MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 00:12:33+00:00
> Australian dollar has gone up about 20% vs the American dollar since Trump

Which makes it garbage for transacting if you’re paid in or pay with any other currency.

Modern currencies split their store of value and medium of exchange components. Stablecoins (and credit cards and checking accounts) seize on the latter. Bitcoins (and Treasuries and money-market funds) the former.
by marxism | 2025-09-26 00:12:42+00:00
I'm working on Happy Coder, an open source Codex and Claude Code native mobile app (plus a web app).

Happy lets you spawn and control multiple Codex/Claude Code sessions in parallel. Happy Coder runs on your hardware, works from your phone and desktop, costs nothing, End to End encrypted, and permissive MIT License.

https://github.com/slopus/happy

Happy Coder is a unix style "do one thing well" project.

The goal is zero workflow disruption. I want to be able to run CLI coding agents on any internet connected computer, and control them with my phone. Happy has a command line wrapper for Codex and Claude Code that let you start a session in your terminal, and then continue it from your phone with real time sync. So type in your terminal and see it on the phone, type into your phone and see it in your terminal. So you can switch back and forth.

There is an optional voice agent some contributors have been hacking on that lets you talk to the voice agent first, and the voice agent then writes prompts for Codex/Claude Code and answers questions about what the coding agent running on your computer is doing/did. The voice agent feature is pretty neat, but in my opinion needs a bit more iteration, so any ideas or help would be awesome.
by PeterFBell | 2025-09-26 00:12:53+00:00
I have been coding on and off (more off than on) for 47 years. I kinda stopped paying attention when we got past jquery and was never a fan of prototypical inheritance. Never built anything with tailwind, Next.js, etc. After spending some time writing copy, user stories and a design brief (all iterative with ChatGPT) cursor one shot my (simple) web app and I was live (once I'd spent a couple hours documenting my requirements and writing my copy) in 20 minutes of vibe coding.

I've been adding small features in a language I don't program in using libraries I'm not familiar with thhat meet my modest functional requirements in a couple minutes each. I work with an LLM to refine my prompt, put it into cursor, run the app locally, look at the diffs, commit, push and I'm live on vercel within a minute or two.

I don't have any good metrics for productivity, so I'm 100% subjective but I can say that even if I'd been building in Rails (it's been ~4 years but I coded in it for a decade) it would have taken me at least 8 hours to have an app where I was happy with both the functionality and the look and feel so a 10x improvement in productivity for that task feels about right.

And having a "buddy" I can discuss a project with makes activation energy lower allowing me to complete more.

Also, YC videos I don't have the time to watch, I get a transcript, feed into chatGTP, ask for the key take aways I could apply to my business (it's in a project where it has context on stage, industry, maturity, business goals, key challenges, etc) so I get the benefits of 90 minutes of listening plus maybe 15 minutes of summarizing, reviewing and synthesis in typically 5-6 minutes - and it'd be quicker if I built a pipeline (something I'm vibe coding next month)

Wouldn't want to do business without it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 00:14:41+00:00
> Anyone know whether they already have approval

No indication they have.

“Stablecoins could be issued by banks and credit unions (through subsidiaries) or nonbanks. Nonbanks would be restricted to financial firms unless the Treasury Secretary and chairs of the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)—referred to as the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee (SCRC)—unanimously find they do not pose risks to the banking or financial system and will comply with certain requirements.”

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12553
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-26 00:14:45+00:00
If I click on a search result and it shows me a CloudFlare CAPTCHA I leave. Immediately and permanently. I get what you are saying but also you will not get a dime from me if I have to waste my time solving a CAPTCHA prompt that half the time is so broken it just gets stuck in a loop.

I guess whatever revenue you lose you make up for in a lower hosting bill. I just go to your competitor that doesn’t have the horrible UX. Usually those websites also tend to have much more optimized web pages too so it is an all around better experience.
by Scramblejams | 2025-09-26 00:15:09+00:00
Apologies for repeating myself all over this part of the thread, but the vulnerabilities here are something that Podman and Docker can't really do anything about as long as they're sharing a kernel between containers.

The vulnerability is in kernel syscalls. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32319067

If you're going to make containers hard to escape, you have to host them under a hypervisor that keeps them apart. Firecracker was invented for this. If Docker could be made unescapable on its own, AWS wouldn't need to run their container workloads under Firecracker.
by rajit | 2025-09-26 00:15:30+00:00
This is a great point. I'm assuming when you mention blast radius you're mentioning the risk of the account being banned for being a bot.

One risk with these new standards for agent auth - which we will of course support if our customers want it - is that the websites that need them the most are the least likely to adopt them.

The main use cases for browser agents are for paying utility bills on old government websites or finding receipts for an expense report on a website without an API. There is a no reason to use browser agents on a website like Linear for example. A developer is better off integrating via API or MCP.

Therein lies the main challenge; the websites where browser agents are most useful are the same websites that are least likely to adopt new technology (it was their not adopting new technologies that made them good candidates for this browser agents in the first place).

I think this new standard is awesome, but I fear that the websites that support it will be those websites that didn't need it in the first place (because they could just as easily add an API).
by jashmota | 2025-09-26 00:15:47+00:00
These are really really interesting thoughts around the remote teleop interface. A few things you mentioned have been on my mind. Teleop UX is underdeveloped and its affects is underestimated, and it could turn out to be a huge thing for us and humanoid companies if autonomy is harder than it seems now. I don't believe construction equipment operation today is optimal. We just go with it as that's what we have. It's far from intuitive and easy for a newbie to start operating to give some context and requires hours of practice. There would be a bit of training to be done for remote teleop as well. Might as well make it easy to interface and improve on the existing experience, which hasn't really evolved for years and decades!

I'd like to have a chat with you if you're up for it: contact at useflywheel dot ai
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-26 00:17:22+00:00
> I've worked with engineers like this, who have a massive god-complex.

Championing collaboration in a team environment where members are employed for their skills is to acknowledge the value of those members. How you equate this to "a massive god-complex" is a mystery to me.

> If you think your job is to second guess your manager's knowledge and experience, why are you working under them?

Again, collaboration is not "second guessing." It is an effective technique used to identify and pursue an optimal approach given the information known at the time.

> You should be working as a manager somewhere else.

Don't "should" on me. "Should" in the bathroom and wash your hands afterward.

> You are not a peer, you're part of a team reporting into a person that company has entrusted to lead the team.

Management is a personnel role, not a subject matter expert role. Many excellent managers do not possess the skills or domain expertise of those they manage. The great managers I have had the pleasure to work with would freely admit this if asked.

That you imply an organization chart reflects the ability to make informed expert decisions based on where one resides in same confirms to me a myopic understanding of management in general, let alone "how to lead in a room full of experts."
by Herring | 2025-09-26 00:17:48+00:00
They’re quite correlated….

It’s hard for a country to take very good care of its citizens (healthcare, free education, social security, economic opportunity, work-life balance, access to nature) at the Finland level then turn around and persecute immigrants. It just doesn’t happen. It takes a lot of goodwill and trust (in citizens, politics, institutions) to get all that to work. Then clearly they’re also trying to attract immigrants, they can’t turn around and start locking them up.

Look at the history of Europe (colonialism), what usually happens is they practice and fine-tune atrocities outside then import them. Bush and Iraq as a prelude to Trump.
by epcoa | 2025-09-26 00:17:51+00:00
Maybe I should have said 5%. 90% was a made up threshold. How close are we to even a basic “level 5”, ED doc puts in order for indication: “concern for sepsis, lol”, rad tech does their thing and a finished read appears, with no additional human involved except for maybe a review but not even 50% of the time is any addendum needed.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-26 00:18:03+00:00
You are the person focusing on complaining specifically. I stated that the Nordics are far from being the happiest people in the world, and that is not by counting how much people complain.

> This is inherently paradoxical and hence nonsensical. If you successfully convince yourself that you are happy, you are happy.

If people are visibly unhappy but tell you that they are very happy, that doesn't mean that they've become happy by convincing themselves. That's like a guy screaming and punching you while he's saying that he's very calm. It's not reality, it's delusion.

When somebody successfully convinces themselves to be happy, they don't continue their lives showing all the behaviour and attitudes of an unhappy person. You can also outwardly tell that they are happy.

> That you think you know better than people themselves whether they are happy is just rude and insulting.

Oh, the insolence!
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-26 00:18:07+00:00
Looks like I need to become a literal ISP then.

Before I even start this bureaucratic process, I need to create an actual organization. Then I need to be assigned an ASN. Only then I'll be allowed to beg them for IPs. Once all that's taken care of, I need to tell them things like what the IPs will be used for and what my infrastructure is. If they like my answer, then they'll approve my request and finally tell me what the prices are.
by diego_moita | 2025-09-26 00:18:24+00:00
> My understanding is that for centuries after Bach's death, they were disregarded.

Not exactly.

Bach died in 1750. At this time the "market" for music was going through big changes. In Bach's time the main customers for music were courts of barons and kings and municipalities. That's the career he had, a musikmeister.

But look deeper and you'll see an economic landscape changing: the rise of cities, merchants, financial capitalism, etc. A bourgeoisie was rising and consuming music in concert rooms, opera houses and for private playing. But this bourgeoisie had different tastes. They didn't have a deep musical instruction so they preferred more "pop" music: easy to listen, easy to play, easy to follow. Bach's music is the opposite of it. It was out of fashion.

Bach's sons followed this simplified style. Most of all, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach was big into it. He got so good at this that he became an instructor and mentor to both Mozart and Haydn.

But Carl never stopped adoring his father music and used Johan Sebastian Bach (his dad) material for teaching. So J.S. Bach was widely known and venerated among musicians, including Beethoven.

However, the public recognition of Bach's worth only began when Mendelssohn made public presentations of his masses, in 1829. But this was 37 years before Pablo Casals was born.
by zzrrt | 2025-09-26 00:19:13+00:00
> The problem with this is you can deny someone's service very easily

I can’t tell if you’re already saying this, but that’s a problem regardless of whether they suspend charges for your subscription at the time you’re locked out. They only need to ensure the suspension can smoothly be undone when you regain access.

It might be tricky if there are services being provided that don’t require you to log in to receive. But in this case it seems pretty clear Prime should not charge you if you also have no way to access it due to them blocking you.
by nickysielicki | 2025-09-26 00:19:25+00:00
Dear whiners: the reason the internet sucks today is because this didn’t already exist. Do you know why Reddit did their horrible redesign and locked down their apps? It wasn’t because you didn’t complain loudly enough, it was because their shareholders were concerned about losing out on profits from data scraping AI companies. Do you know why Twitter can’t be read without logging in? It’s because their shareholders were concerned about losing out on profits from data scraping AI companies. Do you know why you don’t click Quora links? Because they don’t serve you useful results, because they’re concerned about losing profits from data scraping AI companies. Do you see the pattern here?

The open internet died a very long time ago. It’s been dead for years. It’s not coming back unless we figure out a way to make shareholders happy. Paying these companies for the content they host is how that happens.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-09-26 00:20:03+00:00
Files in nested folders are primarily an abstraction for humans. They are a maximally flexible and customizable system. This has substantial costs (especially in environments with parallel work). As such, no one really has millions of pieces of fully separate, unstructured, hierarchical data. Once you have that much data, there is almost always additional structure that would be better represented in something like a database where you can actually express the invariants that you have.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 00:20:17+00:00
> note that POTUS has full access to the IRS records. Except he doesn’t

He hasn’t asked for it. I strongly doubt if he can control the Fed and FTC that the IRS will somehow be a red line.

> ideally you’d be able to get a foreign central bank account too

Oh goodie, what I need in my life is the CCP being able to blackmail me.
by aetherspawn | 2025-09-26 00:20:20+00:00
Now that it’s possible, for anyone looking to start a new FOSS project… I would like if someone could please make a serverless spam catcher service that runs on workers so we can host it in front of self hosted email.

Something like:

- Blacklists/whitelists and wildcards

- Phishing detection

- Spam digest/rollup spam into single email every day with buttons to release

- Virus scanning of attachments

- Replace inbound links with hosted link previews/malware scans

Strategically looking to get off the MS email stack, but this is a big part of it.
by jaflo | 2025-09-26 00:20:54+00:00
The page accompanies a blog post about how many images have alt text on Bluesky so empty lines are included to give a feel for how many images do or don't have the descriptions: https://digitalseams.com/blog/image-descriptions-on-bluesky

> This demo is part of Image descriptions on Bluesky: not bad, could be better - see the blog post for more details!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-26 00:21:08+00:00
How is Intel doing these days? They have already kicked out one poor performing CEO and no company wants to use Intel for chip fabs. Nvidia is partnering with Intel on design - not fabrication.

How much do you want to bet that in four years nothing he did will have made a difference and Trump is going to undo it? That wouldn’t have been an issue if Biden had stepped aside and announced he wasn’t going to run for reelection earlier. Again results count. The few things he “accomplished” are going to be undone because he didnt step aside.

And all of his “prescription reforms” weren’t put into law and were easy to undo by the next administration.

The Republicans no matter how hard they try can’t kill the ACA and are probably going to vote to increase funding. The ACA would have been a lot easier to kill if Obama hadn’t won reelection. Biden should have known he couldn’t win.
by l33tbro | 2025-09-26 00:21:11+00:00
All 5g gay frogs aside, this a power problem and not really a people problem. How many establishment institutions are left that citizens would wish to enthusiastically uphold? We have come to almost expect corruption and these days.

This isn't a justification for irrational conspiracy theory (which are generally harmless, yet occasionally highly catastrophic). It's that the establishment whack-em-all approach is not working, and is probably exacerbating their problem.
by efskap | 2025-09-26 00:21:33+00:00
Yup, people have been using local video models like Wan2.2 to generate stills, finding that for some things like human anatomy, it can outperform image generation models. Very cool how moving training data helps build spatial understanding that is applicable even to still images.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1mcm7qm/wa...
by jacobolus | 2025-09-26 00:21:40+00:00
You seem to be singularly focused on VC funding for startups and decision-making by managers inside large tech companies as your metric of how the US economy is doing. In my opinion this is a poor criterion for analyzing the success of national political parties, since political changes have only limited influence on these, and they are in conflict with improving many other parts of the economy affecting much larger numbers of people.

By a wide range of economic metrics, the US economy during the Biden administration was incredibly successful. We somehow managed to reign in inflation caused by the follow-on disruptions coming from Covid pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine war, while maintaining full employment and avoiding negative economic effects expected by most economists. Real wages went up. Federal investments set up long-term gains for US manufacturing. The US economy did better than just about every other industrialized economy in the world during the same time period.

Blaming Biden for the following administration doing everything it can to trash the economy and reverse every bit of progress he made is ridiculous. It's like blaming the fire department for the actions of an arsonist. Again, if you want sweeping legislation and long-term commitment to policy changes, you need to elect (and keep electing) enough votes in Congress.
by drewg123 | 2025-09-26 00:21:47+00:00
Alpha died because HP decided that Itanium was the one true processor and killed PA-RISC and Alpha (which it had acquired) in favor of itanic. I'd love to live in a world where Alpha had been free to compete on merit. Who knows, maybe we'd all be running Alpha desktops and laptops.

DEC was (slowly) on its way to making alpha mass-market. Around the time of the Compaq acquisition, they started offering the CPU to 3rd parties to design their own boards. One example is the API UP1000, which had an AMD irongate chipset and an EV6 CPU. (I had an early sample that I ported FreeBSD/alpha to). Alpha was the only somewhat popular non-x86 platform that Windows NT ran on. FX!32 made it possible to run x86 apps, like Rosetta on Apple M4. Alpha was the first non-x86 linux port.. I was at the USENIX where John "Maddog" Hall gave Linus an Alpha (I think it was a Multia) Alpha was also the first 64-bit FreeBSD port (which I contributed to), and paved the way for amd64.

Alpha had a HUGE amount of momentum when HP summarily executed it. I still hate HP with a passion, and I still won't buy anything from them, 20+ years later.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-09-26 00:21:48+00:00
Those capabilities have been in a much smaller slab you have been able to carry around in your pocket for the last 5 years minimum, and that slab was a fully functional computer with full touchscreen display input, microphone/speaker, and cellular.

The Samsung S20 Ultra (2020) has 16gb RAM 256GB of good fast storage, and with Dex you can connect it to a monitor and keyboard+mouse via a USB C dock and get a desktop window environment.

Of course the RPi costs less, but marvel over that, not the form or compactness. RPi innovated on cost, but this capacity in this form is everywhere. They don't even use most of the space inside the keyboard, the compute module is all the size of a smartphone.
by 000ooo000 | 2025-09-26 00:21:59+00:00
The first thing to know about genuine friendships is that they usually don't form when forced. Sticking 6 devs from different cultures, generations and seniorities in a room and saying "ok be friends now" is wishful thinking, the kind of simplistic shit you usually get out of management. To think that RTO is a solution to this is naive, sorry to be blunt. It has far more to do with who you hire. Lazy/incompetent management would prefer the easier RTO mandate, as usual.
by dkarl | 2025-09-26 00:22:01+00:00
Risks in traditional medicine are standardized by standardized training and credentialing. We haven't established ways to evaluate the risks of transferring diagnostic responsibility to AIs.

> All that is needed is an external actor to take the risk and show a step change improvement

Who's going to benefit? Doctors might prioritize the security of their livelihood over access to care. Capital will certainly prioritize the bottom line over life and death[0].

The cynical take is that for the time being, doctors will hold back progress, until capital finds a way to pay them off. Then capital will control AI and control diagnosis, letting them decide who is sick and what kind of care they need.

The optimistic take is that doctors maintain control but embrace AI and use it to increase the standard of care, but like you point out, the pace of that might be generational instead of keeping pace with technological progress.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/death-rates-rose-hospit...
by II2II | 2025-09-26 00:23:09+00:00
> Intel has a long history of sucking, and other people stepping in to force them to get better. Their success has been accident and intervention over and over.

If one can take popular histories of Intel at face value, they have had enough accidental successes, avoided enough failures, and outright failed so many times that they really ought to know better.

The Itanium wasn't their first attempt to create an incompatible architecture, and it sounds like it was incredibly successful compared to the iAPX 432. Intel never intended to get into microprocessors, wanting to focus on memory instead. Yet they picked up a couple of contracts (which produced the 4004 and 8008) to survive until they reached their actual goal. Not only did it help the company at the time, but it proved essential to the survival of the company when the Japanese semiconductor industry nearly obliterated American memory manufacturers. On the flip side, the 8080 was source compatible with the 8008. Source compatibility would help sell it to users of the 8008. It sounds like the story behind the 8086 is similar, albeit with a twist: not only did it lead to Intel's success when it was adopted by IBM for the PC, but it was intended as a stopgap measure while the iAPX 432 was produced.

This, of course, is a much abbreviated list. It is also impossible to suggest where Intel would be if they made different decisions, since they produced an abundance of other products. We simply don't hear much about them because they were dwarfed by the 80x86 or simply didn't have the public profile of the 80x86 (for example: they produced some popular microcontrollers).