MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by techpression | 2025-10-08 08:19:35+00:00
Weird how Sonnet 3.7 cost the same (when released) as Sonnet 4.5. That is with all those efficiency gains you speak about. 4.5 is even more expensive on bigger prompts.

Efficiency doesn’t determine price, companies does. Efficiencies tend to give more returns, not lower prices.

Internet scaled very well, AI hasn’t so far. You can have millions of users on a single machine doing their business, you need a lot of square footage for millions of users working with LLM’s. It’s not even in the same ballpark.

Did we build many single company data centers the scale of manhattan before AI?
by programLyrique | 2025-10-08 08:19:45+00:00
His bio gives a more detailed description of the startup: "after his PhD, Bharath co-founded Computable a startup that built better tools for collaborative dataset management", which seems to not exist anymore.

But he came back to drug discovery:

"Bharath is currently the founder and CEO of Deep Forest Sciences, which is building an AI-powered suite for drug and materials design and discovery."
by alex_duf | 2025-10-08 08:21:02+00:00
yeah recently I needed a script to ingest individual json files into an sqlite db. I could have spent half the day writing, or asked an AI to write it and spend 10 minutes checking the data in the DB is correct.

There are plenty of non critical aspects that can be drastically accelerated, but also plenty of places where I know I don't want to use today's models to do the work.
by tsycho | 2025-10-08 08:21:15+00:00
Any meals/coffee/drinks outside, streaming subscriptions, gaming purchases, shopping, groceries, child activities, home services, mobile, gas + ev charging, home utilities, occasional cleaners, charity, hotels/flights, ubers....and there are probably things that I am missing.

Feels like a lot of work to me to track everything. And it's impossible to ask my partner to do the same.
by onli | 2025-10-08 08:21:23+00:00
The AFD is extreme right in its entirely. It's a political party that wants to deport foreigners, remove the german citizenship from people with a migrational background, and it plans to destroy the democratic political parties - which means toppling democracy. They say so clearly and openly, also calling the other parties "Altparteien".

While the party started with a different background, by now voters and members do know about these majority positions and thus support them.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 08:21:37+00:00
> but also by German intelligence

You may it seem like they operate independently. They do not. This determination (while I subjectively agree) came of a report was released by a failed government's acting minister of internal affairs, on her last day of office. I read it myself and even though I don't like it, it's pretty imprecise and does some pretty heavy straw grasping at times.
by flobosg | 2025-10-08 08:21:52+00:00
> It is very difficult to create new proteins that work for some purpose other than enzymes (antigens, receptor blockers, receptor activators).

It’s not that difficult. Most of the work on de novo protein design has been related to protein or ligand binders and receptors, and successful examples are published frequently. But yes, enzyme design is much more challenging.

> There's absolutely no way to create a completely new synthetic cell without having those machines. (…) but we're very, very, very far from bottom-up building a living cell.

Hence the perspective.
by pbandhoney | 2025-10-08 08:21:55+00:00
Any article that uses 'empower' is automatically in my books bullshit and bad for downstream receivers of the news. This uses it Five times. I can see their strategy; data-center with VMware and now Arduino on the edge, but in the first case unless you have massive budget you're leaving ASAP, and really many Arduino users are precisely in that bracket, so they are 'already left'. Platform.io maybe? What are other OSS alternatives?
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-08 08:22:13+00:00
I can think of a few:

* Surveys (I had the county come in once in my sort-of legal rental appartment when they were legalising them, they needed to make a floor plan and fire safety recommendations)

* Real estate, which already uses 360 degree photo's and simplified 3d floor plan models

* Video games. Very generic usage.

* Virtualised museums, but those would likely need extra work to make all the placards etc readable

* Street View next level, also indoor navigation.
by nearbuy | 2025-10-08 08:22:19+00:00
The landmark paper, "Attention is all you need", that triggered the breakthrough that led to current transformer architecture LLMs, only came out in 2017. Without that breakthrough, they wouldn't exist. And even then, the early models produced gibberish. Better gibberish than older Markov chain text generators, but asking GPT-2 "What is three plus five?" would give some nonsense, non-sequitur answer, that might start with a (incorrect) number if you were lucky. At the time, everyone was wondering if scaling up the model size would improve intelligence or hit a wall. ChatGPT didn't release until 2022.

And you'd need to know back in 2015 that Nvidia specifically would be the big winner from AI. They don't even manufacture their own chips. Intel also designs chips and GPUs, but if you bet on them in 2015, you'd have lost money between then and 2025.
by johncoltrane | 2025-10-08 08:22:27+00:00
You can catch glimpses of that generic Europe in recent American movies filmed in Budapest, Vienna, Paris, or other capitals. In Netflix "local" productions, also, and local TV shows meant for international distribution, where a lot of effort is made to make the setting as universal as possible.

The real life of real people is still very different across the continent (the gradient from Oslo to Athens is striking), but how that reality is presented is important. And it is currently presented in a very polished, generic way.
by graemep | 2025-10-08 08:23:07+00:00
It really ought to be standard that people who already have domains when something like this happens retain them.

It looks like .io will change jurisdiction. Another thing to consider with regards to jurisdictions. There is a good argument for you own national TLD.

That said, a lot of ccTLDs are not that restrictive. Anyone can register a .uk for example (so, Scottish nationalists have one less thing to deal with in their plans).

In the case of Ukraine they will probably want to allow people in any territory they lost to retain .ua domains as a way of maintaining a claim (that is assuming their rules are restrictive in the first place).
by the_gipsy | 2025-10-08 08:23:26+00:00
People that vote and support the far right do it as reaction, that is likely. But not to "extreme left nonsene" appearing. That's just a pretext.

The real reason, to which they react, is that they can no longer covertly express and exercise their ideas.

In other words, it's a reaction to getting publicly called out about being racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic etc.
by piva00 | 2025-10-08 08:24:02+00:00
That was exactly what UML wanted to do, and it almost never worked out in practice.

Seems to be just a rehashing of the same idea but instead of XML, and diagrams, it's now some free-text to be interpreted by LLMs, so much less deterministic and will probably fail just like UML failed.

People also tend to forget about Peter Naur's take on "Programming as Theory Building" [0], the program is, in itself, the theory of what's implemented. A spec cannot replace that.

[0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
by marcus_holmes | 2025-10-08 08:25:36+00:00
I disagree completely. Citizens are protected by laws, such as the First Amendment, that are not applied to non-citizens (see the Julian Assange mess for details). If the government can designate a group of people as terrorists, and remove their citizenships for being terrorists, then they can additionally apply yet more tribulations on those people while not straying out of the legal protections afforded to citizens.

You keep saying "ISIS" like it's some magic incantation that makes everything else OK. Try saying "any organisation the government disapproves of" instead, and see how that fits your mental model of what's acceptable. For example:

> you're fighting the wrong things here, if you think that taking citizenship away from any organisation that the government disapproves of is the biggest problem.

I think you'll agree that this would be a big f**ing problem.
by coldtea | 2025-10-08 08:25:57+00:00
> Go also has the unique ability to compile a cross-platform binary, which I can run on any machine.

Huh? Is this true? I know Go makes cross-compiling trivial - I've tried it in the past, it's totally painless - but is it also able to make a "cross platform binary" (singular)?

How would that work? Some kind of magic bytes combined with a wrapper file with binaries for multiple architectures?
by flave | 2025-10-08 08:26:04+00:00
> if a sufficiently large majority of investors believe the hypothesis, they naturally would assume that new information about a stock would very quickly be reflected in its price. They would conclude that since relevant news almost immediately moves the price up or down, and since new developments can’t be predicted, neither can price increases or decreases

This is an oversimplification of how professional investing works.

The vast majority of the dollar value of markets isn’t governed by immediate profit seeking behaviour - it’s people trying to manage money in the context of a real business. Pension fund money is the largest “pot” in the markets at any one time.

Pensions funds aren’t incentivised to maximise returns in any particular quarter/year. Instead, they’re looking to manage risk and ensure consistent returns in the very long term.

Therefore, the “value” they place on various assets is different to what a trend fund or retail investor is thinking about. The price at which they would buy/sell is different.

The market value might “reflect” that information but it could easily create a situation in which short-term, strictly returns-motivated investors might value an asset much more than pension funds or vice versa. That creates opportunity for both to do a non-zero-sum trade and both “make money”.

I’ve seen it elsewhere in this thread but it’s simply not the case that the “markets are a casino”. The vast dollar value of the market is about sharing risk and providing liquidity.

The global bond market are at least 1.5 times the size of the equities market(s).

yes some markets are basically a casino but they’re tiny in comparison.
by bilekas | 2025-10-08 08:26:21+00:00
> We don’t rely on templates — each design is uniquely created by AI, just for you.

There's some irony in there somewhere I'm sure. I don't see the use case here, infact it's one of those subjects that I feel should be left to a human touch, but what do I know. AI slop is the new trend. Best of luck.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-08 08:26:33+00:00
The EMH is obviously bs, as anyone with an ounce of common sense can observe from today’s market. To appeal to authority, buffet and monger and graham point out how insane Mr Market is, and they’ve done pretty well by exploiting its inefficiency.

Market prices are derived from supply and demand. A heavy determinant of demand is income equality. Another is interest rates. These are nothing to do with, in general, a particular stock.

It’s so obviously false to anyone trading or even watching stocks that serious discussion by academics just adds weight to the accusation that they don’t know what they’re talking about. We need a new, more serious, science of economics.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-08 08:27:13+00:00
The Raspberry Pi Pico blows the Arduino out of the water in terms of computational speed, available RAM and so on, and it costs a fraction. I don't remember using an Arduino since the Pi Pico came out. And if the Pico isn't enough there are the bigger family members waiting in the wings. For me Arduino is mostly over. And then there is Espressif as well, they make some neat boards.
by alias_neo | 2025-10-08 08:28:31+00:00
There's a lot about it that isn't great. It treats Go like a scripting language, it's got no structure (1000+ lines in a single file), nothing is documented, the models are flat, no methods, it hard codes lots of strings, even the flags are string comparisons instead of using the proper tool, regex compiles and use inlined, limited device support based on some pre-configured, hard-coded strings, some assumptions made on storage device speeds based on its device name: nvme=fast, hdd=slow, etc.

On the whole, it might work for now, but it'll need recompiling for new devices, and is a mess to maintain if any of the structure of the data changes.

If a junior in my team asked me to review this, they'd be starting again; if anyone above junior PRd it, they'd be fired.
by nunobrito | 2025-10-08 08:29:13+00:00
Yeah, ESPnow is pretty good. I'm using it more than LoRa because all ESP32 come with it and is really cheap, whereas with LoRa is all the trouble with an additional module that costs 3x more than an ESP32.

That yellow display is pretty good. I've built a tiny operating system for it, it is an unbelievable hardware for the cost of the material.
by Flimm | 2025-10-08 08:29:22+00:00
If you have uv installed, trying out Python 3.14 is as simple as running this command:

$ uvx python@3.14 Python 3.14.0 (main, Oct 7 2025, 15:35:21) [Clang 20.1.4 ] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>

That was beautifully easy! (Make sure you're on the latest version of uv first (v0.9.0))
by joshstrange | 2025-10-08 08:29:49+00:00
Thank god they reversed course. I’m coming up on needing another NAS and I was not looking forward to digging through alternatives.

I’ve run raw Linux servers, I’ve run UnRaid, and now I have Synology and it’s been the best “set it and forget it” solution yet. Yes, the hardware is overpriced but it works and I’m willing to pay a premium for that.
by a-french-anon | 2025-10-08 08:30:30+00:00
I understand what you're saying, but I'm still showing my disapproval via my wallet and not giving money to people who do a much worse (and/or unsuitable for fans instead of the general public) job than fans.

The amount of laughably bad upscales making BDs worse than the previous DVDs is just the cherry on top showing that they truly don't care about anyone with taste or discernment; they should put the DVD masters untouched on BD and they very rarely do so (Di Gi Charat had that).
by raxxorraxor | 2025-10-08 08:31:02+00:00
Finally a statement that is based, excuse the language.

Many tried to find false compromises with references to digital IDs. That doesn't work, you just had an example of states demonstrating their desire to invade private communications. States lack the maturity for that.

An infrastructure with state IDs is not possible because we have no privacy protections. I don't want a simple legislative change to put myself and my data in danger.

I works if a small state uses it for digital government services. If it were established in the EU, the fight for privacy would be even harder. So no to state issued IDs as well.
by mordae | 2025-10-08 08:31:30+00:00
The only reason for your high taxes and poor living standard is that some boomers have too much cash.

So they buy luxury apartments, outbidding you for construction companies capacity. Or they buy €20M luxury cars from limited 100-item series, outbidding state for engineers that could be designing next generation public transportation.

Public sector has been bled almost to death by regressive taxation, you bear nearly all of the tax burden so that a geezer who lived through nineties free-for-all can cope with his second midlife crisis while you struggle to get even a small apartment with ever-expanding commute times as you are forced outside of the city center.

Just. Tax. The. Rich. Geezer. More.

Seriously. If you've talked to some of them, they are not "titans of the industry", they are mostly greedy, average inteligence people that got lucky. No political nor economical nor cultural awareness. Half of them binge Russia fake news and/or Bloomberg and that's it.

God, some of those sick fucks even refuse to pay alimony despite owning huge companies. They would rather invent crazy schemes to hide their ownership and claim $10,000/y earnings than to take care of their kids. And they pay jackshit in taxes.

Not joking: https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-kauzy-beru-20-tisi...
by piker | 2025-10-08 08:32:12+00:00
The temptation since the TDD movement has been that if you can't test it, it isn't "written". I think "legibility" is a great word to describe that desire.

I have hundreds of unit tests for Tritium, but it wasn't until I started writing a blog using it[1] that I started finding qualitative bugs that weren't picked up (and would be really hard to pick up) with unit tests. They were illegible.

I think this is why indy game dev is resilient to market economics where other software verticals become winner-take-all. Game devs are able to make their products qualitatively better because they dogfood so well. They also, as alluded to in the article, have a smaller "enterprise" surface area which requires so much legibility.

Truth is, you need both qualitative and quantitative measures.

[1] https://tritium.legal/blog/eat
Show HN: Audioconvert.ai – Another audio transcription tool, but more accurate
by amara2025 | 2025-10-08 08:32:12+00:00
Hi HN!

I know what you're thinking: "Another audio transcription tool?"

Here's why I built AudioConvert.ai anyway:

Transcription models have improved dramatically in the past couple years - Whisper v3, GPT-4o Transcribe, and even Gemini 2.0 Pro (which many don't realize can do transcription as a multimodal model). But I noticed many existing products are still using older models. The gap between state-of-the-art and what's actually deployed is surprisingly wide.

Users in real world don't care about "Whisper v3" or "Gemini 2.0 Pro" - they just want accurate transcripts, fast. A great model isn't a product. It needs proper packaging: simple upload, speaker detection, multiple export formats, and a clean UX.

So I built AudioConvert.ai to bridge that gap. It's free, uses one of the latest speech-to-text models, and handles the stuff people actually need: multi-speaker identification, timestamps, and exports to TXT/DOCX/SRT/VTT.

Currently considering adding direct social media link support (YouTube, Twitter/X, etc.) - just paste a link and get the transcript. Would this be useful for you?

Would love your feedback and feature suggestions!
by alex_duf | 2025-10-08 08:32:13+00:00
Thank you so much for this! I've also had the idea but, contrary to you, never had the courage nor energy to actually do it. I have some of my old devices backed up with the very first text my (now) wife and I exchanged, and this feels like the perfect use case.

So thank you so much, I now have another project to host on my home server, and a meaningful one.

>(PS. I'm open to changing the name. Never really liked this one...)

Timelinize is great, it explains what the product does
by aurareturn | 2025-10-08 08:32:43+00:00
Unpopular opinion: Nintendo console emulators, open source or not, are probably used to play games illegally 99.99% of the time. Forums and Hacker News commentators like to stand behind the 0.01% of the time when someone actually plays the games legally. Therefore, I've always sided with Nintendo on these lawsuits.
by tommaverik | 2025-10-08 08:33:00+00:00
Get constant SEO reviews as you're designing

When our design team is building website pages, we find going back and forward to an SEO audit tool is a real pain. So one of the team made a Chrome extension to sit alongside their design window and audit the page as they're working on a page.

It's a real problem we felt, so we fixed it.

The extension regularly audits your preview link or live page, as you're making changes. It checks the core vitals for a well performing web page. It's free to use for anyone.
by mnw21cam | 2025-10-08 08:33:17+00:00
No, I don't get it. Firstly, the normal system command output is not hard to read, but secondly, this output doesn't list any of the capabilities of the cables, just the devices at the ends of them. Perhaps showing an example of the output when the device is plugged in through the wrong cable would have helped. Does the tool produce a similar warning to the system popup, that is "this cable and device are mismatched"?
by lm28469 | 2025-10-08 08:33:47+00:00
Meta alone could have solved like 50% of famines/heavy malnutrition currently happening in the world if they used their metaverse budget to do something useful. And they'd still be so rich they wouldn't know what to do with the leftovers.

No one "needs" to push for that bullshit metaverse, the real world isn't shitty enough, yet, apparently they're dead set and achieving that, for people to wish to live in a computer.
by allexv | 2025-10-08 08:33:53+00:00
Hi, I included a few details here: https://github.com/AllexVeldman/pyoci/blob/main/docs/design.... which I recognise does not contain much.

It's basically a single layer image with a multi-platform image index per tag(version) on top.

No smarts added, performance wise it's probably worse than running your own dedicated pypi index or any purpose-built system, my main goal is a private index for if you don't have access to one already.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-08 08:34:03+00:00
> That requires buying those investments, which means the person who sold them has to invest that money somewhere. It still does not disappear.

I also didn't say that the money disappear, I said the money may just end up getting parked in the modern day equivalent of dragon hoards. There's plenty of things to park idle money in hopes of returns.

I was just pointing out that the idea thaf it would just become investment in other parts of the economy is naive.

> I love the way I keep getting downvoted

I hadn't downvoted you, but I will do so now. I always downvote people that are butthurt about internet points.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 08:34:06+00:00
Your comment has been debunked countless times. This man's home was not raided for his antisemitism (which is really damn bad!) but for calling a guy an idiot [1]. I suggest you stop spreading lies.

[1]: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/nach-schwachkopf-post-p...
by aborsy | 2025-10-08 08:34:09+00:00
But their hardware is also terrible. Their disk stations for consumers had 1G NICs until recently, and still underpowered CPUs. The sales had to decline for them to be convinced to upgrade to 2.5G in 2025. But then they removed an optional slot for 10G in 923+ model (they still would have made money from it, as it costs +$150), so when the industry moves to 10G, you can’t upgrade the component and should buy the whole unit. The construction is plastic.

I have a 920+, and it’s too slow, frequently becomes unresponsive when multiple tasks are run.

They lag, and need to be constantly forced to improve?
by onli | 2025-10-08 08:34:48+00:00
Nuclear is not clean. It causes toxic nuclear waste that will still be radioactive when our civilization ends, radiating the humans of the future. CO2 emissions are also still caused by it, and would grow when mining for nuclear material got harder by continued usage.

> other EU country's have been net neutral for CO2 emissions for a while now.

No EU country has achieved that, to my knowledge. It would be very surprising giving the EU energy mix and the petrol based traffic sector. Sources please.

> Coal and Gas account for 40% of Germany's energy production

Which means 60% is renewable, and that part is actually growing.
by blacktav | 2025-10-08 08:35:10+00:00
Nextcloud has matured given its support in Germany; Hetzner will even rent you a Nextcloud box- works for me. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ Sharing of folders containing documents or photos or whatever works fine. Can share family recipes, shared costs for holidays. Also works as password manager, bookmarks manager and other things