MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by D-Machine | 2025-10-25 19:40:04+00:00
It is increasingly incredibly important here to make a distinction between using an LLM with and without search. Without search, I agree with you.

But e.g. ChatGPT with search enabled is often an invaluable research tool, and dramatically speeds up finding relevant sources. It basically automates the spidering of references and links, and also handles the basic checks for semantic relevance quite well, and this task requires little real intelligence or thought. Only once you hit a highly specific and niche technical domain will it start to fail you here (since it will match on common-language semantics that do not often align with technical usage).

For a lot of topics, I now have the reverse feeling that a person who has NOT used an LLM to facilitate search—on basic or even intermediate questions—is increasingly more of a concern.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-25 19:40:10+00:00
It's not just Fox News, and it's not just the right-wing. That's something that you've absorbed from a screen.

My black, middle-class, Democratic-voting father and stepmother who certainly were alive during the early 90s (when I was a teenager and actually on the south side Chicago streets, in danger) think that crime is higher than ever before. Democrats have absolutely spent most of their time trying to convince them that it definitely is, except when targeting Republicans, or trying to defend terrible mayors.

Tough on crime is almost the only thing second-term Democratic presidents run on. Focusing on crime, at whatever level, is always a suitable distraction for the dumb middle-class (R or D). The only thing that comes in second is focusing on poor people's diets. There will always be crime, and always be people eating badly; and are you pro-crime and pro-junk food on your dime?

> One could argue that this is affecting Trump himself, whereby domestic policy is shaped around what he sees on TV and social media (where was he seeing videos of "bombed out" Portland, anyway?).

More than argue. It's not just him, though, it's completely out of touch wealthy people who think of politics as a hobby, and are constantly bombarded with local news that consists entirely of crimes. There's no concept that the fact that they heard about 2 murders and 10 robberies today within a metro area of 10 million people doesn't give them any understanding at all of current crime prevalence. Or that they hear about street crimes, but don't hear about domestic ones. Or hear about violence but don't hear about financial crimes.

They've all got a story of somebody they know who was affected by street crime, too. One incident that a hundred people get to cite.

Trump also is just consciously playing middle-class dimwits like everyone else.
by uecker | 2025-10-25 19:40:44+00:00
I am not sure how you come to the conclusion. My link goes to paper that is a bit old, I did not do a new literature search, so I am not sure how the risk calculation may have changed since then. But at that point (2021) the benefit of vaccine was very clear also for 12-17 year old males. You seem to massively overestimate the risks of mild myocarditis compared to the risks of a covid infection in unvaccinated people.
by coldtea | 2025-10-25 19:41:05+00:00
>Is it? Or is it a tool that won't bug you when you make a mistake?

I don't want tools to bug me EVER. This includes when I make a mistake.

When I want a tool's opinion, I'll ask for it - through a linter, a static analysis tool, etc.

>Programmers tend to, as Djikstra noted[1] confuse ease of programming with allowing unforced errors

And how long had Djikstra worked as a professional programmer?
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-10-25 19:41:48+00:00
In what universe is that "not a big deal?" That makes an entire country a no-go zone. Worse if it's an offense they could reasonably extradite for.

I don't intend to ever travel to Russia or North Korea, but that's not some trivial anecdote about modern life, those are regimes so hostile to rule of law and individual safety that it's not reasonable to travel there.

What if there's a conference you want to go to, but it's in the UK? Or you have friends you want to visit? Or family, or whatever.

That's also an egregious degradation of the UK's position with regard to Western-norms around personal liberties, which itself is worthy of remark.
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by mmooss | 2025-10-25 19:42:45+00:00
I agree completely about Iraq. The Bush II administration sought to undermine the rules-based international order, particularly its leading authority the UN Security Council. That dovetailed with their desire to invade Iraq.

The blow was significant - the US fabricated and misinterpreted evidence to justify the invasion, not only conducting an effectively illegal international war and violating that most fundamental of international laws, but also undermining the integrity of the international order's leader, the US itself. The rest of the West was so happy when Obama took over, he got the Nobel Peace Prize before he did anything - I think just for supporting the liberal order.

But like all recent Democratic leaders, he didn't fight much for it or for its values. Then Biden particularly was egregious, abandoning the cause of freedom (in Afghanistan, west Africa, India, China, etc.). His support for Ukraine and Taiwan appeared, to me, strictly geopolitical. In fact, I remember hearing that US officials had a policy to argue not for Ukraine's freedom and democracy, but for its sovereignty - and they seemed to observe that policy.

Without values, you have no direction, no force, no way to lead or organize. Biden's enemies have clear values - nationalism, ethnic nationalism, power (as value in itself). What were Biden's? What are the Democrats'? They've shut down the government over no value, only healthcare funding.
by simjnd | 2025-10-25 19:43:29+00:00
I find it just inevitably leads to massive classes that pollute markup. Makes it a lot harder to parse HTML and figure out the structure. There are ways to make it a bit better but it's still not great (for me).

It's even worse with conditional styling since you're not toggling a single class on an off but dozens.

You can't use string interpolation for classes, e.g. `<div class={`bg-${color}-400`}>` (Tailwind won't include the classes in your CSS because it doesn't recognize you want all or a subset of bg-<color>-400 classes. They recommend using maps but this becomes very verbose once there are more than a few options.

``` const colorMap = { 'red' : 'bg-red-400', 'blue': 'bg-blue-400' } <div class={colorMap[color]}></div> ```

I'm using Svelte which has a great built-in styling solution with component-scoped styles by default, and modern CSS with nesting is a lot more compact than it used to be.
by syntaxing | 2025-10-25 19:44:07+00:00
I use it directly with Claude code [1]. Honestly, it just makes sense IMO to host your own model when you have your own company. You can try something like openrouter for now and then setup your own hardware. Since most of these models are MoE, you dont have to load everything in VRAM. A mixture of a 5090 + EPYC CPU + 256GB of DDR5 RAM can go a very long way. You can unload most of the expert layers onto CPU and leave the rest on GPU. As usual Unsloth has a great page about it [2]

[1] https://docs.z.ai/scenario-example/develop-tools/claude [2] https://docs.unsloth.ai/models/glm-4.6-how-to-run-locally
by comrade1234 | 2025-10-25 19:44:26+00:00
I'm pretty sure my shelter is under the grocery store across the street from me but the annoying thing is that they don't tell you where your shelter is until you need it. The locations are somewhat secret. I know the location of another civil shelter farther away with the entrance under a highway because it has signs saying it's a shelter...

When I lived in Washington DC instead of shelters everyone had an assigned route for escaping the city by car.

We have an interesting app here in Switzerland - AlertSwiss. It uses your location to warn you about local dangers, like toxic air from a building fire, to landslides, to bad water warnings... you can also see all alerts in Switzerland on a map of the country. Currently there are a couple of landslides and some fires.
by orliesaurus | 2025-10-25 19:45:59+00:00
I've been tumbling rocks with my kids for about a year now. Two tips that made it actually sustainable: (1) ceramic media is a must-have, not optional - cuts the noise by 80% and you can run it indoors, and (2) skip the "perfect rocks" hunt and just tumble broken glass bottles instead. Takes 2-3 weeks vs 2-3 months, looks amazing, and my kids can actually see results before they lose interest. We keep a jar of the sea glass pieces on the kitchen counter and it's become a surprisingly nice conversation starter when guests visit.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-25 19:46:17+00:00
At face value, then in the worst case that's just 4 days per year of using resistive heat to keep a home warm.

Which is, of course, very expensive to use -- but it's only expensive for those 4 days. Resistive heat can be avoided for the other 361.2425 days in a year.

In the US (as of August of 2025), the average price of residential electricity per delivered kWh is $0.1762 [1].

If using resistive heat averages 4kW during each of those 4 days (it's probably either more than that, or less than that, but ballparks are ballparks), then that's about $16.92 for each of those days. Or: $67.66, per year.

Not so bad, right? Or at least, not "boned."

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
by hypeatei | 2025-10-25 19:46:49+00:00
> No. I'm just tired of BS "news" stories.

What about this story makes it "BS"? Your comment(s) provide no rebuttals or anything to discredit this story. It doesn't sound like you're a skeptic, more like you'd made your up mind prior to reading the article.

> why should we assume anything

Because discarding something as fake news is not good faith. Believe it not, you can simultaneously be skeptical and engage with the content of the article. The question still stands: what do you think about the FBI going to a protestors house to ask him questions about it?

> We need better reporting and part of that is verification.

He tried reaching out to the FBI but they declined to comment due to the ongoing government shutdown as noted in the article. What level of "verification" would make you happy?
by antasvara | 2025-10-25 19:46:55+00:00
I don't doubt that it's a solvable problem. Basically any educational method claims to work for every kid, and in theory they all do.

I just think that any method of education is a series of tradeoffs. Time management and difficulty working on thing you don't like (and a lot of this is personal experience, both my own and in discussions with others) seems to be the largest tradeoff.

Bottom line is that almost no system gets implemented perfectly, so it's important to understand the common "failure" points. This seems to be the Montessori one.

Thats not to say this is a bad thing! Depending on your beliefs, decreased study skills and/or mediocre time management are way less important than maintaining a natural curiosity. But the skills some kids end up missing are very important in traditional schooling environments like universities and high schools.
by yobbo | 2025-10-25 19:47:19+00:00
It sounds as though there is unclarity in roles. You might have a style of avoiding or de-escalating confrontation which could make him believe your call for a post-mortem is a suggestion he can set aside.

My advice would be 1) to not phrase decisions as suggestions, 2) motivate/justify with hard facts ("an outage occurred, we are having a meeting to discuss causes/mitigations"), 3) if post-mortems are perceived as publicly assigning blame, it can't work and the culture is wrong, and 4) never motivate decisions by identity ("my background is fancier than yours so get in line") which might be happening implicitly if decisions aren't sufficiently grounded in details and facts.
by mmooss | 2025-10-25 19:47:49+00:00
> China sells weapons to everyone who has money, works with all kinds of regimes, and generally have a non-interventionist policy.

China says that, but they put countries into enormous debt and then control them. They also build naval bases in many of those countries.

> smaller countries tend to prefer partnering with them

Countries near China's borders have turned strongly against their neighbor. The US has built a widespread network of alliances around that.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-25 19:51:14+00:00
> Thing is it's good enough and extremely widely used.

The real problem is not that "it is good enough"; it's that SQL is still better than many of the newer proposals.

I mean, sure, if newcomer tech $BAR was slightly better than existing tech $FOO, then maybe $FOO might be eventually replaced. What we are seeing is that the newcomers are simply not better than the existing $FOO.
Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes
by miketromba | 2025-10-25 19:51:24+00:00
Hey, I built https://ShadcnThemer.com - a web app for creating and sharing themes for shadcn/ui, made with my some of my favorites, Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS 4, Drizzle ORM, and Supabase.

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by Maxion | 2025-10-25 19:51:39+00:00
Interesting, in Finland we have a much more open approach. Shelters [are clearly marked](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4est%C3%B6nsuoja#/media/...) both on the door itself, and with signs leading to them.

[The large public ones](https://palvelukartta.hel.fi/fi/service/815) are even on published maps. There are lots more than these, though, as any residential building with enough residents need to have their own one built. This means that virtually all buildings have one, though usually it is only up to spec of the year when the building was built. I once lived in a building built in the early 1900s, and even it had a bombshelter in the basement, though very crude by todays standard.
by froggit | 2025-10-25 19:52:03+00:00
Are these schools in Stalin's soviet union? One kid causes disorder so all kids must be purged to make sure there won't be another naughty child in the future?

Believe it or not, teachers (your sao-called "power figures" here) are generally not a bunch of untrained dumbshits unable to think of kids with more granularity than as the entire collective group making up a class. They have the skills and training to identify the sources of disruptions along with ample resources available for correcting them without calling forth damnation and hellfire on everything in a 5 mile radius. Hammers are awesome, but it's not all that hard to grab a scalpel when a situation calls for a scalpel.
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-25 19:52:14+00:00
Incidentally, with respect to the lies used to start America's war with Iraq:

> On 12 September 2002, Netanyahu lobbied for the invasion of Iraq, testifying under oath as a private citizen before the U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee regarding the alleged nuclear threat posed by the Iraqi régime: "There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking and is working and is advancing towards the development of nuclear weapons…"[74][75] He also testified, "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."[75]
by wtfwhateven | 2025-10-25 19:53:23+00:00
>I'm not a lawyer but it is not sufficient for Gaza not to be considered "part of Israel".

How?

>Technically Gaza should either be Egyptian or Israeli.

What? No. Why on earth would that be the case?

>There is no state of Palestine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_P...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine

You don't need to be a lawyer to understand there definitely is a state of Palestine.
by BurningFrog | 2025-10-25 19:53:26+00:00
It's a remnant of the woke era, and I expect and hope it will go the way of Latinx.

The (foolish) idea was that the word "blind" has a negative charge, so if we replace it with another word the stigma will go away, and blind people can feel better.

But of course, any stigma comes from the blindness itself. Any replacement term will get the same stigma, and will then need to be replaced.

Stephen Pinker called it "The Euphemism Treadmill" in 1994, and that term has never been replaced: https://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/1994_04_03_newyo...
by solfox | 2025-10-25 19:53:37+00:00
We enrolled our kids in K thinking the same as you - some light eco-minded spirituality never harmed anyone. Until we started to learn more about their actual philosophy.

From my experience, the teachers and admin will actively disclaim any adherence to the Waldorf / Anthroposophy connections, but I can assure you that if this is truly a Waldorf school (not "Waldorf-inspired"), they are 100% absolutely members of the Anthroposophy organization. I saw teachers actually do things like quickly hide away Steiner's books from their desk when parents would drop in. But do dig a bit deeper into your school if you can - you'll find there is a "college of teachers" and other such secretive meetings, religious Christian-inspired songs being taught to the children (speaking of God and angels from heaven), and more such nonsense at your school.

If you are a Anthroposophist, then by all means, send your kids there. But Waldorf has an international track record[1] of hiding covering their tracks and pretending to be secular when they are anything but. They just don't belong to a religion that you've heard much about [2].

[1] https://waldorfcritics.org/concerns/ [2] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cult-of-waldorf-sc...
by Spivak | 2025-10-25 19:53:49+00:00
I think the much better language would be the "no language" database. Throw portability to the wind and just have the client ship the query plan directly. The frontend to the database is howerver you want to expose it in your language of choice. I don't think there's any hope of getting disparate db vendors to agree on a compatible frontend language. It seems easier to externalize it.

The closest existing database to this ideal is probably FoundationDB although it also externalizes the query planner, which I don't necessarily consider a downside.
by WorldDev | 2025-10-25 19:53:59+00:00
Thanks for your thoughts. I agree that using software would be easier, but I wanted to do it in hardware in this specific case.

I am unfamiliar with Raspberry pi, but if my understanding is correct, it's running a real os. So I would need to send it a command to actually shut down every time I want to remove the usb device. More generally, having a general purpose OS on the little device seems overkill for that use case, no?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-25 19:54:12+00:00
> As far as my doctor's diet guidelines go, that'd be 'effectively 17g of "sugar"'.

> I've been told to use an offhand rule of fiber vs sugar as a ratio. For every 1 gram of fiber 'up to' 50 of carbs ~ calories, with lower better.

I don't think this really captures the concept of "sugar". Here's ordinary sourdough bread: https://beckmannsbakery.com/collections/sourdough-breads/pro...

Serving size 38g, 22g carbohydrate, 0g fiber.

By the time you're saying that most of what everyone eats is nothing but sugar, you've taken things too far. Grain isn't sugar.

(I'm really curious what the rest of the bread is. The nutrition facts note 4g of protein, but that leaves 12 grams, or 32% of the bread (!) unaccounted for.)
by matklad | 2025-10-25 19:55:18+00:00
I strongly agree with your statement overall, but not in details.

Regarding string manipulation, Zig has slices and comptime-checked `printf`, so that makes string handling _massively_ more ergonomic than in C. But, yeah, managing the lifetime of the printf-ed is a pain in the back, and Rust is _massively_ more ergonomic there, if managing individual string allocations is what you want to do. (though one cool thing that Zig makes easy is comptime asserting that stack-allocated buffer has the right size for the given format string).

But, I do find Zig surprisingly ergonomic overall! For example, I have two Rust crate for writing glue code utilities, xflags (argument parsing) and xshell (shelling out). For TigerBeetle, I wrote equivalents:

* https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/std...

* https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/she...

What I found is that the Zig version is significantly easier to implement and to use, for me. In Rust, those domains require macros, but in Zig it's all comptime. And memory management is relatively easy --- flags live until the end of the program, shell is just using shell-scoped arena. I am contemplating rewriting my personal scripts at https://github.com/matklad/config/tree/master/tools/gg to Zig for that reason. Though, Zig not being 1.0 _is_ a problem in that context --- I touch my scripts only rarely, and I don't want to be on the hook for upgrades.
by pvankessel | 2025-10-25 19:56:06+00:00
I got this one a few months ago and have been running it in my basement directly under my living room, separated only by the floor and a bit of insulation. Can't hear it at all. It's been working well and it's a fun low-investment hobby. I live on a glacial moraine so there are lots of unique rocks in my backyard, and my son enjoys digging for them. https://a.co/d/4HSnVVX
by gavinray | 2025-10-25 19:56:20+00:00
I work at (what was previously known as) Hasura.

Specifically: the connector bits that deal w/ translating Relational Algebra IR expressed as GraphQL nodes -> SQL engine-specific code.

The author's comments about lack of standardization and portability might not get across just how nightmarishly different SQL dialects are.

I might put together a list of some of the batshit-insane bugs we've run into, even between version upgrades of the same engine.

I really think folks would raise an eyebrow if they understood just how much variance exists between implementations in what might be considered "common" functionality, and the sorts of contortions you have to do to get proper shims/polyfills/emulations.
by dang | 2025-10-25 19:56:37+00:00
It's not weird, just random, like most things that seem weird (at least on HN).

It seems like a good-enough blog post and doesn't sound AI-written to me. But I agree that the wapo article is probably better, so we'll re-up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699285 and merge the comments thither.