add +1 to the crowd that thinks that almost no one ever said "Nice, but I wish it was thinner". Who would that be really? Surely apple made their market research before spending the R&D money creating this product. So presumably there is a market segment for it. But who is it?

The standard 17 and Pro seems very much the great product they always are. Incremental refinement. Don't like it? Get one 1-2 generations older. My iPhone 11 still feels very much good enough (which I imagine must be terrible for Apple). Perhaps their idea is that you can't just refine the 15-16-17 every year. You need to try _something_ else, or eventually people will stop paying attention?
Show HN: Embedex – make your blog interactive with AI
by BohdanPetryshyn | 2025-09-10 09:03:34+00:00
Hi HN! As someone who reads tons of blogs, I've always gravitated toward posts that let me click something, be it a simple quiz or even a mini-game or a simulation. There have never been many of such blogs since developing custom elements requires coding knowledge. I believe that's no longer the case in the AI era.

I'm building a tool that allows you to create any interactive embed you can imagine by simply chatting with AI:

* A quiz of any format and outcome: https://embedex.io/blog-demo#quiz-ai

* A working drum machine: https://embedex.io/blog-demo#drum-machine

* An investment calculator: https://embedex.io/blog-demo#investment-calculator

* A custom draw-a-circle game: https://embedex.io/blog-demo#draw-circle-game

The embeds work with WordPress, Ghost, Wix, Squarespace, Blogger.com, and most other blogging platforms - just copy and paste the embed code into an HTML/embed block.

The idea was inspired by Claude Artifacts, and I think there are still many blogging-specific features and improvements that can be implemented to make it a useful standalone product.

You (or your blogger friends) can use Embedex completely for free while I continue improving it in exchange for some feedback.

Try it at https://embedex.io and share your most unique creations below - just grab a link from the "Publish" menu in the upper right corner!
by nicbou | 2025-09-10 09:04:23+00:00
I'm not too worried about such bad actors. The website is pragmatic and apolitical, and it's mostly invisible to the German-speaking crowd.

The biggest risks are more technical: automated spam, and possibly the low signal/noise ratio. I hope to get a lot of good feedback from those comments, but I also expect very low quality questions from tire kickers, just like in my email inbox.
by NoLinkToMe | 2025-09-10 09:05:29+00:00
Doubt it, there’s plenty of mp3 players out there including 2nd hand ipods. You don’t see them in use much. Ratio of for sale / in-use is probably a good indicator for a new product not to take off.

Also most watches can function as music players with wireless headphones nowadays. For a while I ran a low-notification apple watch purely for the time, nfc (payments and to enter the gym) and music functions.
by deevus | 2025-09-10 09:05:33+00:00
I built this after struggling with editor integration while working on a game decompilation project. Zig's build system is great for C/C++ cross-compilation, but editors couldn't find any includes.

Technical approach: The tool hooks into build.zig, extracts dependency paths from Zig's cache, and generates a compile_flags.txt that clangd understands.

Currently supports -I flags only. Planning to add -D macros and -std flags based on feedback.

Happy to answer questions about implementation details.
by impure-aqua | 2025-09-10 09:05:59+00:00
The case is part of the utilitarianism. I need to attach my phone to a bike mount. I use a Peak Design case that has a locking attachment point in the centre to securely fasten the phone onto the handlebars.

I would gladly ditch the case if Apple had a strong mounting system integrated into the phone (MagSafe has nowhere near the resistance to shear forces sufficient to hold a phone over bumps on a bike.)

I suppose I am looking for the phone equivalent of a camera thumbscrew mount. If Apple iterated on MagSafe to include an actual mechanical fixture as part of the attachment, I would buy that phone right away so I can avoid using these crappy pieces of rubber/plastic that degrade so much more quickly in appearance than the phone frame rails.
by testaburger | 2025-09-10 09:07:38+00:00
1) until the fed lowers interest rates (and thus makes it easier for small to mid size companies to bring on more employees), hriing will be nowhere near the peak of 2022? where employees had all of the leverage 2) trump tarrif's are probably limiting the ability of the fed to do serious interest rate cuts needed to spur hiring 3) on top of this, AI is imo undoubtedly reducing demand in tech hires (esp. software engineers, but soon most white collar fields imo), something that wasn't the case just a couple of years ago. 4) the latest US revision just showed a downward revision of 1 million less employed than previously posted over the last year or so, last month(?) was revised to job losses and the msot recent job month was basically flat as well. 5) an arguement can be made that RTO, while crappy, greatly benefits cities by forcing a lot of highly paid tech workers to commute downtown, helping restaurant workers, cleaners (sorry the proper term escapes me at the moment), and other workers in support roles for offices keep their jobs (the spike in SF homeless during covid was caused by a big spike in high earning tech workers suddently working remotely causing layoff in these office reliant industries).

In summary, employee leverage is really non existent in this climate, and you should think long and hard about quitting out of emotion. If you want long term freedom, your only hope is to take a big risk and start something on your own, with the added risk of now knowing that the job you left might not be there should you fail either because of AI or company layoffs/hiring freezes (greatly increasing your risk vs normal times). I've been long term unemployed in the past and I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemies in terms of how much stress can impact your life, and how it can easily wreck your sense of self-worth and self-confidence (luckily have been doing relatively great in the past few years).