MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fredfsh | 2025-10-10 21:36:10+00:00
> But the technical achievement wasn’t translating into revenue growth, and by last year, with the company at 130 employees and burning through cash, Masad said he had to make a painful decision. “I looked at our burn, and I looked at our progress on our revenue chart, and it just didn’t make any sense. The business wasn’t viable.” Replit cut its headcount by 50%, bringing it down to around 60 to 70 people at its lowest point.

> Plus, Replit has another unusual advantage for a startup: a $350 million war chest. Despite raising $100 million in 2023, the company “hadn’t touched” those funds by the time it raised this latest round, Masad told me. The company is capital efficient by design, though Masad joked that as an entrepreneur who grew up watching his refugee father struggle, “one thing I need to learn is to be less frugal and start spending money.”
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-10 21:36:13+00:00
As far as the cause of autism is inferred, framed, stated or presented in a way that a meaningful cause and effect is reasonably deduced to be an effect of receiving tylenol and/or receiving a circumcision, that information is a lie.

Particularly so when an entire population of actual qualified experts have informed you that your inference, framing, statement and presentation are patently false - and even though you are well informed of the well-established facts of the matter, you continue to advance the false information.

The person who does this is a serial liar.
by dem_bones_ | 2025-10-10 21:36:17+00:00
Did you read the rest of the paragraph prior to the sentence you quoted? Any use of lawful force has to be justified by prevention of the violations described thus:

> Signatories acknowledge that the freedom to debate requires conditions of civility. Civility includes protections against institutional punishment or individual harassment for one’s views. Universities shall neither support nor permit a heckler’s veto through, for example, disruptions, violence, intimidation, or vandalism. Universities shall be responsible for ensuring that they do not knowingly: (1) permit actions by the university, university employees, university students, or individuals external to the university community to delay or disrupt class instruction or disrupt libraries or other traditional study locations; (2) allow demonstrators to heckle or accost individual students or groups of students; or (3) allow obstruction of access to parts of campus based on students’ race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion.

Misbehaving children need to dealt with too, within the bounds of what is allowed by law. Otherwise, what, you want a loophole for them to get away with all of the above?
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-10 21:36:34+00:00
Language models have limited use in many well established domains like the humanities, literature, and art. The reason "AI" isn't being used to build, "the future we always wanted" is that even before LLMs innovation and incremental improvement weren't, "hard;" it takes a significant financial infrastructure to market products and create, "new, better norms" and given that software has moved from, "sell people useful tools and support" to, "collect and sell massive amounts of data; engage in behavior modification" there's no real reason to create better tools even if Claude can exponentially reduce development costs and time to working prototypes. We're living beyond the scope of market capitalism. We now live in pre-technofeudalism so all non-marginal gains are going serve the oligarch's potential for rent-collection. They aren't for you and I.

Real innovation looks like this: https://worrydream.com/ and https://archive.org/details/humaneinterfacen00rask and https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/papers/scanned/Doug_Engel...
by badlogic | 2025-10-10 21:36:55+00:00
I love this! Not just because I also grew up in the 90ies and like your music choice :)

As we drown in media and slop, I think it's super important to teach kids how to be selective, develop taste. And I too found that physical connection does help with that.

Great project and execution. It would be great if you could also introduce a social aspect, i.e. kids sharing/swapping cards.

(Did something similar for our then 3yo, since it's one of a kind, the social aspect is kinda not there. Yet! https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-04-20-boxie/)
by Aurornis | 2025-10-10 21:37:29+00:00
> Regarding dependency, I don't take any when Im traveling/on vacation, and have never felt the need to use it then.

> Any desire comes from wanting to continue the alertness once the caffeine starts to wear off.

Anecdotally, this sounds a lot like two of my friends (married couple) who used similar amounts of nicotine gum years ago.

For years they said the same thing: That they didn't go into withdrawals on vacation and that they weren't addicted to the gum, they just wanted to feel awake.

Their experience changed when they decided to quit for a while. As they discovered, actually quitting for an extended period of time was a lot harder than they thought it would be.

They were very much in the "I can quit whenever I want" mindset because they could skip it on vacations, but as they discovered their cravings were intense when they tried to go without the gum during their normal weekly routine.

They finally tapered down with the lower doses and splitting gum over a long period of time.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-10 21:37:29+00:00
Because China has a greater growth of productivity and also less costs.

China has cultivated a culture of excellence in engineering, especially in manufacturing, which outclasses everything the US has. The greater productivity gains will happen where the best engineering talent is, China. That China has cost advantages only make an US attempt at competition more ridiculous.

China is already the best in the world at making most things. The idea of overcoming that by just increasing productivity a bit is absurd.
by noduerme | 2025-10-10 21:37:30+00:00
Thanks for the tips! I haven't normally redrawn as aggressively as you suggest. I'm excited to try all these strategies in practice, and it's enlightening as well to hear your thought process.

The secret level plays in endless mode. On the home screen of the game, tap the white arrow in the upper left corner to go to the credits page. Then return to the home screen and go to the credits page again. The second time there will be a sort of gear looking design next to the credits. Tap on that.

I don't know if there's a further easter egg to solving it but maybe you'll figure it out ;)
by deepfriedchokes | 2025-10-10 21:37:41+00:00
From an article last month linked in the above press release:

“Toyota’s all-solid-state EV battery plans officially gained approval from Japan’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (METI). The certification gives Toyota the green light to develop and build next-gen EV batteries as part of Japan’s plans to boost domestic supply.”

Seems like it’s more legit this time.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-10 21:37:50+00:00
Actually, gallium has replaced boron as a dopant for Si PV cells, since it avoids an annoying kind of light-induced efficiency degradation that boron is subject to. I don't believe gallium is significantly toxic, and certainly not at the amounts used as a dopant.

The big heavy metal issue for PV has been lead for contact to the backing sheet, but this isn't an issue if you go with bifacial modules (no backing sheet).
by evanjrowley | 2025-10-10 21:37:57+00:00
I've used it with the Coral EdgeTPU and Hailo. These have worked very well. What hasn't worked the greatest is the video transcoding, but that's mostly my fault.

The first mistake was thinking that the Raspberri Pi would be suitable for this. The Raspberry Pi 5 seems like a good choice, but unfortunately, it lacks video encoding. The Raspberry Pi 4 has both encoding and decoding, but no PCIe interface for the EdgeTPU and Hailo. It is possible to use the USB EdgeTPU, but anything more than a few camera streams will not go well with the Raspberry Pi.

My results with an Intel N100 have been much better, but I also made another mistake. I had issues where some videos were not recorded, and I think this has to do with me not using small video sizes for monitoring vs. larger ones for recording. Everything was large, and that's probably why the N100 couldn't keep up with 5 cameras. I can't confirm it because that system's disk died and it hasn't yet been restored.

I'm interested to try Frigate with OpenVINO on the Intel Arc GPU. I have a Minisform MS-01 that should be able to transcode more camera streams. It will be interesting to see how the stronger iGPU fares vs. the Coral EdgeTPU.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-10 21:38:19+00:00
To reduce the amount of allocation instead of:

struct parsed_data * = parse (...); struct process_data * = process (..., parsed_data); struct foo_data * = do_foo (..., process_data);

you can do

parse (...) { ... process (...); ... } process (...) { ... do_foo (...); ... }

It sounds like violating separation of concerns at first, but it has the benefit, that you can easily do procession and parsing in parallel, and all the data can become readonly. Also I was impressed when I looked at a call graph of this, since this essentially becomes the documentation of the whole program.
by nomel | 2025-10-10 21:38:24+00:00
Author was irrelevant in my reply. I was responding to the context. And come on now, consensus doesn't define correctness.

"Teach me something that I don't know already, about any topic."

"Tell us about a time you successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage"

This should not surprise you, but those are perfectly fine. These are very similar to the examples given to us for the appropriate/professional way to ask.

That's a good recommendation for the original commenter, on how to reword their question. They're not direct probes into personal time. I should have included something like that in my original reply.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-10 21:38:39+00:00
> Well, it's the rich's money, dedicated to replacing as many people as possible in the Great war on labor.

A lot of "the rich's" money is actually backed by the pension funds, 401k and similar investment vehicles.

That's the dirty secret in most of today's world. A lot of ultra-large companies would absolutely deserve getting broken up just for being way too powerful, the problem is any such attempts would send the stonk markets and, with them, people's pensions tanking.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-10 21:38:42+00:00
Are you sure you property clean up the blood stains of the call girls you murdered in your basement?

And what I mean by that is what evidence are either of us bringing that our claims are true?

Therefore I bring that I have no evidence at all about my claim above, and seeming you're in the same boat.

This said the website above lists

>I am not paid by any company for any opinion I post on Stratechery or in any public forum, including podcasts and Twitter.

>I do not hold individual stocks in any company I write about. I do hold various 401k and IRA accounts that invest in a wide-ranging basket of stocks, over which I have no control.

>I occasionally agree to speaking engagements for both public and private events, but not for companies I cover on Stratechery. Compensation will vary based on the nature of the customer and event, as well as the topic. I do not do any consulting at this time.

So you tell me.

>I pay for all of my own travel and expenses when I attend company events.
by altairprime | 2025-10-10 21:39:10+00:00
Which of your products do you view as most likely to have led to the termination?

I don’t mean, which do you agree or consider just cause for leading to it. But as the operator of them, you are best positioned to estimate which one(s) a risk-avoidant corporation would be most likely reacting to, and knowing more about your actual circumstances would be valuable anecdata for others trying to help (as well as those reconsidering Vercel!).
by jychang | 2025-10-10 21:39:14+00:00
Participation by the general public is an important part of prediction markets! That's the entire point of the wisdom of the crowd. Before an insider tilts the market in one direction, in the absence of much insider information, prediction market advocates point out that the prediction market will still capture information value that you can't glean from just one source.

If you discourage public participation in prediction markets "oh I will just lose my money to an insider a few hours or days before the final result, so why bother", then the end result is that nobody participates until an insider makes a big bet. Then the market is worthless until the insiders jump in. Is that really what prediction market advocates want?

The other point is that:

> Prediction markets don't provide capital for productive businesses

Is not true. There's more than just capital in terms of cash. There's human capital (employees), brand value... and importantly, information. Which is what prediction markets intend to do in the future: become an information value source for productive businesses.

Money isn't the only unit of value.

Allowing insider trading seems like a nearsighted way to increase volume for prediction markets, at the cost of long term value.
by zb3 | 2025-10-10 21:40:47+00:00
Note that Google doesn't allow you to install your distro of choice there - it's only the debian OS prepared by them.. maybe today you'll have root access inside that VM, but tomorrow you might not..

And of course to run a VM (if you wanted to make a competing app for example) you need a special system permission which you can't get without your device losing "integrity" status.
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-10 21:41:12+00:00
I'm going to laugh and shit my pants in that or some order when we realize the models that produced ALL the code has sleeper protocols built into the code that's now maintained by AI agents that might also be infected with sleeper protocols. Then later when 50 messages on Claude costs 2,500$ every company in the world is either going to experience exponential cost increases or spend an exponentially large amount of capital hiring and re-hiring engineers to, "un-AI'ify" the codebase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL22URoMZjo
by 9rx | 2025-10-10 21:41:35+00:00
> Given enough data, they can figure out what it means

Right, whereas something that isn't backwards compatible couldn't be figured out no matter how much data is given. Consider this line of Python:

print(5 / 2)

There is no way you can know what the output should be. That is, unless we introduce synthetic context (i.e. a version number). Absent synthetic context we can reasonably assume that natural context is sufficient, and where natural context is sufficient, backwards compatibility is present.

> What we can readily make use of are mathematical results from long ago.

To some degree, but mostly we've translated the old notation into modern notation for the sake of familiarity. And certainly a lot of programming that gets done is exactly that: Rewriting the exact same functionality in something more familiar.

But like mathematics, while there may have been a lot of churn in the olden days when nothing existed before it and everyone was trying to figure out what works, programming notation has largely settled on what is familiar with some reasonable stability and no doubt will only continue to find even greater stability and it matures in kind.
by noduerme | 2025-10-10 21:42:57+00:00
Well, I don't usually ask for help and I don't want solutions handed to me, but getting another player's thought process doesn't seem like cheating. I suppose it depends on whether there's one trick to always solving the puzzle, in which case learning the solution without solving it yourself ruins the fun, or whether it's a game that you can always keep improving at and never completely be perfect at (like Mini Metro, which everyone loses eventually, or Poker, or chess, etc) where sometimes learning from others' strategies helps you level up and become familiar with concepts that unlock further skills and open up new questions as well.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-10 21:43:04+00:00
The correct strategy would have been to basically within 10 years of the release of the insight and the Prius, to mandate hybrid electric vehicles for all consumer vehicles, and 20 years after they, phevs.

You may be technically right because our policy is idiotic, and the chances of this happening unde the bush administration was zero.

But don't pretend this is some optimal engineering formula you've reduced in an economic journal.
by angry_octet | 2025-10-10 21:43:20+00:00
Your post is really using alternative facts.

Trump's deportation numbers, despite being wildly disrespectful of the Courts and lacking legality, are way down from Biden and Obama. Instead he's arresting and harassing citizens and people with legal status based on their ethnicity.

Trump is pushing to deport people fleeing authoritarian dictators and war zones, and stripping resources from counter narcotics and people smuggling operations. People smuggling is actually increasing and communities will no longer co-operate with police, leading to increased gang activity. This suits Trump perfectly.
by ericbarrett | 2025-10-10 21:43:37+00:00
> Using modern techniques like higher order methods, scatter-gather arrays (similar to map-reduce), passing by value via copy-on-write, etc, code can be written that works like piping data between unix executables. Everything becomes a spreadsheet basically.

I have built a decent amount of multithreaded and distributed systems. I agree in principle with everything you wrote in that paragraph. In practice, I find such techniques add a lot of unstable overhead in the processing phase as memory is copied, and again while the results are merged, conflicts resolved, etc. They also lock you into a certain kind of architecture where global state is periodically synchronized. So IMO the performance of these things is highly workload-dependent; for some, it is barely an improvement over serialized, imperative code, and adds a lot of cognitive overhead. For others, it is the obvious and correct choice, and pays huge dividends.

Mostly I find the benefit to be organizational, by providing clear interfaces between system components, which is handy for things developed by teams. But as you said, it requires developers to understand the theory of operation, and it is not junior stuff.

Completely agree that we could use better language & compiler support for such things.
by lubujackson | 2025-10-10 21:44:05+00:00
Luckily I never got rid of my old CDs. They have been sitting in a cabinet for decades and last Xmas I got my son a portable CD player for $35. They have been exploring all kinds of my old music, which is awesome.

I see it in your photos here - Dookie by Green Day is a big hit with my boys!
by aljgz | 2025-10-10 21:44:49+00:00
I Second avoiding Samsung. I had an LG, had to let it go to my ex, and got a Samsung because the rtings said it has a better color space coverage. The quality in the out of box experience is day and night. Samsung does every trick to take you to the homepage to show you ads. Even when using as a monitor, will analyse your content and phone home to use in showing you more "relevant" ads. I disconnected it from the rest of the world completely. If I could sell it for 70% of the price, I would, and would get an LG again.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-10 21:44:58+00:00
China built up a world class EV industry in about a decade. The US only has a car industry because it bans competition.

Almost every single consumer product is made in China. Almost no consumer products are made in China.

Mechanical engineering, especially manufacturing, has been totally overshadowed in the US by Software, as it is a low demand skill since no company is manufacturing in the US. China has a workforce of some of the best engineers in the entire world, which continue to drive down prices in all markets.
by HiPhish | 2025-10-10 21:45:03+00:00
> Not sure why the community is being so hostile

I cannot speak for other people, but here is where I'm coming from:

- There is no mention of Pro on the home page, I only found out about Pro after flipping through the documentation. This comes off as sleazy, like "Look at our cool open-source project", and then after they have you hooked they go "oh, if you want all all of it you gotta get Pro". - Pro is locking genuine features, not just support, video tutorials or code examples. - It is vendor lock-in, if you want to rely on any Pro feature you are now at the mercy of the maintainers. - What make the vendor lock-in particularly problematic is the fact that without Datastar your website will not work. Sure, it does suck if your CI service, test platform or whatever does not work, but as long as you can compile and deploy the code you will survive, even if you have to do it by hand. Not so with a library. - There are no examples of what your are buying. At least with the non-Pro features you can try them out for free without any commitment, but when it comes to Pro you are just taking a blind guess as to whether any of them are what you want. Compare that to the Pro examples Alpine has[1], where you can play around with them in the browser. - I don't know if you get source code, but even if you do you cannot share your improvements with anyone.

Note that I never mentioned the price. The value will vary from person to person, for some it will be unaffordable, for others it will be a great deal (e.g. freelancers who will make the money back within one gig). I got my employer to sponsor Alpine a year ago and they have given more to Alpine than what Datastar are charging for Pro.

For reference, two projects which have non-objectionable Pro versions are Alpine.js[2] and React Flow[3]. React flow even have a link to their Pro page right on the home page.

[1] https://alpinejs.dev/components [2] https://alpinejs.dev/components [3] https://reactflow.dev/pro
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-10-10 21:45:23+00:00
We have a record player and some vinyl records in the house. My three-year-old is starting to like them. Today, he even was holding the record carefully by the sides. Made me such a proud dad, haha.

My 1-year-old, however is pretty monstrous to the records. We have some little kid vinyl that I got for cheap off a friend, and we placed those within his reach. He thinks they're interesting, but grabs the record or sleeve and bends them a lot. It's whatever, it's fine. But I did make it a point recently to move my favorite records to another room for the time being :)
by igorpcosta | 2025-10-10 21:45:46+00:00
Very interest @asdev, I love this kind of simple straight to the point UI, Would you love to join forces on https://github.com/autohandai/commander

It's not fully functional now as we're building this in the open. Fully supports the 3 major ones, Codex, Claude, Gemini. But I'm also working on a version that doesn't use git worktree, some enterprise folks don't like it. So we're solving this by adding an isolated environment, similar to what others are trying to establish.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-10 21:47:38+00:00
One thing I think we need to do is intentionally trigger algae or jellyfish blooms in low biodiversity ocean deserts. Usually they're thought of as a bad thing but they could be done in the right way to be significantly carbon negative.

A bloom sucks a lot of carbon out of the atmosphere to make biomass which then dies and sinks to the bottom of the ocean as marine snow and then gets buried fixing the carbon under natural sedimentation. Finding places we can make this happen with minimal biome impact and minimal leverage needed to trigger (some missing nutrient which is cheap and readily available)