MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by infecto | 2025-10-22 11:57:40+00:00
Time is money and picking out ingredients is incredibly low return on my time. I love grocery shopping, going to HEB or Central Market or other boutique store. I don’t want to do it every week multiple times a day though. I am sure some of this is cultural and what type of stores are available.

Nobody said it was stressful, it’s simply a huge chunk of time gone, would much rather spend it with family or doing the cooking itself. Go to any grocery store in America, even if you have a specific list it’s takes a good chunk of time. Why would I want to spend it smelling the veggies. I am sure you could probably get a slightly better taste or quality but I imagine on average it’s minimal. Everyone is different though. I cook a lot, have worked in kitchens, but with kids and a job, I have little interest in being selective on a daily basis. I can simply spend 5 mins, add a list of items to order, get it delivered and have saved probably a good hour in total.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-22 11:57:57+00:00
Recall that DSL is largely speaking ~1999, docsis was ~1997. adoption was moreso in the 2000s.

So the 90s was essentially dialup. So people were hellbent on keeping designs simple and small sizes.

When consumer high speed became a thing, the opposite effect happened, it was extravagent to have tons of content.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-22 11:57:59+00:00
Most people are highly conscious about their losses, not like this degenerate. When the losses stop hurting, that's when the degeneracy begins. I wouldn't actually consider it a sign of high intelligence to be insensitive to the pain of financial loss. Also, one has to follow strict capital limits, and actually develop an edge that sustains and compounds the account.
Ask HN: What skills are worth obsessive focus for an unshakable future?
by cookies2eat | 2025-10-22 11:58:06+00:00
I’m at a point where I’m willing to commit completely to mastering one skill — even if it means sacrificing balance temporarily (long hours, minimal rest, limited social life).

I’m looking for skills where deep, obsessive focus can lead to an unshakable and sustainable future — financially, intellectually, or in terms of independence.

If you were starting over today with this mindset, what would you master? Bonus points for sharing books, lectures, or structured learning paths that helped you get there.
by xvilka | 2025-10-22 11:58:24+00:00
I think we should aim for Ceres[1] instead, which is way more resources rich compared to Mars for a sustainable colony. And a perfect starting point for exploring the rest of the asteroid belt[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Ceres

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_asteroid_b...
by aforwardslash | 2025-10-22 11:58:42+00:00
It is sort of an excuse. I don't use MinIO precisely because of this kind of behaviour - if I cannot easily develop, configure and test our applications, I'm not adopting it commercially, specially when there are a ton of options to choose from. In the end, this hurts the MinIO's enterprise offering. Having a robust, easy to deploy community edition, with predictable features, is a great way of allowing integrators to develop and test using your product, and to help the product to gain traction.
by rob74 | 2025-10-22 11:58:45+00:00
Yeah, I'm sure astronauts will be thrilled to know that the thing that should bring them to the moon (and back!) was not only built by the lowest bidder (as that famous quote of uncertain origin states), but also by the one who managed to build it fastest so an arbitrary deadline could be kept. Ok, TBF Kennedy also set an arbitrary deadline when he said that Americans should land on the moon before the end of the decade (meaning the 1960s)...
by Ekaros | 2025-10-22 11:59:05+00:00
Why isn't there similar expectations for users of Open source? That is be ready to take over yourself if maintainers do not want to do something anymore? Do not ask or demand anything. Do not expect anything but the code. To understand that you can not expect or be entitled to anything. And celebrate what you get just now.

With this the solution becomes obvious. You select piece of technology to build on you are fully and ready to take over it for purposes you want to use for it. The code is shared and you should not expect anything more.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-22 11:59:25+00:00
> If someone is arguing to limit that technology, then yes.

This was a rhetorical question to highlight the ridiculousness of using this statement as justification for anything. You can state it however many times you want, it does not change reality.

Just as well, we would not need legs if only the reality was that we live in the water. Turns out, the reality is that we live on land and we need legs. The right way is to adapt humans to living in water first, and then legs would have been gone away through evolution. The wrong way is to cut off people’s legs[0].

> I'm guessing that you say that because you enjoy your job

Let’s stick to the point, not to what you imagine about me.

If somebody hates their job, taking away their source of income is extremely harmful (clearly they would have quit already if they didn’t absolutely need money). If somebody loves their job, taking away what gives their life meaning is extremely harmful.

> It's happening, so we had better figure out how to wrap our small brains around it.

Not at all. For it to start happening, those who are in charge of robot job replacement would have to stop plugging their ears and shouting whenever someone talks about the issues it causes.

I feel like we are talking past each other, I am done trying to rephrase my point.

[0] To make things obvious… Making sure jobs are not vital for human existence is evolving humans to live in water. Replacing jobs with robots is cutting off people’s legs.
by bearjaws | 2025-10-22 12:00:40+00:00
We've officially lost the plot, we will now ship our AI data centers to ~space~ ... This will not work with modern technology.

The sun will be eclipsed by earth many times per day, requiring you to either shift all workloads or add substantial UPS weight. The radiator grid you need to cool 125kw is something like 16x the size of the entire data center.

I watched this video last week that went into 3 different scenarios, it's a good watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAcR7kqOb3o
by anarticle | 2025-10-22 12:00:48+00:00
Software isn’t real, and your employer would sell you for meat if they could. It is only that your current value is worth more than your meat value.

The value of your product is much more scalable than a pile of horseshoes to your employer. It all depends on who is capturing that efficiency. How else do you end up with billionaire CEOs?

Do everything right in your career, get RIF’d, live through an era like 2008, and watch people who have zero qualifications get promoted over you and you’ll change your tune.

The world is not fair and I will no longer be on the losing end. It’s not nice but neither is my old CEO buying their second boat and bragging about doing yoga on it at Cannes while people are living in basement apartments in NYC during COVID. I think we’ve all seen enough.

See you on the battlefield.
by non- | 2025-10-22 12:00:54+00:00
One of the selling points they mention is that they won't need to use any fresh water for cooling.

My understanding was that water-demands on Earth were an overblown issue and minuscule when compared to other uses of fresh water such as watering one acre of farmland.

Not to mention, "used" water is just "warm" water that can then be used again for other purposes.

So are they perpetuating a myth here? Or is water use a bigger issue than I thought?
by skiniks | 2025-10-22 12:01:05+00:00
Author here. We added proper app router support, SSR, and correct RSC semantics to Rari. The performance improvements were dramatic:

- 0.69ms avg response (3.8x faster than Next.js) - 20,226 req/sec throughput (10.5x higher) - 4ms P99 latency under load (12x faster) - 68% smaller bundles (27.6 KB vs 85.9 KB)

The key insight: when your architecture aligns with React's design philosophy, performance follows naturally. Server components by default, 'use client' when needed, true SSR from the Rust runtime.

GitHub: https://github.com/rari-build/rari Benchmarks: https://github.com/rari-build/benchmarks Try it: `npm create rari-app@latest`

Happy to answer questions about the architecture and how we achieved these numbers.
by kragen | 2025-10-22 12:01:11+00:00
You may be interested in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/exampledb.py -sql -n 2 example.sql:

begin; insert into cust (id, name, company, streetaddress, city, state, zip) values (1, 'Jacqueline Gagnon', 'Baker Group', '218 Miller Dr.', 'Riverside', 'KS', '51859'); commit; begin; insert into cust (id, name, company, streetaddress, city, state, zip) values (2, 'Wayne Bennett', 'FF Petroleum LLC', '4375 Moore Dr.', 'Mount Vernon', 'MS', '98270'); select setval('cust_id_seq', 2); commit; begin; insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (1, 'Biological blue steel doll', 30.4); commit; begin; insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (2, 'Gray cotton electronic boxers, size L', 13.3); insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (3, 'Blue cotton intimate blazer, ages 2–5', 37.3); insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (4, 'Daily beige steel car', 14.6); insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (5, 'Black spandex daily blazer, size L', 24.1); insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (6, 'Blue wool dynamic briefs, ages 3–10', 79.0); insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (7, 'Blue spandex ultrasonic dress, child’s size', 31.9); insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (8, 'Gold wool daily boxers, ages 3–10', 8.85); insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (9, 'Red cotton utility boxers, ages 2–5', 28.9); insert into product (id, name, unitprice) values (10, 'Gray polyester ultrasonic briefs, ages 3–10', 15.3); -- ...

It also creates the tables, including invoice and lineitem tables. It's still a bit of a dull accounting example, rather than something like food, superheroes, social networks, zoo animals, sports, or dating, but I think the randomness does add a little bit of humor.

Although now we have LLMs, and maybe they'd do a better job.
by Anthony-G | 2025-10-22 12:01:16+00:00
I find man pages to be useful when I’m already familiar with the command or topic. For long man pages, I usually get on fine by `grep`ing for relevant key-words.

I agree that they are daunting and not so helpful for users who are new to the command or topic. They usually lack a quick-start guide with examples that give the user a starting point to build upon.

Anyhow, after hearing about `tldr` for close to a decade, your comment inspired me to install it. When I tried running `tldr curl`, I was delighted to learn something new and useful:

# Resolve a hostname to a custom IP address, with verbose output (similar to editing the /etc/hosts file for custom DNS resolution): curl --verbose --resolve example.com:80:127.0.0.1 http://example.com
Show HN: I built a pixel art app where you evolve a dinosaur by not drinking
by garethharte | 2025-10-22 12:01:39+00:00
Hello, I’m Gareth. I wanted to cut back on drinking but didn’t like how serious all the sobriety apps felt. So I made one where you evolve a dinosaur. Check in each day and your Drynosaur levels up. As it levels up, it will evolve. I built it for sober curious people like me that do Dry January etc but might not necessarily quit forever.

I had a lot of fun working on it, and it’s built in SwiftUI. Would love to hear your thoughts.
by joenot443 | 2025-10-22 12:02:41+00:00
> Unless the author wanted to demonstrate that by playing with words one can prove anything.

I think that roughly is what Scott is going for here. It's not one of his more interesting pieces, I ended up skipping the latter half, but my understanding is he's angling to show that given some fuzzy descriptor, with enough imagination and wordplay you can take an idea pretty far. He's written before about esoteric numerology and gematria, I think it's just something he finds fascinating, from a secular POV.

This is Scott's sense of humor, it's not meant to be taken seriously.
by actionfromafar | 2025-10-22 12:03:21+00:00
It will soon come back from over the other horizon. :)

Of all the things insane about this proposal, I'm not very bothered about this one. It could be high availability and distributed by default. Like having redundant datacenters with eventual consistency on all continents. Except the continents are spinning really fast above you...

The animation is wild... 5GW concentrated up there at the top of a field of solar panels - it's not a Starcloud, it's an electric Starfurnace.
Show HN: Selecta – Natural language analytics for BigQuery
by ashtavakra | 2025-10-22 12:04:05+00:00
I built Selecta, a tool that lets you ask questions about your data in BigQuery using natural language. It's powered by Google's ADK on the backend and a Next.js frontend. It provides structured answers with summaries, results, and business insights, and even generates charts. The source code is available on GitHub.
by lenkite | 2025-10-22 12:06:17+00:00
It seems there is a dichotomy in the real implemented world and your hypothetical advice world.

Due to lack of native support of defaults for optional methods , many interfaces in Go are using hacks for optional methods added by evolution.

The Value interface has a `IsBoolFlag()` optional method not part of the interface signature

The other way for evolution is just add sub-interfaces. Like `io.WriterTo` and `io.ReaderFrom` which are effectively just extensions of `io.Writer` and `io.Reader` with `WriteTo` and `ReadFrom` methods - which are checked for in consumers like `io.Copy`.

Anyways, my point was specifically about generic interfaces and alternative implementations, so it appears you agree.
by mannykannot | 2025-10-22 12:06:19+00:00
Searle tries this approach against the 'simulation agument' in this paper (see page 423) and also elsewhere, saying "a simulation of a rainstorm will not get you wet" (similarly, Kastrup says "a simulation of a kidney won't pee on my desk"), to which one can reply "yet a simulation of an Enigma machine really will encode and decode messages."

The thing is, minds interact with the outside world through information transmitted on the peripheral neural system, so the latter analogy is the relevant one here.
by blondie9x | 2025-10-22 12:06:22+00:00
“The only energy is the launch”, that’s false.

Energy went into mining, extracting, refining, transporting all the raw materials needed to make these chips.

This is typical tech industry green washing as the industry fails to accept its destructive influence on the planet.

We need practical solutions that help reduce consumption and waste and actually address the issues. We don’t always need more we need to find a way to use less.
by jsheard | 2025-10-22 12:06:46+00:00
Rumour is that Samsungs similar Galaxy Edge isn't doing any better, apparently they initially wanted to replace their longstanding Plus model with the Edge next year, then they decided to keep the Plus after all, and now they've possibly cancelled the Edge altogether after just one generation.

Maybe they both should have waited until they could use silicon-carbon batteries to offset the smaller size.
by kragen | 2025-10-22 12:07:11+00:00
My citation explains that Michael Hart was the founder of PG, and the foundation that Newby headed didn't even exist until 02000. Newby would never in his life have wanted people to think that he had founded PG!

I've edited my comment above to make it clearer what its central argument is, since you seem to have misunderstood either the argument or the quote.
by jmclnx | 2025-10-22 12:08:57+00:00
In the US, there is no such thing as "out of circulation". All coins issued since the Mint started minting is legal tender, thus cannot be melted by people.

I do not know about Paper Money, but I am 99.9999% sure all paper currency issued by the Federal Gov. is Legal Tender. But IIRC, some are illegal to own, like the 100,000 note.
by username223 | 2025-10-22 12:09:23+00:00
"Stringly typed programming" is the phrase I was looking for. It's the equivalent of a shrug from the programming language designer: "I don't know what to do about that, so I'll just add a magic string and let someone else figure it out."

That and one or two other examples in the article smelled vaguely of PHP to me: features piled up in response to immediate needs instead of coherent design. For a language that famously refused to add generics for years (then did them badly, IMHO), it seems off-brand.
by kragen | 2025-10-22 12:09:54+00:00
Just to clarify, Greg Newby was not the CEO of Project Gutenberg, which was founded in 01971, but of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, which he founded in 02000 or 02001. It has contributed immensely to Project Gutenberg, but they are not the same thing. Newby would never have attempted to take credit for PG.

Edit: the post title has been fixed now.
by ta1243 | 2025-10-22 12:10:04+00:00
So that 2M of used swap is completely irrelevant. Same on my laptop

total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31989 11350 4474 2459 16164 19708 Swap: 6047 20 6027

My syslog server on the other hand (which does a ton of stuff on disk) does use swap

Mem: 1919 333 75 0 1511 1403 Swap: 2047 803 1244

With uptime of 235 days.

If I were to increase this to 8G of ram instead of 2G, but for arguments sake had to have no swap as the tradeoff, would that be better or worse. Swap fans say worse.
by colinb | 2025-10-22 12:10:19+00:00
It’s been more than forty years (good God!) since I read it, but I recall enjoying Virginibus Puerisque excessively. My delight was doubled when I found out that my mother had read and enjoyed it too. Travels with a Donkey was another hit for me.

I had less luck with Kidnapped. Haven’t tried Treasure Island.
by DanielHB | 2025-10-22 12:10:29+00:00
I remember when I first got out of uni and did backend Java development, I thought I was incredibly productive because of the sheer amount of typing and code I had to pump out.

After doing a bit of frontend JS I was quickly dissuaded of that notion, all I was doing was writing really long boilerplate.

This was in the Java 6 days, so before a lot of nice features were added, for example a simple callback required the creation of a class that implements an interface with the method (so 3 unique names and a bunch of boilerplate to type out, you could get away with 2 names if you used an anonymous class).
by ppaattrriicckk | 2025-10-22 12:10:40+00:00
Apart from getting 16 sq. km of solar arrays and radiators into orbit - and without jumping to conclusions about whether this is a borderline scam - I can imagine 2 obvious showstoppers:

1) Space debris. This is proposal is several orders of magnitude larger than the biggest things in near-Earth orbits. Thus equally many orders more likely to be hit by, and create, space debris

2) Heat transport - this isn't my home turf, but I can't imagine building something lightweight enough to be launched, yet also capable of transferring enough heat away from the 5 GW core, without it melting/breaking

It's been a while since I read their whitepaper, but I don't recall either of those points being addressed.
by nuancebydefault | 2025-10-22 12:10:47+00:00
I think the profession of teacher comes close. There are extremely good and extremely bad teachers and everything in between. Knowing the subject you teach very well does not guarantee you can teach it well, often on the contrary.

Maybe coders can see themselves as teachers to the machine. Either they teach character by character, or vibe idea by vibe idea, or anything in between.
by palantird | 2025-10-22 12:10:50+00:00
> ... developer education remain essential for realizing Argon2's theoretical advantages.

> 46.6% of deployments use weaker-than-OWASP parameters.

Sounds like a job for better default parameter values. I'm willing to bet most startups just install the default argon2 (or password hashing) library in their language of choice and don't jump head-first into the rabbithole of fine-tuning argon2 parameters unless a contract or certification depend on it.
by ta1243 | 2025-10-22 12:10:58+00:00
> A long running Linux system uses 100% of its RAM.

How about this server:

total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8106 7646 459 0 149 6815 -/+ buffers/cache: 681 7424 Swap: 6228 25 6202

Uptime of 2,105 days - nearly 6 years.

How long does the server have to run to reach 100% of ram?
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-22 12:11:00+00:00
What's a natural goalpost for the first "Space race" ?

I submit that a good candidate is: Space. It's in the name. It's not "the Moon race".

You know, getting a person to space and back. Yuri Gagarin, USSR, first successful crewed spaceflight, 1961.

Or, first artificial satellite in space. Sputnik, USSR 1957

I respect the USA's contributions to the space race too, but also I am amused by the USA under JFK picking something left undone, declaring that that as the only victory condition, doing it and then claiming total victory and celebrating it ever since. Got to salvage national pride somehow. Does that "steelman" it?
by nosianu | 2025-10-22 12:11:01+00:00
Happened to me in Death Valley, in the very hot middle of nowhere.

I came from a dust road and did not fully stop on the stop sign for the main road through the valley, I had only slowed down and then made the turn.

Out of nowhere there were park ranger lights behind me. I still don't know if they were cloaked or if they teleported behind me, I don't know how I could possibly have overlooked them. Everything flat and nothing anywhere, suddenly they are there.

I don't remember if I had to pay or if it was just a warning.
by roody15 | 2025-10-22 12:11:09+00:00
This makes me think of Intels decline over the last decade or so. It feels to me like a canary in a coal mine. Perhaps of a failing in the US system as a whole. It is possible we are not quite the world leader we once were, despite bailouts, despite legislation like the CHIPS act, despite a CEO dedicated to a roadmap to regain technical superiority … maybe we cannot win this race. Have we reached a point where managing public perception is more important than truth, where wealth inequality has reached a point of a new feudal like caste system, where our institutions now function to primarily manage and preserve an unhealthy society that is primarily exploitative and does not have the needs of the populace first and foremost. Where economic indicators, economic lingo and policy just uses a vernacular to hide its direct purpose to provide safety for the haves at the expense of the have nots. I realize this is a negative take but looking at Lockheed Martin , looking at Boeing, on and on. Maybe we cannot get back to the moon, maybe we cannot design the best new modern passenger jet, maybe just maybe China has already surpassed or at least equaled the US as a superpower.
by mrcsharp | 2025-10-22 12:11:21+00:00
I'm always fascinated by how brilliant us humans can be. So much so that we can put billions of transistors in very small spaces and in complex structures while also mass producing it.

I highly recommend watching this video about lithography and the machine that makes it all possible [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2482h_TNwg
by lucideer | 2025-10-22 12:11:28+00:00
I'm on Merlin currently but I'm in the process of moving over to OPNSense for this exact reason.

However, while you can never really trust anything you run with internet access, I feel there's a fundamental line between an explicitly cloud-dependent service like Tailscale (e.g. a Tailscale control server outage incident would impact your home server access) compared to a fully self-hosted service that may or may not phone home if you don't put preventative measures in front of it, but will continue to function fine if you do put said measures in place.

The Asus mobile app is another potential concern but the Merlin browser UI is fine for most purposes.