MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hypeatei | 2025-10-30 12:35:35+00:00
I hold the exact same sentiment. The safest investment you can make in this AI race is Alphabet. The smaller players being wrapped up in this (CRWV, NOK, etc...) are going to get obliterated when the returns are not as good as previously thought. The bigger players will take a hit, but not as much as the small ones.

NVIDIA also seems like a risky bet given all the money they're passing around in circles to themselves via multi-billion dollar "investments"
by loudmax | 2025-10-30 12:35:45+00:00
I'd caution against looking for deliberate symbolism in these ancient tales. The Grimm brothers wrote these in the early 19th century, but the folk tales they drew from are far older. But the mirror seems to be a representation of vanity. The Queen is gazing in the mirror because she's obsessed with her beauty, which is why she's jealous of the younger Snow White.
by graemep | 2025-10-30 12:36:02+00:00
> Maybe you need to pay attention if you're dealing with certain European governments these day

Open document formats have been the UK standard for things like .gov.uk for many years. About a decade IIRC. Ignored by some people (notably the Office of National Statistics, of whatever its called these days).

> Most of the world, most of America, most of China, India, etc. haven't even heard of it.

I have come across quite a few non-tech people who use Libre Office.

It has great (some people say better than MS Word with itself between version) compatibility with MS office formats.
by a4isms | 2025-10-30 12:36:19+00:00
I'm trying to imagine a product manager calling me to say, "Hi, we just bought this product you use, we're raising prices and firing the dev team. But hahahaha, you can't quit us, I have a spreadsheet here that says your time escaping our clutches will cost you more than paying the extortion fee to cover us buying the tool and the profit we need. Tough luck, but you have no logical alternative."

I'm not sure that my relationship with tools is so bloodless that it is only driven by dollars, cents, and minutes. I'm not sure I have to clench my teeth and write that product manager a cheque.
by willis936 | 2025-10-30 12:36:51+00:00
I was asked about the direction of the destination. Saying the direction and having everyone agree on it is worth a lot when the current bus driver is heading towards a cliff. I do think things get better if we all pursued this destination together.

If you asked me several years ago I would have said "yes, the star trek future is at least partially attainable", but that requires a lot of optimism in technological advancement that I don't have. I do think that with the technology and resources available to us today (or the near future) we could support 10 billion people working safe labor in air conditioning, full stomachs, free time, and on a planet that is still hospitable.

If you want to know how to actually get there: I have no idea, but I do know if we don't agree on the direction and make steps towards it continuously for many generations that we'll never get there. For now I'm voting with my feet and contributing my labor to a cause I think pushes us in the right direction.

Also, I'm setting aside the battle with natural death. Preserving brains and their contents indefinitely is not impossible, but transhumanism is as much philosophy as it is technology.
by subscribed | 2025-10-30 12:38:00+00:00
Current iteration of of ID-based checks is both awful (Discord ID leak proves how dangerous) and hostile (there's high chance this data is being sold already as we speak). It's also laughably simple to circumvent in many cases.

Good, privacy preserving age check could be implemented instead, but they won't because it's not about keeping the kids away (and never was).

And your example with Instagram is great because they've been caught running experiments actively harming children.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-30 12:38:08+00:00
I did use to have an subscription to YouTube, but they kept increasing the pricing, and once they've 4x'd the original price, I felt like it wasn't worth it anymore, and they'll just continue raising the prices indefinitely, and that's not a business strategy I'd like to support by continue subscribing.

People always say "vote with your wallet" and that's pretty much why people go any other way than "Subscribe and pay Google money" today with YouTube.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-10-30 12:38:43+00:00
Same. But I have now a new secret weapon, this claude code prompt:

Read the doc of https://iommi.rocks/, make a demo project showing of the capability of this tool.

(I have a claude.md with more info, but that's the prompt)

Came back with a fully functional demo with everything installed and working. runserver, and a glance at the code, and I get it.

TL;DR: it's like the django admin, except you can use it in any endpoint in your side. Pretty nice.
by Liftyee | 2025-10-30 12:38:57+00:00
Have visited China often. My major gripe to living there would be digital freedom and surveillance - unlocking bootloader,etc are heavily restricted there. Plus the GFW, which does prevent the population being psyop'd by foreign social media, but is a small pain if you need to use outside services.

That doesn't really affect my daily life though, especially for someone born there. If it's the tradeoff for the other aspects (high public safety, developed infrastructure...) then I would consider accepting it.
Show HN: PeekoCMS – A Visual CMS / Website Building Platform with AI
by peekocms | 2025-10-30 12:39:06+00:00
Hey folks, I've been working on a small project for the last year or so and figured it was time to share. It's a visual CMS / HTML editing platform with support for Handlebars templating, AI, and visual editing.

Features:

- Template library - Undo / Redo editor history - Full Monaco code editor in the browser - Localization - Tagged page versions / revisions that can be toggled site-wide - AI Prompting / Editing selections - Custom Web Component Prop / Form Integration - Upload global variables to S3 endpoint and render them in Handlebars

I spent ~10 years building websites for a large international cosmetics conglomerate. I saw the struggles and challenges they faced building templates and components that could be integrated with their CMS so non technical users could use it too. I'm trying to build a website builder that isn't super constrained like Wix/Squarespace but still being easy to use. I think in the age of AI, we need to revisit how we give non technical users the ability to build and publish webpages.

While my project is not nearly as complete as I would like, it does have a lot of powerful features, including support for automatic UI generation with StencilJS docs. For example, to have a select dropdown when your web component is selected, annotate your Prop with the following:

/** * Options that will determine whether the content sits below the media slot or overlapped above. * @type Select * @options below * @options above * @responsive */ @Prop() contentPosition = 'below|above';

By annotating your component props and exporting the Doc JSON from StencilJS, you can create an easy to use UI for all your custom components.

If this would be useful for your marketing / ecommerce / project let me know!
by lapcat | 2025-10-30 12:39:34+00:00
> So that means that the only way that you can absolutely associate the project with Tony Iommi is the post in which the author says that it has nothing to do with Tony Iommi other than he's a guitarist like Django Reinhardt?

No, everything on https://iommi.rocks screams Tony Iommi, who was himself famously inspired by Django Reinhardt, because they both suffered severe finger injuries.

"Your first pick"... guitar pick.

"for a Django power chord"... Tony Iommi was famous for using power chords (in part due to his loss of fingers).

The sample code uses "Album" and "Artist".

Even the "rocks" in the domain name is suggestive.

> Seems like the opposite of a slam dunk.

> It's also 1) a very obvious and cute joke for people who are familiar with both guitarists

These consecutive sentences are strangely contradictory. Not a slam dunk, yet very obvious?

> you don't own your last name - although if you put "Iommi" on a guitar (or a studded leather jacket), you're going to have a problem.

As I said in another comment, this is not a trademark issue. It's good that you admit, though, that there are limits to using a person's name on a product. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758717

> But if you call your casserole recipe Iommi's Casserole, only a moron in a hurry is going to be confused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry

Of course nobody is going to confuse a casserole or a Python package with a guitarist. But that's not the issue. Again, Tony Iommi is a person and not a product. If you market your casserole by giving the impression that Tony Iommi may have invented the recipe for the casserole, or at least knows of and endorses the casserole, that would be problematic.
by imchillyb | 2025-10-30 12:39:51+00:00
Windows 3.1: ~3 million in first six weeks, ~>3 million in first three months, ~25 million in first year.

Windows 95: ~1 million in first 4 days, ~7 million in first five weeks, ~40 million in first year.

These figures represent Microsoft’s own sales figures.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-30 12:39:54+00:00
“ Workers at Electronic Arts are being put through multiple AI training courses, and are encouraged to view the tech as a “thought partner,” according to internal documents seen by BI. They’re even being advised on how to use chatbots to learn how to deal with underperforming direct reports.”

I could use a thought partner, but I find chat responses to be obnoxiously verbose and not very unique or nuanced or interesting. Any ideas of what I could be doing wrong? What is a “thought partner” in this case.
by AyanamiKaine | 2025-10-30 12:40:05+00:00
You are right! I totally forgot about Vintage Story, I only read about it briefly.

> ... you can't really open all the interfaces and expect it to be stable without making some huge trade offs.

Another game I often play with a huge open interface is Crusader Kings 3 and paradox games in general. Most of the gameplay is implemented in their scripting language for the engine. But as you said when the game gets a big update most mods simply dont work anymore.

If the support of the community dies down many mods with much work and craft dont get updated anymore and rot away as the game gets updates. Quite sad actually.

Thats why I also quite like Star Wars Empire at War mods. The game does not get any updates anymore. The API here is mostly frozen, even old mods still work.
by ilmenit | 2025-10-30 12:40:39+00:00
RastaConverter https://github.com/ilmenit/RastaConverter is a graphics converter from modern computers to old 8bit Atari computers. In recent versions I added ability to generate two pictures blended together into a high-color output, leading to pictures with 800 or more unique perceived colors. The picture is displayed in graphics mode 15 (Antic Mode E) that has by default four unique colors. The conversion process is optimization of the Kernel Program. It uses most of the Atari graphics capabilities including sprites, midline color changes and sprite multiplication.

Key capabilities: - Extremely optimized emulator of subset of 6502 CPU and ANTIC to simulate execution on real machine.

- Optimization: Late Acceptance Hill Climbing (LAHC) and Diversified Late Acceptance Search (DLAS), with support for reproducible runs, evaluation limits, auto-save and resume.

- Dithering: chess, Floyd–Steinberg, random-Floyd, line, line2, 2D, Jarvis, simple, and Knoll; tunable strength and randomness.

- Color distance: YUV (default), RGB Euclidean, CIEDE2000, and CIE94; independently selectable for preprocessing and optimization.

- Dual-frame mode: two alternating frames (A/B) with YUV or RGB blending, optional temporal luma/chroma penalties to reduce flicker, and export of both per-frame and blended outputs.

- Performance: multi-threaded execution with per-thread line caches and configurable cache size.

- Image pipeline: resize filters (box, bilinear, bicubic, bspline, Catmull–Rom, Lanczos3) plus brightness/contrast/gamma adjustments.

- Hardware control: fine-grained control over Atari registers, including enabling/disabling hardware sprites (players/missiles) per scanline.

- Details mask: provide a mask image to emphasize selected regions and bring out fine details in the result.

- Palette selection: choose target palette files via Adobe ACT to match different monitors and CRT settings.

- Cross-platform: CMake-based builds for Windows, MacOS and Linux, with scripted Profile Guided Optimization.

- Extras: scripts and generators to assemble Atari executables.
by harryday | 2025-10-30 12:40:43+00:00
> In the myth of Narcissus, a beautiful young demigod who saw his own reflection in a pool of water became so enamored with it that he refused to move. He rejected the advances of beautiful young women and eventually wasted away, unable to break the spell of his own image.

Alternative, deeper understanding — https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/10/the_story_of_narciss...
by t43562 | 2025-10-30 12:40:51+00:00
There are 5000 programs in my /usr/bin. They take environment settings from the current environment which means you can set a variable on the commandline for that process without finding that is ineffectual because it has been overridden by some configuration file somewhere or by some weird "automatic" behaviour. "clever" tools end up being a pain in the arse when you have to second guess them and work around their behaviour.

As things are, I can share a venv with several projects, or have one for my account if I don't want to break the system tools. I can even write a trivial bash function to activate a venv automatically based on whether a venv exists in my project. It's so trivial to do and yet generates all this discussion.

As for non-portability that's the most specious and pathetic argument of the lot. who can bother to make every library portable to every distro....? what is the point of distros if one demands that one can run the same binaries everywhere? This is what containers were invented for. If you need the latest versions you might just, heaven forbid, have to compile something and fight with the problems of running it on distro that it wasn't developed on.
by bayesnet | 2025-10-30 12:41:07+00:00
> Two-thirds [of participants] reported medium to high user satisfaction with the device.

I don’t know much about medical trials but this seems surprisingly low to me, especially given that the study population is presumably predisposed to liking the device (since they opted-in to an experimental study).

Did the implant not work in these cases or were there other quality-of-life issues? I wish university press releases on science were less rah-rah and presented more factual information. I guess that’s what the NEJM article is for.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-30 12:41:22+00:00
In AI, whatever you wrote is going to be deprecated in theee months, and in six months SOTA LLMs will one-shot it directly. That's what it means for a domain to be "hot". AI is currently the largest and most intense global R&D project in the history of humanity. So for this one field, your complaint makes no sense.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-30 12:41:27+00:00
The fact that america can go to authoritarism this quickly and through democratic legal procedures itself is scary and I don't think that I can trust this in the same sense from now on.

Trust is brittle. I looked even more into the facade of america, and honestly, i am confused by both parties to a certain extent which are both controlled by billionaires etc.

The president I respect the most is teddy roosevelt, I have heard good things about kennedy too but I want to read so much more about the absolute chad known as teddy roosevelt.

I think that there is hope for america but that's only if people actually try to understand what's happening, which is what I am hoping, its a shame bernie sanders couldn't have been a president but I am hoping that a new wave of american politics could arise to tackle corruption/politcal lobbying/bribery.
by throw0101c | 2025-10-30 12:41:29+00:00
> Social security and pensions, for example, are structured not unlike a pyramid scheme: for every old person we should have more than one working young person.

Canada saw the demographic writing on the wall, and solved its public/government pension problem in the 1990s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Pension_Plan#1998_refor...

Good book on the history of the CPP, and how the reforms were determined and enacted (Fixing the Future by Bruce Little):

* https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9780802095831

There's no reason other countries could not have done something similar earlier (or even now).

In France it is reported that retirees now have higher (average?) incomes than workers:

* https://archive.is/https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/m...

This is completely ludicrous. For retirement planning purposes, it is often recommended to assume you'll need 70% of your working age income for the same lifestyle (you have fewer expenses—live not having a chunk of your income go to retirement savings), but in many situations it could even be ≤50%:

* https://archive.is/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-inv...

To have the same (or more) in retirement generally means you "over saved" while working, and you could have had more resources for enjoyment of life earlier (after all, we don't know when our time will come).
by esperent | 2025-10-30 12:41:38+00:00
The Grim version was published in 1812, but it's based on older stories. Here's one published in 1782 that also features a mirror:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richilde_(fairy_tale)

However these are both just published versions of oral folktales. The basic outline of the story might go back hundreds of years earlier, and nobody will ever be able to say when the mirror first showed up.
Show HN: AI Review – Universal AI Code Review for Any LLM or CI/CD
by NikitaFilonov | 2025-10-30 12:41:43+00:00
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been building AI Review — an open-source framework that turns any CI/CD pipeline into a fully automated AI-powered code reviewer.

Unlike typical SaaS bots, AI Review doesn’t send your code anywhere. It runs entirely within your infrastructure, using whichever LLM or VCS you prefer.

Supports any LLM provider — OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, OpenRouter, or your own inference server. Works with any VCS — GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea. Runs anywhere — Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or locally.

The setup takes 15–30 minutes. It automatically analyzes diffs, posts inline comments, summaries, and even AI-powered replies inside your PRs/MRs.

Example:

ai-review: image: nikitafilonov/ai-review:latest script: - ai-review run variables: LLM__PROVIDER: "OPENROUTER" LLM__META__MODEL: "anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet" VCS__PROVIDER: "GITLAB" VCS__PIPELINE__MERGE_REQUEST_ID: "$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_IID"

It’s built around modular prompts and review contracts — you can tune depth, style, or rules for each project.

In short, AI Review is a plug-and-play AI reviewer for real-world teams — no tokens, no vendor lock-in, no data leaves your infra.

- GitHub: https://github.com/Nikita-Filonov/ai-review - Docs & examples: https://github.com/Nikita-Filonov/ai-review/tree/main/docs - Feedback: https://t.me/nikitafilonov

Feedback welcome — I’d love to hear how others handle AI code review in enterprise CI/CD setups.
by boxed | 2025-10-30 12:42:26+00:00
There's an example app too: https://github.com/iommirocks/iommi/tree/master/examples

I've had mixed success with Claude. It keeps adding too much display_names to everything for example which is annoying.

In theory we could put that up, but I don't particularly want to maintain such a live example app and pay for hosting and all that, only to have it instantly crash under the load of HN :P
by rusty__ | 2025-10-30 12:42:59+00:00
agreed - he doesn't say the age of the kids but I imagine they're both under 10? Done right this could set them up for life and make them millionaires with virtually no effort by the age of 30 and still give them a childhood filled with toys and fun. But removing birthday gifts entirely from a young child... woah. Kids need physical items and tangible hobbies to share and bond with friends, even if it's just a cool looking stick. Is a child's brain developed enough to understand, enjoy and share a lot of these concepts, could it maybe lead to them becoming isolated?
by JCM9 | 2025-10-30 12:43:03+00:00
AWS is lagging in AI, but not by choice. Their leadership is in an all out panic at the moment trying to catch up.

A lot of folks agree though that the smarter play would have been just just sit more on the sidelines intentionally and wait for the bubble to burst, then buy up stuff cheap in the resulting fire sales. AWS should have just focused on the core compute and storage services, which they do well.

AWS simply doesn’t have the right talent to do well in AI at the moment and the folks they did have mostly fled elsewhere.
by pteraspidomorph | 2025-10-30 12:43:08+00:00
Conceptually, it reminds me of DropMix by Harmonix. The physicality of it was really cool, but it also ended up being really unsuccessful, and I can imagine why: - Compared to a traditional board game (well, most of them), it was expensive and hard to procure; - Compared to a pure videogame, it had many moving parts that are more difficult to transport, manage, store, etc; - Since it was a multiplayer experience, that created added friction on top of everything else (everyone needs to be in the same place as the rare, expensive gadget and parts).

The issues seem exacerbated in this idea, however I think it's just as cool. I would love to play on it.
by tuesdaynight | 2025-10-30 12:43:53+00:00
> can do so with such thoroughness that we forget that other ways of thinking even existed.

There is a debate between Chomsky and Foucault [1] where they discuss exactly that at some point (I don't remember the timestamp, sorry). There is an argument about how most of the knowledge of a specific era is "lost" when there is a big discovery. It was a random recommendation from YouTube, and I was quite pleased when I decided to give it a watch.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=eF9BtrX0YEE&pp=ygUVQ2hvbXNreSBhb...
by piva00 | 2025-10-30 12:43:53+00:00
It can be both, they're taking it easy meaning they aren't on a hiring spree of "top talent" (like Meta paying 8-9 figures for such) which in turn becomes ineptitude since they aren't betting on it.

Even the labour market for the required skills is absurdly overvalued, if they don't see it as a major priority they won't spend the necessary rates for it.
by patapong | 2025-10-30 12:43:59+00:00
Not even just open source models - other commercial LLM models as well. All of the big LLM companies (Google, Anthropic, OpenAI) are basically ocked in a cold war of having to continuously outspend the other providers or risk becoming irrelevant.

The big question for me is if people will ever be happy with a model that is "good enough", and can thus be optimized and run profitably over time without faling behind. Time will tell!
by refulgentis | 2025-10-30 12:44:06+00:00
Imaginary conversation between an honest VP and earnest year 0 me, here's what the VP says: "We definitely care about deprecations: now tell me how to accomplish that with Sundar's Focus™* Agenda over the last 2 years"

* no net headcount increases, random firings, and any new headcount should be overseas. i.e. we have the same # of people we did in 2021 with 50% more to do.
Show HN: Mearie – GraphQL client for web frameworks
by devunt | 2025-10-30 12:44:23+00:00
I'm working on Mearie, a GraphQL client.

While Relay worked well for me in React (though there was room for improvement), I needed a GraphQL client that feels natural with Svelte and/or SolidJS. So I decided to make one. You can learn more about the motivation in the docs.

I just released the first version and most things in the docs should work. Would love to hear your thoughts!