MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bender | 2025-09-15 19:40:22+00:00
This is stupid, needs e2ee for text.

I agree but I doubt it could happen. They are too big, too popular and thus feds will demand a way to view DMs and group chats because they know that most unstable people will not have good OpSec as recently seen. Discord have always bragged about never losing a message and that includes deleted messages. I would not be surprised if the client is silently doing voice-to-text transcriptions or relying on OS features such as AI to do voice-to-text and uploading it thus allowing one to say they are doing E2EE, but not really. I could envision Microsoft recall being used to negate E2EE.
by emtel | 2025-09-15 19:40:27+00:00
Stablecoin payments are currently a hugely growing business, mainly for B2B payments as I understand it. I think its really hard for people who have absorbed 10 years of anti-crypto groupthink from HN to digest the fact that crypto is here to stay and is finding legitimate use cases.

Stablecoin payments really are just better: - Instant settlement - Extremely cheap - Extremely reliable - Highly programmable - Built on open protocols - International

There are no traditional banking systems that offer all of these properties!

If anyone is tempted to reply with "okay but that could have been done with a database" I would really encourage that person to try to think hard about why that didn't happen.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-15 19:40:29+00:00
While I also neither lived through 1991 nor knew those terms, I found the text fairly understandable. But that might be, because I'm familiar with the political landscape the text describes.

I think this text is touching the basis of what became known of as the story of "the end of history" which we did cover in schools history lessons although not very detailed.

The article describes a trend of both the political right and left to the center, i.e. modern liberalism, which means that these distinction became less extreme. However this trend has now reversed. On the right that trend led to a rising of a new political party (AfD) that poses as the old conservatists to frustrated voters, but are actually more fascistic. On the left the party previously called communistic now calls for more aggressive "actions", accelerated by the split of of the not more conservative, but more aligned with more "bourgeois interests" flavored wing of the former. This also explains while the latter now is also seen favorable by voters who would previously would have been more aligned with the political right.

Thus, the text is neither outdated nor topical. It does not describe the current political landscape, but the origin and causes for it that lay in the previous one. As such it is very topical again.
by quantified | 2025-09-15 19:40:41+00:00
> “But the big reason why nobody fixes it is because it’s a big political bombshell, and both parties can use it against the other one.”

Except... a bipartisan fixing bill was nuked on Trump's disapproval shortly before the elections, so that immigration and immigrant status could still be an issue at election time.

Farmers followed up by voting to have all immigrants deported quickly after Inauguration Day. That was clearly communicated.

Farmers FAFO again.
by dweekly | 2025-09-15 19:40:45+00:00
I was curious about what adoption looked like so I scanned the top 100 websites for HTTPS & SVCB records.

Looks like only about 9% are actually returning HTTPS records; and none of these use non-standard ports or ECH (which mystifyingly hasn't made it out of committe).

Findings: https://dweekly.github.io/9460/ Source: https://github.com/dweekly/9460 ECH draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/25/
by duffpkg | 2025-09-15 19:41:02+00:00
I did not name specifics because things are constantly changing in this market and these threads tend to live for years. Stock and prices are constantly changing but RUiXU, EG4 and EcoWorthy are widely available brands with UL listed options. Will Prowse's website has a page dedicated to code compliant batteries and there are several long lists and excel sheets on the diysolarforum.
by prmph | 2025-09-15 19:41:52+00:00
You do not see all the problems externalized to society from this scooping up of resources from all over the world and the concentration of them and power in the hands of a few??

Even a billion dollars is a stupendous amount of money. What on earth justifies one person having a trillion dollars? Is there any argument to be made that he is 10 millions times more worthy and superior as a person than the average person?
by fragmede | 2025-09-15 19:42:06+00:00
Running at 24 Mhz, the vape is umpteen times faster but interestingly enough the AGC had 36 KiB of ROM while the vape only has 24 KiB. Umpteen is a technical term denoting that a straight comparison isn't possible, as the Cortex M0 does more in a single clock cycle than the AGC does but they're also different architectures and the programs running are different.
by xp84 | 2025-09-15 19:42:44+00:00
That is probably a great and fun way to solve the problem for those with even a little free time.

Sadly for family reasons I sadly can't take on projects that require more than a few minutes, so I'm holding out hope for someone to bridge the gap between the "project boards that require writing a bunch of code to interface with Home Assistant and define all of its possible abilities and commands" and "dumb as a post Google thing that you just plug in" with a hardware device that is easy to connect to HA and starts out doing what the Google thing can do, but smart instead of stupid like the legacy voice assistants are.
by thomas8787 | 2025-09-15 19:43:01+00:00
Marstek Venus E (5.12kWh), this plug-in model has gained a lot of popularity the last couple of months in some European markets like Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. It has a maximum charge rate of 2500W and can discharge at up to 2500W (should be connected to a separate power group and only if local regulations allow it). These kind of batteries plug into a regular AC socket and do not require an electrical inspection. But they aren't legal everywhere.

In my case, it's configured to track the readings of my digital electricity meter. The battery charges itself when my solar panels produce excess power and discharges when it detects grid consumption. Throughout the day, it buffers the intermittent solar power, and during the evening, night, and early morning hours, it keeps my grid power consumption close to zero.
by majkinetor | 2025-09-15 19:43:40+00:00
I have a virtual crypto card and gave it to my daughter and she added it to the Google wallet on her android. She uses it anywhere to buy anything. My bank didn't want to open bank account to minor. Everything was set up in 10 minutes. I transfer to her some random coins and it just works.

I also use it myself as a backup abroad when my regular bank foreign account doesn't work for any reason.

I got the card in the middle of the night in 10 minutes.

I think all that is simply awesome.
by beefnugs | 2025-09-15 19:43:51+00:00
Too much optimism from everyone, the truth is managers and business owners are controlling everything and they always make the dumbest decisions: "Quick fire everyone! dont hire any seniors we can get em cheaper. Dont hire any juniors they cant afford $10,000 graphics cards to already be good at it. Lets create a new system to exploit illegals and churn through them as they get deported, now thats business boyz"
by rogerrogerr | 2025-09-15 19:44:07+00:00
I’m familiar; I thought this was tethered to the ground. But it’s self contained within a few meters at 40k ft - not a problem.

I do suspect if you encountered small gauge fishing line being used as a tether, you’d find at least some of it wrapped tightly around your spinner on the ground. Probably not much friction at play.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-15 19:45:14+00:00
Of course, you avoid the pig butchering, but open yourself to abuse from the trustees. Reasonably want a new BMW? Hope your kid is ok with their inheritance shrinking by $60k. Etc.

I'm not claiming a trust is a bad idea, only that you need to take care picking the trustees. And be sure there's an "out" if you and the trustees fall out.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-15 19:45:21+00:00
I think some of it is not necessarily auto compaction but the tooling built in. For example claude code itself very frequently builds in to remind the model what its working on and should be doing which helps always keeps its tasks in the most recent context, and overall has some pretty serious thought put into its system prompt and tooling.

But they have suffered quite a lot of degradation and quality issues recently.

To be honest unless Anthropic does something very impactful sometime soon I think they're losing their moat they had with developers as more and more jump to codex and other tools. They kind of massively threw their lead imo.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-15 19:46:23+00:00
I don't know how it is in your country, but here China is still categorized as a developing country. We still pay them development aid. But I do think its miscategorized, if anything China is now the second world power and maybe soon the first. But of course the chinese government has now reason to stop this. The more power they can grab while still posing as a poor country, the better (for them).
by johnea | 2025-09-15 19:46:32+00:00
I'm in the middle of a renovation now, that will include batteries and solar.

One thing that I never see mentioned is how to support on-demand instant hot water heaters.

The 6.5 gal/min heater (what it takes to fill a tub) that I'm installing uses 100A at 220v when operating!

I haven't found any battery system that can support that.

Do "totally off-grid houses" all use a typical electric storage tank hot water heater? For my solo occupation, that's a lot of hot water storage over times when almost none is being used.

I do have a smaller water heater under the kitchen sink, so that the giant one doesn't have to run for that usage.

How do off-grid homes deal with the high instantaneous current consumption of on-demand water heaters?
by throw310822 | 2025-09-15 19:47:02+00:00
My impression is that Musk is trying every conceivable trick to keep the Tesla stock inflated way beyond any reasonable valuation. At the moment it's trading at 236 P/E. Tesla is a car company that doesn't seem to have any particular technological advantage over its competitors. Its technology has become mainstream and it can be outcompeted on price and quality by an ever increasing number of Chinese companies. The stock is kept afloat by the promise of FSD- a tech that's been "almost there" for years and every year becomes closer to being easily reproducible by every manufacturer; and even more absurd hints to a humanoid robot- on which they already appear to be behind Chinese companies. At some point there will be a reckoning at the stock will crash. Would me wiser for Musk to guide it towards a soft landing, if it can keep Tesla alive.
Trying to solve context for coding agents working on large complex codebases
by ayushag132 | 2025-09-15 19:47:02+00:00
I'm trying to explore & solve problems faced when working on large complex codebases & systems with AI agents.

I don't want to bias you by pitching my idea right here. If you're ready to spare a couple of minutes to help me out do fill out this short survey : https://deformity.ai/d/kutGDofxHjdY

Would love to learn about your experiences and opinions. Thanks in advance.
by jjk166 | 2025-09-15 19:47:34+00:00
I'd say it's a call for more appropriate regulation. Regulations are not a bad thing, they can be a great enabler when used well. Well defined thresholds beyond which your ass is covered are necessary for any complex project to proceed. Obviously anyone building a nuclear powerplant better budget enough to make it a safe one.

The issue is when the goal posts are ill defined or just straight up moved. Things need to be overbuilt to satisfy demands the regulators may not even have, and still you might get caught up on something that you didn't think could possibly be an issue. There is excessive conservatism because you have at least some track record of regulator decisions, even if it's an imperfect indicator of their future requirements.

Overzealous but well defined regulations, like you need 3 backup diesel generators, obviously add cost, but this can be easily priced in at the beginning of the project. Typically, the more regulations you have, the more likely some of them will be vague, so keeping the number of regulations manageable is often a good thing, but is not strictly necessary. Where you really run into problems is when there is an unreasonable fear which draws strong support for "something" to be done, but there really isn't an appropriate action to take given the severity of the risk and the cost of eliminating it - that's how you wind up with bullshit like ALARA.

And safety regulations are just one facet. Environmental regulations, particularly NEPA requirements, are a major driver of construction costs for big projects and especially nuclear plants. If nuclear plants were primarily facing only the same issues as general construction, you'd expect the labor productivity to be similar to comparable scale projects. The fact that labor productivity is an order of magnitude lower indicates something specific to nuclear plants is lowering labor productivity. While many potential things could be causing that reduction in labor productivity, it's hard to think of any that don't stem from or are made substantially worse by the regulatory environment.
by jedberg | 2025-09-15 19:48:04+00:00
> However I do personally really dislike that everyone is either marketing themselves or has truly pivoted to AI agents…

I'm the CEO of a direct competitor to trigger, and we're in the same boat. What we make is great for any type of workflow, but our investors are pushing us hard to frame it as AI agents.

FWIW, more than 1/2 of our customers are AI agents, so it does make sense. But you're right, it's great for all sorts of use cases (trigger and us).
by pixl97 | 2025-09-15 19:48:07+00:00
Simply put the economics are behind a locked down click and drool style operating system with a manufacture controlled store that takes 30% of all gross.

The faster we can kill the Apple and Google store monopolies the faster we'll go back to having operating systems/phones that we can at least do something with.

We still have Linux for now, but as we know signed bootloaders present a very large risk.
by soared | 2025-09-15 19:48:12+00:00
There are legit uses that enterprise companies are using today, but they are few and far between in comparison to day trading/speculation/etc. For example, moving money from different currencies usually requires foreign exchange fees which can be hefty - whereas if you buy some stablecoin in a local currency and then sell that stablecoin in the currency you want to have in your bank account, you pay tiny transaction costs and thats it. This is a real problem for companies who have operations in tons of countries, and have to manage bank accounts and local entities in all of those countries. Imagine reducing your profit by 1-2% just because you want your profits in ireland instead of mexico. Stablecoins make that into <0.5%, which is many millions.

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/stripe-bridge-acquisiti... has some examples
by yks | 2025-09-15 19:48:20+00:00
"Immigration question" doesn't have a solution because without the immigrants the economy collapses. And, besides, not having it solved allows Republicans to run on the platform of solving it, as you said. But if there is a single politician in the US history who is not only willing to kill the economy, but has an unquestionable approval from the voters to do it, that's Trump, so who knows.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-15 19:48:43+00:00
To be fair, Anthropic kinda did this to themselves. I consider it as a pretty massive throw on their end in terms of the fairly tight grasp they had on developer sentiment.

Everyone else slowly caught up and/or surpassed them while they simultaneously had quality control issues and service degradation plaguing their system - ALL while having the most expensive models comparatively in terms of intelligence.
by catskull | 2025-09-15 19:48:56+00:00
I did some testing with the 3 main AV1 encoders with gifs (avif). They’re pretty good. But not as good as jpeg xl but currently basically only Safari supports it.

See my blog: https://catskull.net/libaom-vs-svtav1-vs-rav1e-2025.html

For most “normie” use cases, I’d recommend cloudflares image transforms which are available on free tier. I actually wrote a small Jekyll plugin for my site to auto prefix images with their transform. Idk why but shipping optimized images is just one of those things that tickles me!

https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/transform-images/
by lawlessone | 2025-09-15 19:49:02+00:00
Kubuntu works fine for me. Got cyberpunk to run on it very well, i havent had a game not work so far, but i don't play online shooters.

Kubuntu is Debian but i don't think that has caused any issues.

Since i got the deck i don't really use the PC for gaming much though.

This is all purely my anecdotal opinion.
by brailsafe | 2025-09-15 19:49:48+00:00
> Tension is, imo, ephemeral. If you keep chasing it, you are chasing dopamine loops. Little good comes from this.

A lot of bad can come from this, especially if you're working on farming these loops from others and that's where you get your kick/money. But if there's no dopamine loop, ideally in addition to having some meaning, then there's just burnout.

> But meaning is different. When you can remind yourself a truly great "why" you are doing something, can re-frame it, it can help.

Ya, but it's easy to get too caught up in meaning. Meaningful meaning is scarce, and it's a bit naive to couple your paycheck to it. Most times work is just work and it needs to keep going as long as you need money. Meaning is fleeting by comparison, even for nurses and people actually doing something useful for society. When you can get it, great, but when you can't, don't go quitting your job impulsively, not in this market.
by unleaded | 2025-09-15 19:50:08+00:00
well i just asked it the same thing and it gave me a 1MB 1024x1024 png with fringed edges & sensor noise that measures out to a 17x21 pixel image. https://files.catbox.moe/1q4jtp.png

In the time it would take to keep retrying until it makes one that fits, then reshaping it to fit into 16x16 nicely I could have just drawn one myself.
Show HN: Ruminate – AI reading tool for understanding hard things
by rshanreddy | 2025-09-15 19:50:17+00:00
We made Ruminate over the past few weeks because we were frustrated with how hard it is to read complex text with LLMs - research papers, novels, long articles, etc.

We found ourselves copy-pasting the text/file into ChatGPT, having chats about different parts of the text in different tabs, and bummed we couldn't easily track the best insights from all those conversations in one place. We wanted one place where we could stay immersed in the text, dip into lengthy and generative rabbitholes when we wanted to (in an unobtrusive way), and have a 'work product' of your learning process (all your notes in one place). No more tab switching - one unified interface centered around the text itself.

With Ruminate, you can: 1) Upload PDFs, EPUBs, or web articles and read them in our custom reader (PDF upload done with https://github.com/datalab-to/marker; headless browser automation for web articles) 2) Highlight text to ask questions, get definitions, or discuss with an LLM (that has context on the whole document, the pages you've read, and will web search too) 3) Save notes, definitions, and annotations (and view them all later in their own tabs)

There are loads of ways to use an LLM to save you time and offload thinking/learning/cognition - we want this to be a tool that actually enables/empowers you to think more deeply and understand more.

Would love your feedback - on the product, the concept, or even your own experiences trying to learn from difficult material (or learn with LLMs broadly). Much appreciated.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-15 19:50:27+00:00
Maybe this doesn’t happen in Python, but I find that hard to believe. This is a common thing in Rust, where cargo does support compiling with multiple versions of the same crate. If I have dependency X that depends on version 1.x of crate Z, and dependency Y which depends on version 2.x, cargo will compile BOTH versions of crate Y, and handle the magic of linking dependencies X and Y to their own, different copies of this common dependency.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-15 19:50:31+00:00
Not a single brazilian voted for those judges.

But per your constitution, the supreme court judges are nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate, a method which has been in place since 1988, and these have never been elected positions under previous constitutional regimes.

I only see conservatives and right wingers bring up this argument about judges not being elected (also in the US). Liberals and leftists often complain bitterly about court decisions and may accuse judges of being biased if they were appointed by their political opponents, but you never see them complaining about judges being 'unelected' because the constitutional arrangement is that those positions are appointed.

After years of listening to this non-argument, I've come to the conclusion that the onl purpose in making it is de-legitimization of the judiciary. You never hear people saying 'we should change the constitution to have judges elected rahter than appointed'. That would be a valid position (though not one I share), because it acknowledges the reality of how things are and proposes altering it through standard constitutional means. But complaining that they're unelected is simply characterizing the judiciary as an imposition. If that's how you feel, then implicitly you're rejecting the constitution that sets things up that way; and in that case you should just say up front that you dislike the constitution and want to change or replace it.

my only concern is that they are coherent and logical.

In that case you should probably begin by conforming your opinions to legal reality as outlined above. It's hard for anyone to have a logical argument with you if your conclusions are built upon hidden premises like 'the constitution is wrong'.
by Ronomics | 2025-09-15 19:51:26+00:00
I think these will be hurdled sooner than people think. Every obstacle has been successfully hurdled as of now, just not in one single robot. Every robot right now has pros and cons due to production needs. Robot good at one thing may not have dexterous hands or robots rushed to be manufactured like the g1 were shipped more as cool commodities than anything useful.
by isk517 | 2025-09-15 19:51:33+00:00
I have been asking myself this question repeatedly for the last few months. Windows 11 offers absolutely nothing of substance over Windows 10 and more often than not manages to be less pleasant to use. The Office 365 eco system is a complete disaster of half implemented ideas, most of which can be described as would be pretty useful if it actually worked as advertised(power automate), wasn't abandoned in a half complete state(loosp), or if they implemented simple feature requests that the userbase is asking for(sharepoint). To top it all off they seem to be working tirelessly to ruin the products that actually work and are in demand, every couple of months they threaten to force users to switch to the 'modern' Outlook despite the fact that it still lacks a lot of features that are the very reason businesses still use Outlook in the first place.