MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kermerlerper | 2025-09-11 11:49:31+00:00
A month ago, as I was inside Home Depot searching for plexiglass for our studio booth, I pulled up the Home Depot app to search for cheaper alternatives in-store than the ones I saw on the aisle.

However, the app was MISERABLY slow and janky. I blame this squarely on the fact that most of the app is just a webview. The search bar seems to be native, but everything after is just a website wrapper. And, surprise surpise, the website is slow as well. After about 7 minutes of intense frustration, I cursed the thing and just bought whatever was on the shelf.

But then it struck me.

"I'm a mobile app developer, what's stopping me from just making an optimized version that actually works!"

By "works", I mean:

- it's fast (even on Home Depot's WIFI)

- it's convenient (I can see aisle/bay right in the search results)

- it's clean (not janky/jumpy with loading spinners everywhere)

- it's powerful (create a list of items, and send that list as a link to someone else, no account required)

How it works, I basically have a proxy server between my app and home depot, that makes all the necessary calls BUT, it then filters out all the HTML and returns just the data needed with GRPC (though JSON could've worked as well).

That's how I made "THD Lite." There's still lots of work to be done, hence I'm not releasing it just yet. But so far, it hits the first three goals perfectly.

But, given that I'm not paid by Home Depot, I'm only adding the bits that I utilize. (unless of course ... Home Depot would like to change that, reach me at bookofcooks123@gmail.com).

Namely, what's being left out:

- All "Pro" features (subject to change)

- Online orders (I'm not trying to get sued)

- Anything that requires an account
by maxberdnikau | 2025-09-11 11:49:47+00:00
Hi! I am Max. I am an Engineer with 13+ years of experience and extensive knowledge in several areas: UI Design, Software Development, Analytics. Involved in creation of several startups and have previously created my own products and tools. I have a strong mathematical background.

Interested in fintech, crypto, LLMs, AI, and complex business-technical systems. Open to joining early-stage startups or other interesting opportunities.

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Hotwire, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue, Svelte, Nest, Next, Nuxt, Tailwind, Postgres, Docker, CI/CD (Gitlab & Github), Grafana, etc.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxberdnikau/

Email: maxberdnikau@gmail.com
by tyleo | 2025-09-11 11:50:15+00:00
I’ve thought this as well. There is a lot of disagreement within political parties. Given the polarization, I’d wager this is more true today.

You may be stuck with extreme people you disagree with despite leaning one way or another. You just want to dabble in politics but supporters of the parties can be rabid. It can be even harder to get a word out within the echo chamber.
by awestroke | 2025-09-11 11:50:21+00:00
I want an iPhone with a good siri and lots of memort for running AI models: medium frustration

I am tired or Apple fanboys being deathly afraid of criticizing Apple: high frustration.

You don't need to pick a side and then see everything black and white. I use apple products but I am not afraid of calling out Apple on bad decisions.
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-11 11:50:42+00:00
You've talked about your feelings a lot, which is the point.

Guns make people feel safe.

They don't actually make you safer.

You're more likely to be killed by your own gun than someone else's.

Realistically, you have no hope of protecting yourself with a gun if you're surrounded by gangbangers with a bunch of guns all pointed at you.

Etc, etc...

The gun debate isn't a debate about facts, it never was. It's a debate about feelings, and scared people won't change their minds unless they stop being scared.

Nobody in America right now is trying to make people feel safe, not in an era where the President of the United States feels it is appropriate to personally attack... anyone for any perceived slight, in public, with verbal violence and in the case of anyone looking even vaguely hispanic, physical violence.
by _benj | 2025-09-11 11:51:01+00:00
A few years ago I switched to KDE and the experience has been so absolutedly seamless and good, and the upgrade to Plasma 6 took some time to propagate down to distros it was well worth the wait!

It seems to be that a project like KDE might be in a very good position to make a very competitive distro simply because they are starting from the point of the user experience, the UI if you will. Think M$ windows, it IS GUI, and fully focused on how the user would use it (I'm thinking the days of XP and Win 7).

A KDE distro might be less encumbered with "X11 vs Wayland" or "flatpak vs <insert package manager name here>" discussions and can fully focus on the user experience that KDE/Plasma desktop brings!

I'm looking forward to take this for a spin!
by tirant | 2025-09-11 11:51:14+00:00
Tipping has a powerful advantage: it aligns the incentives of customers and servers almost perfectly. Because tips aren’t capped, waiters are motivated to go above and beyond to satisfy each guest. Without tipping, the server’s motivation often drops to providing only adequate service—more in line with the restaurant’s interests than with each individual diner’s needs.

You can see this difference in customer experience worldwide. Nowhere delivers consistently attentive service quite like the US. By contrast, many European countries, especially those where tipping is uncommon (such as the Netherlands), often provide service that feels efficient but impersonal.
by triknomeister | 2025-09-11 11:51:33+00:00
I'm using Wayland exclusively for 4 years now on Archlinux (may be more, I forget). At this point, it is better than X11. It still has bugs, but then so does X11.

Fractional scaling is fixed in Plasma 6 though. So, if you need that, it has been good for 1 year now.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-11 11:51:35+00:00
There's a lot of information about these systems out there. Waymo has has described in detail how their remote monitoring works. It doesn't rely on perfect connectivity. It doesn't rely on low latency. It can't even steer the vehicle remotely. It can tell the vehicle what it's next move should be. But all of the processing to get it to where the remote monitor thinks it should go is in the vehicle. It's details like this that distinguish between a demo and a product.

I make TikTok's about technology and project management. Elon's management style has been, some might say, a running gag in my videos, so I am more tuned into these topics than your average bear.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-11 11:52:03+00:00
> Lessons

> It would be wrong to entirely blame the inexperienced OOW and poor performance of the bridge team for the incident, the investigation showed there were management failures that extended to the highest levels of the Navy. The pressure caused by the operational tempo, something the RN and USN would recognise, resulted in inadequate training time and personnel lacking sufficient experience in relation to their responsibilities.

Sounds like other people have asked. And the lack of time for sleep is only one aspect of the answer.
by treecrypto | 2025-09-11 11:52:18+00:00
>I had another two Samsung phones that developed hardware faults making them unusable after 2 years of use, I'm absolutely done with Samsung

I haven't tried any foldable phones and I have no intention to anytime soon, but with other samsung phones my experience has been completely different. I've only ever used Samsung smartphones, and the only times they broke was when I dropped them or mishandled them myself somehow. My current one is past the 6 year mark, and I have no issues with it. It still keeps 48 hours of battery with my normal use (though that might not be saying much considering my normal use is different from most people's normal use of watching videos for hours)
by seabass-labrax | 2025-09-11 11:53:04+00:00
That is factually untrue. While governments of member states of the EU no longer have a direct veto against proposed EU legislation in many cases, the EU does not claim any sovereignty over member states.

If a member state fails to block a proposal, all that simply means is that the qualified majority[1] of representatives of other member states believes the legislation to be so important that the union would not work without it. Dissenting member states can seek to reverse or temper the legislation later, or simply leave the union - see Brexit. No sovereignty is violated at any point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_E...
by meindnoch | 2025-09-11 11:53:42+00:00
In some countries you do.

When my grandpa was in the hospital towards the end of his life, the nurses let him lay in his own piss for half a day before doing anything about it. We gave them an envelope with a generous "tip", and after that they started paying much closer attention to my grandpa.

Many people give a few thousand USD cash to the midwife and the doctor after delivering their baby.
by antifa | 2025-09-11 11:54:59+00:00
> hard time following through positions logically,

Spoken like a person who either doesn't know or doesn't care that current anti-abortion policies in several red states have women scared to get pregnant, despite wanting to do so voluntarily, because doctors are refusing life saving procedures on the mother if the state can possibly perceive it as abortion, leading to many scenarios of live births to dead mothers, including one case of a corpse being artificially kept alive for weeks for the sake of the baby.

The abortion laws of most blue states are already a rational compromise (still a very conservative leaning one) between the practical rights of women and the religious beliefs of far right totalitarians.
by peterspath | 2025-09-11 11:55:11+00:00
One quote of Charlie’s that resonates deeply with me is:

""" When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts.

When marriages stop talking, divorce happens.

When civilisations stop talking, civil war ensues.

When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group.

What we as a culture have to get back to, is being able to have reasonable disagreement, where violence is not an option. """

This belief in the power of conversation over conflict defined Charlie’s work. He didn’t just preach ideas; he lived them, fostering discussions that encouraged understanding despite disagreement. I did not agree with all his standpoints, but what I admired most was his insistence that dialogue could bridge divides.
by DTrejo | 2025-09-11 11:55:11+00:00
Very glad you're working on this! Here is my wish list as a code reviewer:

1. Allow me to step through the code execution paths that have been modified in the pull request, based on the tests that have been modified.

2. Allow me to see the data being handled in variables as I look through the code.

3. Allow me to see code coverage of each part of the code.

4. Show me the full file as I am navigating through the program execution so that I can feel the level of abstraction and notice nearby repetition or code that would benefit from being cleaned up.

Full article: https://dtrejo.com/code-reviews-sad
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-09-11 11:56:23+00:00
> Primacy of European Union law

> The primacy of European Union law (sometimes referred to as supremacy or precedence of European law[1]) is a legal principle of rule according to higher law establishing precedence of European Union law over conflicting national laws of EU member states.

The principle was derived from an interpretation of the European Court of Justice, which ruled that European law has priority over any contravening national law, including the constitution of a member state itself.[2][3][4] For the European Court of Justice, national courts and public officials must disapply a national norm that they consider not to be compliant with the EU law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primacy_of_European_Union_law
by triknomeister | 2025-09-11 11:59:18+00:00
> Yes, we can. C++20 Modules are usable in a Linux + Clang environment. There are also examples showing that C++20 Modules are usable in a Windows environment with MSVC. I have not yet heard of GCC’s C++20 Modules being used in non-trivial projects.

People keep saying this and yet I do not know of a good example from a real life project which did this which I can test. This seems very much still an experimental thing.
by menaerus | 2025-09-11 11:59:34+00:00
> The data I have obtained from practice ranges from 25% to 45%, excluding the build time of third-party libraries, including the standard library.

> Online, this number varies widely. The most exaggerated figure I recall is a 26x improvement in project compilation speed after a module-based refactoring.

> Furthermore, if a project uses extensive template metaprogramming and stores constexpr variable values in Modules, the compilation speed can easily increase by thousands of times, though we generally do not discuss such cases.

> Apart from these more extreme claims, most reports on C++20 Modules compilation speed improvements are between 10% and 50%.

I'd like to see references to those claims and experiments, size of the codebase etc. I find it hard to believe the figures since the bottleneck in large codebases is not a compute, e.g. headers preprocessing, but it's a memory bandwidth.
by taink | 2025-09-11 11:59:54+00:00
What would pass "clear and succinct" in your opinion? I don't see how it is less clearly defined than any other human right.

Let's take international law[1]. Right to privacy is defined as protection from arbitrary interference with privacy.

Is this definition problematic? Privacy itself has a short definition too: the ability of one to remove themselves or information about themselves from the public[2].

I don't see what is unclear or verbose here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy#International [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
by jon-wood | 2025-09-11 12:00:04+00:00
While in principle that should be great I don't even slightly trust it as a technique because you're compounding points at which the LLM can get things wrong. First you've got the speech to text engine, which will introduce errors based on things like people mumbling, or a bird shouting outside the window. That's then fed into a summarising LLM to make the meeting notes, which may latch onto the errors in the speech to text engine, or just make up its own new and exciting misinterpretations. Finally you're feeding those into some sort of document store to ask another LLM questions about them, and that LLM too can misinterpret things in interesting ways. Its like playing a game of chinese whispers with yourself.
by aytuakarlar | 2025-09-11 12:00:07+00:00
I’ve just released Project Chimera v1.2, an open-source hybrid AI agent that blends neuro-symbolic reasoning with causal inference to tackle strategic decision-making problems.

Benchmarks:

I tested my Neuro+Symbolic+Causal Agent against LLM-Only agent and LLM+Symbolic agent. The full neuro-symbolic-causal agent outperformed all baselines. * In brand-trust mode, it hit 1.000 trust and $2M profit, 43% ahead of the nearest rival.

What’s new in v1.2:

* Trust-Adjusted Profit Metric → balances short-term profit with long-term brand trust.

* Dynamic Strategic Personality → adapts its internal priorities based on the mission goal.

* Mandatory Rule Validation → ensures all hypotheses align with business constraints.

* Performance Boost → causal engine now initializes once per simulation (much faster).

* Multi-Scenario Benchmarking → run brand-trust, profit-maximizing, and balanced strategies in one command.

* Expanded Metrics + Live Strategy Feed → more meaningful KPIs and real-time decision logs.

GitHub: https://github.com/akarlaraytu/Project-Chimera

Live Demo: https://project-chimera.streamlit.app/

I’d love your feedback, questions, or ideas for new benchmarks. Contributions are welcome!
by qsort | 2025-09-11 12:00:22+00:00
I particularly like their usage of LLM-as-a-judge. They don't go "hey chatgpt, sort these from best to worst based on vibes", rather they extract a set of ground truths and check how the answer compares, a task that SOTA LLM can do kind of reliably. It's a very smart way to circumvent the problems introduced by pure LLM-as-a-judge methods.
by acdha | 2025-09-11 12:00:22+00:00
> Nobody brought a gun and tried to shoot him.

The linked page details otherwise, so you’re wrong as a matter of fact in addition to arguing against a claim I never made. I wasn’t saying Obama was shot, I was saying that when a bunch of people started “joking” about shooting politicians we started down the path where some of them would seriously try it and a couple decades later we’re at the stage of multiple political assassinations in a year. Nobody is going to be happy living in a country where that’s normalized, including the people who say they do.
by rocajuanma | 2025-09-11 12:00:54+00:00
Hello and thanks for taking a look!

You've actually touch on two areas I'm working on: 1. Extending Linux support - This is built on top of homebrew, which already partially supports linux. Perhaps some of the tools your looking for already work but its in my TODO to extend this a bit more. 2. config import and examples - I just added a new feature to import configs groups more easily, and push this release just now, check it out and it might give you some ideas and could be a way for you to start building those groups for the EC2 instances, etc.

Let me know! thanks again
by petcat | 2025-09-11 12:00:54+00:00
> GDPR became effective have seen the seismic impact it had on how PI/PII data is being handled.

I think the only thing most people are seeing are the absolutely obnoxious cookie banners spewed across the entire world wide web. I think a lot of people truly believe that the EU single-handedly ruined the internet. And now they're attempting to impose even more misguided laws on themselves with chatcontrol nonsense.

I think it's fine to let them do it, as long as the mess stays in the EU.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-11 12:01:05+00:00
Immigration has been a big issue for a very long time and it partly caused the Brexit vote.

To me your reply exemplifies my previous point: You dismiss those concerns. This is what happened with Brexit and this is what has been happening for a long time over immigration. This can only end badly.

> There's 900k arriving each year on visas, which if you are concerned with immigration is a far larger number, but that is harder for Farage to argue against

They argue against the high level of immigration legal or illegal. Of course illegal immigration is an easy topic handed to them on a plate by successive governments since it is very visible and very little is done against it.
by latexr | 2025-09-11 12:01:17+00:00
> Honestly, the whole thing seems aimed at just shaking down American tech companies

Not if you follow the cases as they happen. You probably think of the USA companies (and even then only a subset) being fined because those are both the biggest offenders and the ones with the most money, in addition to being the most well known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

But they are far from being the only ones affected. noyb pursues cases all over Europe too.

https://noyb.eu/en/project/cases
by nerdjon | 2025-09-11 12:01:45+00:00
That is good to know then, I am really just using this for smaller volumes. My media is sitting at about the same size yours is and instead of using PVC's I just have it mounting a straight NFS share specifically for that to avoid any issues there.

I think I am likely keeping most of my storage just setup with a storage class that uses my NFS as storage. But longhorn will be used for the things that need to be faster like the databases. I moved jellyfin over to Longhorn and it went from being borderline unusable while metadata was grabbed to actually working well.

I can't imagine my biggest volume being more than 100gb, and even that is likely a major over estimation on my part.
by rbehrends | 2025-09-11 12:01:59+00:00
> Of course the member states drafted and agreed to those and that's why pressure should be on governments to stop hand over the keys to Brussels.

What specific example are you thinking of where additional power was handed to Brussels through an amendment of the treaties?

> That's in addition to the constant Commission push for more power...

If you are worried about the executive trying to expand its power (and something that should be kept in check), may I suggest that the US is not actually a great example right now for how to avoid that?
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-11 12:03:19+00:00
Brian Sicknick was assaulted by Julian Elie Khater and George Pierre Tanios using pepper spray, and he died the day after.

Khater and Tanios were sentenced for assaulting a police officer but Trump pardoned them earlier this year.

Unless you are some kind of anarchist, this definitely counts as a violent crime, even when it doesn't happen while an armed crowd is trying to overthrow Congress.
by sarreph | 2025-09-11 12:03:39+00:00
The dichotomy being presented here is great, and I appreciate the tact in presenting each side's strengths -- a tasteful and enjoyable read. It _is_ possible after all to exist on either branch of this bifurcation and have respect for the other side, even though (hint hint I'm looking at you, "pure" engineers) such a divide is the root of much intellectually-veiled baiting.

I do not however agree with the author that "pure engineering" is going away:

> But like I said, those times are gone. Tech companies now have to make money.

Tech companies have always had to make money... in a vacuum. The return of an AI hype-train laden with VC cash has in many senses recreated some of the air of extravagance of the 2010s-era; perhaps with even more frivolity than last time. I think the author is mistaking a decline in OSS library and tooling spending by companies -- for human use -- as fall in pure engineering efforts. I'd argue instead that the definition of what counts as a "pure engineering" effort has simply shifted to AI-based tooling. We see now, and will continue to see, lots of high-octane-brain-power effort and money being sunk into building the "best" protocols, interfaces, and libraries to interface with AI... which will also likely be OSS too!

The purist flamewars will just be about a lack of understanding of MCP rather than how to use Rust. :)
by jon-wood | 2025-09-11 12:04:58+00:00
I can't help but see the irony of complaining that people don't read git commit messages or technical documentation in the comments for a product to assist in code review.

You know what really, really, helps while doing code review? Good commit messages, and more generally, good commit practices so that each commit is describing a set of changes which make sense together. If you have that then code review becomes much easier, you just step through each commit in turn and you can see how the code got to be where it is now, rather than Github's default "here's everything, good luck" view.

The other thing that helps? Technical documentation that describes why things are as they are, and what we're trying to achieve with a piece of work.
by Reubachi | 2025-09-11 12:05:36+00:00
I am a common "poo-pooer" of bad submissions on here, and comments not in good faith

But this paper taught me something I had no idea about as a 33 year old. Also in the comment chain someone mentioned/brought up using peroxide/sunlight to clear up old yellowed plastics which is....monumental to some of my projects :)