MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-12 14:36:33+00:00
Love this!

One thing I'd find frustrating if using this when working on music: "When beat is playing, get new sample for drum plays as soon as it generates".

If "this sample is programmed to play in playing beat", then it'd be good to do a silent replace, or have the option to, so that you don't get a weird unquantized snare sound, for example. I'm finding it puts me off the generated sound more if I initially hear it in a context where it doesn't fit.
by const_cast | 2025-09-12 14:36:49+00:00
The root-cause of all of this isn't evil government, or data analytics, or joins, or even evil company.

Its data collection. Its privacy. If were waiting around for the day people start acting ethically, we'll experience the heat death of the universe.

Governments can always turn evil. Companies can always be compelled. People can always turn evil.

We need to not give them the ammunition. We've cornered ourselves into a situation where we sacrifice our data and privacy, and we are forced to blindly trust it will not be used against us.

If we do not collect data, we cannot have data breaches. If we do not collect data, we cannot have mass surveillance. If we do not collect data, we cannot have wiretapping.

We've simply allowed and encouraged tech companies to collect as much data as humanly possible. That starts with Google, Meta, et al. We then trust they will not abuse it.

But they certainly can, and they certainly will. What is done now cannot be undone. We cannot take back data immortalized. But, what we can do is prevent new data collection.

Use private services. Run software locally when feasible. Deny analytics. Block advertisments. Use end to end ecryption. Etc.
by runako | 2025-09-12 14:37:15+00:00
We are constantly voting in primaries and general elections. We vote in federal elections every two years, state elections generally at least as frequently, though often not in federal election year. We vote for mayor and city council and insurance commissioner and Secretary of State and county commission.

We don't need a referendum, we just need to choose representation that wants the same things we want. (Alternate formation: Americans do not want these things as much as some of us think they do.)
Show HN: Open-source self-tracking app to better understand my life
by p0lloc | 2025-09-12 14:37:38+00:00
Hey guys, I was long looking for an app that would let me track practically anything in my life. I was interested in seeing how different lifestyle choices created different outcomes in mood, energy and overall well-being. That's why I created Perfice!

The existing solutions I came across seemed very fixed in what they could track, often specialized but not so flexible.

If you wish to check out the source code, it's on GitHub: https://github.com/p0lloc/perfice. The current production version is running on https://perfice.adoe.dev. There's also an Android app published on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.perfice.app.

# Trackables Track anything you can imagine, whether it's mood, food or even times pooped. Custom forms can be created, with plenty of different input/data types at your disposal.

You can setup 3rd-party integrations (currently Fitbit, Todoist & Weather) which will save you the burden of manually inputting data.

# Analytics Analytics offer valuable insights into your life and help you improve. Perfice automatically correlates all data to provide insights like "Your Mood is higher when Steps is higher", "Your Sleep greatly increased today (8h 42min) compared to your average 7h 30min" or "Your Stress is lower when 'Social day' is tagged". You can see charts of your trackables historically over time and discover insights like "Sleep is usually higher on weekends".

# Dashboard See everything come together in a neat dashboard. Setup different charts to get a quick overview of your life. Completely customizable in terms of moving around widgets and resizing them until you're happy.

# Local-first The app is built with web technologies to be run completely in the browser, all data is stored locally, with the calculations being done by your machine. Only if you enable synchronization between devices (end-to-end encrypted) or 3rd-party integrations (like Fitbit, Todoist etc) will the data leave your device.

Any kind of feedback is highly appreciated, both positive and negative!
by elashri | 2025-09-12 14:38:02+00:00
> That said, I love how open the astronomy community is with their code and data. I wish other fields would follow their lead, but given the incentive structure, they probably won't.

CERN also provide a lot of open physics data from various experiments and is keep adding large amount each year [1]. Of course this still a needle in the haystack but still more than any individual researcher can ever process.

[1] https://opendata.cern.ch/
by komali2 | 2025-09-12 14:38:24+00:00
My big ask is, was it always this stupid? Like, all these huge historical events and figures, did it all go down as stupidly and clownishly as the modern USA? Was there an early 20th century fascist Europe equivalent to a man named Big Balls being beat up by children and a fascist police action being triggered as a result? Was there a Napeolonic era equivalent to a media figure known for making light of school shootings, getting killed in a school shooting, a second after again making light of school shootings? Was George III as publicly and flagrantly fellated by the court as Trump is by the media still allowed into the White House?

I feel like I can't possibly live in the stupidest era in world history so it makes me try to see other historical eras in a similar light - how can I reinterpret the past such that it also experienced a bunch of clownish nonsense?
by LollipopYakuza | 2025-09-12 14:38:26+00:00
> even low-end smartphones have more RAM than high-end servers had in 2009

That's even less accurate. By two orders of magnitude. High-end servers in 2009 had way more than 4GB. The (not even high-end) HP Proliant I installed for a small business in 2008, that was already bought used at the time, had 128GB of RAM.

I understand why one would want to make an article entertaining but that seriously makes me doubt the rest of the articles when diving into a topic I don't know as much.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-09-12 14:38:28+00:00
It might be a valid answer if he had not previously explicitly said that several deaths is not too many, the opposite of what you're implying he meant.

> "I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-09-12 14:38:32+00:00
Choose:

- Lobbying. Thorn and other "NGOs" are shaking in excitement about new revenue streams by providing the surveillance software. https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...

- Scanning of your emails and storage etc. is illegal in EU. The EU parliament voted for an exception which allows it (https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/167712). It has been extended twice and is set to expire in April 2026. EU parliament threatened to not extend it again. This proposal should become a law which permanently replaces it and is revised every 3 years. A nice opportunity to include scanning of your encrypted communication too.
by code_for_monkey | 2025-09-12 14:39:05+00:00
I am sick to death of founder propaganda like this, none of them actually work this much. 'No Booze' i believe, all of them do psychedelics and designer drugs now anyways. I would love if it a single reporter asked the obvious question in all of this "If the AI is so good, how come you have to work this 20 hour monster days?" the AI is both a mega machine capable of doing every persons job and somehow this doesnt lead to reduced work hours or increased output for anyone? Im not buying it.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-12 14:39:55+00:00
Yeah I doubt the foldables are driving it.

I also bet the numbers will change now that the 17 is out. These things are cyclical, and whomever releases first in a year typically gets a small boost. Samsung releases phones twice a year, Jan/Feb and July typically, while Apple is once a year in the fall.

These numbers are also only for one quarter.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Android's market share increase in the US, and I say that as an iPhone user. Apple's marketshare, especially amongst young people in the US is not beneficial at all, it's effectively a monopoly, and with iMessage popularity here it causes a communications lock-in effect. But, I'm doubtful without seeing a full years worth of numbers or a more consistent increase.

Or maybe people are finally tired of Apple stagnating and are finally open to trying the other side.
by bluGill | 2025-09-12 14:40:01+00:00
Yeah, large parts of the not supported things are nice when you are doing them intentionally, but easy for an attacker to abuse against you and you won't notice until it is too late. It is annoying when you want to do something and Wayland won't let you, but in the modern world we have plenty of attackers trying to abuse our computers to do evil things and we can no longer rely on trust. (we never could - X was always big in universities where there is always some student doing annoying things, though that was annoying and not otherwise harmful to life like today attacks)

Other parts are things that are on the list only because X did it that way in 1985 - nobody actually does that in X but you can find a line item and scream that Wayland doesn't do that.

Most of the rest are things that can be supported but need a some more work, and progress is being made. Most are things most people don't even need/use - though of course if you are the rare person who uses them wayland won't work for you.

The remainder is NVIDIA who is way behind. We have known they are not a good linux citizen for more than 15 years now though, so I can't have sympathy for those who buy their products. (yes I know they are the fastest in other ways, but their linux support as always been a hack)
by nunobrito | 2025-09-12 14:41:01+00:00
Monero has already been delisted from relevant exchanges last year because "reasons".

The main website that matched people to trade fiat for monero (localmonero) got closed recently because "reasons".

It is pretty popular and outlawed since a while. Basically the only relevant crypto currency used for purchases on the street since several years now. You can look up the number of daily on-chain transactions and tends to be on top every day.

You likely would only notice this if you need to donate money for someone with the wrong opinions or live at a non-aligned country.
by vel0city | 2025-09-12 14:41:30+00:00
I bought my current gaming desktop off a friend as he didn't need it anymore when I was looking for an upgrade. It had an AIO cooler. The pump made so much noise and it seemed like I had to fiddle with fan profiles forever to get it to have sane cooling. I swapped it for a $30 CoolerMaster Hyper 212 and a Noctua case fan. It cools well enough for the CPU to stay above stock speeds pretty much all the time and is much quieter than the AIO cooler was. I'm not suggesting this CPU cooler is the best one out there, but just pointing out its not like one needs to spend $100+ on a cooler to get pretty good performance.

The GPU still gets kind of loud during intense graphics gaming sessions but when I'm not gaming the GPU fans often aren't even spinning.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-12 14:41:57+00:00
> Or at least, you can do that if you still care about MSAA. :)

I am a huge fan of all traditional forms of supersampling, intra-frame-only anti-aliasing techniques. The performance cost begins to make sense when you realize that these techniques are essentially perfect for the general case. They actually increase the information content of each pixel within each frame. Many modern techniques rely on multiple consecutive frames to build a final result. This is tantamount to game dev quackery in my book.

SSAA is even better than MSAA and is effectively what you are using in any game where you can set the "render scale" to a figure above 100%. It doesn't necessarily need to come in big scary powers of two (it used to and made enablement a problem). Even small oversampling rates like 110-130% can make a meaningful difference in my experience. If you can afford to go to 200% scale, you will receive a 4x increase in information content per pixel.
by cyphax | 2025-09-12 14:42:07+00:00
I recently upgraded my gaming PC from Win10 to Bazzite with Wayland, and my use cases are primarily streaming to a laptop and to a quest 3. I don't find these very niche use cases tbh. The challenge was, unfortunately, getting around Wayland. It may be a security feature, but to me it feels a bit like making a car safer by removing the wheels so you can't crash it. It could ask for permission or let me whitelist applications like Steam, Sunshine and ALVR, but it doesn't. I ended up plugging a dongle into the HDMI port, so there's always a monitor "on" and it now works perfectly fine, but I would have been happier if I didn't have to do that, like Windows before it.

Maybe there are good reasons for Wayland to be the way it is, but my experience is that it's unnecessarily limited, it's in the way and "the rest" doesn't have these problem (Windows, Xorg, ...) so I'm not particularly fond of Wayland, even if it does a lot of things fine and it is quite stable (in my experience).
by kragen | 2025-09-12 14:42:13+00:00
Unfortunately I can't edit it further (perhaps due to having said "fuck", "Hitler", and "nigger" in a single comment) but I need to add that "crap" turns out to come from Latin by way of Old French.

Also, this page is fantastic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yid...
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-12 14:42:21+00:00
I was thinking about this on and off this morning. My first thought was that the body is the base foundation for all of those things. None of them matter or can be in meaningfully good shape if the body is in poor condition. Then I started thinking it may just be an interrelationship where they all depend on each other. Then I thought more about what exactly is it that we're trying to evaluate? Is it quality of life? Because that really begins convincing me that there really is no priority list here and they are all deeply dependent on each other. Ever been depressed and tried to exercise? Ever been in terrible health and tried to be happy?
by pmarreck | 2025-09-12 14:42:47+00:00
The following was generated by chatG5:

Qwen3-Next — A family of large language models from Qwen (Alibaba). DeepSeek R1 — Another large open-source language model from DeepSeek AI. Linear attention — A type of transformer attention that scales linearly with sequence length, making long-context processing cheaper. MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) — Training/inference trick where the model predicts multiple future tokens at once, speeding things up. Embedding — Converts words/tokens into vectors (numbers) the model can work with. Un-embedding — The reverse step: mapping the model’s internal vector back into tokens. embed_tokens — The big lookup table of embeddings (token → vector). shared_head.head tensors — Extra weight matrices used for prediction; they can be huge. [129280, 7168] — The shape of such a tensor: ~129k rows (tokens in the vocab) × 7k columns (hidden dimension). FP8 — Floating-point format using 8 bits (compact, faster, less precise). Active parameters — The weights that actually need to be loaded in GPU memory to run the model. Inference — Running the model to generate text (as opposed to training it). GB savings — If you avoid duplicating giant matrices, you save GPU memory and speed things up.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-12 14:42:58+00:00
You wouldn't even know that it existed, or how it worked. It would just work. Everybody wants hands off control that they don't have to think or learn about.

edit: this reminds me of a state agency I once worked for who fired their only IT guy after they moved offices, because the servers were running just fine without him. It was a Kafkaesque trauma for him for a moment, but a massive raise a week later when they were renegotiating for him to come back.
by mothballed | 2025-09-12 14:43:17+00:00
By referendum I meant to be able to vote directly on a specific law.

If you look at how weed was legalized, it required a referendum in many (most?) states because no representative wants to be the guy that has his face plastered everywhere when some kid dies after he smokes some legal weed and smashes into a pole, even if most his constituents wanted the policy.

Representatives generally have to be risk averse to get to the point they can even represent people on issues. This means they are extremely reluctant to vote for anything that might come back to bite them somehow, even if it is popular.

>Alternate formation: Americans do not want these things as much as some of us think they do

There is extremely overwhelming evidence that a supermajority of americans have wanted medical marijuana to be federally legal for many years. And overwhelming evidence the representatives have not been successfully bringing that forward.
by komali2 | 2025-09-12 14:43:18+00:00
Ideologically we're probably quite aligned. However I disagree with you. Having traveled a lot of the USA, I've found Americans to be surprisingly much less racist than I expected.

Absolutely there are nests of racist snakes, the KKK still continues after all and we have out and out nazis like Nick Fuentes getting page time in the NYTimes, so something is rotten in that country. Even still, compared to my travels throughout Europe, the USA has something unique about its diversity. It does seem like there's something different about the American identity superseding race and religion.

Compare to a country where your statement might be true, insomuch as it's a massive population of practically lost-cause racists: Israel. I've had several conversations with Israelis and my main takeaway is that the government has spent the last couple generations doing its utmost to convince everyone in the country that the planet is a zero-sum ongoing tribal war. The racism there is ingrained not just into the culture but into the law.

Having met people like that, I tempered my aggressively leftist America takes. America has issues but I've encountered way more flagrant and disgusting forms of racism in a year of travels through Europe than I did in decades of travel in the USA. I feel like I didn't know what racism really is until I left the USA.
by johnklos | 2025-09-12 14:43:59+00:00
Discussions about the corporatization of Linux largely move on emotion. Imagine getting flagged multiple times for asserting that writing code that assumes little endianness is bad programming practice, just because someone had a talk where he suggested 32 bit should die and perhaps even all things big endian.

The speaker didn't give any reasons, mind you, why big endian should die other than handwaving about how it means "more maintenance", and the responses to "can you give any examples of how it means "more maintenance" other than saying it?" were largely, "can you give proof it's not "more maintenance"?"

I feel the same happens with Wayland. People who don't understand its position have strong feelings in both directions, yet very little discussion is about the underlying rationale for it in the first place, about who benefits by marginalizing people with non-mainstream hardware and who benefits from forcing the software ecosystem down narrower paths.

X11 and Wayland really should coexist, at least for as long as it takes for Wayland to lose a majority of its major issues, yet Wayland designers didn't seem to think that'd be worthwhile. Some of the projects that're working on making them work together need more attention than they're getting.
by codegeek | 2025-09-12 14:44:14+00:00
I really admire Posthog as a company and how they run things there. Big fan. But let's be honest. This website redesign, even though cool and unique, wouldn't work if they were an unknown brand. I think they have done a great job building a solid brand over the years and now have the freedom to update their website however they want.

If you are a no name startup, doing something like this will be a bad idea. My 2 cents.
by nunobrito | 2025-09-12 14:44:16+00:00
Overton window. There is a lot of funding for youtube influencers to play with casino coins that are transparent and traceable. Those are basically looking for "money goes up" and don't really care about the crypto part.

Monero is only on the news for negative reasons when someone tries to bring it down or delists from yet another exchange. There isn't funding to make it popular, which I guess in the end it is really up to Monero users from pushing it up.
by bluGill | 2025-09-12 14:44:29+00:00
That is needed complexity though. Drawing pixels on the screen is very simple when you have exactly one application using the screen. Nobody want to quit the word processor to open their email client. Nobody wants to miss a meeting notice because they were writing code in their editor and thus didn't have their calendar open. Hard core emacs users can live in one application all day, but most people want to run more than once application at a time and have them all work on a screen. Thus complexity is required.
by pzo | 2025-09-12 14:44:35+00:00
most likely the reason is apple not providing the same access for 3rd party developers. Last year had similar idea to implement and there is not way to enable programmatically to have airpods mic as input and iphone speaker as output. Audio input/output routing on iOS overall is very limited comparing MacOS - similar if you want to use headset mic and phone speaker or vice versa.
by GeoAtreides | 2025-09-12 14:45:20+00:00
You are being downvoted, but you are correct. I am east european and I know how hard the fist of the State hits. Sometimes I think westerners see technology like some special moves that you can quickly combo so you can defeat the evil boss at the end. No, there are no special moves, just a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-12 14:45:38+00:00
> You want me to treat people like Charlie Kirk like an enemy in war?

Maybe you haven't paying attention, but liberals and conservatives are already treating each other like they are enemies in a war. Tit for tat assassinations. Why do you think when liberals get killed, for instance, Melissa Hortman, the conservatives in power don't even lower the flag.

None of that has anything to do with me or my views. I mean, if it makes you feel any better, my preference would be that we divest both liberals and conservatives of power.

So it'd be better to direct your question/admonition at liberals and conservatives guy. I'm apolitical.

> Do you know what happens in war?

I first got off the bus in Quantico for PLC in 1991. Even then, I had no illusions about what happens in war.

This is what makes civility important. I won't go too far into it, but civility and discipline, believe it or not, are the only things keeping officers on both sides alive. No one will admit it to you, but it's the only thing preventing soldiers from doing a whole lot more than just breaking a few trifling Geneva Conventions.