MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 444Duarte | 2025-10-10 13:04:07+00:00
Yes, everything is digital, but what changes is how sophisticated the ledger is and who controls it. The digital euro is basically a cryptocurrency, but centrally controlled. It has the benefits of transactions just being an API request. The bank would basically become just one big wallet (or the securer of lots of wallets) and would no longer have to deal with doing the transfers of money and building the bookkeeping, the same way a crypto exchange doesn't send bitcoin from one wallet to another, the blockchain is the one responsible for the transfer, the exchange is only the holder of the wallet and the one that builds the transfer parameters.

As it is today, things are much more decentralized, and each bank is responsible for keeping a record of its own books, and all the protocols that automate transfers still require the bank to be responsible for all that information. Sending money from one bank to another required both banks to have an agreement with each other and a protocol regarding how they would exchange money between them, or to go through one or multiple banks, until there is a path from the original bank to the receiving one. Obviously, this was already improved by having the ECB and enforcing cross-bank mechanisms, like IBAN, but when you fundamentally change the currency to be a cryptocurrency, all of this comes embedded in the currency itself.

There's obviously a downside, which is that everything, even the smallest of purchases, is now fully trackable on a much bigger scale. The fact that money is no longer just fungible money that you can exchange at any time, but programmable money, is also a problem. You could, for example, program some money to be usable in certain ways, have money that expires, etc. Currently, if you have 1€, you have 1€, and you know that you can spend that in any place that accepts euros, and that will remain so as long as people accept euros. But now, you could have 1€, but that 1€ can only be spent in certain places (let's say restaurants), or you could have 1€ that would expire in a year if you don't spend it. That fundamentally changes the relation with money and how people quantify money, and no one really knows what the repercussions would be.
by imtringued | 2025-10-10 13:04:31+00:00
Whenever I see the digital euro I am thinking that it is kind of pointless. The ECB would be better off introducing a demurrage version of the Euro and encourage governments to pay welfare benefits and corporate bailouts with the demurrage Euro. That way the government money will actually benefit more people than just the immediate recipients.

It will also help reduce government debt since private sector assets are public sector liabilities. Rich people don't want to be less rich and they hold at least 10% of their assets liquid and force the central bank to do QE to perform the duration transformation (which means everyone directly or indirectly holds government bonds either way).

The classical paradigm of the government issuing infinite duration money to the public is a one way ratchet. It's actually pretty insane to me that so many people think that a fundamentally broken system can be fixed by "holding it right". I mean look at the Trump administration promising reductions in debt through spending cuts and then end up with even more debt.
Ask HN: How are founders finding investors without warm intros in 2025?
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-10 13:04:37+00:00
It feels like getting investor intros is still one of the biggest bottlenecks for early-stage founders.

I’ve seen countless threads saying “you need warm intros” - but in reality, not everyone has that network on day one. Cold emails and DMs often go unread, and accelerator “investor lists” feel outdated or generic.

So I’m curious:

1. How are you finding and reaching out to investors without existing connections?

2. Have any particular strategies, tools, or outreach methods worked for you recently?

3. Is personalization or timing more important in getting actual replies?

Would love to hear what’s been working (or not) in 2025’s fundraising environment
by eyalitki | 2025-10-10 13:04:42+00:00
OP here, it was also my opinion that the handling of static libraries should significantly be improved, and ld should have a "--static-lib" flag to properly handle it. Sadly, the ELF committee prefers a more subtle approach, hence even the proposed build of the static bundle object is done on top of the existing "ld -r", and the output is still wrapped inside a .a archive for compatibility.

I hope that once integrated to linkers the adoption of this new format will help convince that it deserves significantly better tooling.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-10 13:04:56+00:00
No you're not. Humans started with literally nothing, not even language. We went from an era with no language and with the greatest understanding of technology being 'poke them with the pointy side' to putting a man on the Moon, unlocking the secrets of the atom, and much more. And given how inefficiently we store and transfer knowledge, we did it in what was essentially the blink of an eye.

Give an LLM the entire breadth of human knowledge at the time and it would do nothing except remix what we knew at that point in history, forever. You could give it infinite processing power, and it's still not moving beyond 'poke them with the pointy side.'
by phtrivier | 2025-10-10 13:05:18+00:00
> Thiel’s comments about Trump were more complex, according to the recordings. “If you, in a sincere, rational, well-reasoned way are willing to make the argument that Trump is the Antichrist, I will give you a hearing,” he said. “If you’re not willing to make that argument maybe you have to be open to possibility that he’s at least relatively good.”

This is either a level of mental derangement or a level of trolling that is world class.

Arguing "rationnaly" about whether someone is or is not the Antichrist ? Seriously ?

"Next on a18z podcast, how many angels can LLMs put on the head of a nano-needle".

Are Palantir shareholders happy with having their money on his hands ?

What happens when he suddenly decides that "reporting EBIDTA" is the 8th cardinal sin ?

(I mean, the American voters don't really have a choice anymore, he was kinda bundled with the Trump package.)

> “ It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

Almost as if lawmakers had a monopoly on many laws. Again, it's insane if he's serious, and not remotely funny if he's trolling.
by jahsome | 2025-10-10 13:05:25+00:00
I ask genuinely: what is the value -- in what way does it "fit" so well?

"Custom navigation" means I as a reader need to split my focus between learning how this thing works, and consuming the information presented, which is presumably the goal of this page. I can't say for sure because the instant my screen started scrolling the opposite axis I smashed the back button.

Pick a lane: this kind of stuff is fine as a "design" showpiece, but if the goal of a page is to convey information, why introduce distractions over sticking with familiar patterns?
by vouwfietsman | 2025-10-10 13:05:32+00:00
Well I think nobody knows this stuff, so don't take my word for it. I think prolonged makes sense because AI is holding off a depression, but that depression does not have a singular obvious cause. I think there's a bunch of reasons to be pessimistic about the global economy, including of course (geo)political, (trade)wars, extremism, stagnating production, etc. Contrary to the dotcom bubble, current AI might not actually be a useful-but-overvalued tech. It may just not be that useful at all. In that case, a rally like dotcom is out.
by ogurechny | 2025-10-10 13:05:36+00:00
Many years ago, some dial-up providers in my city offered free public logins to use their websites (for scratch card activation, account renewal, user guides, and so on). Some companies also paid ISPs to have their sites and services accessible in similar fashion for promotional reasons.

At a certain provider, all those free logins used the same firewall configuration to only allow traffic to those free services and ISP site, probably for simplicity, so all of them were accessible with any promotional login. Most of them were not useful (to me), but different agreements with ISP resulted in different call time limit until hang-up, 10-15 minutes instead of 3-5.

However, the main treasure was the addition of external page translation service as a feature on some big site. Back then, it was strictly static and server-side, URL in request gave you its HTML source with translated text strings and absolute paths to external resources, so in order for translation to work, users needed to be able to access that third party server, too. Obviously, if you gave it any other URL, the server would also grab it to translate (and choosing least similar language in parameters would leave most of the page text intact).

You can imagine that having a browser supporting tabs and switching media off was very handy for loading as many free web pages in text only form as those dial-up sessions allowed.

Obviously, WWW-to-email services for people who only paid for mail server access had existed even before that.
by diego_moita | 2025-10-10 13:06:42+00:00
> Without US sanctions Venezuela, and Venezuelans, would be in a dramatically better place today.

No. They wouldn't. The Venezuelan government has proven extremely incompetent to produce oil.

What the Trump's tariffs have shown to the world is that, in the scale globalization is today, trade with the US doesn't matter that much anymore. Case in point: Brazil. After Trump stuck 50% tariffs on them, their exports to other countries grew much more than enough to offset the loss to the U.S.

The US embargo on Venezuela is a lot like its embargo in Cuba, Iran and North Korea: it is not the cause of people suffering but is an excuse by those corrupt and incompetent regimes to hide their failures.
by qwertox | 2025-10-10 13:06:44+00:00
"Why I switched from HTMX to Datastar" -> Why I never switched to HTMX, because there will always be something better, and for that there also will be something better.

Or the then backwards-incompatible HTMX v2 will give it the rest, leaving all the obsolete codebase. It's the circle of life.
by peterfirefly | 2025-10-10 13:07:39+00:00
The Palestinian diaspora is also around 8 million. Chavez and Maduro made the Venezuelans poorer than the Palestinians. I think Israel (and Stern/Irgun before that) has killed more than Chavez/Maduro in all its "defensive" wars of conquest. The Israeli Supreme Court seems to be surprisingly reliable and fair, even to Palestinians. Venezuela's courts are entirely under regime control.
by saghm | 2025-10-10 13:07:40+00:00
You didn't include the actual context of the sentence you quoted, which is that I'm summarizing my understanding of the allegations. Do you not agree with me that those are what the allegations are, or do you think my ability to summarize them somehow implies that I must agree with them?

The problem with your post is that you're asking people to believe something without telling them what it is. I'd be more than willing to consider an alternate explanation of what happened but so far no one has been willing to share one. Regardless of your reasoning for withholding it (and the reasons of the others who apparently have knowledge of it), no one is going to be convinced of anything of anything by just asking people to trust blindly. At the end of the day, people are not going to believe there's some secret truth that explains everything about how Ruby Central and Shopify were acting if l in good faith; they'll need to be told what actually happened, or they'll quite understandably trust the people who don't seem to be trying to hide something.
by seec | 2025-10-10 13:08:10+00:00
Yes that's what I think as well.

The problem is that we have all been tricked into cloud syncing because big tech couldn't figure out proper local sync and they actually have incentives not to because they would really like you to pay to their subscriptions for storage on which they have great margins.

Yet for the vast majority of people what would be needed is just very simple syncing between their phone and personal computer. It should work with a cable for speed but also wirelessly for convenience and that's it.

All the crap they add on top is mostly overengineered crap that sometimes doesn't even work and creates interdependence/lock-in.
by Someone | 2025-10-10 13:08:30+00:00
> I've been tracking software quality metrics for 3 years

I don’t think you can draw conclusions from that short a period.

As a counterpoint: in the ‘80s and early ‘90s, my brain was almost hardwired to hit the hotkey for “Save” every few seconds while working, even though that could mean applications became unresponsive for seconds, because I didn’t trust the application to not crash while idle.

Yes, part of that is because applications nowadays rarely run out of memory, and likely don’t have code that tries to keep things running in low-memory conditions, but that’s not all of it. A significant part was that applications were buggy. (Indirect) evidence for that is that they also were riddled with security holes.
by ashish_sharda | 2025-10-10 13:08:36+00:00
Hi HN! I built TrustMesh, an open-source reputation system for AI agents.

The Problem: Google's A2A protocol enables agents to communicate across platforms, but there's no standard way to evaluate trustworthiness. When your agent delegates work to another agent, how do you know it won't fail?

The Solution: TrustMesh provides portable trust scores using Bayesian statistics. New agents start at 0.5, scores update with each interaction, recent behavior weighted higher.

Built with FastAPI + SQLite. The trust engine uses Beta-Binomial Bayesian modeling with exponential time decay.

v0.1 alpha shipped today with REST API, Python SDK, and full docs.

Next: Web dashboard, A2A middleware, PostgreSQL support.

Happy to answer questions!
by somat | 2025-10-10 13:08:39+00:00
Documentation comes in two halves, the examples and the reference, the examples are nice to understand how everything ties together, the reference explain how things work. If I only had one I would pick the reference. But having said that there have been times I would have killed for a simple example.

When I am learning something, I do tend to start with the examples, it is the best way to quickly get a feel for the shape of the domain and it's usage. But then end up in the reference in order to understand and apply what I just learned.
by gethly | 2025-10-10 13:08:42+00:00
All FIAT is already digital and most of it is actually digital. There is no need for any of this and claiming that it protects children or prevents financing of terrorism and money laundering is simply a joke.

CBDC, or "digital currency", is all about control where the authority can trace every single cent, wallet or transaction and with Know Your Transaction(KYT) know about what is being paid for as well.

Beside this, they can program expiration or block a wallet or individual "coins", giving the authority absolute control over people's finances.

This is why these are so dangerous. It is an absolute end of financial sovereignty of individuals. And once implemented, no government(or rather central bank) will give such power away without a bloody fight.

So thread carefully when things like these come up. It's no joke. This is likely the most dangerous "policy" in human history. The lately discussed "chat control" or backdooring cryptography by governments does not even come close to what this is.
by bluGill | 2025-10-10 13:09:00+00:00
Both are needed for good documentation. You start with the details and then finish with a few examples so that someone who has read the details can check their understanding. Sometimes the example is all you need, but most often there are far more possible combinations of options such that an example of all the useful ones would be several books long (there is no good way to sort/index them so someone wouldn't find the example they need if you wrote them all). So you start with an explanation of each option, and then a few examples that are as different as you can make them so readers get a sense of what is possible and can look back to the explanation to figure out the changes they need to get the example to do what they need.

Good documentation is hard, and very rare these days.
by victorantos | 2025-10-10 13:09:14+00:00
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by usrnm | 2025-10-10 13:09:46+00:00
You don't need to make any changes to your currency to create an alternative to Visa and Mastercard, all you need is political will. Russia created its own system years ago and forced both Visa and Mastercard to comply with it, it's the reason that card payments continue to work as expected inside the country. You can even still use your old physical visa or mastercard cards inside Russia, even though the companies themselves left in 2022.
by mark_yellow | 2025-10-10 13:09:51+00:00
One can manipulate LLM rankings to put any model in the lead—only by modifying the single character separating demonstration examples.

- MMLU performance varies by +/- 23% depending on the choice of delimiter across leading open model families (Llama, Qwen, and Gemma). - Closed models, GPT-4o, are also brittle to the choice of delimiter.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-10 13:11:06+00:00
Multiplied by all customers, it could be quite a bit. It's may be better than having to take both items home and wasting one, but I bet the accountants are quite happy about their little free money fund.

It's also quite a "safe" loan to have because not only is it free to hold, you're probably never going to need to repay it all at once.
by sotix | 2025-10-10 13:11:27+00:00
I'm not fully following. Are your last names extremely similar but different, and are you also maintaining citizenship in a foreign country that uses gendered last names? Because that's the crux of the issue. Otherwise it sounds like you might be discussing a tangentially related but different point.

I had a Greek friend born in America who was assigned her father's masculine gendered surname. Her birth was not registered in Greece. When she went to register in Greece as an adult, it created loads of issues due to her surname being incorrect from a Greek perspective. It required a lot of paperwork and fees be cause the Greek system was not set up at the time to handle that correctly.

On the flip side, her mother had a number of issues in the US having an almost identical yet different surname as her husband and daughter. Less extreme but frequently people would mess up the mom or the child's surname when entering records because they'd give the surnames a quick glance and incorrectly assume they were identical. She said there were often times where systems were designed with the faulty assumption that the child would have the same name as a parent.

Now, she effectively has two surnames depending on which passport she uses. Because it's easier for her to maintain names that correspond with the different systems.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-10 13:11:29+00:00
I’m a fan of managed capitalism, which is the only capitalism we’ve ever known. I’m very nervous about what happens when unrestricted capital is allowed to consume all its guardrails and re-write all the rules to advantage itself. I imagine it leads to something extremely not-like the kind of capitalism that brought all those benefits you’re citing. I guess we might get to find out for ourselves!
by codazoda | 2025-10-10 13:12:28+00:00
I use ImageMagick a lot and kept finding myself Googling for examples. I started writing notes for myself and recently combined them into a small field guide of command-line examples.

I go on to explain each of the arguments, however, which this blog post doesn't necessarily suggest. I think we need both examples and explanations.

My draft is still early, but it’s already useful for everyday tasks like resizing, optimizing, and layering.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538609
by nmcfarl | 2025-10-10 13:12:41+00:00
I’m not sure if that’s true.

The number of times I’ve opened FFmpegs man page must number in the hundreds. I think I’m a pretty good conceptually, but I can’t remember all the flags. IE that –s is frame size, while -fs is file size.

And while that man page does have some examples, these days I tend to ask an LLM (or if it’s going to be simple Google) for an example.
by whodidntante | 2025-10-10 13:12:47+00:00
I did not recognize her name, but after doing some research, I am impressed by her work, and do not have an issue with her getting the prize.

However, her accomplishments were also clear last summer, and I feel it would have been far more appropriate to give her the prize last year. Instead, it went to an organization that has been around for 70 years. While they have done great work, there was nothing they did specifically in 2024 that stood out, at least that I could find. So, clearly, Machado was not an obvious choice, at least last year.

Also want to add that I don't think Trump should have gotten it, simply because it is far too early to tell if the current "middle east peace plan" will actually turn out to be more than just fanfare.

A better statement would have been to have no peace prize this year.
by impossiblefork | 2025-10-10 13:12:59+00:00
Capitalism is a word invented by Louis Blanc for the bad thing "What I call 'capitalism' that is to say the appropriation of capital by some to the exclusion of others".

You don't actually call yourself a capitalist, because if you say that you actually say "I believe in a hard class system with a difficult to overcome divide between workers and capital owners and that the appropriation of capital by some to the exclusion of others is right". If you believe in a system that you feel is uncomfortably similar to Louis Blanc's bad thing, you say "This won't actually happen, this system is totally dynamic, with no permanent class division or any appropriation of capital by some to the exclusion of others" and you'd say things "I support free markets".
by imiric | 2025-10-10 13:13:31+00:00
That's admirable. They just gained another sponsor. :)

I do think that they should be paid for this work, and be able to sustain themselves from it. So I wouldn't be against it being a business, or the project having a subscription model. The idea of open source being gratis, and products in general being "free", has done enough harm to the world.