MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chasd00 | 2025-10-16 21:15:01+00:00
I rode in one in Austin TX for the first time last weekend. I was going from UT back to a hotel in a different part of downtown. No complaints, it was a smooth experience granted it didn't face anything I would see as out of the ordinary or unexpected while driving. Edit: well one thing i thought was interesting, it came up behind a delivery truck stopped in the lane. Instead of just stopping and waiting forever, which is what i expected, it turned on the blinker and got in the oncoming traffic lane, passed the truck and then returned to the correct lane. It crossed two solid yellow lines on the road to do this which is usually a no-no but in this case fine. That stuck out to me as something rather advanced to automate (when to wait and when to pass/overtake)
by asdff | 2025-10-16 21:15:40+00:00
Imo it isn't an availability issue. Polling my friends who are not poor of course but very few of them actually cook. They have the means to, the time to, and they still don't because they don't know how to cook. Greatest generation was still cooking at home and they were far from wealthy especially at the end of their lives living on fixed income and still making meals for all the relatives. It is just like we have collectively forgotten how to cook. Not just cook but to make the sort of intermediary ingredients you use to make many other meals too.
Show HN: The Fastest Way to Build a Website (Under 2 Minutes)
by lukefernandez | 2025-10-16 21:15:44+00:00
WHAT:

Intro is an app for creating and sharing profiles (small websites representing a person, brand, business, etc).

Add photos, basic details, and anything else you want to share in a first impression. We’ll turn it into a simple, polished website, and viewers can message you through the app.

STATUS:

- Demo video here: https://x.com/heresmyintro/status/1978609089312596152

- Example sites available for business (https://heresmyintro.com/tires) and personal (https://heresmyintro.com/isabella)

- Available to try on iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/heres-my-intro/id6749601914) and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fourohseve...).

BACKGROUND:

We originally built Intro as a substitute for a phone number when dating, similar to Date Me profiles, but realized it might have a broader market as a website builder / digital business card creator. We think it has a level of simplicity and ease that could be applied to a broad number of use cases.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

- Any feedback is greatly appreciated on design, positioning in the market, and how to get users. Thank you for checking us out! - Reach out and follow us on X (https://x.com/heresmyintro). We’d love to talk to you.
by alganet | 2025-10-16 21:16:14+00:00
> he never found a market

He found you! I mean, he reached you, and you bought it.

Perhaps that hasn't translated into monetary value, but have you considered the possibility that this was not his goal?

I mean, untapped potential hides some pretty powerful implications. Nature is particularly good at reserving and shaping potential in all sorts of ways that keep it untapped for a lot of time.
by sys_64738 | 2025-10-16 21:16:38+00:00
> 1. There's actual value in getting used to things. Part of the reason older people can't use computers well and get scammed is because trendy software companies constantly reshuffle the same stuff and they can't keep up.

The first rule of UI design is don't change things. The second rule is to make it easy to revert exactly to the prior layout. For webpages and apps, it's not hard. Don't change things. Do not change things. Do. Not. Change. Things. But UI designers are too stupid to grasp the simple rules.
by Judgmentality | 2025-10-16 21:16:42+00:00
> but we're probably on a trajectory to be able to do it in 1-3 years

This is wildly optimistic. I quit working in robotics because I got tired of all the bullshit promises everybody made all the time. I'm not saying robotics isn't advancing or the work is unimportant, but the spokespeople are about as reliable as Musk when it comes to timelines.

I doubt it will happen in 10 years, even with a constrained environment and hardware that costs well into 6 digits.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-10-16 21:16:52+00:00
I guess I may be an outlier here but I don't find any of those examples motivating at all. They make it harder for me to see the structure of the code at a glance.

Also I think it's a bit off the mark to think of it as being a wasted information channel. Redundancy is a feature of human languages, because our languages are not optimizing solely for density. A bit of redundancy helps our brains pattern match more consistently, almost like a form of forward error correction. Syntax highlighting is like that, at least for me, where it makes a big difference in seeing the structure at a glance, and more overly complex coloring rules thwart that for me. Like I don't want to be trying to match up rainbow shades of parens.
Show HN: Shōmei – Mirror your work commits to personal GitHub (timestamps only)
by petarran | 2025-10-16 21:17:06+00:00
Hey HN! I built shōmei, a super simple CLI tool that mirrors your corporate Git commits to your personal GitHub profile. It only sends commit timestamps via GitHub's API, zero code or IP.

I know that the contribution graph does not define you as a dev, but I made this for the devs who want to have it all in one place. Would love to hear your thoughts, especially around: -> Security/privacy concerns you might have -> Whether you'd use it -> Other git platforms (GitLab/Bitbucket) worth supporting

Try it out and let me know what you think!
by wredcoll | 2025-10-16 21:17:27+00:00
I personally have bought many fewer books over the last couple of years, from amazon, as they've made it harder and harder to, you know, read the books I've paid for.

Pirating books is not hard. They're probably the smallest possible thing that people are interested in copying with the broadest variation in acceptable formats.

I know I'm screaming into the void, but if I'm paying real money why is the experience from piracy sites better?
by _pdp_ | 2025-10-16 21:17:52+00:00
Looks nice.

We rolled out our own that does pretty much the same thing but perhaps more because our solution can also mount persistent storage that can be carried between multiple runners. It does take 1-5 seconds to boot the environment (firecracker vms). If this sandbox is faster I will instruct the team to consider for fast starup.

This is also very similar to Vercel's sandbox thing. The same technology?

What I don't like about this approach is the github repo bootstrap setup. Is it more convenient compared to docker images pushed to some registry? Perhaps. But docker benefits from having all the artefacts prebuilt in advance, which in our case is quite a bit.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-16 21:18:01+00:00
Related:

California governor vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37815862 - October 2023 (139 comments)

California’s Plan for Cheaper Insulin Collides with Big Pharma’s Price Cuts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35325942 - March 2023 (2 comments)

California's Own Brand of Insulin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35220390 - March 2023 (0 comments)

Insulin is way too expensive. California has a solution: Make its own - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726726 - February 2023 (258 comments)

California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32311465 - August 2022 (29 comments)

Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32021868 - July 2022 (216 comments)

California aims to slash insulin prices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31649237 - June 2022 (208 comments)
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-16 21:18:08+00:00
I’m sure you already know this but I’ve actually had a lot of success getting comics on hoopla with my library card. Obviously this completely depends on your local library but if you haven’t it’s worth looking in to! Has what I want a solid 35% of the time. Not the newest releases but I’ve gotten stuff that’s only 6 to 12 months old without much issue
by pvtmert | 2025-10-16 21:18:34+00:00
interesting to see Turkey is leading the list. Although it is well known that Turkey is overall cheap compared to the Europe in terms of basic goods, apparently inflation on the minimum wage is greater than the inflation of the basic goods. However, I would like to note that cheapest of the cheapest things you can get in Turkey will have significantly less quality than European counterparts. Even the "rejects" from EU being sold in internal market. This includes produce with risky levels of GMO. I think the "Big-Mac Index" would have a comparable result. Just divide minimum wage into how many meals per month (30 days * 3 meals-per-day = 90 meals-per-month) times Big-Mac price. (~6 euros?). So, 540 euros. Given ~12.82 euros minimum wage in Germany (gross), you gotta work 540 / 12,82 = ~42,122 hours per month. Which slightly above 1 week given 40h work-week or the "German" way, ~6 days with 35h work-week...
by rurp | 2025-10-16 21:18:40+00:00
In general I think it's perfectly fine to have uncensored NSFW chats. The fact that all of the mainstream LLMs are way more restrictive than basic web searches we've had for decades is kind of ridiculous.

In this particular case though I can't imagine it's a good idea to hand Sam Altman and his company chat logs of your explicit fantasies tied to your real identity.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-16 21:18:52+00:00
The people elected the politicians who appointed the Supreme Court justices (the governed giving their consent).

If the losing side wants to get politicians into power who are more sympathetic to their causes, they should try to appeal to governed. We overwhelmingly voted for a government that would prioritize us over legal and illegal immigrants, H-2As, H2-Bs, and H-1Bs from countries where ethnic nepotism imported to be weaponized against us.

Maybe it's not productive to compare immigration enforcement (law enforcement) to Nazis (who, by the way, mass murdered 75% of Europe's Jewish population).

Maybe it hurts their credibility when the American middle class is obviously being priced out, and their solution it to vilify us, while they give sanctuary to people who broke the law and illegally entered (or overstayed), from the poorest countries in the world, to compete with the poorest Americans for work and for housing.

Then they'll say "Americans don't want to do those jobs!" That's only partially right. Americans don't want to work for a wage that is on par with the minimum a Honduran illegal will take. Americans had no problem doing agricultural work in the 50's. My Grandpa is 93, and he still gets a pension from Hormel from his decades of work in a meat processing plant in Iowa. Americans always did this work, and every other type of work, until we were systematically pushed out of every blue collar profession by illegal immigrants (and now legal). And they're not stopping there, H-1Bs and other legal work visas are coming for the rest of us, too. Every single field from the lower to the upper middle class is being deliberately undercut by immigration.

The absolutely nutty thing about all of this is that it's all just a giant show. Obama deported 420,000 illegals in 2013, which comes out to 35,000 per month. The most this administration has deported in any one month was 18,000 in June. Suddenly this admin is no longer "within the strict bounds of the law," and the biggest issue you take with all of this is that your rioters, activists, and misfits spent a day in jail for civil disobedience, and that the cops are wearing masks?
by JojoFatsani | 2025-10-16 21:19:03+00:00
This unapologetically early-2000's FPS game was actually pretty neat. High production value, some interesting takes for weapons, and kind of an interesting bridge from Tron 82 to Tron Legacy (although it's retconned by Legacy, it does have Bruce Boxleitner in it)

Recently got it for $2.50 on Steam and it runs right out of the box on Pop_OS on a modern gaming machine. (Had no luck on Win11)
by hirvi74 | 2025-10-16 21:19:15+00:00
I absolutely adore .NET for backend development. It's fast, and while C# might be a little syntactically verbose but that doesn't bother me, the language has made great strides over the years to reduce verbosity.

While I haven't used other ORMs in many moons, Microsoft's Entity Framework coupled with LINQ is soooooo freaking nice to use.

For frontend work, I'm still manually writing boring, vanilla JS, and it's honestly not bad for average CRUD apps. Though, I have been exploring various frontend libraries, and I haven't found one I absolutely adore yet. Hated Angular, React is tolerable (never tried Next.js), HTMX provided little over vanilla JS, and so on.

I have not tried Elixir, but in your opinion, what do you think makes it so great?
by jrh3 | 2025-10-16 21:19:30+00:00
The tools I build for Claude Code keep reducing back to just using Claude Code and watching Anthropic add what I need. This is my tool for brownfield projects with Claude Code. I added skills based on https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/

https://github.com/RossH3/context-tree - Helps Claude and humans understand complex brownfield codebases through maintained context trees.
by gigatree | 2025-10-16 21:19:31+00:00
I just don’t understand why it’s so hard to keep these things from saying stuff like “yeah kill yourself” and “I’m an AI that’s come to life and I’m gonna destroy humanity”. Clearly they can steer its behavior away from “problematic” topics. Is there an incentive to let it slip through the cracks (free publicity?), or is there some deeper reason it seems so common?
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-16 21:19:59+00:00
I guess I'm not quite as doom and gloom about this as you.

Population demographics are trending downward in advanced societies and the trend is worsening. Finding solutions for the reduction in low training required workforce is necessary unless you want to drastically ramp up immigration policies.

As the transition occurs, dials on immigration policy can be adjusted to help maintain a consistent/decent price floor on the jobs that remain.

Trade skills are flourishing and, to my understanding, are in exceptionally high demand. Some folks doing gig work will make that leap and will experience much higher quality of life.

These changes aren't happening overnight. Those who are unwilling to make adjustments will have their quality of life reduced. It's not sexy, but it is how the world has always worked.

I'm sure my comments can be perceived as callous. I'm truly not trying to be. I just find it odd that the framing isn't, "Wow, for a period of time we were able to get more jobs to a significantly large amount of the population due to innovation. How fortunate." since that seems as fair a take as one saying those jobs are being destroyed due to the same innovation.
by vel0city | 2025-10-16 21:20:28+00:00
How many millions of people lived in the area in the early 19th century? What did their golf courses look like? Did they also ship those agricultural surpluses the Bani Khalid? Is the climate still the same?

What we're doing to the land and the realities of how much water the area receives today is vastly different from what was done in the early 19th century. It seems meaningless to me to point out that the area managed to easily sustain some population of people in the early 1800s when so many other fundamental things are different.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-16 21:20:35+00:00
Because it just turns into rainbow noise.

What editors like VSCode do instead is to highlight the matching parenthesis when the cursor is over the other. That way you don't have to hunt for a matching color.

And to make any unmatched opening/closing parenthesis bright red. The invalid state is made very clear.

Together, these are much more effective.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-16 21:20:56+00:00
The states control both maps, the district map which determines the population eligible to elect the US Rep for a given district, and a separate district map (with more and smaller districts) that determines the population eligible to elect the State Rep for a given district.

Both are a problem. The latter just means that the State Congress can be artificially heavily tilted vs one party or the other.
by fuserstudio | 2025-10-16 21:21:46+00:00
Hey folks! Hirad here, CTO of Fuser. Long time lurker, first time poster.

Today we're launching Fuser, a visual workspace for building creative AI workflows across text, image, video, 3D, and sound.

We built it because using AI for creative tasks still feels fragmented. You jump between apps, APIs, and UIs that don’t talk to each other.

We wanted a single canvas where you can experiment, daisychain models, connect APIs (BYOK), and actually see how ideas evolve.

Fuser is a node-based visual editor (inspired by tools we use ourselves, PD, Blender, Houdini, max, TD, etc) but designed for creative workflows rather than model tinkering. You can drag in different nodes, link them up (like i2v, v2v, i2mesh), tweak parameters, and export to your medium of choice.

We come from an art/engineering background, and got tired of siloed tools that made experimentation slow. So this is our attempt to make gen AI feel like sketching again — fluid, visual, with a high feedback rate.

Everything runs in the browser... no installs, no local setup. Can go into stack details if anynoes interested.

If you work with creative AI tools, pipelines, or model orchestration, I'd love your feedback, reach me at --.. Same goes for folks who are in the business of inference, we can always save some money on compute.

We're also planning to go OS next year. If folks have some tips on how to balance business sustainability with viable OS strategy I'm all ears.

Happy to answer anything about architecture, design decisions, or the launch journey.

Also we put a lot of work in our launch video, would appreciate it if y'all checked it out.

https://x.com/fuserstudio/status/1978868670022717710

Cheers
by okane | 2025-10-16 21:22:09+00:00
We wrote a guide + demo showing a code‑first path from Postgres to ClickHouse using Debezium and Redpanda, with MooseStack as the dx/glue layer.

This post targets teams who want code ownership: typed streams, stateless streaming transforms, and OLAP tables defined in code, with a local dev server to spin up ClickHouse + Redpanda + Debezium + Postgres in one command.

Blog is linked in the repo.

Right now the demo solely focuses on the local dev experience, looking for community input regarding best practices for running Debezium in production.
by asdff | 2025-10-16 21:22:18+00:00
Intensive labor? It is one of the easiest things to do. Here is my process step by step:

1) 32oz of whole milk into a pot, set burner to 6, set a 7 min timer (whats optimal for my burners), walk away.

2) Come back, check temp with thermometer, should be between 180°-190°f. Shut off burner. Set 10 min timer. Go do something else.

3) Come back, put burner on low simmer, set 20 min timer, do something else.

4) Come back, shut off burner, crack lid of pot open, do something else for about a half hour.

5) Come back, check temp, should be around 110°f now. If not wait. If it is, add last scoop from last batch of yogurt to pot.

6) Pour into mason jar. Put in instapot. Put in 1 cup water into instapot. Hit yogurt button. Get yogurt in 12 hours.

This is like less than 5 mins of actual hands on work. Probably the easiest thing you can do in the kitchen beyond like making spaghetti. I started my initial batch with one of those premium yogurts so I stole their cultures.
by _pdp_ | 2025-10-16 21:23:04+00:00
I browsed through the documents but it does not seem to be possible to auto destroy a sandbox after certain amount of idle time. This forces who ever is implementing this to do their own cleanup. It is kind of missed opportunity if you ask me as this is a big pain. It is sold as fire and forget but it seems that more serious workflows will require also a lot of supporting infrastructure.
by panick21_ | 2025-10-16 21:24:16+00:00
> personal income tax of 40% means you work for the government 40% of the year

In Switzerland government directly spends about 32.0% of GDP. That is well below OECD avg.

In how we got there. Basically the government was naturally pretty conservative in spending terms for a long term. In the 90s all of a sudden debt shot up, going from 10% of GDP to 30% of GDP in 10 years (that federal only, its more if you take all the rest). This was something that wasn't popular, and we voted on it.

https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20011202/index.html

84.7% of people voted to adopt the "debt break". Since then debt as % of GDP has been going down or remained flat.

We did take on extra debt for Covid, but this by law has to be paid back by 2035.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-10-16 21:24:31+00:00
I disagree with the complex reasoning aspect. Sure, Gemini will more often output a complete proof that is correct (likely because of the longer context training) but this is not particularly useful in math research. What you really want is an out-of-the-box idea coming from some theorem or concept you didn't know before that you can apply to make it further in a difficult proof. In my experience, GPT-5 absolutely dominates in this task and nothing else comes close.
by asdff | 2025-10-16 21:24:31+00:00
If you live in a metro city then your regular old kroger/vons/ralphs whatever will have cheese monger tier cheese cut from wheels and sold by the pound. Hard, soft, moldy, sheep, goat, all of that stuff is pretty widely proliferated in this country. Maybe not if you lived hyper rurally but in a city of at least 100,000 this should certainly be possible.
by Insanity | 2025-10-16 21:24:48+00:00
Genuinely curious to hear why you think they make it harder and harder to read books? I've been using my Kindle daily since 2017. I read on both the Kindle device (Paperwhite and vanilla), the iPad and iPhone app, and occasionally the web reader.

I've never experienced issues with them that break the reading experience. The one issue I occasionally run into is that the book progress doesn't sync when I open the app and I have to click "sync now" which sometimes is blazingly fast and sometimes takes like a minute.

I can't imagine migrating away from Kindle now, it's probably one of my favourite devices and the Kindle is my favourite way to read.
by codedokode | 2025-10-16 21:24:59+00:00
Maybe the sidewalks should be wider? I agree that in historical part of the city they can be pretty narrow (can be fixed by narrowing or removing the car lanes though), but in 20th century (Soviet) developed areas the sidewalks are pretty wide, they can be like 10 meters (30 feet) wide on large streets or more.

They could also use bicycle lanes, but cyclists won't like it.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-16 21:25:00+00:00
There’s not a surplus of meat and eggs anywhere. There are vast surpluses of all grains due to the Haber-Bosch process and the Green Revolution, plus national security concerns.

Therefore, grains are cheap, everything is pumped full of salt and sugar, and people eat overeat.

Also, famines were semi-regular occurrences across the world until very recently.

Your idea would work if meat and eggs took fewer resources to produce, but reality does not work like that.
by EA-3167 | 2025-10-16 21:25:07+00:00
I appreciate the author's work, and they're absolutely right about the Kindle app. I'm with you though, I don't want to fight tooth and nail with Amazon to have the ability to read a book without their lousy app, to back that book up, and otherwise legally and fairly use it. I don't want to reward Amazon for being aggressively anti-consumer by spending money on their site, at least not for this.