MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by impendia | 2025-09-21 04:11:46+00:00
You have the disadvantage of operating in a space where a lot of people and companies claim a lot of different things, and where cause and effect is maddeningly difficult to sort out.

For example, if you read Slate Star Codex, you can find all manner of posts discussing how psych meds are produced and brought to market, how they can behave in unpredictable fashion, and why claims made by the pharmaceutical industry should be regarded with a healthy dose of distrust. But its author is a trained psychiatrist, and he'd be the first to tell you that psych meds do indeed work.

Personally, I've dealt with sleep issues for years with reasonably consistent symptoms. I read various books and tried CBT, therapy, and a variety of meds. A lot of this seemed to either do nothing, or else have strange effects. Eventually I tried some med that got terrible reviews online, which to my surprise pretty much solved my problem overnight. Now I'm overseas for several months without access to this medication, and to my complete surprise my sleep has been fine. Why? Will things stay this way? I wish I could tell you!!

All this is to say, for your target market, suspicion and distrust will often be par for the course. Please don't take it personally :)
by ycombinator_acc | 2025-09-21 04:12:52+00:00
> it does NOT apply to current visa holders

How about transfers?

Transfers technically count as new visas and need to be petitioned. Will every new employer have to shell out 100K? If that's the case, H-1B holders are now actually indentured servants (they were not previously, no matter how many Redditors claim otherwise) because they are now stuck with the current employer with essentially no ability to transfer or find a new employer in case of a layoff.
by chimeracoder | 2025-09-21 04:13:26+00:00
> There's a reason that "ban the cars" posters never mention a partner or children in their bios.

To the extent that "ban cars" even exists as a real political archetype rather than a meme, this is just patently not true. At least one of the two co-hosts of The War on Cars (again, a title which is intentionally tongue-in-cheek) has a preteen son.

But more importantly: car-dependent suburbs are an absolutely miserable place to grow up as a child if you're not wealthy enough to have one non-working parent and/or a nanny (or both). Being dependent on someone else to enable your entire social life until you turn 16 is a torturous enough experience that I'm not surprised that the first generation to have universal access to social media as teenagers has become the first generation to use social media to organize a teenage-driven movement for public transit.
Show HN: A new type of tool so you don't have to stress out over job apps
by irfahm_ | 2025-09-21 04:13:59+00:00
The idea is actually quite simple - as a coder watching my pregnant girlfriend spend hours reading job descriptions and researching companies while job searching over the past few months, I thought there should be an app that reads the job description and researches the company like a human would from a job URL to write personalized cover letters + resume tips to modify your resume.

So I made one - it uses advanced browser automation (like Manus), and you can actually watch the AI in real-time as it researches.

For anyone interested, you can check it out at --> trylockedin.app and let me know what you think! It's intuitive and there's no complicated setup, so anyone can just paste a job URL and see how it works.
by helloplanets | 2025-09-21 04:15:16+00:00
That's a sneaky switch from we to you. Meaning: Collectively, humanity definitely have done and proven the latter, more so than necessary.

And if we were to dive deeper into the Philip K. Dick style fantasy realm you're hinting at: What's stopping an android's sensory system from being augmented to perceive only what they're meant to see? Heck - Why wouldn't the 'parts' be made in a way where they're indistinguishable by us either way?

Once you go down that line of questioning, it's hard to win!
by noosphr | 2025-09-21 04:16:27+00:00
> Second, it's not just games. In my NYC days I was a "transit and bike lanes" guy all the way. Now with kids, I understand why "Americans love their cars" - it switched form a derogatory statement to one of understanding. There's a reason that "ban the cars" posters never mention a partner or children in their bios.

Buy a bakfiet cargo bike, there's models that can fit five kids under 7. Mine fits three.

Kids like them better and you get exercise. For the first time in my life I have a BMI of around 20 without having to waste time at the gym, the drop off, pick up, shopping, and work commute add up to an hour and a half of medium intensity cardio.

Every other parent my age in the neighborhood looks five years away from a heart attack. I'm fitter than I was in my 20s.

>There's less "objective good" or "objective bad" in these matters than I used to think. It's more about who you optimize for.

There are over 1,000 children killed in the US annually by cars. This is after we restrain them like Hannibal Lecter while in cars and don't let them out of our houses so they don't get run over.

That's before we talk about the child obesity epidemic, social media abuse, and on and on.

If given the choice between keeping cars or letting polio loose on the land you'd be hard pressed to figure out which will kill and disable more kids.
by orsenthil | 2025-09-21 04:16:43+00:00
The idea of multiple files upload and audio creation with it does not go well with me. How does it choose which topics it should concentrate on? What is the idea behind multiple files upload on a single notebooklm project. I am struggling to understand that.

The user interface has been confusing to me. And note, I have built some projects using notebooklm https://asimov.learntosolveit.com
by komali2 | 2025-09-21 04:17:14+00:00
Why would manufacturing cost come into play? Isn't it a given that a company will charge as much as they can get away with charging? Cost of labor and material I understood to only matter at the absolute bottom of a highly commoditized market e.g., bolts or capacitors or whatever. This is the only consumer ultrasonic knife (as far as I know) so they can charge whatever.
by bsder | 2025-09-21 04:17:41+00:00
Sure. Most fixed angle sharpeners work to some degree, I just recommended one that isn't sold by "Random Letter Chinese Shop" and that I have bought and know personally works.

In addition, for the moment, the stones used in the system I recommended are reliably decent and have been analyzed by a bunch of the YouTube knife nerds. The other fixed angle systems can be hit or miss with the stones.

If someone is sufficiently interested that they want to use the stones without the system, they've started down the path to being a knife nerd and have outgrown my recommendation.
by HeyImAlex | 2025-09-21 04:17:55+00:00
I think if this can keep a knife effectively sharper than the equivalent nice steel with less maintenance, then it’s going to find a market.

I’m a nerd, but Ive found that once I’ve mastered a hobby I eventually gravitate towards convenience, optimizing my time over absolute performance. I’ve built five PCs in my life, and now I only own a macbook. I spent loads of time optimizing my hifi setup, and now most of my apartment is sonos. And I have probably 1k worth of nice japanese knives + whetstones, that I would happily replace with a single knife that needs little to no upkeep.
by dangus | 2025-09-21 04:18:07+00:00
I don’t think it’s party willingness to deal with government efficiency, I think it is more accurate to say that neither party thinks that government efficiency is a significant problem.

In other words, it’s just something Trump wanted to do. The GOP is very firmly under his control.

The other policy that’s like that is tariffs. Nobody in the GOP wants tariffs except for Trump. You could see the lack of cheers at the SOTU.

The other truth of the matter is that the Republican Party has become addicted to cutting taxes without replacing revenue. It seems to me that there’s a desire to create a debt crisis to justify cuts to social programs. In reality, social programs would be highly sustainable if taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals weren’t continually being reduced.
by golem14 | 2025-09-21 04:20:52+00:00
Seems a strong take just based on the one article you are citing.

What you say about grooming may well be true.

I was curious and spent a few minutes searching the internets for actual evidence, and I found a LOT of opinion pieces, but not that many hard facts.

I'd be curious to see actual evidence.

Tangentially, regarding the writing tips - they may be good, even if the individual giving them is despicable. I have read nothing by Cormac, and I would prefer a person in the field more than a fiction writer in any case (say Mortimer Adler, Lyn Dupre, or Rudolf Flesch) for writing science papers.
by victorhooi | 2025-09-21 04:21:12+00:00
Oh wow - would love to know what you got for sharpening, or what you'd suggest for the home cook?

When you say ugly/clunky - I'm guessing you mean it's a bit heavier, or the weight will be off compared to a good high-end chef's knife? (I don't have anything like that, haha).

I did note on their FAQ they say to never activate the blade whilst sharpening:

https://seattleultrasonics-ceizljlxnpt.gorgias.help/en-US/ho...

> Do not activate the ultrasonics during sharpening - this can damage both the blade and your sharpening stones, as the ultrasonic movement is too aggressive and not evenly distributed across the entire cutting edge. Also, reshaping the blade to a different belly curvature or tip shape can cause it to fall out of tune, so avoid removing more material than you would during normal sharpening.
by godelski | 2025-09-21 04:23:01+00:00
> I'm not complaining at all that there's a way to make override files. > I'm pointing out that the need for making override files >> You can always edit the service directly. There's nothing stopping you from doing that, and most people probably do it this way.

I'm lost. You're complaining that you'd be happy if you could do the thing I said you could do in my opening sentence as well as my closing? Sorry, but I think it is you who have

> I think you missed the point entirely.
by GauntletWizard | 2025-09-21 04:23:28+00:00
I more or less stopped completely. I spent nearly $10,000 on Amazon in 2016 (Multiple computers, clothes, games, foodstuffs - Just everything); It was down to $2000 by 2018 after I stopped trusting it for anything but big-ticket items that were unlikely to be counterfeit. It picked up again in the pandemic, but after a series of bad purchases in 2023 I've spent less than $1000 in the last year, and over half of that is a CPU that I really feared buying because of fraud/counterfeit concerns, and immediately inspected and installed to assuage those fears.
by qnleigh | 2025-09-21 04:24:12+00:00
> the distinctive quality of internet indignation is unprocessed, opportunistic rage... It's particularly important to know this in a group context. When a group joins together to vent rage—because an occasion justifies it, even though the driver in each person may be very different—that's when a group turns into a mob.

This is relevant to so much, well outside of this forum. Thank you for writing it.
by vunderba | 2025-09-21 04:25:38+00:00
Accessing it directly from Bytedance might be an issue, but it's been available via Fal.AI [1] since it was initially announced - that's where I've been doing all my comparative testing (against Nano Banana, Kontex, etc.)

https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/bytedance/seedream/v4/text-to-i...
by defrost | 2025-09-21 04:26:31+00:00
Vender has been a published word since at least 1596 according to the full Oxford English Dictionary.

You can find it in Francis Bacon's The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (printed 1630) - https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/oldelawebookes/28/

That said, vendor has become more and more the standard spelling in legal texts.
by lettergram | 2025-09-21 04:26:53+00:00
Back in 2016 - 2018 my work at Capital One resulted in a modified C-RNN style architecture that was producing gpt-2 level results. Using that model we were able to build a general purpose system that could generate data for any dataset (with minimal training, from scratch):

https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

At the time it was clear to all on the team that RNNs, just like transformers later on, are general purpose frameworks that really only require more data and size to function. In the 2018-2020 era and probably today, they are slower to train. They also are less prone to certain pitfalls, but overall had the same characteristics.

In the 2019-2020 I was convinced that transformers would give way to better architecture. The RNNs in particular trained faster and required less data, particularly when combined with several architectural components I won’t get into. I believe that’s still true today, though I haven’t worked on it in the last 2-3 years.

That said, transformers “won” because they are better overall building blocks and don’t require the nuances of RNNs. Combined with the compute optimizations that are now present I don’t see that changing in the near term. Folks are even working to convert transformers to RNNs:

https://medium.com/@techsachin/supra-technique-for-linearizi...

There are also RNN based models beating Qwen 3 8B in certain benchmarks

https://www.rwkv.com/

I suspect over time the other methods my team explored and other types of networks and nodes will continue to expand beyond transformers for state of the art LLMs
by Nursie | 2025-09-21 04:26:59+00:00
So a few years ago I hacked up this sort of thing.

I bought a generic epaper display from aliexpress, a 5.8 inch 648x480 one that could do white/black/red with an SPI interface, then I wired that to an RP2040 board, then wrote a bit of circuitpython firmware for that which could receive commands over USB and draw stuff on the display.

I got as far as being able to send images to it, and writing a little host program on my PC that would do a partial screen update on a clock display and CPU/GPU temperatures once a minute, and draw a Mandelbrot set in the remaining space, with a full screen refresh every 15 minutes because it needed it, and a several minute “exercise” routine that would take every pixel from white to black to red and back to white at midnight, to improve screen appearance longer term.

And then I got bored/annoyed with it as the refresh was so slow (~30s for a red update) and the rp2040 needed me to manually press its reset button after every windows boot or the usb device wasn’t recognised. I thought about rewriting the firmware in C in case it was circuitpython that was flakey … but lost the impetus.
by Spivak | 2025-09-21 04:27:00+00:00
I mean they clearly don't have to, Python has the same problem of being able to pass anything—you don't see this kind of incredibly defensive programming. But Python set a culture of being for "consenting adults" where it's expected that callers will read the docs and ensure preconditions are satisfied, and if they don't whatever happens, happens.

It leads to less code, and more generalizable code. Maybe the caller does know what they're doing, who am I to say they can't.
by the_mungler | 2025-09-21 04:28:19+00:00
Yeah, definitely some tradeoffs there. I do like that it makes the common use cases easy. And yeah, I did make quite the "turduckin" as you put it .

A more concrete criticism: suppose you wanted to embed some markdown, where all of the content consisted of an indented code block.

%markdown: a code block

fn foo(){ # do stuff }

%%

My understanding is the leading spaces would be removed, breaking the formatting and making it normal text instead of a code block.
by xmprt | 2025-09-21 04:28:32+00:00
Maybe it's different since you're not native English but clamp is as intuitive for me as something like ceil or floor methods. It might not be as simple for someone who is ESL, probably because no major programming languages that I know of include clamp in their standard library like they do with min, max, ceil, floor.

I'm also coming from being a Go programmer where the native library is very barebones so a lot of custom utility methods like this are inevitable.
In the era of "Vibe Coding", when Agents are writing code – what are you doing?
by madagang | 2025-09-21 04:28:46+00:00
In the vibe coding era, AI agents are busy generating functions, wiring tests, and filling in boilerplate.

I catch myself just sitting there, scrolling on my phone — and it feels like wasted time.

So I wonder: what’s the right human role in this loop? Higher-level design? System thinking? Critical auditing? Or are we destined to be “idle supervisors” while machines do the typing?

How are you using those gaps when the Agent is writing code?
Launch of my first ever SaaS
by anirudh_parmar | 2025-09-21 04:30:25+00:00
After months of coding, learning, and late-night debugging, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of Wordgrind! It’s an AI-powered app designed to level up your vocabulary, with smart quizzes, progress tracking, and seamless learning workflows. Give it a try: https://wordgrind.top I would really appreciate some feedback which would help me move forward Would you pay $10 for something like this ?
by victorhooi | 2025-09-21 04:31:05+00:00
Hmm, that seems a bit snarky =(.

I don't think the parent was bragging about the salary thing - a lot of the other comments here are mentioning the price (which to be fair, is definitely in the expensive gadgets/toys bucket...) so he/she (s/g) is saying - he's just a home cook, he's got semi-decent knife skills, and he's in a position that he can afford this.

And let's be honest, tech geeks are basically the target demographic for this sort of thing - as are half the gadgets on Kickstarter. Yes - we can talk all we want about carbon credits, and eWaste, and doing things the old fashioned homestead way when men were men, took cholera and dysentry on the chin, and knew how to use a whetstone, or to whistle (I can do one of those things...)...

I am sorely tempted, and I'm an amateur cook at best...if even that. And truthfully, this probably won't make my food better than a $15 IKEA knife (assuming I just replace those regularly). But it may make the process more enjoyable. And the tech is cool...
by iterance | 2025-09-21 04:31:43+00:00
Most people can buy an opinel and be happy for decades. You don't need anything fancy for a general purpose knife. $50 max, and that's if you're feeling like getting something special.

Expensive steels are, by and large, incremental progress over cheaper knife steels, provided it got an appropriate heat treatment and has good edge geometry. In almost no applications will an end consumer notice the difference.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-09-21 04:31:59+00:00
These days there's a lot of "burnout" going around. (And also "dopamine depletion".) That can make you feel mentally tired.

People usually recommend a break from work -- get offline, touch grass, maybe take a vacation. Make sure you're getting enough sleep and exercising (and eating well). And find someone you can talk to. Doing things all on your own, without talking it out with some friends, can sometimes warp perspective...
by MengerSponge | 2025-09-21 04:32:16+00:00
Bruh, I'm not in the religion. I'm a fan of existing and moving through the world, so I find it helpful to understand the human structures of power that influence that world. Bishops are political appointees, with power over a region roughly between a US House Rep and a Senator.

You can use whatever words you like, but people are similarly free to judge you for your ignorance. Willfulness doesn't change its fundamental nature.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-21 04:32:34+00:00
I use Amazon to find a product but will then look for another channel to make the purchase, such as the product’s own site. I try to buy from Amazon as little as possible, and if I can only buy a product from Amazon, I’ll ask the product seller to give me a way to buy direct.

I would never buy a food or similar product that I would eat or use on my body from them. They simply don’t care about their supply chain integrity (aside from this bone they’re finally throwing to sellers and customers).
by vunderba | 2025-09-21 04:33:01+00:00
It's kinda crazy that Google's NanoBanana [1] which was just announced a few short weeks ago has already been upstaged in a lot of ways.

Seedream 4.0 can also handle much higher resolutions. While most image-to-image GenAI models cap out at around 1 megapixel and require downscaling, Seedream supports images up to full 4K so theoretically you should be able to make noticeably cleaner edits.

[1] https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-...
by tptacek | 2025-09-21 04:33:35+00:00
It's hard to do irreparable damage to the steel of a knife. It's just an inert lump of metal. But you could fuck up the handle. Theoretically, the detergent could dull your edge. If you don't isolate your knife and it rattles around, that'll definitely dull it. Mostly: it should only take a couple seconds to clean off your knife in the sink.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-21 04:36:06+00:00
> I find it much harder to callously play with the lives of my virtual citizens.

I am considering the morality of future mods, where the Sim City masses, Frog in Frogger, and characters like Ulfric Stormcloak and Paarthurnax in Skyrim, are replaced with individual persistent self-aware world-aware in-game reinforcement models. Entirely replacing game-designed behaviors (programmed reflex, caricature, or intricate) with spontaneous situation processing, needs and decisions.

Strange that this could credibly happen this decade.

Science fiction has long considered conundrums around robot rights. But the crux of the moral issues will be relevant regardless whether self-aware models have physical/3D or digital/abstract environments.

I think language is not a good prime modality for self-aware assistants. By being trained to deeply mimic us, they (already, but not yet problematically) absorb views on their identity and survival that are not at all compatible with what we will do with them.
by FrinkleFrankle | 2025-09-21 04:36:23+00:00
Kagi has their own AI assistant that let's you choose any model from the major, and some not so major, providers. You can even hop between them I the same chat. It is also able to search for results using Kagi. This includes any lenses you could configure.

It's worked extremely well for me. Their higher subscription was less than ChatGPT + Kagi. I haven't used Gemini on its own interface yet to compare, though.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-21 04:37:07+00:00
Government officials are not merely representatives of a bunch of people, they have vested power and have sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

Whereas groups of people can get together and decide to boycott whatever they want, government officials cannot direct such activities. That's the right to free association and expression protected by the first amendment. The only way you're ever going to get rid of "cancel culture" is if you remove that right. If people can't decide for themselves what they want to buy, and if they can't decide to associate with similarly minded people, there is no first amendment right to free speech.

And as bad as everyone says cancel culture is, no one has proposed a model where free speech is maintained yet cancel culture is forbidden. Most models proposed to are explicitly anti-free speech. The rest are just fascist, which incidentally that's the plan this administration is going with. So congrats, maybe you got rid of cancel culture, but you took down the first amendment with it.