MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hypeatei | 2025-09-30 19:02:58+00:00
> It’s not. It’s tit-for-tat:

So you're admitting that Trump is weaponizing the DOJ to get revenge on his opponents? How does a NY court and jury of his peers finding Trump guilty of a felony justify that?

The facts of the case have been covered at length (including by us in a detailed chronology), and the grand jury’s indictment and accompanying Statement of Facts speak for themselves. The prosecution has said that this case is not just about an affair and hush money payments, neither of which are illegal. Rather, the DA has explained the case concerns an attempt by Trump to interfere in the outcome of the 2016 presidential election outcome.[0] The hush money arrangement with Daniels occurred just after the Access Hollywood scandal, where Trump boasted about committing sexual assaults, and was finalized on October 27, 2016, twelve days before the election. As described in the Statement of Facts, Trump initially directed Cohen to delay the payments to Daniels until after the election, “because at that point it would not matter if the story became public.” However, “with pressure mounting and the election approaching,” Trump ultimately agreed to the payoff.[0]

0: https://www.justsecurity.org/93916/guide-manhattan-trump-tri...
by captainkrtek | 2025-09-30 19:03:04+00:00
This feels apt to my years at $large_cloud_provider, where the current cohort of folks manage some of the largest web services, but would not be able to develop them from the ground up today. The brain drain from these orgs, the shift to maintenance / KTLO, and the focus on sales/AI "features" rather makes this feel spot on.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-30 19:03:06+00:00
A few years ago the manager of our local Menards got convicted of stealing over a half-million dollars over 5 years. She only got 180 days, too, and was allowed to leave the jail for work. Depending on how high on the hog she lived for those five years, she might figure it was worth it.

I knew one local HVAC company where the office manager skimmed off six figures over something like 20 years before she got caught. Just slow and steady, never taking enough to be obvious, I guess. It happens more than people would think.
by foobarian | 2025-09-30 19:03:36+00:00
I have a teen who's been using DuoLingo for French for a while but hit a ceiling with spoken language. I suggested to him to look around for voice chats with French speakers like maybe on Discord but it's a desert out there. Wonder if you have some experience with using these paid options to recommend. Would be neat if there could be something without a rigid course-like structure he could join occasionally for low-key conversation practice.
by cs702 | 2025-09-30 19:03:58+00:00
Well, engineers building physical systems like airplanes and rockets use Lyapunov exponents to avoid chaotic behavior. No one sane wants airplanes or rockets that exhibit chaotic aerodynamics!

Has progress stalled in this area? I don't know, but surely there are people working on it. In fact I recently saw an interesting post on HN about a new technique that among other things enables faster estimation of Lyapunov exponents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374706 (search for "Lyapunov" on the github page).

Just because we haven't seen much progress, doesn't mean we won't see more. Progress never happens on a predictable schedule.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-30 19:04:14+00:00
> Then you look up what the actual regulation says and it's hundreds of pages of pure legaleese

sigh

There is a difference between guidance and regulation.

GDPR isn't that hard to comply with, I know because I helped take a very large Financial News company from 0 compliance to full compliance. the guidance is quite easy to understand: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

but, why are the regulations 100 pages of legalese? because rich companies, and unscrupulous shits pay money to to lawyers to avoid having to pay fines for breaking the law. You also have to carve out exceptions for things like charities, small organisations, have specific rules for things like health care, and define exceptions based on what are reasonable exceptions when detecting criminality

Say you take "the right to be forgotten", ie, I as someone who banks with Natwest want to close my account, withdraw my money, and get them to forget everything about me (ie stop sending me fucking emails you shits)

Thats simple right? the law says I have the right to have my details deleted.

But what if I committed fraud in that time? what if I am opening and closing, asking for deletion to get round money laundering laws?

And thats why the regulations for data protections are long.

Also GDPR regulations aren't that unreadable. You're most likely a programmer, legal texts are highly structured instructions (ie just like any high level programming language)

However, do not take this as endorsement of the unrelated law that is the online saftey act, which is badly drafted, gives too much power to an under resourced semi independent body, and is too loosely defined to be practically managed in any meaningful way by OFCOM.

I will however stick up for GDPR, because it stops the fucking nasty trade in in personal data that is so rife in the USA.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-30 19:04:17+00:00
Assuming it was more of a philosophical aversion to working on the C-17... it's interesting where different people may draw different lines at differing points in their careers.

I worked on a contract project for an email marketing management solution for a major CC/Bank... I hated it, it made me feel icky and after my 6mo term was up, I was completely out. I also once outright rejected an in-company project for the RIAA (and another for MPAA) workplace as I just couldn't support them. I'm a little more flexible in terms of military applications, depending on what they are. I've worked on systems training for military aircraft (not the weapons systems themselves), and wouldn't necessarily be averse to it again.

In the end it just depends... I think everyone should have at least some moral line they won't cross, even if that line, subject or level may vary. Not that I support every action in terms of "resisting" a given thing when it comes to counter-action.
by slg | 2025-09-30 19:04:21+00:00
It isn't ironic, that is the whole point of a Market for Lemons, the inability to distinguish a good product from bad before purchase due to asymmetric information. That is why I think the author makes a mistake saying that it has no relation to enshittification.

The ultimate problem here is that MZOO's incentive to maintain their level of quality isn't very strong. There is little preventing them from slowly make their product cheaper and cheaper until they are delivering the same quality of those other brands. That would be the same process as enshittification. The primary difference is that enshittification can happen for other reasons such as a monopoly while a Market for Lemons is specifically because information asymmetry.

MZOO might be good now, but the economic incentives suggest they are just in the first stage of this process. It would take an owner committed to quality to not succumb to those incentives and it's impossible for us to know if MZOO has that type of owner.
by silisili | 2025-09-30 19:04:28+00:00
Same, but for slightly different reasons. I was a big open source contributor of a few well known projects, but the CoC stuff just kinda soured me on it all.

Not because I enjoy reading or writing hate speech or anything, but these were places that didn't tend to have any obvious problems with troublemakers, so it felt self congratulatory. And don't even get me started on the sheer amount of bikeshedding the discussions around it became, mostly from people who'd never even contributed to the project.

It suddenly made me realize there were probably more productive and less frustrating ways to spend my time.
by allisdust | 2025-09-30 19:04:37+00:00
Nothing (may be except groq ?) comes even close to Cerebras in inference speed. I seriously don't get why these guys aren't more popular. The difference in using them as a inference provider vs anything else for any use case is like night and day. I hope more inference providers focus on speed. And this is where AMZN will benefit a lot since their entire cloud model is to have something people would anyway want and mark it up by 3x. God forbid if AVGO acquires this.
by bbor | 2025-09-30 19:04:47+00:00
Glad to see someone is looking out for a forest, here. A diverse host of excuses have cropped up to explain away the anxiety AGI brings, and I totally understand why. Yet again, today we stare into the abyss.

Sora 2 represents significant progress towards [AGI]. In keeping with OpenAI’s mission, it is important that humanity benefits from these models as they are developed.

This seems like a good time to remind ourselves of the original OpenAI charter: https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.co...

I wonder how exactly they reconcile the quote above with "We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions"...
Show HN: TorchCurves – Differentiable parametric curves for PyTorch
by alexshtf | 2025-09-30 19:04:47+00:00
TorchCurves is a small PyTorch library for parametric curve layers—handy for smooth, geometry-aware modeling and continuous embeddings (and a natural fit for KAN-style experiments). It’s lightweight, autograd-friendly, and runs on CPU/GPU.

I built it after a long stint using curves in ML; seeing the KAN poster at ICLR nudged me to finalize and release it.

pip install torchcurves

Docs: https://torchcurves.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Notebooks to try it out: https://github.com/alexshtf/torchcurves/tree/master/doc/sour... Notes: License: Apache-2.0 Minimal deps; pure PyTorch; works on CPU/GPU.
Show HN: Terraform for *Local* Dev Infra
by 18nleung | 2025-09-30 19:06:03+00:00
Author here with yet another solution for local dev — let me know your thoughts, would love to trade notes.

In brief:

Our Docker Compose local dev setup started to break down once we had to model more complicated production behavior locally – things like table-specific Postgres roles for audit logs and dynamically provisioned databases per-clinical-trial. We were drifting toward a bespoke Bash mess to keep dev and prod in sync.

Our core idea was instead to embrace Terraform in the local dev environment too. We were already using Terraform heavily in prod, and Terraform's robust provider ecosystem meant that we could e.g. substitute Docker containers for RDS and MinIO for S3 without deviating too far from our production configuration.

The really fun part is how we use Terraform to handle dynamic provisioning, which we need for isolated, per-clinical-trial databases. The way we do it in prod is by giving each clinical trial its own, isolated Terraform state, stored in a cloud storage bucket. By writing an equivalent local Terraform config for this provisioning step, we enable the app to run the same `terraform apply` command as it does in prod to locally to spin up a new database, with the individual state for that new db stored in a local MinIO bucket... which is itself created by the original `terraform apply` that sets up the initial local dev infrastructure.

Altogether, Terraform gives us a super high-fidelity local environment that lets us test complex application behavior and infrastructure logic without the full overhead of spinning up a local k8s cluster (which is what I imagine the next best alternative might be?). It's readable, declarative, and required no new tooling on our side since we were already using Docker and Terraform anyways.

Curious to hear how other folks are managing complex local dev setups, especially if you're not on Kubernetes!
by bbor | 2025-09-30 19:06:07+00:00
Well put. Honestly the actor part is mostly solved by now, the tricky part is depicting any kind of believable, persistent space across different shots. Based off of amateur outputs from places like https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/, at least!

This release is clearly capable of generating mind-blowingly realistic short clips, but I don't see any evidence that longer, multi-shot videos can be automated yet. With a professional's time and existing editing techniques, however...
by sipofwater | 2025-09-30 19:06:08+00:00
* Mirror for "The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work, Part I": https://archive.ph/YBeWi ; https://mark-riedl.medium.com/the-intuition-behind-how-large... (mark-riedl.medium.com/the-intuition-behind-how-large-language-models-work-166cf2fb278a)

* Mirror for "The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work, Part II": https://archive.ph/i1gib ; https://mark-riedl.medium.com/the-intuition-behind-how-large... (mark-riedl.medium.com/the-intuition-behind-how-large-language-models-work-part-ii-8c6a127a4a99)
by martin-t | 2025-09-30 19:06:12+00:00
Power creates more power, money creates more money.

Communism is tossing the frog into boiling water (tens millions of dead), capitalism is boiling it slowly (poor people in first world countries might not afford a dentist but they're not starving yet).

We need a system that rewards work - human time and competence.

There are really only 2 resources in the world - natural resources and human time. Everything else is built on top of those. And the people providing their time should be rewarded, not those who are in positions of power which allow them to extract value while not providing anything in return.
by georgeecollins | 2025-09-30 19:06:30+00:00
There are also people marketing things on Reddit to young people: alt coins, option trading, sports gambling that have an incentive to say working is for suckers, your only hope is to get rich quick. I think most young people are smart enough (or cynical enough) to reject the get rich quick schemes. But the same cynicism allows them to accept the messages that tell them that things are hopeless for their generation, work is unrewarding and you are way behind.
by garyrob | 2025-09-30 19:06:33+00:00
> There is no hint that Apple intends to do anything with the Vision Pro, and they've already been scooped by Meta.

I expect that's exactly what they have in mind. If they're successful, Meta's project will be to Apple's what early MP3 players were to the original iPod.

The jury is out on whether Cook can pull it off.
Turning Loom videos into Interactive video – Does this make sense?
by jazeemchoori | 2025-09-30 19:06:35+00:00
I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

We spend hours making demo videos, onboarding walkthroughs, or training clips… and then what? People watch passively, get bored, drop off halfway, or leave with questions that never get answered.

Meanwhile, sales teams end up chasing leads with back-and-forth emails just to cover what the video should’ve explained.

Feels broken, right?

That’s why I started working on Qudemo → basically turning a plain demo video into a conversation. Viewers can ask questions, search inside the video, and get instant answers — like chatting with a product expert while watching.

And here’s the Loom connection:

We all love Loom (myself included). It’s everywhere in SaaS - sales, onboarding, product updates, support. But at the end of the day, Loom is still a one-way video.

Don’t just share a Loom. Share a Qudemo.

Record in Loom → run it through Qudemo → share the interactive version.

Now your Loom videos aren’t just recordings. They’re two-way conversations.

Some early use cases that surprised me:

* Pre-sales teams sharing Qudemo links with prospects to give quick product information

* Internal teams sharing Qudemo links for interactive updates or training with other members

* Customer success teams sharing Qudemo links to onboard new customers in an engaging way

* Support teams sharing Qudemo links that turn long help videos into interactive guides

We launched last week and Early feedback has been super interesting.

Here is the sample Qudemo - https://qudemo.com/share/761a0549-315d-4441-862d-fbff310a9cc8

If you want to try, Visit - https://qudemo.com
Show HN: Quad – A Daily Tile Puzzle
by CleverLikeAnOx | 2025-09-30 19:06:38+00:00
I woke up with the idea for this game in a dream. After waking, I spent the next two hours in a recliner refining the idea, then I shot off a message to some friends to see who wanted to collaborate.

My friend, Jacob, bit! He helped with the design and made all the art.

This is my first Svelte project. The most technically challenging part is the level generation script, which I wrote in rust because it needed to be 100x faster than my initial typescript version.

Every puzzle has 1 solution. You might notice some theory from a classic game transfers well to Quad, but with enough difference to keep you on your toes :)
by 4dm1r4lg3n3r4l | 2025-09-30 19:06:56+00:00
It automatically marks stuff you've seen - it's just a visual cue. Similar to how search engines (like Google) show visited links with a different color.

I think keeping them on the page instead of automatically hiding them makes more sense for a product that's trying to update their news feed once per day. You feel more in control, as if it's not a stream of never-ending stories, but rather a fixed amount of stories that you can realistically power through. Seeing all items checked sort-of supports this philosophy.
by kipchak | 2025-09-30 19:07:00+00:00
I agree, but just want to add that part of this was offset by CDs being cheaper than cartridges. When the two overlapped with the N64 and PS1, N64 games were about $10-20 more expensive. Turok and Doom 64 for example were originally $75-80, and MGS & FF7 were on the higher side at $50. Digital delivery has probably had a roughly similar effect.
by xnoyzi | 2025-09-30 19:07:15+00:00
Last month I talked to a cold email operator who runs insane volume. when he showed me his stack, I noticed something: he was paying over $300/month just to use custom APIs in Clay. not the whole product. Not the data. just the permission to use his own APIs. That felt… wrong. so I built a stripped-down Clay alternative. same core functionality, no bloat, almost 10x cheaper. I thought that would be enough. then my inbox exploded with one specific request: “Can you add something like Claygent?” Now it’s in. an AI Agent that enriches, calls APIs, scales workflows, all in one place. And yes, it’s still not Clay. That’s the point. if you do cold outreach, scraping, or enrichment, and want to see it in action, I’ll happy to share access and hear what you think
by darkwater | 2025-09-30 19:07:35+00:00
Last famous words:

> A lot of problems with other apps stem from the monetization model incentivizing decisions that are at odds with user wellbeing. Transparently, our only current plan is to eventually give users the option to pay some amount to generate an extra video if there’s too much demand relative to available compute. As the app evolves, we will openly communicate any changes in our approach here, while continuing to keep user wellbeing as our main goal.
by jonbruner | 2025-09-30 19:07:35+00:00
Scan time depends on material composition in the object you're scanning and your requirements for resolution. You can scan a dense steel object overnight to capture micron-level detail, or you can scan a plastic object in a few seconds to search for a known issue like a crack.

Battery scans are very fast; the scans in the report took less than a second. Total cycle time on a Triton CT scanner is under 5 seconds when you account for part handling.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-30 19:07:54+00:00
That's precisely what Axios does, and they make money from this (and they don't list their sources). So I can see Kagi pursuing this.

FWIW, I agree with you.

I used to be a news junkie. I've always thought of writing the lessons I learned, but one of them was "If you're a casual news reader, you are likely more misinformed than the one who doesn't read any news." One either should abstain or go all in.

I guess I'd amend it to put people who only glance at headlines to be even more misinformed. It was not at all unusual for me to read articles where the content just plain disagreed with the headline!
by imoverclocked | 2025-09-30 19:08:05+00:00
> A coworker from China once told me (and I can see it) everything in China is considered ephemeral

(n of 1 observation)

Yeah, I just purchased an OrangePI ultra and that fact gushes through like a flood in a canyon. I wonder if I will ever have a u-boot for the board that isn't based on 10 repositories glued together with references to unchangeable branches which are patterned after dates like 2017. There are official images with binaries and dog-knows-what-else in them. It's like the computer wasn't meant to operate for more than a few years (at most.) AFAICT, a person working on so many parts of the OrangePI ultra just stopped as the money ran out and there is a mess of repositories left behind. Don't get me started on the security mindset of the whole situation. /rant
by akashakya | 2025-09-30 19:08:08+00:00
For lightweight sandboxing on Linux you can use bubblewrap or firejail instead of Docker. They are faster and _simpler_. Here is a bwrap script I wrote to run Claude in a minimal sandbox an hour back:

exec bwrap \ --ro-bind /usr /usr \ --ro-bind /etc /etc \ --ro-bind /run /run \ --ro-bind "$NODE_PATH" /node \ --proc /proc \ --dev /dev \ --symlink usr/lib64 /lib64 \ --tmpfs /tmp \ --unshare-all \ --share-net \ --die-with-parent \ --new-session \ --bind "$HOME/claude" /claude \ --bind "$HOME/.claude.json" /claude/.claude.json \ --bind "$HOME/.claude" /claude/.claude \ --setenv HOME /claude \ --setenv PATH "/node:/claude/bin:/usr/bin" \ --bind "$(pwd)" /work \ --chdir /work \ /claude/bin/claude "$@"
by at-fates-hands | 2025-09-30 19:08:10+00:00
>> It's very easy to complaint when you've never seen the worse alternatives.

I have relatives that fled the USSR during the heights of communism. I have played soccer with guys who came from South American countries that were mired in Civil War. Two of my best friends fled South Asia during the Pol Pot regime.

Its interesting you tell me I have no perspective without even knowing who I am or what I've experienced in my life. To judge someone like this is pretty offensive.

I'm keenly aware of how dictatorships work. I've heard and seen what an abusive government is capable of. I have yet to see the abuses people I know fled from happen here in the US.

>> How often does the Government do that to you?

Your short term memory must not be very good:

"If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor."

"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

"Take this vaccine or you're going to lose your job."

"This is the govt, you need to remove posts that we don't like."

"We couldn't come to an agreement on a budget so the government is shut down until further notice."

https://mailomg.com/2025/09/17/opinion-the-good-the-bad-and-...

With a second attempt to rectify PAEA’s errors, Congress successfully granted a financial reform of $57 billion dollars through the Postal Service Reform Act in FY 2022. Soon after, Postmaster General DeJoy announced his “Delivering for America Plan” (DFA)

Delivery performance suffered as well, as the new consolidated facilities far underperformed the prior structure, leading to enormous cost overruns and overtime. The infrastructure for new EV delivery vehicles simply did not exist, and the selected manufacturer fell behind implementation times as each facility needed to be retrofitted for EV charging.
by byearthithatius | 2025-09-30 19:08:16+00:00
I miss the old HN. Now "news" is just randoms advertising their substack which isn't even related to tech or science. OP has literally only ever posted their own stuff and never made a comment on anything else here. The article has nothing to do with tech, science, or hacking. Just vague self improvement rules stated as facts.

When I first came here it was FILLED with random blogs teaching you cool tricks in JavaScript or particle simulations with Go or comparing Rust and C. Now its 95% AI and substack ads.