MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mijoharas | 2025-10-06 14:27:59+00:00
So, ignoring everything that got us here, what do people think about this?

As I see it, there is the original rubygems, which has lost all of it's maintainers, and this new one, that has most of the original active maintainers? (how many were there before? it has most of the ones I think about, but I didn't know who was active over there. I mostly saw activity from deivid and didn't know about most of the others to be honest).

It kind feels like this fork is the better maintained piece of software now.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Are any people thinking of moving over soon?

Is there any information on what the funding model will be? Also @joeldrapper/anyone is there anything you can share about how the hosting is being covered?[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490386
by realty_geek | 2025-10-06 14:28:27+00:00
Flagging this post is quite disturbing.

There is a conversation around this which needs to be had. Maybe on bsky or x?

https://x.com/africajam/status/1975206106738901110

https://bsky.app/profile/indirect.io/post/3m2iq5p7eoc2j
by ch_fr | 2025-10-06 14:29:33+00:00
Hello, please be aware that your publication history is visible on hackernews:

> Show HN: I built an AI that gives expert-backed blood test insights in seconds (bloodinsightai.com) [1]

You're free to make whatever kind of project you want, but it becomes a bit ironic when every other paragraph in this post is "unlike everyone, I did not chase the AI hype" (the whole post reads like AI prose btw).

Please also note that, while the "Loved by 2360 people" uses images hosted on d145moygdin44j.cloudfront.net, the "testimonials" section has profile pictures that link to the randomuser.me API. This could lead people to believe that the reviews are fake.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43380749
by TG_Dev | 2025-10-06 14:29:43+00:00
Built this after trying to learn about Enron - Wikipedia was too dry but the Acquired podcast made it instantly interesting. Search engine that finds quality educational podcasts/documentaries instead of text articles. Does intent classification, multi-query generation, and scores results by authority (prioritizes Acquired, Hardcore History, TED, etc.). Filters out reaction videos and low-quality content. Feedback welcome.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-06 14:29:51+00:00
I fear that, yes, Trump is on a path to do something drastic to prevent the midterms.

It will either be 1) war, 2) martial law, or 3) declaring an insurrection.

1 is dicey. It will require, first, a declared war, not just Trump saying so, and second, the courts agreeing (against all precedent) that we can't hold elections in wartime. This isn't Ukraine; our constitution doesn't have a provision for elections not happening during war. So, while Trump has sounded like he likes the idea, this one is unlikely to work.

2 or 3 seem more workable. At the moment at least some members of the administration seem to be leaning toward 3 (see, for example, Miller stating that a judge ruling against Trump sending troops to Portland was "a judicial insurrection").

Note that when I say "Trump is on the path to", that does not mean that he will inevitably do so. We will see whether he will restrain himself, or whether others around him can restrain him. And if they don't, then we will see whether the courts can.

And if they can't, then we'll see if there's ever a point where the military will decide that his orders are illegal, and their oath is to the constitution.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-10-06 14:29:53+00:00
One of my biggest complaints with Steam is that it's basically an unlicensed casino with extra steps -- and one of the things you could do at one point was buy a "challenge pass" for a major tournament that was effectively a "pick 'em"-style bet on the outcome. There is no age gating on this, outside of a click-through prompt since the game is rated ESRB M/17+ and its equivalents.

1. You buy an event pass

2. The event pass contains a "coin" that can be upgraded, and grants access to a "pick 'em" interface

3. Based on the outcomes of the matches and your picks, the coin is upgraded

4. The upgraded coin allows access to "souvenir packages"

5. The "souvenir packages" and their contents (rare and/or unique weapon skins) can be traded on Steam's marketplace for store credit or currency
by latexr | 2025-10-06 14:29:55+00:00
> I don't see how that's not relevant.

Because it’s apples to oranges.

Deciding “my typeface won’t have any lowercase letters” is not the same as “my typeface won’t have descenders”. Technically none of them has descenders, but the former compromises by reducing the amount of characters—which keeps every remaining letterform distinct at the expense of reading fluidity—while the latter compromises by distorting a good chunk of letters—making them ambiguous and harder to read.

I very much doubt architects decided “let’s write everything in all caps because that avoids descenders”.

And again, while looking it up I see no end of examples of technical writing with lowercase letters, and they all have descenders.
by vel0city | 2025-10-06 14:29:58+00:00
My main use case for a leaf blower is to blow lawn clippings off the sidewalks, paths, and roads back on to my lawn after mowing and trimming. Rakes aren't effective for such small trimmed parts.

My leaf blower is battery electric though so its a good bit quieter than the gas ones others use, although I do agree its still one of the loudest parts of my yard maintenance.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-06 14:30:07+00:00
I wrote:

> and no one has access to more money due to the contract signed between the two parties

If a third party decides to pay a higher price for a publicly listed share because of the news of this contract, that is not printing money. The buyer of the shares loses money, the seller gains it, for a net change of zero in money supply.
by Palmik | 2025-10-06 14:30:10+00:00
Many [1] models expect (MCP) tool calls to be formatted as a JSON. So if you expose code execition as an MCP tool to such model, it will have to generate the code escaped as a JSON string. I would exepct this to tank code generation quality.

[1] Not all, some use different formats, e.g. GLM uses plain text with special tokens to denote param names and values.
by cloverich | 2025-10-06 14:32:24+00:00
Oh fun. Since this pokes at LLM I'll share my use case from last week. I built a similar(ish) tool locally (for personal use) as a CLI with an LLM. I download transactions from my bank and credit card, have it load them into a sqlite database, do some transformations (categorizing, grouping, excluding), and bottle up each command as a cli sub-command or flag. I used go, cobra, and the charm libs (to help with interactive labeling). I spent about a day on it to get it roughly usable, so I can drop in my updated transactions next month and get a basic report. Since the output is sqlite database and cli commands, I can also use claude code to ask it stuff, which was interesting because my original plan was to do all the asking myself and just have claude build the cli tool.

It works decently. I got out what i needed and fought very very hard to not go more all in / code dive, etc. I just needed my monthly expense totals, ordered, with some clean-up. The code is so-so, but it mostly got things working in a few shots. Claude being able to iteratively run commands / issue queries while it worked was key to it getting functional, I think. I love that it runs local and spits out plain text for tables and such; to share with my wife i copy pasted some of the output to a text document then added some comments (markdown).

If I hacked on it more, I'd probably re-work the architecture a bit; I think coming up with a good design about how to ingest idempotently, and then how you want to transform transactions (i.e. in place, vs setting up rules / overrides and then generating a computed transactions table) is most important. After each mini feature having the LLM document its usage in the README, and of course committing, was key. It made it very easy to ditch conversations and start new ones, and point to the README / examples (as opposed to compacting prior conversation).

I think your tool at $5 is a great value; I had TONS of fun making the CLI app but it still took me a few hours of focused work in the end spread over a day, and relied on me having very basic prior experience to help steer it. I bet you can charge more while still keeping the product focused / maintenance low, and absolutely think there's a strong need for it -> While I am super tempted to get crazy with my local app and / automating calculations (etc) ultimately just seeing the money in / out, a few categories that I can sum up (groceries, eating out), and the top 15 expenses, that's really all we need to get our budget in place. Kudos on building a real product, esp. on figuring out how to keep it focused, finding the niche, and recognizing the opportunity to capitalize!

EDIT: My actual deps list here.

require ( github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.5.0 github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles v0.21.0 github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea v1.3.5 github.com/charmbracelet/huh v0.7.0 github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.1.0 github.com/charmbracelet/log v0.4.2 github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 v1.14.22 github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.1 )
by tdeck | 2025-10-06 14:32:45+00:00
Just to add to this.

We (many people) voted for Biden in 2020, and that was supposed to be at least part of the solution. What happened? He appointed an AG who he knew would drag his feet and not hold Trump accountable. He continued Trump's illegal asylum policies and even kept building Trump's border wall. They played chicken with Republicans to see who could shovel more money into ICE, and spent 4 years repeating Republican anti-immigrant fear mongering but then saying "we shouldn't go that far on policy". They did almost nothing about Roe V. Wade being overturned, despite having an unprecedented leak that gave them months of notice before the decision.

And what was done to fundamentally restrain the power of the presidency in preparation for the possibility of a Trump win? Well, we had a lot of talk about "norms" and finger wagging. I'm sure glad that finger and those norms are here to protect people I care about now. If only there were something more they could have done.
Show HN: Open-source testing framework for AI agents with semantic validation
by alessandro-a | 2025-10-06 14:33:07+00:00
Hey HN!

I built SemanticTest while working on calendar0.app (an AI calendar assistant).

While I was building the AI assistant, I noticed a lack on good AI Evals frameworks that would help me test my agent.

SemanticTest uses GPT-4 as a judge to evaluate:

- Text responses (semantic meaning)

- Tool calls (correct tools, right order)

- Multi-turn conversations

It's composable: you build tests as JSON pipelines using custom blocks.

Would love feedback. Thank you!
by bediger4000 | 2025-10-06 14:33:08+00:00
Two years ago, I wouldn’t have bothered with the rewrite, let alone creating the script in the first place. The friction was too high. Now, small utility scripts like this are almost free to build.

This aligns with the hypothesis that we should see and lots lots of "personalized" or single purpose software if vibe coding works. This particular project is one example. Are there a ton more out there?
by K0balt | 2025-10-06 14:33:11+00:00
Governments are universally based in having a relative monopoly of coercive force. It would be fascinating to explore alternatives, where the coercion was based in algorithms, AI, or other systems relatively free from perverse incentives. Perhaps an effective system of government without coercive force might even be explored, if someone could figure out a strong enough incentive alignment to make that work(doubt).

The principal obstacle to fair, enduring, and prosperous governance is that the built in perverse incentives are much, much stronger than the aligned incentives, and only are held in check by the ratio of coercive power of the perverse vs aligned incentive holders.

When a population becomes to compliant, obedient, or distracted in the presence of a strongly misaligned state, disaster always follows.

Fascinatingly, we can presently watch this unfold in real time on a global scale.
by idopmstuff | 2025-10-06 14:33:40+00:00
The statement "in all forms of gambling the gamblers make a net loss" is ambiguous as to whether it's the gamblers as a whole or each of the gamblers making a net loss, and while I grant that it reads more like the way you're describing, the later context pushes the intended meaning in the other direction.

He says "The 'house' is the only winner," which is as a point of fact untrue - there are also individual gamblers who are winners. Saying this implies he thinks that each of the gamblers is a net loser.
by jmbwell | 2025-10-06 14:33:59+00:00
- Meds are just one of the tools available, just one part of a holistic approach that includes other accommodations, practices, and support from the people around you

- Not everyone experiences these things in the same way

- Your goals are for you to set; if incorporating meds into your plans doesn’t help you reach your goals, fine. But if meds help you unlock goals you might not be able to access otherwise, maybe they’re worth considering.

- The vast majority of professionals really do want to help you reach your goals; most psychiatrists (for the meds) and psychologists (for your cognitive health) are going to be more valuable in terms of perspective than an Internet thread :D
by pyrale | 2025-10-06 14:34:04+00:00
Balcony solar is likely to make this worse, given Germany has low/zero electricity market prices when the sun shines.

Balcony solar production means Germans don't buy solar from their utility when utility costs are low, and they do want to buy some when utility costs are high.

Unsurprisingly, fixed contract prices are bound to be an average of electricity price at different times. With balcony solar, the times where it costs the least will be weighted less in the average, so contract price is bound to go up.
by bwfan123 | 2025-10-06 14:34:06+00:00
> The philosophy of nonexisting things can be confusing

This comment hit a raw nerve, and tied many things in my own understanding.

Because concepts can depict non-existing things, we have to learn via feedback from experience "operationally". Operational meaning by action in the real world. And, language and imagination can create concepts which have no ground truth even though they may exist in the "inter-subjective" reality created by people among themselves. Religion is one such inter-subjective reality. It explains the scientific method, and why that was needed and has been successful to cut through the mass of concepts that make no sense operationally. It explains why the formalism of math/science have been successful to depict concepts operationally and not natural language. And, ties into the recent podcast of Sutton who mentions that LLMs are a dead-end from the perspective that they cannot create ground-truth via experience and feedback - they are stuck in token worlds.

But, concept-creation and assigning a symbol to it is a basic act of abstraction. When it is not grounded, it could become inconsistent and go haywire or when very consistent it becomes robotic and un-interesting. As humans, we create a balance with imagination to create concepts which make things interesting which are then culled with real world experience to make it useful.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-06 14:35:03+00:00
Even if power plants magically worked for free and all schemes for cross-financing renewables were cancelled, German electricity prices would still be $0.19/kWh (€0.16), using the numbers from [1]. The German electricity network is great and very reliable, but also very expensive

1: https://strom-report.com/strompreis-zusammensetzung/
by testing22321 | 2025-10-06 14:35:06+00:00
I pay 13 cents a kWh here in Canada. I got a 7.8kw system on the roof, payback will be 6-7 years, then I get $1000 of free electricity a year for the life of the system.

I’m in a tight valley where it snows a ton

Also got an interest free loan from the gov to cover the outlay.
by dtagames | 2025-10-06 14:35:22+00:00
When I worked at IBM as a mainframe programmer in the 90's, the first lesson we were taught is, "There is no such thing as computer security, only the appearance of computer security. Usually, that is enough."

This true at the processor level because any "security" relies on the outcome of a single branch instruction in machine code. If all your security passed, we branch to the "let me in" code. If not, not. No matter how complicated your security is, it will all come down to a single branch instruction and a programmer who can affect the outcome of that branch will bypass any restrictions you put in place.

This is a fundamental truism of computer science, and the software we worked on at IBM did things like run ATMs. When was the last time you heard of someone hacking one of those to spit out bills? Usually, the appearance of computer security is enough.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-06 14:35:36+00:00
Germany needs more battery storage, full stop. It is rapidly declining in cost, it is fast to deploy, and it will soak up excess low carbon energy (both domestic and imported from interconnectors) versus curtailment as more generation comes online.

> Germany’s solar industry calls for 100 GWh 2030 grid battery target

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-solar-industry...

> German battery storage hits 22.1 GWh in [2025]H1

https://www.ess-news.com/2025/07/18/german-battery-storage-r...

> PV curtailment jumps 97% in Germany in 2024

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/03/pv-curtailment-jumps-...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/
by CyanLite2 | 2025-10-06 14:36:15+00:00
On the flip side of it (and where most institutional investors are mentally) is that if OpenAI is to ever achieve AGI, it must invest nearly a trillion dollars towards that effort. We all know LLMs have their limitations, but next phase of AI growth is going to come from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, maybe even Microsoft, and not some stealth startup. E.g., Only Big Tech can get us to AGI due to sheer massive amounts of investments, not a traditional silicon valley garage startup looking for their Series A. So institutional investors have no choice but to continue to throw money into Big Tech hoping for the Big Payoff, rather than investing in VC funds like 10 years ago.

AMD did this deal because it's literally offering financing to them. OpenAI doesn't have access to capital markets like AMD does. So it's selling off shares of its own stock to finance the purchase of billions of dollars worth of GPUs. And the trick appears to be working since the stock is up 30% today, meaning it has paid for itself and then some.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-06 14:36:28+00:00
Whats fascinating is that these models have excellent knowledge about AI/transformers/LLMs (the labs have clearly been specifically training them in hopes of an automated breakthrough), so they can reason really well about what probably happened.

But it's also just that, what probably happened. They still have no real insight into their own minds, they too are also just victims of whatever it outputs.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-06 14:37:01+00:00
Political violence performed by random civilians and political violence performed by the state are not exactly the same thing, but both are very bad, and the latter is much worse. If the argument is that only the left does political violence by random citizens (blatantly false, but even if we grant it) then saying the right is currently doing political violence by the state is a perfectly response even if they are not exactly the same thing.
by coredog64 | 2025-10-06 14:37:18+00:00
Dollar dollar bills y'all: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-services/

They offer two discrete services. One is a simplified AWS where the interface is something like Service Now and you don't have access to the environment to make control plane changes. The second (and newer) offering is that they will onboard to your existing AWS operating environment and assist with running your applications.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-06 14:38:10+00:00
China's EV subsidies are basically identical to US and EU subsidies. They offer tax credits and other perks to customers, just like in Western countries.

Subsidies are not the reason why China's EVs are cheap. The reason is that China has a much more competitive EV market than the US or EU. There are many manufacturers that are competing with one another, the charging infrastructure is much better than in the West, and Chinese cities heavily discourage internal combustion engine vehicles.

> Subsidies aren't necessarily bad, but it's become China's choice of blunt instrument to price out/drive out foreign competition.

China specifically encouraged foreign car companies to enter its market, most recently Tesla (which has done very well in China). Allowing foreign car companies to compete in the Chinese market was a major part of China's strategy to improve its own domestic manufacturing.
by neroxTL | 2025-10-06 14:38:10+00:00
A long-time .NET developer reflects on why the ecosystem feels fragmented today — not because of technical debt, but because of a lack of direction.

The post explores how frameworks like MAUI, IdentityServer, and Orleans reveal a deeper issue: .NET has great code, but no coherent vision guiding it anymore.

It’s not about blaming Microsoft; it’s about what happens when an ecosystem stops being strategic and starts being utilitarian.
by dustinkirkland | 2025-10-06 14:38:19+00:00
Dustin Kirkland here. I lead the Engineering team at Chainguard. We've just published a beta of a Chainguard OS image for Raspberry Pi (v4 and v5), built using the same hardened compilers, libraries, tool chains, and applications as our commercial catalog of container images. We're sharing here for HackerNews' most insightful feedback and comments!
by locallost | 2025-10-06 14:38:36+00:00
This comment is so laughably wrong, yet at the same time not funny.

Let's do some napkin math:

* For the whole package people report 200-300 Euro prices. Let's make it 300.

* To get to say 8GW of capacity you'd need 10 million of these units

* The price of that ends up being 3 billion

* With a capacity factor of 12.5% it will produce electricity like a 1GW source that is constantly producing at full capacity

Now let's take a look at the "economical" production at scale model.

* Hinkley Point C currently under construction with a 3.2 GW capacity

* Estimated costs right now in the 50 billion Euro ballpark or 15-20 billion per GW

This is at least 5x more expensive on construction costs alone. The opportunity cost in the lost 15 years of no return on investment during construction, running cost per year difference, cost differences when it's time to scrap both things in around five decades etc. is an exercise left to the reader.

tl;dr sorry but you literally have no idea what you're talking about.
by alberth | 2025-10-06 14:39:21+00:00
> allows OpenAI to buy 160 million shares at 1 cents a share.

> I think at least part of the 10% is if AMD stock reaches 600.

AMD market cap today is $350B (at $200/share).

AMD would need to 3x their market cap ($1,000B) to be at $600/share.

Which would mean that OpenAI could gain $100B in AMD stock, for the minuscule cost of only $1.6 million (160 million shares at 1 cent each).

--

Sam is spinning the world on his finger tip with these deals he's crafting.