MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-23 20:29:38+00:00
Nano has 0 transaction fees in the sense that you have to do some work function instead to prevent spam

Obligatory self promotion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hHG8gOkZBE & https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/randomnano & just because I am lazy and I had never written what this software is except in one comment on HN which I am also going to link lol which is going to be best that I can sum it up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44700680

Which loops through a lot of transactions with a custom nano vanity id generator to embed data into blockchain which would have 0 gas fees.

Want to do something with it one day but not sure how to, or even if its worth it given the decentralized nature and Like, I want to really play with it once I can secure myself a college and then a job & maybe I will do it in my side project.
by solumos | 2025-09-23 20:30:00+00:00
No, they're working together on it

> AP2 is designed as a universal protocol, providing security and trust for a variety of payments like stablecoins and cryptocurrencies. To accelerate support for the web3 ecosystem, in collaboration with Coinbase, Ethereum Foundation, MetaMask and other leading organizations, we have extended the core constructs of AP2 and launched the A2A x402 extension, a production-ready solution for agent-based crypto payments. Extensions like these will help shape the evolution of cryptocurrency integrations within the core AP2 protocol.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a...
by timschmidt | 2025-09-23 20:30:11+00:00
I think most people, if pressed, would share your evaluation. However, even though surveillance is always marketed and sold as a tool for law enforcement, I think the people proposing such bills are aware that it's primary use is for political control, power, and espionage.

Safety is the bait in the bait and switch. So the measure is not whether or not surveillance actually works for making people safer. But whether or not it actually works as bait.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-23 20:30:11+00:00
> I'm just more pragmatic and fully realise that renewable aren't sufficient in the short-medium term.

Which is why we should lock in the solution not delivering a single new kWh until the mid 2040s. Sounds reasonable?

You should also read some research on the topic before again coming with falsehoods. The scientific consensus is that renewable systems works.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

> The funny thing is that I'm not saying we shouldn't do renewables, just that we also need to keep investing in nuclear, at the very least to insure minimal base load for the bad weather periods.

Which tells me you don't understand how the grid works. Why should someone with rooftop solar and a home battery buy your extremely expensive nuclear powered electricity when they are swimming in their own?

Well. They don't. Meaning capacity factors crater.

Should we calculate what running Flamanville 3 at a 40% equivalent capacity factor costs? We are now somewhere around 35 cents per kWh excluding transmission cost.

Then three paragraphs of personal attacks to round it off because the nuclear logic does not compute.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-09-23 20:30:35+00:00
also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352258 ("Google Admits Censorship Pressure from Biden Admin, Pledges to Reinstate Accts")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352213 ("YouTube Will Let Users Booted for Violations of COVID, Elections Policies Rejoin")
by troupo | 2025-09-23 20:31:06+00:00
> Gotta admit, I'm still not completely grasping the hype around HTMX

Right place, right time.

React, the darling of web dev, has become huge and unwieldy and complex. The newcomers haven't been able to unseat it due to sheer ecosystem advantage. And then comes HTMX with quirky marketing hitting all the right notes (and having some actual good ideas underneath all that).
by creer | 2025-09-23 20:31:29+00:00
> Why the hell does SF need to sweep the streets so much?

It does not. All the way to street sweepers zooming down the street at full speed. All the way to NOT cleaning the street before a major event. All the way to ticketing people for a specific "street sweeping" time period but zooming down the middle of the street hours later when parked cars are back. San Francisco street and sidewalks are disgusting and it's their normal condition.

What it is, is a convenient way to write lots of tickets in not much time - as mentioned all over this discussion.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-23 20:31:34+00:00
I’m not willing to go to bat for Oberon, but large swaths of software engineering are done with no tradeoff analysis of different technologies at all. Most engineers know one imperative programming language and maybe some SQL. If you ask them what to use, they will simply wax poetic about how the one language they know is the perfect fit for the use-case.

Even for teams further toward the right of the bell curve, historical contingencies have a greater impact than they do in more grounded engineering fields. There are specialties of course, but nobody worries that when they hire a mechanical engineer someone needs to make sure the engineer can make designs with a particular brand of hex bolt because the last 5 years of the company’s designs all use that brand.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-23 20:31:38+00:00
Please do tell me where I am wrong. I love how someone coming with the near scientific consensus on the cheapest and fastest path to a green economy is branded as a "russian troll".

You truly are completely out of your depth here. As evidenced by your previous attempt [1] where you didn't know that China so far has finished 0 reactors in 2025.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45279399#45349448
by selkin | 2025-09-23 20:32:01+00:00
At the bottom of the page, it reads "By using this site, you agree to be bound by the CDP Terms of Service and Global Privacy Policy."

Shouldn't that be at the top? If you want me to agree to a EULA no one would read, at least make a show as if you expect people to read it, don't hide it in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
by simne | 2025-09-23 20:32:07+00:00
> If Windows didn't have to support a gigantic universe of old-yet-critical software

Interest point, but not exact.

MS have close to monopoly state and is very close to formal margins, where regulators must issue regulative measures.

As I know, nearly all companies achieved so huge share of US market, got warning from regulators, and most immediately hit brakes to limit their share and avoid measures. Examples from past are IBM, Commodore/Atari, etc.

But what interest, using some obvious things, like just strip API to limit share, considered by regulators as offense, so subject must not do direct things to limit his product, and only could slow innovations.
by permo-w | 2025-09-23 20:32:52+00:00
the reason I'm finding this hard to engage with in an ideal manner is because what you're saying feels so far from reality that I struggle to proportion my response properly. the implication of what you're suggesting is that people's actions, personalities and personal choices do not make up their economic choices, and/or economic choices do not make up a large proportion of the economy.

- the level of private consumption in a country is in massive part dictated by how much people choose to consume vs save. this is quite obviously a choice based on personality and norm

- the price level of goods is in large part dictated by what business owners believe people will pay, and how much people are willing to pay. again, both in large part dictated by personality and culture and norm

- wage rates are in large part dictated by what people demand for those jobs, and what business owners are willing to pay. both of these things are in large part dictated by average of people's personality traits in that country

more specifically, let's look at a classic economic case study, Argentina vs Japan: https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/b6q69y/the_econo... this is a perfect case of two countries trying not to have their economics dictated by national character, and failing anyway.

essentially what you're trying to claim is that culture and personality does not affect how people act economically. weird and provably wrong principles someone made up one day like "Economy is global and its laws are the same everywhere" is a key example of why economics is not a science, and economists are generally not trusted
by Luker88 | 2025-09-23 20:32:53+00:00
It's just a test to understand how much they can get away with.

When Russia went into turkey airspace it took something like half a minute before they were shot down. They never touched that airspace again.

We don't even make a fuss about it, why shouldn't they test again? verify reactiveness, preparedness, populace and political reaction?

The less reaction there is, the less support for ukraine, too. Meaning they can ignore more "warfare laws" and other inconvenient stuff, like the peace talks.
by evilduck | 2025-09-23 20:33:38+00:00
Unless you're running your own search engine for yourself, search indexes and vector databases already manage what data they want to ingest, they contain rank weights, keyword aliases, and prefiltering for controlling the search result in favor of the service provider's desired outcome. And these all run on someone else's hardware maintained on someone else's budget.

Adding an LLM or agentic data flow and a tuned prompt to the mix does nothing to change who is in charge, it was never you.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-09-23 20:33:40+00:00
you can live well without

Imagine you and your spouse both work full time, and you have 1-2 children. And your definition of 'living well' includes having those children learn to swim well, and do some sort of after-school sport, and also do math supplementation because SFUSD teaches math at a really slow pace.

I don't believe any of the above are outlier or unreasonable positions to have.

Yet a family in that situation would severely struggle to fit everything in if they had to rely solely on public transport to get between home, school and after-school activities.

(I grew up in London, where public transport is often faster than driving. In San Francisco, most of my car journeys would take 3-4 times as long by public transport.)
by primitivesuave | 2025-09-23 20:33:46+00:00
Just to confirm, this is what happened - he paid one twice, and therefore the other became delinquent. However, if you file a FOIA request with the SFMTA and do some basic analysis on how much is "owed per license plate", you will see that certain license plates have been allowed to accrue tens of thousands of dollars in parking fines with virtually no towing repercussions, going back as far as data is available (2013). Around 80-90% of these vehicles are rental cars, around 5-8% of them are commercial trucking companies which absorb the cost of 2 tickets per day, and this tiny 1% of license plates are effectively "lawless parkers" who drive high-end cars and accrue tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid parking fines every year.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-23 20:35:10+00:00
Extremely expensive because it is extremely expensive. The few projects in the west which get off the ground generally have:

1. Credit guarantees 2. Guaranteed extremely high electricity prices for ~40 years. 3. Direct subsides like zero interest loans 4. Subsidized accident insurance (the state takes all risk)

For example, in the UK they realized after Hinklkey Point C locking in extremely expensive electricity for 35 years that it telling the public how expensive it is was not a good political choice.

Therefore Sizewell C they instead foist the costs as a cost-plus contract on the ratepayers as the plant get built.

Pure insanity.
by dhorthy | 2025-09-23 20:35:33+00:00
i think that was one of the key reasons we built research_codebase.md first - the number one concern is

"what happens if we end up owning this codebase but don't know how it works / don't know how to steer a model on how to make progress"

There are two common problems w/ primarily-AI-written code

1. Unfamiliar codebase -> research lets you get up to speed quickly on flows and functionality

2. Giant PR Reviews Suck -> plans give you ordered context on what's changing and why

Mitchell has praised ampcode for the thread sharing, another good solution to #2 - https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1963277478795026484
by petsfed | 2025-09-23 20:35:40+00:00
I mean modern day. What I'm trying to express is that "nobody today would be racist against $whateverGroup$!" has precisely zero bearing on what absolute batshit lunacy people were racist about even 50 years ago.

Its also the case that even in the 1920s, while there was a lot of anti-Italian racism, people generally saw that Italian heritage was better than African heritage.
by troupo | 2025-09-23 20:35:43+00:00
> The immediate problem I hit was that tailwind essentially requires a build;

1. If you don't want to build something, you don't need Tailwind. https://every-layout.dev/ will get you very far (well, it will get you very far regardless of what you use for CSS)

2. "No build" is a mantra and a cult. There's nothing bad about building your final app. The problem is that the web made it extremely complex.
by leptons | 2025-09-23 20:35:51+00:00
Was the axe or the chainsaw designed in such a way that guarantees that it will definitely miss the log and hit your hand fair amount of the times you use it? If it were, would you still use it? Yes, these hand tools are dangerous, but they were not designed so that it would probably cut off your hand even 1% of the time. "Accidents happen" and "AI slop" are not even remotely the same.

So then with "AI" we're taking a tool that is known to "hallucinate", and not infrequently. So let's put this thing in charge of whatever-the-fuck we can?

I have no doubt "AI" will someday be embedded inside a "smart chainsaw", because we as humans are far more stupid than we think we are.
by danaris | 2025-09-23 20:35:59+00:00
OK, now extend that line of thought just a little bit further.

Why will the developer make more money if it's in an already developed area?

Because that area has better access to shops, schools, and workplaces.

Sure, you could build a giant apartment building out on the edge of town—the land would certainly be cheaper!

But, given how things are today, it's unlikely you'd ever fill it in a way that would recoup your investment. In order to make something like that work, what we'd really need is proper public transport that reliably stopped at (or near) such a development, with well-sited stops in town in order to allow residents to do all the things they need to do. To reach the things that are in the town.
by iagooar | 2025-09-23 20:36:01+00:00
Basically, you install the shadcn MCP server as described here: https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/mcp

If you use Codex, convert the config to toml:

[mcp_servers.shadcn] command = "npx" args = ["shadcn@latest", "mcp"]

Now with the MCP server, you can instruct the coding agent to use shadcn. I often do "I you need to add new UI elements, make sure to use shadcn and the shadcn component registry to find the best fitting component"

The genius move is that the shadcn components are all based on Tailwind and get COPIED to your project. 95% of the time, the created UI views are just pixel-perfect, spacing is right, everything looks good enough. You can take it from here to personalize it more using the coding agent.
Show HN: I built a grouped app switcher for macOS
by beshrkayali | 2025-09-23 20:36:20+00:00
Hey HN, I just released GroupTab after getting some feedback from the TestFlight beta.

The idea came from my own frustration with the default macOS app switcher when I have 10+ apps open. You know that feeling when you're cycling through a massive list just to get to Notes or Messages, then back to your terminal, then to Xcode? GroupTab lets you organize apps into rows so you can jump between "work stuff" and "personal stuff" quicker without the endless carousel.

You use Option+Tab instead of Cmd+Tab, then navigate with arrow keys (or hjkl if you're into that, or just the typical tab/shift-tab). Apps stay in their groups, so your browser windows stay with other browsers, dev tools stay together, etc. You can drag apps between groups or use keyboard shortcuts to move them around.

I've been using it for a few weeks now and I'm quite happy with how it works. A few beta testers said similar things, which was encouraging.

The app is $1.99 but I'm making it free until September 26th so people can try it out and see if it clicks for them. No point charging for something if it doesn't actually improve your workflow.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/grouptab/id6751125313 More screenshots and details: https://beshr.com/grouptab/

Would love to hear any feedback if you get a chance to try it.

Thanks!
by yojo | 2025-09-23 20:36:22+00:00
Preach. Also, don't forget making local testing/CI take longer to run, which costs you both compute and developer context switching.

I've heard people rave about LLMs for writing tests, so I tried having Claude Code generate some tests for a bug I fixed against some autosave functionality - (every 200ms, the auto-saver should initiate a save if the last change was in the previous 200ms). Claude wrote five tests that each waited 200ms (!) adding a needless entire second to the run-time of my test suite.

I went in to fix it by mocking out time, and in the process realized that the feature was doing a time stamp comparisons when a simpler/non-error prone approach was to increment a logical clock for each change instead.

The tests I've seen Claude write vary from junior-level to flat-out-bad. Tests are often the first consumer of a new interface, and delegating them to an LLM means you don't experience the ergonomics of the thing you just wrote.
by myko | 2025-09-23 20:37:24+00:00
Didn't trump post truths about firing Kimmel and Colbert? this seems to be a pattern

> Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences,

This is true, but the 1st amendment applies to the government - when the government is limiting speech, it is time to be concerned–especially given trump's track record (attempt to usurp Biden with Jan 6th, political violence comments, "jokes" about a third term, etc.)
by testdelacc1 | 2025-09-23 20:37:50+00:00
I did respond to one of his falsehoods, you must have missed it in your hurry to post this pithy putdown.

DHH and his gang of “White Replacement” reptiles overstate the facts by saying 40% of London is white British. Nigel Farage is a leader of a British far right party who exclusively has children with foreign women. His children are as white as he is, British citizens who’ve lived all their lives in Britain.

To any reasonable person, even someone who struggles to mingle with non-white people like DHH, Farage’s children would be white British. But the stats would count them as “white - Other”, which is another 20% of London.

They twist the stats to suit their narrative.
by retrorubies | 2025-09-23 20:38:25+00:00
I’ve always acted as a community-oriented person, so I feel it’s my duty to share what really happened, what the current state is, and why Ruby Central has failed in the eyes of the community. This is my perspective — and why I’m leaving Ruby Central by choice, but am being forced out of Bundler, RubyGems, and RubyGems.org.
by 9rx | 2025-09-23 20:38:44+00:00
> and are more directly comparable than e.g. Go and Ruby

Why do you say that? The original Go announcement made it abundantly clear that it was intended to be like a dynamically-typed language, but faster. It is probably more like Python than Ruby, as it clearly took a lot of ideas from Python, but most seem to consider those languages to be in the same hemisphere anyway.

Beyond maybe producing complied binaries, which is really just an implementation detail, not a hard feature of the language, what is really comparable with Rust?
by big_toast | 2025-09-23 20:39:26+00:00
(Surely this issue must've been discussed/debated elsewhere ad nauseum because it seems an odd design decision to leave out such a common macos binding...)

But having only used ghostty as-is and getting bamboozled by the copy paste situation, this is game changing. I was just going to wait till preferences had a GUI/TUI.. So thanks!
by ruggeri | 2025-09-23 20:39:37+00:00
I believe you are being downvoted because your comment violates the guidelines ("Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously... Edit out swipes."); anyway, that's why I downvoted.

Your later comment that enforcement might benefit from latitude to be reasonable and accommodate nuance is not invalid, and you could have just said that rather than call the gp's aspiration "perverted." The expressed norm of guidelines is that your belief that the gp's logic is circular does not justify your derision.

Anyway, you will probably be more convincing to others by being less insulting.

If you don't want to contribute in adherence to the guidelines, what is the point of posting here at all?
by primitivesuave | 2025-09-23 20:39:40+00:00
No - you would have to file a FOIA request with the SFMTA, and then tabulate the "Total Paid" column in the response files. Below is my FOIA request template for the SFMTA [1] to assist anyone who is interested in doing this.

> Please provide all possible information on all parking citations issued between 2009 and the present day. This should include any information related to the car (make, etc), license plate, ticket, ticketer, ticket reason(s), financial information (paid, etc), court information (contested, etc), situational (eg, time, location), and photos/videos. Specifically, please provide the most recent data from the dataset I have received in past FOIA requests, with the following headers:

> Issue Year, Ticket Number, Tick Issue Date, Tick Issue Time, Agency, Tick Badge Issued, Veh Make, Veh Body, Tick VIN, Tick RP State, Tick RP Plate, Plate Exp Date, Violation, Violation Desc, Tick Meter, Tick Street No, Tick Street Name, Suspend Code, Suspend Desc, Tick Suspend Date, Tick Dispo Code, Tick Dispo Desc, Tick Dispo Date Total Paid, Total Amt Due

1. https://www.sfmta.com/public-records-requests
by tpm | 2025-09-23 20:39:53+00:00
> Investing in Renault means investing in new thermal cars.

Not for long though; the EU fleet emmission rules and fines are clear in this regard. If the fossil lobby does not manage to nerf them, no big mfg will build ICE passenger cars for the EU market after 1.1.2035, while since this year the rates got higher and will get higher again in 2030. In some countries ICEs will have only marginal marketshare in a few years already. The manufacturers are preparing accordingly.
by neilv | 2025-09-23 20:39:58+00:00
Let's say that some people are opposed to the city's enforcement of parking rules against them (people who don't want parking tickets for overstaying in a spot, nor for parking somewhere they aren't supposed to).

Let's also say that some other people support the enforcement against that first group (e.g., small brick&mortar businesses, and people who want more parking available for quick errands).

If the Opposed group uses big data to work around the enforcement, does that hurt the Supports group?

What's fair in that situation?
by dylan604 | 2025-09-23 20:40:09+00:00
Ugh, it's like they went out of their way to not use the word Zamboni. Like when people say inline skates instead of Rollerblades or facial tissue instead of Kleenex. Yes, I know generic term versus a specific company. blah blah blah. But I feel like the UK has it okay when they say Hoovering instead of vacuuming. Same thing here.