MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aredox | 2025-09-02 13:10:39+00:00
>why aren't we handing out vitamin D tablets at school?

The current US administration, the one with Trump and RFK jr, is currently cutting free meal at school. The food was coming from local farms, not Big Ag.

Whatever the posters above are claming the CDC did wrong (when in fact it was undercut at every step by the Republican Party and the right wing of the Democrats), the cuzrrent administration is doing worse. Much worse.

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/trump-admin-cuts-prog...
by anilakar | 2025-09-02 13:10:49+00:00
> Protecting the user's right to run the software for free on their own or in their company so long as they don't resell it

One company uses the software internally to create more value for a customer of theirs.

A second company uses the software internally to provide a paid service to a customer.

A third company resells software they bought to their customer.

The end result is the same: Company makes money, customer exhanges money for value. Somehow only one or two of those use cases would be legal.
Show HN: Moribito – A TUI for LDAP Viewing/Queries
by woumn | 2025-09-02 13:10:51+00:00
Check out my TUI I wrote for viewing and querying an LDAP. I need to do basic queries and validation daily for work, and as I work on a mac, there are really no good options. The major player is the Apache Directory Studio which is... not great. So I decided to create a new one.
by Austin_Conlon | 2025-09-02 13:10:53+00:00
SwingVision is the AI tennis & pickleball app that provides automated stats, highlights, and line calling using just your phone. Our mission is to democratize the pro sports experience for all athletes.

Graphic designer role (San Mateo): https://swing.vision/careers/5d9b8dfb-bcec-4302-a017-6f83a64...
by a13x57 | 2025-09-02 13:10:55+00:00
I am a "full stack developer with a Front End Focus" with over 15 years of experience in both startups and corporate environments.

Location: Atlanta, GA USA Remote: Yes Technologies: Typescript, JavaScript, Vue, React, Tailwind, Astro, NextJS, Node.js, Postgresql, Docker, AWS, Linux, HTML, CSS, Figma, Electron Résumé/CV: http://alexstubbs.com/resume - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderstubbs Email: hialex [at] duck.com - http://alexstubbs.com

I started designing and developing websites way back in 1997 on a Sega Saturn Netlink. Without a keyboard in hand, I hand-wrote my table based HTML markup in old notebooks to transcribe into CGI web editors utilizing an on-screen keyboard and controller, and of course, all while collaborating over IRC.

I have since worked on countless projects from interesting startups in various spaces, to enterprise level applications, government funded incentivized data applications, as well as multiple personal and collaborative projects. You have most likely seen some of my work on the market for large brand name designs, applications, and products.

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by Gabriel54 | 2025-09-02 13:12:06+00:00
I don't disagree with anything you are saying. No one should be deported to prison camps in third countries (a la CECOT). Immigration should be made easier. Executives should face more serious consequences for hiring undocumented workers. I agree. My basic premise starts from the fact that, as a country of laws, we must first enforce the laws that we have, then create new laws that reflect the society we want. Currently we have laws subject to haphazard enforcement and the color (blue or red) of the party in the White House.
by const_cast | 2025-09-02 13:12:09+00:00
No, you just don't like it and don't have an argument against it so you resort to "nuh uh!!"

Which would be very effective... If we were 8 years old and on the playground.

Requiring government approved devices and government approved access to the internet is an authoritarian recipe for disaster.

The fact people as naive as you exist to not see that is legitimately mind-blowing.
by kruffalon | 2025-09-02 13:12:13+00:00
I read it as "casual" rather than "causal", got very dissapointed while reading the article!

An inventory of casual knowledge would be really fun, although it's hard to think what it would consist of now that I think about it...

There is this concept of "hidden knowledge" about all the things you know at work that no one really thinks about is knowledge so it's hard to let newcomers know about it.

But that does sound different than "casual knowledge", and so does "trivia".

Oh well!
by ijk | 2025-09-02 13:12:15+00:00
I'm frustrated by the number of times I encounter people assuming that the current model behavior is inevitable. There's been hundreds of billions of dollars spent on training LLMs to do specific things. What exactly they've been trained on matters; they could have been trained to do something else.

Interacting with a base model versus an instruction tuned model will quickly show you the difference between the innate language faculties and the post-trained behavior.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-02 13:12:18+00:00
To me, the amazing part is how contradictory CSAM and GDPR are and few seem to be pointing this out.

Isn't personal privacy the overriding objective of GDPR?

Isn't the effective result of the proposed CSAM to eliminate personal privacy?

Over time, laws tend to approach the point where everyone is a criminal.
by Anthony-G | 2025-09-02 13:12:33+00:00
I’ve had similar issues running the latest Firefox (currently 142 as per this discussion) on the latest Fedora (42). I used to be able to lock the screen and go home but I’ve recently had a couple of mornings where I’d come into work and find my system unresponsive. I use the Magic SysRq command to trigger the OOM (out-of-memory) killer as many times as required to free up enough resources that I could log in on a virtual console (Alt-Ctrl-F2). This would allow me to manually kill Firefox, freeing up about 15GB of RAM and all 16GB of the swap file.

I’ve been too busy with work to spend any time investigating the cause. At first I had been blaming the `teams-for-linux` electron app but figured that wasn’t the culprit because I close it every evening. In Firefox, `about:processes` is useful while actually using the application but I’m not really sure how best to diagnose what’s happening after the fact.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-09-02 13:13:41+00:00
I agree, I'm generally sceptical of new AI "features" in the browser and will be turning most of them off. But the translation feature (which has been in Firefox for a while now) is great. The difference is that translation in a browser is something that is clearly useful and has always been AI-based to an extent, so shipping with a local model for translation is a strict improvement (leaving aside any difference in translation quality, which I have not noticed). The other AI features are not obviously useful IMO.
by ofrzeta | 2025-09-02 13:13:48+00:00
Eventually I will write a blog post. The software is actually not much, just some basic Arduino stuff. I am using an ESP32, a full size SD card board and a VS1053 board (both connected via SPI). The software is currently just trying to read from the SD card in a loop and when it can it just plays the MP3 files in order. Other things that are not connected to software is a Li-Ion battery, charger circuit, step-up converter, LM386 based amplifier circuit and a speaker :)
by TechSquidTV | 2025-09-02 13:14:09+00:00
Thanks! I don't have many specific resources. I started out watching a few general YouTube videos to get started, and then just began designing my first part.

I started making a few simple brackets meant to hold a shelf up. Once I got the basics down, it was just about practicing after that, and then googling specific issues when I ran into them, things like "How to round a corner" or "apply text to a curved surface".
by const_cast | 2025-09-02 13:14:31+00:00
No, it's blind faith. Trust is a synonym for faith. If it makes you feel better, you can say blind trust, I'm okay with that.

And you're correct there's a lot of shit I must blindly trust, too. That's bad. That's not a refutation of my point, you're actually reinforcing it.

We've forced ourselves into a situation where blind faith in moral actions is required to function in society. That is ripe for abuse. Which is probably why we see it abused every day.
Show HN: I built a deep research tool for local file system
by FineTuner42 | 2025-09-02 13:14:35+00:00
I was experimenting with building a local dataset generator with deep research workflow a while back and that got me thinking. what if the same workflow could run on my own files instead of the internet. being able to query pdfs, docs or notes and get back a structured report sounded useful.

so I made a small terminal tool that does exactly that. I point it to local files like pdf, docx, txt or jpg. it extracts the text, splits it into chunks, runs semantic search, builds a structure from my query, and then writes out a markdown report section by section.

it feels like having a lightweight research assistant for my local file system. I have been trying it on papers, long reports and even scanned files and it already works better than I expected. repo - https://github.com/Datalore-ai/deepdoc

Currently citations are not implemented yet since this version was mainly to test the concept, I will be adding them soon and expand it further if you guys find it interesting.
by wateralien | 2025-09-02 13:14:37+00:00
I've just convinced a large, but not global, client to move from their antiquated system to Next.js. They definitely wouldn't want to run on Vercel in prod since they're obsessed with costs.... and now I'm really concerned since this and some other "next.js in production nightmares" posts have dropped. I've only ever run smaller stuff on Vercel. Super concerned.
by RubyWave | 2025-09-02 13:14:49+00:00
>let people break the law, because they are economically beneficial

Doesn't sound very humanistic to me, especially if you think who benefits the most from their unregulated labour.

While having secret police running around and forcing their way without any discretion is quite bad and ill omen for the future, it doesn't eliminate all the problems that are brought with illegal immigration (and even legal one as well). One could argue, that this ICE showdown is a reaction to almost pathological leniency before, when people in need were used as economical benefits for the rich, as it was mostly them that benefited from employing illegally all those workers, while unloading all nasty side effect on the common folk.
Show HN: Beautiful Gradient Backgrounds and Canvas
by ugo_builds | 2025-09-02 13:15:26+00:00
Hi HN,

I think mesh gradients are cool, I use them a lot, probably too much.

So I made a simple tool that puts one behind my screenshots.

No watermark, no sign-up, I just paste my screenshot, select my current favorite color palette, I add an unhealthy amount of grain texture, and hit "copy". Lots of aspect ratios available.

I also made a Canvas tool to make more advanced designs with optionally transparent background.

Do check it out and tell me what you think
by IanWoodfill | 2025-09-02 13:15:39+00:00
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by PaulRobinson | 2025-09-02 13:15:55+00:00
No, terrorism "is the use or threat of serious violence, damage to property, or disruption of [...] systems to advance a political, religious, racial, or ideological cause, with the aim of influencing a government or international organization, or of intimidating the public."

"Whatever the government at the time doesn't like", is best described as "opposition". It's a healthy and critical component of a free and fair democracy. One that is increasingly silenced in the modern World, much to our shame when future generations judge us.

While I understand the point behind old line "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter", the key point is that both terrorism and "freedom fighting" are about resorting to the use of violence, and the democracy involved (if it was ever present), has failed when people resort to such violence.

I say this as a man who unfortunately has suffered the fear, paranoia and threat of the Provisional IRA, ISIS-attributed cells, and the hard-right provoking riots in the cities and towns I've lived in from an early age.

And that is the point of terrorism - it is meant to induce fear and paranoia and a sense of threat that makes us all want to do anything to make it go away, including surrendering our fundamental rights and rubber-stamping legislation that gives agencies the right to erase our privacy - and by extension our freedom - that raises the question of what's truly worse?
by 15155 | 2025-09-02 13:16:06+00:00
> However, making at home a useful microcontroller or FPGA would require not only an electron-beam lithography machine, but also a ion-implantation machine, a diffusion furnace, a plasma-etch machine, a sputtering machine and a lot of other chemical equipment and measurement instruments.

University nanofabs have all of these things today. https://cores.research.asu.edu/nanofab/

> but the cost would still be of many millions of $.

A single set of this equipment is only singular millions today commercially.

Using something like this for prototyping/characterization or small-scale analog tasks is where the real win is.
by const_cast | 2025-09-02 13:16:25+00:00
Are you going to elaborate on that or are you just going to put out little quips that make you feel like a big man but don't actually mean anything?

Again, this is documented, it's not really up for debate. Your denial of it or your strange religious relationship with Apple doesn't change any of that.

And I haven't gotten any sort of response other than "uhh I know a guy!!" I mean, really? Can we at least pretend to try?
by Aurornis | 2025-09-02 13:16:45+00:00
> So the dark silicon removal step from BCC1 to BCD0, a cost cutting measure, killed wifi? Damn, I was hoping to use this for a obsd firewall.

The boards that have the D0 parts have other changes as well.

Lack of WiFi shouldn’t be a problem for a firewall board, unless you’re planning to make it a WiFi router/AP as well.
by 1123581321 | 2025-09-02 13:17:08+00:00
I type Dvorak around my old qwerty speed. It’s probably not possible to be faster. For really fast qwerty typists, the brain has multiple fingers with the right hand contortions in motion, hitting keys in order, just in time. Dvorak eliminated hand pain by reducing motion, but it didn’t give my brain the ability to orchestrate my fingers with tighter timing.
by akoculu | 2025-09-02 13:17:18+00:00
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by ACCount37 | 2025-09-02 13:17:51+00:00
Not really. The whole "inference errors will always compound" idea was popular in GPT-3.5 days, and it seems like a lot of people just never updated their knowledge since.

It was quickly discovered that LLMs are capable of re-checking their own solutions if prompted - and, with the right prompts, are capable of spotting and correcting their own errors at a significantly-greater-than-chance rate. They just don't do it unprompted.

Eventually, it was found that reasoning RLVR consistently gets LLMs to check themselves and backtrack. It was also confirmed that this latent "error detection and correction" capability is present even at base model level, but is almost never exposed - not in base models and not in non-reasoning instruct-tuned LLMs.

The hypothesis I subscribe to is that any LLM has a strong "character self-consistency drive". This makes it reluctant to say "wait, no, maybe I was wrong just now", even if latent awareness of "past reasoning look sketchy as fuck" is already present within the LLM. Reasoning RLVR encourages going against that drive and utilizing those latent error-correction capabilities.
by asen_not_taken | 2025-09-02 13:17:51+00:00
I think there are two common traps here.

First, not every good idea needs to be a "secret that could change the world." The most valuable ideas often aren't glamorous; they're the ones that solve real, boring problems. If everyone only chased the next big thing, we'd never get the crucial, unsexy stuff built. For example, a new ad-tech algorithm might feel exciting, but a simple internal tool that cuts a developer's daily grunt work by an hour can have a far bigger, more tangible impact. There's value in both.

Second, the best ideas rarely come from isolated genius. You can get stuck in your own head, convinced you've found something new, only to later realize you missed a crucial piece of context. The real magic happens through constant communication. For instance, I once spent weeks on a technical solution for a problem, only to show it to a product manager who, in two minutes, pointed out a much simpler, non-technical way to solve the same user pain (he just told me to skip it). Talking with people, especially those outside your niche, helps you get a reality check, refine your thoughts, and avoid building something no one actually needs. My best ideas weren't born in a flash of solo inspiration, but in messy, back-and-forth conversations.
by justinrubek | 2025-09-02 13:18:05+00:00
If there's a zealous mindset here, I see it coming from this comment.

It's significantly easier to use a 24-hour clock and get rid of AM and PM. In fact, it's so easy to use 24 hours that I use it exclusively for my internal time, and I do commonly get confused by times like 12AM - is it day or night? It has a 12 instead of a 0, somewhat confusing.

I also refuse that the metric system is more difficult for human scale measurements. Ever since I switched, I have had a stronger fundamental connection to the units, and I can visualize the world better. It's significantly easier, and I would call it MORE human oriented.
by frindlebabbin | 2025-09-02 13:18:18+00:00
Amazon Family also requires sharing payment methods as a way to verify people are at the same household. With a trusted person (actually at the same address or not) that may not be a big deal but for a lot of people that's a showstopper.

Also the invitees allowed up to four other Amazon accounts to benefit. Amazon Family only allows 1 other adult...
by kouteiheika | 2025-09-02 13:18:25+00:00
> but I would encourage you to question the underlying assumption that deporting illegal immigrants constitutes an unalloyed good

I don't necessarily think it's a good thing, especially when the illegal immigrant is otherwise law abiding, pays their taxes and positively contributes to the society, but the whole point of rule of law is that, well, laws are applied consistently and equally to everyone (or at least that's the unattainable ideal we strive for). We can't be like "hey, let's not enforce the law here in this case" just because we don't like the law, because then the next guy in charge might not enforce whatever he thinks is a bad law, or worse - only enforce it on his enemies (like we see in so many totalitarian countries, and apparently what's starting to happen in the US if I am to believe the news/some of the comments here?).
by p0w3n3d | 2025-09-02 13:18:37+00:00
I tried to convert to Dvorak. I even switched my keycaps, but when I started learning with linux application, I finished at level 3. It required me to write three different letters. When there was 1 - it was okay. When 2 - quite nice. But 3 - it made me feel pain in the back and in the brain. It felt like something was going very wrong with my nervous system. I had to quit.
by Gabriel54 | 2025-09-02 13:18:42+00:00
So should we model our immigration system on that of those countries? My point is that we are a country of laws, based on rule of law, and therefore must start by impartially enforcing the laws we have. Syria and Iraq (to name two of your examples) are certainly not what I would describe as countries based on rule of law. As you yourself point out, in Iraq the police liked you, so they let you go. I do not want to see such a system in the USA.
by Hilift | 2025-09-02 13:18:47+00:00
The app isn't needed. It is a flex response by lefties that are being trolled. There is theater and history on both sides.

Lookup videos on YouTube of MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Donated in the 1880's, it used to be 35 acre urban park oasis. Now it is a rodent infested drug haven. Between 4 PM and sunrise, the area is taken over by unlicensed street vendors and drug dealers, all of whom are controlled by Mexican cartel gangs using sidewalk landlords. You can purchase fentanyl in bulk, and walk one mile down the street and sell it for three times profit.

The surrounding area is mostly apartments, with no positive tax revenue base, residential or commercial. It has a population density four times Manhattan, New York, 50,000 in one square mile. 67% of residents in the community are unauthorized immigrants. 67% of children don't have a father. Most apartments are shared by two families. Only 20% of residents vote.

90% of fire department calls are overdose and illegal open bonfires set by homeless. 49% of street lights are disabled, the city estimates three years to fix. Building owners have to paint their exterior walls every day to remove gang signs. The Home Depot most profitable product is paint, even though it is id-restricted and locked up. Most of the people in the park long term are repeat criminal offenders. The city has converted the area into a de facto dumping ground for people released from jail.

Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass lives nearby.

A few weeks ago ICE made a cameo walk through trolling appearance for a few minutes, and everyone freaked out. Of course they didn't really do anything. How could they? It would require at least 500 police to sweep an area that large. Many in the park have weapons.

Bonus fact: The Tijuana River is actually in the US. It exits into the San Diego Bay watershed at Imperial Beach. 70 million gallons per day of untreated sewage, and several hundred million gallons of treated effluent per day. Even with the one water treatment plant in Tijuana Mexico, (population 2.3 million) funded by the US, and a second that the US had agreed to fund, this will not reduce the illegal sewage discharge, which is estimated to increase to 200 million? Oddly, it hasn't affected home prices.

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

How MacArthur Park Became LA's Most Dangerous Spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odHsJvSHZE

What Happened to MacArthur Park? The Rise and Fall of LA's Urban Oasis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssU3tdAAH4

El Tijuana River National Estuarine "Research" Reserve https://maps.app.goo.gl/9gouGc9ge4ikYfgZA