MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MadnessASAP | 2025-09-04 17:13:36+00:00
> Stablecoins enable instant, borderless, programmable transactions, but current blockchain infrastructure isn’t designed for them

How?

> existing systems are either fully general or trading-focused. Tempo is a blockchain designed and built for real-world payments.

What makes existing systems not suitable for instant, borderless transactions? What makes this new chain suitable for instant, borderless transactions?

Any system with an API is programmable.
by hinkley | 2025-09-04 17:13:36+00:00
I feel like software would be a better place if more of us had discovered a sport of some kind early.

Sports understand overtraining. It even means much the same as in AI circles.

The trick isn’t avoiding measurement. The trick is staggering out use if any measurement. Today we are working on speed drills. Tomorrow we work on form. Ans in a couple days we work on endurance. Nobody but software developers are trying to work on their sprinting every goddamned day.

We are the insane ones.
by SonOfLilit | 2025-09-04 17:13:36+00:00
Mandarin Chinese: 注意 (zhùyì) - "note/record intention" Spanish: prestar atención - "lend attention" English: pay attention - "give/spend attention" Hindi: ध्यान देना (dhyaan dena) - "give meditation/focus" Arabic: انتبه (intabih) - "be alert/awake" ...

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by freedomben | 2025-09-04 17:14:46+00:00
I don't disagree, but you are arguing against a strawman that was started upthread. GP didn't say they were afraid to look at countermeasures, they were questioning the wisdom of clicking a random link that goes to a closed platform that collects a ton of surveillance data and has a history of sharing with law enforcement. I try to avoid Discord for everything, regardless how innocuous the subject matter is.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-04 17:14:47+00:00
Lots of things but let's focus on just two.

First you're looking at it wrong: it doesn't really matter how busy the calendar is. I mean just because people say that it does matter how many games or creative products or whatever are released, and just because some of those people are experienced execs, doesn't mean that it's true.

People who buy games aren't thinking, man I don't have time for games. Okay? So you see how the first thing to understand is: this isn't for you. Someone who has to make choices about how to spend their time isn't buying many games at all.

Before Silksong, they validated marketability & audience many times. Hollow Knight was in Ludum Dare, Newgrounds, festival & conference circuit, Kickstarter, multiple stores & formats.

Why was it standing out then? To me, the coherence of the art, and a game format that aligns with the indie art production and audience validation well.

Consider that larger games are arted by art directors and teams of contractors. If your whole team is excellent and you spend a lot of money rejecting art, okay, you will wind up with something coherent. You can also have 1 person make all the art like Hollow Knight & Silksong.

Indie games - and these guys are actually independently published and actually just 3 people and a handful of contractors - have this superpower. Any 1 person can make all the art for their indie game, and some have found great success doing this, like Stardew Valley. Some people give up a year in, or ten years in, or whatever.

So if you have little trickles of validation along the way, then you actually finish your game, which is maybe why this all worked.

And then this game is a sequence of levels, you can finish all the art for one screen and then move onto the next screen. You can finish a walk cycle going forward, and record the character moving forward in a single background, and it looks like a finished game. A 3D Hero Shooter requires a huge amount of work on level and character art before a preview is fully arted.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-04 17:14:57+00:00
Maybe I'm just extremely lucky with my coworkers, but I've been working for 25+ years, and it's never occurred to me to call a co-worker a dickhead. It really should not be that hard to keep it professional and avoid insulting people.

"Not calling someone a dickhead" should not take constant cognitive load or feel like "playing minesweeper" all day.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-04 17:15:02+00:00
> And electric cars are objectively more pleasant and nicer to ride unless one likes loud, slow to accelerate vehicles over smooth and quiet. I guess there will be some who prefer noise and lag for nostalgia.

"Objective" is reaching a bit. Loud? My last two ICE vehicles have sufficient cabin noise-dampening to the point that one of the manufacturers can actually pump engine noise into the cabin. Tire noise from EVs is more, typically as a factor of increased gross vehicle weight. Lag? Unless you are driving an ICE with a large turbo, what lag? And as the owner of an ICE that can accelerate 0-60 faster than consumer EVs with the exception of Tesla's Performance models (which it keeps pace with) and the Plaid, and who likes having a performant vehicle, I could count on one hand the number of times I've needed that level of acceleration. Regular Tesla Model 3 0-60 times of 5.6s is absolutely in the world of Audi (with multiple entry level models in the 5s range) and even Camry only half a second behind.

I like EVs, I've spent plenty of time in them and enjoy driving them.

But I think there's a certain irony that often those who squeal "ICE Luddite" seem to also hold views about ICE modernization that are more akin to a time capsule of "the last time I cared about ICE vehicles was 15 years ago, and I'm certain they haven't advanced an inch since then".
by tylermoore27 | 2025-09-04 17:15:03+00:00
hey guys long time lurker here, I only understand half of what you guys are saying (maybe less) but I come everyday to learn.

I "vibe coded" an app and thought you guys might like it, just a fun messaging chat app, go easy on me.

I wanted to do it not only to learn but I think the web has become too boring and I like the old web better, AIM for the win.
by neonmagenta | 2025-09-04 17:15:05+00:00
Can absolutely be a great tool in addition to one's skills, it's when people solely use it at a crutch and dont do any due diligence is where it can be a mess. Friend of mine's son is in college for computer science and he's been skirting by having AI doing all his heavy lifting without actually understanding what he's doing and how the code works. Then when he landed a solid internship, he started spiraling because he didn't know how to do any of the tasks.
by wcunning | 2025-09-04 17:15:06+00:00
There has been a move to get the FTC to start labeling these net carbon numbers as misleading advertising because it always includes a bunch of purchased offsets unrelated to the company. Further, there have been some real and complicated situations where carbon credits were sold more than the actual amount of offset carbon -- meaning for example BigCorpA and BigCorpB buy the same "green energy infra" credits from projects that are in construction and then never actually meet their listed goals, but both companies claim to be carbon neutral because of the claims for several years before that comes out. Matt Levine had a very interesting column on forestry in the US Southeast talking about places getting paid to not cut down trees far in excess of the number of trees that could realistically be harvested. Google might be frontrunning some of those arguments. Or might have done the real audit of the claims and realized that they had been less carbon offset than they thought, so safer to just pull the whole pledge at least in the short term.
by ajford | 2025-09-04 17:15:11+00:00
LASIK is well known to only be a short to mid-term solution. The eyes age like the rest of you, and any correction will eventually be outpaced by the natural weakening of your ocular muscles to the point where you can no longer pull focus and require glasses. Further correction is possible, but from what I remember being told by my doctor and my own reading, the bounce-back from the surgery is rougher as you age.

I know a few folks from college who got it done and a bit over decade later they're going strong. My own surgery is just about hitting a decade (couple of months shy). That said, I have a family friend who had bladed LASIK done in their 50s (late 2000s) and their outcome was bad with total loss of sight in the affected eye. The result on their other eye was barely an improvement but plenty of scarring lead to halos and starbursts.
by dkobia | 2025-09-04 17:15:31+00:00
This is a pretty big deal. Stripe is already processing billions of transactions. Additionally Stripe already has the relationship with merchants that other L1's lack along with the payment network expertise.

If Stripe’s closed-loop system scales, banks and card networks could lose significant transaction volume, fees and even merchant relationships. Merchants and customers win with lower transaction fees. This marks a very credible and large-scale effort yet to challenge the Visa and Mastercard duopoly.

Obviously not perfect and other questionable projects have stained blockchains reputation but it is a net win, no?
by alistairSH | 2025-09-04 17:15:41+00:00
It's the scale - 20 years ago, somebody could stall a VHS camera and record me, but that video didn't get fed into massive databases that linked back to my purchases that day, job history, medical history, etc. Yeah, drawing a line on what's close enough to the past vs what's unpalatable is tricky - does't mean massive surveillance and data processing is a good thing.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-04 17:15:47+00:00
I feel similarly. I appear to have put 30 hours into it at this point, but I don't have particularly strong memories of any part of it. It took me several tries to get into it initially. I've always felt like Ori and the Blind Forest (released only two years before Hollow Knight) was a much better game overall, particularly when it came to movement and story execution, yet it comes up far less often in discussions of the genre.
by gs17 | 2025-09-04 17:15:59+00:00
>bike

And in places where bikes need license plates? Or let's say everyone switches to a bike. Do you think Flock would say "oh well, I guess we can't track them anymore" and close up shop?

>transit

Even if they still let you pay with cash, there's cameras all over there too. Maybe not automated tracking through a third party that removes the need for warrants... yet.

So that leaves "walk", which even if feasible, is something Flock already advertises tracking of as a feature. This isn't a "car tracking" issue, it's a warrantless mass surveillance issue. You may think it's only for the drivers you despise right now, but it will come for you too.
by NobodyNada | 2025-09-04 17:16:14+00:00
Sure, but the viral meme aspect is because HK was such a well received game and Silksong has been so highly anticipated for so long, not the other way around. It certainly contributes to the hype today, but memes are not the reason for the initial success of Hollow Knight and the anticipation of Silksong. The memes really took off around 2021-2022 after Silksong had been in development for several years with no release in sight and people started wondering how long of a wait they were in for.
by munk-a | 2025-09-04 17:16:53+00:00
Not from what I've seen - that small incentive is usually outweighed by the immense burden of retraining and finding a good candidate.

It's similar to probationary periods - you'll see a few people fired right at the three month mark but it's usually more of a case of giving that employee grace for the probationary period rather than accelerating a firing that'd happen later.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-04 17:17:14+00:00
> broad as possible with their contracts

have you read any of your company's policys recently?

at one company I could be technically fired for wearing a tracksuit to work.

at a FAANG, one that was very famous for upholding "freedom of expression", could fire me for questioning _in private_ the direction of anyone more senior than me.

Even if those policies are broad and all encompassing, you still need to demonstrate that they were applied correctly, proportionally and reasonably.

You also need to prove that the _policy_ is reasonable as well.

for example you _could_ have a policy where you cannot say anything negative. Good luck trying to prove that its legally reasonable (and that it was applied evenly)
by aurareturn | 2025-09-04 17:17:31+00:00
From my experience in the last few years, AI hasn't caused layoffs in most companies. However, most companies have drastically slowed or stopped hiring. When people voluntarily leave, companies aren't replacing them. Instead, they are asking the remaining people to work a bit harder and a bit smarter with AI.

Based on this, my conclusion isn't that AI is causing job loss. Instead, the ZIRP era ended and then the tariffs threw a wrench into business planning. Tariffs are causing companies to lose confidence in growth so they're hyper conservative.
by echelon | 2025-09-04 17:17:47+00:00
I can't tell you how many designers I interviewed who told me they used the Arc browser. It was at least a dozen.

I'd never heard of the damned thing before.

I don't know why, but it appears to be popular with some creative demographics.

The browser is an essential pane of glass to platformization and taxing the web. Anyone who wins a browser with significant market share has a huge opportunity to capitalize on.

Not sure if Arc is that browser, but lots of teams are trying.

Chrome is shitty on purpose because it is designed to sell ads. Other browsers can sell AI or other things to fund their development.

It's a shame we don't have a good open source browser with decent leadership anymore. I'm sure they'd be killing it. I could swear Mozilla is led by a revolving door of paid off Google plants.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-04 17:18:03+00:00
Who is backing this stablecoin? Who is managing the backing? Where is Tempo located?

Tether has now moved to Bukele's paradise El Salvador and its backing is managed by Howard Lutnick's Cantor Fitzgerald. Previously Tether's funds were managed by Deltec in the Caribbean, a bank with a colorful history.
by godelski | 2025-09-04 17:18:44+00:00
> Having no expectation of privacy in public

This has always been a false narrative. There's always been some expectation of privacy in public. It's just that it got messier. You should expect to not be overheard by walking away from others. You should expect not to be seen by entering the stall of a public restroom. The thing that changed is now we can see without eyes and hear without ears.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-04 17:19:36+00:00
I guess it is good to be aware of what’s possible. But all this stuff about using WiFi to measure things about people—it’s a bit creepy, right? I mean, to state the obvious, we (as a society) have got a bunch of poorly patched or corporate controlled WiFi routers attached to the network. What a surveillance catastrophe waiting to happen.

I mean, heart rate? Do we have a giant network that can tell where everybody is and whether they are having a strong emotional response to anything?
by immibis | 2025-09-04 17:19:41+00:00
No, because you need a continual supply of gas to keep having factories, but once you have a solar field, you have it.

Ther rated lifespan for a solar panel is on the order of 20-30 years, but they're still producing 70-80% of their output after that time. They last a very long time - if not destroyed from above.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-04 17:19:54+00:00
I mean yes, yes it is, but thats clearly a pejorative, where as "i'm only here because of you two dickheads" isnt

If you upgrade it to "you two fucks" it still probably isnt.

"you two caaaaaaants", you would need to test if they are from glasgow or parts of london/essex
by nunez | 2025-09-04 17:19:59+00:00
Initially, I was very ready to buy this. A small notepad that I can carry easily in meetings? Sounds great!

But then I did exactly what they're probably scared of and thought about that impulse some more.

Most people bring either full-on laptops or huge padded notebooks with them into meetings. Me bringing my full-sized reMarkable was never an issue, and writing on it has been glorious. Bringing a smaller device wouldn't net the benefit I initially thought it would.

What I would LOVE to do with a Paper Pro is replace my BOOX Page 7 with it. I use my Page to read books and stuff on Reddit and posts on Hacker News. It works perfectly for this. However, Onyx has a very shady history with Android. They refuse to contribute to Android upstream, their ABIs are closed-source and, IIRC, their devices are stuck on older Android versions due to GMS certification issues. I trust reMarkable much more than I trust Onyx.

Nonetheless, they are dead-set on making their devices purely for note taking, so I have no reason to buy this, as cool as it looks.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-09-04 17:20:33+00:00
Pledges are good. They give executives something to point to when they make short-term less-profitable decisions, and insulate them from shareholder lawsuits. Essentially then (and ESG) are a very lightweight opportunity to drive some long-term decision making into what is otherwise a relentlessly selfish and short term process.

And as the expression goes: who knows, perhaps the horse will learn how to sing.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-04 17:20:37+00:00
It depends on how you define sustained and define excess profits.

Being an unusually effective and well managed company can certainly yield sustained above average returns but that hardly means that is a meaningful barrier to entry - the question at hand.

Ozempic is marked up 200x (20,000%) because they're able to extract monopolistic rents, that's a completely different ballpark of 2x or even 5x markups.

In a fully commoditized industry participants yield average ROIs, in a mature market it's industry dependent but I would consider ranges from 10% to 100% above average ROIs to be reasonably normal. It's when things get to 10x to > 100x that I would consider to be able to extract monopolistic rents. I know I'm mixing up profits (ROIs) with markups on COGs with the issue being that companies extracting monopolistic rents tend to obscure the fact with padded expenses and the financial details needed to calculate Total Production Cost per Unit are generally not available.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-04 17:21:20+00:00
In the past few years I've noticed more and more issues on Wikipedia. It has never been perfect, but in the past it seemed like anything without sufficient sources would quickly get flagged as "citation needed" or questionable statements would get a warning label slapped on them.

Now, I can visit pages for certain medical conditions that contain completely unsourced claims with no "citation needed" nor any warnings. When I try to search for it, I often trace it back to alternative medicine or pseudoscience influencers.

The sad part is that when I've tried to remove obviously flimsy information, someone will immediately come along and add it back. Unless you're ready to spend months in a Wikipedia edit war with someone who obsesses over a page, there's no point in even trying. These people know the rules and processes and will use every one of them against you. When that fails, they'll try to pull rank. If that fails, they'll just quietly continue editing and rewriting (possibly from alt accounts) until you get too tired to fight the battle any more.
Ask HN: Do you know any myopia researchers?
by mieubrisse | 2025-09-04 17:21:35+00:00
Hey folks,

After rounds of doctors were unable to explain some visual symptoms I'm having, I recently started treating my high myopia as I would debug a production system: collecting data, building data pipelines, doing analysis, trying to spot trends.

I'd love to talk to people with deep experience about what I'm doing, but my software engineering networks don't overlap at all with medical researchers.

Does anyone know myopia researchers who'd be interested in this type of data-driven research around high myopia?
by dmonitor | 2025-09-04 17:22:38+00:00
I've come to accept that a large amount of poorly made slop is simply a necessary part of the ecosystem. It means funding is aplenty and new hires have cheap projects to work on. The philosophy of only funding big budget winner projects means every new project is ride or die, and leads to less risk-taking. You need to give projects the opportunity to fail in order to get truly interesting media.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-04 17:22:43+00:00
A lot of knowledge on the hand drawn animation process is actually lost. Studios like Disney and what not did not meticulously write down how this stuff was done. This wasn’t lab work, this was artists with near unilateral control over process with no documentation write up as that takes longer than just not doing that and racing to completion. Assuming the industry would never change and it would never need to be documented on a historical level, and when it did orders from on high preferred work is done in the new style with the new tooling not distribute labor to archiving an old process they aren’t doing anymore just for humanity’s sake.

Sure they’d be happy to answer if you called one of these old animators up to explain the process but there is probably plenty of details they themselves forgot over retirement. Maybe the animators passed away already and that door is closed. Either way there is plenty that isn’t written down.
by swyx | 2025-09-04 17:23:12+00:00
> In short, we believe that systems design is about contracts between reality and reality as we see it; reality as we see it is just a fiction. We believe systems exist in two forms: their actual reality and our fictional understanding of them. To us, the programmers, the system's reality is a fiction; we cannot see it, we can only observe it through additional SRE observability and monitoring mechanisms. To the system, this observability is a fiction. Whether due to tooling problems or just measurement error, the fiction presented via metrics, logs, and traces resembles the system itself, but is decidedly not the system itself.

this is very McLuhan/systemantics of you! all abstractions are leaky, but some abstractions let you look at the leaks.

TIL about setsums - one wonders if `fn setsum([String]) -> Digest` works then "nested setsums" must also work for very large scales.

one thing i missed from this post, which otherwise would score perfect marks for a technology introduciton, is benchmarks vs your comparisons on warpstream and friends.
by pornel | 2025-09-04 17:23:18+00:00
This uses blockchain only for marketing buzzwords.

Stablecoins require trusting that the coin issuer doesn't print money. This goes against the core premise of blockchain being trustless!

This is just a payment API with extra steps (all of the integrity and identity features use cryptography that works without blockchain, unless your definition of blockchain is broad enough to include git and matrix chats, then the stripe thing is a blockchain too).
by rawgabbit | 2025-09-04 17:23:37+00:00
When I was young, my relatives would make fun of me. Saying I had a lot of book learning but yet to experience the absurdity of the real world. Wait, they said, when I try to apply my fancy book learning to a world controlled by good ole boys, gatekeepers, and double talk. Then I will learn reality is different from the idealized world of books.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-04 17:23:37+00:00
This API is pretty useful for writing web apps that also work offline/with bad connectivity. It saves you from re-implementing the browser fetching/resource loading logic the browser already does for you.

It's very powerful, which also makes it a footgun: you can end up with fetch() requests going out over the network, with server responses saying one thing, but the frontend receiving something completely differently.

As for examples, I believe Home Assistant uses it to cache pretty much every resource in the frontend pre-emptively so you can use the web UI even if your internet connection is down (but your connection to your home server isn't).