MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xattt | 2025-10-08 17:58:25+00:00
My university had bound catalogues of “letterpress blocks” you could order for letterpresses.

These were from about 50-100 years ago, and were great for scanning in and converting to vector art as various design elements. Usually these were artistic flourishes to include inline with text.

The one that stands out for me was engraved drawing of a fish that would not be out of place as a large print.
by tastyface | 2025-10-08 17:58:47+00:00
I think he used dashes so that if someone accuses him of using the n-word, he can go "no I didn’t, hyuck hyuck!" See his use of "niggardly" later in the thread. Toddler logic.

Anyway, I’m sure at this point that Yarvin is genuinely a white supremacist who no longer feels the need to hide his true nature. Some of the racist things he says are too repulsive to serve a practical political purpose. (Like suggesting that we should bring back Black slavery to replace deported laborers.)
by mallowdram | 2025-10-08 17:59:15+00:00
Fundamentally the issues precede the end states. Neither present-day software nor law-government are efficient enough to service the users to whom the possibilities (and deficiencies) are now apparent to the developers. Tech didn't create new formats it merely reformatted them into databases. Both are trapped in their inefficiencies which force the reduction of competition or their monopoly. The state is a myth we workaround by going global. Software operates arbitrary things and then automates them as expedient interfaces that disperse and charge access for what is ultimately specific (a good or service). Decent was a trial and error workaround that simply creates status.

Doctorow pretends these are the ultimate forms, which s how his answers are palliatives not solutions.

It's strange how bureaucratic Silicon Valley has become in relation to his bureaucratic prose, the tech industry once saw solutions beyond the available tech, now it's buried in consultancy rebuttal and Friedman myth ("competition is good").

We have behemoth Goliaths that are living dinosaurs that engage in hierarchical domination of what are really illusions: text, symbols, images. All we need now are the behemoths to mint their own $, copyright it and the circle is complete. Yet these are merely simulations in search of a reality that AI can't deliver, and so the behemoths are using all techniques to remain relevant. It's stillnly one step ahead of a magic act. Obviously they are finished, ready for obliteration by insightful, imaginative succession. Bureaucracies are all targets for replacement, especially Doctorow's type of prose.
by 827a | 2025-10-08 17:59:24+00:00
You're certainly correct that they couldn't, though I don't feel stating "this is why all the interesting developments will be happening inside AI labs" is a fair review of the AI 2027 paper, as it makes many wide-ranging statements about how AI will impact the military, government, medical research, typical corpo-politics, software engineering, and, of course, AI research.

The realization that you're close to making, and I hope I can help you make: If Microsoft & Github can't realize the benefits of AI that quickly; why should anyone believe that the rest of the world would be able to? After all, there are roughly zero "pre-AI" companies that are force-mutating their structure to adopt AI faster than Microsoft is [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tech/780946/microsoft-satya-nadella...
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-08 17:59:35+00:00
Current smartphones are already more careful about cell modems than they used to be. And in an ideal world, cell modems would have even less information than they do, and could be (and should be) powered off by the phone until needed.

Imagine an architecture in which you had a pervasive cellular data connection that was intentionally uncorrelated with any identifying information, the way wifi is.

Right now, the only legitimate reason cell networks have to identify specific devices to users is for billing, and for PSTN. The latter could be made utterly irrelevant with VoIP. The former could be solved in various ways, either by making it a public good, or by integrating anonymous payment mechanisms for a "session". Then, we could just have pervasive data connections.
by yesfitz | 2025-10-08 17:59:36+00:00
Can you tell me which specific use of the word "empathy" I am arguing against? Because I don't think I'm arguing against any definition at all.

I think I'm arguing that telling someone to behave a way that they don't understand is unhelpful. That could be "empathetic", "thankful", or "gropulent". ** Taking the author at their word, they don't understand the request.

When they ask for clarification, they don't receive it.

In that way, it is veiled, similarly to my "gropulent" analogy.

In other words, the author is being asked to behave differently, but not given guidance on how to behave differently. Which is why they wrote this piece about what empathy is.

I think the author would have gotten a lot further by asking how rather than why, but the author admits that they thought that requests to be empathetic were requests "to be fake and lie". (i.e. They misunderstood what "empathy" meant.)
by ghaff | 2025-10-08 17:59:42+00:00
I'm by no means an interior designer, but my sense is that 60s/70s European design is pretty timeless. Especially if you take out the boldest colors, plastic-sheathed couches, and the like.

My sense is that modern furniture has generally fairly simple lines--and, from what I understand--younger generations tend to favor neutral color tones. While my house is relatively muted, it isn't the greyscale that I see among some younger folks.
by infogulch | 2025-10-08 18:00:18+00:00
Have you heard of XTDB / Bitemporality? The basic idea is to make time 2-dimensional, where each record has both a System Time range and a Valid Time range. Designed as a write-only db with full auditability for compliance purposes.

With 2D time you can ask complex questions about what you knew when, with simpler questions automatically extended into a question about the current time. Like:

"What is the price?" -> "What is the price today, as of today?" "What was the price in 2022" -> "What was the price in 2022, as of today?" "What was the price in 2022, as of 2023?"

You probably don't want to just switch to XTDB, but if you pursue this idea I think you should look into 2D time as I think it is schematically the correct conceptualization for this problem.

Docs: https://docs.xtdb.com/concepts/key-concepts.html#temporal-co... | 2025 Blog: https://xtdb.com/blog/diy-bitemporality-challenge | Visualization tool: https://docs.xtdb.com/concepts/key-concepts.html#temporal-co...
by freetonik | 2025-10-08 18:00:32+00:00
Yes, like 95% of commenters here, I also have an RSS reader. Mine is kinda social (you can follow people and see their subscriptions in your feed), and also has full-text search and “related” recommendations. I also curate and grow a directory of human-written personal blogs: https://minifeed.net

Due to the nature of the medium, the majority of blogs in the directory and technical.
Show HN: FleetCode – Open-source UI for running multiple coding agents
by asdev | 2025-10-08 18:00:34+00:00
Hi HN! I've recently been finding productivity in running parallel CLI coding agents(after not believing in them initially).

After having to do a ton of git stashing and branch fumbling, I decided I needed to something to more ergonomically run these agents in their own dedicated spaces.

I tried a lot of the existing products but they either were too convoluted or flat out didn't work. Some of them also seem to roll their own chat UI which I don't think is the right approach, I wanted to something to lightly wrap my terminal sessions.

So I built FleetCode! It uses git worktrees and let's you run multiple agents at once. It's made my multi agent coding workflow much easier.

It's free and open source, would love some feedback!
by ryandvm | 2025-10-08 18:01:08+00:00
Obviously this makes sense from a dog-fooding perspective because the cloud provider (Microsoft) owns the product (Github), but I'm always surprised when very capable tech companies decide they aren't capable of running bare metal.

Running your own servers was never rocket science, it was literally the only option 20 years ago. Every startup used to have a rack of servers in a closet.

I have always thought of cloud hosting as something you do because you cannot afford a full-time ops team so it's wild to me that companies like Netflix decide that they literally don't have the operational expertise to manage servers.
by Animats | 2025-10-08 18:01:29+00:00
Those same Diesel engines are available from India and several other countries. Again, it's like the AK-47. Somebody really good got the design right, and now others can just replicate it.

Diesel engine design is non-trivial. It takes a lot of compression to get the heat necessary for ignition. It takes strong structures to handle that pressure. The fuel injector has to be able to overcome the pressure of compression and spray fuel into the cylinder. You need to get more energy out than you spend on compression and injection. The thermodynamics are complicated. That all gets built into the dimensions of the metal parts, and it all looks simple, but it's not. Those little engines doesn't even need a glow plug to get started. Or even much cranking. They just work. Cheaply.
by DonaldPShimoda | 2025-10-08 18:01:30+00:00
Research takes some time, both to do but also to publish. In my area (programming languages), we have 4 major conferences a year, each with like a 6-to-8-month lag-time between submission and publication, assuming the submission is accepted by a double-blind peer review process.

I don't work in this area (I have a very unfavorable view of LLMs broadly), but I have colleagues who are working on various aspects of what you ask about, e.g., developing testing frameworks to help ensure output is valid or having the LLMs generate easily-checkable tests for their own generated code, developing alternate means of constraining output (think of, like, a special kind of type system), using LLMs in a way similar to program synthesis, etc. If there is fruit to be borne from this, I would expect to start seeing more publications about it at high-profile venues in the next year or two (or next week, which is when ICFP and SPLASH and their colocated workshops will convene this year, but I haven't seen the publications list to know if there's anything LLM-related yet).
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-08 18:01:51+00:00
What's to stop states from increasing the amount they compete with each other to lure businesses by reducing regulations, lower taxes, etc

I think this is a loop that hurts regular people.

Less regulation could open people to more risk and less ways to combat it.

Lower taxes for businesses means that state funding must be made up with either cuts to services or higher taxes on people.

I think Republicans will use these incentives and the federal government's power to push all the money to red states causing economic decline in blue states which they can then blame on the leaders of those states.

I know this already happens but now that Trump is open to blackmailing states with funding because they aren't run by Republicans it will get worse
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-08 18:01:52+00:00
> The McDonald’s-backed company Plexure sells surveillance data on you to vendors, who use it to raise the price of items when they think you’ll pay more.

Finally I understand why when the McDonalds app was introduced it asked for permission to access my contacts. Of course I refused and deleted the app immediately. But to this day whenever I go to the McDonalds drive-thru the first question they ask is "Are you using the app today?"

McDonalds seems to care so much about their app that I wonder if selling personal information makes them more money than selling hamburgers.
by trhway | 2025-10-08 18:02:48+00:00
>executive putting their political opponents on a TSA watchlist is bad

Just wait a year or two and it will become totally normalized.

Remember those Cristie's stuffers which went to prison for closing bridge for several days in the city which went Democratic? It was just few years ago that such political retribution was considered a Bad Thing. Today it is just a new normal in politics.
by zug_zug | 2025-10-08 18:02:51+00:00
> The levels of legibility that companies actually aim for are much more defensible

Many companies run in such a way that there is no bucket for "engineers get to do stuff they know is important x% of the time." So what happens is that things that executives don't understand the significance of all get 0 time allocation. Other teams may be told they aren't allowed to work on something owned by the CI team (again often for legibility reasons).

This is how I work at a "startup" that has just a single test environment that everyone has to share after 10 years of existence.
by justinlloyd | 2025-10-08 18:03:16+00:00
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by antirez | 2025-10-08 18:03:59+00:00
This object makes sense to me only if, even if there is a display, which is fundamentally different than tracing line with the CRT raster, at least that original process is simulated. If the lines buffer is rendered just with a line drawing algorithm where the line is uniform, I kinda fail to see the point of emulating an object like that. Sure, still kinda a nice gadget, but... And, the ESP32 inside tells me that it is hardly a physical simulation of the CRT reactive surface and the electrons beam. The point of this device was the way the lines were traced without the help of the main CPU of the device, and in a way where pixels didn't make any sense at all. They are lines at the lower of the levels. Failing to do that in the emulation is kinda betraying the device.
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-08 18:04:27+00:00
>I don't think this is weird at all. Corporations may be more "malicious" (or at least self centered), but governments have more power. So even if you believe they are good and have good intentions it still has the potential to do far more harm. Google can manipulate you but the government can manipulate you, throw you in jail, and rewrite the rules so you have no recourse. Even if the government can get the data from those companies there's at least a speed bump. Even if a speed bump isn't hard to get over are we going to pretend that some friction is no different from no friction?

That's all as may be, but you're ignoring the fact that governments are buying[0][1][2][3] the data being collected by those corporations. That's not "friction" in my book, rather it's a commercial transaction.

As such, giving corporations a pass seems kind of silly, as they're profiting from selling that data to those with a monopoly on violence.

So, by all means, give the corporations the "benefit of the doubt" on this, as they certainly have no idea that they're selling this information to governments (well, to pretty much anyone willing to pay -- including domestic abusers and stalkers too), they're only acting as agents maximizing corporate profits for their shareholders. Which is the only important thing, right? Anything else is antithetical to free-market orthodoxy.

People suffer and/or die? Just the cost of doing business right?

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-government-buys-dat...

[1] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/when-the-government-buy...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116192/documents/...

[3] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/28/government...
by lupusreal | 2025-10-08 18:04:43+00:00
It sure seems like whenever a corporation grows old, large or expansive enough, it will inevitably morph into an spy agency. Even what is obstensibly a burger flipping business wants to spy on people.

Earlier this week I was in a regional gas station getting lunch, they've got maybe 30 or so locations scattered around this part of the state, and watched them tell an old man that he couldn't get a loyalty card from them anymore because they only do apps now. "But I don't have a cellphone" - "Uhhh... You can also do it online?"
by theurerjohn3 | 2025-10-08 18:05:13+00:00
there is blog post somewhere i read, i cannot find it at the moment, that discusses the idea of "doctor problems" vs "musician problems". Doctor problems are problems where low quality solutions are deeply bad, so you should avoid them even if it involves producing fewer high quality solutions, while musician problems are ones where high quality solutions are very very worth it, so you should encourgage as many tries as possible so you get the super high quality wins. This seems a useful frame of reference, but not really the Ortega Hypothesis

it seems clear to me that the downside of society having a bad scientist is relatively low, so long as theres a gap between low quality science and politics [0], while the upside is huge.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
by athrowaway3z | 2025-10-08 18:05:23+00:00
MCP's are toys for point-and-click devs that no self-respecting dev has any business using.

Case in point; I'm mostly a Claude user, which has decent background process / BashOutput support to get a long-running process's stdout.

I was using codex just now, and its processes support is ass.

So I asked it, give me 5 options using cli tools to implement process support. After 3 min back and forth, I got this: https://github.com/offline-ant/shellagent-tools/blob/main/ba...

Add single line in AGENTS.md.

> the `background` tool allows running programs in the background. Calling `background` outputs the help.

Now I can go "background ./server; try thing. investigate" and it has access to the stdout.

Stop pre-trashing your context with MCPs people.
by mullingitover | 2025-10-08 18:05:31+00:00
It's a Keynesian Beauty Contest:

> A Keynesian beauty contest is a metaphorical beauty contest in which judges are rewarded for selecting the most popular faces among all judges, rather than those they may personally find the most attractive.

This explains why informed investors know TSLA is worthless, but they also know that the retail market as a whole thinks it's as precious as unicorn tears, so it is priced accordingly.
by mekoka | 2025-10-08 18:05:47+00:00
People are constantly looking for definite tendencies and magic patterns so they can abdicate situational awareness and critical thinking. We observe that fast delivery has often correlated with success in software and we infer that fast delivery is a factor of success. Then it becomes about the mindless pursuit of the measure, speed of delivery, as Goodhart's law predicts.

Let's even concede that speed of delivery indeed is an actual factor, there has to be a threshold. There's a point where people just don't care how fast you're putting out features, because your product has found its sweet spot and is perfectly scratching its market's itch. A few will clearly notice when the line of diminishing returns is crossed and if they can reset their outlook to fit the new context, a continuous focus on speed of delivery will look increasingly obsessive and nonsensical.

But that's the reality of the majority of the software development world. Few of us work on anything mission critical. We could produce nice sane software at a reasonable pace with decent output, but we're sold the idea that there's always more productivity to squeeze and we're told that we really really want that juice.
by sehugg | 2025-10-08 18:05:59+00:00
AliExpress has these 4-inch "flat CRTs" that look like they scan the vertical axis onto a sort of parabolic screen. I've thought about playing with one, but decided I don't want to risk shocking myself for a tiny distorted image. Still have no idea for which application they're intended.

https://www.aliexpress.com/i/3256805660504572.html
by daheza | 2025-10-08 18:06:33+00:00
How are you setting up LLCs nowadays? I set one up through legalzoom and get charged an increasing amount each year (it increased $100) this year and I can't cancel / dissolve the charges via the UI. Even though I signed up online, I have to contact the state to dissolve the LLC then show legalzoom proof in order to cancel their yearly fee. Its pretty crazy.

Are there other better vendors for this kind of work out there?
by neilv | 2025-10-08 18:06:39+00:00
> The Vectrex Mini captures the full spirit of the original Vectrex [...] AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600

I played many hours on a Vectrex, and I'd say that the true vector graphics was the spirit.

If this project is able to capture that spirit in 800x600 AMOLED, that will be very impressive, and I will be curious how they did it.

Edit: The Vectrex was a nice piece of creative engineering, within the constraints and opportunities of the time, on a wonderful product. I suppose (if you look at the comments here) it's difficult to make an homage to such a beloved thing, and hit the best notes in how you reveal it. This Mini looks impressive, and hopefully recaptures some of the magic.
by gopalv | 2025-10-08 18:06:51+00:00
It is a meme, but it's always DNS

This error can happen if there's an AAAA record, but it contains the ipv4 address packed inside a ipv6 mask.

If the AAAA record says ::ffff:10.0.0.105, then you can either fix DNS or do what's in the blog, which should stop checking for quad A records.