MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Krssst | 2025-10-11 04:22:51+00:00
Except that by letting the market burn all available fossil fuels we'll get the worst possible case of climate change. And markets aren't known for thinking long-term; by the time we're going to be lacking fuels it will be a bit late to massively build nuclear power plants that takes years to build, massively install renewable and build / install massive storage, or adjust the entire world to less predictable electricity generation if using renewables without massive storage.

France has been doing well with electricity, thanks to central planning that pushed for nuclear. The problem is bad planning, regardless of whether it's public sector or private sector.
by hellotheretoday | 2025-10-11 04:23:05+00:00
At least on the cx (I don’t see a point in upgrading for years) if you root webos you can redefine buttons on the remote. It’s great because I was getting infuriated by accidentally starting streaming apps that I never use and the cell phone apps as a remote alternative are utter trash from a usability standpoint.

I just can’t understand why there is a need for a remote app to do anything besides start to a tv remote. Well, I can, the poison apple of advertising as an additional revenue stream, but it’s still infuriating. I have an older Roku TV and that app has progressively gotten worse. it used to just be ideal, start, auto connect to the last connected tv, and immediately go to the remote. Now it’s a bunch of promotional content by default and you have to tab over to the remote. LGs is far more obnoxious and difficult to navigate. Absolutely inexcusable for displays that can cost $2500+
by gh02t | 2025-10-11 04:23:25+00:00
Its relevant, however, that the Bluepill and ESP8266 cores for Arduino were originally independent reimplementations by third party hobbyists, not made by Arduino. And Espressif themselves have always developed the ESP32 Arduino library implementation. They weren't completely freeloading off Arduino's work, and Arduino (the company and the ecosystem) heavily benefit from contributors of all sorts. Particularly in the case of Arduino and Espressif, they have been successful together.
by srboyd | 2025-10-11 04:24:00+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been a solo developer for most of my side projects, and I’ve spent too much time wrestling with backlogs that feel like overhead rather than help. Tools like Jira or Linear are great for teams with PMs and sprint rituals, but they don’t fit how solo developers actually work.

So I built OpenBacklog, a lightweight, AI-assisted backlog manager designed specifically for solo developers. It integrates directly with Claude Code through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), keeping product planning and implementation in sync.

GitHub: https://github.com/samboyd/OpenBacklog

Why I built it

In larger teams, I’ve seen backlogs turn into graveyards of half-finished tickets and lost ideas. As a solo developer, I wanted a system that actually helps plan, manage dependencies, and understand progress over time, not just record it.

LLMs make that possible. OpenBacklog uses them to connect related work, summarize progress, and maintain a sense of direction, what’s done, what’s next, and why it matters. It’s about long-term product thinking, not just task tracking.

It’s open source, simple to self-audit, and priced transparently: $7/month, which includes $7 in AI credit, with any extra usage billed at-cost (roughly OpenAI/Anthropic API rates).

Would love feedback from anyone who’s building solo or frustrated with traditional backlog tools. What would make this genuinely useful for you?

Sam
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-11 04:24:57+00:00
It depends what you intend to do with the parsed data, and where the input comes from and where the output will be going to. There are situations that allocations can be reduced or avoided, but that is not all of them. (In some cases, you do not need full parsing, e.g. to split an array, you can check if it is a string or not and the nesting level, and then find the commas outside of any arrays other than the first one, to be split.) (If the input is in memory, then you can also consider if you can modify that memory for parsing, which is sometimes suitable but sometimes not.)

However, for many applications, it will be better to use a binary format (or in some cases, a different text format) rather than JSON or XML.

(For the PostScript binary format, there is no escaping, and the structure does not need to be parsed and converted ahead of time; items in an array are consecutive and fixed size, and data it references (strings and other arrays) is given by an offset, so you can avoid most of the parsing. However, note that key/value lists in PostScript binary format is nonstandard (even though PostScript does have that type, it does not have a standard representation in the binary object format), and that PostScript has a better string type than JavaScript but a worse numeric type than JavaScript.)
by user_7832 | 2025-10-11 04:25:19+00:00
> One other great thing that Rebble did was in 2017 - they archived and started hosting a copy of the Pebble Appstore, before the servers were shut down. New apps uploaded by developers since 2017 have also been popping up!

Aah, is this how all previous apps were saved and are now available again? That's pretty neat if so!
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 04:25:19+00:00
> I can distrust Google's Play Services and firmware while also distrusting Apple's entire OS for exactly the same reasons.

"exactly the same reasons" undercuts your entire argument

Android and iOS are more dissimilar than Windows and macOS. You need to be more aware of the moving parts if you wish to compare them or have a distrust based in fact.

> The point of my whole combative comment chain is to snap you out of the ludicrous fantasy that your personal politics will triumph over the economy or sitting administration.

You have failed at your stated goal, as your comment has not changed my opinion. Perhaps if you tried a non-combative, more-informed approach on your next reply you can sway someone's opinion to be closer to your own.

> It's simple economics.

Three wordy paragraphs with a trite ending claiming you've made a simple argument anywhere here.
by collingreen | 2025-10-11 04:25:39+00:00
Uber had to break a lot of laws and grease a lot of palms to do what they did and they still lose mountains of investor money every quarter (almost every? When they aren't liquidating regional divisions and calling those wins).

I don't think we want a system together where the way to make it work is to cheat and increase corruption. Maybe there are better examples of good ol' fashioned honest companies just plan ol' out competing entrenched incumbents without cheating or lying or hurting the public.
by ebbi | 2025-10-11 04:26:54+00:00
decreased usable space is definitely my biggest gripe, especially on Tahoe.

I converted a 2019 5k iMac to work as an external display a few years ago, and the extra screen real estate was a massive QoL improvement. But with Tahoe, it feels like I'm back on a smaller res monitor with the window chrome taking up a lot more space (I live in Safari and it feels massively different on here, especially with the larger tab bar).
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 04:28:54+00:00
> I'm not sure I have a healthy enough fear of death.

You seem to have a very healthy fear of other things, like drivers or scooters running you over, and media buttons on computers launching life-altering software. I'm betting your fear of death might not be healthy, but possibly unhealthy in the sense you're spending your life worrying about things that... well, likely aren't gonna happen to you.

Left right left and all that.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 04:30:25+00:00
> "you provided a link I asked for that unambiguously proved my repeated statements completely incorrect, so I'll be signing off now but I wanted to reply and let you know I'm still gonna think I'm right even though operating a vehicle on the roadway with out a license plate is obviously against the rules of the road"

It's fascinating to see the mental flips to ignore information when it doesn't fit your own opinion.
by olyjohn | 2025-10-11 04:30:37+00:00
The community college I used to work at made its bread and butter from foreign students. Super mega rich parents sent their kids there. Many of them drove expensive cars. Community colleges in the US are actually highly regarded in a lot of places overseas, believe it or not. And this wasn't in some big city either. It was in kind of a town that isn't very well known for being a safe place to walk around at night.
by ajuc | 2025-10-11 04:31:12+00:00
> But let me return to Thiel’s list of possible apocalypses: artificial intelligence, climate change, bioweapons, nuclear war, fertility collapse. The list is unintentionally revealing. Thiel is probably not wrong to say that people are pretty worried about the climate crisis. But the examples of AI, bioweapons and fertility collapse in particular suggest that Thiel has confused the world’s worries for those of a very recherché set of aging tech entrepreneurs he hobnobs with. And the antichrist, too, seems very Silicon Valley-coded. This suggests, I think, that in Thiel’s mind there are two cosmic forces warring over creation itself, and they both consist of Peter and his friends.

If all the problems are caused by unregulated technology, the solution is obvious, isn't it?

Sadly, the whole culture around SV is based on libertarianism, so regulation isn't even considered.
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by Lordarminius | 2025-10-11 04:33:12+00:00
This is a very ignorant take. Americans always want to pin everything on a bogeymen. The largest beneficiary we know of in this liquidation event was an anonymous trader who shorted bitcoin on Hyperliquid just before Trump's tarrif announcement, and made 88M dollars.You think the Chinese did that ? If the Chinese wanted to nuke any market it would be equities.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-11 04:33:24+00:00
Given the enormous number of people paying for AI subscriptions/services, it is very clear the AI market as a whole isn't a bubble.

But given the amount of change, and competition, it is just as obvious that there will be many sub-market bubbles, of varying size, with unpredictable thresholds, timing and resolution.

And large companies, tech and non-tech (they all depend on information tech), will burn fortunes defensively. Which, if understood as a hedge isn't a bubble.

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For now, real demand for higher quality AI is insane. What will be interesting will be the dynamics as it passes the "average" person. (That will appear to happen at different times to different people, because these models are not ever going to be "just like us".)

I can imagine AI getting smarter fast enough to overshoot contemporary needs or ability to leverage. Needs and new leverage adoption are limited in rate of change by legal, political, social, economic, and adjacent/supporting tech adaptation rates. Any overshoot would completely commodify AI for as long as it took for use to catch up with potential.

That would resulting a temporary but still market-wide AI bubble burst. When nobody (or only a small minority) needs the best AI, and open source and low margin models will clean the clocks of high investment burning overshooters.

It is easy to underestimate how many small, unimportant, irrelevant, independent and easy adaptations that a new tech needs to deliver very different kinds of value, that are actually huge, important, inherent and non-obvious adaptations.

An analogy: Give a bright adaptable 10x (relative return/time vs. the norm) developer a billion dollars. See how long it takes them to re-orient themselves to their new scale and challenges, and get even 2x the returns on their new wealth relative to the norm. They may do much worse than 1x.

Achieving superintelligence "too fast" would have a similar effect. It will take almost every actor more time to adjust than we think. And many capable and historically successful enterprises, including some at the forefront of AI, will die of adaptation-overload shock.

From that viewpoint, OpenAI looks like they are doing the right things. Because they are going as vertical as they can, they will be confronting new-value-proposition frictions much earlier than others might. That is a very wise move given all the uncertainties. (Besides the obvious motivation of wanting it all.)
by kelthuzad | 2025-10-11 04:34:10+00:00
>It's irritating that it powers-on many times to the wall art display function versus just being a TV.

I personally love the Art Mode, but while browsing the service menu I've noticed that you can permanently disable it. You can make the secret menu appear by pressing some special combination or by pressing 2 buttons on the service remote[0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/AA81-00243A-Replaced-Service-Control-...
by jamiequint | 2025-10-11 04:38:44+00:00
The author clearly hates Thiel and spends most of the essay mocking Thiel and his ideas without actually engaging with the ideas. The author’s essay is itself meandering, dense with digressions and snide parentheticals. He faults Thiel for grandstanding and over-referencing but indulges in the same. Waste of time.
by hopelite | 2025-10-11 04:38:52+00:00
No. I just don’t care for America “liberating” other people in direct violation of the founding principles of America before it was overtaken by all manner of parasitic foreign vultures that want to commandeer America for their own little ethic agendas and priorities that expose all of them as not actually being American, regardless of what the paperwork says. You can’t be made American when America exists in name only anymore.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-10-11 04:38:57+00:00
Yeah. That was really presicent :-) I especially liked the scene where the main protagonist commuted to work from his nice gated community far out there into downtown, and from the inside it looked all nice and park-like along the highway. Then it zoomed out, like in a video game. Turns out it was all vr-like projection. Slums! Nothing but slums :-)

OTOH why referring to something almost nobody knows, when it's basically the same shit in 'The Expanse" for most of the people on earth? They even have worthless UBI and free meals, and it's an absolute shithole in spite of that.
by hoqqanen | 2025-10-11 04:39:50+00:00
I loved that handheld as a kid! I was discovering how powerful vibecoding was last year and used this exact game to show some friends https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVLpVfUWDkdgImLo45VDtroB-EZ...

One other variant that I've made in the past is cells have N states which increment and cycle mod N.
by rhinoceraptor | 2025-10-11 04:40:29+00:00
If your inkjet printer has the right tray, you can buy printable CD-Rs for about 25 cents a piece in bulk. And somewhat unrelated, I've also been printing out a lot more of the photos I take.

I got a Canon PRO-100 printer for $25 off of Facebook marketplace, they practically gave them away with higher end DSLRs so they're easy to get second hand, and a set of generic ink cartridges is about $15. With generic ink and generic photo paper, you can do a 13x19 prints for about 50 cents each. It's not archival grade printing, but it's pretty good and affordable.
by thisisit | 2025-10-11 04:40:55+00:00
If you go back to the starting years of Tesla you could make the same case. They weren’t straight up lying to investors.

Not only they launched viral products and Tesla Autopilot but their mission was to produce a full self driving car and capture a huge chunk of the auto market so their TAM was pretty large. You can read some early HN posts to see the amount of hype.

A casual observer was still pumped about Tesla lowering costs and delivering full automated driving in couple of years. One could say they were being overly optimistic. It is only when years passed by and tech didn’t materialise that now we say that they lied to investors.

I think same case can be made for OpenAI. They might hit a plateau on their advancement but continue to make overly optimistic projections.
by geluso | 2025-10-11 04:42:12+00:00
Awesome album picks. Odelay looks especially great on your card.

I made something like this for TV shows and movies using floppy disks. Each floppy has a text file with filepaths of videos on a hard drive. When the floppy is inserted a bash script detects it and plays a random video from the text file on the floppy.

I like the physicality of systems like this. It is much more satisfying to to flick through physical items than to scroll through a digital list of things.

You've got great artwork. I need to up the artwork on my floppys!

There's a demo video in my repo: https://github.com/geluso/floppy-vision
by sonotathrowaway | 2025-10-11 04:42:33+00:00
Can you let Obama know Libya wasn't his fault and he bears absolutely no responsibility? He seems to be living in that alternate reality - you'd think he would be a better judge of what reality existed, but alas not everyone is as observant as you. Surely the US cannot be held responsible for any action of NATO, they have no relation with that organization at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/barack-obama...

While you're there you should also let Hilary Clinton know that she wasn't a war hawk either, and the no-fly zone just spontaneously appeared with no US involvement at all.
by Nursie | 2025-10-11 04:43:59+00:00
It's an interesting toy, but I wonder if this isn't someone trying to hold back the tides of modernity by making their kids appreciate music the way they did.

AFAICT most of the old musical tribes we used to arrange ourselves into are a bit of a thing of the past (punks/goths/greebos/grunge/indie kids/ravers/etc), and kids don't build their identities around music taste any more, because music is no longer so much of a scarce commodity.

Sometimes things just change...

That said, as a fun tech project, definitely cool.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-11 04:44:38+00:00
> Can someone here on hn with more in deepth knowelege about ZFS commenting on why it is superior to EXT4 for example for file storage? Does each dir handle more children for example?

I'll tell you why I use it: Built-in compression, and data checksums (so it can catch and potentially correct corruption). Both are extra useful on storage arrays.

> Last time I read here HN ZFS still seem have edge case bugs. Has it matured now?

The only significant bugs I've heard of in a long time are with encryption. Still not ideal, but not a show-stopper.

> Why don't distro such as debian etc just ship ZFS as the default instead of ext4?

(The following is an oversimplification; I'm not a lawyer, so take with grain of salt.) There is, or at least may be, a licensing conflict between ZFS under the CDDL and Linux under the GPLv2. Both good open source licenses, but it is at best unclear that it's legal to distribute binaries that mix code under the two licenses. This makes it at best really messy to distribute a Linux distro using ZFS. (The generally accepted solution is to compile on-device, since the problem only happens with binaries.)
by b112 | 2025-10-11 04:45:14+00:00
I'll add this back in, as the other poster shows [dead] after their post for some reason:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/hacking-group-claims-theft...

I wonder if the point is distraction. That's a fairly big hack, but now the news cycle re: salesforce is probably discussing this political story.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-11 04:47:05+00:00
Rich Sutton, the guy behind both "reinforcement learning" & "the Bitter Lesson", muses that Tech needs to understand the Bitter Lesson better:

https://youtu.be/QMGy6WY2hlM

Longer analysis:

https://youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?t=47m28s

To (try and) summarize those in the context of TFA: builders need to distinguish between policy optimisations and program optimisations

I guess a related question to ask (important for both startups and Big Tech) might be: "should one focus on doing things that don't scale?"
by cooljoseph | 2025-10-11 04:47:13+00:00
This sounds somewhat like a normalizing flow from a discrete space to a continuous space. I think there's a way you can rewrite your DDN layer as a normalizing flow which avoids the whole split and prune method.

1. Replace the DDN layer with a flow between images and a latent variable. During training, compute in the direction image -> latent. During inference, compute in the direction latent -> image. 2. For your discrete options 1, ..., k, have trainable latent variables z_1, ..., z_k. This is a "code book".

Training looks like the following: Start with an image and run a flow from the image to the latent space (with conditioning, etc.). Find the closest option z_i, and compute the L2 loss between z_i and your flowed latent variable. Additionally, add a loss corresponding to the log determinant of the Jacobian of the flow. This second loss is the way a normalizing flow avoids mode collapse. Finally, I think you should divide the resulting gradient by the softmax of the negative L2 losses for all the latent variables. This gradient division is done for the same reason as dividing the gradient when training a mixture-of-experts model.

During inference, choose any latent variable z_i and flow from that to a generated image.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-11 04:49:16+00:00
> The problems come from regulation itself.

The problems also come from improperly regulated businesses, operating in the 3rd stage of encrapification where they stifle innovation that threaten their *opoly and the choke-hold they have on their captured regulators.

Every ideology and system is fundamentally flawed.

Worse, zealots (of said I/S) compulsively refuse to recognize that their own house needs cleaning. And they not only don't clean, they'll savagely attack anyone who attempts to do the needed cleaning (improve the ideology by addressing it's flaws).

No One Anywhere Will Clean Their Own House is an absolute human constant, right between death and taxes.
by akomtu | 2025-10-11 04:49:32+00:00
> So who or what is the antichrist? Thiel is admirably and uncharacteristically specific on this matter in a scattershot sort of way. The antichrist wants to erect a one-world state, which largely seems to mean any kind of global regulatory regime. Longtime Thiel watchers will recall his preoccupation with sovereignty and seasteading. The antichrist appears to be any force opposing that. The antichrist also is people who are against AI, especially those who seek to regulate it.

Antichrist will need a monopoly on AI to fend off competitors. It's likely he'll also need a rather unusual brain that can be fused with AI in some way. Certainly, no man living today meets the bar.

I'm puzzled by Thiel's role in all this. If he supports this sort of technocratic tyranny, why he's talking about it at all? If he's against it, why is he trying to whitewash AI?