MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by freelancemichal | 2025-09-13 10:40:50+00:00
This is a fantastic approach to building a "healthier" AI assistant. The focus on redirecting kids away from the screen and preventing emotional reliance is a crucial, often overlooked aspect of creating safe digital tools for children. The idea of stripped-down answers without links or ads is also a brilliant way to reduce digital clutter and distractions. At ion301.com, we've noticed in our work on AI content generators that controlling the tone and context is key to delivering a specific, positive user experience, not just answering a query. Have you considered any feedback mechanisms for parents to fine-tune the answers provided by Aris over time?
by Applejinx | 2025-09-13 10:41:24+00:00
For some time now I've been supplying all my audio DSP plugins at airwindows.com pre-compiled on the Pi 400. (MIT open source, so it's not limited to that). The Pi version is included.

I mention this to make a point: you can't transform synths just by running some generic DSP code on a Pi and putting it in a box. Sound processing is also being transformed, and whether it's something like Hydrasynth generating poly aftertouch (but aliasing and not sounding that different from a VST) or Novation Peak/Summit receiving poly aftertouch (not generating :D ) but generating sound using custom hardware, sitting a VST on a Pi isn't going to get you a transformative synth.

Thing is, if you're able to dig into stuff like my DSP codebase that is actively under development AND plunk a VST synth onto a Pi AND do something interesting with the physical controls to direct the synth engine, that's starting to look transformative again. But just knowing about Pi isn't enough, you'll have to have a deep background in soundmaking and the ability to instrument-make in an interesting way.

If you have those things… game on. You can begin work FAR more cheaply than ever before, and that is how the Pi could be transforming synths.

I'm waiting for 24/96 audio hats to be common before I dig into this, even for stompboxes. I'm given to understand Electrosmith Daisy already has this, and that's a similar class of 'system on tiny board' that should be considered an audio Pi-like.
by viceconsole | 2025-09-13 10:41:58+00:00
I don't find the claims made by an immigration lawyer representing the workers to be particularly persuasive, just like I don't find the claims made by the local union rep about what they "believe" the workers were doing to be persuasive.

People and companies can and do write whatever they want in letters submitted with visa applications. That has no bearing 1) on what you are actually allowed to do given a certain visa type, and 2) what the worker actually ends up doing.

In other words, the visa applications may very well have been valid and approved on that basis, but the applicants might have been engaging in other activities that were not permissible. This is quite common - people will say "I want to go to Disneyworld" when they actually intend to overstay their visa, or "I want to visit family" when they actually intend to work as a nanny or cook for a few months, then return home.

I'm not saying this raid was conducted properly or that all the arrests were justified, but I do think the reporting on it has been almost negligent. In contrast, here is an old article written by an immigration lawyer discussing the complexities of the B-1 business visa: https://blog.cyrusmehta.com/2016/05/the-b-1-visa-trap-for-th...
by diggan | 2025-09-13 10:43:17+00:00
> My Blofeld has taken far more abuse than any laptop or tablet will handle and still going strong 15 years later; three laptops and two tablets later.

On the other hand, my Blofeld had wonky unresponsive knobs after just a couple of months, not that they were very good at the first place, who thought having knobs with no tactile feeling of grip was good idea?!

Personally the biggest win for actual hardware is that it's just more fun to play and use. I've tried various music apps for mobile/tablets and while it's fun for some minutes, that's pretty much it. But then I feel the same with DAWs, it's just not as fun as playing with an hardware drum machine + synth + sampler all hooked together.
by tim333 | 2025-09-13 10:43:38+00:00
They haven't done a city yet but

>Robot team captures Russian soldiers in world-first unmanned assault: Ukraine claims https://interestingengineering.com/military/ukraine-robot-te...

>the attack employed a combination of FPV (first-person view) kamikaze drones and ground robotic complexes (GRCs) to penetrate and neutralize fortified Russian positions that had previously repelled human-led offensives.
by ur-whale | 2025-09-13 10:43:59+00:00
I do agree with many points in the article, but not about the last part, namely that coding with AI assist makes you slower.

Personal experience (data points count = 1), as a somewhat seasoned dev (>30yrs of coding), it makes me WAY faster. I confess to not read the code produced at each iteration other than skimming through it for obvious architectural code smell, but I do read the final version line by line and make a few changes until I'm happy.

Long story short: things that would take me a week to put together now take a couple of hours. The vast bulk of the time saved is not having to identify the libraries I need, and not to have to rummage through API documentation.
by Kon5ole | 2025-09-13 10:44:14+00:00
>A Chernobyl level incident every single year would kill fewer people than the annual number of people that die from fossil fuel particulate emissions

This is not true. You are using the lawyers definition of damage from Chernobyl, but the doctor's definition for fossil fuels. Chernobyl was much worse than you believe, but I don't expect to change your mind on that point here.

But why are you arguing as if it's either nuclear power or global warming?

China has added the equivalent of 25 nuclear power plants worth of solar generation yearly for the past couple of years. Not even China is able to build nuclear plants faster than in 5-6 years or so - it takes too many workers, too much resources. It's too little and too slow to make a difference.

Efen if you believe it is safe, Nuclear is clearly a roadblock, or a detour. We should instead build storage and solar, which can add orders of magnitude more power in shorter time.

(But even then we'll have to deal with global warming).
by diggan | 2025-09-13 10:44:20+00:00
> Conversely, the likelihood of making it big just by making some good damn music was never lower than it is now.

Is that statement backed by any facts? Otherwise it sounds like a soundbite that sounds good, but I'm not sure how true it is. Maybe what "making it big" has changed more compared to how many people make their living making music, which for me would be enough to be considered "making it big".
by drob518 | 2025-09-13 10:44:42+00:00
Well, yes and no. You can change it, but only going forward. A change doesn’t mean that WPengine would have to stop using it. They would have what they have, but they wouldn’t be able to use anything new, developed under new license terms. And I think a lot of the community would walk away from Wordpress and side with WPengine. There would be a high profile fork.
by rcarmo | 2025-09-13 10:45:05+00:00
I’ve actually been building a few synths based on the Pi over the years—it’s been a great way to “get rid” of the older boards as time goes on, although since I’ve never bought a Pi 5 I suspect that time has past.

You can use the Pi 2/3/3a/Zero 2 to build things like an mt32 or DX7 emulator almost trivially, and they make for great DAWless modules.
by bdcravens | 2025-09-13 10:45:42+00:00
I'm almost 50, and have been writing code professionally since the late 90s. I can pretty much see projects in my head, and know exactly what to build. I also get paid pretty well for what I do. You'd think I'd be the prototype for anti-AI.

I'm not.

I can build anything, but often struggle with getting bogged down with all the basic work. I love AI for speed running through all the boring stuff and getting to the good parts.

I liken AI development to a developer somewhere between junior and mid-level, someone I can given a paragraph or two of thought out instructions and have them bang out an hour of work. (The potential for then stunting the growth of actual juniors into tomorrow's senior developers is a serious concern, but a separate problem to solve)
by fleebee | 2025-09-13 10:47:11+00:00
I agree. I think a better analogy than a compiler is a search engine that has an excellent grasp of semantics but is also drunk and schizophrenic.

LLMs are really valuable for finding information that you aren't able to formulate a proper search query for.

To get the most out of them, ask them to point you to reliable sources instead of explaining directly. Even then, it pays to be very critical of where they're leading you to. To make an LLM the primary window through which you seek new information is extremely precarious epistemologically. Personally, I'd use it as a last resort.
by raincole | 2025-09-13 10:47:24+00:00
> It’s why the world wasted $10B+ on self driving car companies that obviously made no sense.

Obviously... in what way? I feel the anti-ai pattern is clear.

Self-driving cars don't work in my city so the whole concept is a hoax. LLMs don't code my proprietary language so it's a bubble.

> From this study (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089)

I can tell this is going to be the most misquoted study in blogs and pop-sci books after the 10,000-hour mastery study. And it's just a preprint!
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-13 10:47:41+00:00
> is no longer the case. Now it's drones

Now, yes. But we wasted two years of war before going to that point and during this entire time Russia has outgunned Ukraine by almost an order of magnitude, mostly because shells where a scarce resource for the AFU, which is a shame.

And artillery still is far from irrelevant even now.
by pydry | 2025-09-13 10:47:47+00:00
I can believe that 80% of Russian casualties are drones, however that's more of an artefact of a dire shortage of artillery on the Ukrainian side.

Drones are the one thing theyve got left. It makes sense theyd hype them up. It also makes sense that military-industrial complex lobbying machinery like your website would hype up whatever seems to be working - it fills their order book.

>The switch to drone warfare may be a problem of Russia.

Body bag exchange ratios have recently topped ~40:1. Actual casualty ratios are (being generous, here) probably 25:1 at this point.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-13 10:48:23+00:00
In 2005, both the US and Germany had specific emissions of around 600g CO₂/kWh.

In 2015, due mostly to fracking gas, the US was down to around 450g CO₂/kWh.

Germany, with its Energiewende, was at around 560g CO₂/kWh.

Because, of course, the Energiewende was not about climate change. It was about shutting down climate-friendly (CO₂ free) nuclear plants.

Both could have done better. France is currently at something like 32g CO₂/kWh and has been at roughly that level for decades.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-13 10:48:41+00:00
It's cleaner than coal and oil. If you upgrade a coal plant to a gas plant, that's a step forward against climate change.

Yes, we'd be much better off with wind farms, solar plants, and nuclear reactors, but a step forward is a step forward.

Countries like Poland, running mostly on coal, would get cleaner air and contribute less to global warming if they were to upgrade their power plants to anything non-coal.

Replace them with nuclear generators and they'd also significantly reduce the amount of radiation people would be exposed to.

It's not that gas is that good, it's more that coal is that bad.
by isaacremuant | 2025-09-13 10:49:28+00:00
People repeating articles or papers. I know myself. I know from my own experiences what the good and bad of practice A or database B is. I don't need to read a conclusion by some Muppet.

Chill. Interesting times. Learn stuff, like always. Iterate. Be mindful and intentional and don't just chase mirrors but be practical.

The rest is fluff. You know yourself.
by AstralStorm | 2025-09-13 10:49:34+00:00
Neither does not have the same shared consistent group of participants.

A forum ultimately ends up a group of more or less known individuals with a focus.

Reddit and HN don't have that feel, chatrooms and such as Discord usually do, unless they get huge and overwhelm Dunbar's number.

The friend feeds like Facebook's are less anonymous, but they do not form topical discussions nor feel like hangouts with the person.
by mystraline | 2025-09-13 10:49:47+00:00
> That’s an important point. The collaboration model is more complex in GIS because it’s not just documents (maps and map projects) but the underlying data is coming from databases that are independently editable.

Theres other complexity too, like 'how to avoid silent failures in ArcGIS Pro and Hosting Server'.

Case in point: say you use amazon RDS. URL for that object is name.customerID.environment.amazonrds.com . Its a long URL. Now you go into hostingServer/ArcGIS/manager and go set this as a data source. You can validate the data source and everything's fine...

Until your analysts add projects in RDS and go past some secret legacy arbitrary length of DNS+path. And if you do? Things will silently break, data won't come into ArcGIS Pro right. Anomalous errors.

Now, if you change the RDS DNS name to an IP address, all those problems go away! Everything's fixed, analysts are happy, and none are the wiser.

Until, Amazon does maintenance on your RDS, changing your IP address. Then, your environment then breaks for no good reason, and you have to be keenly aware to go to server manager and MANUALLY rerun data store check.

And no, ArcGIS monitor can't do this.

And... Dont even start me on 80070035. That "premium" support ticket was rotting for 5 weeks, until I ran into an engineer on LinkedIN, who solved it in 30 seconds.
by madeofpalk | 2025-09-13 10:51:08+00:00
> WP Engine contributes nothing back. They're just leaches on an open source license.

To me, its not right that if you follow this open source license legal contract that there's then an additional, arbitrary set of restrictions that you must also follow.

If you don't want companies from making money from your own source project, don't license it in a way that lets them. It's really not that hard.

> Google for taking WebKit, snatching the web, and then removing Manifest v2 amongst other crimes.

IIRC Manifest v2 was never a part of WebKit. Chrome introduced it in it's browser after they 'took webkit'. Google has continued to contribute to Webkit (and Blink), and is a good example of open source development.
by vmg12 | 2025-09-13 10:52:31+00:00
I think this gets to a fundamental problem with the way the AI labs have been selling and hyping AI. People keep on saying that the AI is actually thinking and it's not just pattern matching. Well, as someone that uses AI tools and develops AI tools, my tools are much more useful when I treat the AI as a pattern matching next-token predictor than an actual intelligence. If I accidentally slip too many details into the context, all of a sudden the AI fails to generalize. That sounds like pattern matching and next token prediction to me.

> This isn’t to say “AI” technology won’t lead to some extremely good tools. But I argue this comes from increased amounts of search and optimization and patterns to crib from, not from any magic “the AI is doing the coding”

* I can tell claude code to crank out some basic crud api and it will crank it out in a minute saving me an hour or so.

* I need an implementation of an algorithm that has been coded a million times on github, I ask the AI to do it and it cranks out a correct working implementation.

If I only use the AI in its wheelhouse it works very well, otherwise it sucks.
by joefourier | 2025-09-13 10:53:40+00:00
I’m someone with ADHD who takes prescribed stimulants and they don’t make me work faster or smarter, they just make me work. Without them I’ll languish in an unfocused haze for hours, or zone in on irrelevant details until I realise I have an hour left in the day to get anything done. It could make me 20% less intelligent and it would still be worth it; this is obviously an extreme, but given the choice, I’d rather be an average developer that gets boring, functional code done on time than a dysfunctional genius who keeps missing deadlines and cannot be motivated to work on anything but the most exciting shiny new tech.
by coderatlarge | 2025-09-13 10:54:10+00:00
there are just and unjust laws.

i agree that to operate in a country (or block of countries) a company must be prepared to respect even the unjust laws. which apple has obviously been willing to do all day long in many parts of the world.

in this case, it really seems to me like the EU is harming consumers who benefit from the coherently-designed, safe (as compared to androland) walled garden in favor of some fairly overtly xenophobic power play against incumbents local champions cannot compete with on the merits. IMO this type of action directly invites retaliation against European companies and interests abroad.

in the related cases of airdrop interop and alternate stores, it is certainly being required that apple release its proprietary IP to competitors.

there are plenty of hungry competitors in the smartphone market beyond apple and google including Samsung huawei and scores of others.
by II2II | 2025-09-13 10:54:11+00:00
The over generalization of the term social media drives me bonkers. In the olden days we had things like message boards, forums, and chat rooms. Then came social networks. All of those terms reflect some sort of connection between people.

When I see the term social media, I associate it with one way relationships. It is about connecting businesses to customers, not the other way around. It is about connecting self-promoters (for the lack of a better term) to an audience, not the other way around. As you said: the focus is on the individual, may that be a person or a business.

Perhaps we should be making an effort to distinguish between the two environments, to avoid associating connecting businesses and self-promoters to customers with connecting people to each other.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-13 10:54:21+00:00
Please. The entire case against Lula and his fellow corrupt communists was thrown out on infinitely lesser technicalities than the circus we just witnessed.

His "confession" merely entails "discussion of judicial means of stopping the election". Yes, "judicial" means. He sought to use article 142 of the constitution which says the purpose of the armed forces is to "guarantee the constitutional powers". Bring order and restore harmony between the legislative, executive and judiciary branches of government.

Total break down of harmony and order between the three powers is the exact state of affairs we currently find ourselves in. Surely you do not believe otherwise? Because discussion can't move forward if you believe otherwise.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-13 10:54:23+00:00
It may come as a surprise, but there were periods where taxes were contributed voluntarily or sworn under oath that they were accurate tabulations. Early Hamburg is a strong example here. There was an honor associated with paying taxes for wealthy merchants.

Alternatively, without those positive incentives towards payment, we might consider the comparative value of evading taxes and taking upon risk vs. paying a less onerous tax. From these exclusively negative consequences, the taxpayer compares the burden of compliance with the effort required and the risks of non-compliance. This is well known in the modern era as The Laffer Curve.

So I have to disagree once again. Empirically, we can see that is possible to collect taxes when there the perceived value of the services provided by the state is a net win for the tax payer. Taxes can also be collected when the burden of payment is less than the cost of evasion.

When states fail to deliver value taxpayers understandably become dissatisfied. When compliance is onerous and rates high, authoritarian enforcement measures become necessary. From this point it is easy to see how cryptocurrencies provide the kind of utility you disparage.

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks", this is Satoshi's inscription on the BTC genesis block. It may suggest that mismanagement by (arguably authoritarian) central planners gave rise to the popularity of cryptocurrencies. Perhaps the reason cryptocurrencies exist is because of the incompetence or authoritarian means of the state.

There's room in the middle to disagree, but the extreme case you've made here reads as authoritarian. Especially in the context of the article.
by Rochus | 2025-09-13 10:54:49+00:00
Impressive achievements, congrats! You said that your microkernel is "influenced by Zircon". Did you also study other architectures like e.g. sel4, Minix or openQNX? What do you consider the important design choices in your microkernel design? Is there a document where you go into this? Have you done performance measurements, i.e. to which other microkernel design do you think your kernel is comparable in terms of performance?
by raincole | 2025-09-13 10:55:05+00:00
It's very easy to find studies that prove that Adderall (etc.) improve non-ADHD people's cognition ability. And it's equally easy to find studies that prove otherwise. The parent comment is very spot on. You can find evidence supporting anything nowadays.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3489818/table/tbl1/
by bdcravens | 2025-09-13 10:56:18+00:00
I don't disagree. My EV charger is even slower (only 30A), and it's more than enough. It also only cost $250 and uses a standard 220V plug in my garage. I suspect the Porsche solution is much, much more expensive.

Taking five seconds to plug in isn't a big deal to me. However, my wife (with her own separate EV) does often forget, and it's a bit maddening at times. Of course, we have a long enough cord that we can park in different places and always charge, so a wireless charger wouldn't fix the problem if we had to switch around to use it.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-13 10:56:45+00:00
I agree it is a problem. Though in my experience it's still not as bad as NPM. I still know what most of the dependencies do, even when there are hundreds. And you usually get hundreds of dependencies only for things that simply do a lot. E.g. one of my projects has hundreds of dependencies but that's because it includes wasmtime, which feels fairly justified.

In NPM you often get thousands of dependencies for things that should be simple like Vue.

Another factor is that projects are often split into many crates for compile time & modularity reasons, e.g. Gix is dozens of crates.

The "two versions of a crate" is actually a great thing. In other ecosystems like Python you would be simply unable to build the project at all because you can only have one version of any dependency.

The one thing that I think is a big problem is where you have splits in the ecosystem, e.g. anyhow vs snafu, or Tokio Vs Smol. Once your project gets to a certain size you end up including every vaguely popular error handling crate. I think that's one of the big downsides of a small standard library which I haven't heard anyone mention.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-13 10:58:16+00:00
I have family that had ADHD, as a kid (they called it “hyperactivity,” back then). He is also dyslexic.

The ADHD was caught early, and treated, but the dyslexia was not. He thought he was a moron, for much of his early life, and his peers and employers did nothing to discourage that self-diagnosis.

Since he learned of his dyslexia, and started treating it, he has been an engineer at Intel, for most of his career (not that I envy him, right now).