MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ncr100 | 2025-09-19 17:33:05+00:00
Is it legal to teach these kinds (in my personal opinion) of skills in Business School: either extortion (administration threatens / complains, companies pay, administration stops complaining), or the seeming corruption illustrated (again IMO) here?

- Extortion example: Trump in a White House Lawn gaggle interview this week complained at / threatened Australia's ABC reporter and then Australia itself with additional tarriffs, after the reporter asked about loss of freedom of speech relating to FCC complaining & threatening "big stick or little stick, you decide" to ABC/Disney who needed FCC's near-future approval for a pending business-merger, which ABC/Disney then terminated a thorn in the side of the President .. comedian Jimmy Kimmel. It's pretty clear, in my personal opinion, that this was extortion

Again, these are my personal opinions.
by morpheuskafka | 2025-09-19 17:33:44+00:00
For those like me who are not Ruby users/devs, it might be good to explain who exactly Ruby Central is? I assumed they were analogous to Python Soft Foundation or Linux Foundation etc. as the entity of maintainers/owners/whatever of Ruby.

But it seems that they have nothing to do with the ruby-lang.org site where the Ruby binaries itself are distributed. Instead, their own site appears to primarily list them as responsible for organizing an annual conference?

And who owned the RubyGems infrastructure before this takeover? The website (and domain that the client actually calls to get the gems, presumably) seem to have already been part of Ruby Central, so what exactly changed here ownership wise, beyond just kicking the maintainers?

(unrelated -- seeing a mention of DHH here reminded me that I haven't seen anything of the Matt/WP drama in a long time on HN -- time to go Google whatever the resolution of that was)
by dcminter | 2025-09-19 17:33:53+00:00
I agree entirely; just because VC focused startups are eager to "rub some AI on" their products doesn't mean that AI itself is boring; it's incredibly cool! Some of the applications are ghastly, but LLMs and diffusion models? Oh my!

Or, you know, if AI is the mainstream hotness or just doesn't float your boat, look for what the iconoclasts are up to and go dive into that, not whatever the VCs are flinging their gold at today.
by infecto | 2025-09-19 17:34:02+00:00
You’re really overcomplicating this. The analogy isn’t about dragging a bed into the kitchen, it’s about the way smells and particulates permeate living spaces when ventilation is weak or nonexistent. In an open floor plan, cooking odors don’t stay “in the kitchen,” they drift into the same areas where you relax, sleep, or work. That’s the point: the boundaries between spaces collapse, so it feels like you’re cooking in your bedroom.

If you can’t grasp that distinction after multiple explanations, then maybe the analogy isn’t the problem. Happy to discuss if you actually have anything constructive to add but please your beating a dead horse for no reason.
by gs17 | 2025-09-19 17:34:32+00:00
> A gross misreading of their stated intentions.

Not really, they just kind of made up an "emergency" exemption. Their FAQ, instead of saying what legal precedent they were operating under, handwaves it away with a quote from a paper on libraries in general. I'm a fan of them, but they really open themselves up to liability a lot more than necessary.
by J_McQuade | 2025-09-19 17:34:52+00:00
> What do you mean by Cooler? Raspberry pi doesn't need a fan.

From the official website:

> Does Raspberry Pi 5 need active cooling?

> Raspberry Pi 5 is faster and more powerful than prior-generation Raspberry Pis, and like most general-purpose computers, it will perform best with active cooling.
Tell HN: Built AI slide builder in 50 days with high school friend, raised $200k
by unsexyproblem | 2025-09-19 17:36:30+00:00
About 50 days ago I teamed up with my high school friend. We basically lived together 24/7, building Snapdeck — an AI slide builder (like Gamma, but fully editable and powered by our own model).

We just closed a $200k institutional seed round, and in 2 days we’re launching on Product Hunt.

Our ambition is simple but bold: to make PowerPoint unnecessary for quick internal decks.

I’m both nervous and excited. Would love to hear from HN — what pitfalls should we watch out for in early launches? And for those who’ve worked on AI text → structured slides, what edge cases broke your pipeline?
by nodja | 2025-09-19 17:36:48+00:00
Did you not look at the link I provided?

I stopped watching him completely around the time of the intel dGPU release. He would show leaked roadmaps of intel's dGPU launch with Celestial and Druid on there, but the video would be him basically repeating the narrative that the division is on the verge of cancellation and has no future, etc. The documents he has leaked almost never match the titles and narratives he pushes. He's not always wrong, but his biases are clear and the titles are more often misleading clickbait than factual.

Tom Petersen (Lead Intel GPU Engineer) has showed up on multiple interviews with LTT and GN among other tech channels and has talked at length the things his team did on the current gen, with heavy implications of what's coming up next (as far as he can without breaking NDA). His in depth analysis of GPU architecture are a much useful use of my time than listening to a guy that was given 2 leaked slides of a 6-month old powerpoint speculate how it spells doom for whatever company.

If you think logically, it makes zero sense to cancel Celestial now. According to Petersen Arc's hardware team has been working on Druid for months now, and unless the software team is severely behind with the drivers and support then at the very least Celestial will receive a limited release. They already did a limited release of Battlemage to put more resources on Celestial, it would be a shame to throw all that effort away now.
by Lerc | 2025-09-19 17:37:05+00:00
What the developer learns from the experience of AI programming is more down to the attitude of the individual than that.

Here's an example from my perspective.

Recently while developing a way to output a PAL video signal from two digital lines(an endeavour obviously driven by curoiosity more than utility). I learned a great deal about far more than I would have if I had not have used AI. I wasn't blind to what the AI was emitting, It helped me decide upon shifting one output to 0.285v and the other to .715v. Write a program to use pytorch to learn a a few resistors/capacitors to smooth out the signal and a sample of 2-bit data that when emitted though the filters produced a close sine wave for the color burst. AI enabled me to automatically emit Spice code to test the waveform. I had never used spice before, now I know the pains of creating a piecewise linear voltage source in it.

Yesterday I used an AI to make a JavaScript function that takes a Float32Array of voltage level samples and emits a list of timings for all parts of a scanline along with the min and max voltage levels, calculates the position and frequency of the color burst and uses the measured color burst to perform the quadrature decoding to produce a list of YUV values at a lower sample rate.

This should let me verify the simulated waveform so that I can compare the difference between what I intend to emit, and what should be a correct signal. If there turns out to be a discrepancy between what I am emitting and what I think I am emitting, this will come in quite handy.

Perhaps I might learn more if I did all of this myself unaided by an AI, but it would also take much longer, and likely not get done at all. The time I save writing tests, wrangling libraries and software is not stored in the bank. I used that time too, doing other things, learning about those as I did so.
by vkou | 2025-09-19 17:37:05+00:00
His mistake was giving more to the Dems, it's why he's landed a 25-year prison sentence under a Dem administration.

Remember when half this forum was convinced that both parties are equally corrupt, based on their feeling that he will certainly walk?

(That half of it is still convinced they are equally corrupt, but since their guy won and the ends justify the means, they no longer feel the need to articulate reasons for why they would feel that way.)
by tomnipotent | 2025-09-19 17:38:08+00:00
> don't perceive this as virtue signalling

It's the literal definition of virtue signaling - a bunch of folks with zero context jumping to conclusions of evil and malicious intent to satisfy their own needs to join the pile-on comments and show how fake mad they are.

I see a thread of accusations and statements, not questions and engagement.

> It also looks like it only got addressed

The issue was less than two days old, in what world do you think a senior leader is going to learn of an issue like this in an org with 3,000 people? Most managers don't even get back to their direct reports in 24 hours, nonetheless getting a decision to someone higher up the ladder.

> I think this is rightfully getting called out

We agree in spirit but not execution.
by codegladiator | 2025-09-19 17:38:49+00:00
Across the last 18 years I've been working on many different projects with different material systems; my journey looked like wood framing → steel → reinforced concrete → precast → mass timber → structural steel → composite materials → modular construction + all possible foundation types (from shallow footings to deep pile systems with geotechnical analysis).

I have a lot of projects I want to design/prototype quickly, but every time starting a new structure I feel stuck and paralyzed with many choices, end up reading engineering journals and CE forums for 3 days on all possible material and structural system options and find myself exhausted even before breaking ground.

I know I should just pick one system and stick to it, but it's very hard. I spent most of my career working exclusively on residential concrete construction and I know that system inside out. I was efficient and could estimate quantities quickly. With the rest I feel like everything is at the same level of unknowns and I have zero engineering judgment.

Do you happen to experience the same and how do you fight it?
by stonogo | 2025-09-19 17:38:52+00:00
It was years back and I didn't even care enough at the time to take notes on the process. I typed up the how-to partly as a joke because I found it funny some rando was demanding a detailed reproducer for an afternoon of screwing around ages ago.

I did find the client I used; it was called "branle". I'm not in the habit of installing random shit on my iphone, thanks. Deploying things to Netlify is super easy, especially when the software is designed for it explicitly.

I will not be trying again, because as I said elsewhere in the thread, I don't actually care about nostr. Bluesky is working fine for me these days, and in the event that stops being the case, I won't be revisiting the one I already wrote off.
by terminalshort | 2025-09-19 17:40:10+00:00
We are much closer to zero corruption than maximum corruption. How many times have you bribed a public official in your life? In many places it is considered a routine part of navigating bureaucracy.

And if you think decentralization brings fairness I suggest you visit some of the more decentralized parts of the world. Decentralization can solve some problems, but that's not one of them.
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-19 17:40:29+00:00
> wanting to ally yourself to ever larger bullies

Sorry if I'm missing something, but which bullies am I willing to align myself to?

> without ever taking personal responsibility to stand up against the actual problem entities yourself because that is too hard

Tell me more about how we're not able to take care of ourselves?

> Your entire mentality is stuck in the third world

Typical from a colonialist mentality to think I terms of first and third worlds, nomenclature that doesn't hold anymore I the current geopolitical landscape.

> Evil Brits messing around in the US! Let's boycott the US, that will teach them!

People that have zero arguments normally tend to default to mockery and irony in order to attack the messenger since dismantling the arguments takes effort.

Thanks, it was quite entertaining to read your trolling comments. Keep them coming.
by deivid | 2025-09-19 17:40:58+00:00
It's been a while, but building this was an interesting experience.

At the time, it was pretty far outside my comfort zone and I had a looming deadline (dad's birthday). Writing the software to work "as I intended" turned out to be much harder than I'd expected, so I ended up hacking things and making single 8-hour long video for each channel (with some persistence, so on next boot it'd continue from where it was)

On the positive side, Dad loved it, and keeping the tuner (the channel dial) with some high resistance made the TV feel as if it was truly an original TV.

Unexpectedly, everybody loved the ads that I added! I think my family mostly felt nostalgic about them
by badlibrarian | 2025-09-19 17:41:03+00:00
Indeed they could've structured the whole project to give them DMCA protection but they chose not to. They truly thought copyright didn't apply. Then doubled down when pressed, just like the book lawsuit.

They had a number of ways to avoid this problem entirely and the fact that they didn't yet again brings Brewster's judgement into question. He's a sweet guy but clearly not an operations or business guy. He's at retirement age and has an opportunity to do the right thing. Hopefully clearing these lawsuits will open up some options.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-19 17:41:13+00:00
Static on the server or static on the client?

I am writing a new SSG (really a meta-SSG) because all the others make me depressed when I start to use them and I never wind up launching a site. (For instance, is Markdown any easier than writing HTML, really? I can find all kinds of templates for Hugo and they look like :poop_emotion or :dog_emoji)

My plan is for sidebars and navigation elements to be client-side dynamic because it is just crazy to respin every page on the site because I added a new page and now all the sidebars need to be rebuilt. The sidebars could be a svelte app or they could just be plain HTML imported with HTMX. It doesn’t matter much —- there’s going to be a Python system that packs up the metadata from all the sites.

The basic plan is to build on top of bootstrap with SCSS and not really put a lot of effort into chrome but rather be free to have big images (photo galleries), math with polyfills, visualizations with D3.js, etc.
by page_index | 2025-09-19 17:41:54+00:00
The word index originally came from how humans retrieve information: book indexes and tables of contents that guide us to the right place.

Computers later borrowed the term for data structures such as B-trees, hash tables, and more recently, vector indexes. They're highly efficient for machines, but also abstract and unnatural: not something a human, or an LLM, can directly use as a reasoning aid. This creates a gap between how indexes work for computers and how they should work for models that reason like humans.

PageIndex is a new step that looks back to move forward. It revives the original, human-oriented idea of an index and adapts it for LLMs. Now the index itself (PageIndex) lives inside the LLM's context window: the model sees a hierarchical table-of-contents tree and reasons its way down to the right span, much like a person would retrieve information using a book's index.

PageIndex MCP shows how this works in practice: it runs as a MCP server, exposing a document's structure directly to LLMs. This means platforms like Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-enabled agent can navigate the index themselves and reason their way through documents, not with vectors or chunking, but in a human-like, reasoning-based way.
by ninalanyon | 2025-09-19 17:41:59+00:00
Doesn't work. Did that with my sister. I managed to clear out the dining room so that it wa possible to sit the family around the table to eat. Went back six months later and not only was that room uninhabitable but the amount of junk in other rooms had increased and the family was eating off trays in front of the television.

It's not the junk that is the problem, it's the way of thinking that leads someone to refuse to discard it. Or more likely there is some even deeper rooted cause that makes them think that way.

It can also be the case that the people they live with don't help either.
by groby_b | 2025-09-19 17:42:00+00:00
It is absolutely funny that he's talking about alignment, and then you see the chevron in the "better" example :)

But, kidding aside, it's a mechanistic view patterned on avoiding egregious missteps. It's rules for creating not-bad-looking user interfaces.

And... I take that. It's better than a lot of what's built. But I encourage every developer to ask "why" when looking at these rules, or when looking at components in a component library. It's a valuable exploration. It will also teach you the most important thing - and understanding when you can break the rules.

Because without an occasionally broken rule, the design will be lifeless and flat.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-09-19 17:42:03+00:00
When I start typing I want to execute the new idea immediately. No other tabbed terminal (that I’ve used) prevents this besides konsole, simply because the context menu is (un)optimized to include the kitchen sink instead of the one item I want.

Folks trying to talk me into a new workflow can’t succeed because I’m multiplatform. Gnome terminal, iTerm2, Win Terminal, etc. konsole is the oddball and least used of the group. Partly because the context menu is a mess.
by duxup | 2025-09-19 17:42:10+00:00
Agreed. The process of finger wagging is counter productive.

I had an HR training session that was intended to help folks see things from other perspectives, but by other perspectives they meant a sort of generic minority perspective ... and a lot of finger wagging.

Nobody enjoyed it. It was all unnecessarily adversarial and represented the shallowest cliches. Nobody thought any of the cliches applied to them about any background because they were so absurd. It was of no use except to make everyone kinda hate HR for wasting their time.

I recall an Obama speech where he noted how telling someone that they have advantages over someone else is not an effective route to influence people. For all you know they think they've had a really hard life ... and maybe they have, you really don't know.
by johnfn | 2025-09-19 17:42:18+00:00
You seem to be implying that it is bad because it is marketing, and marketing is bad. But not all forms of marketing are bad. This is a classic association fallacy[1]. In this case, Deno can both improve perception of their brand and reclaim "JavaScript" -- it's a win-win.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-19 17:43:45+00:00
The kind of facility and services provided are quite expensive.

What I think is more frustrating is that they aren't upfront about the costs; although I think many of the residents wouldn't live there if they were upfront about the costs, even though they can afford it.

Otherwise, it seems like some very basic reform about explaining costs is needed, and some reform to prevent episodes like the lady laying on the floor for 45 minutes.
by efitz | 2025-09-19 17:43:51+00:00
It is incredibly clear in US Federal law that the ONlY court with jurisdiction in a contract dispute with the federal government is the Court of Federal Claims.

literally it would be breaking the law for this judge to adjudicate this case. That’s not judicial bias or finding a way to weasel out (as is done all the time with “standing”).

The reason Trump has been winning so much at the Supreme Court is because these lower courts have been breaking all the rules in their efforts to stop him. They keep getting struck down for breaking the rules.
by adwn | 2025-09-19 17:43:58+00:00
> […] 'just asking questions' […]

That's not the case here. Non-replicable results from studies in the social sciences are a very real, very frequent phenomenon, and the first question to ask when seeing a claim about a significant effect should be "Has this been replicated?". Being sceptical (without being overly negative or critical) is not "toxic" as you call it, instead it protects us all from becoming trapped in our bubble.

> 'I know this can sound combative but I'm just asking questions. Given other things have been bad and knowing nothing of this being talked about, but pointing out it's probably completely wrong (based on nothing but X other thing is wrong).... really, in your heart, do you believe you are coming from integrity?'

> That sounds toxic AF.

You had to rephrase PeterHolzwarth's post and put word in their mouths to make it sound "toxic AF". That's a disingenuous and unconstructive thing to do in a discussion.
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-19 17:44:02+00:00
I pretty explicitly mentioned that possibility. I'm just a bit skeptical that, even if they completely abandoned the consumer GPU market, that they wouldn't be able to get back into it in 5 years or so when/if the bubble bursts. The longer they are out, the harder it would be to get back in with non-trivial market share (since the longer they are out the more their brand would have eroded), but also, the longer they are out, the more money they would have left on the table by staying in for so long.
by tomnipotent | 2025-09-19 17:44:04+00:00
> Slack knew they were a nonprofit

"Slack" didn't know anything. Slack isn't a human being. Like somehow everyone that joins the company connects a collective consciousness with shared memory.

> deliberate decision to engage in the SaaS equivalent of rent-seeking

Clearly you were involved in the process and have fist-hand knowledge to be so confident lol. The crazy absurdity of everyone being so convinced of the conspiracy theories they've pulled out of their asses.

> given the circumstances I think people in this thread have been incredibly charitable.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-19 17:44:09+00:00
True - I guess examples like these ants, or lions and tigers, where we have DNA available for both, give a better idea of the speed of genetic drift, or at least some datapoints. We can compare the DNA, and estimate how long those numbers of changes took to accumulate, without yet having got to the point of no return.

I wonder what are the most visually, or structurally, or genetically, different animals that can still interbreed. Things like lions & tigers, polar bears & grizzlies, and zebras & horses, come to mind ... what else ?!
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-19 17:44:38+00:00
That’s completely different. One of my good friends is a bartender. But his passion is his music. He’s practicing with friends, performing in front of people, etc. It is a social event - not sitting at a computer all day.

For years I was a part time fitness instructor and runner. I loved hanging out with friends, being in front of people, meeting them at races and us training together. It’s completely different than being at a computer at home - after working all day on one.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-09-19 17:44:53+00:00
> If he does something, there's usually a good a priori rationale for it.

I greatly respect Jeff's work, but he's a professional YouTuber, so his projects will necessarily lean towards clickbait and riding trends (Jeff, I don't mean this as criticism!) He's been a great advocate for doing interesting things with RasPis, but "interesting" != "rational"
by kilroy123 | 2025-09-19 17:45:25+00:00
While that is true, there is more to it than that. Some people _really_ do like coding and want to build cool shit.

Just the bar is so high now, so much competition, so many cargo culting startups that only do bad leetcode interviewing.

It's very hard to both find and get hired at places that want more than a coding monkey to just blindly move Jira tickets.