MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orangebread | 2025-09-04 14:10:09+00:00
I'll take a shot. I think what the OP was alluding to is a modern movement towards "metaphysics" or manifestation.

Think about the world you see and live in. Someone created the monitor you're looking at that you're reading my comment. Someone created the keyboard you're working on. Someone created the machines to manufacture these things. And so on.

It started with a concept, an idea. It didn't just appear. We, as humans, have the ability to collapse (hint hint, quantum physics) from the ethereal to the physical world the thoughts we have. This applies to everything. What our decisions are. Should I eat McDonalds today or have fish and salad?

We are, in a sense, wizards in this world. We create what we focus our mind on. Where we direct our focus and our intent we can see desired outcome. If your desire is to make a billion dollars, no one is stopping you. You are the only obstacle.

What I'm saying won't resonate with a lot of people, but in my experience, this message isn't for everyone. I'm a software engineer who has learned to appreciate the spiritual world as much as I appreciate the science. The two can live in harmony (as it used to, read about Tesla and Newton's metaphysical works -- they were manifestors as well).

This was a little all over the place, but it's meant to be a sampler platter of metaphysical ideas.
by FabHK | 2025-09-04 14:10:26+00:00
To be fair, I think this problem needs to be formulated very carefully and specifically [0], because the "correct" answer is predicated on that, and many formulations one finds (including the one in her column) are not that.

[0] It has to be specified that a) Monty knows what's behind which door, and b) he will on purpose always open a door such that there's a goat behind it.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-04 14:10:41+00:00
It's hard to put this plainly without being insulting but I have to be blunt. EE is just 100000000000x harder to learn. The distance from theory to application for EE is especially gigantic.

Software development for the most part is extremely easy. It's one of the few "engineering" fields where you can go to a bootcamp and learn it in 6 months. You won't see this kind of thing for quantum mechanics or electrical engineering.

Also the gap between theory and application in software is miniscule. Instantaneous even. You basically learn software via application.

A lot of software engineers take pride in their jobs and in their intelligence but they don't fully understand just how easy software is. Like you guys (to be accurate: most of you guys, not all) have an easy job and you learned a easy field. EE is challenging. You don't like it because it's harder and the intellectual capacity to handle it isn't there for everyone.

There's a reason why all hardware development moved to Asia. Software is just too attractively easy and the internet boom made it lucrative. Asians took whats available while the west took what’s most fun. And now the skill gap is more evident and we can’t go back.
by ghkbrew | 2025-09-04 14:10:46+00:00
Well no actually it'd still clear to me that they mean the the multiplication of 3 different variables X, N, and D.

I don't think of it as eliding obvious operators. Rather in mathematics juxtaposition is used as an operator to represent multiplication. You would never elide an addition operator.

So X next to D still means multiplication as long as you can tell that X and D are separate entities.

I would wonder why they switched conventions in the middle of an expression though.
by outlore | 2025-09-04 14:11:42+00:00
from a glitzy reimagining of "how we use the internet" to joining the ranks of shitty Jira...what an ending!

it's hard not to be bitter after they squandered so much goodwill by abandoning Arc

my personal thesis for consumer apps is that power users will always sustain over the latest hype cycle (even if that means your addressable market will be smaller - maybe don't take an obscene amount of VC money?)

The best thing to come out of Arc was the lovely design, the tab switcher, Nate's experiments on Twitter, the astounding welcome screen, Little Arc, the announcements which acknowledged the individual engineers etc. To me, those really pushed the boundaries. For that, thank you!
by dahart | 2025-09-04 14:11:50+00:00
Ads are vying for attention, true! I usually dislike commercial ads as much as anyone, especially online advertising, especially forced ads that block the thing I’m there for. That said, I don’t buy that they attack my agency and sovereignty, that’s a bit of a stretch. Online, a lot of free content comes with ads, and nobody’s forcing me to choose free content, so online at least I can avoid a lot of ads by avoiding the free content that comes with ads. When I’m not online, ads like posters or billboards rarely if ever block me in any way.

HN comments are also vying for our attention and pushing narratives, so are they ads and are they a personal attack? Usually not for money, but you didn’t make a distinction and GP comment was pointing at ads like posters for free community events. The community dance poster does want your attention, of course, but is it an evil personal attack, or just information that you can do as you please with or ignore? Is it sometimes something you did want to know, and advertises something you would like?
by eggbrain | 2025-09-04 14:11:55+00:00
There's also the magnitude of a negative interaction as well to consider.

If I have 99 great interactions with someone, but one REALLY bad interaction (they insult me deeply, or say something irredeemable), that can also sour the whole relationship.

It would be interesting to research commonalities amongst bad interactions -- are there patterns that emerge from certain personality types, politics, etc? What about a few "sour" people that will take any interaction and make it bad regardless of matchup -- if we removed them from the interaction pool, do the stats suddenly adjust quickly?

In my mind this would have big implications for social media sites -- not that all bad interactions need to be quelled, but if you are trying to keep conversations civil, attempt to implement X strategy or Y strategy.
by rpdillon | 2025-09-04 14:12:13+00:00
I think you're misunderstanding the point GP was trying to make. Artists and musicians in particular seem to think that copyright is their friend. Because, in theory, it's a mechanism by which a revenue stream could appear when you produce artwork. But copyright is not the musician's friend at all. It's a mechanism by which record labels consolidate power as the middlemen and route revenue to their executives with very little money ever going to artists. and with every technological shift, the labels find a way to give less and less to the consumer and give less and less to the artists. So now it's extremely unusual for somebody that's a fan of some music to actually purchase that music, and artists are getting paid less and less when people do listen to their music.

My personal belief is that systems that allow people to get paid when they're not working are not sustainable, and therefore intellectual property has a fundamental flaw. The end game for musicians is to perform live and use their recordings as advertisements for that. That makes them very similar to jobs I've held my whole life where the second I stop showing up for work is the second I stop getting paid.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-04 14:12:15+00:00
> I want to upgrade to a color laser, but:

If you think the $750 price tag is bad wait until you have to buy replacement toner cartridges. I have an older HP CP1518ni which produces decent looking prints but man, each of the four replacement cartridges are like $75 each. A full set is slightly cheaper at $275 last time I bought them.
by boringg | 2025-09-04 14:13:25+00:00
Energy markets are deeply complicated markets. They are heavily regulated and have a lot of challenges outside of strictly cost of power. Worth remembering they have safety requirements, uptime, national security implications, truly the backbone of our economic welfare.

Only upside I see out of this huge demand for electricity -- hopefully nuclear will clear the deck on using coal, gas and diesel. If we can build and operate nuclear again we can level our long term cost of power. Combined with renewables its a good combo.

Other than that - power prices will always be derivative to the price of natural gas.
by Divideddragon | 2025-09-04 14:13:28+00:00
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Ollama and Bifrost –> Qwen3 in Claude Code
by all2 | 2025-09-04 14:13:48+00:00
After a short conversation [0], I found it was possible to inject any model into Claude Code using the Bifrost docker container [1].

# SETUP

- an API key to some LLM service other than Anthropic OR a local LLM hosted through one of Bifrost's supported providers.

- claude code installed somewhere useful

# (Optional) Ollama

I'm using Ollama to serve Qwen3 from a 4090. I use the Ollama systemd service. Here's the .service definition I'm using. I serve this across a subnet, and the important line here is `Environment="OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0"`

``` [Unit] Description=Ollama Service Wants=network-online.target After=network.target network-online.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/ollama serve WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/ollama Environment="HOME=/var/lib/ollama" Environment="OLLAMA_MODELS=/var/lib/ollama" Environment="OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0" User=ollama Group=ollama Restart=on-failure RestartSec=3 RestartPreventExitStatus=1 Type=simple PrivateTmp=yes ProtectSystem=full ProtectHome=yes [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ```

# Bifrost

Pull the Bifrost container from the appropriate place [1].

`docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v $(pwd)/data:/app/data maximhq/bifrost`

## Provider Setup

Nav to <bifrost URL>/providers, click "Manage Providers", and add your LLM provider.

# Claude Code

Now we override Claude Code's API endpoint [2]. I added the following to my .bashrc:

``` function deepseek () { MODEL="qwen3:8b" #MODEL="hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-GGUF:Q4_K_XL" ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://100.100.0.11:8080/anthropic ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="dummy-key" API_TIMEOUT_MS=600000 ANTHROPIC_MODEL=ollama/$MODEL ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL=ollama/$MODEL claude } ```

# Results

It is slow with Qwen3, but the model isn't dumb. It performs quite a bit better on tasks than I thought it would.

The whole 'conversation' is here [3].

--- Et Fin. ---

# Links

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116978#45117578

[1] https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/tree/main

[2] https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/anthropic_api

[3] https://pastebin.com/jFrUPw5w
Show HN: PIC.FISH – easy og:image screenshots
by surprisetalk | 2025-09-04 14:13:54+00:00
Have you ever noticed how some links in Twitter/WhatsApp/iMessage/LinkedIn/etc display gorgeous image cards and others look like total d*gshit?

Welcome to the OpenGraph protocol. You can control how those links are displayed on social-media by adding meta tags like og:image to your HTML header.

It's easy to add those HTML tags, but you probably don't have the time/energy to curate images for each and every post/product/page on your website.

So I made a little service that generates an optimized screenshot image from any link:

[0] https://pic.fish

You can try it out for free on your website like this:

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" /> <meta name="twitter:image" content="https://pic.fish/https://example.com/foo/bar" /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://pic.fish/https://example.com/foo/bar" />

Paying for browser-renderers and storage is expensive, but I really didn't want to contribute to subscription fatigue. I decided to charge flat $100 for a lifetime license. If that's too steep for you, use the promo code DANG to get 50% off. Or email me at hello@taylor.town and I'll give it to you for free if I like you and the server costs aren't killing me :-)

If you don't see a watermark on your screenshots, note that I already gave free accounts to all the sites on blogs.hn:

[1] https://blogs.hn

Loading an image the first time is super slow (~30s), but everything is fast once it gets into cache. I plan to make a little crawler thing that preloads screenshots for new pages.

Enjoy!

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by k9294 | 2025-09-04 14:14:05+00:00
It looks really overpriced to me. Dia is a rough MVP. Arc is really a very niche browser with little adoption. I dont think technology worth this money, and Arc the user base is low compared to major browsers, probably around 1-5 million users with no growth (most likely they hit the plateau even before they decide to kill the Arc in favor of Dia).
by superkuh | 2025-09-04 14:14:10+00:00
Lasers are not fun. Especially when they're not aiming at the cornea/etc flap and instead are intentionally burning your torn retina flap to "photocoagulate"/glue it back on to the back of they eyeball with the rest of the retina. It hurts quite a bit (like getting punched in the eyeball 300 times) and you have to remain perfectly still with your eye always looking at the the same exact spot for 20 minutes minutes while the doctor flashes the green laser at random unpredictable intervals. There are no resting intervals. It's very intense and difficult to hold so still while getting hurt. And sometimes the laser will literally hit a nerve and suddenly you'll feel like puking. I had this done to both eyes in the last month and both times I left absolutely soaked in sweat and pale like a ghost.

I still can't look at flashing green LEDs the same way. Too many bad memories.

That said, this electroforming process sounds even worse than photocuagulation! I can't imagine it being a procedure they could do to a conscious person.
by RoboCuz | 2025-09-04 14:14:34+00:00
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by IlikeKitties | 2025-09-04 14:16:18+00:00
I assume these plants are genetically modified? Sadly that propably means that they are illegal like GloFish[0] in Europe... I'd really like to get my hands on these, owning illegal genetically modified organism sounds like an absolutely cyberpunk-esque thing i'd want to do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish
by jimbokun | 2025-09-04 14:16:20+00:00
Watch the video.

These companies are regulated and can only charge for the costs they incur plus a flat profit on top of that of 10% or so.

The datacenters give allow them to justify building a lot more capacity to serve them. That increases costs, which means that 10% added for profit is now a bigger number and they can give bigger returns to their shareholders. But those profits are extracted from the existing customers who now see higher bills to cover the costs of expanding capacity to serve the datacenters.

It's a question of aligning incentives.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-04 14:16:34+00:00
> It’s like saying “I drove a car and it was horrible, cars suck” without clarifying what car, the age, the make, how much experience that person had driving, etc.

That's an interesting comparison. That kind of statement can be reasonably inferred to be made by someone just learning to drive who doesn't like the experience of driving. And if I were a motorhead trying to convert that person to like driving, my first questions wouldn't be those questions, trying to interrogate them on their exact scenario to invalidate their results, but instead to question what aspect of driving they don't like to see if I could work out a fix for them that would meaningfully change their experience (and not being a motorhead, the only thing I can think of is maybe automatic versus manual transmission).

> there is little value in claims that AI is altogether bad when you don’t offer any details about what it is specifically bad at and how.

Also, do remember that this holds true when you s/bad/good/g.
Show HN: GetAIMedia – AI Image/Video Generator
by sadeed08 | 2025-09-04 14:16:36+00:00
This is a project I have been working on for few months now. I built an app to bring all the latest AI Image/Video models at one place - Flux, Stable Diffusion, Ideogram, Imagen, Kling and much more. You can create images and have the history of images and prompts at once place.

I would like to hear all the feedback/suggestions and questions if you have. Thanks!

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by rchaud | 2025-09-04 14:16:51+00:00
This is definitely what consumers think about when making a ourchasing decision. You can't go more than a couple of miles in a populated area without seeing a gas station. Charger stations on the other hand are few and far in between, and take much longer than a gas refill does.

Gas prices are also a major economic indicator in people's minds. They have an idea of what the per gallon cost "should" be, and how much it costs to fill up the tank. They have no such equivalent estimate for electric vehicles.
by Ar__Aj | 2025-09-04 14:16:57+00:00
Yep, that's completely normal. Your experience is exactly how most developers use AI coding assistants. You're not missing anything. Think of the AI as a super-eager junior developer, not a senior architect. It's great for getting a first draft on the page, but it needs your guidance and context to get the code production-ready. It doesn't know your team's specific style guide or the complex business logic you have in your head. The key is to treat it like a conversation. The first suggestion is just the starting point. The real magic is in the follow-up prompts where you tell it what to refine, fix, or add. You're using it the right way.
by UncleMeat | 2025-09-04 14:17:42+00:00
I am sure that there are ways of incorporating AI in pedagogically useful ways. But.

Generative AI is new. Pedagogical research involving them is even newer. Teachers are rarely given resources to meaningfully explore new methods. Expecting teachers to stumble through updated processes to enable students to incorporate generative AI is a mess.

Students are also children. They'll take the path of least resistance if it is available to them. Expecting students to meaningfully incorporate generative AI into their learning process rather than just reaching for "ugh this essay is dumb - chatgpt give me an essay on the use of time skipping in To the Lighthouse."

The situation is a total mess.
by mrsvanwinkle | 2025-09-04 14:17:48+00:00
Absolutely mind/world-expanding. Thanks for sharing. The Swedish version reminds me of (the now "disgraced" but his Proust book is cool journalist) Lehrer's chapter on Virginia Woolfe in Proust Was a Neuroscientist, where he claims that "attention _is_ consciousness" in Woolf's then-novel stream of consciousness style in To the Lighthouse.
by ksec | 2025-09-04 14:18:33+00:00
>The comparison to Rust is meaningless.

>If you want to justify the expenses of your infrastructure you need to explain where the money goes.

And they did. Comparing to anything is how a normal human would judge whether the spending is relevant. It is call price comparison. Whether it is a valid comparison is up to the person to decide. And more often that not when the two pricing are so vastly different that person should look a little deeper.
by cameron_b | 2025-09-04 14:18:56+00:00
I tried loading a csv from https://github.com/jadenzaleski/BibleTranslations as an alternate to the KJV included, but the json structure was different. Claude is working on a format converter tool, but paused for free tokens :/

I think I can see why you used the organization you have for your csv, did you roll that yourself or reference it from somewhere else?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-04 14:19:44+00:00
> ICL isn't generally available after the age of 45

It’s essentially cataract surgery, so not for safety reasons.

FDA doesn’t recommend it past 45, I believe, because if you have age-related eye degeneration ICL won’t help where LASIK might and because it’s most studied in the 21 to 45 age group. Would be surprised if a surgeon said no due to age alone.
by kentonv | 2025-09-04 14:20:01+00:00
Sorry but I think there's still a basic misunderstanding here.

Pages is not going away. It is not "sunsetting".

What is happening is, the implementation is changing to be more closely integrated with Workers.

At present most Pages features are available directly on Workers, but not quite all, but we're working on it. Hence, we're suggesting people use Workers for new projects, but we're not auto-migrating people yet. Once we're feature-complete we'll auto-migrate people to the new implementation.

But the "Pages" brand will continue to exist, as a more-integrated part of the Workers platform. pages.dev will not go away. We will not break anyone's sites. Everything you can do with Pages today should be just as easy if not easier on the new implementation.
by _flux | 2025-09-04 14:21:27+00:00
As I understand it, overwhelmingly large majority of CVEs over the history of computing have been due to buffer overflows or use-after-free. If you leave out those vectors, you might actually be pretty close to having RCE-free piece of software.

But sure, it's always possible to be more innovative about how to go about enabling RCEs, like the log4j case demonstrates..
by a99c43f2d565504 | 2025-09-04 14:22:17+00:00
Offtopic, and no one asked, but I'm going to advertise anyway: Helix is a good alternative to (neo)vim for anyone who wants a terminal editor with vimotions(ish) but doesn't like configuring or scripting. That was the selling point that made me stay with it: The out-of-the-box experience was close enough to what I was hoping to end at but gave up with neovim due to the hassle required. It is opinionated of course, but the default behavior and appearance of Helix felt much more appropriate than that of neovim.
by prmoustache | 2025-09-04 14:22:21+00:00
> Searching for and playing music from YouTube (including integration with playlists and SponsorBlock), Jamendo, Audius and SoundCloud

From what I understand the _farmers_ themselves are distributing their _cheese_ freely on various website and this tool is just a glorified search engine to find them more easily. Not sure why the _farmers_ would complain?
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-04 14:22:22+00:00
> Remarkably there’s really just one way to tie them together

I would rather assume (but knot theorists shall correct me if I'm wrong) that there exist two ways of tying them together:

Cut knots K, L at some point; denote the loose ends by K1, K2, L1, L2.

- Option 1: connect K1 <-> L1, K2 <-> L2

- Option 2: connect K1 <-> L2, K2 <-> L1
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-04 14:22:35+00:00
The world is much more complex than a dichotomy between “capitalism” and “communism”, and it doesn't make any sense to have a hierarchy of what is the “most capitalist country”.

Also, “government spendings” isn't a good proxy for how much a government intervenes in the economy, especially when the said government can just order businesses to do this or that without handing money to them.