MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by incomingpain | 2025-10-15 11:25:36+00:00
>Good luck with any kind of coherent ecosystem and support.

Admittedly I'm not a huge fan of debian; likely would end up going Arch on this one.

>Also, if you're in the U.S.,

Im not.

> I'd much rather stick with nVidia that has an ecosystem (even Apple for that matter), than touch a system like this off of Alibaba.

I get that. Realistically I'm waiting for medusa halo, some affordable datacenter card, something.
by fulafel | 2025-10-15 11:25:39+00:00
It's practical enough that this is how it works now in many (most?) parts of Europe at least. Electricity at the wholesale level is priced hourly or quarter-hourly and households often elect to have a correspondingly hourly priced eletricity contract & program their appliances/ev charging/whatnot to follow the price.

See eg https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/02/20/fixed-vs-variab...
by ragebol | 2025-10-15 11:25:57+00:00
I've only heard about this, but do I understand correctly that: - Norwegian hydro-electricity is normally quite cheap - 'They' built a cable from Norway to the rest of Europe to couple the markets - Since the markets are coupled, mainland Europe buys the hydro-electricity from Norway, driving up prices in Norway. - People are pissed, understandably I guess.

Correct?
by cameronh90 | 2025-10-15 11:26:01+00:00
I do similar, but without the batteries.

I just have Home Assistant turn on everything: dehumidifiers, heaters, lights, set the freezer thermostat to -25c.

So far I've earnt about 10p, but the real saving comes from having a little bit of thermal inertia to carry through to when prices are higher.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-15 11:26:47+00:00
It's good to raise awareness of this.

I think that grid upgrades are the only good solution here (and those are already happening), because shifting enough consumption towards where the windfarms are strikes me as ridiculous (what fraction of London is going to migrate to Glasgow once electricity is 40% cheaper there, honestly?) and just luring a handful of new datacenters to Scotland (with cheaper electricity) is not gonna cut it.

Demand-side anything (or even storage) is not gonna solve this either, because the british north/south grid connections are already close to the limit most of the time; this is not just a peak-power problem.

There are very similar problems in Germany (insufficient north/south grid connectivity), and expected long-term costs (within 2037/2045) are in the €200b range (roughly half is for off-shore connections):

https://www.netzentwicklungsplan.de/sites/default/files/2023... (take with a grain of salt because this is material from the grid operators, not some neutral source).
by chr15m | 2025-10-15 11:26:52+00:00
A few weeks ago I wanted to enter the js13k game competition with ClojureScript and Reagent but I couldn't get builds to fit under 13kb. So I forked a Reagent-like library (Mr Clean) and ported it to a ClojureScript-like language called Squint-cljs.

I used an LLM-driven process:

1. Find valid Reagent forms that don't work. 2. Create an isolated failing test case. 3. Coach the LLM through fixing it.

Eucalypt is the result: a Reagent-compatible-ish library that produces ~10kb single-HTML-file builds. It supports r/atom, r/render, and form-1/form-2 components.

If you want to try it yourself:

npm create eucalypt myapp cd myapp npm install npm run watch

This has been super fun to work on. It feels like magic being able to use a LISP to compile a self-contained web app in a tiny single HTML file artifact. I hope you find it useful. I'm still hacking on this and PRs are most welcome!
by torginus | 2025-10-15 11:27:09+00:00
That's just the unfortunate reality of free software. Free software is anarchy, and the only people who thrive in anarchy are the ones who band into fiefdoms, who then fight amongst each other and build mutually incompatible projects (often from the very same components) which are direct substitutes to each other.

There's tons of evidence of this with stuff like linux distros, desktop environments (each one MUST have its own sanctioned file manager, video player, music player etc, god forbid some godless charlatan come along and make its own).

The price of admission into these 'tribes' is the adoption of the local creed (libraries/HIG/coding style/whatever/not speaking out against the Dear Leader/Core Principles/local purity committee). As with other such despotic organizations, incompetence and laziness is tolerated, disloyalty is not.
by manarth | 2025-10-15 11:27:21+00:00
10% of turnover (Electricity Act 1989).

Realistically, no-one's going to care about running a cable to your neighbour. If you start running cables to multiple neighbours, or connecting the cable directly into the mains supply of the other properties, you may attract attention.

Mostly for the potential of microgrids to upset the delicate balance of power-delivery and frequency-stability of the wider grid. There are a few initiatives around peer-to-peer power sharing and microgrids, but nothing particularly mainstream in the UK yet.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/29/section/4

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/29/section/27O
by npteljes | 2025-10-15 11:27:52+00:00
I feel you. Phones move so fast, they require a lot of compromises from the user. I am currently using a Pixel 7a, 8mm longer and 3mm wider than the 4a, and I'm reasonably happy with it. Although to be honest, I also have my pet peeve with it - the build is not as nice as my previous Samsung Galaxy S9, and I miss that. You could also consider 8a, same size as 7a, and support will last even longer, so if you get accustomed to that, there will be no need to change for a while.
by _kidlike | 2025-10-15 11:28:01+00:00
they are installing now smart meters with sim cards in Greece, and of course everyone started complaining, shaming the gov, claiming corruption, etc...

General population doesn't understand that fixed pricing includes an extra cost which is the risk that the electricity provider has to account for. That risk has a calculable price, which is passed down to the consumers. But because it's baked in the flat rate, nobody complains.

Smart/dynamic pricing actually benefits the consumer.
by soueuls | 2025-10-15 11:28:50+00:00
If I was a heavy drinker and smoker I would likely have health problems and shaking hands. I don’t think I need the New York Times to inform me about it or that 88 years old are dying from heart attacks everyday.

But if people starts to behead teachers (as it’s happening in my country : France) for religious reasons, I want to know.

Yea, even if it represents a few deaths here and there.

Because I am willing to consider the possibility that it’s telling of a shift in my society that will have consequences down the road.

Significance of events are not necessarily correlated to how many people die from it.

Also different countries set up different priorities. France for example is talking quite a lot about « feminicide » (how many women are killed because they are women). In France, it was 137 in 2024. Is it a lot? Probably not for a population of 70 millions. Can we significantly decrease the number? Probably not.

But people and media are still talking about it. And even if this specific number do not improve, it does spark debate about related topic, which is sometimes a good thing.
by tyleo | 2025-10-15 11:29:15+00:00
I have a friend who consumed massive quantities of free eggs at Meta as a form of petty revenge. Egg prices were high at the time and they disliked the company but work is work. My friend ended up with major cholesterol issues.

The condition was easily fixed by stopping the eggs and we laugh about it now. But I think the counterexample is worthwhile for anyone considering a strange diet habit. Always check in with your doctor if you take something like this up and start feeling weird.
by bombcar | 2025-10-15 11:29:50+00:00
> The issue is that most consumers don't like unpredictable prices.

The key is to not take this away; make it so that those who want predictability can get it (but they end pay more for the privilege) but those who want to try to "game the system" can (and incidentally help with the overproduction problem).

Done well, things like Powerwalls, thermal mass storage, etc could absorb quite a bit of load during peak production times, reducing load at inopportune times.
by arethuza | 2025-10-15 11:30:17+00:00
"NHS, police, fire service, etc. usually raise objections to everything"

I've never seen any of those organisations raising objections - I don't think they are even consulted on the planning applications I have seen? Planning applications for housing developments usually have a huge number of objections from nearby residents but the few organisations consulted seem to usually say that they've reviewed the plans and they look sensible.

Edit: I was looking at a local residential planning application hoping it would pass as it would replace some disused farm buildings that are currently a bit of an eyesore.
by mpeg | 2025-10-15 11:30:28+00:00
To give a take from a happy cf customer – not only do they have a great engineering culture when it comes to writing blog posts and OSS but also the best customer service of any infra company I've ever used.

The team, including kenton who wrote this post, are often available on discord to provide help and take in feedback about cf products, if you find a bug or have a problem you can often be talking directly to the engineer who looks after that product. I've made PRs and feature suggestions on cloudflare products that got accepted without much hassle / protocol

Don't mean to put down others, but I receive better support from cf on an extremely small monthly bill (the free tier is too good) than I have got from a certain massive company's account managers on six figures a month bills.
by __jonas | 2025-10-15 11:31:02+00:00
Just to note because I was confused by this:

I was under the impression that workers are just lambda functions, and therefore would fall under different billing rules than pages which serve static files (with unlimited bandwidth).

But workers apparently have a 'Static Assets' feature that just serves static assets (like pages) and comes with free unlimited requests, unlike worker function invocations, so as you say it seems to be essentially the same as pages.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/static-assets/
by bombcar | 2025-10-15 11:31:08+00:00
It does, but people are really bad at understanding it.

It's like how there's a substantial portion of the population that counts the best commute time ever as their commute time, and are perpetually late. "How can it take 30 minutes to get to work, one time it was only 15!" - ignoring the reality of traffic, subway delays, etc.
by DannyBee | 2025-10-15 11:31:54+00:00
It would be much more effective to even out things , and trivial (engineering wise) to stop wasting the outputs of all these heat pumps by effective integration. Ie dump heat removed by ac or freezer into hot water heating, etc

I'm always highly amused when people have heated pools next to large outdoor ac units. They could probably dump all the heat from house into it the entire summer and not have a meaningful effect on the temperature
Show HN: I started treasure hunt in Blue Ridge. It's Day 7. Prize is up to $36k+
by adamhowell | 2025-10-15 11:32:25+00:00
I modeled it after last year's Project Skydrop (http://projectskydrop.com)

* 24/7 web cam trained on the treasure of $26k in gold coins * shrinking circle (100 miles today) showing its location and updating every morning * premium option for aerial photos that go higher and higher every morning. $10 from every premium upgrade goes towards the pot

Over 5k people have joined so far. Good local media attention but nothing national yet. There's a private community for premium users and it's actually been pretty fun with people posting photos of their hikes and sharing their updates.

If you've ever thought about doing something crazy like this feel free to AM(almost)A about the hunt
by bombcar | 2025-10-15 11:32:40+00:00
I took "tap to pay" being clicking on Order in an app; and I have certainly made a "online order" from inside the Chipotle, on their wifi with my laptop (usually because walking to the counter would cost more because of stupid promotions).

It makes more sense that they're referring to Apple Pay or similar shenanigans (which itself is more annoying than a credit card, to be honest, Face ID goes wrong or the double click closes the wallet app instead of authenticating way too many times, especially if you're trying to do it one-handed).
by Rochus | 2025-10-15 11:32:48+00:00
Interesting article, thanks for sharing.

> Niklaus Wirth uses “discriminated union” why Pascal doesn’t have sum types.

In the referenced paper (Wirth, 1975, An assessment of the programming language PASCAL, ACM), Wirth refers to the "inspect when" statement of Simula 67, which is structurally identical to type discrimination with (exhaustive) pattern matching; so Simula essentially already had something like "sum types" (unified with inheritance). Wirth implemented the same concept in his later Oberon language (which also supports inheritance and offers a WITH statement similar to Simula's "inspect when"). Also Pascal variant records are similar to sum types (even if Wirth didn't use this term); variant records have an explicit tag field, though Pascal doesn't enforce tag nor exhaustiveness checking. Wirth improved this in Oberon, which can be used to meet both key guarantees of sum types.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-10-15 11:33:15+00:00
It's far more likely a PC gets physically stolen than rowhammer, spectre or any other advanced hardware specific exploit being used.

Linux is already much more secure than Windows even on insecure hardware by not encouraging downloading proprietary unverified executables from google which on top is infested with malwaretising or even comes preinstalled with them. That is how 99% of malware actually does damage.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-15 11:33:25+00:00
For your old appliances you still pay the same on average. A fixed price contract isn't cheaper, it just smooths prices into a long-term average. And many of the changes can be done manually. On your old dishwasher or washing machine you decide when they start, and most of them even already have buttons to start with a fixed-time delay. Instead of starting them at the end of day you can just start them when the wind is strong or the sun is shining, or watch the price feed. You even get to feel smart for saving money

I agree on the popularity, but you'd absolutely see an effect even without anyone buying new appliances
by cubefox | 2025-10-15 11:34:00+00:00
But the linked page indicates you could use the right half rather than the left half of the controller. So the c-buttons (rather than the left d-pad) for walking and the stick for looking/turning. Turok style. The "Solitaire" preset even has the Z trigger for firing.

Which sounds pretty good. Of course having an actual stick for walking would have been even better, but buttons aren't that bad, considering that PC games still use them for walking to this day.

I'm actually wondering why PC games never converged on a "left joy-con" style controller with a stick and buttons, for one hand, while the other hand holds the mouse. I guess the ordinary keyboard is good enough so there wasn't much pressure to replace it.
by ragebol | 2025-10-15 11:34:14+00:00
Going up or down: there is more supply, so prices go down wrt. a situation without wind turbines, at least momentarily until the wind drops down indeed when we go back to a system w/o wind.

If you can store the energy, your energy cost goes down (but storage is not free of course, though getting cheaper).

Amortizing the fixed cost will mean the 'fossil' power is more expensive per kWh indeed, making it more and more attractive to buy storage as to bridge the gap between windy/sunny periods that do have cheaper electricity.

Some electricity markets have or a re looking at capacity mechanisms, they pay simply to have the capacity to generate power at any given time, even if not generating, eg. to be a backup. Eventually, that will be the business case for any fuel-powered power plant I suppose
by cameronh90 | 2025-10-15 11:34:28+00:00
Years isn't that long.

The aim is net zero by 2050, lifespan of a fridge-freezer is about 10 years. Even assuming designing a system and putting it in place took 5 years, that's still enough time to have most appliances on it by 2040.

Given the current energy prices, it probably even makes sense to replace appliances sooner than their normal lifetime. My fridge-freezer is only 5 years old, but if it broke today and cost more than ~£150 to repair, I'd end up saving money by replacing it.
by Propelloni | 2025-10-15 11:34:59+00:00
We saw this in the early days of chat tools like Slack, too. /remind anybody? Today you, at least, get a floating help text if not a mini-GUI within the channel once you begin to invoke.

So I'd wager we will see the same with chatbot interfaces. I furthermore predict that we will get taylor-made AI applications with a GUI that triggers specific "prompts" on unspecified datasets. "Prompt engineering" will become just another skill of professionals that have to use general purpose tools to built specific purpose tools... again.
by cbeach | 2025-10-15 11:35:11+00:00
> every time one of those foundations announce a "non coding" woman as their new leader, if you read between the lines, it is because they need to be more "ESG"

That might explain why the Scala Center (which oversees the Scala language) has a young political sciences grad as its executive director. She has zero commercial or academic experience in Scala.

And this is how she behaves at conferences:

https://x.com/jdegoes/status/1633888998434193411

Leftwing political activism, cancel culture and #metoo-style witchhunts (example: https://pretty.direct/statement )

This is what the Scala "community" has become. It's tragic, given how good the language is.
by estebanrfp | 2025-10-15 11:36:18+00:00
Hi everyone, I’ve been building *GenosDB (GDB)*, a peer-to-peer graph database with zero-trust security baked into the core. *Why*: most P2P apps end up relying on centralized servers for identity and access control. GDB enforces trust cryptographically, peer-to-peer. *Features*:

* P2P sync via WebRTC/relays * Eventual consistency with cryptographic checks * Reactive queries with live updates * Role-based access control + ACLs * Data encrypted per-identity

*Note*: proprietary, but free to use without restrictions.

Repo: [github.com/estebanrfp/gdb](https://github.com/estebanrfp/gdb)

Examples: [Use cases & samples](https://github.com/estebanrfp/gdb/blob/main/docs/genosdb-exa...)

I’d love feedback, stress testing, and ideas for the roadmap. –– Esteban Fuster Pozzi (estebanrfp)

Examples: [Use cases & samples](https://github.com/estebanrfp/gdb/blob/main/docs/genosdb-exa...)
by ciscow | 2025-10-15 11:36:35+00:00
We’re a small team of engineers and lawyers who got tired of reading 50-page contracts line by line. Reviewing NDAs, SaaS agreements, and employment contracts was slow, repetitive, and error-prone and even with templates, humans miss things.

Why we built it

Last year, we were working with a few early-stage startups that were drowning in vendor and customer contracts. Lawyers were expensive; founders didn’t have time; AI tools at the time were either too generic (“chat with your PDF”) or too opaque to trust.

-Understands legal context (not just raw text)

-Explains clauses clearly (“This indemnity clause exposes you to X risk”)

-Highlights risks, missing terms, and inconsistencies

-Lets you compare versions to see what changed

Under the hood:

-We use LLMs fine-tuned on contract-specific datasets (public agreements + anonymized real samples).

-A clause-level parser breaks down contracts into semantic sections (e.g., Termination, Liability, IP, etc.).

-We run a hybrid rule-and-LLM pipeline: rules handle structure / entities; the model handles nuance and reasoning.

-Everything is stateless and localizable, with optional on-prem deployment for privacy-sensitive orgs.

-We also built a comparison engine that highlights redlines across different drafts (useful for negotiation).
by bazhand | 2025-10-15 11:36:41+00:00
I like this approach, and it's very similar to what I'm currently using - albeit my use case is to get Claude to automatically invoke the relevant subagents during both planning and build stages.

Subagents using MCP would solve quite a lot of the context preparation required for a successful session. I'm using GLM-4.6 vision/web search MCP in claude code to relative success as the subagents can access these via API (not true MCP behaviour but close enough)
by timr | 2025-10-15 11:37:16+00:00
On the contrary, this doesn’t sound impressive at all. It sounds like a cowboy coder working on relatively small projects.

300k LOC is not particularly large, and this person’s writing and thinking (and stated workflow) is so scattered that I’m basically 100% certain that it’s a mess. I’m using all of the same models, the same tools, etc., and (importantly) reading all of the code, and I have 0% faith in any of these models to operate autonomously. Also, my opinion on the quality of GPT-5 vs Claude vs other models is wildly different.

There’s a huge disconnect between my own experience and what this person claims to be doing, and I strongly suspect that the difference is that I’m paying attention and routinely disgusted by what I see.
by ErikCorry | 2025-10-15 11:37:23+00:00
It's a huge issue, see the depressing web page on Südlink. Massively delayed, much more expensive, and less efficient because it has to be underground. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suedlink

Germany, like the UK, has dynamic national electricity pricing, which makes no sense when the interconnections are not powerful enough to actually make it a single electricity market.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-15 11:37:23+00:00
Yes this solves it partially. The thing is that people assume that the green lock correspond to the domain name. It would be completely solved, if the browser would still show the validated company name, like it used to be, and then people would only validate that and the CA also validating that there are no similar names. The latter would essentially mean that there is a global coordination of CAs and that there only one entity on the whole world could have the same name, i.e. we only have one jurisdiction.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-15 11:37:52+00:00
Liquid Glass on Mac is sort of like a terrible remix of OS X Aqua.

And frosted glass elements on iOS have been around since iOS 7.

But note how the blurred/frosted background is a background and doesn't conflict with the icons on top of it.

Note how the designers of Liquid Glass failed to learn from this.

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/apple-ios-7-review/
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-10-15 11:38:21+00:00
What it means, is that the average person doesn't care about Bitcoin, so if you want the article to apply it the average person, you need to denominate the value in something else.

If someone stole 22 WobiBobbyBones I wouldn't care. If a WobiBobbyBone was worth a billion dollars, then I'd think that's news.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-15 11:39:01+00:00
UK domestic electricity is roughly equal to industrial (94 vs 82 TWh). Commercial is 62. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688a286564785...

A lot of curtailment happens at night: strong offshore wind and low demand. So not only do you need to provide enough of a price delta for the industry move to be worth it (sacrificing proximity to other amenities and customers, eating the relocation costs, loss of employee supply, etc) but you also need the industry to be operating 24/7 (or start doing it). Some industries can do that, but not all.

And then one day when the grid upgrades are done, the risk is the incentives are cut and now you're stuck at the wrong end of the country.