MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RideGuideUSA | 2025-09-22 20:54:35+00:00
Hey everyone! I’m Jack, a UX designer and co-founder of RideGuide.

I built RideGuide because car shopping is broken—endless tabs, research rabbit holes, and overwhelming options. Most people don’t want to become “car experts”… they just want something that fits their life.

That’s what makes RideGuide unique: instead of specs overload, it starts with you—your lifestyle, your budget, your vibe—and instantly matches cars that make sense. Think of it as your personal car discovery assistant.

What I’m most proud of in this launch is how simple it feels. In under 2 minutes, you can go from confused to confident, and I can’t wait to hear what you think.
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-22 20:54:39+00:00
In order:

Nothing is stopping you from buying a used Framework. Admittedly, the market is much smaller than for refurbished Thinkpads, but it's smaller on both sides (demand and supply), I found several both on Frameworks own community marketplace and on ebay. And considering the fact that after you buy the first one, you will re-use the chassis and other, non-mainboard components across at least a few upgrades, I actually still think that a framework is the correct "environmental" decision. Plus, if I were to buy a used/refurbed Framework, I would be _supremely_ confident that if some sub-component of it came broken (or broke shortly after purchase), that I would be able to get the laptop as a whole up and running and not need to ewaste the whole thing.

Price-to-performance. This is true....the first time you buy the laptop. On subsquent upgrades, you are not paying the full price of the laptop, but only the mainaboard. Over a few upgrade cycles, the framework comes down _significantly_ in price. This is, in fact, close to the entire point of framework.

I can't speak to support. I have had no issues with my 16. I've heard stories in both directions (very good and very bad support). I guess I will say that it is reasonable to be more skeptical about the level of support one will receive from a new company wit a very small team.
by grim_io | 2025-09-22 20:54:56+00:00
Telling the agent to very much not do something is a lost battle. It will make everything worse, not just the stuff it messed up already.

If you expect a genuine understanding of your instructions, you will be very disappointed, no matter what you do.

The way to success is not caring about those small issues and fixing them up in the review.

If you get 95% there, then i'd say you did as well as you can hope for.
by dangus | 2025-09-22 20:54:56+00:00
As someone who moved from an MacBook Pro I share the pain, but I also made the following adjustments:

1. I just shut down the computer fully more often. It’s annoying so I don’t always do it, but I’ll do it if I know I’m not using the computer as much.

2. I carry a 98Wh battery pack with me. If my laptop is fully dead it’s not a big deal because a full battery pack charges it all the way up, or if both are full it extends the battery life to be MacBook level. Since the framework is lighter than my Mac was anyway it’s not such a big deal.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-22 20:55:06+00:00
I just wish git had proper --help output instead of just dumping you into the manpage.

Like sure these eighteen pages contain the information I need, but what I wanted was a reminder that '-D' is the branch delete switch. It's a goddamn waste of my time to parse a manpage, it's faster to switch to my browser, open a tab, and take the summary at the top. Just write terse help text FFS
by mmaunder | 2025-09-22 20:55:23+00:00
As a kid, choose your own adventure made me so mad because the covers are super appealing, but by the time they emerged I was a huge sci-fi fan and had burnt through everything the big three had written and was super excited when I picked up my first CYOA book. I didnt know what it was. When I hit the first crossroads I was like, what the is this??!! I wanted a well crafted story. Not a gamification of the style of sci-fi I’d come to know and love. I went back a few times because I really wanted to like them. But there was no way. I still remember the book was Inside UFO 54-40.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-22 20:55:37+00:00
Exactly.

Also worth noting: any store worth a SHIT that carries high value goods fully insures their inventory too, for stealing, and for their employees breaking one getting it out, for natural disasters, for fires, for boomers driving their SUVs through the front windows, and for like... a toddler running through one on the display floor.

Like I'm just... I'm fucking done listening to the endless bitching and crying on the part of corporations about how HARD it is to do business. If it's so awful, shut it the fuck down then.

And I genuinely wouldn't care apart from this is just a BOTTOMLESS well that reactionary politicians use to constantly divert money from anything we actually need to give yet more of it to fund yet more policing that doesn't do anything apart from murder black teenagers and shoot people's dogs, and no that's not JUST because Walgreens won't stop fucking whining in the news about it, but it isn't disconnected either. Crime has NEVER been as low as it is now, the only increases of any note were the ones that cropped up during the pandemic. Apart from that every single kind of larceny and theft has been on a steady downturn since the 1990's.

Quit. Fucking. Whining. About. Crime.
by mikhmha | 2025-09-22 20:55:44+00:00
I don't care for personalities. You want to mark him as a grifter but is that just an emotional response? I have not bought anything from Ed, I don't subscribe to his newsletter, I don't know much about him beyond visiting his website every few weeks and reading the free articles. He does not sell me vitality pills or coffee mugs. The only soliciting he does is his paid sub stack.

But it goes both ways? Because AI promoters are also spreading FUD. That's how they make money. Because their livelihoods are tied to this technology and all the valuations. So is spreading FUD for you just a condition on whether or not you agree with the person?
by xp84 | 2025-09-22 20:55:52+00:00
After some AI-assisted probing, it seems like if Disney wants to challenge this use, they'll likely be arguing that S.W. is a "famous mark" akin to Coca-Cola or Nike and thus merits additional broad protection under the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 (TDRA). (I haven't checked to see whether one of Disney's pet congresscritters sponsored that one, as was the case with at least one of the copyright extension acts that kept SW out of the public domain on a few occasions).

If they can meet the bar established in TDRA they can probably squash all usage of Willie, even in unrelated-industries usage not intended to confuse consumers, in the same way that you can't market "Coca-Cola bedsheets" or a "Google Bicycle" without a license from the trademark holder.
by Legend2440 | 2025-09-22 20:55:55+00:00
>send out interactive robots into the world

Easier said than done.

Robotics tends to be even more data-constrained than NLP. The real world only runs at 1x speed, and if your robot breaks something it costs real money. Simulators are simplistic compared to reality and take a lot of manual effort to build.

You will always need to make efficient use of the data you have.
by rayiner | 2025-09-22 20:55:56+00:00
These CEOs are correct. But that doesn’t mean the existing H1b program isn’t broken. 70% of H1bs go to India, while a negligible number go to other countries with good education systems. Is it believable that 70% of the “smartest people” are in India? https://fortune.com/2025/09/22/india-government-responds-tru...

India has about 70 million college graduates, which is a lot, but only a bit more than half have the skills to be employable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/degree-vs...

We already have evidence that Indian consulting agencies, among the largest recipients of h1bs, are discriminating against American employees: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/09/us_jury_cognizant_cas... https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s... https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...

I can understand why maybe Japanese wouldn’t want to leave their homeland. But if these workers are the cream of the crop, the compensation in America should be such that we could hoover up top candidates from the former soviet union.
by nickff | 2025-09-22 20:57:00+00:00
If the FCC chair was the one engaged in wrong-doing (as Paul seems to believe), they would be the prime candidate for impeachment. In any case, it seems like Paul thinks that the previous administration was also engaging in censorship, and there were no impeachments in that case either, so perhaps he does not believe that censorship is a 'high crime or misdemeanor'.
by hatthew | 2025-09-22 20:57:12+00:00
My work involves petabyte scale data, and the algorithms are very straightforward:

- What you want to do is probably trivially O(kn).

- There isn't a <O(kn) algorithm, so try to reduce overhead in k.

- Cache results when they are O(1), don't when they are O(n).

- If you want to do something >O(kn), don't.

- If you really need to so something >O(kn), do it in SQL and then go do something else while it's running.

None of that requires any DSA knowledge beyond what you learn in the first weeks of CS101. Instead, what's useful is knowing how to profile to optimize k, knowing how SQL works, and being able to write high quality maintainable code. Any smart algorithms that have a large time complexity improvement will probably be practically difficult to create and test even if you are very comfortable with the underlying theoretical algorithm. And the storage required for an <O(n) algorithm is probably at least as expensive as the compute required for the naive O(n) algorithm.

My general impression is that for small-scale problems, a trustworthy and easy algorithm is fine, even if it's inefficient ($100 of compute < $1000 of labor). For large-scale problems, domain knowledge and data engineering trumps clever DSA skills. The space between small- and large-scale problems is generally either nonexistent or already has premade solutions. The only people who make those "premade solutions" obviously need to feel it in their bones the way you describe, but they're a very very small portion of the total software population, and are not the target audience of this article.
Show HN: A price breakdown of "rapture prep" as consumer math, not theology
by lorastonden | 2025-09-22 20:57:18+00:00
I priced the current “rapture prep” shopping spike because the topic went viral, and it overlaps with standard emergency-prep spending.

Method: pulled public checklists (Ready.gov, CDC, Red Cross) and recent retail prices, plus legal-cost ranges from LegalZoom and ARRL fee pages. No theology, just consumer costs.

Highlights: • Per-person 72-hour kit: $250–$500 • 30-day family build: $1,400–$3,000 • “Going” paperwork (wills/guardianship/passwords): $1,390 first year, then $60/yr • Entry power: $500–$2,000 (inverter generator or basic solar station)

Article includes the receipt-style graphic, a cost matrix, and sources inline. Feedback on the math welcome, and if you spot better public price pages I’ll update.
by footy | 2025-09-22 20:57:21+00:00
I can imagine doing it and I have in fact used it to automate things like tests. This usually leads to me having to rewrite the tests and spending more time on them than I otherwise would have. Or delete tests that test trivial functionality, or add tests for x even when I specifically mentioned it in my prompt.

Being able to imagine something doesn't mean I have to like it.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-22 20:57:54+00:00
Compared to the US. While not uncontested (they are accused of falsifying data), cuba posts better infant mortality rates.

A lot of the medical issues in Cuba aren't related to the healthcare system but rather to trade embargos. It's a small miracle they do as well as they do given the constraints of being an island nation.

The reason for their success on a shoestring budget is administrative competence. They have a large number of clinics (rather than big hospital complexes) and education in medicine starts at those clinics. Future doctors work and are educated in medicine moving up into specialties. It's a little like making everyone that wants to practice medicine start as a orderly in a family medicine clinic.

IMO, this is superior to the US system of requiring several years of schooling before ever interacting with patients. And if you know an old nurse, you'll know they often do know a lot more than new doctors.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-22 20:57:56+00:00
> This is a wrongheaded way of looking at it, since in a competitive market, those cost savings will eventually be passed onto the consumer.

NEVER. In my LIFE. Have I seen this in action.

Literally every single category of product that I buy is more expensive now than when I was a kid. As far as I'm concerned this is a straight fucking myth until I see proof.

Like, surely, nearly 40 years on this planet, surely, by the law of probabilities, I would've seen SOMETHING get cheaper. SOMETHING. ANYTHING.

And before anyone says “TVs got cheaper,” yeah—because they’re made in sweatshops with subsidized rare earths and sold at a loss to get you into the ecosystem. That’s not market efficiency, that’s strategic manipulation.
by lkey | 2025-09-22 20:58:26+00:00
So you didn't read about them.

> In North West England, textile workers lacked these long-standing trade institutions and their letters composed an attempt to achieve recognition as a united body of tradespeople. As such, they were more likely to include petitions for governmental reforms, such as increased minimum wages and the cessation of child labor.

Sounds pretty modern doesn't it? unions, wages, no child-exploitation...

And the government response?

> Mill and factory owners took to shooting protesters and eventually the movement was suppressed by legal and military force, which included execution and penal transportation of accused and convicted Luddites.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-22 20:58:33+00:00
The American Bar Association, as well as every state bar association, published guidance on GenAI usage at least a year ago. The existing legal and ethical responsibilities go beyond just being responsible for hallucinations. Client information privacy, accurately tracking time and billing only for time actually spent on the case, etc.

As time goes on, it becomes less and less defensible to see this stuff.
by moffkalast | 2025-09-22 20:58:52+00:00
Agreed. In the pre-internet days you had rigid version releases, there was a time investment in version 1, it released, people bought it and used it, no bugfixes, patches or anything. Then a year or two later, there was version 2, and you could buy that to get the improvements, or just use your old version just fine.

That sort of model collapses where software needs to be constantly updated and maintained lest it rots and dies as the rest of the ecosystem evolves and something dynamically linked changes by a hair. So what's left is either doing that maintenance for free, i.e. FOSS, or charging for it on a monthly basis like SAAS. We've mostly done this bullshit to ourselves in the name of fast updates and security. Maybe it was inevitable.
by Loughla | 2025-09-22 20:59:05+00:00
But it still prompts you to sign into your account and "finish setting up Windows" by using onedrive and whatever other cloud bullshit.

And it will continue to do that forever.

Source: when we lose power and the machine restarts unexpectedly, I die a little inside when it goes to the windows set up screen just because I haven't signed in to a Microsoft account.
by tw04 | 2025-09-22 20:59:23+00:00
No, the reason we're having this discussion is because the current Supreme Court doesn't seem to actually be interested in precedence or existing law, just saying yes to whatever whim Trump has this week.

Under any normally functioning government, the head of the FCC would never threaten a television station because it's both an obvious violation of the first amendment, and under literally any other administration would have resulted in immediate dismissal.
by mrandish | 2025-09-22 21:00:01+00:00
I run Home Assistant on an RPi4 and have an ESP32-based Core2 with mic (https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-core2-esp32-iot-de...), along with a 16GB 4070 Ti Super in an always-on Windows system I only use for occasional gaming and serving media. I'd love to set up something like you have. Can you recommended a starting place, or ideally, a step-by-step tutorial?

I've never set up any AI system. Would you say setting up such a self-hosted AI is at a point now where an AI novice can get an AI system installed and integrated with an existing Home Assistant install in a couple hours?
by therein | 2025-09-22 21:00:06+00:00
Oh I got the heat for it? From you? I felt none of it. Way to represent your employer weird champ.

It is wild that an employee (lmao CEO) posts this way and it is sanctioned by his employer. I guess you're used to talking this way to your employees. But I am not an employee, so I can't feel your fury.

I am glad it is taking place in public, I can only imagine how poorly you must treat people behind closed doors. At least here people can see it for themselves how unprofessionally this company is run. I wish nothing but patience to your employees, God knows what they must be saying once you're out of the room.

You had one job here, to represent your company in a professional level-headed manner and you couldn't even do that. Such a shame.
by retlehs | 2025-09-22 21:00:14+00:00
> There's a big ford in each driveway that hasn't hauled more than dogs and kids since the day it came home

I can't speak on Knoxville because I've only spent a day there, but I've spent a good bit of time around Amarillo mostly from driving between CO and TX over a hundred times, although not really in the suburbs.

Saw a lot of beat up trucks that looked like they were owned by blue collar folks and used for truck things. But of course there's also plenty of brodozers, which I'm assuming are also fairly common in Knoxville.
by richardlblair | 2025-09-22 21:00:38+00:00
I recently needed to scan hundreds of low quality invoices and run them through OCR for invoice numbers and dates. I really took for granted how seamless this is in some applications, and was shocked how much work went into producing decent results.

I was obviously really naive. Either way, it gets me excited any time I see progress with OCR. I should give this a try against my (small) dataset.
by state_less | 2025-09-22 21:00:43+00:00
That's great to hear. I was mostly impressed with Qwen3 coder on my 4090, but am hobbled by the small memory footprint of the single card. What motherboard are you using with your 3090s? Like the others, I too am curious about those esp32s and what software you run on them.

Keep up the good hacking - it's been fun to play with this stuff!
by onesociety2022 | 2025-09-22 21:01:51+00:00
Isn't most of OpenAI revenue from end users and not revenue from token sales? For Anthropic, it is the opposite where almost all of their revenue comes from API usage. So even if AGI/ASI don't pan out, OpenAI will have a great consumer-focused inference business where they build useful applications (and new devices) using existing state-of-the-art LLMs and stop investing heavily in the next gen model training? I think potentially just replacing Google Search and smartphones with a new AI device would be massive consumer businesses that OpenAI could potentially go after without any major advancements in AI research.
by Veedrac | 2025-09-22 21:03:27+00:00
The Rust example is illustrative, and indeed I was thinking about it when I wrote my post. One valid angle is to say that languages should hide the reality of the machine from the user any time it would get in the way of the pure semantic description. Another angle though is to say that actually these concerns are important, and if the result is that the idealised abstractions aren't sufficient to capture them, then it's correct to put away the abstraction. It's not like ‘simple and easy to learn’ is a function of this elegance either; Haskell is hard to learn and Go is easy, so clearly there's something else to it.

You also mention list comprehensions forming a monad. I think this is also a good illustration of the difference. In Haskell the structure of a type tells you the dependency tree of a computation, so it's not a problem that Monad maps the type to itself. Your list monad is just a bunch of thunks pointing to each other either way. In imperative languages, types describe what has been reified and how it's organised in memory. In these, a list monad is an actively bad abstraction; you almost always want to distinguish the stateful computational pipeline (eg. an iterator) from the source and target storage (eg. an array). Neither of those are monadic for good reason.
by legostormtroopr | 2025-09-22 21:03:41+00:00
I’m going to defend your dad here.

AI slop at work is an absolute waste of time and effort.

But your dad is trying to write his story, probably because he wants to leave something behind so he’s not forgotten. It might be cliche-riddled but AI is helping him write his experiences in a form he’s happy with and it’s still his story even if he got help.

He’s also probably only writing it for an audience of one - you. So don’t shit on it, read it. Or you might regret it.
by DotaFan | 2025-09-22 21:04:05+00:00
Been working on offline apps (Android) for the past couple of years. Syncing is hard. Some takes:

- There was never a budget for CRDT's

- Conflicts were never our primary focus, instead our focus were business problems

- Event-sourced arch + offline first app was quite a fun. Basically I've recorded all the events in sequence in SQLite, queued them up when there was a connection and had network retry policy in place + reverting an event locally if retry failed n-th amount of times.
by svieira | 2025-09-22 21:04:21+00:00
But you might want to compose various methods on the server in order to filter, just like you might want to compose various methods on the server in order to transform. Why is `collection.map(server.lookupByInternalizedId)` a special case that doesn't require `server.lookupCollectionByInternalizedId(collection)`, but `collection.filter(server.isOperationSensibleForATuesday)` is a bridge too far and for that you need `server.areOperationsSensibleForATuesday(collection)`?
by tripplyons | 2025-09-22 21:05:27+00:00
There are definitely parallels between diffusion and reasoning models, mostly being able to spend longer to get a better solution by using a more precise ODE solver for diffusion or using more tokens for reasoning.

However, due to how diffusion models are trained, they never see their own predictions as input, so they cannot learn to store information across steps. This is the complete opposite for reasoning models.
by ericbarrett | 2025-09-22 21:05:37+00:00
Almost every branch of every story in Choose Your Own Adventure books ended with bold, centered text that said:

THE END

But there was one story I vaguely recall where if you made the "wrong" choice, you fell into a bottomless pit (the books were always in the second person) and you kept falling and falling, forever, and the text said:

THERE IS NO END

I still remember the chills I got reading this. I wonder how kids these days get their introduction to existential horror?
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-22 21:05:53+00:00
I don't think it is ludicrous. The mainstream media hammers home that change is bad (without really reflecting on why), even meaningless aesthetic changes. They equate these logo and mascot changes are a threat to your way of life. Manufacturing small controversies like this conditions their viewers that they must always prefer the previous status quo, i.e. the cult of tradition.