MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by a5c11 | 2025-09-05 09:55:09+00:00
When I'm working, I'm focused on the task. When I'm driving, I'm focused on the road. In the gym, I'm focused on doing exercises properly. I don't fancy listening to talks mindlessly. What's the point? If I need background that doesn't need my attention, I have a collection of various noises and electronic music.

> dedicate time of my day

Saving precious 5 minutes on reading, just to spend them later on Instagram reels.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-05 09:57:16+00:00
I think you misunderstood parent's (admittedly poorly illustrated) point.

As someone who grew up mostly before cell phones, it forced a greater level of planning, responsibility, and freedom on me than kids now normally experience.

I'd often call my parents (gasp! Remembering my house phone number!) to adjust plans, by telling them where I'd be for how long. And generally, they had no problem with it.

I laugh thinking about the absolute fucking nuclear meltdown a lot of helicopter parents would have today at middle schoolers saying "I'll be over at this friend's house for the day. Will give you a call closer to dinner. If you want me, call their house phone, but we might be out in the neighborhood or woods."
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-05 09:57:31+00:00
I've seen R&D demos of universal subtitling and translating, in video conferencing, but it doesn't seem to have taken off or it's hidden behind more paywalls. I did suggest that people use good microphones when giving presentations over MS Teams for the purpose of transcriptions, archiving, searchability and AI summarization, but real time translating would be the other use case.

That said, I don't believe it would work as smoothly if used in AR, as speaking and reading are two different brain things. Plus, if it's aimed at older people, they likely have sight issues too.

To a point this is already possible, just ask people to speak into your phone with e.g. Google Translate or some other text-to-speech engine. But that's awkward, because it's a context switch to a device and the processing time required.
by sfRattan | 2025-09-05 09:57:44+00:00
> You would argue...

I would? Are you sure? Please don't put words in my mouth.

Is your hypothetical an invasion of privacy? Yes.

Is it enslavement of the duplicate? Very probably, yes. You don't specify what the corporation will do next, but I don't see how they'll avoid it.

Is it theft of my knowledge and experience? No. I'm not deprived of them, and would still have them after.

Is it copyright infringment? Possibly, but not necessarily of "my" copyright. I remember plenty of copyrighted music and can hum it on a whim. Presumably the duplicate could do so also, so that music has been copied, along with rest of me.

You've made a rather wild jump from the inanimate to the sentient and from deprivation of specific property to deprivation of natural rights. And you've genuinely lost me with what this hypothetical is even supposed to prove.

Again, it's possible for things to not be theft and also still be wrong for other reasons. Theft is a specific wrong. Words have distinct meanings.
by happymellon | 2025-09-05 09:57:48+00:00
The rules can be whatever they want them to be.

Block adult sites by default (much like a lot of phone companies already do) and the account owner can go in a make changes.

You only need one kid with a fake id that works, or for them to discover AI that can fake faces on a webcam to potentially expose all their friends...

Lazyness is a terrible excuse
by akimbostrawman | 2025-09-05 09:58:19+00:00
>If you want to be censorship resistant, stick to decentralized blockchains (ethereum + bitcoin)

Both of these are the antithesis to censorship resistance because not only are all transactions publicly tracable but also non-fungible making censorship not only possible but viable on a large scale.

https://cryptodefendersalliance.com/blacklist

Monero is actual censorship resistant currency.

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/fungibility....
by jpalomaki | 2025-09-05 09:58:27+00:00
This is something we need. Europe relies way too much on US companies for hosting critical apps in cloud.

In large cloud environments it's about who controls the data, not the physical location. Gigabytes of data can be transferred in seconds to other side of the world. With a flip of a switch it can be totally erased or made inaccessible even to people with physical access to the servers.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-05 09:58:51+00:00
> The fact that both J1772 & CCS2 are 100% universal in Europe is huge.

Funnily enough, not for the Leaf! Though it will be on the third generation that's coming out this year. The second-gen Leaf (a ten year old design, at this point) that the author of the article bought doesn't have it. The EU only mandates CCS2 in _charging points_; manufacturers can still sell cars without it, though I think Nissan may be the only remaining one who _does_.
by torginus | 2025-09-05 09:59:25+00:00
I don't think that's a definition of 'visit' most people would agree with.

I'm actually working on my own language that has a non-moving GC. It uses size classes (so 16 byte objects, 32 byte objects etc.), each of which is allocated in a continous slab of memory. Occupancy is determined by a bitmap, 1 bit for each slot in the slab.

The GC constructs a liveness bitmap for the size class, and the results are ANDed together, 'freeing' the memory. If you fill the slab with dead objects, then run the GC, it will not walk anywhere on this slab, create an all zero liveness bitmap, and free the memory.
by thomasmg | 2025-09-05 10:00:08+00:00
OK, I did not read the source code of the FUGC, but the article mentions "FUGC relies on a sweeping algorithm based on bitvector SIMD." So, assuming there is just one bit per block of memory, then there is no need to visit the memory of the dead objects in the sweep phase. The bit of the dead object is zero, and so that memory block is considered free and available for reallocation. There is no need to visit the free block.
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-05 10:00:38+00:00
$300 will also get me a used mini PC[0] with 2TB of storage[1] I can set up at home in an evening with Navidrome+Audiobookshelf and not have to buy a phone with massive storage at all! :D

And as a bonus everyone in my family can listen to the same collection without having to upgrade to a 1TB phone. And I can use the same source in my car, on my laptop, desktop etc. All without having to waste 400GB of space for music storage on every device.

[0] https://www.ebay.de/itm/156667490633

[1] https://www.ebay.de/itm/296887285188
by olliem36 | 2025-09-05 10:01:57+00:00
Co-founder of Lopay here, we're a small but heavy Stripe user with £1B+ processed across Connect, Terminal, Identity, Instant payouts, Issuing... you name it.

We're looking at stable coins for the following use cases:

1. Instant clearing and settlement of 'floats' & liquidity - EG moving liquidity between our network to support instant/same day payouts or instant funding of a spend card.

2. Instant cross border payments (lots of people doing this already in companies that operate multinationally). EG, our USD top-ups today take 3 days in fiat, which can cause operational issues.

3. Offering our merchants (who are typically small businesses) optionality to hold USD in countries that have volatile currencies.

I'll also note that many people forget that the cost of a payment network isn't merely the movement of money, it's also KYC, dispute resolution, fraud prevention etc...

I wonder if the tempo team has looked at AI automating dispute resolution and fraud detection/prevention 'on chain'.. The network could fund the compute required for the AI to complete these tasks.
by lesostep | 2025-09-05 10:02:03+00:00
>> But the distinction is that in-group requires blind obedience in authoritarian countries

That's not true. It requires wilful ignorance in some cases, but sometimes not even that.

Take, for example, russian troll farms. They initially were made to shift in-group opinion, because in-group started to a. get mad at Putin, b. reaching the conclusion that most of the in-group was dissatisfied and something had to be done.

Small forums in Russia (and HN is a small forum) aren't even monitored, but you can find abusive and violent language towards politicians in big social russian networks pretty easily.

So you can be in-group for authority and think yourself a free-thinker who isn't afraid to say the truth and cyberbully the president.
by jleyank | 2025-09-05 10:02:48+00:00
Are these “excessively paid servers” working 40 hour jobs with benefits, or are they hourly piece-workers without them? Even for younger people, health costs are real and it’s nice to build up something for the future. As the first poster mentioned, if your company depends on lower cost, part time staff it’s profiting from their distress. Particularly if their hours aren’t fixed (limiting their ability to work 2x).

Perhaps there’s just too many delivery services or people who feel cash constrained or aren’t into drinking?
by alabhyajindal | 2025-09-05 10:03:10+00:00
This is not a direct comment on compiler development but on industrial projects in general: how do you begin contributing to something that is so large?

What should a beginner in compiler development, someone who has written a few compilers of their own, do to get involved in a project such as OCaml? I understand this issue is not specific to compilers, but is faced by any sufficiently large project. Still, I think it's an important issue. I believe there are many resources for people to get up and running in a field but not enough for them to make the next jump into industrial projects.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-05 10:03:22+00:00
Taboo exactly; I will freely talk with colleagues and friends about e.g. GTA or action movies; watching movies and playing games is a communal and public thing.

But nobody talks about what they do in the bedroom; nobody goes to a movie theater to watch porn, people are awkward when there's sex scenes in films (and mainstream films have stopped having them altogether it seems), teenagers run away if their parents ever broach the subject, etcetera.
by sillyfluke | 2025-09-05 10:03:37+00:00
Don't really follow the secondhand EV market, but it seems to me firsthand buyers are still taking on considerable risk due to the range situation. People who have bought them abroad are sometimes advised to keep the battery between 20%-80-90% full. Following this advice, one person I know told me if they drive like they did their old car they have to recharge after roughly 170 miles, which is super annoying for them if they're driving over 500 miles on a trip. They regret buying the car they bought. When and if there is a sudden jump in range innovation that reaches the entire market and not just flagship brands, I don't see how these cars driven now won't be dead weight or dirt cheap. It seems super risky to keep one of these cars more than a couple of years.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-05 10:03:57+00:00
For practical purposes it is a 15 year old design; it had a minor update 8 years ago, but was not brought up to date with the norms of the time (in particular, the passively cooled battery).

This was the very first mass-market electric car, with only minor tweaks. It's not surprising that it's a bit rough around the edges. That's part of why they're cheap second-hand (along with the fact that the 3rd gen, which actually is a proper redesign, is coming out this year).
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-05 10:04:22+00:00
It's not a lack of standards, it was an early proliferation of standards.

Chademo is still standard in Japan.

Also, given his comparison to the ease of the old way, in Europe at least it's fairly standard to know someone who has filled their hire car with diesel (or not diesel) by mistake. They have warning stickers on the filler flap because it happens so often.

Meanwhile knowing someone who uses the inexplicably more expensive premium fuel option also offered is maybe rarer.

Maybe EV-owning car reviewers should counter the FUD by pretending to be confused by these, always using the most expensive one in price comparisons and then breaking the car completely by using the wrong one during their test drive, like the many propaganda pieces put out about EVs.
by kubb | 2025-09-05 10:05:00+00:00
This is an astute observation, and if I may I’d like to add to it.

When evaluating a news source for whether it’s unbiased, left or right, we necessarily look at the stories it presents and check whether they align with and present in a positive light a particular political option.

We call it „unbiased” if it doesn’t particularly favor any of these.

We’re already in the realm of US electoral politics - for a second we can assume that nothing else exists.

In 2016 the political landscape shifted drammatically and presenting the „right wing” option in a favorable light required certain concessions when it comes to previous journalistic standards.

So, just by sticking to its previous guidelines, the AP would automatically shift to the „left” - because the landscape changes.

It would be more accurate to say that the world shifted underneath AP’s lense and so it immediately started being perceived as left wing.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-05 10:05:36+00:00
> I'd also argue the study mentioned in the article is unfair. Not understanding English from the early 1800's doesn't make you an idiot... ...than old English.

Disagree. The subjects were "Students of literature at two American universities". They are supposed to be quite used to reading and explaining flowery, metaphorical, and older language. This is comparable to a supposed PHP programmer being flummoxed by a few hundred lines of messy PHP 5 code. Or an American History teacher who doesn't know Lee from Grant.

Pedantic Notes:

- For those unfamiliar, "Old English" is a specific thing. It fell out of use around 1150, and is seriously unreadable if you only know Modern English - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English#The_Lord's_Prayer Vs. "Modern English" was used from (roughly) 1650 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_English Shakespeare wrote from 1585 to 1613, and is still quite understandable.

- "Bleak House" was written in the early 1850's.

EDIT: But I definitely agree with you about far too many books being stuffed with filler fluff. And that it's for commercial reasons - what market is there, these days, for 25 to 50 page works? Outside of recommendations for a very short list of people, I just don't buy books without spending a half hour skimming and reading them.
Show HN: I got tired of Googling every landmark, so I built an AI audio guide
by morozred | 2025-09-05 10:06:25+00:00
Hi HN!

My name is Grigory, I'm a backend developer from 9 to 5, but I'm also hacking stuff on the side, though I never reached the point of actually releasing anything. But now it's over and I decided to share the product I recently built.

Every time I walked through an interesting neighborhood, I'd stop every few blocks to Google buildings, statues, or street names. Felt like I was missing the flow of exploration. It also takes time to find facts that are actually interesting and not just dates or numbers. E.g. I'm not always keen to know when this was built, but rather if it has some story to it or if some movie was shot here.

So I built Waytale – an AI audio guide that automatically plays contextual stories as you walk past landmarks. No interaction needed. You can also trigger them manually if needed.

The core technical challenge: finding a way to get stories that aren't hallucinated by AI. Turns out it's not that easy.

Using Rails + Sidekiq + SwiftUI stack. AI generates different narrations for the same location based on selected "personality" (for kids, local friend, storyteller).

I went with Hetzner for hosting, was quite a nice switch from the usual AWS stack, got me back to the good ol' times.

Key learnings I want to share:

1. Marketing is really hard, getting things out there is just a 10% of a success 2. Communicate more and be nice, even if you're anxious about it, don't be shy, getting out of this shell helps a lot. 3. Try new things, while building it I learned so much that it's already feels like a success. We tend to lock in on our stacks at work, we deploy to same servers over and over and we forget how cool it is when you can control everything and dashboard does not look like a spaceship control panel.

And finally, free tier gives you 3 POI per city, then city unlock model ($3-10 per city).

I have quite a lot of ideas on how to improve it, but for now would appreciate any feedback you have. Please don't hesitate to let me know which city you want to see there.

Try it: https://waytale.app
by quectophoton | 2025-09-05 10:06:36+00:00
Nowadays it's mostly inertia.

But I think it all began with disliking systemd and at the same time being obsessed with ricing and minimalism. Tiling window managers, simple terminals, LuaKit as a web browser (!), stuff like that.

Back then I was young and had very strong opinions, and also had the time to be switching OS whenever I wanted, and apparently I didn't mind setting up stuff again and again (ugh). My first choice was actually Artix Linux, but it broke at some point. I was already using Alpine Linux and FreeBSD in VPSs (Linode and Digital Ocean respectively), and they were still working fine so they seemed stable enough, so I started experimenting with installing FreeBSD locally and just setting up i3wm on it (also Poudriere got me curious about compiling packages by myself with only the flags I needed). Then when I got a laptop I went with Alpine Linux there, it was already a minimal distro that I was familiar with, so if I could get i3wm working there it should be good enough.

And I have survived with them so far with no reason to change, so it's probably just coincidence that I was using Alpine Linux (and FreeBSD) when I decided to "settle down".

But like I said, today it's mostly inertia, just a personal preference thing like buying Ketchup from a specific brand whenever possible because I'm most used to how this one tastes but no big deal if it's not available. It hasn't given me any surprises or any annoyances big enough for me to seriously consider switching.

I do have Linux Mint on a third[1] computer tho, mostly for Steam, but ready to be quickly repurposed in case of any surprises.

I still have some leftover dislike of systemd and its scope creep, but it's not a religious dislike like back then; today it's similar to a "why does this website have 20MB of JavaScript just to show text and why does it ask for my location"-kind of dislike, but back then was like "the GNU Project declaring war against any software that doesn't use specifically a GNU license even if that software has an OSI-approved license"-kind of dislike. Recently when I used Hetzner for some stuff and found out they don't have Alpine Linux or FreeBSD as (easy) choices, I was like "oh well, Fedora it is".

So yeah, there you have it.

[1]: Why a third computer? Well, you can thank two spicy pillow incidents for that. Don't buy Medion laptops.
by latexr | 2025-09-05 10:06:53+00:00
> One of the many pressing issues is that people believe that ownership of content should be absolute, that hammer makers should be able to dictate what is made with hammers they sell.

You’re conflating and confusing two different concepts. “Content” is not a tool. Content is like a meal, it’s a finished product meant to be consumed; a tool, like a hammer, is used to create something else, the content which will then be consumed. You’re comparing a JPEG to Photoshop.

You can remix content, but to do that you use a tool and the result is related but different content.

> Content belongs to everyone.

Even if we conceded that point, that still wouldn’t excuse the way in which these companies are going about getting the content, hammering every page of every website with badly-behaved scrapers. They are bringing websites down and increasing costs for their maintainers, meaning other people have limited or no access to it. If “content belongs to everyone”, then they don’t have the right to prevent everyone else from accessing it.

I agree current copyright law is toxic and harmful to culture and society, but that doesn’t make what these companies are doing acceptable. The way to counter a bad system is not to shit on it from a different angle.
by bawolff | 2025-09-05 10:06:56+00:00
Trying to google this i found https://lwn.net/Articles/718102/ which suggests that there was discussion about it back in 2017. But i can't find anything else about it except a patchset that i guess wasnt merged (?). So maybe it was just a proposal that never made it in.

Honestly i never knew any of this i thought huge pages just worked for all of mmap.
by Yizahi | 2025-09-05 10:06:58+00:00
My point was not that government is better or worse than corporate oligarchy in a question of governing. It's all the same people, same humans, just with different labels.

My point was that free market is kinda like unstable isotope, it can't exist for any significant length of time and will decay into a government. As soon as some corporation starts dictating its rules to an unrelated people, we can call it a proto-government. The department responsible for those unrelated people would be a proto-executive branch, the law department would be a proto-legislative branch etc.

And to address your second comment, about competition:

Competition can't work in the free market. The instant external control ceases to exist, the most shrewd and smart players would start employing all kinds of currently illegal shit. They will buy out all media and platform to blast their ads 24/7 and disallow all competition. They will swithch to currently banned practices and materials to save costs and undercut competitors. They will switch to slave work to save costs etc. As soon as one player becomes relatively bigger the rules of free market will allow him to accumulate more and more benefits of the kind I've described. Any competition would be woefully behind, outdated and overpriced relative to the bigger player. And that's assuming elastic market. As soon as market for some goods becomes inelastic, bigger player can do even more damage. For example they can completely buy out some resource or manufacturing capacity of a crucial component or resource and completely deny it to the competitors.

Basically the whole human history and law corpus is a list of examples how free market failed and how humans had to fix it via restrictions.
by diggan | 2025-09-05 10:09:03+00:00
Seems that'd be easy to confirm, and also seems unlikely to be the reason because of the supposed limits in place.

> Customers can turn Sidewalk on or off at any time from Control Center in the Ring app or Account Settings in the Alexa app

> The maximum bandwidth of a Sidewalk Bridge to the Sidewalk server is 80Kbps, which is about 1/40th of the bandwidth used to stream a typical high definition video. Today, when you share your Bridge’s connection with Sidewalk, total monthly data used by Sidewalk, per account, is capped at 500MB, which is equivalent to streaming about 10 minutes of high definition video.
by tcldr | 2025-09-05 10:09:18+00:00
Hetzner's great, and I'm a customer, but we're missing lots of stuff there – and some of the stuff that is there isn't reliable.

For example:

* Object storage: lots of horror stories out there regarding flakey performance so hard to justify sticking mission critical stuff there.

* Private networking: Again, too many anecdotes about loss of service. Lots of people just using the public IP6 interfaces to avoid their private networking entirely. And private networks are IP4 only.

* Kubernetes CSI: I've had issues with this where a PV gets in some locked state and I can't remove from console.

I'd love to see more competition here.