MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-08 15:06:11+00:00
I tried both ~1,5 years ago, Immich won the "spouse test" as I could get my partner to use the app on her phone (with her own profile) instead of the native gallery.

Photoprism didn't support profiles or have an app (back then at least, don't know about today), and I couldn't convince her of using some other gallery in the browser...

I for myself liked the Photoprism GUI, but I could never get the face recognition to work well, and manually tagging people/places (or basically doing anything) on thousands of pictures was quite painful.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-08 15:07:03+00:00
Not just there (waves at East Africa, where I used to live).

I live in New York (Long Island). People are constantly telling me that I should be having jobs thrown at my feet, considering my skills and track record.

That was not the case, which is why I'm retired.

If I were an inexperienced young buck, living in Brooklyn, that might be the case, but not for an old expert, out on The Island.

It's likely that it's difficult to get capital in East Africa. I knew many very smart, educated people, when I lived there.

On Long Island, it's easy to get capital for non-tech stuff, but tecchies are kind of ghetto, out here.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-08 15:07:37+00:00
They can obviously communicate with Starfleet. "Subspace frequencies" or whatever they called it. Presumably personal and not just official communication would happen the same way. It's just not something that was top of mind when those shows were made. Long distance phone calls were still something you paid for at a substantial cost per minute. The idea that you'd be casually chatting with friends light-years away just didn't occur to anyone.
by tuckerman | 2025-09-08 15:07:38+00:00
I think if it weren't suppressed and released alongside some real, substantive changes for improving child safety it might be seen as Meta finally deciding to do something about it.

It's also worth pointing out this comes hot on the heels of the internal ai chatbot <> children memo leak [1] so people might not be likely to give them the benefit of the doubt atm...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899674
by organsnyder | 2025-09-08 15:07:52+00:00
Yeah, this could happen very easily, especially in a small municipality. A hypothetical order of events:

A datacenter operator approaches the township, selling the town commissioners on a project that will make them an "AI hub". The town leaders don't know the correct questions to ask, especially regarding noise, but they know they'll be lambasted if they turn this down. And the developer claims they have a dozen other sites that are shovel-ready if this town gives them any hassle.

The neighbor probably gets a postcard in the mail letting them know about an upcoming development hearing. This postcard is easily overlooked among the day's junk mail, and it doesn't have many details, anyways. Or, perhaps the neighbor has an attitude similar to many rural residents, and figures whatever happens on their neighbor's property isn't their concern (these are large properties, after all).

Even if the neighbor does complain, they're one voice against the many that want to see new development in their town—perhaps the first in recent memory (other than the two Dollar General stores that drove their old independent stores out of business). And so much in small town government depends on interpersonal relationships; perhaps the neighbor isn't well-connected, or a town commissioner even has an old grudge against them.

All of this is happening with little notice from the public. The newspaper was bought out by Gannett a decade ago; it's now thrice-weekly edition is 90% wire service stories, with the local coverage consisting almost entirely of "hard-hitting" crime coverage written by a reporter who is also the only local reporter for three other papers.
by emilecantin | 2025-09-08 15:07:57+00:00
One area where it really shines for me is personal projects. You know, the type of projects you might get to spend a couple hours on once the kids are in bed... Spending that couple hours guiding Claude do do what I want is way quicker than doing it all myself. Especially since I do have the skills to do it all myself, just not the time. It's been particularly effective around UI stuff since I've selected a popular UI library (MUI) but I don't use it in my day job; I had to keep looking up documentation but Claude just bangs it out very easily.

One thing where it hasn't shone is configuring my production deployment. I had set this project up with a docker-compose, but my selected CI/CD (Gitlab) and my selected hosting provider (DigitalOcean) seemed to steer me more towards Kubernetes, which I don't know anything about. Gitlab's documentation wanted me to setup Flux (?) and at some point referred to a Helm chart (?)... All words I've heard but their documentation is useless to newcomers ("manage containers in production!": yes, that's obviously what I'm trying to do... "Getting started: run this obscure command with 5 arguments": wth is this path I need to provide? what's this parameter? etc.) I honestly can't believe how complex the recommended setup is, to ultimately run 2 containers that I already have defined in ~20 lines of docker-compose...

Claude got me through it. Took it about 5-6 hours of trying stuff, build failing, trying again. And even then, it still doesn't deploy when I push. It builds, pushes the new container images, and spins up a new pod... which it then immediately kills because my older one is still running and I only want one pod running... Oh well, I'll just keep killing the old pod until I have some more energy to throw at it to try and fix it.

TL;DR: it's much better at some things than others.
by zahlman | 2025-09-08 15:08:00+00:00
> the meme of all protests and civil discontent in Asia being the product of Western influence is a popular one among right-wing circles

I listen to enough "right-wing circles" to end up getting people tarnishing me as one just for standing up for them (despite all kinds of progressive views) and I frankly don't know what you're talking about. My friends that tend to get interpreted as "right-coded" have historically been supportive of protest movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-09-08 15:08:05+00:00
I have been using Nextcloud Photos because I already use Nextcloud to store all my photos. I have always been interested in Immich though. NC Photos has pretty much all the features I need (except maybe face recognition) but the performance isn't great.

Has anyone switched from NC Photos -> Immich and have any thoughts on the process (and how well Immich plays with NC if I keep my photos stored there)?
by qw | 2025-09-08 15:08:08+00:00
> Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?

Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity.

I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a significant upgrade to their reader. It was similar to what I had made, so I thought it would be foolish to compete with Google and stopped working on it.

I wonder where RSS would be now if Google had not discouraged potential competitors.
by ratmice | 2025-09-08 15:08:46+00:00
One thing worth pointing out here is you that when reading you rarely will actually find the bug that you set out to, undoubtedly you'll notice others. Because you're reading the code with a mindset of "what awkward conditions failed to be handled appropriately such that xyz could happen".

It is also valuable to both form a hypothesis of how you think the code works, and then measure in the debugger how it actually works. Once you understand how these differ, it can be helpful in restructuring the code so it's structure better reflects it's behavior.

Time spent reading code is almost never fruitless.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-08 15:08:47+00:00
Why is RPN a head trip? Or rather... I don't think it's as much a head trip as prefix or infix notation. You've got your data. You've got your operation. Sometimes the data is on a stack. Sometimes it's on a heap. Just a little different way of specifying which is where.

Also... +1 on the "you've got to write it to understand it." And in the 80s, the documentation wasn't super. Leo Brodie's book was great to get you started, but understanding things like ' (tick) and how to program in "idiomatic forth" was a challenge. So I would add, "not only do you have to code FORTH to understand FORTH, you also have to rip someone elses' FORTH program apart to understand the more advanced bits." -- I could be wrong about that today, it's been a while since I did a survey of FORTH documentation.
by dcminter | 2025-09-08 15:08:53+00:00
There seems to be a lull right now. I did this silly thing:

https://hntags.com

Mostly 'cos I was trying to track whether the surfeit of AI stuff was real or my imagination - when I did it I was consistently getting four to eight AI stories per front page view. Right now there's only one. The categorisation is very loosey goosey, but I think it's reflecting something real there.

More details on the logic: https://paperstack.com/hntags/

I'm currently on a delightful honeymoon with my wife (6 years after the wedding because of covid and procrastination), but when I get back I intend to add some tracking of category stats over time as well as in-the-moment.
by mock-possum | 2025-09-08 15:08:58+00:00
There are a few concerns I’d have if a six story apartment building went up next to my house - loss of privacy in my own back yard, a more complex relationship with more neighbors, possibility of more noise pollution with less fence to dampen it, parking / traffic difficulties, and potentially shading out my house/yard (or contrarily, reflecting additional sun during some hours) thereby radically altering the class of plants that can thrive there -

A lot of which is addressable, to some extent, but who’s going to pay for the mitigation when housing development spends as little as it can get away with? It’s a business venture, and you get the biggest return on investment by building cheap and selling expensive, not by throwing away money placating the people next door.

… but even so, as much as I’d be pissed about it, I’d also understand that neighborhoods change, it’s inevitable, and to some extent intrusion by neighbors is part of the price for living in town. I could live out in the country, in a spot where I can walk out my front door and not see evidence of another human being - but I choose not to, because there are trade offs that come with that too.

So idk. It would be nice if new development were somehow incentivized to cater to the comfort of their new neighbors. But I’m not sure how exactly to enact that.
by jedberg | 2025-09-08 15:09:36+00:00
Presumably the same way faster than light travel works. I suppose you would wrap the IP packet in a warp bubble.

Or maybe the old adage of "a station wagon hurtling down the highway has more bandwidth than the biggest network links" would apply here -- send little storage modules at warp speed around the universe.

But also, in the show, they have clearly solved this problem, given that they can be out in Beta quadrant and still have live conversations with Starfleet back in San Francisco.
by ryanwaggoner | 2025-09-08 15:09:50+00:00
We've all been reading this exact comment for years now. Maybe it's actually different this time, I don't know.

What I do know is that I took multiple Waymo rides last week where those "gizmos" delivered a safe drive with no one in the driver's seat and zero unsafe exceptions. "Very rare exceptions" isn't even close to good enough for me to put my kid's life at stake.

Why would I care whether Tesla has maybe gotten closer to what they've been promising for a decade, but still having "very rare" extremely unsafe exceptions, when Waymo is objectively delivering full level 4 self driving to hundreds of thousands of people per week with an essentially flawless safety record?
by niteshpant | 2025-09-08 15:10:06+00:00
It is not a question of what, but a question of why.

Why do autocrats rise to power? Why are far-right parties rising in power in Germany, France, Spain and Portugal?

I've come to see this as a fundamental human nature one can't go against. Some people are, just evil. Humans will always love self more than others. This love of self can turn into a hatred of others, or easily be turned into a hatred of others.

Acceptance that evil forces and opportunitists and populists will always be around us is the first step in asnwering what is to be done
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-09-08 15:10:17+00:00
my first Intel was a 286 (DX2-66), and I just did a double-take reading this article when I saw “the Intel 285K CPU”

ah if only they had incremented that number by one… a new 286 even just in name would be sooo funny… not as funny as bringing back the number 8088 of course
by 10111two | 2025-09-08 15:10:18+00:00
You raise several good points, and I completely agree. Intelligence is an emergent property but there are some prerequisite to intelligence. Memory formations, original thought generation (imagination and creativity), anticipation, multifunctional trigger ability (think of how our one sense triggers responses of other senses). These emergent properties result in intelligence. We are exploring this principle first approach at JN Research. If you are interested, i would recommend this blog post: https://jn-research.com/blog/f/beyond-ai-%E2%80%93-introduci...
by ashenke | 2025-09-08 15:10:21+00:00
Thank you for this, I updated some time ago but never really switched. Night and day difference !

The other thing I'm waiting for is search results ordered by date instead of relevance. When I'm searching for a picture in particular I know was taken 3 years ago, and search keywords to find it, it's impossible to find this specific photo because the ordering seem random
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-08 15:10:23+00:00
I was famous at IBM for the quip: "The good news about FORTH is you can use it to write your own DSLs to model the problem you're working on. The bad news is the person down the hall already has." But we still used a metric butt-load of FORTH for board bring-up and firmware.

But more to your point. FORTH was used in a time when the predominant mode of coding was to construct more complex programs from less complex programs, so application developers usually got their hands dirty with some lower level aspects. That is... the application programmers chose the lower level abstractions they wanted to use. Now that we're beyond that and have, as an industry, decided that van Rossom and Latner are the only people who are allowed to define low-level abstractions, it's a lot harder to do that.

(Again, file this one under "old man yells at cloud.")

[2nd edit]

Maybe it's best to think of FORTH as a DSL construction kit. Lisp is kinda-sorta the same way. As you point out, it's super easy for someone to develop DSLs that require coders to understand not only their application domain, but also how the language and it's underlying hardware abstractions operate. And when you're using someone else's DSL, you have to understand how they thought about the problem domain. And we stopped teaching how to analyze that in the 80s.
by rpac0 | 2025-09-08 15:10:43+00:00
Every major global news outlet is portraying Nepal’s protest as being against a “social media ban.” That is misleading. Even most large local media houses are pushing the same narrative—which is not surprising, since many of them serve as PRs agents for political parties.

A bit about Nepal—the government here is run by a bunch of old farts. They are deeply corrupt and will do anything, legal or not, to protect their positions and continue embezzling the national budget. They lack accountability because they know they can/and have gotten away with anything. Example of a recent one [1]. Their children live lavishly, flexing their designer bags and watches, while the commoners struggle working tough jobs overseas just to survive.

They know that by controlling social media—as they already did with TikTok—they can censor any news about their corruption (which is a norm here) easily and keep the people in dark and in their favor. Now, they want Meta and Google to comply with their agenda and with the election coming, they need this bad!

This protest was never about a “social media ban.” It was against years and years of corruption, embezzlement and censorship. It was supposed to be peaceful. But politics here is a dirty game, and these veterans are seasoned pros. They hired goons to infiltrate the peaceful crowds, cause chaos and damage public property—a very old tactic here. That is how the demonstration spiraled out of control.

If you want to hear the voices of real people, look at r/Nepal and r/NepalSocial on Reddit.

And ask yourself—do you really think people are ready to risk their lives just for social media?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/NepalSocial/comments/1n9ra2q/hit_an...
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-09-08 15:10:47+00:00
And you are fixating on technical prowness for technical prowness' sake.

If a start button can improve the life of billions then it should be pursued.

There are many thousands of "start button" alike solution which would improve the life of billions but the capital and the man hours are tied into fixations which are impossible or perpetually 20 years in the future.
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-09-08 15:10:58+00:00
All of my friends who are on AMD have had issues over the past three years.

My belief is that it is in the memory controllers and the XMP profiles provided with RAM. It’s very easy for the XMP profiles to be overly optimistic or for the RAM to degrade overtime and fall out of spec.

Meanwhile, my intel systems are solid. Even the 9900k hand me down I have to my partner. There is an advantage to using very old tech. And they’re not even slower for gaming: everything is single core bottlenecked anyways. Only in the past year or so that AMD had surpassed in single core performance, but we are talking single digit percentage differences for gaming.

I’m glad AMD has risen, but the dialogue about AMD vs intel in the consumer segment is tainted by people who can’t disconnect their stock ownership from reality.
Show HN: Conformal – Type-safe FormData parsing and canonical submission flow
by marcomuser | 2025-09-08 15:10:59+00:00
I built Conformal to solve two major pain points in form handling in TypeScript.

First, it provides strongly typed FormData parsing, turning native FormData into fully typed objects with TypeScript inference, including nested objects and arrays.

Second, it provides a canonical submission flow: a single Submission object that preserves raw input, separates field and form errors, and standardizes success and error states.

Conformal implements Standard Schema (works with Zod, Valibot, etc.), is framework-agnostic, and is all you need to handle form submissions. It also exposes the primitives needed to build framework-specific higher-level form libraries.

Simple demo with React 19, useActionState, and Zod on StackBlitz: https://stackblitz.com/github/marcomuser/conformal/tree/main...

Repo: https://github.com/marcomuser/conformal

I’d be happy to hear any feedback or input on the library!
by adev_ | 2025-09-08 15:11:45+00:00
> I am not against dependencies but you should know the costs of them and the alternatives.

You are against the usage of a tool and you propose no alternative.

Handling the dependency by vendoring them manually, like you propose in your blog, is not an alternative.

This is an over simplification of the problem (and the problem is complex) that can be applied only to your specific usage and domain.
by jijijijij | 2025-09-08 15:11:52+00:00
> [Smart] watch include UV dosimeter functionality

This is actually a fucking great idea!

I presume, the location and orientation variation at the wrist probably makes for a good baseline exposure measure.

Quite honestly, either direction would be super useful data. Would be nice to get a warning/notification for too much, or too little sun exposure. Long term pooled population data would be invaluable, too.

Also, while we're at it, please throw in an actual dosimeter, x-ray/particle detector too. Not that useful now, but very, very cool, and who knows, if we have to fight giant cockroaches and stuff in the days to come.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-08 15:11:55+00:00
Overall, this is a good thing - I certainly don't want to go back to superstition, subsistence farming, and dying of infectious diseases at 50.

But it's a good principle to be aware of: economic incentives often make it impossible to intentionally lose a technology once it's developed.

I would love to go back to a time in which I could safely walk my small town's streets without 3-ton steel boxes noisily charging through at speeds far faster than a horse could gallop. But we've developed the technology to build 300 horsepower mobile living rooms that the average person can buy (for a staggering quantity of debt) and we've decided to allow them everywhere. In addition to the greenhouse emissions and costs and noise pollution, they're the leading cause of death for people from ages 5 to 22, and the second most common cause from ages 23 to 67. But the staggering utility means we're not putting those back in Pandora's box.

Air conditioning, likewise, is incredibly comfortable and a massive boon for health and productivity in the hotter regions of the world - not to mention the incredible nutrition benefits of freezing or refrigerating food - but in a vicious cycle, you have to use energy that makes the world hotter to make your tiny part of the world cooler. Personally, I'll go without until June, leave the thermostat high during the summer, and turn it off come September. But a shop can generate traffic and an employer can generate productivity by spending a little more on energy costs. The genie offered us the vapor compression refrigeration cycle, and that will never be put back in the bottle by a selfish society.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-08 15:12:01+00:00
Some of it is car brands not being loyal to themselves and SUVs just becoming amorphous blobs.

The Ford Mustang used to mean something, I'd imagine they could still make an electric Mustang that would rock people but no it is just some random SUV with a picture of a horse on the front and it doesn't even look like the horse that used to be on Mustangs. If this is what carmakers aspire to, people have no reason to be attached to a brand.

Infotainment is part of the problem. You've got a choice of "atrociously bad" and "extension of a smartphone". In the first case you have the potential of building an experience that would tie you to the brand but it's bad so it pushes you away, in the second case it is the same whatever brand you pick.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-08 15:12:42+00:00
Trump is "managed" by whom, then? Musk? The Koch brothers? George Soros?

I don't see why you would ever want some mercurial populist in power if you are rich and established; risks to wealth/investments wastly outweight any potential gains from billionaire-friendly tax policy (and you could lobby for such tax policy elsewhere, as well).
by sharemywin | 2025-09-08 15:12:46+00:00
a few possibilities for me are: over engineering, rabbit holes, trying to build on top of something that only 80% works, and trying to fix something you don't understand how it works. also integrating in with existing code bases. it will ignore field name capitalization, forget about fields, other things like that.

I prefer working with AI but it ain't prefect for sure.