MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xueqils | 2025-09-28 03:32:33+00:00
I'm excited to share BatchBeautify.com - a tool I built to solve my own frustration with photo editing.

*The Problem:* We all have hundreds of photos in Google Photos that could look better, but editing them one-by-one is tedious and time-consuming.

*The Solution:* BatchBeautify lets you: - Select multiple photos directly from Google Photos - Apply AI-powered enhancements to all of them at once - Get the enhanced versions automatically saved back to your library - Your photos never leave the secure processing pipeline

*What makes it different:* - *Batch Processing:* Handle 10s or 100s of photos in one go - *Google Photos Integration:* Works seamlessly with your existing library - *Privacy First:* We only process the photos you select, nothing more - *Multiple Styles:* Choose from various enhancement styles based on your needs - *Pay-per-use:* No subscriptions - just pay for what you process

*Perfect for:* - Event photographers needing to quickly enhance client photos - Parents wanting to improve years of family photos - Travel enthusiasts with hundreds of vacation shots - Anyone with a backlog of photos that deserve to look better

I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions! What features would you like to see next?

Try it free at [batchbeautify.com](https://batchbeautify.com) - first batch is on us!
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-28 03:33:55+00:00
Mike Johnson, speaker of the House, refusing to schedule the swearing in of Adelita Grijalva (as she is the last vote needed to release the Epstein files) is putting us dangerously close to a failure of democracy. Hopefully it’s resolved in a timely manner.

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=152266
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-28 03:35:07+00:00
It's not that we've incentivized cities to develop around highways, it's that we've prohibited them from doing anything other than that.

Zoning boards put a tiny little strip of commercial and high density residential in the downtown and then require the whole rest of the map to be single-family homes. At that point it doesn't even matter what the downtown actually looks like, people are still going to be in cars because it's the only way to get there from the suburbs.
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-28 03:35:31+00:00
If Radxa would slow down their rollout of another new hardware board with vastly different target markets every month or so, they could wind up with a few really well-supported boards.

But as it is, you have to love tinkering with Linux or reading things across forums, blog posts, GitHub issues, and Discord to get a given Radxa board going nicely. It can be done, but it still takes too much effort for many.
by o1o1o1 | 2025-09-28 03:35:42+00:00
Exactly this - CDN is the one thing I don’t use Cloudflare for.

As a web developer, I love how effortless it is to spin up a static site for free using their Pages or Workers features. Sure, I could rent a small server or even host projects on a home setup, but often I just want something simple, fast, and hassle-free - and Cloudflare delivers that at zero cost.

Has this convenience led me to spend money with them? Absolutely. These days I even rely on Cloudflare for DNS management, simply because their interface and overall experience are far better than what I was using before I found them.

That said, I’m not here to defend the company uncritically. I recognize the valid concerns and criticisms that exist. But no platform is without flaws, and in some situations I simply can’t — or don’t want to — prioritize the idealistic view. Sometimes I just want to experiment and build, and Cloudflare makes that easy.
by wonderwonder | 2025-09-28 03:36:20+00:00
I think that's the thing, so many friends are situational friends. Wife had a couple she made us hang out with because our sons were friends. Suddenly sons aren't friends anymore so we no longer hang out. Not mad at them, totally get it. I think perhaps remote work, modern living (such as entertainment on demand) takes many people out of those situations and that drives the loneliness epidemic.
by giardini | 2025-09-28 03:38:14+00:00
Who's the guy who, late in the movie, jumps from the left side of the frame, grabs Leon's love handles, shakes them, saying "Leon's getting too fat! He's too fat!" and then jumps back out of the frame, leaving Leon astonished and speechless, staring to the left? And who is Leon?

It looks like an ad-libbed scene to me: "Leon" was absolutely struck dumb by the move.
by bdangubic | 2025-09-28 03:38:46+00:00
- everything that simon writes (https://simonwillison.net/)

- anything that goes deep into issues (I seldom read “i love llms” type posts like this is great: https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/)

- lots of experimentation - specifically I have spent hours and hours doing the exact same feature (my record is 23 times).

- if something “doesn’t work” I create a task immediately to investigate and understand it. even the smallest thing that bother me I will spend hours to figure out why it might have happened (this is sometimes frustrating) and how to prevent it from happening again (this is fun)

My collegue describes the process as Javascript developer trying to learn Rust while tripping on mushrooms :)
by oidar | 2025-09-28 03:39:57+00:00
Overall, it's been fine. (M1 Max 32GB) There are lots of bugs in apple's apps and a few bugs in other apps. I probably wouldn't have upgraded if I didn't need the new Xcode (which has been buggy). I can't think of one new feature that would make we stay on Tahoe if I didn't need the new Xcode. I would hold off for a .1 unless you really wanted it.

One mistake I did make when upgrading was not updating little snitch, and I couldn't get any network connection for a bit until I reinstalled that app via USB.
by juliushuijnk | 2025-09-28 03:45:15+00:00
There are nuances to my statements that are difficult to make in text.

I was hoping to discuss ways on perhaps pointing out (and how to defend) the last institutions that prevents the US from being in a civil war or authocracy.

I'm also writing to, I guess, just express some shock on how the US still sort of functions like nothing is going on.
by tzs | 2025-09-28 03:45:16+00:00
There's a dead comment by 486sx33 that says:

> Charging at home is part of the problem. They need to separately meter power for cars and increase the rate and add a road maintenance tax based on vehicle weight

I'm not sure why it was killed because that actually is an issue that has not yet been satisfactorily solved.

Many states pay for road construction and maintenance via a per gallon gasoline tax. Since EVs do not use gasoline they have turned to other ways to get EVs to help pay for the roads, usually by adding a flat annual registration fee.

In my state that flat fee is $150. That is equal to the component of state taxes on gas that go to roads on 270 gallons of gas.

If I had bought an ICE (non-hybrid) earlier this year instead of an EV I would have bought either a Honda CR-V or a Honda Civic.

I mostly do city driving. With the CR-V I'd have to drive 7300 miles to pay $150 toward roads. It would be 8600 miles if I mostly drove highway. With the Civic it would be 8600 city or 11000 highway.

I actually drive under 2000 a year, so if my EV driving patterns end up being the same as my ICE patterns I'm going to be paying a lot more toward roads than I would have had I gone with an ICE car.

It does look like my mileage will go up with the EV, possibly up to 5000 miles a year, but even then I'll be paying more toward roads than if I had bought an ICE.

I'd much prefer to have a mileage based road tax.

I'd be fine if they just looked at my odometer whenever I renew my registration and charge me then, but for a lot of people having to pay their entire share of road fees for their last year of driving at once would be difficult.

Separately metering my home charging and taking care of the road fee there would be great.
by taneq | 2025-09-28 03:46:55+00:00
We kinda... do? Draw the line there, I mean. Reverse engineering, as I've always heard the term used, is taking the final artifact and working backwards to infer the original design, and ideally some of the reasons for the decisions made. If you take a shipped binary, disassemble/decompile it, figure out what the variables mean and how it all works, that's reverse engineering. It's the equivalent of taking a mechanism, pulling it apart, and figuring out the cause and effect of how it works, to the extent that you can duplicate it and even modify the functionality.

Starting from high level source code is like starting from engineering drawings or the CAD model. You've already been handed most or all of the info that reverse engineering is attempting to recover.
by bigiain | 2025-09-28 03:47:03+00:00
You might enjoy Lightning On Demand's Lorentz Cannon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lix-vr_AF38

I does seem like a lot of stuff is needed. He's got 2 tons of capacitors in a stack 20 feet tall to get around 35 feet of range. He although he says:

"I was surprised at just how fast the plasma cannon range scaled with increasing drive voltage and how much explosive force the shock wave can deliver to target the data suggests that a plasma cannon with just a 30t high Marx Tower could achieve 1/4 mile range"

I know military contractors will have 3 or more orders of magnitude more money to throw at their technology demos, but I suspect there's some cold hard physics which shows it's totally impractical to defend anything more then very small high value targets with a system like that.
by lisbbb | 2025-09-28 03:47:17+00:00
The financially illiterate don't understand that "going short" is not the simple reverse of "going long" and that there are more difficulties involved with borrowing stocks to short or in buying puts. Well, puts are easy to buy, at least, but the manner in which they decay makes it hard to win with that strategy, harder, in fact, than buying calls to go long. But yes, you can technically buy puts. You can also play Powerball.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-28 03:47:59+00:00
Exactly. We haven't figured out how to solve the problem, because we still have the problem. Maybe it's unsolvable, and it's just a limitation in our ability to live together in large numbers. Or maybe we need to redirect our spending on (among other things) frightfully expensive experimental medicine and spend the money on things that are a lot cheaper and will help a lot more people.
by hamandcheese | 2025-09-28 03:48:00+00:00
> and made by an expert programmer

Quite the opposite. You have to be more of an expert programmer to achieve those same goals in C. Rust lowers the skill bar.

Anyways, I agree that the editorialization here is silly.

But also, I am unashamed that "in Rust" does increase my interest in a piece of software, for several of the reasons you mentioned.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-09-28 03:48:16+00:00
I see X / Bluesky as a digital representation of the societal split that has happened in the US. The dynamic that unfolded is the same one that causes wars in the real world - two ideologies too at odds to coexist in the same space. In the real world, one ends up destroying the other. The digital world has the convenient ability to spawn a new space and the other side just migrated en mass to it.
by evanelias | 2025-09-28 03:49:10+00:00
> Disco didn't evolve into EDM

I don't see how you can possibly claim that.

Disco led directly to house, and Italo-disco was hugely influential to techno. US electro developed at the same time as some key Italo tracks like "Robot is Systematic" (1982) and "Spacer Woman" (1983). Italo-disco was played on underground radio in Detroit and Chicago, and is often credited as a core influence. Or just look to Detroit proto-techno track "Share Vari" (1981) which was considered to be Italo-disco in style at the time of its release.

"On and On" (recorded 1983, released 84) is often considered the first Chicago house record, and it was literally a direct attempt to reproduce a disco record using a drum machine and synths.

This isn't to undermine Kraftwerk, which was obviously an enormous direct influence on these producers as well, but my point is they're far from the only influence. Giorgio Moroder should receive the same amount of credit for starters, along with other electronic disco legends such as Marc Cerrone.
by adamredwoods | 2025-09-28 03:49:22+00:00
Richard Slayman was a pioneer. He made an amazing decision, to see if it could be done. This was hard work done through eGenesis, and the steps to get to this point is quite interesting.

>> First, the donors were often created on a commercial pig breed whose heart and kidney sizes are too large for human application. Although elimination of growth hormone receptor gene expression could reduce organ sizes, it comes with other undesired biological consequences. Second, the donors were designed for testing in OWMs. They lacked the α-Gal (galactose-α-1,3-galactose) or the α-Gal and Sd(a) (Sia-α2.3-[GalNAc-β1.4]Gal-β1.4-GlcNAc) glycans but expressed the Neu5Gc (N-glycolylneuraminic acid) glycan to match with Neu5Gc expression in OWMs. However, in vitro analysis suggests that a human-compatible porcine donor should ideally have all three glycans eliminated to match with the absence of the three glycans in humans. Although renal grafts derived from the porcine donors lacking these three glycans and carrying various human transgenes have been tested in OWMs, graft survival was short8 or not all human transgenes were expressed. Third, the donors carried porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) sequences in their genome, which present a zoonotic risk, as PERV transmission to human cells in culture and their integration into the human genome have been demonstrated.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06594-4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Slayman
by Nursie | 2025-09-28 03:49:26+00:00
The contention that there is something so ethereal, uncapturable, so uniquely and indescribably human that is put into even the blandest piece of mass-market pop that an AI trained on all the music ever made couldn’t create a track that people would accept due to some intangible hollowness, some void where the inestimable quintessence of human existence should be…

That’s hilarious.

I’m not saying it’s not ‘art’ whatever that might mean, I am saying this idea that people won’t accept and enjoy an AI version is a fantasy.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-09-28 03:49:35+00:00
20-30% premium even over the fictional mark-to-market stock price. If all that were to hit the open market at once at any time, the price would plummet. I really question whether acquisition ROI is positive except in rare cases on a first order basis. Eliminating future compensation, securing a propaganda emitter, etc I can see (though not quite sure what the story would be in this case).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-28 03:49:40+00:00
The hypernormalization you refer to is certainly shocking to see. Americans are conditioned differently than say, the French, the Italians, or the Nepalese (who overthrew their corrupt government in a matter of days with <~20 deaths or so); Americans also have more to lose, faster, and with gun accessibility and violence, far more deaths would occur (imho) versus protests and activism that takes place in other countries. Their risk aversion is justified.

As a civilian, the best you can do is observe as the gears of democracy turn; if shit hits the fan, you can decide to leave for somewhere safer until the country restores democracy (totally valid, no shame in self preservation, lots of developed countries to pick from for near term residency), or stay while it happens. Manage your risk appetite accordingly, it’s all that is within your control. Have a plan. Better to have it and not need it versus need it and not have it.

Have some hope, these are not competent or serious people at work.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-28 03:50:06+00:00
This is just very said.

It just seems on the surface that none of the parties here thought ahead more than one step ahead.

> They were simply too kind, too feminine, too British: “You are all extremely nice, assigned female at birth, in customer service, mostly British etc., and all of this sometimes doesn’t lend itself to ‘no,’” the WhatsApp message explained.

That's like throwing a molotov cocktail into a fireworks storage warehouse. What did they expect the response to that would be? It's just tremendous lack self-awareness at play here.

The shop is closing so we'll just ... occupy it? And then what, the owner will give them shares of ownership as a reward?

This randomly reminded me of Slavoj Žižek's when he said he would have liked to see "V for Vendeta -- The Sequel". This is probably what it would be -- the winners would be fighting over clogged toilets, starting campaigns on Instagram and occupying each other's offices and making deals with locksmiths to be there at 4am to break in to take back their space.
by dragontamer | 2025-09-28 03:50:54+00:00
Unfortunately, the early moves in the game ("Joseki") are the most important. They are also the most difficult to learn.

It is essential to study these tactics in this website... if only because they are the only "ground truth" known about Go. But for rapid improvement, the only real way forward is to play lots and lots of games to learn how the early game flows. Direction of play, which side of the board is most important and other such details.

Seems like a reasonably good tutorial in terms of layout. But just pointing out: joseki and direction of play is "more important" in terms of winning. Its just damn near impossible to teach so maybe its best for beginners to ignore this incredibly important (and difficult) subject.

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To put it in perhaps more concrete terms: playing a "tactic" position may net you +10 points across a sequence of 5 moves or so. (IE: One well placed tactical move, and ~4 followup moves may capture 5 enemy stones + 5 territory simultaneously from your opponent). However, every single early-game move is worth nearly +20 points of territory if played correctly. I'm serious.

That's why when you watch top-level Go play, there's a lot of "teleporting" across the 19x19 board, searching for the most important positions. And there is also very, very loose play and possible sacrifices / aji. (Maybe its not a true sacrifice, but you'd be willing to sacrifice if the opponent over-extends).
by Beijinger | 2025-09-28 03:51:19+00:00
?

You would not be able to hit a drone with a bullet. Statistics are against you.

You use fancy AHEAD ammunition that disintegrates, and hopefully the drone with it.

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

Yet, the bursts fired are expensive as fuck. Much more expensive than the drone.

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwjcayPuag
by lisbbb | 2025-09-28 03:52:14+00:00
I'm 52. I experienced the dot-com bubble very up close. I was in the Raleigh-Durham area for most of it. There were hundreds of startups all over the area. Companies like Nortel were booming. IBM was booming. By 2003 it was all gone--Nortel was a shell of its former self, IBM laid off huge numbers of workers. There was suddenly a glut of office space all over. We moved out in 2006, but even around then there was still a glut of office space! I don't know if it ever recovered because it was so overbuilt.

I remember having lunch with a guy who was stubbornly holding on to his Nortel stock, which was worth mere pennies by like 2005 or so. They not only lost their jobs, they lost their 401Ks which were all in company stock. Anyways, this guy was sure it was going to bounce back. I saw in like 2008 where Nortel finally closed its doors and the stock was de-listed at $0. His dream was dead. I never worked for equity after that time period.

The enormous build out of data centers reminds me of that time period. Yeah, it's all going to collapse.
by shalmanese | 2025-09-28 03:53:35+00:00
It's the move to renewables that's causing this. In a steady state industry, the majority of your revenue goes into investing in the next generation of infrastructure. Dying industries get a temporary injection of profit as your future investments decrease faster than your decline in cashflows.

Additionally, there's an incentive to invest this windfall profit into unrelated industries to diversify in preparation for the end of your primary revenue stream.
by bigiain | 2025-09-28 03:54:22+00:00
> Capacitors are a terrible energy source.

They're a pretty good way of storing energy in a way you can deliver it _really really_ fast. Sure, not in a way your carefully designed electronic circuits can make use of it, but if you need a really really big ZAP! capacitors are a reasonable option. After all, clouds and dirt are not the most efficient choice for capacitor plates, and air is not an ideal dielectric, but lightning goes ZAP! quite satisfyingly.

As I posted elsewhere here,you might enjoy Lightning On Demand's Lorentz Cannon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lix-vr_AF38
Must Rust
by sadpig70 | 2025-09-28 03:55:51+00:00
1. Python ignited AI, but Rust is the forge for scalable infrastructure—compile-time safety and concurrency without the debt. Time for GitHub to lead the migration. 2. AI-assisted ports collapse rewrite costs: spec extraction to fuzzing in hours. Hot paths to Rust first, prove 40% latency drops with real KPIs. 3. Must Rust manifesto: End Python's "good enough" era. Hybrid stacks via pyo3, community challenges on HF/Kaggle to standardize efficiency.
by lisbbb | 2025-09-28 03:57:10+00:00
Is gpu good for that? It seems like it is a very niche capability that can't easily be re-purposed the way regular cpu compute could be.

I did a lot of projects with Kafka (big data) in cloud environments and companies had big, pie in the sky dreams that came crashing back to reality when they got the bill for compute services. It's happened several times on projects I was on.
by inetknght | 2025-09-28 03:57:50+00:00
Nothing about what I said is untrue.

Apps get updated all the time, and most of the time the update is fine. That's not untrue. It doesn't change the fact that an app could be updated with new/additional telemetry. That's not untrue, either. Telemetry is nothing less than a data grab of my private information. What do I use, what do I do, where do I do it, blah blah. That's my data and no "business" has a right to it. That's also not untrue no matter what you think.

Headphones, wireless or not, should not "need" firmware updates. That's not untrue. If the device is not fit for use, then make a recall.

Bose has nice products. I've used several generations of QuietComfort headphones. But the fact remains that they offer an app for updates when it shouldn't be needed at all, and they strongly "request" that it's needed.
by mindslight | 2025-09-28 04:01:41+00:00
Why does the Delta Pro not have a fuse on the input, with the MPPT limiting the max voltage to 150v (by upping the current until the voltage sags and/or the fuse blows, or even a straight crowbar circuit). This is a premium consumer brand selling a mostly complete product, and protecting the input from overvoltage would be straightforward. The frustration at the warranty weaseling isn't surprising.
by bigiain | 2025-09-28 04:04:53+00:00
I'm pretty sure people with hostile drones inbound on a battlefield aren't too worried about whether it's safe for birds.

I'm not even sure that the people responsible for keeping airports safe and open care too much either. But no doubt there'll be pushback ranging from genuinely concerned anuimal rights people, through to completely unhinged conspiracy theorists. who make it difficult to build/test/deploy this sort of thing in civilian contexts.