MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simondelacourt | 2025-09-08 14:50:36+00:00
If we'd really want to lower the energy usage of our applications we probably have to simplify along the whole chain. Using Astro means the whole process relies probably on NPM, the build cycle is probably also more energy intensive. Static HTML hosted on some dirt cheap server is probably more environmentally friendly than hooking up to some API and giving us various experiences based upon the mix of the grid.

To me the savings as mentioned in the article feel rather superficial compared to the energy consumed just getting the basic infra for this up & running. Somehow this feels like greenwashing.
by mg | 2025-09-08 14:50:55+00:00
Is anyone working on software that lets you run local LLMs in the browser?

In theory, it should be possible, shouldn't it?

The page could hold only the software in JavaScript that uses WebGL to run the neural net. And offer an "upload" button that the user can click to select a model from their file system. The button would not upload the model to a server - it would just let the JS code access it to convert it into WebGL and move it into the GPU.

This way, one could download models from HuggingFace, store them locally and use them as needed. Nicely sandboxed and independent of the operating system.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-08 14:51:06+00:00
Nepal has always been somewhat of a basket case. Remember when their prince went nuts and shot the royal family up? Then the whole country went through the wringer in the mid-00s.

Shame, it’s one place I really want to visit, but it seems like it will be a bit of a challenge (well, at least not Iran-level challenge, which is another place I want to visit someday and has different but even bigger problems).
by don_esteban | 2025-09-08 14:51:07+00:00
The problem is when the rules are made to sustain and exacerbate the social divide, not to make the life better for everybody.

No need to go far, just look at the result of lobbying in the USA.

Btw, while there are many famines caused by despots (Stalin's, Mao's, Red Khmer's), there is also Bengal's famine of 1943.

One must also point out that China in the last 40 years have done perhaps more regarding the poverty mitigation than anybody else in the human history (capitalism, especially the wild one, has actually quite patchy record...)
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-08 14:51:22+00:00
Just stop using it? Delete your accounts, uninstall the apps, and stop being miserable.

I'm on HN and Bluesky. I have a Reddit account I can manually log into if there's something important (but I deleted my login credentials from my browser after the 2023 boycott and rarely post now). I wish I had access to Marketplace sometimes, but enough people still post to Craigslist. If you offered me some cash, equivalent to the amount I've overpaid for stuff because I didn't have Marketplace, to reduce my quality of life with the misery that Facebook once inflicted, I'd laugh in your face. I have no Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, WeChat, Twitter, or any of the rest.

Actual friends and family can keep in touch with me IRL, over SMS, by phone calls, or by email. Yeah, I have Signal and Telegram, but few contacts that use either. I have a Discord with a few servers, but I'm not on the mobile app - I intentionally only use it from my PC. Yes, there are a handful of organizations in my periphery which only post on Facebook Groups and which only communicate by Facebook Messenger, I'm out of the loop with those orgs, but most are understanding when I explain that I don't have Facebook. If I click a link to their pages and try to view comments or pictures, Facebook constantly advertises that I need to create an account because life's better on Facebook - but I know better.

Stop waiting for someone else to upend a trillion dollar industry that literally defines network effects and which isn't aligned with what's best for you. Disrupt your social media addiction yourself!

There will be a few weeks of adjustment as your brain struggles through withdrawal of the easy dopamine habit. Don't give in, when you recognize the impulse, just choose to do something better: go for a walk, read a book, volunteer with a local organization doing good work, pick up a new habit you can be proud of.
by jimkri | 2025-09-08 14:51:28+00:00
I agree with you here. I'm a solo founder who is self-funding and have been able to apply gen AI for any task and have been building all the products that I need to get things done. I have my basic PM tools and CRM, but everything else I'm building and making them dumb so I can validate as fast as possible.

I think larger Enterprises are not as efficient and can't get their teams to consistently and effectively communicate how and what their process is with using AI. Unless they are extremely organized.

You can find those founders on LinkedIn.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-08 14:51:34+00:00
> Is it because we have lost the secrets of ancient Roman technology?

> Not really. We know how to make durable concrete; it’s just more expensive than the alternatives that last 30-40 years.

... For a span of almost 2000 years this was not the case, there was nobody you could pay to make a concrete dome like the Pantheon's, not at any price. And we only properly reverse-engineered the Roman recipe in the past decade.

I think a technology still counts as "lost" even if it gets rediscovered in the distant future!
by latexr | 2025-09-08 14:51:38+00:00
> is there a reliable way to find an RSS feed for a given site, assuming it has one?

Any half-decent feed reader app will do it for you after just pasting the website’s address.

> Are there good tools to RSSify sites that don’t have one?

https://openrss.org

https://rss-bridge.org

https://createfeed.fivefilters.org

And for newsletters:

https://notifier.in

https://kill-the-newsletter.com
by mock-possum | 2025-09-08 14:51:38+00:00
> the DLC where aliens were part of your team seemed like such a misguided venture to me. It seemed like something someone might come up with in a thoughtless effort to be inclusive of diversity. But what does that even mean in this case?

If I live a million years I will never understand the paranoia over the ‘threat’ of inclusivity / diversity.
by mamcx | 2025-09-08 14:51:39+00:00
> What actually prevents bugs at scale is boring stuff:

There is a layer above this: To understand, really, what are the requirements and to check if are delivered. You can have perfect code that do nothing of consequence. Is the equivalent of `this function is not used by anything` but more macro.

But of course, the problem is to decipher the code, where what you say helps a ton.
by greysonp | 2025-09-08 14:51:42+00:00
Absolutely love immich. Prior to the release of the new "Beta timeline", it was difficult to recommend without reservation, because there were a lot of performance issues on Android, and syncing was just non-functional on my wife's iPhone. However, since enabling the beta timeline, the app is basically perfect now. I've been running it for months without issue, and having a first-class CLI means I've been able to do things like automatically create albums from my Signal backup. Big thanks to the immich team!
by librasteve | 2025-09-08 14:52:00+00:00
The new raku site is built on the https://harcstack.org - that's HTMX, Air, Red and Cro. (The raku Air module is the glue, Red is the ORM and Cro is the HTTP framework).

HTMX and Pico are baked into HARC stack - the rationale for this is that HTMX (as the antidote to React) enables non TypeScript languages on the server side. Of course, then you need a library that will help you write your server! That's where HARC stack comes in.

For example, on the raku.org front page you will see a set of button/tabs that select specific code examples - each one of these does...

<li class="active"> <a hx-target="#buttabs-1-content" hx-get="/buttabs/1/multi-paradigm" data-value="1">multi-paradigm</a></li>

These results in a more lightweight page and the ability to run code to render the tab content on demand. It's probably overkill for this site rather static needs, but the Air::Base component library tilts towards active HTMX controls wherever possible.

hth
by djrj477dhsnv | 2025-09-08 14:52:03+00:00
Harm is subjective and I'd much rather parents make that call than the government.

And there absolutely isn't consensus on when it's harmful to give children alcohol. Many would say it's good to give a child a glass of wine at a family dinner so that they learn to drink responsibly.

Msot agree that cigarettes are harmful at all ages, so that's not really relevant.
by seneca | 2025-09-08 14:52:19+00:00
That's probably a healthy way to see things. Ideally all people that are actively working to create or improve should be on the same "side" against those that are destructive. The second order conflict then becomes what the rules are, and how we guide that side. That is, I think, where most of the factionalism historically plays out. It does feel like we're regressing to fighting that first order conflict more often now though.

In reality, it may be more complicated than that though. Most people don't see themselves as destructive, they just have a very different view of what the right rules are and what ought to be done to progress things. That can appear destructive from the outside.
by snowwrestler | 2025-09-08 14:52:25+00:00
In a socialist system you still need a government, which is a group of people who are empowered to enforce the rules of socialism. As a result, they end up having access to most of the collective wealth as well.

If they are very good socialists they will redistribute it all. If they are not-very-good socialists they will redistribute some of it and reserve some to support a nice lifestyle for themselves and their families. They won’t personally “own” mansions, airplanes, factories, etc. like capitalists do, but they still control them legally so the practical effect is very similar.
by jay-barronville | 2025-09-08 14:52:27+00:00
> But also yes to the cops arresting a kid who posts on social media that he’s gonna kill all his classmates tomorrow morning.

I think that everyone (yes, literally everyone) would agree that direct incitements and threats of violence such as this would be fine to censor and deal with appropriately. As a free speech advocate, I know a lot of folks with free speech absolutist views yet I don’t know a single person who’d be against any of that.

The reality though is that, in practice, these extreme examples tend to be used to justify censorship only to end up making the rules vague and subjective enough that, sooner or later, folks start being censored for wrongthink.

Also, “moderation” is just a soft term for censorship.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-08 14:52:50+00:00
A lot of discussion around RSS revolves around the format for the data/metadata (e.g. the Atom feud) but the real problem with it is this:

To consume an RSS feed you poll it. There are two polling speeds: too fast and too slow, and it's possible to be both at the same time.

Note the struggles of this Karen to turn RSS from a simple stateful protocol to a complex stated protocol, and she'll ban you if you ever reset your cache and rerun your fetcher because your cache got corrupted or you suspect it might have been corrupted.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/03/07/get/

You really want to have a stream of feed items and to be able to: (1) replay the whole stream all the way from or to the beginning and (2) query "what got added after time t?" and just get that. ActivityPub accomplishes this but people don't really like it. For Dave Winer it is all blub but even if he doesn't believe in the Fedi, he's on it.

I really like

https://superfeedr.com/

because it does all the polling for you and hits your webhook whenever a new feed item appears. My webhook is about 15 lines of Python running as a Lambda function that posts items to an SQS queue and my YOShInOn RSS reader just drains the queue at its convenience. The pricing at 10 cents/feed/month is a bargain for high volume feeds like MDPI, arXiv, and The Guardian [1] but unfortunately I can't really afford to subscribe to 2000 little blogs that post maybe once a week at that rate. I wish there were more Planets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)

[1] AWS costs would be trivial in comparison even if it got out of the free tier
by rayiner | 2025-09-08 14:53:38+00:00
I doubt that factors into most people’s decisions. If anything, aerospace and automotive engineers tend to lean centrist to conservative: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10529569 (Table 5). And aerospace is disproportionately white men compared to other engineering fields.

Additionally, my observation is that reactions to Musk are heavily influenced by individual levels of empathy, and “people focused versus systems focused” thinking. In my experience aerospace engineers are pretty low empathy and low people focus. When I got my degree in aerospace engineering in the early aughts—before SpaceX and the reboot of commercial aerospace—the most exciting job to look forward to was designing missiles for Raytheon and stuff like that. When I worked for a military contractor, the hypothetical scenarios always involved stuff like “so we just overthrew Iraq’s government, and now we need radio uplinks to our UAVs so we can blow up terrorists.” Nobody caught feelings over that stuff. I doubt many of these folks care about Elon’s tweets.
by howerj | 2025-09-08 14:53:45+00:00
Other's have mentioned that Forth isn't an esoteric language, however if you want a Forth written for an esoteric language I have written one for SUBLEQ (see https://esolangs.org/wiki/Subleq). Although SUBLEQ is more of an esoteric machine than a language, it also sort of qualifies as one (and has an entry on the esolangs Wiki).

It's available at https://howerj.github.io/subleq.htm if you want to try it online.
by fullshark | 2025-09-08 14:53:59+00:00
I don't miss the old facebook, but I'm also not 20 anymore. I just don't want to share random thoughts or my life's highlights with everyone I've ever met anymore. The only people who do are people doing advertising.

I use private chats to talk to people that matter to me, about topics we both care about. I don't care to replace that. I don't see any reason to have true social media (and not pseudonymous message boards like this site) in my life.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-09-08 14:54:10+00:00
I think you're misunderstanding my point. Either you believe in the society you live in, or you don't. The story specifically speaks of people high up within that society that do not believe in it and are using their position to undermine that society in order to benefit themselves.. That, for me, is the #1 problematic archetype of person.

Its not just about the rules and if you follow them or not, its about the belief in turn-taking, in other people having the same rights as you, a belief that in society; everyone is important, everyone is mostly equal and that the society should be fair. Perhaps my phrasing could be improved? For the most part I am simply trying to define the difference between people being selfish and not.
by eigencoder | 2025-09-08 14:54:48+00:00
I think there's a lot of recency bias here. Over and over again in human history, we've lost technology. We often lose technology. The past 200 years is the exception, not the rule.

I also think that some parts are really weakly-reasoned:

> The Ancient Egyptians cut stone with an impressive level of precision. The Incas in South America did too. So much so that people sometimes claim that the Egyptians and the Incas used some kind of now-lost technology. But they most likely didn’t: they were just really good at cutting stone.

Yeah, but we're not that good at cutting stone anymore. So what gives? The explanation here is very lacking. They either had a technology that let them cut stone so well, or some special know-how (itself a form of technology, in my opinion) that enabled cutting stone so precisely.
by mandeepj | 2025-09-08 14:55:36+00:00
> related to his and his son’s crypto schemes

That's just one channel. There's more -

1. As of September 2025, Donald and Melania Trump have launched several crypto-related ventures, including meme coins named $TRUMP and $MELANIA and digital asset firms.

2. He's a majority shareholder in Trump Media n Tech Co. Many have bought shares in that co just to please him https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DJT/

3. The Trump family has launched several cryptocurrency ventures. An investment fund backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has made a $2 billion investment in a stablecoin issued by the Trump family's World Liberty Financial. This investment is estimated to generate about $80 million in annual interest for the Trumps.

4. Trump-branded properties are in development across the Middle East, including a golf resort in Qatar and residential towers in Dubai and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. DAMAC Properties, a Dubai-based developer and long-time Trump business partner, also has ties to Trump-affiliated golf courses in Dubai and has announced major U.S. investments. Those deals were made during this year's trip.
by paool | 2025-09-08 14:56:32+00:00
Maybe today, but the more accessible and affordable they become, the more likely people can start offering "self hosted" options.

We're already seeing competitors of AWS but only targeting things like Qwen , deepseek, etc.

There's Enterprise customers who have compliance laws and literally want AI but cannot use any of the top models because everything has to be run on their own infrastructure.
by RankingMember | 2025-09-08 14:56:52+00:00
> my fenix went through a phase, where it would randomly reboot, until garmin pushed a fix

This is something that just can't happen for this kind of use case, and the fact that bugs like this repeatedly happen with Garmin is mind-blowing to me. This company makes glass cockpits- if you ask me, they need to borrow someone from that team to show their consumer electronics team how to test their product and have a sense of urgency when things break.
by krs_ | 2025-09-08 14:57:15+00:00
> Sounds similar to Donkey Kong 64 (1999) that had an arcade machine inside a level that let you play the original Donkey Kong (1981)

Interesting tidbit about that is that it was carefully recreated from scratch by Rare, rather than being emulated, because Nintendo doesn't have/own the rights to the original source code. They originally had Ikegami Tsushinki do the programming for the arcade version, who later claimed ownership of the source code and eventually won the lawsuit.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-secret-history-of...
by mock-possum | 2025-09-08 14:57:22+00:00
Yeah when you realize that the fake answers to the test have been created by humans, you can predict what false answers might look like - you can even get a feel for the kind of false answers that the test’s author tends to provide, and by the end of the test you can start to spot them fairly confidently. You still check your work, obviously, but it’s like picking up on a poker player’s tell - it gives you an edge.
by Keyframe | 2025-09-08 14:57:57+00:00
You mean to tell me those agents aren't PhD-level experts in every field as we were told by OpenAI?? I'm shocked!

Seriously though, it does seem a menial task in itself to reverse engineer what's going on. Would be a really powerful show of force by one of leading AI providers if they setup shop like that to do it in the open.. if they could.
by gingerBill | 2025-09-08 14:58:18+00:00
> Getting rid of npm and doing things manually won't make building SPAs have fewer dependencies, build would be incredibly slow and painful.

Honestly, I don't think this is true in the slightest. Rather, I hypothesize that people want to use such tooling and think the alternatives are slower, which I don't think is true.

If people actually did use fewer dependencies, people would have actually have websites that didn't take ages to load and were responsive.

So the existing ecosystems are just bad.
by Atotalnoob | 2025-09-08 14:58:24+00:00
Kagi has some tooling for this. You can set web access “lenses” that limit the results to “academic”, “forums”, etc.

Kagi also tells you the percentages “used” for each source and cites them in line.

It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better to narrow down what you want to get out of your prompt.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-08 14:58:34+00:00
> Trouble with enterprise is that the people buying care about the technology, but not the cost

Enterprise also ruins it for small/medium businesses as well, at least those with dedicated internal IT departments who do care about both the technology and the cost. We are left with unreliable consumer-grade hardware, or prohibitively expensive enterprise hardware.

There's very little in between. This market is also underserved with software/SaaS as well with the SSO Tax and whatnot. There's a huge gap between "I'm taking the owner's CC down to best buy" and "Enterprise" that gets screwed over.
by juujian | 2025-09-08 14:59:00+00:00
I'm very thankful for the Debian team's efforts to include most of my most commonly software packages in their repo. Out of all the differences between me and my colleagues workflows on MacOS and windows, this is the most impactful one. I don't remember the last time I had any kinds of dependency issues. I keep updating my packages when I log on and there are no version and/or dependency issues whatsoever.
by bloomingeek | 2025-09-08 14:59:02+00:00
Unfortunately, you make a point based on the supreme court.

SCOTUS decided that corporations are people, which refers to the legal concept of corporate personhood. The question is: can a "person" legally disturb their neighbor with this amount of noise and get away with it? Wrongly, I think SCOTUS would decide in favor of the corporation if it gets that far.
by zahlman | 2025-09-08 14:59:13+00:00
> But, economic liberalization can sometimes look like colonization, and this hurts the ego of proud global-south nations.

As an aside, this categorization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South) has always seemed problematic to me.

> The Global South classification, as used by governmental and developmental organizations, was first introduced as a more open and value-free alternative to Third World,[6] and likewise potentially "valuing" terms such as developed and developing.

But I don't think it's "more open and value-free" at all. The rhetoric around it always seems to be alluding vaguely to racist and/or colonialist causes of the economic disparities; but labeling the disadvantaged places as "South" reinforces that colonialist view (cf. maps presented upside-down to avoid supposed biases), and also brings in connotations of specifically American political history (Union vs Confederacy kinda stuff, you know).

Excluding Australia and New Zealand also seems intellectually dishonest. If places like Moldova are "North" because of the physical reality rather than than economics, than Australia and New Zealand (which also were colonized) should be "South" (just as the wealthier parts of the Middle East are). The border isn't anything like straight, either.

If we want to highlight a problem with economic disparity, we should not turn up our noses at terms that are fundamentally about the economic disparity.
by 827a | 2025-09-08 14:59:29+00:00
To be honest, much of the sense that Apple is ridiculously far ahead when it comes to unified memory SoC architectures comes from people who aren't actually invested in any kind of non-Nvidia local AI development to the degree where you'd actually notice a difference (either the AMD AI Max platform or Apple Silicon Ultra). Because if you were, you'd realize that the grass isn't greener on these unified memory platforms, and no one in the industry has a product that can compete with Nvidia on any vertical except "things for Jeff Geerling to make a video about".