MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sauercrowd | 2025-10-07 11:35:18+00:00
I think one part that gets easily overlooked is that they not in-house, and that's a feature.

That means even when an in-house team has the same expertise, they have to adhere by in-house processes and hierarchy.

If a CEO signs off a consultant contract, they dont play in the same arena, and can often side-step the hurdles an internal team would face, without anyone internally getting too upset (compared to an internal team side-stepping processes).
by palmfacehn | 2025-10-07 11:35:36+00:00
The privacy implications are only one of the off-putting elements of the new norm of constant filming. There's something vapid and self-absorbed about everything being filmed and shared. Existing in the moment isn't enough anymore. For many, each moment needs to be preempted for a contrived video or pic.

I can appreciate the potential utility of a HUD in daily scenarios. For myself, I'm content to go sans device when I'm out of the house. Don't I get enough here at my desk? Not everything needs to be computed, optimized or shared.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-07 11:35:53+00:00
If the company can usefully gain access to that expertise by paying a consultant, then why should that be a problem as far as the market is concerned? There's nothing in the idea of efficient markets that says anything about how the company or economic activity should be structured (in fact, there's an argument that having such activity be subject to market pressure could improve market efficiency).

The main issue, of course, is that a truly efficient market is a theoretical construct that can only be approximated. And in practice the approximation is often quite poor: successful companies are usually only doing one or two things right to make their success, then doing most other things in a mediocre fashion, and usually one or two things just short of catastrophically badly.
by sgarland | 2025-10-07 11:37:30+00:00
I get the appeal, but am also horrified at the “let’s pipe scripts to bash with sudo,” and the lack of visibility into what the DB is doing.

I am a huge proponent of running your own, but along with that comes a responsibility to know what you’re doing. If you don’t know how to harden a Linux box on your own, frankly you have no business hosting anything on it. Spin up a VM and learn from your mistakes first. Similarly, I maintain that if you don’t know how to administer and tune an RDBMS, you shouldn’t be using it for anything that matters.

If you think this sounds like gate-keeping, I’d ask you to re-read what I wrote. I think you have a responsibility to others who are relying on your skills to know what you’re doing, or at the very least, understand enough about their fundamentals to know how to reverse mistakes.
by bartread | 2025-10-07 11:37:50+00:00
Does it get singled out though? TikTok gets no end of flak. YouTube, as many parents will be aware, is full to the brim with creepy content. Kik has been widely reviled as a cesspool for CP sharing. And these are just a few examples.

Facebook gets a lot of (deserved) flak, but it’s hardly singled out.
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-07 11:39:04+00:00
There are two things we can do with energy, move it across space or move it across time. Moving it across space requires transmission infrastructure (which is state owned or rapacious corp owned -- very slow to build or upgrade; rent seeking, regulatory capture). The other option is to move across time, which is using batteries. Cars are rarely driven more than ~20 mins/day which make them the ideal energy storage devices. We could even say their primary purpose is energy storage. Just like today's 'phones' are no longer for making calls but for content consumption. When all cars are EVs and can do V2X (vehicle to grid, to load, to home, to anything), it becomes a gigantic, resilient, distributed energy reservoir.

For providing this service, all car (EV) owners must be paid to give the utilities permission to dump excess production and to supply energy back to the grid when needed. Right now, most of the electricity costs are from peak costs (mostly peaker electricity costs). There is no reason that this infrastructure can't be provided by the EV car owners.
by baobun | 2025-10-07 11:39:14+00:00
I think you can get stronger by building your own identity (rather than "like vercel") - starts with the headline/tagline and pitch in a way that stands on its own.

"Open source X alternatives" are dime-a-dozen and put a limit on what you can be in the eyes of users. It also sets expectations such that differences easily become disappointment. Not having a global CDN can otherwise simply be out of scope but can be "missing feature" when pitched as an alternative to an established service.
by ta12653421 | 2025-10-07 11:40:12+00:00
OK, in my case its just boring business & CRUD apps, no GPU stuff nor gaming (btw: I find most business apps, esp. payment & accounting systems, everything else than boring - feel free to flame me for that :-D )

And can I also use MSSQL server? (which I could ditch anyway then, I guess, since we are using mainly ORM and no database-specific features)
by rasengan | 2025-10-07 11:40:12+00:00
I appreciate the engagement, but it’s become clear that this particular user has been repeatedly following my posts to respond negatively - a stalker if you will [1]. I’d prefer to keep the discussion focused on facts, not personalities.

The key point, you don’t have to trust us, and we don’t want you to. Trust code, not people. That’s the foundation of the entire effort.

As for the Freenode situation, the popular narrative has been repeatedly misrepresented. The core claims were debunked and the receipts are here: http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/lee-side.pd....

To clarify a few historical points:

1. The so-called “takeover” was being organized long before my involvement, as shown by domain registration dates and internal meeting notes. I was a more convenient target than Christel, which might explain why she asked me to buy it from her.

2. False narratives were already being circulated to open source projects before any administrative changes occurred. The subsequent channel topic changes were a reaction to those actions, though I’ve acknowledged those decisions weren’t ideal in hindsight.

On broader context, much of what’s now called “funding FOSS” doesn’t reach active developers. It tends to reward organizers and promoters rather than those writing meaningful code. Supporting individual developers directly remains a better way to sustain real innovation.

Ironically, several of the ex-staff I defended for years against serious allegations (search “OldCoder” if you’re unfamiliar) went on to form Libera, attempted to seize the freenode IRC domain, and created a false narrative about events. It’s disappointing, but not surprising given the leftist politics at play.

If you want to understand the larger trends affecting open source today, I recommend Lunduke’s Journal and similar analyses. Most major FOSS projects are no longer developer run… just look at Mozilla for an example.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44921771
by lazide | 2025-10-07 11:40:13+00:00
If you are actually trying to do something to resolve the situation, why would you want a progress stopping pop-up forcing you out of actually doing the thing you need to do? Especially if it forces you to pick out of two options when the thing you are trying to do is figure out which option is appropriate?

Using EMR systems are nightmares for anyone actually doing things, but great for figuring out what was documented later. The two are rarely related.

If someone is trying to land a plane, would a pop-up about an engine fire that takes over all control input also be a good idea?
by sph | 2025-10-07 11:41:05+00:00
There is in fact a subreddit called /r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/. The equivalent /r/MyGirlfriendIsAI/ seems to be much less active.

I'll go so far as to say, without offering further explanation, that due to our biology, men do not give as much weight to relationships compared to women, so often porn is an adequate expedient to the abyss of loneliness.
by chrysander | 2025-10-07 11:41:32+00:00
More than deserved!

Both Devoret and Martinis are also highly involved in pushing quantum engineering to new levels - Devoret at Google Quantum AI and Martinis (formerly at Google) with his company, Qolab.

Coincidentally, I have a close friend doing his PhD with Devoret and know someone working with Martinis. I am curious to see if they will ever see their respective supervisors again, given that the Nobel Prize attention will likely garner them countless invitations for talks and keynotes...
by jodrellblank | 2025-10-07 11:41:39+00:00
Walk around in Lycra and clompy shoes, wearing a cycle helmet and helmet cam and people will assume you’re a YouTuber. You don’t even need a bike.

Incidentally if y’all aren’t following this space there are bike rear lights which have cameras and radars in them and they hook up to a cycle computer, warn of cars coming up behind and how far away they are, and can be used as a ‘dash’ cam for near misses / bad driving / accidents.
by ta12653421 | 2025-10-07 11:41:59+00:00
I have a "media notebook" with Ubuntu 10(?).x.. LTS:

One thing I always see when using this machine - this version at least has some problem with the memory manager: Very often the system comes up from hibernation mode and does not stop swapping whatever stuff to disk, making it unusable until I reboot completely - this at least works on Windows :-D
by hunvreus | 2025-10-07 11:42:08+00:00
I have a draft ARCHITECTURE.md file in the repo: https://github.com/hunvreus/devpush/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE.m...

I'm also working on adding manual steps so that folks who prefer to deploy the app themselves can do so.

I initially had the app deployed with Terraform + Ansible, but rewrote it as a bash script as I thought it'd be lower friction.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-07 11:42:36+00:00
Neither American nor chinese here. But you can read soo many comments here on why things are...

But to say the least, saying that Chinese are stuck screwing your toys is such a weird and delusional moment when atleast to me, If given a option, There is so so much more to it but I am sure that you know that this statement is incomplete as well

I would prefer BYD over tesla (tbh I would pick none and actually just use a electric scooter which is the most efficient way for a person to go from point A to point B for one person)

I sense some serious delusion here. You haven't moved up if I can be honest. The billionaires have moved up.

You seem to be mostly interested in chinese threads in HN and come strong with this opinion yet as others had already pointed out in your comment 6 months ago that maybe the solution is a lower cost of living and etc. , it seems that you don't respond to them.

I am just out of words.
by rsynnott | 2025-10-07 11:42:39+00:00
Index funds, generally. Ideally something more diversified than just an S&P500 one, but honestly historically it usually hasn't made _that_ much difference in the long run.

Assuming you're talking decades away, it usually all comes out in the wash.

Now, where you should really potentially worry is if you were retiring imminently and needed to pull out a bunch of money to make that happen. But if you're retiring in 20 years or whatever, and, say, the S&P halves next year, is it really, in the scheme of things, _that_ big a deal?

If you could time it perfectly, you could come out better by selling now and reinvesting after the crash, but bear in mind that you probably cannot time it perfectly. People were predicting the 2008 crash imminently from about 2004 on, say, whereas the dot-com crash went from dark mutterings to chaos in a year or so. These things are very hard to time.
by Ekaros | 2025-10-07 11:42:49+00:00
I'm all for free market with some subsidiaries for backup generation for electricity generation. But transfer should be only publicly owned companies. Be it national for national grid and regional owned by suitable entity say municipality or group of them.

Same goes for water and sewer. Maybe garbage could be mixed model. In big enough towns having multiple competing companies for removal is not unreasonable competition. Same could be said for part of bus networks.
by Doohickey-d | 2025-10-07 11:42:52+00:00
We built something like this too (in a different field), but it's actually quit hard to deal with all the edge cases that people might want to search for:

e.g. if the user asks "Find hotels in Capetown [...] that have availability for this christmas or new year": if your backend, or the response format that you're forcing the LLM to give, doesn't have the ability to do an OR on the date range, you can't give results that the user wants, so the LLM tries to do as best it can, and the user ends up getting only hotels which are available for both Christmas and new year (thus missing some that have availability for one or the other), or the LLM does some other unwanted thing. For us, users would even ask "June or August", and then got July included because that was the closest thing the backend / UI could do.

So this approach is actually less flexible than a chat interface, where the LLM can figure out "Ah, I need to do two separate hotel search MCP calls, and then merge the results to not show the same hotel twice".
by protocolture | 2025-10-07 11:42:54+00:00
>The thing is, the original problem is one that "the free market" would say should fail. That company, without the expertise required to do the job, should fail.

The free market doesnt say anything, the invisible hand is also silent. Have seen:

1. Additional round of investor funding to rescue the business based on doing it right this time.

2. Dip into family money to reorganise and rescue business

3. Uses us to correct their practices and then runs it themselves

4. Farm mortgage.

I dont see how its antithetical, its a service. Businesses use other businesses services all the time.
by rickdeckard | 2025-10-07 11:43:01+00:00
I'd say the metric is simply "if it's suddenly louder than the content before, we have the users attention and eyeballs".

> But the emotional response would be the opposite (getting annoyed instead of getting interested). I think for the company placing the ad it is a net negative

In Advertising, "getting annoyed" is just a sub-metric of "getting remembered" ;)

Frankly, if the volume is too high I think the annoyance would be mostly directed towards the entire service playing ads at all, not the maker of the individual ad.
Show HN: 1-Bit Pixel Art Font Editor
by RpFLCL | 2025-10-07 11:43:02+00:00
I like making small fonts for Arduino and ESP32 projects with those little SSD1306 OLED screens. So I made this browser-based tool to help design pixel art fonts for use in those embedded projects.

It has a preview area that updates when you save your character. It can support fixed-width and variable-width fonts. And when you're done you can export the font in a few different formats.

It comes with a bunch of example fonts built-in. Also it's fully client-side code so you can save the webpage to use it offline.

If you want some inspiration for fonts, I made a bunch of really small fonts a few years ago: https://www.moonbench.xyz/projects/tiny-pixel-art-fonts/
by throwawayben | 2025-10-07 11:43:45+00:00
Could you explain more? It appears economically self evident to me that it would improve the situation but I'm not in the industry and there's probably much I don't understand.

I would say that improving transmission seems like a much better solution but again I think zonal pricing can help there as it could then be more easily sold to the public as being able to import the cheaper (say) Scottish energy to your local zone, whereas at the moment there's no apparent direct cost associated with blocking pylon projects forever.
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-07 11:43:56+00:00
I've learnt this truth recently with most professions. Consultations with attorney based on rave reviews, after signing up, get assigned a random attorney from the firm. One attorney instantly sold my case to another attorney! Just started talking to chiropractor (i know! same as astrology), same trick!

I haven't seen this yet in doctors offices. I see a doctor at an office specialized in an area (say gastrointestinal), they wouldn't switch and need the consent of the doctor to switch to another doctor in the same practice.
Mylinux an OS by Me
by Mylinux-os | 2025-10-07 11:44:35+00:00
Hey everyone,

Hi everybody! I am 13 years old from India who has created a linux distro. It is live on github as rolling release model.

Link for github: www.github.com/pro1234123/Mylinux

I have also made a simple yet effective website for Mylinux hosted using github pages.

Link for website:

pro1234123.github.io/Mylinux

The repo is still in early development but the os is rigorously tested. The latest release also packs support to boot from real hardware.

I hope for your support Please try it out and share your feedbacks on how to improve Thanks!
by antonvs | 2025-10-07 11:44:46+00:00
I suspect that's because Corvette has copied a lot of the Ferrari and Lamborghini design language in recent decades.

The Ferrari 308 was released in 1975, and it's recognizably similar to the SF90, aside from its side air scoop. Compare to the Corvette Stingray from the same year, which has that classic "we don't really do design but it's got a V8" Detroit look.

I'm not saying emissions standards haven't had an effect, but there have been other forces changing the styling of cars as well. If anything, some body shapes like Corvette's for example have become more interesting in recent years - the blocky rear end from the 80s and 90s was replaced by something that actually has curves.
by bartread | 2025-10-07 11:44:59+00:00
You’ve just reminded me of something.

One of the div heads where I was working bought a (pair of?) Google Glass to figure out if there was anything useful we could do with them or develop for them.

He was trying them out and a colleague of mine wandered over to him and said something like, “ok Google, image search, pictures of dicks.”

Never has anyone whipped something off their face so fast. However, sadly, despite I believe it should have worked like a charm, for reasons that are now obscure to me no gallery of phalluses was displayed.
by protocolture | 2025-10-07 11:45:30+00:00
I once saw one of Deloittes competitors build up a really basic Dynamics CRM, and then sent in some of their junior analysts to convince the customer, that they should just change their business practices to conform to the CRM as presented. They charged ~15 million for the service.

Deloitte really falls into the "We wined and dined and whored the decision maker" tranche.
by xela79 | 2025-10-07 11:45:39+00:00
So I just figured out a workaround that actually works! At least until Microsoft puts out a new Windows installer that fixes this,

here's what you can do:

First, make sure you unplug your ethernet cable or turn off WiFi before you start installing Windows. This way your computer isn't connected to the internet during setup.

When you get to that screen where it's asking you to sign in with a Microsoft account (you know, the annoying one from the post), here's the trick: press SHIFT and F10 at the same time. This opens up a command prompt window.

Then just type this command: start ms-cxh:localonly and press Enter. It should bring up an option to make a local account instead! Just fill in a username and password like the old days.

After you finish the setup and get to your desktop, you can connect back to the internet and download all the updates.
by mightymosquito | 2025-10-07 11:45:49+00:00
I really think this is Open AIs opening the eco system moment which is equivalent to google opening up Android or facebook allowing gaming platforms like zynga to grow on their platform.

To me it seems like a strategic shift from pure AI research and the AGI snake oil to other supposed tangible stuff.

In short, the AI revolution is mostly over, and we seem to be back in the realm of software.
by Intermernet | 2025-10-07 11:46:46+00:00
Yes, that's a more detailed way of saying what I mean, but without the snark against "the free market". The value provided by the big 4 is based on a universal acceptance of "play it safe, cover your ass" instead of "we provide quality advice". The big 4 have realised this, as near, captive market, and lowered their output accordingly.
by Terretta | 2025-10-07 11:47:39+00:00
Neither Anthropic or OpenAI want to enable their fully self-service, automated, and scalable enterprise feature flags for only, say, 50 seats each burning $3k a month.

It's particularly annoying to see these feature flags exist in the UI; the features are automated, yet they won't let you select a plan above their "Team" level plans to use them.

(Over on the API side, they're more usage based, and easy to hit the highest tier from zero within about 10 weeks, but certain "talk with support because we probably have to edit a config file we don't let the riffraff see there's a setting for" features, like flipping off a safety flag so the LLM won't refuse to analyze a contract, are similarly gated. That seems more reasonable than gating infosec.)

On the end-user app side, table stakes data security features, some of which used to be included for lower level accounts then just got toggled off, are gated behind somewhere on the order of 150 seats at greater than Max usage instead of 25 or 50 seats.
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-07 11:49:10+00:00
I don't find the "what about road trips" super compelling. First, because there really are enough EV chargers for most road trips with a small amount of planning. And second, because so many households have two cars and could have one gas vehicle to cover road trips if that really is a priority for them.

It is true that if I was in Europe and wanted to go somewhere 400 miles away I'd take a train. But I don't think that road trips explains everything.
by moron4hire | 2025-10-07 11:49:14+00:00
I made an attempt at using WebKitGTK on Linux to build a WebGL game a couple of years ago. I was basing it on some existing code that I had already done a ton of work with to optimize and make cross-browser compatible. Had basically 99% feature parity between Chrome and Firefox.

Lack of standards support in WebKit made it painful to use and even meant losing major features like VR support. WebKit and WebKitGTK were both extremely unstable in their own ways. And I never could figure out a decent debugging scenario setup.
by rasengan | 2025-10-07 11:49:30+00:00
You might find this helpful: https://youtu.be/sz7NAe0G1_Y?si=focPEWli8xv7NCDi

Re verifiability: the point isn’t trust us, it’s that you don’t have to.

We built it so anyone can independently confirm what’s running.

1. All server and client code is published.

2. Builds are reproducible.

3. Each node provides cryptographic attestations of its runtime and routing identity.

4. Enclaves are used for verifiable isolation.

You can peruse the code yourself to see exactly why the transparency we bring makes legacy “trust based” VPNs obsolete: https://github.com/vpdotnet/vpnetd-sgx
by fergie | 2025-10-07 11:49:56+00:00
As the OP in this thread, @gwd hit the nail on the head- there are potentially good arguments being made in this thread, but their tone and innuendo mean that they don't work as well as they should.

(Also, FWIW I have an advanced degree and 10 years employment at research institutions under my belt, including 4 in medicine. Its not that I don't believe the claims in the article, its just that they are outside my field of expertise and I want to understand them)
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-07 11:50:37+00:00
Watching ANYTHING is getting exposed to advertising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement

There is no vaccine, no cure once you are exposed to content. Your house will be filled with 300,000+ things and it is impossible to find anything, the fastest way to get your stuff is again amazon same day delivery because you don't have the time to rummage through the hundreds of thousands of things!