MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by betorolla | 2025-10-06 15:41:13+00:00
Great insight — the correlation between spending and performance seems stronger than ever this season.

The 2025 Premier League summer window actually set an all-time record: £3.19 billion spent, up from £2.46 billion in 2023. Liverpool alone broke the transfer record twice (Isak for £125 m and Wirtz for £100 m+), while Arsenal led net spending with big signings like Gyökeres and Eze. Even newly promoted sides such as Sunderland outspent PSG on a net basis, which is wild.

Unsurprisingly, Arsenal and Liverpool are now leading the table — a clear reflection of how spending power is translating directly into early-season results.

We put together a deeper analysis of this record-breaking window here: https://betprotips.com/premier-league-2025-summer-transfers-...

Might be interesting to compare specific players and compare their "ROI"
by gorset | 2025-10-06 15:41:38+00:00
I've used bazel for about 10 years, all in small orgs. Right now, single digit team.

I don't think there exists a better solution for a project mixing Java and C/C++ than Bazel. The new module system for bazel has matured a lot. As an example, it's trivial to add boringssl and access it from Java.
by ravenstine | 2025-10-06 15:41:39+00:00
I wouldn't see this issue as a problem if it weren't for Apple's stance that everything that can be installed on iOS has to come through App Store. If multiple stores were possible/viable for iOS, then the answer would have been to get said app elsewhere. Fundamentally, this is an issue not about Apple removing apps from their store that they don't want to host, but one of the right to do what you want with the devices you supposedly own.
by epistasis | 2025-10-06 15:42:02+00:00
As far as the grid goes, there's a tiny bit of gas additions, but it's mostly solar, battery, and wind:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65964

Of course, remember that nameplate capacities from different technologies should be corrected for capacity factor, which is roughly 60% for gas, 40% for wind, and 25% for solar, but pre-correction EIA expects

solar: 33.3GW battery: 18.3GW wind: 7.7GW gas: 4.7GW

And then there's an expected retirement of 1.6GW of old gas this year.

I'm pretty disconnected from the data center folks, but in general the current political environment is highly disfavorable to solar and batteries, and using them too much could have lots of political blowback that is very expensive.

Of course, small gas also has the benefit that the operating costs are spread over the lifetime, rather than being an up-front cost. So even if solar+batteries is cheaper than gas over the lifetime of the system, gas may seem more expedient if you don't want a lot of capital on the books.
by greatgib | 2025-10-06 15:42:35+00:00
Emailing Tim is like pissing in the wind...

Vote and impact them with your money. Just don't buy their stuff. Buying refurb is not much better, because it still raise the value of their products and brand by showing that devices have a big second hand value so it worth to buy as it will not lose value. And also, you will be proudly showing off your Apple devices all around instead of setting an example.
by beaker52 | 2025-10-06 15:42:46+00:00
> I got comfortable with it and told myself that I had overcome my materialism, and could henceforth live happily without a lot of stuff and conveniences.

Same. Exactly the same.

I have often reflected that I have never been as happy as when I had the least stuff, either.

I often wonder if it’s a) correlation or causation and b) whether the stuff is caused by dissatisfaction or the dissatisfaction is caused by the stuff, or both.

Either way, I’m currently undergoing an intentional downsizing in my life, toward minimalism. Not the kind where I use it as an excuse to buy (more) expensive minimalist gear either.

I’m shedding hobbies and interests that I have because I believe that they’ve become distractions that I bury myself in. Replacing them is far from my mind, but prising them out of my fingers is a very real challenge. It’s hardly backpack living, but it’s definitely moving in that direction.
by wincy | 2025-10-06 15:42:51+00:00
Imagine trying to play Elden Ring, you’re on the final boss, at half health, and suddenly you get an overlay autoplaying ad for Domino’s Pizza.

Or you’re holding back tears as a beloved character makes the ultimate sacrifice in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the orchestral soundtrack crescendos in a perfect welling up of complex emotional storytelling, as you get an ad for Dude Wipes. DUDE WIPES: WIPES FOR EVERY DAY SH*TUATIONS. GET 20% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER WITH CODE SHITBOX
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-06 15:42:52+00:00
I was just too young and things exploded by the time I really could start to understand what was gonig on.

I was very early Elementasry for 9/11, Middle school for the GFC. I was early 20's focusing on college in 2016, which would have been the 2nd nationals I could vote in. Then I was only a few years into my career when COVID hit.

The Obama era gave me hopes, but I didn't realize how easily it could be relinquished in the name of corporate interest. I just figured all the checks and balances would keep things from really going backwards. Obviously Trump winning was the first huge red flag, but things seemed fine. But the real red flag I (personally) saw was Ruth Bader Ginsburg not stepping down and instead dying during the Trump administration. Having 3 judges appointed by Trump (plus 3 from W. Bush beforehand) was a death knell for decades to come, even if Trump never got elected.
by forty | 2025-10-06 15:43:28+00:00
People do use A/C more and more in France for obvious reasons, even in the northern part (it has been the trend in the south already for a while now).

I'm not sure what I said is incompatible with being a net exporter? There was a lot of sun and heat, they had to shutdown some nuclear power plants, but the overall electricy production was doing fine, because they did not have to shutdown all the plants (but how about in a few years with even hotter weather?) and obviously solar was doing well.

And yes, I agree we don't have good storage yet, but then we can decide to invest in finding solutions or to try to re-learn how to make nuclear power plants in less than 12 years. Personally my intuition is that more distributed / local energy and also which doesn't have to rely on a state monopoly is better and more resilient (ask Ukraine) so I'd put my money on storage.
by abtinf | 2025-10-06 15:43:34+00:00
It’s easy to blame private companies, like Apple and Disney.

It’s harder to blame politicians, and harder still to blame the root of their power: the people.

And it’s hardest of all to blame yourself. Show me the article that calls these companies evil for caving into political pressure and refusing to immolate themselves, that also argues to neuter government power so that the companies don’t face existential threats from the whims of whatever gang happens to run the show in the moment.

Nope, instead every time there is an implicit argument that even more political power and guns and force are needed.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-06 15:43:36+00:00
I got a private IPv6 only on AT&T cell when I checked a couple of years ago (to be clear, not a public one with inbound-deny). Will check again.

Edit: Ok not sure what to make of this now. On an iPhone rn so it's tricky, the Net Analyzer app says I have 5 2600:s on cell, which should be the public range, but my public IP according to test-ipv6.com is a different 2600: from all the above. Wonder if those 5 are actually the EPC.

There's an HN comment about them using NAT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23025344 and this forum thread https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?p=25357

There's an old Reddit thread where someone said at first there's no NAT, but then realized there is https://www.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/8k680y/cellular_public...
by legacynl | 2025-10-06 15:43:52+00:00
> The author may have hit on the answer without realizing it. He's in the gym doing pull-ups. Is his lat strength necessary for some important part of his survival? Highly unlikely. Pre-20th century, when most work was highly physical, would he have gone out after work to research and test out efficient lat exercises? Probably not either.

Yeah but don't you kinda proof his point though? When we all created machines to do all the manual labor for us we got fat and unhealthy. Only recently we've really began to understand how important excercise (manual labor) is for us.

I fear that the obvious result of a laissez-faire attitude is that in 20-30 years we find out that there was actual benefit of using our mind, reading, writing, etc.

In the case of our muscles, we were lucky that we didn't need those to identify the health benefits of excercise and we could come up with a solution. In the case of our brains, we might not be as lucky, so maybe be prudent and assume it's something that's beneficial?
by Terr_ | 2025-10-06 15:43:59+00:00
> When China turned on Google's users, Google left the country. When the European Union ordered Apple to open up to third party app stores, Apple threatened to leave Europe[.] But when Pam Bondi ordered Apple and Google to help her round up their own customers, Brin and Cook didn't even ask for a court order.

> You could not ask for a better example of the failure of feudal security. Nor could you ask for a better rebuttal to the "Surveillance Capitalism" claim that Google is a "rogue capitalist" (because it spies on you for profit) while Apple is a good capitalist (because they extract money, not private data):

Hear-hear! As always, in many ways this isn't a "bad actor" problem (or at least, not just that) but rather a legal problem of monopolies and individuals not being able to really own what they bought.
by saltyoldman | 2025-10-06 15:44:02+00:00
I think people are making explanations for it - because it's effectively a digital black box. So all we can do is try to explain what it's doing. Saying "be fair" is more colloquial expression in this sense. And the reason he's comparing it to developers and unicode is a funny aside about the state of things with unicode. And Besides that, LLMs only emit what they emit because it's trained on all those said people.
by doctorhandshake | 2025-10-06 15:44:07+00:00
I’m all for minimalist travel but I feel like I picked up a number of cues that the author is buying and disposing of (somehow) items seasonally or even on an as-no-longer-needed basis. Hopefully that means donating the item and maybe even buying used to begin with but it’s not mentioned here. I don’t want to make assumptions but in the worst case this could be a very wasteful kind of minimalism.
by epistasis | 2025-10-06 15:44:41+00:00
If you're a utility, you may not like that solar and batteries are driving down electricity costs and reducing grid expenses. But even with the thumbs against the scale, we are seeing the most nameplate deployment (see caveats in my parallel reply) in decades, and will likely set a record, because of solar, batteries, and wind in that order:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65964
by rockostrich | 2025-10-06 15:44:42+00:00
> It turns out that climbing on the hedonic treadmill is practically effortless, but sliding down it is full of splinters.

Not sure if I'm missing a joke, but the whole point of the analogy being a treadmill is that there's nothing to fall down. Regardless of positive (running forward) or negative (going backward on the treadmill) life changes, your happiness will probably stay relatively consistent because you're on a treadmill and there's nowhere to go.

The live out of a backpack lifestyle is definitely a unique way to experience the modern world and I'm sure it's fulfilling for the author, but you can even tell in their post that life caught up with them somewhat and they needed to start staying in one place a little longer in order to maintain social relationships. Their linked post about walking every block of Manhattan and tracking all of their movement since 2015 feels like the exact opposite of a minimalist lifestyle and it seems to me like they live out of a backpack not out of some anti-materialism lifestyle, but instead just as a practical way to fuel this obsession with traveling and tracking.

I admit, I've seen the author's Instagram story about walking 100k steps in a day in NYC and watched the whole thing because it's interesting, but I also take that and posts like this with a grain of salt. I'll happily take my horde of shit I need to get rid of in the garage over obsessing about how I can optimize tracking my every movement.
Show HN: Maudit, a Rust library to build static websites
by Princesseuh | 2025-10-06 15:45:42+00:00
Hello!

Maudit is a library (not a framework) to build static websites. What this means is that a Maudit website is a normal Rust project, pages are normal Rust structs and so on.

There's a built-in function one can use that will do pages -> HTML as expected, or one can run quite literally `SomePage.build()` to build a single page.

While there are some obvious downsides in complexity on the user side, I'm hoping that this model allows people to grow past some of the limitations that traditional SSG frameworks have, where it can be hard sometimes to customise certain aspects.

It's still super early, but feedback is extremely welcome. Hope you'll like it!
by imiric | 2025-10-06 15:45:54+00:00
I don't know, I'm torn about it.

I use mise and mostly like it. It has simplified my workflow for managing environments. But I don't need a task runner. `Make` and `just` already fulfill that purpose for me. I haven't used them in a monorepo, but both support importing and extending task/recipe files, so presumably it's possible to set them up appropriately. Maybe the UX wouldn't be as polished as a tool built for that use case, but I like my tools to "do one thing well". mise already does quite a lot as an environment manager, and I'd prefer it to remain focused on those problems.

Ah, you're the author. Thanks for all your work!
by rsyring | 2025-10-06 15:45:54+00:00
> I went looking for an issue to see if they're planning it, but the Mise repo doesn't have issues enabled? And no discussion on the README about why they don't. That doesn't inspire confidence.

I'm not sure when/why the issues were turned off. That's...surprising.

There used to be an issue that said the maintainers preferred discussions over issues. I'd link to it but it's a 404 now.

I've started a discussion regarding the lack of issues: https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6566

Regarding confidence: I've used the project for a couple years now. I have a ton of confidence in it and I recommend it to everyone. While preferring discussions to issues is uncommon, the release frequency and utility of mise speak for itself. Take the time to look around the discussions and/or just use it. :)
by tristor | 2025-10-06 15:46:14+00:00
I spent 18 months doing this as a digital nomad. When I started out I had a rollaboard suitcase, a checked 60 inch bag, a pelican full of camera gear, and a 28L backpack. By the end I had a 28L backpack only. All that said, there were things I gave up in my travels that I missed and make it a point of taking now when I go on shorter vacation-like trips. Simple example was having good coffee. When I started out I had a jet boil, an aeropress, a hario hand mill, and a vacuum container of good beans, by the end I had given that up to save space, but there's really no reason not to have good coffee if you have the space to do so. I also had given up my much better camera gear for a single point and shoot camera to cut down on space requirements, since then I've taken to traveling with the pelican again most of the time, and when I don't I have a micro 4/3rds camera that is better than the point and shoot, but almost as compact.

I do think there's value to learning how to live with less, and it also helps unencumber you more than just in physical weight, but spiritually, to allow yourself to explore and go forth without concern. I could just hop on a train, bus, plane, and go somewhere else even as a side trip without needing to be concerned with any of my belongings because it was all with me all of the time.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-06 15:46:17+00:00
And alas web push notifications on iOS remain very critically buggered beyond measure. https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/

I get that not everyone would accept a web-app replacement, but it sure would be nice if iOS wasn't actively obstructing the possibility of some folks using a web-app messaging service.
by parpfish | 2025-10-06 15:46:29+00:00
i've always wondered why I eagerly jump in to some big tasks whereas others fill me with anxiety and trigger procrastination, and recently I've come up with a working theory:

if the task requires requires leaving a stable equilibrium and moving to another, I will procrastinate. So things like "fixing these bugs" or "build a prototype" are fine, but "migrate this system from X to Y" are a problem.

It's because these are the tasks where you know things are going to get worse before they get better.

When I work, I want to fix things and shrink my to-do list (why yes, I am an inbox-zero kind of guy). These big migration tasks are the type of work where once you start, your to-do list gets bigger.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-06 15:46:35+00:00
There are ANPR cameras all over the UK for the purpose of checking insurance, road tax, and wanted vehicles. They are usually much more discreet than speed cameras because they don't jave to make themselves visible, and in fact police forces don't make locations public. My understanding is that the police can keep records of all the vehicles that drove past for up to a year.

At least you were lucky that the criminal masterminds who cloned your car's number plate did not bother to match the make and model, that made it obvious to spot for the police. Otherwise you might have had trouble explaining...
by swatson741 | 2025-10-06 15:46:39+00:00
A C compiler can output fairly readable code if you turn off optimizations, and it's definitely not going to take thousands of lines to do this in modern assembly. It may be only just barely a thousand lines to do this in aarch64, and the LLM can probably do it.

From what I've seen the LLM do it can definitely enhance these programs if you know what to ask, and it can explain how any piece this code works. It may even be able to add garbage collection to the evaluator since the root registers are explicit, and the evaluator only acts on static memory.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-06 15:46:42+00:00
>Democrats cannot escape the corrupting influence of money.

They could. These are not people struggling to pay rent, they do not live paycheck to paycheck. Heck, the median age of congress is 58 so a good portion of them are free to retire and never work another day in their lives.

But they in general choose not to escape it. The money, the networks, the power. I guess the sad thing is that the populace aren't aware enough to properly primary anyone who does turn their backs on them.
by krisoft | 2025-10-06 15:46:57+00:00
It is not that surprising that this kind of misunderstanding happens more often on the internet. In real life we communicate with more than just our words. We see how our communication partners say what they say, where they are looking, what cadence and tone they use. We also see what faces they make while the other person was talking, how alert they were.

When all of that is missing it is harder to glean the tenor or direction of the message.

And then on top of that there is a thing I would call "expectation bias". We expect to see something, and when what we see does not match our expectations we sometimes become blind to that. Conversations on this site very often go "argument - counter argument - counter counter argument - counter counter counter argument". Because of that people (me included!) often read comments with the expectation that it will at least in some way disagree with what was said before. And once someone has that expectation it is easy to misread a supporting comment as a weird and under-argued disagreement.

> Makes me sad.

I do understand. And you are not wrong. Misunderstandings are sad. It seems we sometimes forget that there is an other human being on the other side of the screen too. So sadness is not unwarranted sometimes.

But on a constructive level we can recognise where the confusion slips in and we can add extra words to help lubricate the discussion. I often start my comments with stating my level of agreement. (From "Yes, you are 100% right..." via "You are mostly right, but I disagree with X" to "No, I'm afraid that is not true at all") Basically typing more characters because others can't see my gestures, and can't hear the tenor of my voice.

For example in this case you could have wrote: "I agree that an orca probably doesn't see a human diver as a significant threat, and wouldn't need to use a bait to attack it. After all they are known to attack moose too! ..." (As an example. Of course I don't know if that is what you were actually thinking.)

Could your comment been understood in an ideal world even without that? I think so. Could it have been fortified with a few choice words to better signal that what you are providing are related examples to support the already stated argument? I would think so too.
by razoorka | 2025-10-06 15:47:45+00:00
Because growth always adds entropy.

Every new product, integration, or business line introduces new edge cases, dependencies, and coordination paths. What starts as a clean architecture turns into a network of overlapping constraints - legacy data formats, different latency expectations, regulatory quirks, “temporary” patches that become permanent.

You can manage complexity for a while, but you can’t eliminate it. Every layer that simplifies work for one team usually adds hidden coupling for another. Over time, the system stops being a single design and becomes an ecosystem of compromises.
by DennisP | 2025-10-06 15:48:09+00:00
We know a lot more than the simple fact that civilization exists on our planet. See section 3 for how they estimated the parameters.

One of the most uncertain parameters is the rate of abiogenesis events per planet. For that one they used a log-normal with a standard deviation of 50 orders of magnitude. They discuss specific theoretical limits from biology for both ends of the range.

Compared to this approach, the usual method is to just pick particular values out of a hat. This paper at least improves that by directly representing our vast uncertainty for some of the values.

It doesn't tell us how many alien civilizations there are. But it does tell us the range of possibilities, given what we know and don't know.
by blackbear_ | 2025-10-06 15:48:13+00:00
Some time ago I wrote a Telegram bot that copies messages to a Google Sheet (can be personal & private). The rationale is to quickly capture data in a semi-structured format and tidy it up at a later point. Expense tracking in conjunction with this spreadsheet would be a great use-case; it can also upload pictures (for receipts) and other file attachments.

https://t.me/gsheet_notes_bot
by kstrauser | 2025-10-06 15:48:13+00:00
I'd counter that I actively don't want those more powerful features. Like, I get why anyone would want them, but right now Mise is "knowable". I can sit down with its doc site and figure out any of its features without building a strong mental model of their underlying implementation. And that also means my coworkers aren't as likely to abuse and twist it into the kinds of things people have used tools like Make for.

I would vastly rather have Mise shell out to Make etc for more complex DAG stuff. Those tools already exist and are good at their own specialties. Mise doesn't need to reinvent everything.

But I do think the new monorepo tasks are very on-brand for it. They don't seem so much as to add deep functionality as to provide a convention for finding and running other Mise files in a repo.