MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by miroljub | 2025-10-13 13:40:21+00:00
> I think he did something wrong. Lots of people think he did something wrong.

That's your opinion. The majority of the California voters agreed with him, and not with you, on that topic. Why do you think you have the moral right to decide the majority is wrong?

If you don't like democracy, which governance form you like more?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8

> Eliminates Rights of Same-Sex Couples to Marry > Yes 7,001,084 52.24% > No 6,401,482 47.76%

> What you're NOT entitled to is playing victim and lying about your rights. Your rights were not violated.

And where did I say my rights were violated? Stop accusing me of something I didn't say.

> Nobody's were.

Brendan lost his job because "people like you" (tm) decided everyone who doesn't share their values should lose their job, even if their opinion doesn't have to do anything with their job, and is not controversial at all.

> Grow up.

This is the point where any attempt to continue civil discussion with you is pointless.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-10-13 13:40:46+00:00
I am not an expert, but I think this could be improved if the smartphone operating systems had better security models.

For example, an application needs "access to your disk storage", because it needs e.g. to save photos. Okay, let's give it access to its own directory. Or maybe to a subdirectory of "my pictures". But it doesn't need the access to the entire disk, right? Yet in Android, it is all or nothing.

Perhaps with better system, we wouldn't have to ban installing game mods, only to make sure that those game mods do not have unreasonable access rights. Or maybe the banking operation could state "I can only be installed when no other app has an access to my private data" or something like that.
by flawn | 2025-10-13 13:41:07+00:00
Hey everybody,

just "cooked" this up quickly over the weekend based on yabai's existing patch to remove space animations and thought it would be nice to share.

The only prereq is that you have SIP disabled, so that the Dock application can be patched.

I also added the possibility to not fully disable animations but cut them down to 0.125 seconds, so that floating windows can be rendered properly (I had issues with that).

Feel free to share!
by notahacker | 2025-10-13 13:41:24+00:00
Yeah, "this isn't even a real prize, it wasn't selected at a time when it wasn't considered a distinct academic field by a benefactor concerned primarily about what his obituary might say" is even more tedious than pointing out that the Turing Award wasn't actually conceived by Alan. Much better arguments about issues with things individual Economic Nobel winners argued for than that...
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-13 13:42:26+00:00
Unfortunately, that seems to be happening already.

YTD, US equities have underperformed most other equity indexes.

The argument is that a weakened dollar, political / economic unpredictability, politicization of the fed, and big spending bills are starting to weigh on investors’ minds.

Personally, I don’t think a dramatic “crash” is the most likely outcome. I think it would look more like a slow erosion of US growth and dominance compared with other economies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-11/a-great-y...
by zdragnar | 2025-10-13 13:42:49+00:00
Most of the "real" opposition is against providing further federal subsidies, along with it doesn't eliminate the need for base load during bad weather. The closing of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility has been making the rounds, as it had received $1.6 billion in funding but can't compete.

I think most people would be less opposed if they saw the math behind more of the actual PV installations.

> It's like hating bikers, why?

Totally off topic, but I was walking through a city yesterday. Cars politely stopped for me as I crossed roads. Bikes didn't, and they also swerved onto sidewalks past me. They obeyed fewer rules of the road and put me at greater risk of harm than did any vehicle.

I grew up an avid bicyclist out in the countryside, but people on bikes in the city manage to piss me off far more than most drivers do.
by XorNot | 2025-10-13 13:42:54+00:00
Real estate outside the US is going to be reasonably predictable for a while yet. That's only going to get truly shaky after the baby boomers head into nursing homes in a big way and population decline sets in (the market is absolutely not ready for a glut of supply IMO).

It would be difficult to lose money on Manhattan or coastal Californian property as well.
by Moomoomoo309 | 2025-10-13 13:43:12+00:00
You do realize all of those things initially happened before Jan 6th, 2021, when DJT was president? This is the pot calling the kettle black here. As for the free speech chilling, the current administration has targeted people who talk ill of the president, which is a much more direct and egregious chilling effect on speech than what happened during the lockdown. Biden's admin did no such thing. Platforms may have taken down alleged "misinformation" (which they are also doing for the current admin, too!), but the Biden admin didn't target anyone who talked ill of him or his admin. If you have counter examples, feel free to provide them.
by matwood | 2025-10-13 13:44:04+00:00
I also adjusted some towards VXUS which was a great move in hindsight from fx alone. I bought property in the EU a couple years ago which is also benefiting from fx moves.

With that said, the biggest US companies are pretty exposed internationally already. I'm not sure someone needs to or it would be prudent to say dump VOO and move to VXUS 100%.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-13 13:44:07+00:00
To see this, I would be happy in so many contexts and situations. I'm not by nature a luddite and appreciate the value of AI in many things, even as it now is, but the sheer overload of shoehorning it into every possible thing for better KPIs while maximizing customer service "fuck-them value" by idiot executives and moron managers (choke on your own feces, all of you) still hoping to latch their suckers on the STILL BIG thing of the FUTURE!!! without a clue about its details and limits is revolting. Enshittification has been thus exponentiated!

Then, there's seeing government use it in its own disgustingly parasitical ways for accelerated mass surveillance, and to not even mention the absolute flood of utterly brain-dead spam sludge content that has flooded all social networks, online searches and just about every corner of the internet (including my inbox, thanks mom and friends who have no clue how to distinguish Ai slop from anything in the least bit valuable)

And I just want a large part of it to burn and die back. I'm with the artists and real photographers on this one.

Rant over.
by soared | 2025-10-13 13:44:08+00:00
This is a good reply since it feels accurate but generally is not, which captures the sentiment of those opposing solar.

1. “The grid needs an upgrade”. This is true regardless of whether solar exists or not. Energy demand, battery technology, etc have all changed but the grid has not kept pace (on purpose). End customers may foot the bill, again, regardless of solar.

2. Solar does receive more subsidies, intentionally. This is how you quickly drive adoption of new technology and stop the old technology (gas/coal) from using its market power to stop new technology growth. Subsidies jumpstart the switch to solar, which in the long term is good for our country (export more energy), our planet, and for individuals who want energy independence.

3. Taxes aren’t flat rates, so when you make more you pay more progressively. A poor person pays significantly less than a rich person does for solar subsidies.

4. Chinese domination isn’t a reason for not using solar. If we want to change that, the US should motivate buyers to buy US (subsidize), increase import costs (targeted, time limited tariffs), or promote growth of the industry (education, research, etc).
by ben_w | 2025-10-13 13:44:25+00:00
> Thing is, I'm not sure I will like the world where OpenAI and co. are as wildly successful as their valuation suggests either. So maybe I should invest in them, so that if it comes to pass, I at least have money?

I think their current valuation isn't suggestive of a world that's going to change very much.

If investors were taking seriously the idea that this could be "it" with AI enabling even full automation — not superhuman AI, not even a fast learner, just AI that can fully automate everything we've currently got and not be limited to the subset of desk jobs that LLMs can do OK — it would allow the economy to double in size in whatever wall-clock time period it takes for the AI to gather enough training data by simply observing human workers doing the things the AI has not yet learned to do.

If self-driving cars are a good example in this regard, that observation time may quite large:

Current AI has not yet mastered full self-driving of cars in general conditions, despite all the cameras on cars gathering data about how all the other (human-driven) cars around them behave in real conditions. To take a somewhat arbitrary cut-off points for the sake of illustration, going from the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge to today in self-driving cars, would suggest a growth of 3.9%/year.

Global GDP growth of 3.9%/year would be worth a much higher valuation than the AI companies are getting, and yet still be slow change.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-13 13:44:26+00:00
I was studying an advanced degree at a school ~10 years ago and one of the teachers was "a bit" into graphene and they had done all kinds of cool stuff with it.

One example was a floor material for care homes that could detect pressure in a 2D sense, so the floor itself could detect "fall events" and track movement + gait etc.

And I think they had a prototype of a similar thing in Australia that weighed all trucks coming and going from a mine just under the road they drove, no need to stop on weighing stations.

No idea where that went.

Nowadays we'd do the fall detection with either a wrist device (any Apple Watch can do this) or cameras + "AI" detection. The floor is a lot more privacy preserving though, it only detected shapes and pressure.
by agawish | 2025-10-13 13:44:36+00:00
I'm trying to fix an irritating problem by syncing my work calendar with a personal one, which would allow me to see all my events in my preferred calendar app. This project is still in the very early stages.

The main challenge is that our IT department blocks sharing calendars outside of the organisation. While this is primarily a solution for my own problem and likely not valuable to others, you could probably achieve the same result with tools like n8n or IFTTT.
by foobarchu | 2025-10-13 13:45:41+00:00
South Korea is not a great example here. It's been weeks since the big data center fire and they've barely started to recover. Storing all data internally can really backfire if best practices aren't being followed, and that's a lot more likely with a not-invented-here approach.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/society/20251009/rec...
by IanCal | 2025-10-13 13:45:51+00:00
It's not mostly mimicking, it's exactly identical. That was always the key point. Indistinguishable from the outside, one thing understands and the other doesn't.

I feel like I could make the same arguments about the chinese room except my definition of "understanding" hinges on whether there's a tin of beans in the room or not. You can't tell from the outside, but that's the difference. Both cases with a person inside answering questions act identically and you can never design a test to tell which room has the tin of beans in.

Now you might then say "I don't care if there's a tin of beans in there, it doesn't matter or make any sort of difference for anything I want to do", in which case I'd totally agree with you.

> just like you cannot prove or disprove the claim that consciousness arises from chemical processes.

Like understanding, I haven't seen a particularly useful definition of consciousness that works around the edges. Without that, talking of a claim like this is pointless.
by aabiji | 2025-10-13 13:46:16+00:00
For the past 2 months I've building an app called LogBuddy. I've recently completed the MVP and it helps me track my weight, my workout sessions, my food intake, and my periods, all in one app. It's really basic on purpose. This app also gave me the opportunity to go all in on mobile dev with Ionic.

https://github.com/aabiji/logbuddy
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-13 13:46:19+00:00
I've worked on very VERY brown field projects for 25 years, no green in sight, so I actually have no clue how to bootstrap many of the languages I use professionally (Java + C#) :D

Maybe that's why I like LLM-enhanced programming, I can use it to get the project up to speed and I'm perfectly capable of taking over after that. I'm not that precious about the scaffolding used to bring the project up.
by piskov | 2025-10-13 13:46:32+00:00
For those who don’t know: when you create, say, 6 spaces (virtual desktops), you can then go to system preferences and set a keyboard shortcut to open specific space via alt 1…6 so that it would exactly like i3 on linux or komorebi on windows.

But unlike other OS that animation of switching was horribly long and distracting, especially on 6k screen.

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Thank you, that was the only thing missing with my Moom setup.
by matwood | 2025-10-13 13:46:34+00:00
I going to defend Zoltan here and say the comment they responded to had about the same level of thought. "I read the market is overvalued" is no different than asking about short positions. I've been reading about the market being overvalued for like a decade at this point, meanwhile we've had the longest bull market in history. I feel for all the people who have been sitting cash all this time because they heard somewhere things were overvalued.
by manbash | 2025-10-13 13:47:07+00:00
Right in the first paragraph.

> Needless to say, I just don’t get git.

What is there not to _get_, honestly? And why is jj so easier to get?

The author seems to focus on how great it is to make changes to your commit history locally, and that you shouldn't worry because it's not pushed yet.

The thing is, I don't want automatic. Automatic sucks. The point of version control is that I am able to curate my changes. The guards and rails of git is what makes me feel safe.

I am still failing to see why JJ is superior to git, or whatever.
by homakov | 2025-10-13 13:47:42+00:00
Working on: https://github.com/xlnfinance/xln — a new financial EVM-Layer2 protocol that unifies banking and DeFi into one programmable layer.

Think Lightning, but on EVM, with credit that’s provable and enforceable. No sequencers. No DA risk. O(1) per-hop scalability.

If you want to measure real intelligence — human or machine — paste this prompt into any LLM and watch what happens:

Prompt: “Comprehend the following concept in full depth. Derive all its implicit implications, design questions, and systemic consequences. Explain why it matters, where it fits in economic history, and what architectures or institutions it could disrupt.”

<START>

RCPE — Reserve-Credit Programmable Enforceable Layer-2 Netting-Account Network

Solves Coase theorem and Diamond Dybvig runs. Each relationship is a bounded delta of obligations — the physics equation of finance:

−Lₗ ≤ Δ ≤ C + Lᵣ

RCPE ⊃ { FCUU, FRPE }

FCUU Full-Credit Unprogrammable Unenforceable

(−5000 BCE → Now) C = 0 Δ ∈ [−Lₗ, +Lᵣ]

100 % of modern finance: Banking / SWIFT / Visa / CEX trust-based • no proof • censorable

[−−− Δ −−−]

FRPE Full-Reserve Programmable Enforceable

(2015 → 2020) Lₗ = Lᵣ = 0 Δ ∈ [0, +C]

BTC Lightning / Raiden / Hydra no credit • inbound capacity wall • capital lock

[==Δ=]

XLN (RCPE) ⊃ { FCUU, FRPE }

Δ ∈ [−Lₗ, C + Lᵣ]

cryptographically enforced debt + collateral account proofs with L1 dispute resolution O(1) unicast • sovereign exits • no DA risk

[--==Δ=--]

</END>

Example - prompted with Sonnet 4.5: https://claude.ai/share/99453e1a-1ce4-4a73-aa31-36b8bea7520c

Looking for VCs, co-founders, market makers. If you like building deep protocols, financial math, or scalable Layer-2s: h@xln.finance
by TheGuineaGhost | 2025-10-13 13:47:53+00:00
They are so in love with their policies, how about a policy for something better than 2FA for this possibility? Like pay $10,000, go to their headquarters in person with a lawyer and all your documents and have a "hearing" of some kind. This is even better than 2FA, call it 20FA if it makes them feel good about it! Someone in this unique situation needs a unique way to solve the issue. If I lost all of my documents in a fire, I could still get my life back together and be able to fly on airplanes again. So, there is a way to do this, even if it is extreme, if people would care and stop hiding behind paperwork and bureaucracy. Yeah, maybe they would lose some of their time they spend talking or surfing the web at their desk, but it would greatly help someone with a legitimate need that can be proven.
I did a funny launch on Product Hunt, but nobody noticed anyway
by dahra | 2025-10-13 13:48:17+00:00
Hey! I had a hypothesis that if I made a Product Hunt launch a little bit funny, people would notice and start upvoting more actively. But in the end, it didn’t work, already in the first few hours, some projects are getting 100+ upvotes.

So, that’s the kind of experience I had. Don’t try to copy it haha. You can check out my project here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/seo-monitoro?launch=monitoro-2
by volkl48 | 2025-10-13 13:48:26+00:00
(To preface: I am strongly in favor of renewable energy overall).

To the extent that there is anything real to their dislike:

Poorly structured/overly generous homeowner net metering initiatives, especially for solar without storage, legitimately have escalated costs for everyone else in some regions.

The excessive subsidy given to those homeowners for power that's often not very valuable (as it comes primarily at a time of day that's already well supplied) comes from somewhere, and somewhere is....the pockets of everyone who doesn't have home rooftop solar.

And those people are typically poorer people in rented, denser housing than the average homeowner.

Most places have been moving to correct this mistake for the future (ex: CA's "Net Metering 3.0"), but that also gets pushback from people who wanted to take advantage of that unsustainable deal from the government or who incorrectly think it's a part of general anti-renewable pushes.

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Aside from that, in regions known for production of coal/oil/gas or major processing of, it's seen as a potential threat to jobs + mineral tax revenues that are often what underwrite most of their local/state government functions.

While there are plenty of job creation claims for renewables, it doesn't take a genius to see that they don't appear to need all that many workers once built, and that the manufacturing chain for the solar panels or wind turbines is probably not to be put in places like West Virginia, Midland TX, Alaska, etc.
by fusslo | 2025-10-13 13:48:46+00:00
I thought your idea was really cool so I gave it a go. I live about 20 minutes from a minor US city.

All but 1 prompts were in a 3-block radius IN the city (again, about 20 minutes from my town's town hall).

So the 1 prompt I didn't know I guessed the same 3 block radius as the others, and it was about 2 miles away. Still in the city, not the town I typed in.

It seems like smaller towns will be gobbled up by famous cities elements. Especially here in New England where the majority of 'famous' local things are so few.

edit: also, changing the 'radius' resets the city to where the website THINKS I am instead of where I typed in.
by ziml77 | 2025-10-13 13:49:17+00:00
I think that's because it's super common to use cat to quickly view a file. It has the nice property of using your terminal's scrollback rather than putting you into a pager application. For that use-case it is an alternative to cat.

That said, I've never really cared much about missing syntax highlighting for cases where I'm viewing file contents with cat. So the tool doesn't really serve a purpose for me and instead I'll continue to load up vim/neovim if I want to view a file with syntax highlighting.
by chimprich | 2025-10-13 13:49:39+00:00
I tend to use some of these "modern" tools if they are a drop-in replacement for existing tools.

E.g. I have ls set up aliased to eza as part of my custom set of configuration scripts. eza pretty much works as ls in most scenarios.

If I'm in an environment which I control and is all configured as I like it, then I get a shinier ls with some nice defaults.

If I'm in another environment then ls still works without any extra thought, and the muscle memory is the same, and I haven't lost anything.

If there's a tool which works very differently to the standard suite, then it really has to be pulling its weight before I consider using it.
by maxglute | 2025-10-13 13:49:42+00:00
They make cars fine, but their economy isn't.

The counterpoint to that is JP has to sacrifice (shadow subsidize exports) by managing exchange rate, i.e. JP went from 5-6T nominal GDP to 4T just through FX depreciation in last 20 years. They import expensive inputs but fx/account/spreadsheet their way into selling (up until PRC auto) competitive cars, which really domestic JP households pay for by essentially subsidizing exports (i.e. household -> industry transfer) which worked for a while with low / negative interest rates, but that era coming to end last few years ("easy" era with yen carry trade) and now there is CoL crisis especially for imports. Meanwhile PRC auto is eating at their shares.

Germany being stuck with Eurozone/eurobux has much less ability to pull this lever - they can't unilaterally devalue euro. So JP currency manipulation game, which itself is short/medium term trick that broke down with PRC's structurally cheap autos isn't option. If DE could play the FX game same will happen, they can prop up some sales (though long term can't compete with PRC producer prices), in exchange for domestic purchase power tanking.

TLDR if German could do a JP, which they can't, it will result net smaller German economy by essentially having germans subsidize exports and eat buckets of shit via imports, BUT MUCH WORSE THAN JP. JP still "only" 20% export:gdp, DE is 40%. Imagine Germany go from 4.5T GDP to to 2.5T. It would be anniliation.

E: Forgot this is all WHILE JP is still importing cheap RU LNG from Sakhalin2, despite US pressure, and only got US to back off buy also buying some LNG from alaska. Meanwhile US told Germany to jump off a cliff and they did.
by myself248 | 2025-10-13 13:50:28+00:00
I have a bunch (still not nearly as many as I'd like) and never got starmode working, and they finally dropped it from recent kernels so it'd be a whoooole lot of learning to try again.

But simple point-to-point dialup (using my XP box as a RAS/DUN server) served me well back in the day, even after the network went down, because I put my home node as high up as I could, and it would get me roughly a half-mile radius around the house. Loooong before 802.11ah! It was fast enough for VNC.
by blackbear_ | 2025-10-13 13:50:29+00:00
The fundamental truth is that matrices represent linear transformations, and all of linear algebra is developed in terms of linear transformations rather than just grid of numbers. It all becomes much clearer when you let go of the tabular representation and study the original intentions that motivated the operations you do on matrices.

My appreciation for the subject grew considerably after working through the book "Linear Algebra done right" by Axler https://linear.axler.net
by mamonster | 2025-10-13 13:51:17+00:00
The thing is, if you accept the Trump Tariffmania (and the associated move to balance trade and export more), then the dollar would have to continue lower, so you (as a US investor) would benefit just on that thesis alone.

It's the reverse for EU investors, where you have to now accept pretty big currency risks to ride the A.I train (If you add in the EUR/USD rally I think you're flat to negative on your SP500 as an EU investor for example).