MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ModernMech | 2025-09-25 15:13:52+00:00
Every use of AI has its own problem of "person with 10 fingers" that AI image generation faces and can't seem to solve. For programmers, it's code that calls made up libraries and makes up language semantics. In prose, it's completely incoherent narratives that forget where they are going halfway through. For programmers it's making up case law and citations. Same for scientists, making up authorities and papers and results.

AI art is getting better but still it's very easy for me to quickly distinguish AI result from everything else, because I can visually inspect the artifacts and it's usually not very subtle.

I'm not a radiologist, but I would imagine AI is doing the same thing here, making up things that are cancer, missing things that aren't cancer, and it takes an expert to distinguish the false positives from true. So we're back at square one, except the expertise has shifted from interpreting the image to interpreting the image and also interpreting the AI.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-25 15:14:26+00:00
DOGE is, I think, a response to a real issue Americans have with their government: its process of evaluating cost and benefit is glacial in a world that is moving ever faster.

Unfortunately, it's glacial for a reason; there's 380 million people in the country and 8 billion in the world. That's a lot of effect to weigh when making changes to the status quo.

There's a three-panel comic about a person deciding they need change in their life and getting it by taking a chainsaw to their room. Panel three is them looking around and going "oh no." That is, unfortunately, sort of how I conceptualize DOGE.
by altruios | 2025-09-25 15:14:27+00:00
Cutting costs are not inherently good.

Junk food can be cheaper than healthy food, it's not good to save on money now at the cost of spending thousands on medical care and insulin in the future.

Or to paraphrase Terry Pratchett: "boots at $10 dollars that last a month are more expensive than $50 dollar boots that last a year" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

It's the difference between being cheap and being frugal...

There's also the allegation that Elon's Doge cuts were to prevent various agencies from pursuing legal action against him.
by kentonv | 2025-09-25 15:14:30+00:00
It does better. It supports callbacks, including callback objects with multiple methods. So to define a stream, you just send the other side an object with a `write()` and an `end()` method. The other side calls `write()` for each chunk of the stream, then eventually calls `end()`. You can also give the stream a `[Symbol.dispose]()` method which will be called when the other side disconnects, so you can detect premature disconnect.
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-25 15:14:31+00:00
"Tuned" as in the directional radars that makeup the backbone of their air defenses weren't looking West.

The TPQ-36 has a 90º azimuth - it can literally only look in 1 direction. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/TPQ-36_Firefinder_radar)

For fixed threats - e.g. detecting Iranian strikes, the TPS-80 radars are made to be stationary to provide better coverage/resolution of the direction of incoming missiles.

The US uses satellite systems that can detect ground-launched ballistic missiles - and if we're looking with our AEW&C, we can likely see an air-launched one, but we had no reason to be looking for air-launched ballistic missiles over the Red Sea.

Don't take my word for it..

> The Israeli Air Force (IAF) fighters were over the Red Sea when they fired air-launched ballistic missiles, an unnamed U.S. defense official told the Associated Press. In this way, Israeli aircraft didn’t need to enter the airspace of any Middle East country, and the missiles arrived from a direction that the air defenses in Qatar were not focused on looking. The missiles would have also passed over Saudi Arabia at very high altitudes, likely outside the Earth’s atmosphere.

https://www.twz.com/air/new-info-on-how-u-s-military-was-cau...
by STKFLT | 2025-09-25 15:14:46+00:00
Because the DMA legally obligates them to share those APIs when they are necessary to implement a feature for a connected device. The goal of the regulation is to promote healthy competition for connected devices by outlawing self-preferencing by massive players. Reasonable people can disagree about the goals or the downstream effects of the DMA, but creating Private APIs for connected device features absolutely falls under the umbrella of self-preferencing.
by muzani | 2025-09-25 15:14:51+00:00
When I was in university, there were a whole bunch of people who "gooned" and failed exams. Most were from conservative families and were not given any internet access whatsoever. They never built the "antibodies" for the wild wild web.

I do restrict my kids' phone access, but often it's with discussion. I tell them I'm shutting down their phone access. Usually when they don't do their homework or when they start getting emotional. They'll build the self control muscle. And when they find the hard stuff, they'll be a little more prepared.
by KronisLV | 2025-09-25 15:14:55+00:00
> This makes logical sense, but it's challenging to implement because it can feel like admitting we're not smart enough to understand the code. However, saying "I don't understand this enough to approve it" is far more valuable than pretending with an empty "LGTM".

Sounds nice but I’m sure that there are projects out there that are like constantly being in the trenches, testing in prod and the original developers being long gone, where the devs manage to barely keep alive this WH40kesque monstrosity. Where all of the code has a lot of incidental complexity that will just never be resolved.

Alternatively, there’s probably countries and companies out there where that attitude would get you flagged as someone who is slowing down the velocity and get you fired - because there’s an oversaturation of devs in the local market and you’re largely an expendable cog.

Surely there’s other methods, formal or LLM driven that could be used to summarize changes and help explore everything bit by bit (especially when there’s just one big commit that says “fix” as a part of the PR).

Sometimes I get too caught up with coming up with contrived scenarios where “best effort” just will never happen but I bet someone out there is living that reality right now.
by ajmurmann | 2025-09-25 15:15:05+00:00
There are definitely things in the system that drive prices up (like lack of competition (see CON) and middle men). However, a big reason you see this high cost and difference between countries is Baumol cost disease. Productivity and salaries in the US are very high. Meanwhile healthcare, like education for example, has seen very low productivity improvements. This leads to an ever increasing price. It's unintuitive because the healthcare workers didn't get more productive. However, they could be more productive elsewhere, so comp needs to go up to stay competitive with other options available to the workers. One might argue that nurses for example still earn very little, given how hard and important their work is but that's precisely what you'd see in areas affected by Baumol. The comp only gets dragged up to keep people from quitting or striking. There is little to no competition for something like a "10x nurse" because that's not a thing and the industry struggles to keep justifying their high prices while TV prices keep dropping and dropping and cellphones keep getting more impressive.
by reducesuffering | 2025-09-25 15:15:37+00:00
Lower returns isn't accurate. Small Cap Value as an asset class has actually outperformed the returns of the total market over the long term: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-asset-class-all...

I know there's consensus that smaller caps are actually higher beta and thus higher risk. However, I don't believe there's any consensus on value being lower beta, less risky, or less returns. After all, large cap and mid cap value also outperformed total market: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-asset-class-all...
by appreciatorBus | 2025-09-25 15:15:39+00:00
I do this on my iPad for the same reason. I don’t know if it helps, but it mainly lives on my coffee table, never more than a few feet away from an outlet if I need it, so it’s easy, and feels like a form of cheap insurance. So far it’s a year old and only just ticked down to 99% battery health so I’m crossing my fingers.
by leakycap | 2025-09-25 15:16:01+00:00
> I think iPads have too much of a stigma now (not a 'real' 'computer')

This is conflating what has been said in techy reviews and forums like this as if this is how the average technology buyer feels.

iPads are everywhere. Literally, they come with cars as digital manuals, they're on walls in houses, they're used for cash registers, they're used in medical offices... people think of "computers" as something hooked to a monitor on a desk, and most people don't want anything to do with one.
by johtso | 2025-09-25 15:16:21+00:00
Please tell me this supports some kind of idempotency.. I fear it wont.

The kind of hoops I've had to jump through to achieve DIY idempotency with Postmark would make you cringe, a shared lock to avoid race conditions, and then using the API to check if an email with the unique id (manually added to the metadata when sending) has not already been sent before sending an email.

Being safe in the knowledge that an email with some unique key will only be delivered once regardless of bugs, processes dying mid task, network issues etc. just makes life so much simpler. The risk of sending duplicate emails or at worst spamming your users due to some more nefarious bug is something that you really want to guard against at as low a level as possible. Sure this might not be quite as consequential as duplicate charges through the Stripe API for example (Stripe have always seemed to lead the way with good API design in this regard).. doThing(data) is _not_ good enough for executing tasks over a network that are effectful, have a cost, and potentially risk your reputation if things go wrong. Idempotency keys should far more widely supported!
by myrmidon | 2025-09-25 15:16:29+00:00
> The issue with American healthcare is the profit-seeking capitalists.

Profit seeking capitalists would be fine if healthcare was a competitive market, like grocery sale.

But it isn't, and I honestly don't see how to make it one. Full price transparency would help, but I don't believe classical free market selfregulation can work out for the healthcare sector, by design.

You need good ability of healthcare customers to judge quality of treatment/medication, to know prices beforehand and to have sufficient choice for market dynamics to work, and every single one of those points is somewhere between really difficult and impossible.
by g-b-r | 2025-09-25 15:16:33+00:00
> Intermediate commits are for the author's benefit, not the reviewer's.

I don't even know how could commits only benefit the author; if they're poor they won't help him either, if not as a log of how much work he's done.

Unless you make a PR for every insignificant change, PRs will most often be composed of series of changes; the individual commits, if crafted carefully, will let you review every step of the work of the author quickly.

And if you don't eschew merges, with commits you can also group series of related modifications.
by rtkwe | 2025-09-25 15:17:07+00:00
Did you check the actual dimensions it would be?!

If you're being accurate in both distance and size scales your smallest dot would be Mercury and the distance from the Sun to Neptune (assuming this is a modern text book and we're dropping Pluto) would be 922000 of those dots. Even if we print it at the higher 1200 PPI [0] used for line art that's ~770 inches, that's a huge image far larger than any reasonable book. You could do it with a fold out but that's it's own expense and unreasonable for inclusion in an actual textbook.

That's why I was saying doing both accurate size and distance is difficult for the solar system.

[0] Images are more often printed at 300 PPI but I'm giving you the best case scenario here.
Show HN: Aqtos – business OS for SMBs and teams
by ddano | 2025-09-25 15:17:09+00:00
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by rcleveng | 2025-09-25 15:17:38+00:00
Even with those pricing structures, 95%[1] of the spam I get comes from sendgrid. To their credit, their abuse@ address is good at handling the reports and they reply with a followup that the report was received and able to be acted upon[2].

The volume of spam (for me) doesn't seem to be decreasing from them, so there's a lot of moles to whack.

[1] Just a guess from looking at the last weeks [2] I know it's automated, but often there's 2 that come with the 2nd one stating it's acted upon, so i'm hopeful.
by panphora | 2025-09-25 15:17:39+00:00
You're cherry picking the tech titans that made it out of the Dot Com boom alive. The NASDAQ-100 had to replace 36 of its components between 2000-2002 due to bankruptcies and delistings - nobody knew in 1999 which companies would be the survivors.

The NASDAQ topped at 5,048.62 on March 10, 2000. It took 15 years for the NASDAQ to recover to its dot-com peak level. In those 15 years, you got an inflation-adjusted negative annualized ROI.

Annualized return of the NASDAQ from the 2000 peak to today is an inflation-adjusted 3.4%. Even "sure thing" blue chips like Cisco and Intel still haven't recovered their 2000 peaks in real terms, 25 years later.
by root_axis | 2025-09-25 15:17:42+00:00
A post like this makes the rounds every few months on HN. What posts like this neglect to consider is that the overwhelming majority of people who use social media apps didn't use the internet during the "old" era. The reality is, this is nerd nostalgia that nobody cares about or wants besides a sub-population of nerds. The masses don't care about blogs, rss, or small networks. The internet grew because the social media and internet companies invested billions in bringing the masses online via these shiny addictive platforms - the "old web" is never going to appeal to them - it is a relic of the past.
Show HN: Structify – Chat to Build Polars Data Pipelines with a Rust Scraper
by taixhi | 2025-09-25 15:18:02+00:00
We build a platform to create Polars data pipelines and run them end-to-end. Data can come from our Rust scraping engine (browser management + proxies, scales across containers), api/db connections or from excel/csv files. It’s a quicker way to go from “I need this dataset” to “here’s the pipeline + structured output,” without hand-writing a ton of boilerplate.
by RandomBacon | 2025-09-25 15:18:07+00:00
My understanding is that "Best Practice" is to use different companies for different services (not to have all of your "eggs in one basket") in case something goes wrong with one company and they take everything down.

This is what I have...

Domain Name Registrar: Dynadot

DNS: Cloudlare

Hosting: Dreamhost

Email: Fastmail

Should everything be under Cloudflare? I think they also do domain name registration and now, soon email. Not sure off the top of my head if they do hosting.
by lordkrandel | 2025-09-25 15:18:39+00:00
> The word violence implies your physical safety is under threat.

No, that's a total fallacy. Theft is violence, there is no physical harm. Discrimination is violence, there is no physical harm. Demeaning and bullying is violence even through words and insults. Still no physical harm.

And you can respond to violence with non-violent methods.
by dbg31415 | 2025-09-25 15:19:34+00:00
“Over 30? We don’t think you can be trained to use AI.”

Feels like another form of age discrimination in tech. Anyone who had a good idea how to do things costs too much money, and it’s better to hire people who blindly trust the AI to do the work. If you can’t spot hallucinations or bad code, do they exist? =P
by maz1b | 2025-09-25 15:20:24+00:00
It's unfortunate that email hosting and email infrastructure can really be done only well by major players. The days of people running and maintaining their own are pretty much long gone.

Fwiw, not a knock against CF. I like their products, mostly simple, fair pricing, etc. Just a bit unfortunate commentary on the state of email infra on the internet.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-25 15:20:24+00:00
Research funding is a rounding error.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

$965B is Medicare - healthcare for old people

$885B is Health (aka Medicaid) - healthcare for poor people

$360B Veterans Benefits and Services - at least half of this is healthcare for active and retired military (subset of federal government employees)

The healthcare for non military federal government employees is not included in the above amounts, nor is the state government and lower government level spending on healthcare for employees.

Combine the above numbers with $1.45T in Social Security (cash given to old people), and all other US federal government expenses pale in comparison to wealth transfers to old and sick people.
by ajmurmann | 2025-09-25 15:20:28+00:00
Hyenas typically eat carcasses. Similarly it seems PE usually buys already distressed businesses. Is the problem the PE or are they making the best from what's left of a dead business? I genuinely don't know.

Anecdotally, here in Portland metro everyone is upset about a PE firm that's ruining several beloved local restaurant chains. They bought them up during the pandemic and now many of them are closing. The local Reddit is hating on the PE firm. I suspect these restaurants would have closed during the pandemic if it hadn't been for the acquisition. They then failed anyways because certain parts of our metro area didn't recover well. I don't have access to their books. So I'm just speculating but this seems highly likely to me.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-25 15:20:42+00:00
As someone already pointed out, PE owned hospitals are in states with, and in states without, CON requirements. Certainly on the face of that fact it would appear the existence, or nonexistence, of CON requirements has no effect on PE hospitals charging more and having far inferior outcomes.

Do you have a hypothesis as to why CON requirements are driving inferior outcomes and increased cost metrics at PE owned hospitals? (A hypothesis that accounts for the fact that PE owned hospitals underperform even in the absence of CON requirements.)

Serious question. I'm trying to get my head around this.
by richwater | 2025-09-25 15:20:50+00:00
> EU is not negotiating from a position of strength.

This is starting to become apparent in a variety of aspects of life. The past 2 or 3 decades the EU (and most of the world) has sort of ignored "might makes right" in favor of mutual respect.

However, when shit hits the fan, you need to negotiate from a strong position like you've said and the EU lacks that -- customers, supply chains, military, economic, you name it.
by cloudflare728 | 2025-09-25 15:20:52+00:00
This is exactly the service I was looking for. I am using cloudflare email forwarding but couldn't find anything about how to send form data from webpage to email.

All the email service that I could find has monthly subscription, no pay as you go offer. Hopefully, cloudflare will offer pay as you go.

Is there a way to get priority in waitlist? I don't mind bugs.
by riemannzeta | 2025-09-25 15:21:02+00:00
What ways? I'm curious. Have you written anything about this? I'd be interested in reading more of what you see as possible.

If we think about stability from first principles, then when you're talking about aggregating up billions and trillions of transactions, each of which occurs with some characteristic frequency, then the primary factors are coupling strength (how correlated or uncorrelated are those frequencies?) and bandwidth (how wide is the spread of their characteristic frequencies).

It's very popular right now to look down on the central banks for the inflationary influence of monetary policy. Less well appreciated is their role in damping volatility through decoupling (by calming herding behavior -- e.g., stopping bank runs) and increasing bandwidth (by offering the longest terms of credit and the ultimate put).

I believe you have to look all the way back to how market panics were resolved by J.P. Morgan (the person) to get a sense of how volatility in a internet-native stable coin might be addressed. I love crypto, but I don't see that crypto has fundamentally changed human nature, which means that ultimately some crypto holder will have to serve as the liquidity provider of last resort. This, in turn, raises all the same questions about centralization vs. decentralization and democratic values that we have with respect to the central banks in terms of how they handle monetary policy.

But maybe there's a way I haven't seen yet.
by javier_e06 | 2025-09-25 15:21:02+00:00
I see Pull Requests and Code Reviews the same way as making a sandwich for someone else. My team wants for me prepare a sandwich ASAP.

They, the reviewers, have to eat it, not me.

Some reviewers want wonder bread bread with a slice of spam.

Some want hand-made spreads with home-grown vegetables.

Is easier to fix a sandwich than a wedding cake.

The take-away

Don't do wedding cakes.
by array_key_first | 2025-09-25 15:21:03+00:00
I don't think they go at all, I think software development is just bad all around. Almost all software is really, really bad and we just put up with it or are used to it.

Most software does not value consistency or UX maintenance AT ALL.

What I mean is, a lot of those older programs arguably had much better user interfaces in terms of usability. More contrast, more text instead of glyphs, and often still simpler.

UI is like fashion, it changes because change is good. Not because those particular changes are good.

Compare Windows 11 and 7, or XP, or even in a lot of ways 95. What's the prettier experience? 11, I guess. But which one doesn't make me scream at the computer? Not 11.

But it's not just Microsoft, Apple does it too. We throw away literal YEARS of user understanding and memory for nothing. Users get tired over time. They can't keep up, nobody can, and it gets frustrating when things just get worse and worse over time.
by chankstein38 | 2025-09-25 15:21:09+00:00
My partner and I were just talking about this yesterday. It's so infuriating I can't even select my order number out of a text on my Samsung phone anymore without copying the whole message and getting the code out of that. Or on reddit you can't copy text or copy a link or even see what a link is before you click it. It's insane.
by nenenejej | 2025-09-25 15:21:11+00:00
Is this posted to imply things are overvalued and due for correction?

If so there is one issue with that. It is more tax efficient to have lower earnings and disguise profit and reinvestment as R&D cost.

Tech companies can do this covertly due to the jack of all trade Software Engineering (and friends) roles that could be BAU or RD work.

When a metric becomes a target it ceases to become a good metric. But when an accounting metric causes you billions of dollars in tax, and you are mostly compensated in share price not earnings it becomes really skewed!
by righthand | 2025-09-25 15:21:46+00:00
MBAs at the leadership level have no money making ideas they all just ride some trend wave until they can make an excise to fire you for it and collect your operational capital as a yearly bonus. The LLM hype wave is the perfect scape goat.

We essentially are empowering small businesses to run like the Dept of Government Efficiency (which is a joke and used to shift tax payer dollars to wealthy Trump supporters).