MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Mrakermo | 2025-10-18 12:55:19+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Eric, founder of MeetGoran. The problem:Sales managers can only review ~3% of their team's calls. The other 97% of coaching opportunities get lost in transcripts nobody reads.

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Think of it as a copilot, not a black box recorder.

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(Zoom/Teams/Meet).

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Looking for feedback from the HN community.

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Happy to answer technical questions!
by spacedcowboy | 2025-10-18 12:56:02+00:00
My previous car was a Mitsubishi Spyder Eclipse convertible. I loved the bones of that car but moving continent was too far a bridge to cross. It was 17 years old when I gave it to a neighbour as a thank-you for helping me pack the house up.

My current car is a Kia EV6 AWD GT-Line S, pretty much the top-of-the-range car. It has 340 miles range (plenty when the longest trip I'll do is 220 once or twice per year) and although a lot bulkier than the old car, has enough oomph off the line that I don't care. I do miss the top-down experience, but here in the UK that's less of an issue due to weather, and at least there's a large sun-roof :)

Tesla would have been an option a few years ago. Glad I dodged that bullet.

I fully expect to get another 15 years or so out of the car, at which point I'll be in my dotage and be having other people drive me around, possibly in a golf-cart.. So depreciation really isn't a big deal for me.
by ben_w | 2025-10-18 12:56:04+00:00
> Oh yeah? Instead of 5 years to render all human labor obsolete, it will take 20? The magnitude of that change is so large that the implications of it happening anytime in our lifetimes are too big to ignore.

While true, I would suggest two things:

First, that nobody actually knows how long it will take to make fully-general AI to drive robots, humanoid or otherwise. Look how long self-driving cars have taken, and that they're still geo-fenced.

Second, that it doesn't take AI for the robots themselves to have 90% of this impact. All those jokes about AI meaning "Actually Indians"? Well, the same robots controlled not by artificial intelligence but by remote control from cheap 3rd world labourers who charge $5/day, will make current arguments about the effect of immigration on unemployment look laughably naïve. Likewise, unfortunately, crime, because one thing we can guarantee is that someone's going to share their password or access token and some rich person's cheap robot servant will become Mr. Stabby the unknown assassin.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-18 12:56:15+00:00
> Those synths are famous and expensive because they're an important part of musical culture

Not only that, many synths are expensive at launch because of R&D and production costs (considering the small amount they produce), and impossible they're already part of "musical culture" as they just launched. TE and Elektron stuff is expensive at launch as just one counter-example.
by teleforce | 2025-10-18 12:56:20+00:00
What they didn't mention in the article and most Wi-Fi historical narrative is the critical contribution from OFDM modulation waveform technology, the idea originated and patented by the radio astronomy research of CSIRO Australia [1],[2].

In the early days of Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11 group was still testing spread spectrum and OFDM with 802.11b and 802.11a, respectively. But then it's become apparent that the best bandwidth come from the proper orthogonality of wireless modulation aka OFDM [1].

At the time of the OP article back in 2003 the incumbent cellular mobile modulation of 3G is still spread spectrum based CMDA system but by 4G it's OFDM all-in and the rest is history. CSIRO become much richer due to the patent, and radio astronomy based technology generated some hard cash for the research institute that mainly pursuing science.

[1] Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_...

[2] How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million [PDF]:

https://www.vbllaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/How-The-Au...
by Bender | 2025-10-18 12:57:08+00:00
Generation Loss: JPEG, WebP, JPEG XL, AVIF [1]

Generation loss: FLIF vs WebP vs BPG vs JPEG vs MozJPEG [2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSWpw7zNkI

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmhZJ8H1Fc
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-18 12:57:41+00:00
I've got one. I just played a triple-A video game, but my motherboard doesn't support Win11 so no-go. I've got another year to figure out what's next but this will be my last windows computer. While the developer-focuses side of the company has treated me pretty well over the years, you no longer need a windows box to work in their tech and the consumer side of the business seems to actively hate people.
by doix | 2025-10-18 12:57:51+00:00
It's much worse in South Korea, I think there were at least 5 different bins with different signs. Most things you bought had a label on them and you could try to match the letters to what was on the bin. Except it wasn't perfectly matched up, and we didn't have some bins with signs that matched up with whatever was written on the package.

I eventually gave up and only ate to avoid having to deal with it.
by greenavocado | 2025-10-18 12:58:08+00:00
Fluid Film is inferior to Noxudol.

There are many shops in the US which will apply Noxudol both underneath and inside body panels and frame rails with special 360 degree applicators. I believe it is a formula developed in Scandinavia.

All of my cars are sprayed with the stuff for over a decade with no other maintenance.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-18 12:59:23+00:00
Why did the PC liquid cooling segment redefine terms that have been used in HVAC for over 100 years, with worse definitions?

A real ‘closed loop system’ is a chilled water loop with no evaporative cooling tower.

A real ‘open loop system’ is a chilled water loop with an evaporative cooling tower. The loop is open to the atmosphere at the cooling tower.

What the computer cooling industry calls a ‘closed loop system’ (a refrigerant based cooler that comes with precharged lines) normal people call them ‘a closed loop system with pre-charged linesets’.

Split A/C units often come with precharged linesets that you just plug in to the condenser and evaporator (air handler) without having to charge the system with refrigerant.

Now, for some on-topic commentary. If you put together what I will call a closed loop system consisting of tubing, water blocks, a pump, and a remote condenser, it could potentially be almost silent. The only things that make noise are the fans and pumps and those can be located anywhere you want with enough tubing. If you’re trying to dissipate 1kW of heat, it’ll be a lot easier with a heat pump than with air alone, liquid-to-air heat exchangers are quite amazing.
by microtonal | 2025-10-18 12:59:29+00:00
That’s so awesome! I started using Macs after my brother and I were dabbling with Hackintosh in 2007 (mostly just trying it for fun). Unfortunately, it didn’t work on my laptop, but after seeing Hackintosh on his, I decided to get a Mac Mini.

So cool that your kid was able to use a Hackintosh in high school!
by Larrikin | 2025-10-18 12:59:50+00:00
How slow the AIs respond provides some opportunity to work on two task at once. Things like investigate a bug, think about the implementation for something larger, edit code that experience has told you it will take just as much or more typing to have the LLM do it.

It's less cool than having a future robot do it for you while you relax, but if you enjoy programming it brings some of the joy back.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-18 13:00:08+00:00
> - wake from suspend - laptop power consumption - poor wayland support - sudden desktop restarts - hidpi, external monitors, virtualization

Now I'm a desktop user, so the first two don't really impact me, and the rest has been working fine for the ~2 years I've been in Wayland+Arch+Gnome across 3 different NVIDIA GPUs. Not sure why virtualization is there, but it also seems to work, although via WSL2 is slightly buggy, but I blame that on Microsoft rather than Linux/NVIDIA.
Show HN: JFIF to JPG – A Lightweight Client-Side Converter (No Uploads Needed)
by seagnson | 2025-10-18 13:00:56+00:00
Hey!

I built a new "JFIF to JPG Convertor", a super lightweight web tool that converts .jfif images to .jpg directly in your browser — instantly and privately, without uploading anything to a server.

If you’ve ever downloaded images from the web or social media only to find them in the annoying .jfif format, this fixes that with a single click. Everything runs locally in JavaScript, so it’s fast and secure.

Features:

100% client-side (no uploads, no tracking, no cookies)

Instant conversion, even for large batches

Privacy-friendly — your files never leave your device

Minimalist design, mobile-friendly

Works offline once loaded

The goal was to make a clean, open, and privacy-respecting alternative to heavy online converters full of ads and analytics scripts.

Would love your feedback on performance, UI simplicity, or ideas for future improvements (e.g., drag-and-drop batch processing, EXIF handling, or direct rename support).

Try it here: https://jfif-to-jpg.com
by rodrigodlu | 2025-10-18 13:02:11+00:00
I think it's quite the opposite, diacritics teach me how to speak a language that I'm not native.

Portuguese don't use as many as Romanian, but they are very useful. After all what's the difference between avó and avô and just avo?

We don't use in very informal settings, like Whatsapp chat, because a native reader can infer from the context. And that's how English without them works, right?

Actually I wanted the English language to have some, so the tiny differences in certain constructions would be more obvious.
by throwaway1018 | 2025-10-18 13:02:18+00:00
I haven't seen it yet but this is a timely reminder about the dangers of authoritarian surveillance. As AI technology enables extremely powerful new tools of surveillance and control we appear to be sleepwalking into a nightmare.

For nation states the lure of increased surveillance over its citizens is like the lure of advertising dollars for social networks: hard to resist. It's like crack cocaine for them: they will always have justifications for increased powers of surveillance and control, it's like an inevitable creep towards Big Brother.

'If you've got nothing to hide you don't need to worry'. I think most people feel this way, but really this is a lame and lazy attitude. It's easier to carry on regardless than acknowledge the dangers of immense authoritarian control.

George Orwell had an epiphany many years ago and could see where we were heading. His warning to us in his book 1984 is more relevant today than it ever has been.
by seagnson | 2025-10-18 13:03:36+00:00
Thanks everyone for checking it out!

A few technical notes about how JFIF to JPG works:

It’s written in vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks — just an <input type="file">, a canvas, and the browser’s built-in toDataURL("image/jpeg") API.

The conversion happens entirely client-side. The image never leaves your device — not even temporarily. That means full privacy, zero bandwidth use, and instant processing.

The site doesn’t use cookies, analytics, or third-party scripts. It’s intentionally minimal to stay fast and compliant with privacy regulations.

It’s designed to work offline once cached by your browser — ideal for users in low-connectivity areas.

Tech Stack:

HTML5 + JavaScript (no frameworks)

CSS for a simple responsive layout

Hosted on Cloudflare Pages for global CDN + SSL

Upcoming ideas:

Drag-and-drop multiple file support

Preserve EXIF data on conversion

Add a dark mode toggle

Would love to hear your thoughts on privacy-first frontend tools like this — do you prefer pure JS local tools over heavier web apps?
by byronic | 2025-10-18 13:03:37+00:00
Speaking as a parent of young children, I don't see any point in going back to YouTube. It's been blocked in our household basically since our oldest was six, and I don't see any way they could ever lure us back into that ecosystem.

Save perhaps allowing access only to specific, curated (self-controlled) channels.

If anything, YT's announcement here suggests they're going to take an already terrible platform covered head to toe in schlock and say "y'know what, we can add on a few more buckets"
by everdrive | 2025-10-18 13:03:50+00:00
It depends. For a task I know well the LLM is often much worse. If I'm being asked to do something brand new, the LLM does speed me up quite a bit and let me build something I might have gotten stuck on otherwise. The problem is that although I did "build the thing," it's not clear I really gained any meaningful skills. It feels analogous to watching a documentary vs. reading a book. You learned _something_, but it's honestly pretty superficial.
by marshfram | 2025-10-18 13:04:24+00:00
A true function is outside its narrative effects, you're describing a narrative, not a correlational effect in science. Are you trained as a scientist or as a technologist to seek causes and effects.

As a scientist, the very "function" you're describing could easily be perceived as non-survival, as keeping our attention on things we should be ignoring. Hoel's theory is par to idealized. He's not seeing the impairing role of what he is describing.

Hoel is fundamentally a technologist hiding behind the skirts of science, employing functionalism when it's been long discarded:

"Functionalism is fundamentally a theory of communication. The story of the mutation within functionalism from an organics to a technics of communication within the primate body is a story of semiotic theories and technologies" Haraway

To summarize, a functional description or analysis like Hoel's is an argument about the technology of dreaming, not its organic role in the brain. It's not science. His is an extractive theory, "how do we use dreams separate from their organic relationship to mental states"?
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-18 13:04:57+00:00
> Unfortunately the Linux desktop is in its worst state it has been since two decades

I primarily used Linux in various ways since Ubuntu 6.06, and every year it gets a little bit better, useful and stable, from my point of view at least. But I also moved to Arch some years ago, and CachyOS this year, so that might cloud my view on how well things work, and I also stopped using laptops, which makes Linux life a lot easier.
by flumpcakes | 2025-10-18 13:04:59+00:00
> and set up import controls to prevent people from importing guns bought abroad.

In this example 4chan is 'importing' it's content to the UK. I agree though, Ofcom should just go straight to banning these websites that won't comply, rather than this silly and pointless song and dance. Ultimately that's the only real enforcement tool they have. For certain websites that will be enough (Facebook, etc.) for them to follow whatever law for the regions they want to be accessible in.
by zkmon | 2025-10-18 13:05:53+00:00
The article sounds a cliche. The progression was always happening, nothing sudden. Just like the continuous movement of tectonic plates through the earth quakes. When tension between the plates reach a level, rupture happens. But it is not the rupture causing the tectonic movement. It is the opposite.

Things like electricity, computers, internet, smartphones and AI are those earthquakes caused by the tectonic movement towards dominance of the machine.

The goal of human progress was to make everything easier. Tools came up to augment human abilities, both physical and mental, so that humans can free themselves from all hard work of physical labor and thinking.

We do gym and sports as the body needs some fake activity to fool it into believing that we still need all that muscle strength. We might get some gym and sports for the mind too to give it some fake activity.

Remember, the goal is to preserve ourselves as physical beings while not really doing any hard work.
by causal | 2025-10-18 13:05:59+00:00
LoRA's are more robust than context tokens - their influence remains strong over long contexts and do a much better job of actually changing behavior rather than mimicking a desired behavior via instruction.

But even if LoRA isn't it - the point is that "skill" seems like the wrong term for something that already has a name: instructions. These are instruct-tuned models. Given instructions they can do new things; this push to rebrand it as a "skill" just seems like marketing.
by kace91 | 2025-10-18 13:06:59+00:00
That is interesting! I haven't explored Procs much, since I use ruby for a shared codebase at work and I was originally a bit afraid of trying to push unidiomatic ideas in the codebase.

In your experience, is it ok to use Procs for example for extraction of block methods for cleanliness in refactors? or would I hit any major roadblocks if I treated them too much like first-class functions?

Also, is there any particular Rails convention to place collections of useful procs? Or does that go a bit against the general model?
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-18 13:07:41+00:00
I think those classes/lessons were added when the availability of computers were kind of so and so, not every kid had a computer at home but most adults at the time understood that computers will be used in the kids future one way or another, so they figured everyone should know it.

At one point it shifted to "everyone has a computer at home" to "everyone has a computer in their pocket, and learns typing by themselves" and the classes seems to have disappeared.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-10-18 13:07:48+00:00
It depends on what you are doing. A lot of people who want to do local inference want to do it using much larger models than what can be fit onto a RTX3090, and Strix Halo is such a hit because it gives you reasonable (not great, but good enough to not be outright painful) performance with 128GB of memory.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-18 13:08:11+00:00
More than just both can be correct.

>top use case for "Artificial Intelligence" is lack of natural intelligence.

Also true if you think about a situation where there is just not enough natural intelligence to accomplish something within its scope.

Maybe there never was enough natural intelligence for something or other, or maybe not enough any more.

It could be a lot more acceptable to settle for artificial in those cases more so than average, especially if there is a dire need,

But first you have to admit the dire lack of natural intelligence :\
by sph | 2025-10-18 13:09:05+00:00
Now that CLI tools are in fashion again... has nobody thought to recreate a modern version of Turbo C++/Pascal?

I know there's Emacs and vim, but they're far too programmable and bloated compared to the elegance of TC++, which did one job, and one job only, very well. Also, despite being an Emacs power user at this point, it's never going to be as ergonomic and well thought out with its arcane chords, while TC++ conveniently shows all possible keybinds throughout its UI.
by ben_w | 2025-10-18 13:09:11+00:00
The iPhone came out less than 20 years ago, and now I:

• Don't get out my debit card while shopping.

• Don't get lost exploring a new city.

• Have zero-cost video calls with anyone I want.

• Use most spare moments of my time — walking to the shops, or on public transport, or while hiking in the countryside — learning something new. When I'm not too damp for the capacitive touch screen, that can be interactive lessons, not just passive; but even for the passive consumption, mobile internet beats pre-loaded content on an MP3 player.

• Have a real-time augmented-reality translator, for the German I've not yet learned while living in Berlin, and all the other languages I don't (or barely) know while travelling outside the country.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-18 13:09:39+00:00
I used to work on a project that could take 30 mins+ to compile the entire project.

Nearly every time, your problems were detected _early_ in the process. Because build systems exist, they don't take 30 minutes on average. They focus on what's changed and you'll see problems instantly.

It's _WAY_ more efficient for human attentional flow than waiting for AI to reason about some change while I tap my fingers.
by com2kid | 2025-10-18 13:09:43+00:00
Ok fair. Souls came with a lot of different engine models. The engine in my 2011 soul was pre-gdi and is rock solid stable basically forever. I also had a 2015 forte with the 1.6L turbo which is, from my understanding, also super reliable so long as you change the oil every 3000 miles.

The absurd warranty Kia used to have encouraged them to put out good products. I had incorrect oil put in my Soul (at an oil change place!) and Kia warranty replaced the entire engine.
by jmclnx | 2025-10-18 13:10:14+00:00
I do not think so when compared to past ages. The only difference now is we get to see "stupid" due to the internet.

In the past, the majority of people who could be heard by the "masses" tended to be educated and wealthy. Now, everyone gets a voice.

But seems the article is more about AI and how it may make us stupider. Which I have no opinion on.
by neya | 2025-10-18 13:10:26+00:00
This advice assumes /customers/:id/bills is public. Protected routes shouldn't expose sensitive information such as bills anyway, so this is more of an authorization issue (who can access which resource) more than privacy concerns. So this means, if you can access customes/4000/bills, then that's an application logic issue more than the type of ID itself.

In a well designed application, you shouldn't be able to guess whether a record exists or not simply by accessing a protected URL. As a counter argument - normal BIGINT or serial PKs are performant and are more than enough for most applications.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-18 13:10:53+00:00
There are several issues with the Faraday bag approach:

- Your (mainstream, commercial, surveillance-capitalism-AI-feeding moloch) smartphone remains a massive privacy / surveillance / manipulation threat.

- Odds are strong that you'll be leaving a strong location and travel signal by where and when you choose to unbag your device. Or bag it, if that occurs only near specific locations you intend to make private, effectively circling the area with a large, red "don't look here" sign.

- Your contacts list, contact history, activity, and data remain on what is primarily a surveillance tool to be used against you.

The approach taken here, in isolating the cellular network point-of-contact to a modem/router, which can reidentify itself (BSSID) and swap SIMs (this ... should be sufficient to break chain-of-event tracking, though you might find yourself burning through SIMs rather quickly), and relying on other, more-trusted devices for actual communications (voice, SMS (ugh!), Signal (much better), etc., is one I've been exploring for similar reasons. Suggested in a recent HN comment here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604692>.

Yes, it's more than a slight PITA, but such is the experience of swimming upstream.
by parthdesai | 2025-10-18 13:11:02+00:00
> By sticking to v4, I'd have the same identifier for all resources across the API. When needed, I can expose the creation timestamp in the response separately. Audit is much simpler since the fields state explicitly what they will contain

Good luck if you're operating at a decent scale, and need to worry about db maintenance/throughput. Ask the DBA at your company what they would prefer.