MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orliesaurus | 2025-09-10 20:23:50+00:00
Congrats on ur launch. Amanda has the strongest LinkedIn game I have ever seen in my life. On the other hand the product is IMHO at risk? Models like Whisper, DistilWhisper, TinyLlama, miniGPT-4, OpenHermes, Vosk, and Llama.cpp make Recall.ai meeting transcription easy to replicate. IMHO in 1 weekend you can build an open-source tech stacks that can rival or EVEN surpass the value brought....or am I tripping?
by bitwize | 2025-09-10 20:23:52+00:00
I seem to recall reading an interview with William Gibson in which he said "someday we might have little squishy things that can read any form of physical media you wrap them around". That's what working in Lisp feels like to me. It's something squishy, and you can wrap it around any sort of problem and solve it fairly quickly. Smooth it out enough and it might even be an efficient or elegant solution. I've compared Emacs to a beanbag chair because it too is squishy, comfortable, and once in it it's difficult to leave, nor do you particularly want to.

Languages with nice type systems, like Standard ML or Ada, have the feel of Buckminster Fuller's tensegrity constructs: rigid yet flexible.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-10 20:23:54+00:00
None of that is correct.

If the market cap of Google is a million dollars and a sandwich is $5 and then tomorrow the market cap of Google is a trillion dollars because they wiped out all their competitors and took over the market, the price of a sandwich is still $5 because it's quite unrelated and not affected by the number of search engines or mobile operating systems. Larry Page isn't going to personally eat so many sandwiches that it affects the global price of sandwiches no matter how much money he has. Moreover, necessities generally have elastic supply -- even if demand increased, we could just make more of them rather than raising the price -- unless you cause artificial scarcity (as we do with housing), in which case that's your problem independent of billionaires.

What the consolidated market does affect is that market, e.g. the price and quality of phones and phone apps. But that has nothing to do with what proportion of the company's shares is owned by what number of people. It's just as much of a problem if it's a publicly-traded company whose largest shareholder owns less than 1% of it. And the problem goes away if the market is competitive even if there exists someone who has billions of dollars as a result of owning a fractional percentage of a million different companies -- although that usually isn't what happens anyway because the primary driver of the existence of billionaires is "market consolidates enough to cause one company's market cap to exceed a hundred billion dollars", not "someone invests a thousand dollars each into a thousand separate companies and every one of them beat the market by a huge factor without any of them becoming a megacorp".
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-10 20:23:56+00:00
“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death ... I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

-Charlie Kirk, 2023

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-...

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-w...
Show HN: Flox – Nvidia CUDA available for the Nix ecosystem
by ronef | 2025-09-10 20:24:01+00:00
Hey Everyone! Ron here, part of the NixOS Foundation and building Flox. Just coming out of this years NixCon and pretty excited to show hn below :)

As of today, NVIDIA officially recognizes Canonical, SUSE, CIQ, and Nix—via Flox—as supported distributors for CUDA. Full blog - https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/developers-can-now-get-cud...

This is a huge win for the Nix community. For years, CUDA on Nix was possible but painful—builds could take hours, and redistributing prebuilt binaries was blocked by NVIDIA's licensing requirements.

NVIDIA's growing engagement with key Linux distributions reflects the company's evolution in working with open source communities. Now, for the first time, NVIDIA is allowing these vendors to package and serve the CUDA Toolkit and CUDA-accelerated packages directly from their package repositories.

That means Ubuntu users can get CUDA via `apt`, SUSE users via `zypper`, Rocky Linux users via `dnf`, and Nix users simply by declaring CUDA dependencies in their Nix expressions, `shell.nix` files, or flakes. Across all four platforms, developers can now pull in prebuilt, prepatched CUDA software—including huge packages like PyTorch, TensorFlow, TensorRT, OpenCV, ffmpeg, and more.

On Nix (my own bias showing), setup is straightforward: just add Flox's cache as an `extra-substituter` in your `nix.conf` or `configuration.nix`.
by teknopaul | 2025-09-10 20:24:02+00:00
Someone needs to make bash_completion really trivial to write.

It isn't: and even copy paste is hard. Clever people write apps that are bash_completion friendly.

If first main arg is bash friendly

mycli myfunc ...

Myour whole cliapp becomes "discoverable" with one tab keystroke that you probably already typed hopefully anyway.

Never need to advertise a new feature.

Deprecate by removing from completion without breaking scripts.

Then _everything_ already is in your cli, because someone already did it.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-10 20:24:15+00:00
While true, Australia reclaimed ~650k guns by 1997 and then another ~70k handguns in 2003. By comparison the US is estimated to have around 400M guns, with law enforcement alone having 5M guns (as the “fast and furious” scandal showed, law enforcement guns often end up in the hands of criminals as well).

I don’t know what the answer is for reclaiming the guns, but I think logistically it’ll be hard to implement in the USA even if there wasn’t bad faith attempts to try to thwart regulation (and arguing that there’s still violence with knives and guns aren’t the problem is definitely bad faith/uneducated arguments)
by MarkusQ | 2025-09-10 20:24:51+00:00
In depth science lectures would definitely be a step in the right direction. I think those are gone though:

"Our evening events cover everything from cult film screenings and live performances to gripping panel discussions and exclusive premieres—we’ve got something for everyone."

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/halloween-lates
by re | 2025-09-10 20:25:02+00:00
A user whose phone has "all day charge" that has to plug their phone in at 3pm because they used it too much in the morning would be, IMO, more disappointed.

Ultimately "all day"/"36 hours" are marketing labels that are at best rough approximations of reality. Your original argument sounds like "if Apple says that the iPhone Air's 3,149 mAh lasts all day, then a 4,500 mAh battery is useless", but as any heavy phone user can attest, with high usage even a new iPhone battery will need to be charged midday, regardless of what Apple says, and an extra 50% battery capacity can be the difference between regularly needing to charge midday and not.
by ajross | 2025-09-10 20:25:05+00:00
> Europe has a huge knife problem

No, it doesn't, not in the context we're talking about. A quick Google says per capita knife deaths in the UK are 4.9/Mpop, gun deaths in the US are one hundred thirty seven per million.

Europe should absolutely solve the "knife problem", sure. But even eliminating it entirely would equate to like a 3% reduction in US deaths. Arguing, as you seem to be, that the US should do nothing because Europe has a comparatively tiny problem seems poorly grounded.
by catigula | 2025-09-10 20:25:23+00:00
The information you claim to want isn't accessible to you. The US government has "platforms" with vast arrays of sensors and data collection capability - redundant, multiplicative platforms measuring things you and I might not even know about - and they use this data to get a pretty good idea of what they're looking at.

You're seeing a grainy video for a reason. It would be trivial for you to have every piece of data related to an incident but if you did, that might be problematic for multiple reasons, one of them being it would expose capability. Usually, multi-million dollar missiles aren't used on unknown targets with unknown capabilities for unknown reasons. Thus, more information is required.

So, where are we left? With you demanding inaccessible information to draw a conclusion. Given that you can't have it, you're essentially just throwing your hands up and saying "well, I guess we can't know". Fine, but untrue, as we can simply demand to know.

That is what people are doing. If you're at all concerned by any of this, you should be in this camp as well.

Regarding "distraction", how is this a "good" distraction if it's not a widely credibly held position and can clearly damage your reputation? This is just a nonsense idea. There's no reason to believe these people are lying.
by LexiMax | 2025-09-10 20:25:29+00:00
> This happened en masse many decades ago in America.

There was a name for this trend - White flight.

I grew up in southern suburbia and in walkable southern towns - they do exist, in pockets.

I learned two things from my experiences. First is that anywhere there is foot traffic, you will get homelessness, panhandling, crime, and just generally people you don't recognize. It's not because big cities aren't being policed adequately or anything policymakers are doing, it's just something that naturally comes with the territory.

The second lesson I took away is that we as a society often can't tell the difference between "This place makes me feel uncomfortable" and "This place isn't safe." Despite all of those issues I outlined above, I felt very safe and comfortable living day to day in urbanist spaces.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-10 20:26:00+00:00
> you US guys can live in an environment were your next door neighbor, the person beside you in the supermarket etc can carry a lethal weapon that can end your life.

Something to consider is that even though one can, the vast majority do not. Typically, the only time I see people utilizing their right to open carry are the exact types of people you think would do that. They are a very small number in the real world. However, they get so much attention that it distorts the perception that everyone does it. I'm certain there are more people carrying concealed weapons than I pay attention to, but it's not like it is the Old West where you have to leave your weapons outside before entering the saloon.

If this is how you think it is, then you have fallen for the hype machine. Yes, lots of people own weapons. Some of those people own lots of weapons. Only a small number of them carry like you seem to think.

Most of the mass shooting events are not these open carry types. That seems to also confuse things
by card_zero | 2025-09-10 20:26:07+00:00
I saw Da Vinci's drawings and smaller paintings and they were fun, with the investigation of flowing water and (illicit?) anatomy and various devices with wooden cogs in. Not exactly educational, but historically interesting and oddly aesthetic. Does that count? I mean, art galleries can show lots of different kinds of art. It doesn't have to be monotonous self-expression.
by coldtea | 2025-09-10 20:26:43+00:00
I don't know or care which specific branch he went to. The point I make is that he had to enlist as a way out and to fund his studies, he wasn't some dude born with a silver spoon.

Don't care about the distinction between them either, or their subdivisions. Most of the times I call all of it "the army" (as in armed forces) anyway, chalk it to dyslexia if you wish.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 20:26:43+00:00
My company has a tech convention every year. Last time I went I played spot the tech person - most people there failed the test (they were former engineers now in management trying to pretend they were still technical). I'm a staff engineer and I was the lowest position person I saw there - not even senior engineers much less the low or mid level engineers that would benefit from talking to the seniors at a tech conference.
Show HN: TimeCopilot, forecasting agent with LLMs and foundation models
by azulgarzar | 2025-09-10 20:27:34+00:00
TimeCopilot is an open-source forecasting agent that combines the power of large language models with state-of-the-art time series foundation models (Amazon Chronos, Salesforce Moirai, Google TimesFM, Nixtla TimeGPT, etc.).

it automates and explains complex forecasting workflows: you can query data in natural language, compare across models, build ensembles, and ask why forecasts look the way they do. The goal is to make time series analysis more accessible while maintaining professional-grade accuracy.

we benchmarked it on Salesforce’s GIFT-Eval (144k series, 177M datapoints), where it ranked 1st overall (CRPS metric), and it’s already attracting early adopters in the open-source forecasting community.

repo: github.com/azulgarza/timecopilot docs: timecopilot.dev

would love feedback from the HN community, especially on use cases you’d like to see, and how we can make advanced forecasting more useful/usable.
by braza | 2025-09-10 20:27:36+00:00
I had similar experiences seeing WWII artifacts and museums in Romania, Hungary, London, Brussels, and Berlin.

In the first 4 I had the most immersive experiences seeing memorabilia and artifacts from the Allies and Axis. Things like uniforms, cars, letters, tanks, jets, war trophies, and so on.

Everything was highly curated, and from the outside, the infrastructure was not so expensive to run. In terms of quality, the military museums of Romania, London, and Brussels are great.

Those places are to feel and have immersion.

In Berlin, there are only a few screens, but they have only some sort of "small billboards" in a version in German and some rough translation to English. Most of the time it is a picture of someone and some legend only.

However in Berlin and Munich, they have something, in my opinion, better than museums that we call as Documentation Centers. In Berlin there is the _Das Dokumentationszentrum Topographie des Terrors_ (Topography of Terrors), and for me the best documentation center is in Munich, called _NS-Dokumentationszentrum München_, which gets into the roots of the regime via the whole buildupand actual documents from leadership, political party meeting minutes, political discussions, and so on.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 20:27:41+00:00
Exactly, you can't just change the law or constitution. You can but it wouldn't do anything.

Fact is the cat is out of the bag. FGC-9 can be 3d printed and the barrel and bolt carrier made out of unregulated parts available anywhere with shipping access to China, or with a bit more effort anyplace with a lathe.

Gun powder is more an issue, but even then black powder is easy enough to make and with electronics can be ignited electrically without any sort of special cap or primer.

It can be culturally changed, but even then, if the criminal culture doesn't changed -- now you have a bunch of criminals with guns smiling that the rest of people are disarmed.
by msarrel | 2025-09-10 20:28:23+00:00
It really opened my eyes to the lack of actual interest in reality. The number of people willing to believe what they're told by social media or by the popular kids far exceed those who would try to understand the situation.

It fascinates me that it's become so popular to defend people from reprisals for their own elected government's actions.

I also found it really interesting that over a thousand Israelis were killed, yet the people I work with immediately started saying that any kind of response was totally unfair to the Palestinians. Not a single word of compassion for the Israelis who were killed. But I guess that's not a trending thought.
by throwway120385 | 2025-09-10 20:28:42+00:00
Yeah. As an American these arguments are really absurd though. When was the last time a lone hero with a gun stopped gun violence? I think those arguments are really just the gun companies trying to market this idea of the "lone individual" as a hero protecting their personal space. It helps them sell more guns. But when the rubber meets the road, a "good guy" packing is more likely to shoot a bystander than an assailant.

The marketing seemingly appeals to men on the same grounds as video games -- there's some great protagonist who saves everyone with their powerful and timely shooting.
by abrooks43 | 2025-09-10 20:28:47+00:00
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by ghaff | 2025-09-10 20:29:02+00:00
I've only been to a play (staged reading) at the new one but, in general, I'm not sure how interested most adults are in interactivity. I've been to the Exploratorium for an event and it was fun. (Having those sort of distractions are nice when you're tired of feeling like you need to speak to people at an event.) But not sure I'd have made a trip there otherwise.
by MarcoSander | 2025-09-10 20:29:11+00:00
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by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-10 20:29:16+00:00
It's really not that large. A lot of people need guns; folks who live in super remote areas where wildlife needs managing, folks who enjoy actual hunting, but these types of gunowners are generally fine filling out their paperwork and getting licensed. They see guns as tools.

Then there are the ammosexuals and they're the ones that honestly scare the shit out of me and need their guns confiscated. Like I'm all for the purchase and enjoyment of stupid shit, God knows I own my share of things other people would call ridiculous; but guns are unique in that inflicting harm to others is literally why they exist. It's the only reason you'd have one, and the way these guys (and it is far and away mostly guys) talk with GLEE about the notion of being able to legally kill someone for breaking into their houses... if I wasn't already a hermit, this shit would make me one.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-10 20:29:30+00:00
I'm not here to defend the US, but here's one way to look at it: the death toll of alcohol abuse is much higher, so how can one conceivably defend a society that allows its consumption? Almost everywhere in the West, the answer is basically "we like it, we like the freedom of being able to drink, and it's an acceptable price if tens of thousands of people die".

It's essentially the same thing, except unique to the US. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but your exasperation is essentially the same as my exasperation, as a non-drinker, that I or my children can be randomly killed by someone driving under the influence - and everyone is somehow kinda OK with that.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-10 20:29:32+00:00
> if you want to assassinate a culture warrior jerkwad at a public event

The root post's comparison was to someone beside you at the supermarket, rather than "sniper at a distance". The capacity to kill is almost universally distributed, it's just that the vast majority of us are not murderers.

But sure, it's actually one of the justifications for the 2nd amendment. Firearms really are sort of an equalizer, and do more equally distribute the risk to even the most powerful.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-10 20:29:39+00:00
> I resolve it the same way in person as I do remotely, either by pointing at the screen, asking for (and receiving) control of the mouse and keyboard, or both. If you don't know how to use the features of your screen-sharing software that permit this, you need to learn them.

We used Google Meet, and recently switched to Teams (on Linux). Neither support either feature. I think it's impossible to do it on the web because there's no screen sharing web API (due to security fears) and no overlay drawing API either (again presumably due to security fears).

You need a native app, and Google don't make one, and Teams doesn't support Linux.
by teo_zero | 2025-09-10 20:29:46+00:00
> I do kinda like how foreach is implemented right now. This allows me to perform some strict checking for easy loop iteration based bugs and also it kinda looks cool.

Yes but the body in the parameters really is a show stopper. What if the body has a unprotected comma? Like

VecForeach(&v, e, { int x, y; ... });

Better to expand the macro into one or two "for" and let the body follow. For example:

#define VecForeachIdx(v, var, idx)\ for (size idx=0,_d=1; ValidateVec(v),_d; _d--)\ for (VEC_DATATYPE(v) var={}; idx<(v)->length && (var=VecAt(v,idx),1); idx++)

Please note that I haven't tested it.
by jaredcwhite | 2025-09-10 20:29:57+00:00
I'm not on TikTok and never have been, but I've seen plenty of shortform videos shared elsewhere. Here's the thing about all of them.

They never inform.

The number of video creators I can actually recall and point to who have affected me on any real emotional or intellectual level via shorts I can count on one hand.

"Old-school" longform video (on YouTube and elsewhere) is a medium with real utility and artistic merit. Shorts are mildly entertaining at best and mind-numbing goop at worst. And, as usual, the meme is true: *this could have been a blog post.*
by simonw | 2025-09-10 20:30:00+00:00
I continue to hope that it can be solved but, after three years, I'm beginning to lose faith that a total solution will ever be found.

I'm not a fan of the many attempted solutions that try to detect malicious prompts using LLMs or further models: they feel doomed to failure to me, because hardening the model is not sufficient in the face of adversarial attackers who will keep on trying until they find an attack that works.

The best proper solution I've seen so far is still the CaMeL paper from DeepMind: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/
by ilkhan4 | 2025-09-10 20:30:16+00:00
This argument is always kind of silly to me. You really think they'd use a weapon of mass destruction just to take out a few people they don't like? On their home soil? I mean, I find myself being surprised by Trump daily, but still... It's far more likely that they'd use more surgical means, like the ICE raids, to root out people they don't like. In that case, I'd say being armed would make at least somewhat of a difference, or at least give pause.

Some guys with AK-47s kept the world's most powerful military pretty busy for 20 years, so I wouldn't underestimate the value of a few rifles against authoritarianism.
by throwaway-blaze | 2025-09-10 20:30:16+00:00
To some degree, it comes from the same reason high speed rail doesn't work here in the US while it's a pleasure in Europe. The vast majority of places in this country are truly out in the sticks, and defending yourself from wildlife or humans with bad intent are real worries. In our cities, we have gun control laws similar to Europe.

BTW, those gun control laws don't always work in Europe either. Sweden has the third highest rate of gun homicides per 100,000 residents (after Albania and Montenegro). ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/1465188/europe-homicide-... )