MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lumoscore | 2025-10-08 06:32:06+00:00
The biggest challenge is not the design you see on the screen. The real problem is how to manage the secret keys (passwords) for the family safely over many, many years.

Here are the three hardest jobs for this "Family Crypto Wallet":

1- Shared Keys (Control for Today): The money needs to be locked in a "shared safe" that requires two out of three family members to agree to open it (this is called "multi-sig"). The design must make sure the keys can be updated easily if someone loses their phone or a key is forgotten.

2- Passing the Money to the Children (Inheritance): How will the wallet work 20 years from now, when the children need the money? It must be simple for someone who is not a crypto expert to claim the assets. It should feel like a simple bank transfer, not a technical puzzle.

3- Working on Many Digital Roads (Multi-Chain): Families hold different coins on different digital networks (like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the XRP Ledger for fast, low-fee projects). The wallet has to connect to all of these different networks, which is messy for the developers who build it.

I know that multi-chain part is a real headache. It's the kind of complex challenge that platforms like Lumos Core are built to solve.

If you are the designer, I would ask: Which network is the best digital "contract" (digital will) to use for the inheritance part? Ethereum or the cheap, fast XRP Ledger?
by pabs3 | 2025-10-08 06:33:01+00:00
Interestingly, TiVo didn't do Tivoization, instead they let you run modified GPL software but broke the proprietary software when run on top of modified GPL software. Basically an early form of attestation.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t... https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
by conductr | 2025-10-08 06:33:31+00:00
I use arduino ide to build esp projects. I have not found it much different than the arduino as a beginner, except much cheaper and faster. I like not having to do all the shield stuff. But will admit, it was helpful to start on arduino as its built in pins helped me get going as I tried to avoid soldering and breadboarded everything. That only lasted a short time before I realized I had to solder some things if I wanted to grow the project. I still like the idea of breakout boards for specific things but I usually solder them in now.
by energy123 | 2025-10-08 06:34:21+00:00
I don't really agree. The writing is on the wall, if not now then in 2 years or 4 years. I arrive at this view not so much based on the capabilities of the tools right now, but based on the property of software being verifiable, which like mathematics, makes it amenable to synthetic data pipelines, with only relatively small remaining details needing to be worked out (such as how to endow architectural taste). This is not nearly the first industry where 'artisans' have been initially augmented by innovation, only to be eventually replaced by it, which in my view will occur likely within my own career-span.
by deanCommie | 2025-10-08 06:34:35+00:00
I don't think OP thinks his skills are useless per se now, but that the way to apply those skills now feels less fun and enjoyable.

Which makes perfect sense - even putting aside the dopamine benefits of getting into a coding flow state.

Coding is craftsmanship - in some cases artistry.

You're describing Vibe Engineering as management. And sure, a great manager can make more of an impact increasing the productivity of an entire team than a great coder can make by themselves. And sure, some of the best managers are begrudging engineers who stepped up when needed to and never stepped down.

But most coders still don't want to be managers - and it's not from a lack of skill or interest in people - it's just not what they chose.

LLM-based vibe coding and engineering is turning the creative craftsmanship work of coding into technical middle management. Even if the result is more "productivity", it's a bit sad.
by zeroq | 2025-10-08 06:35:28+00:00
Same way as IKEA restaurants were serving decent quality food for dimes.

It was business decision. People were thinking - we have a day off, we could go there and there, do some shopping, and then we go there for food, or we could go to the IKEA and eat there.

If you're "slave to the IKEA" and want to cherish your free day with consumerism, it was a no brainer if you wanted to shop on a budget and eat for free.

Unforntuantely, catalogues are gone and so are days of cheap food in IKEA.
by joha4270 | 2025-10-08 06:36:14+00:00
Possible, just like Russel's teapot.

But there has been one very well published Ukrainian attack launched from Russian soil[1].

If Ukraine had could regularly smuggle several drone aircraft's and explosives into Russia and launch them, we would be seeing a lot of other effects. Such as attacks on weapon production sites deep into Russia[2].

But yes, a lot of those attacks are probably unsuccessful. With my qualifications as armchair general, I would be surprised if more than 10% of them was successful.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelabuga_drone_factory
by exe34 | 2025-10-08 06:37:21+00:00
Any idea why the tiny network takes days to run on massive GPUs? is it the large dataset, or the recursive nature of the algorithm? i.e. would a simple question take hours to solve or require a huge amount of memory?

I don't have a huge amount of experience in the nitty gritty details and I'm wondering if I'll be able to run some interesting training on a 3090 in a few days.
by jmfldn | 2025-10-08 06:38:13+00:00
Seeing all the experienced engineers on this thread who feel discouraged is really depressing.

Not because I disagree with you, I don't! It's because I fear a gradual brain drain of people who actually love their craft and know how to build things properly. I fear we'll end up with worse software thats simply 'good enough', built a atop a pile of AI slop.

If it's cheaper but with acceptably worse results, I fear this is good enough for a lot of companies.
by mg | 2025-10-08 06:38:26+00:00
So $400B per year is currently spent on datacenter buildout?

To see if that is too much or not, we have to put that number in relation to the value those datacenters will create in the future.

If global GDP is $100T and labor is 50% of that, then the current TAM for intelligence is around $50T.

How much of that has to be automated per year to justify $400B of investment? For a 10% ROI it would be around 1%, right? But the datacenters will not be the only cost of generating artificial work. We also need energy, software and robots. So let's say 2%.

So it comes down to the question whether those datacenters built for $400B will automate 2% of global GDP in the foreseeable future.

And there is another option: That the TAM increases. That we use the new possibilities we have to build more products and services. And see global GDP grow. 2% AI driven global GDP growth would also justify the $400B datacenter buildout.

So let's think about a mix: 1% labor automation and 1% GDP growth per year via AI. That would be needed to justify continued spending of $400B per year for the AI buildout.
by RealityVoid | 2025-10-08 06:38:38+00:00
If you mean the HW alone... Still over a day. If you mean the software to go along it, a couple orders of magnitude more.

Even the simplest peripherals can bite back if you are not careful and you don't test the edge cases. AVR's are indeed quite simple, but if you try to build stuff other people will use, things need to be polished.

I actually do embedded engineering. I'm doing it right now! More on the SW side than the PCB design side, and, again, this is quite an exaggeration from your side, saying you could do it in a day.
by NaOH | 2025-10-08 06:38:58+00:00
Related:

It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44284723 - June 2025 (161 comments)

It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27014367 - May 2021 (85 comments)
by angry_octet | 2025-10-08 06:40:48+00:00
- All your fellow citizens keep voting for said welfare state/pension system (which is undoubtedly pro-Boomer and has unsustainably low retirement ages and large benefits).

- The lack of energy security is because the Red/Greens convinced everywhere except France (go Framatome!) to give up nuclear. I wonder why resource rich Russia would push such an outcome...

- Europe needs to spend its savings to get nuclear going again, with a massive construction program for nuclear, solar, hydro, batteries. It also needs battery tech re-capitalisation to keep its car industry viable.

- Leaving won't make it better, it is the same or worse in most places you could go.
by dimatura | 2025-10-08 06:40:52+00:00
Hi, I am currently considering a Lekiwi build but I am intrigued by Mars. Outside of the need for external compute, what issues did you find with SO101 and Kiwi?

Also I am curious about a couple of the parts, if you don't mind sharing - are those wheels the direct drive wheels from waveshare? And what is the RGBD camera? (Fwiw, even if it's hefty the MARS price tag seems fair to me).
by globular-toast | 2025-10-08 06:41:19+00:00
All I've found is the LLM just makes me work more. It's hard to talk about % boost when you're just simply working more hours.

It's like having a faster car with a bigger engine. Big deal. I want a faster car with a smaller engine. My ideal is to actually go home and stop working at the end of the day.

I also don't want to use it for my day job because I'm afraid my brain will atrophy. You don't really need to think when something is already done for you. I don't want to become someone who can only join together LLM output. I don't feel like I'll miss out on anything by not jumping on now, but I do feel like I'll lose something.
by zokier | 2025-10-08 06:41:51+00:00
Not necessarily sqlite, but rocksdb is looking like promising option for foundational storage system. You have things like zenfs which runs rocksdb directly on nvme storage, and then you have lot of higher level systems on top of it like Cephs BlueStore and mysql/maria MyRocks. It is not much of a stretch to imagine whole OS built around it

What is notable here is that it would be both better aligned with how the underlying storage hardware works, and simultaneously also offers more usable interface for applications.

It is pretty apparent that the biggest reason why we commonly use posixy files is inertia rather than them being very good fit for anything these days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocksDB#Integration

https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/zenfs
by davorak | 2025-10-08 06:42:00+00:00
I could not find the indexdb bug on safari that stopped me from using it at work, but I was able to find something from 2021: https://gist.github.com/pesterhazy/4de96193af89a6dd5ce682ce2...

My impression for the last ~10+ years is that you could not depend on index db in safari, not for heavy use cases, and doubly so for ios and there was not a viable alternative whenever I checked.

I would be happy to know that things are looking better for PWAs on ios though if things are now viable.
by jdiez17 | 2025-10-08 06:42:52+00:00
Here you go: https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/themen/sicherheit/extremismus/lin...

Feel free to read the chapter „Linksextremismus“. It talks about various violent Antifa groups and other cases. Keep in mind that the definition of „extreme left“ refers to organizations that want to replace the basic democratic system with communism or anarchy (according to the German constitutional court).

It does not necessarily include „political craziness“ that we may disagree with. The point of these legal descriptions of organizations is not to be used as a political weapon for parties you don’t like. You have to do some significantly malicious stuff to be considered as such.
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-08 06:43:44+00:00
I thought I read it as a quote from Trump in a local ( my country wide newspaper ) media article - my recollection with in the last about 2 weeks. I latched on to it because I thought Trump would be getting high level briefing about this stuff , and he let this number slip .... I've searched for it , but can not find the quote ... If I find it I will post a link.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-10-08 06:44:09+00:00
Good article, but I do think there is one aspect of the story that we don't talk about enough.

It sticks to the world view that SWE are the leafs in the graph. The assembly workers at the assembly line. Though, the author knows this isn't true, as noted in the "Legible assumptions" section.

Software engineerings are managers extending the organizational graph. With code. There are some peculiarities to it, but they are managers. A lot of problems in one domain have an analogous in the other.
by mmmBacon | 2025-10-08 06:44:29+00:00
I run a team. So for me this is like having 2-3 extra people to just do some exploratory work and prototyping. Having actual people to do this is a luxury I don’t have and can’t justify currently.

I can’t just copy-paste what comes out. But I have to say I’m able to get substantially more done as it saves me a lot of grunt work. You do have to learn how to use it like any other tool. I have found that it’s helped me sharpen a lot of my own skills in multiple areas and improved my understanding of systems I’m working on. I am able to learn new things much faster because it has a real-time feedback mechanism.

I can’t speak to your direct report but I’d be concerned about falling behind as a leader if you aren’t using it in the course of your regular work.
Show HN: Self-hosted gateway for video generation APIs (Sora/Runway/Kling)
by testacc14 | 2025-10-08 06:44:46+00:00
Built this to test AI video providers without separate integrations for each. It's a local gateway that uses your API keys to call Sora, Runway, and Kling through one endpoint.

FastAPI backend, React frontend, runs in Docker. Tracks costs and generation history. Mostly generated with Claude Code - I handled provider integrations and architecture, Claude did the rest. MIT licensed because I'm tired of "unified API" services that add markup. You call the providers directly with your keys. Repo: https://github.com/samagra14/mediagateway Interested in feedback on whether the OpenAI-compatible format is actually useful, and which providers to add next.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-08 06:45:31+00:00
Previously:

(13 points, 18 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502533

(37 points, 16 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503617

(20 points, 12 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507449
by nearbuy | 2025-10-08 06:45:39+00:00
Information that requires 12 months to figure out isn't information that's available now.

Say you want to know the 400 trillionth digit of pi. We have all the information needed right now to know how to compute it. But you don't know what the actual digit is yet. The information isn't available and won't be until you set your supercomputer on it for some number of months. Having the information necessary to derive other information isn't the same as having the derived information.

If there is some information about a future stock price that could theoretically be computed after months of work, that's still not information that currently exists, and therefore is not currently reflected in the price. If no investors go to the lengths to get that information, it'll continue to not affect the stock price. It's not violating EMH because it's not information that exists yet.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-08 06:46:02+00:00
Previously:

(13 points, 18 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502533

(37 points, 16 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503617

(20 points, 12 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45507449
by kouru225 | 2025-10-08 06:46:07+00:00
I think this is actually an easy question to answer because you’ve accidentally preselected your demographics.

Imagine this: among primates, there is an even distribution of species of differing levels of intelligence. All the primates who became intelligent have similar evolution paths because intelligence defines their evolution path (opposable thumbs, large heads, standing upright, etc.) Then because they all have similar evolution paths we put all those into the genus “Homo.” Each of species of the genus Homo eventually either breeds with each other or genocides one another until there are only the Homo Sapiens left.

So with an even distribution of intelligence among all primates, it’s logical that, given enough time, all that is left are primates of sufficient intelligence enough to breed with each other or be genocided until there is only one species, or many species of primates who weren’t intelligent enough.

This is my guess (I’m not a biologist or ancient historian or anything)
by wowohwow | 2025-10-08 06:46:10+00:00
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Callbacks to the infrastructure laid out during dotcom bubble, i.e Cisco, and all of the networking infrastructure. Likewise, internal memos at Oracle indicate they're losing money on their hardware. Anecdotal and hand wavy; but there are plenty of signals out there that it won't pay off. I'm not arguing one way or the other, but there are plenty of arguments for it to not succeed in a way that's required to justify the mind boggling growth we've been experiencing.
by emilburzo | 2025-10-08 06:46:35+00:00
+1 here, with the latest Chrome v3 manifest shenanigans, the Pushbullet extension stopped working and the devs said they have no interest in pursuing that (understandable).

I always wanted a dedicated binary anyway, so 1 hour later I got: https://github.com/emilburzo/pushbulleter (10 minutes vibe coding with Claude, 50 minutes reviewing code/small changes, adding CI and so on). And that's just one where I put in the effort of making it open source, as others might benefit, nevermind the many small scripts/tools that I needed just for myself.

So I share the author's sentiments, before I would have considered the "startup cost" too high in an ever busy day to even attempt it. Now after 80% of what I wanted was done for me, the fine tuning didn't feel like much effort.
by tvier | 2025-10-08 06:46:44+00:00
> I'm not. You come to my house, you follow my rules, you come to our country you follow our values, simple

I wish it was this simple, so badly, but that strategy has been tried many times before and it always ends in violence. First off, who is "our"? Is it the majority? That leaves every minority group vulnerable. Is it the most powerful (it usually is)? That leave everyone screwed. It all seems great, until you end up as a target. This is why we base our systems of rights to more universal, and not based on our ethnicity.

For example, some of the historical opinions of my fairly recent ancestors: All Jewish people should be dead; ditto for Homo/Tran-sexual; also the Irish; black people aren't humans; the middle east should be owned by Western Europeans, and if not, designed to minimize the chances of them forming successful nations; same for Africa

Seeing this as bad assumes you think hurting other people is bad, which I do. If you don't agree, then there isn't much to discuss, you are entirely correct withing your framework

> Otherwise if you allow one flavor of imported oppressive culture so you don't ":force yurt values on other people" why not allow domestic oppressive cultures too, like fascism? Why only tolerate imported ones?

Where I'm from being a Nazi is completely legal. We tolerate both. There is still an ongoing discussion about where to draw the line, but the standards are always higher than wearing clothes that you don't like. Germany may not tolerate Nazi's for obvious historical reasons.

I would recommend "They Thought They Were Free" for a more of a look into this. It's an interesting book.

Edit: This is not true, almost all laws are passed to deal with a situation that is already occurring.

> Welcome to the real world where a lot of laws are made to cover things that could happen precisely so that when they do happen, there's a law ready to enforce.
by port11 | 2025-10-08 06:46:47+00:00
This ’technology isn't evil’ tale is as old as time…

Technologies may not seem inherently bad, but it they tend to be used in bad ways, the difference is minimal.

Deepfakes have practically no positive use and plenty of potential for abuse. They're not a neutral technology. They're a negative social outcome from what might be a neutral technology (ML).
by marcosh | 2025-10-08 06:47:44+00:00
Optics are well-known in the real of functional programming for being hard to understand and manage. This is mostly due to complexities in implementation details. Try to take a look at https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens to see what I mean.

The point of the article was to try to explain them in simple terms through a graphical notation, so that they become more accessible and manageable by more people.
by quintussss | 2025-10-08 06:47:54+00:00
An experimental Lisp interpreter written in C++ with a focus on shell scripting. It lets you combine the expressive power of Lisp with the practicality of the Unix shell: you can run commands, capture output, pipe between processes, and still use Lisp syntax for logic and structure. Think of it as writing your shell scripts in Lisp instead of Bash.
by mariusor | 2025-10-08 06:48:00+00:00
That is true, but due to the smaller size and larger number of instances, it's easier to find a place where you won't get randomly banned without an admin taking the time to talk to you about what's wrong. My instance has about 1K active people on it and I've always been able to have a dialogue with the moderators and sysop. When things have gone wrong I had the opportunity to correct them.

I think there's a great value to the "small community" ethos that the fediverse supports much better than bluesky.
by madethemcry | 2025-10-08 06:49:03+00:00
Content wise a nice idea, but I also like the conclusion about how AI made this possible in the first place. The author itself mentions this motivation. AI is undoubtedly perfect for utilities, small (even company internal) tools for personal use where maintainability is secondary as you can ditch the tool or rebuild it quickly.

> Two years ago, I wouldn’t have bothered with the rewrite, let alone creating the script in the first place. The friction was too high. Now, small utility scripts like this are almost free to build.

> That’s the real story. Not the script, but how AI changes the calculus of what’s worth our time.
by tomhow | 2025-10-08 06:49:28+00:00
Can you please stop commenting like this on HN? Snarky swipes like this are clearly against the guidelines, as is using HN for ideological battle.

Looking at your comment history, almost half your comments contain the word "capitalism" or variants of it. HN exists for having curious conversations about interesting topics. It's not the place for repetitively and predictably venting about the economic system or ideology we abhor, whichever one that is for each of us.

Interesting new ideas about economics and the social order are always welcome here. Same-old ones are not.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by throwaway290 | 2025-10-08 06:49:40+00:00
do you live in the same reality as me?

Tons of articles posted here talk about economy topics but not inflation or GDP or unemployment

As to banks, there's a LOT more stuff considered in monetary policy, like domestic consumption/investment, gov spending/taxes, net exports/imports.

populist politics focus on unemployment and inflation but even Trump campaigned on reducing government spending which in fact is bad for unemployment but apparently more important to Americans regardless