MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pessimizer | 2025-10-21 15:23:27+00:00
There is no reduced requirement for human workers. Our infrastructure is crumbling, and we're using as many Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Pakistani, Indian, Mexican, etc. workers as we always have.

The only reason America itself fell into dust is because they couldn't figure out how to ship bridges and high speed rail from China. They were hoping that removing all border controls would be the answer, but people who used to have good paying jobs making and building things got upset.

The Democratic Party strategy to ridicule and censor them into silence seems to have failed miserably, but the Republican strategy of making a huge show out of deporting 30 poverty-stricken refugees while ignoring businesses who employ tens of thousands is working.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-21 15:23:29+00:00
> Yet they're not white enough to be part of "The West".

In many contexts, Mexico and other LatAm countries are included in the Western Civilization grouping. For instance: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/western-c...

Earlier in your comment you say “half the time” while you end with “90% of the time” the phrase “western” is a racist expression, undermining your argument that is already flawed, emotional, and anti-constructive.
by on_the_train | 2025-10-21 15:23:39+00:00
Unless you're on Windows, which comes with a special version of curl that misses some crucial functionality.

I didn't think I've the successfully used curl in my life though. Every time there's confusion about parameters. It's always been was faster to just write a quick python script that uses requests.

Plus the author can be a bit special. One of the most overrated pieces of software on the planet
by ETlol | 2025-10-21 15:23:44+00:00
That ThinkyPad that is selling for over 7000$ and it doesn't even have a GPU makes it really hard for anyone to see that price as justified. Do some of these sellers just have a goal to sell one or two of these for the entirety of the products life cycle and that would be a win in their book? Or is this just then trying to pad the market pri ces to make the less expensive products look more appeealing?
by Retric | 2025-10-21 15:24:06+00:00
Fair use isn’t so easily to determine based on individual criteria, you’re not allowed to copy a full book for personal research but to copy a paragraph is likely fine. Where exactly the line is drawn is what the courts decide after the fact, but let’s photograph everything and send them to someone else to read isn’t likely to qualify for fair use.

Also, he doesn’t need to be the person suing here. The auction house can sue based in part on a copyright breach because that’s not something they had permission to do even without owning the copyright. The idea is to separate fair from unfair competition, if your competitor is using slave labor that’s not something you’re allowed to do. It’s not directly impacting you but the indirect effects from such actions also matter.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-21 15:24:32+00:00
Falcon 9 is a massive success. Raptor is currently the best engine for a first stage (unless there is something I am not aware of), and at least a very good one for an upper stage. The Starship itself is almost operational, being able to deliver dummy payloads into orbit, though it does require some reliability improvement.

SpaceX may not be stellar, but it is definitely out of this world ;)

Elon Musk is just a guy, a key figure for SpaceX, but there are 10000+ other people, including Gwynne Shotwell who most people say is really in charge. In fact, I am not sure if Elon Musk does any actual work at SpaceX and Tesla now.
by superkuh | 2025-10-21 15:25:10+00:00
I wish the FCC would go back to doing their job re: radio interference and unintentional emissions. The entire concept of a computer case 'window' is about equally as anti-social and rude as littering in a public park. But it's so pervasive and socially accepted when I bring it up the only responses I receive are all quite hostile. Even worse are the computer builds that don't have any metal case at all. They're broadcasting that <30 MHz interference from the high speed switching electronics around the world, ruining a shared medium for everyone, and they have no idea.

And really, it's not the consumer's place to be aware of these things. It's the regulators'. And they've dropped the ball.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-10-21 15:25:39+00:00
Generally, the difference between regional dialects is almost all in vowels (sample: 0). This is why SOUNDEX [1] eliminated vowels.

0 - https://www.acelinguist.com/2020/01/the-pin-pen-merger.html

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
by jampekka | 2025-10-21 15:25:51+00:00
> An experienced engineer can look at a waveform in a DAW and identify specific consonants, vowels, specific words, etc quite fluently.

DAWs' rendered waveforms have so little information that such identification is likely impossible even in theory. Telling apart plosives and vowels maybe, but not much more than that.

I work with phoneticians and they can (sometimes) read even words from suitably scaled spectrograms, but that's a lot more information than in waveforms.
by philistine | 2025-10-21 15:26:14+00:00
Reusability is not a bonus like Falcon 9. The whole concept assumes reusability to refuel the lunar lander in Earth orbit since it cannot get to the Moon on its own. It must be refuelled between 10 and 20 times. They won't even say exactly how many times yet. You cannot just yeet that many Starships to get to the Moon once. You must reuse.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-10-21 15:26:23+00:00
Correct me if I’m wrong but you need more than just closed captions. You need precise timing too. I’d think you’d need the text to line up exactly with the audio so when the voice makes an “A” sound the text it aligns with is “A” as well.

So while having the closed captions saves some of the work, there is probably much more needed to get everything lined up.

But I’m absolutely not an expert at all. In fact this is the first I’ve ever even though about it!
by bigyabai | 2025-10-21 15:26:28+00:00
> huge mistake by dismantling their industrial core

You don't understand how economics work. Dismantling America's core industrial base is the only reason your standard-of-living is higher than Europe right now. Reaganomics only works in a world where white collar jobs balloon and America dominates the financial sector. Without this strategy, our postwar workforce is genuinely worthless (see: auto manufacturing, Intel, etc.).

Disassembling the only economic sector America can compete in, to reconstruct an economy we are annihilated in on the global stage, is quite possibly the singular worst macroeconomics suggestion you can possibly make in this scenario. Reinvesting in domestic fabrication is just about the lowest-ROI choice available.
Show HN: I built TicketData – Ticket price trends and data for Sports & Concerts
by kapkapkap | 2025-10-21 15:26:31+00:00
14 years ago, I launched my original version of TicketData via a Show HN. While the public site didn't get traction, the data proved valuable to those in the ticketing industry, and it became a B2B data product that's kept me busy ever since. I'm now relaunching the front-end site as a totally free and public tool for anyone to make smarter decisions when buying tickets for live events.

The re-launched site shows live resale price charts (using data from sites like StubHub, Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, etc) that update as often as every few minutes. You can see price history for the cheapest tickets ("Get In Price"), or for pre-defined zones (like Floor seats), or you can set up your own custom zone across any sections or rows (for example "Floor Center, Rows 1-10"). You can also set alerts for when prices go above or below whatever threshold you set.

Many of the larger events also include a forecast of where prices will go next. Those are based on years of historical data combined with the live data and other inputs (like sales data and a whole bunch of other variables…opponent, day of week, venue capacity, etc) passed through a model built in XGBoost. I'm slowly rolling out the forecast feature to more events as the models get refined and I'm confident in the accuracy for different event types/genres.

In addition to all the data for upcoming events, there are currently about 2.5 years of historical data live on the site. If there is sustained interest, I'll work on getting data all the way back to 2011 loaded in.

Here are a few examples:

[Upcoming Event] Paul McCartney next week: https://www.ticketdata.com/events/12435572

[Past Event] Kansas City Chiefs vs. Las Vegas Raiders (Monday Night) https://www.ticketdata.com/events/1174976

All 8 of Oasis's North American concerts this summer: https://www.ticketdata.com/events/compare?ids=1006457%2C1006...

Or to see your cheapest local shows happening this weekend, click the "Local" + "This Weekend" filters on the homepage: https://www.ticketdata.com/

Feedback appreciated!
by dustingetz | 2025-10-21 15:26:39+00:00
when the bottleneck is communication (coordination costs scale polynomial with number of nodes in the graph), the optimal strategy is to have fewer nodes working harder. If AI makes individual nodes more effective, then in terms of people we’re going to eliminate jobs and concentrate effort. The mean job effort (including the unemployed) may be halftime while the median is 996 and the mode is 0. Whether it works is more of a question of policy and how deflationary the technology is - if energy, water, food, shelter becomes too cheap to meter due to rapid technology advances, then i guess maybe that is how governments stave off revolution and survive? Otherwise - civil unrest, etc
by ben_w | 2025-10-21 15:26:46+00:00
I've always found it a bit perplexing that people think the attempt to scare people is itself merely "hype".

This might just be a "me" error, a typical mind fallacy:

I mean, obviously everyone who thinks it could be part of the hype is necessarily saying that they would try to hype something that way, and obviously Elon Musk specifically tried to do exactly that ("summoning the demon" then funding and pivoting into multiple competing AI companies)…

But to me? I'm interpreting the risk discussions fairly directly, literally, and seriously: the people who are most familiar with what they are doing, have no idea what they're doing, what the risks are, what the side-effects are, how the power dynamics will play out, and everything else. And half of them also think they're in a financial bubble.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-21 15:26:58+00:00
3000 * 5K = 15M per month in salaries. We can argue if 90K is worth it or not. Depends how good the people are. But it's not a lot of money relatively speaking. And 5K is not a lot of salary. We're probably talking 2-3x the amount. And you are also spending on buildings and infrastructure, software licenses for things like Office, Slack, etc.

Not saying every company should blindly buy big laptops for any software developer. But I am saying that penny pinching on their laptops might not be the smartest thing. Save 90K vs. destroy flow state for 3000 people on a daily basis. One of those things could really cost you; it's probably not the 90K. Big companies can be short sighted like that. Big companies incentivize mindless penny pinching like that. Nobody even questions it when it happens.

If I work for myself, I do question these things. IMHO if you are a freelancer or a consultant, having proper equipment to do the job is not optional.
by rirze | 2025-10-21 15:27:09+00:00
> circa mid-nineties

I'm interpreting this as mid-1990s, in which case I very much believe in your technical ability. My dad came over late-1990s and he worked at mid-sized companies ever since. Even then, he and his H1B peers were decently intelligent.

I would caution your defense of today's H1B/L1s/OPT workers; I'd say the quality of Indian engineers in the US has halved every 10 years.

Today's Indian engineers come to the US because they can't enroll in a decent college in India and/or obtain a upper-middle class salary from a job. It is an entirely different mechanism for which people are migrating over. It used to be brain drain, now it is sewage drain.

The H1Bs in the big tech companies are maybe 50/50 technically decent, but everywhere else, they are just taking contracting spots. It is a very corrupt and bloated system that has to go because they are not providing valuable work.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-21 15:27:47+00:00
You are projecting, and everyone can see it. You pretended that I was being rude while you slipped in sarcasm, personal digs, and that condescending “best of luck” as if it made you look polite. It doesn’t. That is not civility. It is passive aggression wrapped in fake courtesy.

You completely dropped the argument and went straight for personal attacks. That is not confidence, it is surrender. You are no longer debating, you are lashing out because you ran out of ideas. You can claim the conversation “wasn’t beyond your depth,” but you abandoned every point the moment you were asked to defend it. Then you tried to flip it by pretending that walking away made you the mature one. It didn’t. It made you the one who couldn’t keep up and needed an exit.

You can dress it up with sarcasm and moral posturing, but that doesn’t change what happened. The moment you shifted from ideas to insults, you showed everyone reading that you had nothing left to stand on. The difference between us is simple: I stayed on topic. You turned it into attitude. And now everyone can see exactly who ran out of substance first.
by flat_zoo | 2025-10-21 15:28:32+00:00
He talked about Pakistani immigrants because they were raping girls and British police did nothing. Maybe "native Brits" are doing the same and getting away with it? Again, you are noticing what you want to see. We can discuss if it's because they are from Pakistan and their culture allows it, or maybe criminals have no nationality and that would be a valid discussion, but bringing skin color here is an obvious distraction.
by namlem | 2025-10-21 15:28:47+00:00
This would be such a dumb move on the government's part. "Lose the new space race" is ridiculous PR-brain. We are not racing to the same goal! China is trying to land on the moon, we are trying to establish a permanent presence. There is no value to merely returning to the moon to say we did it, and Starship is the only vehicle that can plausibly deliver huge quantities of cargo to the lunar surface.
by jayd16 | 2025-10-21 15:29:25+00:00
If we could stack chips, what's the theoretical density there? How thin could the layers actually be?

If a chip were to be stacked as tall as it was wide, are we talking 10x, 100x, 100,000x?

I guess for N stacks you're still paying N chips worth of wafer, and Nx the amount of defects.
Show HN: Tempus is a high accuracy time-series analysis project
by asenzz | 2025-10-21 15:29:45+00:00
Tempus is a project aimed at high accuracy modeling of time series data or regression problems. It implements an improved kernel regression algorithm based on the support vector machine theory by professors Vapnik, Chervonenkis and Lerner but with several improvements such are nested kernels, multilayered weights, massive parallelization and systemic parameter tuning.

Tempus provides several signal decomposition methods and automated feature engineering. This new implementation of SVM allows for using of any statistical model, even itself, as a kernel function. This is done by calculating the ideal kernel matrix which is used as a reference for measuring the kernel function fitness. So far LightGBM, Torch, Path, RBF and Global alignment kernels have been implemented.

Tempus achieves significantly higher accuracy than other competing models even on the most complex data.
by hangonhn | 2025-10-21 15:29:55+00:00
China didn't issue birth certificates until 1996. Because I was born there before 1996, I do not have a birth certificate. In addition, I was also birthed at home instead of a hospital. That said, it's never been a hindrance. My parents managed to obtain Hong Kong permanent residency for all of us and I guess that sort of rooted my birthday and birth place and it's been a continuous line of documentation since then -- green card and finally US passport. I think this was helped by the fact HK probably dealt with this issue a lot during the latter half of the 20th century.
by int08h | 2025-10-21 15:30:19+00:00
I've released version 2.0 of roughenough, a Rust implementation of the draft IETF Roughtime protocol (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ntp-roughtime/). The Roughtime protocol provides cryptographic secure time synchronization with detection of server malfeasance.

Release 2.0.x of roughenough is a rewrite of the implementation to be simpler, more comprehensive, and more performant. The repo has multiple crates that implement:

* Performance-oriented async UDP server * Command-line client with multiple output formats * Multiple backends for secure key management for the server * Clients can (optionally) report malfeasance to a remote server for analysis
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-21 15:31:01+00:00
Or aptitude. Not everyone is suited to work like electrical engineering to build the robots, or software development to make the software for them. Computer Science and Engineering is hard, and there’s a lot of folk that just won’t excel in that type of work.

We’re going to hit a point where we need UBI, and as a society, be OK changing our views on existence and dispel the notion that one has to “earn” their right to exist within society, because the only other alternative is the top few percentage are the only ones that benefit from the automation while everyone else starves to death.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-21 15:31:25+00:00
Unfriendly reminder, both Republicans and Democrats can stop this at any point.

Republicans have 50+ votes in the senate and already passed a bill in the house. All they would need to do is consider re-opening the government as important as appointing a supreme court justice and modify filibuster rules (which only require 50+ votes and they did change for supreme court [1]).

Democrats obviously can just vote for the Republican bill.

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Although personally, I'm fine with Democrats refusing to vote for a bill they had no input on.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#2017:_Cloture_o...
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-10-21 15:31:45+00:00
I think the hype in the sense, 'ChatGPT 5 is already doing PhD level work', 'look it solved this unsolvable thing' - only for those to be immediately shown to be false. To some degree it's the comments about how next year AI will replace mid level engineers at companies like Meta. For sure there is an unknown, but a lot of it seems to be deliberately misleading.
by consumer451 | 2025-10-21 15:31:58+00:00
Interesting reference. I had not heard of him, or that book from 2013. 10B is now projected to be our peak, and at 7B we have so much spare food that we burn it as automotive fuel. And now... we realize that population "collapse" is much more likely to happen than endless growth.

Obviously I have not read the book, but do you think it holds up in 2025?
Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly
by aaronSong | 2025-10-21 15:32:02+00:00
Clink lets you use the coding agents you already pay for (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Z.ai GLM) to build → live-preview → ship apps in an isolated container.

No token purchases, no extra cost for coding. Just link your existing Claude/OpenAI/Gemini account and start building and deploying instantly.

Why we built this:

Claude Code is our go-to for coding, but it lacked preview + deploy capabilities. We didn't want to pay Lovable again just for that.

Different agents excel at different tasks - Claude Code for versatility, Codex for complex work, GLM for speed. We needed one platform to leverage them all.

CLI agents offer more freedom than traditional web builders. We wanted to unlock their full potential with proper dev tooling.

What it does:

- Prompt → Build → Live → Deploy - The fastest path from idea to live website. Deploy for free.

- BYO Subscription - Use your existing plans efficiently (Claude Code $20 = 10x Lovable $25 usage, GLM $3 = 3x Claude Code $20)

DEV Mode (Beta):

- Multi-stack support - Build with Node, Python, Go, Rust and deploy containers to public URLs instantly

- Repo imports - Upgrade and deploy your existing projects across any stack

Links:

- Clink: https://clink.new

- OSS origin (Claudable, ~2.8k): https://github.com/opactorai/Claudable

We'd love any feedback, bug reports, or stack requests - we iterate fast and read every comment.
by Windchaser | 2025-10-21 15:32:08+00:00
We've been in an ice age for millions of years (standard definition of an ice age: there is persistent ice sheets at the poles; on Greenland and Antarctica).

Within ice ages, there are glacials and interglacials. Glacial periods are what normal people think of when they say "ice age"; like when the ice sheets covered Canada and extended down to Chicago/NYC areas.

Without manmade climate change, we'd be slowly sliding back to another glacial period. So in that sense, the warming is welcome, but we're overdoing it and shooting too hard in the opposite direction.
Show HN: Live weather radar wallpaper for Android
by ryandvm | 2025-10-21 15:32:21+00:00
My very small team has built an Android live wallpaper that displays the current NEXRAD weather radar data as your Android phone’s live wallpaper.

The app automatically selects the nearest radar site using coarse location permissions, or you can manually choose a location. Everything is size optimized and only updates when the wallpaper is being viewed to minimize battery footprint.

Interesting technical bits:

- Using the US National Weather Service public radar feed (via public S3 bucket) - Custom radar volume data decoder written in Go and running as AWS Lambdas (triggered by S3 bucket events) - Custom rendering API - Kotlin Android app is <10 MB (no cross-platform bloat)

Available on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.radarlove....

Happy to answer questions about the radar data processing pipeline, infrastructure, or the live wallpaper implementation. Also open to interesting opportunities for collaboration...
by foobiekr | 2025-10-21 15:32:31+00:00
Every single engineer I know who went to Amazon except one lasted under 3 years and to this day, often ten+ years later, they all will mention how much they hated it.

The one exception is an engineer who stopped engineering, switched into product, and transferred to China to hit on the women there.

Some Amazon practices actually sound great to me (short documents, read before the meeting) but so many things just sound needlessly, relentlessly cheap.
by jjk166 | 2025-10-21 15:32:43+00:00
> Because trucking is too easy to get into, companies can't simply raise their rates because other companies will undercut them.

How are they going to undercut them without drivers available to actually do the work?

This narrative is absurd. Per mile domestic truck shipping rates have gone up dramatically in recent years, and are generally quite variable. Trucking profit margins were until quite recently way up, the fall driven by high fuel prices and interest rates (which increase the costs of equipment financing and insurance) and reduced demand.

The truth is trucking is currently going through a recession with freight demand down and empty miles up. Trucking companies most certainly could raise rates and pay pay to attract more drivers; right now they don't want more drivers.
by newyankee | 2025-10-21 15:32:45+00:00
It is even funnier when this argument comes from Canadians, Australians and some New Zealanders as these are some of the more open and shut cases while other countries can be argued to be on some spectrum of foreign vs native depending on the time scales considered.

Generally it is framed to meant that we are the people who captured and built these countries and they belong to our 'culture'