MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spankibalt | 2025-09-03 19:43:37+00:00
> Having tried a couple of others, admittedly a few years ago, the Pro felt the most natural to write on.

I found the Supernote Nomad to be much better for writing. And it uses Wacom's superior EMR tech. Precision, no charging, and lots of pen options from different vendors for different purposes.

And as Kindle is crapware, I demand, and therefore welcome, its absence on any device in my possession.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-03 19:43:44+00:00
No, that's all the more reason to distrust major, unverified claims made by someone "outside of core competence".

Applied demon summoning is ruled by empiricism and experimentation. The best summoners in the field are the ones who have a lot of practical experience and a sharp, honed intuition for the bizarre dynamics of the summoning process. And even those very summoners, specialists worth their weight in gold, are slaves to the experiment! Their novel ideas and methods and refinements still fail more often than they succeed!

One of the first lessons you have to learn in the field is that of humility. That your "novel ideas" and "brilliant insights" are neither novel nor brilliant - and the only path to success lies through things small and testable, most of which do not survive the test.

With that, can you trust the demon summoning knowledge of someone who has never drawn a summoning diagram?
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-03 19:44:35+00:00
The problem with this 3D-printed typeball is that without being injection-molded with an extremely durable plastic, it will not make good strike. I suspect it would also be torn apart (separating at the printed layers), beginning with the smaller common characters (e.g. the period/comma would quickly fail). The typeball hits the paper hard and it is under incredible rotational strains.

I've recently retired an IBM Selectric II, only because it is so damn finicky! When it is operating it is a fantastic machine, but it definitely needs a full-time technician to service (and they've almost entirely died off at this point, save for Berkeley). I got tired of the pulley creep [which eventually leads to gibberish output], only solved with continued maintenance (parts too fine for my electrician hands, and my nearsight is antiquating rapidly).

For my daily drivers, I still love my Smith Corona "Coronet Super 12", which has individual strikes and a powerful motor (for all your latenight raging / brainstorming). Can't [easily] change the font, though (which is why I have multiple S-C models).

¢¢
Show HN: A faster, more secure way to manage API keys and environment variables
by saleCz | 2025-09-03 19:45:31+00:00
Hi all,

I got tired of passing my .env files around in various chat channels to my colleagues so I made this tool to make it easier and more secure.

It's called Envie and it's open source and self-hostable API + CLI tool for managing API keys, secrets and the like. For development use, it's a faster, more secure way to quickly jump from dev to prod environments and to share environment variables with your colleagues.

For production, it's a centralized place to store your env vars and other secrets that you can integrate with any other service. When you build software, you often have to trust your application secrets to various 3rd parties and manage them via some clunky web UI. Envie makes your environments easier to manage via one interface.

Environments are client-side encrypted. Shared access to secrets is enabled by Diffie-Hellman style key exchange.

Looking for some feedback so I can make it better, thanks!

https://github.com/ilmari-h/envie
by thought_alarm | 2025-09-03 19:45:44+00:00
I'm very surprised it's organized as just a single 162 kB source document instead of being divided into smaller modules to make the code easier to work with, speed up build times, etc.

Were PDP-10 text editors of the day able to easily work with such large documents? And how long would it typically take to assemble all of that code in one go?
by WhitneyLand | 2025-09-03 19:47:01+00:00
Does anyone write anymore?

It’s difficult to read posts that rely so heavily on AI generated prose.

Everything’s a numbered/bulleted list and the same old turns of speech describe any scenario.

That aside, what’s really keeping this from being useful is showing some results. How well does this approach work? Who knows. If the data is sensitive, seeing it work on an open source repo would still illuminate.

Also, we hear lots elsewhere about the limitations of relying on embeddings for coding tools, it would be interesting to know how those limitations are overcome here.
by mixdup | 2025-09-03 19:47:08+00:00
Everything is a matter of degrees. Could regulation and rules be taken to an extreme? Sure. The opposite is true, as well. There are several libertarian utopias with no functioning government on the planet, but it is telling that Free Staters move to New Hampshire and not Somalia

The answer is yes, we should be mandated to do things that help the greater good. If we're going to have a society and function as a cohesive population with common goals and morals and the idea that we are going to improve ourselves, you're going to have to force some people to come along

It's insane that preventing polio is being compared to a "nanny state" at this point
by rolisz | 2025-09-03 19:47:12+00:00
> I'd also pay for something in the 10-15b parameter range that used more limited training data focused almost entirely on programming documentation and books along with professional business writing.

Unfortunately, pretraining on a lot of data (~everything they can get their hands on) is needed to give current LLMs their "intelligence" (for whatever definition of intelligence). Using less training data doesn't work as well for now. There definitely not enough programming and business writing to train a good model only on that.
by michaelt | 2025-09-03 19:48:22+00:00
Your better websites use "HSTS Preloading" to ensure users always get sent to the https version of the site - in which case even if the attacker redirected the DNS resolution, you'd just get an SSL error as the attacker wouldn't have a valid certificate.

Of course, an astonishing number of (even important, high-profile) websites don't bother with HSTS preloading ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by lucideer | 2025-09-03 19:48:25+00:00
I recall quite liking the typography on this website the first time I saw it years ago. It's amazing how much it has dated for me since (I think primarily due to being liberally copied exactly in too many places around the web).

> a reminder about the goal of this project. The web is not print. Webpages are not books. Therefore, the goal of Tufte CSS is not to say “websites should look like this interpretation of Tufte’s books” but rather “here are some techniques Tufte developed that we’ve found useful in print; maybe you can find a way to make them useful on the web”.

Reading this I think an interesting alternative approach could to be apply Tufte's principles to a CMS rich text field editor or to a frontend templating library - something that generates HTML - rather than focusing purely on the CSS side. This & selecting some less print-oriented type.
by turbo_wombat | 2025-09-03 19:48:35+00:00
They are comparing unoptimized PyTorch inference, something you would never deploy on a device, to a model with custom kernels.

Yes, of course the model with custom kernels is faster, whether it's written by a human or an AI.

Generally, PyTorch inference is meant to be used during the training process, and when running metrics, not when deploying. When deployed, you should export to ONNX, and then compile the ONNX to the native format of the device.

If you aren't familiar with the pipeline for ML deployment, this is the equivalent of comparing interpreted code to compiled code.
by medicis123 | 2025-09-03 19:48:55+00:00
We have just published a short demo of the WoolyAI GPU Hypervisor, showcasing VRAM memory sharing/deduplication. Load a single base model once, then run multiple isolated LoRA stacks or VLLM stacks on the same GPU.

Why this matters

Higher capacity: Share the base model in VRAM; add more adapters or vertical inference stacks per GPU without increasing memory usage.

Isolation & control: Each stack is its own process with independent batching and SLA-aware scheduling.

While vLLM supports multiple adapters on a single vLLM process, many teams need predictable per-adapter SLAs—this is where running independent stacks with a shared base model in VRAM can enable doing it all on the same GPU.

The demo uses LoRA inference using Pytorch, but the same applies when using vLLM. If you’re scaling LoRA inference across business units or model variants and need predictable latency without overprovisioning GPUs, I’d love your feedback. Comment or DM to chat.
by watwut | 2025-09-03 19:49:01+00:00
No, this is result of intentionally and well paid propaganda. It has nothing to do with failure of science or academy. Even less with publish or perish.

This is happening because some rich people radical right on republican side wanted to happen. Smart conservatives worked for this for years. They knew they are lying, but it did not mattered to them.

Blaming others is just another round of enabling. Blame shifting away from who intentionally caused this wont help anyone and does not reflect the truth.

Also, publish or perish thing is literally something the same people actively worked for.
Show HN: Quests, the open-source app builder
by mutewinter | 2025-09-03 19:49:33+00:00
Quests is our first product, built over a year as high-quality open-source code.

Quests is a desktop app for building and running full-stack AI apps on your computer. Apps and coding agent run locally. Use your API keys for providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and Ollama. Zero dependencies, no accounts.

While Quests is for experimenting and vibe coding, the codebase itself isn't vibe coded. We'll only merge high-quality PRs to maintain a stable and extensible app.

Differs from others by focusing on local only, no sign-ups, and bring-your-own-key (BYOK) for LLM access.

Download: https://quests.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/quests-org/quests (Apache 2.0)

Enjoy,

Aaron and Jeremy (https://finalpoint.co)
by antonvs | 2025-09-03 19:50:10+00:00
Do you believe that each run of a ChatGPT prompt has a conscious experience of its existence, much like you (presumably) do?

If you don't believe that, then you face the challenge of describing what the difference is. It's difficult to do in ordinary language.

That's what Nagel is attempting to do. Unless you're an eliminativist who believes that conscious experience is an "illusion" (experienced by what?), then you're just quibbling about wording, and I suspect you'll have a difficult time coming up with better wording yourself.
I made a code execution API called KilnChamber. Asking for feedback
by Tym154 | 2025-09-03 19:50:28+00:00
I made a code execution API called KilnChamber and I’d like to ask for your feedback on it. It’s still in its early stages, with just two routes: -code execution -checking task status.

Here: https://rapidapi.com/ktymelsnic/api/kilnchamber Tutorial: https://rapidapi.com/ktymelsnic/api/kilnchamber/tutorials

Feel free to play with it and try to break it, but if you manage to break it, please report it so I can fix it as soon as possible.

I’m publishing it on RapidAPI, so you’ll need to sign up (sorry about that). Even if you don’t want to sign up, I’d really appreciate any ideas for features or functionalities I could add.

twitter: https://x.com/tym154 reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/tym-154/
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-03 19:51:28+00:00
I do say many critical things about my political leaders and government policies, online. But, like I said, I am more mindful of what I say and how I say it (e.g. I often quote such things from a news source / media). (People in Germany and UK can do so too - just understand the law and quote DW, BBC, DailyMail etc., all of whom have mentioned something about the Gaza genocide or Elon Musk's Nazi like behaviour, at some point). If the government wants to come after you, they will. You have to have faith in your democracy and the courts. If you are losing faith in your democratic setup, be prepared to mobilise people with some political party (or start one) and fight for your rights - it will have more lasting political impact than any anonymous post you make online.
by slazaro | 2025-09-03 19:51:39+00:00
I'm assuming this is the same (or evolved) Lazy Tetris that you posted some weeks ago, with the name changed because of their trademark, right? I was wondering why it had disappeared for me a while ago and I found this again now :)

I think you could place a link from the old website to the new one, or a redirect, especially since the old HN post was relatively big. I had a bookmark and checked every now and then in case it would come back, and only now found it again by going through your HN account posts. Pleasant surprise!

I've played it on desktop (firefox) and android (firefox). The drop animation is super nice!

On android it works great, i love the controls, just dragging to place horizontally and then pressing drop, super satisfying!

On desktop, I would have one suggestion: right now I have to drag the cursor to place the piece horizontally, click to rotate, but then i have to move the cursor to the drop button to drop. Pressing space works, but sometimes I'd want to play with just the mouse, no keyboard. I think middle click could be a good way to drop the piece with just the mouse (double click too, but then you run into timing issues with the left click, so I think middle click is better).

Also, maybe an option to follow the cursor instead of having to drag/drop? So the play flow would be just moving the cursor, click to rotate, middle click to drop.

Also also, a link somewhere to be able to contact, in case of suggestions, questions, etc. :)

Good work!
by psychoslave | 2025-09-03 19:51:43+00:00
Yes it is. We can also maybe agree that the comment wasn't implying otherwise?

I mean, it's like the djin giving you three whishes, and not a single character will ask "what's the two best wishes I can do to (ensure mankind will reach perpetually best peaceful harmonious flourishing social dynamics forever| whatever goal the character might have as greatest hope)". When you have a instant perfect knowledge acquisition machine at disposal, the first thing to obviously understand is what the most important things to do to reach your goal.

The film didn't mention everything Neo learned like that though, just that he accumulate straight forward for many hours. Wouldn't be an action movie, certainly you would hope the character first words after such an impressive feat wouldn't be "I know kung fu".
by steviedotboston | 2025-09-03 19:52:11+00:00
Drupal works very well as a headless CMS now

https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/decoupled-drupal https://www.lullabot.com/resource/decoupled-drupal

Drupal has a really strong community behind it, and was completely rebuilt a number of years ago with modern PHP. It uses Symfony, composer, etc.
by dempsry | 2025-09-03 19:52:12+00:00
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by whalesalad | 2025-09-03 19:52:38+00:00
> OR, should be "everything is a log",

100%. This is a regret that I have in our lifecycle tracking. We effectively are updating a giant spreadsheet (table) and tracking side effects of those updates. I would much rather work in a log/event based system kinda flipping that on its head, where we track events like domain_renewed or domain_transferred.

As it stands we track that the renewed_at attribute changed, and have to infer (along with other fields) things like "were you a renewal event?" which has changed meaning over time.

Alas change tracking wasn't even part of the spec of this original feature... so I am glad I had the foresight to institute change tracking from 2022, as imperfect as it is currently.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-03 19:52:53+00:00
I believe the OP's point was that if you are in the ingroup, you can expect life to be pretty much equivalent to what you'd experience in the US. It's only if you are in the outgroup (like being gay) that you start to see state violence.

This is pretty true of most authoritarian regimes. State violence isn't publicly broadcast or when it is it's usually framed as "fighting crime".

To Godwin this, life for a non-jewish, non-communist, non-disabled citizen in 1940s germany was typical, even pleasant. I mean, heck, the german government at the time was taking the Jewish citizens property and giving it to favored classes.

The deceptive part of an authoritarian regime is that the outgroup is almost always a minority. The number of people that experience outgroup treatment is almost always a small portion of the general population.

Even in the strictest and most brutal governments like north korea, so long as you abide by state rules things are just fine. You can even go on vacations out of the country if you are obedient enough.

A measure of government is how it treats internal state enemies. Crime exists everywhere, so the question is what's criminalized and how are criminals punished. Also importantly, what crimes does the state look away from if they hit political enemies.
Apple iPhone's Weird Alarm Clock Ring
by jengamur | 2025-09-03 19:54:34+00:00
I noticed the alarm clock ring where you adjust the hour and minute on iPhone has a finite number of hour and time integers as array instead of repeating 12/24 hour or 60 minutes and if you scroll enough like 10 seconds or so you get the final hour 16.39. Is this some easter egg maybe a special hour for Apple or some lazy work? I also wonder is there any reason in particular why people did it this way?
by antonvs | 2025-09-03 19:54:37+00:00
What is that criticism supposed to be criticizing?

Nagel's paper covers a lot of ground, but none of what you described has any bearing on the point about it "what it's like" as a way to identify conscious experience as distinct from, say, the life of a rock. (Assuming one isn't a panpsychist who believe that rocks possess consciousness.)
by gpm | 2025-09-03 19:54:56+00:00
Eh, the distinctions being that

- With YouTube, unlike with torrenting, you aren't distributing the files.

- You have no reason to believe that YouTube doesn't have an entirely valid license - while you do with torrents. YouTube takes reasonable (though not foolproof) steps to attempt to ensure that. Asserting you can't use YouTube because someone might have uploaded a copyright infringing work would lead to the conclusion that you can't browse the rest of the public internet for the same reason.

- YouTube complies with the DMCA for whatever the safe harbor provisions are worth (under US law).

If it's a grey market, it's a very light-grey market.
by iLemming | 2025-09-03 19:55:26+00:00
I suppose someone (even an experienced vimmer) might argue that learning vim is not so much "umwelt-transformative", but rather like "muscle memory training", like LeetCode drilling.

Indeed, basic vim-navigation - (hjkl, w, b) is muscle memory.

But, I'd argue the umwelt shift comes from vim's modal nature and its language of text objects. You start perceiving text as having an inherent grammar - "inside parentheses", "around word", "until comma." Text gains topology and structure that was invisible before.

The transformative part isn't the keystrokes but learning to think "delete inside quotes" (di") or "change around paragraph" (cap). You see text as composable objects with boundaries, not just streams of characters. This may even persists when you're reading on paper.

That mental model often transforms your keyboard workflow not just in your editor - but your WM, terminal, web browser, etc.
by somethoughts | 2025-09-03 19:55:32+00:00
Looking at this from a glass half full mindset, a decade from now we should have a pretty interesting data set from a public health policy perspective.

Prior to this, to get such a large subset of children to not take vaccines for an epidemiological study would probably be illegal or at best be considered highly unethical. Convincing parents to enroll their children in such a study in the name of science and for a small stipend would probably be next to impossible considering the potential lifetime impacts.

I posit that the challenge has been that in order to prove vaccine efficacy on a continuing/updated basis, you need access to a non-vaccinated control group that controls for developed world socio-economic conditions which didn't exist (until now). Thus there hasn't been an easy way to do large population scale studies on vaccine efficacy - so it did somewhat become a "trust us" tautology (until now).
by actuallyalys | 2025-09-03 19:55:34+00:00
The relevant comparison is to annual construction, not the total inventory. Looking at recent data, variations of 0.5 percent (~700,000) have happened, but they were due to large shocks like Covid or post-Covid inflation.

This argument feels analogous to saying “there’s no way a granola bar can affect your hunger, its calorie count is negligible compared to all the calories your body has stored.”
by o_nate | 2025-09-03 19:56:50+00:00
The problem itself is at least centuries old, if not millennia. In his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1689), John Locke phrased the same problem clearly, using different words:

"How any thought should produce a motion in Body is as remote from the nature of our Ideas, as how any Body should produce any Thought in the Mind. That it is so, if Experience did not convince us, the Consideration of the Things themselves would never be able, in the least, to discover to us." (IV iii 28, 559)
by bitpush | 2025-09-03 19:57:18+00:00
clickbait?

> Many Google Messages customers have been complaining about not being able to send or receive Rich Communication Services (RCS) messages, and this might be because the responsibility now falls on carriers.

I remember commentators here on HN saying something about Google controlling something about RCS and how they'd want that to be with carriers, and it sounds like now the article is arguing the opposite?
by geocrasher | 2025-09-03 19:57:32+00:00
The answer isn't headless WordPress. It's WordPress.

You're building something for a volunteer community, which means at some point you'll be gone and somebody will be wondering how the heck to manage the site with this "custom" setup that they can't figure out with chatgpt or a youtube video.

Set them up for the future, not for the now. WordPress. Just WordPress.

Reference: 26+ years in hosting, 4 years in WordPress-only hosting.