MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-02 12:34:01+00:00
> Florida is 41st, California 32nd

That seems to come from https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/public-scho....

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education, however, puts Florida at #22, and California at #38.

That feels like a wild swing, so I have no idea how these estimates are determined.

The NEA says, at least, that California is #2 in attendance, and Florida is #42. That sure feels significant: file:///private/tmp/2025_rankings_and_estimates_report.pdf
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-02 12:34:03+00:00
> the user will at least need to know something about the topic beforehand.

This is why I've said a few times here on HN and elsewhere, if you're using an LLM you need to think of yourself as an architect guiding a Junior to Mid Level developer. Juniors can do amazing things, they can also goof up hard. What's really funny is you can make them audit their own code in a new context window, and give you a detailed answer as to why that code is awful.

I use it mostly on personal projects especially since I can prototype quickly as needed.
by mfalcon | 2025-09-02 12:34:23+00:00
I think that the natural language understanding capability of current LLMs is undervalued.

To understand what the user meant before LLM's we had to train several NLP+ML models in order to get something going but in my experience we'll never get close to what LLM's do now.

I remember the first time I tried ChatGPT and I was surprised by how well it understood every input.
Tell HN: Latest AI Video Tools
by fcpguru | 2025-09-02 12:34:25+00:00
Idiogram excels at text rendering

https://ideogram.ai/

Nano Banana - Photoshop-like capabilities for free

https://nanobanana.ai/

Sea Dance offers multi-shot storytelling

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance

Runway's ALF feature allows precise video editing for under $1 per video

https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-aleph

Higsfield provides 60+ camera

https://higgsfield.ai/

Invideo creates complete videos with narration,

https://invideo.io/

Wavespeed provides access to multiple generators

https://wavespeed.ai/

Free tools like Google Vids and Nano Banana compete with expensive professional software

https://workspace.google.com/products/vids/

from:

https://andrewarrow.dev/podpapyrus/summaries/nano-banana-runway-aleph-more-the-ultimate-ai-image-video.html
by mananaysiempre | 2025-09-02 12:34:38+00:00
The results of the opposite of these policies (as practiced by many other countries) are, generally speaking, worse. Undocumented immigrants are necessarily an economic underclass, but whether they will be a lawless underclass is a deliberate choice that pretty much entirely boils down to whether you make it unsafe for them to turn to the police. (I mean, the first part, creating an underclass at all, is also a deliberate choice—that of having immigration laws of the post-WW2 kind—but any alternatives seem to have been thoroughly pushed out of the Overton window.)
by kouteiheika | 2025-09-02 12:34:56+00:00
I disagree. I have a case of being respectful to the country I'm a guest in and not being a primadonna about it. I'm required by law to always carry my ID with me and to show it to government officials when asked, and they are entitled by law to be able to check my papers for whatever reason. I look like a foreigner therefore they check whether I'm a legal foreigner; the other alternatives are either 1) they don't check anyone at all (so the immigration laws aren't enforced), or 2) they check everyone regardless of how they look (so they annoy 99% of the population). I don't enjoy having my papers checked, but that's the law; I can either accept it, or leave, and being "but muh rights!" about it isn't helping anyone (especially since those people are just doing their job and aren't out to "get me" in any malicious way; don't know, maybe this is different in the US, but here it certainly isn't the case).
by torginus | 2025-09-02 12:35:21+00:00
Another ad hominem, I'd like you to refute my claim that Searle's argument is essentially 100% magical thinking.

And yes, if for example, medicine would be no worse at curing cancer than it is today, yet doctors asserted that crystal healing is a serious study, that would reflect badly on the field at large, despite most of it being sound.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-09-02 12:36:01+00:00
1) because ICE deportations are often performed illegally, are given target numbers to hit (i.e. the volume matters more than the correctness) and run by an administration that doesn't respect the courts.

2) not sure this is a question. People are predominantly upset because of ICE's methods, which are often aggressive and brutal (imprison first ask questions weeks or months later).

3) not sure this is a question either. My parents have no idea how to play super mario, so culture changes quite a lot internally within seemingly culturally homogenous communities.

4) who gives a shit about colonialism. Its just ironic when yanks talk about "muh America" when their entire culture is one of being immigrants. I believe that's the reason people bring it up.

5) People are already "forced" to live together wanting different things. Every US election is like 50/50.

So idk how these questions are difficult. Also ICE go after legal migrants too, so this ain't just about "illegals". The irish guy who fucked his foot up and couldn't take his flight home went through every piece of due process possible and still got shit-canned. ICE are monstrous and oppressive.
by chamomeal | 2025-09-02 12:36:07+00:00
Fun anecdote: last time I needed to build a quick full stack app for a silly little project that my friend needed, I thought “it only needs to be up for a few months, so I’ll just use the next.js starter and throw it on vercel and be done”. I’d used vercel + next once before and thought it was easy.

Open up vercel, point it at my repo, and environment variable, it starts building and… build error. I search up the strange error log on the next issues page, and find a single issue from 3 years ago with one upvote and no response or resolution.

So I threw it on a VPS and just built it with whatever the “prod build” command is, and it totally worked fine.

So in my limited anecdotal experience, hosting it on vercel won’t save you either lol
Ask HN: How did you come up with original ideas?
by just_human | 2025-09-02 12:36:37+00:00
In 40+ years, I can only say I’ve had one idea that felt truly original and so unique and good that it seemed like I had stumbled on a secret that could change the world. Most of my other ideas have been bad (with a handful of decent ones), but they all felt incremental rather than a new path of thinking. Many times I’ve thought I had something unique, only to later discover it had already been researched or attempted.

The one great idea I had was in a field where I was a subject-matter expert (embarrassingly, ad tech). The biggest factor, I think, was that I knew enough about the domain to tell whether an idea was genuinely new, or if it had already been tried. Ironically, I started down a line of thought I initially dismissed as “a bad idea” (too hacky, won’t scale, etc.). I suspect most people in the field would have stopped there but following the “wrong” path led me to something unique. It felt more like a playful thought experiment than a serious exercise, and maybe that playfulness and a mindset with no expectations is what got me to continue down that path long enough to realize there was actually a subtle hidden good idea.

I’m curious: How have you come up with ideas that were truly original, where you felt like you had discovered a secret?
by elsjaako | 2025-09-02 12:36:52+00:00
Sure, but there's also a minimum quality required before the product is safe to use.

If I make gas masks, they can be useful even if they aren't resistant to every single chemical out there. But if they are really bad, they may encourage users to take risks without providing adequate protection.

From what I've seen, taking action against ICE can be a risky activity and many people will want to protect their privacy while doing it. This app promises to protect privacy. However, if the Joshua (author of the app) fails to protect privacy (e.g. hosts on an insecure server that someone from ICE can get into, or becomes subject to a warrant with gag order) the app may do harm.

I'm not saying the app is harmful right now, but there are definitely signs that it could become that. If Micah spots issues in that area, and the Joshua fails to respond to criticism, I think it's completely right for Micah to publish their concerns.

Obviously in a polite, constructive way and while specifically pointing out that they believe the app author means no harm. The way I read Micah's article it seems fine.
by Vinnl | 2025-09-02 12:37:14+00:00
It's a risk, and it would be great if they worked on more sites, but "utterly useless" is too brash in my opinion - there are still a lot of sites that do accept them, and each one is one account fewer that can be linked to your others. I don't think I've had problems receiving concert or cinema tickets, for example - the one-time uses for which they are most beneficial. I just checked, and I currently have 385 email masks used. Certainly worth the €1 a month.

(Disclosure: I used to be on the Firefox Relay team.)
by notmyjob | 2025-09-02 12:37:36+00:00
“the completely normal suburban noise of yard work on a weekend”

Not interested in taking sides on any of this other than to point out that blower noise early in the morning has been made illegal in many places because too many people made the incorrect assumption that such noise was “completely normal.” To some, it’s “completely normal” to beat your wife. That doesn’t make it ok.
by skoodge | 2025-09-02 12:37:43+00:00
Hey Sergio! I applied for the role of founding engineer a couple of months ago and passed the different stages. We had even been talking about the exact salary package and start date, decided to talk again in a couple of weeks about the specifics, but then I never heard back, despite reaching out to you again.

It’s totally fine if plans change and you decide not to move forward with a candidate, but I think a short email isn’t too much to ask after spending multiple hours on the various interviews.

That said, the interview process was otherwise pretty good and the work you’re doing sounds really interesting, so I would still encourage others to apply. Best of luck with Formal!
by jbarberu | 2025-09-02 12:38:19+00:00
Also curious what MCUs you're working with to give you this impression?

RP2040 is 264k, RP2350 is 520k.

I use NXP's rt1060 and rt1170 for work, and they have 1M and 2M respectively, still quite far away from 16M and those are quite beefy running at 500MHz - 1GHz.
Show HN: Eintercon – Meet people worldwide with 48-hour connections
by abilafredkb | 2025-09-02 12:38:29+00:00
I’m excited to share Eintercon, a social app I’ve been working on that connects you with people worldwide, but with a unique twist: each connection lasts just 48 hours. After that, you have the chance to rediscover but the connection isn't lost.

The idea behind Eintercon is to create a space where people can have fresh, focused interactions without the endless pressure of maintaining permanent contacts. You get paired with someone abroad who shares your interests, have 48 hours to chat, share, and learn from each other—then the window closes, encouraging genuine moments and constant new connections.

Why 48 hours? It feels like just enough time to make a meaningful connection without the overwhelm of social media’s endless scrolling or obligation.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this approach to social interaction and get feedback from this community. You can check it out and try it here: https://eintercon.com

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by chrisweekly | 2025-09-02 12:38:44+00:00
While the "Remix" renaming / branding is a little confusing, the React Router team has always done a fantastic job delivering a robust solution that properly leverages the web as the platform. Its framework mode (fka "Remix") is simpler and better than Next.js, and more featureful than vite-ssr. Want to mutate data? Use a form. Fetch data? Uses browser-native fetch under the hood. It's all about the fundamentals: HTML and HTTP. You can decide how much clientside JS to ship, and mostly eliminate it. OR, if you want a traditional SPA, go for it. A quick HN comment thumbed on my phone can't do it justice -- but it's very, very good. And its maintainers have a stellar track record. (No vendor bias like w/ Next.js / Vercel.)

FWIW, I've been doing webdev-related work for a living since 1998, and React since 2016.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-02 12:38:51+00:00
> Let's not skip over the fact that you can't have multiple middlewares or chain them either.

Surely this can't be right?

https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/nested-middleware > If you have more than one Middleware, you should combine them into a single file and model their execution depending on the incoming request.

By Talos, this can't be happening.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-02 12:39:10+00:00
It's parsing. It's tokenizing. But it's a stretch to call it understanding. It creates a pattern that it can use to compose a response. Ensuring the response is factual is not fundamental to LLM algorithms.

In other words, it's not thinking. The fact that it can simulate a conversation between thinking humans without thinking is remarkable. It should tell us something about the facility for language. But it's not understanding or thinking.
by ofrzeta | 2025-09-02 12:39:19+00:00
Neat. I wonder if the files are stored on that card (and if yes, how) or if it works like the Toniebox where you have some kind of token that triggers a network download.

EDIT: this Reddit thread says it downloads the files. "All the audio files live in the cloud and it gets downloaded to your Yoto when you insert a card in the speaker. This means that you will need WiFi the first time you listen to a card, but should be fine without the next time you want to play the same."

https://www.reddit.com/r/YotoPlayer/comments/1grrl9u/just_le...

The cards have an NFC chip: https://support.yotoplay.com/en-US/what-are-yoto-cards-made-...
by alpaca128 | 2025-09-02 12:39:35+00:00
The real problem with current keyboards is the physical arrangement of the keys. Staggered rows instead of columns make them less ergonomic, the oversized spacebar wastes much of the most valuable space on the keyboard. The thumb as one of the strongest fingers has almost nothing to do, with both thumbs mostly sharing a single key while typing text. While the weak pinky finger has to cover more keys than the others. These things are more significant than qwerty vs dvorak.

Need to type faster? Spend some time practising every day and you will gain more speed within weeks than from just switching layouts. Most people don't as speed often isn't actually that important. I myself am bottlenecked by my brain, not my typing speed. Need less hand movement? Placing symbols, arrow keys etc as secondary function onto the central keys with a programmable keyboard helps with that, changing to dvorak doesn't as much because on a modern keyboard you can reach all letters without hand movement either way.
by pmarreck | 2025-09-02 12:39:35+00:00
Decided to try Colemak-DH after reading this article and googling:

https://andre-wagner.medium.com/colemak-dh-my-journey-to-cha...

The only problem I can find is that the only Mac mod I can find with this layout that is not completely custom has an annoying and minor difference with the Windows and Linux versions of the same type of mod.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-02 12:39:48+00:00
It's the next iteration of the War On Drugs.

One the one hand, you have maybe-semi-reasonable arguments about law and social problems. On the other, you have extremely violent enforcement, carried out in discriminatory ways, which will also end up affecting the entirely innocent. While producing a huge prison population for private profit.

The war on drugs brought all sorts of search and seizure, including forfeiture (effectively a war on cash allowing the police to steal people's money). The war on terror brought mass surveillance and much more intrusive searches at airports. The war on immigration will bring "papers please" to American citizens, as well as the ability to disappear inconvenient public speakers.
by htien | 2025-09-02 12:39:56+00:00
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by jwr | 2025-09-02 12:40:12+00:00
> The proliferation of "give everything away for free" MIT/BSD/Apache licenses seems to me to have been an intentional campaign by corporate interests to undermine free software ideals

As a counterpoint, when I make something open source, I really mean "freedom", which includes the freedom to build a commercial service using the software. I use the MIT license not because of "corporate interests to undermine free software ideals", but because I really want the software to be free as in freedom.

GPL, GPLv3, AGPL and similar license actually restrict the freedom to do anything you want with the software. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it, just that "free software ideals" could mean different things to different people, and there might not be any "corporate interests".
by coxmi | 2025-09-02 12:40:30+00:00
I don’t disagree on that front, the React ecosystem is huge, and rebuilding a load of complex components is often beyond the budgets of many greenfield projects.

I also don’t believe a React monoculture is good, so a growing Preact or Solid ecosystem would be really positive, alongside growing web/DOM standards to ultimately make these frameworks more of a light wrapper around some trivial updates.

React and Next.js, to me, have done the typical architecture astronaut thing, and it feels like they’ve both increased the barrier to entry and just made everything a little more complicated than it really needs to be for much of the web.
by jameshart | 2025-09-02 12:40:31+00:00
If you have two buildings 4km apart (about the length of Central Park), that’s about 1/10,000 of an earth circumference so 0.036° change in ‘up’. If the buildings are 300m tall, 300*sin(0.036°) = 0.188m

That’s less than those buildings are probably expected to sway in a strong wind, but probably outside the tolerances for modern construction so theoretically measurable as an average deviation.
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by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-02 12:40:51+00:00
Which is why I actually love sveltekit considering that its really easy to self host it / host it anywhere serverless. I hosted it on cloudflare. Though I do feel that everyone is pushing nextjs in the llm space and llm's are more comfortable with next instead of sveltekit but they can still do some mind boggling things in sveltekit and I love them while using sveltekit itself
by torginus | 2025-09-02 12:41:46+00:00
The theory of special relativity does not say 'you can't exceed the speed of light(unless you have a really big rocket)'. It presents a theoretical limit. Likewise the Chinese room doesn't state that consciousness is an intractable engineering problem, but an impossibility.

But the way Searle formulates his argument, by not defining what consciousness is, he essentially gives himself enough wiggle room to be always right - he's essentially making the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-02 12:41:56+00:00
Republicans as a party now claim that non-citizens have no constitutional rights, including due process. On top of that, they claim they have a right to deport them however way they feel like, even:

- A country they know is not on the same continent they came from.

- Directly into the death camp prison of a dictatorship.

- Unaccompanied minors without any coordination to have them picked up by any government officials on the other side. Woken up at 2AM and performed intentionally without the knowledge of the judicial system. No, I'm serious, this happened this morning in what they called "Operation Silent Harvest"

The gestapo here is whisking away people into black vans wearing ski masks without presenting warrants to anybody, taking them to secret camps and refusing them access to lawyers or the ability to inform family before just... sending them wherever before legal proceedings can confirm their status.

We've already seen them not only nab citizens or legal immigrants, but know a few have been attempted to or actually flown out of the country.

> Isn't the rule of law a thing in the US?

No, the "unitary executive" has clearly decided Trump is out king and may do whatever he wants. Including a secret police.
by sensanaty | 2025-09-02 12:41:56+00:00
I mean don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Vue is perfect, it has its share of annoyances that I hope get resolved, mostly around poor typescript experience with things like props and events for example. But for your average day-to-day Vue experience, it is in my opinion so much more productive than React, and importantly for the less skilled/knowledgeable members of the team it's so much harder to fuck up than React is. And as I said in my original comment, the codebase at work I maintain is a monstrosity, but because of Vue's patterns it's also easier to deal with and fix than the equivalent fucked up React version would be.

I'd recommend giving it, and especially Svelte, a try, especially with Options API in Vue (but CompAPI is nice too). It's really clear early on how simple it is, despite it paradoxically having more to it than React does (like the event/prop system)