MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sho_hn | 2025-09-29 00:44:20+00:00
> He’s 55, and still learning new stuff, every day.

Why wouldn't you? I'm not retired, and I still pick up new skills and hobbies all the time, too. It's the spice of life.

55 isn't particularly old either. My mother's partner is pushing 75 and in the middle of diving from scratch into SDR and building out a little mesh network.

You'll also find that people who excel in FOSS communities are typically great self-directed learners and good at picking goals. It's survivorship bias in the sense that FOSS communities are bad at task assignment, so you more or less have to bring motivation and picking-directions skills.

It's why I like to hire from the FOSS community (with some caveats). If you are able to provide and environment where they can stroll around your codebase/product and improve things, instead of staying in their lane, they generally will.
by k310 | 2025-09-29 00:44:23+00:00
Advice at the end of the post. See if you can benefit from my crazy quilt career.

When I was in my 20’s, I started out in grad school, but a physics course overwhelmed me. That so happened to be draft era, and my lucky number was 17, so I spent four years in the Coast Guard. (Volunteered. I don’t think they drafted.) and then got started in aerospace.

Looking back, I don’t think that an academic career would have worked out. The fit honestly wasn’t there. How do I know? Well, several aerospace jobs later, I went to work on the staff at Cal Berkeley, as the computer systems manager, and I got a deep look over the fence. I was more comfortable solving small problems that directly impacted people.

One thing I do remember from those 20-ish days is that I built up a small network and we made a few bucks referring each other for jobs. And looking back, it continued, though not always with great results. (Oh, those repeated interviews at the fruit company didn’t pay off) but I see the pattern in retrospect. It opened many doors.

And the oddest thing is that when aerospace was laying off, my wife and I visited a coffee shop and found a newspaper lying about with an ad for that Berkeley position. Newspaper ad? Well, that says how old I am. I found my wife via an ad in a personals newsletter “Trellis Singles” in the valley.

But do make friends, make connections, and ask the universe for unusual opportunities. I was a Woz kind of person but never found the matching “Jobs”. One guy came close, but he trashed his personal life. So long.

Cultivate some lasting hobbies and habits that will give you enjoyment throughout life. Mine were (besides pioneer microcomputers) photography and classical piano, and at my (redacted) age, they are constant delights. Raining? Look for a rainbow. I got one the other evening. And the 50 year old Hasselblad still works fine (needed a minor repair) Not bad. But I am lazy lately.

You will find that taking quality photos in your 20’s will make great memories later on. I married at 36, no less, and took wonderful photos of my daughter growing up. And the stumbling piano practice then, and through the years, suddenly got better when my sight reading took a major leap not so long ago.

Never put off doing a good deed. The opportunity may never come again. Build foundations. And that includes the math skills that somehow got “unwired” from my brain (college was a highly stressful time, late 60’s) I was a jack of all trades person, and each job change built on the previous one, but also demanded going beyond, so learn new stuff all the time.
by mwkaufma | 2025-09-29 00:44:55+00:00
The article's claim is that branchless code avoids branch-prediction, and therefore optimizes better on speculative CPUs for certain workloads. Jump instructions obviously incur branch-prediction; my question is is CMOV incurs branch prediction, also? Certainly the internal micro-ops behind the instructions will still need to make a prediction or stall?
by Spivak | 2025-09-29 00:45:10+00:00
> And for that to happen, the country needs a well-educated population with strong critical thinking skills.

I think we have this already. Sure, if you go looking for it you can find any brand of stupidity you want—and if you want to sell a narrative when you find it you put a camera in front of them. But on the whole we have this. The problem is that the two dominant political parties have fundamentally incompatible visions for the country's future. And, at the national level, that's what we end up voting for. One of these visions has to win and both candidates need to share it before voters can evaluate the individuals. Even in primaries the metric for success isn't the best candidate but who has the best chance of winning in the general.

Pulling back the curtain winning the vision for the new US Right is likely to be a long drawn out fight because for many issues the opposition is a kind of person, e.g. the gays, women, who won't ever "move on" or accept defeat and so will require ongoing active suppression. It's why I'm sad to see Moderate Republicans pushed into obscurity because it seemed for a while there they were within spitting distance of a unified vision.
by aanet | 2025-09-29 00:45:23+00:00
Perhaps change the headline to say famed roboticist == Rodney Brooks... because that matters. A lot.

And I do agree with him. Today's humanoid robots are poorer than any task compared to other, specific / single-purpose robots. And they are more expensive. And they don't generalize. All humanoid companies are burning their $$$$ for sake of cute stories. None of the companies today are revenue generating, let alone profitable.

Perhaps in a decade or longer, when we have better, more robust vision-multi-modal-action models we will have humanoid-ish robots that are actually valuable. And these too are unlikely to be human-like.

Brooks's essay is worth reading in full: https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dex...
by ajhughes7 | 2025-09-29 00:45:27+00:00
My brother and I built Fiterate because existing fitness apps either overcomplicate simple tasks or lack the features serious lifters actually need.

The core problem: existing fitness apps bloat simple workout logging with unnecessary complexity. Instead of a clean, journal-like log, they force users through cluttered interfaces packed with redundant features, GIFs, and confusing navigation that gets in the way of actually tracking your workout.

Technical approach: Built with React Native to reach both iOS and Android users from a single codebase. Used Supabase for authentication and database management - their PostgreSQL backend and built-in auth simplified user management significantly.

Key technical challenges:

- Wrote an algorithm to detect muscle groups from exercise names and movement patterns, giving our AI better data for workout recommendations

- Implementing varying rep schemes while maintaining the simple journal layout

- Design philosophy of keeping things minimal while fitting extensive functionality on single screens - screen space optimization is ongoing (currently working on condensing nutrition display when users scroll through meals)

What we built:

- Journal-style workout logging with notes and flexible rep schemes

- Integrated nutrition tracking (barcode scanner, search, quick add)

- AI helper for training questions based on user data

- Built using React Native and Supabase. Launched iOS first, Android coming soon.

- The app is live now. Looking for feedback on just about everything: pain points, missing features, our technical approach (RN + Supabase at scale, schema design, performance tradeoffs) and whether our journal-style UI feels like the right call.
Show HN: Faeb – Standardized Website Development Packages with Client Dashboard
by raazique | 2025-09-29 00:45:56+00:00
We built Faeb to solve a simple but frustrating problem: most businesses struggle to get a professional website without running into trust issues, hidden pricing, or inconsistent quality.

Agencies often overcharge, freelancers sometimes compromise on delivery, and DIY platforms like Wix/Squarespace leave many gaps.

Faeb offers standardized website development packages that are SEO-ready, mobile-first, and conversion-focused. Every project comes with:

A client dashboard for real-time project tracking (no endless back-and-forth)

Transparent, standardized pricing with no hidden surprises Delivery in as little as 5 days

An in-house affiliate system so consultants and firms can earn by referring clients

We launched in January 2025, and we’re now doing around ₹2 lakh (~$24K ARR) monthly revenue. Still early, but growing. Would love feedback from the HN community on:

What pain points do you think are most critical for SMBs in website development?

Any thoughts on how we could improve our dashboard or affiliate system?

You can check us out at https://faeb.in.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-29 00:46:49+00:00
Desoldering is ridiculous. It's much more likely to damage the board, requires a much less common level of skill and doesn't allow you to check the existing data or do the reset prophylactically without performing the dangerous and expensive operation.

Meanwhile it provides no meaningful resistance against physical access because someone with physical access can swap the entire board or a dozen other things.
by zaidhaan | 2025-09-29 00:48:38+00:00
One thing to note about these two APIs is that they affect how the session history (the back/forward stack) behaves, but the global browser history (entries shown in the History tab) is separate.

Most browsers record every change in the global history regardless of whether `history.pushState` or `history.replaceState` is used. The HTML Spec[0] is explicit about session history but does not define how global history should behave.

I can understand why the spec makes no mention of this -- global history is a user-facing UI feature, similar to address bar autocomplete, and it makes sense for browsers to control this behavior. That said, I'm always annoyed when I look into my history tab after visiting a page like this (e.g. Vercel Domains[1]), and see my global history flooded with entries for each individual keystroke I've made, all in the name of "user experience".

In this particular case, it's just a fun gimmick, but for everyday websites I'd much prefer if they just debounced the updates to the URL to avoid cluttering the global history.

[0]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#navigation-and-session-history

[1]: https://vercel.com/domains
by 29athrowaway | 2025-09-29 00:48:53+00:00
Not because you are next to a Lamborghini it means it's yours.

And many houses featured in videos are content houses... (lavish rentals for influencers to have a luxury background for their videos)

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

https://blog.giggster.com/how-to-rent-a-tiktok-collab-house-...
by stein1946 | 2025-09-29 00:49:04+00:00
> in every industry where AI has achieved any level of mastery.

Which industries are those? What does that mastery look like?

> There's a divide between people ...

No, there is not. If one is not willing to figure out a couple of ffmpeg flags, comb through k8s controller code to see what is possible and fix that booting error in their VMs then failure in "mental experiences" is certain.

The most successful people I have met in this profession are the ones who absolutely do not tolerate magic and need to know what happens from the moment they press the ON on their machine, till the moment they turn is OFF again.
by metadat | 2025-09-29 00:50:21+00:00
It is a long paper, so not immediately obvious.

> The study links evolutionary neuroscience with neurodevelopmental disease, suggesting that the unusually high incidence of autism in humans might be a byproduct of selection shaping our brains.

> It suggests that key neuron types in the human brain are subject to particularly strong evolutionary pressures, especially in their regulatory landscapes.

> If valid, it opens a new lens through which to think about neurodiversity: certain vulnerabilities might be inextricable from the very changes that made human cognition distinctive
by tzs | 2025-09-29 00:51:41+00:00
Biden gave 80 full pardons. The other 4165 were commutations.

The difference is that a full pardon effectively negates the conviction (or prevents conviction if granted to someone not yet convicted). Any rights lost due to the felony conviction such as voting rights, firearm rights, holding some public offices, and such are restored.

A commutation merely reduces the sentence, sometimes to time already served so that the person is immediately released, and sometimes to a lesser sentence but not on that will result in earlier release (e.g., a President could commute a death sentence to life without parole). It does not restore any rights that were lost due to the felony conviction.

Most of Biden's commutations were for non-violent drug possession, with a large fraction of those being for marijuana. Many of these were for cases that nowadays would not even have been prosecuted.

Compare to Trump. Almost 1600 of his were full pardons for January 6 people. Only 14 of them were commutations, which were to time served.
by godelski | 2025-09-29 00:54:20+00:00
> but writing 500 meaningful lines to an existing 100k line codebase in a day is not easy at all.

I've had plenty of instances where it's taken more than a day to write /one line/ of code! I suspect most experienced devs have also had these types of experiences.

Not because the single line was hard to write but because the context in which it needed to be written.

Typing was never the bottleneck and I'm not sure why this is the main argument for LLMs (e.g. "LLMs save me from the boilerplate). When typing is a bottleneck it seems like it's more likely that the procedure is wrong. Things like libraries, scripts, and skeletons tend to be far better solutions for those problems. In tough cases abstraction can be extremely powerful, but abstraction is a difficult tool to wield.

The bottleneck is the thinking and analyzing.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-29 00:54:24+00:00
I was curious how much I would have to click around to reach some strange hallucinations. It turns out it didn't take long! This page on Entity‑relationship model has the following line [1]:

"Tools such as Oracle Designer, Microsoft Visio, and open‑source platforms generate ER diagrams to aid developers in visualizing schema structures and ensuring Sean Goedecke."

I love the idea of "ensuring Sean Goedecke", and that developers are actively working to do so, lol! Something something John Connor something something

[1] https://www.endlesswiki.com/wiki/Entity%E2%80%91relationship...
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-29 00:54:40+00:00
No taxation without representation, so if your Congresscritter declares they don't represent you (because you identify as the opposite party and therefore are the enemy) then you have no responsibility to pay tax, a uniquely American sensibility

Of course the legal and ethical way to perform a tax protest is to simply have so little income that you don't owe them a thing
by marklar423 | 2025-09-29 00:55:35+00:00
There are certain genetic markers you can test for, but not all forms of autism appear in the tests we have today.

Then there's things like the folate blocking antibody (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4783401/) which you can do a blood test for, but again not all people with autism have the antibody.
by analog31 | 2025-09-29 00:55:39+00:00
>>> When I finished school in 2010 (yep, along time ago now), I wanted to go try and make it as a musician. I figured if punk bands could just learn on the job, I could too. But my mum insisted that I needed to do something, just in case.

Amusing coincidence. I also wanted to be a rock star, or at least a successful working musician. My mom also talked me out of it. Her argument was: If there's no way to learn it in school, then go to school anyway and learn something fun, like math. Then you can still be a rock star. Or a programmer, since I had already learned programming.

So I went to college as a math major, and eventually ended up with a physics degree.

I still play music, but not full time, and with the comfort of supporting myself with a day job.
by floam | 2025-09-29 00:56:08+00:00
Yeah, you could lose control of some account and that would be pretty awkward if your Goodbye Farewell just plopped out when you went in to extend it another week but found out you’re sitting on a support ticket.

Or worse; I dunno get hit by a bus and be in the hospital, or perhaps arrested? Friends and family don’t know what happened to you and then your death announcement blares.

I think only people expecting their death to be likely in the next year should want to employ this however, and that probably changes things.
Show HN: AI Qualitative Analysis Better Than ChatGPT
by junetic | 2025-09-29 00:57:58+00:00
If you've ever tried dumping a bunch of transcripts or surveys to chatGPT for nuanced quoted tags and themes to extract qualitative insights and patterns—you likely know the results are not great.

We built a tool that makes qualitative and thematic analysis way much more nuanced and accurate than chatGPT while 10x faster than manual tagging.

Try it out and let us know what you think.
by renshijian | 2025-09-29 00:58:18+00:00
The CEO is essentially saying, "I know my AI podcast makes listeners miserable, but I'm going to keep producing more of it." This creates the most honest customer relationship model in business history—knowing the product is frustrating, yet winning through volume. This may be the beginning of a new variant of "digital Stockholm syndrome": listeners will eventually accept these AI voices because they have nowhere else to escape
by strogonoff | 2025-09-29 00:59:05+00:00
I agree that commercially operated LLMs undermine the entire idea of IP, but it is one of the problems with them, not with the concept of intellectual property, which is an approximation of what has been organically part of human society motivating innovation since forever: benefits of being an author and degree of ownership over intangible ideas. When societies were smaller and local, it just worked out and you would earn respect and status if you came up with something cool, whereas in a bigger and more global society that relies on the rule of law rather than informal enforcement legal protections are needed to keep things working sort of the same way.

I doubt anyone would consider it a problem if large-scale commercial LLM operators were required to respect licenses and negotiate appropriate usage terms. Okay, maybe with one exception: their investors and shareholders.
by analog31 | 2025-09-29 00:59:19+00:00
General quantitative thinking, and a sense of statistics, are still valuable. If you don't learn them from Bayes specifically, you should learn them somehow. The "square root of n rule" is still a stern master. And we're still not past having to think about whether our results make sense.

[0] The rule of thumb that signal-to-noise improves with the square root of the number of measurements. Also, as my dad put it: "The more bad data we average together, the closer we get to the wrong answer."
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-29 00:59:32+00:00
> I don't see how such a system gives the government more powers.

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

When the state is more likely to cause you problems than help you out, you want them to be bad at it. The corrupt cop going on a fishing expedition to try to bust you for something because you're dating his ex, who can't find anything because it's "spread out, fragmented, stored with multiple conflicting versions" -- that's what you want to happen.

It's also not just about the government. If you give everyone a government ID which is easy to use over the internet, private companies will then demand that you use it over the internet and use it as a tracking ID. Which is the evil to be inhibited.
by belorn | 2025-09-29 00:59:59+00:00
To expand a bit on Scandinavia, let me describe my 5 different but equal valid identification systems that I personally own that is valid to use in order to identify myself towards the government, two (mostly) digital and three physical with digital parts.

I got one passport with bio metric data and chips in it. One national ID card with bio metric data and chip in it. One driving license card without bio metric data and I don't know if there is a chip or not inside.

Then I got two digital eid systems, bank id and freya. The bank id is initially created by using a physical device that the bank provides, and the other one is created with a smart phone to scan the passport in combination with face recognition.

I can't really say if the multiple digital eid systems give the government an increase in authority, through its hard to say. Mostly it just messy to carry so many different identification systems that basically do the same thing. The current discussion that I see in Sweden mostly focus on turning the physical cards into digital.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-09-29 01:01:23+00:00
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skepticism

Thats the actual term and its missing from public debate and school curricula.

Most people that consider themselfs atheists are actually undecided, so more of a skeptic then a strong believer in none-god. Questioning your beliefs is the crucial skill skeptics practice and some "rationalists" lack.
by godelski | 2025-09-29 01:01:40+00:00
> It's entirely possible to have a 100k LOC system be made up of effective a couple hundred 500 line programs that are composed together to great effect.

I'm confused. Are you imagining a program with 100k LoC is contained in a single file? Because you'd be insane to do such a thing. It's normally a lot of files with not LoC each, which de facto meets this criteria.

You may also wish to look at UNIX Philosophy. The idea that programs should be small and focused. A program should do one thing and do it well. But there's a generalization to this philosophy when you realize a function is a program.

I do agree there's a lot of issues with design these days but I think you've vastly oversimplified the problem.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-29 01:02:18+00:00
You're not incorrect, but this is the same sort of risk you take when buying an index fund, just that index funds have 100x more entries, so are much more diversified. Eg, we could rewrite this about an index fund like:

"Yeah, but imagine how bad a day you're having if all of those [stocks drop] at once, and then as a cherry on top you [enter a recession]."

I'm not saying this is exactly like buying an index fund. I'm very un-knowledgable about CAT bonds. I'm just saying that your criticism holds for _every_ diversified bundle of risks.
by kouru225 | 2025-09-29 01:03:16+00:00
For me 2.16 3 looks like:

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| _ B _ B B

^^^^^^^

Link to screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/odDYg9K

When I use Librewolf I think I get the intended render, but using Firefox this is what I get
by agentcoops | 2025-09-29 01:03:16+00:00
There's an ambiguity in the title, reflected in some comments below. It can be understood either as the claim that "in a particular human being, to be intelligent as measured by IQ means that you are more likely to be autistic", suggesting for example a trade-off between social and general intelligence; or the claim that "the evolution of the human brain and so human intelligence as such, which characterizes both those of low and high IQ, entailed those genetic shifts that made autism a possibility for our species but not other primates." The paper argues a form of the latter.
by jowea | 2025-09-29 01:03:21+00:00
But that's more because they want to keep the charter, no? I mean that keeping the UK constitution "living" is much easier since the written parts can be legally changed easily. And the 2 party system is a result of US electoral and constitutional law, which is entrenched. If the US had a new constitution from scratch today I don't think it would feature the electoral college, it's there because of legal inertia.