MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kingstnap | 2025-09-02 02:02:15+00:00
Not OP, but I think one way things shake out (at least for news) is this:

Step 1: News journalists offer an LLM friendly private API to OpenAI and others. Maybe they create some special templated markdown articles.

Step 2: OpenAI offers a subscription add-on: Want up to date news for your chat sessions? Pay $5/month, and we will give a bundled "News" tool from various paywalled journals. Maybe NYTimes and Economist and whatnot.

Step 3: Now, you can ask ChatGPT to give you current events in the morning.

Now you can imagine this sort of market for other useful things as well. Basically, selling curated information to chat bots.

You can play around with the exact arrows here. Maybe you instead buy an LLM access key directly from NYTimes, and then you can plug it into multiple chat providers.

The idea is that you create a market for first-party LLM MCP or similar. Like maybe one for YouTube tooling bundled together with YouTube premium.

I'm not sure what people would pay for. But I think it should be centred around curation and new information somehow.
by outsoser | 2025-09-02 02:02:45+00:00
Location: Bangkok, Thailand Remote: Yes / No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript/Javascript, Go, Python, React SQL, Postgres, Node.js, GraphQL, Nest.js, Next.js, tRPC HTML5 with any styling CSS3/Sass/Less/Styled Components Linux, Vim, Docker/K8s, AWS, Git Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ezvjj1htxyeDSfk6eO5T4Awx...
by novok | 2025-09-02 02:03:07+00:00
Yes and no, it also encourages the development of dense housing, which ends up being cheaper housing within a few years vs causing old land inefficient housing to linger too long in a market and cause an affordability crisis. If the value of the land stays flat or goes down after inflation, this effect doesn't happen, it only happens when it goes up, because the economic market induces higher land demand for a region.

"House value always go up" is a relatively recent invention.

It's a tax system to create economic incentives for density.
by jart | 2025-09-02 02:03:38+00:00
The point of a company is to provide a valuable necessary service to society. Money and power is simply a consequence of being more qualified to serve society in that niche better than anyone else. Cloudflare isn't qualified enough yet to be the people they're angling to be. They need to learn to be better people and how to do a much better job. Turning to villainy won't help them hit the mark after failing to meet expectations.
by walterbell | 2025-09-02 02:04:04+00:00
How do we get a DC in a year?

Migrate an existing plant? https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musks-xai-bu...

> The company has apparently been thinking outside the box to meet its power needs, with Musk stating a couple of weeks ago that it intends to buy a power plant from abroad and import it into the US to provide energy for its data centers.
by tstrimple | 2025-09-02 02:04:46+00:00
If you have a kid who needs immediate attention such that you have to drop a multiplayer game you are actively sabotaging your online teammates and deserve to be limited in how you play. I confidently say this as a parent of three children. It's just pure fucking selfishness to join a competitive game where you know you have a high chance of needing to drop. Just play casual lobbies instead where you're not fucking up other people's ability to climb.
by arp242 | 2025-09-02 02:04:51+00:00
You can still run an older kernel. There are the "Super-long-term support" releases that have 10+ year support cycles. Some distros may go even further.

If you install 6.12 today (via e.g. Debian 13) then you'll be good until at least 2035. So removing it now de-facto means it will be removed in >10 years.

And as the article explains, this mostly concerns pretty old systems. Are people running the latest kernel on those? Most of the time probably not. This is really not "running after the last shiny thing". That's just nonsensical extreme black/white thinking.
by alex1138 | 2025-09-02 02:05:05+00:00
You didn't say it outright so this is not me correcting you specifically, but there's this semi-myth that "Honnold doesn't feel fear because that region of his brain is smaller than everyone else's". He, at least, disputes this. He feels fear but he knows how to focus it, and it's a combination of some kind of innate talent and conditioning as he's put himself in scary situations before

Not quite the same, but Youtuber Ally Law (known for climbing cranes and tall structures) started doing it specifically because he used to be terrified of heights and now seems to not have a problem with it
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-02 02:05:28+00:00
Beats me. My best guess is they let the hype blind them to the reality that this tech wasn’t merely a few months away from the production-level reliability they needed from it. After a while, it sank in that they couldn’t play this up as a ‘just around the corner’ release and stopped hyping up every useless beta-at-best feature like it was a huge deal. Then, when the “we’re nowhere close” internal communique was leaked, it was officially time to bow out of the hype cycle for a while.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-02 02:05:34+00:00
Same. Years ago I took the time to learn the difference between an em-dash, an en-dash, and a hyphen and I'll continue to use them regardless of what AI does.

I don't use AI in my writing. If I were still in school would I be tempted? Probably. But in work and personal writing? Never crosses my mind.
by dabluecaboose | 2025-09-02 02:06:02+00:00
A misfire or a jam are just as possible on a "smart" gun. Again, this is not a unique standard being applied unfairly.

Gun owners already treat reliability as a major factor in purchasing decisions. Whether that reliability is hardware or software is moot, as long as the thing goes "bang" when expected.

It's not hard to see the parallels to LLMs and other software, although ostensibly with much lower stakes.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-09-02 02:06:41+00:00
As a BSD developer from the 90s, that does not reflect my experience.

We wanted our code to be as widely used as possible. It’s really not any more complicated than that.

There was always tension between the folks that shipped GPL software and folks that shipped BSD/MIT software, but the dividing line was not whether or not we were “commercial programmers and startup bros”.

It has always come down to questions of what we believe freedom to mean, how we wanted to contribute utility to the world, and whether we saw the use of our software in commercial projects as a loss to ourselves in a zero sum game.

The rise of “software as a service” has changed that calculus for some, and disadvantaged those that sought to build commercial service entities around their open source software. In the areas that I work, it’s made no material difference.

As for Ruby on Rails, I think it’s outsized presence on hacker news might have given you an inaccurate picture of its influence on the broader open source ecosystem.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-02 02:06:56+00:00
This is something I've noticed, the Democrats don't typically do anything, they wait for the Republicans to gain power and do something. Then they either roll it back, or carry it forward. George H. W. Bush pushed NAFTA, and Clinton took over and pushed it over the goal line. If the Republicans hadn't proposed it, would it have ever seen the light of day? Doubtful.
by master_crab | 2025-09-02 02:07:20+00:00
Forte isn’t used to withhold comp. It’s just a development tool. That’s why it was always held in January after end of year comp. If your manager told you otherwise, they are being passive-aggressive about your prospects.

Second, if you’re a fifth year L5, start interviewing now. L5 technically is a terminal level (is that still a thing there?) but you aren’t supposed to spend five years at that level.
by mikhailwahib_ | 2025-09-02 02:07:44+00:00
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by jasperry | 2025-09-02 02:09:17+00:00
I remember being mildly intrigued as a kid when I started seeing PCs with the Enter key where my C64 had Return.

It's ironic that, though we haven't seen a Return key for a long time, the down-left arrow symbol still used on many keyboards represents the motion of a carriage return. I guess there's no other symbol that would convey the meaning of Enter as well.
by albert_e | 2025-09-02 02:09:57+00:00
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing and hope you find time to expand on this project. Good luck!

I am interested in English-French at the moment and was hoping to use sideloaded ebooks and mp3 audiobook versions - not necessarily just old classics out of copyright.

It seems there are some open source projects that replicate Amazon Whispersync (sync audio to text and highlight words/phrases as they are spoken).
by breadwinner | 2025-09-02 02:11:46+00:00
Managers and above know this. In order for execs to get their bonus they have to meet diversity goals. So execs have promoted women to positions they would not ordinarily be promoted, in order to get their bonuses. This started many years ago, and continue to this day.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/18/13681738/microsoft-diver...

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-microsoft-execs-earn-the...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/microsoft...
by bsder | 2025-09-02 02:12:01+00:00
> Maybe the tariff could encourage local manufacturing of solar?

That's what tariffs do ... if you leave them in place for extended periods of time.

The problem is that nobody is going to bet their business on what the tariffs will be tomorrow when it could be 10x or zero.

Businesses are just going to stop and hold their breath until Trump goes away.
Show HN: Web Metadata search. Search for headers, apps, CMSs, and versions
by danielcid | 2025-09-02 02:12:10+00:00
Hi HN,

We have been building DNSArchive (a DNS repository) and just made the public (out of beta), our web security metadata search.

It allows you to look for specific patterns on headers, links and other hard to find parts of web sites.

For example, you can search for all sites using PHP/5.2:

https://dnsarchive.net/web-search?q=PHP/5.2

Or WordPress 5.2:

https://dnsarchive.net/web-search?q=%22Wordpress%205.2%22

Or search fro web servers that have Ubuntu displayed on the web server header:

https://dnsarchive.net/web-search?q=ubuntu

Feedback is very welcome. We did a Show HN about it a few months ago and got no traction and sending it again since we just pushed multiple updates and added over 150m sites there.
by joshka | 2025-09-02 02:12:23+00:00
Splice[1] Studio[2] used to be version control for music software (from about 2013-2021). You could browse Ableton Live (and a few other DAWs) projects and see the tracks and rendered versions each time you saved, add metadata etc. They pivoted into the more profitable sample discovery and sales business later and dropped the less profitable studio product.

I expect over the next few years that the DAWProject[3] open source protocol for exchanging between DAWs could make it possible for some of the ideas of splice come back without having to rely heavily on undocumented binary formats.

[1]: https://splice.com/

[2]: https://cdm.link/splice-studio-is-free-backup-version-contro...

[3]: https://github.com/bitwig/dawproject
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-09-02 02:12:41+00:00
Speaking of pause. I like double period for pause.. it’s like a more polite and shorter pause than the DOT DOT DOT that screams awkwardness and doubt.

But I agree that triple em-dash for pause is not half bad either. I could see it becoming a thing, with how it goes the opposite direction and is so over the top :)
by hakfoo | 2025-09-02 02:13:24+00:00
This seems to be percieved as an explicit intended loophole. I've seen contests where they say "for free entry, go to website..." followed with "internet access can be obtained at libraries".

Obviously, the idea of "you don't have to pay to participate" has a strong legal footing, but I have to wonder if they can find a way to pivot that to "I don't have to acquire an Android/iOS device". Maybe they would develop a kiosk-mode version of the OS that will run apps tethered to a placeholder library account.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-09-02 02:14:03+00:00
It is not orthogonal to modes of travel. A person in a car is much less vulnerable to attack than a person on foot, on a bicycle, etc. Also it's funny that you pick a low trust country and a high trust country to confound the issue. To be clear, the vulnerability is roughly the same no matter where you are located. The frequency of crime is a separate issue, and one that evolves according to opportunity. If more people are vulnerable to attack, that may be enough to inspire a crime wave even in a country we consider safe (compared to Africa).
by downrightmike | 2025-09-02 02:14:08+00:00
We have tried locally, with huge government backing, but that failed. But since it was an Obama initiative, a new attempt will never be tried.

Farmers make more money from wind turbines on their land than their crop. https://ambrook.com/offrange/farm-finance/there-will-be-wind

And that is stable money, works without rain, which crops don't.
by nickysielicki | 2025-09-02 02:14:26+00:00
You'd have to build totally separate datacenters with totally different hardware than what they have today. You're not thinking about the complexity introduced by the use of pcie switches. For starters, you don't have enough bandwidth to saturate all gpus concurrently, they're sharing pcie root complex bandwidth, which is a non-starter if you want to define any kind of reasonable SLA. You can't really enforce limits, either. Even if you're able to tolerate that and sell customers on it, the security side is worse. All customer GPU transactions would be traversing a shared switch fabric, which means noisy bursty neighbors, timing side-channels, etc., etc., etc.
by positron26 | 2025-09-02 02:14:39+00:00
These are the moments that I need to have a confrontation about not bringing up unimportant things. The person who wrote the comment intended to communicate things about the code. The person who brought up the punctuation could change if if they really wanted to, if it was actually productive work. It's about "catching" someone else and having a reason to nip them on the ear. Review like that is what belongs in the garbage.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-09-02 02:15:07+00:00
I want to respond to our last interaction here.

This is Cordyceps [0]. My Chrome extension port of the typescript port of Browser Use needs some love but it is contained there.

I wanted to post the port of a MCP with pure CDP libraryI found to use Chrome.debugger therefore removing Playwright but the typescript and monorepo tooling is out of date. Hopefully I'll get it done tomorrow.

[0] https://github.com/adam-s/cordyceps
by lukestevens | 2025-09-02 02:15:07+00:00
I don't mean to be rude but this idea that there's some decisive, authoritative data vs. sketchy anecdotal claims kind of drives me up the wall.

What data would or could exist in this case beyond the hundreds of calls the author is apparently basing their observations on? That seems like a reasonable qualitative data set to me.

On the other hand, what you're asking for doesn't make much sense. Any push/pull strategy difference is going to change who takes a call in the first place. You're not doing a RCT on a random sampling of the population.

The point is simply that you're going to have a better time doing sales if your supply matches some pre-existing demand. You don't need a quantitative study to understand why that may well be the case.

It's the same reason that, despite being bombarded with advertisements, we don't all go out and buy 16 meals a day or 10 cars a year simply because someone tried to sell those things to us. We act when we have a need, and founders need to understand that as a physical reality when trying to sell their products.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-02 02:16:17+00:00
Chat did work for some operations for me but not many.

My screwdrivers, drills, planes, and all the rest don't tell me how to use them and I think that you need to treat LLMs in the same way.

They can provide an insight or a prod or whatever that gets you over the line but I do not think that they are ... AI of any sort.

I can cut say 12mm of plywood with a panel saw within an accuracy of about 1mm if I am careless. If I take more care, I can do way better. Depends on the job. However, I have to keep my eye in.

Chat will get the basics right but will hallucinate badly when it comes to libraries like https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki

Just like a slightly blunt chisel, you have to treat Chat and co in the same way - they are tools. No more and no less. You need to know how to sharpen them up (oil and a whetstone).
by lmm | 2025-09-02 02:16:31+00:00
> Eventually, as models and their users both improve, we'll collectively realize that trying to reliably discriminate between AI and human writing is no different than reading tea leaves. We should judge content based on its intrinsic value, not its provenance.

There are zillions of words produced every second, your time is the most valuable resource you have, and actually existing LLM output (as opposed to some theoretical perfect future) is almost always not worth reading. Like it or not (and personally I hate it), the ability to dismiss things that are not worth reading like a chicken sexer who's picked up a male is now one of the most valuable life skills.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-02 02:16:37+00:00
No offense to any em-dash lovers, but I think an overuse of em-dashes indicates that your writing is probably slop, just not AI slop, human slop. In a sense, there is a kind of slop that relies on em-dashes to glue things together - usually in a cliche way, learned from lazy journalists copy-pasting from their last article to add a bit of spice to their writing - and AI just copied it.

(On the other hand, maybe it's just low-paid writers in South Africa: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape... )
by bri3d | 2025-09-02 02:16:56+00:00
Sure, I think the OP knows this, but another (arguably much more common) way to do fan control is to have a secondary control system (be it a separate management processor, fan IC, management core on the same SoC, whatever) know about temperature curves/thresholds and have that IC handle sensor input to set the PWM.

This is the usual way things are done on x86 with ACPI, for example - unless the OS or some userland fan manager elects to take over via the OSPM fan objects, the fans control is delegated to the BIOS/platform firmware. If I boot an OS with no notion of a fan on a common x86 motherboard, it will still cool reasonably well (usually). Same deal for Macs with SMC - unless the OS tells the SMC explicitly to quit handling the fan, the SMC deals with all the thermals with no intervention.
by nerderloo | 2025-09-02 02:17:51+00:00
I find AWS extremely difficult to use compared to GCP. Even though we received startup credits—which are essentially free money—we’re letting them go to waste because the platform is so much harder to work with.

It’s no surprise that AWS’s revenue growth is lagging behind GCP and Azure.

Beyond the AI talent gap, Amazon seems to be making serious missteps in its own core business.

It reminds me of Apple. At first, people thought Apple was being strategic by staying out of the AI race and waiting to pick the winner. But in reality, it turned out to be an inability to adapt to the new trend. I expect the same pattern from Amazon.
by john-tells-all | 2025-09-02 02:18:04+00:00
Strong agree

Breathe in: ONE. Breathe out: TWO. Next: THREE... reset at 10.

If you find yourself breathing in on an even number, or out on an odd number, you've gotten lost. No problem, just reset to 1. Got to ten? You win! Also, reset to 1.

Very useful and simple technique for calm and focus.
by XorNot | 2025-09-02 02:18:16+00:00
This is honestly one of the stupidest things about this sort of policy: solar panels last 20 years and China can't take them away once you have them.

If you're doing something much more valuable with the power, then buying a lot of PV from China makes sense. If you think the panels are being unfairly subsidized then buying a lot of PV from China is effectively having the Chinese government pay you to have cheap power.

There's an enormous difference between being dependent on short term consumable resources,.and acquiring multidecadel productive assets.

The US at all points seems to not understand it's relationship with China at all.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-02 02:18:20+00:00
This very narrow very specific single-purpose task-oriented subagent was one of the first things talked about in this every lovely recent & popular submission (along with other fun to read points):

What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!? https://minusx.ai/blog/decoding-claude-code/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998295
by throw0101c | 2025-09-02 02:18:25+00:00
> In the 20th century, there were two spaces after an end of sentence period. (I still do that.)

Only if you used a typewriter. I was using (La)TeX in the twentieth (1990s), and it defaulted to a rough equivalent of 1.5 spaces (see \spacefactor).

Two ('full') space characters were added because of (tele)typewriters and their fixed width fonts, and this was generally not used in 'properly' published works with proportional typefaces; see CMoS:

* https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/O...

Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style (§2.1.4) concurs:

* https://readings.design/PDF/the_elements_of_typographic_styl...

* https://webtypography.net/2.1.4

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_St...
by amy_petrik | 2025-09-02 02:19:05+00:00
> Microsoft is directly tied to promotion of women employees, and as a result, a lot of women now occupy positions they would not otherwise. Again, the impact is decreased ability to execute.

I mean are you saying women are worse leaders? Because it seems to me microsoft is harnessing the limitless potential of gender diversity. With a gender-diverse staff they will be able to crush their peers by streamlining against horrible things such as toxic masculinity where the bourgeois men keep down honest and hardworking proleteriat women
by gosub100 | 2025-09-02 02:20:16+00:00
I'm calling it now: within a year, somehow a trend will appear where writers will perform their duties under voluntary video surveillance showing the human's face, fingers and screen contents (possibly by multiple cameras) to "prove" they did it on their own.

This video will be too voluminous or intrusive to be viewed manually, so it will be analyzed by (you guessed it) AI to determine if the work was authentic.

It will probably be developed and required by the corrupt education industry, but perhaps some writers will voluntarily use it to buy authenticity or stand out. But either way, the machine will once again find another way to take our agency and make our lives less enjoyable.
by its-kostya | 2025-09-02 02:21:14+00:00
Refreshing to see a positive influence on folks for FOSS.

Also, 5 days old and 4.5k followers with nothing but dotfiles LOL Certainly not the trend I'm used to but hope some of those convert to being contributors to open source. Also... hope Microsoft doesn't lean heavily into the social aspect of things now that entertainers can pivot to a tech audience.