MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bjackman | 2025-09-15 20:14:02+00:00
I think this is being downvoted coz it doesn't seem to be really responding to the thread, and maybe it isn't, but for anyone who hasn't tried Gemini CLI:

My experience after a month or so of heavy use is exactly this. The AI is rock solid. I'm pretty consistently impressed with its ability to derive insights from the code, when it works. But the client is flaky, the backend is flaky, and the overall experience for me is always "I wish I could just use Claude".

Say 1 in 10 queries craps out (often the client OOMs even though I have 192Gb of RAM). Sounds like a 10% reliability issue but actually it just pushes me into "fuck this I'll just do it myself" so it knocks out like 50% of the value of the product.

(Still, I wouldn't be surprised if this can be fixed over the next few months, it could easily be very competitive IMO).
by dcchambers | 2025-09-15 20:14:24+00:00
I am a millennial and I grew up with computers. I was taught that it was grammatically proper to use dashes, not hyphens. Microsoft Word (and later, Google Docs) made this trivially easy because you could type two hyphens (--) and it would replace it with an em-dash character. I rarely write in Word or Google Docs these days, but when I do I still do that double-hyphen shortcut.

I think the main reason people are noticing it now is because most writing has moved away from legacy tools like Word. Websites like Twitter don't do that character substitution, so it has become quite obvious when text is being pasted from another place...for example, AI generated content.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-15 20:14:30+00:00
> The fact that grabby citizens haven’t overrun Culture shows that these actions are blocked, either tacitly or overtly.

I mean, yeah, of course they're blocked. How would a "grabby citizen" take over the culture? Where would you start? If you find yourself on a planet - a very unpopular place to live in the Culture, by the way - and manage to build up a cult of personality or a cloning facility, and grow yourself 10 Billion footsoldiers... what do you do next? Nearly every ship in the Culture, especially one capable of transporting that many humans, is a person. You can't just rent a GSV - you'd have to convince one to take your army of clones elsewhere, and most Minds would find the idea laughable at best.

> Similarly, it’s strange that no one in Culture modifies themselves into a utility monster, or is interested in simulating sentient life.

It probably happens, but as someone has pointed out, Mr. Banks just didn't write about it. The Culture isn't that homogenous, either - the books explicitly talk about people who have committed crimes, and what happens in that case, including when the person committing the crime is a Mind.

> Look, I’m sorry to break it to you, but SC is a sham. The Minds are perfectly capable of creating avatars which would be more effective than any of the characters shown. I’ve never found the explanations offered convincing. SC is just an affectation or another tool of propaganda.

SC is a pressure valve, and as I recall, it's explicitly stated as such by a character in one of the novels.

> If anything, humans are treated closer to pets than independent agents. They are a weird affectation that is deliberately neutered from any real influence. They are lavished with treats and attention not extended to the rest of the universe.

This too is explicitly stated in a book as either a hypothesis by a human, or an outright statement by a Mind, I can't recall which. Ships have "crew", but what exactly do the human aboard a GSV do, exactly, that the Mind can't?

I feel like the author of this blog post hasn't read enough of these books.
by genewitch | 2025-09-15 20:14:33+00:00
if this is a serious question:

it's because politicians bend to pressure from lobbyists and outcry, such that the very idea that a resuable vape means that children can vape pina colada flavored liquids.

There was a federal push during Trump v1 to only allow iqos devices in any stores. The two vape brands (maybe 3) allowed in general in my state are manufactured by... if you guessed RJR and PMI, you are correct. The big tobacco farmers and cig manufacturers.

Reusable vapes with custom or pre-mixed flavors were attacked hard. I still have a couple liters of 100mg/ml nicotine in my freezer, for making custom flavors at home. I don't even know if you can still order nicotine in that ratio anymore in the US.
by dabinat | 2025-09-15 20:14:44+00:00
It would be great if AV1 was as ubiquitous as H.264. Apple is very much holding things back by insisting that Safari only support AV1 on devices with hardware decoding (M3 and higher), even though other browsers use software decoding just fine.

(Safari has a low market share but I have an above-average number of Mac / Safari users using my site)
by comte7092 | 2025-09-15 20:15:00+00:00
Upgrading the main board is the last thing on my list for considering framework.

Being able to easily make small swaps like ports/batteries/RAM/etc is a much bigger value prop, along with supporting the growth of an ecosystem that still doesn’t have enough scale to get pricing down.

If you don’t value any of that, then yeah, don’t buy a framework. But to say it “makes no sense” is a bit grandiose.
by em-bee | 2025-09-15 20:15:06+00:00
i too strive in such a situation, but it still makes a difference whether the work is meaningful or not. especially when you get to sleepless nights. it makes difference if that customer is a hospital or some other meaningful industry, or it is something meaningless like an online game, other entertainment or worse, gambling. i wouldn't work overtime for the latter (unless the pay is worth it or the team is good)

i can definitely confirm that meaningless work is more boring.
by dijit | 2025-09-15 20:15:45+00:00
Right wing issue: National Identity, community building, trust and safety (high trust society), belief that governmental power corrupts (though obviously they weigh this against the trust mentioned earlier and put a lot of merit in armed forces and police).

Left wing issues: Equity and fairness, individual identity but mandatory collectivism and the belief that government is likely to be more fair than a charity or company (I am on this end of things, but I can sympathise with the other).

Its sort of ignorant to throw up your hands here, at least in the US the stances are pretty well defined. The abortion debate is a good example where one side believes fully that its murder, and the other side believes fully that forcing people to care for children they don’t want will lead to misery (I am personally on this end of the spectrum so forgive any bias in my wording).

All issues are human issues, thats like talking about COVID and then bringing up Aids because they are both “human conditions”: these points are disperse, and everyone thinks they know whats best for society.
by apsurd | 2025-09-15 20:15:49+00:00
That's why I was compelled to post. We forget that this is how the Internet is for large portions of the population. It's bananas.

My dad still uses yahoo for all of his news. I've realized it's not uncommon to hear people use Yahoo as the front page of the internet still in 2025. I get it. Also, it's depressing. (left for the reader to see why. just go to yahoo with blockers off).
by duffpkg | 2025-09-15 20:15:54+00:00
My battery is 3 separate "48v" x 280ah units in parallel. There is no grid so I am not sure what you mean by coupled. The batteries output DC to inverters which output AC. It is several years old at this point, probably the better value is in "48v" x 320ah setups now. The breakers/busbars, etc are setup for max discharge of 200A but in practice I have never gotten anywhere near that.
by v_dixon | 2025-09-15 20:17:55+00:00
Hi,

I'm a journalist and editorial developer by trade. The last five years I've been building/indie-hacking a Rails-based web app that creates groups of local friends. At the heart of the site is an algorithm that analyzes users based on a number of factors that research says makes friendships work. It then makes the groupings from there.

There is a video conferencing space where users can meet virtually at first, but the goal is to get people meeting in person, regularly.

I would love feedback on the site and advice on how to minimize barriers to entry or hesitation. Why you would or wouldn't adopt.

https://klatchmaker.com/
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-15 20:18:25+00:00
Now what I'd like to see is the other way around - you know, like the "old" UMTS sticks, just for 5G. No OS, especially not one so prone to all sorts of security like Android, just a pure baseband chip, some interface chip that talks USB3, two built-in antennas and the option to connect more powerful/higher directionality external antennas.
by jedberg | 2025-09-15 20:18:29+00:00
In their defense, they are trying to help us grow and get follow on investment. I'm apprecative of my investor's input. They aren't forcing me to do anything, just highly encouraging.

All of the un-budgeted money right now is for AI related workloads, so if you want enterprise money you have to pitch your product as AI.

And if you want investor money right now, you better have an AI product.
by jokera | 2025-09-15 20:18:31+00:00
Nano BiBi (https://nanobibi.com) — A free AI creation platform built on Google’s Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image). It lets you generate and edit images, video, audio, and music directly in the browser with no setup. Features include strict palette-based recoloring, clean line-art conversion, 4-step art process grids, and even red-pen style critiques. Everything is fast, free, and beginner-friendly — trying to make powerful multimodal AI tools as accessible as possible.
by ck2 | 2025-09-15 20:19:17+00:00
tapo annoyingly is also one of the only cameras that doesn't have a still snapshot url after all these years and endless requests from many

someone needs to make replacement firmware

ffmpeg can fake it but takes a few seconds to grab from the video stream and of course you can't run ffmpeg from your browser (or wait, can you now?)

ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://cameraname:camerapass@192.168.1.23:554/stream1" -an -y -vframes 1 -f image2 -vcodec mjpeg "snap.jpg"
by comte7092 | 2025-09-15 20:19:33+00:00
I must confess that these specific stories are outside my domain of knowledge that I can’t comfortably comment on them specifically.

My understanding is that it is fairly common practice for foreign companies to send experts from their home countries in order to do knowledge transfer, since the skill set isn’t available domestically.

https://x.com/_mm85/status/1964631794260857114
by tialaramex | 2025-09-15 20:19:37+00:00
It might be worth (in some other context) introducing a pre-processing step which handles this at both ends. I'm thinking like PNG - the PNG compression is "just" zlib but for RGBA that wouldn't do a great job, however there's a (per row) filter step first, so e.g. we can store just the difference from the row above, now big areas of block colour or vertical stripes are mostly zeros and those compress well.

Guessing which PNG filters to use can make a huge difference to compression with only a tiny change to write speed. Or (like Adobe 20+ years ago) you can screw it up and get worse compression and slower speeds. These days brutal "try everything" modes exist which can squeeze out those last few bytes by trying even the unlikeliest combinations.

I can imagine a filter layer which says this textual data comes in 78 character blocks punctuated with \n so we're going to strip those out, then compress and in the opposite direction we decompress then put back the newlines.

For FASTA we can just unconditionally choose to remove the extra newlines but that may not be true for most inputs, so the filters would help there.
by mirashii | 2025-09-15 20:19:53+00:00
> For the average user, the increased encoding times did not justify that.

The average user is a consumer of media, not doing encoding themselves. A one time cost for higher encoding to save bandwidth / storage space many times over is almost always going to make some amount of sense.

The real issue here is just a standard chicken-and-egg problem. To use a new codec, you need it to be supported in end user devices. To get it to be supported, you need to show demand... for a thing that nobody can use yet.
by DrStartup | 2025-09-15 20:20:12+00:00
lower is better

https://github.com/frarees/typometer

Typometer

Typometer is a tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors.

Editor latency is the delay between an input event and a corresponding screen update — in particular, the delay between keystroke and character appearance. While there are many kinds of delays (caret movement, line editing, etc.), typing latency is a major predictor of editor usability.

Check the article typing with pleasure to learn more about editor latency and its effects on typing performance.
by tomhow | 2025-09-15 20:20:54+00:00
The original submission of this topic was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243800, posted over 22 hours ago by the project creator.

The site then went down due HN's traffic load. (I guess a vape-hosted website isn't "web scale").

The author shared the blog post, but we didn't see it. It was only much later (7 hours ago), that dmazin submitted the blog post as this submission. (No criticism, they were just being helpful and posting the blog post so the community could see it).

Out of fairness to the original submitter and author, we've created a new copy of their submission, set the blog post as the URL and moved the comments there. That way it gets its full chance at front page exposure, and the project creator gets the credit and karma, which they are entitled to, having submitted it first.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-15 20:21:23+00:00
I concur with most of this, with one minor exception.

> I saw the footage. I heard "You", not "Jews".

I believe your personal experience, but you didn't see the whole story. Both chants were given. Hilariously, one possible explanation is that a subset of the protestors performed mental auto-correction: hearing the "you" chant coming from other protestors, filtered through their own biases, they heard "Jew," went "Oh, we're finally doing this!" and started chanting "the quiet part loud," as it were. Given that "Blood and soil" was also chanted, it may be reasonable to infer that at least a subset of the protestors had mental priors that would make that substitution likelier than not.

(Not terribly important, but as a sidebar: your pull quote is an excellent example of what I mean when I say "word salad" regarding the current President. "There were people in that rally — and I looked the night before — if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee." is the kind of thing that would make a sentence diagrammer light their own hair on fire. He has a speaking style that leaves his words very open to multiple interpretations).
by khedoros1 | 2025-09-15 20:21:29+00:00
Same for me, in most cases. I had a work laptop with a USB-C dock. I've got a USB-C ethernet adapter (not used right now, because my laptop has an ethernet port). I've got a couple of USB-C charging cables. Oh, and a DAC dongle that I typically use with my phone.

Then I've got dozens of charging cables, peripherals, storage devices, and such that I've collected across the past 25 or so years, and still want to use.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-15 20:22:43+00:00
You learned the wrong lesson.

You should never specify API keys anywhere in your code or env files for GCP or AWS.

https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/application-def...

You still risk checking in your env file.

Doing it the correct way, your config is in your home directory locally far away from your repo and it finds the configuration automatically when running on GCP.

Even better when developing locally is assign environment variables to temporary access keys.

I’m being handwavy because I’m not a GCP guy. But on AWS, you do something similar by using “aws config” locally and using the IAM role attached to the VM, Lambda, etc so you never need to deploy with access keys.

This isn’t meant to be an “AWS does it better comment”. It looks like from my brief research, something similar is also best practice with GCP.
by MaxLeiter | 2025-09-15 20:23:50+00:00
I wrote a bit about this yesterday: https://maxleiter.com/blog/rewrite-your-prompts

> Reason #3a: Work with the model biases, not against

Another note on model biases is that you should lean into them. The tricky part with this is the only way to figure out a model's defaults is to have actual usage and careful monitoring (or have evals that let you spot it).

Instead of forcing the model to behave in ways it ignores, adapt your prompts and post-processing to embrace its defaults. You'll save tokens and get better results.

If the model keeps hallucinating some JSON fields, maybe you should support (or even encourage) those fields instead of trying to prompt the model against them.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-15 20:24:22+00:00
>So exactly what should Puerto Ricans who are in the continental United States do to prevent being detained by ICE?

Show their ID? https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/04/24/countdown...

>What should my six foot 2 Black stepson living in a lily white suburb of Atlanta GA (my wife and I moved to another state for reasons) do differently? Should he go to the inner city and change hearts and minds?

What should I as a white guy do differently? Go to the prosecutor's office and change hearts and minds?

(Also, if your stepson is so worried about white people, why does he live in a "lily white" area?)

>you keep changing the subject

I've been responding to claims you made in other comments: 'The country has always been hostile to “other”.' and 'The racists have always been in power.'

>the Republican governor outlawed citizen’s arrest after it was used to harass and kill an unarmed black man walking down the street

I suppose this is more evidence that "The racists have always been in power"? Republicans are the KKK party. That's why they outlawed citizen's arrest after the death of a black man...

I'll let you have the last word in this thread.
by sdoering | 2025-09-15 20:24:30+00:00
I know quite a few older people who started to cherish them, as they now have the real estate to finally feel at home on a mobile device they can just easily take with them. Tablets were great, just less portable.

So for quite a relevant segment it seems to become an enabling form factor. There are just people who seem to be basing everything on their own use case. I have neither interest nor need for a fold-able phone. But I can totally get why it is not only interesting, but actually useful to people in different circumstances.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-15 20:24:51+00:00
Lets not forget the hometown of the UAW was Flint, MI. Detroit used to be the richest city in the US by a very significant margin; now most car factories aren't even in Michigan. People may claim otherwise but good employees don't want to work for unions because it limits career growth and innovation, while companies don't want to deal with an adversarial unit within the company. Any private sector unionization is bad, even if this is just going after rideshare drivers now.
by tuckerman | 2025-09-15 20:24:53+00:00
For those exact specs the Asus you linked seems like a great deal but it also looks like it has soldered ram which could limit the useful lifespan (the FW13 has two so-dimms and officially supports up to 96 GiB of ram but on forums people have been using the new 64 GiB dimms to get 128 GiB working fine).

The linked gigabyte seems like maybe a good deal as well but that's also not the Ryzen 9, it's a 7. Some people (mine included) also have strong opinions on the look/quality of the case and their preferences might lean more towards FW than the linked gigabyte's glowing green look.
by theodric | 2025-09-15 20:25:15+00:00
Off grid is silly unless you actually require it. Massive PV overprovision to ensure there's always something on the table is better than insane battery capacity. A couple of weeks worth of storage is a wild amount for a normal household.

I have a 22*980Ah 3.2Vn LiFePo4 array, and it holds a theoretical 13kWh at the 60% "safe" cycling rate (not below ~20%, not above ~80%, 3.0V min to 3.4V max). Taking DC->AC conversion losses into account, that ends up around 11kWh of 230VAC, which is enough for a single "normal" 24h period without generation: that doesn't include hoovering, welding, or running the dehydrator or dehumidifier. The batteries alone were USD$3500; BMS, balancer, cabling, etc. hundreds more. If I take $4000 as the unit price, then 14 days worth of power for us would represent $56k into a depreciating investment. I don't think most people are going to go for that. $56k would pay a lot of electric bills.

I'm in Ireland, which is fairly temperate, and we heat with wood (including the hot water). If you heat with electricity and you want to float that load on battery through a dim February...brutal.

EDIT: holy shitballs, that's $141,189.74 if you buy it as Powerwalls from Tesla rather than parts from Alibaba.
by mistercheph | 2025-09-15 20:25:27+00:00
The comment I responded to said:

> No clue what I did, no recourse, now locked out of a fuckton of global marketplaces and peer to peer transactions that uniquely only work on a platform like PayPal.

I am not saying there is a single technology that is completely at parity without paypal without the problems, I'm saying that there is a technology which can give you access to global marketplaces and peer-to-peer transacting if you are locked out of the paypal/CC system.

And the payment processors don't have a moat in their sophistication in dispute resolution. This is a hard problem, but a solvable one if you have lots of liquidity: e.g Amazon, AliExpress. Their moat is having lots of liquidity, regulatory capture, and network effects.
by TheCoelacanth | 2025-09-15 20:25:47+00:00
That cult wasn't in the Culture. It was on an independent orbital (Vavatch) that the Culture was attempting to evacuate before destroying it to prevent it from being conquered by the Idirans.

I read Vavatch as anarcho-capitalist in contrast to the Culture's anarchism.

Vavatch had a lot of stuff going on that wouldn't have been allowed in the Culture. Certainly the Culture wouldn't have allowed them to non-consensually eat other people. The other stuff probably wouldn't have been prevented by force, but they would vigorously try to convince you not to do it and to prevent you from convincing other people.
by duffpkg | 2025-09-15 20:25:59+00:00
This area has few days over 100 but does see relatively cool nights. It is an ideal area for this. I would say from southernmost california to southernmost texas, this basic setup is pretty workable and that includes something around 50 million americans. Regulator hurdles in some places make it impossible though. Costs are going to scale up mostly in line with the heating/cooling requirements and cloudiness of your area.

My panels are ground mounted and pointed in the ideal direction. I think this contributes to their efficiency because the ground helps cool them during the hottest periods but it is a tricky thing to nail down. On a previous home I had roof mounted panels and they seemed to perform much worse, difficult to identify the exact reason though.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-15 20:26:19+00:00
Yes. (In India) we recently converted our SFH into a 4 storey building. We were forced by building code to

A) add solar panels covering 1/3rd of the terrace

B) use it for all non-floor-space electricity (lifts, common areas, pumps, parking lots)

C) Give the rest for deductions as part of NEM.

Once we move in, I'm interested to see the tariff for the export and how much it will save us.