MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by api | 2025-09-13 15:17:56+00:00
I had a local around Cincinnati say all the Ohio sucks memes are part of a concerted effort to convince people it's terrible here and they shouldn't come. A friend from Portland said they tried this years ago, telling everyone it did nothing but rain in the Northwest, and it didn't work.

Really though... this is a result of three things working in tandem: chronic underbuilding of housing especially in some areas, a prolonged period of low interest rates, and financialization of housing. The underbuilding of housing is driven by both NIMBYism and a particularly bad boom-bust cycle in housing a few years ago that scared off a lot of builders.
Show HN: Wasmind – A framework for building massively parallel agentic systems
by smarvin2 | 2025-09-13 15:17:58+00:00
After using Claude code for a few months, I set out to create my own version and realized that I spent most of the time creating a framework for organizing agent interactions. After a few more months of tinkering and playing around with ideas I created Wasmind.

Wasmind is a modular framework for building massively parallel agentic systems.

It's an actor based system where each actor is a wasm module. Actor's are composed together to create Agents and you can have 1-1000s of Agents running at once. Actors communicate through message passing where every message is broadcasted to every actor.

Wasmind can be used to build systems like Claude Code or really anything multi-agent you can dream of (examples included in GitHub: https://github.com/SilasMarvin/wasmind).

Wasmind solves a few key problems: 1. Modular plug and play 2. User-centered easy configuration 3. User-defined and guaranteed enforceable safety and agent restrictions (coming soon) 4. Allows easily composing any number of agents

You can configure it to use any LLM local or remote. I haven't tried qwen3-next but qwen3-coder (especially served by providers like Cerebras) has been incredibly fun to play with.

Thanks for checking my project out!
by teamonkey | 2025-09-13 15:18:29+00:00
Yes, that’s my point. They are scary - memorably so - in a way that very few other forms of power generation are. The closest equivalent I can think of is a major hydroelectric dam breaking.

Also remember that at each major incident, despite the failures that led to it, people fought tirelessly, in several cases sacrificing themselves, to reduce the scope of the disaster. Each of them could have potentially been worse. We are lucky in that the worst case death figures have not been added to the statistics.
by hollerith | 2025-09-13 15:18:45+00:00
I recently spent over an hour listening to a channel whose description starts with "This channel shares real stories of life, love, and heartbreak in Thailand. I focus on honest experiences from foreigners living here."

Then I realized that these stories are entirely AI-generated! I know that because of the lack of personal idiosyncracies in narrative style, lifestyle and background (the stories purport to be autobiographical, where idiosyncracies show up more than in other kinds of writing) and the high rate at which the stories appear on the channel (namely, one 30-minute story every day for the last 70 days). Someone collecting actual true stories would not be able to collect stories at that rate -- at least not when just starting out (i.e., before becoming known and trusted by many expats) and the oldest video / story on the channel is only 2 months old.

https://www.youtube.com/@InsideThailandStories
by natmaka | 2025-09-13 15:18:55+00:00
The point is not about "someone may not err" but about "someone may err", or more precisely "someone WILL err", coupled with the effects of such mistakes.

Failing to correctly design, build, exploit or maintain a wind turbine or solar panel isn't a big deal. Failing to do so on a nuclear reactor can become a huge and lasting disaster for many.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-13 15:19:08+00:00
My specific point is there are people in this world with “right-wing” motivation to kill Charlie Kirk, social media has been full of it in just recent weeks, just like if a prominent left winger died there would probably be evidence of left-wing motivation to kill them. Or maybe it’s more complicated than that even!

It would be productive to our discourse if we didn’t automatically see it as two sides.
by gmassman | 2025-09-13 15:19:30+00:00
The BEAM is an amazing piece of technology. It’s built to scale massive concurrent systems and has great developer ergonomics. I’ve used it with Elixir and it’s really a breath of fresh air as far as running a webserver goes. Much more flexible and simpler to manage than a python or nodejs runtime, and also capable of scaling up with far fewer resources than you would think. Highly recommend giving it a go!
by dijit | 2025-09-13 15:19:43+00:00
The main problem of course is that coal is killing much more people than any nuclear disaster ever did (per unit of energy delivered).

But because it’s so spread and so normalised and not so bombastic, we don’t even consider it.

The number of lives saved by using nuclear energy is easily in the tens of thousands even with disasters like Chernobyl.

Although of course it has to be stated that the USSR moved to heaven and earth to solve the problem… and if they hadn’t, then the entire continent might be dead today.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-13 15:20:00+00:00
Many, many famous photojournalists and artists embraced wide angle decades before skater culture did.

A significant number of the most famous photos from the mid century were taken on 35mm or wider lenses.

A big thing to consider is that good and practical extreme wide angle lenses didn’t exist until the 80s and 90s. Something like a 16mm f2.8 lens went from not existing to being in every pro photographers arsenal in the 1990s and 2000s
by pqtyw | 2025-09-13 15:21:07+00:00
Well, its way too late now. 80 reactors were launched between 1960 and 1970, 185 between 70s, 237 in the 80s, in the 90s it was barely 60.

Instead if it kept doubling every decade it would be well over 10%.

Of course electrification of transportation etc. should have starter much earlier.

Obviously none of that was economical compared to coal/gas/oil back then.
Ask HN: Ever wish your mom could just call you at the perfect time?
by chetansorted | 2025-09-13 15:21:08+00:00
There are moments in college when I honestly think, “If only my mom called me right now, I’d have the perfect reason to step away.” • Stuck at a party that’s getting overwhelming • Sitting through a convo you don’t want to be in • Or just needing a little reassurance when you’re alone

It made me realize how powerful a simple, well-timed call can be.

Do you think this is something every college girl needs — a way to get that “mom call” exactly when you need it?
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-13 15:21:10+00:00
My personal guess about this is that wealthy people tend to lock wealth away in unproductive but safe ventures instead of value production. When there is a large labor population decrease and labor can demand more of the wealth of a society, they tend to use that wealth in a more productive way for the average person and that leads to social flourishing. Hence, I am not at all worried about the decrease in population - that will increase the power of labor and unlock a lot of horded wealth towards actually productive ends, not whatever dumb or safe shit rich people think is smart.
by theturtlemoves | 2025-09-13 15:24:07+00:00
The watch in the image has hands, but the text below seems fine (if a little silly):

"This wristwatch presents timekeeping in a non-traditional manner. Rather than displaying hours via hands, it projects temporal coordinates directly onto the wearer's retina through advanced ocular stimulation technology. The watch face remains blank at all times, except when illuminated by subtle flashes that indicate elapsed seconds."
by jddj | 2025-09-13 15:25:43+00:00
Guaranteed needle-free haystack: https://anycrap.shop/product/guaranteed-needle-free-haystack.

Ohh. Sassy: This ancient tome contains centuries-old arguments recontextualized to justify modern societal constructs. Its pages hold the collective reasoning behind every unjustified assertion since the dawn of civilization. From patriarchal dominance to colonialism, every morally dubious decision has been meticulously documented within.

Historical quotes have been carefully curated to provide talking points against critical thinking, conveniently tying complex social issues into neat theological bows.

https://anycrap.shop/product/another-1000-years-of-using-rel...
by tremon | 2025-09-13 15:25:54+00:00
People and companies can and do write whatever they want in letters submitted with visa applications. That has no bearing 1) on what you are actually allowed to do

Is it really as kafkaesque as you state? You have to enumerate your planned activities in order to get a visa, but receiving said visa is in no way an affirmation that the enumerated activities are legal to perform? That sounds completely dysfunctional to me.
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-13 15:26:23+00:00
The thing that absolutely blows my mind when watching his content is how a lot of American homes are made out of a wood frame, foam, chicken wire, and plaster.

I would have thought that regions that don’t have winter weather would just cheap out on insulation, but they cheap out on the whole thing.

It got me thinking that the mere existence of winter weather kind of sets a minimum standard of quality.
by bearjaws | 2025-09-13 15:26:30+00:00
National Association of Realtors convinced everyone their realtor has their best interests and fiduciary responsibility.

Of course, this is 100% BS. Probably half of realtors lie or turn a blind eye so you will close. 99% of purchasers will never sue their realtor.

What is wild to me is, having a lawyer do your closing is only $500 but having an agent is ~$10k on average.

I bought my first home without a realtor and have no regrets.
by Twirrim | 2025-09-13 15:27:17+00:00
What rug pull do you picture could happen at this stage? OpenJDK is the reference spec. Fully open source. Stewarded by multiple companies. Even if Oracle somehow managed to force the whole thing closed source (not sure that's even possible?) you've got all the other contributors who'd "hell no", fork and away you go. Which version of Java do you think the community would go with? There's no way it'd work.
by api | 2025-09-13 15:28:06+00:00
Java gets more hate than it deserves. "There are languages everyone complains about and languages nobody uses."

Most of the hate comes from the overly complicated "enterprise design patterns" crap that took over the ecosystem in the late 90s into the 2000s, not the language itself. It's quite possible to write clean, clear, appropriately complex, well performing Java code.

On the plus side, of all the languages I've used Java is one of the absolute best when it comes to long term maintainability of code. This is why it's used so heavily in large enterprises with long-lived business critical code bases. Being the "COBOL of the 1990s/2000s" is not an insult, and as a language it is far superior to COBOL in every way. It's not a bad language to program in at all, while COBOL will make you hate your life.

It's also a safe language unless you break out of the JVM with JNI. It's the first safe language to get huge deployment if you don't count scripting languages. Safe doesn't mean you can't have security bugs of course, it just means you're not likely to have certain kinds of security bugs and stability problems like memory errors.

The JVM is really a fantastic piece of engineering and IMHO represents a whole direction in computing I feel sad that we didn't take. We opted to stay close to the metal with all the security, portability, code reuse, and other headaches that entails, instead of going into managed execution environments that make all kinds of compatibility and reuse and portability problems mostly go away.

The biggest current knock against Java I see is JNI, which unlike the core language is absolutely horrible. The second biggest knock is that the JVM is still kind of a memory pig. CPU performance is great, sometimes converging with C or Rust performance depending on work load, but it still hogs RAM.
by keepamovin | 2025-09-13 15:28:12+00:00
Sure, but...you can just do an LLM search if you want to learn, so ...?

Wait - you're just being performative to pretend it's not happening, chyeah? Ohhh, okay. So I need to counter with facts so the 'narrative' maintains that it is happening, otherwise you've 'proven' that it's not, via your unanswered request, right?

Okay, so -- while you're basically simping for SK here, yes? Invested, ethnic? -- Anyway, sure, here's a tiny fraction:

- Kolon Industries Inc. (South Korea/n) Pleads Guilty for Conspiring to Steal DuPont Trade Secrets Involving Kevlar Technology https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/kolon-industries-inc...

- Toray Chemical Korea Resolves Attempted Theft Of Trade Secrets Investigation And Agrees To Pay Over $2 Million Penalty https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/toray-chemical-korea-re...

- Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Espionage Attempt https://www.tmpcinc.com/espionage-case-doe-lab-contractor-em...

- SK (Samsung) steals DRAM from US companies (uses softening, weasel language you'll like): 'Samsung adopted a dual strategy for development of the 256K DRAM generation, following extensive "reverse engineering" of Micron's design (Ernst 1994b: 81). Two teams, one in Silicon Valley and the other in Korea, simultaneously started the same work. In October 1984, the Korea-based team developed a 256K DRAM sample. In early 1985 the Silicon Valley team developed one, and this was the sample adopted for mass production (Ernst 1994b). The DRAM case provides one of the most important examples of Samsung's practice of creating new capability by quickly combining new knowledge and information from foreign sources with its accumulated current skill base' https://brie.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/wp106.pdf

- 1992–1994: Micron accuses Hyundai & Goldstar (LG) of using Micron’s DRAM process; ITC case and settlement. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/11/13/Micron-files-patent-... "In Nov 1992 Micron filed a Section 337 complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission alleging imported DRAMs “manufactured abroad by a process” covered by Micron’s U.S. Patent 4,436,584. The investigation (337-TA-345) was terminated in 1994 after Micron and Hyundai executed a settlement and license agreement; Micron’s own 1994 annual report also notes cross-licenses with Goldstar and Hyundai and dismissal of the ITC action. This is the clearest, contemporaneous paper trail that Micron said its process IP was being used without permission and then licensed it via settlement." https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1994-03-16/html/94-61...

etc ...
by maltelandwehr | 2025-09-13 15:28:35+00:00
Hi, Malte from Peec AI here. It is wrong that our "snapshots" are not reproducible.

Also, AIVO and PSOS are made up concept that nobody but you is using or accepts. Just because you write in a scientific, authoritative manner does not mean a sentence like "cost estimates to ground the framework in practice" have any meaning.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-13 15:28:39+00:00
And nobody is obligated to make sure they aren’t walking off of a cliff.

Most people don’t share your confidence that we will replace senior engineers and I’d gobsmacked if we could. Just like the magical ‘automation’ can’t replace the people that actually make the physical things that the machines use to do their jobs, or fix the machines, no matter how good it gets. But the quantitatively-minded MBAs just kept kicking the can down the road and assumed it was someone else’s problem that the end of the road was approaching. It wasn’t their problem that there would be a problem in 30 years, and then it wasn’t their problem when it was 10 years, and now that we’re standing at the edge of a cliff, they’re realizing that it’s everybody’s problem and it’s going to be a hell of a lot more painful than if they’d had an extremely modest amount of foresight.

Now, US manufacturers are realizing that all of their skilled laborers are retiring or dying, and there isn’t enough time to transfer the more complex knowledge sets, like Tool and Die making, to a new set of apprentices. Many of these jobs are critical not only to national security, but also our country’s GDP because the things we do actually make are very useful, very specialized, and very expensive. Outsourcing jobs like making parts for fighter jets is really something we don’t want shipped overseas unless we want to see those parts pop up on aliexpress. If nobody is responsible for it and nobody wants to fund the government to fix it, but it is a real problem, it doesn’t take a genius to see the disconnect there.
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-13 15:28:50+00:00
Perhaps you did miss the AUMF, but it was pretty prominent. While Obviously falling short of a declaration of war, it provided a legal basis to be held against. Regardless, we’d finally stopped basically all drone activity in Afghanistan and the ME before the current warmongering admin showed back up with unrestrained drones, bluster about Jihadists in Africa, drone strikes in the Caribbean, F35s over Mexico and B2s flying around the world to drop bombs in Iran. This is the Department of War you know.

Ignoring that all the existing ‘wars’ are still ongoing and pretending like this is some more narrow focus is just silly.

https://archive.is/3ZNCO
by recursivedoubts | 2025-09-13 15:29:20+00:00
The quality of everything has gone to pot and, of course, that fact does not show up in the inflation numbers in any meaningful way.

I purchased a dresser from Restoration Hardware back in 2001 as a recent grad and it's quality is unbelievable by todays standards: dovetail joinery, excellent wood, etc. Now I go and look at furniture and I'd have to spend (what I consider to be, lol) a car's worth of money for anything close to it.
by weinzierl | 2025-09-13 15:30:42+00:00
In the beginning of digital photography I shot mostly zooms. I thought fixed focal length photography was pretentious snobbery. Selecting a set of lenses, lugging them around and constantly changing them. Who has time for that?

Around flickr's prime I decided to write a little script that analyzed the EXIF of my photo catalog for actually used focal lengths and lo and behold they were pretty much centered around 50 mm. The fall-off to wider angles was pretty steep but for the longer focal lengths it only was pronounced after around 80 mm.

So, I got my self a fast nifty-fifty and I shoot it on APS-C (~80 mm) and full frame (50 mm) since. It is not quite telephoto territory but I'd say it gives you a result distinctly different from smartphone photography, especially the 80 mm.
by delichon | 2025-09-13 15:30:58+00:00
Goals that Elon Musk projects did not achieve in the promised timeline: Tesla Model 3 production, Full-Self-Driving, Mars Colonization, Cybertruck, Starship.

Goals that NASA projects did not achieve in the promised timeline: Artimis I, II and III, Constellation Program, Mars Observer, Climate Orbiter, Polar Lander, and Phobos 1, Hubble Space Telescope, X-33 and -34.

In both cases I think that the unreliability stems not from incompetence, but the degree of difficulty.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-13 15:31:08+00:00
It's apparently 90% efficient (which I believe - it can't be too inefficient otherwise it would generate too much heat to be usable).

A 10% efficiency drop takes electric cars from "much greener than ICE cars" to "still much greener than ICE cars".

In fact if this tech encourages 11% more people to buy electric cars then it might be more green overall. So take your poorly thought through naysaying elsewhere.
by Kon5ole | 2025-09-13 15:31:33+00:00
That it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it couldn't happen in the future. We have never had a worst case event but we do know pretty well what the consequences of a worst case event could be.

The worst case consequences of Chernobyl were stopped because people literally risked their lives to prevent it. The fire was put out, the steam explosion was prevented, and countless lives were saved as a result.

Even so, many countries spent billions, over several decades, to minimize the consequences. As far as 2000 miles away, animals are still to this day fed special foods and managed to avoid prolonged grazing in contaminated areas.

Think about it for a second - over 2000 miles away, almost 40 years later, this still requires active management. Despite best efforts to handle the situation when it happened.

Now consider that every reactor carries it's own copy of the risks, and they only generate around 10 TWh of electricity per year.

That's just way too little electricity for such a risk. It makes no sense.

Meanwhile solar and storage is deployed at a rate equivalent to a new reactor every month as we speak. Faster, cheaper, and comparatively risk-free.
by RajBhai | 2025-09-13 15:31:38+00:00
If I recall, Watson was fed the whole text of the answer as soon as the other contestants could see it. Personally, I thought it would be fairer to have it do speech-to-text and/or OCR to level the playing field.

But I suppose these constraints are just targeting the machine's input mechanism and not its actual reasoning ability once the answer is read. I'm curious how Watson at the time could handle a particular category that Ken dominated: "Initials to Roman Numerals to Numbers" [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/PsQ_mT5YSvg?si=8L9uKJj1hpYU_kuf
by brightball | 2025-09-13 15:32:09+00:00
The BEAM is very lightweight and necessary within Erlang to enforce one of its greatest tradeoffs:

- No universal garbage collector, every process (aka green thread) has its own heap that is reclaimed when it dies.

- No process can takeover the CPU. If you run a hugely intensive task in one process, everything else, millions of other processes potentially, will continue responding normally and consistently. The hugely intensive task will just take longer.

There’s more that applies to some advanced use cases, but these are the 2 core elements that are awesome.
by realusername | 2025-09-13 15:32:10+00:00
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France...

This is the reality of the grid, France is a net exporter of electricity in the EU and has been for the longest time. The only outlier is 2022.

You have to understand that the debate in France for a long time in the 2000s was that building capacity was not needed because there's already too much of it (!).

The country also pushed to electric heating to use some of this extra capacity making France one of the highest electric heating share at around 40% (Germany has less than 5%).

> So now when you apparently couldn't backtrack more no one cares about meeting a varying demand?

The varying demand always meant the seasonal demand! You are in europe here and not a tropical country. The problem has always been meeting the winter load.
by physicles | 2025-09-13 15:32:16+00:00
I bought a Voyager about a year ago. On day 1 I nearly had buyer’s remorse because I topped out at about 20wpm, even though all my keyboards have been ergo since 2001.

After more practice, and after swapping out the key caps, I now think this is possibly the last keyboard I’ll ever buy. I’m having a hard time imagining anything better (though I could use maybe 1 extra thumb key on each side).
by dtagames | 2025-09-13 15:32:44+00:00
Thanks for taking it the right way. Trademarkia is a good site to search for trademarks. You could probably use the word "mini" or even "figure" but they might have trademarked those put together. It's worth looking into.

I launched a product slogan years ago and got chased down by IBM, of all people. That wasn't fun. I wound up having to license my own tag line from them to settle the trademark dispute, even though it wasn't actually infringing (it was a different trademark class, hardware, and I was making software.) Then, my attorney explained that, while possibly winnable, taking on that case would cost $50,000.