MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by misterbrian | 2025-09-10 03:49:05+00:00
hnfm builds short podcast episodes from Hacker News posts. I built this with gpt-oss-20b for the OpenAI Open Model Hackathon. It uses:

- Hacker News Firebase API

- Firecrawl for scraping content

- FastAPI, celery, langchain, redis, Nuxt.js

- local inference using: gpt-oss-20b, nari-labs/dia, InvokeAI, Flux Krea [dev], WhisperX, RTX 4090

There are a bunch of similar tools that can generate content from Hacker News articles but none of them checked all of the boxes.

I'll run my hnfm tool against this post and then upload the video that it creates to YouTube and share the link here or in the comments.

HNFM sample generated using the linked article: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6z1wtGlyqhs

Here's another example https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dn74EOpAD14 (made from this HN post about Claude's new server-side container environments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182381)
by craftkiller | 2025-09-10 03:50:06+00:00
That's an understatement: Bay area weather is magical. It is the same all year round. You don't need "winter" and "summer" attire, your plans never get rained out, and you never have to deal with snowstorms. The downside is sometimes it rains ash.

Personally, I had to leave because the pizza out there is unbearable but damn I miss the bay area weather.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-10 03:50:28+00:00
Something that isn’t obvious to non-Americans or non-parents is just how diverse the US education system is. Even within a medium size city you’ll find multiple schools that might have completely different cultures.

Some schools are sports centric. Others have to work hard to get students interested in sports.

I think the implication that sports are bad is also misleading. Sports programs, when run well, can do a good job of getting kids into routines, out of trouble, and keeping them accountable to their peers for something. The TV and movie style sports culture where the football players aren’t expected to even attempt to pass their classes doesn’t actually exist in most schools.
by kelnos | 2025-09-10 03:50:30+00:00
> I seriously doubt anyone living in an RV has a plot of land in Palo Alto that they are forbidden to develop.

Sigh, I didn't mean that literally. Of course what I actually meant was: if housing policy allows for building more housing, with less friction, and less unnecessary cost, developers will naturally build more, and faster, because there's demand, and then people won't have to live in RVs, because there will be housing units available than they can afford.

> Is it just boiled down to the sentiment that you want to "stick to the rich!" by forcing the government to bulldoze their communities?

Wow, not what I said, and not what I think. If you're going to continue to take the most uncharitable interpretations of what I say, I don't really think there's much point in continuing to participate in this discussion.

There's plenty of land in all these places. No need to bulldoze anything. And not sure why you keep bringing up "the government". The government won't be doing anything except making it easier and more affordable to build housing.
by wombatpm | 2025-09-10 03:50:30+00:00
Are they requiring VP approval for zoom meetings? Requiring zoom meetings to be restricted to office network IP addresses?

I’m the kind of employee that would comply, not answer my cell phone and require people to leave voicemails on my desk line, call out people who are multitasking, and actively call out managers who attend meetings via zoom.

RTO with back to back zoom meetings all day is a waste of everyone’s time and energy.

Make management show us the benefit of all this RTO collaboration.

Oh, and I’m done checking email and teams after hours. Not safe to do so while driving.
Ask HN: Is Palantir Apollo just an AWS competitor?
by singlepaynews | 2025-09-10 03:50:56+00:00
I’m watching Palantir’s Apollo explainer (https://vimeo.com/745514542/c0ec314888), and it basically seems like a new set of dashboards for what I normally view via AWS EC2, RDS, and IAM. To be clear, I’m not trying to place a value judgement here, my use of the word “just” is because I feel like I must be missing something, but is Apollo just a dashboard layer over AWS?
by geokon | 2025-09-10 03:51:23+00:00
Maybe Haskell has some solution .. but it seems just an inherent problem with static typing. It's mostly a matter of boilerplate in a sense.

In Clojure, if in your application you extend a record (say from some library) and implement a new protocol, you've effectively implicitly created a new extended record type. In Clojure that happens transparently b/c its dynamic. In the static typing scenario you have to explicitly create this "extended type" that has the parent type and also implements the new protocol. You'd then explicitly use ExtendedRecordA. It can still be used where the parent was expected.

That's more verbose but maybe manageable.. Now if you have multiple libraries extending one record with different protocols .. and then you have a library/application where you included all these libraries. You want to use all these protocols from that one record.. how do you not do that? you'd need some aggregation step to make ExtendedRecordA and ExtendedRecordB and ExtendedRecordC all come together under some new super-type that has all the protocols. It's not impossible but it's just messier
by themafia | 2025-09-10 03:51:27+00:00
> the closed door workers were less impactful in their fields years later

What evidence is there that the open door is the cause and not the symptom? People are individuals. They're not "interchangeable worker units."

> People who don’t interract with peers don’t course correct enough

I can think of a dozen ways to address that without forcing people to open doors they'd rather leave closed.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-09-10 03:51:36+00:00
What you're describing is a fad that has subsided a bit over the last few years. Cambridge MA stopped teaching 8th grade algebra because they didn't like the racial disparity between students in advanced vs non-advanced math. There was a significant backlash from parents, and now they're bringing back 8th grade algebra. The debate now seems to be much more about how to offer more advanced math than whether to offer it at all. A similar dynamic seems to be playing out in other towns as well.
by taxcoder | 2025-09-10 03:52:56+00:00
Because no farmer ever will tell you he had a good year. He should have sold a month earlier than he did, or held on a week longer. Just the way it is, I guess.

In my business I see their books. Good years and bad years. Some things are more volatile - dairy can swing between losses and significant profits. Layers are pretty steady if you are on a contract, as long as you don't get the avian flu. Produce farmers rarely have a loss year, but their high income years are generally not as high as crop farmers, who sometimes do show a significant annual loss. More risk = more reward.

The last few years have been pretty good overall, for my clients.
by Fomite | 2025-09-10 03:53:32+00:00
"But her take-home is next to nothing because on top of parking tickets, repairs and other maintenance on her vehicles, she also donates at least $800 each month to her ministry, Spread the Name of Lord Jesus"

So her take-home is at least $800 a month (which is still very modest), she's just chosen a very specific way to spend it.
by gedy | 2025-09-10 03:53:34+00:00
So pay me enough to afford a home nearby so I can work in the office. Hell, I'll wear a suit too. Oh, I can only get enough to commute in from an exurb 1+ hour commute each way? Buzz off.

Been working since the 80s, and no company has ever paid me enough to buy anything nearby. So I gave up 15 yrs ago and now work full remote where I could afford something.
by wpm | 2025-09-10 03:54:56+00:00
> Not to mention the fact that it is indeed much harder to have collaborative discussions that are spontaneous and unplanned in a WFH setting, compared to the office.

This is a culture thing that is easily fixed by mandating cameras on, buying everyone good microphones, and a consensus that you can ping someone with a question, go back and forth, and know that you aren't imposing by throwing a /zoom into the Slack DM and saying "let's just meet about this".

My team is small, sure, but we are cameras on 100%, we know to pause a sec after someone stops talking for latency, and have a spoken agreement "fuck slack just open a room i'll hop in". We have met in person numerous times and each time it feels identical to work in person as we do remote.

When I meet with other teams, people are in their fucking cars driving, cameras off the whole time (but chewing into the mic), can't figure out how to share their screen (still!), like, no shit that isn't productive, you're putting no effort into it!
by h4ch1 | 2025-09-10 03:55:10+00:00
I can tell you for a fact a lot of budding web developers don't even know a Javascript debugger exists, let alone something as complex/powerful as Valgrind.

All of these are useful skills in your toolkit that give you a way of reasoning about programs. Sure you can plop console.logs everywhere to figure out control/program flow but when you have a much more powerful tool specifically built for this purpose, wouldn't you, as an engineer, attempt to optimize your troubleshooting process?
by brewdad | 2025-09-10 03:55:33+00:00
Much like extending the workday past 10 hours there must be a point of diminishing/negative returns to expecting multiple hours of study per night. Also, those times you list seem indicative of elementary school kids. Most high schoolers are going to be up way past 9pm. Of course, they also probably aren't getting home before 6pm and don't have the luxury of an hour long family dinner every night either.
by monkeycantype | 2025-09-10 03:55:36+00:00
no there is a very specific reason, related to mapping the 2d surface of your body to a 2d mapping on your brain that allows the areas of your brain that process sensory input from your skin to be adjacent to the processing of the areas that are adjacent on the skin that only works with a flip, I can remember what that is, I only remember the tingle of understanding it at the time
by weitendorf | 2025-09-10 03:55:51+00:00
Nazis drink water and post on internet communities too. And that's a homeschool network, not a charter school.

Honestly, this might be a good opportunity for you to think about why you find charter schools such a nonstarter JUST because they tend to have more support among those on the right (which I'm not) than those on the left. That's actually one of the big problems I was trying to point out: people have extremely strong opinions on educational policy because of these ideological left vs right things rather than on what students actually need!
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-10 03:56:01+00:00
You can easily see what the down stream effects of these housing issues are with how many ski towns have been struggling. Exceedingly high property value with low housing availability means it's incredibly hard to field workers for the shit you usually take for granted. The end result is that nobody can afford anything, people start leaving and existing property gets bought up for use as rentals or AirBnB and everything sucks.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/colorado-ski-town-steamboat-...
by atonse | 2025-09-10 03:57:01+00:00
I pay $100 a month and wouldn’t hesitate for a millisecond if I needed to pay the $200/mo plan if I hit rate limits.

It’s hard to overstate how much of a productivity shift Claude code has been for shipping major features in our app. And ours is an elixir app. It’s even better with React/NextJS.

I literally won’t be hitting any “I need to hire another programmer to handle this workload” limits any time soon.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-10 03:57:03+00:00
I genuinely hope that you can please consider the 1st question regarding snapshotting and its doability in bottlefire's / bake's roadmap.

Regarding the 2nd question, I feel like something can definitely be crafted that can enable running stable workloads on gcp/digitalocean spot instances and maybe what bake can do is really make the automation aspect of spot instances / VM migration easier...

Please don't get me wrong, this project looks really cool but I would actually like a first hand response as to (preferably) why this/bake project was created and when/why should someone use this..

I also have many more questions and I feel like haivng a community place can be really helpful here.

Although my open source purist heart wishes for you to use matrix, Its also understandable if you use discord. Do note that there are bridges so you could technically have both matrix and discord and bridge them.

Best wishes for your project.
by measurablefunc | 2025-09-10 03:57:15+00:00
The use in electronics is so small that it's functionally irrelevant to its speculative market price and role in a large-scale economy, making it essentially 'useless' in that context (industrial uses are not moving the price of gold now or even in the future w/ millions of robots in the pipeline)¹. No electronics supplier is going to come to you b/c they ran out of gold dust for the trace amounts they need in their circuits, now or in the future. And if it does somehow become a problem then they will figure out how to recycle it from the old circuit boards (they do this now as well I think but it's still not enough to move the price either way in the speculative markets).

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold?useskin=vector - The consumption of gold produced in the world is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-10 03:58:59+00:00
> However,the United States, particularly in the last 50 years, seems to have fostered a culture averse to education.

I always find it interesting that the anti-schooling mentality is so prevalent here on HN, too. It’s most obvious in threads about cheating, where a popular topic of discussion is to defend cheating as a rational reaction because school doesn’t matter, a degree is “just a piece of paper”, and you’ll learn everything on the job anyway.

It also shows up in the tired argument that college is only really about networking, not learning.

I’ve had some on and off experience mentoring college students in the past. Those who adopt these mentalities often hit a wall partway through college or even at their first job when their baseline intelligence runs out and they realize they don’t have the necessary foundation because they’ve been blowing off coursework or even cheating their way through college for years.

I’m afraid that LLMs are only going to enable more of this behavior. It’s now easier to cheat and students are emboldened by the idea that they don’t need to learn things because they can always just ask ChatGPT.
by monero-xmr | 2025-09-10 03:59:37+00:00
If anything we need to double the amount of money paid to build high-intensity “schools” for those kids, and then reduce the amount of money needed for the good kids, because honestly all of that money is wasted now on the bad ones. We should also imprison criminals but that goes without saying. If we don’t have enough prisons to house violent criminals then we simply need more prisons, or release them only into communities that vote for such a thing (maybe rich liberal communities only etc.)
by tyoma | 2025-09-10 04:00:15+00:00
Chronic absenteeism is a huge misnomer. The statistic covers both excused and unexcused absences.

The reason it’s since covid up is because (more) parents stopped sending their kids to school when they are sick.

Last year I got a semi-threatening letter from the district for “chronic absenteeism” because I didn’t want to send a sick child to school. To their defense, they did say that the state (California) requires them to send the letter.
by XorNot | 2025-09-10 04:00:19+00:00
Small farms are inefficient though. Farming needs a diverse range of skilled labor but infrequently: the industry as a whole trends towards larger land holders being serviced by specialist labor forces which work seasonally or regionally.

And then within that bucket, it's fairly obvious that larger holders are going to be much more resilient to regional problems if they have diversified land holdings where one area can support a downturn in another.

This is all Renaissance era knowledge.
by realz | 2025-09-10 04:01:39+00:00
They say during the gold rush, the people selling shovels made more money than the miners themselves. AI has a similar pattern. Those profiting from AI hype it relentlessly. Meanwhile the butthurts with nothing to sell become the loudest critics, just to stay relevant.

We get it guys. AI sucks and you don't like it. You need not turn yourself into a parrot. Nobody's in the market for your outrage.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 04:01:57+00:00
Who went to prison from Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster[0]?

Who went to prison from Exxon for the Valdez oil spill[1], or from BP for the Deep Water Horizon[2] debacle?

Who went to prison from Norfolk-Southern for the East Palestine train derailment[3]?

Who went to prison from Boeing for the 737Max debacle[4]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palestine%2C_Ohio%2C_trai...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings
by dahart | 2025-09-10 04:02:49+00:00
Hehe, I agree less inflation is good, but that’s a completely cherry picked comparison. 1984 was a one-time GDP growth peak and it immediately dropped and never happened again even though Reagan still had 4 more years. 1979 was the peak inflation and has never happened again under any president. 7 out of 8 of Reagan’s years produced GDP growth ranging from -1.8% to a max of 4.6%. Clearly 1984 was an outlier and not something Reagan’s policies either caused or could maintain. Reagan’s average GDP growth from 1981 to 1989 is 3.84%, and it’s lower than what happened on average during Truman, Johnson, Kennedy and Clinton’s terms. It’s also lower than Nixon’s term, so Reagan wasn’t special even for a Republican president. Does that Wikipedia article’s coverage of multiple metrics for over 70 years with a pretty clear pattern and summary do nothing to sway you?

Some other things that are good for us workers include low federal deficits, income growth, low inequality, and job creation. And Reagan scores poorly on all of those metrics. People aren’t even debating these facts, they’re only debating _why_ Reagan and other Republicans seem to consistently bring the economy down despite their confidence in their economic theories...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locat... [2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG?location...
by Retric | 2025-09-10 04:03:20+00:00
American farmers aren’t some universal entity here. Of course it’s farm subsidies and tariffs that most heavily influence the economy reality for most American farm land, but the average small farm in the US isn’t particularly profitable. In many cases it’s closer to a hobby project than the sole income for a family.

It’s not even just a question of economies of scale, many east coast farmers grow corn just fine without any irrigation systems that’s a lot of capital you can spend on something else. Being able to lease out a tiny fraction of your land for a co-located wind farm alongside agriculture is a huge boon for many. And so it goes across a huge range of different situations.

All this variability is why you don’t see 20+% of US farmland under one giant corporation the way you see in many other industries which benefit more from economies of scale.
by RoyTyrell | 2025-09-10 04:03:23+00:00
I think it is a mix between power play and real-estate. During Covid and late-Covid, management had to let people wfh/remote, and companies were either mass-hiring or mass-layoffs. Insecure management felt like they had their "power" stripped away, and now between the uncertain economy and some being embolden due to the current potus admin, they want to "put workers in their place".

One of my coworkers is a contractor for a local IT/engineering firm, and another client recently lost one of their principle engineers due to him refusing to RTO and quit. Now the VPs he reported under are bad-mouthing him, saying he was "never any good", "screwed everything up", and "not a team player" - which everyone else knows is BS. The employees are just keeping their heads down trying not to get noticed - morale is bad. Management has even noticed and reversed their recent more formal dress code for a Jeans (and a Food Truck once a month) Friday. Needless to say no one is impressed.
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-10 04:03:53+00:00
This just seems like Apple's reality distortion field in full force. There are already thinner phones. Just like there were thinner laptops than Macbook Air when it was launched but Apple fans in their Apple bubble hadn't heard of them and so bought Apple's propaganda.

I say this as someone that owns 2 MacBooks Pros, an Apple TV and an iPhone.
by scubbo | 2025-09-10 04:04:09+00:00
This is just straight-up false? My current home - not the land, the home entire - cost just under 3 years of my salary, or under 2 years of my total comp, and I can go door-to-door in 35 minutes on public transit or 20 by car. (and I'm under 40 and still getting good reviews, so can reasonably hope for my pay to increase considerably in the second half of my career)

Don't get me wrong, that's still way too expensive; but your exaggeration is _way_ off the mark.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-10 04:04:17+00:00
Another aspect is contrast. We put such a lot of effort into getting adequate contrast between background and foreground, and then emoji skin tones destroy it.

On a light background, light skin tones are bad, lacking contrast between background and skin.

Dark skin tones are bad because they lack contrast between skin tone and other details in the emoji; and if on a dark background, dark contrast.

Yellow works well on near-white and near-black backgrounds.
by gh02t | 2025-09-10 04:05:03+00:00
Where does Ubiquiti use OpenWRT? I saw that claim elsewhere in this thread but I'm pretty sure their original devices were based on Vyatta, and their newer stuff is a custom Linux OS of their own that is loosely Debian-flavored. Poking around in the terminal all the Ubiquiti devices I have used are very clearly unrelated to OpenWRT.
by chrisco255 | 2025-09-10 04:05:09+00:00
Yeah assuming money supply is flat or near flat, supply and demand will influence prices in one market or another in relation to the market as a whole, or you may have temporary periods of inflation followed by periods of deflation as we saw in the 1800s.

You can note this in the buying power of the USD during the 1800s: https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1800?amount=1
by bigbuppo | 2025-09-10 04:05:19+00:00
The cult of marketing ruined it. They're still fantasizing about personalisation, which in marketing speak means optimizing a mattress sale opportunity for Ted Waciznski of 932 West Moreland Ave in Walla Walla, Washington next Tuesday at 3:54pm as he reads CNN.com as he has every morning between 11:19am and 11:26am from a mobile device in the same spot every weekday for the past seven years, rather than, you know, "here's a cool thing you asked us to show you." The only links that matter are to an adtech/martech firm, and presumably the company that wants you to buy something.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-10 04:05:45+00:00
Unfortunately it’s a real thing among leftists (not necessarily Democrats in general).

The belief is that any advanced classes increase the achievement gap. People who subscribe to this also believe that advanced placement testing is discrimination and must be eliminated. They want equity of outcome, so reducing the curriculum to a single class at a single level that everyone the same age takes is their preference.

It has been implemented in several places with predictable backlash.