MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2025-10-18 00:28:45+00:00
Vote manipulation is a non-issue here because users require a minimum of 500 karma to vote, and because the site is so much smaller than Reddit it can take months to reach that threshold. Downvoting is also capped so that you're very unlikely to get pushed back below the 500 karma threshold unless you are consistently making comments that the community doesn't like. I post things I know won't be well-received here all the time and it's quite rare for a comment to go below -2 karma, but comparatively common for these sorts of comment to get flagged despite not breaking any rules.

4chan was great in 2015 precisely because anyone could comment, but it's a young man's website in that scrolling through a 300 comment thread to find the worthwhile parts of the discussion will require upwards of fifteen minutes, whereas on Reddit or Hacker News most of that sorting is already done. This does have censorial effects, so it isn't ideal for controversial topics like politics, but it's better for almost everything else.
by ryanrasti | 2025-10-18 00:29:37+00:00
+100 to you both. This is the classic tradeoff: powerful, centralized DB logic vs. clean but often anemic app code.

I'm building Typegres to give you both. It lets you (a) write complex business logic in TypeScript using a type-safe mapping of Postgres's 3000+ functions and (b) compiles it all down to a single SQL query.

Easier to show than tell: https://typegres.com/play
by SapporoChris | 2025-10-18 00:29:54+00:00
https://insideevs.com/news/758625/byd-megawatt-charging-demo... https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318540/by... https://www.electrive.com/2025/06/02/byd-expands-megawatt-ch... https://thenextavenue.com/2025/07/28/how-byds-latest-innovat...

And that's just some low hanging fruit.
by tuananh | 2025-10-18 00:30:07+00:00
For me Claude Skills is just a proof that we're making RAG unnecessary difficult to use. Not tech wise, but UX wise. But if we can fix that, the need for Claude Skills will go away.

Where Claude Skills is better than MCP? It's easier to produce a Claude SKills. It's just text. Everyone can write it. But it's dependant on the environment alot. Eg: when you need to have certain tools available for it to work. How do you automate sandbox setup with that? Even that, are you sure it's the right version for it to use, etc...
by airesearcher | 2025-10-18 00:30:08+00:00
You're right that Realm of Lace edges are derived from node eligibility, making it theoretically equivalent to a complex multi-state CA. I've updated the documentation to reflect this honestly.

However, your Shadertoy port doesn't produce equivalent behavior to the original rule—I've tried several corrections in your shader and none match.

While you've demonstrated the theoretical point, this actually highlights why the abstraction matters: implementing these dynamics correctly is non-trivial even when the algorithm seems straightforward. The three-phase execution, metric calculations, and mutual eligibility create subtle interactions that are easy to get wrong.

Why the shader port doesn't work:

I've successfully implemented this same rule in Taichi (also GPU-based), and comparing the two reveals the issue.

The three-phase execution model requires intermediate storage between phases that Shadertoy's ping-pong buffer architecture can't provide.

In my Taichi implementation, each phase has its own buffer:

- Phase 1 reads node_degree (previous state) and writes to node_next_eligible

- Phase 2 reads node_next_eligible and writes to node_next_degree

- Phase 3 reads node_next_degree and writes back to node_degree

Shadertoy only has two buffers (previous frame read-only, current frame write-only), so the shader tries to collapse all three phases into one pass. But this breaks the execution model: when Phase 2 checks if a neighbor is eligible, it needs the neighbor's just-computed eligibility from Phase 1 of the current step, not the previous frame's data.

To properly implement this in a shader, you'd need either:

- A multi-pass setup with three separate render passes and intermediate textures

- Clever state packing to encode multiple values (eligibility + degree) in one buffer

The fact that the algorithm works correctly in Taichi but requires careful buffer management even on GPU demonstrates that "theoretical equivalence to traditional CA" doesn't mean "trivial to implement."

The three-phase execution model with intermediate states is a real architectural requirement, not just an abstraction.

Regarding edge rule tables: LACE has complete UI infrastructure for true edge-to-edge dynamics (edge states evolving based on connection patterns, independent of node eligibility).

The Rule Editor even has a full tab for it (which appears if a rule implements rule tables). But no rule implements the execution logic yet—it's a dormant feature that would provide the dynamic topology you're suggesting.

Thanks for pushing me to be more precise about all this though :)
by gus_massa | 2025-10-18 00:30:17+00:00
The first was posted 4 years ago, with many points and little discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490238 so it may be reposted now.

The second one was never posted...

Both are good to be posted, but I recommend to post one and wait a month to post the other so no one get annoyed.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-10-18 00:31:22+00:00
>If we can just get through the rest of this decade without widespread agricultural collapses, a nuclear war, a global fascist international dictatorship taking hold, and a complete collapse of the international financial system caused by black gold suddenly turning out to be worthless, we might be pretty well set to handle the challenges of the 2030s.

I noticed world peace wasn't on the roadmap. After we solve 3 or 4 of these existential crises, do we still have time for that, or are we pushing it to 2100?
by bookofjoe | 2025-10-18 00:31:36+00:00
Hey, thanks! Very kind of you. Full story re: bookofjoe blog:

1) I started it on Typepad in 2002 and it continued with multiple posts 365 days/year until September 30, 2025, when Typepad shut down after 30 days notice.

Sporadic archives here: https://web.archive.org/web/20020915000000*/bookofjoe.com

2) After Typepad gave notice, I explored various options (Ghost/Squarespace/WordPress/Wix/Medium/Substack/Blogger) but all but Blogger were too complicated for my TechnoDolt©®™ capabilities, thus I moved to Blogger in early September (https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/09/im-shocked-not.html) and have become settled in there, now posting (as I did for years on Typepad) 3 times daily (8am/12noon/4pm) 7 days a week.
by areoform | 2025-10-18 00:31:36+00:00
I have had the privilege of having spent time with NASA's former Chief Scientist, Dr Jim Green, and hearing him call me a friend. (In case you ever read this, thank you for everything Jim! You'll always be our space grandpa <3)

The Office of the Chief Scientist does more than just weigh in. The Planetary Society had been trying for 25+ years to put a mic on Mars. We'd sent cameras to mars, but we'd never sent a mic. It was a combination of denials ("there's no real scientific purpose" was the pushback) and bad luck (the first mission in 1999 crashed so did another - more here, https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/mars-microphones ).

Here's a Web 1.0 page from the 90's on it, https://research.ssl.berkeley.edu/marsmic/whatisit.html

We finally got a microphone on Mars in 2021 thanks (in part) to the Dr. Jim Green. At the time, he was the head of NASA's Planetary Science Division, and along with his colleagues, he put his weight behind the payload and helped get it past the bureaucracy. His push wasn't the only push. A LOT of people worked on it, but it was an important one.

He is also the reason why NASA got into Planetary Defense. He also pushed for the NEO Observations Program. I remember talking to him about this a few years ago. IIRC, he pushed for the creation of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) to make an explicit Planetary Defense team within NASA.

He also helped refocus NASA on the search for life on Mars. And as Chief Scientist, he started putting his weight behind terraforming Mars, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/science/jim-green-nasa-ma...

Every large organisation, every bureaucracy needs someone like Jim to get interesting ideas across the finish line.

Jim consistently did that across his career, and the office of Chief Scientist give him the ability to seriously advocate for "crazy stuff" (not his words) like Martian life and terraforming.

His successor is much the same. I think this closure is a net loss for humanity.
by NicuCalcea | 2025-10-18 00:33:08+00:00
> If I run a lemonade stand, and a UK citizen walks up a pays a dollar for a glass of lemonade, then that doesn't give the UK jurisdiction over the lemonade stand.

You are allowed to sell lemonade to British tourists. But if you're shipping lemonade to the UK, you are subject to UK lemonade regulations. That doesn't mean that the UK has jurisdiction over your business and can shut it down or anything like that, but if you travel to the UK or UK banks handle your transactions, they have the right to seize funds and shipments, close your accounts or detain you if you set foot in the UK. Your choice are: follow UK regulations; stop shipping lemonade to the UK; or continue as you were, never go to the UK, and know that the UK can always ban shipments from your stand.

The US does the same thing all the time, and even worse[1]. Lots of piracy sites located in jurisdictions where US copyright laws don't apply are seized by US federal agencies and replaced with a notice about piracy. Those sites haven't broken any laws in the countries they're hosted in, they have no legal presence in the US, and yet the domains are banned/seized and administrators detained if they ever step foot on US soil. The UK is not threatening to seize anyone's site.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites
by fragmede | 2025-10-18 00:34:29+00:00
In life, it helps to be skeptical, so the real question is where do I find real life humans to ask about their experiences? And even then, they could still be paid actors. Though, I've often wondered how would that work. Like, the marketing department staffed by hot people finds developers and then offers to Venmo them $500 to write something nice online about the product? It's a big Internet, and there's a lot of people on Upwork, so I'm not saying it isn't happening, but I've never gotten an email asking me to write something nice about Claude Code in exchange for a couple of bucks.
by Daishiman | 2025-10-18 00:35:05+00:00
This is all very good but like most articles written by Westerners ignorant of 19th and 20th-century history it completely forgoes the part where European colonialism did everything in its power to remove progressive governments, generate division amongst any clans that could have possibly aspired to modern identities, and sabotaged anyone who could have posed a thread to Western interests who, coincidentally, we some of the most educated and promising elites of the Middle East.

Really just another fluff piece about how great and smart us in the West are while we carry the weight of millions of corpses in Africa, the Middle East, and even Europe.
by cube00 | 2025-10-18 00:35:58+00:00
These are the style of sites LLMs create when you ask not to use any component libraries.

For some reason they gravitate to this style (and chern out reams of slop CSS to get there).

They really don't like the current trend of large hero graphics across the page so, as others have said, it feels like they're stuck in the last decade.

On the plus site, maybe websites will get faster when they're not weighted down with megabytes of component and JS libraries.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-18 00:36:52+00:00
The problem is the self-reinforcing valuation entanglements that make NVIDIA have a market cap of 4.42 teradollars.. until Meta, Goog, Apple, and Microsoft develop their own custom NPUs or the fragile bubble bursts in some other way.

There's value here, but probably not as much as the market thinks... yet.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-18 00:37:52+00:00
> S&P downgraded the US in 2013 or so and it had no effect

The difference is USD denominated debt can be furnished in USD, something which the United States has control over.

Not the same with the Euro and France.

And the downgrade the US had did have a real impact on borrowing rates that the US could leverage.

I also think you undervalue the impact the S&P has from a risk profile perspective. A number of funds do in fact take S&P ratings (along with Fitch and Moody's) into account when assessing risk due to compliance reasons.

The reality is France needs to choose to cut down on one of the three below

1. Military Capacity - not realistic given the threat much of the EU faces.

2. Post-2008 Welfare Expansion - not realistic for political reasons

3. Industrial Subsidies - not realistic given that it is the only reason most French even have a job at this point

Yet someone will have to take the sword and make the hard decision. Either of these choices will make the party and all their politicans who make this choice toxic for a generation, but the can cannot be kicked forward any longer.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-18 00:39:07+00:00
Sure, that would require the Democrats win an election first. I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Its not like Trump is the most inspiring candidate. When you lose 2 out of 3 to him, perhaps time to take a long look in the mirror. But no, the dems will probably run someone like AOC next time and lose badly. Even worse, once 2030 comes around there is a new census. This matters because enough people have moved from blue to red states that Republicans will no longer have to win any swing states to win both the House and POTUS. Unless something dramatic changes, like say the Dems run a southern governor instead of a coastal progressive, then we are looking at quite a while before we have to worry about that.

PS Don't yell at me about this, I'm just explaining the situation.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-10-18 00:39:12+00:00
There is a fairly big gap between chained in the closet and completely free access to the internet. There is also a lot difference between catching a glimpse of some porn and spending hours in their bedroom exploring the darkest corners of the internet.

I don't have them chained up, but I'm also not concerned they are become radicalized, or damaging themselves watching snuff films and goatse.
by supertrope | 2025-10-18 00:40:16+00:00
I don't think gp comment is advocating doing a cash out re-finance, but to exploit leverage when first financing the purchase.

I used to be very debt averse. Owing a six figure sum seemed like a huge burden. Now I understand that mortgagees are non-callable. If you put 20% down that removes a lot of risk of being underwater. Fannie Mae is eating inflation risk for you. It's a way of smoothing expenses over multiple life stages. With a 30 year mortgage you can get a smaller payment when you're younger, earning less, and paying for daycare. When you're older you're earning more, might be an empty nester, and inflation has made each payment easier. By not rushing to pay off low interest debt you've effectively transferred money from 50 year old you to 30 year old you.

If you stayed employed, locked in a 3% mortgage, and contributed to your 401k, you won the wealth re-distribution game of 2020-2022.
by com2kid | 2025-10-18 00:40:37+00:00
A 2012 Kia Soul will last until 200k miles. In the 2010s Kia used some good engines, with a couple notable exceptions (the highest end Stingers, etc).

The issue is that all those Kias got stolen and trashed by Kia Boys. :(

I had a 2011 Kia Soul that I was going to drive until it died. Someone else did the dying part for me.
by nicksergeant | 2025-10-18 00:40:38+00:00
I run a design agency and I've invested a lot of time and energy into a general design prompt that puts out some decently unique looking sites.

We offer this as our "Mini" package at a very affordable price ($99/mo, no setup fee) for clients who don't want (or need) a fully custom design.

I'm not sure you can call this "vibe coding" as much as "vibe engineering" because the resulting code closely models the heavily customized components and styling patterns of our other 60+ custom websites, but the following website designs were very heavily "vibe-derived", from a design sense:

- https://thedalaijavacdga.com/

- https://crossroadsflx.com/

- https://privateertattoolounge.com/
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-10-18 00:41:06+00:00
If there's a standard instead of needing to download the Jira mcp server, you just visit their website and all the tools are described and usable from there.

Or put differently, as a company / group / individual, instead of needing to build and distribute an mcp server and public API, you can just support WebMCP.

Another alternative is LLMs / agents operating playwright or the equivalent which will likely be less reliable and consume more tokens. (By a fair margin)
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-18 00:42:08+00:00
So? We have different degrees of dissonance, different uses for dissonance, and different reactions to dissonance across many different musical traditions. I don't see why there would need to be some musical tradition that refuses to ever have octaves in order for us to say that our relationship with consonance and dissonance is culturally constructed.

Gamelan music might be a good example of one where microtonal dissonance is expected basically continuously through a piece.

There is also music that is completely without traditional pitch information (all sorts of percussion traditions).
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-18 00:42:26+00:00
"Data model" is a software engineering term of art[0] which identifies artifacts specific to managing the persistent representation of information relevant to a system's operation. This representation is often a different, simplified, version of what a system uses internally to define and provide its value.

> It is basically trying to innovate a new way to think about in an existing domain ...

Note that a domain is not the same as a domain model.

> "Your data model is your destiny."

This is why I consider the article a "near miss." If the above quote from the post was instead "your domain model is your destiny", the subsequent quoted statements not only would need no alteration but would substantiate the topic at hand being domain modeling and the organizational value found therein.

0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/term%20of%20art
by reactordev | 2025-10-18 00:42:54+00:00
All you need is fetch, document.querySelector, some sort of observable, and patience. It's really just a software architecture problem of component reusability which is going to be true whether you use a framework or not. How do you compose your views, process events, update information, and send data? Sometimes it really is just as simple as <ui-component onclick=...>
by inferiorhuman | 2025-10-18 00:45:00+00:00
It's possible.

Not with the Doordash model it's not. Sure you have the low paid serfs which help restaurants sidestep the various requirements applied to actual employees (e.g. transit and health insurance benefits). But you also have duplicate payment processing and customer support infrastructure, the legal staff required because your business model requires skirting or outright breaking the law, the higher rate of refunds/returns due to hawking food that's ill suited to travel (against the restaurant's wishes), drivers that now have to drive all over town to different restaurants, orders that are prioritized by the size of the attached "gratuity", etc.

The Domino's model was cheaper for the customer because it's inherently more efficient than Doordash. There were no angry restaurants suing to get off of your platform. Drivers were either making deliveries or at a specific restaurant ready to make a delivery. Customers didn't have to pay two separate merchant fees or ensure profit for two separate companies. Plus Domino's incentivized fast deliveries (there were external costs to this however), ensuring that the restaurant could efficiently utilize their delivery drivers.

Plus you're also likely underestimating the return that the vulture capitalists are demanding.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-18 00:45:06+00:00
I agree - I think it’s bad advice. And cars make even less sense than houses, which should hopefully appreciate in the long run. People think of car loans like “free money” if I can buy a car on credit and pocket the spread between my investments and my APR.

The problem is:

1) that encourages you to buy more car (and lose more money in depreciation and fees) than you would if you just paid cash for a cheaper car

2) there’s no guarantee you can beat your APR in the short run (to beat your APR you almost always have to move out on the risk frontier… T bills are not doing it)

I view it as: if capturing that marginal spread of whatever% is important to you, you are spending too much money and you’re probably taking your eye off a bigger loss you’re taking by spending all that.
Show HN: Make funky websites without coding
by mgriley | 2025-10-18 00:46:23+00:00
I had some time between jobs, so I made this tool called JungleWriter where you can create weird, free-form websites.

You drag around widgets on a big canvas to create your site. No coding required. When you're done, it exports your static site as a zip, which you can upload to a hosting provider.

It's more for hobby/web-enthusiast use right now than for serious projects. I'll probably use it myself to make sites for small events and to brainstorm designs.

Hopefully someone out there also finds it useful, lmk :)
by madrox | 2025-10-18 00:46:27+00:00
The whole thrust of anti-vibe UI sentiments remind me of when Twitter Bootstrap came out. The unlocks were huge because suddenly people who didn't know how to make nice looking UI didn't have to do much more than drop in a stylesheet link and add some classes. Despite that, everyone complained all web sites started looking the same.

And, sure, that was valid. However, eventually everyone started figuring out how to get a unique look out of Bootstrap while still enjoying the benefits. All our modern frontend component frameworks can trace their lineage back to Bootstrap.

We'll see something similar with vibe UIs. Just a matter of time.
by com2kid | 2025-10-18 00:46:38+00:00
> How long will the battery be good for?

I average a little under 7000 miles a year of driving.

Based on charge/discharge cycles my EV battery should be good for roughly 20 years.

> Will the savings on gas more than compensate?

At $26k for a top of the line trim, my Bolt EUV cost me less than a comparable ICE car. I'll never save any money on gas, but I don't need to.

Not having any maintenance needs is nice though. Just an air filter.
by goodluckchuck | 2025-10-18 00:46:50+00:00
I’d say 170k / 5 = 34 * 25 = $850. Throw in air filters, and a couple transmission fluid changes, and it would certainly be under $2k.

That’s assuming DIY, but even if you’re paying $80 per change. If you do them every 7,500… you’re still $1,800 total.

$12k is plenty for a whole new engine, possibly a new engine and transmission on an economy car. For example, Ford will happily sell you a brand new 2.3 Ecoboost for a Mustang or Ranger or Explorer for $6k: https://www.trackey.ford.com/part/M-6007-23TA
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-18 00:47:00+00:00
Growth rate and rate of change is very encouraging. At this rate, battery electric and plug in hybrids should be at least half of global light vehicle sales within the next ~5-6 years. Hard to say how long it’ll take for combustion vehicle sales to end entirely, but it seems entirely possible by 2035-2040 based on current trajectories.

(half a million barrels a day of global oil demand is destroyed every year EVs are produced at this rate)