MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-09-11 15:06:00+00:00
> If the hello worlds case starts that complicated already I'm going to being careful.

If the tool is intended for complex things I'm not sure I agree. It is nice when hello is simple, but if you can make the complex cases a little easier at the expense of making the simple things nobody does harder I don't know if I care. (note that the example needed the -o parameter to the command line - gcc doesn't have a good default... maybe it should?)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-11 15:06:05+00:00
I can’t speak for Eastern European developers and I would be hesitant to hiring them without ever working with any that were not located locally in the US only because of time zones.

But I have found working with LatAm coworkers to be an amazing experience.

What I first found frustrating about Indian developers in India wasn’t that they weren’t necessarily bad developers, they were afraid to speak up or go outside the lines. I had to beg a few to give me honest critical feedback when I was an architect at startup when I realized they were following my in hindsight bad guidance and they knew better.

My current LatAm coworkers - even those who are a lot less senior than me will tell me (politely) when my shit stinks.
by abrooks43 | 2025-09-11 15:06:27+00:00
Hey all,

I'm about to launch ClearWork and looking for anyone interested in testing and providing feedback! There are two main use cases.

Enterprise: For companies who are preparing for a technology transformation (AI, enterprise apps, etc.) and need to understand how work flows today - we automatically map how work gets done and build out your process maps, current and future state, recommend improvements, and drive downstream agentic AI workflows.

Founder & startups - building out work maps to identify what work is being done, by who, what can be automated, and feeding this into an AI assistant to help improve collaboration, reduce friction, and get new hires up to speed faster on their responsibilities.

Let me know if you fit into either bucket and are interested in checking it out!
Show HN: Asxiv.org – Ask ArXiv papers questions through chat
by anonfunction | 2025-09-11 15:06:27+00:00
I built this yesterday to help understand papers I'm interested in. It's using the gemini 2.5 flash lite model, but you can run it yourself[1] and switch to 2.5 pro for better results.

Happy to answer any questions or take suggestions on how I can improve it!

1. https://github.com/montanaflynn/asxiv
Show HN: AionUi v1.2 – GUI to Boost Gemini CLI with Multi-Agent
by waili | 2025-09-11 15:06:29+00:00
Hi HN! I’m the creator of AionUi, an open-source GUI for Gemini CLI. My early post was quiet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843792), but v1.2 updates gained traction on Reddit:

- [r/Bard - Nano Banana Tool (34 upvotes, 24 comments)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1n3b846/) – Users loved image editing use cases. - [r/GeminiAI (6 upvotes, 4 comments)](https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1nd1rey/) – Ollama setup questions; I clarified.

Why? Managing chats, files, and API keys in Gemini CLI’s terminal is a hassle—clunky navigation, no multi-session support, and complex config.

AionUi is a free, local, open-source GUI enhancing it with a better Chat UI, file management, AI image editing, multi-agent support, multi-LLM polling, and code diff views.

v1.2 Features: - Multi-agent: Claude Code, Qwen Code with Gemini CLI. - Image generation/editing (e.g., Nano Banana). - Multi-session chats. - API polling (Ollama-compatible), code diff view.

Apache-2.0 at https://github.com/iOfficeAI/AionUi (2k stars). Wiki: https://github.com/iOfficeAI/AionUi/wiki.

Try it! Feedback on UI or multi-agents? Comment here or GitHub. Thanks, HN!
by mclau157 | 2025-09-11 15:06:36+00:00
Before there was any bomb there was the Chicago Pile-1 in the middle of Chicago in a space under the stands at Stagg Field originally built as a rackets court

A wooden frame supported an elliptical-shaped structure, 20 feet high, 6 feet wide at the ends and 25 feet across the middle. It contained 6 short tons of uranium metal, 50 short tons of uranium oxide and 400 short tons of graphite, at an estimated cost of $2.7 million. According to Robert Crease, CP-1 and preceding piles were "the largest unbonded masonry structures since the pyramids.

On December 2, 1942, Fermi announced that the pile had gone critical at 15:25. Fermi switched the scale on the recorder to accommodate the rapidly increasing electric current from the boron trifluoride detector. He wanted to test the control circuits, but after 28 minutes, the alarm bells went off to notify everyone that the neutron flux had passed the preset safety level, and he ordered Zinn to release the zip. The reaction rapidly halted. The pile had run for about 4.5 minutes at about 0.5 watts. Wigner opened a bottle of Chianti, which they drank from paper cups.
by mlyle | 2025-09-11 15:06:55+00:00
You spend a third of your life at work. Better for it to be something you can enjoy and be proud of than not.

Or, from another lens:

My father was an awesome man, and incredible to his family-- and he went on an incredible personal journey with IBM doing cool stuff that he thought was meaningful as part of that, bringing back stories to his family.

(Like making one of the earliest computerized large industrial control system, to automate a cement plant... and the shenanigans that he and his work friends got up to during this time. Or how much he liked the 650, and what an interesting puzzle it was to try and make a fast program. Or indeed, even the things he failed at: at their programming school he was not good with the accounting special-purpose plugboard machines).

Or-- from mine: I won the startup lottery at 22 and "retired" but that did not last long. I am not a happy person without purposeful work. And I am a better person in my family by virtue of that purposeful work.
by mothballed | 2025-09-11 15:07:21+00:00
It's not unreasonable conclusion if you believe some of the stuff WSJ is putting out claiming the ammo/rifle had common leftist interest topics on it like anti-fascist and transgender interests, but those articles could certainly be a hoax or that evidence put there to throw off police.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/ammu...

https://archive.is/kLymA
by jbstack | 2025-09-11 15:07:29+00:00
> Since the 1980s, we have been consistently taxing less

Who is "we"? We're talking about governments in general ("good" vs "bad" ones), and I have no idea what jurisdiction you are referring to.

In any case, I didn't say the tap is dry. I said if you keep raising taxes it will eventually run dry. Or to put it another way, taxes are not an unlimited resource that you can keep increasing as much as you'd like. At some point you'll hit a ceiling where raising taxes any further doesn't produce additional tax revenue.

For example, as you raise income tax rates, people have less incentive to advance their careers (e.g. by chasing promotions or improving their skills), and people have more incentive to leave the jurisdiction and go somewhere with lower taxes. Up to a point, the increase in tax rates produces a net extra revenue for the government. Above a certain point, the number of people who stop paying taxes (e.g. by leaving or by working less) outweighs the gains from those who continue to pay. This is why you'll rarely see any government with excessively high top-bracket tax rates (e.g. 60 - 100%), because it results in tax losses.
by ben_w | 2025-09-11 15:08:21+00:00
10% is massive regarless, but of what? 10% of messages being false positive flags would mean almost everyone getting flagged within a day.

Upsetting statistic for other reasons: Even if it's "10% of all flags are false, 90% are correct", if there's also no false negatives, then the 10% false positives alone gets you to about the current total incarceration rate — offenders are estimated to be a few % of the population, prison population is about 0.1% of the total population.
by dawnerd | 2025-09-11 15:09:02+00:00
Trying it here and it is showing toilets inside of the public school that you can’t just stroll into. I’m not sure how the data is gathered, but that’s just wrong. Those are not public use at all.

I gave it my exact location and hit emergency and it put me pretty far from my actual gps.

Was this just a vibe coded project? Sure seems like it.

There’s existing apps like this though:

https://www.loofind.com/ https://www.toiletcodes.com/en https://toiletfinder.net/ https://www.toiletmap.org.uk/ https://toilet.place/
by Zigurd | 2025-09-11 15:09:09+00:00
Is that correct? And if it is, is it safety compliant? I don't think I can release the seat backs in the backseat of my car from within the passenger compartment. You have to open the trunk and pull the release for the seatbacks from there. I can imagine kids wreaking havoc by pulling down the seatbacks from within the car.
by underlipton | 2025-09-11 15:09:39+00:00
>because most israelis feel it's a matter of survival.

It objectively isn't and that's what's so tragic. Israel doesn't need to be understood, it needs to work harder to understand. And, per 9/11, it specifically needed to understand that taking Hamas' bait was a straight shot to dashing international goodwill and benefit-of-the-doubt.

There's some far-off timeline where Israel negotiated in good faith for the return of all of the hostages without dropping a single bomb. The anti-war movement that finds one of its most fervent centers in Israel itself is driven by the dawning horror that many of those hostages are never coming home precisely because Israel (again) chose blind fury over reason. And that's not a matter of perspective, it's a simple fact.
by 9x39 | 2025-09-11 15:09:50+00:00
It sure could be, it could also turn into an Amazon-Tijuana situation at the negative extreme (https://youtu.be/HFlsW9yulH0?si=n-FKLqVOEWWmDOpa)

In the pov of locals excluded (or let’s say not hired) from the factory, they have less chance of access to a wage and skill development than those on the inside.

It’s possible we didn’t get it built so they just didn’t reach the step where they do a hiring event. It’s also possible they were never going to hire locals, and parts and labor were shipped in with no intent to use the area for anything but a footprint and utilities.

We see what we want to see in these things, and you’re right, it could have had some positives eventually.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-11 15:10:33+00:00
Absolutely true that we need sensible legislation not based in diffuse fears that endagers data security everywhere.

That said, I think doing both is sensible. Always good to have a fallback and feasibility of such surveillance attempts is part of the political discussion. Fait accompli through pervasive encryption, which some politicians might read as perverse encryption.

That said, chat control isn't the only problem. Removing anonymity through age or general ID checks is the other.
by vqtska | 2025-09-11 15:11:20+00:00
There is someone who leaks Cellebrite's support matrix to GrapheneOS dev's and it confirms that they are still unable to exploit it.

"Their documentation has explicitly listed GrapheneOS for years due to the high demand from their customers for breaking into it. It shows they were last able to exploit a GrapheneOS release with a 2022 or earlier patch level.

We have their June 2025 documentation and could obtain the newer documentation if we ask for it, but we have much bigger priorities than that right now and we would have been contacted by the main person providing it if anything relevant changed."

https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1965464817914831070
by myth_drannon | 2025-09-11 15:12:31+00:00
Interesting article that is peppered with half-truths to drive some sort of agenda on Irish nationalism. I see parallels with Ukrainian nationalism, fighting for independence from Russia/USSR they sided with Nazis and as it common with national movements blamed Jews for everything and proceeded to slaughter Jews during WWII. Irish after fighting against British sided with Arab colonialism and are helping slaughter jews everywhere.
by accelbred | 2025-09-11 15:12:45+00:00
I switched to ZFS for a while but had to switch back because of how much was broken. Overlayfs had issues, reflinks didn't work, etc. Linux-specific stuff that just works on kernel filesystems was missing or buggy. I saw later they added support for some of the missing features but they had data corruption issues. Also I doubt it'll ever support fs-verity.

I don't plan on giving ZFS or other filesystems not designed for Linux another go.
by southwindcg | 2025-09-11 15:12:48+00:00
Probably decades ago now, I read a claim where the author concluded that they were a mnemonic device travelers used to remember unit conversion formulas for different locales. There was a website with loads of photos and measurements, but I have no idea if it's even still online or if the original author is still alive, and I'm not sure I could track it down if I tried.
Ask HN: How do you stay on top of new research?
by just_human | 2025-09-11 15:13:12+00:00
I used to use Karpathy's gret arxiv-sanity.com but it now redirects to a paid product (undermind.ai). It's been a while since I've tried to read new research papers on a daily/weekly basis. How do others stay on top of new research papers?
by isk517 | 2025-09-11 15:13:14+00:00
Everyone I actually enjoyed following is on there. Someone once posted that the best part of Bluesky is that you scroll until you reach the end of the new posts from users you follow, then once you reach the end of new content you stop and go do something else for a while. Bluesky not attempting to be a infinite dopamine is a feature in the best interest of the users
by lynndotpy | 2025-09-11 15:13:54+00:00
I think that their argument is that this is the only concrete realization possible of the abstract Second Amendment fantasy.

The Second Amendment fantasy is that you should own guns, so that you can kill people in the government and who are adjacent to the government. That means shooting real people with real bullets to kill them.

I think their reply is a criticism of the Second Amendment fantasy, rather than a remark that this is a worthwhile avenue for fighting fascism.

As others have pointed out, Charlie Kirk built a career on the Second Amendment fantasy, even explicitly delineating Democrats as targets he believes are acceptable to shoot and kill.

That said, I do disagree with the assumption that the shooter is necessarily opposed to the Trump administration or even to Charlie Kirk's rhetoric.
by Apreche | 2025-09-11 15:14:13+00:00
What is up with the people who keep insisting RSS is dead? It never went anywhere. It’s some kind of twisted comedy sketch where someone insists a person is dead when that person is standing right there next to them.

I have used RSS continuously since near the beginning. When Google Reader died I just changed clients. There are many client options now, basically all of which are better than Google Reader ever was. Pretty much every website out there still has feeds. I can even use it for extremely old fashioned local news sites.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-11 15:14:18+00:00
Documents have been leaked at the beginning of this year: https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/03/a-deep-dive-int... which do include the Pixel 9. They show GrapheneOS being pretty secure in comparison to other vendors at the very least, with GrapheneOS being marked as unsupported if patched beyond 2022. They also show GrapheneOS beating the stock Google firmware.

One reason GrapheneOS fights these threads is by doing what Google doesn't want to do out of user friendliness, like disabling USB in AFU mode. Unlike Google, Samsung, or Apple in non-lockdown mode, GrapheneOS doesn't need to deal with upset users when they need to unlock their phone before hooking it up to their car/display/flash drive/3.5mm jack converter/etc.

GrapheneOS also enables security features when compiling the OS that have a performance impact but mitigate security risks. They end up with a slower phone with less battery life that's protected better against extremely uncommon attack vectors.

GrapheneOS explained how these security features would've prevented at least one targeted attack from leading to exploitation: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114081909020398165

We don't know the current state of Celebrite's capabilities, but the fact they struggled for at least three years last time intel leaked out does paint a good picture for GrapheneOS. I'm sure the GRU and NSA have exploits that can hack even GrapheneOS, but at least they're not the type that makes it into commercially available exploit kits as of now.
by megaloblasto | 2025-09-11 15:14:25+00:00
Kind of. I don't use grapheneOS and I'd like to, but de-googling your phone by buying a Google phone seems a bit sketchy. I don't want to take away from a privacy focused project. I'm super thankful for this option and I can't stand android or iPhone. But in the back of my mind I wonder if I'm being tricked.
by duxup | 2025-09-11 15:14:35+00:00
Very cool hacking project.

With the thin nature of my macbook air doing all I need it maybe doesn't make any sense anymore, but I still sometimes think a big central rack for my home with a big computer / computers that anyone family member could use ... appeals to me in some ways.

At the same time my laptop is so thin bringing most everything with me seems pretty effortless.
by gorthmog | 2025-09-11 15:14:37+00:00
As an aside, this technique is also used to remove the "yellowing" from Apple II computers:

https://youtu.be/aFGS9xaaO_M

There's even special formulas of hydrogen peroxide, arrowroot, and oxyclean, with raging debates on the proper ratios, how long to keep them in the sun, etc:

https://www.callapple.org/vintage-apple-computers/apple-ii/s...
by weaksauce | 2025-09-11 15:14:51+00:00
bundler is generally pretty fast on the ruby side. it also reuses dependencies for a given ruby version so you don't have the stupid node_folder in every project you use with every dependency re-downloaded and stored. if you have 90% of the dependencies for a project you only have to download and install/compile 10% of them. night and day difference.
by m101 | 2025-09-11 15:15:31+00:00
How these things are calculated is dumb:

The market implied rate (from swaps/forwards curves) for the following period is something like 27bps cut, so they say:

- 27 Is bigger than 25, so 0 cuts is 0%

- attribute 2/25bps likelihood to 50bps cut

- the remainder is left to 25bps cut

The reality is that there's a non-zero probability to unchanged, and a non-zero probability of 75bps+ cut etc etc. However this information would probably be in swaption prices and too complicated for anyone like the CME or media to make sense of. But at least with the way people talk about it they get to feel like they're making sense of the world.
by noboostforyou | 2025-09-11 15:16:05+00:00
> Israel as a society is much more tolerant and does not make human shields with their own population.

It is an objective fact that Israel has killed almost 20,000 Palestinian children since the beginning of the latest conflict (post Oct 7, 2023).

For comparison, a total of less than 1,200 Israeli's were killed. Which is also unacceptable and Hamas should be condemned. But Israel's continued slaughter of innocent children has gone beyond "defending themselves" and is just as bad, if not worse, than what they claim the other side to be.

You blame Hamas for using people as shields, but do you think Israel is justified in killing all these innocent children in the first place?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-11 15:16:07+00:00
I'm not sure what your point is.

My point is that the entertainment was finite, in this case because it was only available for a set duration.

That Dragonball Z came on for a single episode created a dead zone where it made sense to do homework and it wasn't pulling teeth when it came time to sit down for dinner with my family (something we both would be very privileged to have in our youth btw).
by bentt | 2025-09-11 15:16:15+00:00
This is not surprising. In my circles, the people that most enthusiastically migrated away from X to Bluesky did so specifically because of their distaste for Elon Musk. They are largely centered about the West Coast of the US. And because X is so much bigger, it's capable of being more diverse.

Furthermore, I already had a lot of mute words and blocks set up on X to keep it palatable. I don't see any politics over there and it's entirely focused on creative work. If I did this on Bluesky I imagine I'd significantly cull my feed down to it seeming dead.
by lavelganzu | 2025-09-11 15:16:18+00:00
At the level of industries and large groups, the chief answer to your "Why?" is the same sort of reasoning as the old "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM": Nobody ever got fired for using established performance metrics.

On the individual level, there's another tricky problem, which is that very few individuals could figure out an alternative performance metric that beats the established one, no matter how gamified the established one is.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-11 15:16:36+00:00
Citing the Eurozone crisis as if we were analogous on an economic or policy level to Spain/Italy/Greece is just farcical in the extreme. Given our population of ~5 Million we're probably punching above our capita to the largest extent of any EU member-state. Hell, even the Asylum laws governing Europe are named after us:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Regulation

We are also the only EU country where the Constitution ordains a referendum to validate ratification of any amendments that result in a transfer of sovereignty to the European Union; such as the Nice Treaty which we can prevent from passing on an EU level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nice#The_Irish_refer...

Putting aside the multiple times we have held EU Council Presidencies, how about you take our two-year term on the UN Security Council from 2021 to 2022, where we got UN Security Council Resolution 2594 passed – the first ever Resolution on UN Peacekeeping transitions.

Since 1958, Ireland has maintained a constant presence on UN and UN-mandated peace support operations to the point where many English speakers in the South Lebanon do so with an Irish accent. 86 Irish soldiers have died in service of the UN since 1960.

We also have a particular legacy regarding the IDF and war crimes - Like in 1996 UN position 6-52, near Maroun al-Ras, a platoon of 33 Irish troops was surrounded and isolated from UN headquarters by a mechanised IDF unit. Or in May of this year when Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon came under fire from Israeli forces near a bombed out village at Yaroun

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-fire...

We have lost almost 50 troops in Lebanon alone. Approximately 50% of our casualties have been inflicted by Islamist resistance groups such as Hezbollah – the other 50% by the IDF and their paramilitary proxies in the area.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/15/un-pea...
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-11 15:16:54+00:00
The Chomsky-Ali G debate is also worth watching. For other reasons perhaps.

There are better and worse debates but I question the validity of an argument about the quality of debates of someone who likely got shot for a political argument.

At least his argument seemed to hit some spot. (I don't know a single one, didn't even know the victim).
by patrakov | 2025-09-11 15:17:19+00:00
I still have a btrfs with a big problem: more disk space used than expected. The explanation was helpfully provided by btdu:

Despite not being directly used, these blocks are kept (and cannot be reused) because another part of the extent they belong to is actually used by files. This can happen if a large file is written in one go, and then later one block is overwritten - btrfs may keep the old extent which still contains the old copy of the overwritten block.