MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scjon | 2025-10-17 13:17:13+00:00
There's higher upfront costs, but typically we find that we are breakeven for the cost of hardware in 12 months or less. In my experience, colos will have techs available for hardware swaps / remote hands troubleshooting if needed. It's not free for that but it solves that problem. I think it really just depends on your company's needs and skillset. For our company it makes sense to colocate. We are a VOIP service provider, so we also have multiple IP transit providers and our own /22 subnet. We use BGP to change / pull routes quickly when there's outages with an ISP or cloud provider. I know AWS supports a setup like that, but you're relying on them for announcing route changes.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-17 13:17:57+00:00
The way that worked is that part of the CHIPs act after Intel reached a milestone the USG handed them a bag of cash.

Intel failed at finishing a bunch of milestones so there was a large pot of money Intel did not get. Trump gave them that pot of money in return for 10% stock.

You can make up your own mind about whether investing money into a company that couldn't achieve milestones is a good idea.
by NemoNobody | 2025-10-17 13:18:06+00:00
Bc this is HN - I will clarify. I know there wasn't capitalism, I don't even mean economic system in the start of my reply - The Medicis for example - they were very opportunistic, selfishly greedy, and exploitative, with power as their primary pursuit tho, not money.

Today money is power - power like the royal power even, so capitalism today, being late stage, will solely become about exploitation as the powerful and wealthy become further away away from the innovations, they will support innovations less and less, etc.

I don't know, I think capitalism is super broken, and now that it is broke, it can only get more broken and nobody will ever catch up to those benefiting from it being broken now - mostly just bc they were rich at the right time too. The pandemic addition of wealth to the top 1% as examples - they are all already like batman and tony, all researching life extension and blah, blah - tbh, I think everyone can understand this.
by wpaix | 2025-10-17 13:18:08+00:00
Klay.dev - a tiny, but super capable cms. basically it is the cms system i have always looked for as a web developer.

i made a launch attempt last year but got zero attention. so currently it is only used by me, my own agency and a number of my Danish clients.

a shame, really. i wonder how many other people out there have made stuff that is super useful, but just never got any attention?
by Terretta | 2025-10-17 13:18:09+00:00
> This setup is probably also easier to reason about and easier to make secure than the messy garbage pushed by Amazon and other cloud providers.

Ability to do anything doesn't mean do everything.

It's straightforward to be simple on AWS, but if you have trouble denying yourself, consider Lightsail to start: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
by bgwalter | 2025-10-17 13:18:35+00:00
The generated picture is not impressive and the excuse in this subthread was that an svg is created directly without using an image model. I offer alternative explanations why svg creation might not be impressive OR ALTERNATIVELY why they may have faked even a bad result because it is a popular benchmark (faking a perfect result would be too obvious).

But since everything is closed source with any number of potential special case hacks, we won't know.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-17 13:18:55+00:00
As an American (3rd generation), I assure you that many of us are firmly aware that this nation was built upon violence and committed violence on a grand scale. In my personal opinion, we have done a lot of good, but also a lot of bad. A lot of our statecraft was learned from the British and the French. This did not really change until after the southeast Asia debacle and things started to shift to a less cynical and more nuanced view of the world.

Unfortunately, 9/11 slammed us hard back into being angry and defensive. COVID just made it worse...

It will probably be a generation until we calm back down. Or Putin/Xi dies. Whichever comes first.
by antonvs | 2025-10-17 13:19:00+00:00
We launch 30k+ VMs a day on GCP, regularly launching hundreds at a time when scheduled jobs are running. That’s one of the most stable aspects of our operation - in the last 5 years I’ve never seen GCP “struggle” with that except during major outages.

At the scale of providers like AWS and even the smaller GCP, “hundreds of VMs” is not a large amount.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-17 13:19:27+00:00
It is unsound because: not only it demands an existence of a physical process that cannot be computed (so far, none found, and not for the lack of searching), but it also demands that such a physical process would conveniently be found to be involved in the functioning of a human brain, and also that it would be vital enough that you can't just replace it with something amenable to computation at a negligible loss of function.

It needs too many unlikely convenient coincidences. The telltale sign of wishful thinking.

At the same time: we have a mounting pile of functions that were once considered "exclusive to human mind" and are now implemented in modern AIs. So the case for "human brain must be doing something Truly Magical" is growing weaker and weaker with each passing day.
by sunshine-o | 2025-10-17 13:19:37+00:00
The sad part is France annihilated most of the last small independent bakers a few years ago when they they jacked up energy prices.

It is now quite hard to find a really good croissant there.

On the bright side the new Renault 5 looks fantastic [0]

- [0] https://www.renault.co.uk/electric-vehicles/r5-e-tech-electr...
by itsnowandnever | 2025-10-17 13:20:01+00:00
this is good and I hope this puts a lot of the drama in the rearview mirror. younger developers coming across Ruby must be like "wtf" about this situation. very peculiar to have these projects so politicised and I say that to the people that "try and keep politics out" (DHH) more than anyone. making your politics known and then being like "but you're not allowed to have an opinion on it" is't cute or clever. it's childish and everyone everywhere deserves to be treated with more respect than that.
by coredog64 | 2025-10-17 13:20:14+00:00
This. Local youths started playing ding-dong-ditch last summer. It was harmless when it was 8-9pm on a Friday or Saturday. They escalated to banging on windows, then to doing it at 1am, and finally to damaging our garage door to the point it won't open.

My wife is extremely upset about all of this, and I'm not going to be bullied out of the opinion that 24/7 cameras are actually a good thing.
by oefrha | 2025-10-17 13:20:44+00:00
I had payment issues with Hetzner too, that was back in 2018, haven’t used them since. At least back then, and at least for me, they were unlike any other provider I’ve used which would send you plenty of warnings if they fail to bill you. The very first email I got from them that smelt of trouble was “Cancellation of Contract”, at which point my account was closed and I could only pay by international bank wire. (Yes I just checked all my correspondence with them to make sure I’m not smearing them.) Amusingly they did send payment warning after account closure. Why not before? No effing clue. That was some crazy shit.
by shlant | 2025-10-17 13:20:56+00:00
> Then be angry at factory farming, not eating meat.

When one of the most common responses to pointing out how awful factory farming is "well you can just buy from farms" when the reality is that 99% of consumption comes from factory farms, it's completely reasonable to associate the two

> We can easily feed people as we do now, not have factory farming, but still not have the tens of thousands of acres of grassland to feed a herd for 100% grass grazing.

Going to need a source for that because all the information i've seen shows that there is absolutely not enough land to be able to sustain the current levels of meat consumption.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-17 13:21:23+00:00
> I agree that decl macros usually make me sigh and open the docs though

Declarative macros are very like regex's: both in that at first they seem incredibly dense and arcane but once you work out how to read them they're actually very simple, and in that the syntax is literally similar in that it's a list of tokens that must match sequentially.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-17 13:21:51+00:00
Maybe less common in America, but in Europe it's not uncommon to have multiple people going around town delivering various things to your mailbox: a postman for letters, some poor student delivering grocery store brochures once a week, somebody delivering the local newspaper at the break of dawn, somebody else delivering the local church newspaper once a month, etc. And all of them are going door to door. If just one of them is an openstreetmap fan you quickly have all doorbell cameras in their delivery district mapped
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-17 13:21:55+00:00
> When AI-coding, you should take YAGNI to its extreme. This is for two reasons:

> 1. AI coding makes it absolutely trivial to add new features later on if you do need it.

When I do programming, I often think deeply about the features and abstractions that I need to get them right.

If I need an additional feature, it thus often means that I deeply misunderstood the problem domain (which does happen), so the changes that are necessary for adding new features in the code are often deep and mean "seeing the world with new eyes (that can also see infrared or ultraviolet light)". A little bit like going from the universal algebra definition of a group to group objects in a braided monoidal category (which, for example, show that there is a deep abstract relationship between groups and Hopf algebras; see for example [2]).

I really cannot imagine how an AI can be capable of doing such deep transformations, which basically mean "rebuild the whole program so that the entire source code is now based on a completely different thinking about the respective problem domain, which goes like this: ...".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_object

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopf_algebra#Analogy_with_grou...
by bruce511 | 2025-10-17 13:22:02+00:00
Restaurants are for those who are cash rich, but time poor.

The cheapest way to eat is to buy ingredients and cook it yourself.

Restaurants buy ingredients, and cook, but also have to add costs like rent and labor. Thus as money supply constricts businesses like restaurants see a slow down in customers.

The current economic policies in the US are explicitly designed to raise the prices of goods and services like health care. This will, as a first order effect, reduce the disposable cash available.

Restaurants will suffer first, they are a luxury easily and quickly discarded. But they are the canary. Expect to see all kinds of businesses, especially small businesses suffer, as these policies play out.

And just remember, you voted for this, and many people explicitly support these policies and their effects. These are not bugs, they are explicit design goals.
by Goronmon | 2025-10-17 13:22:06+00:00
I personally know people who pirate books, but pay hundreds of dollars a year for streaming services or battle pass type video games. It blows my mind. Books are so cheap people!

Games that sell a battlepass or have ongoing MTX are an minority of the video games available.

There are plenty of games available that are priced similarly to books and there really isn't a question as far as which will provide more entertainment.

For instance, I recently purchased the Mass Effect series for $6. I should be able to easily get 100+ hours out of that set of games.
by Spivak | 2025-10-17 13:22:25+00:00
Like HN hasn't been railing against Ring and Flock since their inception. The only difference today is that there's a dangerously stupid arm of the government that now has access to it.

It's the exact same problem HN has been talking about for years except now a group of wannabe commandos who stake out in the parking lots of Mexican restaurants now have a tool where they can just type in their stereotypes and have the AI find them.
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-17 13:22:32+00:00
Why do you say that? Ansibles use quantum entanglement for communication. If you change a particle’s spin (spin up to spin down for example) the entangled particle also changes. So, the amount of data is a function of both the number of entangled particles and the speed we can flip them. Let’s use a modern CPU’s 64 bit architecture for the number of entangled particles. Using a random baseline experiment [1], we can flip photons back and forth in the 1-100 nanosecond timescale. GBps internet is 8 billion bits per second, which means we would need to be switching 800 bits to get that speed. IBM’s 1,000 plus qbit quantum computer is 22ft by 12ft [2]. So it doesn’t seem unreasonable to have GBps communication speed if the underlying sci-fi entangled communication were real.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00796...

[2] https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/quantum-roadmap-2033
by Terretta | 2025-10-17 13:22:50+00:00
Exactly.

I hadn't seen your comment when I wrote this, below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616366

I love your farm-to-table grid: works for everyone not just HN commenters. And putting DOORDASH on the right is truer from cost perspective than the metaphor I'd used.

For HN, I'd compared to a pricing grid (DIY, Get Started, Pro, Team, Enterprise) with the bottom line that if YAGNI, don't choose it.

Your grid emphasizes my other point, it's about your own labor.
by robertclaus | 2025-10-17 13:22:50+00:00
Plotly's new Plotly Studio product is a spec-anchored approach to building data applications. Each chart or dataset gets its own prompt/spec.

The question of how much detail to include in a spec is really hard. We actually split it into two levels - an input prompt describing details the user cares about in that component and an output spec describing what was built to allow verification.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-17 13:22:52+00:00
Even if this is true, it is irrelevant. The reality is that the vast majority of the NYT's audience will not get any extra information from including those diacritics than excluding them. If the article is not intelligible without diacritics, then it won't be intelligible with diacritics either, because people who don't know the language, nor any similar language, can't see a difference between Hoa Lo and Hỏa Lò and Hòa Lỏ.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-17 13:23:41+00:00
> They've done studies and construction workers have a much higher rate of injury and death than the police in the US.

Sure, but both construction worker and police officer are significantly more dangerous jobs than most of us here have sitting behind a desk.

Obviously it’s not a job where people are dying routinely, but suggesting death or serious injury are the only two risks of interacting with the public and responding to threatening or unstable situations is ignoring the reality. It’s a tough job. Much tougher than my time spent sitting at a desk.
by Graziano_M | 2025-10-17 13:24:24+00:00
I forget the details since I haven't touched it in some time, but that sounds familiar. I think I remember being annoyed that I was given clones despite buying the kit from hit directly.

You could rip it apart and do it again from scratch! You'd definitely learn some stuff you missed the first time. Of course, you could just try the project in OP's link instead.
by freakynit | 2025-10-17 13:25:00+00:00
This is a pretty good use-case for an open-source project then.

For guide, just follow their official docs. I did those again today, literally copy-pasted shell commands one after the other, and voila.. had firecracker vm running and booting a full-fledge ubuntu vm.

It was sooo damn fast that when it started, at that moment I thought that my terminal had crashed because it's prompt changed. But nop. It was just that fast that even while literally looking at it I was not able to catch when it actually did boot-up.

By the way, two open-source projects already exist:

1. NodeJS: https://github.com/apocas/firecrackerode

2. Python: https://github.com/Okeso/python-firecracker
by vintermann | 2025-10-17 13:25:03+00:00
I do very different work, or try to - historical HTR is unfortunately so bad even with the top models that the results aren't useful, but I keep trying new models. But there's a historian on substack (Mark Humphries) who's also trying new models, and he also thinks he's gotten Gemini 3 output in A/B tests. He's very impressed with it:

https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-...

I can attest to what he's saying that existing models are especially useless on tabular handwritten data such as ledgers.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-17 13:25:10+00:00
FTFA:

> In a letter to Judge Hellerstein this month, Ms Javice said, "I accept the jury's verdict and take full responsibility for my actions."

> "There are no excuses, only regret," she added.

Wow. No PR whitewash. No weaselly apology wording. Just admitting she fucked up.

I don't think she's a good person, but that's at least a desirable attitude from someone who defrauded others.
by harimau777 | 2025-10-17 13:25:59+00:00
I am 100% against mistreating any animals and especially animals as intelligent as pigs.

However, I can understand why people don't think of pigs as highly as cats & dogs considering how dirty they are. I don't mean the rolling around in mud thing; that's just a logical way to cool off. Instead I mean the fact that they will apparently eat almost anything including feces and other pigs.

Edit: Just to be clear, I realize that's not a rational reason to think poorly of pigs. I'm just saying that I can understand why people feel that way.
Game Theory in E-Commerce feedback
by mertbirlik | 2025-10-17 13:26:00+00:00
We’ve been working on Open Deduction™, a patent-pending pricing framework that blends dynamic e-commerce pricing with probabilistic rewards.

Instead of fixed discounts or static coupons, every buyer interacts with a real-time probability curve (we call it Mert’s Curve™). Each purchase carries both: • A guaranteed path to eventually buy at a lower price (“deduction”), • And a probabilistic chance to get the product for free.

The system is powered by the I.L.G.N.™ engine (Interactive Lottery – Gamified Nucleus), which governs the probability parameter p and ensures fairness, licensing compliance, and marketplace integration. We’ve been simulating behavior with Monte Carlo runs and developing modular integrations (Shopify app, marketplace APIs, POS terminals).

Our patent (PCT/TR2025/050782) covers a wide range of real-world use cases: e-commerce, second-hand markets, streaming platforms, payment systems, and even probabilistic loyalty programs.

Why this matters: • For sellers → new conversion & retention mechanics, higher ARPU, viral pull. • For buyers → gamified purchasing, transparent odds, and the thrill of “risk-reward” without needing to gamble. • For platforms → licensing-compliant, modular plugin logic, adaptable to any market.

We’re releasing the first demos soon at opendeduction.com, and we’re looking for feedback from developers, marketplace operators, and anyone interested in how probabilistic systems can reshape online transactions.
Ask HN: How do you remember to keep all your devices charged?
by sltr | 2025-10-17 13:26:02+00:00
In my household there are just two of us and I can name at least 20 smartphones, laptops, e-readers, tablets, bluetooth headsets, and smart watches. Some infrequently used devices are at 1% or dead when I reach for them.

Wish I had a dashboard showing the charge of everything and email alerts when they go below e.g. 20%.

I'm not asking for full on MDM solutions. I know there are other metrics folks might want to track, like location, RAM, CPU load, security patch status.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-17 13:26:51+00:00
I am not even American but I remember McCain more and more when I hear about this. he was so much better than this.

I have hope that America/ any country can fix itself though, it isn't too late. Let's still hope things change for better since I feel like a lot of countries are becoming radicalized in that sense.

I guess we gotta be worried about what discourse we allow in our society or have some better checks and balances all around the world to lessen radicalization I suppose.

Also paradox of tolerance strikes again, should we be intolerant to intolerance as in this case, you decide.
by dielll | 2025-10-17 13:27:12+00:00
Only problem with Hetzner is that they don't seem to accept Accounts created from African countries. Tried creating an account with them twice from Kenya, and in both instances my account got blocked 5 minutes after creation with zero explanation. tried reaching out to support and got zero reply.

I get it's their business and they can do as they please with it, however, maybe tell me before I create an account that you don't accept accounts from my continent
by sotix | 2025-10-17 13:27:33+00:00
I've been using Claude at work for the past two months, and the other day I realized that during that time, I haven't had my previously weekly aha moment while in the shower or on a walk where the solution to a problem suddenly came to me. Claude has robbed me of that joy, which is why I got into software engineering. Now I review its slop or the slop that other engineers make with it. I think I'll take a walk today.
by kitd | 2025-10-17 13:27:36+00:00
People are usually the biggest cost in any organisation. If you can run all your systems without the sysadmins & netadmins required to keep it all upright (especially at expensive times like weekends or run up to Black Friday/Xmas), you can save yourself a lot more than the extra it'll cost to get a cloud provider to do it all for you.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-17 13:27:38+00:00
> Resizeable Bar Support on the Raspberry Pi

Why'd the capitalisation of BAR get lost between the article and here? It's a little triggering.

Other than that, nice to see, a lot of ARM SoCs & SBCs have asininely small PCIe memory map sizes. Looking at you, RK3399, what was it, 64MB? Not even enough for some NICs.
by zipy124 | 2025-10-17 13:27:42+00:00
I won't comment on topical collagen as there is indeed reasons why it may work but we can be pretty sure oral supplementation is unnecessary, since it is just a protein, so if you get sufficient protein intakes (of the respective amino acids) then your body will just make it. Your body when digesting collagen (and other proteins) in almost all cases will just convert it into it's amino acids anyway. The supplement industry is just EXTREMRLY profitable and so distorts modern media and occasionally science.
by simonw | 2025-10-17 13:28:05+00:00
"It’s why none of these major players produce locally-executable LLMs (Mistral, Llama, and DeepSeek being notable exceptions)"

OpenAI have gpt-oss-20b and 120b. Google have the Gemma 3 models. At this point the only significant AI lab that doesn't provide a locally executable model are Anthropic!
by b112 | 2025-10-17 13:28:10+00:00
Going to need a source for that because all the information i've seen shows that there is absolutely not enough land to be able to sustain the current levels of meat consumption.

You're sort of mixing up things here. Yes, there is enough land in some parts of the world (Canada, US), but that's not the point.

I specifically said not full grass feed. That's what people believe and assert there is not enough land for. You can still have some grass feeding, conjoined with grain feed. The animals get to be outside, have space to move around, but 1000 acres instead of 100k acres needed for full grass feeding the same herd.

As factory farms already feed those herds, clearly there's enough grain to feed them.