MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Miraktt | 2025-09-10 00:56:23+00:00
Renderly - AI website generator that creates complete websites from business descriptions via text input or uploaded documents (Pdfs/txts/docx). Also has multiple layout themes, smart color palette suggestions, and a BrandKit system that learns your preferences. Takes about 5 minutes to generate deploy ready Html files with css and js.

Demo: https://mirak004-renderly.hf.space/ Sample output: https://mirak004-renderly.hf.space/generated-website

RefactorBiz - AI business intelligence platform with role-specific tools for executives. Instead of generic ChatGPT responses, it provides different analysis based on whether you're a CEO, CTO, CMO, CFO, etc. Has 75+ specialized features across these roles.

Demo: https://mirak004-refactorbiz.hf.space/

Disclaimers: - Renderly UI has heavy animations, Doesn't suit you, prefer to skip. - These are typical HuggingFace Space links (safe but understand if you prefer to skip) - Both are pre-revenue side projects, not funded companies - Built by one person, not a team

Looking for honest feedback on whether these address real problems or not. Thanks for any insights.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-10 00:57:32+00:00
This! This right here. It bothers me how someone can be bothered at the prospect of having to keep paying Apple more and more and more. Must an anti-extreme-innovation person. I am just waiting for the day when Apple makes a travelling generator to charge that MagSafe battery and of course those special plugs (don't forget the wire™) and stands that will be proprietary and mandatory with that (if you don't want to void the warranty or risk getting sued by Apple for publicly endangering tech made by them).
by dragontamer | 2025-09-10 00:59:09+00:00
I assume that's what Sharp Memory LCDs are doing to reach their absurdly low power specs.

I dunno if LCD screens are multiplexed, but embedded LCDs could need as many as 8x on/off cycles per pixel (because you save 87% fewer wires if you chain 8x pixels on the same line and then put them on different biases and have weird COMmon pins and rows and crap).

Sharp claims that a bit of storage is on each LCD/capacitor and this saves power somehow with smarter decision making. I assume it's minimizing the wasted power somehow (or even recycling the previous power shoved into the capacitor, which typically just goes to waste).

It's some proprietary formula in any case, so it's all guesswork. Only the Sharp Engineer/Inventor would know for sure.
by andrewflnr | 2025-09-10 00:59:13+00:00
The linked paper is open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...

Among other things, it contains details on what amphiphiles might actually be present on Titan, a very nice set of diagrams explaining their proposed process, and proposals for lab experiments to verify whether the process is possible. I've had a soft spot for the vesicle-first theory of abiogenesis since I first heard of it, so I hope someone runs the experiments. But as far as I can tell, this is all theoretical so far.
by inkyoto | 2025-09-10 00:59:47+00:00
As a constrasting comparison data point, a Nokia 8800 cost around USD 900 in 2005 when it launched, which is approximately USD 1450 in the 2025 USD.

The buyer would get a chromium-plated metal case within which a slightly fancier version of a dumb phone was enclosed, and bragging rights as a bonus, and that would be it.

So, today’s USD 1k (or less, for the non-Pro versions) buys the user – depending on one’s point of view – either a commodity appliance or a personal computing contraption whose performance exceeds that of many high-end RISC workstations that once commanded five-digit price tags, and all for a ⅓ less than the launch price of the Nokia 8800.
by okanat | 2025-09-10 00:59:56+00:00
If you are privileged and talented enough to make money purely out of free software, that's great!

However in most cases that money ultimately comes from being able to sell proprietary software and software-enhanced services. Many employers wouldn't pay for free software, if it wasn't helping their closed-source tech.

If bigger companies can enforce their "right"s as the owner of intellectual property, the smaller ones and individuals should be able to do so as well.

I discussed this rather recently in HN. The timelines for copyright is too long. They need to get shorter around 20-30 years for actual creative work.

I think software needs its own category of intellectual property. It should enjoy at most 10 years. Software is quite akin to machinery and mechanical designs can only get 20 years of patent protection. Considering the fast growing and changing nature, software should get even shorter IP protection. Similar to every other sector, trade secrets can continue to exist and employers can negotiate deals with software engineers for trade secret protection.
by Groxx | 2025-09-10 01:01:02+00:00
to be clear, I mean that the DI container/whatever is "the god object" - it holds essentially every dependency and every piece of your own code, knows how to construct every single one, and knows what everything needs. it's the biggest and most complicatedly-intertwined thing in pretty much any application, and it works so well that people forget it exists or how it works, and carrying permission-objects through that on a library level would be literally trivial because all of them already do everything needed.

hence: doesn't sound too bad

"truly needs": currently, yes. but that seems like a fairly easy thing to address with library packaging systems and a language that supports that. static analysis and language design to support it can cover a lot (e.g. go is limited enough that you can handle some just from scanning imports), and "you can ask for something you don't use, it just means people are less likely to use your library" for the exceptions is hardly a problem compared to our current "you already have every permission and nobody knows it".
by duffpkg | 2025-09-10 01:01:06+00:00
For a very long time I have also used unique emails for each respective service that involves in email. When I sign up for npm it is something like email_npm@example.com . This makes it very easy to whitelist and also spot phishing emails because if an email for npm is coming to mail_cccoffee@example.com it screams that something is wrong. It is not bulletproof by any means but an additional layer that costs me almost nothing but requires effort on the part of attackers.
by defrost | 2025-09-10 01:01:13+00:00
> If you still can’t do the math, throw it into an AI they can do it for you

Yeah, but nah, not yet at least, not without a lot of holding an AI's hair back as it expels 'thoughts'.

Overall, the experience of doing mathematics with GPT-5 was mixed. It felt very similar to working with a junior assistant at the beginning of a new project: exploring directions, formulating hypotheses, searching for counterexamples, and progressively adjusting statements. The AI showed a genuine ability to follow guided reasoning, to recognize its mistakes when pointed out, to propose new research directions, and to never take on the task. However, this only seems to support incremental research, that is, producing new results that do not require genuinely new ideas but rather the ability to combine ideas coming from different sources. At first glance, this might appear useful for an exploratory phase, helping us save time. In practice, however, it was quite the opposite: we had to carefully verify everything produced by the AI and constantly guide it so that it could correct its mistakes.

~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45180594
by programjames | 2025-09-10 01:01:59+00:00
The core problem is actually very simple. Education studies do not measure what they claim to measure. When they say, "education outcomes improve when..." they usually mean the pass rate, i.e. they only measured a signal among the bottom 20% of students. When they say, "test scores improve when..." they are, at best, measuring up to the 90th percentile. When they say, "the white/black attainment gap," or "socioeconomic disadvantages," they're usually just fishing for funding money, and their study will not actually attempt to measure either of those things. From a review of the literature on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2015:

> Only one study specifically examined the achievement gap for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Hampton & Gruenert, 2008) despite NCLB’s stated commitment to improving education for children from low-income families. African American students were often mentioned in studies of general student achievement but none of the reviewed studies focused specifically on the effects of NCLB for this subgroup. Again, this is a curious gap in the research considering the law’s emphasis on narrowing the Black-White achievement gap. Other groups of students underrepresented in the research on NCLB include gifted students, students with vision impairments, and English proficient minority students.

("A Review of the Empirical Literature on No Child Left Behind From 2001 to 2010", Husband & Hunt, 2015)

Everything you see going wrong is downstream of this. Yes, harmful ideologies have done a lot of damage to the education system, but it could easily survive this we had actual signifiers of success.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-09-10 01:02:15+00:00
It's a weird cyclical thing.

Samsung galaxy s2 was a super small super thin phone, 15 years ago almost, which still had user replaceable battery, microsd, 3.5mm, gps, and everything most people would expect smartphone to have.

We then spent a decade making phones 0.2" bigger each generation as if that's an advancement - I.e. As if we couldn't have made them big in the first place (all the while removing physical features).

Then we started making them thin again, as if we couldn't have made them thin before.

It makes me think of cars - VW golf used to be a small car, then it kept growing... So they released Polo... Which kept growing so they made lupo... But each year my entire life they have ads like "6 inches bigger than before" or "10cm more legroom than competition", as if there haven't been small and large cars before.

Grumble Grumble, seen it all before, kids get off my lawn :-)
by cs702 | 2025-09-10 01:02:22+00:00
I hope you're right.

To the extent I come across as doubtful and concerned, it is only due to recent firsthand experiences buying food, clothes, and electronics. My perception is that prices are still rising in many product categories. Anecdotal evidence is not data, so I can't and won't make a prediction, but I think it's fair for me to express doubt and concern.

All I know for certain is that we'll find out as more data becomes available.
by linguae | 2025-09-10 01:02:36+00:00
For highly-specialized engineers and researchers, there’s often only a tiny handful of companies they could work for that offer jobs in their specialties. For example, if you’re a compilers expert, there are only so many companies that hire compiler developers, whether it’s working on a commercial compiler like Microsoft Visual Studio or contributing to an open-source project such as LLVM (Apple is a major contributor). These jobs tend to be concentrated in a few global metro areas.

Additionally, Silicon Valley in particular benefits from having multiple companies in overlapping specialties. Suppose I’m a GPU expert working for NVIDIA, and suddenly I hit a setback and it’s time for a new job. Well, Apple is just a few miles away, and Apple makes GPUs and NPUs, and so I’d have a shot at working for Apple.

Contrast that with people living in areas with little diversity among tech companies. For example, Intel recently laid off a ton of engineers working near Portland, Oregon. There are few alternative technical employers in the region, especially in the specialties Intel focused on in Portland. Those laid-off engineers are facing the prospects of pivoting to a different tech specialty with more employment opportunities, competing for remote jobs at a time when so many companies are requiring their employees to return to the office, or relocating from Portland, which is massively disruptive and can potentially be very expensive. Some may be forced to retire early.

Silicon Valley may be insanely expensive and ultra-competitive, but it also has critical mass, which is vital for highly-specialized engineers and researchers.
by programjames | 2025-09-10 01:02:39+00:00
The core problem is actually very simple. Education studies do not measure what they claim to measure. When they say, "education outcomes improve when..." they usually mean the pass rate, i.e. they only measured a signal among the bottom 20% of students. When they say, "test scores improve when..." they are, at best, measuring up to the 90th percentile. When they say, "the white/black attainment gap," or "socioeconomic disadvantages," they're usually just fishing for funding money, and their study will not actually attempt to measure either of those things. From a review of the literature on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2015: > Only one study specifically examined the achievement gap for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Hampton & Gruenert, 2008) despite NCLB’s stated commitment to improving education for children from low-income families. African American students were often mentioned in studies of general student achievement but none of the reviewed studies focused specifically on the effects of NCLB for this subgroup. Again, this is a curious gap in the research considering the law’s emphasis on narrowing the Black-White achievement gap. Other groups of students underrepresented in the research on NCLB include gifted students, students with vision impairments, and English proficient minority students.

("A Review of the Empirical Literature on No Child Left Behind From 2001 to 2010", Husband & Hunt, 2015)

Everything you see going wrong is downstream of this. Yes, harmful ideologies have done a lot of damage to the education system, but it could easily survive this if we had actual signifiers of success.
by AraceliHarker | 2025-09-10 01:02:52+00:00
Even without directly visiting the YouTube site, it's impossible to avoid contact with YouTube because its videos are embedded everywhere. In that sense, YouTube's influence is extremely large. I feel that the FTC might have been better off trying to separate YouTube from Google rather than Chrome.

The blog mentioned that the forced activation of Restricted Mode could have reduced video views, and while it's true that Restricted Mode blocks live streams, which could affect those who focus on live content, it basically doesn't block soft porn, violent videos, or political content. So, I don't think it's relevant.
by ggm | 2025-09-10 01:03:04+00:00
Initialism.

I have a theory that the french, and americans share a love of taking acronyms/initialisms and finding a way to "pronounce" them. French company/organisational names appear to be chosen to be "pronouncable initialisms" such as IRCAM or INRIA. Australia has the C-S-I-R-O and you can say SI-Rho and some do. But french and americans definitely do this more. There's an ICANN (pronounced I-Can) body called the RSSAC which is AR-SACK. and SSAC which is SEC-SAC. Some initialisms defeat this. the I-E-T-F and the I-E-S-G and the I-A-B for instance. But I-ana is definitely pronounced as an I-word.

It's Jif btw.

Nobody says "sea, but bigger" for C++ and it wasn't called Cplus.
by laserbeam | 2025-09-10 01:03:15+00:00
I love my e-ink tablet.

Regardless of manufacturer (remarkable, boox, supernote…), all e-paper tablets have one major performance problem: quickly scrolling through multiple pages of notes. No idea if the display is the limiting factor, or the cpu, but I’ve hit this issue on all tablets I’ve used. If you like riffling through pages in you paper notebook, you will hit the limit too. I know at least 2 people who stopped using their tablets over time because of this issue.

If this tech helps solve that problem, it’s more important to me than an eink monitor.

Edit: this is mainly important for notes, because sketches, scribbled diagrams and quick notes half-taken in meetings are not really searchable. PDFs and ebooks don’t have this problem.
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-10 01:03:21+00:00
To summarise - I want my democratically elected government to have a strong influence and control over foreign corporates when they operate in my country, to protect my country's national interest and enforce my rights as a citizen. I do not trust a foreign company or a foreign government to do so, whether they are American or Chinese. What I've suggested are some of the ways we can regulate foreign online corporates to (1) to create a competitive market (2) to protect consumer rights (3) to protect national interests. If you still do not understand or appreciate that, let's just realise that we have different political values.
by ars | 2025-09-10 01:04:03+00:00
> intellectualism

It's interesting to blame anti-intellectualism because Republicans are usually labeled with that.

But simultaneously it's Democrats that will dumb down classes to make sure even the worst performing student will pass. And this is also anti-intellectualism, but of a different sort.

The combination is failing our students, doesn't matter the political orientation.

I'm involved in education, I see this every day - I spoke with someone taking a class on how to reach students, and due to no-child-left-behind, this is actually a class on how racism holds back black students and what to do about it (answer: Make simpler, easier classes). It's completely silent on any other type of student.
by yladiz | 2025-09-10 01:04:20+00:00
Yes, exactly. The article is pretty clear that it’s rejected without prejudice and that a few points need to be ironed out before he gives a preliminary approval. I suspect a lot of folks didn’t read much/any of TFA.

I do wonder if all of the kinks will be smoothed out in time. Not a lawyer too, but the timeline to create the longer list is a bit tight, and generally feels like we could see an actual rejection or at least a stretched out process here that goes on for a few more months at least before approval.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-10 01:04:37+00:00
While probably appropriate for a shooting, "when shit's going down, call the government first" is generally not a terrible way to handle things as an adult as it tends to reliably turn N-figure problems into much more complicated N+1 or N+2 figure problems. Running your situation by a cooler head not immediately involved is almost always better and the government is always slow enough to show up that you don't lose anything if you do go that route.

Likewise, I think it is very ill-advised to cram kid's heads full of "dial 911" at the young vulnerable age where repeated messaging goes into the kind of memory that's all but impossible to overwrite.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-10 01:04:43+00:00
People who buy iPhones don't need a reason to buy iPhones other than just for the sake of buying iPhones. That's the key to Apple's trillions. Apple would have made this phone 2.75cm thick and there would have longer lines and same people singing paeans of thick phones and how it is going to change the world and solve global warming and eventually bring everlasting peace.
by nicholasjbs | 2025-09-10 01:04:43+00:00
We were among the first Paper users (starting from the private beta). We loved the product for the first few years, but then it stagnated. We finally switched away from it a year and a half ago.

Their export feature has been broken for over a year. Support hasn't helped, and our data is still trapped.

A sad end for a once promising product.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-09-10 01:05:15+00:00
Wasn’t being “white” legally required to vote in federal elections for most of US history? Were any of these groups ever prohibited from voting on the basis of not being “white”? I have never heard of that happening, have you? I think that would answer the question, since the government was actually in the business of determining “white”-ness at that time, and unless I’m mistaken, all of those groups were determined by the federal government to be “white”.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-10 01:06:14+00:00
It's 30 percent higher than last year, plus additional tariffs on certain things. We've (temporarily? tune in two months!) backed away from the 150% or whatever number but that increase is still hanging over everything. And doing tariff rate and schedule policy by whim is a terrible idea independent of whether you agree with tariffs as a policy. I'm mixed on them honestly, which doesn't sell myself to any group it seems. But I think they exist as a semiuseful tool that can be hard to gauge and should be used carefully.

The stacking 50% tariffs on aluminum and steel(deal with this one less, it might be lower?), plus adding new harmonized codes to the tariffed list is a pain in the dick. Visiting friends this weekend we were talking about how they could undercut my sales by being in Canada and having substantially lower cost of goods..
by Hizonner | 2025-09-10 01:06:35+00:00
> Mine is going on 15 years.

I've been doing it for more like 30.

> In practice, you have to actually try pretty hard to misbehave enough for Google and Microsoft to notice and block you.

As far as I can tell, the "misbehavior" that got me blocked by Microsoft was being hosted on Linode... where I'd been for around ten years at that time, all on the same IP address. Tiny server, had never emitted a single even slightly spammy message, all the demanded technical measures in place, including the stupid ones.

Because of the huge number of people stupid enough to receive their email through Microsoft, I had to spend a bunch of time "appealing". That's centralization.

On edit: Oh, and the random yahoos out there running freelance blocklists can do a lot of damage to you, too, by causing smaller operators to reject your mail.
by Glyptodon | 2025-09-10 01:06:40+00:00
Not limiting myself to just high schools:

Elephant in the room in my state is definitely chronic absence. Depending on source it's when student misses something like 15+ or 20+ school days a school year. More affluent areas have numbers 15% and lower. Less affluent ones it can be well above 50%. And nobody is doing anything.

Test scores substantially mirror this bifurcation.

It is substantially worsened by charter and voucher schools. Which interact with the whole mess in complex and negative ways.
by mapt | 2025-09-10 01:09:30+00:00
But we almost never do. Have you seen the legal code? Every large corporation commits criminal acts many times a day. Even crimes so serious or offensive that they become politically relevant are almost always dealt with in a totally hands-off manner.

To actually get convicted of anything as a corporate officer, you have to have substantially defrauded your own shareholders, who are senior to the public's interest in justice. Most such crimes involve financial malfeasance.
by lmm | 2025-09-10 01:09:37+00:00
> Which maybe held water right up until they wanted to make a Lando Calrissian minifigure and it became extremely obvious that he couldn’t be yellow

Why couldn't he? I would say the people who insist Lando must be othered in this way are the people who are being weird here, not the people who used yellow for characters whose race didn't matter to them.
by p1necone | 2025-09-10 01:09:46+00:00
I was hopeful that the eventual endgame of right wingers blaming everything on the left when the right was in charge for literal decades would be for them to eventually maybe consider that that wasn't the problem.

Turns out I was wrong, all it takes is to no-true-scotsman everything into the "bad wrong left wing" bucket on the quest to move the overton window ever rightwards. Hilarious. The mental gymnastics knows no bounds.
by limagnolia | 2025-09-10 01:09:54+00:00
Then maybe it doesn't need to be done on a strict work/non-work schedule everyday? If one is an hourly employee, then sure, they should be doing work things when on the clock... but if they are salaried, part of that is not having to clock in and out to switch between work and non-work tasks, and not being a strict work/non-work schedule.