MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kalterdev | 2025-09-26 07:18:14+00:00
You mean being both pro-consumer and pro-producer? Sure it can be both, provided we establish the principle uniting the two. Property rights is one. Altruism is another. The two would lead to totally different outcomes.

Speaking of property rights, creating new smaller monopolies is in no way “pro-producer.” Nobody truly benefits by robbing the other, it’s as shortsighted “benefit” as it can be. We need long-term predictable policies that don’t criminalize what is, in fact, not criminal.

Otherwise it can be both anti-producer and anti-consumer, too.
by tpm | 2025-09-26 07:19:41+00:00
> but it's bad for companies trying to innovate

Which is why DMA only applies to huge, dominant companies (the complete list: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft) and there too it does not apply to all technologies, only for those where standardization is important to enable competition. It's much more important to have at least some competition than letting dominant companies monopolise entire markets through 'innovation' with private APIs.
by Ekaros | 2025-09-26 07:19:47+00:00
I think this "boot to basic" idea fails with contemporary software. Just basic thought experiment. When was last time you did any project with full knowledge of what exactly you were going to use? And by full I mean every single software library and tool down to specific version. These days you need to be able to pull dependencies or tools from Internet. Anything else would be just torturing or wasting yourself.

It made sense when you did not have infra build for distributing things and things made were pretty simple. Now I feel like it would be just waste of time.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-26 07:20:04+00:00
They're all a little dumb. I asked claude for a python function or functions that will take in markdown in a string and return a string with ansi codes for bold, italics and underline.

It gave me a 160 line parse function.

After gaping for a short while, I implemented it in a 5 line function and a lookup table.

These vibe codes who are proud that they generated thousands of lines of code makes me wonder if they are ever reading what they generate with a critical eye.
by Tepix | 2025-09-26 07:20:12+00:00
Looks like Ollama is focusing more and more on non-local offerings. Also their performance is worse than say vLLM.

What's a good Ollama alternative (for keeping 1-5x RTX 3090 busy) if you want to run things like open-webui (via an OpenAI compatible API) where your users can choose between a few LLMs?
by stevefan1999 | 2025-09-26 07:20:31+00:00
> I mean the whole modern paradigm of "complex branch predictors, controlling wide front-ends, feeding schedulers with wide back-ends and hundreds or even thousands of instructions in flight".

Ah, the philosophy of having the CPU execution out of ordered, you mean.

> A simple in-order core simply can't extract that much parallelism

While yes, it is also noticable that it does not have data hazard because a pipeline simply doesn't exist at all, and thus there is no need for implicit pipeline bubble or delay slot.

> And accurate branch prediction is of limited usefulness when the pipeline is that short.

You can also use a software virtual machine to turn an out-of-order CPU into basically running in-order code and you can see how slow that goes. That's why JIT VM such as HotSpot and GraalVM for JVM platform, RyuJIT for CoreCLR, and TurboFan for V8 is so much faster, because when you compile them to native instruction, the branch predictor could finally kick in.

> like the Itanium > And we all know how badly the Itanium failed.

Itanium is not exactly VLIW. It is an EPIC [^1] fail though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicitly_parallel_instructio...
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-26 07:21:19+00:00
The actual study also says that those engaging in gun violence get less sleep. It’s not clear what direction the causality is for that situation - are they getting less sleep because they’re awake late engaging in those crimes or because their criminal involvement disturbs rest?

But for the piece about just witnessing violence - I can see that causing less sleep in the same way that victims of burglaries or home invasions or rape experience less sleep. You end up being highly anxious and can’t have restful sleep due to fear of being a victim again.
by softwarefreedom | 2025-09-26 07:21:36+00:00
“The DMA is a milestone in breaking the dominance of gatekeepers, but it will only succeed if it protects Device Neutrality and empowers smaller developers and Free Software communities. True contestability means giving everyone, not just the biggest players, a fair chance to shape the future of our digital environment. We will continue to make sure that the DMA is implemented in a developer-friendly way”
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-26 07:22:09+00:00
Honestly yeah I also used to think about it but this was so one off of an instant and another reason why something like this happened was that there was some massive miscommunication aspects from both cloudflare and the website iirc.

Yes the fault is on cf but I am pretty sure that out of all the cases of things happening on all platforms, cf has one of the lowest rates.

One also has to think through that cf has a anycast platform and the website in question was a gambling platform which no matter what they say, is still a tangible risk and can cause their ip's banned.

Honestly I appreciate the concern but it isn't something to be worried about tbh, Firstly this thing happened when like the company was making millions running all on cf, and mistakes happen and honestly this is the only mistake that I hear of cf except of 1000's of things in aws, gcloud etc.

Miscommunication was the wrong thing here but nobody is prepared for it and I believe that cf has learnt from the instance & could be forgiven.

Also they are the cheapest in the business if you use their cf workers and s3 etc., now this data platform.

I guess one can have the domain be hosted somewhere else except cf too if they are this worried and things would still work iirc

Another idea could be redirection of domains if they want the domain to be hosted by cf but also want some safety net.

Always make some backups and be happy to migrate, Backups should be made in all platforms and these things happen everywhere don't they.

Not even sure why I am shilling cf this hard but I just hate when people bring this one instance to move people away from cf..

Like tell me the alternatives dude? tell me something so simple and cheap that I can't worry about high bills like in aws or anything while having massive scale and latency using cf workers

Servers are good but depending on the context y'know. If you are writing some javascript, cf workers can be insanely good for it atleast in my use cases. Cf workers also has containers which is a very interesting thing that I am looking forward to learning more about tbh.
NextMin – Generate REST APIs and Admin Panels from JSON Schemas
by tareqaziz0065 | 2025-09-26 07:22:22+00:00
Big news! I’ve just deployed the official documentation site for NextMin https://nextmin.gscodes.dev/

This site is built to make exploring NextMin smooth, clean, and developer-friendly. Some highlights you’ll find inside: Dynamic Schema System – instantly create CRUD APIs from JSON schemas. Admin Panel – React + Tailwind powered, with live schema updates. API Router – flexible routing with JWT + API key authentication support. File Storage – seamless S3-compatible upload integration. Hot Reloading – backend & frontend both update without restarting servers. Monorepo Ready – plug-and-play into any project with private npm packages.

I built this because I believe dev tools should be fast, transparent, and adaptable – not locked behind walls. The docs site shows how all the moving pieces come together.

Check it out here: https://nextmin.gscodes.dev/

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

#NextJS #React #NodeJS #TypeScript #OpenSource #DevTools #Documentation #NextMin
by librasteve | 2025-09-26 07:22:24+00:00
Nice to see others who think that Raku is a good fit for LLM ... I have had some success integrating LLM::DWIM (a raku command line LLM client built on LLM::Functions etc) with a DSL approach to make a command line calculator based on Raku Grammars.

> crag > ?^<elephant mass in kg> / ?^<mouse mass in kg> #300000① > ?^<speed of a flying swallow in mph> #30mph

https://github.com/librasteve/raku-App-Crag

PS. Raku has Inline::Python where you need a lib from the Python ecosystem (which I am sure you know, but in case others are curious)
by avhon1 | 2025-09-26 07:22:27+00:00
If you're really concerned, you can buy two $100 secondhand laptops. If one fails, you can use the other. Good secondhand laptops in that price range will be more like 8 or 10 years old, but still usable as basic daily computers.

I've had an excellent experience using secondhand business-class laptops. Several nonprofits I'm involved have nothing but these sorts of laptops, and I've only used secondhand laptops since 2019.
Show HN: NextMin – Generate REST APIs and Admin Panels from JSON Schemas
by tareqaziz0065 | 2025-09-26 07:24:08+00:00
Big news! I’ve just deployed the official documentation site for NextMin https://nextmin.gscodes.dev/

This site is built to make exploring NextMin smooth, clean, and developer-friendly. Some highlights you’ll find inside: Dynamic Schema System – instantly create CRUD APIs from JSON schemas. Admin Panel – React + Tailwind powered, with live schema updates. API Router – flexible routing with JWT + API key authentication support. File Storage – seamless S3-compatible upload integration. Hot Reloading – backend & frontend both update without restarting servers. Monorepo Ready – plug-and-play into any project with private npm packages.

I built this because I believe dev tools should be fast, transparent, and adaptable – not locked behind walls. The docs site shows how all the moving pieces come together.

Check it out here: https://nextmin.gscodes.dev/

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

#NextJS #React #NodeJS #TypeScript #OpenSource #DevTools #Documentation #NextMin
by ____mr____ | 2025-09-26 07:24:13+00:00
> “Flock unlawfully made data collected within Evanston and the State of Illinois available to federal agencies,” Ruggie wrote, referencing the findings of Giannoulias’ audit. “This is not a procedural error; it is an intentional and unauthorized disclosure of protected data… Let it be absolutely clear: this breach is material, intentional, and cannot be cured. The City will not entertain remediation efforts or renegotiation.” [0]

I can't seem to access the audit in question [1] and there are connected articles that seem to also be talking about forest park police using camera readers. Whatever the case, there seems to be reasonable doubt in the trust in Flock Safety. I don't understand how an illegal termination of contract would result in anything other than Evanston having to pay out the remaining fees and maybe a cancellation fee.

[0] https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/28/flock-challenges-c...

[1] https://www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/august-25-2025-giannoulias-a...
by Erwin | 2025-09-26 07:24:22+00:00
Because the same thing has happened successfully in most other European countries. Nationalist parties talk about scary immigrants, ordinary parties tighten immigration rules, and the nationalist parties fail to gain power.

For example, Denmark created the highly criticized "Smykkelov" in 2016 which lets us confiscate any values asylum seekers have over 10.000 DKK (e.g. jewelry as the name says, but never actually used for jewelry just cash) in 2016. It has been hardly used (10 times in the first 3 years), but it had enormous press coverage. The largest left party (and the party of current PM) voted for it.

The previously largest nationalist party (DF) have never been in power, despite existing for 30 years and getting 20+% of the vote in 2015 -- at most they were a support party to the right-wing government.
by constantcrying | 2025-09-26 07:24:49+00:00
Academics have always been leaving the US, just like Academics have always been coming to the US. A turnover in staff is normal, it has happened everywhere, always.

>It's a fact that the USA used to attract this talent, not export it.

And where is the evidence that it does not? People leaving is normal. Post-docs leave institution's all the time.

One additional thought. If you think this is about a right wing political shift in the US, why would these researcher go to one of the strongholds of the far right in Europe?
by itake | 2025-09-26 07:24:50+00:00
I think its Apples to Oranges.

The performance gains come from being able to ask specific questions about problems I deal with and (basically) have a staff engineer that I can bounce ideas off of.

I am way faster at writing tasks on problems I am familiar with vs an AI.

But me trying to figure out the database I should deeply look at for my usecase or debug android code when I don't know kotlin has saved me 5000x time.
by qnleigh | 2025-09-26 07:25:09+00:00
I've seen a similar quote attribute to Bill Gates;

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten."

I think about this quote a lot these days, especially while reading Hacker News. On one hand, AI doesn't seem to be having the productivity and economic impacts that were predicted, but on the other, LLMs are getting gold medals at the Math Olympiads. It's like the ground is shifting beneath our feet, but it's still too slow to be perceptible.
by TMWNN | 2025-09-26 07:25:21+00:00
I was struck by that quote, too. Set aside IBM inventing RISC in the first place. How was it possible that in 1992, two years after RS/6000 hit the market and made IBM a first-class RISC workstation player—a peer of Sun and HP in terms of tech and sales—did IBM people still feel the need to resort to the subterfuge of a non-IBM engineer showing off a non-IBM RISC CPU to the IBM mainframe folks to give them a kick in the butt? The mind boggles.
by oerdier | 2025-09-26 07:26:18+00:00
This kind of translation problem is the focal point of Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 5 episode 2, "Darmok" (1991).

I watched it for the first time after somebody referenced it, as I did just now, as an example of this kind of problem. Despite my knowing the point of the plot beforehand, I found the episode was still interesting.

I wish I could mention this episode here for language enthusiasts to enjoy without revealing the main plot point (that idioms in languages are hard to translate). Shaka, when the walls fell. But I think the very act of mentioning it in a thread on this topic does so unavoidably. Temba, at rest.
by 1gn15 | 2025-09-26 07:26:25+00:00
Not only would that be unenforceable, this comment shows just why these licenses don't work: everyone wants their restriction added onto it.

That's why my stuff is in AGPL, so people who want to use proprietary licenses such as this won't be able to do so.

(Or they'll just ignore it, just like I ignore theirs.)
by avhon1 | 2025-09-26 07:26:50+00:00
If you're interested in buying secondhand laptops, I strongly recommend you look at any "business-class" model from any manufacturer. Laptops that cost $1,000+ and are aimed at business fleets, rather than individual consumers. These laptops tend to be very well-made, are designed for commonly-broken parts to be easily replaceable, and are widely available secondhand as companies update their laptop fleets. Here's an incomplete list of manufacturers and series:

* Dell Latitude (except the budget 3xxx models) and Precision * HP EliteBook and ProBook * Lenovo ThinkPad X, T, and P series (in order from small & light to big & powerful) * Panasonic ToughBook (rugged!) and Let’s Note * Fujitsu Lifebook * Acer TravelMate and Extensa * Asus ExpertBook * Toshibe Portege and Tecra * Epson Endeavor
by arrowsmith | 2025-09-26 07:26:56+00:00
Stick them in processing centres until they can be deported. Send a clear message to anyone who might come that it won't work, you won't get in, we won't give you anything, don't risk your life or waste your money.

Australia did exactly this (in the face of howling opposition) and it worked: illegal boat arrivals dropped from ~20,000 per year to almost zero. Thousands of people used to drown attempting the crossing, now no-one drowns. There's your moral case.

Legally, Parliament is sovereign. If the current legal framework doesn't allow it, change the law. Except they won't, because they don't want to solve the problem and they use the law as an excuse as if they aren't the fucking government.
by asmor | 2025-09-26 07:27:34+00:00
Aside the topic, but I wonder how HN, as a community, and as a moderation team, weighs this on the intellectual curiosity vs primarily politics scale.

This seems politics to me. Very important politics that a lot of people in tech have a special interest for, but politics nonetheless, and much more pressing topics seem to be absent through the on-topic rule.
by MrToadMan | 2025-09-26 07:28:11+00:00
Depends on if you are looking at this in terms of numbers of people or cost. The Home Office annual spend on processing asylum seekers has ballooned from just under £1 billion to near £5 billion in the space of 5 years, which is 1/3 of the estimated £14 billion raised from the unpopular National Insurance increase.
by scott_w | 2025-09-26 07:29:03+00:00
My understanding is that it makes checking job eligibility easier, so enforcement of non compliance is easier.

A big source of illegal immigration is visa overstay (https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/un...), which ID can solve by tracking the visa status.

There are benefits to UK citizens, such as being easier to open a bank account and to comply with Voter ID laws.
by xarope | 2025-09-26 07:29:43+00:00
yes, laundry, folding and ironing clothes, taking out the garbage, so that us humans can then have more free time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe/work harder.

not - take our jobs so we have to keep "reskilling" every 10 years... oh wait, according to accenture, we'd be un-reskillable after 10 years, so never mind.
by onli | 2025-09-26 07:29:43+00:00
If you defer to authority. That is, you accept that the people who made the API have the authority to dictate you what you can or can't do on your hardware (or for other people on their), that privating the parts of the API you need was a conscious decision (and not just laziness on their part) and that in general you listen to commands like that.

Even with just a shroud of hacker thinking that is not something programmers should easily accept.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-26 07:30:21+00:00
First bit of feedback, WhatsApp is for my friends and family, not for work. That this is the primary way to reach out suggests this is a hobby project, and I wouldn't get in touch for a business thing on my personal WhatsApp.

Next up, the AI generated images aren't a great look, just get some actual screenshots of what I can expect when using it.

No pricing information is a bit suspicious.

That said, the idea sounds great, we used to have a little web app that did this at my old workplace, but it was something we had to build and host, and if we could have avoided it we would have.
by gtsop | 2025-09-26 07:31:04+00:00
To which citizens are you talking to exactly? There are a few very rich citizens that always had control of the government and clrealy want this bill to pass.

On the other hand there is a majority of other citizens which don't have the economic means, who are the victims of this bill, they never haf control of the government and don't want this bill to pass.

Classless "citizens" don't exist. This is capitalism working as usual. Oh, and get in touch with reality please, there is no country where "citizens" don't have guns, it's just not all the citizens.
by nicbou | 2025-09-26 07:31:32+00:00
Mine did. I can't remember telling the same stories multiple times. I even laughed at my own joke after it was told to me, not realising it came from me. If someone asks me what I've done yesterday or last weekend, I blank out completely. I struggle with journaling because I don't easily recall how my day was.

I can't tell if it's new. My mother is the same, and I don't remember ever having an especially good memory. Maybe it just get pointed out more?

At least my behaviour is consistent. What I'm told I've said always checks out. I am also obsessively organised, so things rarely slip through. I would be a terrible liar though.
by cjfd | 2025-09-26 07:31:55+00:00
Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I am interested in doing proofs on a computer. Type theory does seem the most convenient way to do this. The issue with the equality of proofs is a minor inconvenience in this. Recently I looked a bit into metamath which is (at least in the standard library) a set theory based way of formalizing mathematics. In the end I found that they need to add definitions as axioms. This is okay provided that these axioms satisfy certain conditions. But now they have a standard library where there are hundreds of axioms which is, in my opinion very ugly. I do start to wonder whether one of them is not correctly stated yielding an inconsistent system. There does not seem to be a guard against this in place. The thing is that if one wants to make set theory practical, one probably ends up implementing something close to type theory anyway. The main beauty of type theory is that one gets two for the price of one. There are definitions of functions with typed arguments (e.g., this is a function that takes a function from the natural numbers to the natural numbers), which one probably wants anyway at some point, and dependent types, which are also really nice and suddenly one can do logic as well. In set theory one can ask 'interesting' questions like 'is the trivial group equal to the number five?'. If both are sets the question actually means something, but it actually really doesn't.

I would suggest, like I do in another post in this thread, that the problem just disappears if one adds proof irrelevance as an axiom.
by bluecalm | 2025-09-26 07:34:17+00:00
People don't play it for money. I mean specifically they don't bet on outcomes of their own games. This is what gambling is.

Chess wouldn't be as addictive anyway. You need a bit more luck ingrained in the game mechanics to trigger the addiction mechanisms. In games of skill like poker people get deluded all the time because they see lucky wins of their opponents and unlucky losses of their own. People are very bad at making judgements about probability so a lot of them get deluded into thinking "if only unlikely X didn't happen 3 times recently I would be ahead".

This happens in both poker and sports betting. In both games you can always pick some unlucky events (ball hit the post, referee gave an unjustified penalty, the only card falling on the river) and point to them to say "if only" while missing all the small lucky events on your side.
by ars | 2025-09-26 07:35:16+00:00
Really? Nothing?

It's the same people, on the same land, practicing the same religion, speaking the same language, with the same alphabet, with the same capital, with the same place names, with the same cities, with the same core texts, with the same national holidays.

But that's somehow nothing? At this point you'd have to actually work hard to figure out what's not the same.

Israel is an example of anti-colonialism, where the original inhabitants of the land were able to take it back from invaders.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-26 07:35:47+00:00
It's probably important to note that the AMD64 platform isn't what got Intel in it's current situation. After adopting AMD64 Intel once again dominated AMD and the Bulldozer/Piledrive/Excavator series of AMD processors where not doing well in the competition with Intel.

With Zen AMD once again turned the tables on Intel, but not enough to break Intel. Intels downfall seems entirely self-inflicted and is due to a series of bad business decisions and sub-par product releases.