MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by w10-1 | 2025-10-06 17:03:45+00:00
When traveling, I met many who lived by the mantra of self-sufficiency. It seemed both to liberate and consume them.

Daily now I see people living on the street with a lot more, but still with needs of all sorts.

In some schools of Buddhism, the tradition was to live with only one bowl and one spoon. The practice was to beg daily - yes, for food, but mainly to submit to the judgment of society as to whether one's practice is worth it to others. The premise was that people would give if they see you as worthy, not because they pity you.

I would ask the OP to reflect publicly on what he discovered about his own attachments, sense of place, and relations with others and himself. That could be helpful even to people in more tangled circumstance.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-06 17:04:48+00:00
I guess we grew up in the same era, but I couldn't disagree more about any administration giving hopes. While Obama mostly didn't make things dramatically worse, he did keep the status quo and all the troubling policies that came with it. Refusing to prosecute Bush-era crimes? Check. Keeping Guantanamo? Check. Expanding illegal mass-surveillance systems? Check. Expanding military drone programs and extrajudicially killing civilians outside of war zones? Check. Breaking the record on whistleblower prosecutions? Check. That's in stark contrast to the leniency given to those who caused the financial crisis. On the positive side, I guess he tried to fix healthcare, but it's still broken as ever.

It was so bad that it's unbelievable that subsequent administrations managed to make matters even more astronomically worse.
by gansbrest | 2025-10-06 17:05:17+00:00
I don't look at this like that, not any more at least.

It's been great five years for me and my family, exactly what I was looking for before the transition from stable corporate world.

I guess it depends a lot of personality and the type of work you enjoy. I thrive at early stages, where most things a built on common sense and you have enough power to shape things into something meaningful.

These days I try to appreciate "the process" (day-to-day) over "results" (exits).

You don't really have too much control of how things unfold in your life really, be blessed you are alive and kicking.

Do I say money is not important? Of course not - it's very important, but in a challenging times you have to test your limits and re-assess your priorities (whether you like it or not...)

It's easy to look at things in hindsight - the question is what is the alternative? 5 years of what?
by Shocka1 | 2025-10-06 17:05:19+00:00
This kind of stuff is repulsive to me. I'm sure it's similar elsewhere too, but my local radio stations in the Midwest have been running ads about not harassing athletes over sports betting. The whole thing is comical to me, since they are collecting massive amounts of tax revenue from the whole thing to begin with and paying for the ads with it.

They are great things coming from it, like school funding, but the whole concept doesn't really sit well with me.

https://casinocontrol.ohio.gov/home/news-and-events/all-news...
by iancmceachern | 2025-10-06 17:05:26+00:00
Not really. Fundamentally things like this are driven by physics, not engineering or cleverness.

We've had solar powered calculators with LCD displays for decades. We're not really going to get much lower power without changing Fundamental technologies at the material and physics level. Much of what we have material and physics wise "is what it is", on this planet anyway.
by aeturnum | 2025-10-06 17:05:45+00:00
That's certainly one of the options! However I generally disagree with your point of view. You are welcome to hold to it, but many people already know where you are at all times and I suspect if you ask your community they will have little reflection on what level of sharing feels appropriate. I personally do not want to put the genie all the way back into the bottle.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-06 17:05:47+00:00
The hardware feels like the easy part now. Incredible offerings abundant, with gobsmacking core counts and iops beyond dreams. Reliability is fantastic.

But how we actually take advantage of the hardware feels really hard. How we create stable reliable practices. The cloud with its API and web console tooling offers such access, such views. I'd love love love to see us wake up, realize what the real baseline for running software, running systems is.

I feel like right now there's a huge propoganda campaign, that's keeping the cloud in its spot as an unquestioned go to for real uses: "you may not need Kubernetes." This drive for less ambition shows up at every turn, incessantly, and we rarely hear the basic sense: we must operationalize computing with cross-cutting platform, that afforda us broad visibility control and autonomicity. The possibility of winning big is being drowned out by persistent regressive naysaying.
by palmotea | 2025-10-06 17:05:57+00:00
> Were the keelboat men affected personally when they lost their jobs to the steam boats?

Oh come on man. The tech companies hope to create a technology that will automate the human intellect. I hope the fail, but we have to take the goal seriously. Don't talk to me about steam boats.

>> Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean it will happen in the future

> Say no more, let's ignore what always happened and go in the opposite way.

How about you try to think about the this situation, this technology instead of essentially cargo culting and superficially reasoning "this is a technology and that was a technology 100 years ago, both technologies, so they'll both play out the same."
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 17:06:41+00:00
Wow, they are definitely targeting Heroku with this... specifically calling them out towards the end of the page.

That said, I'm surprised that Azure and GCP don't already have similar service offerings... I'm not sure about nixpacks over direct Dockerfile usage though. Would also be nice to see a WebASM package system as well for single ip/socket services and web-service request handlers. Simplify the application layer as much as possible and make logging via line-separated json on stdout the norm... add layers to relay logging and handle TLS termination. IT just makes sense... it also makes sense to bundle services onto fewer servers based on actual ram/cpu usage. Maybe an easy button for redundancy, and that's it.

There's a lot of appeal in what fly, deno, cloudflare and others are offering but to a broader range of options than just JS focus with WebASM as a minor afterthought with weird limitations in practice.
by simjnd | 2025-10-06 17:06:50+00:00
They can, and they wouldn't be necessarily be wrong.

However if the library is trying to be as idiomatic / general purpose / good citizen as possible, then they should strongly consider not doing that and only use the user provided allocator (unless there is a clear and documented reason why that is not the case).

I don't think it would make sense to restrict this at the language level. As a developer it's up to you to exercise your judgement when you examine what libraries you choose to depend on.

I appreciate the fact it's a common design pattern in Zig libraries and I also appreciate the fact I'm not forced to do it if I don't want to. If it matters to me then I'll consider libraries that are designed that way, if it does not matter to me then I can consider libraries that do not support this.
by usefulcat | 2025-10-06 17:07:17+00:00
> Using emotive, anthropomorphic language about software tool is unhelpful, in this case at least.

Ok, I'm with you so far..

> Better to think of it as a mentally disturbed minor...

Proceeds to use emotive, anthropomorphic language about a software tool..

Or perhaps that is point and I got whooshed. Either way I found it humorous!
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-06 17:07:22+00:00
What I'm hearing is that if you're wealthy and powerful, you want as little to do with the so-called "working class" as you can possibly manage. If you expect powerful people to act in a manner that favors your interests over theirs, I don't know what to tell you.

I mean, you come on here and rave about how everybody should unionize and grab their pitchforks and struggle against the machine and what-not, and then you wonder why everybody is rushing to replace you with a robot.
by zdragnar | 2025-10-06 17:07:22+00:00
Someone has to run the git server. Then, someone has to find the git server to pull each gem from, since not every git server is likely to be up-to-date with the each gem, or the correct version. Since these are all decentralized, each individual owner of a git server has to independently scale as more people start using each one.

The benefit to being centralized is... everything is in one place. Everything scales at once. Every update is available at the same time.

We did this back in the day using artifactory and co. to proxy NPM and a few other package managers as well as docker containers and some other things. No third party service going down could keep us from deploying.

Not everyone does it because as a solo developer or a small team, as it feels like pointless overhead.
by j45 | 2025-10-06 17:07:27+00:00
There's a lot of ways to define different.

It's a poor choice of word to use as a clearly and universally understood axiom.

Doing only what AI can generate will only generate the average of the corpus.

Maybe it's part of the reason folks with some amount of meaningful problem solving experience, when added to AI are having completely different results, there is someone behind the steering wheel actually pushing and learning with it and also directing it.
by aaroninsf | 2025-10-06 17:07:51+00:00
Buried lede: what is the transformative potential of ML/AI?

It's not a bad bet that many are making that "changes everything" is real in this case. Hitching a ride to the technology getting civilization over the hill is a reasonable goal.

But what institution, technology, play...?

Following the money shows where bets are being placed. But none are safe, the disruptive consequences of network effects make diversification appear wise. The industry is littered with the bones of giants.

Personally I am looking at ML/AI as analogous to the Great Oxygenation Event. What things look like—at least, on land—afterward, none know, least of all the cranky old oligarchs who are hell bent on consolidating control and ownership.
by bryangrigorie | 2025-10-06 17:07:52+00:00
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by emil-lp | 2025-10-06 17:07:55+00:00
Most of the examples are "embarrassing" or annoying, and could perhaps ruin a relationship.

But regardless of the memory setting in ChatGPT, I guess law enforcement can acquire all your chat logs from OpenAI.

I guess what I'm saying is that while, yes, you could ask ChatGPT about this analysis, the true culprit is the actual data stored about you.
by chatmasta | 2025-10-06 17:08:04+00:00
A simple fix for this “passive creepiness” would be to have a setting like “share location with Alice, but only when she asks” or at least “Location shared with Alice (last checked one hour ago).”

If I share my location with someone, I can’t tell the difference if they’re never looking at it, or if they’re checking it every minute. That’s what makes it creepy for someone to be checking it every minute – the surveilled user doesn’t know.

(Maybe this is already a feature… I’ve never enabled this thing.)
by erans | 2025-10-06 17:08:14+00:00
true that there is a some kind of a ceiling of what can or can't be done. But that ceiling is way up there. Also, there are enough examples and articles and code that allows enough combination to be made so that its good enough - and that is a very important bar.

There are A LOT of businesses (even big ones managing money and what not) that rely on spreadsheets to do so much. Could this have been an app/service/SaaS/whatever ? probably.

What if these orgs can (mostly) internally solidify some of these processes? what if they don't need an insanely expensive salesforce implementor that can add "custom logic" ?

A lot of times companies will replace "complex software" with half complex process!

What if they don't need Salesforce at all because they need a reasonable simple CRM and don't want to (or shouldn't) pay $10k/seat/year ?

There are still going to be very differentiating apps and services here and there, but as time move on these "technological" advantages will erode and with AI they erode way faster.
Show HN: Camfer – An AI CAD Copilot
by arya_bastani23 | 2025-10-06 17:08:23+00:00
Hi, my name’s Arya! I’m a software engineer who loves to CAD and design cool things.

Keaton, Roth, Clark, and myself have been building https://camfer.dev for the last year. We’re excited to show v0 of camfer - a tool that lets you use AI with your favorite CAD platforms.

The camfer desktop app connects to Solidworks as a smart sidebar. Like Cursor for CAD. The tool takes in your CAD environment (open part + selections) and either answers questions or follows your instructions to create/edit designs natively in Solidworks.

Download link: https://camfer.dev/download.

Demo using camfer to make a raspberry pi case: https://youtu.be/jI4HjHu4fdI.

Problems we’ve tackled:

- Have generations be feature rich and work natively in Solidworks

- Make CAD interpretable to frontier models. GPT-5 knows a lot of things that can help me while CADing, but until now had no way of getting context for what I’m working on

- Train a fast design intent -> native generation model (lots of improvements to do here)

We’ve worked really hard to build v0, and would love for anyone in the community to try it and give feedback. You can use it for free today! In the future, we’ll introduce a freemium model with a monthly subscription after a certain number of generations.

Things I’ve personally found it useful for:

- Quickly doing first passes for single part design

- Making plates for mounting things I don’t remember the dimensions for (like a mini CIM motor)

- Iteratively designing something where I didn’t know exactly what the final form would be

- Getting advice on best design practices (e.g. “should I fillet or chamfer these edges for better manufacturability”)

To join our community:

- Join our discord: https://discord.com/invite/as8acby3

- Shoot me an email: arya@camfer.dev
by karmakaze | 2025-10-06 17:08:47+00:00
Buying a vibe coded app is like buying something that looks like what you want from AliExpress. There's a small chance it might be good enough for your needs and you get a good deal. I might buy some small thing there that I don't care much about, or take a chance if I can't find anything close anywhere else. But for things I do care about I'll go through curated channels to filter out the fluff.
by zackmorris | 2025-10-06 17:08:47+00:00
You're right, but not in the usual way hah. I started programming in the late 1980s with HyperCard, then used mostly C++ in the 90s, and have seen the rise and fall of various paradigms that felt eternal. I mean at one time, Java felt untouchable.

I think that Rust is making an admiral attempt to attack challenges that have already been solved better in other ways. I just don't have much use for its arsenal.

For example, I wasted 2 years of my life trying to write a NAT-punching peer to peer networking framework for games around 2005, but was first exposed to synchronous blocking vs asynchronous nonblocking networking in the late 90s when I read Beej's Guide to Network Programming:

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

I was hopelessly trying to mimic the functionality of libraries like RakNet and Zoidcom without knowing some fundamentals that I wouldn't fully understand for years:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/93kr9h/recommended...

20 years later, Rust has iroh:

https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh

I realize there is some irony in pointing to a Rust library as a final solution.

But my point is that when developers reached high levels of financial success and power, they didn't go back to address the fundamentals. NAT was always an abomination to me. And as far as I know, they kept it in IPv6. Someone like Google should have provided a way to get around it that's not as heavy as WebRTC. So many developer years of work have been wasted due to the mistakes of the status quo. So that we wander in the desert for years using lackluster paradigms because we don't know that better stuff exists.

Knowing what I know now, I would have created open source C (portable) libraries to solve NAT punching, state transfer with a software transactional memory (STM) or Raft, entity state machines (like in Unity), movement prediction/dead reckoning, etc etc etc to form the basis of a distributed computing network for virtual worlds and let the developer community solve that. Someone will do that in a year or two with AI now I assume.

Ok you kinda got me. I realize after writing this out that I wouldn't use Rust for new work, but it's not so much about the language itself as building upon proven layers to "get real work done". The lower the level of abstraction, the harder that is to do. So it's hard for me to see the problem which Rust is trying to solve.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-06 17:09:00+00:00
For JIRA competitors are a dime a dozen. A lot of them are targeted at startups and small shops who heard JIRA was hell and think their needs are really basic and will be for a long time.

The funniest I actually had to deal with was Monday. The very premise is that task management is simple and the visual interface will reflect that. Bright colors, low information density, minimal data model and very screenshotable screens. Then when actually using it for a dev team, the first question is how long we decide to try it before giving a verdict.

> Gmail

It really depends on what feature you rely on that aren't IMAP. If it's Google services integration, they might never be a competitor ever, for instance.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-06 17:09:01+00:00
I honestly don't think that ads are super ineffective right now, because companies are too greedy to not cut useless spending (I would expect that stopping ad spending would cost your average company significant market share, medium term).

But you might be right that the growth potential is pretty much exhausted. If everyone stopped spending on ads the industry might be able to collapse, but I don't believe in that scenario because it would require collusion, and also reduce demand for the whole sector trying it (e.g. if all softdrink companies stopped advertising, I would expect total consumption to decrease as well).
by programjames | 2025-10-06 17:10:04+00:00
As someone in the Gen Z age bracket, I believe that they really do have a worse economy than their parents/grandparents due to no fault of their own, and that they're also much lazier than their parents/grandparents generations.

1. Social Security and housing has turned into a huge transfer of wealth from Gen Z to the Boomer generation. I don't believe I will ever receive Social Security benefits, and yet nearly 15% of my salary goes into Social Security. Also, people who own houses vote to keep their housing prices high (through zoning laws), which is... not how "investments" are supposed to work. It'd be like the US government hoarding all the gold when prices get too high. If a house is a place to live (in which case, zoning laws are perfectly fine), property taxes should be high enough that renting out a house is a much worse investment than say, government bonds. If a house is an investment, the protection racket needs to stop.

2. On the other hand, I've seen so many of my peers just... not study. Kids who easily got a 36 on the ACT, but would do the bare minimum in and outside of school. Now they're working pretty normal, white-collar jobs that pay about a median starting salary, but I know they could have easily made $150k+/year in tech if they'd just studied at any point between middle school and college. They probably won't struggle financially, but they won't ever really "make it" ($10m?) either. And, if this is the top of the class, you can imagine what it's like for those without the same natural ability.

So, on the one hand, I absolutely agree that Gen Z should have an easier time with housing, and shouldn't have to pay for their ancestors' unwise debts, but on the other hand, part of the reason they're struggling so much now is because they didn't spend the first twenty years of their life doing the only thing they were asked to do.
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-06 17:10:05+00:00
>And this isn't some tiny fraction of crime, I suspect it is the majority of it.

Nope.

Lets take the famous example of low income area gang activity. They have examples of everything from local powerful people in charge having enough money to buy nice cars, to things like famous rappers with origins in same gangs. The reason why they commit crime is because the alternative actually sucks - you have to put up with boredom, lack of money, poverty, lack of any social support, all into a system that is going to discriminate against you even if you do everything right. This is where proper money injection with adequate policing can easily fix the problem.

As for people continuing to do crime after being financially off, this is still just a matter of tradeoff still favoring the crime side. The crime that most of these people commit is stuff like illegal firearms, drugs, and/or financial fraud - i.e stuff that is really not that relevant to society, with potentially a big payoff instead of investment. At the worst, some people get scammed. Meanwhile, the perpetrator gets usually punished financially or minimal jailing.

There are always going to be mentally unwell people who end up being serial killers, but the risk to society from those people is minuscule.
by everybodyknows | 2025-10-06 17:10:08+00:00
Working through the links gets to this:

https://netdollar.cloudflare.com/

> Will NET Dollar be fully backed?

> Yes, every NET Dollar will be fully collateralized by a U.S. dollar, ensuring transparency, reliability, and price stability.

Really? Backed by an asset that's depreciating at 3-4% annually? A money market fund, such as other stablecoins use, seems more likely. With billions of principal, every basis point of yield will be wanted. And the way to maximize is to hold commercial, not government, paper.

See "Reserve Primary Fund, 2008".
by ajross | 2025-10-06 17:10:09+00:00
FWIW, that "blackout tracker" link is garbage. First, because it's five years old: if the data showed that growth someone would have updated it.

But also because it's wrong! There's one outlier bad data point, in 2020, and they draw a line straight through it. Take that one year out and it looks awfully flat to me.
by vkou | 2025-10-06 17:10:13+00:00
> If you expect powerful people to act in a manner that favors your interests over theirs, I don't know what to tell you.

When they take too much, that's how they make revolutions. They only have power and wealth because we let them.

> and then you wonder why everybody is rushing to replace you with a robot.

Why not rush to replace them with robots, instead? What social function do the rich serve that can't be replaced with a badly-tuned LLM?