MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-10-03 12:53:31+00:00
I think the debt is what makes the risk systemic. Sure it can be overvalued, but alone that won't cause a generationally painful economic meltdown. It's the spending and debt that make something that is a bubble into something truly dangerous. All the exotic private credit and structured finance that is powering this thing along with the lack of any viable revenue stream to keep up with the debt plus interest that make this thing so dangerous. Sure maybe Meta can take a huge hit and limp away (it's still gonna be very painful for them and people who own a lot of its stock) but can OpenAI, can CoreWeave or any of the firms that lent to them? It's a domino effect. The fact that Meta is doing this is a huge red flag. The problem is the market is rewarding this endless cash burn without any way to generate the appropriate revenue. Once reality catches up there are a ton of knock on effects.
by itissid | 2025-10-03 12:54:30+00:00
> I feel like Accessibility needs to include discoverability, affordance, and usability, as principal axes.

Would most people who struggle with modern UI/UX would customize the discovery in their own way i.e. should every UI be configurable in a way it aligns with each user's mental model? And how would a UX system *behave* to find the "best" model for the job?
by lillecarl | 2025-10-03 12:54:38+00:00
"Google TV Streamer" is Googles official one, it's very streaming focused, any Android TV device of a reputable brand is good. NVIDIA Shields being the best.

I can recommend the app "Stremio" which has an extensive add-on ecosystem you can explore, works on Android, Android TV, Linux, MacOS and Windows!
by AJRF | 2025-10-03 12:55:13+00:00
Graph DBs model relationship between entities. Is that a useful property of your retrieval task? They won't magically make your retrieval better without other additional work.

How are you evaluating your current retrieval? Can you get to the point where you can compare your current solution with a Graph based one?

A lot of the time i've seen people reach for a Graph DB they actually wanted/needed re-ranking of results.

An aside but the Director of ML at a company I worked for kept telling us "We need a Graph! We need a Graph!" and when questioned about _why_ said because we could find fastest routes between train stations (it was for a big train ticket retailer) - no matter how many times we told him we don't set the routes and timetables, it's set by National Rail.

I (and many others) left the company shortly after his arrival.
by gyomu | 2025-10-03 12:55:40+00:00
I don't know man. It's easy to wax poetic about simplicity behind a keyboard, but again - they're maintaining an operating system that has to work for blind users, for people using their AirPods as hearing aids, for people who want to make the font XXXL, for people who read in (one of dozens of languages, all with their own quirks as to how they should be displayed), people who want to interact with their phone by talking to it, people who want to plug in their phone to their car, people who use their phone as a transit pass/credit card/digital ID in (one of the dozens of countries supported, each with its own regulatory quirks), people who mostly care about using their phone as a camera, people who are using their phone for work purposes with arcane legacy requirements...

Etc etc etc. With all that in mind, a few dozen/hundred features a year (depending on what you count as a feature) sounds quite tame to me. If you look at each individual app, they honestly get way less churn and change for the sake of change than most products on the market do. For example my usage of Notes.app has remained more or less unchanged over the last 15 years, while in a fraction of that time apps like Notion will shift stuff around and force workflows on me a half dozen times. I don't even remember Apple killing a core app that people relied on? That can't be said for most any competitor.

The hate towards the new design system that feels rushed and is riddled with inconsistencies and legibility problems is justified. Comparing macOS to Windows - an operating system that has been literally shoving ads in our faces, or saying "well they should just take inspiration from Linux and just not ship new features" feels... as weak of an argument as it gets.
by williamcotton | 2025-10-03 12:56:09+00:00
I wrote my own DSL to write my own blogging engine with embedded Lua, jq, mustache, and more:

https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe

My blog code:

https://github.com/williamcotton/williamcotton.com/blob/mast...

GET /hello/:world |> jq: `{ world: .params.world }` |> handlebars: `<p>hello, {{world}}</p>` describe "hello, world" it "calls the route" when calling GET /hello/world then status is 200 and output equals `<p>hello, world</p>`
by kqr | 2025-10-03 12:56:32+00:00
> mobile apps last a long time too

Really? How come half of the apps I've used in the past are listed in the app store as "not compatible with this device, but they can be installed on $device_gone_to_rest_in_drawer_14_years_ago"?

I'm genuinely curious! I thought it was aggressive deprecation of mobile OS APIs that made old apps no longer work on new phones.
by yoz-y | 2025-10-03 12:56:36+00:00
Depending on the use case that might be a positive. For a basic web application for example it is better to conform to the host OS style.

For most documents mainly designed for reading it should not matter at all. People will do a lot of stuff to your page anyways (reader mode, zooming 10-20x, adblockers that block fonts…)
by bpt3 | 2025-10-03 12:56:58+00:00
That's because, like most progressives, the author sees land use planning and policy as a tool for social justice because they see everything as a tool for social justice.

I would argue (not with you, as I think you and I agree) that most people do not agree with the author, and just want to see an assessment that reflects the market rate for their property (which is extremely simple to determine in the vast majority of cases) and a tax rate that results in adequate funding for government services when applied to assessed property in the jurisdiction.

Obviously the definition of "adequate funding for government services" is highly subjective, which is where the political debates lie.
by kavinaidoo | 2025-10-03 12:57:07+00:00
Two years ago I set up an android tablet for my grandmother to make and receive WhatsApp calls. Was a fun challenge to have the setup compensate for her never having used a touch screen before.

One interaction that missed the cut was using the tablet's accelerometer to answer calls so she wouldn't have to interact with the screen at all. Simply tilting the tablet forward and back on it's stand would have answered the call. You just can't beat the customizability of Android (with Tasker) for things like this.

https://kavi.sblmnl.co.za/grandmother-communicator/ https://kavi.sblmnl.co.za/grandmother-communicator-part-2/
by moralestapia | 2025-10-03 12:57:17+00:00
>What is OpenAI's competitive moat?

The broken record's still running, someone please turn it off!

At this point I think people just suffer from some sort of borderline mental disorder.

700 MAUs in just a couple years? In a red(-pretty-much-pure-blood) ocean? Against companies who've been in the business for 20 years?

One would have to be quite dumb or obtuse not to see it.
by mmahemoff | 2025-10-03 12:57:44+00:00
Yes and combine with a travel router so you don’t have to endure logging into a wifi portal with a soft keyboard on the TV, if the stick OS even allows it. Then having to repeat the process daily due to expiration times, or as soon as you remove the key card from the hotel room slot, causing the router to power down and the TV stick to time out.
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by vessenes | 2025-10-03 12:57:59+00:00
META free cashflow last year : $20bn. Cash on Hand: $47bn. "Worrying" Debt: $15bn sought.

ORCL, the other company they're talking about: $20bn in Cash from Operations, $21bn in capital expenditures, ORCL Cash on Hand: $11bn. ORCL's recent debt flotation: $18bn.

ORCL has 40 years to pay back; demand was reportedly $88bn for the offering. I imagine pricing was close to T-bills.

These flotations posit that demand for compute will continue to increase over the next 40 years, and that infra providers who can get there early will do better than Treasuries.

Calling it a bubble just because the numbers are big is the weakest of financial journalism. Now, do you think inference and datacenter demand will drop? If so, it's worth asking if and when these datacenter will pay, and if they don't, who will take the hit. That would be useful analysis.

I'm pro these plays -- right now inference has an 80% margin; that's after paying the fully capitalized costs of datacenters + compute + the datacenter margin. To the extent a company controls its own inference stack and can do so with a 5% cost of capital, they should do it.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-03 12:58:29+00:00
So you will do anything, trade away everything, and capitulate at the slighted provocation to avoid the faintest possibility of war?

If not, where do you draw the line?

Because this isn’t the first time this has been analyzed, and the math is clear: the only winning strategy with terrorists not negotiate under any circumstances. You call their bluff, and you make known that you will always call their bluff in the future, and never back down. Do anything else and the terrorist can manipulate you into anything they want.
by fhd2 | 2025-10-03 12:58:35+00:00
What about the rest of the economy? Deutsche Bank recently said that the AI hype is the only thing holding the US stock market together. And if that crashes, it tends to ripple world wide.

Scary stuff, at least to someone who doesn't know all that much about market resilience. With what little I know, I'm hoping for a soft pop with slow deflation. But big tech seems to just pump harder right now.
by neochris | 2025-10-03 12:58:42+00:00
Hi HN, has anyone tried: https://github.com/TracecatHQ/tracecat

We got workflows, tables and case management. Focused on SecOps, ITOps, and prod eng / infra use cases.

Even if you’re on Jira or SNOW, having even a basic ticketing system built in turned out to be a very productive persistence layer for our users to prototype with.

Copy left AGPL 3.0 license.
by mejutoco | 2025-10-03 12:59:26+00:00
I stand corrected. All of those seem loanwords, but you are absolutely right.

My main point is that if you hear the sounds "th" (za) with e or i 99% it is cena or circo and will not be zena or zirco. It is an heuristic but very reliable.

P.S. Or pececín, as a random example :P
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-03 12:59:40+00:00
Worth watching: You won't believe what Estonia just built to stop Russia https://youtu.be/DMRQW18COv4

The Baltics, Poland, and northern European countries don't have any illusions that NATO is already in a de facto state of asymmetric war with Russia already: hacking, sabotage, and election meddling of all sorts. The surface of concerns extend beyond that to Ukraine-like hot war scenarios especially for neighboring countries like Finland and the Baltics.
by ESibio | 2025-10-03 13:00:18+00:00
I know its not meant to be appreciated, but I actually really appreciate this insight. while the current product provides relevant and factual information, I would say its slightly better than most Computer based training. Not super engaging, but well delivered and not a COMPLETE snoozefest either. We have plans to make it more engaging in the future, but its going to cost a significant amount of money to do what we want to do.
by microtonal | 2025-10-03 13:00:22+00:00
Don't feel like you are getting Eurosplained. I say the same thing when our government does something stupid where it could learn from any other country in the world (there is plenty of that).

we can understand it AND think it's a bad idea

Please explain why Oracle ID would be better than one of the existing governmental/nonprofit systems. Genuinely curious.
by mort96 | 2025-10-03 13:00:24+00:00
I genuinely do not understand what part of my comments you take issue with. You said that programs will assume the core RISC-V ISA. I said that no, most programs will assume the existence of some extensions, including integer multiply/divide and floating point.

There are two possibilities here:

* Either I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, and you did not mean that most programs will use only the core ISA.

* Or you're trying to say that integer multiply/divide and floating point is part of the core ISA.

Which one is it?

If it's the first one, could you try to clarify? Because I can't see another way to interpret the phrase "programs will want probably to stay conservative and will implement only the core ISA".
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-03 13:01:22+00:00
The Penobscot Narrows Bridge (opened, 2006) was the first thing that sprang to mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penobscot_Narrows_Bridge_and...

One end has an observation deck, built just for fun! It’s on the slower, non I-95 route up through Maine to Bar Harbor / Acadia National Park.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-03 13:01:26+00:00
The customization seems to be the issue.

Not sure if you are an iOS user, or not, but the Accessibility customization is batshit crazy. Lots of cool things to tweak, but there's way too many knobs and switches. Also, and this is an issue with settings/preferences in almost all apps, regardless of platform, the damn settings aren't where they are supposed to be. They get placed into screens that match the designer's structure, but not that match the user's mental model.

I'd like to see customization models that match user mental models, and maybe better support for adapting to the user.

"AI" may be helpful, here. I think previous "wizards" have not been up to the task.
by cainxinth | 2025-10-03 13:01:26+00:00
> You can call it organizational absurdities. Or more bluntly, institutional stupidity.

Sure, there is plenty of that, but some of what the author is describing can be chalked up to another principle: realpolitik. Every organization has values and practices that can become lip service when practical realities intrude. The inefficiency that is causing you a burden might be benefiting someone else who is working hard to keep it in place.
by andai | 2025-10-03 13:01:27+00:00
>I often see wisdom in websites such as Hacker News and Lobsters around the idea of "choosing boring" because it is proven, safe, easier to maintain. I think that boring is not necessarily applicable to my case. I don't find Lua boring at all, but all that those blog posts talk about that kind of mindset are all applicable to my own choices here.

I think what is really meant by choosing boring technology is that it be simple, proven, reliable.

That's the key part. Minimize cognitive load, maximize peace of mind.

Some ecosystems are "boring" in the sense that developers are not excited about them, but they also maximize your blood pressure and chance of shipping defects. That's the wrong kind of boring!
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-03 13:01:42+00:00
First Brands and Tricolor Are Signs of What's to Come: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-29/first-...

Archive: https://archive.is/rwJuP

$1.6T Credit Bubble Bursts as Two “Healthy” U.S. Firms Collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51DmcBx6BI0
by diggan | 2025-10-03 13:02:05+00:00
By grinding what though? I don't wanna grind "Entering characters with my fingers", I wanna grind "Does this design work for getting X to work as I want", which is exactly the sort of things LLMs help me move faster on.

And yes, if you're just using it as a slot machine, I understand it doesn't feel useful. But I don't think that's how most people use it, at least that's not how I use it.
by topherhunt | 2025-10-03 13:02:33+00:00
Don't worry about this. There's no way these tools are going away. If this bubble bursts it may wipe out the incentive to continue this frenzied race to build novel AI, but ChatGPT et al won't be shut down, and even if they were, the open-source LLMs comparable to the cutting-edge of 6 months ago will still be online and available. Plus, even if AI progress froze solid tomorrow, I think it would take decades before we'd start to anywhere-near-saturate the potential space of applications & use cases to really do the current tech level justice. (Also, even post-bubble, AI progress would not freeze solid, to put it mildly)
by boneitis | 2025-10-03 13:02:57+00:00
I must take a moment to second the bit about proper push-up form.

Fantastic exercise you can do just about anywhere.

I went an hour out of town to watch the Perseids a couple months back. I'm a bit of a gym rat, so I did sets of push-ups to keep my body temperature up, though I'm already shivering by the time I'm starting each set. So, I completely neglected to even think about the proper form (I made the classic mistake of squaring outward my elbows), and further aggravating the circumstances was dealing with the awkward road angles/grades.

With just a handful of sets, I'm pretty sure I permanently damaged my right shoulder. Ugh. The Perseids were fantastic, though :)
by mmahemoff | 2025-10-03 13:03:00+00:00
Correct. Fortunately a number of streaming services are available in many regions nowadays, e.g., Netflix, Apple TV, Disney, HBO Max or whatever it’s called now.

The content may vary between regions though, e.g., you open Netflix in another country and no longer see a show you’re watching while see other ones appear. This can sometimes feel like a feature more than a bug.
by xd1936 | 2025-10-03 13:03:07+00:00
I use this quite a bit! At the very least, if you're going to insist on using a custom font, having the rest of one of these stacks behind it can help guarantee that users with third-party resource blockers or other weird browsers get an experience closer to what you intend.

For example, I always take Google Font's suggestion for Inter[1]:

font-family: "Inter", sans-serif;

and change it to:

font-family: "Inter", system-ui, sans-serif;

or e.g. EB Garamond[2] from:

font-family: "EB Garamond", serif;

to:

font-family: 'EB Garamond', 'Iowan Old Style', 'Palatino Linotype', 'URW Palladio L', P052, serif;

It makes for less layout shift on slower connections too.

1. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter

2. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond
by the_snooze | 2025-10-03 13:03:18+00:00
>ship a new feature and make sure people use it by making it as annoyingly in-your-face as possible, so you can show "impact".

Modern consumer tech in a nutshell. It's less about serving the paying end-user and more about self promotion. There's so much neediness and entitlement in the design.

You're quite right about the relative calm in Linux. It knows it's an operating system, and an OS is supposed to stay out of the way and simply support the user's needs, not be a billboard for junk.
by krono | 2025-10-03 13:03:22+00:00
An example of something to keep in mind with this technique is that you might actually end up causing the browser to render a different font than either you or the user intended.

For a practical example:

Environment

- Latest Firefox on Windows 10. - Manually installed fonts 'Cascadia Code' and 'JetBrains Mono NL'. - Firefox default 'monospace' font set to 'JetBrains Mono NL'.

Setting `font-family: monospace;` would end up rendering 'JetBrains Mono NL' - the user-configured default monospace font.

Setting `font-family: 'Cascadia Code', monospace;` would also render 'JetBrains Mono NL' - privacy features prevent pages from querying non-standard system fonts and this will also be reflected as a console warning message: 'Request for font "Cascadia Mono" blocked at visibility level 2 (requires 3)".'

Now, if you were to use he "Monospace Code" font stack listed on this page `font-family: ui-monospace, 'Cascadia Code', 'Source Code Pro', Menlo, Consolas, 'DejaVu Sans Mono', monospace;`, you will render... Yup, 'Consolas'!

1. `ui-monospace` - remains unsupported by Firefox which is lame (would also render 'Consolas'). 2. `Cascadia Code` - see above, access denied because it isn't natively available on Windows 10 (also, coding ligatures... more like illigatures, amirite?). 3. `Source Code Pro` - skipped due to unavailability. 4. `Menlo` - skipped due to unavailability. 5. `Consolas` - next option in line, this one is available and is the one that will be chosen. 6. `DejaVu Sans Mono` - skipped, font already determined. 7. `monospace` - skipped, font already determined.

These modern font stacks suck. Please, if you want to render font and it has to be something specific, then use an actual web font and simply fall back to the default 'monospace' which is controlled by the user.
by Royce-CMR | 2025-10-03 13:03:28+00:00
Yeah I agree. But I’ll split it slightly.

From a trust perspective I want a real demo. Technical team, deep dive, concept sold now talk me through it type stuff.

From a “show non-tech executives the art of the possible as part of 2026/2027 planning” I want a recording.

Failure in the latter isn’t a 3/10, it’s a -10/10.
by lsuresh | 2025-10-03 13:05:08+00:00
Start with Postgres and scale later once you have a better idea of your access patterns. You will likely model your graph as entities and recursively walk the graph (most likely through your application).

If the goal is to maintain views over graphs and performance/scale matters, consider Feldera. We see folks use it for its ability to incrementally maintain recursive SQL views (disclaimer: I work there).
by twic | 2025-10-03 13:05:14+00:00
From a quick look at the construction, it seems that is the case.

The British and German stations (and perhaps others) use a different approach, standing on mobile legs that can be raised, allowing the snow foundation underneath to be built up:

https://youtu.be/LSCCi9ZhnZs?si=_nsyN5qfFeT-dCUa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6AfUJLtPcA

The British one can also be towed around if it needs to be somewhere else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQvqaSWmVeo
by macintux | 2025-10-03 13:05:42+00:00
What drive me crazy when using Windows for work is the abysmal copy/paste support.

Just 2 minutes ago I started an email, was composing a numbered list of steps, saw that a co-worker sent another email to the same thread, so I copied the text I was working on and replied to the latest mail.

The numbered list of steps was no longer a numbered list that I could continue auto-incrementing, but just plain text.

And that's just from one Microsoft program to itself. Copying text between two different Microsoft apps rarely preserves the formatting I want. Copying text between Microsoft and a 3rd party application is guaranteed to be an exercise in frustration.