MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jspdown | 2025-09-27 11:38:41+00:00
Traefik maintainer here.

A significant portion of TraefikLabs' engineering team and maintainers are French. Before each new release, the team holds polls and spirited debates to determine which cheese would be the perfect fit for the version name.

Staying true to French culinary tradition, the enterprise versions are given wine codenames, with each wine carefully selected to pair perfectly with its corresponding cheese release.
by frederico-rocha | 2025-09-27 11:39:29+00:00
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by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-27 11:39:40+00:00
I agree with this.

There are drawbacks to being a skilled (trained/practiced) musician. You specialize in one instrument, and tend to have your creativity guided by its strengths/weaknesses.

I think that soon, some very accomplished musicians will learn to leverage tools like Suno, but they aren't in the majority yet. We're still in the "vibe-coding" phase of AI music generation.

We saw this happen with CG. When it started, engineers did most of the creating, and we got less-than-stellar results[0].

Then, CG became its own community and vocation, and true artists started to dominate.

Some of the CG art that I see nowadays, is every bit as impressive as the Great Masters.

We'll see that, when AI music generation comes into its own. It's not there, yet.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0
by vixen99 | 2025-09-27 11:43:40+00:00
We can agree on that but how about spreading more widely the simple advice - floss thoroughly & daily, clean your teeth twice a day and don't let sugars hang around in your mouth for extended periods. We know these pathogenic oral bugs can be related to heart disease (fibrosis for one) but maybe other dysfunction as well as prostate. A catchy meme might do the trick to remind us all.
by Broken_Hippo | 2025-09-27 11:43:51+00:00
That line is Really fuzzy.

They don't generally cover normal vision needs. Your regular glasses and/or contacts aren't covered.

Eye injury or cancer, though? Usually covered. I honestly can't recall anyone getting denied for a possible scratch on the eye, either here in Norway or the US (Am from the US). Expenses for eye issues with MS or Diabetes? Usually covered. In these cases, you often go to a specialist MD instead of the normal eye doctor (if you see an MD at all). More is generally covered for eyes than teeth - if teeth were covered like eyes, it would be an improvement. A lot of acute care and infections and stuff would be covered.
by rmarquis | 2025-09-27 11:44:34+00:00
Not quite. I personally like podman better than docker, but for the guide we went for the simplest or more mainstream tools, in order to keep it simple and to reduce the amount of testing needed for the guide.

Using podman shouldn't that big of a change though. BentoML that we present in the guide can also be used with podman instead of docker using the `--backend` flag, so you should be good to go.
by qmr | 2025-09-27 11:46:48+00:00
Yes rereleases as I stated above. ( or meant to ) I recall my father being quite excited when he saw them. Not sure what games he played first on the Commodore, if any.

They amused me for a time at 9-10, then later at maybe 14-15 or so I got into them again playing on a Palm VIIx with a folding Stowaway keyboard. I also read through HHGTTG on that same device.

https://archive.org/details/sci-fi-collection-the-usa/ and the like.
by grepfru_it | 2025-09-27 11:46:54+00:00
Waste can only be recycled so far (advances in nuclear technology and kicking the can)

Service life of containment units is one thing. Where to store those sealed off cylinders. And the increase in waste as power demand skyrockets.

During the time I was involved in the negotiations of waste storage (which was made extremely difficult due to NIMBY votes), the prediction of energy demand was a lot lower (which probably is what led to the widespread acceptance of nuclear). Now that AI is anticipating enormous energy demands, and eyeing nuclear as that energy source, this problem is returning with a vengeance. Let me be very clear this is not a problem in either our lifetime, our children’s lifetime, or our children’s children’s lifetime. But neither was oil during the industrial revolution..

For those downvoting, please provide a response and have a discussion.
by bobxmax | 2025-09-27 11:49:14+00:00
> having an ai steal a melody and add it

The fact people still think this is how these models work is astonishing

Even if that were true, sampling is an artform and is behind one of the most popular and succesful genres today (hip hop). So is DJ'ing or is that also not a skill?

The same puritanism that claimed jazz wasn't music, then rap wasn't music, then EDM wasn't music, blah blah

Gatekeepers of what is and isn't art always end up wrong and crotchety on the other side. It's lame and played out.
Ask HN: Good first hacking computer for a 7yo
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-27 11:50:46+00:00
I'd like to get a computer for my 7yo son - something they can hack at, explore, learn to code, paint silly things. Might as well make it not Windows. What suggestions do people have?

The RPi integrated into a keyboard looks very cute. What is it like performance wise? Not that I need a lot, but would be good for a vanilla Linux distro to run effortlessly and lag free.

Equally, the form factor of a laptop is tempting. He can play with it at his desk, then come around and show me the result.

Any practical experiences and product recommendations very welcome!
by xg15 | 2025-09-27 11:51:03+00:00
Hah, true. I guess it also shows the difference between social drinking and only hanging on the bottle by yourself.

(Though for the "blue zones", I've read some suspicions that the true secret of them is plain old corruption - with some of the "supercentenarians" having died long ago and only living on in the records, so family, friends or complicit buerocrats can collect their pensions. Not sure if this is widespread enough to explain the entire effect though)
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-27 11:51:15+00:00
Yeah like the Chuwi Gemibook at the moment.

I really like them, I have a really old Chuwi atom-based laptop of more than 10 years old that's still working fine, even the battery still lasts a few hours. It was even cheaper and I mainly got it for the makerspace (not too much of a problem if a soldering iron rolls up against it) but it was surpisingly capable. It was reviewed by Anandtech at the time (which no longer even exists).

I don't normally buy laptops at all, I prefer mini-desktops. So this is still my only personal laptop.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-09-27 11:51:56+00:00
There used to be a law in canada that all the beer brands had to use the same bottle, and you paid deposit when you bought the beer, which you got back when you returned them to a bottle place. The bottles were cleaned and re-used multiple times. When the deposit was first introduced it was a reasonably amount and so people would always bring them back, and if they didn't kids would find them and do it for you. Some staggering figure like 90% of beer bottles were re-used. This has changed as the beer bottle requirements got softened, more imports with no re-usable bottles, and the inflation making the deposit worth much much less to the point its not worth it for many to bother with it.

Perfect example of a system that worked really well, but was weakened and was corrupted over time because neglect.
by copx | 2025-09-27 11:54:12+00:00
>You really can't go wrong browsing our list of the best games of all time. https://ifdb.org/search?browse

You can, because those games are the best according to the preferences of interactive fiction connaisseurs, and the preferences of connaisseurs never match those of the masses.

E.g. beer connaisseurs love IPAs, while most people find them way too bitter.
by Lumoscore | 2025-09-27 11:54:31+00:00
Imagine you're at a brand new, empty park. You get to choose the best spot for your picnic. That's the feeling of launching a project on the Stellar network right now.

While other crypto networks are very crowded, Stellar is like a wide-open park, full of opportunities. This means if you start your project here today, you get a huge advantage. You get to be an early bird, and the early bird always gets the best spot.

The First to Arrive Gets the Best Spot When a new project is created, it needs a place to grow. On some older networks, there are so many projects that it's hard to get noticed. It's like trying to shout in a giant, noisy stadium.

Stellar is different. The ecosystem is growing fast, but it’s not yet full of noise. This gives you a unique chance to be one of the first projects to capture the attention of the community. You have a wide-open field to build your home and a clear voice to share your ideas.

The Power of Being Seen In the crypto world, getting noticed is half the battle. When you launch now on Stellar, your project won't be just one of thousands. It will be one of the new, exciting projects that everyone is talking about.

This makes it much easier to build a strong community from the very beginning. People who join your project now are the true early believers. They will be more excited and dedicated, helping you grow your project's power and reach.

Why Stellar Is the Perfect Place to Start Stellar is a great place to launch a project for a few simple reasons:

It's Fast: Everything happens very quickly on Stellar. Your project's transactions will be almost instant. It's Cheap: The fees to create and manage your project are incredibly low, so you don't have to worry about high costs. It's Ready for You: The network is stable and secure, so you can focus on your idea, not on technical problems. Lumos Core: Your Easy Way to Win You have a great idea, and the time to launch is now. LumosCore is the simple tool that helps you do it easily. We make the technical parts of launching a project simple, so you can take advantage of the early opportunity on Stellar.

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by Someone | 2025-09-27 11:54:43+00:00
The only definition I know of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language. I also think that is the commonly accepted definition.

Taking that as the definition, this definitely is not the first formal language learnable in 1-2 hours. I would think, for example, that the language consisting of just the empty string is older and learnable in 1-2 hours.

They probably mean something like “formal language used for writing mathematical proofs that is (about) as powerful as Lean”, though.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-27 11:56:38+00:00
One way that China keeps the cost of subways down is by standardizing the train sets.

They have three types of trains (A, B, C) that are used in almost all subway systems across the country. You need a high-capacity train? A. You have a smaller line with fewer passengers? C. Something in-between? B.

There are a few variants for cities with special circumstances. Chongqing uses variants that can handle steeper slopes, because the city is incredibly hilly (like San Francisco).

By standardizing, prices can be kept down. Cities don't have to come up with custom solutions. Just define your needs and pick the standard variant that matches them.

Something similar could be done with buses.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-27 11:57:11+00:00
Having read the article, I came away with the opposite impression. Directly measured IQ data is of laughably poor quality (literally 65 boys, all from the same school, in 1970, and the error bars in the study are larger than any measured difference), so no conclusions can be drawn from that. Meanwhile Israel (Hebrew) performance in PISA is middle of the road at best.

The author thinks so to:

So now we are at the other end of the rabbit hole, have we come out the other side with the slam-dunk data which Peterson and Pinker present as fact? It’s plain that we have not. Their claim is something like ‘Jews are overrepresented in American positions of power and influence because of their high IQ’ but a more accurate articulation of this argument would be something like ‘Jews are overrepresented in American positions of power and influence because 65 fifteen-year-old boys scored well on a quick test in 1970 and 57 monolingual Jewish children in 1959 scored well on a Stanford Binet Test.’ The argument is never presented that way. Their argument has come out of this process greatly damaged.
by jbaber | 2025-09-27 11:58:29+00:00
It's my duty bring up that plain TeX, the Knuth language in which the large macro collection LaTeX is written, isn't as verbose and opaque as LaTeX when people complain about that.

It has the opposite problem where you may have more control than you'd like. But it is in some sense very simple. e.g. this is a valid plain TeX document:

$$\aleph_0$$

\bye

Things don't have to begin{ and end{ etc.

There are simple collections of useful macros like [extended plain] kind of like lodash where the aim is to enhance the classic syntax by ` input eplain` at the top, not take over.

NB: I was so proud to write my thesis entirely in [extended plain], but when it was time to submit it to the library they basically said, "That's nice, nerd, but we have specific style files." and I had to rewrite it into LaTeX anyway!

[extended plain]: https://tug.org/eplain/
by geokon | 2025-09-27 11:58:30+00:00
ah okay, i hadnt come across this. seems like a potentially viable strategy

> Schemas are evolved in a backwards-compatible way with a nudge towards future extension (eg open unions are default).

unions of schemas? Doesnt that lead to a facebook-ized kitchen sink app that does everything?

you can effectivelt filter to .. say .. only photos with a photo-only app. But that doesnt form a app/schema culture
by mindcrash | 2025-09-27 11:58:44+00:00
"Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy."

"Common themes among fascist movements include: authoritarianism, nationalism (including racial nationalism and religious nationalism), hierarchy, elitism, and militarism. Other aspects of fascism – such as a perception of decadence, anti-egalitarianism and totalitarianism – can be seen to originate from these ideas."
by songeater | 2025-09-27 11:59:13+00:00
Love the passionate replies! I think I especially agree with this comment:

>> think that soon, some very accomplished musicians will learn to leverage tools like Suno, but they aren't in the majority yet. We're still in the "vibe-coding" phase of AI music generation. We saw this happen with CG. When it started, engineers did most of the creating, and we got less-than-stellar results[0]. Then, CG became its own community and vocation, and true artists started to dominate.

Hey its likely not going to be me, but let's be real - any user of this technology who has gone beyond the "type in a prompt and look i got a silly song about poop" stage will probably agree - someone's going to produce some bangers using this tech. It's inevitable and if you don't think so it's likely you haven't done anything more than "low-effort" work on these platforms. "Low effort" work - which a majority of AI swill us - is going to suck, whether its AI or not.

And while I have the forum, I do want to make another point. I pay more for a month for Suno than Spotify ($25 vs $9). Suno/Udio etc: do what you need to to make sure the artists and catalogues are getting compensated... as an user I would pay even more knowing that was settled.
by subsistence234 | 2025-09-27 11:59:31+00:00
Is there really a dearth of maintainers for the originals? They already work fine, no? To me it sounds a bit like: "Addition has become stagnant, so we need to re-implement it in higher category theory. Sure, 99% of even research mathematicians don't benefit from that re-implementation. But no risk no reward! If vocal traditionalists refuse to contribute to reinventing the wheel, maybe they're working on something that hasn't been refined/stagnated decades ago, but I won't take their perspective (that addition already works fine) seriously, unless they start re-implementing addition as well."
by _aavaa_ | 2025-09-27 12:00:02+00:00
> In the US, regions

First of all the US isn’t the whole world.

Like you said transportation is a problem which is why you would produce it close to where it’s needed (say Nebraska). You don’t need an “ideal” solar output location.

Yes I am well aware of the energy difference.

> Exactly. 20 kg of methane costs $3 today, but contains 15 kg of carbon that could be worth $20-$30. It's a non-trivial issue if you hate generating value

If carbon free hydrogen is going to be worth doing at scale it will be because there is a price on the carbon. So the input methane will go up in price.

As for the output, global demand for carbon black is currently ~14 million metric tones a year [0].

Current hydrogen demand is ~100 million metric tones a year [1].

100 Mt of hydrogen needs ~400 Mt of methane and produces ~300 Mt of carbon.

300 Mt vs 14 Mt of current demand. What do you supposed will happen to that carbon black price when you produce even a fraction of total hydrogen demand through pyrolysis?

It’s non-trivial cause you’re gonna be having to create reverse coal mines to store all that shit.

[0]: https://www.chemanalyst.com/industry-report/carbon-black-mar...

[1]: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-hydrogen-review-2025/dema...
by simonw | 2025-09-27 12:01:08+00:00
This looks amazing. I'm a big fan of Gemini for bounding box operations, the idea that a 9B model could outperform it is incredibly exciting!

I noticed that Moondream 2 was Apache 2 licensed but the 3 preview is currently BSL ("You can’t (without a deal): offer the model’s functionality to anyone outside your organization—e.g., an external API, or managed hosting for customers") - is that a permanent change to your licensing policies?
by danielhanchen | 2025-09-27 12:02:36+00:00
Oh hey! Thanks for the love :)

The primary goal of the release and our notebook https://colab.research.google.com/github/unslothai/notebooks... was actually to showcase how to mitigate reward hacking in reinforcement learning - for example when RL learns to cheat and output global variables instead like editing the timer to cheat on benchmarking and others. You can edit the notebook to do rl on other powerful models like Qwen, Llama etc automatically with Unsloth as well via our automatic compiler! We also made sink attention and moe inference super optimized for training - note flash attention 3 doesn't have sink backwards support so you'll have to use unsloth.

Gpt-oss tbh in our tests is a truly powerful model, especially the 120b variant - it's extremely popular in western enterprises since yes it's from openai but also because reasoning mode high and the censored nature and its reasoning capabilities are attractive. A big underutilized feature is its web search and internal intermediate tool calling which it can do as part of its reasoning chain just like o3 or gpt5.

RL yes isn't an all powerful hammer, but it can solve so many more new problems. For a financial institution, you can make automatic trading strategies via RL. For an intelligence agency, decryption via RL. For a legal startup, possibly case breakthroughs via RL, automatic drug candidates etc. And yes, big labs want to automate all tasks via massive RL for eg being able to play pokemon and all other games as one example. RL opened so many doors since you don't need any data, just one prompt like "make fast matrix multiplications kernels", and reward functions - it can allow many more interesting use cases where data is a constraint!
by smartmic | 2025-09-27 12:03:05+00:00
I am currently preparing to switch to DITA. The learning curve is steeper at the beginning, but I find the overall concept of topic-oriented, information-typed authoring with content reuse very attractive.

Some people might say that writing in XML is annoying, but it isn't if you have a decent XML editor. In my case, it is Emacs nXML mode. Customisation is possible with DITA-OT [1] and plugins, and yes, it is also based on XSLT. Overall, I think DITA is an industry-proven XML powerhouse. It may be boring, but it has huge potential for anyone with advanced documentation requirements.

[0] https://dita-lang.org/dita/archspec/base/introduction-to-dit...

[1] https://www.dita-ot.org/
by Erwyn | 2025-09-27 12:03:08+00:00
> It's not "plug-and-play", but it's not that hard. Once you've got it up and running the maintenance load goes to almost zero.

This is where I disagree. In my opinion it might not be that hard but the maintenance is really not zero as you just described how you need a reputable IP as a prerequisite and constant monitoring of block lists.

Just having DKIM, SPF and DMARC really was not enough last time I checked for getting delivered to let's say outlook.
by grafmax | 2025-09-27 12:03:29+00:00
Subsidies, depending on the market, often produce some degree of the effect you’re talking about, but it’s not black and white. The term is pass-through and full pass-through is rare with partial pass-through being typical. Often with subsidies (like for EVs) prices rise (showing pass-through) but it rarely cancels out, for example this study showing every $1000 of subsidy in California lowering the post-subsidy cost by around $800 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472... - so only around $200 pass-through.

But this is a more elastic market than healthcare. To your point about negotiating power - it’s elasticity that gives negotiating power to consumers vs not.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-09-27 12:04:02+00:00
Free speech as in right to opinion without worrying about being silenced. Dead simple. On merit. It's not off-topic all the time. Right now, moderation is unfair and used to silence people.

And it's not just OSS projects you know? There are OSS related communities like Linux / BSD and many many other projects/communities. CoC unfairness is all over there too.
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-27 12:04:41+00:00
I've had every single LLM I tried (Opus, Sonnet, GPT-5-(codex) and Grok light) all tell me that Go embeds[0] support relative paths UPWARDS in the tree.

They all have a very specific misunderstanding. Go embeds _do_ support relative paths like:

//go:embed files/hello.txt

But they DO NOT support any paths with ".." in it

//go:embed ../files/hello.txt

is not correct.

All confidently claimed that .. is correct and will work and tried to make it work multipled different ways until I pointed each to the documentation.

[0] https://pkg.go.dev/embed
by bombcar | 2025-09-27 12:05:53+00:00
LaTeX absolutely shines when you have someone providing a template; hardly anything comes close.

When you're on your own, you need to either steal someone else's and modify it, learn to build your own, or just use something like the Memoir package (which is the first but designed for it.)

Even if you don't use LaTeX at all, "A Few Notes on Book Design" is worth the read: https://ctan.org/pkg/memdesign