MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flkiwi | 2025-09-29 21:58:46+00:00
I’ve been in this long-running battle with a large non-US appliance maker about their app. I live in a humid place and find notifications that a load is finished in the washer so I can move it quickly to the dryer very useful.

Unfortunately this company has decided to layer on at least one daily notification reminding me to think about all the value their product can bring me. This notification is not strictly marketing, because there’s no buy action anywhere, but it is most certainly the sort of “pay attention to meeeee” whine you commonly see in the most insecure boys.

The thing is that they seem absolutely BAFFLED that anyone wouldn’t want these messages. They cannot conceive that a consumer doesn’t give a shit about their washer/dryer except as a purely functional device. They want to be part of the family, the sort of thing where I think “Gosh I love my wife. Gosh I love my child. Gosh I love my dog. God damn I love my washing machine.” They genuinely believe people think like this. It’s sad and hilarious at the same time.
by wowohwow | 2025-09-29 21:59:12+00:00
Going solo on

https://meldsecurity.com/

I'm putting a bunch of security tools / data feeds together as a service. The goal is to help teams and individuals run scans/analysis/security project management for "freemium" (certain number of scans/projects for free each month, haven't locked in on how it'll pan out fully $$ wise).

I want to help lower the technical hurdles to running and maintaining security tools for teams and individuals. There are a ton of great open source tools out there, most people either don't know or don't have the time to do a technical deep dive into each. So I'm adding utilities and tools by the day to the platform.

Likewise, there's a built in expert platform for you to get help on your security problems built into the system. (Currently an expert team consisting of [me]). Longer term, I'm working on some AI plugins to help alert on CVEs custom to you, generate automated scans, and some other fun stuff.

https://meldsecurity.com/ycombinator (if you're interested in free credits)
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-29 21:59:44+00:00
I think it's the opposite. The powers that be are not competent/powerful enough to engineer a company that prioritizes productivity over relationships. It's human nature to prioritize relationships over everything else, and it would take a lot of micromanaging to do otherwise, except that micromanaging itself is susceptible to human nature, so managers who try end up micromanaging relationships, not productive work.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-29 21:59:54+00:00
I've been thinking a lot of Mark Fisher's Hauntology lately.

Hauntology is about this sense of loss. That there are these other futures that were due and coming, but have been cancelled. Fisher argues that Western society mid-future lost it's ability to generate "new", trapped recycling and recombining.

And it feels like that, and so much worse. We're not just lacking in our generative wow, in our ability to go forth & be "yes we can" people. We're utterly dogged and dragged down into the muckiest disrealities by endless people deliberately haunting the world. That half of politics everywhere has become pro-haunting parties. That dis-reality and fear, scaredness of the world and other people, has no real purpose but it keeps people weak and dumb and slow, as Sagan said. Off kilter with no sense and sensibility.

It feels like the dishonesty and fearmongering of politics, the calling of enemies, the unwillingness to come back to reasonability and reason and faith and trust in each other, to be good: it's haunting us so badly. We're in an age where The Demon-Haunted World is a playbook. Being used everyday by the very powerful.

To make people into: scared people, afraid of demons haunting them, believing in shadows and fear more than truth and reason. We humanity are being haunted by spook science going on in the Head of the Health and Human Services (RFK). It's Presidents getting up and telling us our cities are warzones and our Senator getting up and asking for photos of today & it being an incredible place. The President's Truth acocunt posting AI-generated "med-bed" dis-realities! https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lzy6exxcf22n

This world is demon haunted, and it's not just ignorance of the dark. It's destroying the worthy good futures, refusing arrival of decent obvious truth, by ensnaring us and locking us in fantasy. It's using many-headed-hydra tactics, to flood the zone of reality, to brow-beat disreality forever, to insist insanity has a valid spot on the Overton Window.
by taude | 2025-09-29 21:59:56+00:00
I had started writing this in a new thread, then saw yours....

"Unless it's Enterprise users. Then 1000 Enterprises all care very seriously about 2 custom features no one else cares about. You had to do horrible things to your code base to support, that will only kick some poor dev in the face two years after you left, and a year after the customer churned."
by jacquesm | 2025-09-29 22:00:04+00:00
I finally collected the courage to release my operating system into the wild:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400006

I'm super curious if anybody will pick it up and do something useful with it. This was a couple of years of my life and I absolutely loved working on it but having a child put a hard stop to such entertainment for many years. Now, a good 30 years later I finally found the time to resurrect it.

I'm not sure yet if I am going to do more work on it or leave it as it is, it's good enough to give someone new to OS development a running start and a foundation to build on.
by sarvarjafarov | 2025-09-29 22:00:25+00:00
The cybersecurity landscape has changed. Old-school network defenses just aren’t cutting it anymore. Yet even with advanced firewalls, many companies are still blindsided when attackers slip past the perimeter. The shocking part is that Zero Trust security can reduce the impact of a data breach by up to 50 percent compared to traditional models. Most people think strong security means more walls but Zero Trust is a complete shift in mindset. It treats every access attempt as a potential threat, regardless of its origin. This changes everything about how we protect sensitive data.
by aleda145 | 2025-09-29 22:00:40+00:00
I'm building Kavla, its an infinite multiplayer canvas for data analytics.

I have a video on how it works on https://kavla.dev/

And a live demo here: https://demo.kavla.dev/

I've been working in the data space for five years now. Kavla is something that I personally feel would make my job more fun!

Built with tldraw and duckdb
by emschwartz | 2025-09-29 22:01:09+00:00
The SQLite CLI has a `.expert` command that will give index recommendations when you run queries: https://sqlite.org/cli.html#index_recommendations_sqlite_exp...

It's not quite the same as capturing all of the queries used in development (or production), but it seems somewhat useful.

I'll also note that I had an LLM generate quite a useful script to identify unused indexes (it scanned the code base for SQL queries, ran `EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN` on each one to identify which indexes were being used, and cross-referenced that against the indexes in the database to find unused ones). It would probably be possible to do something similar (but definitely imperfect) where you find all of the queries, get the query plans, and use an LLM to make suggestions about what indexes would speed up those queries.
by ollysb | 2025-09-29 22:01:14+00:00
The vscode integration does feel far tighter now. The one killer feature that Cursor has over it is the ability to track changes across multiple edits. With Claude you have to either accept or reject the changes after every prompt. With Cursor you can accumulate changes until you're ready to accept. You can use git of course but it isn't anywhere near as ergonomic.
by ethanseal | 2025-09-29 22:01:15+00:00
For sure, there's definitely a lot of cool techniques (and I'm not aware of all of them)! And the first example is very much contrived to show a small example.

I'm not super familiar with the term index merge - this seems to be the term for a BitmapOr/BitmapAnd?

Is there another optimization I'm missing?

The article links to my code for my timings here: https://github.com/ethan-seal/ors_expensive

There is an optimization that went in the new release of PostgreSQL I'm excited about that may affect this - I'm not sure. See https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...
by keyserj | 2025-09-29 22:01:19+00:00
Working on a webapp for critically think with others about a problem.

The idea is that you build a diagram that contains all the details about the problem and people's thoughts on it, and it's organized in such a way that it's easy to just keep refining, down to the smallest detail. So you build this concrete, shared understanding, and move it forward and forward, until hopefully y'all can make some best decision to improve the situation.

There's a lot to do. Currently working on UX to allow hiding intermediate nodes and still have indirect edges drawn. Want to add an LLM integration to generate/update diagrams via natural language, which I think will help a lot with usage barriers to using the app.

Happy to get any feedback :) https://ameliorate.app/ https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate
by hippo22 | 2025-09-29 22:01:30+00:00
I think both engineering and sales take the customer for granted.

Engineering often views their role as taking in specs and outputting product with little regard to whether or not the product is actually worth buying.

Sales views customers as a resource to exploit rather than an entity to serve.

Both sides have gotten so far and lazy from American hegemony that it’s no surprise China has usurped the US.
by dmkii | 2025-09-29 22:01:43+00:00
Most of our jobs consist of working with tools. Yet it’s very hard to get insights into which tools are required most, are growing in your area, etc. So I decided to keep track of tools and technologies mentioned in the data space by keeping track of job openings for the last two years. Now I’ve opened up that data set. Here’s an analysis for jobs per data warehouse: https://selectfrom.work/insights/data_warehouses
by cogman10 | 2025-09-29 22:02:17+00:00
> “Artificial intelligence model” means an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like this definition covers basically all automation of any kind. Like, a dumb lawnmower responds to the input of the throttle lever and the kill switch and generates an output of a spinning blade which influences the physical environment, my lawn.

> “Catastrophic risk” means a foreseeable and material risk that a large developer’s development, storage, use, or deployment of a foundation model will materially contribute to the death of, or serious injury to, more than 50 people or more than one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) in damage to, or loss of, property arising from a single incident, scheme, or course of conduct involving a dangerous capability.

I had a friend that cut his toe off with a lawnmower. I'm pretty sure more than 50 people a year injure themselves with lawn mowers.
by stuartaxelowen | 2025-09-29 22:03:03+00:00
I'm working on a partition-oriented declarative data build system. The inspiration comes from working with systems like Airflow and AWS step functions, where data orchestration is described explicitly, and the dependency relationships between input and produced data partitions is complex. Put simply, writing orchestration code for this case sucks - the goal of the project is to enable whole data platforms to be made up of jobs that declare their input and output partition deps, so that they can be automatically fulfilled, enabling kubernetes-like continuous reconciliation of desired partitions.

This means, instead of the answer to "how do we produce this output data" being "trigger and pray everything upstream is still working", we can answer with "the system was asked to produce this output data partition and its dependencies were automatically built for it". My hope is that this allows the interface with the system to instead be continuously telling it what partitions we want to exist, and letting it figure out the rest, instead of the byzantine DAGs that get built in airflow/etc.

This comes out of a big feeling that even more recent orchestrators like Prefect, Dagster, etc are still solving the wrong problem, and not internalizing the right complexity.
by arjie | 2025-09-29 22:03:19+00:00
When they announced this I went to try it and they only work with Cline really (which is what they promote there) but Cline has this VSCode dependency as far as I know and I don't really like that. I have my IDE flow and my CLI flow and I don't want to mix them.

But you're right, they have an OpenAI compatible API https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/resources/openai so perhaps I can actually use this in the CLI! Thanks for making me take another look.

EDIT: Woah, Charm supports this natively. This is great. I am going to try this now.
by parineum | 2025-09-29 22:03:21+00:00
> For purposes of this chapter:

> (a) “Artificial intelligence model” means an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.

I was curious how California was going to define AI since it's basically a marketing term as of now. Seems like it's defined as a non-biological system that generates outputs from inputs.
by Sesse__ | 2025-09-29 22:04:48+00:00
In most cases, the end result is a lot messier than it looks in this minimal example. Consider a case where the query is a 12-way join with a large IN list somewhere (which is essentially an OR); would it still look as attractive to duplicate that 12-way join a thousand times?

There _are_ optimizers that try to represent this kind of AND/OR expression as sets of distinct ranges in order to at least be able to consider whether a thousand different index scans are worth it or not, with rather limited success (it doesn't integrate all that well when you get more than one table, and getting cardinalities for that many index scans can be pretty expensive).
by abakker | 2025-09-29 22:04:54+00:00
I think the idea is that explicit protections might encourage whistle-blowing. Especially since the domain is nascent enough that it's not clear what you'd blow the whistle on that might be unique to the companies that make foundation models. In many cases, there will be whistleblowers who both disclose what is being fed into models, but also details in aggregate about what users of models can do.
by observationist | 2025-09-29 22:04:57+00:00
That said, it seems pretty clear that incentivizing healthy socialization can significantly improve quality of life, reducing perceived suffering and quite possibly improving outcomes through reinforcement of the various social needs we have.

We are fundamentally social primates; there are prior studies demonstrating the overt harms of isolation and ostracization in humans, primates, and other mammals. Our immune systems, metabolism, and cardiovascular health are all tied intimately to things like stress and hormones, with feedback effects that can amplify disorder, or suppress it, depending on the directionality of the inputs.

I see the "just so" element of explanation to this study, but I think that even if the underlying causal factors are more complex, it is so directionally correct that I have no problem with the conclusion of the study, even if it's not correctly justified scientifically.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-29 22:05:00+00:00
They definitely do, but I think this particular one was a misfire. "We've updated Chat-GPT to help you better connect with #Brands #BrandsULove #adtech" would be eyerolling at the best of times, since it's a nigh-guaranteed signal of incoming enshittification, but positioning it as counterprogramming to Claude Code genuinely becoming more useful just looks pathetic.
by ml- | 2025-09-29 22:05:09+00:00
Still working on cataloging a curated list of craft beer venues across the world at https://wheretodrink.beer

Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it's fun for me I'll just keep adding things.

Next addition will be to add health inspection data from countries that have that in open datasets or APIs, so if anyone know of that I'd be appreciative of hints (know of UK, Norway and might have found for France).
by cogman10 | 2025-09-29 22:05:12+00:00
This is something that could be (and should be) pre-empted with federal law.

That said, this law seems pretty sloppy with its definitions. In particular, the definition of “Artificial intelligence model” includes all machines and every algorithm ever written.

> “Artificial intelligence model” means an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.

It's like they saw the twilight zone and decided they needed to cover androids just in case someone figured out how to make a robot with a cuckoo clock.
by drjasonharrison | 2025-09-29 22:05:15+00:00
The first copy of this essay captured by the Internet Archive was in October of 2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20011013031756/http://wuphys.wus...

The same timestamp at the bottom of the essay can be found on other pages by Professor Katz, such as his list of publications which includes papers from 2019. I suspect that the timestamp of 1999 is incorrect.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191206233227/https://web.physi...
by superfrank | 2025-09-29 22:05:25+00:00
(X) Doubt

Here's a list of the 50 biggest AI companies from April of this year. 3/4 companies on that list are located in the Bay Area. If companies are already willing to pay higher than average taxes, wages, and property costs to be located in California. I doubt, "You've got to publish safety standards on your website" is going to be the thing that drives them out of California.

CalCompute sounds like it's going to allow for more innovation than ever given that it should lower the barrier to entry for edge AI research.

50 Biggest AI Companies: https://www.forbes.com/lists/ai50/
by jacquesm | 2025-09-29 22:06:10+00:00
I have two existence proofs in mind that this isn't true.

One of them runs a very large venture backed company and is active right here on this site, the other you've likely never heard of, is super modest and absolutely blew me away with their ability while still in high school, by which time they'd been programming for more than a decade. Some kids really are amazingly capable.
by bsder | 2025-09-29 22:06:22+00:00
> Never pay over say ~$30-40 USD for a bottle of wine if all you care about is taste.

Change that to 30-40 EUR from Carrefour? Sure. In the US, not so much.

I do not understand how I can spend a minor fortune on wine in the US and not like a single bottle (including many imported from France!). By contrast, I can spend very reasonable amounts on wine in France and almost never have a bottle that I don't like.
by int0x29 | 2025-09-29 22:06:23+00:00
The one AMD x86 box I got from them occasionally randomly segfaulted and would blackscreen and hang if left on on after anywhere from 45 minutes to a few hours. I read that it might be a driver issue in proxmox debian and tried running windows on it and had the same issue. Oddly memtest passed on it while running repeatedly for 3 days strait before shutting down unexpectedly.

Its kinda made me hesitant to trust any of these cheap minipcs ever again.
by tomxor | 2025-09-29 22:06:36+00:00
> Components are bad for web accessibility (aria- property fatigue).

I've been using web components as a vehicle to automate and auto validate accessibility aspects as much as possible, because I think the only way to truly make things sustainably accessible is to find a way to unburden the developer by either inferring as much as possible or making validation a natural part of development rather than a separate testing cycle that will invariably cause accessibility support to become out of sync.

It sounds like you might have similar concerns. Do you have any insights to share along these lines for Gooey?
by czhu12 | 2025-09-29 22:07:09+00:00
I'm working on a Heroku / Render / Flyio alternative thats free, open source, built on top of Kubernetes for about 2 years now.

I’ve found these services charge way too much per GB of memory (10x more than IaaS providers), but more importantly, offer terrible flexibility. You can’t schedule multiple apps on the same instance, and there aren’t many instance size options.

Canine also supports deployments of any helm package (postgres, airbyte, dagster, etc) via helm charts.

https://github.com/czhu12/canine https://canine.sh
by arjie | 2025-09-29 22:07:28+00:00
I assumed that OpenRouter wouldn't deliver the same tokens/second which seems to have been a complete mistake. I should have tried it to see. I currently use `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` and `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` with z.ai and it works well but CC 2.0 now displays a warning

Auth conflict: Both a token (ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN) and an API key (/login managed key) are set. This may lead to unexpected behavior. • Trying to use ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN? claude /logout • Trying to use /login managed key? Unset the ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable.

Probably just another flag to find.

EDIT: For anyone coming here from elsewhere, Crush from Charm supports Cerebras/Groq natively!
by feiss | 2025-09-29 22:07:31+00:00
Stop thinking in terms of current generations and today's LLMs. Your mind has matured in a pre-AI world (even pre-internet), and we are using LLMs with that background .

Think in the children of the future, growing with a much more advanced and ubiquitous technology, and the mental models they will have. Who knows what will happen, but seeing how slow education and regulations adapt and how fast big companies and consumerism grow and move, I'm not very optimistic.
by egglemonsoup | 2025-09-29 22:07:46+00:00
I'm working on a text-based softball league simulator where you forcibly enlist your friends and family to join your co-ed softball team. You play as their manager/coach/fellow player.

Every aspect of the games are narrated in real time so you know what's going on. I'm still in the prototype stage and I've seen some pretty hilarious interactions already.
by dom96 | 2025-09-29 22:07:47+00:00
Very much a hobby, but I'm working on a Pinterest alternative built on ATProto called Scrapboard[1]

The Bluesky ecosystem is a really great platform to build social media on and with Pinterest being overtaken by AI content I figured I'd give it a shot. There is definitely not as much content there, but it is of much higher quality and the culture of providing alt text on images really makes search work rather well.

1 - https://scrapboard.org

2 - https://bsky.app/profile/scrapboard.org
by WalterBright | 2025-09-29 22:09:05+00:00
As a young programmer, I would have also written the the function name "Q_rsqrt".

As an old programmer, I would write "FastInverseSquareRoot()".

It took a looong time for the penchant to write identifiers adhering to the FORTRAN limit of 6 characters to fade away.

(Yes, I know Q_rsqrt is 7.)