MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-10 18:14:40+00:00
The absolute worst I have seen was teeing into The Strip at the old Stardust Hotel. The Stardust was two blocks long, ten stories high, and covered in neon. And somewhere in the middle of that wall of neon was one little light that was either red, yellow, or green. The light was not brighter than the neon.
by Symbiote | 2025-09-10 18:14:59+00:00
The top floor of Copenhagen Contemporary gallery is primarily for children.

The current exhibition is "where visitors are invited into the artist’s imaginative world and encouraged to participate in a process of transformation — quite literally — through hats, masks, and performative gestures. The shelves overflow with peculiar faces and twisted creatures, and on the green monster stage, anyone can step into a new version of themselves."

"The exhibition marks the first chapter of CC Create, a three-year educational and exhibition initiative that transforms Hall 4 into an open studio for play, learning, and co-creation. Specially trained hosts are on hand to guide visitors in exploring their own creative potential in dialogue with Chetwynd’s art."

Last time I went, the interactive kids bit had a huge wall and a massive bucket of darts and visitors would contribute to the artwork by throwing additional darts at the wall. This is very kid-friendly if the kid is Danish.

https://copenhagencontemporary.org/en/cc-create-x-monster-ch...
by theamk | 2025-09-10 18:15:11+00:00
For me, "log in" has a very specific meaning - it's the complex process, usually interactive, that takes username and password and whatever 2FA you have and produces the session cookie.

This is pretty different from "authentication", which can mean "log in" (for new users), but also "check existing session cookie", and also "check API token", and maybe even "check trusted header from upstream authenticated proxy".
by aurareturn | 2025-09-10 18:15:12+00:00
Well, I suppose this is why communism was popular in early 20th century. People wanted communism so they could reset wealth equality even if the economics didn't make the much sense. Society is just a big cycle it seems.

I often think about why this is happening now without invoking the default "evil rich people" hypothesis. I think it's because world population increased so fast in the last decades that there is simply not enough resources, land, high paying jobs for everyone to achieve a comfortable life. And because the population is so high and the world so connected, it's easier for a single person to accumulate wealth because talent or sheer luck. IE. build the right app at the right time and get rich almost instantly. Society seems to be self correction mode by not having nearly as many babies recent years.
Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name
by hypeaccount | 2025-09-10 18:15:14+00:00
I run a small business in Canada. Oddly, if you search my brand name, my own site doesn’t show up at all on the first page. Instead, Facebook, Instagram, and random sites that link to me outrank me.

I’ve submitted my sitemap to GSC, checked indexing, and built branded backlinks—but Google still ignores my homepage. It’s bad because people looking for me are funneled into other platforms where I lose control of the user journey.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this Google punishing small/new sites, or do I need to approach brand SEO differently? At this point it feels like Google wants me to buy ads just to show up for my own name.
by measurablefunc | 2025-09-10 18:15:43+00:00
Not only that but heterogeneous clusters (inevitable at a large enough scale) will also have non-deterministic outputs. So it's great that they wrote kernels to make the forward pass deterministic but getting rid of it entirely at data center scale would mean that they'd also have to do this type of work across cluster nodes as well to maintain "cluster" invariance & not just batch invariance.
by logicchains | 2025-09-10 18:15:45+00:00
Total French private wealth is around $15 trillion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_pri... ), French government spending is around $1.8 trillion/year. Even if the French government were to tax 100% of that wealth, it wouldn't be enough to cover 10 years of spending. Fundamentally the French economy isn't producing enough to support the current level of pension spending, due to a continuously falling ratio of workers to retirees. No amount of taxing anyone could produce enough money to plug that hole.
by bdcravens | 2025-09-10 18:16:29+00:00
Yes, and performance is often correlated with property tax revenue. Low funds means less resources which influences the outcomes and behaviors of those kids. Put differently, "Anyways, the people make the place -- and that includes kids." is less true than the available resources make the place.

A reasonable analysis would be less of the anecdotal "evidence" about laziness, and more of the demographics of that particular district.

By "unfairly placed", it addresses what you quoted: "The bad school had dull kids with bad parents." Was the commenter one of those bad parents, since they were by definition in that category? Or are they suggesting they were one of the good parents that was in the wrong place? Or did they become good parents once they found a better school?
by cainxinth | 2025-09-10 18:16:55+00:00
I've been paying for the $20/m plan from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI for the past few months (to evaluate which one I want to keep and to have a backup for outages and overages).

Gemini never goes down, OpenAI used to go down once in a while but is much more stable now, and Anthropic almost never goes a full week without throwing an error message or suffering downtime. It's a shame because I generally prefer Claude to the others.
by numitus | 2025-09-10 18:17:04+00:00
Unfortunately, there is a lot of ideology in the issue of restricting car traffic in cities, for example, the Netherlands is often cited as an example, but they forget that it is one of the most motorized countries in the world (80% of families have a car, and 33% have two), and has one of the densest networks of motorways in the world, and 78% of trips in the Netherlands are made by car, and the average distance of a bicycle trip is only 5 kilometers. I do not argue that local restrictions or a ban on cars, especially in the center, make life more comfortable, but this does not mean that it is necessary to restrict it everywhere.

I often ride a bike, but it is generally surprising that after a century of development of the car, the creation of comfortable climate control systems, noise insulation and multimedia, I am seriously asked to take children to school in the rain, wind or snow on a bike. For me, this sounds like regression
by jtbayly | 2025-09-10 18:17:16+00:00
Why do you expect the population to hold constant? That unsupported assumption is what you base everything on.

Furthermore, if the population stays the same but ages, there will be major ramifications to SS.

Furthermore, if the population remains constant but fewer and fewer people have children, then those who do have children bear more and more of the burden of providing for everybody else’s retirement. Responding with “so what, SS will cover me whether I have children or not” is kind of missing the point. And leads straight back to the first point. In a world that requires people to have a substantial number of children to survive (like our world with SS), economically disadvantaging people who prioritize having children is a huge risk.
by mvieira38 | 2025-09-10 18:17:43+00:00
Just to be clear, are you saying that to know something:

1- You may remember only the initial state and the brain does the rest, like with mnemonics

2- You may remember only the initial steps towards a solution, like knowing the assumptions and one or two insights to a mathematical proof?

I'd say a Zettlekasten user would agree with you if you mean 1
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-10 18:18:49+00:00
> This it how it used to me.

No, its not; not that the implicit equation of “how it used to be” with “how it ought to be” is valid to start with.

> We had a War Department. Rebranding to Defense was a PR move to hide what was really happening.

No. We had a War Department that was the agency responsible for the Army, including what was then the Army Air Forces, and a Navy Department that was the agency responsible for the Navy including the Marine Corps. Splitting and rebranding the former to the two Departments of the Army and Air Force was done to simultaneously more accurately reflect its responsibilities and to address the growing significance of air power.

This split was simultaneous with the old and now split up War Department and the old but keeping its name Navy Department being subordinated to the new consolidated military establishment named the Department of Defense, but the Defense Department wasn’t a new name for the War Dpartment, it was the name for a completely new thing placed above the older, separate military departments.
by anonymars | 2025-09-10 18:18:50+00:00
Even way back when: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060731-15/?p=30...

> The fact that Rico Mariani was able to do a literal translation of the original C++ version into C# and blow the socks off it is a testament to the power and performance of managed code. It took me several days of painful optimization to catch up, including one optimization that introduced a bug, and then Rico simply had to do a little tweaking with one hand tied behind his back to regain the lead. Sure, I eventually won but look at the cost of that victory
by crackrook | 2025-09-10 18:19:05+00:00
Before we had the instruments to observe them directly we could theorize about the existence of bacteria because we could indirectly observe them through their effects on our biology and even their macroscopic effects on populations, effects that had no better explanations. I am not aware of any mysteries that are most simply explained by a hitherto unobserved, technologically advanced (I assume we're not talking about dolphins when we say) "non-human intelligence", whether they supposedly dwell in the depths of the ocean, the Earth's crust, Titan, or anywhere else in the universe. SETI has been listening for ~60 years and hasn't heard a peep from any of the billions (trillions?) exoplanet's worth of radio signals that could have reached us in that time.

The available-to-me evidence suggests that technologically advanced species are exceedingly rare, and the only such species we're aware of emits an overwhelming number of artifacts that would serve as evidence for its existence, so it would be very much not mundane to discover that another one has been living under our noses this whole time.

I am not making a truth claim here, as in "it's definitively untrue that there are non-human intelligences sharing the planet with us," I'm just arguing that it's an extraordinary claim that should require extraordinary evidence - grainy footage and hearsay isn't enough for me.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-10 18:19:24+00:00
I’m always dumbfounded by the term “AI Engineer” unless you are actually working on the foundation models. Everything else is just knowing how to make AI calls, prompting and understanding RAG.

I’m not dismissing Gen AI at all, I’ve used it for three non chatbot projects so far and it’s made some really previous hard problems easy. But it was just a newer much easier tool in my tool belt that could have been done (probably better) with traditional ML techniques with much more development effort and maintenance overhead.
by strnisa | 2025-09-10 18:19:28+00:00
Ultimately, the merchant bears the risk of non-payment, but the platform does its best, using industry-standard practices, to pre-check the customer and their payment methods for fraud and ensure a successful payment.

If a merchant successfully authorizes a charge, the amount is reserved for that merchant for a limited period. Trying to capture that amount (or less) during this period will succeed.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-10 18:19:30+00:00
I didn't understand art as a kid. You need experience, culture, history, and often at least a cursory understanding of religion to understand art. Art is an expression by the artist. It is necessary to understand the milieu of the artist first.

Science is universal. It crosses time and language barriers. The underlying physical principles are immutable. Kids can be expected to understand science museum exhibits after a few minutes of explanation. You can't explain the historical and social context behind a painting in just a few minutes to a kid.
by yalogin | 2025-09-10 18:19:44+00:00
Interestingly all the LLMs and the surrounding industry is doing is automate software engineering tasks. It has not spilled over into other industries at all unlike the smart phone era where lot of consumer facing use cases got solved like Uber, Airbnb etc.. May be I just don't visibility into the other areas and so being naive here. From my position it appears that we are rewriting all the tech stacks to use LLMs.
by altruios | 2025-09-10 18:20:51+00:00
One-shot prompting: agreed.

Using a node based workflow with comfyUI, also being able to draw, also being able to train on your own images in a lora, and effectively using control nets and masks: different story...

I see, in the near future, a workflow by artists, where they themselves draw a sketch, with composition information, then use that as a base for 'rendering' the image drawn, with clean up with masking and hand drawing. lowering the time to output images.

Commercial artists will be competing, on many aspects that have nothing to do with the quality of their art itself. One of those factors is speed, and quantity. Other non-artistic aspects artists compete with are marketing, sales and attention.

Just like the artisan weavers back in the day were competing with inferior quality automatic loom machines. Focusing on quality over all others misses what it means to be in a society and meeting the needs of society.

Sometimes good enough is better than the best if it's more accessible/cheaper.

I see no such tooling a-la comfyUI available for text generation... everyone seems to be reliant on one-shot-ting results in that space.
by zoba | 2025-09-10 18:21:05+00:00
Thinking about what Jony Ive said about “owning the unintended consequence” of making screens ubiquitous, and how a voice controlled, completely integrated service could be that new computing paradigm Sam was talking about when he said “ You don’t get a new computing paradigm very often. There have been like only two in the last 50 years. … Let yourself be happy and surprised. It really is worth the wait.”

I suspect we’ll see stronger voice support, and deeper app integrations in the future. This is OpenAI dipping their toe in the water of the integrations part of the future Sam and Jony are imagining.
by vascocosta | 2025-09-10 18:21:07+00:00
No. Obviously Rust is popular outside HN and for instance in my case and other people that I know the interest for Rust is totally unrelated to HN or any other specific platform for that matter.

In my experience there are roughly three main drivers for adopting the language: 1. performance, 2. code correctness / safety (my case) and 3. tooling/ecosystem. This is what makes Rust interesting for many devs.

That said, I do agree when the author points out the relatively low adoption by companies, mentioning reasons like hiring lag and risk aversion. C/C++ have decades of market penetration and it's only natural they're still in high demand when it comes to both legacy and new software.

I use Rust for almost all my personal projects and for recreational programming, but when it comes to the "real world", I think the best way to expand its use is to find some projects which could benefit from one of the main drivers I mentioned above and port it. Obviously this takes time, even more so when talking about starting new projects in Rust.

Go's history was different, perhaps because the learning curve is lower and thus it allowed and still allows a painless transition, including onboarding junior devs. It's a chicken and egg problem, in order for Rust to be more popular in the industry you need more projects to adopt it, but for that to happen, you need it to be more popular.
by timr | 2025-09-10 18:21:12+00:00
Are you talking about the one in Kitanomaru park, or the Miraikan, on Daiba?

The Miraikan, in particular, is a fantastic science museum. I think it suffers a bit from what the OP is describing -- and also, a lack of English -- but for the most part it's interactive and uses technology in a really innovative way that goes beyond iPad fluff (an interactive seismograph room comes to mind, where you could move around and see the systems detect your movements in real time).
Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself
by akshaysg | 2025-09-10 18:21:12+00:00
Hi HN! We’re Akshay and Jake. We put together a tool called Haystack to make pull requests straightforward to read.

What Haystack does:

-- Builds a clear narrative. Changes in Haystack aren’t just arranged as unordered diffs. Instead, they unfold in a logical order, each paired with an explanation in plain, precise language

-- Focuses attention where it counts. Routine plumbing and refactors are put into skimmable sections so you can spend your time on design and correctness

-- Provides full cross-file context. Every new or changed function/variable is traced across the codebase, showing how it’s used beyond the immediate diff

Here’s a quick demo: https://youtu.be/w5Lq5wBUS-I

If you’d like to give it a spin, head over to haystackeditor.com/review! We set up some demo PRs that you should be able to understand and review even if you’ve never seen the repos before!

We used to work at big companies, where reviewing non-trivial pull requests felt like reading a book with its pages out of order. We would jump and scroll between files, trying to piece together the author’s intent before we could even start reviewing. And, as authors, we would spend time to restructure our own commits just to make them readable. AI has made this even trickier. Today it’s not uncommon for a pull request to contain code the author doesn’t fully understand themselves!

So, we built Haystack to help reviewers spend less time untangling code and more time giving meaningful feedback. We would love to hear about whether it gets the job done for you!

How we got here:

Haystack began as (yet another) VS Code fork where we experimented with visualizing code changes on a canvas. At first, it was a neat way to show how pieces of code worked together. But customers started laying out their entire codebase just to make sense of it. That’s when we realized the deeper problem: understanding a codebase is hard, and engineers need better ways to quickly understand unfamiliar code.

As we kept building, another insight emerged: with AI woven into workflows, engineers don’t always need to master every corner of a codebase to ship features. But in code review, deep and continuous context still matters, especially to separate what’s important to review from plumbing and follow-on changes.

So we pivoted. We took what we’d learned and worked closely with engineers to refine the idea. We started with simple code analysis (using language servers, tree-sitter, etc.) to show how changes relate. Then we added AI to explain and organize those changes and to trace how data moves through a pull request. Finally, we fused the two by empowering AI agents to use static analyses. Step by step, that became the Haystack we’re showing today.

We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions!
by t_mahmood | 2025-09-10 18:21:22+00:00
I tried to generate split-debuginfo, and it created another compiler issue in another library, haha, and I was too tired to dig more into it.

Curious if it's possible could it be because of protobuf implementation, which is used between UI and the server, and my error is occurring on the UI side.

So, after reading a bit, this is what I find

>Deterministic serialization is not canonical. The serializer can generate different output for many reasons, including but not limited to the following variations:

> The binary is built with different flags (eg. opt vs. debug).

My knowledge on this is pretty limited, so I could be wrong. But, this could be a reason. Maybe someone more knowledgeable on this matter can shade some lights. And I should've studied more on this before ... heh.
by ivape | 2025-09-10 18:21:36+00:00
It has made it clear to me that humans do not have any real ability to act on morality in our advanced society. I actually thought that in a sufficiently advanced society, like the one we have today, that we would be beyond certain things. I've gotten the lesson that this iteration of humanity really is forked from that previous iteration of humanity, and that the "moral" part of the codebase was never actually enhanced.

But I also thought we were kind of beyond outright corruption and jingoism too. That these societies that you think are sophisticated and educated are actually not different at all from the sensibilities of societies that crucified people, enslaved people, wholesale eradicated people, economically suffocated people ...

There's nothing about our advanced society that has markers of advanced character, certainly not advanced moral character.

To be fully clear, if you show me a cohort of high school graduates from this year, with wonder in their eyes and a lot of talk about "the future will be good and just", I will absolutely give no credence to it. They are branch of this long torrid code base, and the romance of us as a species is mostly over in my heart (IDGAF how many rockets we launch into space, and how cool AI is). This is not a new type of epiphany, as I'm sure many people were broken throughout history exactly like this. If you believed the young people of 20-40 years ago that their innocence would persist and they would truly build a better world, you got catfished. None of us were ever going to be really different than the shitheads from yesteryear, and the dark truth is this will probably be the case long after our current iteration has mostly passed on.

In short, human innovation and energy is something I no longer believe is sufficient enough for building a sound world anymore. I falsely believed scientific and infrastructural advancement would be enough to keep lifting society. It's clear we morally platued quite some time ago, while technology has trended way way up.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-10 18:21:43+00:00
The reason I don’t consider Linux is: * I want a single company responsible for security on my computer. Apple has a highly paid professional team to respond for any security updates and configuration. I have a linux server and there is no easy way to get that kind of support. I’m happy to pay a reasonable price for this. * I need some legacy software like Microsoft Excel. Mac’s tend to have more professionally developed third party software like Microsoft Excel, Adobe, Raycast, etc.

Those are really the two big frictions that I find with using anything other than Windows and Mac.
by ed | 2025-09-10 18:21:49+00:00
I mean this in the most constructive way possible: why do you think this idea hasn’t worked before, when it’s been fairly obvious and easy to build for a long time? And what’s your fix for that issue? You present the merchant side of things, but not the customer side which is more important to me, as a potential Small transfers adopter. What’s customer conversion like? Are micropayments actually better than typical payment amounts? Based on my experience I’d expect the conversion rate of a $0.01 and $1 fee to be pretty similar. The friction of inputting a credit card and trusting a service is way higher than the actual payment amount. I’d also have to introduce 2 more services to my customers: Small transfers powered by stripe, and customers would have to fund an account that realistically speaking can’t be used anywhere other than my site. Just offering some questions to think about!