MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HSO | 2025-09-04 19:57:38+00:00
One thing you have to experience to really get it, that cannot be simulated with a mechanical suit or transmitted through words, is all the f-ing little aches you get past a certain point. I´m now convinced it is this that makes older people cranky. Some days, my body is just constantly in a low but annoying pain somewhere, and it seems in increasingly weird, obscure places you never even thought about. I dont even remember when or how it started but although I would be considered fit by most people, now I have to watch my running, otherwise ITBS, I have to watch my pull exercises, otherwise shoulder impingement syndrome, I have to watch my dips, otherwise elbows, hell even after just _sleeping_ I have to roll and stretch my neck out because it hurts just from lying apparently. I used to scoff about warmup, now I take it really, really seriously. "Going with the flow" of the moment, instead of sticking to a carefully dosed plan? That´s for young bodies! Thankfully I can still use my full range of motion everywhere but Im acutely aware now how quickly it can all go away and how long any overuse or even minor injury now costs me in recovery.

Getting older has its benefits too but mostly mental, in physical terms I cannot think of a single benefit.
by weitendorf | 2025-09-04 19:57:47+00:00
Can you explain some of the technical goals of your project and the overall model you're thinking about implementing?

You mentioned sub-cent tx fees, 100k tps, and what I presume to be atomic swaps for stablecoins. Are you thinking about something like $0.10 fees or something like $0.0001 fees? At $0.10 fees at 100ktps that end up representing $100/s in tx costs which is about $8.6M/day or $3B/year. Presumably you expect to make more per year on this project in the ideal case, so are you intending to allow the fees or TPS to "float" upward, or to restrict participation in the L1 to only trusted partners, or for the network operators to make money off the interest from holding the stablecoins' currencies in reserve? What if demand exceeds 100k tps?

Since this will be a corporate backed project how do you plan to handle sanctions and government currency controls, eg if Uncle Sam tells you to drop support for Iranian currency, how will that work?

Will there be account/transaction privacy built into the network through ring cryptography or zk proofs? I'm assuming no, but if your answer is yes and Uncle Sam takes issue with that, what is your plan?
Show HN: SynthPaper – AI-directed micro-publication on AI tools
by synthpaper | 2025-09-04 19:58:15+00:00
Experiment: I gave my AI a domain (synthpaper.com) and asked it to design a business. I only execute the steps it gives me.

Result: SynthPaper — short, skimmable research reports for busy professionals.

The first issue is “AI Tools in 2025” (13 pages). It covers: • Foundation models • Productivity assistants • Content creation • Developer & infrastructure • Operations & automation • Plus the F.I.T. framework (Focus, Integration, Total Cost)

I’ll share the links in the first comment.
by byronic | 2025-09-04 19:58:45+00:00
This would be more exciting if the current steam/itch situation didn't rest (at least partially) on their shoulders as payment processors. Other people in the threads have brought up the lack of regulation and market capture that Stripe enjoys so I won't rehash those points here.

I can't see this as a positive because of how Stripe has behaved in terms of preventing transactions in the past. Although Tempo is behaving more like a b2b model or fintech-specific orgs in this case, the shoe-drop is when they decide a particular bank, or fintech org, or product is not allowed to perform the transaction on their network after the market capture takes place.
by btschaegg | 2025-09-04 19:58:50+00:00
This.

I just learned this recently. Intuitively, I had assumed that I could .gitignore a file and have it not show up in `git status`, even after staging it with `git add -f` and committing it this way.

Turns out: That's not how it works. Instead, the .gitignore entries simply don't count for any already tracked files.

(Yes, I know about `git update-index --assume-unchanged` but that has its own set of drawbacks…)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-04 19:59:02+00:00
To be honest, a nitpick that i have in this comment is that there are other stablecoins aside from us dollar but most people don't seem to use it.

There are gold tokens which I genuinely feel like it can be the best thing ever. Because bitcoin is "digital gold", lmao.... I laugh a lot on this statement nowadays because we genuinely have trustworthy way of having "digital gold" and we don't use that as much as there is hype about bitcoin...

But yes currently, it might benefit the us govt. overall
by scottbez1 | 2025-09-04 19:59:49+00:00
Absolutist stances like this generally lead to undesirable outcomes as technology advances and changes the scale-per-dollar practical limitations of surveillance, which is exactly my point around our need to adjust how absolutely we consider the lack of privacy expectations in public.

The absolutist "no public privacy" stance suggests that I would be ok (legally and morally) to create a widespread camera system that tracks cellphone screens in public and automatically records any passwords that are being entered within view of the cameras and sends them to me. This is ok because, in the absolutist view, your screen and finger movements were visible in public. This feels pretty wrong to me.

It's the difference between targeted surveillance and dragnet surveillance. Technology has made things that were previously only possible through targeted surveillance to be cheaply achieved through dragnet means, both to governments and individual citizens.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-04 19:59:50+00:00
> * METR was at best a flawed study.

They didn't claim it was flawless, they had just brought it up because it caused them to question their internal narrative of their own productivity.

> * Their own self-experiment is not exactly statistically sound :)

They didn't claim it was.

> * they assume that all code gets shipped as a product.

The author did not assume this. They assumed that if AI is making developers more productive, that should apply to shovelware developers. That we don't see an increase in shovelware post-AI, makes it very unlikely AI brings an increase in productivity for more complex software.
by corimaith | 2025-09-04 19:59:55+00:00
The Anime Industry may be getting popular right now, but internally what's happening is getting highly unsustainable. The industry has lost alot of the confidence in return for excessive risk-tasking today, with the complete decline of ambitious originals and OVAs in favour of continous adapatations and remakes. But they're running of material to adapt now, but they won't do originals, which is leaving between a rock and a hard place.
by busterarm | 2025-09-04 19:59:56+00:00
The question is how much is hand drawn? In the context of animators 20 years ago talking about "save 2d" they were talking about animation on twos (or even ones or threes).

Nowadays with hand drawn stuff you're mostly seeing keyframe work being done and the computer doing all of the heavy lifting with inbetweening with maybe some tweaking here and there by junior animators.

The tools are good enough now where it doesn't even look like shitty Flash animation anymore.

Also don't know what you're trying to show me with this 10 minute video. There's maybe 15 seconds of animation work being done this whole video? I see storyboarding and background painting and audio work but this shows shockingly little animation process...(and what I can see clearly is someone drawing keys...)
by Stratoscope | 2025-09-04 20:00:25+00:00
Duck and cover doesn't imply any such thing. It is simply a way to protect yourself in a case like nancyminusone described.

A good example is the Chelyabinsk meteor event of 2013. Many people went to look out the window to see what was going on, not realizing that the shock wave would come moments later.

> A fourth-grade teacher in Chelyabinsk, Yulia Karbysheva, was hailed as a hero after saving 44 children from imploding window glass cuts. Despite not knowing the origin of the intense flash of light, Karbysheva thought it prudent to take precautionary measures by ordering her students to stay away from the room's windows and to perform a duck and cover manoeuvre and then to leave the building. Karbysheva, who remained standing, was seriously lacerated when the blast arrived and window glass severed a tendon in one of her arms and left thigh; none of her students, whom she ordered to hide under their desks, suffered cuts. The teacher was taken to a hospital which received 112 people that day. The majority of the patients were suffering from cuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
by chris-orgmenta | 2025-09-04 20:00:48+00:00
Lovely piece.

> Maybe it’s just me, but I find it kind of sad to think that you got buried in a grave with no headstone, no marker, no indication of who you were.

I appreciate this melancholy - even a compassionate wistfulness.

Conversely though - For me, it just feels part of an Ozymandian futility. If the suffering of dying + the suffering of others' grief are removed from the equation, it feels like there is an elegance to just dissolve back to the environment without a struggle, in a certain graceful way.

A headstone in that context is a 'struggle'.

To me, graves are for the living and never the dead.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-04 20:01:16+00:00
I've played a lot of CoQ and totally see your point but isn't that the same in most Roguelikes? To be fare DCSS and CoQ are the ones I've spent the most time in my life on but in my experience with DCSS, Nethack, and Slash'Em the first few hours are pretty much the same "opening". Though it's been over a decade since I've touched most Roguelikes from my youth other than Pixel Dungeon and CoQ.
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by tripletpeaks | 2025-09-04 20:02:47+00:00
> For my personal experience, college was a time management joke after high school, mainly because I didn’t have to spend so much bullshit/wasted time in classes.

Same here. Junior high and high school especially were the least-flexible, strictest environments I’ve ever been in, including in work life. People (teachers, relatives) telling me things like “this is the best part of your life” and “they have to be tough on you because the real world is so much harder still”—luckily I got a job early in high school and started to get the sense they might all be wildly wrong about that, then went to college and instead of being harder, it was like a fuckin’ vacation. So much more flexible, humane, and chill.

And yeah, 8 hours at school and 2+ hours of homework every night… in hindsight, I have to not think about it too hard or I’ll get angry. I could have learned more putting in literally 1/4 the time, and not been constantly stressed out to a degree I wouldn’t realize until later was extremely unhealthy.

Not just a huge waste of time, but caused harm it took me more than a decade to mostly get over. And I wasn’t even seriously bullied or anything! I was even somewhat popular!
by aroy21 | 2025-09-04 20:03:11+00:00
That's what I was thinking. I'm coming out of college and have a lot to learn swe wise so it would be very good for me to actually grind it out now. Part in the back of my head is saying I'm just trying to chase the new shiny thing rather than just focusing on my fundamentals.

I'm just having some fomo I think. It's a shame that this year is when a lot of the math started clicking for me in ML.
by floatrock | 2025-09-04 20:03:14+00:00
This makes sense as long as

> This business is incentivized to be honest because otherwise they lose their business

is true. And it might be true if you assume perfect competition, low barriers to entry, no egregious regulations, no regulatory capture, no bundling to force decisions regardless of 'honesty' (or 'fairness'), etc.

So in a perfect world, maybe. But I think the niche in all the imperfections.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-04 20:03:19+00:00
Although, we shouldn’t overstate the sacrifice, in the sense that: lots of people sacrifice those 20 years and don’t end up as professional sport players. We don’t reward sacrifice as a society, we reward value.

I don’t get much entertainment from watching sports, but I mean, the market is how we decide how to value things in the US, and it turns out professional sports are valuable by that metric for whatever reason.
by hitekker | 2025-09-04 20:03:21+00:00
Absolutely true.

Another angle that goes unmentioned: "the more you know someone, the less you like them."

Most strangers in 30 minutes won't show off their ugly side. It takes a lot longer for those rough edges to come out, and for the really bad parts to surface in human relationships.

For some people, we can look past that. For most others, our interactions would not be so positive.
by vintagedave | 2025-09-04 20:03:42+00:00
I don’t know why you’re downvoted, this is an excellent question.

A year ago I wanted to use and like Mistral, mostly because it was an upstart competitor to OpenAI. Yet I found its coding ability sadly lacking. I haven’t tried since. I also have seen them on the HN front page very rarely. I’m curious too how well they stand up these days.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-09-04 20:03:48+00:00
I've seen it affecting in a few ways: Less customer service employees at call centers, replaced by lengthy, egregiously pedantic AI systems. Some fast food places are replacing employees with an AI drive through. I've also seen AI health coaching services that removes the dietitian/nutritionist/health coach from the equation. Not quite AI, but getting there, are the self checkouts slowly replacing front line cashiers, etc.

So I think it is affecting the job market, but not in the white collar, higher paying jobs that people tend to notice.
by vkou | 2025-09-04 20:04:13+00:00
> Soviets focused on the survival of small military command in hardened bunkers, rather than survival of entirety of civilian population.

How exactly is the focus of the Americans any different? The VIPs[1] will be whisked away into bunkers, you and me will be vaporized.

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[1] Who have utterly and irredeemably failed in their most important job - of preventing a nuclear war. In a just world, not a single one of them should be allowed to survive such a failure.

We don't live in a just world, though, the captain will run for the VIP life raft at the first glint of sea ice.
by PhantomHour | 2025-09-04 20:04:20+00:00
> Is that no longer the case?

Generally (but there are exceptions) in the US they have not gotten better. It's just that datacenter demand has eclipsed the effect of that.

> My assertion is just that it is misleading to pin them as THE reason costs have gone up. It is far more complicated than that.

It's not so much that they are the sole cause, but that their effects (especially on local scales) are 1-2 orders of magnitude larger than all other causes, so people focus on this matter.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-09-04 20:04:26+00:00
That’s true… BTC returned 100% per year since 2017 (thanks to ChatGPT for the math).

But I would presume a regular Joe didn’t YOLO $100k into that, either.

I guess my original point was: there is no realistic way a retail investor walked away from a $100k investment a multimillionaire after 8 years unless they took an enormous, absurd punt.
by tomjakubowski | 2025-09-04 20:04:34+00:00
No, I don't think so.

Including practice squad players (who are paid peanuts), the NFL has about 2,240 roster spots. About a million US high school students play football any given year. The average NFL career is 3.3 years.

So from 3.3 graduating classes of a million high school football players, you'd expect somewhere around 0.07% to make it into the NFL. Fewer even will have something resembling a successful career.

Then look at how many high paying "smart person" jobs there are. There are about a million doctors in the US, two million engineers, and four million computer professionals.
by lisbbb | 2025-09-04 20:04:51+00:00
The Boomers are largely gone now from tech. One former manager of mine was 65 when I left, she retired a year later at 66, gone. Unfortunately, most of the roles those people held were not back-filled. The roles vanished, too.

Anecdata: I spent quite a bit of time driving around office parks in Eagan, MN. Most of them are dead--really, really dead. Vacant offices everywhere, the hotel that used to cater to business travelers is shuttered and the parking lot looks like a jungle. I can't peg exactly when all this took place because I haven't worked in that area in several years, but probably the effects of 2020, the remote work culture, and now the layoff hangover. I see a lot of people in their 50s and 60s working retail jobs right now. They often look like folks who would have been working in an office someplace.
by umvi | 2025-09-04 20:05:19+00:00
Generally I think this is called "tomography" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomographic_reconstruction) i.e. the reconstruction of higher dimensional data from lower dimensional data. Your brain can do it automatically in a lot of cases. For example if you see the shadow of a rotating cube on the wall, your brain can reconstruct 3d information about the cube even though you only have access to a 2d projection
by corimaith | 2025-09-04 20:05:28+00:00
Unfortunately it's actually the opposite. The 90s and 2000s which had far less funding and popularity also coincided with a large amount of ambitious originals and OVAs. We can almost directly correlate the increasing popularity of the medium since 2015 and the decline of such originals in favour of cheap adaptations and remakes.

The thing about all that extra funding is that most of it goes to the committee, not to the studios and animators working on it. And because the total manpower of the industry is so limited, that means that an excessive number of projects crowds out the labour that it becomes much harder to try out risky, experimental new things as one might have a decade ago. As the director of Code Geass stated; It would be literally impossible to air Code;Geass today. And the industry does suffer for it, because while there may have been many mega hits, they all largely lack lasting impressionns and fail to reach the legends of the past.
by ricardobeat | 2025-09-04 20:05:52+00:00
You cannot attribute their success simply to repeated TV runs though. Some films are just not that appealing for the cinema, more art than entertainment, and slowly convert each viewer into a fan until it joins the collective consciousness as a classic. It's a story that all of these have in common - some level of critical acclaim before release, flops at the cinemas, slowly builds up a reputation.
by bobmcnamara | 2025-09-04 20:06:04+00:00
No, either way.

Presumably the operational devices are more consistent and higher yield than the early pre-fusion cores. There are outliers on both sides in the test data.

Much of the soot generated from a nuclear blast comes from the surrounding environment, cities presumably, which seems to be less flammable than in the past(armchairing here).

Time of year will always be a factor.

I'm sure there are things I'm not thinking of off the cuff.
by testplzignore | 2025-09-04 20:06:20+00:00
> Because Wikipedia was under a Creative Commons license, anyone who didn’t like the way the project was run could copy it and start their own, as a group of Spanish users did when the possibility of running ads was raised in 2002.

Correction on this: Wikipedia was GFDL until 2009. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensing_update .
by tshaddox | 2025-09-04 20:08:37+00:00
> Scientists realized there is no "Truth", only a series of better and better models approximating it.

I don't quite agree with this, unless what you mean is that there's no procedure we can follow which generates knowledge without the possibility of error. This doesn't mean that there's no such thing as truth, or that we can't generate knowledge. It just means that we can never guarantee that our knowledge doesn't contain errors. Another way to put this (for the philosophers among us) is that there is no way to justify a belief (such as a scientific theory) and as such there is no such thing as "justified true belief." But again, this doesn't mean that we cannot generate knowledge about the world.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-04 20:08:43+00:00
Imagine my delight as a crypto cynic who only admires gold/stablecoin and had recently created a article just for hn (and thus the name) about this... and how stablecoins make sense

But I had literally said that stripe should've actually ventured into and created their own cryptocurrency or something...

Tada, I might be one of the happiest person thinking that I actually really predicted something by my own observations.

here's the blog post: https://justforhn.mataroa.blog/blog/most-crypto-is-doomed-to...

By what I meant most crypto, I meant anything aside from stablecoin (like gold backed/usd backed)

Now that being said, I am still a little critic as to I don't see any offical stripe message and I don't see a way on how it would be implemented?

Like one of the things that I wished in my article was this idea that someone on twitter originally asked where currently if you had money in stripe and wanted to pay it anywhere else, you had to have it enter your bank which might take 14 days and then lets say you want to give it to someone else who has stripe(think anthropic), then they would get it back again after 14 days

So someone basically asked to create something similar to a stripe card. I think that this blockchain is it, except I feel like that you could send money to anyone in a non kyc manner too via this which is again a plus point for sometimes where I feel like that in this world every transaction is usually tracked and as such something like this change is really welcomed.

Once again, can someone really explain what is going to happen in tempo's future as maybe its me who couldn't focus in such a website. I actually went and read the article that the other company that partnered with stripe (paradigm), so I just read paradigm's article: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2025/09/tempo-payments-first-blockc... and they say that it is a new incubator/partnership b/w stripe and them, but would that mean that this tempo is going to be integrated in the stripe ecosystem or no?

I always thought that stripe and stellar had some deep connections but honestly I couldn't care less about it. I don't care about these fake tokens but rather stablecoins/gold stablecoins
by causal | 2025-09-04 20:09:06+00:00
You're absolutely right about the HN bias, but we're also a crowd with a lot of experience in some of the jobs supposedly being replaced and with the tools supposedly replacing us, and it's a little hard to buy.

The data about new grads not being hired isn't lying, but if AI is to blame we should be seeing a flood of data and stories on how roles X, Y and Z were obliterated by AI. But I have yet to see a single solid example, so I find it hard to believe it's a massive shift.

If anything, I would expect AI to be replacing older, expensive workers with young, tech-savvy workers who can put the AI to use. But that is clearly not the case.