MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonotime | 2025-09-15 18:19:01+00:00
The conversation here has been really interesting since it shows we all have subtly different abilities and issues around slow processing.

I am a senior/staff software engineer with 20 years of experience and who would be considered a top performer. Quick wittedness is something I rely on but technical thinking is always slow. White board interviews are nearly impossible. So finding work is ROUGH.

I wouldn't call my self the class clown, but I am often the first one to crack a joke and people look to me for lighthearted fun. I often hope this will save me in interviews as I rely on my past work and personality are my strong traits. All of the jobs I got through this, or from a personal referral. Never through a technical interview.

My way of coping with this has always been to work more hours then everyone else. It helps that I am also more passionate about what I am working on then those around me. I work on open source in my free time, while my co-workers have barely heard of Linux. If it were not for my love of the craft, I be miserable in this industry.

I first noticed this all when I was a kid and started taking more advanced classes. I’d have to take copious notes and deeply review them after class to make sure I knew what was going on. While my friends would listen once and ace the tests. I was also always behind on reading speed since I had to read things 2 or 3 times before the words really registered in my brain.

As a side note, I recently worked with a real version of the oh-so mythical 10x programmer. And he was a college intern! Running loops around the rest of us at our startup. He was doing the work of several of us older programmers. I think most of it was do to his 0-friction processing of information. Read, assimilate, code. Interesting to watch. They do exist.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-15 18:19:46+00:00
It’s a trend that’s visible in other designs too, like Material 3 Expressive.

I’m not a fan of Windows but I believe that probably the best modern UI design system for desktops right now is probably the flavor of Fluent used in Windows 11. It still retains somewhat desktop-like information density, doesn’t go overboard on radii, and has a touch of depth. I’d like to see more design languages exploring in its general direction.
by bhaktatejas922 | 2025-09-15 18:19:47+00:00
We just doubled our speculative code edit throughput and hit 10k tok/sec per request!

Morph now merges code at 10,500 tokens/sec — roughly 4× faster than the best speeds on Cerebras.

That kind of speed makes previously impractical workloads trivial: applying complex edits across a 40k-token document now takes under 4 seconds. This isn’t a vanity metric - we think it unlocks an entirely new domain of AI use cases where codebases, configs, or long documents can be semantically edited in real time.

Morph is a Fast Apply model dedicated to merging edits from frontier LLMs We want to enable developers to build realtime interfaces with AI
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-15 18:20:02+00:00
> Drop the T. Protect children. Enforce laws in our urban murder cities... Or continue to lose the culture war.

Protect children from what? Our what cities? What do you believe is centrist about these stances? These are straight up verbatim right wing talking points. Stand up for your beliefs and join your actual allies instead of pretending to be mine.
Show HN: Ads-free Win98 minesweeper game vibe coded with Cursor
by mnfjorge | 2025-09-15 18:20:26+00:00
Hey everyone,

Me and my friend were at a restaurant a week ago and he was complaining how the apps stores only have minesweeper games with ads.

While we waited for our food, I got Cursor to vibe-code this minesweeper game as a PWA application so it can be installed and played offline.

If was just for fun, but it's turning out great (we have been polishing it for a week so far) and it actually got me addicted to the old Win98 minesweeper game again (yes, I'm getting old).

If you're curious, here is the repo: https://github.com/mnfjorge/minesweep

Let me know your feedback :)

Cheers, Marcio
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-15 18:20:28+00:00
Consider Phlebas is an incredibly boring book imo, would not recommend it unless you get way into the series and want to read them all. The Player of Games is great, was engaging throughout and had interesting characters. I would start with that one personally (or another book, but I've only read those two so I can't speak to the rest of the series).
by taylodl | 2025-09-15 18:20:46+00:00
Could I use this technology to make YouTube videos where an AI voice replaces my own voice? The point would be the AI voice would be much better. Think 'movie announcer guy' but not so extreme. Just a polished, professional voice. That way I can focus on the content, create my video, and have AI replace my voice yet the video and audio still be in sync.

Suppose one were to do that - is that being deceitful? Am I misrepresenting myself? If so, how does that differ from all the audio processing chains being employed today to enhance voice - including 'movie announcer guy'?
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-15 18:20:52+00:00
Overly superlative adjectives and too many adjectives in general. 25 years ago, well before LLMs were a thing, I was a tutor at my university's writing center teaching people to strip this from their own writing. It adds time and effort to the process of reading without adding information.

There's room for lyricism and artistry in poetry or other forms of writing meant to entertain or evoke particular feelings, but not in a thesis. A thesis should get to the point using the path of least action. It's the difference between calling something a "many-sided pseudopolygon with no vertices halfway in tint between blue and red" and calling something a "purple circle."
by bri3d | 2025-09-15 18:20:55+00:00
The device should ideally have some kind of secret material derived per device, like a passphrase generated from an MCU serial number or provisioned into EEPROM and printed on a label on the device.

Some form of "enter the code on the device" or "scan the QR code on the device" could then mutually authenticate the app using proof-of-presence rather than hardcoded passwords. This can still be done completely offline with no "cloud" or other access, or "lock in"; the app just uses the device secret to authenticate with the device locally. Then the user can set a raw RTSP password if desired.

This way unprovisioned devices are not nearly as vulnerable to network-level attacks. I agree that this is Not Awful but it's also Not Good. Right now, if you buy this camera and plug it into a network and _forget_ to set it up, it's a sitting duck for the time window between network connection and setup.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-15 18:21:42+00:00
> just 1 in 4 Americans believe that the recommendations for fewer vaccines from the Trump administration were based on scientific evidence and facts.

I suppose a follow-up question would be to ask whether the respondents believe that such decisions _should_ be made on the basis of evidence. It seems that many are perfectly fine with arbitrary or ideologically-driven decisions irrespective of the evidence.
by RussianCow | 2025-09-15 18:21:42+00:00
This. React was incredibly innovative at a time where the alternatives were some combination of:

* Two-way data binding spaghetti

* Boilerplate-heavy reactivity

* Opaque, framework-specific magic

* Manual state updates/transitions

React didn't win "by default" (whatever that means), it won because it was better than most of the other options at the time.

I agree that, on purely technical grounds, it isn't as strong of a framework as other competitors anymore, but React is and has always been Good Enough™ for most companies, to the point that it's not worth reaching for anything else most of the time. And I say this as someone who doesn't like most things about modern React.
by belorn | 2025-09-15 18:22:17+00:00
10kWh during periods where the energy market price is at the lowest will not pay for 5kWh for periods where the price is at the highest. It will be closer to 0.1-1 kWh for every 10 kWh.

The alternative (the current model where I live) is to have the government be responsible for grid stability, in which they will add taxes and fixed grid connection fees to pay for that service. Crediting overproduction won't make the costs lower for the government, so any such credits will just be a form of subsidy.
by kypro | 2025-09-15 18:22:40+00:00
React's dominance is genuinely baffling to me, and even more so popularity of Next.js.

In my experience React is rarely the best solution and adds a huge amount of complexity which is often completely unnecessary because React is rarely needed.

In the early days my very controversial view was that frontend developers tend to be fairly mediocre developers, and this is why a lot of frontend frameworks suck and frontend developers just mindlessly adopt whatever the hot new technology is with seemingly no concern for performance, maintainability, security, etc.

But honestly I'm not sure this explains it anymore... There are a lot of really talented frontend development teams out there working for companies with plenty of cash to try something different. I don't really understand why there's no serious competitor frameworks in terms of market share out there.

As far as I'm aware there's no analogies to this in other areas of the web tech stack. There's plenty of backend frameworks to pick from depending on the product. There's also plenty of competitive DBMSs, cloud providers, package managers, code editors, etc, etc. I don't understand why frontend development is so static in comparison because it's certainly not that React is the perfect solution for everything.
by GregarianChild | 2025-09-15 18:22:44+00:00
> fantasy of yours that never happened

Shall we bet money on this?

You are right, I don't know much about SpiNNaker. All I know about SpiNNaker is from a talk of Furber's where he said "Neuromorphic status: attracts no money, but works (in the sense of accelerate in niche domains)". When I asked niche domains, he replied: "brain simulation but nothing else".

> understood nothing about dataflow as a way to reduce energy consumption (as your last post proved).

If you don't tell me concretely, where I am wrong about dataflow, I cannot learn and improve ...
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-15 18:22:59+00:00
I thought Pro was only for AI features as well (that's what it said when I installed Raycast), but this dialog is saying Pro is required for custom window layouts as well. I only discovered this today when I was trying to create a new command to paste the screenshot from my clipboard into Preview for OCR.

https://imgur.com/a/6OeqJYQ
by tedsanders | 2025-09-15 18:23:00+00:00
> SWE-bench performance is similar to normal gpt-5, so it seems the main delta with `gpt-5-codex` is on code refactors

SWE-bench is a great eval, but it's very narrow. Two models can have the same SWE-bench scores but very different user experiences.

Here's a nice thread on X about the things that SWE-bench doesn't measure:

https://x.com/brhydon/status/1953648884309536958
by em-bee | 2025-09-15 18:23:30+00:00
well, we apparently see two different realities.

i do acknowledge that competition exists, but i also argue that this is being overshadowed by big companies who may compete amongst themselves but use their power to prevent competition by smaller companies.

you seem to say it doesn't matter, people wouldn't buy from big companies if their products weren't good. and i disagree with that. people buy from big companies because they are cheaper, because their marketing is overwhelming, and because they are lured with free products that small companies can't afford to offer. creators are forced to be on youtube because the audience is on youtube. competition exists, but it doesn't matter. same goes for publishing books on amazon. i know one author who stated that he can't afford not to be exclusive on amazon because it would significantly reduce his revenue.

besides a few exceptions, small companies can not compete against big ones. it is not a fair playing field.

and i really don't understand why you keep arguing about competition, and claim that i don't acknowledge that competition exists. i didn't make such a claim.

the thing i am claiming is that competition does not counteract centralization.
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-15 18:23:44+00:00
The rack has no screens, so no need to drive VGA, it's true.

Probably the best history on the choice of going with ARM comes from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28989138

The internal RFD on the SP's design still talks about choosing RISC-V, and I don't think (or am simply bad at using search) that the move ended up being in an RFD.
by shkkmo | 2025-09-15 18:23:44+00:00
> If you engage at all, you risk worsening their situation by wasting their time, while if you do engage you might be saving someone else at their expense….

I don't understand what you are arguing for here? That they need to be allowed to scam someone else to avoid worsening their situation?

I'd say wasting their time is the best solution. It avoids giving the bosses info on what approaches works with who and helps makes runnning these sorts of operations uneconomical.
by CM30 | 2025-09-15 18:23:51+00:00
For me personally, the two main factors that made me buy a home (and avoid renting anything when not required) are stability and control. Renting leaves those up to a third party, ownership means you're the master of your own domain.

That's important for both political and social reasons, and for peace of mind ones. For example, I know way too many people who rented a place, treated it well, paid exactly what they needed to and who were model tenants... that then got kicked out in short order because the landlord decided they'd make more money selling the property or by trying to find new (and better paying) inhabitants.

Owning means not worrying about that situation. About being told you've got a few months to get lost, and the resulting pressure to find a new place before homelessness sets in.

There's also the political side. I know rental agreements are stronger than many similar ones in other industries, and that it seems unlikely now, but renting feels like you're leaving your life and usage of a service up to the whims of a third party, and one that could easily decide to terminate said service if you get into a controversy or legal trouble. We've all seen cases where large companies kicked out customers that made them look bad, even when what they were doing was entirely legal.

Owning things means you don't lose them if someone else hates you and everything you stand for, and gives you stability when you get caught in drama of any kind.

Meanwhile, the control side can't be overstated here. Landlords can decide you can't alter the property in any way, including hanging up paintings or shelves or changing the lighting. They can decide that pets aren't allowed, or how many people can live at a property. They can refuse to upgrade or install services that might be necessary for many of us, like high-speed internet.

Owning means you're the one that chooses how you want to decorate the property, what changes can be made, and who/what can live there. I can choose to have everything remodelled or reinstalled or replaced depending on my tastes, to have pets or roommates, to upgrade or install whatever services I need and how I want everything room laid out and decorated.

For me, that's how I treat basically everything. Why give up stability and control for convenience in any situation? I don't lease vehicles, use streaming services or rent any physical object, and I avoid digital games and cloud services unless absolutely necessary.
by skrebbel | 2025-09-15 18:24:02+00:00
> React is mostly HTML driven by data.

I wish! Mostly though, React is a terrible mess of hooks with weird rules, suspense, “use client”, pedantic docs, and millions of other idiosyncrasies that have no business being this mainstream.

I think most people agree that the core ideas are great. Eg composable components, props, unidirectional data flow etc. There’s a reason that all other reasonably popular frontend frameworks adopted these ideas. It’s great that React established them. It’s just a bit sad that React established them.
by x1798DE | 2025-09-15 18:24:11+00:00
Wow this looks really well done, congratulations!

One question: I was exploring the public spaces and I'm wondering are these your real finances, or is this just a mocked-up example? https://finfam.app/mahmoud/space

And if they are your real finances, are you manually entering in things like your credit card balances, or do you have integrations that automatically track that? If there aren't integrations already, is that on the road map?
Show HN: Daestro – cloud agnostic compute workload orchestrator
by thevivekshukla | 2025-09-15 18:24:26+00:00
Hello HN!

My name is Vivek, I've been working on Daestro (https://daestro.com) for quite some time which is a cloud agnostic orchestration platform. Where cloud providers are the first citizen. Which let's you run jobs (docker image based) across cloud providers.

What can Daestro do? - Run jobs on your machine or Cloud Provider account, i.e. AWS, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode - Daestro handles creation and deletion of instances on your cloud provider account - Cron Jobs - Schedule jobs for later execution - Realtime logs and metrics (currently very basic but will improve) - Set custom cpu and memory quota for jobs - Can run multiple jobs per machine - See metrics and logs for each job run

Why I created Daestro? There are way too many options available when choosing cloud providers, they all have compute to offer however most don't have any options when it comes to running managed batch jobs. They all have their merits and demerits when it comes to your specific needs. So why not a platform that integrates with these platform and manages it for you. So suppose if you are getting some cheaper compute or lower data transfer cost, you can use that without any extra effort.

What's next for Daestro? - Multi user support with RBAC - Job chaining - GCP and Azure Integration - Run multiple jobs on single machine - External triggers integration - Improve API support
by johnfn | 2025-09-15 18:24:43+00:00
Yes, this is probably the wrongest statement. When React was launched, it was one in a pool of thousands of web frameworks. For any axis you want to claim that React won by "default", there was another framework that dominated React in that axis and lost anyways. Some frameworks had more resources and lost (Angular), some of which were more popular and lost (jQuery, Backbone), and some of which were even more hyped than React and lost (remember Meteor?).

React didn't win by default, it won because developers tried it and found it was better. It absolutely won on technical merit.

There's a bit of a question of whether React would still win on technical merit today, versus all the next-generation frameworks. I personally think it is still better than Svelte, Vue, etc, but I'm a bit of a React apologist.
by johntfella | 2025-09-15 18:25:16+00:00
Leaving it out overnight at room temp is a common enough practice. I know some families of Swartzentrubers who practice this regularly. Some say it thickens it some, others say it gives it a favorable tang. In the raw milk subset of the crohns/uc community it was adapted after it was found that leaving it out allows for antimicrobial resistance organism to grow (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7320593/). To understand why this is an appeal is a bit of a long explanation. Nonetheless, the cold chain is often broken in order to clabber.
by zakelfassi | 2025-09-15 18:25:28+00:00
Yes, exactly. That sense of “secret of the universe encoded in a proof” is what I was trying to put words around. I know the jump from RIP to consciousness is huge; I’m not claiming a formal bridge, more that the shape of the constraint feels like an echo of something lived. A kind of resonance between mathematics as a language of limits and consciousness as the negotiation (or compilation?) of them. Your PhD work & courses with Candés as grounding makes you uniquely able to sense when leaps are being made. Thanks for your comment!
by notapenny | 2025-09-15 18:25:28+00:00
Good. Innovation isn't the latest framework that barely improves the model and as much as front-end developers like to nit about bundle size, 100kb here and there isn't going to matter for most markets.

Honestly between React, Angular and Vue, there's enough jobs if you do want to specialise, but the mental model between the three isn't that different that a good engineer wouldn't be able to adapt.

React is boring old tech to me at this point and I'm happy with that. Like choosing Java, C# or Python for the back-end. I'd rather focus on innovating my clients products until something earth shattering comes along.
by kaliszad | 2025-09-15 18:25:29+00:00
This is very laudable!

The letter's first page looks very low effort, which unfortunately is the first impression undermining the certainly large amounts of work people have invested in this. The note about needing a PhD could well be left to the form instead of sounding extremely elitist right on the first page. Yes, it's shallow and everything but do you want to be right or get your way?
by scrollbar | 2025-09-15 18:25:41+00:00
"...workers at KK Park are subjected to 17-hour workdays and are frequently spied on, tortured, and threatened with murder when attempting to flee the compound.[11][17] Passports and cell phones of workers were confiscated to prevent unmonitored communication with the outside world. The complex includes supermarkets, hospital, restaurants and hotels to form a closed community.[citation needed] Illegal organ harvesting was also reported to take place inside KK Park.[4] KK Park victims could only leave by paying a "contract termination" fee which is calculated by the inflated cost of transportation and how much money the victims earned for the scam companies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KK_Park
by racl101 | 2025-09-15 18:25:43+00:00
Yep you can drag a file onto the doc on an app icon to have the app in question open the file (assuming it was meant to run that file).

I gotta say, I'm not a Windows user anymore, but it would drive me nuts if I couldn't do that.

Finder (the MacOS version of File Explorer on Windows) is an app you commonly interact with every day for several minutes. If it doesn't work well that's hours of your life you spend fighting the system instead of getting things done.

Those are the kinds of things that made me move away from Windows 10 years ago.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-15 18:26:54+00:00
The thing about Trump's speech pattern is that he says word-salads. In both the transcript and the video of the speech, you can see him basically trying to make both points at the same time (as he often does when he's scrambling to figure out what to say). The most charitable steel-man interpretation I can give of his words is

- the specific people who killed a protestor are condemnable

- people were engaging in passionate political demonstration for the issue they were invested in before the killing occurred. They were Americans participating in the American tradition of protest and demonstration, the "fine people" on both sides

Problem is, that second point clashes hard with the footage of the event that showed white-shirted white men carrying tiki torches chanting "blood and soil." Most charitably, Trump wasn't talking about those folks; he was talking about some more moderate, reasonable pro-Lee-statue protestors who were there before the tiki torch mob showed up.

I think people's skepticism that such a moderate protest group actually exists varies, and if your skepticism is dialed to 100%, it's real easy to conclude Trump meant the "Jews will not replace us" crowd were the "fine people" because they don't see any other people he could be talking about.